skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> If the fetus is a life, none of this stuff matters.

> This is irrelevant to my personal views on abortion because I believe that individuals have rights over their own body which supersede anyone else's rights to their body.

It absolutely is relevant, because you view collapses into nonsense unless you believe a fetus is a not an individual and that it has no rights. If the fetus is a person, then you're in a situation where their rights to their own body are getting superseded by another's right.

> We hold this as true in all other facets of bodily autonomy.

No, not all. You totally have the legal obligation to provide for your children, if you have them, and that almost always involves using your body in some way.
Excuse me, but scientists are not public policy makers. Their job is to follow the evidence, not publish based on what they think will happen if they do.
I'm somewhat surprised that using an HSM like a YubiKey or NitroKey isn't on there. Mac OS has had pretty solid support for smartcards and tokens for a very long time now, improving significantly in the last 5 or so generations. Even for Macs with biometrics keys can still be useful in a multiuser environment or for the convenience of not needing to reach for the Touch ID (and be limited to an Apple keyboard). Login becomes a matter of just plugging in the key and entering the PIN. Most system authentication and sudo by default as well. Makes it much more convenient to have a long good password, though unfortunately FileVault (and 1Password is also a shitty, glaring example here) remains an outlier. Can disable automatic login following use of FV just fine though, and having it for system auth is still good. And it's another option (and one that can be backed up physically) for websites as webauthn spreads.

It costs money but it's not technical to work with either. Hopefully the day comes when password managers are effectively obsolete because we finally finally FINALLY give up on the ludicrous practice of using symmetric information for 3rd party authentication.
Maccy is an open source lightweight and searchable clipboard manager for macOS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportswear_(fashion)
What happened is that they are clearly lying to us, and they hold all the evidence. What do you want us to do?

Either they're lying to cover up a lab leak, or they're lying up to but not including about lab leak.

Multiple near-nuclear events happened during the cold war, averted several times only by a single Soviet soldier using his common sense. We didn't find out about that until much much later.

Give it a few decades, and we can hope to find out.

Gulf on Tonkin, anyone?

It's not that I don't care, it's that it's not a fight I believe can be won this decade.
Hate to complain but absolutely bombarded by popups on that link.. Auto play videos, adblocker warnings. My god can't we just read a cool article without getting hassled for appreciating the content.
Zachtronics may be shutting down, but there is no way Zach Barth will stop making games no matter what he says, so this is kind of a non-story
> You can't find a middle ground with religious extremism.

Neither can you with liberal extremists, we have people in this thread who literally advocate for abortion less than 24 hours before delivery.

Unless you are going to pretend that there is no such thing as liberal extremists, in which case I am not sure how to respond.
The supreme court can at least hide behind some abstract legal argument (spurious or otherwise).

Much more concerning to me is the states who have enacted the actual bans with whatever passes for a democratic mandate. And it's that system which presumably will be the only tool that people have to protect themselves.
> The court took this decision away from human beings.

No, the court remanded the lawmaking decision to the states, as it should be.

There's this section of the CA-NV border known as "state line", which has a litany of casinos just right on the NV side of that border. The notion that different states have different laws is a fact we've accepted since the founding of our country.

When AZ bans abortion, Arizona women will be mildly inconvenienced by a three hour drive to the CA border, as other matters of state law divergence have always been. Nobody has lost their rights.

Cynically, I'd suggest that abortion rights aren't even the issue at hand - lots of people seem very angry/afraid that after a century of DC slowly arrogating all available power and authority to itself, that this power might flow back the other way.
> The privacy aspect is simple. You have no right to know anything about my discussions with my doctor nor to dictate courses of action.

This is a pretty weak argument which could be used to justify any number of things. Can you rape or murder behind closed doors, and invoke the right to privacy when the authorities try to stop you?

Just because X happens in private doesn't make it legal and protected by privacy rights.

There are plenty of illegal medical procedures. You can't have a doctor remove a kidney and help you sell it, for example.
That's not how late-term abortion actually works. Practically all late-term abortions are wanted children who for one reason or another don't work out. They are cases of extensive tragedy. Banning very late pregnancy termination directly means that doctors will not be allowed to save lives because it will mean ending the pregnancy.

When crafting law it is vitally important to understand how this would realistically affect people.
The real issue is that they’ll be forever restricted to Russian airspace.
Sorry, I learn by repetition
Canadian here, I also would like to see multi-member districts of any variety rather than the status quo.
A friend from the fashion industry's distilled and mostly-verbatim wisdom:

Learn what expensive fabric feels like. Have a friend buy you 4 price tiers of clothing with the exact same fabric composition; try them on blindfolded. Focus on fabric only, not fit. At some price point you will stop feeling a difference. There's no reason to pay for what you can't feel.

A 100-dollar shirt tailored for 30 dollars exceeds a 500-dollar shirt in appearance but not in feel.

A hoodie is a hoodie at any price point.

All denim looks identical. Jeans that are the exception to this rule usually come from smaller makers, usually cost over 250 dollars, and usually last 5 to 7 years, and will look best midway through its life when the way in which the threads wear betrays its quality, like a proper Persian rug.

A 200-dollar suit is like a paper bag, no matter your tailor.

Your tailor is your shirt's second-best friend. Your shirt's best friend is diet and exercise.

If you dress too similarly to your colleagues, you are a school of fish. If you dress too differently, you are a shark, or a squid, or some other thing. Neither of these is a great idea.

Never mention the brand of your clothing. Ever. Seriously.

A logo is a brand's way of forcing you to mention them.

And finally, my favorite:

Look on the street. Nearly everyone is wearing something boring. And everyone got up in the morning and looked in the mirror and thought, "this is okay." If you saw one of my models walking along the street before we shoot, they would be the same! — except they're wearing beauty, also. But nobody believes buying the clothes could ever make you look that way. So that can't be what we're selling, no? What we are doing is taking a beautiful human and deciding what furniture to place them on, how to adjust their posture and expression, what country we'll be in, the exact hour of day, whether our photographer makes it all seem triumphant or melancholy or joyful or pensive. There must be some art to it, or everyone on the street would walk around looking as though they are moving from frame to frame in a series of friezes, and no one would pay me. You even know you are buying a fantasy from me, don't you? [Sure.] And can you tell me what that fantasy is? Not beauty... even the model's beauty is in service to, the idea that for a moment, everything in life falls into this perfect kind of space, some harmony... So to be stylish is to both take all this constantly in the same moment you appear that these things do not even exist to you — that you are as you might find a bird perched in a tree, just being, and meanwhile God smiled a beautiful poetry upon you. But I am guessing this is not the recommendation you were looking for.
No they wont
So it's fine if they force your employer to fire you, just so long as they're not throwing you in prison.
You are misquoting, its estimated infections not cases. Not everyone who has an active infection gets a test and reports it, in fact its a small fraction.
> Another ban was instituted in 1869.

That's more than 150 years ago. Matches pretty much my definition of consistency.

Even before, there might have been some doctrinal adjustments, but abortion was condemned by many Fathers of the Church, in the very early centuries.
Like most things, follow the money. How do you get people to care about the same sermon on the same verse year after year? Want to get people involved with their time and money? You just have to convince them of whatever evils they already believe. Be their echo chamber, talk about all the people who are trying to do such terrible things. Be a fear-monger. The same thing that works for Fox News and CNN also works in a church. Get them addicted to the rhetoric and watch the money flow in. Look at people like Joel Osteen who only care about money.

I grew up going to church multiple times per week. Today's church is a cult and it is a cult about hate. I learned in Sunday School that God is love and that we should help each other. Today the message is righteous indignation. They don't believe in the Bible or follow Jesus' teachings but they are very very adamant that the "sinners" must be converted to their way of thinking. It is nothing but hypocrisy and if pointed out, Christians have decided that they and they alone have the right to decide what parts of the Bible matter and what doesn't.
IDK what you are arguing for or against, but I would like to point out that overturning Roe v Wade invited government into the womb
It's not for a life saving treatment, you just don't want to deal with a baby and you know if you wait a day you'll go to jail when you kill it.

And you can perform the abortion yourself. After all, what right does a doctor have over what operations you can do on your own body?
If you were raped, and it wasn't your choice, then yes I agree there's an argument that you should have the legal right to decide for yourself what the moral/ethical thing to do is.

But if you instead put the baby in your uterus, of your own free will and choice, you are responsible for it.

Rape accounts for less than 0.5% of abortions. While it's important to consider, it doesn't remove the responsibility in the other 99.5%.
> It’s almost as if the liberals didn’t even read this part the current court’s opinion.

See the section in my comment about "states rights". I read the decision in its entirety and it was full of flaws from my perspective (I am not a lawyer). It's clear however that this is an ideological ruling. Also, I'm skeptical of the intellectual consistency of anyone's arguments when they mention "the libs".
Scientists are members of society too. They are not automatons.
> Should the standard be "we nine unelecteds don't like it, and can read whatever we want into text that is actually silent on the issue"?

I mean that’s what every ruling is. The court exists because the text isn’t clear. No text is clear enough to handle reality. There are always exceptions, shifting definitions, changing technology. No document can be the full representative of its meaning - a system of rules based on documents will always have a layer of interpretation built on top of it
Trousers started as activewear. Technically military dress for horseback, but you could argue that war is just a less aggressive form of football.
Yeah, I've see a few other people parroting the "RGB even said..." thing, but what's your point?

The rights to privacy and bodily autonomy are not nascent concepts in the course of this country's establishment of civil liberties, and today's ruling was a disgusting application of the Supreme Court's power.
> So given that a fetus is alive, does that entitle it to any rights?

I didn't mean to say whether the fetus is alive is the relevant question, so apologies for the confusion. It's whether the fetus is a person, in which case, yes being a person does entitle it to rights, none greater than your right to life. That takes primacy over other rights of the mother to terminate the person (assuming it is a person).

It's true that there's no clear answer, but I suggest that this is the question to answer, regardless of where you fall on the debate. Some people think its "heart beat" however you define that, other think its viability outside of the womb, and I'm sure other people have different criteria. But we should look to answer this question and get to a sensible policy.
Are you honestly of the opinion that all intercourse involves the affirmative choice of both parties? Because if you are, you are gravely mistaken.
Estimated infection != cases.
“We felt it was time for a change. This might sound weird, but while we got very good at making ‘Zachtronics games’ over the last twelve years, it was hard for us to make anything else. We were fortunate enough to carve out a special niche, and I’m thankful that we’ve been able to occupy it and survive in it, but it also kept us locked into doing something we didn’t feel like doing forever.”

So they basically got tired of making more Zachlikes, which is more than understandable at this point. Amazing games, but I think they can safely say their job is done after they've basically kickstarted a genre. Rather than being sad seeing Zachtronics go, I'm sort of anticipating to hear more about some of those smaller "weird" projects Zach alludes to in the article. Would be much more tragic to see a designer of that caliber left feeling stuck making games in a similar vein for longer than they feel is necessary.
You can find the primary source for the DARPA leak on hn; if you care to verify that the sequence comes from a patent yourself directly from primary sources, you can find instructions on how to do that on hn too. I've done the search myself, it's real.

I can't provide direct sources for the fact that these predictions preceded the discoveries, but I can tell you they ran through my head, and others I talked to, and the lack of a sequence match bothered me. If you want to get meta-meta-scientific I would not be surprised if there was at least a blog post by someone out there saying "if it was a lab leak, where's the sequence match?" Out there that preceded the sleuth who found it hidden in plain site (behind an NCBI search option)

Edit: I have not read the ridley/chen book, I know most of the stuff from when they were emergent reports by reading this site and applying my intuition as a former biochemist (and some of my actively working biochemist friends) ti judge relative merits of hypotheses.
I think the important point is not whether this outbreak was in fact a lab leak, but that it is entirely plausible due to gain-of-function research.

Even if this one wasn’t a lab leak, the next one very well could be. The risk/reward profile of that sort of research is insanely unfavorable.
Agreed. Crime is not a good thing, and please do not thing I am trying to endorse it. I just know that it exists and will use whatever resources it has access to. I philosophically disagree with denying ourselves something because someone somewhere can do crime.

Now, encryption and by extension cryptocurrency, this is truly revolutionary. They can shoot me in the head, but they cannot read my data, access my devices, or take the money. All that remains is silicon and metal. I like the idea that when I die, everything I have written privately, and every sat I have earned will rest forever, unreachably.
In my opinion very few if any sites need fonts.

The user has a default font, who am I to say that I know a better one?

If you want to be more pragmatic you can accept that most browsers use awful fonts by default. However coming soon is system-ui, ui-serif and ui-sans-serif which allow you to let the user to continue picking the font, expect not awful.

(I still don't understand why browser didn't just update initial, serif and sans-serif to be non-awful, but I'm not a browser maker)
The instrument used to speculate on the price of cryptocurrency is a CFD, in which case you take gains in stablecoins like Tether. It's foolish to leave any cryptocurrency long-term on an exchange wallet. If you're trading the spot market directly, you should take the cryptocurrency off the exchange immediately, as soon as you buy it.
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> That.. seems excessively alarmist.

Then you aren't paying attention to the actual legislation being passed in States, the advocacy of leading members of the Republican Party, and even the things explicitly stated in the writings of Supreme Court justices on this case.

> It is on par with Sirius XM Channel channel reacting to the news by saying, and I am paraphrasing, ‘they are going after all our rights next’.

Thomas literally (to anyone who understands the scope and impact of the Court’s substantive due process jurisprudence) said that in his concurrence.
Why should you believe they take food safety seriously? Why should you believe they take water quality and treatment seriously? Or the authorities who oversee the safety of aerospace or airbags or what your bank is allowed to do with your savings? Vaccine safety is an awfully specific thing to double down on considering the overwhelmingly broad set of things that you rely on public servants for (specifically ones who regulate health), the very small number of times you need to get a vaccine in your life, and the sheer numbers and public nature of trials around vaccine testing.
"There shouldn't be intermediaries between God and human beings"--is a Protestant doctrine. This doctrine has gone secular: separation of church and state. In other words, protestant Christian ideas have become the foundation of many modern political theories.

For a Catholic, the Catholic Church is the intermediary between him/her and God.
Denmark, France and Germany allow on-demand abortions. How was that different from the US until now?
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons" means something, doesn't it? "Self defense" is nowhere in the constitution either but that didn't stop this court's radical right wing from establishing it as some kind of new right.
Home cooking supports every worker and their children as future labor that aggregates into every business entity. A single business entity is not a requirement for this condition. See the entire underground economy of social reproduction.
Many persons are Vegan for several periods of weeks to months at a time, and revert to a carnivore diet by medical necessity. My comment was not against the diet itself, just to point the technical execution behind it.

The problem with some approaches to a Vegan diet, is that they bring with them
baggage. An immediate moral and ethical judgement, that some would accuse of being a slippery slope of ambiguity.

Most ambiguity, comes from the way the causing suffering argument is phrased. Declaring it form a high horse of supposedly moral superiority, while for example
ignoring the destruction of wild life that intensive farming brings.

Humans with a carnivore diet are not advocating for animal suffering.
Vegans advocating a planetary scale plant based diet, if they approach
from a moral superiority point, should clarify what level of ALL animal
suffering are they willing to tolerate to support their diet.

Some Vegans would argue the suffering to wild life, is an indirect
cause of pursuing healthier options, and that not all suffering is the same.
The same argument could be used by meat eaters, that none advocates for the abuses of the meat industry.

Unless of course one would use the more radical argument that animals
do not exist to feed humans. But the same could be said of plants.
They were here before humans.
No one put the effort it because it would be completely meaningless. The same Supreme Court that upheld the Mississippi law would obviously toss out any federal “codification”
Even if that's the case, do you understand that the vast majority of society would consider such thing absolutely psychopathic?

What I'm trying to get to is that "My body my choice" is a nice thing to chant at a protest, it's also a pretty damn bad argument, I can't believe we are still doing this AFTER covid. I'm 100% for abortion but I find it hard to argue outside a "the fetus is not a sentient being at that point" frame.
It’s mostly just because salaries are very high in the US due to the huge amount of money flowing into startups via VCs to accelerate growth. That growth comes from hiring a lot of devs, increasing demand. And few of those startups will accept juniors or folks fresh out of school, because they don’t have the resources to train them. That limits supply.

And on top of that, you have the American tech giants with huge sums of money competing in that same market. And many of these tech companies were founded by engineers and have a very engineering-first perspective, increasing the importance of treating developers well at some level.

So at the end of the day, you get a market with lots of opportunities, fewer experienced devs interested in those opportunities, and lots of money earmarked for attracting those devs.

It’s pretty unique, and I don’t think this scenario really exists in Europe.
Concerning number 1) that is doesn’t change the Consequence I agree, but the response I thoroughly disagree unless you means strictly short term.

Came or not from a lab, SynBio and gain of functions experiments have the potential of re-doing this of way worse.

So basically the only truly important response that is not damage containment is to prevent this from happening (or happen again).

Honestly beside fringe groups I don’t see any initiatives happening, if it was up to me I’d kick gain of function experiments into the same realm as chemical weapons.
A large part of why the right has disproportionate political power is because left-leaning folks tend to cluster together geographically and dilute their votes. Now that they're beginning to spread out, this may change a bit.
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Let’s not forget that talking about the lab leak hypothesis last year resulted in censorship among social media platforms and YouTube

This is why free speech is important, it is impossible to rely on “fact checkers”.
> Everyone agrees on this

If you don't know the argument against your point of view, that is a good time to do some reading, not more writing.
But you did use use your copper telephone line during the emergence of digital bits and bytes. Someone planned ahead for you. Do the same.

Another take on future proof is around designing to avoid unwanted obsolescence; we have finite resources on this big rock, use what you can. Get creative. Not planning for the future will see you under water.
They treat it like the Bible and interpret it to fit their opinions. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_civil_religion
i m very happy for you but this is about abortion, a right that every civilized person should enjoy. i m not even american but this is bad
Google’s suspended AI engineer says that the ‘sentient’ chatbot hired a lawyer