skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Say I'm Catholic, and I oppose abortion because that's church doctrine. OK, that's religious. But say I'm an atheist, and I think that a fetus is genetically human and also genetically a different individual from the mother, and I think that that implies that it has human rights and can't just be killed for someone else's convenience. That's the same position, but now it's not religious.

That is, I think that every conviction that a person can have for religious reasons (at least, every one that affects politics or society), people can have the same convictions for non-religious reasons. I see no valid reason for saying that the non-religious ones are "less valid" than secular ones, or that secular ones should win by default.

Now let's say that here's a Catholic university. I'm an atheist, and I want to be the president of that university. They're going to say "no way", and I don't get to claim discrimination, because they're religious.

But let's say there's a Haskell Foundation, and I want to be president of that, even though I'm a hard-core C++ bigot. They are also going to say "no way", but they're going to say "incompatible with our goals as a foundation" or something. But it seems to me to still be quite similar. People who don't believe in the identity of your organization are a bad fit for positions of authority in your organization.
A much better/newer article in English here (Can we change to this link and title from a non-tabloid newspaper?):

https://www.berlingske.dk/nyheder/english-version-mink-cause...

"Mink causes new covid-mutation in humans – is Denmark the new Wuhan" :

"The virus mutation has so far been found to have spread to 12 individuals who have been found to have an impaired reaction to antibodies, which could mean that any future vaccine will not have the intended effect."

We are currently killing 17 million Mink to stop the spread, and starting "serious lockdown measures" in the local areas affected.
But if 12 people already have this new version - it's probably all over the place already.
What an interesting read!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controve...
I'll be the first to admit that it's not great. There's a pretty wide area between "great" and "unacceptable", and I think that prop 22 is in there.

Regarding 7/8 specifically, it's true that it's "not great" and it's also true that it is "better than the default".

Consider the authors' perspectives for a moment, if only to understand it. One party has a supermajority in the CA legislature, and they are openly hostile to prop 22. They didn't necessarily want an immutable proposition, but they also didn't want it to be immediately nullified. 7/8 seems like a way to guarantee that changes can be made if and only if there's broad bipartisan support for those changes.

You don't have to agree with that perspective but I think it should be said that there's a non-nefarious way to see it.
According to you, if somebody is on the lam for so many years, the government should drop all charges.

By the way, it has been eight years; January 2012 is when he was arrested in New Zealand for extradition.
What? Bills are patches. A patch and its inverse are both patches.
What waste of
Time. Us corporations and state
Should be separated just
Like the church.
>My suggestion was to have a low level summary offense which only punishes the person with education on rehab options.

What I'm saying is you have to consider who would be responsible for such a system? Decriminalization isn't about ignoring the issue, it's about getting these people out of the criminal justice system. What you are advocating for, to be implemented successfully, would require a reform of the entire police force to treat these people as patients instead of criminals. (I'm focusing on America here, in your country the police may be less hostile, especially to drug users.)

The eventual path that is being set, for which decriminalization would be a first step would then to have hospitals/health care provide save alternatives to buying hard drugs/needles on the street, which you can then check them into and begin the rehab process there. Essentially forcing people to rehab under threat of punishment isn't successful, and the American police force has spent the last 40 years treating drug users as criminals. Depending on the justice system isn't likely to work.
Ignoring NI-related terrorism, that is true (many of whom likely have ancestors who lived in Ireland before the English conquest). But it is perhaps however telling that it's effectively never the immigrants themselves, which leads to questions about why later generations end up involved in terrorist groups. The answer often appears to be cultural disenfranchisement due to not being "British" enough while also being tainted by family as emigrants.
> Dear ImGui – Bloat-free graphical user interface library for a bloated programming lanugage

FTFY
Unidentified Plane Flew over California
> Trump is accused of a lot of stuff, but so are the democrats, and all of it has some level of credibility.

This is like saying, "This tennis ball is large, but so is the moon, and both of them have some level of largeness."

The scale absolutely matters. There is no "both sides" this time. All the GOP fears (Biden is senile, a socialist, or a puppet) are based on lies. Everyone else's fears are based on Trump's actual policies: separating children from parents; ignoring and lying about Covid; attacking climate science; and tearing down democratic norms.

> Trumpeting gun control at stupid moments is the biggest mistake - one which Clinton also made

Gun control is very popular, even among gun owners[1].

Biden spent very, very little time talking about it. He mostly talked about expanding health-care access, managing Covid, and bringing back jobs. If you look at this talking points in the debates, he barely mentioned guns at all.

This fear, again, is false fear-mongering by GOP allies, just as it was when they claimed Obama would take away all the guns[2].

1. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/10/16/share-of-am...

2. https://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2008/08/nra-obama-m...
I assumed the idea was to allow popular but divisive issues to be decided upon without attaching the name of specific legislators to the issue.
It is also a show of force intended to deter others from trying .
I think Asimov explored this idea a little in one of his short stories.

I think there should be scientists and science writers. These writers should be employed by research institutions. Their job should be to understand the concepts and explain them in simple words.

I feel this would give the science world a lot more accessibility.

My problems with science papers have always been that the statistics have been written incomprehensibly (no layman knows what a p-number is) and that they repeat themselves so much that half the paper is just nothing
Thanks to the practice of Parallel Construction and using Third Party vendors, I'm sure there would be a way around this.

Hypothetically, the Portland PD sends all the details of the crime, including images, to a Third Party. Third Party, through use of proprietary black-box algorithms, returns a list of likely suspects. Portland PD investigates the suspects, and constructs the parallel case, without the need for the Third Party's report to ever enter the court room. Not that I think Portland, Maine is an epicenter of authoritarianism.

Is it a good thing to have idealistic laws? Or is it damaging to have a false sense of security?
Beaming 5G from the Stratosphere
Really late but... I use them to avoid type assertions. Most recently I need to operate on channels of all types.
...then you just cover the camera and/or mic with a physical cover, such a piece of tape.
Distributed consensus is quite hot - like blockchain tech. This is another aspect of that?
Whoops, it was a case of my bad typing.
Messaging Queues: What are they and how are they used
No, the USB-C connector is only used for power, and USB 2.0-speed OTG 'gadget' functionality.

In the current incarnation of the Pi 4/400/CM4, there is no way to have a USB 3.1 type-C connector that passes through data, video, etc.
So here's the thing, I speak from personal experience. When I was in sixth grade, I dropped out of school. I wasn't a dumb kid by any means, I dropped out of an expensive gifted and talented program. So my parents educated me for the next two years, and then I went back to high school and college and I was fine. You know what I missed from two years of "education". NOTHING. My dad's most important things were, you're going to be good at writing and math. And when I actually went back to school I was so much better at that shit that I ended up teaching a class in 9th grade. (The teacher and sub were out that day and they were like, who knows these things, and everyone pointed at me)

I just think our current school system is vastly ineffective and borderline cruel. But it frees up everyone for 8 hours a day so fuck it!

And look nobody is denying the world used to be a way worse place. But if you look at the history of school systems, it was created by oil tycoons that were angry that the working class was a little too opinionated. This has all been normal for 100 years, but it doesn't make it actually normal.
Lets look at heroin a little more carefully.

Incredibly toxic? Hardly--it actually has a quite good safety profile when used as intended.

Highly and immediately addictive? About 5 weeks ago I had a close chemical cousin of heroin. 3 times in fact. Addicted? I never felt the slightest desire for it once the cause of the pain was gone and I certainly didn't like what it did to my digestive system. (Morphine, given by a doctor for a kidney stone. Heroin is basically two morphine molecules stuck together.)

Easy to overdose? The extremely limited medical use of heroin means we don't have good data, so lets look at morphine instead as it should be similar. The therapeutic index is 70. (This is the ratio between the proper dose and the dose that might kill, the higher the number the better.) For comparison, the therapeutic index for acetaminophen is 3--and yet it's over the counter!

Heroin overdoses are common because of two issues:

1) Unknown purity. Users deliberately go close to the limits to get the biggest high, if they get heroin with a higher purity than they expect they can go over the edge. In a world where you bought your heroin from a pharmacy rather than the street such deaths would pretty much not happen.

2) Jail. Someone has been in jail for a while and not using, they get out, they take what they're used to taking--but now they aren't habituated. Now the dose is lethal. This one could certainly be reduced by having a required class for all druggies about to be released from jail--explain the problem and warn them that their usual dose is probably now a lethal dose.
So far no matter what I've tried I can't get beyond 2200 MHz.
I'm honestly most disappointed with the courts. It would have been much better to have a second vote after seeing what AB5 would actually do!
Basically all the mink from the fur-industri in the entire country will be killed off.
A mutation of covid-19 has been found that seems to be resistant to in-development vaccines as the mutations are specific to the outside spike-proteins instead of the insides. 12 people have been identified being infected with the new mutation.
To prevent the new strain to spread to the rest of the world this has been forced through. All the mink farmers will be financially compensated.
What evidence do you have of this "coercion"? To me it just seems like there's a much simpler Occam's razor explanation. These companies business models rely on part time workers rather than full time workers (mainly due to very spiky demand). The workers prefer doing this job to their other options (otherwise the millions of them in CA wouldn't be doing it to begin with). Therefore it's in both the company and majority of drivers' best interests not to let AB5 stand.

It also seems a bit disingenuous to say this is allowing an industry to write its own laws. It's just an ad-hominem - who cares who wrote the law? It's the content of the law that is important, and the process that it goes through to pass. In this case if it is voted on and approved by the public, that seems like a perfectly legitimate example of direct democracy.

(Whether you think direct democracy is a good idea for nuanced policy decisions, or whether what amounts to a constitutional amendment that can't be changed by the legislature is a good process for regulating a fast-changing new industry, are separate questions. Those are very valid concerns IMO. But that has nothing to do with the arguments you brought up).

Edit: and thinking about a precedent that this sets, I see that differently as well. AB5 was pretty clearly a bad law, and the legislators behind it completely shut off all negotiations with rideshare companies and were intent on playing hardball instead of coming up with a compromise. It was clearly all about retaliating against these companies that these legislators didn't like, with no thought given to how it would actually work or what would be best for constituents (as evidenced by just how many other industries, from journalists to musicians, were caught in the crossfire and had to be exempted one by one).

Given that, I think this sets a precedent to legislators that they actually need to do their jobs. They need to do the hard work of designing practical laws that will actually work for all of their constituents. Their job is not just to make bold symbolic gestures to fire up the most extreme members of their base, and if they do and they insist on doubling down on bad policies that work against a large number of their constituents best interests, it can backfire like it did with prop 22.
Not OP but I had a similar emotional reaction when getting to that point of the survey. It's not logical... on reflection I think it has to do with the sense of los of autonomy. The survey wants me to say that I'd be willing to spend money on it before I can try it, but I want to try it before I decide if I'm willing to spend money.

I think it could be solved for stubborn people like me if the survey got to that point and said "okay, if you're sure, you can still click here to request access but after 14 days you won't be able to continue to use it without signing up. We think you'll be persuaded!" -- or whatnot.

Seems fair enough that people should be able to try the free trial without having to agree that they're theoretically willing to pay 20/mo
That's how it started for me. Then, my child came along and was already warmed up to that idea and everything else just happened naturally. Yes, this is an experience that I would not want to skip on having but if you asked me before whether I am ready to make this step I would probably give you the answer: "I'm not sure" and I completely understand people who hesitate starting family. I've also changed after becoming a parent.
" times less secure" isn't really well defined. Entropy is usually measured in log-space.

And in practice, it's less than one bit, since not all characters are letters.
Wow, that's a flashback of my college years! Good times, thank you Kim!
Does "no company" include Amazon?

I'm going through this with my (young) children and coronavirus. Having seen the varied abilities of their elementary school teachers makes me think a top-flight online course could do much better than some of the actual people working at their school.

There's no question the best teachers will outperform the best online content. But what are your odds of hiring the best teachers?
We have been using Sunsama for quite some time. It's great to manage your to-do's or bite-sized tasks. I heartily recommend giving it a shot!
It's good to have something that forces you to plan your day every morning, so you only take on things that you can do. Being able to see what others are up to is also nice, but I don't use that functionality.

edit: /s/hardly/heartily
I'm in full agreement with you there. I see no reason to jail people for taking non-addictive psychoactive substances. I voted to legalize pot in my state (measure did pass), even though I'm not a user myself. IMO, pot, for example, is strictly better than alcohol from both health and addiction standpoint. I think that not only should we allow pot, we should allow people to grow it for their own consumption. As to other non-addictive drugs, I'll defer to those who have studied them. LSD, for example, is known to sometimes fuck people up in its own ways, and it is generally not safe to take without supervision.
You can't close a loan like you can close a revolving line of credit or bank account.

Closing a credit card just disallows new purchases, you still need to pay the minimum payment every month until the balance is zero.

Bank account they just give the money back
A “kill switch” is more preferable because it prevents an attack, whereas wiring the LED to the power line only notifies you when you’ve been attacked; by then it’s too late; you’ve already been compromised.
if privacy_button ON
set_blinkenlights_ON
forward_all_traffic_to_NSA
The problem with removing ball of mud code is that you don't know much of that mud is entangled with useful code.
I do think oop design patterns bring a lot of indirection sometimes but atleast we can use small well thought out functions instead of connecting all things inside one giant one
That's true and one of the reasons we're keen to add an Outlook integration ASAP. We're a tiny team of five so building an integration with Google and Outlook from the get go wasn't feasible.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think US claims jurisdiction over anything that involves a transaction in USD. And because of the way international payment systems are set up, there always is a USD transaction somewhere in the loop.

If a Danish customer takes his Danish Krones to the bank and sends them to a supplier in Germany in the form on Euros, the transaction goes like DKK → USD → EUR, so US claims jurisdiction over it and enforces its domestic laws on it:

https://www.icenews.is/2012/03/04/us-confiscates-policemans-...

And it doesn't even have to be an international transaction. Even domestic ones sometime run afoul of this limitation, as this Canadian small business owner found out:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/square-canada-1.53031...
Crazy concept: bring your friends to a surprise destination for a weekend
This sounds interesting, can you share more details?
These people won't get much better if they go to prison though. Well, yeah, they'll have difficulty shooting heroin, but they definitely won't get better. They need healthcare and at the very least a safe roof over their heads.
Yeah but God passed down His word as an oral tradition first. Scripting feature was rolled out quite a bit after launch...
> LAN parties

My first job out of college in the late 90s was up in SV at a startup. We used to play Duke Nukem in our bullpen (maybe 6 or so engineers) on the LAN. It was a blast. No internet required. Blazing fast game, decent enough graphics, etc. Early Pentium era as I recall.

I was new, and I remember that my PC that I had inherited from an outgoing engineer didn’t have a sound card. That was considered a special feature not everyone deserved. I remember me and a colleague sneaking into some random cube late in the evening with a Philips head screwdriver, prone on our stomach under the desk, to take the sound card out of an unsuspecting colleagues tower. Must have been someone in finance or HR. Fun times :)

Anywho I hope that helps to set the scene of this era.
If I'm reading it right, another LKML message seems to confirm that the muting LED is hardware controlled.

From https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/11/3/904:

> I don't think it came through in the commit message, but I wanted to mention
in the system that prompted this software does not control the LED. The LED
is actually controlled by hardware, but has circuitry to delay the hardware
mute until software mute is complete to avoid any "popping noises".

That's followed by someone asking about a timeout in case software mute never happens (so that hardware mute still does), and the same person confirms there is a timeout.
I don't think you're right about heroin, addictive, yes, but actually far safer than say paracetamol.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/14/drugsandalc...

Either way, a public health approach is the only rational way to keep people safe and battle addiction.
Ask HN: How to deal with shitty Twilio sendgrid support?
Folks, I am at wits end - I am locked out of sendgrid because of IP whitelisting. They are preventing even logging into their portal (and therefore cannot do anything to the IP whitelisting, so I am in a catch 22.)

I would like to upgrade so I can talk to a human. But I have to login to do that.

I have created tickets and they have asked to verify my account (where I tell them small $ amount that they charged) and now there has been no reply since the last few days.

I called twilio sales so I can upgrade to the higest level of service so I can talk to a human so I can get unlocked, but sales tells me that they are different teams.

This has been a repeating pattern with sendgrid (they do the worst thing - which is to not respond to a support request..)

I highly recommend staying away from sendgrid. I will be moving as soon as I get a chance. If you can help, my support ticket # is 5322073 and 5322368
> humans > minks by literally any measure

Not by the measure of the luster of their coat.
Why does it rely on Github? Can't it download git repos from other sites?
Can you make this specific? What exactly did the U.S. do/threaten to get Canada to arrest a Chinese executive? Obviously, it wasn't a threat of military invasion, but I'm open to some other possibility.
You basically just convinced me that I should be training my left hand to use my mouse. In all cases except precision work (eg graphic design) it should be doable.
How to escape from the Callback Hell (answer: promissified async await function)
due to an imbalance of power
Yep, but you can still power (when needed) the rotating wing and un-power it when it is not needed (forward travel), that is the "breakthrough" (if it works) of the mentioned GT20:

>Helicopter mode for hovering and slow forward flight any time

>Gyrocopter mode for fixed wing fast flight and long distance

See also gyrocopters:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a882megKhVM

Now, in scale for drones, it may also be possible to have an always unpowered rotor (rotating wing) AND 4 (or 5/6[1]) more conventional small rotors for vertical take off/landing and hovering.

[1] just thinking aloud, but it would probably be simpler to have four horizontal small rotors, like a "common" drone and an additional one or two vertical to provide trust forward like a traditional airplane or autogyro.
I voted against Prop 22 but you have to respect that it got 58% of the vote according to currently posted results. That is a pretty good majority. The result (a) undermines the argument that workers were widely coerced and (b) demonstrates there's a widespread reaction to AB5.

It's hard to avoid the conclusion that the California Assembly brought this situation on the citizens by writing a bad law.
That’s true because of how school bullying is typically defined.

But of course if coaches etc get away with it, they are setting an example that some students will follow.

This is one of several ways in which school causes bullying.
>Access to credit and banking is a protected right in America

It is? In what way? Afaik banks give themselves a lot of power to close your accounts for a lot of different reasons - "suspicious activity," "rewards abuse," etc.