skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might be interested in this philosophical argument, "Beyond Roe: Why Abortion Should be Legal--Even if the Fetus is a Person".

From the book description...

> Most arguments for or against abortion focus on one question: is the fetus a person? In this provocative and important book, David Boonin defends the claim that even if the fetus is a person with the same right to life you and I have, abortion should still be legal, and most current restrictions on abortion should be abolished. Beyond Roe points to a key legal precedent: McFall v. Shimp. In 1978, an ailing Robert McFall sued his cousin, David Shimp, asking the court to order Shimp to provide McFall with the bone marrow he needed. The court ruled in Shimp's favor and McFall soon died. Boonin extracts a compelling lesson from the case of McFall v. Shimp--that having a right to life does not give a person the right to use another person's body even if they need to use that person's body to go on living-and he uses this principle to support his claim that abortion should be legal and far less restricted than it currently is, regardless of whether the fetus is a person.

https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Roe-Abortion-Should-Legal-Even...

So, the ethical and legal question of abortion is not just one of if or when the fetus is a full human deserving of equal protection under the law, but one of when it is legally permissible to coerce a person into having their body used to preserve the life of another. Answering that question the wrong way is a potential legal slippery slope for all people, not just fertile females.

As a person who was raised fiercely pro-life, these are the kinds of ethical, philosophical, and legal considerations that I was never taught. All you ever hear in that world is "It's a baby! Murderers!"

I am now fiercely pro-choice, but I still consider the question of abortion to be a difficult one with no easy answer. However, I fundamentally believe that one’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone, so even if you could prove to me that the fetus is conscious at the moment of conception, I would still never surrender a woman's right to sovereignty over her body.
> In Javascript, there was always a normal, obvious way to handle Patch, which was to leverage null vs. undefined properties in javascript

Yeah, no, patch as you describe it is not a patch. Given this:

{field: [1,2,3]}

And given that two clients want to each add 4 and 5 respectively to the document, one will overwrite the other, which breaks the very principle of a patch since you end up with either [1,2,3,4] or [1,2,3,5] instead of [1,2,3,4,5] (or [1,2,3,5,4] depending on who was faster).

> I work in an industry of idiots.

Very true.
Bolt Built $11B Payment Business on Inflated Metrics and Eager Investors
Interesting. Not quite as clean as if it was a built-in keyword, but close enough. Seems this is still experimental and not available per default.
But you have to remember that you still need money for those years, so don't buy gold with all your money.

Maybe there is something very smart to do in the middle of the crash, which I guess you can be sure what it is after the crash happens.
What has evolved? Smart contracts? Algorithm over people? Decentralized? NFTs? These things don’t hold water when situations like Ethereum reverse their major hack by forking and having everyone follow along goes against the ethos of crypto. One could argue it’s closer to centralized than decentralized because of the fork, the founder having so much control and influence, going to PoS.

It’s hard for me to see how any levels of the stack have improved, and 100% am sure consumers and investors have become less discerning, not more over crypto’s near 15 year history.
Powerful message, but what is going on with the formatting of this post? Why are lines highlighted with two different colors?
The recent supreme court appointments underline the idea that the constitution says what the court says. If they can reinterpret it for Roe they can reinterpret it for Loving.
Absolutely nothing can overcome the fact that being fully remote allows me to decouple my physical existence from earning a living. Nothing. I would literally take a 50% pay cut if it were my only option to remain remote. It has completely transformed my entire life and I can't possibly imagine ever going back for any reason. Yes I miss my coworkers. Yes I miss lunches and happy hours. But none of that even comes close to how much I would miss not being chained to a physical location and daily work schedule.
There are a lot of random "startups" or rather, tech companies that managed to keep their customers happy while never really seeming to explode to huge capsizes.
While some comments here are criticizing the author, I'd like to add that what the author says matches with my (extremely) limited experience. The most "glamorous" are YC-type funds, while others seem to be built with money more locally pooled from friends/family/banks. There are a few <X City> entrepreneurship centres and startups, but these unsurprisingly aren't as famous as funds with billions of dollars. I wonder if there's a way to increase the visibility of the middle kind of organized-but-not-10s of millions of $ funds - both as a social experiment but also as an aspiring entrepreneur.
http://web.archive.org/web/20220510150246/https://www.nytime...
How is that an OTP flaw? You've just described phishing, which 1FA, 2FA, OTP or even FIDO/Yubikey can't directly protect you from.
Why stop there? A child about to be born is structurally and functionally identical to a child that has just been born. And once it is born, there are, as you say, "extremely negative consequences" to forcing the mother to either care for it herself or make other arrangements.

The right to dispose of any unwanted child the mother cannot or will not care for herself is one that, like in vivo abortion, women will exercise irrespective of whether the law permits it. Poor indigenous women in Brazil allow their sickly babies to starve all the time.

Conclusion: any society that does not allow humane infanticide within the first year is literally Handmaid's Tale.
Advertising incentivizes lying. The best presentation wins, in this current ad market.

Metrics that track good faith interactions are needed, like eBay reputation - if someone isn't 98% or higher, they're going to be overlooked or bypassed in favor of someone with a higher score.

Product reviews and ratings get gamed, because current systems don't reward good faith transactions - Amazon and Google customers purchase attention and shuffle facts around top maximize purchases. If quality reviews and curation were incentivized, there would be a thriving class of reviewers and experts playing a role in the marketplace. Their absence is glaring, and the horde of product influencers and professional reviewers underscore the deep corruption of adtech. Those people leech money from the market by selling the ability to lie. The lies are sanctioned by adtech firms, and often laundered through otherwise reliable data sources.

Any legitimate attempt to compete threatens the entire adtech ecosystem, so a majority of all consumer marketplaces are incentivized to cultivate the corruption and prevent any changes or reform that threaten the sanctified lies.

Things like Angie's List and product review vlogs and expert podcasts are stuck within the system, regardless of their intent or functionality when they start. They eventually converge into niches that support the system as a whole. Even reddit, requiring individual human dialog and interaction, has been infested by professional reviewers shilling crappy products.

You can't trust the data sources because trustworthy sources are incompatible with adtech. Google has sufficient data to fix it, but they'd lose money by allowing reform, so they maintain the ethically gray areas ferociously. Their business is not quality search, it's maximizing advertising profits, and it's more profitable to have 50 people paying a premium for scraps than 5 high quality vendors with vetted products earning those spots through quality and service.

The system is working as intended.
It's puzzling to me that people still think of zsh as "that newfangled shell I'm not sure about yet".

Bash came out in 1989.
Zsh came out in 1990.
Yes, I feel more useful information would be a story from someone who failed a bunch of times, then finally found success, and what the differentiating factors would be in his particular case.
They own the system, they could just shadowban bullies' votes. They could have just done it on videos that were statistical outliers, too - raised a "bullied" flag.

It'd be pretty easy to isolate different voting mobs, too, and group them together. You could use them to just ban the mob that is targeting the video, and let members of other mobs' votes still slip through. I might even inform the user if I were cocky about the system: "You have been prevented from voting on this video because your account has been associated with a mass-downvoting group from reddit.com/r/ronpopeillives. If you feel you have received this message in error, send an email to appeals@devnull.youtube.com."
No dislikes has ruined all social media for me. It's ridiculous you can't express anywhere near your mind with simple reactions in 2022.
There is a small amount of air drag in low earth orbit, caused by the very thin gas atmosphere. The solar wind from the sun strips off and ionizes some of this gas. Ions are atoms or molecules with an unbalanced positive or negative charge - contrast that with neutral atoms or molecules without an electric charge.

Ions can be accelerated via an electromagnetic field. You can use this as thrust for your spaceship. The faster the exit velocity of the gas, the more efficient your acceleration. (the technical term is Isp or impulse-seconds or something).
Normally spacecraft carry their own neutral fuel, ionize it, and then spit it out the back end. This requires a lot of electrical energy but if you get that from big solar panels this tends to be more efficient than chemical energy rockets. More efficient => less mass=> smaller, cheaper spacecraft and rockets.

The paper estimates that in very low earth orbit (190km altitude -- for reference the International Space Station is at 400km altitude), there is enough density of ionized gas, that you could suck in ionized gas, accelerate it out the back with ion thrusters, and basically break even or better. This means, at that altitude, with a very specific design, you could use the atmosphere as propellant rather than bringing your own in a bottle. In theory, not needing a fuel supply means you're not fuel limited on satellite lifetime, and fuel supply is normally the big constraint that ends a satellite mission.("We're out of gas for pointing and moving the spacecraft")

Takeaway: might be useful for Starlink / Project Kuiper / imaging systems in 5-10 years... Might be useful around other planets with plentiful solar power but it's a very niche solution only usable at this one altitude band currently.

See also: Hall Effect Thruster, Electrostatic Grid Thruster.

Contrast with: fusion powered Bussard Ramjet.
Any kind of sense of where I am in a discussion.

If you find the trn/slashdot/HN-style threading better than the 2D graphical layout then I doubt I can explain to you why I find it (the threading) lacking.
I think it's natural to do it this way, since it's common for a REST API to also support GETs inside objects using URLs. That is, `GET /` can return `{"top": [{"key": "value"}]}`, while `GET /top/1` can return `{"key": "value"}`. So, reusing the same syntax to refer to fields comes very naturally if you already have this support.
I'm trying to split SMB into two categories.

Lifestyle small businesses are great too, but I'm really talking about companies with $10M+ revenue potential.

You can get top-tier VC returns by building a portfolio of Mittelstand businesses ($10M-$1B in revenue).
HypnoToad is APL. Once you look you can never look away. You'll never understand but you know there's understanding just out of reach.
The persistence of these *benzones in sunscreen is largely an American problem. As of 2019, the FDA had not approved any new sunscreen ingredients in two decades:

https://www.cosmeticsandtoiletries.com/regulations/spf-sun/n...

So if you live outside the US, you probably see very different ingredient lists.
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Isn't that a good thing? Shouldn't promotions not hinge on being friends with the decision-makers or being best able to kiss ass?
Have seen JSON patch successfully reduce complexity in two separate projects now. My thoughts:

The Good:

1. Depending on your ORM or data access model, JSON patch is a fantastic option. If you’ve got existing services that can hand you deeply nested models, you can start writing PUT/PATCH routes that take JSON patch changesets and let it build things up automatically. Makes it as easy as checking a resource out of storage, applyPatch or applyOperation, check it back in.

2. You don’t really need to worry about bad types getting dumped into your base object, as you should be deferring type safety to the route DTO level anyway, and everything can trickle from there.

3. The ‘-‘ semantic works fine for signaling an intent to insert a new element.

4. 99% of the time the “protocol” seems to just work.

5. YMMV, but there’s a good chance that switching to JSON patch will let you delete front end code as well, since the front end models can in theory also use the very commands they pass to the back end to locally update models. It integrates very well with a redux pattern and seems like a base technology for undo/redo.

The Bad:

1. On the one hand ‘/‘ as the primary delimiter irks me. I suppose ‘.’ characters in a property name are more common than slashes, but still not my favorite. Furthermore, the escaped characters not using backslashes is weird. You write ~0 if you need to refer to ~ literally and ~1 for /, if I am not mistaken.

2. There’s a missing contextual mode for the ‘add’ op: creating missing objects along the path you’re talking about. For instance if your base object is {}, then add at path ‘/foo/bar’ will fail since foo is undefined. Should be a mode where I can say “yes, please create missing stuff along the way, thank you.”

“On the JSON patch, feel your GraphQL cravings subside in as little as thirty minutes!”
Of course, they are on the back foot. If you have a successful indie business, make good money why would you accept VC investment? If you do it's on your terms and that often means worse deals for VC's. I can't blame VC's because their business modal is really different, they need to make a 100x not a value investment.
There's somewhere between a "lifestyle business" and a unicorn though. You can be a contractor with a focus on re-doing roofs and pull in $1m/year without too much work once you have things running. You will be wealthy, but you won't ever pull in $20m/year. I think it's fair to call that a "lifestyle business".

I know of a company near me that has $300M/year revenue (gross, not net) that sells cables and other equipment to ISPs in the region. It's owned by one person. I don't know their margins, but that person might be making $20M/year. They might be able to grow that business and sell it for $500M dollars if they play their cards right. I wouldn't call that a "lifestyle" or "small" business. It's somewhere in the middle.

I think it's the latter type that the article is referring to.
There has been some work recently on electrostatic repulsion for cleaning dust from terrestrial panels. I expect NASA will investigate if the same technology is suitable for other planets.
I have no idea when's the last time an inspector saw this place. It's a mobile home manufactured in the 60s so a lot of lax code is probably grandfathered in. The panel is too high and out of the way for a child to reach and I'm smart enough not to touch it. I imagine whoever I sell the house to is going to demolish it anyway.
The hard part is probably evading bans, that's probably the secret sauce to the operation.
I think it's important to take advice from a lot of people. It's up to you how to frame what to do with it or how much you think it applies to your current situation.
1 gaming desktop (custom build: Win 10, Ryzen 1800X, 64GB RAM, RX 6800, 2x 28" 4k 144hz) [0]

1 server (custom build old desktop: i7 2600, 16 GB RAM)

1 laptop (HP, 2015)

1 work laptop (Dell Latitude, 2017-ish)

1 retro desktop (2000-era custom build: Win 98 SE, P3, 256 MB RAM, Geforce 2, 17" CRT) [1]

That's 5 PCs, but I also have:

1 Raspberry Pi (original model B)

1 Moto X4

1 Kindle Fire (2013-ish?)

[0] https://theandrewbailey.com/article/187/AMD-Ryzing

[1] https://theandrewbailey.com/article/120/Project-Twentieth-Ce...
I've seen "Climate Crisis" a lot more recently, which I think is an apt descriptor. I've also seen "Climate Emergency", but it doesn't alliterate as well.
I'm not 100% sure I agree, but I do think that people who have hit wild levels of success generally don't have advice that tangibly applies to most people.

Ironically, I'm going to mention Alex Hormozi (who is very successful), but he said in an interview once that he spent something like $150k to talk to Grant Cardone and thought "I'm easily getting my ROI on that now because Grant's advice applies to someone in my position, where I have $100 MM. 10 years ago, when I was broke, the advice he's giving me now would have just put me further in insurmountable debt."

Most ultra-successful people somewhat forget the baseline that most people live in. For example, if they were to "restart with nothing", they usually assume that "nothing" still implies a good credit score, housing, food, healthcare, etc. which most of America is really spending all of their time trying to fight to secure. This translates to the out-of-touch and generally vague advice they give.
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>SQLite isn't just on the same machine as your application, but actually built into your application process. When you put your data right next to your application, you can see per-query latency drop to 10-20 microseconds. That's micro, with a μ. A 50-100x improvement over an intra-region Postgres query.

We will make up for those latency losses by throwing more microservices in our fat microservices architectures, add more message brokers in the flow. For sure will find a way to bring those milliseconds back. :)
>Almost all of them.

For any game that can be optimized in some way someone has made a spreadsheet for it.
It is until the discussion gets really big. When there are several hundred tweets there's no good way to layout the graph. Then you need folding, but even then, folding in the 2D environment gives you a much better sense of the discussion.
My stuff:

Macbook Air M1 13" (2021), my primary computer

Macbook Pro 15" (2015), chronically broken keyboard, used now as a remote Docker host and Bitcoin/Lightning node

Google Pixel 5, rooted and ~90% degoogled

Raspberry Pi 2 Model B v1.1, used for various projects
Satellites in low earth orbit (think Starklink, ISS) orbit around like 300-600 km height. At this height the the atmosphere is pretty thin but not negligible and these satellites slow down over time due to drag. For this reason they often have to have a method of propulsion for "station keeping" [1].

Now propulsion in space is somewhat different to how we do on Earth (in airplanes). To propel yourself forward, since momentum is always conserved, you need to have something (with momentum) and throw it backward (which requires energy), so you are propelled forward. On Earth Jet engines suck air in, combine it with fuel and throw it all backward to propel themselves forward. A propeller just throws the air backward to boost itself forward, however in space you can't do that, cause there is nothing to suck in. Which means you need to carry that mass with you.

There are some very efficient designs (like Ion thrusters [2]) that propel ions of gases to very high speeds (using electric energy obtained from solar panels) to achieve very efficient propulsion.

This LEO satellites are not exactly in a perfect vaccuum, what this paper suggests is the viability of a method where a engine sucks air in the thin atmosphere, and uses a (very efficient) engine to propel it backward that it is able to compensate for the drag forces the satellite would endure.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_station-keeping
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_thruster
This sounds like bullshit to me. US elections are regularly audited and recounts often produce the exact same result.

The USA has low election participation, generally, inadequate polling locations in populous areas, the design of their senate is straight up stupid, and the electoral college should have been abolished a century ago. But the actual elections themselves are as secure as they can be.
Like/dislike is ... less useful, as that's both feedback in terms of "this is what I do / don't care for" and is ... semi-trusted crowdsourced quality information on the content itself.

I can see why YouTube wouldn't want to weight the latter much. It could still of course temporarily track like/dislike over the course of a session.
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at the risk of stating the obvious, our labor is only so expensive because of that VC money, and the money-printing machines they've funded
It's more that, just like you are doing here, I saw that people have been predicting the end of times for a long time. :)
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It looks like guns are still available in LA [0].

[0]: https://www.google.com/maps/search/gun+store/@34.0212335,-11...
Just last night, my wife and I had a peek into the current home of our 15-week-along child. He or she was so active - wiggling and squirming, no doubt as a result of some of the prodding from the midwife. I saw arms and legs moving, fingers, feet and everything. Their heart beating at 140bpm. My other children live in the environment of our house, and this child lives in the environment of the womb. It is simple: this is a child. The consequence of killing him or her would be massive to them - ending the life which I was blessed enough to peek into for a few moments. The debate rages with passion because people are passionate about the subject - I know I am.
What should be compared is the equipment capabilities in their standard configurations, and NATO has the ressources to have these advanced features in wide usage, while russia keeps them for parades
note that for decompression speeds, they quote "We know LZ4 is significantly faster than ZSTD on standalone benchmarks: likely bottleneck is ROOT IO API"
It's good London is doing something. It came after an awful lot of news headlines of cyclists killed by trucks, or lorries as us Brits call them eg https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/18/sixth-london...

Leading to https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/30/lorries-face...
> OK, but no one is talking about working on the inside of panels.

I must have misunderstood, then -- you said light switch wiring is as dangerous as breakers, and breaker wiring can only be found inside the panel.
So the "game" is controlled via WASD and every single move is a real transaction on the (Ethereum-?)blockchain - brilliant!

So after connecting your wallet, no matter the ominous per-tile player-created contracts, every keypress drains your wallet.

Oh, and of course in the author's example they can "fish" at a certain tile and every "fish" is an NFT - but of course it is!

A "permissionless collaborative surface" that is nothing but a barren wasteland of nothingness fuelled by a desperation to find a reason d'être.

What you've created there is a sandbox, maybe, but not a game. There's nothing to do there, no goals, no sights, and connecting wallets, deploying smart contracts, and literally paying for every step you take doesn't sound like fun either.
I think I only want to play it for the opportunity to play around with automating things.
Rationality is not defined by what the market thinks, so yes.