skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t really get it — my low resolution understanding is that Nix gives you the ability to define your Unix environment itself with definition files, similar to how Docker gives you the ability to define a container abstraction with Dockerfiles.

So if your whole machine’s environment is already specified, why do you need to add Docker as another layer of abstraction? Is it simply to deal with needing to run multiple apps on the same underlying machine (defined by Nix) with possibly conflicting dependencies (those would be managed by Docker)?
It is an interesting question. Clearly by the end of the term the baby can be forced out and live. It cannot live independently - but neither can a baby that has been born naturally. It takes like, five years for that. So dependence on the mother is not part of the definition of life.

So when does it start? When does it go from cells to alive inside the mother? No answer. Activists will shout "my body" all day but clearly there may be a second living entity that is not their body.

Nobody is willing to come propose a rational concept of when a baby's life begins. I suspect, these days, because it would result in a determination similar to Texas'.

Activists also say it's "men controlling women's bodies" but never acknowledge that half the voters are women.

I'm not even pro-life. But none of the pro-choice takes are in good faith. If you want to be perceived as rational and therefore be more convincing, (1) acknowledge that it is not a men-vs-women topic, and (2) propose a sane test for when life begins. Seems so bizarre that so many people supposedly believe in "science" but cannot figure out (2).
Man, they were still growing! Thinks of the nail children!
How do they prove it? Unless it’s by receipt from a radar gun which is how it works everywhere else.

We also require receipt, and there is no shenanigans with speed limits.
White is not the race you're looking at.
Abortion isn't analogous to pulling the plug on someone on life support. It's analogous to sending someone on life support on a guillotine. The fetus is violently killed during the process.
Which is inherent to the problem. The domain is the space of _all possible natural images_, it’s so big, it’s ridiculous. Fundamentally, these techniques do not analyze images like humans do, but are rather trained to pick out any salient signal it can latch on to. That seems to be “primates are mostly like humans but darker”, which is superficially true but a pretty weak definition as it includes dark skinned humans.
As someone who lives in Texas, this is very relevant to HN readership. I wouldn't move to Texas now if this law were in place, and if I needed people in the state I work think twice about creating a startup here these days.
Most Americans are pro-choice and like being able to vote. This is an aberration, a bit of theater, which means it gets a lot of attention. There will be political blowback in response to this.
Bizarre to me as we here (Switzerland) have mixed changing rooms at pools and water parks. If you prefer more privacy you can use one of the little curtain booths but you will see breasts and men's junks irregardless. Saunas are also usually mixed except for the women only days. I have been to these places many times as a kid and it did not traumatize me or any other kid.
This occasionally gets brought up as an example in the context of problems with AI, but is it at all relevant?

Per Gwern[0]:

> (...) There appear to be several similar AI-related leprechauns: the infamous Tay bot, which was supposedly educated by 4chan into being evil, appears to have been mostly a simple ‘echo’ function (common in chatbots or IRC bots) and the non-“repeat after me” Tay texts are generally short, generic, and cherrypicked out of tens or hundreds of thousands of responses, and it’s highly unclear if Tay ‘learned’ anything at all in the short time that it was operational;

[0] https://www.gwern.net/Leprechauns, self-recommending
Fortunately, they do. Well, it is easier tbf, you eat beef = a cow died for it.
regarding “voter suppression”. Do you require an ID to vote in UK? I don’t get why is this controversial in US…
But why did this "immediate issue" even need a fix? What problem was it causing, other than making Microsoft look bad by showing that the real problem exists? Imagine if a file sharing site said they'd scan all uploads for viruses, but it turns out they weren't, which someone discovered by uploading EICAR. Should the site hardcode a check to block EICAR until they actually get virus scanning working?
Did the headline change?

The web page is titled, “ Merciless Apple M1 Mac mini takes AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX Mini PC to pieces in benchmark obstacle course”.
Yeah, the only odd one out here is England with it's US-like disdain for workers' rights, tenants' rights, paid college education, general idea that poor people deserve to suffer and raci^H^H^H^Hhate for immigration.
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What this argument is like without virtue signaling or the brainwashing from civil rights:

Free the rapist. Kill the baby. What a sick society.

All this because you can't control your crotch. I wish you were the one aborted. No one wants to follow you around fixing your mistakes and cleaning up after you.

Send the father to war to die. Raise the child against his parents. All three of them failed at what even amoeba can do.

Everyone else who had the now luxury of birth gets through the day without a problem. The world would really be nice if we did not have these discussions, as in, you weren't in it.
Yeah, but it shows some real lack of care to fall into the same edge case that Google was widely criticized for 3 years ago.
I didn't get very far in this because the body type is set too small to read on a smartphone screen.
Thats not how anything works. Having impact and having control over impact are two totally different things. You can get one atom to produce a nuclear chain reaction and level the planet, but that specific atom doesnt get into a position to do that by itself. If Peter Thiel had control over anything why run away and hide in New Zealand?

These people are like that atom. They do have special traits and play a role in pulling enough chimps together and starting reactions sort of like uranium. But once you understand the process and know how to find uranium there are much more interesting things to do than worship the uranium.
One consistent theme I see here is possible stability for investors.

Bookkeeping works and is that crowded of a space, so maybe with enough cash they can get some ROI. Same for food delivery.

I’m not saying this is good, and I could be wrong here. This is just an observation.

But… if you look at what happened to music in the last 20ish years you see basically the same shift away from creativity and variety and a focus on repeating what works.

I think starting a company these days has become much easier without funding though, so real hungry entrepreneurs _can_ bring excitement and creativity to this game.
You can vote regardless of vaccine status so they aren't relevant.
Brexit was a vote by the ignored masses on important issues.

I bet my life it wouldn't have happened if the UK gov implemented the same workers protections and immigration rules as Germany, for example.
No, as much as I don't like it, he is correct. Especially South Texas.

A large factor is immigrants that went through the tedious years long drudgery that is the legal process for US citizenship being really pissed at the fact some may not have to go through the aforementioned like they did - misery loves company or something like that.

Another is that these immigrants and minorities are typically fairly uneducated and truly believe the man with the golden shitter is actually like them and is going to help them.

And some of it is trying to fit in with the preexisting community. If you're a brown person in a town of white religious/nationalistic fanatics that typically do not like brown people, vowing your loyalty to their guy is typically a quick way to fit in a bit better.
> So-called "pro-lifers" are also, generally, against other forms of birth-control, including pills and condoms.

You might need a source on this one. This certainly applies to some religious types, but is it a "general" truth for people who would pass the heartbeat law? A law which still allows abortion but identifies a test for when life begins? I don't think so.
You should try Feedly. It’s like that but without the baggage of being owned by a company that suffers from ADHD.
> Luckily in America we can just move to a state where reasonable people run things.

Wait 4 years, or 2 years for a recall…
Genuine question: Is that an argument for abortion only on extreme circumstances or for abortion in general?
Actual paper is discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28405847
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Last time I tried to find a pro-life organization that wasn't also anti birth control, I couldn't find one. I suspect that's because they were funded mostly by the catholic church.
Insisting on keeping things apolitical is a political statement in itself, just in favor of the status quo, rather than in opposition.

You can't escape politics.
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lol we used to use Back Orifice to mess with friends on ICQ, yeah, I'm old. I know.
To me it is just a reminder that AI based picture recognition is not a perfect science and that I should fight any and all attempts to include it in places where it could cause most harm ( policing comes to mind ).
It wasn't in anyway special or unique. Though, it was a good app and it took competitors several months to years to reach a similar level. But Google Reader dominated the market back then, and them closing it was a kind of signal. It was around that time that other rss-related services went into decline, while competing solutions like social networks and reddit were on their hype-train to popularity.

So it's kinda natural that people saw the shutdown of Google Reader as a death-flag for Newsfeeds as a whole. And they are not so wrong on this. The decline continued since then and so far there is nothing in sight to reverse it and start a new hype.
Ask HN: Homebrew/bintray down, giving 403 for prebuilt binaries?
I'm having constant errors trying to download prebuilt bottles to my Macs, and trying the URLs manually gives a 403. Anyone know what the matter is?

==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/rust-1.48.0.big_sur.bottle.

#=#=-# #

curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 403 Forbidden

Error: Failed to download resource "rust"

Download failed: https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/rust-1.48.0.big_sur.bottle.tar.gz
> What about vaccine passports?

Vaccine passports are not a voting restriction in New York, or anywhere else in the US.
Why is it just metabolic support that is the qualifier here? A child is still very dependent on caregivers for years after exiting the birth canal, and in many cases a child remains dependent on the mother's metabolic processes when thy receive breastmilk. Why is it acceptable to kill the child before exiting the birth canal but not after?
Success is always a result of a confluence of abilities and circumstances. There has to be a good impedance match between what you can do and the state of the world so that what you do is exactly what the world needs at that point in time. Too early or too late and you fail.
I'll help you - and yes, it was a struggle:

"The use of lower case in writing as resistance [against the instances of assignment of importance that come with capitalization] in order to support the expression of indigenous aboriginal culture".

The composer clearly has different interests than those you recommend.

About capitalization and attribution of importance: we do process those implicits already, as per "the manual".

I am not sure the cause that the formulator wanted to promote is defended by having people use energies to decrypt. One is satisfied with the exercise, but then sees the expense as largely futile.

Other notes would be possible, but they would be further expense. The writer clearly remained in a world of assumptions similar to "the world is changed by imposing images". Probably itself an image clinger.
Because many poor and specific minority groups people don’t have IDs. These laws are specifically designed knowing that these groups rarely vote Republican yet are big enough group to make a dent.
Are there any web sites that have beautiful typography?
Before this, the earliest example that people had found was 1862

https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/hfo-emoticon/
Well, maybe some do, but I don't see similar efforts to restrict access to pills and condoms. Mostly arguments on these involve access by youth, whether to give them away for free, and whether insurance should pay for them. Some nutty evangelicals may want them banned, I suppose.

I should have been clearer. What we are really questioning is what counts as a human life. These days many babies that would have died from premature birth can be delivered early and survive; that line moves further back in pregnancy every year.
This.

And _nothing_ looks tappable/clickable either. A prime example why the web is an interactive medium, different from print.
A question that I never see anyone ask: how easy is it to expand the capacity?

RAID apparently requires drives of matching capacity. Can't create a storage pool from a heterogeneous set of drives and can't expand capacity over time by buying new drives.

Btrfs almost supports this. Their RAID5/6 parity implementation still has problems.
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I don't see the point in mentioning it. Some people skydive. Some people prefer dogs over cats.

What's the point?
>But do you really think that any other phone you buy... doesn't have exactly the same problems, only they're still keeping it secret from you?

At the moment, ALL of the other smartphone models (except iPhone soon) don't have this problem. There's no reason to bother with client-side given the current server-side implementations and this scanning can't be hidden for long.
I do think abortion is a complicated ethical issue and us discussing it here in a few paragraphs won't do it justice, but if the mother can choose to create it, why can't the mother choose to un-create it? I'm not sure why assigning responsibility to the mother for creating it doesn't come with the benefit of destroying it too. And this is not even getting into well ok fine you make a mother go through with it, now you pay taxes for it when the mother walks away and says "well I didn't want a baby in the first place, you deal with it".

You might say, well but then that means the mother could "abort" a baby that's 2 years old or was just born or something. Well I'd say sure in a state of nature. But since we have a society we don't have to kill the child and someone else can just take care of it.

I think there are some reasonable parameters. Conception? Not reasonable to call that murder. A week before birth? Yea that looks a whole lot like murder to me. I don't think most reasonable people who are ok with abortion would see the argument that the mother has an ultimate right to destruction when so close to birth. But where they give, anti-abortion proponents take and get to the point where you start banning contraceptives and don't allow someone who maybe is safely having sex and a condom breaking to get an abortion.

And this is saying nothing about the stupid website like it's some sort of intellectual purge under Maoist China or Stalinist Russia. This is exactly the kind of thing that authoritarian regimes love or would love to implement and it's easy to see the slipper slope toward, well, why don't we start reporting people who are suspected of being "white nationalists" or Christians?
This feels more of a “sharing of private medical information” group than either of those
IANAL, but the word you are looking for is intent:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intention_(criminal_law)

If it's clear the mother went to the woods to create this environment to kill the child, then a state could consider prosecuting.

If there was a plane crash and it was clear that the mother was distraught and this was a side effect of the crash, I don't think most states with prosecute, but again, depends on the state.
Jesus, dude. I rather specifically said I'm aware that this is a normal way cultures go out and I'm perfectly happy to be American rather than whatever obscure Native Mexican tribe I'd have been a part of otherwise. And I'm well aware the Aztecs were no better than the Conquistadores.

All I'm asking is everyone here, including you, take a look in the mirror and read some history when you start trying to set your particular tribe up as somehow uniquely charitable and forgiving in contrast to the ultimate tyranny of American college students. You guys are vandalizing this comments section with hysteria around how the "woke" are so uniquely uncharitable to those they deem as ideologically other while showing absolutely no charity to any of the people you're setting up as bogeyman. Where does this cycle end?
But it's not! Your simply-posted question has no simple answer. Categorization of "is this a baby" works well when deciding if a 1-year old is a baby (yes); if a rock is a baby (no). Is a 2 year old? Is a fetus? The "baby" categorization is unsuitable for this.
Still happening... :/
> I also like that they distinguish between "sensitive" (talks about something potentially controversial) and "unsafe" (profanity, hate speech, etc.). This seems a lot more nuanced than what Copilot is doing.

However, I wanted to use GPT-3 as a writing assistant. You know, to build a tool similar to what e.g. NovelAI has. Whatever dark magic they've done to GPT-J-6B is, well, hard to credit -- but GPT-3 is still better.

There appears to be no way to do so while obeying the ToS. Not just because of sensitive content (e.g. fiction often contains violence), but there are even rules about how much of the output can be written by humans vs. the AI.
I wonder how it would classify this bald chimp: https://www.flickr.com/photos/amandaweeding/3024567966
Dystopia? The wealthiest and most successful nations are built on the principles of classical liberalism / libertarianism.
There were thousands of others who also started companies at the time, and yet have not enjoyed success, seeing their companies go into bankruptcy in the nascent 2.0 era.
The cynic in me believes that the ambiguity is intentional, because it allows us as adults to have a greater ability to escape the consequences of our actions. (Excepting rape, etc.)

I'm pro-choice, it just seems like a truth people don't want to acknowledge.
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https://practicaltypography.com/ is pretty great.
as a Thelemite I believe in exposing hypocrites and vengeance on the weak. you don't understand because you can't understand Marxism but don't worry. they will consume themselves in blood and fire just as every leftist does when they reach ascendency.
"expecting to break 7-figs in 2022, and believe I will reach 8 figs by 2023 or earlier"

That will be something and would love to learn why/how you think you can achieve that being bootstrapped. Going from 1M to 10M in 1 year being bootstrapped has to be something special. Not doubting but just wondering how you believe you can achieve this without funding/extra money ?
Financial literacy is a passport to financial freedom
Here are those limits: https://www.votetexas.gov/faq/early-voting.html

They really don’t seem draconian to me.
I recently watched a documentary that showed how they create these nature scenes. Especially for insects and small animals, it is not nature rather a professionally created set in a controlled environment.
There is a world of nuanced discussion between flippant dismissal and outrage. Please let’s try to shoot for somewhere in the middle.
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I receive almost all of my income via PayPal, and have done so for more than a decade. I could complain about the APIs, the clunky website and the very occasional odd behavior, but in the broad picture, PayPal offers me wider global coverage than any other payment processor, and a micropayment fee schedule that makes it viable to get paid mostly in amounts of US$1 to US$10.

It could be done better, but PayPal does it well enough.
Is it an interesting way of looking at things. It certainly helps to explain why some people have a need to first 'dedumanize' a victim by attaching an appropriate label to ensure that what they are doing is not done to a human being. It is an interesting idea, but I am not sure it is accurate depiction of reality.
> However, the recent stuff - abortion and voting rights being eroded - has just knocked me sideways. I'd have said they were un-American. Now, I don't know what to think. I really mean this. Was I always wrong?

Anti-abortionism has always been a core pillar of the GOP's social policy because it's highly popular with the religious demographics that make up much of their base, even people who might otherwise not vote for them (e.g. some Catholics). After a Republican president had the chance to seat 3 judges, it's logical that red states would start a war against Roe v. Wade. We saw this coming as soon as Trump got his second SCOTUS judge, and when RBG died the writing was on the wall.

No matter how strongly I feel about abortion, the election stuff is more acutely concerning after seeing the degree to which powerful state- and local-level politicians were willing to kowtow to Trump and repeat his baseless lies in the fallout from the 2020 election. These are political hacks with zero regard for the integrity of our electoral process, and with some changes to local election law (like we've been seeing across the country, predicated on lies about election fraud), they may just accomplish in 2024 what they were trying to do in 2020. I would call it a relatively new trend, and it is fucking frightening. They are learning that the more they corrupt the process, the less anybody is able to hold them to account, and their mendacity and depravity seem to know no bounds.
When did we decide corporations need to have a stance on most political issues? It seems some are genuine but more are trying to simply appease stakeholders.
If you want to talk state-by-state, then remember that California is right up there with Florida. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109004/coronavirus-covi...

Though, I don't know why you brought in florida, or some talking head like Carlson. Doesn't really seem relevant. Since you do care this much about the use of the vaccine, it might be worth looking into the coalitions of doctors and experts that are opposed to (or just suspicious of) the vaccine. Otherwise you're just making a strawman.
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The main problem with wokeness is it creates a bunch of divisions in the population into smaller and smaller sections which are "incompatible." which means that concerted efforts between the bottom 70% are seriously diluted because very few people are interested in coordinating between these lines.

Not to mention it's a prolific and constant distraction from real topics of interest, and is at best superficial, and identity issues can be drummed up infinitely. But it generates user interaction, and inundates them, and dissolves community. These are all big wins for those at the top, whether they're aware of it or not. Personally I like to assume that it's automatic, user interaction whether sympathetic or indignant is sells, inundation is the nature of the medium, the dissolution of community is just an aside.
I went contracting after the last permanent position turned out to be another dead end. Now I've given up and just work enough to pay the bills so I can avoid programming as much as possible.
That's nice. I'm stealing it for Lindy and Balboa.