skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would a state overrule the supreme court's decision? What do you mean with that? If In understand correctly, abortion has been legalized by law in several states and forbidden in several others, neither of which conflicts with this decision.

It is a shame that the USA hasn't been able to enact federal legislation on abortion in the past 50 years.
Yes like I said for such services, yes. Here in Spain it's used sometimes too. Though once a month would be the maximum I'd receive one.
Fortunately, 2022 has been pretty quiet and uneventful.
...The entire point of patents is the spread of knowledge. What, you think researchers, people that are by definition expected to be well acquainted with the cutting edge state of the art, aren't trolling patent streams for inspiration?

I'm not even that much a cutting edge guy (I try to bring yesterday's innovation that no one noticed to people not even aware they should be looking at it) and I dig through the odd patent that catches my interest.
Exactly. It sounds faux-romantic to wane about democracy and the power of voting, but when the systems that support this system have been perverted over the course of decades, it becomes a horror story. Democracy as it has been thought of is dead (in the U.S.).
Lately, they've had our regular UPS guy, doing usual deliveries, have a shipping label with him, and he just picks up the return. We put a post-it on the cardboard box to let him know that it's the box to return.

I don't think you get to pick that service anywhere as such, so it might be regional or limited in some other way. When you initiate a return, you don't know whether you'll need a printer or not.
There is something in this space that I think would have value... maybe translation from English -> SQL, maybe suggest commonly used WHERE clause filters, etc.

At the end of the day, SQL is very expressive for most of these queries, but it's not particularly discoverable and does take some knowledge. Lowering that barrier to entry is a great idea, but otherwise I'm not sure if an analyst can be certain their query will give the same data as somebody who uses slightly different phrasing. SQL gives a lot more precision and I would hate to lose that due to a layer of abstraction.

But English -> SQL (with something like Github Copilot, built on other analysts' queries) would be very interesting although not "get out my wallet and purchase" compelling.
Bicentenial Man vibes
Taiwan is Chinese, but they're not communist Chinese. They are the Republic of China, not the People's Republic of China.
I still fail to see your point, as it seems that your proposition is just that polls aren't useful at all.

Fact is though, most US citizens aren't against the _idea_ of abortion. We could be nitpicking in there all day long, but there is a majority who is not against it.
One thing I've noticed as a result of the pandemic: there are many people who think that Listening to Experts is the same thing as Doing Science. Everyone who has strong feelings about the lab leak hypothesis (in either direction) would do well to remember the Litany of Tarski:

If SARS-COV-2 escaped from the WIV,
I desire to believe that SARS-COV-2 escaped from the WIV;
If SARS-COV-2 did not escape from the WIV,
I desire to believe that SARS-COV-2 did not escape from the WIV;
Let me not become attached to beliefs I may not want.

Just because the CDC or some other experts say it didn't happen doesn't mean it didn't. Just because Fox or some other conspiracy theorist says it did happen doesn't mean it did.
Your Russia theory is on par with the one from the Chinese government saying the virus came to Wuhan from the US via some frozen food.
> If you decide a fetus is trespassing in your body,

I think I remember the UN Charter on the Rights of the Child stating that (1) children are not the property of their parents and (2) parents have a responsibility for its well-being.
I'm also curious as to what is tiresome running as a regular user. I'm a developer and run two users (standard/admin) without any issue. Only issue I run into is having to switch to the admin user to run brew.
You admit it yourself, I will quote you:

"they are more transmissible, more likely to evade immunity"

Intrinsic severity of the virus doesn't change the fact it is the most transmissible virus we have ever seen in the world.

Even if it is intrinsically less severe than previous variants, because we are allowing it to spread to EVERYONE in the world we are seeing a much worse impact. Did you miss that in the US alone we've had over 160k deaths from COVID-19 just in the last 6 months of this year? No other virus has had this level of death in the same timeframe.
I expect anyone who has worked for 10 years or more at any of the top SV companies to have at a minimum 1 million invested and much more likely at least 2, given the crazy bull market after 2008.
> parasite entity that leeches on her resources potentially causing life-altering changes and could even prove fatal

Yet when my friend lost a child to a miscarriage, they grieved.

It's interesting to note when people latch on to starkly dehumanizing rhetoric such as you've displayed. It's not just in the abortion debate.

A lot of people really want this question to be black and white, and struggle to make it so, but it really isn't and never will be.
550 million raised, last round series C in Aug '21.
> Law is semantics.

Right, but that's also the point I was making. People think creating a law based on the beliefs of religious people violates the separation of church and state. It doesnt. the semantic nature of the law is relevant here.

I was highlighting that by saying you could make a state that effectively is a religious state using the current system. since the semantics are still there and must be accounted for, this prevents it from actually being a religious state.

By adhering to the semantics, no amount of religious belief can lead a state to violate the constitution.. even if the state bases every single one of its laws on religion. And if they try to, then the federal government has authority to enforce otherwise.
Post-Ed Disclaimer:

If your whole article was meant to serve as a prime example of someone who lacks coherence, clarity and certainty, then I profoundly apologize, because you've hit the nail on the head with that one.

Here's my initial post:
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This article is dumb. Period. There's no excuse.

What he hell is wrong with you?

Ignoring that it seems rather obvious that the lack of clarity comes from too many people believing there's actual depth behind buzzwords. I could be completely wrong, though not partly, yet definitely not as wrong as you are, because mine's not based on a wild assumption mistaken as potentially valid conclusion, but in actual reality backed up by peoples experiences.

Besides that, your conclusion is ... superficial. Shallow. Lacks depth just like buzzwords do.

This article/blogpost/whateveryouwishtocallit is horribly written. While you do take a first step into the right direction towards understanding, you seem to stop at the first finding that pops up, mistaking it for some important information of actual value.

It fucking isn't. In fact, your whole article is based on nonsense and you're actually insulting yourself with it, publicly.

Regardless ... I've actually read through all of it. That's something I usually don't do, because it's not fucking worth it. Sooo .... you've got that going for yourself, which unknowingly means a lot.

It's also short, of course, which may or may not give us hints about your attention span.

You have this nugget here, "They don’t wake up and say “I want to keep the team in a fog!"", and then you somehow magically not just leap, but outright conclude:

"We confuse clarity/coherence and certainty."

This is definitely true if everyone else thinks like you, because you've actually tried taking this nonsense to actually make a case for it.

"If clarity/coherence equals certainty" ... they fucking don't.

clarity does not equal coherence,
coherence does not equal certainty,
certainty does not equal clarity.

You can not, in fact, even just understand the problem, as long as you are oblivious to the actual definitions and meaning of significant words.

"If clarity/coherence equals certainty, and a strategy is supposed to be clear and coherent, then unless we are certain, we can’t have a strategy."

Do you, yourself, even understand what this means? This isn't a coherent, structured thought. Worse, the negation! The whole sentence requires a negation to actually even exist and count as a valid ... verbal construct.

...

If this is just trolling, though, then it's a fucking master-piece.
I clicked the link because I want something like what you mentioned. But your landing page showed a programming language and you lost me.

And I'm a developer.

You're not selling a syntax. You're selling a solution. The homepage should be selling me on what you're solving, not the syntax to do it.
I want user interaction to be free of race conditions. If I click on an app that takes 1 second to start, then start typing, the resulting behavior shouldn't change based on whether I started typing before or after the window appears. In both cases, the input shouldn't make it to the previously focused app, and perhaps the input should even be buffered and sent to the new window once it appears (though I'm unsure if this is a good idea).

And if you click back on the old window after clicking an app icon (which is slow to load), the newly opening app perhaps should not steal focus (interrupting user interaction at an unpredictable point) once it does pop up (though I'm unsure if this is an ideal user experience, how should the new app indicate its presence?).
That's just Zig flavoured EEE.
>That means, low taxes, control inflation, get budget in order and have a surplus even, stop spending and question the efficiency of the Gov (Do 2x from existing funding). Huge tax breaks for startups and small biz. No state income tax.

IIRC, the top marginal Federal income tax rate in the 1950s-1960s was never below 70%[0].

[0] https://bradfordtaxinstitute.com/Free_Resources/Federal-Inco...

Edit: Fixed prose.
Edited. "Could" was more of a hypothesis. Just offered his quote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
Oh really? I have many colleagues in France and they're all on WA. What else do they use? Is there a local app? I know France loves their local things :)
I have grown to hate edgy comments that are like "Well actually now it is just a state's issue and Roe v Wade was poorly decided!".

You're not edgy & insightful. The impact of this decision isn't just pushing pieces around a chess board. It's scared women & girls around the country, it's women dying who wouldn't have otherwise.
related 500 comments in "Italian watchdog bans use of Google" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31852384
Open it and you'll probably find a layout like you had back then.
That doesn't mean each are equally likely.. hence the huge section in the article I linked about bayesian priors.
Just so you know: I am absolutely certain that it's not you.
That's a very well researched article you link to, but assumptions are tricky things:

> The fact that there were two distinct lineages early on is of critical importance, as this could imply a hidden community transmission for months (lineage A could’ve evolved into lineage B) before the outbreak at the Huanan market. Alternatively, the two lineages could have evolved in an animal reservoir from a shared MRCA before separately jumping into humans at the market. Option one is compatible with a lab leak scenario, option two is not.

Option two assumes that the lab had only one lineage of the virus - but it collected samples out in the wild and could easily have collected both together, mixed and stored them, and leaked them together. So the wonderfully detailed analysis rests on this assumption.
I skipped binance interview in the past when there was no crisis, their assignment:

Design and code a Content Management System (CMS) for Binance. The CMS would used to post articles for the public. The current Binance site supports up to 17 different languages. Each article would have some translations but not all articles have all of the 17 translations. Design and code a RESTful API for the CMS.

The user of the CMS would need to input the different translations for the same article. Design a user interface to facilitate this. We would only be looking at the functionalities of the user interface, so do not spend too much time on the design aspects.

Derive your own data model as deem fit. The preferred language for backend is Java and frontend is JavaScript though you are free to choose any other languages as well as frameworks.

Submit the code as a GitHub repository and make sure that the GitHub repository is public. Remember to add a README file for instructions on how to run the application and explanations (if any).
Good. There needs to be more of these layoffs in the crypto casino sector. Hopefully in the next coming years, all crypto firms should go bankrupt and disappear.

These exchanges and crypto companies need to stop encouraging customers to buy and gamble their savings and college funds into the crypto pyramid scheme.

This needs to end.
> i think this sort of demonstrates just how far behind and backwards Japan is. It's like the country is stuck in late 90s.

I've lived in Japan for the last 10 years, in no way does it seem "stuck in late 90s". And this single incident in no way demonstrates this.

For some reason it's culturally acceptable to make these kinds of comments about Japan in English language forums. But I don't really understand why... Japan is no doubt very different from other countries in various respects. But it doesn't seem helpful to say essentially "we are 30 years ahead of Japan".

You could if you wanted say "wow the US/UK are stuck in the 1990s" because copper broadband is still common in the US/UK. In Japan you often have 4G fiber to the home in rural locations, and 10G connections available in some locations... it's not a super helpful comment though, because countries are complex and you can't point to single issues and make general statements about the countries stage of development.
More like 5 people who get to be in charge of whatever they feel like at the time.
There was the 6809 in between. I remember BYTE magazine's cover story, "A Microprocessor for the Revolution". Well, not quite, as it turned out! :)
> The same crowd that wants to prevent abortions also wants to prohibit contraception, allow unrestricted gun ownership, and cut back on any social programs that support families.

I see this kind of thought process all the time: when some people don't get traction with their arguments on a particular issue, they ascribe other beliefs to their opponent and call those into question. This is both ad hominem and whataboutism, and it doesn't win over anybody's heart or mind, it just "others" the opponent, further entrenching tribalism.

The "crowd" is diverse and contains multitudes. If you want to change minds, engage with the arguments, not with the arguers.
Ok, I will never not be amazed by how americans can reconcile two opposing views in their heads (I mean it as a compliment).

But I do think that leaving abortion rights up to states will work out terribly. It's kind of like letting states decide if women should be allowed to vote
This is a common fallacy.

The US is the oldest and most stable democracy.

It also works more-or-less as intended. On issues where there is broad consensus (e.g. COVID relief) it can move incredibly quickly. On issues where there is broad disagreement (e.g. abortion) it moves very slowly or not at all (requiring compromise).

I wish more countries were like the US (or, alternatively, like Switzerland, which represents the other extreme with their direct democracy).
My experience with GPU drivers then is that your code is likely buggy AF and your team is in denial.
Texas has specifically enabled random citizens as third parties to cripple the futures of women who get abortions across state lines by suing them in Texas civil courts.

This is a disingenous line of argument and you demean yourself with it to support an absolutely brainwormed kind of conspiracism.
I'll let you know on a secret: most staff is composed of the general public.
> The Trump administration

It was Trump’s fault!! /s

So what you’re saying is we should be more concerned with defense and accept that viruses will be engineered. I don’t disagree with this line of thinking but I also believe we must be on the offensive too. We can’t just accept that labs will build viruses.
I respect the effort. I won’t argue against such hard-earned experience.
> What is legal != what is just, ethical, or moral.

Yeah, I wholeheartedly agree. We can't organize society to run on what is just, ethical, or moral. We can only make laws based on our understanding of those things. Our understanding of morality changes over time. Where the law is unjust, we should change the law. Abandoning the rule law ends badly.
Giant pandas no longer endangered but still vulnerable, says China
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57773472
ok, so what's the impetus for censoring it then
This is something Europe has been able to outlaw. US should really do the same.
This is exactly what I mean about insinuation.

Spell out specifically what you think a deleted database proves and the sequence of events that would lead to it being deleted.

The timeline of this stuff is extremely important to disproving some of the sillier claims. This database that's a "Central Fact" was deleted several months before the first case of a virus with an unmitigated R0 of >5.

They would have to know there was a novel coronavirus spreading for months before the rest of the world. Aside from the rest of the obvious ways everyone else would know, DNA phylogeny of all known cases disproves this.

The conceit falls apart immediately.
You cannot touch system apps when SIP is engaged.
What, the US Surgeon General? https://archive.ph/KgfXW

> Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!

> They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!

It's hard to get more direct than that. It wasn't just about preserving supply for healthcare workers, high-level government officials were explicitly stating that masks were not effective for the general public.

Fortunately we have archives of all this stuff, as many statements (like this one) were later deleted.
Ask HN: Can a politically exposed person in middle age become a CS researcher?
I've been a programmer for about 20 years. I've long since outgrown business programming, but I also didn't like being a manager very much. As I wrap up a couple other projects, I'm pursuing a master's degree. So far, I enjoy it a lot and I'm doing well. I think I'd like to continue for a PhD, and see what lies beyond that.

My problems are twofold. One is age. I don't think I'm too old to get into a PhD program, but by the time I would complete one, I'll be, best-case scenario, in my mid-40s. I don't think should matter at all, because what matters is how many productive years a person has left--a highly variable unknown, with a median low enough that my age is a complete non-issue--but, of course, I don't control perceptions. There is a possibility that getting a PhD will only make me more overqualified and unemployable than I already am.

The second issue is that I'm a politically exposed person. The less said about that, the better, but I've publicly associated myself with the antifascism ("antifa") movement, and I have exposed some truly bad actors in the tech industry. I have no regrets about this, but it turned out those bad actors had friends. Whoops. I'm sure my real name would mean absolutely nothing to the younger crowd, but I've made enemies in high places (and suffered death threats, rescinded job offers, rumor campaigns, you name it). At one point, I got a warning from a federal agency not to go to San Francisco for a talk I was going to give, because it would put my life in danger. I will never be able to get a job (or, in an academic context, a grant) from any of the FAANGs. (I'm mostly okay with, because I dislike those companies). I have no small number of permanent enemies who will never forgive me.

At some point, it became clear that the decent jobs in the tech industry were no longer (and would never be) available to me. Political exposure cools off over time; however, the issue of age goes the other way. My fear is that, research being more competitive, this political exposure might be a permanent blocker, or at least an issue for long enough that it would, say, complicate a job search five years from now in a competitive field.

Does anyone familiar with computer science research (inside or outside of academia) have enough experience to have an informed opinion on this? I have worked in (mostly private-sector) research before, so I know what I'm getting into in terms of the work itself. What I don't know is whether age and political exposure, given the hypercompetitive nature of the research job market, are insurmountable obstacles. I may have to change countries, which is of course another thing I am looking into.

Thanks in advance for your help.
I agree, I don't like whatsapp. Though I do like it more than SMS.

One of the things I like about it is group messaging. The seamless images/files, the encryptuon...

And I don't think most mainstream users feel this as a lockin. After all whatever phone they can buy they can install whatsapp on it (and soon even import their hitory!).

Personally I prefer Matrix. Not a fan of Signal either due to the ban on 3rd party apps.
That's valid enough, but if I'm hosting my own server and I'm happy with the command line then the use case for a tool like this gets very niche.

If I'm using the dev's server than that's pretty nice I guess.
This is another one of those fun little half-truths.

> 10 pounds of muscle would burn 50 calories in a day spent at rest, while 10 pounds of fat would burn 20 calories [1]

50 pounds of fat burns 100 calories per day.

10 pounds of muscle burns 50 calories per day.

If you lose 50 pounds of fat and replace it with 10 pounds of muscle, you're net 50 calories per day. About 1/10th of a Starbucks muffin.

Not eating a Starbucks muffin is the same as having 90 extra pounds of muscle. You'd have to look like John Cena for this to make any difference whatsoever. But you're never going to look like John Cena unless you adjust your diet.

The only way to lose fat is to change your diet.

[1] https://www.webmd.com/diet/obesity/features/8-ways-to-burn-c...
> I don't know why he had trouble locating this information.

If you're aware of good references to check out, it would be helpful to list them here.
Confidence in U.S. Supreme Court Sinks to Historic Low
And believe it or not, there are Christians -- and not a small number -- who want to advocate for prisoners, immigrants, the sick, the poor, widows, orphans, and the unborn. I've long felt that if progressives and Christians concerned for social justice could call a truce on the handful of issues that they disagree on, we could actually get a lot done.
> You've only taken half of the statement, it was:

Because I was only responding to that half of the statement. The argument for banning abortion must stand without it. Your insistence on it was why I chimed in.

What you're now alluding to is a different claim than the one I responded to: that a. a fetus is a person (as you both seem to agree, disputable) and that even if we concede that question, the rights of the fetus outweigh those of the woman; taking some of the bills and laws that have passed in the various states, at the extreme, that it's fine to deny to a woman bodily autonomy, even where it will put her through great trauma, up to and including death.
> stop trying to influence laws that prevent people from getting abortions

I'm not sure if I follow. That seems to me like having more empathy with irresponsible people, possibly at the cost of innocent fetuses.