skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They just tortured logic in the past few days. They removed Roe because they decided that amendments that have been interpreted for decades to give people the right to privacy don't actually do that textually at the same time that they struck down a NY law because they claim that people have the right to defend themselves, which is nowhere to be found anywhere in the Constitution.
Which according to the article is a minor offence.
The number you're looking for is 3/5 . And they did codify that one.

The founders had no qualms about strongly disenfranchising people. The founders were NOT good people by any measurement.
The propaganda win of the century is classifying chemical abortions (roughly half of that 800k) as abortions.

It’s a pill that basically forces a woman to have a period regardless of whether there’s an embryo in the lining or not. You can only do it before an embryo even resembles a human being.

And yet, it’s as at risk as anything else.
They are showing off how smart/clever they are by making you flounder for the answer they want.
I see both.
I got banned from Coinbase years ago because they think I'm a decade younger than I actually and because they don't serve minors. But I was 18+ before Coinbase existed. If memory serves, I got banned after they first implemented identity verification, or at least a form of it that required me to upload a photo of my ID, which I did. They must have misread the birthyear on the ID but I don't understand how that's possible since the mistake would require replacing 19xx with 20xx. A handful of support tickets never got anywhere. I had already bought and sold hundreds of dollars worth of crypto at that point, linked a bank account, etc.

I had already exited crypto at that point so it didn't really matter to me, so I let it be. I thought it was amusing at that point, because of where crypto appeared to be headed.

I've always thought poorly of Coinbase since then.
Logos are for people who are insecure about status. Next level up involves partial counter-signaling by avoiding logos entirely.

There are many layers of status displays. I think SSC's analysis of fashion as cellular automata is the most coherent writing on this.
If evidence on their position was completely missing or neutral then I would agree with you. Sadly, this is far from a straw man because there is evidence that they do not care.

These are the same people who actively work against giving children school lunches, who protect racist gerrymandering, who want to defund planned parenthood, and so on.

If, in the same breath, we were talking about significantly revolutionizing support for children/families in poverty, then this would be a different discussion. Sadly, look at the polls, this is majority boomers who no longer have functioning ovaries & men whose egos demand control over women.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/393104/pro-choice-identificatio...
Different people have different sets of principles by which they measure progress and sometimes those principles run in opposition to one another.
Appeal to emotion is not a valid argument.
> I know this can be interpreted differently but to me it reads that nobody should be restricted from arming themselves.

If you followed the absolute letter of the law in the current US legal code, females should be disqualified from owning guns: https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title10/sub...

George Mason, coauthor of the second amendment, was asked "Who is the militia?" He's been asked this several times and at one point said it was everyone except our politicians. He typically responds: "I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for few public officials." (George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 425-426) - https://www.madisonbrigade.com/g_mason.htm

The scope of the second amendment is the same scope as all other amendments which is to say it's an unlimited, and natural right. Anything else is just playing stupid games with lawyers.
Perhaps it’s because I don’t live in the Bay Area but I’ve never had a business not accept cash.
Monero is supposedly designed to prevent this, but most of the big chains are completely open.
Originalism was rejected by the court for the longest time, but we have since appointed new judges to the court who don't reject those arguments. They used originalist arguments to overturn the NYC gun ban yesterday.
Yes Ireland has this too. It's frustrating. They don't have a population registry so proof of address is a 'utility bill'. But to sign up for utilities you need a bank account which requires proof of address. Well you get it.

Also relying on something from a commercial entity that's so easy to fake is weird.
Zachtronics leaving game development is such a blow to the industry. Zach is directly and indirectly responsible for a lot of games we see today. His game Infiniminer was a major inspiration for Minecraft, he published a game that was also a book explaining his philosophy on puzzle design, and his games were genuinely fun with no BS.
"Knowledge" worker in Texas here (native; didn't move here). I don't feel this affects me for a few reasons, but I will say that I'm also aware that 1. I can travel out of state, and 2. drugs are available online and there are drugs that can provide medical abortions - perhaps those can be put together.

That said, in talking with a colleague this morning, we agreed that if the state does go completely crazy and manages to secede, we just want enough notice to sell our property so we can leave.
Yes, which will make the red areas redder and blue areas bluer and further perpetuate the national political division.
I'm not sure that's really necessary. It's probably possible to accurately model creatures experiencing e.g. pain as merely having an aversion to certain kinds of stimuli, without ever actually experiencing pain yourself.
> If I object to you murdering a homeless person, should I be obligated to help him get a good life?

Yes.

(Actually, the latter obligation attaches whether or not you have the former belief, but if you don’t believe that the entity involved actually is a “person” whose life has value, it explains, but does not justify, why you would not also feel the latter obligation.)
My understanding is that US carriers don't support Sender ID at all, so having the caller ID/sender ID spoofed is not common (and maybe not possible?) on major US carriers.

Whenever I get phishing SMS they always come from a random 10-digit phone number so it's pretty clear they're scams. Reputable companies send these types of messages with short-codes, which are a 5 or 6-digit numbers that is very expensive and require thorough vetting by the carriers.
Home cooking doesn't have a single business entity that aggregates this value though. Reddit would be worth much less without this free labor, as well as most other social media companies would without user generated comment.
On Green's challenge of "I postulate that no one has ever said “Here is a problem that I have. Oh look, blockchain is a good solution.” in 2015 I worked in digital identity and showed how identity itself in its very definition was the emergent artifact of relationships, and the only way to establish idenitity in a consistent and scalable way was to federate the consenus of which your identity was the artifact. The company abruptly pivoted from its federation protocols based ID to an identity blockchain, and it is being adopted by governments and financial institutions today. The next problem was "how do you do cryptographic key management in autonomous swarms of devices that connect via a mesh protocol that cannot connect to a central base station?" again, this is the same identity problem, where the integrity and quality of "legitimacy" of a node's identity is an artifact of the consensus of the mesh it connects to. Now, these cases don't need proof of work, but they absolutely rely on consensus, and not a database.

Their criticisms of blockchains imply a misunderstanding of a core aspect of security, which is that a proof in a closed loop system cannot be shown to be externally consistent with another instance of itself without some encompassing closed loop system both instances are a part of. A generic consensus protocol (like a blockchain) enables the federation of these consistency proofs. This particular blockchain may not be the best possbile one - but I'd argue back that a cryptographic substrate that facilitates consensus and federation for distributed computing is as significant an invention as the internet.

There is another piece where it's finally clicking that "security" isn't so much an engineering problem as it is a critical theory of technology based on different ideologies that favour autonomy or governmance respectively, and like a critical theory, it can be used to both befog and obfuscate - or prove - whatever you like in it.

On currencies, to borrow an adage, if you don't know what problem cryptocurrencies are solving, the problem may be you. That's unnecessarily provocative, but the real problems it solves are those around peer-to-peer transactions and dynamic federation - all the stuff the internet used to promise until it succumbed to the very criticisms Schneier is making of blockchains, particularly emergent centralization and scams.

I have tremendous respect for both of them, but Schneier and Green are both making appeals for governance to people who don't want it, and I think they are lending their engineering cred to a general global governance narrative that I'm not sure they appreciate the motives of.
Yep, me too. I guess most programmers dont know what modelica is or does.
I think Trump proved many so called "conservative" voters are actually pro religion populists not republicans.
As if any of the "abortion bad" people rail against it only because it was a supreme court decision. We'd see the same fervor if it was a law. I've never hear someone say "I'd be fine with abortion if it was a law instead of a supreme court decision". I'm sure you can find someone making that argument but the vast majority (90%+) don't care. In fact I bet you could say "The Roe v Wade law" and most people wouldn't bat an eyelash because they just consider it "established precedent" and law vs court decision is irrelevant for them.
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Abortion wasn't made illegal in most states until the mid 1800s. Benjamin Franklin even published information on what can be used to perform an abortion in one of this books.
Personally I love Powerpoint, it is my favorite program in Microsoft Office.

When I give talks I have a slide deck like

https://www.slideshare.net/paulahoule/chatbots-in-2017-ithac...

Personally I find it fast and easy to get any "boxes and lines" illustration out of my head and onto the screen with it.
It doesn't really work out that way though. People who don't need to print very often end up churning through absolutely garbage printers that are more trouble than they're worth and don't last very long before the ink dries up and leaves it a pile of junk. People who print a ton can instead invest a tiny bit more in a printer with notably cheaper per-print costs. It's really better viewed as almost an instance of the Sam Vimes "Boots" theory.
True, even attempts to avoid attention can paradoxically bring attention. I'm not really motivated by how others see me. My basic intent is to remove as many logos and commercial messages from my life as possible.

With the MacBook, it really depends on how the blocking is done. If I put more effort into it and cover the entire lid very carefully I could make it look very unassuming. I'm content to just slap a piece of tape over the logo and be done. It's a game to me. I get pleasure out of blocking or fighting even the tiniest examples of corporate persuasion in my life.

It's not for everyone. You do you.
Actually, the power to strike down laws as unconstitutional was arbitrarily claimed by the court in 1803. It is not written down anywhere, except maybe the original federalist papers.

https://www.history.com/topics/united-states-constitution/ma...
> "Thou shalt not kill," which in the times of Jesus was unanimously interpreted to cover abortion

Then how do you explain this:

- When the Bible commands abortion: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2018/02/03/bible-c...

- How to perform an abortion, according to the Bible: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/allsetfree/2021/11/how-to-perf...
Only if you buy in to the reactionary attack on substantive due process in general. And it's a mistake to think if Roe were decided any other way, that it still wouldn't have been overturned. Reactionaries do a great job of smuggling their politics as socially acceptable, fictional legal frameworks like textualism, even though they clearly abandon that whenever it is in conflict with their politics.
You cannot think otherwise until the Holy Spirit -- who also doesn't exist? -- draws you. Peace, my friend.
Thanks!

Though I'd l ike to know where Bloomberg's data to the 19th c. comes from.
Hackers have stolen $100 million in cryptocurrency from Horizon
> The consequences of this decision would be a blow not just to women, but to all of us who believe that in a free society, there are limits to how much the government can encroach on our personal lives.

That's rich coming from someone who literally wants to censor the internet. [1]

[1]: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-04-21/...
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The political point is valid, though. There have been multiple windows for Democrats to pass federal laws that would have helped solidify these rights. Nothing was done, because cultural arguments help both sides in the electoral theatre.
They decided abortion was a right and worked backward until they found a round hole in which to fit the square peg. Frankly I think it fits much better into the 13th amendment, but then that would also lead to the uncomfortable conclusion that parents may be compelled to involuntarily serve both unborn and born offspring, and I'm guessing they didn't like the implications that would have on child neglect laws.
and Zulip has a "public access" view, which I wish more open source projects would adopt (:eyes: kubernetes.slack.com) since it allows search engines to index into the threads: https://zulip.com/help/public-access-option
a whole article about Zachtronics, and not a single mention of Infiniminer?

https://www.zachtronics.com/infiniminer/

Released in 2009, and a direct inspiration to one Markus Persson to create a game called Minecraft.
The only thing I hear about Citadel is that it's a sweat shop of quants. Is it really a relocation problem or a reputational issue.
> The sad part of democracy is that it aims to represent the views of the voting majority.

That's warped by the fact that rural votes count more than urban votes thanks to the electoral college.
Aren't Obergfell and Loving based on equal protection, rather than privacy? That seems a more valid basis, to this Roe-skeptic.
I am not arguing here.

But there are some stages in the life of a human fetus that is less sentient than a monkey, a horse, a dog, a fly, an ant, etc.

Do you think abortion should be illegal at all stages?

And, do you think that abortion should be illegal even if the woman faces life threatning risks?
If drugs are bad, then it's good if fewer people get them, whether or not the reduction is spread evenly across different demographics.

Therefore it's okay to use racially-targeted methods of enforcement and arrest poor, ethnic minorities, etc. as long as we get at least a little drug reduction out of it.
Yeah I believe it. I cycle like 100 miles a week on an entry level road/gravel bike... And Id say my hunger oscillates between large extremes from it.

I definitely crave horrible sugary food and salt from doing like a 3h ride... but between rides when Im recovered I often wont even want a snack or anything if offered.
This is an absolutely _wild_ take. What "leftist" positions are you referring to? Be specific.
Equal protection cannot protect that which is unequal. For example, I doubt an equal protection challenge to unequal lengths of maternity / paternity leave would stand, given the obvious difference in what's happening. The sexes, when it comes to things like business participation and innovation, may be equal in ability. However, if one views marriage as a precursor to reproduction -- the historical view of marriage -- then it's quite clear that the sexes are not equal, whereas the races (for whatever conception of race you have) are.

It has been abundantly clear to everyone that a black man can impregnate a white woman. And a black woman can have children with a white man. If this act (reproduction) is what marriage is about, then the sexes are not equal, and thus not worthy of equal protection. A man cannot impregnate a man. Whereas, any race can impregnate / be impregnated by any other race as far as we can tell.

If you have evidence to the contrary (that both sexes are identical when it comes to reproduction, which is the historical view of marriage Thomas may adhere to; or that various races cannot interbreed), then please do share.
States rights is the key world in this. They don't believe in the rights of the people, they believe in the rights of the states to do what they see fit to their people.
Well, those of us who believe in a textualist definition of the constitution believe the process for adding constitutional rights is a constitutional amendment and we control the court.
Yes I agree the legal system should be apolitical, they should be elected instead of appointed, and there should be an age limit, plus it's just odd those judges never retires, congress is 4-years, senate is 6, what about a 8-year-term for supreme court just like everybody else(longer term for 'stability', life long term is ridiculous to me).
Very exciting! I love to see this.
They really do it for free.
Interesting to label vague, indirect phrasing as "political correctness" -- US police departments are notorious for this when giving accounts of police shootings.
Am I misreading this? Your link seems to verify the claim of the person you are responding to. Only 19% support legal abortion in all cases without exceptions.
I'm surprised this is news to anyone. Why do you think Republicans fought so hard to own the courts?
I have been reverse engineering a 25-year-old proprietary (PlayStation 1 based) system used in a number of well-known arcade games for almost a year, digging into every single detail and uncovering what even MAME developers ignored.

The end purpose was initially to enable homebrew game development but, with the prices these boxes are fetching on the used market, I know nobody is ever going to bother. Moreover, as far as reverse engineering existing games goes, the most interesting parts (i.e. the copy protection) have already been figured out two decades ago and most of the games are perfectly playable through emulation. Still, reverse engineering an unknown platform that isn't too serious about security is fun and rewarding.
> you passed it a function that returns a list instead

I don't know OCaml really, but I would read that intuitively as a list of (functions that return Result_set.t), which is not compatible with a list of Result_set.t.
sell it and get a raspberry pi or arduino!
Agreed, it will also make democracy more granular and for the lack of a better word: authentic. Citizens can vote their way for pro or anti Abortion issues and kick out electives that do not support their preferences.
For the sake of argument, assume that life does begin at conception.

However murder is defined as taking the life of a human being. Conception is not a logical place to ascribe the beginning of a human being.

As an example, is the loss of a zygote, or a blastocyte, or an ectopic implantation to be considered the death of a human being?
The US federal government does not have this right. Policing powers belong to the states. Federal government economic concerns are limited to international borders and keeping interstate commerce moving.

If you want to make an argument that the federal government can stop states from adopting cryptocurrency as money you would be right. The Constitution explicitly says they can't.
Miami's fresh water supply comes from an area that is likely to be inundated by sea water. The city itself is likely to be constantly flooded in the near future.

This seems like a short term bet.
How many people are using FairPhone or PinePhone outside HN bubble? I don't know anyone, even though most of my friends are from tech or science... I think that answers if people care about hackability / sustainability or similar
The Supreme Court didn't fix a damn thing. They made bodily autonomy subject to majority votes in state legislatures. Bodily autonomy is too important to be trusted to a majority vote, and Democrats failed the country miserably by not pushing to amend the Constitution to guarantee the rights of all Americans to ownership over their own bodies.
Rube Goldberg machine.
That line is simply fallacious in the modern context. A well regulated militia is "not necessary to the security of a free state".
Fine, if you want to be pedantic then energy conversion infrastructure is a scarce resource. And I have this great way to convert energy into financial security that’s millions of times more energy efficient than yours, it’s called a payment processor keeping a ledger on a database and having a contractual obligation to keep it accurately (providing customers with legal redress if something goes wrong).
> if you create profiles to analyze the them for marketing goals.

That's not correct; if you collect PII, even if you don't use it, you need consent. Actually, if you don't have a legitimate use for the data, you are prohibited from collecting it at all.

GDPR isn't an assault on online marketing; it's about privacy.
And yet almost every bank requires it for 2FA and only a precious few offer TOTP or some other reasonable and secure form of 2FA.
> is it not the case that most Americans support some abortion rights?

Most Americans support some form of universal access to health care as well - some variation of single payer, or public option, or similar. That is nowhere reflected in state-level policy in many many states.
No, that's just something you must have hallucinated, because it's clearly not something I said. You're arguing with spooks. Turns out anarchists aren't really into states, let alone states forcing people to do anything. Maybe prejudice as a mode of inference isn't that valuable after all. Who knew. Don't you dare put "help" in scare quotes either. People are starving and they need help.
That you need the routine and language to line up still is interesting to me.

Would not Thursday just come to “feel” like Friday?

That feeling MUST come on the day called Friday, though.

There’s a nascent religious movement here if you want it enough. “Fellowship to keep Friday feeling like Friday”
Guess you’ll never find out.
You would want to because you want access to Apple's customers. Also, your example doesn't sound like it'd hold up to real world practice. If you're selling someone proprietary tech then your revenue isn't subject to 30% of Apple's fee. Only the software portion done through the app is. You obviously have a motivated buyer at this point if they bought a physical device. You could route them to a website to create an account, sign up for any subscriptions and launch the startup process that eventually has them install your native app. You want what you want, but you describe hyperbole. Plenty of apps have users manage subscriptions on a website, not on native apps.
It does nothing of a sort. Stop lying.
I don't understand the point of comparing a radix sort with a comparison sort like quicksort.

Of course it's faster. And no it's not as general-purpose.
This was inevitable. The law isn’t well justified. Abortion depends on privacy rights? It makes no sense…