skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stealth wealth. Nobody smart flauts value, they use subtle cues to let other valuable or simply well-studied people know. Nobody wants annoying low class (talking about having low class, not in a monetary sense) people trying to get something from them, talking, or worse -- mugging or following them. So many fools wearing expensive watches in cities getting their heads bashed. If you're not aggressively dating (even then who cares), why would you try to get a shallow ego stroke like that.

High quality perfectly fitted t shirt and pants/shorts with zero logos, that's what I'll splurge on if I ever get rich. And super comfy and effective shoes.
I think the processes are getting better each day, but it was only a couple of years ago that you could share a shortcode. My main point is that even with all of the safeguards it's still a ridiculously easy system to exploit.

Most people will trust a toll-free number just as much as a shortcode, and since tons of legitimate companies use toll-free numbers for messaging it just blurs the line of what a "reputable" number looks like.

Even SendGrid, which is owned by Twilio, uses toll-free numbers for their 2FA messages instead of shortcodes.
When Australia proposed an international investigation into the origins, in direct response, China started cyber attacks, resentencing Australian prisoners to death, and used economic warfare.

This seems like a conversation we can not have, if China has any say in it. And for a natural origin spillover event, it sure wants to have its say...
> Someone believing life begins at conception

That's the claim, not whether a fertilized egg is a human.
Uh, yeah. That's exactly right. A corporation is, believe it or not, not the government.
This group happens to have enough power that saying "who cares what they think" leads to them doing exactly what you don't want them to do. The only way I know to reduce that power while retaining your system of government is to make an argument which actually convinces them, which requires you to care what they think, both in order to understand their motivations well enough to actually construct an argument with this effect, and as an indicator of how much progress you're making with it.
We don't have the legal right to bodily autonomy. If we did, prostitution and recreational drugs would be legal. I think we should but we just don't. But this still doesn't get to the heart of the matter on abortion.
A fetus isn't quite your body.
>> 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.

No, it clearly isn't. If it was, you might as well abolish the other branches of government, because the government is really an oligarchy of judges.

> 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

That's true, but only to a point. Take it too far, and you are just using an oligarchy of judges to bypass the legislative process.
It’s not accelerating, you’re just biasing your sample based on what’s happened recently. These are different things.

It’s pretty hard to declare a trend with such small numbers.
But originally, crypto was built with the expectation of being illegal and yes, to facilitate only illegal transactions, that live and die illegal with no communication with "white" money. It's only in the recent few years - to attract normies' money - it started to make weird detours into the legal space.

I think there is no need mixing the two. Use normal banking, companies and taxable jurisdictions for white money - everyone needs some white income to explain what they are doing - and crypto for the rest.

Crypto people i know (the real ones), want it illegal, because then their work has fewest impediments - it becomes nothing but coding in R, Solidity, some Python, and occasional visits to a guy next block for a pack of cash. No paperwork.
> But we've already had examples of ad-blocking companies doing deals with advertisers to whitelist URLs and I simply don't trust them not to on-sell my browser history.

As I recall, uBlock Origin originated as a direct response to ad-blockers engaging in exactly this behavior.

Content blockers are nice, but I’m going to have to agree they are necessary but insufficient on my phone. uBlock Origin as it exists in say Firefox is pretty much exactly what I want and I’d be able to probably uninstall every other ad-blocking extension. I appreciate that Apple tried this approach initially but it’s time to change course and allow more powerful ad-blockers to also exist.
I guess I'm more cynical, maybe even conspiratorial. My theory is that NIH was possibly, even if indirectly, contributing funding to the research that caused the outbreak, and that the major corporate media networks are there to shill for the establishment forces in the government and hushed this story as not to humiliate Fauci and the NIH.

I've seen Rand Paul credibly grilling Fauci on this issue a number of times and each time, the propaganda machine on reddit came out to damage control for Fauci.

The larger problem, beyond whether we funded this or not, whether or not it was a bat, is that the media and leaders in the government have repeatedly shown themselves to be completely undeserving of trust and so you're left guessing what the truth is with whatever limited information you have access to.
> The Constitution is a negative rights document, meaning that it enumerates all the actions that the federal government cannot do to you.

No, the Constitution is an affirmative powers document first and foremost; it enumerates all the things the federal government can do. The amendments (and a very few provisions of the base Constitution) include some negative rights as well, some directly applicable against the federal government, some against the State governments (and some of the former have been found to be implicitly included in some of the latter, though that is fairly explicitly under attack right now.)
rather than, you know, actually removing a juvenile picture of animals copulating which pretty much guarantees no-one will take their project seriously.

nah,... just add it to the faq
Christians do give a lot to charity, but a lot of those are christian charities that give aid on the condition that you eat a heaping mouthful of bullshit. It's really just a feel good way for them to try and proselytize.
Interesting- is it for climate reasons?

Curiously, both the international building code and ANSI require nails be used for wooden structural panels, because nails have better shear resistance than screws, which are typically designed with withdrawing resistance in mind.

Obviously, nails don't exactly work very well with normal drywall, though I'm not familiar with structural drywall either so I'm going to assume that's why you need so many screws... one snaps and it becomes a cascading force multiplication on the remaining screws.
The all CSS shorthand property
> At this point I see it as a fight between rich landowners+business owners+religion vs all the rest of the people

Based off of the responses itt, it's clearly not "all the rest of the people". But you know, maybe if you keep insisting that the political coalition in favor of Roe represents "all the rest of the people" it might magically become true

> I fail to see what moderates can do in a two party system where gerrymandering is so heavily done that often Democrats have to win 3-1 to control any majority.

Ofc democrats don't gerrymander. The Illinois redistricting wasn't a gerrymander, it was a fair process. Wherever the democrats have a hard time winning it's always because there was a gerrymander, and not because the people don't want them in office. /s
I suppose that could work. I would think that would just block Google's ad script in one when it might add three auto ads however. I was just thinking load it without an adblocker and count the number of `.adsbygoogle:not([style*="display: none"])` and `.amzn-native-container`, etc.
This is great work! JUCE's licensing terms are a little confusing to me - do I correctly read that you can disregard the tier system as long as your usage complies with GPL3?
But don't worry the 'scientific hive mind of the internet' will now come to correct this, except it's no longer a pointlessly political topic. It's fairly set in stone the blame lies with the chinese state.

Also it's extremely unlikely to kill you if you're under 50 to the point of being not a statistically significant cause of death (unlike guns). But we still need to acrew so much national debt that we might as well have put humans in a space colony as a species...
Exactly. I deprecated SMS 12 years ago in favor of e-mail. E-mail supports encryption, >140 characters, attachments, alphanumeric IDs, and works across country borders and SIM cards. There is literally zero reason to use SMS.
> since Rowe v. Wade was primarily a decision about medical privacy

And it got thrown out for precisely this reason. Although cocaine can be prescribed in very limited circumstances, my doctor cannot just write me a prescription for cocaine. That's a "medical privacy" issue too, right?

> is HIPA still valid?

Don't be absurd.
The origin story is paramount to preventing future outbreaks and to the loss of, and disruption to, our way of life. The US took the same position on combating terrorism when it rooted out Al-Qaeda. To stop future loss of life, the root cause needs to be identified and dealt with. I vehemently disagree with the assessment that the origin is not instrumental to the defense of future outbreaks.
> Literally all governments have capital controls and ban certain goods and services.

Hence my “depending on the context” qualifier. E.g. a ban on the purchase and sale of alcohol could be consider oppressive, as it’s an example of moral issue codified into law. If the government tracks all transactions that involve its official currency, using an anonymous or pseudonymous one instead could circumvent the oppressive law.

Similarly, anonymous use of the Internet could bypass blanket laws prohibiting pornography. It might also bypass more reasonable laws, but in the former case, you could say its use resulted in decreased oppression.

> Devaluation of a currency is not oppression either.

If a government wishes to finance an unjust war, rather than levying unpopular taxes, it might print vast quantities of money, resulting in its citizens’ real (if not nominal) savings being reduced significantly. This falls under economic persecution by definition. Storing your value in a different form, one that’s not pegged to said currency, could lessen the effect.

> Economic persecution is oppression. Let's say they fabricate a legal case against you and make you pay a big fine. How is bitcoin helping you being less oppressed in these circumstances?

I haven’t argued for that particular issue as I don’t necessarily think cryptocurrency can directly resolve it, but it’s easy to imagine. If you had managed to store your wealth in the form of a less inflated currency, you’d preserve it better. Hence the magnitude of the fine on diminishing your savings would be reduced. Also, the state might not be able to prove you own enough assets to pay the fine and might have no means of confiscating them.

> Feel free to come with another example, where bitcoin would help. I can't think of any. That's why I'm asking.

Your original commented argued against a “digital token”. But it’s irrelevant what form of money you use, if it helps circumvent unfair laws, it reduces oppression. It can even be beanie babies or tulips, as long as others are willing to exchange them for goods and services. Cryptocurrency just makes the process easier than those particular assets do.
> The jaded side of me says: vote in more moderates that are willing to strike compromises

How do you compromise on issues like same sex marriage? It's pretty binary: gay people have the same rights as straight people, or they don't. With Justice Thomas's suggestion to relitigate Obergefell, this is exactly where we stand.
One doesn't have to take extreme positions to be consistent. In order to believe that someone should have bodily autonomy over continuing a pregnancy (something potentially life threatening, and definitely life altering) I don't have to believe that bodily autonomy is absolute.

Vaccines are something that touch on community health. When one person chooses not to get vaccinated they are putting everyone around them at risk. At the most extreme extent, abortion affects the potential parents, the potential life, and their families. It's a different risk calculation. A woman pursuing an abortion is making life and death decisions for (at most - because not everyone believes the fetus is a life with rights) two people. Someone not getting a vaccine in a deadly pandemic is making decisions that impact life and death for their whole community.
Modern judicial activism which clearly goes to the heart of the matter: the conservative bloc in the SCOTUS doesn’t care about even the text of the constitution
He’s not though because anyone who follows this knows that late-term abortions are almost entirely situations where the fetus is incompatible with life (an actual medical term), there are ridiculous risks to the mother’s life, or other very sad scenarios. I’ve never even heard of modern cases where perfectly healthy fetuses were aborted at late stages. I’m sure that they have happened, but the rarity of it happening — not just because so few doctors do that work for medically necessary reasons and even fewer would do it for someone who just changed their mind, but because it is a prohibitively expensive procedure ($25,000 or more).

This 2016 interview with a woman who had an abortion at 32 weeks after she found out her fetus would not survive outside the womb and who then had to suffer through 24 hours of labor and have her dead child ripped from her womb (and prior brain surgery meant she couldn’t push), really paints a picture of the terrible reality for anyone forced to be in a position to terminate a pregnancy at such a late stage: https://jezebel.com/interview-with-a-woman-who-recently-had-...
> less time debugging

I would say it isn't even the debugging. As many of the C++ programmers here have said as you get good at C++ this becomes something that you are vigilant for and it rarely actually gets written. But just the lack of even needing to think about it is a huge load off my mind. When I used to write C++ I never really realized how vigilant I was. Every time I added code into the middle of a function I had to double check all of the lifetimes, every time I shorted the lifetime of a variable I had to search for it to the end of the function. Just not having to worry about this much really frees your mind for thinking about other things.
"We do know that the insertion of such FCS sequences into SARS-like viruses was a specific goal of work proposed by the EHA-WIV-UNC partnership within a 2018 grant proposal (“DEFUSE”) that was submitted to the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) (25). The 2018 proposal to DARPA was not funded, but we do not know whether some of the proposed work was subsequently carried out in 2018 or 2019, perhaps using another source of funding.

"We also know that that this research team would be familiar with several previous experiments involving the successful insertion of an FCS sequence into SARS-CoV-1 (26) and other coronaviruses, and they had a lot of experience in construction of chimeric SARS-like viruses (27–29). In addition, the research team would also have some familiarity with the FCS sequence and the FCS-dependent activation mechanism of human ENaC α (19), which was extensively characterized at UNC (17, 18). For a research team assessing the pandemic potential of SARS-related coronaviruses, the FCS of human ENaC—an FCS known to be efficiently cleaved by host furin present in the target location (epithelial cells) of an important target organ (lung), of the target organism (human)—might be a rational, if not obvious, choice of FCS to introduce into a virus to alter its infectivity, in line with other work performed previously."

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2202769119
UnHerd has a following among conspiracy theorists, but its journalism is pretty good! E.g. here's an interview with Sajid Javid (UK minister for health) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7yZZKlg-m8
I feel like this isn't much of an issue with newer macbooks where bluetooth via Find My network allows location data to be exfiltrated regardless of wifi connectivity.

Also, I believe (on M1) that entering guest mode requires the computer to reboot into an untrusted state, so even if there's some 0-day to bypass Guest mode access control, the main encrypted filesystem won't be available.
How does this compare with SQLite approaches shared recently?
> Is IVF murder of children? Is a twin that consumed a twin in-utero a killer? Should we launch a criminal investigation every time a woman has a miscarriage?

(1) That's a silly question. In-virtro fertilization is a series of procedures to help conceive a child. (2) Intent is often the focal point of Criminal Law and is generally shown by circumstantial evidence such as the acts or knowledge of the defendant. And so is ability; an unborn child has no intent or knowledge or ability to resist, so I'd argue no that it's not murder for a twin to consume her sibling in utero. Got any more "hardballs" for me, or are those the best you got?

> Is plan B murder of children? If yes, is contraception, including pulling out murder of children?

If a child was conceived, yes. Take a child that is in utero and the mother is 1 day away from delivery and takes a pill that poisons the child. Yes, it absolutely is murder. You think these are hard questions but they are not. The morality on the pro-life side is pretty cut and dry; any attempt to kill an innocent, healthy, viable human child is wrong. Period. Full-stop. Even in cases where the mother is in danger and needs to end the pregnancy; the child could simply be delivered. There is no need to kill the child, that's an extra and unnecessary and evil step you'd have to go out of the way to do.

> Let's be real here, there is no 100% effective contraception method and out of 100s of millions of people having sex, probably a few million will get accidentally pregnant.

Yes, and? Are you trying to say that the killings unwanted children should be OK? Are you saying that the value the life of those children should be hinged on how much they are loved by their parents? What are you trying to argue, exactly? Serious question.

> You sound like someone who thinks that women who have sex should be punished for being whores.

Nice strawman, but I'm right here. I think that women who have sex and conceive children should be held responsible for raising those children. You must think that women in general are pretty infantile and cannot bear any responsibility whatsoever. Are you some kind of misogynist?

> So how about no uterus, no opinion? And kindly, hope you do not reproduce

Why are you assuming my gender? I have 2 children by the way. Let me ask you, do YOU have a uterus? If not, then kindly shut the hell up while the big girls talk.
No, this is totally wrong, you didn't think this through. They don't need to do that. They could just copy the files to their own machine, delete them, then send them back when you pay the ransom. Encryption certainly makes it easier for them, but the main thing that enables it is money laundering. Which is the primary reason anyone uses cryptocurrency to transfer huge sums of money.
> I also understand why it wasn't a media fixation during the pandemic itself.

You list some reasons, and I have in my mind a different reason.

There was a media blackout on the lab leak hypothesis because China put the kibosh on it, and since the US is dependent on Chinese exports for healthcare, PPE, defense and other critical supply lines, we did not want to piss them off.

Direction to the media for this blackout came from the US State Dept, and Mike Pompeo confirmed as much in semi-public comments that I will link if I ever find them again.

edit: this isn't the source I was thinking of, and it fingers the IC not State. I will keep looking https://www.newsweek.com/mike-pompeo-intel-officials-wuhan-l...
With the lack of any really strong unequivocal data supporting any real hypothesis, I think people got tired of arguing about it and recognized that throwing around huge claims with massive implications was probably irresponsible.
Not as mobile: you need internet and a smartphone. I still have a friend with a dumb phone. I'm sometimes in zones without internet but my mum call me and ask me to give her some confirmation code I receive.

Not as simple: stuff arrive in the spam folder. Some providers just reject your valid mail (my main email tld is exotic, it causes lots of troubles). People receive so much junk they lose your message in 1000 of unread mails or are afraid of checking them.

Not as interoperable: there are new kids that just don't have emails setup on their phone. They check them once a month at home on the computer. Email is for old people (although text is getting there too).

Plus email is almost as easy to spoof and intercept, so the gain would be minimal.
>It is mostly a personal responsibility thing, as I understand it. You are responsible for creating the baby so you must give up some of your rights like bodily autonomy.

If that's what you believe, then don't terminate your pregnancy. As far as anyone else is concerned, it's none of your concern.
But the US states could already impose term limits (e.g. Texas).
So why did Roe v Wade need to be overturned?
We’re going to need a new-deal level mandate unfortunately and my understanding is that will has only been built off catastrophic events as large as two world wars and the Great Depression.
"Stuff that makes serotonin is known to increase the onset of effects of serotonin."
>It was only the 1588 that it was outlawed, and that didn't last long, only a few years.

I mean that was 500 years ago. It's hard to argue inconsistency when it's been the same for 500 years.
I like it.

Now it needs the chunky pixelated monospace font. 110baud scroll would be really authentic.
I assume the DARPA leak is this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28644428

~700pts, ~450 comments, with the source published 23. September 2021.
I’ve written several C modules that should have hired lawyers.
What's exactly the problem? Is this something US specific? I've been living in different countries for years and always kept my original number in addition to getting local number as well. Never had any trouble with 2fa.
You can come up with any justification you want, give it any name you want, but what you advocate for is still, in the end, killing a baby which would do perfectly fine on its own in the outside world.

Which is why I would be charged with murder if I go punch a heavily pregnant woman in the gut and kill her child.
Do small countries in Europe not need to be protected?

I think the issue is that small states and countries would not join if they would be subject to whatever large states decided.

So the option would be to have a country without Vermont and stuff or to have them in the current config. Because that’s the math that was done 250 years ago that resulted in NY and VA choosing to accept it, and also smaller states.
"What's best for the child" is often the argument used there - since the child did not commit the rape, the argument goes, it shouldn't be punished for it.

Notably the same argument has been used to set the precedent that male rape victims are also compelled to pay child support to their rapists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermesmann_v._Seyer
If I was a woman, I’d be deleting my period tracker right about now. It’s absolutely going to be subpoenaed and used in court