skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the most underrated comment here.

Courts are not supposed to legislate from the bench. Roe v Wade was clearly inappropriate ruling from day one. It undermined the integrity of the supreme court.

Abortion should be ingrained as legal via state/federal law.
It was the same deal when I got my first job out of college (20+ years ago) at Motorola (somewhere in the neighborhood of 200,000 employees at the time).

Requested my first name, it was available. I constantly got people asking questions in amazement at my email address - how did I do it??? I would just shrug and say "I asked".
Yeah. You can prevent that too with a CSS property, but again, it’s not the default; you have to have enough time and attention to detail to go out of your way and handle it
Uh could you throw that up on GitHub so I could shamelessly copy it? That sounds like a great technique.
> If they can still somehow taste the difference between them, then you change your mix so that they can't tell the difference or eliminate them from the study.

This has lots of problems, not least of which it is assuming you could afford to tweak your experimental protocol this way all in the recruitment phase.

Do you have any examples in the literature where this is done?

At least for the study in question they used the method of swabbing a negligible amount of alcohol on the rim of the glass to attempt to fool all participants into thinking they were getting alcohol.
You can have a right to service. Even if it's just being able to sit a lunch counter, or attend a school.

You can also have a right to seek or provide medical care. Those rights are about to be taken from many of us.
I'm not saying that Meta did it, but recent research shows that it is possible and hard to detect - https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06974 - so if they really wanted to, they could.
> Generally speaking it might limit your liberties if one state did not recognize your spouse and another did.

That would violate the Full Faith and Credit clause of the US Constitution. Even before Obergefell v. Hodges, states that didn't allow gay couples to marry still had to honor the marriages of gay couples who were married in other states that did allow it.
The is quite favorable claim by him. More correct title would be "The War in Ukraine is Genocidal War", but this title is not wrong either.
Wow, $50K / year is high. Illinois I think tops out at a max of $140K total, and that only kicks in at something like a decade locked up.

Bear in mind those figures are statutorily-mandated money that you get by law. You can also sue on top of that.

The issue is that it's often impossible to sue for decades behind bars. All sorts of things stop you, such as statutes of limitation, qualified immunity from prosecution etc.
Please don't start a profile analysis flamewar. It just escalates and makes everyone unhappy.

I think it's OK if people notice you work at Facebook. There are people on HN that like to attack anyone nice enough to engage with them just because they work at a big company. I worked at Google for many years, and people were off to blame me personally for every decision that Google made that they didn't like. My approach was to just say, look, the CEO didn't ask me, and if they did I would have said no. If you have concerns with something I actually work on, I'd love to adjust it based on your feedback. (That was network monitoring for Google Fiber, and wasn't very controversial. But, HN loves to lay in to you if you open yourself up for it. I learned a lot about people.)

In this case, I think the best you can do is to say "I don't think it's possible to add fingerprinting, and if it were, I would fight to not add it. I also don't know of any decision to add fingerprinting, and like I said, I would try to make sure we didn't do it." (Or if you're in favor and it's not technically possible, you could say that too!)

Anyway, it is really nice to hear from people "in the trenches". Please don't let people being toxic scare you away or bait you into a flamewar. Comments like yours remind us that even in these big companies whose political decision we may not like, there are still people doing really good engineering, and that's always fun to hear about.
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The fact that this is based on religious convictions is all the more reason for it to be challenged as a law of the land.

We should be governed by secular laws. Those of a particular faith should be free to follow that faith amongst their own but should have no right to enforce their religious beliefs on others.

Unfortunately, for many, "religious freedom" means exactly that.
Didn’t they sell an exclusive license to Microsoft? It’s probably just a contractural issue.
ZIO, a functional effect system (+ a lot more) for Scala.
The PageRank era ended almost immediately. Google has had a large editorial team for a long, long time (probably before they were profitable).

It turns out PageRank aways kind of sucked. However, it was competing with sites that did “pay for placement” for the first page or two, so it only had to be better than “maliciously bad”.
> I would imagine that Lucas owned the books,

If Lucasfilm ever owned the copyright to these books, they could grant themselves the right to publish without obligations. They didn't, so they never owned the copyrights, so Disney doesn't either.

After all, a contract to let somebody publish your book in exchange for royalties is basically a license agreement, right? The copyright owners granted Lucasfilm a license to publish as long as certain obligations were met, same as when you publish code under GPL. Disney's position is analogous to saying they acquired the right to use your GPL code, but not any of the obligations the GPL imposes. That's why it's absurd.
I would assume any steam turbine plant needs water for the steam, and that steam is eventually lost through evaporation.
"Minimal" being almost 5KLOC, sheesh. Actually, I'm surprised that a C compiler fits in that space.

Also:

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Goal

This is a set of manually created hex programs in a Cthulhu Path to madness fashion. Which only have the goal of creating a bootstrapping path to a C compiler capable of compiling GCC, with only the explicit requirement of a single 1 KByte binary or less.
I’ve always thought it was odd that people feel like it’s a binary condition. It’s fine if the fetus is undelivered, or if it can’t live outside the womb, or ___.

I’m pro-choice, but my opinion is that “choice” is always at least a little evil (barring medical or other specific reasons). The longer it goes on, the more evil it gets. To that end I think it’s insane that some states are pushing to have abortion be legal up until delivery. That’s 99.99% straight up killing a baby.
> Indian government computers are still running windows 7 or so and its hard to get them to switch to Linux.

In many ways, switching from Win7 to Linux is more convenient than going with Win 10 and more recent MS products. This is a significant opportunity where real change might be possible.
Out of the box the generated text is not very useful, with repeated texts and inconsistencies, and in some case off topic content in other languages. Also noticed some grammar errors. Depending on the language it might need a lot of fine tuning.
Some more. These are so good that I forgot I used them:

Bitwarden

Linux Mint
First coming to mind, HackerNews. No images, no ads, no complex settings UI, no complex points/karma system. Just text and links, it does what it's built for and does it well.
If that's true, the country is over. It's the last authoritative institution.
Surprised to see this works for list() as well.

>>> def func(b, a=list()):
... a.append(b)
... print(a)
...
>>> func(3)
[3]
>>> func(3)
[3, 3]

Honestly surprised this quirk hasn't bit me yet
Also interesting that one of the rare leaks was Roe v. Wade, where the outcome and the vote was published in Time magazine before it was officially announced.

https://twitter.com/jonathanwpeters/status/15213098161483448...
It's a modern website in brutalist web style. Looks perfect.
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I don't understand your confusion. As you said, if people don't like something about the system, they can push for change. A first step in pushing for change is pointing out what sucks about the status quo, right? (If you're confused about why people might think the fact you quoted sucks, for one, it's easy to see it as an example of a tyranny by a minority that the constitution is intended to protect against.)
u/firephonestival is stating the obvious and much repeated: any conscientious effort will be buried by the horde of amoral and immoral players. They are not defending, excusing, or in any way minimizing the excreble outcomes of our winner-takes-all economic regime.
C23 is making true and false _Bool typed values.
yes, but the user experience is highly related to the awesome work that the moderators do...
You can definitely hit the limits of Factorio. My largest base runs at ~10fps which is how I know it's time to start a new game. Egregious use of copy/pasting and an automated robot production will get you there.

It's still leagues ahead of any other game I've played though.
> so that what "should" and "shouldn't" can be codified appropriately by the people.

Sadly that's been repeatedly shown to be false. What we actually have is a system where the average person has zero influence on policy and a very small number of very wealthy people dictate what "should" and "shouldn't" be. The vast majority of Americans support the right to an abortion and yet here we have a small number of people taking that right from them.
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And, indeed, most people do.
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> How we make life better

That's overly ambitious, and the meaning is also completely different. That says that setting deadlines itself improves life, which is not what the article or original title are saying.

> Use your imagination!

My imagination is okay with "should", when the benefits will be spelled out later, which they are in the article.
This is from formal methods, and while it is one way to specify your code, and contain unexpected behaviour, I wouldn't say it's the main thing in being a good programmer. Managing complexity in general is perhaps the main thing, so that you can do more complex things without getting completely overwhelmed by details.
I agree it is not exactly the same as a human, but the content it produces is based on its specific training data, how it was fed the training data, how long it was trained, the size and shape of the network, etc. These are unique characteristics of a model that directly impact what it produces. A model could have a unique proclivity for using specific groups of words, for example.

But yes, you could break the discriminator model, in the same way people disguise their own writing patterns by using synonyms, making different grammar/syntax choices, etc. Building a better evader and building a better detector is an eternal cat and mouse game, but it doesn't reduce the need to participate in this game.
There used to be a director at Google with this name, which in a way made me not want to work there because I'd have to put up with a 2nd choice email.

(Sometimes I get her personal email to my gmail.)
So they make a more available alternative, but they maintain control over it, and in turn gain control over the people and companies using it. Similar to what Microsoft did by bundling Windows with PCs[1].

I already have a multitude of ideas on potential nefarious plans based on this, but I'll keep them to myself.

[1]: Sure they got a licence payment, but since it was built into the price and non-optional, it was effectively equivalent to free from the customer POV. It effectively became a tax. I have to admit, Gates might not be a genius programmer but he sure knows how to design dark patterns :)
To clarify: that was an adverb to 'critical of authority'. In the sense I meant it, it means a population that is prepared to challenge authority but does so based on reason and good information.
Right, but the argument from many is that it isn’t just your body.

And if I should have the right to do what I want with my body, why aren’t all drugs legalized? Why can’t I legally kill myself? You’re probably saying “that should be legal!” But the Supreme Court has never made that leap, even though they did in the case of abortion.
> They are not really vulnerable to populist attacks of hypocrisy or flip-flopping or whatever.

They are humans that have to live in society just like the rest of us. No one is completely invulnerable to society. I imagine being the target of some of these radical abortion groups (anti or pro) would be scary, especially for officials that are normally not in the limelight.
There is a criticism of Sinclair's theories in particular on Resveratrol by Stanfield:
https://youtu.be/vGmmBJq0NNo
https://youtu.be/rpB5hvE96iY
is there any evidence of Amazon using Ring devices for surveilance?
It is pretty clear from the history, that GPLv2 always required the ability of users to update the installed software.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jul/23/tivoization-and-t...
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/mar/25/install-gplv2/
Used to be instruction sets were corporate (IBM, DEC, Burroughs etc), seeing one mandated by a country really isn't that different
The thing is that the current makeup of the court has been engineered for decades. It was a project that took so long because the exact right conditions needed to be in place: namely the death of a liberal justice while Republicans controlled the Senate and Presidency. In some ways the current court is a bit of a perfect storm.

And what have they been saying they would do for the past 20 years? Get rid of Roe vs. Wade. And what happens as soon as they get control of the court? As fast as they humanly could they tested Roe in front of their new court, and now they've overturned the entire decision in the most brazen way possible.

That was item 1 on their list. In the intervening 20 years there have been other items added to the list as reasons for wanting control of the Supreme Court. Gay marriage has been absolutely listed as a top target since 2015.

Given how they've stated they want to overturn Roe and they followed through, why do you consider the idea that they will go after gay marriage a slippery slope? They've told us they want to do it. Why are we not to take them at their word at this point?
That happened after they decided not to release the model.
> Fortunately our nation is founded on a constitution and rule of law so that what "should" and "shouldn't" can be codified appropriately by the people.

The governing and electoral structure is very much engineered to prevent “the people” from having an effective voice is codifying should and shouldn't, despite the occasional mouthing of platitudes relating to popular sovereignty and democratic rule by elites.
Does it merely reinforce harmful stereotypes? Or will it help perpetrate genocide?
Can you elaborate on how to set the CPU on that mode? Is a command or BIOS setting? I would like to do the same on Ubuntu.
Designing a Command Palette
To be clear, I wasn't intending to come across as attacking voz, only pointing out that I don't think anyone "in the know" at Meta/Facebook would admit to it even if they were doing it, so hearing "This is nonsense." doesn't really tell anybody much. They would likely say the same thing whether they thought it was nonsense or not.
> there are loads of very functional independent Matrix client implementations

No, there's only one.

Matrix tries to confuse people by calling the important part of the client a "homeserver".
Not handy, and I'm not going to spend my evening digging. It may've also been one of the NGOs ideologically aligned with him that credited him for the data + assistance
This appears to be a "no, we didn't spend the same amount of money on solar and wind."

Glad you don't care nuclear is more expensive! That's a winning argument.
Compare two copies.
Outside of academia, you need to be able to constantly adapt to changing training data. That is a constant pitfall for many projects that try to transition from offline to online.
If the government makes a political decision, it can and does browbeat PSUs into compliance. There will be a lot of teething troubles and loss of productivity. But the thing is it won't matter for PSUs, nobody expects them to be highly efficient. I remember reading years ago that IDBI (A quasi-PSU Bank) switched to Linux for their terminals. The core banking for most Indian banks is powered by Finacle on Linux.
Barrett?
That's a good point, and a valid correction. Thank you!
This is a little deceptive I think. Electricity only makes up about 17% of canada's energy use, with 75% or so of our total energy demand coming from carbon sources[1]. We mostly use natural gas for heating, while in many other places in the world it's more likely electricity is gonna be used for indoor climate control (AC, heat pumps, even resistive heating).
I'm working on two projects that could let a stand-alone Rust web server weather a moderate DDoS attack like the author had:

Beatrice [0] - A web server with built-in connection limits and thread limits. It's async but supports non-async request handlers.

fair-rate-limiter [1] - In theory, one could use this to shed most of the load from DDoS attacking nodes.

[0] https://crates.io/crates/beatrice

[1] https://crates.io/crates/fair-rate-limiter
> that person is a hero.

I don't think you have fully thought through your position. See below.

> People have consciences whether you agree with them or not.

Yes, exactly. And many people's consciences in this country tell them that abortion is murder. Particularly abortion of a fetus after 15 weeks (which is when the Mississippi law under review here bans abortion), when the fetus, as the brief for petitioners in this case describes in some detail, already is recognizably human. You might not agree with those people's consciences, but they have them, and they're not going to go away.

And on an issue like this, where different people's consciences are telling them very different things, the Federal Government--any branch of it, whether it's the Supreme Court, Congress, or the Executive--should not be dictating one policy. It should be left to the states, who will enact varying policies according to what the consciences of the majority of their citizens tell them. Some states will be more liberal about abortion, some will be more conservative--because the consciences of their citizens tell them so. That's how the US system is supposed to work.

> a massive regression for bodily autonomy and social rights.

This is nonsense. You talk about right-wing propaganda about the sanctity of the Supreme Court; this claim is left-wing propaganda trying to push a concept of "autonomy" that completely denies personal responsibility, without which no republic like ours can endure.

As noted above, the Mississippi law under review in this case only bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. 15 weeks is more than enough time for a woman to make a decision about her "bodily autonomy and social rights" if she has an unexpected pregnancy. "Bodily autonomy and social rights" does not mean the right to dawdle over an important, life-altering decision indefinitely. The deadline this Mississippi law sets is perfectly reasonable.

So how is someone who leaked a draft Supreme Court decision that will undermine our trust in a valuable institution, in the name of a policy goal that doesn't even make sense, and which goes against the consciences of many Americans, a hero, again?
It should have been legislated properly in the wake of the court decision.
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And this will give government departments one more excuse to not deilver on time, Computer is not working or too slow.
Many popular tools are declarative eg: terraform, kubernetes, graphql, ansible, etc.

It would be good to see more lisp/prolog solutions to this. It's super clunky the way terraform hcl added loops, or aws cloud formation added variables to javascript. What I really need is an abstract syntax tree that has code and data mixed, that can have different ways of reasoning or operating on that same information. Definitely lisp seems like a better fit, but who knows if it could ever be made as easy to use.
I'm pretty sure Apple is OK with web apps: https://ionic.io/resources/case-studies/sworkit

Also Ionic is definitely free and open source: https://ionicframework.com/framework