skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A fetus is not a person, for the vast majority of the time they lack any organs at all.

However even if we do take a position of a fetus being a person, no one has the right to force anyone to undertake any medical procedure for anyone else's benefit.

We can perhaps make this easier to grasp if we go to post-birth.

Let's say a baby is born with kidney failure. Can the government force the mother or father to donate their kidney? If not, why not? Current law says no, the parent cannot be forced into surgery, but your above definition seems to make the parents murderers?

We know of cases where people have additional children solely to get organs for earlier children, and currently we recognize that those children have rights so they can say no. But maybe you disagree with that? after all, them saying no kills the earlier child.

> What is stopping a government from removing rights from infants, toddlers or even adults if you can remove rights from babies?

The question is "can the government force someone to undertake medical procedures", currently (at least prior to the GOP corruption of the Supreme Court) the answer is no.

Your grand plan has now change the rules so medical procedures can be forced. So you're right it does seem slippery: we can force women to undertake one medical procedure, can we force parents to undertake medical procedures if they can save their children? can parents force children to undertake procedures to save earlier children?

One side of this argument is forced medical procedures, the other is not. One is women having bodily autonomy, one side is them not. One side is trying to reduce the need for abortions, the other side punishing women who get pregnant.
These aren't quite true MMOs but will scale up to 40+ people online at once, with totally emergent social structures:

+ Rust

+ Ark

+ Conan Exiles
I've often thought that GTD needs a prioritization system (apparently discussed in chapter 9 of the book, but rarely seen in such posts/blogs/writeups). I've tried to make a hybrid system using a BuJo with GTD and a modified Eisenhower-matrix style priority system, but I haven't used it long enough to recommend it. (I hope to post it here to HN once successful.)
Yes almost every, but it works best with static pages.

Like no cookies login auth etc.
You can use Terra (tryterra.co) to access your garmin data !
Yeah, it is unfortunate but being at a target school sometimes does give an unfair advantage. But the bright side is different companies have may a different set of target schools.
What in the absolute f*ck did I just read?
Turn based games with too many players become boring when you're waiting for your turn.
Historians have ideology too. In fact the field of history is not an exact science...
Let's assume I'm a hipster and I wanted an excuse to embed a logic programming DSL in my application. What is a valid excuse / usecase? Does anyone here have any real-world success stories from something like this?

Logic programming always appealed to me, but I always felt like I never understood what to actually do with it other than write toy programs about parent-child relationships (I tried learning Prolog a few times, but stopped for this reason).
I think this depends, and I'd like to see numbers on it.

When I commuted by bike to work, I would go at a gentle pace so that I didn't end up drenched in sweat. Lots of my coworkers also just cruised in and very few of them showered at the office after arriving. I think in cities, bike commuters generally just try to go at a safe speed that isn't too exhausting.

The furthest anyone in my office rode one way was about 10 miles, and that guy hustled and did competitions. He certainly was the outlier.
One trick is to schedule a fixed block of time e.g., an hour before launch every morning and work on these maybe/someday tasks (you can choose the next task using whatever criteria you like e.g., "what looks the most interesting dopamine-generating right now" or "boring but important even if without a fixed date" depending on your needs (or a combination of the two: start with interesting, and persevere through the boring parts by using the fixed time slot)
Thanks for being a realist! I was thinking the same thing.
Is there a point to converting an image to HTML? I can use various programs to convert an image to SVG.
Star Citizen itself is my answer... I remember reading an article in Popular Science about it [0] when I was a kid, and specifically the sentence about "For example, designers modeled each ship’s landing gear to retract without interfering with the hydrogen fuel system that feeds the nuclear reactor." That sounded like the coolest thing ever.

So, now that I've gotten eight years older but still haven't seen the game release, it makes me kinda sad.

Relatedly, another PopSci article [1] promised that flying cars would be available by ~2015. That never happened either :-(

[0] I read it in print, but here's the online version: https://www.popsci.com/article/gadgets/space-game-gets-real/.
It's a tangent, but you can also subdivide rights into two categories: positive and negative freedoms.

Positive freedom is a right to do something. (e.g. free speech) Negative freedom is a right to be free of something (e.g. violence)

Actually, it just occurred to me that free speech could be categorized as both: positive freedom to engage in speech and negative freedom to be free of government-based silence of that speech. Interesting.

Edit: I guess this is saying the same thing as 'User23 with so many words; "privileges and immunities" are probably better terms to use.
I'm not the developer, but he (Jesse) spoke in my class over a year ago. So hopefully I'm conveying this correctly -- my impression is he felt it was pretty close for live jamming but depends on a lot of conditions (ping latency, ethernet vs wifi, how many people are in the session). But what I can say for sure is it makes conversations feel a lot more intimate.
I once had a check for about $900, drawn from a home equity line with tens of thousands available, rejected at a camera store by the Chex system which the store used at POS.

There was no recourse that I could find despite spending quite a bit of effort trying.

This was many years ago but remains a mystery as my credit was, and remains, great.
Is there anything against serving google.com from google.mydomain.com ? this can help me create my dashboards/personal stuff
Battlezone and Battlezone 2 are kind of like this - and they are GREAT games that recently had soft remakes

https://store.steampowered.com/app/624970/Battlezone_Combat_...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/301650/Battlezone_98_Redu...
You can look at mobile games like Clash Royale. It's like a mini RTS, you get certain amount of resources per time, and deck builder combined.
Heroes III:)
This is basically the Star Wars aesthetic, I hope we get a nice non-MMO open-world Star Wars game again. We probably will.
That would be Stellaris
Sure. I can sell 100 dollar notes for 90 and provide unaccountable value to people's daily lives. I will however remain a non business.
I agree, I've always thought it'd be cool to develop a game that, for instance, you could meaningfully play from a full fledged console or a mobile phone. They might be different components or aspects of the game, but both would contribute to your world/quest/whatever. And just like real life, some people might specialize, and only ever play one aspect of the game, while others focus on other parts.
You're falling into the same trap the author asserts the NYT has fallen into. You're right, debt to the French didn't help Haiti's situation, but that doesn't mean that the debt to France caused Haiti's situation, which is essentially what the NYT article was implying. I think this resonates not because of an emerging culture war against the NYT, but because the NYT has chosen sides in an existing culture war, namely whether or not the imperialist past of Europe and the U.S. can be reconciled with the modern day world.
KingdomCome 2
There's not much about how our system operates that we're unwilling to talk about. But as you're probably aware, the broad questions of how networking and discovery work are big, so I wouldn't know where to start. Feel free to shoot questions at us, though!
Clearing browser data doesn’t help when the trackers are identifying you using fingerprinting, nor when they are associated with sources that remain or are reestablished every time, like a webmail login.
A QWOPlike about figure skating (there is already a good one about gymnastics - Pro Gymnast)
Hmmm... Looks identical in Chrome 101 and Safari 15.4. Perhaps Chrome also landed this?

https://i.imgur.com/KASP45O.jpg
Basically, don't use Intent flags you don't need to use. FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK will launch the external activity in its own back stack according to its `launchMode` rules. If you just launch the Intent with no flags, the default behavior is to add the activity to your own task, which is usually what you want.

The other half of the equation is: don't override Back behavior unless you "own" the current task (it's rooted at one of your activities). When handling "Up" navigation and deep-links, you want Back to behave like "Up" and go to the logical parent of the current screen. When being launched in someone else's task, "Up" should launch a new task at the logical parent and "Back" should perform the default behavior (usually, Activity.finish()).
I agree. Furthermore, besides the mention of Mars they're also talking about cislunar space in that same paragraph, but chemical propulsion seems sufficient in cislunar space. It's only takes a days to return from the moon with chemical propulsion, which proved sufficient in the past.
Yeah it’s clearly just strategic malicious compliance
9,000-Ton Giga Press for Tesla Cybertruck Heading to Production
Sadly, the author's title produces the same sort of response that NYT's title does. Nuanced analysis is blown over by people reacting to titles.
Honestly, Ruby on Rails in the last year has made me fall in love with programming again. I left tech a few years ago for the world of finance. However, in the past year I started building internal tools for my (albeit small) company and when I was trying to figure out what to use, decided to give Rails another go. It has been a blast. I had forgotten how wonderful web development is when you're not mucking around with tooling and dealing with yet another node issue. I think Rails certainly fits into the overlooked category, but it has brought back a lot of the joy I used to feel when I opened my code editor.
I could see something like this being REALLY cool in VR.

Elite Dangerous supports VR but everything is too clean. You need that layer of dirt and wobbly landings for authenticity.

(Disclaimer - I've only played all of like 15 minutes of ED in VR)
> The indemnity was immoral, and France should be ashamed of it.

Ah of course, most colonisers wish that being ashamed is punishment enough. Sadly, the victims don’t even get that since France won’t even talk about it.
Luckily we can't buy firearms at 18.
Immature and lazy, but all I could think of, when reading the title, is Elden Ring.
Competitive deckbuilding card game called "Bulletproof" where, at the beginning of every game, three 20 sided colored dice are rolled, with each color referencing a specific rules card and each number referencing a specific rule variant. The purpose of deckbuilding, then, is to not only build the deck that is not only most likely to win, but the deck which is most likely to be tolerant of rules variations. Hence the name.
It's not a narrative, it's my life experience. I saw it first hand, many times, which is why I commented.

Sadly, there are many who will not become more responsible with time. But there are also many who will, and I'm glad to have been able to play the smallest role in helping people who genuinely want a fresh start.
A modern remake of the original Phantasy Star Online (Dreamcast).

Keep:
- Dark atmosphere
- Offline or online
- Solo or party-based
- Classes, skills/weapons based on classes
- Rare/unique loot
- Mags
- Sound/Music design
- Multiple areas
- Progressive difficulty / replayability

Remake:
- Combat - to modernize the combat, it could resemble something like Dark Souls.
Most of these negative comments are coming from veteran UIKit developers who then tried out SwiftUI. Of course they're only going to notice the things that are overwhelmingly harder compared to UIKit - they have years of bias. Imagine if SwiftUI came out first, then Apple released UIKit. Wouldn't there be another long complaint list from these developers?

I started developing with UIKit for a year, hated it, then switched to SwiftUI and have built multiple apps over the past few years. IMO the "last 10%" bugs are not that big of a detractor compared to the benefits. Of course some of this is my bias; I'm more likely to spend time trying Stack Overflow hacks on SwiftUI bugs when the UIKit solution is better. I have to "work with the grain" sometimes if something just isn't possible in SwiftUI, but I'm fine making that tradeoff. I feel lucky not having the bias of years of UIKit, it's hard to let go of something when you're so used to it. I'm also lucky to not be working on apps with backwards compatibility issues, but I do think SwiftUI is the way to go for new consumer startups.
Google has been DDoSing Sourcehut for over a year
They have a free service, there was no reason to cut him off completely unless he was over quota and then they should have logically warned him and given notice they would purge the account after x days unless it was cleaned up. So yeah this seems kind of dirty.
You can sort of kind of mod Elite dangerous and a few other space games to do this with a third party utility - it even has a bunch of high profile voice actor packs that you can buy!

https://voiceattack.com/
Surely there exists a voting system with k-anonymity/l-diversity which partially solves some of these competing desires, right?
Yeah, I'm really excited too. Vic2 is my favorite concept of the Paradox games; simulating economics, industrialization, and mass politics like it does is a great idea, allowing for a grand strategy game where the everyday lives of your populace still very much matter. But the UI's not great, the economic simulation is kind of janky, it's much more railroaded and inflexible than the modern games, and it's extremely Eurocentric.
Yes! It's amazing that it is still going.
I think it would be interesting to have a persistent, real time MMO that only ran at scheduled times.
The router is the least of your problems. Consider all the devices connected to those routers which don't recognize 127/8 addresses as anything but loopback—some of which may never receive updates at all, never mind actually getting people to install them.
Curiously, for some people low-tech is not better. I.e. used to have an Amana RadarRange which had two knobs - one for power and one for time. You turned them until you saw what you wanted on the display.

But my pre-reading children couldn't operate it. I'd say "nuke it for a minute and a half" and they'd twist the knob and ask "Is that enough? Which way should I turn it?" See they couldn't do the math to know if 45 seconds was more or less than a minute and a half.

If it'd been buttons I could have said "Press 90 seconds" or whatever and they could do that. Later when we got a different microwave they had a better time.
Tell HN: I made $1000 with my app and now making $500/mo
Edit: Wow #1 on HN. Y'all are making my day.

Hey HN,

I'm mostly a lurker on HN who's always super inspired by other people's small project that end-up making money. (Huge fan of Ben Stoke's Tiny Project [0])

After being burnt-out in big tech, I decided to write my own weightlifting app and set myself a humble goal of reaching $1000 in total proceeds. See [1] for my initial launch post.

I've now surpassed that goal and am now making about 500$/mo by selling premium features in the app. Android version is coming soon too. Doing the whole thing end-to-end (code, launch, marketing, support) was super gratifying and taught me a whole lot. I have to admit that I got almost teary eyed the first time someone bought one of my IAPs.

I'm not making a killing out of the app, and that was never the goal. But the personal satisfaction I got out of it was worth everything. I can't pretend to have derived any life lesson that applies to everybody from this, but this whole mini-journey was worth it for me, and I hope it will be for you too, should you embark in a similar one.

[0] https://tinyprojects.dev/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27507452
Band / Label / Venue manager. Like a football manager but you're handling bands of various stature. It could have periodic rhythm game elements that vary based on the genre, and having the genres and music be procedural / open-ended could be really fun.
It's weird people are taking this substack at face value.

Here's Millet's take from his well-regarded history of the Marines [0]:

This instability was of great concern to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. Unfortunately, no one in Wilson's State Department knew much about Haiti. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan relied for information upon Roger L. Farnham, head of the National City Bank's interests in Haiti. This was bad because Farnham was unsympathetic toward the Haitians and was determined to bring about U.S. intervention in the republic. He was even able to convince Bryan that Germany and France, who were then at war, were working together to gain control of Mole St. Nicholas.1°

It's good this economist wants to make a debate, but he seems more opinionated than fact-driven.

[0] https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/Publications/U.S.%20Marine...
Instant Pairwise Runoff and similar Condorcet methods seem like they would produce good results, though I'm averse to unsummable methods for practical reasons. But I think there's more nuance than saying a ranking method better captures voter preference than Approval because there's numbers. An ordinal method loses information about the distance between ranks. A voter could strongly prefer two candidates and then despise the rest of the pack pretty equally, and much of that distinction is lost in ranking. And the overall end result, even if it doesn't end up electing a despised candidate, is making a despised candidate look like they're the third most popular. That information helps shape who's involved in future elections.
Read. Read anything that’s been commercially published on paper.
As a former Mormon, I can see that first idea being absolutely hilarious if implemented correctly. I'm imagining all sorts of increasingly absurd scenarios you could place the Mormon main character in and the kinds of jokes you could make, there's a lot of potential haha. Stuff like coffee and tea being special attacks that the bosses can use, or dialogue with lots of really unusual swear substitutions. I think letting the player die and having the degree of heaven they get into be based off of their score in-game could be a really hilarious feature.

I think mixing in just the right amount of janky ragdoll physics and glitchy NPCs would actually augment the game, and I could see it being a game that streamers and their audiences would find funny too.

There would definitely be some ultra-strict/traditional Mormons who would be offended by a game like this but I'd say the vast majority of the membership would find it quite entertaining.

Edit: Could call it Mormon Missionary Simulator to both give the game a slightly tighter focus/story and also indicate that it's part of the wider genre of "XYZ simulator" games that are often pretty absurd and funny.
Avatar: the Last Airbender in VR.
> I dispute the fairness of claiming the Model 3 has worse range when it's obviously the most efficient vehicle

This is a crazy twisting of thought. Like, it's 100% true that the model 3 has worse range. That's like "oh, it's not fair to claim that the model 3 is smaller when it's actually the lightest vehicle". I mean, "oh, it's not fair to claim X about the model 3 because while that's true, on this other metric Y the model 3 ranks differently".
I too wish for Sim Ant II, what a cool game. I tried playing Sim Ant the other day, the UI does not hold up at all.
coop game EXACTLY like wow (5/10/20) instances, with time runs, achievements and item progression, etc. and where you have to think very well your strategy in every pull.

edit: typo
I guess it won't work for google.

But nothing illegal if you aren't using it for fishing etc.
This is more the sort of engine you develop if you're going for an Apollo style mission where there's a mother craft that goes into orbit and a separate lander goes down to the surface. A NTR's poor TWR compared to conventional combustion rockets means it would be a bad ascent stage.

I wouldn't assume the plan relies on ISRU at all but if it do having to carry the resulting hydrogen up to orbit on the ascent stage will be a big limiting factor so not keeping the oxygen isn't so large a flaw. And if you're carrying the fuel to orbit on another rocket you want to get as high an ISP as you can manage with what you bring up.

All of which isn't to say this would be a good plan. I've drunk the SpaceX koolaid on the topic. But if it's a bad plan at least it isn't a stupid one and there are reasons behind things.
My wife loves to play it, she is still learning how to use the right stick to aim but is getting much better. Know any other girlfriend friendly co-ops?
It's not the mechanics of the system it's the institutions executing them that are distrusted.
DK1 was great. DK2 was even better.

Then DK Mobile happened and it's pretty clear we'll never see a good DK game again.
> In other words, another refutation: the NYT is making strong, evidence free claims of a causal link between indemnity and Haiti's relative historical poverty.

Sure, you can believe what you want just because you want a smoking gun amidst a complicated reality.

But it’s not much of a stretch to say that a colonised enslaved country was in poverty and driven to more poverty due to the coloniser’s forced “reparations” from their slaves.
Any free alternatives?
Maybe I'm getting old but I want a game that brings real people together. There are more than enough "get everyone together virtually" games.

I want a game that actually reinforces the social fabric instead of simulates it. Something that encourages people to be together in the physical world (gasp!), have fun, have shared experiences/goals/challenges, and form lasting friendships.

I have very fond memories of lugging my computer (and CRT!) to my friends/family's house to have a LAN + pizza party. The best part for me wasn't necessarily the game itself. The games were fun but I really enjoyed the social aspect of talking about a tough dungeon or strategizing how to beat a challenging opponent.

It seems like the industry is trying its best to bring people into a simulated world but why not use games to bring people together into it instead?

Pokemon Go is probably the closest thing to this I've seen recently but the core gameplay was unfortunately pretty boring when it first started and became popular.
Phantom Doctrine is the spy rpg you want
With a sidekick called... Murty?
Great, even more different products using same names. I understand the idea of uniting all different Proton services under the same name, but now Proton (Mail and other services) and Proton (SteamPlay, from Valve) will be hard to differentiate in short news headlines. Similarly as with Unity (Ubuntu desktop environment) and Unity (game engine).