skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're missing a couple of data points. 1806 The United States Congress passed the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, which took effect January 1st, 1808. The 1807 law the British Parliament passed didn't take effect until March 1808. 1808 was also the soonest the United States Congress was able to ban the importation of Slaves under Article I Section 9 of the Constitution. In effect, the British Empire stopped trading slaves when its largest market for slaves stopped importing them. Just to round this out, while you are partially right because Brazil at this time was not its own nation, it was later than the United States in abolishing slavery by about 23 years, 1888.

You missed the point of my post though: the difference between slavery today and slavery in the 18th Century is whether it is state sanctioned or not. There is an extant global slave trade that is larger than the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade at its peak, but now it is a mostly black market trade.

The 13th Amendment has a flaw as well; it allows for prison slavery.

> Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

The Black Codes passed within the Antebellum South made full use of this qualifier to essentially criminalize Blackness and re-enslave Freedmen through the prison system.

I'm not saying it was just, nor am I denying the hypocrisy present within the Constitution at the time of its ratification which is in direct contradiction to the spirit of the Declaration of Independence. That said, there is such a thing as voluntary slavery, and debt bondage. The former was a means of providing for yourself or your child and is a practice that was recorded as far back as the Code of Hammurabi. The latter has a history in the Americas, Asia, Europe and Africa, and is still widespread in South Asia and Subsaharan Africa. Voluntary slavery is a liberty, but because the 13th Amendment does not make any kind of distinction, it is prohibited along with all other forms except prison slavery, hence my characterization of the 13th as a prohibition article.

You can fault the United States for being one of the last countries to (mostly) abolish slavery if you like. That's fine, but it's not the criticism I would levy, there's plenty of Reconstruction Era and post-Reconstruction Era problems stemming from how poorly the Lincoln Amendments were written which were written with the best of intentions, badly. There's also the fact that the Emancipation Proclamation was in 1862 and the 13th Amendment was passed in 1865 just prior to the end of the Civil War. It's now been 155 years, and the 13th Amendment has been in force over twice as long as all of the clauses related to slavery in the Constitution.

In the absence of law though, there is often slavery. Peoples who are weaker than their neighbors and have nothing else to offer are usually enslaved by their neighbors. If you don't have greater martial power and it isn't costly to take you, you're dead, or a slave.
That's a near restatement of Zuboff's Third Law:

Every digital application that can be used for surveillance and control will be used for surveillance and control, irrespective of its originating intention.

Coined in the early 1980s, in The Age of the Smart Machine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshana_Zuboff
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I don't feel to sorry for Wadi. The other stories, though, seem outrageous.
Now that I can’t introduce my kids to the Dukes of Hazzard, I need suggestions for other shows with exploding arrows....
frames are like file extensions
The big difference between Debian and Android is that with Debian you don't generally want or need to run untrusted or untrustworthy 3rd party code. Instead your software comes from trusted source with maintenance promise and security updates. And I'm starting to think that is better model than trying to sandbox and lock down everything; the world needs more trust at certain places. In contrast you are no way able to trust random Android apps, neither the quality or the intentions, so you are left with actively hostile relationship between you, the OS, and the apps.
Maybe so, but please don't post ideological flamebait or call names in HN comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I actually really like how Apple implemented this though. If apps aren't doing something very clearly nefarious, it's not annoying at all.
Link to the related Help Article

https://help.duckduckgo.com/privacy/atb/
Those aren't consequences of the lockdown they're consequences of a pandemic.
I think my use cases are pretty varied, anything from looking for pictures of a place I'm considering going hiking, looking for different views of a product I'm considering purchasing, looking for other examples of an artists art, to trying to figure out where some image originated
The comment provided a list removing more and more capabilities from the game. That's exactly what a gradual process of banning someone would be. Sure, you can give them time to correct their behavior, but eventually you might have to ban them.
Lightweight Vue 3 without Webpack with router, lazy-loading components
Good to hear. Pets are amazing.
There's always https://www.terraform.io/ to guard against vendor lock-in, but then you're still stuck with another vendor if you decide to switch.
Correct, wikipedia even documents this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_papers,_please
pretty good article, I've to finish reading later though
Since users don't own Windows, only license it, MS has the ultimate say in what software those users will run. So it is what it is and we can all pray to Microsoft gods in hope that they will show some mercy.

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H1B visa suspension to pressure pay at Goldman Sachs, Google
Based on the amount of ads and spyware embedded in modern Windows, I don’t think this problem is exclusive to LinkedIn. It seems to be par for the course for most things Microsoft runs.
> No, the economic shock was caused by businesses being over leveraged and not having cash reserves.

A lot of these businesses didn't have much cash reserve because they were launched by ordinary folks and operate in industries where the profit margins are razor thin. If you're running the local pub, there's simply no opportunity to build up capital reserves that can survive a several-month-long shutdown. Even cutting payroll down to a minimum, rent, utilities and minimal maintenance is expensive.

I don't think there's a reasonable argument to be made that wiping out the current owners of bars, coffeeshops, garages, gyms, etc. is going to result in more resilient or more competent locally owned businesses in the long term. I just don't buy that there's a massive amount of well-capitalized individuals ready to run bars/coffeeshops/garages/etc. better than the current owners.

That said, there is a critical mass of super well-capitalized and competent restaurant/bar/coffeeshop management machines, which can take over if all those local businesses fail.

The effect of the policy you're suggesting would be the walmartification of the last remaining outposts of local ownership in most economies.
This is why I've always felt very uneasy with South Park. They seemed to me to ridicule the act of giving a damn at all. That's not being a court jester, that's being an extremely lazy and apathetic cynic.
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Hello. I am a white lady born and raised in the South.

Flying the Confederate flag is a sign to anyone else from the
South that you are probably a racist. I would bet money that there is a strong correlation between “people who say it is a symbol of heritage” and “people who display the CSA flag”, because very few people are willing to come out and say “fuck yeah I am totally a racist and proud of it!”.

As a bonus, I would also bet that the overlap between “people who say it is a symbol of heritage and/or display it” and “people who are not white” is virtually nonexistant.
I love DDG, but the country specific search simply doesn’t work, which is a shame.
This time period also seems to be radicalizing people at an accelerated rate. After that USAF military police sergeant murdered a cop and federal security officer I started investigating some of these communities and they're growing. Not just the right-wing "race war" types either. Both sides of the political spectrum are growing their radicalized bases.

The communists and the facists types are both radicalizing around anti-government sentiment more than anything and we've seen real lives lost as a result.

I hope things get better but everything is increasing in polarization at a time when people have a lot of free time and a country being consumed by an out of control virus that has been politicized.

It's a recipe for disaster.
Has anyone participated in the testing of the mobile app mentioned at around the 75% mark of the article? One reference they have on the landing page is describing the Experience-Sampling Method [1] - there seem to be a few existing applications that allow one to track how exactly they felt in a quantified manner at a point in time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_sampling_method
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What did he add to the song that wasn’t in the movie? I didn’t catch anything “new”, except that they left out the “it’s not even a real country anyway”

But I agree that the joke of almost every South Park joke is not what they say, but who says it.
You could run your browser in a vm , and disallow copy / pasting for that in the vm settings.
Crazy to think someone would prefer unemployment to being coughed on by a jet ski salesman while waiting tables at a cheesecake factory.
40% seems low... how many more are just undiscovered? A lot of people stopped going to work / paying bills / attending events this year, so it's probably getting more difficult to notice when someone is dead.
I used Christopher Alexander's patterns to improve my Animal Crossing island
Now if only they would finally Sherlock Little Snitch for iOS; the amount of spyware embedded in almost every single app in the App Store is astounding. I make a point of knowing about this stuff and even I was flabbergasted the first few times I ran my iPhone via a proxy.

Apple claims that you consented you this when you agreed to the App Store TOS.
But it isn't, because the competition still works. Incompetent private organizations fail and go away and lose only the money of their investors and not unwilling third parties.
In the same article: "Even as new cases and hospitalizations soar, the number of daily deaths in Texas has remained relatively low.".

There may or may not be an increase of cases when the economy opens. While the former is more likely the latter is not out of the question, depending on whether the community will take precautions like wearing masks.

However, if the economy stays closed, without a doubt, many lives will be negatively affected.
I can see why you read this sentence

> While Boeing’s hump-nosed freighters will live on, the fast-disappearing A380 risks going down as an epic dud.

that way, but it's referring to A380 flights largely stopping but that the 747 freighter variants will be flying for a long time. But, the article (and other sources) are clear that production of 747-- including 747-8F-- is stopping. Explicitly explained later:

> Boeing’s jumbo freighters will continue to ply the skies for decades after production stops, said Aboulafia.

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> “At a build rate of half an airplane per month, the 747-8 program has more than two years of production ahead of it in order to fulfill our current customer commitments. We will continue to make the right decisions to keep the production line healthy and meet customer needs,” Boeing said for this story.

> The planemaker has just 15 unfilled orders for the 747 -- all freighters. A dozen of them are headed to United Parcel Service Inc., and the fate of the rest is unclear, part of a dispute with Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Group.
By critiquing the content.

I know that's not a perfect answer, but it's pretty much all we have, and the approach does have one major advantage: it doesn't need to care how veiled an ad is, or if it's an ad at all.
Weight is more often than not, as far as I'm aware. This also ties into questions about refuelling: there's certainly cases where freighters have a choice of carrying more freight and requiring a refuelling stop _or_ flying non-stop. How much the time-sensitive cargo is paying decides questions like that.
> For the next act we'll censor images of the pyramids of Egypt, which were constructed by slave labor.

Pyramid workers were highly skilled and paid professionals though.
'Significant number' of people may have some natural immunity to coronavirus
> Yes, if they want to keep their safe harbor protections. If they think it's fair use, refuse to comply with the DMCA notice, and it turns out it wasn't fair use, they're now liable as infringers.

But that is not as simple as it sounds. If you issue a DMCA counter-notice there is no compulsion for the service provider to honor the counter-notice. In fact, the default is to deny the counter claim because of contractual obligations between the service provider and the first party.

You can read more about it here: https://www.newmediarights.org/copyright/DMCA/youtube_refusi...
It goes both ways. There are just as many people who consider BLM to be an anarcho-marxist movement who hate white people. This is why accelerationism is bad, because it can radicalise literally everyone.
https://archive.vn/J1YFz
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3000-2500 BCE is such an interesting time period. Civilization and technology somewhat inexplicably pick up throughout the world within just a few centuries. For example, coinciding with the Gilgamesh time period (around 2800 BCE to 2500 BCE) the major pyramids in Egypt pop up, and so do the Caral / Norte Chico pyramids and cities in Peru.
> Prop 13 stops state and local governments from working towards affordable housing how?

It doesn't, but it does make them less effective in the long run. CA has a much higher than average rate of just...empty housing because of how Prop 13 incentives things. It can also make property acquisition more difficult.

Functionally you have two ways to make more affordable housing: build more housing, or build specifically affordable housing. In CA, Prop 13 makes the first option less attractive to developers, since it costs very little to hold on to "existing" land or housing. An empty mansion costs relatively little because property taxes are so low. But selling, renovating, or redeveloping it will suddenly bump the property taxes.

So you're left with option 2: create specifically affordable housing. This puts further limits on redeveloping, and state housing projects are both morally questionable and really expensive, so you either need to raise taxes a lot (but you can't raise property taxes, which would be the "right" tax to increase based on the tax-as-a-behavior-incentive idea) to pay for it.

> So why can MA have great public education? Does the Federal government treat CA differently than MA?

I'm a bit confused here. I'm not particularly familiar with CA's educational system, but it appears to be solidly "above average" on the whole, with college education being one of the best. Not everyone can be rank 1.
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I just started using this platform for my podcast. It allows me to record video locally for my podcast. It's pretty cool.
So you told a support representative from Amazon (you should realize there are humans behind these accounts) to kill themselves, suggested someone should kill the US president, and "possibly used the 'c' word", and you're wondering why a US-based company might be offended by that?

That's basically a list of the three most offensive things you could possibly say in America. Of course you were banned for it.
Gotta love how everyone is applauding the wisdom of Dr. Bonnie Henry in her success in keeping the coronavirus under control in British Columbia and that of the government for following all her recommendations, and yet when Dr. Henry suggests that to tackle the opioid overdose epidemic, that BC needs to decriminalize drugs and create a safe supply of drugs for the addicted, suddenly everyone stops listening to her.

Drug overdose deaths in BC in May eclipsed covid 19 deaths for the entire year. You'd think people would be a bit more concerned about drug overdoses and willing to listen to the provincial health officer and follow her recommendations.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/overdose-dea...
Are they flying it while they protest racism against black people or something? Fly it for defunding the police?

It's got a lot of history being flown specifically to spite black people -- if you want to reclaim that as a non-racist symbol, you'll have to do a lot of work. Otherwise the obvious response is "heritage of what, racism? Why are you proud that your parents tried to keep black people from voting?"
I would say the media is one of the larger factors (after factors such add unemployment though). When you can't go out and mingle with other people a lot of the information some people get about what's going on is from the media.
I think you are a bit quick to dismiss the entirety of deontology. Could you expand on what you mean when you say that deontological ethics ``is not a logically consistent position.''
LFortran author here. As kergonath said below, both "new" Flang that you linked above, and LFortran started at about the same time. I know the Flang developers well and I am hoping we'll be able to collaborate in the future more. It looks like MLIR would be one option: they are going to use it for Flang and LFortran can have a backend that could also use it.

LFortran's main advantage is that it is interactive, so the parser and semantics has to be a little different. And also we designed it so that it will be quite approachable for people to write tools on top.
People could leave King Louis XIV’s France. That didn’t make the Bourbon dynasty any less of an absolutist entity.

And yes, it’s impractical to think of users as having an inherent ownership stake in contemporary society, but it’s one mechanism by which users could gain true agency in social networks. Another would be a representative body elected by users that has the power to appoint board members. It’s these sorts of formal, institutional structures that distinguish autocracy from democracy.
They also spend comparatively little time in the air. Compared with passenger aircraft where their return-on-investment strongly incentivises them being airborne as much as possible, military aircraft spend _a lot_ of time sitting around, either unused or in maintenance.
If curious see also

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17003897

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14061985
You know that in most developed countries (and most developing ones too) you wouldn't have to face this choice because you wouldn't need to pay for medical treatment, right?
The standard solution for any issue on Unix is to pipe the output to another service but very few people complain about POSIX.
I didn't say I was going to help it along; I do see the companies trending in that direction already and I would prefer that if they are going to go in that direction anyways they do it quickly enough for people to take notice.

Also, I think I would point out passive resistance movements as an example for something like accelerationism working; it takes subtle mostly private acts of injustice and provokes those people to make unsubtle public acts.
AnyList does not like Sign In with Apple (and others), but they helping with the sign on jungle.
At first I thought that parent didn't understand the joke. Now I think I might have not understood the meta-joke.
Excited to share my eBook landing page
There's also this snowflake flying around ->

https://cri-o.io/
If anyone here is "losing it" from your routine being destroyed and your city being shut down, I highly, highly recommend you take a week (preferably 2) off and do as much outdoor activity as possible. You should not return home during this period. This will reset your brain because it will break your new covid19 routine with new activities and new location.

When you come back, use this new state of mind to change your routine before you settle back into the state you were in before you left.
Ships and Trucks will be handling most of this stuff. Far more economical.

Demand will be met by building the most economical transport system, the time advantage offered by planes is not a factor as that is handled by preloading products into distribution centers.
LFortran author here. There is a Python prototype version that you can see in the notebook and it has very limited support for arrays. I stopped spending more time on it once I got further enough to validate that the idea works. And I am now spending all my time on the production LFortran implementation in C++. I am very close to make it usable for some very simple things, and then we'll go from there.
The other capabilities would only be removed if they broke other rules. That's not a gradual process toward banning. That's a completely unrelated disciplinary measure.
> Actually the regions have comparable life satisfaction, but people say California because they think of the weather and fail to take account of other things, such as the fact that California is full of tedious hippies.

Didn't read past this. There's a way to get your point across & this is not it.
They have a useful list of feature that you can look at: https://www.algolia.com/products/search/

It's basically a service that you can use so users can search objects in your database, a bit like Google but just for your website or application.
Ugh, I won't use their phone app, they're way too slimy to live there.

They conveniently forget your mail settings periodically, too, forcing you to opt-out of various garbage again, or to just trash all the mail. They're at least as scummy as FB, if not worse.

My (related) new rule: if your site demands a phone number for an account, I will not create an account on your site.
LFortran author here. I missed one of these discussions.
It’s time to end qualified immunity.
I mean, hn users aren't exactly normal, and while I'm sure many people like this feature that doesn't mean they want their day to be unnecessarily and repeatedly interrupted when that could have been solved by giving the sites a few days notice.
AWS IP addresses are blacklisted by most email providers...
That has been requested quite often: https://gitlab.com/lfortran/lfortran/-/issues/97