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> But they weren't protesting the proprietors of those businesses for complying with the law.

Yes, they were. The Greensboro sit-ins began at Woolworth stores because they had explicit policies that went above and beyond those required by Jim Crow laws. They even sent a letter to Woolworth’s, not the state[1].

Edit: And, you’ll note: the Greensboro sit-ins didn’t provoke asymmetric police retaliation. What the students did wasn’t even illegal, it was merely against Woolworth’s store policies.

[1]: https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/greensboro-nc-stud...
Soupault is a tool that helps you create and manage static websites
you might be seeing feral bees or carpenter bees, those are the two I commonly hear misidentified as bumblebees
The Mandelbrot Set
Tesla’s Self-Driving Car Learn in a Simulation
The Introduction to Atari Graphics was a pretty damn nice article. I loved programming the Antic and Pokey (sound) chips in the Atari 8-bit computers. You could really do things the Apple folks couldn't. Plus, four joystick / paddle ports were fun to hook up electronics to.

Does anyone remember the Action language?
Can you point out what's being implied here? I want to understand the nuance in this comment, and I get that it is some type of critique, but at the moment what that could be escapes me.
If i were to describe the Assange case in a word, it would be myopic.

once again the US has decided this is the hill it will die on. instead of reforming intelligence agencies, challenging the doctrine of mass surveillance, revisiting the manifest destiny of imperialist foreign policy, or even considering the cost to do nothing at all, the US has arrived at the conclusion that a witch hunt is the best hunt.

prosecuting and jailing Assange does absolutely nothing to stop Wikileaks or wilileaks->next(). Whatever effort the US spent to slander and discredit Assange does nothing to stop people inspired by him, or motivated by US foreign policy in countries that do not enjoy its favour. The US seems completely oblivious to the fact that whatever happens to Assange the journalist, it simply isnt enough to curtail the overwhelming cacophony of demand for free and open journalism across the internet.

Just let the guy go and focus the money, time, and effort on preventing this in the future. nearly every major news outlet and journalist all see Assange as a journalist, not a hacker.
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I find it interesting that every time this topic comes up there’s a comment like yours that spreads falsehoods and distortions about the state of HN. For example, won’t find much love for Bizzard’s sexism:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27914062

All this says to me is that the facts are not on your side. But hey, let’s just ignore those and launch personal attacks on each other.
I don’t see your counter argument. People eat sugar because they want to. If they didn’t like it, they wouldn’t eat sugar and no one is forcing them to.
Tech writers just don't have this edge anymore!

The more experienced programmer seeking cybernetic high adventure must first defeat the friendliness engineered into the machine to unleash its throbbing brute power.
Microsoft thank you. You brought us the LSP and as thus every editor has the same capabilities as your spyware anti pattern. No need to use Vscode anyway.
>It's my computer, my network, and I get to say precisely how it is used

That is only realistic on linux. Everything else us just something you've rented.

Besides, you can always go for independent vscode clone. I don't know how good it is as i haven't tried it myself. I just know it exists.
Hello, it appears all of your comments have been shadowbanned. I have vouched for this comment (and all others) so that it can be seen. I'm still somewhat new at the mechanics of HN's voting system, but more info can be seen here: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#shadow...
Carpenter bees look very similar to bumblebees, but are actually larger, not as hairy, and don't form hives. They binary maters!
You can still decompile the binaries for Office products today, they are desktop products after all. Same for the Adobe CS suite, AFAIK.

What you can't do is decompile the server-side stuff. In case that stopped working somehow, you could find a way to remove the dependency on online stuffs from your desktop product, it's been done before, often in cracks.

If they fully move to web based SaaS and abandon desktop implementations completely, then yes, you'd be right, you'd no longer be able to modify it in any way.
Legacy AT&T owns almost none of them anymore, what's left are owned by the RBOC (often the other AT&T) and as you note, have a prohibitive removal cost and are in urban centers.
How Many Stars on USA Flag
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16441707
I can’t imagine any thoughtful people thinking this is great.
500k profit a year (which is still good!) often means 5 mil/yr revenue. Considering the years of work, super high stress, lack of support network common to this, and generally bootstrapping from their own funds?

That is decent, but considering all those factors, far from a huge win. If they had put similar work (with the same skill set) into a normal job, they would likely have similar returns with less risk.

Especially since there is large ongoing risk of market shifts or the like making it fail with no warning in the future, and at least working in someone else’s enterprise they wouldn’t have their capital at risk.
True enough. I uninstall it from my phone and after every update it magically reappears. Ah Facebook, like U2 in ITunes, will they never learn.
Wow! Thank you for that tip. Block the machine's internet access with a firewall but connect the browsers over a SOCKS proxy.

I mean, I do have a couple of containers up and running on a Raspberry Pi offering nothing but intranet SSH services while the containers are connected via OpenVPN to differnt VPN servers, so that I can use different browsers which connect via SOCKS each to one container in order to have one browser per country on one machine.

It never occurred to me that I can use this same technique (but without OpenVPN) in order to disallow that machine to connect to the internet but still have a working browser...
I also know another species: American Indian, has vanished from almost all states...
You've completely reversed which party is inserting themselves into the existing conversation though, which gives it an entirely different context.

And honestly, there is no perfect band-aid for how to treat views that you find honestly stupid. Sure, some people won't listen if you're out there calling them stupid, but some people won't listen unless you do. People are messsy, complicated, and different.
If you’re criticism is based on payments you have not been paying attention to the space for the last 5 years.

Anyway, it’s easy to make a circular argument of “people buy it because they are fools, and they are fools because they buy it.” You’ll be right whether it goes up or down so there’s not much of a debate to be had..
Why Do U.S. Electrical Plugs Have Holes in the Blades?
I'm skeptical that would be good for overall long term health. There are only a limited number of endemic respiratory viruses. Most of us will be exposed to them at multiple times in our lives regardless of what protective steps we take. So I'd rather get them while I'm still relatively young and healthy because the resulting immunity will give me at least partial protection later in life.

Of course ideally it would be better to have effective sterilizing vaccines for all those various respiratory viruses, and perhaps someday we will. But those generally don't exist today for the vast majority of viruses.
We have the Austin Air Healhmates at work. They are quiet.

That said the real failure was the FDA not making getting the vaccine approved for your 3rd graders by the start of the school year. Frankly I don't know how those guys can look themselves in the mirror while they are shaving in the morning.

I think vaccine approval for 5-11 year olds is coming in early November.
pff, just see the checkboxes in the "accept our cookies" dialog...
For teen girls? God no, none of us are meant to have this sort of visibility into each others' lives.
In light of recent advances in WASM, is there really a place for an ultralight ISA like bf, especially in a data center situation, as the paper claims?

I've never worked in a data center, but it seems difficult to imagine using unproven tech like this in one.
Not voting for one candidate that openly declares he'll try to overthrow the other if he loses is also something
> I think Lincoln didn't have access to an arsenal that could end humanity if used in the wrong way, so I don't know if the comparison is warranted.

Neither did the US in 1950. You’re thinking of H-bombs, which didn’t exist until 1952.

> In general, if someone is trying to exterminate a population

Which is not, in the context of 1950, what von Neumann was advocating. He was advocating for the use of strategic bombing in a campaign to topple a totalitarian regime that murdered tens of millions of people anyway. Which is what most people agreed was a good idea with the Nazis five years previous.
Has Ms. Crouse seen TikTok?
They're a political pressure group. That's not necessarily a criticism, they can publish whatever they like, but they aren't anti war, and they aren't against a lot of things they report on. They're only against them and only report on them when their political enemies, the US and the west generally do them regardless of context or provocation or any broader circumstances. Outside that, they don't give a crap what anyone does. Pretending otherwise is I'm afraid rather naive. To be fair, they say so quite clearly, check out the editor's profile page on the site itself.
And also there’s a legitimate slippery slope here. “Come on, this data they are sending is not sensitive” may apply today, but after you’ve opted in, now your job is perpetually keeping track of what new information they send in the future to make sure your assessment is still true. If there is a big off switch, the only thing we have to pay attention to is whether or not they are honoring that off switch.
The problem is other people treating other people's hardware as their playground.

We've gone too long without a reckoning as software authors in this regard. You are not entitled to do whatever you wish with someone else's hardware because of a click through. Those that continue to do so will be (in my case) blacklisted from running on my network.
Why does the first part need to be rehabilitated? With whom is it controversial? I've never heard of this controversy before.

First, a decapitating strike against Soviet Union /could/ have made sense given the information at the time - imagine you could decapitate Germany in 1935, how many lives would that have saved? Hindsight is 20/20, before that you couldn't be 100% sure that one of the two architects of WWII was not going to try again.

Second, I personally really like Feynman's quote on von Neumann "von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don’t have to be responsible for the world that you’re in. So I have developed a very powerful sense of social irresponsibility as a result of von Neumann’s advice.". I think it's one of the best takes on these issues in most cases.
I confirmed via CDC website that total hospitalization for ages 0-17 in the US is indeed 63k from Aug 2020 to present (https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#new-hospital-admis...).

It is difficult for me to not feel that there was intent to mislead with the 900k number, especially from a NYT reporter who should know better to check the sources and verify the numbers. The data isn’t hidden away or needed any tallying—-it is literally there on CDC’s website. It is incidents like this that erodes public’s trust in mainstream media and paints them as having “agendas”. I truly hope the NYT takes this seriously and do a better job at checking the numbers.

Note: I haven’t checked, but I wonder if the 900k number is for global children hospitalizations. Although IMO that number would be difficult to get accurately.
> Large rounds relative to valuation ($700mm for a post money valuation of a billion) make a much higher future hurdle to clear - bad for employee shares.

Is that a scenario where the company has a pre money valuation of $700m and accepts $300m in funding? Why is that a bad thing? Sorry if this is a naive question.

> PE rounds tend to be worse than VCs. (VCs tend to worry more about upside, while PE firms push for downside protection)

Is this a binary thing or do investors exist on a spectrum? I’ve also heard another label, “growth equity”, which sounded a lot like venture capital to me.

And are those rounds necessarily worse? Is it about the PE firm selecting deals to fit their risk appetite or is it more about them inserting clauses that are harmful to common share holders (not sure what the right term is but I mean regular employees).
I use WSL daily on my desktop and laptop for work - full stack development and sysadmin/devops. Familiar CLI tools available right from my Windows desktop are a great thing.

I’m really, really happy with WSL since I can use one powerful PC for work, music recording and occasional gaming.
Are there instances where these warnings are private or later deleted? I find it a little unsettling that on some of these I cannot find any such warnings or replies.
> [...] in some instances you might work with vast quantities of data, or deal with transactional systems that just don’t easily fit the operational limitations of relational databases. And in those cases, you should consider moving some, or all, of your data into a non-relational database.

This is WRONG. With capital letters.

Confuse limitations of (the codebase/the enterprise/the specific RDBMS) with the MODEL:

> And in those cases, you should consider moving some, or all, of your data into a non-relational database.

Making data "non-relational" is not a cure for the above. Is more often than not, a regression (like some on this thread: Using JSON instead of regular tables!).

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Now where we must focus instead is on make RDBMs more powerful (or more exactly: less constrained that cause less powers).

RDBMS are hurt more for the interfacing (SQL) and the design decisions of 40 years ago, but not because the "relational model" is the reason performance, scalability or anything like that suffer.

P.D: And also: Is incredible how many truly think the "relational model" is agains dynamic data. Even using SQL, that is a subset of it, is HIGHLY dynamic! What is a trouble, is that current RDBMS lack a easy way to embed relations in relation, forcing to detour to sub-optimal, ad-hoc, bug-ridden hacks.
People love talking about how government spending causes an artificial boom. In my opinion it just increases flexibility in the debt market by giving unemployed people access to government debt via unemployment benefits. Of course, it's still a band aid and we should figure out other ways like sharing work by making the hours per week one can work flexible according to what happens in the economy.

The fact that entire people end up unemployed and then need to be bailed out by the state is just grossly inefficient compared to e.g. firing 50% of their work hours. I say this because every human contributes a baseline of demand for things like housing and groceries. Firing workers also fires the consumer that demands housing and groceries which leads to a downward spiral that is much worse than just the inefficient production of goods and services that nobody wants.
Brave is such a great browser, it’s one of the few software products that makes me feel really happy when I use it
I'd like to add "MyMateVince" to the list: https://www.youtube.com/c/Mymatevince

His "Trying to Fix" videos are a pleasure to watch, and mostly (not always!) deal with older tech or toys. But he'd also try to fix a dead Playstation, for instance. Or a 2010-ish Macbook.
Standard disclaimer that this is from my fallible memory. I’ve been here just about daily since 2009 or so (at first, under a real-name account that I retired, because times a’changed).

Of course, there were far, far fewer users. They had much less forgettable names. There wasn’t the preponderance of throwaways that you see now. My impression was that a large portion of the users were actually affiliated with YC companies, and a lot of the discussion was about YC business and tech. Paul Graham was an active commenter. You got to know who the regulars were, and recognize them by name. I find that much harder to do now.

As far as content, I honestly can’t remember whether there was really more tech, or more business, or less politics. What I do is that the issues, and the way people frame and debate them, has changed a lot in 12 years. But that’s not specific to HN. HN seems to lag behind “the discourse” on more mainstream social media sites, and I think that’s good.

Sometime around 2011 (?) there was a crisis in which there was a great deal of debate over a period of months, about whether the quality of comments and discussion was declining. I was of the opinion that comment quality had been extremely high at first, and was in fact slipping. The other side said we were imagining things, and Eternal Septembering or whatever. pg eventually sort of agreed there was a problem, and asked for solutions. There was much debate. He made some tweaks to the site.

But the perception of decline remained. pg seemed to gradually back away from what he had created. At some point we got the high-profile active moderation you see today. pg has been almost entirely absent for years now.
Anyone using docker desktop on Windows has been using WSL. WSL2. I use debian as my WSL2 distribution, it's OK as a development environment enhancer in that it removes the need to learn Powershell to do anything productive with a CLI.

It's not as good as running Debian directly. WSL2 was the motivation I used to switch to debian full time on my main development machine, so I'm not sure Microsoft can safely assume that having WSL2 means people won't dual boot or simply move on.
The restrictions, stress, and pressure that comes with VC feels a lot different when you see them on a term sheet you are trying to decide to sign or not after already busting your butt for a long time
making something real, vs from behind that desk at a company.

It is a real, and sometimes very undesirable tradeoff. Go big or go home, vs wealthy but not obscenely so through steady effort?
If you have a large freezer, buy one and slaughter it yourself. Several hundred pounds of nearly free meat, and not especially hard to process yourself. Various us states have published guides on how to do this
the problem with Nashville is most "tech" employeers there think they can pay a third the market rate of anywhere else if not lower.
Better Operator Precedence
Instagram is god gift for women, unlike youtube where you must create content and invest some work into it, in Instagram all you have to do is to present yourself, something which women tend to do since the beginning of times. Looking good is something that always affected human being life, Instagram actually expanded the audiences for those beautiful species and thus helped most above average women immensely. The fact that the average women don't learn from men and try to put their time into other endeavours, like developing wit, confidence, resourcefulness and innovation to compete, is them just succumbing to their nature and has nothing to do with Instagram. Turns out that at the end of the day, succumbing to nature gender roles is much stronger than any social engineering, don't blame the messenger.
Youtuber revives GPU killed by the game New World [video]
They will keep trying and failing. The only reason people still use Windows is the exclusive software and games. Once someone gets proper virtual GPU working for most GPUs then I assure you the preferred choice will be the other way around.
Yeah but the Domino Theory is back with Taiwan.

If ccp take Taiwan, they will be able to keep expanding and economically swallow other countries and instill their autocratic security apparatus around the world.
Do you need the whole cap table? Presumably, common shares outstanding, preferred shares outstanding and the total dollars of the overhang of the preferred shares should be sufficient. Assuming that options are correctly accounted for in that number (that is, if people cash in ITM options)
But if the point is to each genetic algorithms with a simple example -- is there a better simple example problem where a genetic algorithm is a more appropriate approach?
And if there's not a simple example where a genetic algorithm approach is clearly a good tactic, or if it's not straight-forward to learn to distinguish when a GA approach makes sense, is teaching GAs useful?
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