skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author is making some broad generalizations ("Board members often know almost nothing about the organization they have complete power over") that don't match what I've seen as a nonprofit board member.

There are certainly best practices out there, as nonprofit management is a very developed "industry" in the United States and I suspect other countries as well. I don't know why he had trouble locating this information. Identifying a capable and engaged executive committee and limiting tactical committees and projects in favor of strategic planning will go a long way to making for an effective board.

Small nonprofits will seem chaotic as there are too many things to do, (usually) no full-time staff to manage it, board members who don't participate and/or make demands that are not practical, poor financial management, launching important tasks that are never completed, and badly written bylaws at foundation that cause problems for years after they are written.
> It is good for...such dividing issues be figured out democratically.

By that logic it would be good to get rid of the bill of rights, the other constitutional amendments, and most of the rest of the constitution.

Still sound good to you?
My claims are concise and straightforward, so I don't know what you're talking about. I also didn't ask any rhetorical questions.

Like I said in another comment, I'm done with this conversation, have a nice day.
Alrighty then!

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You can already do that, but with other tokens. Maybe you should read more about other blockchains other than bitcoin.
As I see it this is a specialized version of what I'm talking about, no?

I completely agree that that is one of the most harmful manifestations though.
And, btw, in this thought experiment my gut feeling is:

> What if the neighbor themself has suddenly developed kidney failure, no transplants are available, and the only thing that will save them is an immediate 30-week stay in the special room?

The neighbor should be allowed to evict the donor, even if this causes terrible outcomes for the donor.

> Does the answer to the above change if the room's special-ness is tied to the neighbor being alive (if they die, no one else can ever use it to regrow organs)?

My answer doesn't change.

> What if the neighbor's own infant child has suddenly developed kidney failure, no transplants are available, and the only thing that will save them is an immediate 30-week stay in the special room; should they be allowed to evict the recovering kidney donor? Does the answer change if the kidney donor has a 1% chance of surviving on dialysis until the room is available again? 10%? 99%?

My answer doesn't change; the neighbor should be allowed to evict the donor.

> If the neighbor is just being selfish and wants their room to be empty because they've decided think it looks better when it's tidy, should that be forbidden?

The donor should be allowed to stay under EMTALA.

> One way or another, if the room is empty at the end of the 40 weeks, should the state use eminent domain to seize the room and force the neighbor to take in gravely ill people from local hospitals, housing them until they are well, for as long as the room is working?

Yes. If there exists a special room which can heal people and if it is idle, the government should seize control of it and distribute its healing ability to help as many people as possible. Ideally we should raise taxes to investigate how this healing room works and replicate it until we can end all death in the world and heal all disease. But in the short term we should immediately maximize its use, and compensate its owner accordingly.
> You can't have your cake and eat it too

Actually I’m not sure this is 100% true. One option is to, say, only appoint SCOTUS judges that have an extremely broad reading of the Constitution on things you like, and a very narrow, textual reading on things you don’t.

Hypothetically, of course.
Disney, Amazon, Netflix offering travel benefits to obtain abortions
Wholeheartedly agree. Not everything has to solve all the problems. In fact, nothing ever will.
The problem here I think is that these sorts of failures are bursty, and account protection algorithms are typically not capable of tracking behaviors over time, because that would be expensive.
If the voting majority truly cares about access to abortion then we will hopefully see enough democratic traction to give them the mandate needed.

They do [0]. We haven't.

'Own the libs, fuck the deplorables', no compromise.

I'm tired of this false equivalence.

Let's not forget that each of the recently appointed justices that voted down Roe V Wade lied to congress before they were approved for the supreme court, saying that they wouldn't. How can one truly compromise with people who aren't honest in the first place? What is even the compromise here? Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others? The vast majority of Dems are the moderates and have acted in good faith, as you're suggesting, for decades and have nothing to show for it. The Overton window has been moving right for what seems like my entire lifetime.

0 - https://news.gallup.com/poll/393275/steady-americans-not-roe...
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A law isn't enough as it will be in conflict with the consitution. A constitutional amendment is required.

To get enough Senate votes to pass a constitutional amendment, you're looking at 75% of the country voting for Democrats. Not going to happen. The Senate imbalance is ridiculous.
Reality is people will learn NYKNYC eventually. It’s a multi year journey for some.
We had the largest outflow of BTC for exchanges ever last week. Ledger hit new sales records for sale of hardware wallets. People are getting it.

I will not accept that people consider it a PITA. I will teach them, personally if I have to. I have onboarded many.
I work under the assumption that anything in the downloads folder is up for deletion at any point in time. I periodically just delete everything in there without so much as a glance
There are other ways to do crimes with USD.
Well they can "return it to the states" to decide after a creative re-interpretation. Nothing is settled after all. And what I was really saying was that even if 13th and 14th aren't voided in our lifetime, there are other easier targets - same sex marriage and contraception namely that would further cement the idea that everything is hackable to your beliefs (without even needing unanimous SCOTUS decision to undo long established precedents) using this recipe - when what one would treat settled and what one wouldn't is never clear everything is unsettled and open to hacking away.

Sounds ridiculous but look at gun rights - Scalia said Second Amendment applies to individuals, but the decision would not affect other gun safety regulations. Now we have the SCOTUS expanding gun rights at the expense of states' rights and their safety regulations.

Could Congress maybe make a law stating precedents will not be overturned unless there is unanimous assent? That might make some things somewhat better for the foreseeable future.
I wish we would just stop using phone numbers as the primary user identifier and SMS as the primary communication channel

Come up with a good alternative and make yourself a billionaire.

Difficulty: Good alternative.
I saw it. He's not actually playing devil's advocate, just using the name. It's like the People's Democratic Republic of Korea.
> How would you differentiate this argument for abortion versus for slavery?

Slavery unambiguously violates the autonomy of another human being.

If it could be demonstrated scientifically what life is and when it begins and that happens to be at conecption, then yes, abortion should be outlawed. But we don't know this. In a free and open society, in the absence of knowledge, we should default to people making their own choices; we should default to freedom and not restriction.
And we have a women in the picture who is much more of a human being and she should also be protected from harm caused by a technically parasite entity that leeches on her resources potentially causing life-altering changes and could even prove fatal.
They have one job. It's called "science." They go to school for that.

Other people, including the voting public, have the job of determining policy based on what they find.
Good to know, I've only owned a HDD imac (so I didn't use filevault) before I got a M1 laptop so I wasn't sure if it applied everywhere.
My guess is they are showing how easy it is to make an app on the PinePhone.

Not sure how useful it is to compile on the phone instead of doing a cross-compile on a “proper” dev box but I guess to just get up and running it works.

Makes me want a PinePhone because I have an idea or two and have no idea how to program a simple app for my iPhone. I’d probably just use C though because I gasp like programming in C/simple C++.
No, the framing should be around the women's right to bodily autonomy. In Florida, they have a "stand your ground" law. If someone threatens your life, or even great bodily harm, you are allowed to use lethal force.

Giving birth is a life threatening process. Even under fairly routine births, women endure significant bodily harm, often irreversible. Look up prolapse. Your organs literally push out of you vagina. This impacts 20-35% of women and for many of them this condition is permanent.

If you are allowed to shoot someone in Florida because they threatened your bodily autonomy, why shouldn't a women be allowed to terminate a pregnancy for the same reason?
The owner of a service has no requirement or duty to carry anyone's speech. A person's freedom of speech doesn't override anyone else's freedom of association. So a private company can censor or reject any speech using their service unless otherwise mandated by law (common carrier etc).
>I've never had such consistently terrible Mexican food

This is so ignorant, and drives me crazy every time I hear it. TexMex isn't Mexican food... let me repeat that: the Mexican food you're thinking of, was never the food in Texas. Texas has always been a region. TexMex is an authentic regional cuisine and is the product of 200 years of blending cultures.

Unlike California and Arizona, Texas was never cleared if it's Hispanic population through war, the Spanish American War. If you go to, say San Francisco, most of the Hispanic residents immigrated in the last 80 years or so. Three and a half generations back. That isn't the case in Texas. In Texas, many if not most of the Tejano population has been here since the days of Santa Anna. The food in Texas was last upended in the late 1800s when a gigantic influx of German/Czech Immigrants brought polka, sausages, brisket, and kolaches... sound familiar to Austin?

TexMex has always been in Texas. Flour instead of corn was due to crop growing conditions and availability. It's just through a quirk of history (again, the Spanish American War leads to everyone thinking native Tejanos are Mexican immigrants) that everyone comes to think that it's wrong. We even had a name for the food you are talking about when i was growing up, "Interior Mexican food." It's a completely different cuisine.

As time goes by, food changes... that's normal. TexMex in Austin has changed a lot since i was growing up in central Texas, just like BBQ has changed a lot, but it can be traced back to the Germans and Tejanos exchanging chili con carne for sausages, and pan dulce for kolache.

If you don't like it, that's fine, but don't compare it to retro-modern fare made by more contemporary Mexican-American immigrants, based on the various regions in Mexico during the mid-to-late-1900s.
Here's a contemporary study out of Japan: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32740040/
>The overruling of Roe comes just days after another ruling by the same Supreme Court in which they took away states' rights to regulate the possession of guns. States rights has always been a rhetorical tactic used by conservatives as a convenient ruse to achieve their aims. When the argument from states rights is helpful to their political aims, they rely on it. When it's harmful, they ignore it.

You do not at all seem to understand the NYRPA vs Bruen ruling or topic. It makes me question the rest of your reasoning.

Overturning Roe comes one day after a Supreme Court ruling that ends the process of New York's MAY ISSUE (if you are wealthy, make a donation, are connected) a concealed carry permit practice. It turns out the state doesn't get to require you to prove a need before you have your rights.

There is no right besides 2A that ever faces this level of scrutiny and abuse. It doesn't help that the NYPD has multiple times since that lawsuit initially started been found guilty of corruption by the state's own investigators, when they initially withhold completely appropriate requests but favored "others".

You do not understand the topic you referenced.
Ah, I missed the nuance. I knew that it was possible to duplicate coverage and misunderstood how.
We did not "find" 1 from any rejected DARPA grant proposal, that's nonsense and completely unsupported by the actual grant proposal. You cannot presume one leads to the other, that'd be like trying to cite a patent on a perpetual motion machine as conclusive proof perpetual motion machines exist.

I would argue that continuing to state what you have here qualifies as disinformation, and think HN should remove it immediately, lest HN become yet another breeding ground of this kind of anti-intellectual memetic drivel.
In a world where marketing/propaganda is a thing, created by whoever owns the medium, etc. Does democracy really exist?
Sorry, I had the wrong nuance. According to the other poster, it's by ownership type, not account type.
It spreads a bit more slowly in rural areas, and there could have been a mutation that increased fitness and spread in humans. There is very little that we can say MUST be true about the origin of Sars-Cov-2
I use them alot, in the past I've used RSS2email where emails are managed via Emacs/notmuch-emacs/org-mode and behind the scene autorefiled via MailDrop, I quit this method simply because to many feeds to make click only publish a title not the entire article so I need anyway something webbic...

I've tried elfeed but it's a bit slow and sometimes it's DB go TFU so I end up with Miniflux, just because it's simple and quick enough to be setup and on my homeserver I can see the same feeds on desktop, laptop etc.

I do not use them much more than news, for software I only use them for security advisors and new releases of some projects I track, I've planned an RSS-centric personal website but it's a skeleton essentially empty so far and it's veeeery low priority so...

My most important pain point is publishers who not put full posts inside RSS.
I haven't been able to use Uber for the last four years because I never receive its verification texts.

Uber's screw-up has given Lyft a few thousand dollars.
What methods are there of killing an unborn baby a day before it would otherwise be born that wouldn't cause massive harm to the mother? What examples of this actually occurring do you know of?
Personally I agree that ethically, intentionally killing the foetus/baby just before birth is not significantly different to doing so just after birth. But it doesn't mean the same legal protections make sense, given the very practical differences between either act. Perhaps the only scenario where they're not so different is where the mother is already dead. That we might need laws against anyone actively killing an unborn baby in such a case (given they'd obviously require active intervention to survive more than a few minutes) seems a little farfetched.
Yes, the BLM protests are more examples of the right to protest being alive and well.
Just for some context, I once heard commentary about MLK that suggested that that specific statement was made in more of a spiritual tradition than a practical or historical tradition.
Exactly this. The moment I read the initial claim of sentience, I wrote that they could have asked it "Why did you blow up the whole world?" and it would generate a plausible answer, and could probably describe exactly how that was accomplished.

I don't believe the engineer really believed what he was saying, but probably attempted to gain a little fame for himself. Instead, he gained notoriety as a gullible man full of bonkers stories. He shot his own credibility down.

In part of his writeup, he realized LaMDA would "lie" (a purposefully chosen word that formed the basis of even more leading questions...) about its history, eg being used in a classroom when it never had been, and its generated response was that it made people feel more comfortable.

How could he notice that it generates untrue but plausible statements when asked about events that didn't happen, but not be able to notice that the exact same thing would happen when asked about emotions, etc., that also didn't happen?

I'm reading a book called Blindsight about aliens that are very similar to this. Maybe this engineer has read it, and his imagination has gotten the better of him.
For a good paid option, Alfred[0] includes a pretty robust clipboard history manager along with a ton of other features, all in an extremely lightweight (15.6MB disk size/~40MB memory) package. You need the paid Power Pack for to use that feature, but both single version and lifetime upgrade licenses are cheap. I went for the lifetime upgrade option which so far has worked out to $12/year and improves in value each year.

[0]: https://www.alfredapp.com
That was the worst strategy the administration could have used.
It's a crime to use Google Analytics, watchdog tells Italian website
Male contraceptive pills show promise in early studies
Big difference between the two: with SARS-1 you first got symptoms then become contagious, with COVID-19 it was the other way around. Obviously the second one is much harder to control, and if that had not been the case there is a fair chance that the pandemic would have been stopped in the initial phase.
The Supreme Court Justice who wrote the court's opinion on this issue just publicly stated he believes the Supreme Court should reconsider all of its prior procedural decisions, including Gay Mairage, legalized gay relationships, contraception and privacy in sexual or relationship matters.

You don't get to claim you're potentially naive, you're outright ignoring what they've publicly declared they intend to do. This isn't a group of well reasoned individuals removing power from the court, they're just doing whatever they hell they want to make the laws reflect their own religious beliefs.

Fuck this country, the only thing we're the best at is pretending we're the best.
In the long run they would have been better off just coding it all themselves with the purpose of efficiency in mind, instead of relying on work of other people.

The biggest misconception I've found, to date, regarding performance, is that people believe everything's fast, because a compiler/JIT makes it fast.

Only a small percentage of programmers actually know how to do things right, the rest of every-thing is built up upon the same nonsense everyone gets to not just learn, but also gets to spread it even further out, creating a faulty norm everyone just accepts as true, because everyone says it's true.

Fact of the matter is that, as an analogy, a garbage collector is pure and utter nonsense, because it's a bandaid to fix the issue with people having no clue how to actually handle memory properly. Instead, they believe garbage collectors are a good thing, while also struggling with it interfering when it shouldn't.

To extend this analogy: Everyone would be better off just learning the simplicity of handling ones memory by ones self. Making at least ones own library for proper memory handling and management once, should be mandatory.

It's not that far away from "proper memory handling" to "setting up and accessing data in a cache efficient manner" ... and further.
> I am just thinking can't we use web technologies for this instead?

Please don’t…

Assuming you want to have people download a massive electron app to look at cat videos.
Best laugh of the day.

"It's almost as if sending the data of EU citizens out for processing in the US, where intelligence services can get their hands on it, is a bad thing."
Have you heard of the butterfly effect? You can't predict what would happen if you go back in time and change something. Maybe Apple wouldn't exist, or maybe it would exist and would be even better. Or some other company would exist in its place and would be better / worse. Or maybe Apple wouldn't exist, but because it didn't exist, TSMC would never rise to prominence, which would make Taiwan less of a powder keg, which would avoid WW3 when China inevitably takes control of Taiwan. Or maybe...
This seems like it could have enough value to build a customer base around? Or for someone to want to purchase the rights to the tech so they could build around it?

Selling such a thing should not be a problem given the right target. Not only has the customer space for technologies like that changed over time, but you are providing a new twist on the solution.

> “Stripe/Twilio for NLU”, but recent feedback has been that it’s more a “technology”, and less a “product”

That comment doesn't make a ton of sense to me. Are services not valuable? Stripe and Twilio seem like really helpful services and that seems...OK to me?

Personally I get excited when I hear about an ease-of-use wrapper around regex. But for a DB, in place of that regular messy query stuff with the prospect of things like multiple LEFT JOINS? That's a big deal.

And even if it doesn't tick every box it will probably I'd guess it would have its unique applications for a given set of customers.

Like let's say sets of people who would like to prototype to well-enough using their ability to sit around and talk in English all day long, and then hand off to someone else. The average person's energy pool for trying different sentences, even considering some expected failure rate, is so much deeper than the resources available for trying and failing with different SQL statements.

This would also apply to those who are not really working with the data to work with it. Let's say they are selling data-viz tools and want a quick way to make prototypes from the potential customer's sample data. There, boom, product example. I guess.

It sounds really cool. Good luck, hope it works out for you.
Taking away a society’s right to decide the scope of social institutions like marriage, or questions of when life begins, and giving unelected judges power over those questions is a serious infringement on democratic self determination.

In the long run, it jeopardizes the possibility of ordered progress because people perceive it as a serious intrusion into society and culture by elites—which judges are—and will resist and eventually revolt. That’s exactly what you see happening in the US right now.
The platform problem is that people fails to understand that a platform is someone else services.

With Usenet we are all equal, our "free work" is for ourselves in our community, with platforms it's for the owner.

It's NOT different from some people who fails to understand the difference between a local thing and a remote service, just shifted to less IT illiterate people, unfortunately with the very same mechanism...
I'm not sure how to interpret your comment. Could you elaborate?