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Ironically, abortion is in fact a continuation of civil rights, society is just still in the dark ages on it. Society has been dehumanizing people to deny them basic rights forever, the civil rights movement has been the fight against that, and today the most dehumanized group is unwanted babies.

The civil rights struggle has largely been about society coming to terms with oppressed groups being worthy of having equal human rights, whether that was on the basis of race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, disability, whatever. Suggesting that a fetus doesn't deserve a right to live is no different than suggesting that any other marginalized, dehumanized group doesn't.

In essence, human rights for the unborn today are where human rights for Black people were in the 1850s. Hopefully someday we'll treat young life with the same respect we treat old life.
The most obvious question is whether or not the sexual gaze and power dynamic happens in reverse.

The answer is of course, yes. From male strippers, to host clubs in Japan (compared to hostess clubs), and so on.

The next obvious question is whether or not this happens outside the traditional gender role with people who identify as queer or non-gendered?

And yeah, it seems to.

That suggests to me that this piece has missed the underlying cause.
That is true for some subset of wealthy parents, and if they want to pay extra for exclusivity, that's their choice. But I think it's reasonable to assume that the parents of the 90% of K-12 students who attend public or charter schools [1] are prioritizing cost over exclusivity.

It's true that many families will pay more to buy a house in a good school district, but I suspect that the school itself isn't the whole story: rather, many people interpret the school district's reputation as a proxy for the safety of the neighborhood and socio-economic status of its residents, as well as a proxy for their own socio-economic status.

Ulimately, I suspect that with the free market voucher system I described in my parent comment, legacy private schools would continue to charge outrageous tuition. But I think we'd also see some new, possibly virtual "bang for your buck" schools which would compete on price and which would be exclusive due to entrance exams and high academic expectations for enrolled students.

[1] https://www.edweek.org/leadership/education-statistics-facts...
Mitigating the Log4Shell vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) on DietPi
A top comment on one of the most popular websites in the world is calling for the death of a politician based on no evidence whatsoever. Perhaps this is normal to you, but not to me, or any of the advertisers who pay money to advertise on Reddit.

If you think that it's normal to call for the death of a politician based on no evidence of a crime, then perhaps other lower-quality websites may be a better fit for you, rather than Hacker News?
I have never done what you describe, except perhaps in times of illness when it was understood that working less was a reasonable accommodation (in that particular case, I had leftover brain fog from general anesthesia).

I've never heard of any colleagues doing it either. I would never snitch if it happened, but I would certainly consider that person untrustworthy or think that they have an undisclosed condition that is between them and HR.

As you covered in your post, we don't write code 8 hours a day. This is normal. Meetings, context switch and times when focus is unachievable are expected and mostly understood by my experienced management. So are times when we are monitoring technology advancement and keeping an eye on the industry and community (e.g. lurking at HN but not overly posting and commenting) and times of social activity between workers (e.g. talking about the weekend).

Most of us take mental health breaks between meetings and need to take time to think through issues. Many also need to periodically break focus to think about personal life issues or hobbies. As long as you generally strive to work, this is not a problem either.

But walking into a stand-up and then lying about your day? To me, that's unethical.

The real question to me is:

Do you do that on purpose or is this something that happens even if you are trying to focus? There are many conditions, from stress and anxiety to diagnosed mental health issues that can prevent you from focusing. Burn-outs and bore-outs also come to mind.

In my eyes, the fact that you asked the community about it shows that you have some form of concern towards that behavior. Would you say it is negatively impacting your life?
Having congress not trade stocks does not inhibit the free market economy. In facts it makes it even more free by not allowing people in government with inside information to make money off of and manipulate the market to their liking. I've said it on so many of my other comments but no member of congress should be allowed to trade securities(or their immediate family members).
It was expensive even compared to flight plus a hotel/bnb, minus the benefit of an actual hotel room with facilities, peace & quiet, grumpy-ass-conductor etc.
UX Things I've liked about this upgrade cycle on my desktop setup:

- More snap zones and ways to trigger snap

- Snap zones can be pulled up or switched to as a group

- More things moved in the Settings app

- Settings app is now uses a more traditional left pane navigation instead of a list of large boxes for touch

- Window layouts better remember and adapt to monitor changes (such as unplugging from an TV)

- AutoHDR

- Separate wallpapers to different virtual desktops (makes remembering where you are easier)

- Defaults to the new Windows Terminal

Some of the other changes (mica, new start menu, new context menu, rounded window look, new themes, taskbar tray area changes, variable Segoe UI, new Store, widgets) I'd call a wash. They are there and changed but overall I can't say any have been particularly noticeable or helpful like the above items.
Value is a human construct. I'm guessing the people who buy this land in the metaverse believe they can tell a convincing story around it's value and if enough people buy into that story it will indeed have that value.
And the emoluments clause doesn't say POTUS cannot own interest in foreign companies. That is a creative re-interpretation invented in 2016.
Rachel Weil, who started the FEMICOM Museum to highlight "girls games", has done extensive research on the Loopy. There's a good overview of her work on this recent episode of the Video Game History Hour podcast: https://gamehistory.org/ep-58-femicom-museum/. She has done a lot of work placing these games in context and defending their importance. Some of these sold in huge numbers but have basically no coverage in the traditional retro gaming spaces.

Unfortunately, the FEMICOM Museum website seems to be down right now (http://femicom.org/).
looks like we found nancy pelosi's hacker news account
The status quo is often justified though by an egalitarian argument: that is, if you let things happen "naturally" you would see all of the women end up with 30% of the men and the rest would be left with nothing.
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Maybe… but this is just one very easy example and also using something very obvious and visual.

I could also say “a Cheetah is like a lion but it’s smaller and has spots and runs a lot faster. And a leopard is like a lion but smaller and can climb trees and has spots.”

I could probably start with a house cat and describe an elephant if I wanted to and I’ll bet the kid would work it out.

The ability to take apart and reassemble knowledge is what I’m talking about here, not just add two simple bits of information together.
I've seen this a lot at large, cubical farm type places. I think you're just not in the 20% doing 80% of the work. Whether that's a mistake or genius, I think is debatable and depends on the person.
If tech could address these issues as construed, SF wouldn't be a shithole.

But the current "tech" cohort in San Francisco has (1) the most expensive housing in the U.S., (2) overdoses on the street and fecal matter everywhere, (3) the highest inequality in the U.S., (4) a hugely cutthroat and disingenuous culture, and (5) more bullshit jobs in marketing than you can imagine.

Do you really want the people that have made San Francisco into what it is trying to solve social problems for other people?
> making it impossible to query the records in a useful way even onsite

I agree. But this doesn't apply to members of Congress. Their trades are available online [1].

[1] https://www.smartinsider.com/politicians/
Solid recommendations from someone who has been in the trench for a long time, thanks!
1. I believe so as the house has a pretty wide latitude to set procedural and behavioral rules for members - this could run into issues if it forced any house members into legitimate hardship or violated religious freedoms.

2. The House Committee on Ethics[1] can recommend a few remedies including Censure and Expulsion - whether these are actually enacted is decided by a general floor vote by the whole House of Representatives.

3. The same body - the House Committee on Ethics would instigate an investigation into any suspected wrong-doings.

The House essentially has an internal police force - but whatever the Ethics Committee finds is then brought to a general house floor vote to decide on punishment. If the populace suspected the house was acting immorally the remedy is to change the representatives - these investigations are supposed to root out extreme violations of generally agreed norms in the short term, but a sea change requires the election of house members that will advocate for the new norms.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_...
I’ve been in the industry for over a decade at this point and I’ve found when I’m in the “wait” state, I just do whatever I want. If it works out, I show people and so far it’s always gone over well. If it doesn’t turn out, I don’t show anyone, and nobody seems to get excitable about what I’m doing.

I’m in that state right now, so I’m making an elastic search database and flapping grafana on top of it to injest and visualize all our logs. It’s been a pain point for a long time so I think it’ll go over well. I’m also compiling a c++ qt app to emscripten so we can host the app and connect with a smartphone instead of lugging a tablet around.
Author here. I just removed the previous section I had around using build tags because I realized I was using `// +build 1.18` instead of the correct `// +build go1.18`. Oops.
I know that at least on most common performance benchmarks these claims are measurably false (gpt-j has a number of key performance improvements to the equivalently sized models), and in particular code generation for 6B is very clearly a strength of GPT-J even above the 275B GPT-3. None of that is very controvertial as far as I can tell.

But even just subjectively, having used GPT-3 based AI Dungeon for fiction writing in the past until OpenAI forced them to censor outputs, effectively smothering it in its sleep, and now using NovelAI, which is a GPT-J-6B based alternative, EleutherAI's model is clearly a step above GPT-3 in most practical applications. And this isn't even getting into OpenAI's privacy/control issues.
As far as privacy is concerned, there's not much difference between using someone's browser and inviting them into you home. Imagine two people show up at your door. One is your trusted friend. The other is your landlord's friend, and you don't trust them.

Would it be a big deal for your landlord to push his friend in the door when you try to let your friend in? After all, he owns the home (you just pay for a license to use it), and he trusts his friend, so why should you care?
wait until you find out about vaadin
A lot of these problems can go away if we can get automation right and done soon enough (though it comes with other problems itself). With automation Western nations need not rely on immigrants as much for labor as their own populations decline and age. Some services can also become a lot cheaper, like food delivery and even the food itself.

I often think we frame things poorly. Wealth inequality is a problem the same way coal is a problem. It's the effects. The problem with global warming is the amount of infrared sensitive gases in the air. A coal fired plant that had zero net emissions (ccs) wouldn't be an issue. Similarly the problem with wealth is that if it is pooled up capitalism doesn't work because it needs a flow and exchange of goods to operate efficiently. Personally I don't care about the wealth gap and the top earners, I care about the bottom. If we can make all the essentials cheap enough it makes money far less valuable in the first place (solving the same problem but with different framing).
With a non-trivial (= much more realistic) length of your random number, how do you ever lose more than a fraction of a bit of entropy this way? Let's say you want a 16-character alphanumeric (a-zA-Z0-9) password. log₂ 62¹⁶≈95.267. Let's say you pull 96 bits and ignore the imbalance. Then you have 2×62¹⁶-2⁹⁶=16116640899382729306982711296 options with a probability of 2×2⁻⁹⁶ and 2⁹⁶-62¹⁶ options with a probability of just 2⁻⁹⁶. That comes out as around 95.203 bits of entropy, which isn't significantly different from 95.267. What obvious fault am I missing here?
It's the same as open source software, most people don't personally look at the source code of the Linux Kernel, but they trust it more than Windows because they know many thousands of others have looked at it and haven't found issues.

Open systems lead to less trust required, because anyone can verify and report issues. Open finance leads to less trust required because anyone can verify and report issues with the smart contracts.
> But at some point in Rust, and it may come soon, you'll encounter a higher step and if you don't fight it with concentration and dedication, you risk not overcome it.

Can any rustaceans give me an example of a "higher step" in rust would be?
Phoenix/LiveView looks pretty great, hopefully things start to swing this way.

I recently had to quickly add a front end feature that really should have been a separate web app to my main project at work (Vue SPA) to get ahead of some external audit.

Another team hastily built the back end + rest api. There's no filtering / pagination / anything nice in the api, so we just get back 1000s of records and do it all on the front end.

Found out prod deployment that it's used exclusively by contractors in India on very low power VDIs. So extremely bad performance. Doing it literally any other way would have probably been better, but something like LiveView would have been great for the interactivity. Although I don't want to go back to a world without static types.
When will it come to iPhone though? It's crazy that the far and away best programming experience on iPhone is Python!
Security consulting seems like a thing.
(this is the one I meant: https://github.com/BurntSushi/go-sumtype)
Windows 10 and 11 retail "user experience" seems to be written with telemetry in mind. You as a home user don't even need to pay for windows anymore if you are ok with the watermark. However you shouldn't mess with their telemetry-exporter-disguised-as-a-chrome-reskin golden egg.
Yes, crazy, but not exactly "nowhere". It "comes from" future earnings and the (projected) demand for US military protection and access to the markets which it enables. The bank (really the government) is helping you shift future consumption to the present, because you didn't save enough in the past. And why should you or anyone else be held personally accountable for not saving in the past? /s Because the US and its allies have god-like firepower, baby!

My mind was actually blown recently learning that fractional reserve banking has turned into a widely believed myth. Banks are still making low-interest loans and there's no reserve requirement!
This is probably going to generate a lot of controversy around these parts, but I'd argue that PHP is an equally good option to try these days if you're coming from the Node world and want to try something "new". If you keep an open mind, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised, and end up being able to build actual products much faster, as the author here did with Rails.
I think you're definitely an outlier, taking what you say at face value. My unsolicited advice: stay abreast of where software is going. What you're doing may make you vulnerable to obsolescence if you're not careful, and you'll only have yourself to blame. Also, I wonder about the health of the companies you work for, ceteris paribus.
Thanks for the nit-pick, these are all valid points. Thank you!
FYI: Looks like code blocks are unreadable on mobile (probably a overflow: hidden CSS rule somewhere that truncates lines and doesn’t let you scroll).
I do not think mental health education is the answer, in a highly populated country like India and the pressure to succeed, it will never go away unless culture changes. The pressures in India are extreme and the preferential treatment of “backwards castes” has costs. Unless they de emphasize the culture, you’ll see this pattern as is the case in China, Japan, South Korea, and MIT.

My cousin faced the same issues, he now has an outlet for his frustrations and cares less about success that is ingrained in academia.

The worst part about this is many people in this worldview expect it to be easy after. India has the lowest divorce rate so it’s possible it’s not a delusion to get a good wife with a good job, but society is changing, and with no social skills these people face more problems later.
For me personally, I am going through this for the past month, however its because for the 5 months before I was working basically 50-60 hour weeks with tons of active debugging, coding, and triaging (HW bringup type work). But next month we start ramping up to start new projects.

It could just be what you are doing isn't fundamentally that difficult and doesn't require a 40 hour work week and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. If people think you're worth the money you are getting paid, then you are worth that money. They pay you to get things done, not to sit in a desk for 40 hours a week or be stressed for performance reasons.
In the US and some other developed countries we are not more healthy at higher ages. Life expectancy has flattened out of even declined. Obesity rates are rising.
> I dislike all the magic of rails.

Let me assure you, there is 0 magic in Rails. Just because something is available to you via a convention doesn't mean there's magic, it means you haven't read the docs and don't understand the convention.
Anything that doesn't involve the red stapler guy is not enough
> but two centuries?

I believe the sea level rise will indeed affect the Netherlands. I hope technology will progress so as to allow cheap relocation, or conversion of buildings to seasteads.

I'm pretty sure two centuries from now there will also be completely unforeseeable problems, but also solutions. If you look at old predictions, we feared lots of things that did not turn out to happen: alien invasions, meteor strikes, nuclear war, a disease killing most of the population (COVID-19 has only killed <0.07% so far).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stories_set_in_a_futur...
Do you think that people should be calling for the death of a politician based on "indirect evidence"?
to clarify, my post says 1k every 2 weeks, not per week.
I am okay with a G5-spec if everything else remained as they were 20 years ago. They haven't.

Datasets have grown in size exponentially. You deal with images which are no longer few kilobytes. Window managers in the GUI have to paint over a much larger display area even if you consider whitespace. To do a hobby project like for e.g build a toy spam-filter or a toy classifier, the prompt to execution takes over 6 minutes on a really tiny model. I don't see why this hobby project angle seems viable either. Hence, why I said its unusable practically.
Because Microsoft makes Windows, and therefore can force anything Windows tries to open to use that scheme. This means you can never view search results, weather, news, etc. that Windows provides to you integrated into its experience in any browser other than edge.
you're not alone. I probably work the same amount as you. I ship stuff the org feels customers love, I get promotions, and get paid well. I could grind so much more but I like to spend my day in other ways. I like to read the news in the morning, clock out at 5 etc.

We have the ability to "work" this little and still be valuable because writing code has a very high barrier to entry. That 5-10 hrs of work took years of learning.
Apart from the unlikely event of it being malicious I’d assume it is driver error as a case of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_unintended_acceleration

Burden of proof and reasonable doubt come in to play - for such a complex system could you prove beyond that there are no dodgy software bugs or that a particle from outer space didn’t flip a bit causing cause something to go wrong?
We posted gradio as a Show HN mid 2020 [1] :) Got a lot of good feedback and have been slowly growing ever since!

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23901834
> Unfortunately, Turing underestimated the propensity of humans to be fooled by machines. Even simple chatbots, such as Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1960s ersatz psychotherapist Eliza, have fooled people into believing they were conversing with an understanding being, even when they knew that their conversation partner was a machine.

This is not a Turing test. Or at least not a reasonable one. A reasonable Turing consists of a judge and 2 interfaces, one which chats with a computer and the other which chats with a human. Both the human and computer are trying to convince the judge that they are the human. If the judge cannot determine which is which after an open-ended conversation then the computer passes.

There is no reasonable judge which after chatting with a human (who is actually trying to convince the judge they are human) would be unable to differentiate between a human and Eliza or any other chatbot out there.
So they actually won’t hit 40m in a few decades? That’s hopeful
Shopify uses GCP. Curious why flink over beam/dataflow?
Somehow Rails seemed to me like a short fad.

I knew a few people at university, who were pretty hyped about it. That was in 2008, I think. They used it at some companies where they jobbed and found it too limiting.

I was building customized stuff with bare PHP in those days and found it quite flexible. Later, the Rails hype came to PHP, but I already left for Node.js and never looked back.
You bring up an excellent point. As of now, it is impossible for me to run my company's backend ecosystem on my machine locally. What we do could easily be done by one simple monolith, but our eng. lead is obsessed with overengineered microservice architecture, so nobody can actually develop locally. Everything on the backend is done by a bunch of lambdas behind an API gateway.

I got so burnt out developing in that environment that I asked to become a pure frontend dev so that I wouldn't have to deal with it anymore.
The material longevity is definitely going to be a factor in this design. Flexible materials like this occurring in nature generally have the advantage of being alive, and able to self-repair. On the other hand, it can presumably be replaced, much like a tire.
What a bizarre choice. If they're going to commit to weird ASCII control chars you'd think they could just use 0x1C to 0x1F, which are explicitly intended as delimiters/Separators... sigh. (I've always wondered why more people don't use the various Separators, but I admit human-readability is a big advantage)
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