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Funny how dumb theories are always get attention while actual theories that might affect people lives are ignored, ridiculed, discussion banned, fact checked...

Trump Is Right About the Deep State. Thank God!
https://slate.com/culture/2022/04/ukraine-ambassador-marie-y...
Flamewar comments like this are not ok on HN and will get your account penalized and eventually banned.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
From the mouths of babes. You get so used to grinding LeetCode and doing take homes weekend after weekend, you stop questioning reality. Maybe it takes someone from an outside field looking in to see it. Thank you for the refreshing perspective..
Took a quick look and was not impressed to find a pycache[1] in your repo
(unless that's one of the bugs the candidate was expected to find :-P )

[1] https://github.com/angarg12/minichallenge-flood-fill-python/...
curious who they're using for transactional email. there are unfortunately a few hoops to jump through to ensure deliverability.
Have a look at https://jspaint.app/

They have a GitHub page, which says that an Electron app is on its way.
I'm really curious what your business model is and how you make money. I looked under those sections on the about page, but they don't actually answer the question.
You don't like the idea that the majority of people aren't very intelligent and that 90% of innovation comes from 10% of people.

That's okay. Reality often isn't easy to digest. I don't like the human species most of the time either. But if you want to create systems that redistribute wealth, knowledge, etc then first we must understand the reality of what we are dealing with.

And this has nothing to do with elitism. You just pulled the simplest term you could think of in order to justify for yourself why you're right and don't like the words I wrote. Now in your head you can attach my words to elitism and convince yourself that elitism is bad, rather than substance of the actual words I said.

It's okay. We all think like this.
If your language (call it X) can only be compiled by a compiler written in X, then you can always create an X-to-C transpiler (it doesn't need to be efficient, and it can even leak memory, as long as it can complete the bootstrapping process).
Sounds meant to be audible to blind people can be swapped with arbitrary MP3 files? Just another case of "first principle thinking" (i.e. naivete) colliding with real world regulations, with predictable results.
> The way to evaluate a fact checker isn't via an ideology measurement, it's via an examination of their work.

We have a 6-3 Supreme Court. Do you think there's no conservative bias in their work?

> This bias thing feels like a dangerous precedent. I get not wanting kooks to exert strong cultural pressure, but if we start locking people out of various parts of society because of their beliefs, that sounds like the definition of illiberalism to me.

It's not about locking people out, but ensuring that the people who have power are ideologically representative of the people they have power over.

Saying you can have apolitical "fact checking" is like saying judges just "call balls and strikes based on what the law says." In many cases both statements are actually true. But in practice, in many important cases, ideology and politics is inextricable from the job.

FactCheck.org doesn't exactly stick to verifying the number of carbon atoms in Butane. Their fact checks regularly, for example, parse through a politician's words to make inferences about what they meant or may not have meant. There's a lot of subjectivity wrapped up in that sort of analysis.

Whenever you give someone power and discretion, their "work" will be influenced by their ideology. I'm not talking about transparent favoritism, but differences in world view, values, and priorities. And it drives people nuts when people who don't share their values exercise power over them. This is true of everyone--from people who grow up in conservative little towns and escape to the big city as soon as they can to distinct ethnic groups who declare independence for their own patch of land. "Who" the decision makers are matters just as much if not more than what decisions they make.
I’ve built and run a performance monitoring platform/team at a large tech company. I’ve also worked in security for the past few years.

Both have similar problems: if the business goals don’t align with reducing latency or improved security posture then your detailed analysis will get parked in a ticket queue and promptly forgotten. Your OKRs will be missed. You will also be fighting the tide against new features developed sloppily- as latency will increase and then investment in your team seems like it’s not working to the executives. Fortunately we had a supportive directive but being siloed into an infra org didn’t give us the juice to influence product roadmaps.

We built a lab for testing against devices, did a bunch of work to isolate noise, integrated automated regression testing into CI to combat this. It still didn’t move the needle frankly, as the teams building products were not held accountable for the regressions (and don’t forget that it’s likely the right move for the greater business health!).

Netflix is unique in that latency is very core to their product.
It would be fairly straightforward to write a Wordle DSL if you wanted to, which would be much faster than any generic pattern matcher.

That's the risk of an overly complicated language, you can easily wind up slower than a series of regex filters.
there is no proven genocide yet. calm your horses
There are online laser/waterjet cutting services with relatively cheap prices. Just did quick experiment with online quote calculators for pcb and laser cut approaches. With somewhat default config and 5 50mmx150mm parts I got 35$ for PCB (1.6mm default thicknes) and 22€ for laser cut aluminium part (1.5mm). The difference was as soon as you moved away from default PCB params and tried to choose thicker aluminum price quickly skyrocketed 2mm->60$, 3mm -> 200$. Laser cutting service didn't care about what they cut too much, increasing thickness up to 6mm, price slowly raised to 30€. Cutting service also had the benefit of specifying what kind of aluminum alloy they will use and choosing between various surface finishes. On the other hand for PCB you get silkscreen at no additional cost. Looking at different metal cutting service they offered even cheaper price 2x5$ - 7x5$ (depending on thickness) for same parts and choice between different aluminum alloys.
> Of course, if you're a fan of macOS, there's already no reason for you to consider a PC, but if you really do like Linux, then I'm not sure what it is about the current state of AMD/Intel processing hardware that you dislike so much.

On PC, Intel and AMD is great, the desktop M1 is not that great vs. those CPUs. The problem is the laptop form factor. All Intel and AMD laptops I owned so far were noisy, overheated, had worse trackpad, and didn't last long on battery. Those are not a problem with PCs.
Sounds pretty simple to me.

Why are these people so adamant about not showing the world how Twitter decides what deserves signal boosting?
Definitely expensive for an individual or small group which is why I emphasised agreement with the message. The question was specifically about the cost estimate they gave.

Edit: Re-reading what I wrote and how much I quoted I realise now that wasn't clear :)
Any direct quotes/sources to substantiate that a “Twitter as root cause of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine” claim was honestly made?
> or are GC languages like Nim or Crystal good enough?

Any programming language is good enough for their own use cases :) It's a matter of understanding which the use cases are.

I'm a big Rust fan, but I nonetheless believe that the use cases for programming languages with manual memory management are comparatively small, in particular, since GC has been improved a lot in the last decade.

For undecided people, I conventionally suggest Golang. Those who at some point need deep control, will recognize it and change accordingly.
And as we know from C, every developer is quite capable of taking care of use after free possible bugs.
Pretty sure there can be unexpected behavior if you wait too long before you do those awaits at the end.
Agreed on the pricing, and IMO nothing can compare to a real vector graphics editor for posters (either Illustrator or Inkscape). How would you standardize fonts in figures or do true alignments with this tool (or PPT)?

BioRender is cool for premade vector images, but their license (and cost) is still too prohibitive for that, especially for grad students. Bioicons (https://bioicons.com) is a nice FOSS alternative.
What's at work is the recognition that "free speech" is a nice bumper sticker but doesn't go that far beyond that -- there are many policies one could pursue and plausibly call free speech. For instance, one could easily argue that we don't have free speech because money buys access. Somehow the right has been successful in claiming the mantle of "free speech" to mean something specific (basically that anyone can broadcast right-wing views without consequence) but that's not the only way the term could be conceived. There is also growing recognition that some things are outright harmful. Social media has already been implicated in pogroms; platitudes about the power of free speech seem to ring a bit hollow in that light.

On the cancel culture front, I don't agree. It actually refers to an incredibly broad segment of actions which almost nobody actually has much of a consistent line on. Often simply criticizing or refusing to patronize someone's business is called "canceling." Even if we narrowly refer to people losing their jobs, nobody actually believes there are NO circumstances whatsoever where losing your job might be an appropriate response to something you said. If you're a special ed teacher and post on Facebook that people with intellectual disabilities are less than human, one could reasonably doubt that you have any business having charge of special ed kids. If you want a more conservative flavored example, you could probably find conservatives endorsing cops losing their job if they bragged about not enforcing immigration laws. Or if you want an extremely uncontroversial example, you must at least believe it's appropriate not to VOTE for someone because you didn't like what they said. I don't think it's an accident. I think this term is so slippery and amorphous precisely because it obscures the hypocrisy at work.
Yes, my code still works.
I don't think your first and second sentence are necessarily in conflict with each other. In fact, Slow Social has no algorithms for engagement-optimizing, it's part of the design of the application.

That being said, you absolutely _could_ be right on the restrictions on post frequency. Perhaps its not something any sort of large user base might not want. However, as far as I know it hasn't been tried before, and I think that makes it worth a shot.

Lastly, it's possible that restrictions on post frequency serve a segment of the population that might be underserved by current social media, and its something those people would thrive one. At this point we can't say for sure, but I'd love to find out.
On what basis did you form that theory? I picked up programming as a child and have never wondered if I can do it, or cared if others knew I could do it, I have always been in step 3 programming to solve problems. There must be a lot of other people like me.

If anything I've regressed to step 1 20 years later after burnout, but that's another story :P
heavy smoker. I have a negative ion generator air filter near my desk and really helps keep the smell and sediments within the room.

Now that people are paying attention to ventilation, there's an upside: If you can smell my smoke its less likely any of my other emanations or exhalations will trouble you.
:(

That's happened before, but I thought I fixed it. I guess I'll just take out the party.
The “many eyes” saying is a comfortably common, but untrue, saying. Were it true, heartbleed and its ilk would never have occurred, given how widely used and distributed it was.
If you reload and go to /onboard it might work, otherwise you can just go to `/`, you'll just have to find your way around by yourself.
Why would you want a TV to be needlessly tied to an online service that can be turned off tomorrow? When Netflix stops providing its streaming service (or makes breaking changes to its API) a TV with Netflix support integrated now is wasting compute, menu space, physical buttons on remotes, etc. on a dead service. I would expect just about every TV to outlast Netflix unless it's treated poorly.
Apple have been on a hot streak in product design since ousting Ive.
Would you consider it strange if it were your project and after years of life in open source and being used by millions it didn’t pay the bills?
Virginia police routinely use secret GPS pings to track people’s cell phones
I think that's a fair price. But it was overpriced before the M1 CPUs. You could just buy a non-Apple for way cheaper that was noisy, weak and overheated just like the MacBook Air.
It was annoying to me as well. Artists "art". Most can't help it, whether famous or not. Of course they'll keep being creative. (Some turn to writing or other creative outlets, however.)

I'm more saddened though by the artists that didn't become huge pop stars but perhaps should have.

My examples: The Embarrassment, The Doleful Lions, The Muffs, Paul Brill, Grandaddy, The Wrens, ...

I could go on and I'm sure others have their own personal favorites.

Oh, did The Pixies ever make it? Or did they just inspire the pop stars of the 90's as they faded away?*
GP did say it is a nice to have.
There are a whole host of algorithms. Recomendation, feed, suggested followers, interest-based suggestions, etc. I am suspecting algorithms for how "trending" topics are picked are quite involved. It probably goes through filters, blacklists, whitelists, some AI-voodoo and gets increasingly promoted based on engagement in real-time.

That secret sauce is ripe for manipulation and extremely powerful.

Against combating spam - I mean, isn't this how something gets stronger? HN has a strong view that open source software is more secure because it gets hardened through exposure, not through obfuscation.
The article says the speed of the capsule was increased to 24,229 miles per hour, for the 3 day coast to the moon, but the moon is only (approx) 250,000 miles away. The trajectory was elliptical, so the distance wouldn't be significantly larger. 24,229 mph only takes 10 hours or so to do 250,000 miles. Is the speed number incorrect? If not, what don't I understand?
It's cool. A bit rough around the edges. I see a lot of "NULL" and "UNDEFINED" in the interface.

What is your stack?

For how long have you been coding?
wow, nice work!
i'm wondering nowadays what's a good resource to start learning objective-c?

i kind of would prefer it instead of using swift if anybody can point out curated resources, that would be wicked!
i have an idea to learn a bit of smalltalk to grasp the main concepts before.
I'm sure soon they'll be having one of their annual power outages too.
The tourist bus thing is procedurally generated missions saying "fly from X to Y". It doesn't really go anywhere interesting; no difference to flying cargo missions.
I was going to question whether you agreed in "free speech" because our U.S. counterparts are always up in arms about that, but then I see you're from Stockholm so no worries!
I’m not sure how this works in the US but I would be worried about attracting liability for what happens on the platform.

How does that work?
It's not a question of if societies needs to have librarians, it's a question of how many librarians society is willing to support and if that's greater than or equal to the supply of librarians being created. Defenders of humanities degrees often imply that those outside of the humanities don't understand the need for it instead of debating the wisdom of using a 'spray and pray' approach to producing the number of people in those areas that society needs and is willing to support. It's not a situation where we have to choose between having no librarians and society supporting an unlimited number of librarians even though some try to present it that way.
make sure you got the right dns records in place as well. I haven't looked at your mail headers yet[0] but you probably want to send from a separate subdomain than the one you use for everyday use (like for team@slowsocial.us).

[0] This may be seen as a back-handed way of saying I have no intention of signing up, but I didn't intend for it to be.
Personally, I share my work to see how it is received (including here), any reaction, including silence is useful and allows for a better perspective.

However, never let it get to you though when you don't see the reaction you potentially imagine. I think it's important to set that mindset from get go.

Starting slow is likely a better idea since you would not run out of material from the start when most people will pass by without taking much interest, just the way of the world.

Lastly and most importantly, keep doing what you love, people come and go (especially the online variety), your passion is with you for life. Keep at it!
That's fair, there are two things that rub me the wrong way here. First being how big of a deal they're making about the github equivalent of bookmarks, stars are not a community, period. The more significant thing is that this industry runs on mv foobar foobar truncating foobar with no recourse short of forensics, github's confirmation flow is quite good. Sure it could be improved, but it's so much better than pretty much everything else we have to interact with that assigning responsibility to them for not sounding a klaxon in addition to requiring one to type in the exact name of what's being deleted is absurd.
Nope. It's all about people having to protect The Narrative.
> So, it's exactly as destructive as I think.

My thoughts exactly. Setting the world back 100+ years is a disaster of gigantic proportions.

I also find it odd that the author didn't even attempt to provide an estimate of the possible victim count. I'm basically sure it would at least be in the tens, perhaps hundreds of millions.

This is to say nothing about a possible future arms race that would increase the numbers of warheads substantially.
Playing dumb here but there’re not going to invite each other to the secret nuclear warhead stash are they?
I agree to some extent. The “medium is the message”; let the outcomes of post frequency be determined by the structure of the platform. Whether that structure should be more prescriptive than descriptive though is certainly up for debate.
One big issue with this model is that you can't build an audience. You can't make friends. What's the point of using the site when all of your posts go to the void. Even if you add a friend all of those posts you worked hard on are gone.

If it takes a long time before there is new content to see, why would people visit the site instead of forgetting about it? How are you going to make it a rabbit for people to go there?
I like the “land doesn’t disappear” quote. Here in the Great Lakes region the lakes have been up and there are absolutely people paying taxes on land that’s underwater. So sure, it may not disappear, but there are any number of ways for it to become useless. Unless zoning allows building on stilts and letting utilities run there.

That being said, I think we want to do something to avoid becoming a nation of land barons
I used to commute between DFW and Houston every week. I would time my departure so that I missed as much of the ordinary traffic along the way as possible so that I could drive above the speed limit without having to deal with the highway patrol and all the other local cops who would be out during normal peak traffic times.

One time during the Bush administration I made it into Waco flying fast and took the loop out onto HWY6 which would take me south most of the way to Houston. At the time HWY6 was two lanes for most of the drive with part of it under construction for widening. It traveled through several small towns, speed traps all of them, and eventually merged with HWY 290 out of Austin near Hempstead, Texas.

Anyway I was about to merge from the loop onto HWY6 and was coming up to speed, roughly 80-85 would've been normal cruising speed for me back then though the speed limit varied from 55-65 mph. I know, what an asshole. This was me.

As I merged I could see a couple of SUVs coming up hard behind me so I made sure to get up to speed quickly and stay in the right hand lane (4 lanes thru this part of the drive). I was cruising pretty fast but was still passed by two black SUVs with US Gov't plates moving a bit faster than I was. I figured they had to be Secret Service or similar since they were coming from the Crawford direction where Bush had his ranch. They were cruising pretty fast and so I decided to glide in behind them and get a rolling speed check. I had to do 98-100 mph to stick with them.

Doing some quick mental calculations I decided to just lay back behind them and match their speed as far as that would take me since they would obviously be able to fly thru all those speed traps with no issues. Onward we all went, two black SUVs and a blue VW flying along about a half mile behind at near 100 mph. We cruised thru those little towns without seeing a single cop and I followed those SUVs all the way until I let them go in traffic in NW Houston since I was near my destination. That drive cut enough time from my normal commute that I was able to sit and eat breakfast before showing up at my work site.

If any of you are former Secret Service and remember being tailed by a blue VW across Texas one morning, thanks for the escort!
There is nothing more than a guarantee against govt action as the framers feared and suffered such action. People have paid the price for speaking (libel, slander, worse) and the right to speak isn’t absolute (fire in theatres, etc). Civility and social norms collapsed years back and blaming a web comic that states things accurately at best is disingenuous. Yes, you will not face govt action, but you have no right to be listened to, hosted or be immune to the consequences of what you say.