skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What was new was the movement to ban slavery, especially in new states

Abolition wasn't a new thing in 1861. All the northern states had banned it in the decades after the revolutionary war. Indeed, slavery was banned in Georgia in 1735 when it was founded. The British Empire abolished slavery in 1833. Southern states in 1861 were fighting to preserve an institution that many people had recognized as evil for more than a century.

> which would undo the political balance that had been put in the Constitution from the beginning. (The Constitution still gives extra power to those states.)

You're mixing up two different things. The creation of a House with representation based on population and a Senate with a fixed number of Senators per state, which continues to exist today, was a compromise between big states and small states. Four of the seven states that were smaller than average and benefited from that arrangement had few to no enslaved people: New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and New Jersey and Connecticut. Conversely, three of the six states that were bigger than average and were hurt by that arrangement enslaved large numbers of people.

Additionally, the Constitution did not "give extra power" to slave states. It reduced the power of the slave states using an anti-slavery argument. Look at the text of the 14th amendment, which governs apportionment:

> Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed.

Compare that to the 3/5 clause:

> Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.

Both then and now, the Constitution allocates votes based on the number of "persons" in each state, not just people who can vote. So today, the apportionment is based on a population count that includes children and non-citizens, not just adults over 18. Moreover, even in 1789, the Constitution deemed enslaved people to be "persons." It distinguished between "free persons" and "all other Persons" but both were "persons." So what would have happened if the 14th amendment text was in place in 1789? Slave states would have had even more representation, because the "number of persons in each State" would include enslaved people.

The anti-slavery argument was this: because slaveholding states treated some people like property, enslaved people should not be included in the "number of persons in each State." It partially succeeded in reducing the power of slave-holding states. It was a compromise with the devil, no doubt. But the idea that the Constitution increased the power of the slave states is false. Without the 3/5 clause, the slave states would have had even more power.
Big Tech just happened to be at the right place at the right time right now. There’s no competence that got them there other than the fact that the entire country is in quarantine and than happens to work out well for companies that can sell to people at home.

Clorox is also doing very well right, but the author doesn’t use that as an example because it’s too clear and obvious that luck is at play there.

Big tech did not foresee this, it just happens to help their businesses, in part because it skews the playing field their way.
> All falls into the massive and fraught discussion around how news gets paid for.

More appropriately I think (at least for TV), it falls into the discussion of how new doesn't see falling revenues. In the past, news was a payment back to the public major networks paid to get access to the spectrum they were using. when it became obvious there was a way to make the news divisions positive in cashflow instead of cash sinks, they were optimized for that.

Now, where most news is probably delivered through an entirely different medium, even that minimal connection to the public good incentivized through the spectrum allocation is almost gone.

In the distant past, NBC, CBS and ABC would probably have been happy to do away with their news divisions, because it cost them to run them. That they would now fight you tooth and nail to keep them for the opposite reason should put into stark contrast how the incentives have completely changed.

Is it possible to completely disentangle money from news? Probably not, and it might not be a good idea. How do you fund investigative journalism if you do? Influence will flow from the money no matter what, but then again maybe that's not any different than it is now.

I don't know the solution. I'm also aware I'm glossing over the fact that different parts of the news industry had perverse incentives long before this (newspapers...), and that news probably was never as altruistic as I'm making it out to be, but it does seem like it's gotten worse. I have to imagine if the Founding Fathers had the current status quo in mind when they wrote the constitution and initial amendments, they would have tried to put some restrictions on the ownership of the press to go along with those freedoms.
Way to take on zoom with a literal clone that steals the UI.

Is it that hard to invent a UI? I don’t even think the zoom one is any good!
The Nazi flag was in much longer actual use than the Confederate flags. If anything, the Nazi flag has a more legitimate "heritage" defense than the Confederate one.
Does saying “Fuck You AWS” constitute offensive content?
Interesting, I didn't know that there were multiple flags for the CSA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_State.... It seems that the second and third did incorporate the battle flag as part of the design.

Wouldn't surprise me to see these people switch to one of the other, lesser-known variants to work around the ban.
I think it's not your phone though in this case, it's the MacBook Pro where the copying is happening
Like when the Colorado baker refused to bake a cake for a gay wedding, and the Supreme Court ruled in his favor?

Based on this comment, it appears you have a poor understanding of what qualifies as a protected class and what they are protected from. You might want to brush up on that.
There's been other boring, fantastic languages... Lua comes to mind. There also always seems to be one or two "crippling" missing features for these kinds of languages as well. I actually think it's a good thing! We should stop adopting one-size-fits-all thinking.
Don’t minimize the importance of acting though if you constantly find the same stressors intruding on your thoughts. If meditation helps you deal with street noise, that’s great, but you might also consider closing the window.

I see lots of meditative techniques suggested to employees of larger companies through the likes of Happify, but if people really listened to their bodies their employers would be in for big trouble!
If this were true, companies like Oracle, SAP, Infosys, etc. would have died out a long time ago.

They are bureaucratic hellscapes internally that rival even the worst governmental orgs, with even less oversight.

We have nothing close to a free market as idealized by libertarians. And whether we should or not is an entirely separate argument.
This is an idea often trotted out in these discussions but then you should ask how regions of the country such as California which for decades now have had essentially none of that assault in meaningful amounts and yet still is a largely dysfunctional entity. Or look at San Francisco.
I’ve been overtaken by a horsetailer doing a bit over 100mph. I do believe it was a Porsche suv doing the pulling tho. This was in Denmark.
Back when I was young and reckless my old Peugeot sedan was pretty stable doing around that speed with a flatbed dual axle trailer.
I think GDP matter in that it reflects the ability of a country to create resource. How ever how each country feels like using it is their prerogative. I doubt German citizen would complain if they had another 20k per year on average.

I think the issue is that values in those different countries are very different.

Theres much less freedom in terms of housing and income in Germany which makes it easier to have equality of outcome. By the very definition of a free society the free-er you are to succeed, the free-er you are to fail and to the sadness of most people, the distribution of success is a pareto distribution and not a normal distribution .

The usually doesn't want to do this mostly because 1. limiting freedom comes with Germany's very obvious downside. 2. The belief of a lot of Americans is a Government of the US scale typically implements those things poorly. We have states that would comparable but in general the idea is the bigger the governmental body the dumber it and simpler their tasks need to be so that it can't mess it up.
I don't think it's a good faith claim that everyone using one of the banned symbols is a racist

1. The current flag of Japan is based off of one of the banned symbols

2. Probably the most famous car in pop culture uses one of the banned symbols. Microsoft has gone as far as banning parodies of the General Lee that have none of the controversial symbols[0]

If the flag of imperial Japan was banned due to its association with imperialism and colonialism [1], should the USA flag still be allowed[2]? IMO, the banning of the US flag would be excessive, but is also necessary if the rule is implemented in a fair fashion against all imperialist nations.

[0]: https://forums.forzamotorsport.net/turn10_postst162853_offen...

[1]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Japanese...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_military...
In your online forum case, what exactly do you do when toxic users wisen up and start working around your filter? Do you ban them or just continue letting them flaunt the rules?
> For starters, being deplatformed from major online players today would have serious consequences. Although it's true that these platforms are "private property," the entire society has become too reliant on them to be seen that way. I think it's dangerous when platforms function like a public utility and is yet allowed to do whatever it wants because it's technically private property. If platforms want to censor, there should be at least more oversight than what we have today.

In this instance, it’s a public company and one particular game. Some companies don’t allow you to wall hack or use aim assistants. Others will allow you to use hacked clients, like Minecraft anarchy servers. It should be up to the company to moderate, as you sign a TOS agreement with them when signing up or purchasing their game.

Government oversight is not needed here, because it’s a contract between an individual and a corporate entity.
Covid-19 Activity Risk Levels
so what would you recommend US citizens do to protect their livelihood?
I thought this one is particularly interesting:

http://www.starling-software.com/employment/programmer-compe...

> Uses Big O notation to denote levels, which is a fun shibboleth. Skills are broken out to Computer Science, Software Engineering, Programming, Experience, and Knowledge. This one has a long record on Hacker News but is a good map of things that we can work on.
The film "Blow" is outdated but probably a good starting point on the history of how things like that develop.
Ah, so they did it all over NYC subway a few years ago. To a point where I had to do a double take before I realized it was just an Amazon promo.

There are quite a few Eastern Europeans and Jews in NYC. Why was that OK?
These are good questions to ask, but I wouldn’t expect a movie reviewer to do investigative journalism and hunt down the people from this film. It’s not really in the job description.
This is what happens when someone with basically little technical experience joins a JavaScript coding school and has to build something in order to graduate.
Private enterprise is the result of relentless evolution by natural selection. Government is not. The fact that one is able to run circles around the other should not be a surprise.
A sane introduction to maximum likelihood (MLE) and maximum a posteriori (MAP)
And now there's increased interest in wanting to change that culture.
> "It _is_ private property. The companies in question are just exerting their rights."

So is Facebook and yet those applauding this are up-in-arms about FB's policies. Seems like a double standard.
It's the internet today that feels like AOL: a great mass of ignoramuses, posting nonsense at each other on some proprietary web property.

I want an internet that helps to enlighten society, not mainly induces it to pump out memes, insults and prank videos.
Turtle that used Lego wheelchair to heal is released
Is the reverse even remotely close to true? If MS allowed confederate flags on cars, would the bigoted idea underground disappear?
> Almost no one thinks about actively retraining the way they think. In fact, I don’t think this last idea even crosses most of our minds.

Really? I'm pretty sure there are thousands of years of philosophical and religious traditions that teach something along the lines of "looking for happiness in the external world is a bad idea, instead try working on yourself".

I mean the four noble truths of Buddhism, a religion with roughly 0.5 billion followers, are (paraphrased):

1. There is suffering

2. That suffering is caused by attachment to worldly things

3. The way to get rid of that suffering is to work on not being attached to those things

4. The best way to work on not being attached to those things is, surprise surprise, Buddhism.

But this idea seems pretty prevalent in pop-psychology as well. So I'm not sure who the we in "our minds" is, but I think even most instagram celebrates of realized that maybe "self work" is a good idea.

Unfortunately there are some philosophers that, in the last 300 years, have started to question whether there is such a clear divide between the external and internal world... but I don't expect most people to spend their time reading a lot of philosophy.
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The article says the encryption was cracked on April 1st but apparently a whistleblower said that the police used a warrant to get access to the company's infrastructure back in March - which suggests to me that the whole "cracked encryption" story might not be fully legitimate

https://medium.com/@fordnic/evidence-suggests-encrochat-is-w...
I wonder why anyone would think inverting semantics like this was anything but asking for disaster.

With all the metaprogramming that is possible, will the matching Cat(age=age) even produce a coherent object that has an age argument passed to __init__? Do keyword arguments in those patterns work on properties? How will it compare to another cat, is that using "is" or __eq__?

Does Cat have to derive from the same type object?

def Cat(**kwargs):
return type("Cat", (), {"__init__": lambda self, **kw: ([setattr(self, k, v) for k, v in kw.items()], None)[-1]})(**kwargs)
You’re not wrong. It just doesn’t matter. The American Revolution has been cast by revisionist historians as another war to preserve slavery while protesters have toppled and threatened states of abolitionists, Union generals, and Abraham Lincoln.
Since you work with go I have a question. I learned it superficially but I’d like to get more fluent with it. Which resource would you suggest?
> Goldwater was the first major presenting symptom

Can you please elaborate? I'm briefly aware on who Goldwater was and his influence on Reagan's election, but this phrase puzzles me. (I'm not from the US, maybe I lack some context)
The thing it nails is that mediocre programmers (like me) can easily understand and reason about source code written by others. In the C++ world, this can be very hard and thus time consuming. Go on the other hand let's me focus on the business value as opposed to becoming a language lawyer.
In Denmark and Germany at least general trailer combos limit you to 80km/h, but newer combos can be approved for 100.
This is really a terrible article; the worst kind of anec-data.

e.g. Yes, the U.S. does spend a large GDP share on health care; and you can make legitimately make the argument that it gets poor value. However, the single comparandum relied on is overall life expectancy.

Union membership dropped from over 30% in the early 1950s to about 12% by 2000, during which time the U.S. labor share was pretty much range-bound - but the article ignores that and simply asserts that the change in union membership is the cause.

That chart on "hours worked per year" is based on OECD data published with the following health warning: "the data are intended for comparisons of trends over time; they are unsuitable for comparisons of the level of average annual hours of work for a given year, because of differences in their sources and method of calculation" ... emphasis is mine.

Original source here: https://data.oecd.org/emp/hours-worked.htm
> The Constitution is meaningless without a culture that backs it up.

This is true for corporate charters as well, but it doesn't mean that either a corporation or a government "don't have purpose" without a culture that drives towards that purpose. You could also say that in spite of any corporate charter, the only true purpose of any public corporation is to provide value for shareholders, and the culture of many companies is often not aligned with that.

> you have more legal right to an abortion in this country than you do a firearm

This is blatantly false.
> mostly out of my control

Seems like it would be totally in your control to leave school and start working. Remember that for next time you find yourself "trapped".
Are there pictures of these subway swastikas? (no, of course not.)
That begs the question. Why did southerners pick the battle flag of the war they fought to preserve slavery as the symbol for "southern identity?"
When it comes to state IT projects, I've got a theory that part of the reason government seems cumbersome is often the state has to serve everyone.

Someone's doesn't speak English? Doesn't have a computer? Doesn't have a phone? Doesn't have an e-mail address? Doesn't have a credit card? Doesn't have a bank account? Doesn't have an address? Is completely deaf? If that means they can't use amazon.com so be it.

But if it means they can't register to vote, or can't get a driving license? That's a different matter.

So state projects IT have to support things like mailing Spanish-language braille-printed letters, when Amazon can just send an e-mail.
I understand the desire, but know that there are real-world reprocussions to such hamfisted attempts to leverage power, particularly before an election. Cultural issues and conflicts were a big part of why the 2016 presidential elections turned out the way they did.
The screen capture is from an iPad Pro. It's not clear how it was getting the Macbook clipboard; via AirDrop maybe? Really that just makes it even more concerning.

Edit: Apparently it's Just A Thing: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/copy-and-paste-betw...

But you can turn it off by turning off "Handoff", which luckily I already had. Nowhere is it mentioned in the settings UI that this extends to your clipboard.
You can eat lentils, and no one will suspect that you eat them because they are the only thing you can afford.

Now imagine a community of people where half of them are so poor that the only thing they can eat are lentils, and the other half is 10% richer. By not eating lentils you demonstrate your (relative) wealth within the community. By eating lentils, you show that you are poor even among the poor.

People hate being at the very bottom of the society.
> In what world can you imagine video game creators not being able to determine what kind of content is acceptable in their own game.

You're over-generalizing. If a game explicitly banned players from creating characters that look like black people, would you still make that comment? I'm sure you can at least see why others would find that newsworthy.
It isn't there isn't room, there isn't time. People don't want to spend time thinking critically. Everything is us vs them but it makes it easy. If you are liberal, you are automatically against the conservatives; not thought required. You don't even have to read the articles, just the headline. The headline must be true. This is how we've turned into a plutocracy. They fund the distraction and get rich while we hate our neighbor who is 99.999% the same as us but somehow we've convinced ourselves they are the devil.
For what it's worth, I think you're at least mostly correct - I would also expect legalization to lead to increased usage, at least in the short term. I'm just the type of person who challenges those sorts of expectations, including when I'm the one holding them.

Along with wondering if "legalization leads to increased rate of usage" holds true, I also wonder if the following is true:

> legalizing drugs also means easier access

Criminality is a "barrier to entry", surely, but I'm not at all sure that ease of access changes because of it. In Arkansas, where I live, cannabis is illegal. Even though I don't consume it (the risk isn't worth the benefit to me), I'm extremely confident I could make a couple of phone calls and have some delivered to me if I wanted to. That's really no different from my experience in the LA area.

In fact, it might actually be more difficult to obtain it in LA through legal means. Generally you have to seek out a dispensary (physically, or via phone/app) and provide identification. I wouldn't need ID to get it illegally in Arkansas. If an ID requirement has a negative participation impact on other things (like voting) then I would expect that to hold true for this as well.
Will you open this up to include other roles besides SDEs? Like AWS/Azure/GCP technical sales / SA / cloud engineer roles? Or even tech support roles?
The US government has been doing a pretty good job of not killing black people. It's mainly state and local governments that are getting criticism for it.

Also, the constitution that founded the federal government is not the same document that founds local and state governments. There are some things in it that the federal government has forced local governments to do, but in general, state and local governments have purposes outlined in entirely different documents. My state government's founding document didn't task my government with "promoting the general welfare".