skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're the only one bringing up a "founding principle", which shifts the discussion from reality on the ground towards legislative philosophy.

The reality on the ground is that most of the US was the first country in the Americas to take steps towards abolition, most of the country by population had banned slavery within a few decades, and it was banned nation wide within a century. I had assumed people were talking about "founded" in terms of founding principles, because trying to justify the claim that the US was founded on slavery based on "reality on the ground" is even harder to defend.

> If they were important you'd expect the US to have abolished slavery relatively early, or for it not to have been such an important issue as to have precipitated a civil war within its borders.

It was. The first state to ban slavery was Vermont in 1777 literally one year after the country's founding. Massachusetts, then one of the most populous colonies (I think 2nd or 3rd highest population) banned in in 1780. The majority of the country by population had banned slavery well within one lifetime after it's founding.

The fact that the country was willing to go to wage a Civil War to bring about the end of slavery is testament to the fact that that the country was not founded on slavery, I cannot fathom how one can convince oneself that this indicates the opposite.

> To say that a country is "founded on" something speaks to its early development. For instance the modern Icelandic state is arguably founded on its fisheries, and the US can be said to have been founded on sustenance agriculture, the economic surplus of slavery etc.

By this logic, the US was founded on subsistence farming, logging, fur trapping, manufacturing, shipbuilding, whaling, and countless other industries. Furthermore, using this logic one can claim that the entirety of the Americas, Africa, much if not all of the Middle East, and many European countries are "founded on slavery". The fact that the only way to defend the claim that the US was founded on slavery is take such an expansive view of what it means to be "founded on slavery" that it becomes almost universal demonstrates that there isn't much justification for this claim.
IRC probably isn't the best example, I've been using TLS for a good while now. "By default" probably depends a lot on the client.
Play stupid license games, get stupid prizes?
IKEA is sharing people’s best IKEA hacks, and they’re brilliant
Yes, blame Amazon for the driver being reckless. Thanks BuzzFeed for this excellent reporting.
SpaceX might not bother giving comment to random bloggers. Especially on Labor day and regarding what they probably regard as a non-incident. There are probably a lot of such individuals asking for comment on any of thousands of different subjects.
Unless it's pitch black out and you can only see the lights, things like reflections and contours of the car give you additional clues about its orientation and speed apart from its lights. We're used to using many different subconscious visual cues to place an object in space.

Maybe I'm overshooting on how much of a hazard it would be, but I have a hard to seeing how making a car any amount harder to see is a good thing.
Interesting. So if I am the only one to have some information as to why I wanted to move a satellite, you should not publish anything until I tell you why, and so I can simply prevent you from publishing by just not telling you anything. Interesting system.

You could publish that I'm not telling you, but you don't know 'why' I'm not telling you, so that makes you irresponsible too.
Majority of email traffic is by now for sure use s2s encrypted. Also considering how big major players are most of mail never leave Google / Microsoft / etc servers anyway and connections between them always only ever go over TLS.
> free known terrorists who now harbour even deeper hatred against the US after having been tortured

Even more perversely, I've read people say that about people may very well not be terrorists at all, but by now they probably resent the US so much, it still would be a threat to release them. I just have to think of someone attacking a random person in the street, then choking them, then realizing the mistake but not letting go because they already attacked them and they might retaliate, so it's best to just "see it through". It boggles my mind.
For me it’s BA9 that piques my amazement

“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress”

And for absurdity the one where the pilot was sucked out of the window and the cabin crew had to hold on to him

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_5390

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9
Would ditching (assuming there was a large body of water near) or landing in a huge cornfield (like Ural Airlines 178 out of ZIA (Moscow-Zhukovsky)) have made it better or worse?
> The German BND snoops traffic at DECIX.

To forward a lot of it to the NSA [0], the same NSA that also messed with Germanys G10 laws to "legalize" these kinds of practices in the very first place [1] for exactly that reason.

edit: UK is pretty much also NSA, because unlike the German BND they are at least part of FiveEyes [2] because real global surveillance is a rather exclusive club.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eikonal

[1] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/20140...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
Good and Evil in Social Media Increase at Compound Interest
Weird I can't edit my other comment, but wouldn't the agency he was working for be at fault for underhiring for the rush? This doesn't seem like an Amazon issue directly as it is a really bad delivery service which clearly couldn't handle the Amazon contract because they needed to cut corners.
Would love to see an overview of companies that fell into the mongoDB trap and have / are migrating to another DB store.
It’s way older than that. This is just one I know off the top of my head. I’m sure there are many other, older, examples.

https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/colonial-life-...
> The problem is when people claim that they can lose weight without running a calorie deficit.

Of course people can lose weight without running a calorie deficit. It's a commonplace experience nowadays, and absolutely trivial to demonstrate. You can test if for yourself if you are even slightly interested in checking the validity of your theories.

The death of the ridiculous thermodynamic model of human nutrition can't come soon enough.
I'm seeing people's upgrade paths and I feel kinda guilty for holding on to my i5-2400 for that long...
Without endorsing it, and presenting it here without comment, http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/ has explanations of the theory preferred there (which I think can be labeled an entropic theory of inertia, or perhaps an information-theory-based theory of inertia) that might be an ELI5.

The following is my attempt at casting McColloch's idea as an ELI5. McColloch's idea is that inertia is a result of asymmetric Unruh radiation pressure resulting from acceleration causing the Hubble horizion sphere around the accelerated body to not be symmetrically spherical. The idea is that when you accelerate, then the Hubble horizon "behind" you gets much closer to you, which then disallows some Unruh radiation behind you, thus causing there to be more Unruh radiation pressure in front of you. A more fundamental idea underlying this is that Unruh radiation emanating from the Hubble (and, indeed, any) horizon has every possible discrete wavelength that would fit between the horizon and the particle surrounded by that horizon, so as the distance to the horizon changes, so does the longest wavelength that could be visible -that could exist-. Now, as accelerations tend to zero, the idea is that the number of Unruh waves that are disallowed by the horizon behind is much smaller than at higher accelerations, and therefore inertia drops at lower accelerations, leading to gravity feeling stronger.

I believe all entropic gravity/inertia theories are at least as controversial as dark matter theories or more so. McColloch's has the benefit of having a physical explanation that can be explained, if not to a 5-year old, then to a 10-year old. However, keep in mind that it could be a simple explanation that is just wrong.
Step 1: become CEO of Facebook and get oversight where your account data is

Step 2: find out data is not actually meant to be deleted

Step 3: shrug, because now you are the CEO
Their reputation system is the worst. I'm by no means a power user, but I've asked and answered some questions on the main overflow site. If I go to any of the subforums I have to start over with a reputation of zero and "re-earn" privileges. No thanks.

Another problem is their aggressive pruning of questions. There have been dozens of times where I've found something relevant via google and found the question was locked for being off-topic or opinion based.
Are we then saying there's an equivalent of domain squatting in space? Cause I could see all types of problems showing up if we call that common courtesy.
Tutorial on how to build an HN clone with GraphQL, React and urql
What are the best alternatives to mongo db going forward?

Are there any forks with momentum?
I agree about the prevalence of pet theory, but my example wasn’t a strawman.

Your thermodynamic argument involves values that you take on faith (Atwater factors) which have been shown to have 50% variance, and values like BMR that also have 50% variance. As a result, invoking thermodynamic impossibility is not justified.

I agree with the gist of what you are saying - but not with the validity of the thermodynamic reasoning as proof.
I would switch to Firefox if they managed to support the basically unlimited amount of tabs I can open on Chrome without any slowdown or degradation.

There's probably a better way to manage it, but when you're going down the rabbit hole of stackexchange and Google to try and figure something out, it's an extremely invaluable tool for me personally.
https://arp242.net/stackoverflow.html

‘What prompted this post was a basic but valid question getting downvoted to -4:’

“Is there a way to list all standard Go packages? I have a list of packages and I want to figure out if this is a standard package.”

‘Seems like a pretty valid question to me, so why is it downvoted to -4?’

Sounds very familiar, not that anyone round here would engage in such. I think it's because people see any kind of questioning as a personal attack on them. Or long-term-posters acquire the delusion that it is their personal fiefdom.
This sure is awesome! https://i.imgur.com/255UjuN.png

I wish all the controls work with randomize on – so I can have random image with some parameters fixed. e.g., if I change some parameter, it stays fixed.

Do you have source code for the project?

Once again, it's awesome!
Open question: if Functor should be called Mappable, what would you call Applicative? EvenMoreMappable?

Similarly, if Semigroup should be called Appendable, what would you call Monoid? And is there a consensus on Monad as well?
Should I sell MongoDB? In around $29 last year and have seen 450% return... The concern was always it becomes next X
What do you mean? You trivially simulated the process of figuring out that an animal needs to grow a new leg/organ in response to some environmental situation or to gain "an upper leg" against its adversaries? Are you serious?
My favorite anecdote, and the one I trot out every time this comes up, was the time I was asking for help in golang-nuts and on the IRC figuring out a few things about unsafe/uintptr. I was participating in a code competition with performance as a primary metric and learning Go at the same time. Trying to get somebody to answer very straightforward questions about casting was worse than pulling teeth; everyone wanted to work their way into a back-seat architect role on my "real goal".

"Hey, here is this task/problem I'm solving. Is this solution okay or is there a better solution?" is a very different question than "I'm trying to cast this pointer back to this slice of types but I'm seeing this error; what am I missing?".

A somewhat related pet-peeve of mine is when software authors bake assumptions about how somebody "should" be doing something into their projects at a low level causing it to become unnecessarily inflexible and often time inconsistent with what you would expect. I've run into this with a lot of Gradle and gradle plugins.. My first big experience was perhaps trying to convince NTFS3G to allow the user to clear or override the dirty bit for certain resize operations. It can take a lot of convincing to get people to expand their concept of a "valid use case" and create escape hatches and flexibility for those atypical situations.
So? They have that right, what they don't have a right is to demand someone else take action. Just because one party believes something to be necessary does not actually make it so.
I think the point is that the ability to achieve success ought not be so skewed towards those whose ancestors achieved success, but rather towards individuals that have worked for it and have legitimate merit in society.

If you’re suggesting that it’s easy to go from being rich to being poor, I think it would be useful to find data that examines how many people born rich become poor over time, and how many people born poor stay poor over time. Like, backing that claim up would make it more believable.

Anecdotally, I don’t think it’s that hard for rich people to be born and then stay rich. Especially considering all the things that money can buy that helps one make even more money. Like a better education, for example.
asked this on a sqllite thread before but: anyone know a single file nosqldb that has good python bindings. i know I could just write to json or something but I'd like something that supports queries. right now I'm using MongoDB and it's completely Overkill
Oh ok, so further iphonification there. Sounds convenient in this case.
With MongoDB's license there is another reason to migrate away from it. I migrated an app from MongoDB to postgres. I ended up just using a varchar to store the IDs. The Mongo style IDs are in addition to an integer primary key, so joins happen with integers, but every time a user is shown the IDs, in the URLs, it's a BSON ID. It hasn't caused any issues, performance or otherwise, but there are thousands rather than millions of records. It's because of Django, not postgres, that I decided to use varchars to store the IDs rather than bytes or integers. Django is flexible but there are always tradeoffs from going outside the framework. Finally, and this is my favorite thing about how I went about it: all BSON ids have the column name of "id" and all integer primary keys have the column name of "pk", whether or not they have a BSON ID (through tables don't need their IDs exposed to the API).
That helps a lot, but metadata is very useful and is equally or perhaps harder to hide.
They don't need great online performance, they need offline performance for orbit determination.

Once they have a good orbit fit, they will propagate it to predict the probability of collision a few days in advance.
Furrhermore I’d argue that media literacy is a critical skill nowadays. However the conclusion is also true: there needs to be a national press agency which acts independently and is allowed to issue fines and force corrections on factually false statements. If a newspaper lies about something, they have to print the correction on the front page. If the front page has not enough space, tough luck.
Sounds like the test didn't work, if they can't avoid hitting other satellites.
The ESA asked SpaceX to move to avoid a collision, and they refused. What would happen if a private airline refused the FAA telling them to redirect to avoid a collision, forcing another aircraft to take evasive action?

It definitely is political, and it's going to become a bigger problem if SpaceX's approach to potential collisions is just to play chicken.
Not a good quality article I don't think. It's just venting and opinion, there is no data or insights.

And I have bad news for the author: Firefox is usually the #1 consumer of RAM on my machine.
You know what eats up RAM? Having auto-playing videos, translucent overlays and Javascript.

Techradar takes 65MiB of RAM to display, including ad blocking by pi-hole and several add-ons. Hacker News takes a bit more than four. Sure, Firefox will eat less RAM, but with sites like these, any browser will eat RAM like crazy.

Want to stop browsers from eating RAM? Make better websites. No news website should require 6MiB of RAM just to store Javascript.
Air Crash Investigation/Mayday does a pretty good dramatization of this flight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-UM-YcwWBc

A similar incident took place in 2003 on a DHL cargo plane after being hit by a surface-to-air missile. Miraculously they did manage to land the plane intact despite the total loss of hydraulics and needing to rely on engine thrust alone to control the plane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Baghdad_DHL_attempted_sho...

The Mayday episode might also mention (least from my memory of last watching it) an experimental NASA program developed sometime after this crash that would allow "full airplane control" via computer in the event one more more control surfaces could not be used. It achieved this by translating normal flight inputs into sophisticated throttle manipulation of the engines, just like the pilots on flight 232 did, but with the reflexes and modeling of a computer.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/pdf/88794main_PCA.pdf
It’s a rare parent that wants their children questioning what they’re told. It’s one of the reasons the Greeks killed Socrates.

That’s the fundamental aspect of human nature that needs to somehow be changed. It’s not that hard to develop critical thinking skills — but parents don’t want it, corporations don’t want it, politicians don’t want it. Where is the constituency that is going to push for and pay for critical thinking skills in childhood education?
That's a pretty good point.
Domain squatting is on unused domains while this was an active public weather satellite already on an established orbit. Not at all comparable.
The trade war has already cost electronics companies $10B
or your children’s lives

That's the even scarier part. There was a NASCAR driver a couple of years ago who lost his sponsorship because of something his father said before the driver was even born.
^^^^ This!

How about we strip all the crap first and then complain.
depends on your requirements

IMO the use case for mongodb in its heyday was great support for schema-less storage, which was perceived as a way to give your team velocity. And also great support for operating a cluster over primary keys.

(The performance story vs SQL is overstated -- a lot of their early benchmarks were from tuning down safety margins like fsync. You can do that in SQL DBs too).

postgres has pretty good json support these days and mysql is getting there (managed mysql tends to lag a version).
The issue is constellations like StarLink are setup to tolerate some % of failures and still function. They launch in bulk as part of the overall plan.

So this brings up the question - if the value of your satellite is lower do you burn up precious fuel to manueveur around potential collisions? Or do you play space chicken and let the others maneuver around you?
You can get some statistics from Google at https://transparencyreport.google.com/safer-email/overview

They're a lot better than I thought! (over 90% in each direction, although no data here about certificate verification and the presence or absence of backbone downgrade attacks)

If you run your own mail service, check out my colleague's project at

https://starttls-everywhere.org/
Over the last few
Months we’ve switched over to amazons document db just to have a managed service. We don’t regret it.
> While there are many possibly helpful questions that could be asked, not all of them are a fit for the format. That was a design choice made on day 1 and is backed deeply into how the software works and the way people interact with it.

The issue I and I guess many of us here is talking about is that it seems the Stack Overflow community - or rather a vocal minority in the community I guess - are downvoting and flagging questions that where ok for the format.
Postgres supports querying json
My experience is different here.

Every time when I am about to lose a streak, I would try hard not to be influenced emotionally, and would regard an opportunity to keep my ego in check. I have lost streaks many times, 50+ maybe three times, 100+ one time, and I still feel fine with myself.

Normally I would practice Duolingo in the morning before coffee everyday, like a ritual.
I mean I'd argue if you're questioning it then you should get out because you A) already perceive enough risk that you consider it questionable and B) It sounds like you're sticking with it because you already have it and it's been a winner historically. But that doesn't mean you should stick with it :P

Downsize or diversify

Good luck!
I'm unsure of what you mean by "single file", but rocksdb is embedded and has python bindings.
Don’t screw up Kerbal Space Program 2, please
PostgreSQL do have a variable unlimited length datatype : text. AFAIK, Varchar is internally a subtype that bound the text type. So in extreme situations you might even get a very slight performance advantage using text instead of varchar.
I've contacted in the past for another account to delete a singular comment and was ignored :/
For people answering questions, they’d see the same question 10,000 times, and likely miss the questions that are actually worth answering.

And in a Q&A site, the answerers are far more important than the questioners — if the questions will be answered, the questioners will flock there out of need, regardless of want. Answerers are however not so constrained.

People complain about SO because, I think, it does the correct thing (unlike most Q&A sites) — it tries to optimize usage and rules for those who answer questions. Most people, however, only ask questions, or search for answers.
I love reading about stuff like this: I just wanna see that 300 mph speedometer in the car!

But, in my little Nissan Rogue that can barely manage 90mph, I don't need a 160mph speedo, LOL.
To be bought you have to accept to sell. That’s maybe what the other commenter meant by “abandon their job”.
Author's using Windows..

Latest FF on Windows seems to have issues with rendering.

Loading up posts on old.reddit.com leads to the DOM glitching after a few seconds and elements disappearing.

Happens frequently on pages with lots of comments. Something glitchy going on.
People who complain are always the ones with 100+ tabs at all times. Just use bookmarks
You're talking about this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3aEv3EzMyQ ?

On CSGO, AMD wins on average FPS, ties on 95%, and loses on 99%.

On Rainbow Six: Seige, AMD wins on average FPS, but loses on 95% and 99%.

On the other 3 games (Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Metro: Exodus, and Battlefield V), Intel wins all 3 categories. So overall, Intel still wins.
It's true. For my part, I started (and continued to) answer on a tag with not a lot of questions and answers, so most/some of the time I'd write the only answer. Though I had a professional interest into the tag at the time, I didn't choose it because it was easy to write the single answer on a question.
You’re misunderstanding my comment.

I wasn’t suggesting to not use AI algorithm for computing the collision probabilities.
For this, they will obv use whatever tools they already have.

The whole discussion is around how to react automatically to a likely collision.
I was just about to post the same link. Outside the US the numbers are a lot lower. Outbound to some countries is 0%. South Africa wasn’t in the report though.