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> The confederate flag was created for the sole purpose of committing treason

Secession is not treason. The Tenth Amendment reads in whole: 'The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people'; the Constitution does not delegate the power of separating a state from the union to the United States, nor does it prohibit secession to the individual states, nor does it mandate a perpetual or irrevocable union; therefor it is plainly true that secession is constitutional.

Moreover, the same Constitution states 'Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.' Neither advocating for secession nor actually seceding consists of levying war against the U.S. or adhering to their enemies.

One might argue that the secessions of Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee & North Carolina, coming as they did after the battle of Fort Sumter, constituted treason, but one might instead argue that secession itself was not adhering to the enemies of the U.S., but rather those states removing themselves from the union.

None of the following is support for any of the actual secessions of any of the states: each state which seceded did so to preserve the profoundly evil practice of slavery. It is constitutional to secede, but deeply wrong to have done so for that reason.

But it is extremely important to be precise about words. The Confederates were evilly wrong about slavery and race, but they were not traitors.
It's nice to have as a resume page. You don't need to use the mobile app or connect with anyone to use it like that.

As a hiring manager it makes looking at work history easier. I can click through to companies I don't recognize to learn more about them. Not having a LinkedIn profile wouldn't be a negative for me, it just makes my life easier.
The An-225 goes to California every week? Why?
The pattern I see over and over again: Diligent, rational, thoughtful, rule-following people.... as soon as they see others disregard the rules, they do also. They just threw all the precautions out the window.
Sure! Ive had a couple conference papers published on it but am always doing work to improve what we're doing. I added my email to my profile, with a slight typo to avoid spam ;)
I’m pretty interested in this actually. Although I’m not part of the Wikidata community, it would be interesting to see which language groups dictate the most involvement.
As others have mentioned, there are a ton of off-the-shelf solutions that would have been more than adequate for this.

My question is, why didn't he go for any of the existing solutions when setting them up would've still been faster than rolling his own DB-in-a-JSON-file solution?
Well, he'd want to say that after they had nuked his page ;)
Weight, largely.
All content is "objectionable" depending on the audience. We just have to trust our new Amazon overlords.

I like AWS and the general concept of cloud computing, but I'm extremely concerned about how difficult it appears to be to transition from one solution to another. As someone working on an AWS app, I'm worried about the possible day where my employer announces that we're moving everything to Azure or some other platform.

The lack of compatibility between cloud computing platforms makes it difficult to switch when issues like this come up. I suspect in most cases, it's just more economical to stick with the current provider and hope you aren't impacted in the future. Because of that, I doubt providers like Amazon see much immediate impact from things like this.
That doesn't equate to unhappy though... Could be the exact opposite...
Haha I worked on that flow. It's the escape hatch because we didn't find what you were looking for in the typeahead, so we have to let you escape to the full SERP results page.
You think a quote he made to his own employees, painting the company in a strong light, will change everything?
So much this! My learning curve on crypto took me through a few self-evaluations:

- Crypto isn't that hard! I can do this!

- Crypto is a lot harder than I though. I shouldn't do this.

- I've read about a lot of crypto! I can do this!

- People way more experienced than me are making the tiniest mistakes that end up crashing the entire house of cards. I definitely shouldn't do this.
Hi HN,

I am not a security expert and was wondering how I can secure my (Ubuntu) Linux based system from such an attack?

Background: I am using the pass password manager to copy & paste passwords all the time.

Now, I am afraid that websites like LinkedIn may have stored my clear-text password.

I researched this but only find clipboard managers. No security tools for that.

Thanks for any help.
> Whatever happened to doing worthwhile things because they're hard?

People realized that was idiotic? Don't celebrate that someone accidentally did something worthwhile for a terrible reason. Target your efforts at doing things that are worthwhile, not at doing things that are hard.
As long as financial instruments absorb the extra money, you won't see much happening on the real economy. Only the shadow of a huge finance tower with the involved people getting crazy (and always crazier) amounts of money that aren't available at the real side of things.

If people suddenly decide to cash-out, all hell breaks loose. But on a more realistic scenario, it only does so slowly, so make sure you are long on luxury goods.
Stopped flying it? That sounds dire. Smaller planes, like the smaller airbuses, serve for 25-30 years, right, so why wouldn't the A380 serve them for longer?
Makes me think of how many Minecraft server plugins use YAML files as a database
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Leaving aside whether the clause itself is objectionable, since when does "full ownership" mean you can do whatever you want? Am I allowed to drive my car on public roads without a license?
Cargo can accept an hour or five refuelling in Anchorage or be half a day late.

And cargo planes fly far fewer hours each day than passenger planes, leading to fewer movements per plane. OTOH the fact that the MD-10/MD-11 has a second life in cargo also is evidence that fuel burn isn’t the primary concern. And that’s cheaper than ever now, while being the primary operational cost.

And weight (and thus fuel burn) is only one constraint, the other is volume.

Anyway, this whole thing goes away by just adding a runway in Anchorage at most assuming anything like current demand.

And especially after the still unresolved 737MAX saga there is very little appetite in commercial aviation towards increased aviation. We’re down to two people, that’s enough.
Has there ever been a time when businesses didn't ban users from saying and doing things they didn't like on their property? The only trend seems to be that this time it's perceived racism which is the target, rather than stuff perceived as being vulgar or blasphemous or against their family values or age inappropriate or off topic or too critical of the platform owner, and you'll have trouble convincing me that this time [and especially this particular instance] it's not considerably less alarming than most existing forms of corporate moderation.
> stateless tokens tend to be a lot larger than their stateful counterparts. [...] Here’s an example: the cursor fields on the new GraphQL APIs are stateless. This is one of them: [...] A whopping 141 characters long! It’s hardly as convenient to lug this monster around. Most of the time it’ll be programs doing the carrying, but it’s still annoying when you’re messing with the API and debugging your programs.

This seems to be a consequence of the failure to really grok the Tao of HTTP. Specifically, the belief that this stuff should be "sequestered" into a blobby token in the first place is just starting off on the wrong foot and asking to be frustrated—in exactly the way that the blog post goes on to describe.

Want to deal with authorization and/or authentication concerns? Mandate that the request carries the right headers. HTTP can already accommodate that, and if what's in the RFCs isn't a perfect fit for your needs, then extend the semantics until it can do what you want and then document exactly what your use case is and how your design solves it.

It's hard to say more, since the post doesn't really include examples of decoded payloads, i.e., what this is all actually being used for, but in principle really embracing HTTP is the way to go, rather than merely using HTTP as the transport layer for a half-baked attempt at RPC.

It reminds me of the really poor design that the Git project settled on for trying to manage the transition from the legacy "dumb" protocol to the newer (less chatty) "smart" protocol—opting to probe for support by tacking a query string on the end of the resource identifier. Except HTTP already has a good way to do content negotiation, and not all legacy servers respond the same way to unexpected query strings (i.e., by ignoring them). So the end result is that you can have a functioning server that fully supports the dumb protocol, but when you try to push to it with the git CLI, the exchange fails because as far as the server is concerned, it's seeing the client asking for a resource that the server doesn't know anything about.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Transfer-Protoc...

Perhaps more apropos, in a "general lessons in computing" sort of way, is Chip Morningstar's anecdote about Fujifilm failing to get the results they wanted out of Habitat/Xanadu as a consequence of "losing the architecture":

http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-an...
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> Did they leave off some capabilities that the server side version performed, it was the complexity overstated?

The former. This is a quick initial fix that will fail on many sites.
Weird, intuitively seems like a less fragile approach than a giant diaphragm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC3
Made in India..
This is almost blub by definition.
I'll never forget my first flight on a 747. DEN to LAX, and for some reason the plane was almost completely empty..maybe 20 passengers. I was way back and was able to absorb the view of almost the entire airframe from the inside. As we neared the end of the takeoff roll and the pilot started to rotate, the wingtips started to raise with the stress on the wings. I've seen this before in other planes of course, but the thing that was odd was that as this continued i could see the walls of the fuselage directly over the wings start to bow inward. Not by much of course, but it was incredibly obvious and interesting.

The next flight was from LAX to MEL and it was completely full. I never thought we were going to get into the air.
This is both more effort and a worse outcome than just using Postgres with JSONB data types.
This is quite intriguing since my first thought after reading this is "its too bad we don't have a language thats all the syntax of Python but none of the baggage" and then the #1 child of the #1 comment is almost that. Not quite, but almost.
If you're doing it right, you should be mocking the status quo just as often and twice as bitterly.
Most Googlers are on vacation today, but I'll dig around to see what I can find. Shoot me an email (in my prof) with your domain.

Disclosure: Googler.
Yes, also parameter directs execution to the correct subscript if/when needed. No conditional boilerplate needs to be written, arcane enough in shell script as to need looking up every time.

Make is kinda weird too but the complexity appears later. The traffic direction is trivial.
Harassment laws are common in the US and don't have to enumerate a large list of different actions that constitute harassment.

The clarification that you just quoted above from the Director of Public Prosecutions is only one sentence in length but it would entirely change the meaning of the law, if a clarification like that were actually in it.

US harassment laws are not a list of 23,784 actions that constitute harassment either. Here's an example of one state's law. It is clear and specific, something all laws should be: https://definitions.uslegal.com/h/harassment/
A shame to see the cheapest dev VPS get such a price hike. This makes Scaleway far less enticing versus DigitalOcean or similar.
Doesn't matter:

"The examples described in this Policy are not exhaustive. We may modify this Policy at any time by posting a revised version on the AWS Site. By using the Services or accessing the AWS Site, you agree to the latest version of this Policy."

Everyone uses AWS at the complete discretion of Amazon.
But is Go boring? I'm less interested in language syntax and semantics than I am about the runtime. I mean this generally and with all languages. Yes Go the language is simple and boring but the runtime, to me at least seems somewhat magical. By that I'm really talking about the concurrency. A lot of people sell Go by talking about Go routines but to me it's the one thing that makes me wary of adopting it. I'm very uncomfortable just blindly using concurrency features and not really knowing what's going on underneath.
“I’m decades away from retiring, so I’m happy to let these businesses fall apart, destroy trillions in value, and layoff millions of people so I can buy some shares at a cheaper price!”

This is like letting your neighbor’s house burn down because you’ve always wanted to buy the land under it.
> I dont think the author is aware of the Preamble to the Constitution.

When you read the Preamble to the Constitution, does it strike you as specific or generic?
C# with .Net Core seems to fit the bill.
Certainly a milestone, but if the last 747 is yet to be produced, the last one to fly will still be decades away.
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The distinction is relevant from the perspective of any other customer on Azure. A code fix would have fixed the problem for them, too, A fixed config fixes the problem for visualstudio.com only. That's what I was getting at.
No, but you can drive unlicensed vehicles -- even vehicles that could never be licensed -- on private land.
Has anyone replicated the issue described by the Twitter user? It's probably important to verify these kinds of claims before they get upvoted. This looks and feels like disinformation.
It's hard to get more strength to push back with out of thin air. I'd encourage you to try pushing for more detailed post-mortems (if you don't already have them) and just keep an eye out on how much curtailed reviews cost the company. You also really want an advocate for code maintenance and if you don't have one of these with a loud voice there isn't a really feasible way to solve it except becoming it yourself and earning the trust of those above you.

Two pieces of actual useful advice I can offer are:

1. A review style I picked up based off of RFC 2119[1] basically the reviewing software we use allows us to mark particular comments as blocking of non-blocking and I pair that with the usage of MAY/SHOULD/MUST within the comment language i.e. "We're using the old `array()` syntax here instead of `[]` we MAY wish to use the more modern syntax" this allows me some room to elevate necessary change while keeping in the nitpicks I really want to throw in (and I do try and minimize them) without lowering the power of the strong comments. I've used MUST maybe three times always for something incredibly terrible like pages not loading or migrations to the DB that are unsafe and cause data loss.

2. Agree on syntax and style rules and enforce them. It's easier to get people to agree to rules once than try and argue for them on each PR - anything like brace placement or line limit shouldn't come up repeatedly since it wastes everyone time and makes folks feel belittled.

1. https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt
If you're going to take "legalese" seriously, what you need to take seriously is what it means, which is often slightly different from what it appears to say to a non-lawyer.
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I uninstalled it from my phone years ago when I started getting cold calls, and was told directly they got my information from linkedin (where I never put in my phone number)
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Anvil looks really interesting, and I appreciate your free forever tier, but I think you're missing a hobbiest tier.

I'd be concerned about investing too much effort in case my project strayed over one of the limits and I have to either pay £39 or kill the project. Whereas I would pay £5 without even thinking about it for access to all the libraries and perhaps a handful of emails etc etc.

Once I'm paying the £5, I can see my requirements potentially growing to reach £39/m but as a hobbiest I'd definitely never get there without stepping stones.
it shows that when you have a monopoly or a strong moat, you can basically say "fuck you" to your clients in a polite way of course, oh well
There are some libs that simplify access like for example https://github.com/molybdenum-99/reality
there is no single "native". you have different compilers for different languages. "native" (i.e. compiled) PHP is still slow. some interpreted languages are insanely fast. in theory, JITed languages could be faster than AOT-compiled languages; in practice that's rarely the case (https://wiki.c2.com/?SufficientlySmartCompiler).

hotspot is a just-in-time compiler, i.e. it's still compiled to native code; just not the whole codebase at once and prior to startup, but depending on usage statistics which are gathered during interpreted execution (hot code paths). you can leverage similar statistics in AOT with profile guided optimization.

as it stands, native_image starts a lot quicker, needs far less disk space and uses a lot less ram, which is important for CLI- and containerized apps. but it's slightly slower than hotspot, doesn't support dynamic code loading and of course you'll need to recompile your app for different platforms and architectures.
I hear you, but I do get some value from LinkedIn ( few prospects, interviews and so on ). In my little corner of the world, it has become defacto online resume. I stand by my initial reaction. I am not sure I am ready to drop it altogether.
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It's the identifiers that make querying Wikidata difficult, IMO. SPARQL is pretty easy, certainly no more difficult than SQL. It might even be easier than SQL since there are no joins.
But, I can't do whatever I want with it, and that's the point. "Full ownership" does not mean you can just do whatever without consequences.
> I will. That is racism.

Not necessarily. There are also cultural factors to consider.
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It's not very agile friendly, but emphasizing design early in the process and having some "gate-keeping" protocol such as design review or code review can greatly reduce the chance of something going off the rails like this as it forces everyone to acknowledge what done looks like, as well as what the "missing" pieces will be.

The GateKeeper process isn't something you want to index on too heavily - but you also need a mechanism to counter-balance the possibility of a dev saying "I built a prototype last week that does 95% of the things we want" and 3 months of iteration later identifying that it only did 5%, and that getting the remaining use cases will require a re-write.
You have a good point, and I probably should have been more clear. When I said same distribution and same parameters, one of the parameters I was thinking of is mean and variance. Though to be fair mean and variance aren't formal parameters of every distribution.

Can you give an example of successful synthetic data generation which doesn't need to map to the same distribution? I'm surprised at that idea.
It wouldn't particularly surprise me if none of the vast majority of the public, HN commenters or the companies that signed up for it had actually read the boycott documentation so that might not be as important as it seems.
I assume thats because sites dont have access and need a ctrl+v from user to see content
What an interesting factoid, thank you :)
Well. Tastes are different
I don't think the An-225 is the only Antonov.
Biological neurons are complex networks of thousands of synapses, and it's definitely reasonably to say a biological neuron is not 1:1 comparable to an artificial NN neuron. Biological neurons can compute XOR[1] and some even contain loops, called autapses.

However it seems fairly reasonable to say a synapse is roughly 1:1 comparable to a network parameter, in that they seem to be doing about the same sort of weighted propagation with about the same computational power. A synapse does work very differently, and has a couple of very low bandwidth side-channels, but its main job is the same job as a network weight.

[1] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6473/83
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Interesting. The 747 is certainly majestic and maybe even elegant. In contrast, many people hate the looks of the A380, but I quite like it. It's not sleek or pretty, but it's airplane-y. Look at the curved wings, the massive vertical fin. It's a huge, bulky, dare I say, voluptuous. Great plane.
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Ask HN: What does HN look like to you?
I was spying on dang's comments and came across this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23715962
In which he explained people have different experiences and perception about the site which I agree on. I am curious what tribes or things HN people notice about HN. What trends shock you? How has HN changed over the years? Any pattern you found amusing about the site?
Yes, Tor onion sites are indeed an excellent option. And as noted elsewhere, you don't even need a public IP address.

However, using Tor2web proxies is very risky, because proxy operators can see and modify traffic.
That’s just a graphic using the ‘Emojified” theme they’re using this year. The physical trophy itself is usually pretty classy and I heard the logo glows when touched. This is last years trophy - https://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/larger/pu...
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You have to imagine the Apple engineers who implemented this new clipboard notification knew this shitstorm was coming.
Sure, but the equivalent would be to host your content on a Raspberry Pi that is not connected to the internet. What would be the point ?
Tesla really is changing the auto industry quite a bit. I wonder how much they would save if they made every 3 series with the fully loaded specs and locked them behind software? I imagine you could gain a lot of efficiency in the supply chain and the manufacturing process as the cars become a lot more fungible.
Wasn't this supposed to be about Lev Landau, famous for writing physics textbooks?
> This is blatantly false.

Is there anywhere in the US that an adult needs a permit to get an abortion? Can your right to an abortion be taken away upon conviction of a non-violent crime? Does the government reserve some categories of abortion for itself and deny them to you?

Not every true statement is politically expedient.