skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If some nativist in this country had warned in 1900 that mass Italian immigration would bring us vendetta-obsessed crime clans, capable of getting their tentacles on the public life (and budgets) of major American cities while also corrupting the American labor movement for most of the coming century, he would have been dismissed, correctly, as a bigot."

It's an incredible page of history, the amount of power and influence organized crime welded for much of the middle years (1950s-1980s) across the US.

With the amount of power they had, the lasting mythology seems, what is that phrase, apropos? I can't speak to the same level as MisterTea (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25429901) but coming from a city with a history of heavy mob activity, Philadelphia to be specific, you hear the same kinds of stories from family and very infrequently, you still encounter groups of 2-3 guys at a bar or restaurant where you think, let's give them a wide berth.

I might as well tell my two stories.

A relative who works in finance took some clients out to a restaurant in South Philly in the 80s. The 80s were a violent time in the Philly mob and also the FBI was starting to make major inroads in their fight. So 4 guys not from the neighborhood, in suits, at a restaurant in South Philly. And this relative, he noticed a guy at the end of the bar, eyeing them hard and so he asked the bar tender, "hey, is that who I think it is?" And the bar tender: "I dunno, who do you think it is?" Relative: "Well, I think I know who it is. Just tell him we're not the feds, we're just a bunch of bankers out to dinner." The guy at the end of the bar was the leader of the mob at the time (his name escapes me) but he nodded to them and bought them a bottle of wine. You hear a story like this and you understand the mythology, it's almost like it was a pleasant time. But that was just a veneer.

My one personal story on this topic speaks more to the mythology. A few years back, I was went to a 76ers game with some out-of-town (from the mid-west but not Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland, like far mid-west) co-workers. The 76ers play in South Philly and so I took them out down there after the game. I don't know how we got on the subject but one of my co-workers asked, "This is South Philly, you know the show the Sopranos? how real is that?" I said something like "First off, that's the North Jersey mob, so you don't really have to worry about them down here because this is the Philly Mob's turf. That being said, I think they're allies because they both work in Atlantic City and..." and then tried to explain how the different crime families interact, and how they have apparently fallen on hard times. Anyway, there's nothing really special about my story however I did take from it that, the American mafia experience can be a very regional thing. I had never realized that there are parts of the country that didn't have this shared history of organized crime. I just kind of assumed the entire country was under their control for 30-40 years. That's some mythology.

Best mob movie: Casino.
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Wow. As much as I do agree with this, this is some hyperbolic writing. I've read so many articles just like this one, they show up on HN quite often it seems, and I've never seen one that had what seemed like a realistic fix to the problem. I don't think there is a fix really. All social media platforms will be full of bots/fakes that exist to spread garbage. All social media platforms will be full of real people doing the same. It also seems like the loudest people (and bots) are the most toxic and get the most engagement. It's people, all the way down, and there will always be a bunch of people doing the wrong thing. Those people will be highly incentivized and motivated, while the rest of us will just be looking for something to read.

(Also, maybe interesting, the author of this is the executive editor of The Atlantic, not just some reporter.)
Those points are interconnected.

Yes, the rhetoric is problematic. But politicians can be held accountable by the people who give them a mandate based on election results. The public debate, journalism, education and the voting booth are instrumental in doing that.

These things aren't self-evident though.

They are really expressions of emerging collective behaviour. And that behaviour is always a function of a multitude of social, economical, political, cultural, religious, geographical,... factors.

Authoritarians don't necessarily take power through a violent revolution. It just as easily happens by simply exploiting weaknesses in the economy, society, financial system, the legal and the constitutional framework to a point where they arrive into power. Weaknesses such as economic and social inequality, widespread resentment, poverty,...

Many authoritarians and populist leaders derive their legitimacy from the same democratic processes that also lead to a lawful state which upholds moral values such as basic human rights.

"Democracy" in itself isn't a guarantee towards a net "good" or "bad" outcome. That's just value attribution. Democracy is just a form of governance which could just as well lead to less then desirable outcomes.

Democracy doesn't protect society from bad actors who spout populist rhetoric. Nope, society can only protect itself as long as enough individuals are willing to call that rhetoric out for what it is: damaging and hurtful. Your "democratic" rights are only worth anything to the extent that each member of society is willing to back them.

And that requires believing in the value - the legitimacy - of the E.U. as a shared project.

> Whether the EU is actually democratic, is another matter.

Well, during last year's election cycle, I did get presented a voting ballot that allowed me to directly elect members to the European Parliament. The candidate I voted for, did got elected.

... which leads me to believe that, yes indeed, the E.U. is "actually democratic".

And as far as I can tell, the fact that the E.U. provides a legal framework that allows me to enact my individual rights. Such as the GDPR. Not just from Facebook or Google. But also from public authorities itself.

I perceive that as a good thing.
I think there is a more charitable view of how people (I, at least) view what you are saying. There is a certainly a disadvantage to existing ad-revenue funded companies to not being able to identify their audience at the most specific possible level.

But there are also (potentially huge and beneficial) opportunity costs. We will never see alternative business models which are not viable in the existing ecosystem.
Your comment is an excellent analysis of the article. I suggest in the future you choose a different idiom for reneging than "To Welsh".
I'm more curious about how things like shitlists are implemented in different languages.

Most of my experience is C#, where calling deprecated code triggers a warning.

Considering that C# warnings will fail in CI, how would someone do a C# shitlist? Would it require some kind of #pragma, that would stick out like a sore thumb in a code review
> Hawaii gets 70 inches of rain per year, and LA gets 15.

That varies dramatically based on where you are in Hawaii. The prominent mountain ridges produce very sharp rain shadows; Hilo (on the windward side of the Big Island) gets 126" per year, but Kona (on the leeward side) is more like 19". Most people would live in the Honolulu region, which is on the windward (hence drier) side of Oahu.
That's elegant dungtional programming but it's not really relevant here as you are supposed to check if new crap matches any of the enumerated fecal matter; how would you do that against an infinite stream of diarrhea? I'd leave this to the type system if possible. And of course use a colon-delimited list for the occasion.
I still write new applications in Win32 (or x64). If you want to ensure your app works on as many environments out of the box as possible this is the way to go. In fact, you shouldn’t even depend on DLL version of C runtime as they may not exist on the environment.
Amazon got suspended for a while during COVID times, people weren't rioting in the streets over it

(they were still rioting over other issues, just not Amazon)
How culture change is an interesting topic. From what I can see myself in regard to racism, efforts to change culture occur in practically every place. In media, in news, in politics, online, in advertisements and so on. However I would say that before any such methods there need to be an initial work that brings the issue into the public mind. Social inequality is not a problem which currently is seen as a problem, and so there is where such change must start.

Economic equality and social safety net are very important overall, but in this aspect there do exist a small paradox where increased economic equality increases social inequality. The causes for that is from what I see a still researched topic with multiple competing theories. The one I suspect is closest is that when economic equality increases, you get more instability in the social hierarchies, resulting in people putting higher value onto cultural cues.

As for the third obstacles, as with race, you don't need to explicit state economic status in order for people to guess it through proxy. Job title, clothing, where people live, all gives cues about money. There is a reason why tanned skin is still seen as an proxy for wealth, and why non-tanned skin was seen as a proxy for wealth back in a time where the majority of people worked as farmers.

If I look at the future and especially at places like China, there are additional tools for culture change which could be used for both good and bad. AI companions and citizen scores could be used to influence a population towards a culture change. A lot of technology is written to influence consumer behavior, and the same technology are already being used to influence political behavior. Influencing culture would not be that far jump, and it could potentially do so at a speed yet unseen outside of war.
The `match` statement, slated for the next version of Python (3.10), is rather comprehensive.
Don't think we could reasonably expect much more than this to be retrofitted into an old language [0]

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0622/#exhaustiveness-che...

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0634/

[0] Trivia: Python is older than Linux!
160,000 a year and you're broke? I'm sure the cost of living is high in NJ, but still that's clearly a case of putting wants before needs.
Only INTEROPERABILITY will scare them.
I don't follow Minecraft at all let alone Minecraft Speedrunning, but this was a good read none the less.
Indeed, it's such a messy job coding for shell..

Comes with a lot trial and error.

The above will work as (tested in ash/dash/bash):

#!/usr/bin/env sh
trap "echo exiting" INT
sleep 1h

But to your point, yes, how to actually know that without doing trial n' error & stackoverflow.

Thanks for the `sleep 1h`, didn't know that you could do hour as unit :)

(edited: turned out INT is enough to trap)
Yup. When I was boxing my coach started me on weight loss and recommended pasta or rice for dinner with the serving size being that of a small bowl and not "heap the plate and pile the rest of the food on top"

Carbs are energy. You just have to be sure to only eat what you need and actually use the energy. Otherwise the body starts storing it as fat. And like you said small portions of fatty things like cheese and eggs are perfectly fine as long as you burn what you eat.
Do they support older LTS releases? Like for example, do they still support Ubuntu 16.04 or Ubuntu 18.04?

I'm asking because if I install 20.04 now, I may want to continue using it until its EOL.
All of the contributor names, edit descriptions etc have been lost. It's not history, it's just snapshots of content.
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If Twitter were acting strictly alone, that might be a reasonable point. In the case of Facebook, they possess monopoly power and their ability to censor speech is elevated above most of their peers (save for Google).

Twitter however did not act alone. The tech giants conspired together to mass censor speech they politically disagree with in the 2020 presidential election. It's not a conspiracy theory, it's not secret in any regard, they were openly and directly sharing block lists with eachother and acting against only the political party they consider their adversary (rather than equitably enforcing their terms of service, behavior that has been going on for years now).

Their executives should be in prison for that level of criminal collusion toward election interference given their extreme collective monopoly status. Merely breaking the companies into pieces is not enough.
> where changes were pretty much instantaneous

I don't know if I hit an exception, but I added a small change (a single clarifying example) to the RegEx page, which was listed on the dev environment's history for ages before actually becoming active.

Also keep in mind that, given MDN's target audience, especially the target contributors, GitHub is less of a barrier than it would be for other platforms.

But yes, of course it'd still be good to keep an eye on the contribution statistics to validate those assumptions.
No-one here can answer that because the only people qualified to do so (pharmacists, doctors, some nurses) also have a professional duty preventing them.

The answer is "it depends" on your history and any other meds you're taking and also your home situation.
I avoid PayPal like the plague, but I would require some hard evidence to convince me that employees were regularly stealing users money.
At minimum, one of them is c++ project with lua extensions, while the other is a python app with single purpose and relatively large size due to the packed python interpreter. So, a merge would increase the binary size of vlc for a single function that is not core to VLC and not everyone will use.
The three have a lot in common, with key differentiators e.g. the backbone connectivity of GCP is far different than that of AWS.

What worked for me is that I went deep into one of them, then uses this resource to 'map' what I learned on GCP to AWS: https://cloud.google.com/docs/compare/aws (use the table mid way down the article), and this gave me a great framework on which to build my AWS knowledge.

A similar table exists for Azure (https://cloud.google.com/docs/compare/azure)
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The notion that the American notion of free speech is in any way universal or desired is false. No European country subscribes to this view and they remain viable and vibrant Democracies.

I find it an interesting peculiarity that so many people here think there is major value in the broadcasting of known falsehoods and propaganda, and equally bizarre the notion that a random individual's free speech is in any way comparable to the power wielded by moneyed interests. In practical terms American free speech laws are really only for immunizing the rich and powerful, and their corporations, from any deleterious consequences to their false speech.
What I dont understand is why they keep allowing mergers for those huge companies in the first place.
Maybe there should be a certain company size where they are not allowed to merge with new companies any more!!
The United States is huge and you can easily divide it into multiple regions that have their own unique culture, their own distinct histories, and different ways of speaking, sometimes dramatically different.

Colin Woodard's book "American Nations" does a good job of explaining this [0], though at some point this book turns into a long rant about GWB and it's safe to put the book down at that point if you don't find that interesting.

[0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/the-11-nations-of-the-united...
haha so irrelevant yet funny
The part about deletions is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> Please don't delete and repost the same story. Deletion is for things that shouldn't have been submitted in the first place.

Don't worry, but next time remember to contact the mods.
Thank you for these suggestions! The idea for comparing sounds in the frequency domain was something that I was considering, but couldn't figure out a proper way to do it.

I will definitely check the resources that you provided and see if I can utilize this approach in Keytap.
This is literally one of the topics covered in the article and the author advocates for the same solution, documenting the alternative in the error/deprecation message...
It is a social network hack: 1) broadcast misinformation wide and often; 2) some individuals lacking in critical thinking accept the misinformation as true and start repeating it; 3) as the misinformation propagates through those that do not verify, it begins to be noticed by those that might verify new information, but so many people in their sphere have adopted this information they accept the information on faith that their peers are like them and have verified the new information; 4) this process repeats until those that do verify are negated by those that refuse to accept that their peers and themselves could be wrong.
I would argue that the left is already censored, so right wing censorship is just leveling up the field, but I guess it depends on how you define the left. When you have half the country assenting that a candidate who doesn't even believe in single payer Healthcare is "radical left",the all hope for discourse is gone.
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I agree with your points, but I'm not really sure why you quoted me when your comment isn't really relevant to mine.

I never discounted practice, and yes to be "really good" (Whatever your definition of that is) at something takes a lot of practice regardless of how smart you are.

I also specifically said _pure_ repetition because I know that repetition is important for all skills, but for more complex skills you need to synthesize your past experience and extrapolate to future experiences (I.e abstract thinking). This is a lot more involved than pure repetition.
> Advertisers can purchase fixed display ads on reputable sites by contracting directly with the site owner.

But what is a fair price? That depends on the traffic, but we are positing that detection of "is this a real user" is not possible, right?

Traditionally, advertisers have gone by Nielsen style ratings for broadcast media (pay people to track what they consume, extrapolate) and circulation numbers for print media. In our hypothetical world the former would still be possible but the latter wouldn't. Unfortunately, in addition to being really inefficient, if you pay people to track what they consume you will essentially never compensate niche publications. This strongly promotes centralization.

Privacy Pass / Trust Tokens / etc seem much more promising to me?
Just curious: What is the benefit/reason for the readfile shortcode for displaying code snippets as opposed to just pasting the code in and using the typical syntax highlighting?

I suppose if the actual source file changes then the page would be updated as well which is neat, but if you're specifying certain lines to read from then that could easily become a problem.

Considering how few shortcodes you're using I just felt like there must be a good reason to use it in this way and I was curious why.
Hysteria much? Reads like the typical media rant today where you redefine words to mean whatever you want: "these bad people being allowed to communicate is GENOCIDE, TERRORISM, and HOLOCAUST" Bad people are bad people and should be treated as such but its clearly not the END OF THE WORLD.
Sure you can group historical conflicts in many ways. If you say group all conflicts between Britain and opponents from continental Europe into a single conflict, surely you get a more protracted conflict than "West vs Islam", since you have at least 2000 years of conflict.

The "West vs Islam" is just a particular inane categorization since you are contrasting a geographic area with a religion. You could categorize the Reconquista as Christianity against Islam (and Judaism), and this is how it was framed at the time, but how can it be "the West" against Islam? It is a post-cold war construct to justify a certain ideology, not a meaningful way of understanding history.
I am creator of Polotno.

Thanks for the kind words.

From my view, the hole in the market is not customer support and features requests. Fabric.js and konva (that is used inside Polotno) are "low-level" libraries. They are providing a DOM-like API to the canvas. That is it. In order to make a full canvas editor, you have to write a lot of code on top of fabric, or konva, or any other library, or SVG.

https://polotno.dev/ - is designed to solve a very narrow business need. So you can build a full editor with much less code (almost no code at all). It may be less flexible, but it is the tradeoff for solving one problem in a good way.
To those more familiar with TLA+: is it worth looking into TLA+ when one is not building distributed systems? I'm really drawn to the formal proofing part, as that seems to be the major benefit, but it might be overkill for my use case, which is more akin to providing developer-oriented tooling and supporting cloud infrastructure.
I feel it’s very hard to game these sort of benefits these days because they will have some legalise in the contract that will put a limit or reserve right to revoke the benefit for any reason.

Is there anything similar today that one can purchase and get life time benefits like this? I feel the life of companies are so short that “life time” actually means less than 10 years.
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I'm so excited for match to become a thing. Honestly, exhaustiveness had kept me from using Python for some work that I'd have otherwise loved to use it! I enjoy FP and some of the other benefits of Ocaml, which is what I use for programs where Mypy can't give me what I need. But at the end of the day, I'm just not as nimble with it, and I can just see the python in my head so much easier.
Cyberpunk 2077 Debacle Costs Founders $1B of Wealth
The technical glitches plaguing CD Projekt SA’s Cyberpunk 2077 game have cut more than $1 billion off the wealth of the company’s founders. Perhaps more seriously, the quality-first image of the studio has been shaken, and may not be easy to win back.
> in a state with the highest income and sales tax solve the housing crisis?

When I think of all the people living in their cars around Oakland, raising property taxes and pooling them into social services is something I favor. Highest income is misleading. Lots of people work retail or similar and will never own a home.

> I live in CA about 8 months/year, and spend the Feb-May in Tel Aviv.

I think this speaks to privilege. I’m not saying it’s unearned, I don’t know you. I do agree that more dense housing is badly needed.