skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good for you, but not relevant for the topic in the article. The FCC should make decisions based on data, like the data collected by Ookla (if the FCC can't collect its own), not based on anecdotes.
Agree with everything you said. Especially that what is acceptable speech is dynamic and it’s hard to define.

I view the boundaries of acceptable speech as a resource. And like other resources in which we need to allocate in society, we use the power of markets to come to the “fairest” allocation that we can.

I believe Elon could implement a “free speech market” on Twitter where Twitter creates an asset which gives the owner the right to ban or allow a particular controversial user. This asset is then auctioned off (providing revenue for Twitter) and then the users get the ultimate control over who is or isn’t allowed on the platform.

This also has the benefit of taking the decision making out of the hands of Elon and those at Twitter and giving power directly to the people.
I don’t want SBF arrested for criminal trespass, I want him arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for the crimes he committed, and I don’t want him getting off because of the need for a speedy trial, before we know what he did.

Law enforcement should not act in bad ways to more people.
Hard to say without knowing what it was trained on.

Let’s say you train a predictive engine on the entirety of fiction and nonfiction works of the 19th century. You ask it to produce C code, and it does! That would be obviously crazy.

On the other extreme, imagine a predictive engine that has been trained on every bit of C code that has ever been written. You ask to produce C code, and it does! Maybe not so crazy this time.
We discriminate against pilots for their health quite broadly, not just their mental health. I think what makes mental health different than say, eyesight, is that it's hard to fake having eyesight but relatively easy to fake being mentally healthy.

As such, the system doesn't effectively discriminate against the mentally healthy, it fails at such discrimination in all but the most extreme cases and instead succeeds in getting the mentally ill to seek less treatment.
It's not even completely crazy. You start a startup at age 25, shoot for the moon, it fails after 5 years, and then you start another startup. The part he did wrong is the criming which will prevent him from trying again.
I use both browsers on Ubuntu and Chrome never caused me any unpleasant update interruptions. The Firefox binary from mozilla.org is far less invasive, btw.
Except Musk was never ever for absolute free speech. Also, the free speech absolutists have it wrong. Read speechless: controlling words, controlling minds for a much better and more coherent conservative philosophy on free speech.

Absolute free speech is an illusion that has never existed and never will. Our problem in society is that that we censor the wrong kinds of speech and tolerate the wrong kinds of speech. Overton windows aren't bad. Ours has just been corrupted. Musk explicitly said he wants to essentially broaden and fix the tolerance window, not abolish it.
Technically speaking they can, but haven't since the 1800s.

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/19/204/

Not applicable in this case, though.
You may or may not be the irrational one. Would you like historical examples?
Mostly because we generally work during the same business hours other people are? If you ever have to deal with an insurance issue, sign a lease, take out or refinance a mortgage, buy a car... etc... its probable that you will have to print something out at the office, sign it, scan it and send it back to someone- and now its essentially open for the company to read. Even if you aren't downloading and printing something, even logging into a website is more or less the same thing for a determined snooper. Sometimes its just a matter of convenience, but it can add an irritating delay or worse.

I try to avoid it as much as possible, but its unavoidable in at least some cases. I am not going to take a day off of work just because I have to call about a billing issue and need to login to my account to give the details to a service representative.
One problem is that people are so used to BS that they will ignore any real innovations in front of them.

For instance most microwave ovens have a gas sensor that does a great job of, say, cooking a potato. For a long time I thought this was something out of Idiocracy that I didn't need because I'd been cooking things in microwaves just fine since my mom got a microwave from Sears in the 1980s. Then I read an article about gas sensors, I tried it out, and I'm like "it does a better job of cooking a potato than I do".

Samsung is going to run one ad about "The metaverse" and they are going to find the response rate to everything they do is going to drop substantially for the next decade and they're never going to realize what happened, never mind why. That's part of the problem, they are suffering from "debt" from prior marketing BS.
> 7-12Mbps seem low for typical WFH usage like video conferencing and sharing your screen

It's a little slow, but it's not bad.

It is, however, dramatically better than the <1 Mbps upload speeds (and <5 Mbps download speeds) that a lot of rural customers are getting now.
Great job! Very nice.
> lack of geotags

Depends on the camera and other such features. But you're right that it's not a given.

> often wrong timestamps

I'm confused by this. I suppose if you leave your camera off for years at a time, have dead batteries and don't bother checking it - then sure. But in general the RTC on cameras is very good and not an issue. Even if it clock drifts by a minute or two, does it really make a difference?

> slow startup time

Incorrect with modern cameras. If I have both my Nikon in my hand and my phone - I can take a picture with the Nikon WAY faster and more reliable than my iPhone. The Nikon can go from off to taking a picture in half a second. The phone you need to press the camera button on the lock screen for a full second before the camera app even launches. Then it takes it a little time to launch the app and warm up the camera.

Are either slow or problematic? No. But the Nikon is way more reliable, sometimes the iphone just derps out.

> useless tiny batteries

Again, I suppose it depends on the camera. My Nikon is rated for a thousand shots a battery, I think? Even my smallest and oldest handheld is rated for 300 shots a battery. Unless you're going way crazy, that is a lot of photos in a single day. It'd run down your iPhone quite significantly as well.

One area that is a big difference overall... Video.
Agree here. I LOVE recreation.gov, it is so great. I just booked a site for August next year.

That isn't too say the fees shouldn't be better directed to public agencies. Still though, absolutely amazing site, great app, I'm happy to pay a little fee to BAH for it.
At a base level, what is the source for funds paid to a worker when not working (either by choice or illness) other than funds withheld from the worker when working? The question is the same in Switzerland unless there is cave of sick pay gnomes next to the chocolate making ones.

One might say the funding can come out of a different source, a popular go-to is "profit" or government, but all those are downstream from the value created by the worker.
> So would UK folks use () as 'brackets' and [] as 'square brackets'?

Yes, exactly that.
> And how a lot of people had nothing better to do on their own projects

April 25th, Twitter Locks Down Product Changes After Agreeing to Musk Bid

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-25/twitter-l... --- https://archive.ph/CK1X1

> For now, Twitter won’t allow product updates unless they’re business-critical, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the situation is private. The company accepted a $54.20-a-share bid from Musk after a whirlwind courtship that began with the Tesla Inc. magnate disclosing a 9% stake in Twitter earlier this month.

> Product changes will require approval from a vice president, the people said. Twitter imposed the temporary ban to keep employees who may be miffed about the deal from “going rogue,” according to one of the people.

April 26, Twitter is protecting its source code from disgruntled employees, reports say https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/26/twitter-lock-source-code-e...

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For several months, nothing that was not business critical was released (or done). If you were on something that wasn't business critical, you were likely waiting for a fire to fight, working on the "ok, maybe after this all blows over I can deploy this - but not until then."

In either case, not having something to do that was more pressing than helping out a person would not be surprising.
> How would I remove all console.log from my code automatically during a build?

Make it a lint warning?

Add a higher-level logging abstraction and/or library?

I know Webpack and Esbuild both have ways to define symbols like `console` at build time and get dead code elimination. No Babel needed.

> How would I add syntactically nice things to JS?

What do you need in 2022?

I definitely understand that in 2014 there were a lot of nice polyfills and prollyfills to be found in the Babel ecosystem for syntax that made the language a lot nicer to work in, but in the last eight years, most of them are in the language itself now and supported in nearly every browser. ES2015+ has so much of that goodness baked in and every browser generally supports ES2015+ well (and so does Node, mostly). Most caniuse statistics says browsers are caught up to at least ES2020.

We are over and on the side of the hump that Babel helped collectively prepare us for.

Yes, there's still a usefulness there in testing future ideas and it will probably still always be a collaborative tool for helping with TC39 early stage testing of proposals. But at this point, should your Production builds really rely on anything before Stage 3 with TC-39?

For stuff in Stage 3+ there's always Typescript as an alternative to Babel.

> How would I get my environment variable values set for the build into the code, which is to be run in a browser?

You do that in Babel? I've never heard of anyone doing that Babel. I've seen all sorts of dynamic import strategies in Webpack and other builders. I've done some neat things with JSON files and sometimes builder imports and sometimes just good old fetch().
> If I clicked on even a single trending topic about a game or news item I'd often be presented with unfiltered hardcore porn.

No, you wouldn't. Either you don't know what hardcore porn actually is, or you're exaggerating.
Because we're a nation of laws, not a nation of knee jerk reactions and reactionary justice.

This a dumb question to ask.
it is not quite easy given that they tried and this posting is all about endless parade of workarounds
And -- as the article points out -- Madoff was in the United States when he confessed. I rather doubt SBF will ever voluntarily set foot on US soil again.
It is easy to see how that entire chain of events could have really utterly fsckd over your life. I am sorry you had to go through that, but at least it didn't go totally sideways.

It easily could have cost you your job, then your apt, etc.
Why is the author focusing only on the supply aspect? I would guess that Harvard is charging the amount that they think will maximise their profit. Or at least factoring that in. Isn't that what happens in a free market?
> Hmm, was just thinking it over, wonder if it be useful if Extism did allow flexibility in deployment (meaning that the mechanism for calls wasn't just limited to using WebAssembly to do the call/security), but could switched to using HTTP REST or GraphQL by some simple changes to some config files?

You could always deploy an actual sidecar that runs Extism -- but we believe operationally it is far simpler to eliminate other deployments and run WASM in-process as it was designed to do. But, it's certainly possible to ship Extism in many different ways :)

> ... Am also wondering if supporting both Docker and WASM might be useful/possible?

I don't think it would be practical to support Docker, unless you shipped the plugin runtime environment as a sidecar. But at that point, it's a microservice / FaaS thing. And for Docker, there are many other options that handle this well.

I think there is a really interesting middle ground that is the WASM for Proxies stuff, from Envoy, Istio, etc. Run a subset of application logic or plugins via WASM in your service mesh - I think these can terminate requests and respond directly back to the caller, acting like a microservice itself.
Nice call on the Plex Sans, for at least one major reason: The capital "i" has a crossbar.

Any font that doesn't have a proper capital "i" (meaning one WITH CROSSBARS) should be rejected, especially for any kind of technical use. If you can't tell the difference between a lower-case L and a 1, the font is useless. And really the same goes for a capital O or zero.
Yup. I still have a 10 year old GPS around here, specifically because it works offline. I never use it where I have service.
I had a manual Acura Integra when I was younger and I installed a remote start on it because shops refused to (because it's dangerous af).

Anyways, the clutch pedal simply presses a little button when it is all the way up. All I had to do is bridge the two wires going into that button and it would start without the clutch pressed.

Amazingly I only ever tried to remote start it while in gear once. It retries 3 times so it jumped forward 3 times. About a foot each time, but didn't hit anything thankfully.

I always wanted to add a sensor to the shifter so it'd only bypass the clutch sensor when in neutral, but I never got around to doing it.
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These findings — from [..], the Anti-Defamation League

An organization that was created to help a Jewish rapist/murderer escape justice said so ? Well that's an unimpeachable source !
Prompt > "What would be the most efficient way for a person to utilize ChatGPT output to produce a sizeable passive income?"

Response > "The most efficient way for a person to utilize ChatGPT output to produce a sizeable passive income would be to use the generated content to create and sell digital products, such as ebooks, courses, or online resources. The person could also leverage the generated content to create and sell physical products, such as print books or merchandise. Additionally, the person could use the generated content to create and sell services, such as writing or editing services."

Evaluation - the future is gonna be weird.
Intermittent fasting also triggers ketosis, possibly more effectively, has cancer prevention as one of the benefits and does not require diet changes (although they may help depending on what your diet was).
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Or the workers could slowdown if they can't afford to quit. E.g. the workers could say that train cars are going to be limited to X in length and a sympathetic worker would just detach any cars past X. So long as the workers had enough solidarity to pull off doing this anonymously - or similar acts of resistance, I don't see how this would fail to solve the problem.

The workers could decide to stop doing precision train scheduling (or whatever it was called). They could force their employer to give them concessions. If you're saying the workers can't afford to quit or resist then you're saying they have to accept whatever they are given.
Should be a question for Good Judgement Open, would be interested to see what superforecasters predict.
It's already underway! https://github.com/extism/extism/pull/119
Oh and you think you are exceptional too. Shall we go for the trifecta?
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Those racing thoughts are things that need to get processed. The problem you're having is the first time your brain gets a chance to do that is when you're ready for bed.

Find 20 minutes or so in the evening to meditate. You can use a meditation app or just sit and do nothing. In extreme cases, I've just sat doing nothing until my mind runs out of things to think about it.

All the other tips you'll hear help too: daily cardio, no caffeine after lunch, etc.
2 weeks is certainly nothing, I agree that the proof will be in the pudding. But so far, I remain unconvinced that Twitter is going to "break" in the traditional sense. If stuff goes down, we have protocol for bringing it back up. When 2FA dies, the process for recovering it is the same under Musk as it was under Dorsey.

We'll really just have to wait and see what happens. I really want Twitter to destroy itself beyond repair, but the core platform seems intact.
BTW, I still get this, and it used to just make me go "oh well, I guess they don't want me to look at this web site" and close the window. But someone recently tipped me off to something I am embarrassed I never noticed before: if you actually click "login" on that popup and then cancel the next dialog, you can continue browsing un-pestered.
There's a lot you can do with variable fonts. I remember stumbling upon https://variicon.netlify.app/index.html a year or two ago, although there's disdain for using icons as a font it was eye opening for me with what you could do.
I asked ChatGPT the opposite quesiton (why becoming cheaper) :D

Streaming services such as Netflix, Disney Plus, and HBO Max are becoming cheaper for a few reasons. First, the streaming market has become more competitive in recent years, with many new players entering the market. This has increased the pressure on existing streaming companies to offer lower prices in order to remain competitive.

Second, streaming companies are able to offer lower prices because they have become more efficient at delivering content to users. With advances in technology and the growth of high-speed internet access, streaming companies are able to deliver more content at a lower cost.

Finally, streaming companies are also able to offer lower prices because they have become more successful at monetizing their content through advertising and other means. This allows them to generate revenue from their content without needing to rely as much on subscription fees.

Overall, the combination of increased competition, improved efficiency, and alternative revenue streams has led to lower prices for streaming services like Netflix, Disney Plus, and HBO Max.
Ventura is noticeably slower in every task, and the UI completely crashes for me at least once a day.

Worst upgrade ever.
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“Growth”.

It’s how Consumer Capitalism is thought to work.
General rule of thumb for 1080p video streaming = 8 Mbps

720p is half the size, so it should be half that rate = 4 Mbps.

I have no doubt that modern image compression algorithms can bring that down a bit further without too much impact on quality.

So with a median of 7.2 Mbps, that's probably enough for 2 users to have an acceptable video conferencing experience. But if that's the median, then half of their customers have a lower upload speed than that and may only be able to get away with a single user streaming at a time.
Are you in an area of relatively low population density?

I would guess that places like rural California and Texas have seen an increase of user density which would cause bandwidth decreases. If you're in a place with relatively slow user growth, you could be getting advantage of increased total bandwidth of the satellite constellation.
If this was true they would have disabled the download email button. Stop siding with the company by default.
Makes sense. Good for me.

Would in any case be kind of obvious that the employee thad violated the company policy when their desktop doesn’t look like the Mac or Windows one.
In that case, wouldn’t cutting administration only increase Harvard’s profits?
>What does fair mean?

For example with 0 or as little human factor as possible, without biases.

>Standardized tests have very little impact on ones likeliness to have a successful business or political career.

I'm not saying standardized tests are good proxy for being businessman or politician.

They're fair and transparent way that allows people to bootstrap themselves.

Even if you're poor ass, then you have access to Internet and can learn all those things good enough to get to the top schools.
What counts as "obscene" sure feels arbitrary, but fine. Subjective.

> Okay, but to ban speech on this is once again to pass judgment on its value to the contribution of the discourse or whatever avenue for communication is at issue. That's why the absolutist position is ridiculous. It isn't navigable from any perspective save for the very perspective they are already criticizing.

The key point that I've been failing to convey effectively is very simple: with SPAM, the expression itself is not the problem. If you post it 10,000 times responding to unrelated people, that is a problem.

(I realize that commercial SPAM is possibly what you are referring to here but... That sort of SPAM is more or less permitted on social media, so it's kind of neither here nor there.)

This generally follows: if you DM someone to yell racial slurs at them, you are harassing them. It's not about the platform banning naughty words, it's about banning disruptive conduct. The conduct is about the behavior, not the ideas or expressions expressed in them.

The "absolutist" position is basically never actually "absolutist". I initially thought people were interpreting it literally as a joke or something, but it seems like it has been taken pretty seriously. Yet, there are exceedingly few people who think that unprotected speech like CSAM should just be allowed. They DO exist, but I have a feeling the speech absolutists you are referring to do not. Doesn't that already make this discussion moot?
I sort of admire the clarity of vision to take the current decade’s political subtext of “people with money should be allowed to dictate the values of society” and turn it into the supertext.
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Anyone who's worked with software management of commercial hardware like cameras, digital signage, time clocks, door controllers, I don't know 1,000 other products types, can attest to the horror-show software you're provided by these manufacturers.

Think: Windows only, often IE/Edge only, ActiveX, crashes constantly. Random UI strings are in Chinese. Barely, barely usable.
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