skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote this a while back - you might enjoy it:

It has come to my attention recently that the abortion of unwanted fetuses is likely to become illegal in large parts of the United States.

Fortunately, there is another alternative, which I am sure members of the Republican Party will hearty approve of.

Have the unwanted baby. Shortly after birth, drive to the middle of nowhere. Place the baby on the ground, naked, look at it sternly, and say

"Listen here, you whining little brat! You think I'm just going to support you for 18 years because I'm some sort of bleeding heart liberal? You got another thing coming you stupid welfare queen! This ain't socialist Europe! There ain't no leftist safety net here! You're just going to have to pull yourself up by your bootstraps!"

Then just leave it there, crying itself to death.:)
Bert rankers are brittle: a Study using Adversarial Document Perturbations
You know they didn’t consider Jews white right? You can’t say it’s 100% one group but also the main person we’re talking about isn’t white.

Also reiterating the question, where did diversity in the show bend objective facts?
> Is it minority views? Surely, when it comes down to states legislating this, people can make their opinion heard at the ballet box

How about instead of deferring this to states rights, we defer directly to individual rights and let individual people decide what to do? You know.. like in some sort of 'free' country.
> Today 92% of Republicans are to the right of the median Democrat, and 94% of Democrats are to the left of the median Republican

> The rise of ideological uniformity has been much more pronounced among those who are the most politically active. Today, almost four-in-ten (38%) politically engaged Democrats are consistent liberals, up from just 8% in 1994. The change among Republicans since then appears less dramatic – 33% express consistently conservative views, up from 23% in the midst of the 1994 “Republican Revolution.” But a decade ago, just 10% of politically engaged Republicans had across-the-board conservative attitudes.

[0]: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2014/06/12/political-po...
Spacechem singlehandedly got me back into gaming 10 years ago. It was such a wonderful example of how a simple concept worked to its extreme could be more delightful and entertaining than shiny AAA games.

RIP. I'm glad you went out on your own terms.
Again, RTFA.

But I don't think you're actually curious, I think you're just angry about something, when you should be moving onto the next post.
Request for proposal: SPF, DMARC, DKIM authenticity authentication but for SMS
Ridiculous. A fetus is not a person. A pig or a cow is more sentient. If we're going to call a fetus a person, first we gotta do intelligent livestock and outlaw killing animals for food.

The difference is that most Americans would be outraged if the government forbade them from eating meat, because that takes away their freedom and forces them to spend slightly more money on food that doesn't taste quite as good. It astounds me that these same people think the government should have the power to force someone to give birth to a child they don't want and can't afford. The amount of suffering that will cause is unimaginable.

Of course, most people who are against abortion won't hesitate to get one if they or their daughter needs it. It's always different when it's your life and dreams that are about to be destroyed.
Except of course for all the medically necessary abortions which are extremely scientifically justified.
This decision will almost certainly kill thousands of women annually.
1. The us is a failed democracy. The senate and the POTUS are incredibly not representative, thus many extremist policies get pushed contrary to popular opinion
2. The modern GOP is decidedly against states rights; they want their preferred laws and nothing else. For examples, see Trump’s plan to take away CAs ability to have its own emissions laws, the SCOTUS scrapping any ability for a state to require any burden of need to carry a gun, and the early anti-abortion laws that I believe will attempt to charge women for murder even if they get an abortion out of jurisdiction.
Their decision may be right through the lens of the initial ruling some 50 years ago, and perhaps through the acknowledgement of this being a divisive issue. However, it is at best hypocrisy of the court itself, and at worst, a devastating blow to one of the worlds worst healthcare systems.

This ruling in particular has be viewed through a wider scope, and not just the narrow lens of "people are divisive".

Their recent ruling interfering with New York states own policy on concealed carries best represents the courts hypocrisy - if a state makes a ruling and has a certain level of autonomy and power to do so, why is the SC overruling them here when its nearly just as divisive as abortion?

Additionally - the ruling is made within a very narrow scope, against common scientific and healthcare advice. It's also likely the ruling was made with strong bias and in bad favor as many of the justices themselves are not duly qualified to sit on the bench which they sit, and the ruling subsequently falls in line with a serious of previously strongly conservative rulings that defy prior precedent and the SC's own interpretation of autonomy, law, and previous rulings.

There is really no way to justify their ruling.

Polarization is a bit of mysterious character because we see a very strong, radical right wing forcing changes down to the county level in terms of gerrymandering, up to the level of presidential cabinet where federal crimes were committed without any consequence.

We don't hear of Democrats who, after losing a race complain of fraud and refuse to accept the results. That's a very Republican thing to do.

So, polarization is mysterious because there is a fast growing anti-intellectual, religious radicalism spirit and a fairly unchanged "populist" left wing. I.e. the left is mostly unchanged from 20 years ago, whereas the right has gone through a sharp and dramatic change in the same period.
Well, it was the predecessor :)
>that doesn't ultimately end geographic representation.

False.

>the end game is proportional representation

True. As I've said before, there are so many ways to do it that it's hard to unite people behind a single one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31347226

And in fact, even when I tried to make a list of all the methods in the comment above, I missed at least two:

https://electowiki.org/wiki/PLACE_FAQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_proportional_approv...
Well you said the client refetches the key, so that sounds like a network request you could observe.
Well some do it properly I suppose, but on the other hand Google Auth has 100M users and no ways to back up. All of those people are royally screwed if anything happens.
Sciter?

Of course you can run UIs for Zig programs in Sciter, just like you can do it for C or C++ programs...
2014, but useful.
Ah the upstream "we know everything and we will control everything" provider. Who doesn't maintain stable branches with security backports for their bundled dependencies, includes mystery binary dependencies, doesn't care about anything but the main two architectures, expects users to be fine with having seventeen copies of ffmpeg on their systems, will not let their tool work on a musl-based system...
Hmm, good point. I suppose you could count `0,1,1,1,1,0` as 2 occurences of 3 consecutive 1s, but we'd probably call it a single quadruple niña event instead, so I see where you're coming from now.
I wonder if this could have been influenced by the Honga Tonga volcano eruption?
> there's some kind of nationalistic mindset of "we can't embarrass Japan" that keeps them going against their nature

That kind of mindset is stereotypical of the 1940s maybe, but would be regarded as crazy today for someone just going about their work.
If you believe a fetus is a person, then you are simply incorrect.
> And despite your fear mongering, today's decision went out of it's way to say that it is not meant to apply to any of those other issues that you mentioned.

Oh you read the whole judgement?

Perhaps you missed this nugget on page 118

> For that reason, in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence and Obergefell.

Are you going to amend your comment now?
rights not already enumerated are not invented - the burden is to argue why a right should be curtailed or not recognized
The Four Rules
I deployed a Personal Handyphone Systenm (PHS)[1] network in my home complete with vintage Japanese mobile handsets.

I have a few PHS data cards I can use with vintage computers, and a few PHS telephones that are hooked up to a VoIP line so I can use them as a cordless phone.

My favorite device I own is the DoCoMo Eggy, which I helped showcase in a recent video from Cathode Ray Dude[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Handy-phone_System
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g3afPmSnbY&t=2850s
I thought that was well known. In EU printers cannot be sold "inked locked". They do lock themselves as soon as they have an opportunity to update their firmware. My Brother never had Internet access. I configured it with the Internet gateway unplugged and assigned it a static address to which I forbid Internet access. It is now running on compatible color cartridges. For black I stay on OEM ink.

It is funny that my venerable HP I had previously stopped working soon after I started using compatible ink. Since it was several years old, I was wanted to spare on ink. A gear broke soon after. Repaired the gear and something else broke. I did not do the second repair. Of course that could be a simple coïncidence, I'll never know.

BTW I would not recommend Brother either. It is very picky about paper. Have to use good quality 90g or more exclusively.
I built the brachiograph a few years ago. I wanted to show my kids (8 years old and 6 years old) cool things the could build by plugging a raspberry, some servos and readily available materials. We were impressed on how good we could reproduce one of those shopping mall cartoons of my daughter. It was a fun build.
Typescript gets compiled to Javascript anyway. What's stopping any pattern matching construct from being compiled to vanilla JS?

We already get stuff like type narrowing and generics.
Agree! I consistently vote for people who advocate for voter reform (ranked choice elections/STV and all that). It's the only way to break out of this ridiculous mess. Unfortunately I seem to be one of the only people who cares about such things.

Granted, there are deeper problems to our democracy than selecting representatives. At this point, our federal government is a puppet to the financial and corporate worlds: a marriage of industry and state. Hmm, where else did that happen?
It's not that I can't fathom the general case you describe.

A specific example:
A rape victim is obviously traumatized by being raped and does not want to carry her aggressors child to term. In that case the enemy is inside her.

It's the same in war. The single most important thing I learned from my grandfather and his time in WWII was that the individual combatants are not evil, or bad, they're following orders of bad, evil leaders. In war the poor foot soldier in front of your rifle is not the enemy, they are the same as you.

I'm not comparing enemies in war to babies. I'm pointing out the nuanced humanity of it all and highlighting synergies or disconnects in our thinking around these complex, human subjects.
As far as I can tell, Bitcoin maximalists don't like hearing that they are betting the farm on an obsolete prototype.
Here's a sorting algorithm with a similar idea of assuming a random input and applying an idea from hashing (but instead of buckets, it's robin-hood hashing): https://github.com/mlochbaum/rhsort

Unlike this post though, it's got proper comparisons against the best C implementations of other algorithms, and is aware that, as most inputs aren't entirely random, its use is very limited.
Very cool! Do note that the Wikipedia page is about the 6800 (Sixty-Eight Hundred), though, not the 68K. A generation earlier, 8-bit, far less popular in end-user applications than the 68K. Still a good processor.
no https://query.wikidata.org ?
> And for a large user base being confronted with this demand "when they just want to send a message" is frustrating.

Isn't it a conceptual framework thing, though?

People have no problem putting a topic when sending emails, and they are perfectly capable of following grouped conversations, as for example in Outlook.

Maybe it would be enough to present it as "a mail application where you can also do chat on a reply thread", to create the right expectations?
> High quality teams like the Linux kernel team and PostgreSQL, do periodically have serious security bugs that are things Rust would have caught.

Safe rust would have caught. If you had to drop into unsafe to do what they did, the serious security bugs would still have happened.
While I may agree with the study's conclusions, the first line struck me as extremely biased and unscientific:

"People who can afford luxury goods tend to buy them, and to show them off."

In my experience, that's a crap shoot - some do, some don't. It also begs the question - what's a "luxury good" vs one that lasts longer, has more utility, etc?
In that abortion is only limited to eg first 12 weeks. It’s very different to a complete ban, like in Salvador, Poland, or now some southern states. Even Afghanistan has more humane laws.
Leaving this here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_770 as someone who lived through that.

Also check out this film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_Months,_3_Weeks_and_2_Days about the reality on the ground.

Congratulations, America! Lots of states will now offer the same reproductive rights as communist Romania during the Cold War. So much freedom!

Also, some US states will now have a stricter abortion law than even some fundamentalist islamic countries. What a great day for American liberty.
We have a deaf team member. He asks for very little in the way of accommodations and performs very well at his role. At most he'll ask for CC to be turned on during a Teams Meeting when it's a 3rd party facilitator and that stuff is disabled by default.

What I picked up on early on was that he struggled during face-to-face meetings with reading lips. And I made a conscious effort to turn toward him, speak a little slower and more purposefully, and to reiterate what others said when responding to comments, which helped him tremendously.

That being said, our Org when 100% remote during the pandemic and if anything has made him a stronger member of the team because it forces more non-verbal communication.
These new Trump Justices pretty clearly put the Bible's values above the Constitution's. Especially Amy Coney Barrett. It's gonna be a rough few life sentences for those of us who think Christianity is asinine.
Every operating system requires the user to trust the operating system vendor.

Even open-source require a level of trust, at least of the contributor ecosystem, because no one has time to read every line of code that makes up a modern operating system, let alone understand the implication of every line.
> if you didn't keep a copy of your private keys backed up

Most people don't. The average person doesn't even know that's a thing since like 1 in 100 services prompts you to even do that.
Well, I hope we can find systems that avoid it being dangerous.

For example, pills can be acquired safely from outside of the jurisdiction and mailed in.

Or, many such pills have on-label uses that are not abortion related. So there could be avenues to helping people who need them for abortion purposes obtain them from reputable providers for legal purposes.

But, yes, the war on drugs has shown that trying to police drugs out of the system is incredibly difficult.

I'd just like to make sure that, once the war ramps up, we can find ways to keep the delivery of the drugs as timely, authentic, and the use of them as safe as possible.
This is not true. This change, in a single day, the lives of millions. So it caused a change in behavior of the legislative system.
It is not a let discuss this and change it so it reflects the views of the population.
Look at the planned Parenthood that had to stop working today in some states. that's not the result of just changing a comment in code.
States don’t need to be protected. States are not people. Government is of the people, by the people, for the people. Not of the states, by the states, for the states.
The ACA would probably have had equal chances. It was passed on a party line vote anyway. Besides, nothing stopped them from passing a right to an abortion otherwise.
> That's like hiring a new guy and his first action is to remove an entire technology

That isn't a good analogy. A better analogy is the security team modifying ACLs that allow them push changes. It may be a destructive change, but it's outside of scope of the security team.
It is interesting to note that while American's attitudes on many social issues like gay marriage or racial injustice have moved in a progressive direction, American's attitudes on abortion haven't budged since the 1970s.
My experience has been that software is where this is the strongest. The term YAGNI (you ain't gonna need it) is very much a precursor to this mindset, but I have found that you can go further by just trying to write software that's easy to change and update. However you should not do that by preemptive interface-design, etc, you should just focus on what actually makes it easier to swap things out.
Yeah I reject that definition and am not particularly considered with dictionary definitions when determining what is moral.

By this definition we couldn't consider any killing sanctioned by the state to be murder.
Raindrop web, mobile, and desktop apps are on Github [1], none of the repos have licenses though. It has support for Dropbox and Google Drive backups [2].

1. https://github.com/raindropio

2. https://help.raindrop.io/backups#automatic
Is sitting back and letting you political opponent steam roll you good governance?
> assault rifle

They've been banned since 1986, since "assault rifles" are full auto. Presumably you mean "assault weapon" which is fuzzy media-talk for scary weapon.
Depends on if you think your tax rates will be higher or lower than now. FWIW, I do a little of both.

Roth: invest post-tax money. Withdraws in retirement are tax free. You're betting that your taxes will be higher in the future.

Traditional: invest pre-tax money. Withdraws are considered income and are taxed. You're betting that your taxes will be lower in the future.

Employers usually match contributions to traditional accounts (never seen any match Roth). I've never seen any analysis if matches would offset any tax disadvantages.
The Victim Cloud: Gullibility in the golden age of scams
> Why is it a surprise that the Catholic Church is against abortion?

What's surprising is the American Catholic priesthood tends to go after pro-choice politicians, but not pro-death-penalty ones, despite the church seeing both as similarly objectionable. The political bent is fairly new.

The Pope has messaged that he'd rather they butt out. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/world/europe/pope-francis...
"add number two to your backlog if you work on iOS or Android"
I would...but as an iOS and Android developer, how do I know if it's a non-verified sender ID? The reason browsers can warn on these things is because of public key infrastructure, but that doesn't exist SMS phone numbers. Am I missing something?
I think it is you who fundamentally misunderstand their viewpoint. You are mistaking not agreeing with your proposed solutions with not caring about the problem. They largely believe that government welfare programs of the 1960s and 70s destroyed communities and caused a larger amount of suffering and death. They earnestly believe that a better economy will be more successful at reducing homelessness than (in their view) crack-filled government housing.

The right smears the left with similar accusations. Every time an illegal immigrants rapes/murders/etc. you'll see them accusing liberals of the same thing--not caring about children's lives, etc.
I feel it's relevant to mention this post is from 2014 (reference: how I interpreted the archive at https://danluu.com/)
There is no "pro-abortion", there is "pro-choice", as in people are free to not abort for moral or any other reasons.

I don't disagree with you, it's a complicated moral issue, I do not advocate for using abortion as birth control, but forcing women to birth and raise children when they can't afford them or even do not want them creates a lot of problems for those children down the line.

Mindlessly breeding people into poverty is no more humane than aborting a clump of cells.
Aha, an 8-bit CPU post that isn't about the 6502 or Z-80!
> the debate is fundamentally about answering "when does human life start?"

I disagree.

I think the more important question is, who should have the power of imprisoning people, on the basis of their interpretations of when life starts.

I don’t think the criminal justice system is equipped to make that determination, and therefore I think all abortion should be blanket legalized.

The law needs plainly interoperable rules, and I don’t see a rule that works other than “you are a person at birth”.
oh this is beautiful
C++ can't do things today that Smalltalk and CLOS were able to do in the 1980s already; how is it not lagging behind in OOP? Hell, companies like Trolltech had to extend C++ for their own purposes to provide just a subset of the extra features (relative to standard C++) that had already been available in environments like Smalltalk or CLOS.
If you want the cynical lawyer’s answer, it is simple. Wickard, as a ruling, allows the government more power and the ability to better project that power via the courts and legislature. Roe is a side-show for the government. The ability for someone to have a pregnancy terminated does nothing systemic to enhance the government’s ability to project power in a way which enhances the government. Which is why the parties will fight over abortion rights, but would never dream of trying to squash the government’s ability to regulate what a person does with material goods a la Wickard.
Yep I misread your comment. My apologies.
Define "productive output".
That's hardly a defense of gerrymandering. If anything, it shows that fixing gerrymandering should be an issue anyone can get behind.
I meant what ML model or variety of ML model. Is it using Tacotron2? Old concatenative TTS? Something else?
Sure, that's human nature. One cannot satisfy everyone simultaneously short of having them live in simulated environments.
> the people advocating for outlawing abortion are also convinced it's a rights issue: the rights of the unborn child.

This is a nice fiction but it doesn't hold up to any level of scrutiny most of the time. Largely the "pro-life" people also believe in things like self-defense laws and the castle doctrine, which require that you not believe anyone has a real right to life.

Unless you think they'd all be ok with a squatter coming into their house and demanding food and that they wouldn't use their guns on them. But they think a mother should be required to literally risk her life in order to support a being she may not have chosen to create.

You don't need to give the benefit of the doubt here. You don't need to believe disingenuous arguments just because people say they're what they mean. Dig a little deeper and understand what they really believe: women with unwanted pregnancies deserve to have it carried out against their will because they think they've sinned.
This all seems to support abortion in most cases. Am I misinterpreting?