skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm with you on asking why that data was even on a removable drive. What possible use case is there for that? And if there is one, like transferring between airgapped networks, it seems you'd encrypt it at least.
Good few folks in my company here in Germany do it, it's pretty common. But it's 80% time for 80% pay. I don't have any metrics in terms of productivity, but my personal impression (coming from freelance life before this) is that the corporate world is so incredibly unproductive and inefficient, you can pretty easily remove 1 - 2 days from the working week and remain as productive.
Why would the miners listen to you?

Where are the miners?
In my opinion, It's up to the federal government to make federal laws, not the supreme court. Democrats had _plenty_ of time to put the right for abortion into a law and pass it. Now, they have a platform on which to run for the next election, convenient...

Politicians delegate too many decisions to the SCOTUS because they don't want to govern, well the SCOTUS isn't supposed to govern in their place.

If nothing can get done at Washington, then the problem is at Washington itself, not the supreme court.
Terrifying? It sounds thrilling!
In Thomas's mind, one has long-standing historical precedence where the other doesn't.

Interracial marriage has existed for pretty much all of human history (though race as a concept likely didn't, at least not the way it is perceived in modern times). Heck you even have Moses marrying an Ethiopian woman and his siblings spoke out against him over it and were punished by God for it (see Numbers chapter 12).

Gay marriage, on the other hand, has near zero historical precedence outside of a few cases with Roman emperors and stuff like that.
This offers a poetic reflection on scale. Some essential aspect of the city, shrunk down to a memory stick and lost on the street in a night of drinking.
Why is paying people for working a day less great? I think most residents would prefer to see their bins emptied more frequently than have council workers get a day off while being paid for it.

https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgows-rat-problem-made...
I've only seen that happen with salvage vehicles, but I agree that its a problem. Especially since they seem to restrict all DCFC (chademo, ccs adapter, etc) along with it.
The mid 2030s and 2040s will be the years of crime. That's when all the unwanted kids will "grow up" without affection.
Am I missing something here? How is it possible, by definition, for a not living object to be sentient?

Edit/disclaimer/tip: look at the dictionary and think a little bit, just a little.
I work for a company, headquartered in the Mid West, that has been very public in their support of LGBTQ rights, among other things. Do you think corporations should take a public stance in support of abortion rights? Will tech companies continue to flock to Texas, in what will become a very difficult environment for abortion?
Dall-e2 used to create the first AI-generated cover for Cosmopolitan
Would love to hear more about this - how do you integrate the two?
The Supreme Court positions to be elected positions.

None of this is the will of the people.
Id imagine for important news it would be easy enough to just write two articles and release the correct one, especially if your main concern is being first to publish
It's not the energy to run a cell phone. It's the embodied energy of a cell phone and solar panel. It's the 20 kilo bags of grain which come off the boat in Egypt from Alberta. It's the cell towers, it's the bulk shipper which brings the grain, it's the container which transports the cell phones and panels.

A world in which anyone at all is flying around the world in dozens of passenger jets several times just in the course of living has an enormous amount of available energy relative to any time in history. If this is scarce, we don't have a word for what it was like before.
The original proposal wasn't "we should enforce a socialist utopia", it was:

> If you have the benefit of this inequality, you should use it to ensure the availability of life’s necessities

That's an individual decision, not an oppressive dystopian institution.

In fact, one way we could start working on reducing inequality is to reduce the oppressive dystopian elements of our current institutions.

And toward that end, we should note that any elite privileges you may enjoy ultimately rest on the ability to call on the government to use force on your behalf.
Depends a lot on the situation/distance, but someone who requires an abortion has a decent chance of already being economically vulnerable.
Quite a few in Washington and even in Florida. Flagship in Chicago, LA and NYC!
It seems unlikely that Democratic strongholds like california or new york would ban it.
The real question is, what kind of draconian laws will they start hatching to make abortion tourism (flying to a state where it's legal, then coming back) illegal. How do you legislate that? Are people still free to go to another state if they want? Are they getting arrested as soon as they come back?

The next case they'll hear is about Mississippi v Some Nonprofit That Pays For Abortion Flights.
A gentleman tolerates at most two logos on his clothing: the custom clothier's and the fabric manufacturer's (Scabal, Loro Piana, etc.)
Completely normal "store of value" behavior. https://www.google.com/finance/quote/BTC-USD?sa=X&ved=2ahUKE...
The Roe v. Wade established certain rights to privacy.

This decision overturns the argument that Roe v. Wade was based upon and rights it established.

Overturning Roe v. Wade opens the door for banning contraception, interference with the right to marry (interracial relationships can be banned), family relationships, right to intimacy, the right to personal control of medical treatment. It will even have data collection limit consequences.
This is a very dangerous insight. It implies that if we just let companies have the power that they’ll use it to empower their customer but we know that is not what happens.

We can regulate emissions and farmers can be penalized for violating them, so that can’t be on John Deere.

To say that they can use the same scan tools is a false solution because John Deere could simply choose to stop selling it to them.

And while in your experience repair issues are “non existent to most customers”, we cannot let that be a reason that we don’t pursue right to repair. It’s like saying “most of the slaves are treated well” (which I admit is an exaggerated comparison, but it shares enough similarities that I’m sticking with it)
We've had a really great experience with https://constructor.dev/

I don't have any affiliation with the founders; I just really like the product.

Their UI is clean, and I love their commitment to making complexity 'opt-in'. Their integrations are helpful, and it comes across as a task-tracking applications that does a good job of getting out of the way and keeping the focus on the work and the communication.
Because that's the best time to burn it down for the insurance money with minimal human cost.

My point is its not a business, it doesn't have to make money and if it was held up to the standards of a commercial enterprise you'd have no better solution then to burn it down.

This is in response to OP's idea that you need to fulfil some kind of service requirement, or even run an effective service at all.
> People multiply until that land gets to the limit of what it can provide.

One of the big things we learned during the 20th Century is that this is not true. As basic needs are met, and people (especially women) are educated and socially empowered, population growth slows regardless of how much land is available.
That framing begs the question. Virtually everyone agrees murder and theft should be crimes. There is vast philosophical disagreement on whether abortion should be a crime. You can believe it is murder, but the majority of Americans disagree. Ultimately, it should be up to the pregnant person to weigh the morality of that decision, not the government.
Beginners Guide to Artifacts in Julia
Most mammals are sentient and Don’t have protections anywhere close to
What humans have.
> It takes a bit of time to learn to read [OCaml's error messages]

Yeah, and I think you could say the same of Rust when it comes to the borrow checker's messages.

But in Rust's case the problem it's trying to describe is itself pretty complex. The complexity of OCaml's error messages are really not justified by the problem they're warning you about, which is itself very straight-forward.
The same tech bros have already ignored the 'free software' arguments made by the FSF and just moved on to implement their surveillance capitalist tools in their products; a telling that the move to stop and get rid of all non-free software has been a complete failure.

They continue to scream open-source as if it helps everyone that they can be trusted, but it is only by talk or if the tool, company is shutdown; and everything else is closed-source and not free software. This is why the FSF has failed to stopping all of it as it's co-existing with closed-source software.

Now what we are seeing here is the same tech bros are now trying to stop all cryptocurrencies, blockchains and their projects which i'm afraid that they will end up being very disappointed just like the FSF was with stopping all non-free software. And no, the crypto maxis thinking that it will takeover the current system or all crypto projects will succeed will also be very disappointed with that expectation.
You're playing a semantic game here. Yes, technically if criminals are using it, it's not "useless". To the rest of us, it's actually worse than useless because the criminal activity is a net negative on society.

The idea that crypto is a hedge against inflation is laughable, look at any of the price activity in the last few months. Crypto tokens have no fundamentals or inherent value or anything. The price is completely random.
You can take a Greyhound bus from Dallas to California for under $200.

https://www.greyhound.com/en-us/bus-from-dallas-to-los-angel...
It's not that bad: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6366371?hl=en#zi...

The most difficult aspect is dealing with URLs. But a company that is large enough to be customizing URLs per user, is large enough to make a few JS changes to ensure they aren't sending those details to GA.
I did say "a mockup with a Save button", not "a rock with 'Save plz' carved into it thrown through the devs' office window." Yes, the PO has to care too.

I guess count yourselves lucky you've only had bad POs and not bad POs and bad developers.
Now we are getting closer to home.

I don’t trust banks, they have robbed me my entire life. Have you ever interacted with foreign banks?
It will happen a few days after somebody invents "the" programming language to use, "the" hiring process to use, "the" IDE to use, "the" development process to use, etc.

There are a variety of needs and use-cases, so "the" doesn't make sense. Look at what your situation needs and see which tool is the best for you. You don't need to use a certain brand of tool just because everybody else is.
This line of reasoning is founded on a false premise: namely that the moderators who are not financially compensated get nothing out of performing the duties associated with their role. On the contrary, the endless supply of willing volunteers for the task suggests that they do get something significant out of it. I would suggest, to start: ego validation, feelings of personal power, and most importantly the ability to skew discussions in order to support one's desired viewpoint. I would suggest, additionally, that the last listed reason is a significant source of potential bias in moderation, in view of the fact that the value proposition of being a moderator is very appealing to an unrepresentative subset of users of a service. Furthermore the financial value of being able to do this is far greater than a typical paid content moderator wage.
This is the final chapter of a decade-long saga which basically boils down to the Republicans obtaining votes from Evangelicals and other Christian denominations in order to give them what they wanted. In exchange for that, they would use their power to cut taxes, regulations and let the riches become richer and richer at the expense of everyone else.

I hope that whomever supported this ruling is happy right now, and I'd like to remind them that, while Jesus Christ never gave to abortion the slightest mention, he was quite vocal about the fact that greed was not compatible with salvation. I'd like to see Evangelicals and other Christians being as vocal for social justice as they were for abortions and same sex marriage, but I guess they do care about putting woman back in the kitchen as indentured servants more than they do about social justice.
I use the free pocket service with a browser extension to “save to pocket” which bookmarks with optional tags I can provide when I save. Also gives reader view on their site when I browse my saved list. Favorites archive feature article view highlights video aggregator. Can create collections too. It lets me save quickly which fits my workflow. Could I do the same with bookmarks? Not quite, I’m Mac at home pc and Mac at work so the saas feature fixes cross browser saving issue.
Not sure if this covers your use case, but I use https://syncthing.net/ to synchronize folders between all my devices. Highly recommended.
Pro Life groups said they're going after residents who go out of state next, then a national ban.
Sorry for the late edit.

I basically see people holding states more accountable now. State politicians who are pro-life are on notice. They can no longer cry about it and blame the federal government. The issue is now on their plate- and it's a thorny one. People need to vote.
When I'm criticising blockchains I often use the term "distributed consensus blockchains" in an attempt to avoid confusion with Git and certificate transparency logs and other useful data structures.
This is pretty great, but I hope they use it to investigate whether it makes workers 20% more productive rather than as a way to possibly justify eliminating 20% of their staff. The only real news I've seen relating to Glasgow City Council recently [0] suggests they're relatively progressive so hopefully it's the former.

[0] - https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/20183796.queens-jubilee-...
Slavery has historical precedence. Wtf does that matter?
They will if they have some kind of tax relief.
In Defense of Roe
A flag or emoji representing the current thing[1]. Varies from month to month.

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-support-the-current-thing
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31862197
Wishing ill on an entire race to spite one man is not supportable.
This reads to me like an argument against the internet because everything can still be done on intranets or other permissioned networks. After all, the internet can be used by criminals so we should absolutely stay away from it!

The author fails to see that people want to build products and companies on open networks, and so the closed ones will struggle to compete.
Does that equally apply to gun rights ?

The states can ban abortion but not ban concealed carry.
I keep up with a few Patreon podcasts through Feedly. I don't have much good say about it. Sometimes the audio cuts off after about 15 minutes of play while inside my pocket. It keeps the timestamp, though! Id love a recommendation of an android app that does not do that
Yay! We needed some method for securing the supply chain.
I've written previously on the sociotechnical solutions that are available. And it will require a marriage of social and technical solutions to tie it together. We can boot up some non-profit institutions to help with this. We can line up some volunteers to help. And a trust chain with certificates. And different vetting levels. A whole network of approval smiling down upon us!

But when the first outpouring of PRs come in vetting my projects, I will not be as happy as you think.

It will seem like an honest flood of love. And of course, the individual contributors will be welcome. They have taken time from their life. Hours, days, even possibly weeks they don't have to judge my code coldly and efficiently. They are welcome and loved. Praise be to those individuals.

But I've seen networks of people used to control access. Most of the time, I can't prove it, and that's what I'll be reminded of as I welcome them. It's never the individuals fault of course, it's the other people.

Sorry, didn't mean to bruise this discussion.
> If you run into someone who doesn't like it when you ask questions, you'll lose. If you run into someone who doesn't like you asking questions they don't know the answer to, you lose.

That's actually a win in your book, not a loss!
> It's about about worker caring about their work.

Eh, nearly every worker will given the time and ability will do the proper solution. I have NEVER seen "workers caring" to be an issue in practice.

The reason code starts to smell is nearly always management. If boss says to quick fix, quick fix it is. The fish always rots from the head down.
Yeah with no concerns about the limitations or monetization of the data that the edtech companies are collecting. Data on the habits of children has to be some of the most valuable data in the data-for-sale corporate/black markets.
If that's the spirit in which you want to take this conversation then, yes, absolutely, show up to a job interview in a tux. If you're applying any where other than Downton Abbey, then you get what you deserve for taking the conversation in this direction
Depends where you live. Best case it’s minutes on the road and a few bucks in gas. Worst case it’s many hours of travel and tens to hundreds of dollars in gas or bus/airline tickets. Most major cities aren’t more than a few hours from the next state over. A few states like Texas are uniquely huge, making travel outside the state more difficult.
The votes of the people living in those states do that
It's a bit dystopian (if not wrong) to say that people will multiply until land is scarce, but to a large extent the problem is that cows and cars have multiplied until land is scarce. Removing/reducing those woudl go a long ways.
Mentioned explicitly by Schneier in his post:

"And “ransomware couldn’t exist because criminals are blocked from using the conventional financial networks, and cash payments aren’t feasible” does not count."

I assume you picked your strongest objection, you need to say something about why blockchain is better than alternatives to make illegal transactions.
thanks so much for sharing this Nick! It takes a great deal of courage to share this sort of thing publicly, and I do greatly appreciate it. It is also extremely helpful as we are facing very similar challenges.
But a future SCOTUS ruling could simply ban it at the national level.
Lawrence is a sodomy case. Can't tell me people just figured that out in the past 50 years.
"just remembering 24 words"

Really hope you don't get a concussion on your way out of that warzone!
I've never heard such a limiting definition for judicial activism. It's typically understood more broadly as a criticism of American judges who, according to some, go beyond their duties of "interpreting law" and instead create it. To borrow from conservapedia (a resource I wouldn't otherwise defend, except in this limited case), it's "when judges substitute their own political opinions for the applicable law, or when judges act like a legislature (legislating from the bench) rather than like a traditional court."
This is the very core of the disagreement. Pro-life people do not agree that it’s comparable to an appendectomy.
You’re hardly the first person to draw that analogy. But, that said-

It can always get worse. I’d rather not see “worse”. At least right now corporations are made up of people, and aren’t perfectly selfish psychopaths.
A contrarian argument would say that protecting life - especially young life - is a more enlightened and moral direction.
Yeah that’s consistent with what we found. The threading model is so powerful, because even large teams that are mainly async can actually find stuff they need, _in context_. That’s really difficult or impossible in something like Slack, Discord, etc, and the value of that can’t really be overstated.

On the other hand, you’re asking people to buy into what is essentially a completely different paradigm than what they’re used to. Maybe it’s more like a loosely-structured wiki than a chat app.

I really like it, though. I feel like it deserves a lot more attention than it seems to get.
Are you not an object?
The entire luxury segment (e.g. LVMHs 300bn market cap) is pretty much entirely predicated on putting logos on things.
Object oriented programming was meant to be used in a Smalltalk environment, where immediacy & liveliness were key principles of the design.

OOP wasn't meant to be used by professional programmers ever, but this is always always forgotten. Why do we still talk about OOP when it comes to professional / full-time programming? OOP was always meant to be about providing end-users a way to create programs & dynamic behavior without becoming full-time programmers.

- http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay...

- https://wiki.c2.com/?AlanKaysDefinitionOfObjectOriented
All these self proclaimed fintech startups are nothing more than modern day loan sharks. They all follow the same modus-operandi.

1. Acquire VC funding

2. Pump funding into aggressive discounts and cashbacks to entice credit-weak people to take loans

3. Collect interest and penalties

4. Profit

In many cases people are not even aware they are taking loans. You're just buying some shoes or tickets and you see a PayLater with 20% cashback on the app. It's not until much later when you need a home loan or an education loan when your bank tells you your credit score is shit because you have been taking loans to buy movie tickets and what not.

Giving loans without collateral definitely falls into an ethical grey area. Giving loans to people without them even realizing is definitely evil. I expect India is not alone in this regard. Just these last 2 years I've come across so many "fintech" launch posts here. They take different forms whether it's pay day, pay advance, pay later, but they all follow the same modus operandi, enticing someone who shouldn't be taking a loan into taking them.
And perhaps states will outlaw them from travelling to blue states, and outlaws anyone assisting them.

Missouri tried. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/03/us-abortions-t...
If I understand correctly, it now devolves to the states where elected people make the laws that apply.

So the issue is really what the hell is wrong with the states where the people elected feel empowered to take rights away from half their populace.
I just mean that a lot of the chats in this thread seem to be saying “if we didn’t have licences, the alternative would be x”

Where x describes a licence, just with different licensing terms.
"The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion"

But Congress can.
The Court is a counterbalance against the tyranny of the majority. It's specifically, intentionally undemocratic.
I`m not american, but lets be honest. Is not a constitution right because is not in the constitution. States can now do their onw diligence about the subject. So it`s not the end of the word for pro-choise people.
Schneier calls that a "private blockchain"; he's critical about what he calls "public blockchain" which he defines as essentially the blockchain+mining+cryptocurrency component.
Agreed - and it's worse than that. The user-hostile environment makes it impossible to see the actual catalog. I routinely learn about potentially interesting shows from things that aren't Netflix.

The Disney+ model is so much better. They suggest stuff, but I can wander and discover in the library of thousands of Disney titles if I so desire.