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> "Fact checking is censorship taken on behalf of protected opinions"

In this context, it is the fact checks that are claimed to be protected speech.

"Protected" refers to statements of opinions (as opposed to facts) being protected by law against allegations of defamation. For example, if I publish something as a factual statement, e.g., "Mark Zuckerberg is a criminal", I can be sued for defamation (if it is false). However, if I say "I think Mark Zuckerberg is a criminal", I can't be sued for defamation.[1]

Thus, Facebook is defending itself against a defamation suit by arguing that all its "fact check" labels are merely statements of the fact checker's opinion, not actual statements of fact.

In particular, the paragraph quoted in that Twitter post does not refer to any attempt to protect an opinion against "political enemies".

[1] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation#United_States - In particular: 'Defenses to defamation that may defeat a lawsuit, including possible dismissal before trial, include the statement being one of opinion rather than fact or being "fair comment and criticism".'
By ‘quiet part’, you mean the part that they have never literally said, which instead you wrote and attributed to them.
You would have to be delusional to really believe this.
Do you have a source for that? Because my understanding is that even in young people (the original CDC target for the vaccine), the vaccination rate is under 50% in the US.

https://www.cdc.gov/hpv/partners/outreach-hcp/hpv-coverage.h....
Suppose, I'm an author of GPL software. I think that my code costs $1M. I expected that if someone uses my software, according to license, then he will release his software under same license for me. Now, somebody used my $1M project in his $100M project in violation of my GPL license. My losses are $100M.
Thieves are known not to be smart. If you're smart enough, you'll know that stealing probably isn't worth it.
Their PR and media game is superb.
The wrong people are being prosecuted, they are going after the most well connected node in a graph only when noticed.

It should not be a criminal charge.

And the civil charge likely needs to be levied elsewhere, and let the individual perpetrator be embroiled in private litigation with the employer and associated companies.

I see the same absurdity in the FCPA. Americans are sent into to foreign and already corrupt markets to land business, but if they do anything competitive in that corrupt market, then they … have to pay a kickback to the United States too as punishment for paying kickbacks?
Not only that, but California EV transferable credits are a major part of Tesla's income stream. IIRC, if Tesla stops selling in California, their profits go down by more than 50% (assuming that the other states can absorb the extra Teslas, which at this point is a reasonable assumption.)
It's not my job to disprove other's statement. It's their job to prove their statements when they make assertions. This is common argument religious zealots make. You can't disprove god, therefore god exists. It's silly at best.

I have yet to see any proof or evidence that 'elites' are engaged in such activities.
Yup. I'm twice vaccinated but still labeled as an anti-vaxxer because I show skepticism towards for example vaccinating young kids and I'm outright against vaccine mandates, to the point where I will refuse any boosters just out of principle.
Daniels is a classic GOP leader, as are many of the people beneath him. Use vaguely patriotic rhetoric to take over an American institution, sell out all possible assets to foreign powers for personal profit, retire to country estate. It's been the Republican playbook since the end of WWII.

The pattern of leadership is the same everywhere; the "academic freedom being negatively impacted by a foreign power" you mention is a rot that pervades nearly all American instutions, be they academic or commercial. Have you ever read the biography of Phil Knight, founder of Nike? His incredible business insight was to take shoes made cheaply elsewhere and undercut American labor with it. We're led by Phil Knights in every sector.
> But that said I don't think "using a standard protocol" is a value in and of itself.

Standard protocols are very valuable if you care about reach while avoiding vendor-lock-in. I want to be able to self-host my server (or pay someone to host it for me), but I also want to be able to communicate with people on other servers. It is that balance of control and networking that is really powerful. Someone else mentioned here about how FHIR uses Zulip as the group chat for their community. That is great! But, to participate, you need an account on their instance and then if you want to participate in multiple Zulip instances you either need multiple clients or some kind of multi-instance support in your client. And then you still have to manage separate profiles for each instance, etc, etc...

OTOH, a bunch of open source projects use Matrix instances for their community chat rooms. One of the huge benefits I see from that is that I can use my single Matrix account (on the server that I host) to join all the different communities that I am interested in. (And now with the new Spaces feature in Element, there is even better controls over being able to still retain a separation of concerns between all the different conversations I am a part of...)
Well now they've only got $738.45B on hand, that'll show 'em!
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I actually completely agree. COVID is endemic so now we’re just prolonging the inevitable getting-on-with-it and the only question is how much damage we do pretending otherwise.
Exactly, and that's why we know vaccines work, because we looked at the overall picture and not at anecdotal data points.
That makes sense, but I still think the meta name is confusing. I mean, as a user the fact that it was implemented using metaprogramming techniques has no bearing, it's an implementation detail. Actually, my brain never thought to associate meta in this context with metaprogramming. Makes sense in hindsight, but still confusing.

But still, I can't really come up with a nicer name. VerbalDataFrames to match the dplyr verbs idiom?
Phones are also not expensive unless you want them to be. You can get a great phone for any use for about $100 used. Streaming, playing Fortnite, productivity tasks. Any 5 year old phone can handle all that. It’s very cost efficient to get free entertainment, communication, portability
I'm inclined to agree. Half of the Taiwanese in the US live in California and the rest mostly in Texas/NY. They are a highly-educated, modern populace, they aren't going to go "building railroads in flyover country," let alone come here at all. There will be some sort of exodus that will likely be supported by the US gov't but I can't imagine it being anywhere nearing the millions mark.
Cops act on what their police chief and union tell them to do.
I wonder if the GPLv3 violation pulls in TikTok's other software and infrastructure under it. That'd be one for the ages (like OpenWrt was [0]) if FSF manages to reign it in!

[0] https://thenewstack.io/the-open-source-lesson-of-the-linksys...
I switched to a self-hosted Nextcloud instance some time back. Backups GPG encrypted and shunted to S3 for opaque offsite backup. It works quite well, and I don't have any concerns that a mistrained algorithm is going to lock me out of my files.
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I don't know the answer to your question, but I think this[0] video might help to visualize the mind-boggling scale of the world (in the video you can substitute dollars with human beings). And it's only one billion visualized so in order to go through the entire human population you would have to watch it 7.9 times which would take something over 10 hours.

As the dollar meter keeps running relentlessly you can imagine yourself being one split of a second somewhere there, and then you can imagine the sea of people working hard at compilers, optimizers, math etc. blasting you all at once with their brilliant observations. It's only natural to get overwhelmed if you expose yourself to the aggregate of the most brilliant and productive humans, because as rare as they might be, the human population is so staggeringly big that there are LOTS of them. You might not be doing so bad compared to the rest of the humanity though ;)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YUWDrLazCg (A Million Dollars vs A Billion Dollars, Visualized: A Road Trip)
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I'm in this boat with Instagram. My account is permanently banned, and I didn't do anything.

And I mean that literally. I have never done anything with the account. I created it years ago, but I never got around to posting a photo or anything. It's just an account with no activity.

When I try to login, I see this:

> Your account has been permanently disabled because it didn't follow our Community Guidelines. This decision can't be reversed either because we've already reviewed it, or because 30 days have passed since your account was disabled. Learn more about why we disable accounts in our Community Guidelines.

So, it's an issue of community guidelines, so what are those? Presumably this: https://help.instagram.com/477434105621119

Those guidelines are all about content, and of course I didn't post any.

My next thought is maybe someone (like a spammer) took over my account and posted something bad. But I have a strong, machine-generated random password, so that seems unlikely.

So I tried contacting support through the mobile app (since I can't through the web site), and a bot sent me a 5-digit number and asked me to reply with a photo of myself holding a piece of paper with that number. I did that and got no response. (But maybe because the ban is permanent I wasn't supposed to be able to contact support.)
By singling out Democrats, are you claiming that the Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson haven’t influenced the government in ways that are beyond the scope of what citizens should be capable of?
I've had shoulder pain for a couple of years now and I'm reading this right after I bought an old 500 on eBay for $100 two hours ago. I love my Niz topre clone but I need a healthier layout, and now I'm pretty stoked.
HN is also complicit. I learned about the BMJ letter (https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2957) from the HN article
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29582147

As you can see, it is gone, practically in a few minutes after I had read it. Why? Is it because HN is a tech website and this not related to tech? Even though there are many articles related to covid?

Or is it because BMJ articles are meant for healthcare professionals? I am also a healthcare professional but don't have time to read all journals and sometimes I rely on blogs and even HN to bring the most interesting articles to my notice.

The third possibility is that some HN voters don't want to admit possibility that the current political establishment was wrong about vaccine mandates. Or at least that some respectable healthcare professionals are against them.
At least in the medical field, conferences only provided the thinnest veneer. Doctors were paid handsome fees to present, which is tantamount to dropping money in their bank account when you compare it to other professions whether people often go to conferences on their own (or company’s) dime.
This is great in theory if each individual has the ability to arrive at the same conclusion as the “debunkers”. They don’t, so they fallback to trust, and that’s when it all breaks down.

The most important thing to combat misinformation is to build trust. Anyone trying to combat misinformation while disparaging their tribal outgroup is playing politics, not combating misinformation.

In your post you call people you need to convince that you’re trustworthy “enemies”. There’s no way that will ever work.
I'll give him more credit than that (And I don't think Malcolm Gladwell is horrible, either). But their sins are categorically different: Gladwell is a perfectly good summarizer, he just needs to do be a bit less lazy and do a bit more deep research (to avoid detail errors like igonvalues e.g.) Krugman is not by any means lazy, he just expends a lot of intellectual resources without really thinking deeply. Subtle, but different. Actually kind of in a way going into Gladwell it's good to know that he is a shallow generalist, picking and choose lessons from his work and apply critical thinking as appropriate seems to be the natural default mode, it's much easier to take Krugman 'as an authority' and not bother to do the critical work.
I'd much rather offload more specific responsibilities to my lambda functions than put my entire API in lambda. I've worked on several projects that grew beyond the limitations of lambda / serverless and required extensive rework. Other commenters have mentioned cold start and runtime issues. Another issue is that if you have constant load, your lambdas become defacto instances, but are much more expensive. Lambda is great for "bursty" compute. If you have constant load but you want scaling, you could try running your workload on a cluster.
Because it isn't a new problem? Apple could have locked out Asahi at any time, but have shown no inclination of doing so. There's no reason for them to build a feature that facilitates this specific use case and then remove it in a future version.

Assuming for the sake of argument that they did, what you're left with is what you had before: having to build the process around format changes to Apple's supported process. The Asahi devs went into this project knowing that they were working around Apple's internal needs, and having to revert back to their original solution and its tradeoffs at some undefined future point isn't an existential threat to the project.
Have to agree - as a Brit, using 'help' there is just ... wrong
Actually, no. The article misses one important step, namely experts or interpretation of data. Meaning, there's data, data reporting, aggregation and selection, and finally, interpretation. Journalism is then another step, namely a transmission system from the realm of data and specific domain to common understanding. The form of this is the story, which integrates the findings with public matters (by this constructing meaning) and allows the public to form an opinion. Accepted opinion eventually becomes the narration that leads our accorded actions. – What "data journalism" means here, is omitting expert opinion and directly applying common understanding to unstructured data, by this neglecting any need for expert domain or domain experts, in other words, skipping informed opinion, since the expertise is already "in the stack" – and even more so, requiring the members of the public to come up with the story on their own (and fight it out). I'm not convinced.
the roasts arent wrong but they're also not all that meta. they're largely specific flaws, not cultural.

the Atlantis thing was so weird & so much anti the point of mage to me. humans just being awesome (if they dared to, could awake themelves) was way way better.
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With QEMU you can configure that and make it say whatever you want ( which is how you can lie to an Nvidia card).
I guess the author of this piece doesnt believe in reincarnation or the eternal soul.
>Child funerary treatment provides important insights into who was considered a person and afforded the attributes of an individual self, moral agency, and eligibility for group membership. Neve shows that even the youngest females were recognized as full persons in her society.

Alternatively, it shows that ancient people were as terrified of baby ghost hauntings as we are today. Those baby ghosts need to be appeased, through costly ritual and material sacrifice, lest they return and torment the living.

I mean, it seems as valid an interpretation as the article authors' one, no?
> Is there anyone in particular enabling this? No.

I’m curious as to what exactly this sentence refers to.

If (for example) Jamie Dimon isn’t an oligarch, why is he essentially immune to real consequences? His ability to break the law with impunity is… an emergent behavior of a healthy democracy?
I agree; we don't know why the trunks where left open. There was no investigation into the matter. Assumptions are being made here. This is shallow news reporting.
What a strange question. It reads like one of those weirdly-specific tshirts.

And yes. I have personally used Tesla's products in California, in May, when it wasn't raining, after a small lunch I made at home.
It's not a hotel, it's some sort of corporate subletting situation. These people broke into an apartment unit.

>7% of home burglaries resulted in a violent encounter. Given that only ~27% of the time someone was even home that's a pretty big risk when someone indeed happens to be home: https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/vdhb.pdf

Did you seriously just compare people being uncomfortable around black people with people being uncomfortable that their residence may be broken into??? "Legitimately" was the key word there.
Define "good". I agree that the people in SF will be happier to be there (I'm someone moving out of SF because I feel like I can now, I moved there because I "had to"). But this tradeoff includes a massive decrease in the tax base, and losing the security of knowing that they will have a growing tax base from the creation of new billion dollar tech companies. The tech people that the Bay Area loves to hate pay for a huge amount of what the government does, and we all know they're not efficient with that money.

Eventually the Bay Area will find a new equilibrium, but it won't look much like the current Bay Area does. I believe the Bay Area exists in it's current state because of the network effect of having this much tech money/talent in one place. If this goes away, what is left that outweighs high crime, drug abuse and homelessness, taxes, etc?
I don't think a single relevant implementation is a problem, especially when therer are not a lot of people working on these languages. I'm also surprised that you think OCaml is moving too fast. The multicore took a lot of time to have a proper design and backwards compatibiltiy, and old code compiles really well.
As the old line goes, "Revolution is never justified... Unless you win."
The link you provided for the paper wasn't paywalled for me, no idea why.
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You're right. English is not my first language and I've read the "Honestly?" more as "Seriously?".
There are thresholds elsewhere. For example, a civil servant can accept a gift, up to a very small amount, from a vendor without being an ethics violation.
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Pre-pandemic if they had done that I probably would have moved there despite passing on a reasonably priced penthouse condo in the mission that has tripled in value back in the early 00s.

Post pandemic and post the past 5 years maybe not so much. You get all the density, they've got some huge budget surplus, but it comes with endless annoying petty crime and poop on the streets about which nothing can be done because of political paralysis. I think I'm too old for that now. But it's silly to assume this is San Francisco's last chapter, no?
Although this bug report [0] states the difficulties facing them, zulip doesn't do e2e, which is a deal breaker for many communities. So, a title as you suggest should be "Why your Zulip data will stand the test of time, provided no one steals it".

Aren't we a long way down the road of understanding that all server systems should be regarded as an "untrust" environment? I feel this way about my own self hosted systems. If your critical data leaks, you're hosed.

If corporate needs to have audit trails then there needs to be a system that deliberately breaks e2e, something that all clients posting on that system know about and display messages about, rather than the current implementation.

About server side search... that's a different issue, but couldn't it be done with hashing keywords on the client and a disclaimer on how this may reduce security?

So, all in all, I get why e2e is hard for zulip, but standing the test of time without it could be difficult.

[0] https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/6096
Yeah, they will still sell it but it wont sell to people living in CA which is one of the larger US markets. that's a non-trivial market to close your doors to for something like FSD. The margins on FSD have to be some of the best on the whole car.

The EU regulations and standards are likely just as annoying for them, but they don't sell the same volume across the EU yet, and the regulations are a bit more consistent across the whole region. So getting a Tesla in one EU country will work the same in another. Which is just easier for a consumer.

I am not saying this would end Tesla, but I can't imagine a world where they want it to come to that. I think they would look at either properly complying or some other workaround before just drawing a fence around FSD in CA.
I don't totally disagree, but I've found that you lose whatever dev time you might have thought you gained where bugs crop up and the type system isn't helping you fix them. I've ended up in a situation where the codebase was typed and the test cases weren't, and the test cases had plenty of issues that were ridiculously hard to debug because we let the tests remain untyped.
I wonder what is BMJ’s agenda? Why do they want that their articles explaining how one contractor botched trial shared on Facebook? Are they saying that it is not true that their article “could mislead people”?

And article is like Fox News: “ Revelations of poor practices at a contract research company helping to carry out Pfizer’s pivotal covid-19 vaccine trial raise questions about data integrity and regulatory oversight.”

Come on guys… this is definitely “click bite” article where headline really does not match the content l.
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A bunch of cryptocurrency startups.

For a while now I've been wondering whether the cryptocurrency bust—which is inevitable in my view—will mean the end of these kinds of articles and the resurgence of the Bay Area. Many of the other up-and-coming tech areas, particularly Miami, are disproportionately composed of cryptocurrency ventures, which doesn't strike me as a sustainable tech scene.
Yeah, I don’t think they mean to ban cruise control, so it is confusing.
The go-to book for this problem is "The Worry Cure" by Robert Leahy. The book starts out by explaining why many popular methods for fighting worry are actually ineffective or counterproductive - for example, trying to assure yourself that the thing you worry about will most likely not happen. There's a better way, and it is explained through a series of simple exercises in the style of CBT (cognitive behaviour therapy).

I first read it ten years ago, and I still use the tools on a weekly basis. Changed my life, and the lifes of two other people I gifted the book to.

You can get a gist of his method in this podcast: https://www.listennotes.com/da/podcasts/the-aict-cognitive/d...
I'm glad this point has been made. $125 million is pretty much the bonus allotment for the janitorial staff at JC Morgan.