skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The implicit argument that an inability to display Confederate flags on others' property generates comparable negative externalities to environmental damage is certainly a bold one, and not, I would argue a better one than the more usual argument that private entities are bound to facilitate freedom of speech by the US constitution. You'd have a tough time persuading me any externalities generated by user generated Confederate flags within computer games were positive at all, still less that they were sufficiently positive to warrant government intrusion in the moderation process to protect them.

(Sure, there are slippery slope arguments about what happens if speech is not permitted on any media or if media companies are permitted monopoly power, but since Forza car designs are pretty far from that scenario, government intervention based on the assumption that computer game-designers do not have rights to curate their world or that displayers of the Confederate flag deserve special protections falls down much slipperier slopes of eroding property rights or enforcing [unpleasant] speech)
You’re wrong. Someone was criminally prosecuted because he insulted Erdogan.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37554167

They eventually dropped he case, probably because of the public uproar, but to even consider such a criminal case definitely isn’t a hallmark of a “freedom of speech” society.
Suppose there is racism on the part of the real estate agents; they don't work as effectively for black clients as for white clients in the same neighborhood. So white and black clients in the neighborhood get taxed based on the average sale price -- which benefits whites (because it is less than they can sell their house for) and harms blacks (because it is more than they can sell their house for.)

Or similarly, if buyers are racist the same kind of dynamic could take place.

In either case, though, it doesn't seem as though the assessors are doing anything wrong, unless we want them to start taking the race of the owner into account when they do their assessments.
I don't disagree with the sentiment, other than it seems you're somehow "blaming" Bezos for this. Why? The States has those socioeconomic issues for historical and political reasons. They're certainly something people can change.

But Bezos' wealth, large as it is, is tiny compared to the wealth the government manages. The government's money is allocated via a democratic process. There's certainly good cases to be made for fixing a lot of issues - I just don't think those cases should start with "Bezos is too rich, while there are people in with serious issues". Better to just focus on the people with the issues and figure out ways to fix that.
My mother-in-law is a die-hard Catholic and has been raging for the past three months because she can't go to church, and I just don't understand why she can't just watch the live-stream that the priest is doing. But for her, there's something about physically accepting communion. (I'm not Catholic, so I don't really get it, but I've been sternly informed that I should just not talk about that with them lol).

I've often thought of churches as a poor man's country club more than as a house of God, and so yeah, I'm with you! I don't see why this can't just go remote like most everything else.

I do wonder how the long-term landscape will change due to COVID...
Great! Can you provide that argument or am I supposed to think it up myself?
There were two "independent third party investigations".

The first was carried out quietly by an investor in early 2018, long before DataCamp initially acknowledged this. This is the investigation referenced here: https://www.datacamp.com/community/blog/note-to-our-communit....

The second was carried out by a contractor as a response to the initial outcry. This has been sometimes referred to as an "investigation", but its authors frame it as a "review" targeted at helping DataCamp correct workplace issues. You can read the report here: https://www.datacamp.com/community/blog/working-ideal-indepe....

As far as I can tell, neither of these processes concluded anything that contradicted the BuzzFeed article in any significant way. The contractor's report concludes "there is little factual dispute about what happened". Since DataCamp's most recent post isn't specific about what factual disputes exist now, I guess we're in the dark about that.
A lot of people are saying these charts don't support the claim, but they do. Time and money are political power in the US, and if you're working longer hours for less money, while also paying for more health care, you have less political power.

What's interesting is that no one's disputing the premise, that time/money = political power. That's deeply anti-democratic, but here we are.
There's no question that a private corporation can be more reactive and well run than a government.

...but the reason we have government is for accountability.

I can't vote for a new national search engine, or a new smartphone maker, so when we all have complaints about their abuse of power, we are SoL.
“Heritage” in this context is a white supremacist codeword for “the southern states should never have been forced to give up on slavery”. Statues of confederate leaders, incorporation of confederate flags into later state flags, etc. were (and still are) part of a large-scale campaign to promote and defend segregation and racial inequality and injustice, explicitly intended to intimidate and disempower southern blacks.

You can easily find (racist white) people displaying the confederate flag in northern states, but you will be hard pressed to find any black people in the south who feel regional pride toward confederate symbols.
You do the head nod, "sup" and put pedal to the metal and spin out.
Q2 is just an id, probably one shouldn't interpret too much into it except that it defines an entity. Regarding the diameter, probably it depends how you define it. For instance according to Wikipedia one can generalize it as sup { d(x,y) }, seems legitimate to me although Wikidata's referenced diameter definition (P2386) isn't that general, probably it should be updated... But to be fair, Earth (Q2) has the shape (P1419) oblate spheroid (Q3241540) under sourcing circumstances (P1480) approximation (Q27058) :-)

To me Wikidata (and similar projects like OSM) shine because they tend to have so many details.
Help Gmail has killed my personal email
So out of the blue, my extremely low traffic email has been blacklisted by google. It is not in DNSBL, end-to-end encryption is used when delivering mail, I have a http(s) on the same ip/domain with short bio, DKIM, DMARC, SPF, the works (that have been working since 2014) are set up, email tests that I can find on the internet are 10/10, never pwnd, but I still end up in spam. Postmaster tools are useless, as this is a personal email and the outgoing volume is too low to get any information from it. I've tried contacting gmail support, but you can probably guess how that went. Do I have to trade my privacy in forever now or does HN know some other tricks that could help me correspond with people on gmail?
The stoics developed tools you are asking for. You can find a good summary of them in the book A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy.
Why does everything have to ba racism? Can’t they just be xenophobic? Or maybe nationalist?
I don't have anything specific.

You could look for resources that cover digital HAM radio operation. They should have some stuff about the basics of voice encryption. Most of it is not secure until you get to high-end stuff like Motorola AES 256. Some of this 'encryption' is just privacy codes (cell networks are not encrypted but use digital privacy codes I think).

Once you digitize the voice, then it should be pretty much regular encryption.
Voting with your wallet doesn't work, because the amount of online racing games for the xbox specifically and even videogames in general is very small. Sports games increasingly are becoming a near monopoly as licensing becomes very expensive and limited.
If they don't like the defaults, they could just fork the project.
As I understand it, 4 engine planes are less economical and are now unnecessary due to the reliability of 2 engine planes. I could see the last 747s serving as great monuments purchased by Billionaires to add to their collections. No 737 Max is going to give you a spiral staircase. I can't help but see this as a problem though, as we converge on a single type of aircraft it moves more and more to winner take all for the design.
I agree, the mistake is to make happiness the destination, it's more a byproduct of doing the things you're passionate about (which often includes being with the people you love)
Facebook (including Messenger) does it too.

There might be a thin guise of "security" (i.e. email isn't a secure place to send your top-secret inbound message) but I'm inclined to suspect the main motivation is to drive people back to the platform and drive up their stickiness metrics.

It's user-hostile.
FB executives knows the numbers, and knows how to play them out. They also know how far reaching their platform is, and how well they are able to target the intended customers of the businesses.

They have also proven time and again that their targeted ads generate the results these businesses need. Pausing a month or two of ads does not hurt their bottom line. They could simply take a hit on those months and when these businesses go back, they could (again play the numbers) and charge more to recoup those losses.

The FB platform has grown so big that they know even if they lose one big business, the same could be replaced by 10 or 100 or even 1000 small businesses which will allow them to simply get the same amount being paid by the big companies.
MS introduces new Edge with full-screen popup that can't be skipped
You can fire people if you don't need them (don't have enough work for them), that's called arbetsbrist and is the most common reason for firing people in sweden. You just can't turn around and hire other people for the same job right after.
https://archive.is/SNd8N
Meanwhile it is used by radical groups to run smear campaigns elsewhere in the world.

https://swarajyamag.com/news-brief/from-devi-in-hijab-om-as-...
The Confederate battle flag has been around for 150+ years. It was, from the very beginning, a symbol of treason, of racism, of owning other people as property, of being allowed to rape and murder other humans without consequence.

Those who want to "celebrate" their Southern "heritage" have plenty of symbols and flags to choose from that don't have inherently racist and treasonous implications.
Capital One is probably the worst endorsement possible.
Indeed. There hasn't been much variety since the 90s. 727 thru 777, A300-A340, MD-11s, MD-80/90 family, DC-9/10s, L1011s.
It's truly terrifying to see the number of people calling for limits on speech similar to ones in Germany. [1] The right to freedom of speech was seen as so important, it was put first on the bill of rights.

For anyone who cares about socialism, there was a time where it would have been argued that all talk for socialism should be banned. As for Communism, that undeniably would have been banned in the 50s, if it hadn't been before then (they did try in the 20s, but was eventually overturned). And countless other causes that at one time, over 90% of constituents were against.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23715358
something that will work in 5 years on ancient windows7 and ie7?

couchdb

there's nothing to manage.

On Windows, you install couchdb.msi or whatever, installed as a windows service, it automatically boots at startup time.

Start IE7 go to localhost:5984/_utils, you get the DB's UI. At that point, all you did was installation.

One click later, you created the first db called 'somedb', a click later, you created the first json doc called 'somedoc'. Now you can access it from localhost:5984/somedb/somdoc.

For the HTML form, just after you created 'somedoc', you can click on "add attachment" and upload someform.html, then go to localhost:5984/somedb/somdoc/someform.html from IE7, no need for anything fancy. After you're gone, someone with the most basic HTML knowledge can make some changes if need be. No Internet required. Will work as long as the laptop works.
Sync Apple Workouts to Toggl with Siri Shortcuts
Wasn’t aware of that. I’d argue that that wasn’t okay, personally, and that the city shouldn’t have permitted it.
I listened to the record again;
Popple, crackling, the sound of streams;
The tape is transcribed;
From the spinning disk to my mind;
Let’s listen again but this time one rut deeper;
The orbit quickens but the beat is steady;
The needle stops vibrating for a moment in between tracks;
Extremely interesting read. Thanks for sharing.
It also weaponized the outrage and ruined the lives of innocent people.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firin...

I don’t understand how people can justify the collateral damage; it is going too far.
S3 is nice but it's really the wrong tool for the job here. The problem with hosting a site on S3 is there's no way to use TLS.

"You don't need TLS for a static site"

blow me
Those companies probably aren't going to exist in 100 years, but the U.S. government still will (doubtless even less competent than today.)
So then say your short. Why do I need know at what strike price you bought at? This isn't wall street bets.
Saying that "go is concise" should be read "I only know go and java".
Seeing through abstractions and illusions is a possible outcome, but it also frees the senses to look deeper into the once-negligible.

Get a pencil, paper, and small object that you can fit into your closed palm. Like a nut, or other piece of plant. Set a timer for 10 minutes and spend that time describing as much as you can about the object. How it feels, looks, tastes, sounds. From all different angles in different contexts. Abandon preconceptions and play with the object. You might be surprised how much detail there is and how quickly the 10 minutes passes.
If you need to do air travel, these larger airplanes are better then smaller airplanes per passenger.
It's easy to do that near prime real estate, where the park (existing, already reserved and cleared up as an area, and built by the city) helps prop property values (managed or owned) by many of the same beneficial donors...

Less easy to do so for roads to working class neighborhoods, school districts in Mississippi, and so on...
We actually looked into SWI prolog semantic web package for corporate work! We ended up finding RDFox ( https://www.oxfordsemantic.tech/ ) which is the bleeding edge in research on inference databases and linked data. Unfortunately COVID changed the plans but we were really really impressed with the capabilities.

Semantic web is used broadly; Google Structured data you see for reviews and infoboxes, wikidata. Data is broadly available, even if jobs in semantic technologies are not.

We're familiar with common databases like key value stores, OLAP, OLTP, but reasoning technology offers unique properties many people aren't aware of. For example you can have your business logic integrated with your database in a way that's much more flexible that stored procedures. You express your business rules as logic programs, the automatically run multi-core, they run as soon as data is inserted into the database and there is no function call; the data does not need to be aware of what logic is in the database, logical rules are applied incrementally so that adding new data or new rules does not trigger re-computation of all the data, business rules can use data produced by other business rules, and finally you use the explain command to get a mathematical proof of why an outcome happened.

Reasoning technology may be old but recently this idea of automatically stating things in a declarative form and having the application reconcile the differences has been the differentiating factor for the most popular software out there; kubernetes, teraform, ansible, react, graphql, flutter. Without the declarative reasoning capabilities, these tools may not be considered some of the best.

Think postgresql 12 generated columns except infinitely chainable, recursive and connectable to other tables. Think pre-computed materialized views, but automatically updated as new data is inserted (no refresh needed).
My brother is an artist who has invested a big chunk of his career in getting the technical details right. He does a fair amount of carpentry and his frames are amazing. Very simple "four pieces of wood" but the wood is straight, the box is deep and sealed, the corners are tight, the "glass" is typically coated plexi, and the piece is mounted within at the proper proportions. I personally consider them art on par with some of the pieces they contain.
Show HN: Hide in Plain Sight, manage secrets alongside your code
Palantir Vanishes from Biden Adviser’s Biography After She Joins Campaign
And why did it just so happen to be chosen as a symbol by a short-lived but prominent segregationist political party in 1948 in response to the civil rights movement?
Well, once upon a time you trusted the code running on your device.

In Chrome on Android, the flag you want is under Settings | Site Settings | Clipboard | Ask before allowing sites to read text and images from the clipboard, and I think it's on by default.
There are literally people alive today who won't be next week because they don't have enough money, and YOU could save ONE of them and the only difference would be a tiny change in a number in your savings account.

What's your excuse? Don't you see the hypocrisy here?

He's not doing enough by your very high standards, but you don't judge yourself by those same standards.
> If you can't name them all - you probably have too many of them.

Well, I want a unicorn, too. That is simply not feasible for anyone using any common javascript/node frameworks - many people's builds started failing with literally thousands of `npm audit` failures, even when their direct dependencies were relatively small.

Github/Microsoft just bought NPM, I really hope they are able to add some features that make it easier to specify different resolution algorithms when pulling dependencies so it's easy for any individual to apply a patch up-and-down the dependency chain, even if the main project hasn't been updated.
I'm not a historian but my understanding is that Goldwater was the first major Republican candidate to go big on the whole "the government can't solve problems, the government is the problem" political meme, when he ran for president in 1964. Meaning, the notion that governments doing stuff, any stuff, is inherently bad. It dovetails somewhat with libertarian thought but only in the most handwavey, BS ways possible, because somehow the result is always less fiscal responsibility and even more wasted money.

Republicans have leaned on this talking point hard ever since then, in part to justify tax cuts for their donor class (but not spending cuts, ironically). They also use it to justify inaction, because if the government takes action, then that's the government "doing something", which is bad, get it? This is a much easier argument for them to make than actually coming up with alternate solutions to things. It's nihilism disguised as trying to save people money, but the reality of the last 56 years has been lower taxes for their donor class coupled with vastly increased government spending, which is the opposite of anything resembling fiscal conservatism.
When I was in university, one of our major projects was to implement a rdbms. Super fun project that taught us a lot of respect.
No, they don't. What a certain symbol glorifies or does not glorify is not something you can measure objectively. It is an intersubjective reality. i.e, if enough people believe that pyramids glorify slavery, then it does! At the moment, you are the first person I have heard who thinks so. Confederate flags, on the other hand, are considered as glorifying slavery even by many people who support it.
This is why I love sqlite. No provisioning required and you have a flat portable file. But you also have the added bonus that it's highly performant and there isn't much work to refactor your SQL from sqlite3 to most other RDBMS.
Visualizing the Size of Amazon
I think mainstream historians would argue that Soviet Communism was terrible - but it wasn't an ideology based on hate or subjugation. Displaying the Hammer and Sickle likely means you stand for unity with the working-class and seek an egalitarian society - or you have grievances with the current system of capitalism - and not that you hate on any particular group of people, and especially not for any of their immutable characteristics.

I know Tankies and Holomdor apologists exist - and their calls for guillotining billionaires are concerning - but I compare that to a person proudly displaying a (non-Hindu) swastika: it means that person is either a fascist who actively supports genocide - or is being an edgy teenager. Similarly proudly flying the Confederate battle-flag means they either actively support white-supremacy and subjugation of black people - or they're very ignorant of history and bought into the post-reconstruction propagandizing by Confederate apologists.

That's the difference between what I feel those symbols mean.
Not unless you think PrivacyInvasionFramework should be a thing.
If the default state were to be open and relaxed, then all these religions wouldn't need to mention it.
Tech IPOs are being badly mispriced, as Lemonade and Agora double in debut
That's also what I meant. I just moved this year, leaving a lot of friends behind (I'd lived there for 10 years, longest I'd lived anywhere, next longest was 5 years when I was in elementary school). I bought a house, which added a lot of financial stress to my life (ate into savings, in 10 years I'll be better off, but now it's tough). I got into a job that was going to be better, but because someone quit I got saddled with crap work that I'm not effective it especially teleworking (I need to observe how people are working to do what they want me to do, and I literally can't right now). And with social isolation in place, my wife and I cannot effectively make new friends and develop new social outlets. From my own experiences in the past: high stress -> general anxiety -> depression -> very bad thoughts. So I sought out a counselor with no specific objective beyond needing to talk, and to relearn some CBT things that I did learn and exercise years ago. But the primary benefit has been the outlet, I'll probably stop having sessions in a few more weeks as I've finally pinpointed a few specific stressors and been able to focus on resolving them, but the outlet was key to realizing what they were.
lol, this is awesome. You're missing the under construction gifs.

I was talking about this to someone the other day. In fact I wrote a script after the conversation to simulate loading porn as a joke.

https://hastebin.com/fuvixuxeqo.rb
I think the main advantage of go is it's learning curve. Standard lib is quite small, so even with no experience, in a few weeks you could be fully productive on any go code base. With e.g. C, Rust, Java, Ruby this would probably be months.