skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the maps proposed by the Ohio GOP this year (and rejected as unconstitutional by the Ohio Supreme Court) are close to this. I believe I read an estimate that the dems would need to average 70-30 statewide to control half the seats.
The presidency is elected by the electoral college which is made up of one voter from each state for each rep and senator they have. If the senate is undemocratic the electoral college must be too.
Garage-sized reactor could provide limitless energy with magnet-free technology
The point is if you believe this to not be up to the Supreme Court to decide, then you don't believe it's up to the Supreme Court to undo until the people have decided.

The Supreme Court didn't issue a law here, they changed their interpretation of a decision they had made 50 years prior, for no reason at all except that the composition of the court had changed.

That's like hiring a new guy and his first action is to remove an entire technology that was propping up your infrastructure, because it wasn't being stored in the "correct" VCS.
I don't think that person asked the OP to reach out on their behalf. OP is just trying to learn how they can be respectful/supportive of the deaf person's condition and help.
Furthermore, SMS competes with Whatsapp.

I don't use WhatsApp, so with people who do not have Telegram I use SMS. The more annoying and conotated with spam SMS is, the more pushy people become with insisting on WhatsApp. Luckily I'm often in a position to absolutely resist, but I can see how others, such as job hunters or Tinder hookups, would be pressured into installing the spyware.

This is not being done by Facebook/WhatsApp themselves, but keeping SMS annoying is certainly in Facebook's interest.
That would require them to have commited impeachable offenses. That bar seems to be extremely high considering the kind of conduct that doesn't seem to meet it.
> Mattermost v7 was released on Thursday and includes video conferencing functionality

have you tried running it using Mattermost team (the OSS) instance?

I also use their cloud instance to stay updated on new features but voice is a paid only plan, so couldn't check it out
> worst of all are the optional parenthesis in function calls

??

> let r = some_function x y z in ...

There are no parentheses here, and it's not optional.
What you probably are missing is that if `some_function` takes 3 arguments,
then `some_function x y` is a function value that takes 1 parameter (currying).

Btw, iirc, SML doesn't have this: there you only have 1 parameter but it could be a tuple
What I find interesting is how for many many years people thought Roe would be safe because it was mostly useful as a political tool. A wedge to drive into voting blocks to make sure they stay Republican despite everything else they are doing. It was in nobody's interest to actually repeal it. What nobody expected was for decades of indoctrination to produce true believers that would actually be elected to the Supreme Court.

So now we are in a situation where the dog has caught the car and it's not sure what happens now.
And please remember that even a “normal” pregnancy can exact a heavy toll on the mother, physical and financial.

My back hurts constantly, but even worse when I pick up my much-desired child. He’s over 25 lbs now, and I dread what the next years until he’s able to climb up into an acceptable car seat on his own are going to be like.

I work part-time, and thank heavens Germany made my pre-pregnancy employer give me that option. One of the major factors in MLM prevalence in the US are the absolutely abysmal job prospects for anyone who can’t work full time - that is, many mothers of young children. My friends with preschool age kids who work full time only manage it because they have expensive daycare open from 7am - 6pm, pay nannies, and/or have spouses with less-intense (or no) jobs. This, of course, is only realistic for women with well-paid jobs.

And if one of you wants to respond, “adoption,” please remember the aforementioned physical wreckage, plus work-related difficulties. Germany encouraged my employer to let me stay home the six weeks before my due date and insisted I do so the right weeks after the birth, all at just about my previous net pay.

I don’t think that “slavery” is too strong a word for forcing someone to go through with an unwanted pregnancy, but others can call it “indentured servitude” if that makes them feel better.
The Roe vs. Wade decision was the wrong way to solve the problem because it specifically set the stage for decades where the legislature didn't enshrine abortion as a right, and thus left it up for grabs to be taken back away only decades later. Ruth Bader Ginsburg argues that if Roe vs. Wade had been less sweeping, that the existing cultural movement in favor of women's rights would have naturally led to the protection of this right on a more fundamental and long lasting level.
We are talking about a mother, courts frequently force parents to act in the best interests of their children even if it's against the interests of the parents. A mother's child is not an alien unrelated in any way to the mother.
From what I heard, the original press conference was a doozy:

Reporter: Wasn't the password something insecure like a four-digit number?

Officer: No, it's a 13-letter alphanumeric password.

Reporter: But if it was totally random wasn't it hard to use?

Officer: It's a meaningful English word, followed by a meaningful four-digit number, so it's quite easy to memorize.

Reporter: By an English word, you mean something like _password_?

Officer: It's not a simple word. It's a word and a number that are related to the City of Amagasaki.

Reporter: Do you use a capital letter?

Officer: It's grammatically correct, as only the first letter is capital.

For god's sake, if you just lost a USB stick with the whole city's personal data, don't spell out how you chose your password!!!
Here is one person's experience with it over the past two years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31806639

I have been using a Librem5 for the past six months full time, here is my comment on usage from ~week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31727098
What possible argument against abortion exists besides "religion" ?
> All this ultimately demonstrates is how feeble rights - real, natural rights - are under the American conception of federal constitutional rights.

Another devil's advocate here...the people advocating for outlawing abortion are also convinced it's a rights issue: the rights of the unborn child. This isn't an open and shut case.

Granted, I think Roe v Wade struck a fairly nuanced balance and I also think this is a disastrous decision. It's unfortunate RBG didn't quit when she had the chance and also unfortunate the dems ran Abuela in 2016. This could have been avoided, along with 4 years of complete buffoonery and international embarassment. It sucks our one-party-with-two-factions system has one faction that's consistently spineless and lacking foresight.
No, it covers companies and individuals operating within GDPR jurisdiction. A US company that trades in the EU is subject to the GDPR. This is no different from applying the UK Trades Descriptions Act to US companies that advertise in the UK.
The US democracy is a huge joke compared to most european states for example. The two party system, gerrymandering, etc etc make this system really awful at governing such a diverse country.
That is an interesting question, though you are probably right. The Court has not asserted that abortions per se are a violation of the Constitution, but that Roe incorrectly affirmed that there was a right to abortion. Presumably there are laws that could be passed (e.g., red-haired persons may be shot on sight) that would certainly be found to be unconstitutional. In the case of abortion, the Court could find a right to life for the unborn and invalidate any law Congress might pass that guaranteed the right to an abortion.

Bottom line, I don't think one can assert without fear of being proven wrong either that Congress can confer a right to abortion or that it can't.
>If abortions are bad, why are the same people who want to ban abortions the ones who want to ban contraceptives? That would do a lot more to reduce abortions in reality than any law can.

I would imagine they believe the point of sex is to conceive. Both those things prevent conception.
Rights do not stem from the Constitution - as the language of the constitution itself shows: they are natural rights, some of which are explicitly laid down in paper. The right to do what you will with your own body is a natural right, and can't be alienated by anything, not even the will of the majority.
The official 2016 and 2020 platforms for the Party said otherwise. Actions speak louder than words.
the US never had forced vaccinations
> Nike swoosh. Adidas symbol. Kappa's posed back-to-back figures, etc. Abecrombie & Fitch's giant A&F on every thing. Ball caps with logos. None of this sounds vaguely familiar?

That is expensive trash, not fashion. If I go to a nice restaurant in a big city, people aren't wearing that crap.
In every other democracy, voting laws and systems that mean individual votes are unequal (and even more absurd, the popular vote keeps losing) are of course unconstitutional and dealt with by the Supreme Court. How else could it be; guaranteeing one person one vote is the basis of democracy.

That's before we get to other design flaws like "winner takes all", which of course neither possible winner out of a guaranteed 2 is ever going to change.
> based on the 100:80:100 model — 100 % of pay for 80% of the time, with a commitment to maintain 100% productivity

Does anyone know how the baseline "productivity" will be measured?

And what happens to workers that do not meet the productivity? Do they go back to the 5-day week?
> OCaml introduces a bunch of problems which aren't present in Rust: cryptic syntax ...

Hmm, I think "cryptic syntax" is probably in the eye of the beholder
> Obesity is the easiest preventable thing under your control that you can directly influence to assure that an early death does not come, you are coping and desperately trying to twist what I said.

Obesity is not a disease, it's a condition. The distinction is important. Some disease can be caused by excessive obesity, but being obese doesn't force getting these diseases.

Here we don't know anything about someone on the internet, and there's no way for us to claim that they will have any critical disease due to their potential obesity. They might be perfectly fine for the rest of their life as they are now. Some studies actually find a longer lifespan for people lightly in the "overweight" zone.

Basically, reducing weight might not benefit everyone "overweight" person.

On the "easiest" part...living a less stressful life is also easy, and can be done by not stressing on diets...

> There is no other way to reduce fatness other than with a diet change.

My complaint is not as much on the "how" than on the "why". From the info we got, there just is no reason to reduce fatness in the first place. And then, if there were actual reasons, the solutions should be adjusted to those reasons. If it's heart diseases, there are more efficient means to prevent them (e.g. increasing exercice, or changing life habits like sleep patterns or reducing salt/adjusting water intake, etc.).

If we really care about health, there is no universal advice.
ZIO 2 has been released
It's not reverting to a natural climate, it's trying to not make it worse by pumping even more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The adaptation we have to make is finding a way to keep most of our comforts in a sustainable way, and that won't come from recycling plastic or driving an EV, but from industry and regulation.
Spacechem on the iPad was a thing of beauty. It’s a shame they abandoned iOS but they had valid reasons.
I'm asking in good faith, and ask for answers in the same: in a pro-choice framework, why do in-womb Homo Sapiens Sapiens have no rights to be considered, vis a vis the rights of the mother?

In this context, I'm not implying that an unborn human's rights override those of its mother, nor imply what the right balance should be (50:50? 20:80? 80:20?). But pro-choice arguments tend to assume that the in-womb human has no rights, since mother has the right to terminate the pregnancy basically without any good reason at all. I'd argue that where welfare of two beings is affected, you need to consider the rights of both. Is it clear that an unborn human has no rights?

Perhaps this can be straightforwardly spelled out, or is obvious - in which case I'm curious to know what that argument is. If not, doesn't some kind of cautionary approach require that err on the side of caution in considering the rights of the unborn human? For example, if a healthy woman is pregnant with a healthy human, but decides to terminate the pregnancy for no extreme reason (health reasons I guess), what is the argument that says "the unborn human's right to mature and be born and live is non-existent or trumped by the mother's preferences"?

There is a myriad of difficult scenarios that life can write, and for now I'm moving away from those. Not every pregnancy is terminated for life-threatening reasons, for example.
>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.

Sums up a lot of indie game developers perfectly. Find a niche, can't escape the niche.
> A million people can't claim to have written The Lord of the Rings and sell copies of it for profit, not without greatly harming J.R.R. Tolkien, who actually did write it.

The way you use harm here implies that you believe that the world owes J.R.R. Tolkien something for having written LotR. In the case of commerce, the buyer owes the seller the agreed price. But noone owes anyone for simply writing something.

If a creator creates a creation, nobody, by default, owes the creator anything for having created it. If the creator wants to make the creation the object of a contract, they can do so. In that case, the parties of the contract owe the creator whatever was agreed in the contract. This is how Patreon works. And how financing art worked before IP was invented.

IP is not a contract!

IP is a legal monopoly right on the duplication of an infinitely and freely duplicable item. And the only way to enforce IP is to infringe on everyone's physical rights.
I think that it's a standard writing device to always fully spell out acronyms in case someone who isn't familiar happens across the post.

It would be bad if someone who might enjoy the post or be inspired by it were to get frustrated or confused by an acronym and get pushed back from the field by it.
If veganism, ecology, and environmentalism are to be associated with genocidal megalomania, god help us survive ourselves.
The downside of that is that you don’t get longer weekends for traveling.
Yes, I think that was the point. If people genuinely believed that abortion is the same as murder, they would have revolted against the government a long time ago. They don't really believe it.

What they do believe, however, is that any woman who may need an abortion was being promiscuous, and should be punished for her actions. They absolutely believe that.
The HN crowd never fails to surprise me. For all of the great discussions about software on here, threads like this one reek of ignorance of civics and history. The de facto outcome of this ruling is abortion banned in red states. It's clearly partisan hackery when we have:
1. A court full of Federalist Society members
2. A court full of Catholics (staunchly pro-life)
3. Who are using the old argument of "states rights"
Three has historically been how the conservative minority defends its regressive legislation. They use the filibuster to prevent Federal legislation, then impose their will on minority groups within their state which has no filibuster. Anyone who has read about the history of the US should know this.
> They don't have hourly workers. Neither do Amazon

I don't know about Uber, but Amazon has tons of hourly workers - over 750k in fact.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/14/amazon-to-hire-125000-employ...
Better always spell it at first use than never. I find this a mark of respect.
Detailing discussions by questioning definitions doesn’t help advance your point. A black market is a market that is illegal, not just a market that you personally don’t approve of. Governments are doing what their laws say they can, trying to disambiguate between “right” and “privilege” doesn’t change this.

Your point seems to be “they can’t do that because I don’t like it”, which is the basis of a political movement, not a discussion of what can actually legally be done right now.

KYC laws are pretty universal, they’re not going away because you say they shouldn’t be real.
Exact same, Pocket is so close to being the perfect service and yet so far. I have a huge archive and their search is just terrible. I will have a specific keyword from an article I know I have in there, and yet all I get from their results is utterly irrelevant articles. Making it worse, you can't filter the search results to, say, your Favorites, so I have to sift through all the random crap in my full archive.

I ask for that great article about leaded gasoline (https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-most-important-scient...) and Pocket gives me an article about Rebecca Black instead (https://www.theawl.com/2011/03/arms-so-freezy-rebecca-blacks...).
> We don’t use this standard of reasoning for anything else.

Yes, we do. All kinds of things are viewed as immoral and not criminally punished, or punished less than things viewed as equally or more immoral, because of the perceived social cost/benefit of the alternative.

It is murderously insane to consider only the problem addressed and not the impacts of the policy response in setting government policy.
You should use P2P transfers to exchange bitcoins. You should avoid any kind of centralized exchanges. That defeats the whole idea of crypto currency.
What do you mean he never tried? How do you know that? Obama never had the votes to overcome the filibuster for abortion rights, he was struggling to even get the ACA passed. Why publicly focus on legislation that's impossible to pass, especially when it's already the law of the land?
Straight from the horse's mouth:

The World of Notch - The origins of Minecraft | https://web.archive.org/web/20160604071857/https://notch.tum...

> While looking through some project folders, I found an old protype of a game that never quite became anything. Kinda.

> It was called “RubyDung” (for various reasons), and was supposed to be a base building game inspired by Dwarf Fortress

> As the RubyDung engine got more advanced, I started thinking about adding a first person view for following your minions around, kinda like in Dungeon Keeper. It worked ok, but the graphics got very pixellated and distorted, so I left it out.

> But then I found Infiniminer. My god, I realized that that was the game I wanted to do. I played it in multiplayer for a while and had a blast, but found it flawed. Building was fun, but there wasn’t enough variation, and the big red/blue blocks were pretty horrible. I thought a fantasy game in that style would work really really well, so I tried to implement a simple first person engine in that style, reusing some art and code (although not as much as you’d think) from RubyDung, and came up with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9t3FREAZ-k

Unfortunately, that last YouTube link is not viewable for me ("This video contains content from Nizzotch. It is not available in your country.").

But the conclusion is: Infiniminer was definitely a huge inspiration on Minecraft.
E-mail seems to be the solution. It's out of bound; authentication/authorization are required; there's standards to flag an invalid origin; filters spam. It's not encrypted, but neither is SMS. Most of today's dumb phones can check e-mail, so it's almost ubiquitous. The only way it doesn't work is for rural users who have no data but do have GSM/SMS.
What about their minor children? What about their minor children who have been raped (possibly by their parents or relatives)? Sadly, these are not theoretical concerns
Regarding caller ID, stir/shaken is being used in some situations and I know AT&T supports it within their own network (call history will have a checkmark to indicate it was verified).
The prominent-luxury-logo-branded stuff is marketed to Fussell's Middle—his class defined by being the most class-anxious and also the most class-confused, so always aiming to elevate themselves, then fucking it up. Like, by falling for this kind of marketing, so failing to signal the way they intended, and instead placing themselves firmly and obviously outside the group they're trying to imitate.
That's insightful, having played the game.

Do you believe there's perhaps a kind of student that would be proficient in coding while not showing particular skill (or engagement) in solving those kinds of puzzles?
States have have recently passed laws have added in exceptions for the things you've brought up.

Also looking up the definition of abortion in this case is important:

https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/data_stats/abortion.h...

For the purpose of surveillance, a legal induced abortion is defined as an intervention performed by a licensed clinician (e.g., a physician, nurse-midwife, nurse practitioner, physician assistant) within the limits of state regulations, that is intended to terminate a suspected or known ongoing intrauterine pregnancy and that does not result in a live birth. Most states and reporting areas that collect abortion data report if an abortion was medical or surgical. Medical abortions are legal procedures that use medications instead of surgery.
It fascinates me that there is still innovation in the sorting space. You'd think after all this time we'd have found the quickest way to sort a bunch of things, but yet we still get innovations.
The 6809 had two 16 bit index registers, PC-relative addressing, and upper half of the stack and data page address was taken from special purpose registers instead of hardwired. It should be a fairly straight forward compiler target. On the other hand it was late to the game, expensive and not (much) faster than 8bit microprocessors. The 6502 very cheap, fast enough when it came out, but a really annoying compiler target.
Depending on the authenticator used, you are absolutely not fucked. It even works while waiting for your new phone / sim (had this happened to me on a Saturday night in France. Nothing's open Sundays).

There's Authy that does backups and you can even run it on a computer (even Linux!). 1Password can store OTPs, too, and is also backed up. There are probably a bunch of others and I'd expect KeePass to be able to do backups.

Plus, you're usually able to get the OTP seed which you can store on your own. This usually shows up as "can't scan this code?" or similar when registering.

I'm now traveling overseas, and have a local SIM in my phone. I have an older iPhone, so no dual-SIM for me. If I had to receive an SMS I guess it would still be better than my older Galaxy S5 which required a reboot, but it'd still be a pain to have to switch SIMs.

If I lost my Phone but still had my laptop, I'd be AOK with my current OTP setup. Except for a few sites which don't allow me to have anything else besides an SMS, but luckily they're not critical.