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Musk already insists that tweets that violate laws would be removed. But content moderation should be less than what it is today or minimal.

Everyone else: "Musk is all for free speech. You can say anything even things that break the laws"
It may be easy but it has to be repeated every time they add another unwanted feature.
I still have my HP 11C, the engineering equivalent, from my school days. It is still a joy to use, the build quality, the feel of the keys, the RPN system. The thing is almost 40 years old and it looks like new.

Sure, it’s totally anachronistic but the heart has reasons which reason knows nothing of.
I haven't played around with this myself yet, but basically:

1. Configure your device to use mitmproxy.
2. Visit our magic mitm.it domain on the device.
3. Click on "Show Instructions" for Android.
This is one side of the argument. The other is that with social media, echo chambers, algos, etc we face a new risk of extremism that can cause cases like below.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2018_United_States_m...

I haven’t really defined my opinion on this topic one way or the other. But in general I look at seatbelts in cars - they are required by law because if not, many people would save the $500 to buy a new car without seatbelts. We need some regulation for the good of the people. What that looks like for politics and the internet, I don’t know.
Paradox of tolerance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
As soon as people forgot that Agile was about organizing workers & having management trade its power for more-valuable software, it was basically doomed.

Executives would rather give money to the people who promised that they could get the more-valuable software without giving up any of their power and control.
For example the sort of business which supplies hardware needed to write yours or mine comment. Not everyone is deploying to production every day or even every two weeks. Not everyone has feature development measured in hours.
> Debunk if it need be

Fascists are very good at subverting this process so I wouldn’t count on it.
I do believe visibility is good though re: the Streisand effect, and, of course, making them more visible to anti-fascists is good praxis ;)
The fact that I am a "scanner" personality type and that I should accept that about myself rather than try to change myself to fit more conventional lifestyles. A scanner is someone who finds interest in a wide variety of topics but often becomes bored with it once you understand it sufficiently.

Rather than taking the advice that I need to focus on one thing or else I'm going to fail at life, I've come to realize that I can keep progressing on my "main thing" (in my case, tech), and continue to dive into whatever topics tickle my fancy without guilt. Right now it is energy and power, maybe next it'll be astronomy, and then accounting after that.

In the end it means my mind will be able to make more connections and I'm more "well read", and more importantly it means my enjoyment of life goes way up.

It seems this personality type isn't super common, though I imagine many of you here are the same way. So if you, like me, always felt guilty about these "phases" of interests, don't! Embrace it and you'll live a happier and more interesting life.
The problem with this analysis is: where does the buck stop?

Why does moral responsibility always stop with Europeans? Does Europe posses some Adult Moral capability the Mexicans lack?

Whatever story of woe you want to tell about why "china did X", can be told likewise about europe. The buck, stops where then? The Romans? The Celts?
I don't know if we claim to use SAFe were I work, but this sounds very similar to my experience. It frustrates me to no end, but as a contractor I don't get a say and the full time employees seem to be okay with the status quo.

I am constantly amazed that any working software comes out of such a process, but against all odds it does.
Not all control is bad. Some state actors should be controlled. It is my opinion that the Iranian regime is one of them.

I was probably a little un-clear in my response though, I meant in one case the goal of the administration was to control and repress the people in direct opposition to my values and that of many others. In the other case, the goal is to control the administration and erode their ability to do so.
I don't think it's that hard.

The laws are the boundaries of it.

Then, you form the council but err on the side of not banning.
Caring.

The more I cared, less would happen.

The less I cared, more would happen.

There’s many various lessons in stoicism, taoism, and buddhism that I found made my life net positive and wishing I discovered / practiced them earlier. But like all things that ruins the magic of them now.

A general interest in philosophy will have you stumbling upon these ideas in all sorts of forms.
SAFe almost feels like a ploy lead by waterfallistas to sneak their agenda back into the mainstream and call it "agile" to fool everyone. It's a shame because there is room for a toolkit to help scale agile. There aren't great tools for managing dependencies between agile teams.
Collective code ownership is a prerequisite to most Agile processes for this very reason.
The audience is the people who contribute to the art project and want to be part of the community. A community that serves itself for no other reason than to serve itself. Seems like a good time to me
SAFe seems to be a bit like "internet scale", it's designed for very large organizations building very large single software solutions. Most organizations wildly overestimate their size and the size of their solutions. A Microsoft Office release probably can benefit from SAFe, an update to an auth microservice maintained part/time by a team of .75 FTE doesn't.

SAFe seems to sort of be a micro-waterfall approach inspired by Conway's law [1]. It build massive communication and coordination teams so that this gets reflected into short-term development waterfalls that produce software that mirrors the system that managed it. But this team needs to be dwarfed by the development effort they are trying to push forward or they'll end up dominating all of the activities with largely useless communication and coordination activities resulting in very slow forward software movement, confused goals and priorities, and overstaffing of projects.

Example: I once ran a team that was developing some internal tools for a large org, but we were outside of the main SAFe effort. At one point we became dependent on some service the SAFe effort was going to produce. It took 60 people 3 years to not produce a correctly working service. Exhausted with this, I finally just had 1 person build the service we needed as a stopgap. She spent 3 months building it with part-time support from one other engineer for a couple weeks. More than 3 years later that is the service that's still running and the SAFe effort never did manage to get a properly working solution out the door. I can think of half a dozen similar examples where the parallel effort by a smaller team with less organizational overhead radically outperformed the giant SAFe team -- and they did it mostly by just ad hoc communication channels between the small teams.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law
Check out also shellcheck. It's been an invaluable tool keeping my scripts portable.
I don't live in the US but get the impression that US prices have skyrocketed in many cities? Like paying $20 for a sandwich in California for example, or $4k rents in New York. So even though the dollar is a stronger currency internationally, it's worth less and less within the country?

If that's true, retiring in Europe might get more and more common for US software developers...
Finance shops use everything. The exchanges themselves are, or were last time I worked on anything there, built largely out of Java.
What is a type 1 or type 2 decision? How do I apply the scientific method to those?
> I don't know why, but that sentence terrifies me. It's like the silicon valley version of a dystopia.

because it is true.

We have seen the same pattern in copyright infringement handling, spam or fake news control, user support...
At the moment, I'm paying myself a net salary of $2,700 / month. It's perfectly livable where I am :)
This is frequently not subtle enough an a source of conflict with coworkers. You don't know up front what 'right' is and quite a few people can't look at this and so they ghost some of their bad decisions instead of owning them and learning from them.

The concept of Reversible Decisions is based on the idea that some decisions have a small blast radius, that we should make those quickly and cheaply, and that if we are proven wrong we pivot quickly and cheaply. Don't invest energy here because you'll need it for the Irreversible Decisions. For the Irreversible ones, you need a long runway. You need time to stew on them. You need to know when the Last Responsible Moment is, and you need to gather every bit of evidence for or against a certain solution prior to that moment.

Those are the only decisions you need to get right the first time, and often you get a better decision if you delay. Not procrastinate, delay.
In my personal projects? Absolutely. It's fun and satisfying to build something on a server sitting in the corner of my room, something I can actually look at and kick.

For professional projects? Only if given a _very_ compelling reason.
Some senior engineers at big tech companies make more than a million US per year, so someone with an excellent diverse C++ skill set and an entrepreneurial bent could well make much more than that.
He's working full time on a project he absolutely loves, with a community he loves. Sure more money would be good but we can't have everything!
So many comments saying he should make more doing something else, how low his wage is, etc.

He said he’s HAPPY doing this. For some people that, in itself, can be enough.

It feels like so many here are trying to convince others of their world view instead of accepting the one this person shared.

As someone in a position to do something similar: Thanks for sharing!
https://github.com/sgolovine/sunny.gg/commit/b8ed04cc552cc08...

Looks like the author is aware of it
My mother was a computer in a bank for a period of time.
> Women aren't obligated to have sex with anyone in particular

Who said women (or men) are? But who people choose to date is obviously a very strong source of societal pressure. Have you not heard of "sexual selection"?

If men refused to date women who wear pants, that would be strong pressure on women to wear dresses instead.

If women refuse to date stay at home dads, that's strong pressure on men to be breadwinners instead.
Trying to guess the future of complex systems is an exercise in hubris.

Success is far more likely if you decide on a goal, and then build feedback loops that let you learn. And in the internet age a feedback loop of a month is painfully slow, never mind three.
Well, Twitter is a private company and can ban whomever they want... according to the trump banning situation back then.
Ask HN: What are some of the best libraries out there for scraping reviews?
I'm looking to create a tool to pull in all our company reviews/comments in one place so we can respond to them... save us the time of cycling through a bunch of websites and knowing what we last read. I know I can google and I have - but I don't want to miss something that everyone is using to do this :) Thanks!

P.S. I'm language agnostic on this... I'll build a service out in whatever I need to.
I see people do that all the time - inadvertently click an ad because it's one of the first few results that pop up. Not only that, the number of ads shown before the real result has increased too! Just the other day, my boss did a Google search for a common product and was shown at least FIVE ads before the first real result and had to scroll to see that result. I remember the days when you would see one or two ads and the real result as the first thing you saw after a search, not seeing only ads until you scroll down.
It is illegal to abuse your access to certain things in order to squeeze competitors, if Tesla actually has contracts that would secure enough Lithium to have negative effects on competitors (no idea if that really is the case), abusing this position would expose Tesla to all kinds of legal troubke caused by this anti-competitive behaviour. Lithium supplier might then be legally obliged to supply Tesla's competitors at the same conditions as Tesla if not enough Lithium is availavle to fulfill orders. Working with Li suppliers to starve competitors of Li deliveries would even be worse. Given Musk's, and Tesla's, cavalier attitufe when it comes to rules and regulatuons, I wouldn't be surprised if they tried so.

Source: More compliance trainings I can count and enough real life experience with monopolistic raw material suppliers to know that abusing market position to hirt competitors is a really bad idea.
Ever heard of the Illusory truth effect?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect
I'd argue that small scale apps are pretty great on AWS, because of the "always free" tier of AWS:

- 1 million Lambda invokes, 3.2 million seconds of compute time

- 25 GB of DynamoDB storage, 25 provisioned read and 25 provisioned write units (about 200 million reqs/month)

- 1 TB of CloudFront bandwidth

You can run a good sized service completely free on AWS forever.

The sweet spot for Linode and Digital Ocean pricing is when you want to run a monolithic app hosted in a VM, but for small scale apps they may not even need that yet as they haven't reached the scale where they can fully utilize a VM, nor have they reached the level of traffic where the per request cost of a serverless architecture starts to feel expensive

If you can fit your app into a serverless architecture and take advantage of the always free tier of AWS then that's a super low cost (even free) option.
> My view is that, whatever is causing developers to often be bad at filling in context, it isn't a deficiency in their theory of mind.

The "theory of mind" explanation is that those developers don't understand what context other people are probably missing.

I agree that there are of course other possible reasons.
Writing Assistant Tool Idea
Gaudí's Hanging Chain Models
Bummer that it's only on Windows. It's a casual game, while I spent plenty of time on my Macbook on rather more dedicated games. DirectX 11 is probably in the requirements simply because no one bothered to check with previous versions (however Wine on Mac doesn't properly support DX ≥10, and VMs have trouble too, plus Steam doesn't work under Wine on Mac).
If you lead with the big ask, you frame the entire conversation around it. One should always start one's argument with question-begging, and disqualify people who don't accept the question begging as not serious about having a discussion.

"The laws are impossible to follow at scale. How do we fix that."

Or as a thinktank feeds it to a speechwriter to a politician: "Our antiquated laws have failed to keep up with the speed of technological development, and are now becoming an active handicap on progress. We need a set of laws that are as forward-thinking as our best selves hope to be, and a set of legislators that are responsive to the energy and creativity of the young while respecting the intelligence and hard-earned wisdom of the old."
The lack of guarantees about longevity put it in the realm of local cache, not buffering. If I can't count on the data to stick around then its use case is predominantly for consumption of data, not creation. We ought to pay more attention to how often we make systems whose sole purpose is for consumption.
Not everything is a consumer facing app, you know?
Well, in this case it was Wednesday and I'll be working for another customer on Thursday and Friday (they know it) so that feature must be completed by Wednesday night. They accept that the quality of a feature worked on for one day will be less than the quality of a feature worked on for two or three days. Costs.
Show HN: I made this to listen to podcasts for Bootstrappers all in one place
Thank you. This was very informative.
Right! Surprised me that the earliest commit to this was over a year ago and I'd never heard anyone even mention it before. Was worried that I wouldn't be able to use pytrees with pytorch, turns out it had it all along..
That explains signing in to pay for the service or to access the paid tier options, but why do you need to sign in before that?
This could be true. The last 3 years had even more fake news though.

Google docs and etc. don't usually have retention policy.

Imagine a bigger problem: an employee comments in a doc about Russian propaganda/fake news, and execs decided not to invest in eliminating them. Now it's borderline national security issues.
> with social media, echo chambers, algos, etc we face a new risk of extremism

so when is /r/politics going to be banned? There seems to be a strong bias as to which echo chambers are "dangerous".
Investors Serious About Application of Solomonoff Induction to Model Selection?
I'd like to contact investors who are serious about applying Solomonoff Induction. By "serious" I mean they avoid these 2 fallacies about Solomonoff Induction:

Fallacy 1) That its greatest importance is for artificial intelligence.
Fallacy 2) That it is just another information criterion for model selection.

Perhaps later I'll be interested in arguing about why these are fallacies, but given that the Hutter Prize has been out there for over 15 years and the arguments have been presented over and over again, I'm more interested in finding like minds among investors.
Ask HN: What is the level of trust in your current organization?
Hi HN,

I've worked in a couple of different countries and I've come across very different cultures regarding work. In some places the employees intensely distrusted the company to look out for their best interest and had a 'maximize your reward' mentality which meant do as little as possible while getting paid as much as they could which ended up not being that much perhaps because the circle of trust had been broken and management didn't trust their employees to work very hard either. Or maybe it's the other way around, management didn't trust employees or pay them very well so they decided not to work very hard. It's hard to say what came first but I've seen other cultures where workers were much more trusting towards management and they weren't perceived so much 'enemies' and workers as slackers.

I get that after the last financial crisis workers perceive organisations and the people leading them as greedy and self serving and they see no point in not doing the same. There's probably some geographical variation between attitudes and cultures, I've always perceived opinions on HN regarding work as being of the 'take the money and run' variety, switching jobs as fast as possible and generally having no loyalty in the company. Where do you currently work geographically and what would you say is the level of trust in your organisation these days? Has it been improving after the financial crisis or is it still one of self-serving distrust?
The paradox is used as an argumentative device for judging whether a tolerant and democratic society is possible (with liberal institutions ensuring intolerance doesn’t emerge) or if maintenance of tolerance would require an autocratic philosopher-king.

The continual application of it to the online censorship debate makes little sense in light of its original rhetorical context. It is also constantly cited in policy prescription proposals of which I would be shocked if Popper agreed with.
"Manson’s [cover] recording of the song is still on streaming services, as are renditions by Esham, the Oxydants and others"

one wonders what the point is, then.
I took a one week break to reflect on my life and big choices I would have to make.

I decided I was not particularly interested in having a romantic relationship. My desire for endless intellectual and world exploration was bigger and I was not willing to compromise on this at all. And I enjoyed the experience more when I was alone, not having to consider someone's else opinion.

I am quite more happy now.
VIN swaps can be done by taking the VIN of a totaled car, and using it on another vehicle and registering it as "rebuilt/salvage" - I'm sure they're other ways, but that's the most common afaik
The script is for static analysis, so it only needs to run once against each code change, and in theory it shouldn't need to be portable code, unless the code under test is the static analysis code itself.

In other words, they control where this script runs and there is no need to run it on more than one platform, so it's okay for it to be non-portable.
Compilers and IRs: LLVM IR, SPIR-V, and MLIR
You need some proxy from webhook into the google sheet, right?
Too bad that his most famous contribution to the world is not his books but Pringles chips.
I agree, if you have team of experienced professionals tgat is. If not, well, stuff to the wall it is. If wrapped in sometjing something agile, at least it looks good.
Who's gonna do that debunking though? You? For every young man that manages to receive the message that the Holocaust didn't happen and it's all lies, and decides to hear that garbage as gospel; you're volunteering to deprogram each and every one of them? Because that's the issue, the lack of debunking. We couldn't even get people to hear there aren't microchips in the vaccine, or that we've been to the moon. More stupid ideas, some of which lead kids to shoot up schools, are out there. Given the mass-media effect, Twitter and YouTube bans are the answer. I wish there was a better one, but we've yet to come up with it, so here we are.
> I think there is limited wiggle room to oppose the party line,

I've heard this before and I suspect it's true.
I guess “stopped heart” is technically correct. Odd that there’s an overlap where in North America we normally think of it as meaning heart attack.
I own one, and the way it works suits loan and interest calculations to a t. I has a niche, but within it it is the defacto standard. I encourage everyone to learn RPN!
SAFe is for managers, Agile is for developers. As developer, you don't need to know SAFe and it rituals. SAFe is not heavy weight, it very lean for the problem it solves.

> It somehow promises to combine bottom-up agile with top-down date-based delivery commitments then hand-waves away the collision of these intractable approaches,

It OK to fail few early goals or dead-lines until right pace will be found.
> Women aren't obligated to have sex with anyone in particular

Of course not, don't be ridiculous. That doesn't change the effect of their preferences, though.

And, of course men's preferences also have an effect on women. There's no need to be defensive (or aggressive) here.

> Parents, teachers

Which gender are those mostly? Who is buying girls Barbie dolls and boys Action Man?
It makes sense as the linked author describes it, which is nice. Those are fine shots he takes with it, too. They're not the kind of shots I want to take.
I think this is missing the point. The article isn't saying that Feynman always disregarded others. He'd hit a wall in his career, and the way to break out of it was to employ this psychological trick, consciously or not, to regain self confidence. And clearly it worked.
You've dodged the question mark. What does 50% faster mean? What does 67% faster mean? What does 75% faster mean?

I'm using the exact same terminology, so splitting hairs on phrasing isn't going to work for me.
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