skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with jibal's reply - "cosmetic late term abortion" doesn't exist.

I'll add to it what the ACLU is doing in Iowa in support of abortion rights, from https://www.aclu-ia.org/en/news/aclu-planned-parenthood-emma... :

> Today women’s rights advocates filed a lawsuit in Polk County District Court, requesting that the court block Iowa’s newest abortion law. That law would ban most abortions at around six weeks—before many women even know they’re pregnant. It would be the most restrictive abortion ban in the country.

> ... Unless blocked, the law would go into effect July 1. It would ban abortions as soon as any embryonic cardiac activity is detected, which usually happens at around six weeks.

> “This abortion ban is beyond extreme," said Rita Bettis, ACLU of Iowa Legal Director. " With it, Iowa politicians have tried to ban virtually all abortions for women in our state. In the 45 years since Roe, no federal or state court has upheld such a dangerous law.”

> This virtual ban is made even more harmful for women by the minimum 72-hour waiting period law that the Iowa Legislature passed last year. (That waiting period is currently blocked and awaiting decision from the Iowa Supreme Court.) If that 72-hour wait took effect and the six-week ban also took effect, even if a woman learned of a pregnancy very early, she would then be delayed by the mandatory wait period law—and then could no longer access abortion services.

If this is what you are talking about, then your definition of "late term" is "after around 6 weeks" and your definition of "had a health need for it", quoting from the ACLU:

> ...includes only “physical” conditions that are life-threatening or pose “a serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function.”

> ... The law expressly does not allow a woman to access an abortion she needs because of “psychological conditions, emotional conditions, familial conditions, or the woman’s age” even though the health—and even the life—of some women is at risk for those very reasons.

> As just one example: some psychiatric medication is harmful during pregnancy, putting those women in the position of choosing to continue medically necessary mental health care and risking harm to a pregnancy, or go without the care they need.
Would you rather walk through a clean city street or have to step over trash and needles to get where you need to go? If the place is too difficult to walk through you start to think of taking a new route.
What's in it for them? Where's the business model for Stripe?

I find it extremely annoying that companies - any company - just can't be totally upfront about this.

"We earn money from this by you having to fund these cards using an account you must have with us, where we get interests. Also by the merchants where the card is used, which have to pay from 1,5% to 3,5% in processing fees" etc.

Shouldn't be too hard - I guess they already have this in some PowerPoint laying around.
Correct but in Facebook’s case they were also trying to push Messenger as a messaging platform that you could use without Facebook too, hence a separate app made more sense on a technical level, but also it was a huge marketing move.

I personally find it annoying that Messenger is integrated into Facebook enough that I’m notified when there are pending messages, but not enough that I can’t check my messages on FB app...
They use Mattermost internally, they don't sell it to customers (not sure if you were assuming I was talking about HP or a similar company that just deploys Mattermost for customers).
Multi Car Transporter Truck: Vertical Ramp Sim
RAIDR: Retention-Aware Intelligent DRAM Refresh [pdf]
> If we were a "progressive" European country, we might well be trying to figure out how to privatize WMATA or the NYC MTA. Instead, we're trying to figure out how to turn one of the few bits of American infrastructure that isn't an international embarrassment into a public service.

My understanding is that the private companies that ran Brooklyn Manhattan transit and others couldn’t run as private companies which is how we have the MTA? They started private as well, right?

If you’re worried about cost, follow the money. Why are police officers the highest paid MTA employees? For all this talk of union busting, why isn’t any of it directed at the police?
Running CP/M on the C64
I have been rewarding Evernote, I'm a Premium user and I like the service a lot.

But the thing I miss with Evernote is the ability to create end-to-end encrypted notes. I don't necessarily want all notes to be encrypted, just some.

I hope they add this capability.
The gym I went to before was 24/7 and completely unstaffed outside of daytime hours. When the place was unstaffed, a fingerprint reader was used to verify you were the owner of the card.
> If we are going to subsidize broadband at all, we should do it statewide and means test it.

This makes me sad. We need less means testing, not more. I fully support a more progressive tax scheme but we should eliminate means testing from government services.
Well, it is an economic school of thought, but you hugely under play the connection. Neoliberalism can't work without the abolition of community and promotion of personal responsibility. Community breaks down by disassembling any collectivist groups and giving them over to the market and the now powerless individual. Personal responsibility is often disenfranchisement - nearly all our freedoms came about through collective action and organised civil disobedience.

The personal freedom to buy your social housing (without building more), have a personal pension with individual charges (with no attempt to ensure "enough" pension or group benefits), the privatisation of community and state assets and on and on. The removal of community power by constraining the rights and budgets of local government, centralising ever more then privatising or closing in the search of market solutions and smaller government. At a higher level it enabled the rise of globalisation.

There was absolutely need to re-balance in the seventies and constrain the unions. Effectively abolishing them was perhaps too much seeing today's gig economy and zero hours contracts. Another example of personal responsibility! After thirty years neoliberalism appears to be a means to restore the pre-war gilded age inequalities whilst completely forgetting why the post-war consensus (social security, society and Bretton Woods) came about.

Hopefully Communitarianism will get its chance soon.
DDG doesn't have stock prices, movie listings, or any of the useful "onebox" type information that Google has. It's just not as useful IMHO.
I have written exactly that kind of changelog. Let me explain why.

I write the changelog for a product. In fact I write two changelogs - one for engineers and one for customers.

Engineers:

- [New Feature] Added ability to ___

- Improved logging on ___

- Fixed a memory leak on ___

Users:

- [New Feature] Added ability to ___

Not every change can be explained in one sentence to users. Internal logging? Memory leaks? You're speaking a foreign language. Those entries must be thrown out when making the changelog for users.

Eventually, there comes a release when you have thrown everything out. What do you write? "Bug fixes & enhancements".
No, it does not, unless you're asserting that India and/or Thailand have comparable regulatory structures for utilities, other than the one detail of which ISPs are permitted on poles.

To whit, I believe you're presenting a false dichotomy between monopoly and completely unregulate free-for-all.
You can get simpler FPGAs on a board that you can easily connect to for under $100.

e.g.
Numato Mimas w/Spartan 6 core https://numato.com/product/mimas-v2-spartan-6-fpga-developme...
(with this plus the CPU softcore at j-core.org you can run Linux)

Adafruit $79.95 https://www.adafruit.com/product/1553 (Spartan6) and $99.95 https://www.adafruit.com/product/451 (Altera Cyclone IV)

Many others on eBay etc. But this Reddit thread is likely useful: https://www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/comments/8kwz3q/fpga_boards_fo...
You can perfectly "host your own email server" while sending outgoing mail through a smart host. No falsely-tagged-spam issue that way.
> I would think that english is just as hard to for chinese speaker to learn.

I've always wanted to know if this is true or not, but I've never found a good answer. I know the FSI rates Chinese at roughly 2000 hours of instruction to their definition of fluency (compared to 500 for other european languages like french or german), but I haven't found a similar comparison for chinese speakers.

Link: http://www.effectivelanguagelearning.com/language-guide/lang...
Why, on the off chance one flies into someone’s open mouth and the surprise triggers a swallowing reflex? I wouldn’t have a lot of sympathy for an adult who ate the homemade pills a guy threw at him and then suffered serious side effects.
Good. Wage theft is a crime - literally.

http://wagetheftisacrime.com
Yep actually I retact part of my original comment. Thanks for the correction.

The dumping part is still valid because any OS that isn't free and relies on licencing can't complete with an OS that makes it money from a secondary business like search and advertising.

Google gave away Android to make sure it dominated mobile advertising. Any OS reliying on profits directly from licencing the OS cannot complete.
>High rents convinced the world this some how was a good idea.

Maybe, but I think the causal chain is complex. I mean, even at $5/sqft/month (which is really pretty nice office space) that's a tiny percentage of what one of the top-tier bay-area companies is paying an engineer.

I think open plan offices are in style; they look like what a scrappy startup might have looked like after the 2008 crash when warehouse space was super cheap (I myself rented some $1/sqft warehouse space in the early teens for my office. It was pretty great, but then it was as much workshop as office, and we had an under-mezzanine that was closed off and quiet for non-workshop work. Most of the space didn't have a mezzanine, and I certainly would have expanded the one that was there if I was staying a while.)

Of course, once you get people with money in you see these converted warehouses in SF with ridiculously high ceilings and no mezzanine; just a giant sun room or something.

I think what needs to happen is that the next scrappy startup that gets big needs to... start with individual offices. Or if they can't afford that, at least cubicles. I know people don't like how cube farms look? but as far as comfort and noise reduction, they are a thousand times better than an open plan office.

When I started in the late '90s, it seems that it was mostly a status thing; managers and the most important individual contributors got offices, while all but the most abject of workers got cubes.

This seemed to descend into a system where the higher status employees started doubling or quadrupling up in the offices, and the cubes on the floor slowly atrophied to the little bits of fabric you clip to your sit/stand desk these days.
Good find! Thanks!
I do this too and it's most fun when giving my email address to physical stores. One time I was in a random optician's shop and had to ask what the store was called, "Such and such" - "alright then, that would be such and such at example.com".
What behavioralism lacks in charm, it tries to compensate for with persistence.
hey thats one of the things i've worked on

see my first submission a few days ago on zh android ime with devanagari

with zhuyin and alternatives chinese input is not a problem and this is going to even be less of a problem with voice input in future

in fact the input problem only tightened the link chinese have to tech via their phones

but pinyin needs to go away or chinese will lose their culture in the long term latinization is going to lead to christianization
Modern day challenges with document image analysis
I put in about 20% of net worth in my last down payment (which was 20% of housing cost)
> you need each commit to be as meaningful as a line in the changelog.

Not really, your changelog-from-git-log generator doesn't need to incorporate every single commit. The vast majority of commits shouldn't be incorporated in a changelog anyway, since fine-grained commits serve a different purpose. It could incorporate, for example, version-change commits whose messages serve the exact same purpose as changelog entries.

git commit -m "VERSION 1.1.0 <user readable desc of changes since 1.0.0>"
Not really. Pixar has to render a movie before you can download it. Pfizer has to develop the medicine before you can synthesize it.
Dean's PhD was in neural networks.

Also TPU2 is the only decent alternative to NVidia hardware in production, so that's a decent sign.
> At least I don't want to read dozens of lines like

I must be a crazy user, because I generally like reading through changelogs to see if an update is worth applying because it addresses a specific issue I am having, implements a new interesting feature I want to try, or fixes critical flaws.

Luckily, though, public bug trackers are generally a good way to find out at least the 'is my bug fixed' part without the changelog (your issue is closed as 'fixed in X.Y')
Until someone re-registers the TLD and can now MITM some internal traffic, if it is indeed used internally.

I can see the argument for invalidation, even if unlikely. The much more realistic scenario is where you get a cert for 2 years for any ordinary domain, even if your domain expires next month.
Face recognition is not being touted being as accurate as DNA testing or fingerprints, so why pretend it is anything but a fuzzy ranking by similarity? Many forensic techniques generate probabilistic results.
In theory, this decision makes sense. If you're having employees track the time that they work, it's weird to ask them to clock out before doing a little bit of end-of-day work.

In practice, since Starbucks pays above minimum wage, I suspect they might just lower hourly wages by 1-2% if the average worker now clocks in for 1-2% more hours.
Haplen, a free Trello alternative
Not a single screenshot, no video introduction, no Docs/Getting Started/FAQ pages, not even a well structured explanation page of what is this project and how will affect the internet in a large scale. No vision or a generic expectation with lots of "what if". C'mon guys you spend so much time coding this thing and you threw up the presentation, that's a shame.
I'm trying to figure out how big those problems actually are. I can't say anything about the stories people tell, but I have no trouble sending to gmail nor anybody else.
You could say something like "fixed stability in account management" or "fixed crash issues across application, improving stability across board". I sympathize with not wanting to go into more detail than would be generally understood by the audience, but there's a large chasm between "bug fixes" and that. If I was experiencing those bugs, I can now expect them to be fixed and I'm now in a better spot if I see them again to say "hey you didn't QUITE fix that in release X". If I see "bug fixes", I can't guess what happened in that release.
This should also be a crime.
I don’t have extensive knowledge of the matter in hand, but this narrative seems much more coherent. And sad for Go/Google. So much for “open”. Just like Android/Google play services thing.

Calling something “open” a hundred times a day does not remove one bit of corporate control.
I would suspect that the marketing cost of lowering wages by 1% is far more than the money saved by lowering wages by 1%.
The great thing about SMTP is that it retries automatically, so "several nines" can take a backseat.
I know people that were enthusiastically encouraged to continue, and completely wrecked their lives.
... and why is that?
No, to be clear I fully support the idea of fertility services provided by the public. I just don't think a nation's population is a good argument for this.
Then why are those people working at for-profit pharma companies? They can go start a non-profit one right now. They could do research.
Thanks for calling that part out!
Macs are even a significant percent of Apple's processor business.
I'm not sure about this at all.

Most checks should be in the CI but git hooks allow a team to add rules without affecting all teams at once. When rules turn out good they can be enforced on everybody via CI. Even a single team might have dozens of machines, so they don't want to roll out git hooks manually.

This is the niche use case I can think of. Still, it exploits git to do things it is not made for. This is asking for trouble elsewhere.
Oh sure. I just like to be excited for the right reasons.

If we've gone asymptotic, it makes me wonder what other companies will be able to field a chip that's 90% as good as Intel in the next decade...
Agree, but you can probably "hide" it so that it's subtle. E.g. you give people slightly smaller raises, or don't increase initial salaries for new employees over time as quickly as you might have. I'm not making a value judgment on whether this would be okay, but I think Starbucks could do something like that without the world noticing.
Seconding this recommendation. Recently began using them at work and it's improved engineering <--> company communication, as well as engineering <--> engineering communication since I can look at the generated changelog and know exactly what changed there, in ALL commits.
Sure. But in order to understand this, think about your own personal finances. Not theoretical super-rich you - current actual you. Are you going to buy the stock of a pharmaceutical company that develops drugs that aren't profitable? I'm not. And what that means is that companies developing unprofitable drugs don't get funding.
It's highly unlikely you could have been banned for just talking of neoliberalism. HN does seem to have a hair trigger for shadow banning newer accounts, meaning you have to use the self-serve unban link or occasionally mail them.

If you are criticising neoliberalism, depending on the conversation and thread, it's distinctly possible you may be downvoted to oblivion. That's a different, and disappointing, thing. :)
Some say that Go is a relatively simple language compared to Rust. The design of both does require comprehending certain language constructs that exist in other languages. It's not really a fair comparison. The two languages do not play to the same niches and appeal for the same audience.

There are places where using Rust and Go is not a meaningful option. Rust is special because it allows for manual memory management, safely. Go has garbage collection everywhere. So for a bunch of low-level uses (hard realtime systems, OS work, web browsers) Go is simply not an option. it also appears that Rust is greatly influenced by functional programming, while Go is imperative by nature.

Go was created at Google, a company which manages a large software empire with many products. Whereas Rust, on the other hand, was created by Mozilla, a group which focuses on a few projects, and who's largely been using Rust for a single project that doesn't even encompass an entire program. I believe, end of the day they both have their own advantages and disadvantages and it is upto the individual how he uses them.
>If you're having employees track the time that they work, it's weird to ask them to clock out before doing a little bit of end-of-day work.

"weird" isn't the word I'd use. There needs to be a word for fraud that nets the fraudster not very much money because they are defrauding someone who already has very little.

To me, that seems especially economically destructive, as you are transferring money from someone with little (who therefore places a high marginal value on dollars) to an entity that has much (and therefore has a lower marginal value on dollars.) - I mean, on top of the usual distortion and value loss caused by fraud.
People operating the gym have probably gone deaf, hence the need for higher volumes. Vicious cycle.
The short excerpt you can read for free says this is more about stuff like the two minutes between clocking out at closing time and locking the door on your way out. It might be wage theft in some sense but isn’t the same thing as requiring hours of unpaid overtime. On the other hand, I suspect the part of the article you can’t read for free is about an employer who tried to cover a substantial amount of work under this exemption and now the court has to ruin things for everybody to prevent abuses.
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I'll run your TLD for $10 a month and make you a site to do registrations for $1000.

This is sufficient up until a few thousand domains. Of course that's not the common case, but the "plus infra and expertise" part is negligible compared to the ICANN fee if you just want a private gTLD.
Why are Americans so loud?
Introducing Liftbridge: Lightweight, Fault-Tolerant Message Streams
Well now I’m really happy that some library doesn’t know how to remove the sub-addresses on my custom e-mail setup :-)
> An increasing number of parents in South Korea have their children undergo a form of surgery that snips off a thin band of tissue under the tongue … Most parents pay for this surgery because they believe it will make their children speak English better

Sigh
Not only that you can't uninvent a technology that can run on cheap hardware with open source software and which can be reimplemented from scratch in a week from arxiv papers, but this is a clear case of improper use, where the solution is to set better norms.
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He edited his post. It said something a bit different originally. But to your point, drugs are a pretty different animal. A lot of drugs have a relatively niche market. Take the Hep C cure, for instance. The company that sells it charges something like $80,000 for it, which seems exorbitant to a lot of people.

But how much did it cost them to develop that drug? To get it through the FDA approval process? Their breakeven price on that drug is definitely in the tens of thousands per dose, before you get to any profit. Which means that at a minimum, they're charging $10,000/dose. In the case of movies, sure, i'll pay for netflix because it's more convenient than torrenting, because Netflix costs $10. If Netflix tried to raise their prices to $10,000/month, i'm going to start torrenting again.
mine (etymotic) came with a small squeeze to open coin-pouch thing, maybe 5cm by 8cm. it disappears pretty well into a jeans pocket.

expect to pay 100-200 for custom molded ones. if you want inexpensive ones that are still pretty decent and low profile, I recommend Hearos. barely visible when they're in.
> My own personal anecdotal experience is that thinking in words is far, far slower than skipping them and sticking to concepts and connections.

I find this as well. I've often caught myself waiting for my inner monologue to finish narrating a thought while simultaneously being fully aware that I've finished the reasoning part and already know the answer. When this happens I actively try to let go of the narration and just take the results and run with them. It's difficult but sometimes doable, and (for me at least) there's about an order of magnitude speedup.
You're right, they are doing something a bit novel, which is cool from a technical/hacker perspective. But clinical trials and efficacy aren't just 'another difficult part', they are the difficult part. Synthesis routes are an after-thought to any serious pharmaceutical company.
On iOS it is perfectly readable in both Firefox and Safari.
Hearos extreme, the blue ones. I tested many, these were the best for me.