skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's best to write down what you expect and get agreement on important matters like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UZ6tcvgd9U
Read the article, they're very explicit about this. Lawsuits are a civil matter, not criminal. Texas is just giving their residents permission to sue anyone that helps a Texas resident get an abortion.

If you can't understand the basic concept that you can be sued in another state, there's nothing I can do to help you.
> When the "activist" types push politics into workplaces they are not doing it so they can talk about what they feel. They are doing it so they can find the people who disagree and damage their careers.

This sounds like your position is that anyone who advocates for anything (esp. when it's directly impacting them, but unrelated to work) only has one singular goal of weeding out disagreement and getting rid of it, which I think is ridiculous.

Humans are social creatures and we largely shape our perspectives by iterating with new data and communication. People can be (and IMO largely are) advocates for things that are important to them, have opinions on things, and don't have a singular focus of destroying anyone with different viewpoints.

On the other side, all humans have their limits to cooperation. As you have social interactions with anyone your viewpoint of them change, and realistically if I find out something about a co-worker through discussion like they believe that the 2020 election was stolen because Trump told them so it does inevitably make me scrutinize this person harder. What if you found out that a co-worker thought black people were genetically inferior or that women don't deserve to vote? At that point it's hard to work with someone with such a fundamentally different view of the world.

Is it "cancel culture" to say "we don't want nazis to work here"?
You have to pay a premium to get somebody on a 6 month contract. The salary is far less.
I don’t quite understand your comment, but my comment was just talking about how empty I found myself just stuck in a loop of attention grabbing activities outside of work.

I believe all lives require work, but not all lives are fulfilled by certain kinds of work. Hitting OKRs or KPIs at work can be satisfying but ultimately mean nothing when you approach retirement age/wealth.
The “majority of implied rights” do not rest on the right to privacy. For example, interracial marriage (*Loving v. Virginia) was decided on Equal Protection grounds, although privacy was a secondary basis.

Even Thomas doesn’t disagree that there are implied rights. His view is that they originate from the “privileges and immunities” clause, not the “due process clause.” But nobody disagrees, for example, that marriage is a right protected by the Constitution (although they disagree on what counts as marriage).
Free Chrome extension to reduce RAM
Hey,
I'm currently working on a small Chrome extension as a passion project to reduce my Chrome RAM usage.

It's basically like OneTab on steroids (some extra functionality) with a minimalistic UI dark/light skin.

Working on an auto-suspend functionality to automatically unload tabs from memory after a variable time, but leave the tabs in the tabs strip.

Currently in beta, completely free. Feedback appreciated!
Rs such as Mitt Romney are reliable friends of Democrat issues.
Only ~34% of Americans voted for Joe Biden (51.3% on a turnout of 66%).

30% is a “large portion of America”, is it not? It may not be a majority, but it’s enough to be a majority in some states.
I love the metaphor. I especially love using the Michael Pollan quote of “If it’s a plant eat it, if it’s made in a plant, don’t” or similar. I think that can be applied to our use of technology and especially content/digital consumption.

I’ll have to send you an email when I get back from vacation. Thanks for the kindness.
Honestly I get that rights are important and worth fighting over, but from a practical perspective, if you want to have an abortion, what’s wrong with just ordering abortion pills online and taking them? That pretty much solves the problem, right? Just curious.
> I just searched IMDB's 100 Most Beautiful People on the Planet and 0% of the people listed had "androgenetic alopecia". Zero.

Sean Connery, John Wayne, Bruce Willis, Vin Diesel, Jason Statham.

For men, "beautiful" and "sexy" come from the projection of power. Fat men are sexy when food is scarce. The Japanese chonmage hairstyle was a reverence to the older, more accomplished fighters (who often had male pattern baldness).
This feels like an "all lives matter!" kind of response. The parent was specifically addressing the type of person who might be dismissive or unkind toward people of lower intelligence. Yes, there are people who are unkind toward all sorts of people, and that's not good either, but that's besides the point.
In my book? It becomes a hostile work environment once an aggrieved party seeks retribution or revenge for perceived harms.

It’s obviously not that simple, though: there are lots of opinions that are a priori incompatible with a functioning workplace, such as beliefs that fundamentally dehumanize one’s colleagues. In those instances, I’d argue that the hostile work environment begins the moment those beliefs are aired.

(And, to the best of my knowledge, no court has ever concluded that the particular derived beliefs of an individual are protected as an extension of their religious rights. Religious rights include things like being given reasonable accommodations for worship and lifestyle requirements; it doesn’t require your coworkers to placidly accept whatever positions you’ve extended from the larger religious doctrine.)
Height is correlated to health, intelligence, and good looks.

So, no offense for short people, but it’s not clear how much of this is height specific bias.
Au contraire, the men can collectively decide to oppress them, but it is not going to do them much good if all the women in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan have PhDs.

What is it, I ask you, that makes a population difficult to oppress?
Sam Harris's latest podcast[0] with David French touches the issues of toxicity around online discussion.

[0] https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/285...
This is one of the things I appreciate about languages like Go and Rust (I'm sure there are others as well). If the data is static, use a struct. If the data is dynamic, use a map/HashMap. No need to worry about TypedDict vs classes vs DataClasses vs etc, and no one uses HashMap for static data (they could, but virtually no one in those communities is such a glutton for punishment).

From Zen of Python:

> There should be one--and preferably only one--obvious way to do it
Social conservatives spent virtually all of their political capital on Roe and it still took them 50 years to get rid of a precedent that was not only completely lacking in foundation, but forced Georgia to allow elective abortions two months further into a pregnancy than France. And you think that banning abortion nationwide is “guaranteed” to “be on the agenda” the next go around?
The problem with one king ruling all the lands is what you wrote - if you don't like it, too bad.
I would like to learn your thoughts on what is better than the messy system of local control.
Or -L to follow redirects
The whole point of something like Little Snitch is to detect, and give you the option of preventing, connections that you wouldn't otherwise know about. For instance, programs that secretly phone home with telemetry about the user's behavior.

I can easily imagine such a program doing its own DNS lookups (or just using hardcoded IP addresses) to avoid detection, and this approach allows you to block it anyway.

Sure, you could do the same thing manually. But you might as well say "why does anyone need Visual Studio Code when we have sed and awk?"
Yeah, don't like Jim Crow? Just move to a State where you'll be comfortable forehead. Maybe you are already there!

The biggest mistake Lincoln made was leaving the Supreme Court intact after Dred Scott. Should have razed that shit to the ground when he had the chance.
Wikipedia editor density correlated with religiosity
> Doesn’t it bother you that you have to ask some manager if you can do something (a side project) in your free time?

Not at all. A salaried position comes with more open-ended expectations than an hourly position.

Besides, why the resistance to simply asking making it open and honest and the boundaries clear? My agreements on those things tended to be 2 or 3 sentences. I'd sign it, I'd get a veep to sign it, make a copy, and file it away.

It's just good business to do such things.
It's a good reason to leave, if the separate project is important to you.
Agree.

Robots are complex machines and thus the R&D to get them to work well is huge. And they need (re-)programming for every change in the tasks. It all adds up to a very large capital outlay, considerable ongoing operating costs and thus financially is not competitive with minimum wage labor.
Thank you for this.

Jurassic Park is not real. Those dinosaurs would be on life support, not vigorously chasing and eating people. Their lungs would not be sufficient in today's relatively thin atmosphere.
This I think is where a lot of the "leave your politics at home" falls apart. People's identities are basically a collection of the things they believe in and advocate for.

People work much better when they're happy and can be themselves with like-minded individuals. Companies like Google realized this in the 90s and ensured that they proactively have what they need to be happy (feeding employees, paying for healthcare premiums, etc) to great success. You see this continue with things like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31871581 IMO.

It's really easy to say that you as a business care about gay rights in order to have gay employees come work for you, but if you then contribute political donations to a politician who sees gay people as an abomination you can't seriously be surprise when people go "hey what the fuck".
Saitama would surely agree with the headline
Hmm. Now you've got me thinking about the most ergonomic way do define a block in python. Maybe a no-op context manager? So you could do "with scope():"

I admit to using block scopes in rust a fair bit
Like Steve Jobs famously Said - something about stealing
And yet I never had any trouble getting a 'yes'. One of those companies was Boeing - as big and bureaucratic as they get.
Am I the only one who actually likes the taste of RC the most? That aside, Julia is relatively young for a programming language, 10 years old. It's still possible for it to find a niche, even if it is not the one it aimed for. It took until the late 00s for Python to enter the data science niche in the first place.
OO schemas are very strict and in many situations difficult to extend. For example, let's say you have a class named Name that contains firstName and lastName. Let's say that you have a function that consumes lists of Names. Let's say you have yet another class called OtherName that contains firstName and lastName. That class will not be compatible with the function. Usual OOP suggests you solve this via inheritance, but if you don't own Name or OtherName that won't help you. OOP's tools for polymorphism are very limited, especially if you don't own all the code you're trying to use (third party libraries). If the "schema" enforced by the type system didn't include the name of the object that opens up a lot of possibilities.
One of the reasons why Woz is a smart cookie. Think of all the problems Apple could have had if he didn't.
One way to define it is to look at the thing that's unique to OOP that isn't used in any other paradigm.

In OOP data and method are unionized into primitives that form the basic building blocks of your program.

This is unique to OOP. It must be the definition. Defining it in terms of message passing, encapsulation and inheritance are not as good because these concepts are used in other paradigms as well.
I do. Every word.
What else are you going to do? Not make the best of what you have?

On the spectrum or not, you'll be gone in 100 years. May as well try and enjoy it while you're here.
Perhaps just to shatter the illusion that one will instantly become an enlightened productive person, this is what I did when I got rid of screens and books[^]:

* Sat around philosophising about what to do with my life
* Walked around philosophising about what to do with my life
* Walked around discovering abandoned places in the city
* Played instruments (which I already did when I had screens)

That's about it. It's not a bad way to live, but I didn't get any great projects done, or create anything, or build anything.

Instead, I've made the most progress in life by setting myself up with social environments that force me to get things done. Joining bands and sketch comedy groups has essentially peer pressured me into writing and producing a shitload of songs and screenplays. I've played more times live than I can count.

I achieved not through ridding myself of the drug of the internet, but by supplementing it with the drug of social belonging.

Hypothetically, most of our motivation for creating or building things comes from wanting to be valuable to our tribe. If we have weak social ties, or our tribe doesn't really value what we want to do, then motivation will be very difficult to find. (I think some people are exceptions to this, where they create endlessly in their splendid isolation, but it may be worth being honest and asking whether you are one of these exceptions, or whether you fit the rule like most of us.)

[^]: Failing to get rid of books meant I just sat around reading books all day
I know software is eating a lot of jobs, I see those type of jobs as more low hanging fruit. Software seems much easier to tackle than hardware. The robots I referring to are physical robots. Burger flipping robots, fruit picking robots, dishwashing robots, etc. Are the articles about these robots hype or are they actually in the field used by companies to improve their process/efficiency.
What’s revolutionary about this brilliant piece of Web2 technology is that now you don’t need a human anymore to manually check if Web3 has any use cases. All you need is an HTTP client that reads status codes.
It’s a testament to the relative lack of problems in my life that my single biggest current problem is scheduling time with my friends.

I think having serious conversations with my coworkers is a very good thing for all parties involved, especially when I don’t want them to eventually become friends. Opinions and beliefs are plainer that way.
As I understand it, lacto fermentation works so well because it’s very low tech.

Using your hands doesn’t matter. For the same reason that fermented stuff should be washed or sterilised before being canned (well, rinse the soil and dirt but that’s it). Once you’ve started eating them though (so after they’re done fermenting), you should use clean utensils, no double dipping, etc because it has a higher risk to spoil as you’ve introduced air in the vessel.

The organisms that ferment come from the air and the surface of the food you’re fermenting. If you use sealed jars that can outgas (so they don’t explode), the fermentation generates CO2 while eradicating all other bacteria. Mold cannot take hold because there is no air.

It’s a self caring process where you virtually can’t intoxicate yourself. Just use your eyes and your nose: if you somehow didn’t seal them properly they’ll go bad. And if they’re bad you can very easily tell: they smell and look wrong.

I’ve been lactofermenting all sorts of food and it’s a great source of vitamins, probiotics. It’s very very easy to do and it’s been done for millennia in societies where refrigeration didn’t exist and where we didn’t have access to sterile kitchen and utensils. It can also be done anywhere as you don’t need heat or energy. Only water, salt, and food. You can even use water jars instead of sealed jars (not sure how they’re actually called, they have a water layer to keep air from touching the fermenting food so it doesn’t mold)
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/215216/high-thr...
UO sounds like it was modeled off real life then
Hi. Re (1), did anything ever come of the story about the scientist who discovered some of the deleted genetic sequences on Google Cloud (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/science/coronavirus-seque...)?
D'oh. abolition -> prohibition in the above
Seriously, there's a lot more diversity in advertising these days, but I don't think we'll ever get to the point where companies are open to diversity of attractiveness. (Or people pushing for it.) Can you imagine an Apple ad where you have average looking, or unattractive, people taking photos with the latest iPhone?
I've been working on an app (for myself, but I guess I'll share it if it ends up working for me) that pretty much asks me every two weeks to fill two lists: 1) things in my life that I want to accomplish (in the next two weeks) and 2) things that I want to do more of, or less of. Every two weeks it asks me to summarize how I did for every item I had listed, and if I want to keep/remove/add more to list 1, and what I want my new list 2 to be.

The idea is to make it a browser plugin, that forces me to fill that form every two weeks by making every new tab that form until I fill it.
I designed something like this before. Multiple shear lines with a two stage isolation-then-check is intuitive. The details matter, though, and this looks clean. I could see it manufactured.

My design tried to avoid it being possible to interact with any of the components storing the code before the pins are isolated. I did this by having two styles of pins (normal vs. T-shaped), and an insertable bar in a specially-cut slot, which checked the right combination of pins were along for the ride.

Enclave seems like a much more sensible design in terms of implementation elegance and reliability. This is even more stark compared to other even more complicated designs I have seen. Versus my concept, it also makes it possible to have more than 1 bit per slot. To be completely cautious, however, and fully obsolete those other designs, it would make sense for the top pins to be very slightly spooled along their full length, such that the cut is guaranteed never to touch the sidewall.
Interestingly I've been trying to reintroduce video games in my life, in moderation, because video games are fucking great and I'm sad that I'm not playing anymore.
> states

Are there other states doing this or is it only Texas?
Thank you. I just enabled it and now I can see what the parent post was talking about.
That is part of why there will be no market for them. The main reason, though, is that their operating cost is way too high to compete in a fair market.

All existing reactors have relied on having the fix in: heavily subsidized or ratepayers compelled to pay above market rates, most usually both.
But are "self driving cars" really that common? I don't mean a car with a handler to take over when the car gives up, but a truly self driving without a driver/handler.
That’s really impressive if it was authored by an AI.
Chestnut Tools Universal Sharpener – Popular Woodworking Magazine (2016)
> The crazy part is, not one single person I know thinks of it as a bad thing

That's what gets me the most. We all have an insane addiction, yet nobody seems to be talking about it. It's completely socially accepted.

Interestingly, a lot of weird things are totally socially accepted. Religion, alcohol, coffee, etc. (I'm a sinner who drinks but still, it's weird)
A friend of mine just got a new model candybar phone. Calls and texts (w/o pictures).
Emotions are feelings. You don't have control of them but you do have control over your actions and your speech. If we agree that policies should be rational, then we agree that emotions are non-productive here. The human rights you are talking about are not fundamental in any way, they are contrived. If the state does not protect human life, then nobody will. The issue is not as simple as you've made it out to be.
Could you create a 6502 with cache and pipelining? My understanding is that those are both implementation details that shouldn't affect the "userspace ABI" that code running on the chip can see, other than making performance nonuniform (because it slows for every cache miss and branch misprediction). Obviously that only helps with true memory access; I don't think there's anything to be done for true I/O.
If anyone — say, the doctor who told you you were pregnant — has evidence that you were pregnant, you could be investigated and charged with a crime for suddenly not being pregnant. This has ALREADY happened to at least one woman who was simply suffering a natural miscarriage.
I got that info reading about a dual-gauge solution for China's Belt and Road. But it was a political piece on the "Akhaura-Sylhet dual gauge project" in Bangladesh. Turns out that India, Pakistan, western Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka (also, SF's BART) use 1,676 mm gauge. There's enough space between that and 1,435 mm standard gauge for 3-rail. Not sure about 4-rail.
Yes, and it's terrible.

You can't sign into icloud and you can't maximize a VM to 4k resolutions. It's usable, but for $100 they could do much much better.
I think we are not far from somebody trying that. We know that people are trained to ignore advertisements by constant practice, and perhaps every possible change will eventually have to be made to stay ahead of the subconscious spam filter.
I find that if you simply change the wording of their contract to what you are happy with, initial all your changes, sign all pages, sign it, photocopy it, and send it in, nobody rejects it.

Later when they try to hold you to the original contract, you simply ask them for the contract you signed..

This has worked for me everytime :)
Not sure why it's sending you a 301 redirect, but you could add -L to follow it:

curl -L -I https://web3usecase.com

It's just sending a 404 meaning "Use Case Not Found" for "web 3".
This just feels like bullying.

I'm not a fan of web3. I'm generally skeptical of most tech fads. There have been plenty of them over the years. If I don't like the new thing I don't use it. This has paid dividends when things turn into vapor. It can be annoying when they stay around(xml).

What I don't do is aggressively campaign against other people's ideas. Let people try their wacky ideas. Offer constructive criticism.
The argument that an imaginary AGI is going to take over the world because of an imaginary principle is not actually very convincing though. It would be better if you said they'd do something humans already did; at least we know that'd be possible. Most of this "instrumental convergence" assumes that it has an infinite attention span, infinite energy, all its plans work properly… the only reason it all goes that well is you're imagining it did.

I think last week someone on twitter told me an AI could be bad because it'd "kill us all by releasing viruses into the atmosphere", but if you had a baby it could also grow up to do that, and (correctly) nobody worries about this. Not clear why these are supposed to be different.

More importantly, it mostly relies on thinking AGIs behave like computer programs in that 1. they don't get bored 2. they can be copied or copy themselves. Is that necessarily true? If someone copied you could you take over the world easier? Maybe you'd just fight over who gets the bank account.