skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this is true - it is possible to bypass the BIOS (at the cost of "snow" on early CGA adapters), most of the competition for the IBM PC also had text modes. My Apple II+ running CP/M had a board with a 6845 CRTC, the same used in the CGA and MDA. Apple ///, //e and others had 80-column text modes pretty much built-in. While the memory layout on the Apple II was more complicated, you could call routines in ROM that were very fast. The same approach was used in later machines such as the Amiga, the Mac and the STs - using the ROM or OS routines was the standard way to do things, much like bypassing the BIOS and directly addressing the hardware was the standard way to work on the PC (remember how the "gold standard" of compatibility was being able to run Flight Simulator). With these later machines, we learned that looking to the hardware from too close was a compatibility issue.
If your definition of harmful boils down to "results in people getting killed", then: ban fossil fuel advertisements; ban advertisements for the military or content that glorifies militarism; ban any content that encourages people to over-consume energy and resources.

But we know this won't happen, because what we consider "harmful" is distorted by living within an inherently harmful society -- namely, a civilization based on violence, exploitation, and extraction.
Unlocked smartphones, where the user can easily install third party apps, including browser with ad blocker.

Emphasis on easily - if it ever becomes straightforward, without going through scary settings menu, Google will be quite scared.
Sure, but that is icing on the cake. The fact of the matter is we are demand-constrained, so a new tech supply bonanza is a very risky thing. It is essential the holy grail self-driving trucks can compete on cost before/while more demand from its elasticity is "unlocked".
> This would be such a relief to me, as it would suggest that much of the trivial, shallow, grossly unchristian things that circulate from those groups doesn't reflect what Christians think and believe, but instead what games Facebook and serves foreign interests. I understand it's not good news in general, but it's reassuring to people who expect more of Christianity.

Its not reassuring, IMO, because the reason it effectively games Facebook and serves foreign interest in is because American Christians lap it up and relay it.
> 2020-2021 has shown me that most people happen to be 'fair weather fans' of civil rights.

This is always how it's worked. The idea that protecting the rights of your enemies can be salutary relies on too many complex concepts for the majority of people to have any hope of grasping it: burning the commons, collective action, norm evolution, meta-level thinking[1], modeling counterfactual worlds (eg one a future where your favored ideology is not dominant and is in need of the protections you are currently burning down).

The average person is nowhere near smart enough to be able to put these pieces together into a coherent worldview, let alone one that they find more convincing than "they're the enemy, crush them". The periods where liberalism has been resurgent are not ones where the masses are suddenly enlightened, but ones in which they either have little power or are pacified by unrelated conditions. This is not unlike the conditions in which dictatorships are stable, as the common thread is simply "the masses can't or don't care in detail about the fundamentals of the way they're governed". It's not a coincidence that the global illiberalism surge coincides with the rise of universal connectivity: On top of the social and economic upheaval that it induced, suddenly large amounts of people can coordinate epistemically, through hashtags and reshares, without making their way through distribution chokepoints controlled by elites.

[1] I couldn't think of a concise way to phrase this, but I'm referring to the tendency to claim that a big chunk of your beliefs/preferences are incontrovertible and fundamental tenets of society while others' are simply their beliefs and preferences.
There's great irony to posting this on HackerNews. It's one of the most gung ho pro-censorship sites on the internet. The mods will pull anything that doesn't align with their politics or YC's profit motive. They'll claim it's under the guise of "intelligent discussion", which is an even weaker justification than that offered pretty much everywhere else. This site has a lot of discussion about free speech but what's allowed here is a very narrow and pro-YC subset of conversation.
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I've been upset by this myopic view since the very beginning. We are increasingly learning that viruses can have long-term effects on the body and mind, even prior to COVID. Agreed that we can't all walk around as 'bubble boys' out of fear of the unknown, but one should definitely avoid becoming infected with viruses where at all possible. That the initial symptoms are analogous to a flu for most people doesn't mean that's the end of the story.

HPV was 'just' genital warts, until we found out that it causes cancer. Other animal species have cancer-causing viruses as well. Or take Chicken Pox: basic kid's illness in the past (and yes, it was worth getting it when younger before a vaccine was available to avoid late-life illness) but if you've ever known anyone with a severe case of shingles you'll know that it's not 'just' a virus that causes itchy rashes in grade-schoolers. Shingles can ruin people's lives.

Assuming you won't have any long-term issues from exposure to a dangerous virus is just rolling dice.
Maybe it didn’t display because mobile, but could you or someone explain what each heading in that table means? I’ve never heard of ANY exception to at-will, and I’m in the process of figuring out which state I want to live in now that I’ve decided to leave Texas for good (long story). I’d like to have some idea of the employment protections, such as they are, available in other states and this looks like a great start-if I knew what each heading meant!
So you understand and acknowledge that this vaccine can literally save your life, and you accept all the science that shows that it is safe and effective, but you refuse to get it because some people are being forbidden (by a privately-owned platform, only on that platform) to spread lies about how it's not safe or effective? That's a very strange position to take, to put your own life in literal mortal danger because other people want to spread lies (that you acknowledge are lies) that put their own lives and the lives of people who listen to them at risk.
I see your point. It's likely I'm only seeing the people who thrive. The problem is whose definition of "properly interact" are we going with? In my experience people on the spectrum tend towards extreme honesty. What they often aren't good at is understanding all the lies, half truths and hints that are part of socializing... in part to protect the brittle egos most of the rest of us have.
Google isn't a "private entity" in the sense of a small business either. More like a utility company. False analogy
Interesting tweet on the matter:

https://twitter.com/needamulligan11/status/14429576218125557...
GPS orbits at 20,200km from the surface.
Starlink orbits at 550km from the surface. So, relatively, they're basically on the ground, just moving really fast!
True, that is one limitation, but there are tons of other things you could do. A little innovation is required here. I do not believe it is an impossible problem. I think what's happening is that hospitals don't really want to innovate and are hoping to just wait for covid to blow over so then can return to "normal" operation and business-as-usual.

But I say they need to innovate because this isn't the last pandemic that will ever happen, and hospitals need a way to deal with loading spikes and denial of service just like every other system susceptible to those things.
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Apparently not, see link provided in the other reply:

http://www.righto.com/2012/02/apple-didnt-revolutionize-powe...

Jobs lied and, additionally, Woz did not design that power supply as you suggest.
Yes, exactly this.
Imagine à reporter going through an unfriendly country’s airport.
Hire the core maintainers of projects which are mission-critical.

It's an old idea, and a proven one. Anecdotally, I made my living as a such a hire for nearly a decade.

Another good plan, mentioned elsethread: have your current devs contribute. Opportunities to contribute always arise, and contributing is in the company's interest. The only thing typically standing in the way is codifying an open source policy (which is a good idea for large organizations.)
2 days later, and it saddens me that this got downvoted so much, considering its about control of a market.

It is literally what apple decide to do to this dev, because it was, in their opinion "just another hangman in the store".
I'm sort of sympathetic to that argument except:

1. I think at the end of the day, the problem isn't "does YouTube have the right to do this?" it's "should YouTube be doing this, given their status?" For me even though they have the right to, I think it's just the wrong thing to do.

I personally am baffled by how the US as a society seems to be devaluing free speech principles in the private and public sphere due to some argument that it's needed to combat misinformation. This strategy never ends well, and it belies a lack of strength in promoting alternatives. The way to combat misinformation is with better information. Resorting to free speech restrictions is a sign of weakness in my opinion.

In the end I'd rather have YouTube (and other platforms) modeling a different approach.

2. I also think, regardless of how they got there, at some point a private business functions as a monopoly and should be treated as such. I'm not so sure how I feel about regulations along those lines, but I do think anti-monopoly legal response to this sort of behavior wouldn't be unreasonable. I'm not at all sympathetic to the GOP in general, but if they started coming down on YouTube for this kind of thing under anti-monopoly regulation umbrellas I think it wouldn't be irrational or unreasonable to me.

3. As a more immediate issue, I think this sort of thing always backfires. If you have a bunch of people thinking there's a conspiracy to shove untested vaccines down people's throats, and then you have a major media distributor like YouTube censoring all anti-vaccine discussion, what do you think they're going to conclude? I'm as pro-vaccine as someone can get, and think arguments against them are usually pretty absurd, but I have to say that this kind of thing starts to look like a conspiracy, even if it isn't one. Why give them ammunition? If you can't convince people the vaccine is a good thing, how do you think that shutting down discussion is somehow going to work better?
> Would that make you reconsider if the holocaust really happened?

Well, to play devil's advocate - if it did, and anybody were to say it did, saying so out loud would also be illegal in Germany.
Society is regressing back to a time where idea's like those in the Pre-Enlightenment era where prevalent, hopefully we do not regress all the way back to Dark Ages, where people will stoned and hanged for defying the church... In our time "the church" will likely be replaced with a new non-theistic religion of some kind, a Technocracy of "The Experts™" and "Authoritative Sources™" who are the ones that will tell us what "The Truth™" is today
Happy to answer any questions or discuss any comments here.

Once again, thank you to Allan Jude at Klara Systems for the advice and guidance with the new ZFS "special" vdev for metadata caching that is discussed this quarter ...
No one says that Ruby is dead, beyond in the rhetorical "as the cool new thing" angle. But sure, there are companies that were started with Ruby back when it was the cool thing (2008 - 2011ish), and inertia, along with a heavy dose of cargo culting, has them doubling down. If those companies started in 2019 they'd be all in on Go. Today...I don't know...Rust?

I posted a couple of weeks back that it is remarkable that almost all Ruby advocacy/development comes from Shopify, and here is yet another example. Similarly, recent claims about Ruby's growth among the "top N websites" was more than 100% accounted for purely by a quirk in the way Shopify implements their storefront (as a subdomain which allowed Shopify's choice of technology to trojan horse in the metrics onto hundreds of thousands of domains).

Clearly people make solutions with it, in the same way that people made remarkable solutions with PHP.
Very likely. Because apple does not take bug reports seriously, they probably have no team that is in charge of the whole process from first evaluation to fixing the bug. As soon as the issue is redirected to the responsible development team no one but them cares about it anymore. This hurts the whole company, especially for security issues.
The rates are increasing because the cases/deaths are increasing as of the latest reported date you have. Now it's starting to decrease so your graph will show a decrease once you update it with the latest week data.

At least compare with a previous wave to see if there's a change according to vaccination rates (spoiler: there is), because as it is it's a worthless, albeit pretty, representation of data.
I have only the slightest passing knowledge of ELisp, but I believe it offers Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) facilities; most basically, chained decorators (i.e. replacing a function with your proxy for that function, where your definition of the function gets bound dynamically to the current definition of the function at eval-time; so the call your function makes to the “inner” function, could just be to another proxy wrapper function someone else already inserted.)
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I don't disagree.

That was misunderstanding the application, for sure.

Here is what a physicist would probably do to test that 3x3x3 thing: https://imgur.com/gallery/6HOORem
I kinda disagree. Sure, she was not honest to investors. But who cares? these investors are billionaires trying to make a quick buck. The faulty equipment in actual pharmacies is problematic, but I can actually see how prototypes out in the wild is a good thing.
> For myself and other young athletes, my research leads me to understand that the vaccine is higher risk than the infection.

As someone with a pre-existing heart condition I'd like to read that research. Do you have any links?
I agree. You build the MVP then as you need content moderation you start requiring more onerous proof of identity. The only goal is to make ban evasion more difficult.

For everything else, just ask the community what they want. If they don't like Donald Trump in the conversation, then he's gone. Donald can then attempt to find a community (subreddit) that accepts him. That community can be quarantined or banned if people really don't like it.

Thank you for the feedback. I strongly suspect I'm wasting my time :(
I grew up in a Christian cult that is well over 100 years old and has survived many a scandal. Follower numbers took a big hit once the www emerged and was able to distribute information to the masses without gate keepers but they still have all of their land and wealth in place throught the globe and the system still works.

At one point there were over three million followers in the United States...those officially inducted or "baptized" through a program that closely resembles and is modelled after the "three degrees" of freemasonry. These people amount to a sleeper cell that will do exactly as they are told, immediately and without question.

It didn't start like this. The founder established the organization as a way to use Christianity to spread the tenents of freemasonry to the masses instead of just white males of means. His first successor was a drunken fundamentalist.

Gotta love America.
So what should they have done? Paid him a $300k per year salary to do nothing?
RxDB maintainer here.

I am aware of that problem. Pouchdb got some good love in the last weeks where some people made good PRs with fixes for the indexeddb adapter. But still it is mostly unmaintained and issues are just closed by the state bot instead of being fixed.

So in the last major RxDB release [1] I abstracted the underlaying pouchdb in a way that it can be swapped out for a different storage engine. This means you could in theory use RxDB directly on SQLite or indexeddb. In practice of course someone has to first create a working implementation of the RxStorage interface.

[1] https://github.com/pubkey/rxdb/blob/master/orga/releases/10....
Fiction and non-fiction are almost universally treated differently.
I actually prefer the speedometer location in my Model Y to almost any other car. It literally took me an hour to adjust to looking over rather than down.
> Also unfortunately using public money and delivering a bad product is not a criminal offense, more like being sloppy at what you do.

They lied to FDA auditors in what sounds like a criminal conspiracy to defraud investors, business partners, and the patients whose blood tests were processed there.
Yup, the Streisand effect is real. Tyrion Lannister said it best - when you cut out a man's tongue, you're not proving him a liar. You're just proving that you fear what he has to say.
Let's kill them all and God will choose the good ones!
The data backs it up [1]. Sentencing disparities based on race in the United States are undeniable.

[1]: https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/141027_iachr...
I wonder if this is a problem that fixes itself naturally generation by generation. There is a propaganda / propaganda immunity arms race that seems to always eventually favor the skeptic. I think advertising is a good example - when you look at advertisements in, say, the 1980s is would be immediately rejected by any young person today who has a natural 'inoculation' to blatant advertising like that. Instead we have more subtle paid product placements from influencers and the like. I feel like maybe the same is true of outrage pornography clickbait farms like this. I suspect the primary customers of this sort of content skew older and as those generations die off a more subtle form of divisive propaganda might emerge, or it might just become less effective over time.
Thank you for the quite interesting comment. While I know Pressfield's The War of Art very well, I am new to Fiore's; and thank you for the link to the summary.

I am going to have to chew on "decouple any self-judgment or self-validation from your work and its results, and stay focused on the task itself and why you want to finish it..." for a while. Looking forward to the discovery.
Seeing images in the media of people filling open buckets with petrol, I wouldn't be surprised if something awful doesn't happen at some point.
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Engineering doesn't solve political issues either. War is politics by another means.
There's no silver bullet for cults and other addictions.

Unwinding decades of malfeasance and indoctrination takes time and effort.

Even those who snap out of it then spend decades coming to terms.

Even worse: The liberal tendency to cult shame and scold backfires. (Am guilty as charged.)

The only effective remedy I'm aware of is distraction and redirection. Like the guy who slow walked his wife out of the QAnon cult by encouraging her interest in the opera.

Meanwhile, cockblocking the grifters helps too.
Google is also a Bay Area company and happens to have a sizable number of vocal/activist employees with lofty world-saving goals. I also can’t help but think that having so much revenue and de-facto monopolies means they are comfortable with alienating “the other side”. I think they know people aren’t going to switch en-masse to a YouTube competitor because of this.
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I was watching a YouTube video a while ago about some 80s industrial band touring in the late 2010s. I forget which. In order to play all the synth tracks live they had to dig out an Atari ST and load up the sequencer software on it with floppies containing midi tracks and samples. It's hard to believe the floppies didn't die after all those years.
Statements of importance are indeed value judgements, That's why you have to argue that its universally good ( a virtue ) in order to get around the political stifle. This does happen quite alot but you don't always hear about it. The US happened to approve a 1 billion dollar funding request for Israel's Iron Dome. The vote was 420 to 9.
I don't think he's disputing that experts are real. He's saying that we need to be able to question the experts (ie the lab lead being refuted by scientists with massive conflicts of interest). Experts are also not a monolith, there were experts saying the lab leak theory was credible but they were shut down during the early stages.
> Pretending your stealth tech is better than it is… Is tricking your adversary into trying to be competitive with stealth tech you yourself aren’t competitive with. That’s a…questionable move. You might trick your adversary into developing better stealth tech than you.

You are tricking them into thinking money spent on stealth is a better gamble than it is (but being a gamble, it might still pay off). That siphons money from other projects.
> In the short term, I don't see how we force them to host actively harmful content without recategorizing their role in society.

This recent flip from "Facebook et al aren't doing enough, put the screws on them" to "we can't force Facebook not to censor" is quite disingenuous. These companies and their founders are famously liberal, and were dragged kicking and screaming into ever more heavy-handed moderation, by both public opinion and veiled threats of regulation from politicians. There's plenty of statements on the record of eg Zuckerberg saying what was obvious to most of us: nobody, including Facebook, wants them in the position of deciding what is true and what is false.

Leaving aside whether content moderation is a good thing, let's not pretend that the situation here is that Facebook really wanted to become the arbiter of truth and misinformation and we can't stop them from being so.
How about those scammy financial advisers and history rewriters?
You know that, and I know that. But people who already distrust authority and feel that the mechanisms of culture, finance, and government are biased against them don't agree.

They see money, time, and effort being expended by groups they already feel are against them to silence certain views. Of course they're then going to more prone to associate themselves with those views: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
There were other USSR environmental disasters too like the Aral Sea. Clearly neither unrestrained capitalism or total public ownership of the environment are viable.

Thankfully we have a third way, mixed economies that internalize externalities so that people and firms are incentivized to make correct environmental decisions. There’s a reason nearly every economist favors Pigovian solutions like carbon taxes for the environment. Governments can apply the same rules to themselves.

Companies are just centrally planned governments that haven’t reached scale yet. We heap scorn on Five Year Plans when governments do them, but firms (especially in limited competition) create five year plans all the time, sometimes with just as disastrous results as Mao.
Yeah, I suppose in some circumstances their offering is OK.

I don't think i have ever worked on a system where 10 mins of data loss is anywhere near acceptable though.

I guess for mostly static pages, or self hosting a blog its ok, although id be pissed if i had to rewrite an article. Makes you wonder who their target market is.