skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The corrupt politicians must be held accountable for enabling this snowball of financial deregulation and regulatory capture. Unfortunately, this is probably >90% of Capitol Hill. Corporate lobbying quid-pro-quo culture (read: corruption) is deeply entrenched.

If the recent KY primary is any indication, the corrupt authorities are going to fight very hard to avoid that moment, and reform will not occur bureaucratically.
Not watching them involves waiting a few seconds for the skip ad button to appear.

That time adds up to 30 to 60 min a month. Let's say 45 min a month in average. That means, saving 45 min of my spare time costs $12, the cost of YouTube Red.

45 min of my spare time is much more valuable than $12, so I just pay for it.
LBOs are not synonymous with private equity.

LBOs do not always lead to corporate raiding or asset stripping, in the same way that the restructuring and rationalisation that follow an LBO does not always result in mass redundancies.
Theoretically, LBOs allow a company to avoid the pressure of the quarterly reporting cycle for a while and make more long-term decisions without facing instant 'repercussions'.

If you're interested in how LBOs got the reputation they got, and a case study in the biggest and most notorious LBO, try 'Barbarians at the Gate', which follows the LBO of RJR Nabisco.
as long as I report regularly, if i'm transparent and convey (with some acting + vocabulary skills) the breadth and complexity of how a bug needs to be fixed correctly, usually hte higher ups understand and probably subconciously are thanking the stars they dont have to deal with that 'code' stuff lol.
I'm assuming that swastikas have much more universal unpopularity than the confederacy flag. Heck, in 2020, MS just voted to remove confederate symbol from the state flag. SO I dont think the comparison is all there.

My concern with these sort of deplatforming moves while understandable, is they tend to drive these bigoted ideas underground. So maybe they cant express it publicly but boy, do they find other ways to do it as certain church members' families can attest. I don't have a definite solution but there is something to be said for using informal social pressure (i.e confederate decal dude all of a sudden not finding anyone to play with, because people quit the game as soon as they see the flag) rather than deplatforming.
> There's no reasonable expectation that you are able to spread racist propaganda in a car racing game

Merely displaying a flag seems like a pretty generous interpretation of "propaganda". It certainly doesn't fit any definition of which I'm aware.

Perhaps there's an argument for banning such symbols, but don't use hyperbole to try and prove your point, you just undermine the legitimacy of this effort.
Have you never been to a southern state? It's been flown ever since the war and has been detached from the war and attached to southern identity. It's part of the culture here.
Companies can segment their market and offer different products to different people based for different prices based on all kinds of aspects. They can even reject customers and block them from doing business at all.

Governments are supposed to serve 100% of their citizens. They can't pick and choose. In some contexts, they can't even prioritize.

That alone radically changes how they have to approach everything.
Yeah, an "offline tester" [0] was made available by the researchers who discovered ROCA [1] and a company with "close links" to the researchers created a "ROCA Vulnerability Test Suite" [2]. The Estonian government also had one on their web site [3] but it is, apparently, no longer available.

ROCA didn't just affect Estonian ID cards, though. It also affected also TPMs (from Infineon), certain Yubikeys [4], and even some PGP keys!

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[0]: https://github.com/crocs-muni/roca

[1]: https://roca.crocs.fi.muni.cz/

[2]: https://keychest.net/roca/

[3]: http://www.id.ee/?lang=en&id=38239

[4]: https://www.yubico.com/support/security-advisories/ysa-2017-...
>Being of low status, avoiding markers of low status is extremely important.

It doesn't seem that many see it as important. I see lots of loud attention seeking behaviour, vulgar displays of material goods etc.
because its their ancestors their land and their pride.

in your eyes they fought to preserve slavery, in their they fought bravely against the more powerful north to preserve their homes.
They may not have had a fully fledged staging environment which is an exact copy of production. But I'm sure they ran the http server locally in their desktop to test new configuration. I was a high school hobbyist "developer" (maybe a power user would be more appropriate) at the time and I certainly tested my pages locally before I'd upload them to Geocities. 2000 is not the bronze age :P. People were already talking about TDD then and the concept of testing things before shipping existed for much longer.
Remove themselves, so they can own slaves.

Read The Cornerstone Speech[1]:

that "Our new government['s] foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man."

Don’t fall for Lost Cause mythology.[2]

1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_Speech#Speech_ti...

2 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederac...
> interim guidelines

Implying they already expect to reevaluate this decision?

While this statement sounds reasonable at face value, these kind of important distinctions really need to be codified in law, not left up to prosecutorial discretion. Vague speech laws plus a great degree of prosecutorial discretion is exactly how a lot of brutal regimes oppress dissenters while justifying their actions.
Zimbardo, interpreted by a wannabe Kubrick.

Are we really talking about whether a story that can only be told by traumatizing the hell out of unwilling people is a story still worth telling? Why assume that the story can only be told that way, rather than that it takes an incompetent hack of a director to decide that the best way to tell a story is to just shoot a million feet of film and figure out the rest in the edit suite? That seems to me at least as likely as the other.

I mean, it's not like we don't know how to tell stories about evil without behaving evilly ourselves. It doesn't take a working extermination camp to make a Sophie's Choice or a Schindler's List. Even if it did, would you think about excusing that?
Facebook keeps making its core product worse, probably because of short termism in their corporate goals. Pretty funny to see the article hold them up as an example of good governance.
That sounds nice! I have a Kobo e-reader, and I use their beta browser or pocket to read this kind of things, but especially the browser is not very convenient.
The question this makes me ask is how can California, or any state, separate itself from what is obviously the ongoing decline of the nation.
I'm basically in the same boat with them. I don't think I'm addicted, there are months where I don't drink any coffee, and I have zero withdrawal symptoms. And I can get back to 10-15 cups a day right away after 3 months, and taking naps after the cups like nothing. (Except I would go to bathroom more, of course)
Looking forward to differentiable programming in Fortran.
And it’s not even big tech. It’s like 4 companies with great pr and monopoly-like market power, being judged mostly on the basis of Naive public perception and brand awareness.

Oracle and SAP and Infosys are big tech companies by any reasonable definition of big. You’ll be hard pressed to find technologists who would decscribe those companies as competent. And there are some amazing teams within those orgs that do stuff which is genuinely more impressive than hacking out protobufs from 1030am to 415pm with an hour long lunch, which is just to say that even within tech there’s a lot of PR/brand sentiment shaping opinions of people who should know better.

Uber is big tech, but still loses money hand over fist.

And even if we limit ourselves to the few companies with the most competent PR — the faangs — are they really so competent? Or are they just extracting value from near-monopoly market power?
There are several big tech companies who are not good at anything other than making and managing money. Inertia machines like IBM, Oracle, and probably some other ones you can think of...
> although JSON is structured, and DBs are relational.

You can have structured relational databases (RethinkDB for one, but there are others)
We are talking about a few pixels in a videogame. It doesn't need to be a statue.
I've read a ton of these kinds of libertarian pieces and I'm convinced after reading most that the authors are just not very well read.

I know it's daunting and difficult, but you have to read, digest, and have a dialogue with what has been written about government for hundreds (thousands really, but baby steps first...) of years, but I guess it's more fun to just write out fan fiction for Google running the world.
> I assume Microsoft never allowed, say, swastikas.

Let's replace Microsoft with Amazon. Should Amazon be able to produce "The Man in The High Castle?" Should "The Man In The High Castle" be available to watch? How about merchandise from the show? Would it be OK to have it?
What evidence is there that this is a phase? Seems very clear that the majority of people are illiberal, and one subset of the country is salivating over the chance to wield cultural power for a generation at least.
“Their nihilism and contrarianism have proved to be occasionally quite frustrating over the years, often serving as a twisted, reversed version of what we now might refer to as the “very fine people on both sides” philosophy. (One quote they will never escape came from Matt Stone in 2005: “I hate conservatives, but I really fucking hate liberals.”)”

So everyone has to pick one of these 2 idiotic and emotionally driven sides now? There is no room for a 3rd point of view? That’s where we are at? Look, I know Trump is a racist, lying, dipshit but we need to recognize that both parties have nothing but their own interests at heart. I mean come on. Just look at policy from the Obama era and compare it to policy from the Bush era. Hard to see much of a difference. They are two wings from the same bird and the only way we can make America work for all people and close the income inequality gap is to overcome partisan politics.
The inside joke of most Shakespearean plays was the the jester was the smartest person in the room, often because of the ability to take a perspective of external observation and self-awareness.

Learning and change is part of intelligence...honestly the biggest part. Of course the jester would change their mind, and poke fun at themselves as they do, which South Park did.

Not to mention I never really thought of it as poking fun at climate change as much as Al Gore's self-centered approach to climate change.
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>The creators are attempting to address this by actually containing every single aspect of a movie's plot as a fact, and that sentences are functions that express those facts... but this seems entirely unwieldy and just too much work.

Doesn't this also get into issues where facts aren't clearly defined. I can think of a lot of interpretation of meaning from my literature classes, but there are also questions such as ownership of land at contested borders, if something was a legal acquisition or theft, or even coming up with a factual distinction between when something is grave robbery vs archaeology. A personal favorite would be mental illness, especially with some of the DSM V changes that have largely been rejected (or outright ignored) by society. And there are all sorts of political disagreements.

And as this applies to different languages, and different languages are likely aimed at different cultures and different nations, this gets messy. I could see some differences in an article written in Hindi vs Chinese when concerning issues involving both China and India. Creating a common language will force a unification of these differences that currently might exist with a sort of stalemate with each linguistic side by maintained by the dominant country for that language.
Is this even a sensible question? They have pretty different goals and purposes.
None of these are arguments against LLVM or a virtual machine, they're just implementation details of Java.
> What purpose does interviewing a family whose home got destroyed in a tornado serve?

Fostering empathy, ginning up public support for emergency response. Whereas COPS etc were more effective at ginning up public support for brutal policing.

Also there's a key difference: film crews don't influence tornadoes.
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>> Don’t forget you are interviewing them as much as they are interviewing you. Odds are a crappy and dehumanizing interview process is going to happen at a crappy and dehumanizing company.

well said !
I'm more concerned about what's not clarified: What are the costs to these independent repair specialists? Are they being charged exorbitant fees to keep Apple's in-house repair options more competitive? What cut is Apple taking, if any, per repair? Does Apple guarantee a repair made through these independent providers isn't going to result in a bricked device down the road? Can consumers see a cost breakdown of parts and labor like we can with repairs to non-Apple devices? And what criteria is being used to determine an "authorized" third party? Is that criteria biased against critics of Apple's platform? Is this considered a "license to repair", and if so, under what conditions is Apple reserving the right to revoke that license?

I have more questions than anything else.
It's a grave error to confuse effectiveness with desirability. Hence the irony of the phrase: "At least he made the trains run on time."

Big tech's competence is only an asset as long as their financial interests are aligned with free, democratic society. As the epicenter economic activity increasingly shifts to China, this will eventually stop being true. What then?
I use C++ Eigen extensively. I wonder if it feasible to write a C++ programs that hands off blocks of linear algebra code to Fortran subroutines. Eigen does a wonderful job of late binding and lazy evaluation so that something like the following is fairly efficient:

(L.transpose() * P).diagonal().array().square().mean();

which computes the squared average of column by column dot products between matrices L and P. I assume Fortran, since matrices are native types, does this kind of thing even better.

Aside: Fortran 77 was the first programming language I learned in 1985 and I hated programming for awhile after that. We called it the "F" language. Now that I am a bit older and do a lot of linear algebra coding... I wonder if I would like it now.
Do you find the Paradox of Intolerance to be a dangerous idea?

The premise is that maximalist tolerance means tolerating intolerant ideas, and that there's a risk that a movement of intolerance can form which destroys the culture of tolerance. It suggests that rational discourse might not always lead us away from intolerant views, and maximalist tolerance could therefore be self-defeating.

You have to decide what's worth tolerating. You can't just say "can't we all be nice to each other" when there are people trying to celebrate an icon of slavery and white nationalism.
This was an interesting Twitter thread about Encrochat: https://twitter.com/josephfcox/status/1278638671416168450?s=...
It's not so much a matter of getting it right or getting it wrong. It's more a matter of "getting it", which often doesn't come without passage of time and some hindsight.

As Parker himself says a bit further in the article,“We beat ourselves up pretty good. We could just do an entire season atoning. It’s been fucking 22 years. We’re pretty different people now.”
Does DMCA really require them to do so? Doesn't it fall under fair use?

Do memes also attract DMCA notices now? How about this Nickelback meme that was removed from Trump's tweet: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/twitter-nixes-tr...

Are you actually telling me that this doesn't constitute fair use? If this doesn't constitute fair use then Twitter will have to delete a billion tweets that use the same meme. Will Twitter be fair in its policy and remove all of them?
Valid point. Some aren't very good too.
I agree it’s certainly not socially equitable. Laid-off non-essential workers receive an undeserved pay raise for doing no work, and essential workers receive no benefit for continuing to work despite the hazards involved. Mandating hazard pay would be fairer, yes, but has consequences of its own — e.g., some essential employers at the margins of profitability become insolvent, causing less essential work to be done.

I’m only saying that as an emergency measure, where your chief concern is short-term continuation of essential work and discontinuation of non-essential work that incentivizes people to leave home, raising UI benefit helps achieve that. Layoffs act as a useful indicator of whether a given pre-pandemic job is actually essential to preserve, and laid-off workers are more tangibly in need of assistance to avoid cascading problems (tenants failing to pay rent, landlords failing to pay property tax, REITs collapsing, pensioners not getting paid, etc.). Giving a windfall to the unemployed is obviously counterproductive in a normal economy, but in the short-term it does solve some problems. Also airdropping money to low-income essential workers would make things more fair, but these workers are not generally facing eviction.

Your point about hour reductions may be true in some states — I’m not sure — but at least in mine (New York) workers receive unemployment insurance for any reduction that drops their pay by more than 20%, with benefits proportional to the reduction in hours.
I bought a ranch on Mercury about 30 years ago!

The seller was the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and I was glad to support their educational program by purchasing my ranch.

https://astrosociety.org/

I got a nice glossy photo of my ranch and a quitclaim deed. I wish I still had them - they seem to have been lost in a move long ago.

Maybe some squatters will move in now, but honestly they are welcome to it. My ranch is on the hot side of the planet, and I don't really like warm weather.

If the squatters send me some photos I will consider that adequate compensation.

There's a good writeup in this book:

https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/GllWkewypw4C?hl=en&gb...

(Scroll up one page to see one of the quitclaim deeds.)
My friends & I watched the South Park movie on an almost monthly basis at the time and frankly I remember feeling like they'd completely butchered the song. The whole point is that blaming Canada is arbitrary and deflects from solving the real issues, hence why the song in the film barely says anything about Canada at all: the only two actual references are to hockey and Anne Murray because of course that's all the bumpkins of South Park are going to know about the place.

Then the Oscar performance comes along and Robin Williams pads the song with a lot more references to actual people from Canada and I think it ruins the point. The people of South Park don't want details or to know anything about the problem, they want an easy target to blame and a rousing call to go kick ass.

The joke's even continued when Sheila gives her morale-boosting speech to the troops, and can't even think of what the Canadian army would be attacking with: "Men, when you're out there in the battlefield, and you're looking into the beady eyes of a Canadian as he charges you with his hockey stick or whatever he has..."
> Neither is it possible to query for history of changes over the triples.

And why should it? The triples (and hence the full RDF dump as well) are a “lossy” (there's actually two different translations, the “truthy” triples that throw away large parts of the data, and the full dump that reifies the full statements, but is therefore much more verbose) translation of the actual information encoded in the graph. Revision history for the _actual_ items has been queryable via the Mediawiki API for a long time.
At the end of the day it's going to be arbitrary.

If you take a group of people and ask them what the rising sun flag represents, the majority response will be about WWII imperialist Japan. Which makes sense as they changed it immediately after their surrender in WWII. It legitimately is viewed like the nazi flag by the various Korean people I've talked to in Korea.

The context also matters. Korea has plenty of swastikas. Specifically at shrines/temples and on the ground; not being flown as part of flags.

"What about Y" is a weak argument to keep X flag. You could make that argument for basically any flag. To answer though, it's likely the US flag will be seen in a similar light once it's no longer a powerful hegemony. If the US had a flag that was only used during its "imperialist era" and a different modern one, one would have a stronger argument.
Go doesn't have subtyping, only implicit coercions. Not the same thing.
The article is nothing new and just the standard "happiness comes from within" tropes. Whether you believe that or not, this is a very standard view on the subject.
Paw Patrol has not been canceled

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/did-paw-patrol-get-cancele...
I had an S3 from launch for ~7 years before switching, and it was completely unusable by the end. Most websites and big-name apps halve in performance every 18 months or so. Doesn't help that your battery will be on its last legs by then. 2 years is definitely much more often than required, but until ad-tech corps and web developers call off the assault, we're stuck on the phone treadmill to some degree.
In this case, this NGO is not going to get acquihired. It's more likely that I'll get an email in 5 years from someone who I don't recognize asking me if I know anything about this program because my email has been attached to this thing they got gifted from a dead project, and have been using after all of the original people have moved on. :)
I see lots of people on the internet making the 4 year argument, and I have to admit it's a snappy quip, but I don't think the point is made entirely in good faith. I really do see it being flown as a symbol of rural and/or southern pride that is informed by, but largely disconnected from, the civil war other than as a historical symbol that broadly represents an opposition between rural folk and urbanites.

I mean it's definitely being flown by racists and edgy teenagers and I think there's a strong case to be made that a different design is warranted since the heritage people have been largely unsuccessful in keeping the iconography from becoming a racist dogwhistle. But I think it's important to meet the heritage people where they are and start from there.