skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A six-week old fetus would not grow into a life without a womb, and in my opinion the government should not get a right to force someone to provide one if they disagree.

But while I accept that this argument may be contested and there may be a debate on "generic abortion" in "benign circumstances", a key issue here is a non-exceptions law (it's six weeks even in case of rape or incest), which to me seems absolutely indefensible.

Let's look at a hypothetic but realistic example of a thirteen year old girl who is eight weeks pregnant after being raped by her mother's boyfriend. Would it be morally acceptable to prevent her from getting an abortion and force the victimized kid to carry it to term? If someone's answer is yes or maybe, then IMHO that does pass into the territory of just "a desire to cause misery" and their moral compass is so outrageously immoral that any of their arguments with respect to morality should be ignored without listening/reading. If the answer is no, then a law that implements a blanket ban without allowing for such circumstances (the example may seem outrageous but such cases, sadly, are not that rare) is not morally justifiable if it does not enable abortions at least in such cases.

What I'm trying to say is that this particular law is so outrageous that I would expect that both sides of the ordinary "pro-choice" vs "pro-life" argument should be against this particular law, because it does go to essentially misogynic extremes that do not have a sufficient justification in all the reasonable "pro-life" arguments.
Speaking in terms of a broad historical context, using tactics of dehumanizition to justify whatever it is you're doing typically puts you in really good company!
Oh I'm totally against forced pronoun labeling, if you read my other reply in this thread.

I'm just saying that the general concept of it if you're trans/non-binary (and WANT a particular pronoun used) is helpful for people who otherwise wouldn't know.

I think it's become commonplace enough that people don't jump to the conclusion you're trans/non-binary if you put a pronoun next to your username.

> Many people, including those who are not transgendered, are also uncomfortable with being forced to hyper-identify with their gender.

Preaching to the choir, my partner is intergender but biologically female/female-presenting. I like to think I have at least some degree of understanding.
“Aren't people primates?”

Words have meaning on multiple levels.

On a technical level, yes, all humans are primates, but if the algorithm were following this rule, it would tag all humans in all photos as primates, but it didn’t do that. It only tagged black people.

That takes us to a social meaning level. In this context, you have to consider the long, racists history of dehumanizing black people. They have often been called “monkey” and “ape” with the intent to degrade and to segregate them from “people”.

In that light, and the fact that the label was not applied in all cases where appropriate, it is hard to see it as anything but racist. Probably not deliberately but if the training material contained racist material, it could bias the result. Even if the training material was inadvertently unbalanced and contained very few black faces, the algorithm would have less experience with black faces and would not know how to categorize them as well as white faces.

This is analogous to people who grow up and live largely isolated from close associates with those of other races. Their experiences are filled with varied samples of interactions with people of their own race, but are poor in samples with other races. In the case where we have less experience, we tend to fall back on broad stereotypes and our reactions show strong racial bias.
Why not just ask the AI what she meant?

LIME - Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations comes to mind.

As far as I do understand the classification was the tagging 'primate' on a video of people with different color of skin and different facial features.

The interpretation, that our Lady AI meant harm to the people with dark skin color with tagging them as primates is a loading of the viewer.

By the way,´a great new opportunity for cyber lawyers and machine inquisitors.
What are the databases that support RAMP? Is Apache Ignite one such implentation?
And the 10th leaves the determination of that in the hands of the States, barring an amendment to the US Constitution.

Then there's the rabbit hole that is judicial review. And if constitutional protections need not be explicitly mentioned, why can't States assert that the right of judicial review is theirs, without the need to overturn or continue to respect Marbury v Madison.
I was suspended from school for things like this circa 1997. It was all relatively harmless but absolutely against the letter of the law. I wonder what would happen today to a young person exploring computer security and getting caught in shenanigans at school. Would they go to prison?
Not only that, but some in the modern generation seem to genuinely see hackers as the scum of the earth
It is not incorrect by a dictionary definition, but there are other ways of being incorrect. If I identified you at a party by saying "fallingknife is the ape sitting on the sofa" you would probably interpret it differently than if I had said "fallingknife is the person sitting on the sofa". Both are correct, but most people wouldn't interpret them as equally polite or friendly.

Members of the set "person" are also members of the superset "ape", but that's irrelevant because the connotations are different, and it's the connotations that are annoying people.
Wow, and here I thought I was making a good joke. These people have no shame.

At least they're probably getting a better service than with GoDaddy!
It's a business, they can refuse who ever they want (same as the cake business). Sure a bunch of people might get angry, but if GoDaddy disagrees with the business, kick them off. It's always been this way, I am not sure why people are caring about it now. GoDaddy has kicked thousands of sites/customers off their platform for a variety of reasons.

It's not like GoDaddy is the only option.
The United States government already pays 2/3rds of healthcare costs.
But the problem is that there isn't any primates/non-white humans differentiation because humans are primates. I doubt anybody smart enough to be an AI engineer of any race would care if they were called a primate, because they are.
The new law lets anyone sue someone (other than a medical staff) who “abet” an abortion.

So the “reporting” would be on someone other than the person having an abortion. Let’s say, a boyfriend who pays for an abortion.

The person doing the reporting is someone other than the “abettor” or the person getting an abortion. Let’s say the boyfriends ex-wife.

Once a certain number of people know about something, it’s not private.

Even current medical privacy laws, and including abortion laws, don’t create any privacy obligations for non-commercial third partied, much less fourth parties.

If my ex-boyfriend tells me he helped his girlfriend get an abortion, I have no obligations to keep this secret. As it should be.

This website allowed fourth parties to communicate with fifth parties (Texas Right to Life).

Think about this: someone is informing an anti-abortion organization about an abortion.

At this point the cat is out of the bag. It’s not a secret. It’s in the open. It’s public.

Imagine if social media organizations decided to treat abortions the same way they treat CSAM, revenge porn, the identity of intelligence officers, nuclear secrets, copyright violations, and misinformation about COVID.

Is that what we want? Some people do. I’m sure there’s a constituency for that.

But notice how the we are descending down a slope.

Maybe we should be doing that. But let’s do it with our eyes open and with rigorous debate that results in action.

That’s not how GoDaddy approached this.
The French Revolution actually marked the end of France ever being considered a super power again. The entire western world mocks their pathetic legal system
> and BDSed

What does this acronym mean?
we also keep forgetting we're 66% just water
Not sure about the culture of Americans with Hispanic heritage, but in actual Spanish countries, at least the ones I have experience with, @ is common (and a bit old), e is somewhat common and x is pretty much unheard of.
We do not, in general, recognize that ordinary people have a legal non-emergency duty to save others.

Assuming that a foetus is a child, why should the mother have a legal obligation to keep it in her body? If it existed outside her, but required a kidney transplant to live, would she also be legally obligated to give it one? As far as I am aware that procedure is at lot less dangerous/damaging to a womans body than a pregnancy.

I can't see a logical argument against abortion that doesn't require any person to give up a kidney that a stranger need.
Huh? I've been getting

> Sorry, I can't find that page :-/

for several months
It'd be a real shame if someone were to take the Pzifer COVID vaccine, slap a ivermectin label on it, and then sell it to people searching for ivermectin. Real, real shame.
In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNgzxQmM3AU Dr. Daniel Griffin talks about the data not being in yet either way. But the studies are underway.
Do you think every single political or religious group would be protected? If that's the case, everyone would be in one and nobody would be "not protected".
It's not because of ivermectin, it's because people are eating a paste that is literally used to deworm horses. It's no babble, it's the product description.

https://www.horsehealthproducts.com/all-products/horse-healt...

"Provides effective treatment and control of the following parasites in horses:
large and small strongyles, pinworms, ascarids, hairworms, large-mouth stomach worms, bots, lungworms, intestinal threadworms and summer sores caused by Habronema and Draschia spp. cutaneous third-stage larvae.
Removes worms and bots with a single dose"
Technically, spying on someone involves the element of the subject not knowing that they are being watched.

In this case, if you haven't been following this CSAM scandal and making use of iCloud as usual, should Apple turn this enigma machine on, you don't know your device is being used to spy on you.

Am sure Apple will employ the best brains to craft some form of legalese to make sure you tick the "accept" button without fully understanding what it means in the event they roll out.
One use case I see is if you're using Nix for all your local development, but Docker in production (because it's the easiest these days: package an image, give it to ECS/Fargate or equivalent and it's good to go).

You're not using Docker in development because of the sync issues on Mac between the host and the containers, but ideally you still want as much as possible the development and production environment parity (same versions of dependencies, etc). You can build your Docker images with Nix to ensure the dependencies versions you're developing with will be the same in prod.
Britain charts a new course for satellite navigation
I get some of the conspiracy theories that pop up and why people might believe them, but this ivermectin crap has never made sense to me. In what way is an anti-parasitic drug supposed to help a viral lung infection?

I've asked a few people that believe in this ivermectin nonsense to explain exactly how this drug helps against covid. I've yet to receive any explanation as to the mechanism by which ivermectin treats covid that didn't devolve into some unbelievably stupid shit about pleomorphic bacteria and viruses not actually existing.

Why this has taken off just leaves me scratching me head. It just makes no sense.
Reminds me of the way MS used to identify their software version [1]. It seems it is still how they pragmatically solve their problems :)

[1]

if (version.StartsWith(“Windows 9”))
{ /* 95 and 98 */
} else {

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windo...
It is illegal to get it without a court order, no?
How Unleash is using open source feature management to make devs more efficient
Is "white" really even a race? There's a lot of distinct people in Europe. Are Spaniards, Portugese, Italians "white" are Slavs "white"? Scottish or Irish? Germans? Where do we draw the line of distinction? Or are we just going off skin color?
I know – but there's no technical reason they shouldn't have more complex relationships between labels (assuming you can train that, which I don't know). If we can't get better training data, at least trying to fix the problem at the algorithms (instead of slapping crude filters on the end of them) would be nice.
The mere idea of basilisks was enough to make the rationalist community self-destruct.
> Is the world they have created better?

I would question the notion that they have created a world, better or worse. They definitely put themselves in a place to profit from the way the world was changing, though, and to influence the shape it would take on the margins.

> Is this a photo of robber barons or liberators?

Why not both? And why not add: opportunists, megalomaniacs, utopians, idealists, "people who can afford failure with little personal lifestyle risk".
How big is your farm? I’ve had the same idea, although I eventually went with a 1999 GMC Savana auctioned off the county because it was only $5000 early this year. I’m in Seattle where it’s wet all the time so I like the fact that it is in closed. And it can easily fit 4 x 8 plywood in the cargo area.
Maybe it's a buggy HTTPS redirect in GP's browser? Due to HSTS or something?

The HTTP version of your URL works fine. The HTTPS version has an expired cert. If I click past that, it redirects to redis.io, then gives a 404.

I know antirez is a smart guy, but if this is some kind of "I'm taking a bold stance against HTTPS" then I'd rather read the archive.org link with functioning HTTPS. My threat model prefers trusting archive.org to correctly reproduce the blog, over trusting everyone between me and antirez.com.
Arguing against disparity of group outcomes is not arguing for equality of outcome at the individual level.

It is arguing that there are no differences between groups that justifies disparities unless there are biases or oppression.

Even if he is wrong, this still does not become an argument for individual equality of outcome.
The offense would be entirely based on the fact that I know you know the correct label, and there is emotional processing behind your word choice, neither of which is true in the case of AI.
Been using systemd for personal project deployments for quite a while now after leaving ZEIT (Vercel) and the year or so fighting endlessly with k8s and docker's shortcomings.

I love it. It does everything I need it to, it's fast, decently documented, supports everything Docker does (just not 1:1 in terms of DX) and is present wherever I need it.
Works with pure HTTP. Try it in curl? Also see my sister comment for elaboration
You can't say vaccine hesitancy hasn't been well earned. It's not like the US doesn't have a history of lying about medical procedures performed on misinformed citizens...

Fool me once, shame on you [Tuskegee]. Fool me twice, shame on me [MKULTRA]. Fool me three times...
Typically you'll only see those signs on establishments that serve alcohol, and that is just a CYA. Any group who can demonstrate that they were refused service due to being a protected class (such as a bar that refuses to serve alcohol to disabled people, as an arbitrary example) will still be acting illegally and likely face prosecution.
I've always wanted a kei truck since I first saw one in a movie in the 1980s. They seem to be legal here in the UK, where I've recently relocated from America, so getting one might be in the cards some day, when we're not living in the London burbs with no parking.

I had a 96 Toyota T-100 4WD in Vegas and I loved it. Used to carry a shit ton of wood and building materials with it, and I built a small shelving and storage unit inside the camper shell with a 5gal water tank and a small DIY swamp cooler that ran off a 5v USB fan and water pump powered off a solar charger and battery pack that could keep the temperature down to survivable in there even in the Mojave summer. I used to take her out to BLM land and camp happily in the deep desert.

I do wonder about trying to fit my 6'3" gigantor Texan ass in one of these though.
There’s the 25 year rule and then there is California. In NC I can import any 25 year old car, when I was in CA it still needed to get a sign off from the state BAR. They work on a different set of rules. You can register it in another state without the hassle you just risk getting tickets for not being CA registered.
Debugging your startup when things aren't working
The right to do what you want with your body is too
The license applies to the entity that created those two distros, and if the same entity(ies) runs those subreddits, it applies to them.

They license linux from linus (and fsf generally), they are licensees as much as licensers
Aha I read over that one! Thanks
I was referring to HN'rs reaction to the article, not the article itself.
German federal govt. to require 7 years of updates for mobile phones
Who prioritises your bugs then? For my teams we've almost always done bugfixes outside the sprint effort with developers' own initiative. We follow crash reports and prioritise ourselves with never even telling the PO we fixed something. Product owner is left with feature ownership and doesn't have to know about the day-to-day operations except for the metrics that have business impact.
They didn’t lose it. Lighter tones were more popular with potential mates and resulted in gradual whitening over time.
They also had the perspective of seeing countless failures to give them a sense of what might actually work.

The initial success may have included a bit of luck, but after that there was a degree of experience as well.
I think you can approach this problem a couple of ways:

1)Head-on: talk to you manager and your manager’s manager and be direct. Explain your frustration about your role and why you like the work. You have had value to the company in the past, and the company is invested in you for several years. See if they can or want to change.

2) Silently Bail: start looking around while you’ve got a comfy role that you can work in. Keep looking until you find the right role at the right comp.

For what it’s worth, even though I’ve engaged in the latter more than the former, I recommend the 1st. Communication is always the better option. If you’re feeling this way, others are probably too. The company needs to be aware of this, and the rest of leadership needs to see what’s happening. Hiring a bunch of people to replace your experienced engineers is difficult to make a net positive.
That's silly, the Government and FED have already shown us that they can create Trillions of $$$ out of nothing. So I wouldn't worry too much.
Yes good things came out of it, but those things weren't actually foresighted. You can't make me believe we have to blow bombs in space to measure weather, detect radiation or mitigate it.

They never ever actually had to proper equipment to even measure any results.. It was by luck we got to notice the changes in earths magnetic field.
Doesn't that just encourage a positive feedback loop? On a large scale, fleeing a poorly run state increases the likelihood that those running the state continue to do so, while also increasing polarization. It often seems that the goals of both parties are to push so hard to their own side that the other party will magically capitulate. But as we've seen for at least the last 20 years, and likely much longer, every issue can be framed as an existential threat, where the only acceptable way forward is to double down.
Exactly, I have no reason to doubt that the vast majority of ivermectin users are taking it as an alternative to and not in tandem with a free vaccine, and vaccine inaccessibility is way down in the list of justifications unvaccinated people give in polls.
> I can understand why 'they' is chosen as a way to introduce neutrality of gender but it pains me that this also introduces of ambiguity of plurality.

Me too, deeply, but I've solved this: What we need to do is update plural they/them/theirs to theys/thems/theirses.
I'm interested to hear more about your experience with it if you're willing to share.
I just prefer nice, long, descriptive function names.

I was working on an unfamiliar codebase yesterday and had to work with the postMessage function. It was React, so one might assume that it sends the message to the backend, which was my initial assumption. Nope. It posted it to the page. Didn't help that another utility had another postMessage that was about what to do after the message was sent.
> Bad things will happen. Don't need to be a scientist to understand that.

I think it's a mistake to look at past errors this way, as if it was obvious and easy. The reality is that, in foresight, the risk is uncertain, it's hard to get other people to face with unseen risks, and that all applies to yourself too.

And all that makes it very hard to get yourself to stand up to social pressure and assert a risk that is uncertain and unseen to you. If you are wrong - or even if you are right, but it's a 50-50 chance of disaster (or 25-75 or 10-90, all much too dangerous) and the dice roll is fortunate - you look like a fool. If you are right, you rarely get credit in a situation like that - you've just made everyone else look bad.

The way to look at something like Starfish Prime is to ask: given the human dynamics described above, how do we set up systems to prevent such outcomes? How could I handle it effectively, even in the absence of such systems?
The problem with audio processing has always been latency. Are there functional programming languages out there which can guarantee bounds on latency?
This whole narrative is ragebait. According to the article, the number of calls went up from 133 to 459. In percentage terms, that's an enormous jump, but it absolute terms, it's still basically nothing. There are 55 poison control centers in the country, so this works out to 8 or 9 cases per center.

The only reason this is a story at all is because NPR and its allies want to sustain the narrative that there are an enormous number of people attempting to self-medicate with ivermectin, and therefore that we need to further clamp down on free speach and ostracise and punish anyone who isn't going along with the mainstream narrative. Like most "news" these days, it's blatantly propagandistic in its content and intent.
Ironically the people I know that are the most extreme on the social justice spectrum are also the most likely to talk about how justice shouldn't be about revenge and we should focus on rehabilitation wherever possible. Which I agree with (although might have a more skeptical take on how often it's possible). But then it's hilarious to see the same people turn around and post in detail about how some case of sexual assault or racism should be punished vindictively.

Sometimes I at least understand the urge to be emotional in response to a story, other times the desired punishment seems absurdly disproportionate. Regardless, there is a clear ideological conflict with wanting to rehabilitate murderers!