skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
on the lookout for the General Lee charger i guess? i can only assume that counts for 99.9% of the confederate flags on forza.
There are some widely agreed upon truths that need no citation :)
> Giving someone a cash payment and giving a loan to a business have very different actual costs in the long-run, obviously.

I want to stress this because many are missing it.

- Money to people = cash gift or grant.

- Money to companies = loan.

Companies have to pay it back, with interest. This also happened during the recession and the US made a hefty profit from it.

I often run into people that think that companies received these loans as grants. This of course makes for a lot of confusing discussions because two people are operating with completely different mental models.
If that were true, then why aren't frequencies capped for most campaigns run on-line?
>Companies and private moguls wont create good infrastructure out of charity, and what little they will create, it will be created to be milked as much as possible, and milked as much as possible. Think cost-cutting and short/mid-term profit, not vision and future thinking.

How is that meaningfully different to what NYC and NY have been doing themselves with regards to infrastructure? Crossing the George Washington Bridge costs $10.50. There's so much congestion all throughout but legislatures are happy to sit on the laurels of infrastructure investments many decades ago instead of aggressively building more, thus deepening income inequality.
That does smell like racism but I'm not sure it is in all cases; a native Chinese speaker might prefer to live in a city's Chinatown without them being racist.
It doesn't matter. The test is "should we be spending money on this in 2020", not testing a hypothetical situation where the pandemic doesn't exist.
McCarthyism wasn’t so much about the senator, it was about the media and hollywood not hiring anyone they thought had leftist opinions to not give them a platform and spread their toxic ideas. I think it is like for like what is happening now.
It's an even better deal: companies are replacing paid advertising with free exposure from being mentioned in news stories and bonus points for "standing up for what's right". In addition, plenty of people (and the news organisations themselves) share these news stories on the very same social media, with 0 costs for the companies involved.

Overall it means increased brand exposure for less money.
And he has reason to be optimistic.

As per the UK's recent review into competition, 80% of online advertising spend in the UK at least, is spent with Google and Facebook [0]

So, perhaps in his mind it hurts them more than it hurts Facebook

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-regime-needed-to-take...
That's fair. Every language has different degrees of suitability to different problem domains.
That’s more an assumption. Some fields over that time have seen a sharp increase in wages.

Another thought on unions is that it doesn’t look at qualitative differences between US and E.U. unions. For example US unions tend to protect drunk members from punishment. EU unions don’t (at least not on the same scale as the US). Did unions decline due to power struggles or because they were worthless and workers though they’d fair better on their own. All the article says is “here’s a graph” and “trust me”.
Maybe let's wait to see how the anti-trust conversation goes first.
My article on what Business Analytics or BI of future will look like
> Because Wikidata uses conceptual models that are meant to be universal across languages,

Shows a deep misunderstanding of how human language works.
Apache Spark GPU Accelerator from Nvidia
You're right that you can't mix named types with the base type.

However, they are not enums in any way either, since there is no limit on their possible values to some restricted set - they really are just integers, even more than in C# or C++, even though there is no implicit conversion.
Agreed ... but as noted elsewhere in this thread, your chance of getting a Wildfly (e.g.) application running in Quarkus and compiled to native via GraalVM is pretty small unless you've got a pretty standard CRUD application. We run into all sorts of problems with connections to anything that isn't a database including jobs that process JMS messages in an async fashion.
If my direct competition is partaking in this boycott, I'm doubling down on my facebook ad-spend. Great opportunity to steal customers from your competition while they are worried about posturing.
> The stars and bars, while also a Confederate symbol, is not really a notorious hate symbol

Confusingly, people often use "the Confederate Flag" and "the stars and bars" to refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_flag_of_the_Confed...

While technically both terms refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Confederate_S... (and earlier variants) many people don't know that; look how many of the results on https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=stars+and+bars and especially https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=confederate+flag are actually the "battle flag".
Lets start by condemning and removing organized genocide.

There is (hopefully) enough space between "actively organizing genocide" and "conservatives, conspiracy theory pages, or even jokes" to allow room for a reasonable line.

>how do we convince people still thinking those jokes are appropriate to cease using them

By restricting their ability to make those jokes in a way that is clearly tied to the act of making those jokes.
After looking through the lot we settled on Nim.
Give it a try , it will grow on you.
I currently have an SSID with emoji, and it works exactly as expected: Instead of letters you see Windows emoji.
The Dekasegi is an interesting piece to add to the discussion. Many are unaware that Brazil is home to the largest Japanese population outside Japan.

> During the 1980s, the Japanese economic situation improved and achieved stability. Many Japanese Brazilians went to Japan as contract workers due to economic and political problems in Brazil, and they were termed "Dekasegi". Working visas were offered to Brazilian Dekasegis in 1990, encouraging more immigration from Brazil.

> In 1990, the Japanese government authorized the legal entry of Japanese and their descendants until the third generation in Japan. At that time, Japan was receiving a large number of illegal immigrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, and Thailand. The legislation of 1990 was intended to select immigrants who entered Japan, giving a clear preference for Japanese descendants from South America, especially Brazil.

> Because of their Japanese ancestry, the Japanese Government believed that Brazilians would be more easily integrated into Japanese society. In fact, this easy integration did not happen, since Japanese Brazilians and their children born in Japan are treated as foreigners by native Japanese.[42][43] This apparent contradiction between being and seeming causes conflicts of adaptation for the migrants and their acceptance by the natives.[44]

More can be read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Brazilians#The_Dekase...
The U.S. is the modern & real life version of the emperor has no clothes. It will be a grim day when the majority of the population wakes up and has no choice but to accept this reality.
That's not what I said and that's not what I meant. Being a grown up means deciding what you want to offend people about. It means taking responsibility when you offend someone.
The 747 is humanity's greatest achievement. Air travel is the confluence of engineering, policy and governance (the heyday of the FAA/NTSB and how we got to the point where air travel is this safe), and the systems engineering that get aircraft, people, and baggage to so many different places. What the Boeing 747, and only the Boeing 747, has is true artistic value, with a profile evoking Botticelli or Rubens.
I recently learned that words and translations from Wiktionary are in Wikidata's graph as well, which enables e.g. this simple lemmatizer: https://tools.wmflabs.org/ordia/text-to-lexemes (The Wikidata query it uses is linked at the bottom.)
That graph is misleading because you're plotting cumulative inflation on a linear graph rather than a logarithmic graph. The basic issue is that you should expect every 20 pixels to have the same weight, but you feel the impact of inflation as later/earlier rather than later-earlier.

For example, compare 1940 to 1950 with 1990 to 2000. Cumulative inflation rises 110% for 1940-1950 and 450% for 1990 to 2000. But, $1 in 1940 will be worth 57¢ in 1950 (145%/255%), and $1 in 1990 will be worth 77¢ in 2000 (1365%/1775%).

There are two ways to fix this: you could plot yearly inflation, but it's difficult to see long-term trends; or you can plot cumulative inflation on a logarithmic scale, but people aren't as used to logarithmic scales.

yearly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Historical_Inflation_A...

cumulative: https://uploads-cdn.omnicalculator.com/images/cpi-inflation/...
The post I was responding to said that cheap money would drive people into real estate. That's clearly not the case in Japan. Cheap money has coincided with flat home prices.

They could go higher, but they aren't.

I've read that there's also a cultural component, that people treat housing more like a consumption good ... a car, say, something that they value less the older it gets.
Easy. Set up your own web site and put whatever you want to say on it.

If the hosting company takes you down, host it yourself. If ICANN takes it down, host it on Tor.

There are always ways to bypass corporate control of speech. You may have to completely forgo the benefits provided by the corporate web sites, but nothing is stopping you from making your own platform.
I see your point. I think that's a little apples-to-oranges because LESS transpiled to CSS - it wasn't a formatter for CSS.
In other words, the glorification of intolerance (“I find those ideas are dangerous, they shall be banned”).
All true, but I'll point out that different users are worth different amounts. If the users with high disposable income leave, then the Audis and Pelotons leave the platform too.
Or you know teaching your dog to raise it paw when you say a phrase, but that is the same as blowing up an airport right?
Skin Color. Clever.
Interviews of Founders in Life Sciences
Such a statement shows, that he still has learned nothing, specifically not responsibility. For Zuckerberg it needs to financially hurt, in order to cause ethical decisions.

Well, such kind of statement will hopefully also prolong the boykott, because no one will want to seem like the beaten dog, beaten. ack into line. Hopefully the boykott will even increase.
They did not raised questions. They directly stated that abuses happened.

They did not went into bacstories and motivations of people who were actors or participants.
The cool thing about facebook’s highly targeted advertising is that it balances the ad market in favor of niche players vs. generalists, which also means they have a long long tail of millions of small buyers vs. a few huge ones who used to dominate traditional media.

Old marketing was carpetbombing, which meant only those with B-52 sized budgets could dominate. It was also deeply entwined with centralized high-volume distribution models, aligning the interests of big manufactures and big retailers.

Today’s marketing is precision bombing. You just need the right explosion in the right place. Likewise, internet distribution enables the economics of small manufacturers and small retailers (shopify/amz third-party).

Which is why big advertisers have done relatively poorly with internet ads. Their prior campaigns worked, not so much because they or the product were good, but because they could silence small competitors. Because retailers could only carry a limited amount of products they would favor the big mfgs who could provide bulk orders. Consumers just went for them because they had no other choice.

Today small player’s can advertise to narrow niches where rates are low. Likewise consumers can access products that better suit their specific needs/wants. What this means is that FB doesn’t really need or depend on big budget advertisers. Mark knows this.
Agree with you on the first part, but not sure on the second – if skilled employees leave (especially for other competing social media apps) Facebook will start to lag. Even with its core loyal employees Facebook can’t compete if they don’t retain skilled workers.
> The Constitution still gives extra power to those states.

The Three Fifths Compromise gave slave states extra power. The 14th Amendment nullified it. The Senate and Electoral College still give less populous states extra power. Most of those were in the north.
And yet we've seen hosts, domain registrars, and other service providers restrict certain ideas on their platforms.

How practical is it in reality to be your own ISP, domain registrar, certificate authority, hosting service, web dev agency, and community moderator all in one?
Yeah but you forget that TikTok is effectively spyware for the Chinese government packaged to look like a social media app.
Indeed, slavery never ended, we just exported it to China.
The online "public square" is the internet itself. If you want to say something in public, simply create a web site and publish it. My understanding is that anything you say on your own web site will be protected via the same laws as public speech.
Trump administration hires Anduril to build a virtual border wall
The pandemic has accelerated the rise of competitive videogaming
Seriously, there is already a official appropriate term for it: neglected tropical disease (NTD).

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/leishmaniasis/index.html#:~:te....
https://archive.vn/QNEf8
Yes, I think it's a fault line that has been waiting to crack for quite a while. Facebook has never been a good match for those big household-name brands because for them targeted ads add very little value over blanket ads. They begrudgingly pay a heavy premium on targeting only because some demographics have completely detached themselves from blanket ad media. That's not how a happy customer relationship looks like.

Marketing departments (or external intermediaries) don't mind the lower value proposition at all, because they get all those micromanagement opportunities and (perceived) necessities offered by self-serve targeting platforms. Huge opportunities to look important. I wonder how the management overhead per dollar spent on ads has developed in the last 20 years.
Would be nice to be able to loop some of these, because the full effect can be hard to see in just one go-round.

Like this one: https://framd.cc/watch?v=5efe03cdafd1f90008369688
Right - and that supports the stack-allocation, not SRA, which is what I think C# doesn't have - possibly because they prefer explicit value types over trying to do it automatically through SRA.
This came up from a quick google search https://blog.cloud66.com/supercharging-nginx-with-lua-part-3...
>I've lived in NYC for nearly 10 years, have no plans to leave, and would really, really welcome a rent or apartment price reduction.

If you aren't willing to leave, you aren't negotiating.
But, see, if you wear a mask, it makes it harder for the facial recognition to work, so it's harder for them to ID you. And since we don't live in a communist country, that's good, right? Fight for your freedom to not be IDed! Wear a mask!
Ask HN: Which is the best big-tech company to work for?
Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Netflix, other?

Some things to consider:

- total compensation

- work-life balance

- challenging technologies and projects

- culture and company ethics

- long term stability of the company and opportunities for you to develop within it
Ask HN: Books for domain-specific mental models?
There are many books out there that apply mental models from a specific topic to a more broad context. However, are there any good books that provide mental models to accelerate the understanding of a given topic, more so than the average textbook?
US national AI research cloud proposal
Sorry, yes - I meant in relation to the person I was responding to, not OP - the bouillon gloop, rather than the cubes.

I'd still suggest that Oxo cubes are different beasts to the cubes up there - again, i think Knorr would be an equivalent, as un-British a brand as it is.

Not a fan of Oxo - weird composition and not very nice or meaty taste, to me anyway.
The “tribes” are easily identifiable on HN, it seems to me. For all of the most prolific HN posters, it is quite easy to predict which side of nearly any issue they’ll support.
Yes but most companies aren't in that business and don't have a giant billboard in every street corner in all cities ( at least it looks like it ).

It's an expensive billboard but the billboard it self generates the revenue and the cups are the flyers that infiltrate every corner of society. Most companies have to fight for attention every second of the day.

the ROI? who knows but most CEO's are not willing to learn the answer if it's "you failed as CEO because you didn't spend enough on marketing and now it's too late".

Also, nobody was fired for buying IBM.
Changing your mind is almost as good as changing the world. That speaks to the point of controlling what you have control over and also the fact that our experiences is the only way we have if perceiving the world
It's easy to get a little laugh from this, but congrats to the guy for exploring. Now he knows first-hand the inordinate challenge and can describe it in detail, but more importantly avoid these hard-learned patterns later.
> "Two non-contradictory things may be true at once: "

Agree

> "secession to preserve slavery was utterly contemptible;"

Agree

> "fighting honourably in self-defense is praiseworthy."

Lost me here. Fighting in self defense is understandable and necessary sometimes, but in defense of what principles? Context cannot be ignored.
What is it that I said makes me ultra-right?

India has been democratic for more than 70 years. I say picking up guns to disrupt civil society with an intent to capture power through violence is not Activism.

That is the recipe of fascism.

And "emergency" is by definition a suspension of democracy.
These are good points.

It sounds like a big part of the problem is that we don't have a truly "public" internet, if the backbone of the internet is a bunch of private entities.

We need a truly decentralized internet that doesn't suck like tor currently does.
>> in my (vast) experience

>Lastly, maybe pump the brakes a bit here, boss. This statement doesn't make me trust you more, independent of your ideas. We're on a web forum, not in a board room.

literally made me lol, thanks for that. i mean it in a good way, not a defensive sarcastic way. that particular phrase is funny. can't recall the movie that made it popular but it forces a smile.

i'm not trying to gain your trust. like 95% of posters, i just like the sound of my own voice. i could not care less what you do with the info ... and i shouldn't care. it's opinionated. if you agree with it, you already agreed with it. it's not like i'm trying to convince you that JWT is bad. i have no agenda.

i was just using the adjective to note that this is what i've seen over a long time in this industry. AFAICT most of HN is 25-somethings with hardly a clue so i felt it useful to note that my opinion doesn't come from the 2 jobs i've held since graduating. that's all. i wasn't trying to speak from a position of authority, so as to command respect.

i understand though why you reacted as such, as in retrospect it sure looks like the typical kind of comment, i'll admit that.

as to the rest of your reply, yup i misunderstood your argument.

as to priority churn, that's not a problem of the backlog per se, that's a function of poor management, or the simple state of being of an early startup. whether you have an actual backlog or not, the whiplash priorities are the problem and the backlog merely the embodiment. by removing the backlog, you haven't addressed the problem.
Mysterious Explosion and Fire Damage Iranian Nuclear Enrichment Facility
Lodash – Prototype Pollution – NPM audit now failing
interesting. However dancing baby was scary for me!
Why it does not have 2020?
This assumes that racists are putting confederate flags on their cars in good faith.

Also, what kind of discourse is so precious that it should be respected on the ... Forza decal platform?
There are so many things that have changed from the 1950's until now and coincided with wealth inequality -- obviously, not all of them are causal, and many of them are only partially so, so they need to do a better job of describing cause and effect mechanisms. That isn't to say that pointing out correlations is useless.

For example, my pet theory on wealth inequality is that it is largely attributable to the rise of the "investor class" after Bretton Woods was invalidated and your average mom and pop could no longer grow, or even maintain their wealth by simply saving cash [0][1].

[0] https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2020/01/09/trends-in-income-...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock
More needs to be done by South African banks to ensure financial inclusion
> Today’s marketing is precision bombing. You just need the right explosion in the right place. Likewise, the internet enables the economies of small manufacturers and small retailers (shopify/amz third-party).

It's direct mail and it's nothing new. It was annoying decades ago, it's even more annoying now, because it's better-targeted, to the point it's effectively surveillance. Carpet-bombing advertising is brand advertising: It's somewhat annoying, but it doesn't track you.
Radiative Backpropagation: Lightning-Fast Differentiable Rendering
Well, but did they really ban more accounts than Twitter? I highly doubt it, just for the reason that Twitter is older and has more users overall. But if there are any stats that you can point us to, I can be convinced.