skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The southern states seceded to preserve slavery; slavery was and is evil and they were wrong to secede in order to preserve it. But secession was and is constitutional, given the Tenth Amendment and no constitutional provisions against secession or mandating a perpetual union; the states had a right to do it, even though it was wrong.

The southern armies did not fight for slavery: it was legal in the United States before, during and after the war. They did not even fight for independence: the seceding states were legally independent as soon as their secessions took effect. Rather, they fought to defend their homes from a foreign invader.

Two non-contradictory things may be true at once: secession to preserve slavery was utterly contemptible; fighting honourably in self-defense is praiseworthy.

Edit: That said, given that the flag in question is so closely associated with white supremacy, it is hard to be too incensed over the ban.

Of note, slavery remained legal in the United States until well after the military defeat of the Confederacy: Lee surrendered on the 9th of April; the last Confederate ship surrendered in England on the 6th of November; the 13th Amendment making most slavery unconstitutional was not ratified until the 6th of December.
Does anyone know why articles like this don't start all their graphs at 0? The information is persuasive enough without fudging things with poor axes. For example health expenditure as share of GDP graph starts at 8% and goes 18%, bounding the data very closely and magnifying the difference by several times.

A graph that start at zero

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How it was presented in the article:

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Here's the business case why advertisers wouldn't want to enter the boycott, beyond just losing their fb sales:

1) Facebook has had a number of negative sounding news cycles in the past few years (Cambridge Analytica, etc.), and data shows that the average American hasn't changed their behavior based on them. 70% of all Americans and Canadians use Facebook or Instagram at least once a month, and 55% of all Americans and Canadians use it at least once per day. Facebook's monthly and daily user counts have only grown.

2) Facebook has done a better job than many in blocking hate speech. They can always do better, but I'd be worried about scope creep. If Facebook makes changes that the boycott organizers don't think are enough, it could make advertisers in the boycott a target if they start spending on FB again later. One key risk is if the boycott demands they start deleting Trump's posts, like Twitter did. If that happens, it would potentially put any boycotters in an unpleasant media cycle.

3) Most of the advertisers joining so far are companies that either are progressive at their roots (Patagonia, Ben & Jerry's, The North Face) or want to cut ad spend in a COVID environment anyway (Verizon, Unilever). For instance, Unilever is also pausing Twitter ads, which has nothing to do with the boycott.

4) Right now the general public does not associate most companies with FB ads. Joining the list will remind people who are passionate about this issue that their company does FB ads at all, which they don't currently think about.

So all the above combined makes me conclude that joining the boycott offers few advantages, but presents real risks.
It's not going to be successful, not because it's gonna gain a lot of traction and then go bust, but because no one's going to sign up for this. Look at the comments in this thread, read his landing page. It's obvious you wouldn't take this seriously as an incubator. It's not even an incubator, it's just google form he's using to do customer development. He'll probably have some conversations with the few people he gets to fill it out and then realize it's too much work or it's a bad fit and he'll move on to his next idea or maybe it'll morph into something else. Who knows? You make it seem like he's this charlatan peddling some false incubator product to unsuspecting founders. He's a 20 year old college student from Macedonia dipping his toe into something.
It's also worth noting that the intersection of "capable enough to build that sort of company" and "willing to go the criminal route" is small enough to limit the potential competition.
Yeah, I think this is right on. And I feel like there's some value in that -- pointing out the hypocrisies and flaws in even the best causes can be useful. Nothing should be above criticism.

There are some negative side effects of leaning too hard into that though, I think, like you mentioned in your last paragraph.
Do you not believe that people can stand on a public street corner and express their ideas freely, where many people will likely see and hear them? Your examples are edge cases (court rooms at midnight) that seem designed to suggest that no such places exists. They do exist, and I am asking where is there online version. Are you suggesting that the only way to exchange free speech online is for each passerby to create their own website and respond on their respective websites? I've seen people claim voter suppression for fewer hurdles. Or are you suggesting that it is the responsibility of a private entity to create and maintain a public square?

Where is the online public square? That's the point I am trying to make. And as others have pointed out, if you think having domain name and hosting is a public square, then you are ignoring all of the precedents of those things being removed by private entities.
I work for a large financial company. We don't build any HFT systems, but we send our orders through various vendor systems and homegrown ones. The typical strategy is to consolidate orders so we aren't placing a bunch of small orders. This is usually done for funds. I believe the retail orders are placed instantly.

Most of the quantitative systems we have do not actually place trades. Instead they provide data to the fund managers or traders and they make the final decision on placing a trade.

It's hard to say if the roles are equivalent. Role responsibilities and structure vary from company to company, even for something that's named the same. The typical trade team structure is something like 1 desk manager, 2-3 traders, and 3-5 analysts. Usually the desk programmer is not from IT, but rather one of the analysts that knows how to code scripts, Python etc. Their scripts are usually some part of the quantitative analysis process, mostly on current or targeted data.

They also use systems developed by IT. The IT systems are bigger and span multiple trade teams. These systems rely more on historical data or market patterns. An example would be a system used by all equity trade desks to identify potential sources of alpha using big data.

So the desk programmer is really more quantitative since they are an analyst whereas the engineers working on the alpha system rely more on input from analysts on what algorithms to implement.

One other thing to mention is that desk operations is a separate type of role that is more like a better version of help desk support.

This is just how my company is structured. I'm sure others are different.
Don't know if you're joking, but it's Facebook put option with strike price of $210 expiring on 7/10, in other words, betting that the stock price of FB will be less than $210 by July 10 - current price is $235, so that would be down ~10%.
American and 4 other airlines reach loan agreements with US Government
People assume "mod powertripping" too quickly. The reality is that most of the moderation is accomplished via automation, primarily Automoderator rules on Reddit. The volume is far to high to manage by hand -- it varies by community and month but it's around 75%+ automated for us.

Automation makes mistakes. A LOT. Sometimes a person catches them and overrides the bot, often they don't.

There are some communities that abuse the automation to enforce bias, of course. For example, /r/news appears to be auto-censoring things about coronavirus or that might be perceived as negative for Trump (ex: the Russian bounties scandal). But this is much rarer than people think -- with the exception of bans, most of the "mod abuse" is simply bots screwing up.
The pure magic of Delphi was in its component architecture and especially the ability to define define properties - with its own sophisticated property pages.

Also, you could specify if a property has read and write capabilities or just read or write.. and even if what sort of accessor and setter methods are to be used.

http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Rio/en/Properties_(...

I have yet to see this capability in ANY development environment with the sort of power that there is there in the Delphi component architecture.
Are you arguing that being a "grown up" means never offending other people? I'm really not trying to troll you, just not sure how to interpret your last sentence.
I actually hope not.
Yes, I'd definitely echo that, a huge amount of tax implications are based on individual residency/permanent establishment so if you're living in say, Germany, for 1/2 of the year + 1 day, you should be expecting to pay at least your personal income taxes there, and likely the business taxes if you're a sole prop without local employees and local business. Of course, if you're a true 'digital nomad' who doesn't establish residency anywhere it gets much trickier. But in general, my advice it to pay for 1-2 hours with an accountant up front before you go through setting up a new entity somewhere
On Android you can do exactly that with an app like NoRoot firewall:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.greyshirts...

For example it helped me find a trustworthy e-mail client (K-mail) by only allowing network access to my email server.
> As the set of information encoded into Wikipedia approaches the sum total of human knowledge

An outcome Wikipedia will never get close to. They'll never reach 1% of the way there. Closer to 0% of human knowledge gets recorded, rather than closer to 1%. Of the knowledge that is recorded, a small fraction of it will end up on Wikipedia. Most of what gets recorded is universal or widely experienced knowledge, which is a miniscule subset of "the sum total of human knowledge."

Wikipedia has already begun to stagnate badly. For the most part, it's over. That's why they're attempting Abstract Wikipedia now (aka another round of the failed insular semantic Web for elite Wiki nerds that won't accomplish much of anything for the average reader that wants to learn something); and it's why Wikimedia wants to rebrand itself to Wikipedia; and it's why their system is being overtaken by partisan politics (as momentum continues to decline the system will rot and pull apart in various negative ways at an accelerating clip). The growth is running out, and the Wiki bureaucracy wants to keep expanding, that's what this is about.
Tesla version: one single large display with various modal dialogs.
> The compilers were dead slow.

And also expensive.
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Not so sure about that, nothing really compares to having a magnificent hairline. Take David Bowie, for example. Now imagine he was bald.
A major problem with these laptops are the pathetic displays. 1080p is way behind what's offered these days even on cheaper Windows laptops.

Is there some kind of upstream sourcing problem getting decent displays? Are they all monopolized by major vendors?
Tech companies are Deleware businesses, though. You'd have to do something even crazier, like "a business with a significant California business."
> it would potentially put any boycotters in an unpleasant media cycle.

That's already happening anyway, look at Ryan and Saagar today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQICXcPBG8c
The ritual "I've learned something today..." bit is usually funny and meta, but there's clearly a consistent worldview behind the sentiments in the sum up. They aren't very subtle about it.
Only for size compos. Like 4 kB demos. Or 256 byte, the "new 4k".

For retro systems (like C64, speccy, Amiga OCS) speed is generally the king. Of course there are still sizecoding compos for them as well. My oooold Amiga demo effects were full of code generation and SMC.
>In the past decade, we now have commonplace consumer PCs that don't need active cooling at all.

Agree and fair enough. We are going to see an iPad Pro with 5nm SoC that will be ridiculously fast.
I want to do it at my company as well (albeit at a much smaller scale), but how? I asked previously without much luck https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23439670

(Not to mention try to get it as a taxable donation... which complicates things further)
My hunch is these things are more boneheaded than nefarious. Probably looking for URLs to share or something silly like that and just implemented poorly. Obviously not good for the PR, but say sorry and fix the bug. Luckily this shouldn't happen much longer once iOS 14 is properly released.
It seems like you're spamming and harassing him. What am I missing?
Let's See Your Treatment Effects!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd3gQAV1ncs

Run an experiment
And let the truth fall out
This type of design seems very unforgiving to defects. I think the only place they can get away with a bad core is in the GPU portion.

Mind you it’s pretty small at 82mm^2.
Most of Facebook's advertising by total volume comes from large numbers of small advertisers. That's why their stock is up -- people didn't realize how small the net impact of a few large brands is on their total revenues.

Were you going to ignore my point about Facebook being about to lose 100 million daily active users without even feeling it?
I thought it pinpointed at least a few specific causes for the differences...

"The share of Americans in unions has plummeted from 35 percent in the mid-1950s to about 10 percent today. The rate is even lower — about 6.2 percent — for private-sector workers. The decline has happened largely because employers have become more aggressive about keeping out unions and government policy has made it easier for them to do so. The decline in unionization is one reason that the share of total national income flowing to corporate profits has risen — and the share going to worker pay has declined. The trend is starker in the U.S. than in Europe."
This pretty much sums up Christian ethics.
It's fascinating to me how humans back then seemed to have a completely different concept of morality than they do now. I wonder why?
> The benefit however, is that it's much harder to write "clever" code, which translates into being harder to write unmaintainable code. If you know Go, you can sit down at nearly any Go codebase and know what's going on pretty easily.

I don't think this necessarily follows. I don't think "clever"ness is what makes code unmaintainable. You can still create a tangled mess in Go just as easily as other, more expressive languages. In fact, I think it's more likely in Go simply because you _have_ to write more code in Go. More code is more maintenance. Go encourages you to repeat yourself and to not create / use abstractions. Nil pointers are still a thing. It's incredibly easy to accidentally shadow a variable and not handle an error. These are all solved problems in other languages, yet they persist in Go, and they are all maintenance headaches.
Agree, the point is not "let's all pay more for food" frankly because that doesn't work. Even if you wanted to get more money to cooks and strawberry pickers (or to the animals which suffer as more humane conditions), it is just impossible to achieve because any money spend by the end customer is just siphoned off by value chain. Spend double on organic meat to get maybe 1% to 5% more money spend on the actual product and the employees. The rest is profit.
But does the quality of the film matter? I don't think making great art justifies or excuses being a tyrannical/abusive artist, and feel that in general we should have consistent standards of acceptable behavior that is divorced from outputs.
I'm putting my money where my mouth is. No, not necessary; contingent. No, we shouldn't all lay out positions.

Given how much hacker news has been gamed lately, this does belong here.
I know why -> its because the NYT wants to make things look as bad as possible, and like you said, not starting at 0 makes the difference look much bigger, and therefore worse.
Yep. This is just a few big companies finding a clever way to get free marketing out of a decision to cut their marketing budgets due to the pandemic.
`iota` is one of the strangest features in Go by far for me. So much complexity for such a simple feature with so few applications, instead of implementing even simple enums...
CSS is reusable in some ways, but not in the sense that you can take a stylesheet from one site, apply it to another, and have a guarantee that the result will make sense.

This is partly because HTML has its own competing presentation features, and partly because there is an infinite number of cases for which a designer would have to write rules (eg: many html elements, that can also be nested)
In Brain Plasticity, Size Doesn't Always Equal Strength, Suggests New Findings
One approach I consistently found to work well is to remove things that don't make me happy. It has a bigger longer term effect than doing|buying more.
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I don't think this is accurate. There are, or perhaps until recently were, a large number of people in the South who flew that flag out of a sense of regional pride and cohesion, and who had absolutely no problem with black people. Of course, that's not enough to forgive flying it - as a Jew I wouldn't be happy about a German person flying a Swastika, even if the only meaning it had for them was a benign pride in German accomplishments.

Still, though, it's important to recognize the wholesome impulse to celebrate the South, as it is a distinct region with its own valuable culture. A few years back there was an attempt to replace the Stars and Bars with a new "Southern Pride" flag [1]. Predictably, it's bland garbage.

[1] http://thesouth.us/
Looks like someone fixed it after your comment. Thanks for contributing your eyeballs to the hunt!
And companies pressured by CNN to "boycott" should withdraw their ads from CNN IMO.
One clean and dirty way to help with that.

Try to improve allocations where possible. There's often plenty of small allocations happening in Java that can be avoided (string usage is one major driver). Less allocations means less frequent garbage collections.

Then one hack is to disable the garbage collection. Let the software run up to consume all the 100 GB of memory of the server and crash and restart. There is no pause of garbage collection when there is no garbage collection.

If it's not enough, the last resort is to write native code or switch to C++.
I used AOLserver with OpenACS, https://openacs.org/ .
AOLserver was apparently more optimized than Apache (at the time, at least).

My manager even had us (early 2000s) take a one-week(?) bootcamp at Ars Digita HQ in Boston. Though about the only thing I remember from it was the fancy aeron chairs.
It would be wonderful if things actually played out that way. What I'm seeing, are elected officials caving in to mobs with torches and pitchforks. So no, if I think Che Guevara is a hate symbol, I need only muster up a few hundred individuals, cause damage to private property and presto! No more Che...
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For that matter, the swastika was still used by the Finnish Air Force until quite recently. I thought to double check this before posting and discovered news articles about the change posted within the past hour.

https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Finnish-Air-Force-...
Sure, you can work around the labour laws in many ways, but he is likely referring to a normal full time employment contract as most people do when they talk about employment.

And he's not wrong in the figurative way, the labour laws are quite strict and the unions are in an impossibly strong standing in Sweden.
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I didn't want to be rude and say, "least talented people." Here I'm equating least interested with least talented.
This is funny because I have found this to be the exact opposite. Utah, Florida, Texas has better infrastructure than California, New York, Massachusetts. Are some low-tax states shitholes? Yes, but there are definitely low-taxation states that are well run. It really has nothing to do with the rate of taxation (beyond a certain point), it's more about the quality of government and the priorities of where the spending should go.
You want to know how to find the totalitarians? Look for the ones who want to regulate every utterance in areas like games, comedy, etc.
I don't know much about those search engines. What's the advantage of Ask.Moe or Searx?
Seems like it should use standard callbacks and/or standard Promises for responses.

That's probably beside the point, though. Hopefully no one ever uses this so the non-standard async pattern doesn't matter.
He won't cave. If he did, he'd lose, not advertisers, but users. Some fraction of his user base cares about being able to express those opinions.
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I dunno, people pretend that they know about what these historical figures were thinking but I feel like nobody's read a book about it, they're all just learning from their assumptive misinformed peers and that there isn't necessarily an interest in the history.

Thomas Sowell, a black man, had some interesting historical perspectives on these figures in Black Rednecks and White Liberals, which is worth a read. This is just a small excerpt from a google search, and in itself can't directly address everything people are trying to erase, but it's a starter for listening to more and broadening your perspective:

https://www.aei.org/*/thomas-sowell-on-slavery-and-this-fact...
Actually, the people involved did not send things for Lennart Poettering to have received.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8417369

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12859758
>This means that somewhere on the Azure cloud there is a resnet instance that only looks for confederate flags.

Doesn't seem like that's the case according to the following quote:

> Microsoft will not automatically ban players that create designs with these controversial images; instead, the original designer will need to be reported by submitting a ticket.
Simply in video games.

We use custom allocators and simple allocation policy, often with arenas and other region based system.
Facebooks value proposition (users) to its customers (advertisers) is too high. Other advertisers will fill in the gap left by those who are boycotting – less advertisers means more ad space for the others.

Agreed that even 100 million isn’t enough, though it would be the start of a trend which could slowly pick up momentum.