skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prisons are similar to concentration camps, with a few differences. Usually you're in prison for a fixed term, with some rules around that, which is distinct from concentration camps. But rampant abuse, so much rape we joke about prison rape, unpaid labour, etc., it certainly looks a lot like a concentration camp.

Yes, it would be wrong if there was not a justified basis for it.

Whether there's a justified basis for interning all people formally labelled as criminals in the USA I'll leave as an exercise, because it's obviously complicated there. So many people are imprisoned in the USA compared with other countries that it seems reasonable to doubt whether it is all justified, or even smart for those who remain outside.

When it comes to interning people who have few choices in life and are doing nothing of significant harm except being somewhere, and in a significant fraction of cases they have been there since birth or near birth, I see no justice-based justification for that.

Immigration detention centres have many of the awful qualities of prison, but the inmates there have not been subject to due process, and do not have a fixed term to serve out. These are qualities that make them more like a concentration camp.

At best, you could say the detention is politically-based to a much greater degree than criminal justice. This is obvious because detention is based on bureaucracy, what mood an official is in when they make a decision, and a person's background which they cannot do anything about, rather than the higher standard of criminal due process based on personal behaviour and trained, scrutinised judges; and because changes of political direction and secondary legislation (i.e. regulations made by beaurocrats, rather than laws) significantly change who is rounded up and released.

So if it's not justified as a prison, and does not have the qualities we associate with justice, and is selecting people based on their background they can do nothing about.... yes, that makes it meet the definition of a concentration camp IMHO.

But we don't call them concentration camps because that's not a good look, due to association with gas chambers and death trains, which to be fair ICE is not known for. We call them detention centres and avoid thinking about what that really means for the people and their families. Which if you think about it, sounds familiar from history...
How much has to go wrong in a company to arrive at a situation like this. That's the craziest company story I ever read.

From The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/15/21291666/ebay-employees-a...
Wait so this is an alternative Minix 3 FS written in Rust?
> the Supreme Court literally did the thing you think it should not do.

If you mean I think the Supreme Court enacted a policy, which I have said (in another subthread) should be done by Congress, not the Court, yes, that's true.

But the Court itself says it is not enacting policy. It claims to simply "say what the law is", based on the power granted to it by the Constitution plus a long history of prior Court decisions, starting with Marbury v. Madison (from which the phrase I just used is taken). I think the Court's claim that it is not enacting policy is wrong, but that's just my personal opinion. The law is that enacting policies is the job of Congress, not the Court, and the Court claims to be following this law and leaving legislation to Congress. Certainly the Court is not claiming that the Civil Rights law of 1964 overrides the Constitution, or gives the Court some sort of power to enact policies that is not granted by the Constitution. Nor is anyone else except you, so far as I can see.
The iOS App Store preceded the Flash ban.

"Apple introduced the App Store on July 10, 2008 with 500 apps"
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/07/app-store-turns-10/

Apple's Flash restrictions were published in draft form in April 2010.
http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2010/04/20/on-adobe-flash-c...

And justified by Steve Jobs that same month:
https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
Modeling the Human Trajectory
You really weaken your argument about insurance not being a financial instrument by comparing them to call and put options in the next paragraph, saying they behave almost identically. On hacker news, no less "not the intended use" isn't a solid argument about what something is or is not.

More importantly, why does what is or is not a financial instrument according to your rather specific definition matter?

If you see humanism in underpriced flight insurance, do you see exploitation in overpriced flight insurance? Someone making that much money on well chosen flights means most likely other flights are very much overpriced for insurance.

One of the most useful things insurance does is expose real values for risk and put financial incentives on reducing risk behavior on both the holder and the owner/maker/operator or the insured asset.

For example, fire sprinklers and renters insurance. The owner of the unit is motivated to have sprkinklers present and in working order to lower the total cost of the apartment (insurance would have higher premiums without), the renter wants to pay lower premiums so they will insist they are installed or look elsewhere, and the insurance company will have a motivation to have a good sprinkler inspection program that finds out if they're really installed, done properly, and maintained in a way that provides actual risk reduction. Everybody wins as long as the insurance price is not just "humanitarian" but actually reflects the real risk.
I didn't say fire, didn't I, I said "show you the dor", like, get out from my office :P

And seriously, if you fire someone for having a strong opinion, you should remind yourself that even little kids tollerate a far worse behavior.
Honestly, the alternative is just absurd. In this version of reality do employment protections still exist for disabled people or do they all magically earn there living in multilevel marketing from the comfort of their living rooms in their bespoke built homes (because most homes aren't build with accessibility in mind because the free market will fix that...).
Well, enhanced tracking protection is closer to what an adblocker/content blocker would do as far as I know. They classify some domains as trackers based on a static list from Disconnect then use that information to either block requests or enforce extra restrictions on those (like blocking cookies/storage).
You don't know, whether you will be able to boot and mount the degraded array. Maybe you could, or maybe you will have to start shaving the yak.

With hotswap, it is up and running, you can start repair straight away.
It was also preferred (by most people, at least) to Windows Vista, the product that usually shipped on PCs after it.

It was an almost undeniable local maximum in Windows releases from the consumer side, which does make some of the fond memories make sense.
Without that control, you would be free to call custom emoji from the vasty deep, but without vendor support, that would not do you much good. I find it preferable to have a limited pipeline of additions, but with considerable vendor support.
Not accurate. Some older reds are CMR. See the comment above. It depends on what model and how long ago you bought them.
> nobody is creating new ones.

I sure wish that were true, but it's almost certainly not.
It certainly feels like we currently live in a golden age of open source software and open access for tinkering.

Linux desktops/laptops finally seem to work out of the box (as opposed to hunting for a WiFi driver to sneakernet over, or reinstalling the OS yet again due to some unidentifiable issue), gaming is finally viable on Linux, Microsoft has multiple compelling open source offerings like PowerShell (for Linux!), .NET core, and VSCode (regardless of my latent skepticism from the EEE era.)

For the past 5 years, I've used Linux exclusively for my main driver (dev, gaming, tinkering, etc.,) something I simply wouldn't have had the patience to do even a decade ago due to the lack of maturity of these systems on the desktop. Browsing distrowatch and just installing whatever interests you feels more viable than it ever has been. This year, I am using Pop!_OS primarily, which just works out of the box. It includes a built-in, robust tiling manager, and I have access to incredible free, open source IDEs and text editors that feel more powerful than what I paid for in the past. It's a good time to be a "techie" in the world.
This sounds like a gotcha rather than an argument. Does this ruling mean gendered dress codes are now illegal in the US?
First, "the media" should do something, but we can't legislate that.

Secondly, "the power to press charges separate from the DA"--this is a stronger form of getting rid of qualified immunity. We already have the power to file "civil" suits, and qualified immunity removes that power in the case of e.g. police. Giving people the power to file criminal charges themselves would be a huge deal. Maybe it is the right thing ultimately, but I think it's obvious how it could be abused; an abusive billionaire could legally threaten their opponents with imprisonment (or worse).

Thirdly, thinking that bodycam reform would be any kind of useful measure, is quite naive, when you look at how many of these recent abuses are recorded on independent cameras, with the police fully aware they are being recorded, and yet they still act as they do, knowing they have this "qualified immunity" to protect them.

I'm not saying that you're completely wrong; some of these reforms may help things a bit. But they don't strike at the root of the issue, and the ship for seeing if more moderate reforms will work has already sailed. The police and cities etc have had literally decades to clean up their act, and in cities across America, they have failed. Time's up.
Speaking as someone whose native language has not one, but three of those weird letters, I would need it because it makes searching about a billion times easier. There's plenty of situations where typing my native language's characters is inconvenient for a multitude of reasons, and any particular document is not likely to hold so many individual words dissimilar only by using those particular different letters that the inconvenience of the ambiguity is going to outweigh the convenience of not having to convince my current device to type, say, an ä.
Caught in the mushy middle: How Quartz fell to earth
Correct. win32s was mostly a shim layer that let you access 32 bit registers and the win32 API. But the actual OS was still the 16 bit windows/dos hybrid
Indexed views in SQL server behave similarly (though not as performant as Oracle I believe). They also have some constraints on application (schema bound, data types, nesting).
what is the psychology behind those countless, sometimes day-long meetings? A mix of collective procrastination and signaling of business?

I'm not opposed to small, high interaction (not passive listening!) calls that are time-boxed; but somebody, somewhere will have to do actual work. The allocation between coordination/planning and execution seems way off in many companies.
LEO payload mass for the Falcon 9 heavy, fully-expended (no booster recovery) is 63,800 kg. With booster recovery, 30,000–57,000 kg. For the Space Shuttle it was 24,400 kg.

The total mass boosted by the shuttle was higher, but much of that was the orbiter itself, not usable payload.
I have http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html in my bookmarks. A really beautiful depiction of the Sixtine Chapel. But I have no Idea how to load it on a modern OS. I have also no idea if the vatican has plans to update ist for more modern technologies.

There are even more http://www.vatican.va/various/basiliche/index_en.html if you dig around a little, but I have no clue how to preserve them...
>So what's the point of running it on hardware designed to address the issue of running FOSS alongside a blackbox baseband?

The exercise of maintaining an open baseline is valuable. Also, having a development platform is valuable.

Some modern phones keep the blackbox baseband isolated on a non DMA bus, such as usb. In those cases, you simply don't t rust the baseband as anything but a packet forwarder, and enforce full TLS/VPN at a low level in the operation system.

It is limited, though. No argument there.
Yep, there's nothing like getting bullied by one of your top 5 accounts to really deflate an overblown ego haha.

From what I've seen, having investors that the founder is answerable to can also help to mitigate this effect, although investors will sometimes pump you up + stroke your ego which can have the opposite effect.
That's beating a dead horse. Anything is better than the Windows 10 start menu, with the only exception of the Windows 8 (and a Server version, don't remember what) (lack of) one...

Or, maybe the Win8 one was better. It's a bit hard to be sure about this, but the first half of the comment stands.
Haven't had many, because they have a stronger policy. The item is tracked, and if it's delivered to the proper address, the only way they can get a refund is either for damage or for not as described. Buyer submits proof to Mercari, and they make the decision.
Ahh - I did look but didn't see one when I submitted it. Fair enough :)
Yup, in 2012 I was writing web video players and ad-serving platforms for a video streaming company. It was all Flash, because there were no real alternatives. HTML5 was just kind of starting but HTML5+Video+JS did not allow to develop logic as complex as what AS3 provided.
There is a lot more to the story. Adobe claimed that it could get Flash working on the first iPhone if Apple had allowed it.

However, when Adobe did finally get Flash working on Android (barely) it required 1GB of RAM and a 1Ghz processor. The original iPhone had 128Mb RAM and a 400Mhz processor. It wasn’t until five years later that the first iPhone had those specks.

Not to mention that Adobe said they would have Flash working in the Motorola Xoom on day 1. It wasn’t. Leaving the Xoom in the embarrassing position where you couldn’t view the Xoom home page on the Xoom.
This looks good starting point for people who are busy or lazy to start workout.I will definitely try.
Only thing bothering me here is, it asks for mail ID and details for free trial too.
I prefer to see sample videos or exercise before signup.
Also, are they generic to people or user can customise based on health condition or age group?
Want to Get the Most Out of Bitcoin? Beware of Your Worst Enemy: Yourself
These things are great for small NAS.

https://buy.hpe.com/us/en/servers/proliant-microserver/proli...
Similar to the period 1973 (first oil crisis) till 1981 or so, no obvious good investments anywhere.
Does this mean we won't be able to access zombo.com anymore ?

Truly an end of an era :(
The medium paywall is what paid for the author to write it. It's not written by Indie.vc. And so to the degree that people want to read this article and talk about it, the paywall is what made that possible.
I hadn't used flash on linux, my primary environment at work and home, for years at that point. Flash was already hated and widely criticized in developer circles. It was already on the way out. Apple jumped on the trend early, but they didn't start it.
it has had mainline support for a while now, there are even now daily official debian builds available as well: https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/arm64/daily/netboot/SD-c...
Almost every individual product or feature offered by O365 has a premium competitor. This dismays some people, but it’s fine that the default options in Office don’t work for everyone.
> So I ask again: why prohibit everyone from taking reasonable risks when it's perfectly feasible to prohibit only high risk investments (i.e., those risks that would be financially ruinous i.e. put the investor on social support)?

1. These risks aren't reasonable.

2. It's practically simpler to ban this kind of weird and sketchy offering entirely than to implement some kind of control to limit the impact of what people can lose on a particular investment.
I am really interested in his latest work with SciDB and VoltDB also. Cool stuff to check out if you haven't yet.
My understanding of TileDB is that it is 100% client-side. There is no server. In a sense it’s like handling orc or paraquet or even SQLite files on S3, (except tiledb are fancy r-trees) with a delta-lake-like manifest file for transactions too.

I think in the future there’s going to be a sine-wave of smart-clients consuming S3 cleverly, and then smartness growing in the S3 interface so constraints and indices and things happen in the storage again, and back and forth...
T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across the US
You're kidding right? You point to the record of the supreme court, the process for appointing judges, and authority granted to them and you proclaim that there is perfect, the one thing the founders got right...

Wow, I really have no rebuttable to that. We clearly view government and systems of justice very different
What sort of issue do you feel that privilege should be reserved for?
I don't think the fact that someone made a second version without succumbing to second system effect disproves the adage outright; for the vast majority of new programmers it's still worthwhile advice to adhere to.

Like any principle or adage, if you are experienced enough to deeply understand the reason for it, you will know when it does or does not apply.
And the article didnt even get started on emojis, there are for example two different ways you can define skin color of an emoji. Most programming language dont have unicode support so its up to the developer how to handle them.
I built my FreeNAS build into the Fractal Design Node 304. It fits six hard drives, and the computer fits into an IKEA shelf nicely.
Appreciate the detailed reply. I understand the dissent better now - it's more nuanced than my initial impression was.

The discussion in this thread has made me fully appreciate, while this might be a step forward for human rights, these protections really do need to be explicitly codified in law as well. Not just because they're resting on fragile interpretations of existing law, but also because this interpretation wouldn't necessarily extend to bisexuals, asexuals, etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23528615
This looks outstanding. I've been hooked on https://websequencediagrams.com and it has transformed my creation of sequence diagrams from dreaded chores to joyful learning-by-doing experience. This project looks to replicate some of the success of that site, uses very similar syntax for sequence diagrams, and can do much more. I'm psyched!
If you don't care to read anything, maybe you're on the wrong website.
Thank you for the advice. Will keep it mind when setting it up with the new drives!
I don't see the connection between supporting black lives matter and enforcing our immigration laws. If they want completely open borders, then they need to come out and say that, but demanding ICE lose contracts and technical software access is absurd.
That’s an interest perspective, didn’t really look at it from this angle - thanks! Main problem I was trying to solve with it was discoverability of opportunities, since they’re buried on twitter, twitch chat logs etc. And I sourced many of the posted opportunities myself manually. But thank you, I’m wondering how I could approach tackling the challenge you’ve highlighted.
World's First Underwater WiFi Is Set Up
These deaths are tragic, and sometimes there are other forces at play.

My friend Andy Ettelson took his own life; his girlfriend had recently broken up with him. Those who didn't know him might assume that his suicide was due to heartbreak, but those close to him knew that his 25-year struggle with his bipolar condition was the more likely culprit. He refused to stay on his meds.

When a mutual friend called me to let me know that Andy was dead, he said, "you may wonder why I sound so emotionless. Let me tell you why: I had been expecting the call for years, so when Andy's father called me, I knew right away what happened."
My reading of the paper shows they already factored that into the equation. So at the target, in the 1m² cross-section, 1,000 W of energy is being delivered. It takes about 50,000,000,000 W at the beam generator to achieve that.
The Z shell takes xn to have a particular meaning, although not the one that it was supposed to have.

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/167582/why-zsh-ends...

It was supposed to refer to a particular behaviour of Concept terminals. In practice, it is used in many terminfo records to denote DEC pending wrap, which the terminfo commentary even itself records as being different to the Concept glitch. Yes, terminfo has highly problematic paradigms that simply do not match how terminals and their emulators actually work.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22691989
> What's really sad is the classic widgets are still there -- you can see them occasionally in Win10 when the compositor glitches out.

I wouldn't call them "classic". They're closer to the "aero basic" theme from vista/7 than the "classic" theme that was available from windows xp to windows 7.
Putting a database on a spinning disk in 2020 is just completely idiotic.
> Would you have preferred that judges didn’t rule the way they did in the case of Brown vs Board of Education?

As a matter of law I would have preferred that political decisions about public schools were made by legislatures, not judges, as they are supposed to be. The idea that the purpose of government is to get our favored policies in place, by hook or by crook, is going to be the death of our republic sooner or later. The government is supposed to uphold the rule of law, and the law of the land in the US, the Constitution, does not give judges the power to make political decisions.

As a matter of policy, I would have preferred that the whole public school system in the US have either not been developed at all, or developed along very different lines. The people who put the US public school system in place were quite explicit that their purpose was to indoctrinate children. I think the government has no business indoctrinating children. But that policy question is way past any hope of repair.
I love PostgreSQL history, so this was tons of fun to read me for me.

While reading, I also ended up highlighting and sharing some of my favorite parts on twitter: https://twitter.com/felixge/status/1272613965219139585
We built a Slack app and what we've learned
An in-depth intro to Istio Ingress
now that gmail is showing me ads within their Android app, I'm looking to change providers. The trouble is, Gmail's search is so fantastic that it is very hard to move away from. Without search, there is no way to navigate a decade worth of email.
Something something Robinhood box spread something

aka the legend of 1r0nyMan

See also: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trader-says-he-has-no-mone...
Ruffle is great! I just used it the other day to convert a flash website with a service manual for my outboard engine into a nice pdf. Each page was a swf file, so I only had to wget them all, convert them with ruffle, and at last convert the images into a complete pdf.
If you take a paycheck from someone, you're implicitly agreeing to carry out their instructions and their vision for their business. If, over time, you have a moral issue with that vision, the best thing for you and that company is to find work elsewhere that is a better fit for your values. It's unreasonable to agree to work for someone and then proceed to undermine their business because it doesn't align with your particular political beliefs.

This would achieve the same ends as protesting, but in a much more ethical manner. Unethical companies would eventually have a harder time finding qualified workers and would suffer accordingly. What wouldn't be happening, is a bunch of people agreeing to serve a business in exchange for money and then reneging on that agreement while still drawing a paycheck.

This is particularly true for higher skilled workers who have other options.