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New top story on Hacker News: BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs)
BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs)
51 by MichaelMoser123 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
51 by MichaelMoser123 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
New top story on Hacker News: On Norbert Wiener's Relationship with Bertrand Russell
On Norbert Wiener's Relationship with Bertrand Russell
19 by jorgenveisdal | 8 comments on Hacker News.
19 by jorgenveisdal | 8 comments on Hacker News.
Monday, March 29, 2021
New post from the NAACP: NAACP Georgia State Conference Sues Georgia Secretary of State and State Election Board to Prevent Enforcement of SB 202 by Marc Banks
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – The NAACP Georgia State Conference, alongside the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda, the League of Women Voters of Georgia, GALEO Latino Community Development Fund, Common Cause, and the Lower Muskogee Creek Tribe, are suing Secretary of State Raffensperger and members of the State Election Board to prevent them from enforcing any provisions of SB 202 – Georgia’s new voting law that is designed to restrict the right of Georgia citizens to vote. The lawsuit states that SB 202 is a violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits voting practices or procedures that discriminate based on race, and violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution as undue burdens on the right to vote and the right to free speech and freedom of association.
SB 202 restricts voting at every stage. It makes it easier to restrict early voting hours – even allowing for the elimination of early voting on Sundays – which will prevent voters from being able to get to the polls. Black voters and other voters of color utilize Sunday early voting hours more often than white voters. It limits where voters can cast their vote in their own counties. And, it also shortens the runoff period. Their efforts to try and restrict voting access, as required by SB 202, constitute intentional discrimination in violation of the U.S. Constitution and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
SB 202 makes it harder to vote by absentee ballot by imposing stricter ID requirements, making it harder for voters to receive them and return them, and moving up the deadline to request one which will prevent some who need to vote absentee from being able to do so.
SB 202 includes provisions that target and make early in-person voting, voting by absentee ballot, and using ballot drop boxes more difficult, all of which were used much more extensively by voters of color than voting in-person on election day. Furthermore, SB 202 removes the voting power of the Secretary of State on the State Elections Board, and allows the State Election Board to take over county election boards, which would give the State Elections Board unprecedented authority to target jurisdictions with a large population of Black voters and other voters of color. Even as it will cause longer lines and delays to vote, SB 202 goes so far as criminalizing individuals and charitable organizations who provide food and water to voters when they are waiting in line to vote.
“SB 202 is a blatant attempt by the Georgia legislature and Governor Kemp to suppress the participation of Black voters and other voters of color,” said Janette Louard, Interim General Counsel, NAACP. “The Georgia law is part of a broader attempt to disenfranchise Black voters in states across the country. Voting is a fundamental right and efforts should be made to make it easier and to encourage more people to do their civic duty. Instead, we are seeing efforts to restrict voting for Black voters and other people of color. We will not let these blatantly discriminatory actions take place. They must be declared unconstitutional.”
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New top story on Hacker News: Venus Could Have Been Habitable for Billions of Years
Venus Could Have Been Habitable for Billions of Years
11 by YeGoblynQueenne | 0 comments on Hacker News.
11 by YeGoblynQueenne | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Monday, March 22, 2021
New top story on Hacker News: I was threated with legal action if I don't remove deep links to another site
I was threated with legal action if I don't remove deep links to another site
14 by shepherdjerred | 12 comments on Hacker News.
Hello HN, I'm looking for some advice. I'll keep it short. There's a site called Skill Capped[1]. They have videos that help you get better at the competitive video game League of Legends. You can pay monthly for access to these videos. I subscribed and quickly found their site to be unusable. They have about 1000 videos which are organized into groups called courses. Their website has no search bar, and uses a single-page design with lazy loading. In practice means that CTRL-F in-browser search doesn't work (because of lazy loading and windowing/virtual lists), so there is absolutely no way to search the site without programming knowledge. The website altogether is very hard to navigate. In response I created a thin wrapper around their site called Better Skill Capped[2]. It's a React web app with no backend. It has basic search and filter functionality. It also contains deep links to download the videos that Skill Capped offers which allows for me to watch in VLC and on my phone. It's very convenient, so I shared it with other subscribers. I don't monetize or plan to monetize the site in any capacity. The owner of the site reached out to me and claimed that I'm committing copyright infringement by allowing anyone to click these links and access their videos without paying. All I do is link to the .m3u8 files stored on their server. There's nothing more going on. As far as I know this is completely legal. While I don't wish for my site to be used to circumvent paying for their content, I also don't believe that I'm doing anything wrong here. I want to provide a better experience for those using the original site, and a download button is a part of that. So, in summary, is deep linking to a video hosted by another site at all illegal? Is anything that I'm doing here illegal/immoral? [1] https://ift.tt/2Wjchmt [2] https://ift.tt/3176suW
14 by shepherdjerred | 12 comments on Hacker News.
Hello HN, I'm looking for some advice. I'll keep it short. There's a site called Skill Capped[1]. They have videos that help you get better at the competitive video game League of Legends. You can pay monthly for access to these videos. I subscribed and quickly found their site to be unusable. They have about 1000 videos which are organized into groups called courses. Their website has no search bar, and uses a single-page design with lazy loading. In practice means that CTRL-F in-browser search doesn't work (because of lazy loading and windowing/virtual lists), so there is absolutely no way to search the site without programming knowledge. The website altogether is very hard to navigate. In response I created a thin wrapper around their site called Better Skill Capped[2]. It's a React web app with no backend. It has basic search and filter functionality. It also contains deep links to download the videos that Skill Capped offers which allows for me to watch in VLC and on my phone. It's very convenient, so I shared it with other subscribers. I don't monetize or plan to monetize the site in any capacity. The owner of the site reached out to me and claimed that I'm committing copyright infringement by allowing anyone to click these links and access their videos without paying. All I do is link to the .m3u8 files stored on their server. There's nothing more going on. As far as I know this is completely legal. While I don't wish for my site to be used to circumvent paying for their content, I also don't believe that I'm doing anything wrong here. I want to provide a better experience for those using the original site, and a download button is a part of that. So, in summary, is deep linking to a video hosted by another site at all illegal? Is anything that I'm doing here illegal/immoral? [1] https://ift.tt/2Wjchmt [2] https://ift.tt/3176suW
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do I improve boring README page?
Ask HN: How do I improve boring README page?
4 by flymetothemoon | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Hello HN, As one of the managers of apache/incubator-age repository, I'm trying to figure out ways I can do to improve the README section. I think I need more images that can show what kind of project we're dealing with, but I'm not sure if that's the main priority for this case. What do you all think this README page need? What does a good README page require?
4 by flymetothemoon | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Hello HN, As one of the managers of apache/incubator-age repository, I'm trying to figure out ways I can do to improve the README section. I think I need more images that can show what kind of project we're dealing with, but I'm not sure if that's the main priority for this case. What do you all think this README page need? What does a good README page require?
Sunday, March 21, 2021
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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
6 by break_the_bank | 5 comments on Hacker News.
For me it was running. Went from couch potato to regular runner for whom HMs don’t need any planning. Running always makes the day better. Physically I think exercise releases endorphins, mentally it’s my one win for the day. Wondering what works.
6 by break_the_bank | 5 comments on Hacker News.
For me it was running. Went from couch potato to regular runner for whom HMs don’t need any planning. Running always makes the day better. Physically I think exercise releases endorphins, mentally it’s my one win for the day. Wondering what works.
Friday, March 19, 2021
New post from the NAACP: Civil Rights, Racial Justice Organizations Decry the Racist and Misogynistic Murders of Asian American Women in Atlanta by Marc Banks
The Racial Equity Anchor Collaborative—the foremost diverse coalition of national racial justice and civil rights organizations representing and serving more than 53 million people in the United States— condemn in the strongest terms the heinous murders of eight people, including six Asian American women and one Asian American man on March 16 in Atlanta. This attack against Asian American women is white supremacy and misogyny in action.
Too often, racist policies at home and abroad pigeonhole Asian women, immigrant women, and poor women into unprotected, low-wage jobs — including as massage workers in spas — where they are subject to racist and sexist abuse on a daily basis, whether from their customers, employers or police. Violence against Asian American women— regardless of their country of origin or citizenship status — is not new. Racist narratives have exotified, fetishized and hypersexualized Asian women. As Georgia state Rep. Bee Nguyen said, Asian women constantly experience brutality at the “intersection of gender-based violence, misogyny and xenophobia”.
The core element of discrimination and bias, whether based on race, gender, nationality, or other characteristics, is the dehumanization and “othering” of people. This assumes all individuals within these categories are the same and are all of less value than those making these judgments. Many times, multiple forms of “othering” converge to target the most vulnerable intersections of these identities. The dehumanization of these women was personified when the killer justified the murders as the result him just having a bad day.
These murders are the most recent large-scale manifestations of centuries of violence against communities of color. These murders represent a flashpoint in the ongoing violence against communities of color fueled by systemic racism; and is the same fuel that fed the past four years of vitriolic rhetoric from America’s most powerful leaders and inaction against white supremacy. In the face of the disturbing rise in Anti-Asian hate, this Collaborative consistently has stood by the Asian community (in 2017 and as recently as last month). We will continue to stand in solidarity with all those who are impacted by racist violence and attacks.
We advocate for community-based solutions that advance collective safety and ensure that all workers, including Asian women, are treated with dignity and respect without an overreliance on law enforcement response. We also call on the Biden administration to heed the recommendations from our previous statement, which help us all to better track and address acts of hate violence.
As members of the Racial Equity Anchor Collaborative, we stand united against anti-Asian hate in all of its forms. And we believe that the best approach to end anti-Asian hate violence is to lift up and provide adequate resources to community organizations that serve Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, especially those for and by AAPI women, and to support multiracial efforts that include Asian American and Pacific Islander leadership indirectly addressing the problems caused by systemic racism and misogyny.
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The Racial Equity Anchor Collaborative includes the following leading national racial equity anchor organizations (the Anchors): Advancement Project National Office, Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, Demos, Faith in Action, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Congress of American Indians, National Urban League, Race Forward, and UnidosUS. Supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, we work together to promote racial equity, advance racial healing, and ensure that all children, families, and communities have opportunities to reach their full potential.
The post Civil Rights, Racial Justice Organizations Decry the Racist and Misogynistic Murders of Asian American Women in Atlanta appeared first on NAACP.
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Thursday, March 18, 2021
New top story on Hacker News: Fossils in an ice core rewrite Greenland’s icy past
Fossils in an ice core rewrite Greenland’s icy past
4 by CapitalistCartr | 0 comments on Hacker News.
4 by CapitalistCartr | 0 comments on Hacker News.