skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's wise to say something is majority or minority view. I'm not talking about this issue specifically, but social/political issues in general.

Certain biases are amplified while other biases are kept hidden. There is the bias of the main stream media to promote a certain agenda, there is a bias in the social media algorithms that tend to promote certain view points and hide others. There is the issue where corporations pander to what they believe will get them social credits, or at least stop them from getting canceled. There is the issue where a group of people with certain viewpoints are extremely vocal compared to the opposing group.

There was/is a giant shitshow with the whole thing surrounding Elon buying Twitter. A bunch of people came out and said that social media needs to be regulated, that free speech is under attack...just from the simple fact that Elon was going to buy Twitter. This alone tells me that one side controls the allowed narrative on these platforms. It's not that free speech was under attack, it's that THEIR speech was under attack, because they hold the monopoly on controlling the narrative.

You have to toe the line, or face social excommunication.

This all gives the impression that something is a majority view, when in fact the view is just amplified to make it seem like the majority view. This is a brilliant strategy for a group that wants to push an agenda, because social proof is a powerful way to get people to agree with you. Group consensus is a powerful tool. People don't want to be in the "outcast group" they want to be with all the cool kids.
The MCH2022 badge will have a (downsized) version of DOOM running on the ice40 FPGA (implementing a RISK-V core) and a RP2040 (just for reading the buttons).
the simplest I know of is Complex{Rational{Int}}. works in Julia, breaks in python.
It’s not a big app. I spent like 50+ hours making the app. So charging thousands is out of their budget.
You think teens didn’t have access to sex in every generation before ours?
The reason we have to force states into the 21st century is because they are holding the cities hostage. Local government only works if you keep going all the way down.

If Austin can't make abortion legal, Texas can't make it illegal.
Is nothing sacred any more? The death of artisan coffee
Interesting but i wish there was more depth to it.
From the article:
>there remains a vital commercial subsphere in the artworld
The above is offered in opposition to the para-academic side of the art world.
However, that sentence does a lot of heavy lifting. There are well known issues with money laundering in the art world, tax evasion, speculation etc...
Given that the commercial side of art may notbe a proper market, i am not sure that it is vital in the sense of bringing vitality to the art world.
Another difference is between suburbian adult lives and high-desity city adult lives. Compare an adult life in NYC or Chicago (or many European cities) and those people have easier access to visit with friends, stay out after work, see exhibits, try new restaurants. Suburban adults go home and tend to stay home.

Also having children changes things quite a bit for all adults.

I wish this article was longer.
What if a woman takes a drug that causes her to miscarry?
Yes, that was a giant mistake. But you have to keep in mind that there was already a deal with Prentice-Hall at that point and re-negotiating that to open sourcing it may well have been prohibitively costly for Tanenbaum / VU.
Ha ha, is that a back-handed compliment?

I read:

"If there is money to be made, ___gambling___ will live on in some form."

Or fill in the blank with any other vice.
Yes I really think the no compromise, extremist positions are the minorities, but they get all the attention and mask the fact that Americans would largely agree on middle grounds, similar to European laws.
I don’t live in America so I can’t say if GP is right or not, but I don’t think GP is saying those aren’t benefits, just that those benefits are given out to everyone regardless of taking responsibility, so there’s no incentive for anyone to do so.

At least that’s how I read it.
Well, it's also not like Boeing didn't have some major engineering f*ups in recent years, but we're going on a tangent here.
They’re both actively researched but also both have a body of evidence supporting their effectiveness.

If your only caveat is does not work for 100% of people, I think you’d have to exclude almost all therapies, drugs, techniques, etc.

And, it’s free. To learn many great books are available for free.

Or go on a retreat to practice under an instructor. If you can’t afford the retreat fee, it can likely be reduced or free. You will marvel at walking away at the end feeling no pressure to buy or do anything.
I’ve been doing this for months.

Sometimes it’s helpful, but it seems more and more like I’m using it as a tool to suppress my worries and control my thoughts, which feels bad and leads to a lot of internal conflict.

I can’t understand what people mean with “let your thoughts float by”. For me, noticing them is synonymous with interrupting them, and it feels like I’m suppressing them most of the time.
I think this article clearly shows that the effort of handling a monorepo is way higher.

If you have a good process for external dependencies you can apply that to internal. If you don't have a good process for external dependencies a monorepo won't help (unless you make all your dependencies internal, which is even more expensive)
It's really a rights issue. A woman's right to body autonomy vs the right to life of a fertilized egg.

Majority rule doesn't work if 51% think slavery is okay. =(

These extremists don't want exceptions for rape and incest. And make it a felony to seek an abortion. The fucking Taliban are nodding and taking notes.

And Iowa only recently patched the loop hole that gave a rapist parental rights.
What does this mean? What actionable steps would one take to "force the vendor to remove it"?
Have you looked at the subs they're talking about? They're sharing collections of zip folders of girls openly advertised as as young as 13, they're stalking women via social media sending descriptions of their potential rape to their family, they're robbing women's houses and sharing their stolen belongings, they're flashing, groping and ejaculating on women in public and filming it for upvotes.

Call it morality police if you want but it's targeted sexual violence against minors and women who don't consent. I guess your morality and mine don't align. If I'm in the "morality minority" on this one then that's very sad and I would encourage yourself and other members of "morality majority" to reflect on how women are treated in your society.

Out of interest, would you mind sharing your Facebook or Instagram profile here, so that someone could share you pictures on a subreddit for rape and murder fantasy about you, linking back to the account? It's only fantasy right, would be a shame of the morality police ruined the fun.
To be clear I am not talking about buying pencils, and I don’t disagree bureaucratic reform is badly needed in many institutions (which is the opposite of privatization). Unfortunately kicking the bad apples out is becoming increasingly more difficult in our hyper-individualistic culture where every parent views their kid as an extension of themself, and administrators care more about chasing statistics than real outcomes. But I digress.

The solution that follows from your story is not that poverty breeds innovation/grit or whatever. It’s easy to come up with counter examples to this (affect of war and depressions on educational outcomes). The thing that your wife’s classmates had was hope. Hope that if they worked hard enough they would be successful.

For many reasons, kids growing up in certain areas have very little reason for hope. And this is not irrational thinking: there parents likely are one of the millions of people left behind by the neoliberal era or they are part of a permanent underclass of society. This is what we need to address.

And yes every kid should have a pencil. And not have to worry about breathing in Asbestos. If the answer was just cut funding to bad schools, no child left behind would’ve been a success (narrator: it was not a success).
Can I import my ff bookmarks to it?
Never underestimate the logical contortions of religions. For centuries the Catholic Church stance was, dead non-baptized, children and babies, would be denied Heaven.

"Catholic Church buries limbo after centuries":
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-limbo-idUSL202872162...
Why would you quietly read books at Barnes and Noble, rather than your local library? They will even let you borrow the books.

As for a simple search term: free museums in <geographic area of interest> if you are willing to drive there, 5-10usd shouldn't make a difference and you will have lots more options.
> at least in 2008 we weren’t subjected to a barrage of defensive Twitter antics from the bankers asleep at the wheel.

We were subjected to similar rhetoric from Enron execs as that house of cards crumbled[0]. Refusing to face reality in the face of financial calamity is the only rational choice when you are involved in a confidence scam, so we shouldn't be surprised at the Crypto community's recent behavior.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/16/business/enron-s-many-str...
> it just hides who owns the message data object though, no ? The problem is still here.

Erlang messages have a semantic as-if there are copied. (Because that's the only way to do it over a network, and Erlang wants to be agnostic over whether two 'processes' are on the same machine or not.)

Erlang doesn't need to worry too much about ownership, because it has a garbage collector.

If you want to explicitly control which thread uses malloc/free, then Erlang isn't at the right level of language in this case.
Then it'll depend on the intent.
I think the difference is that in Julia multiple dispatch is the main paradigm to structure code (together with very aggressive devirtualization/specialization/compilation). That enables quite amazing things. Other languages have multiple dispatch as well, but it is not foundational to the ecosystem in them. They lack the "magic" but they also have lower propensity for the interface mismatch bugs described through these two threads.
I’m not a therapist, but OP sounds depressed (as in clinically). Might be worth talking to a therapist or psych.

I feel for them. I don’t fully understand, but I do feel for them.
I was ew'ing at capitalized keywords, whether or not they're required. I'll be as quick as I like, thanks.
> If you draw the distinction between Julia the language and Julia the ecosystem

Language and ecosystem are so intertwined that I almost never do this. Maybe when there are multiple well developed ecosystems, but when there’s only one, then it and the language are inseparable to me (for any language, not just Julia).
Yeah, this is a good point. I still have a lot of friends from my youth that are pretty serious southern baptists/calvinists, and many of them genuinely believe that aborted babies may actually go to hell. They understand it's a strange thing to say, often admitting they could be wrong, but I suppose it's a more logically sealed version of their beliefs, even if it seems strange.
Depends on when you mean by “used to be” but I was a teenager in the early 90s and there was definitely no such gate on availability back then. In fact it was almost the opposite (super mature, responsible kids weren’t getting any as far as I know).

Of course going back to the 60s “free love” was a major thing. Maybe you’re referring to some time before that?

Edit: ah I see, 1940s in especially conservative parts of Europe. That I have no idea about.
What’s the logic behind comparing an online discussion board with random user-moderated subreddits to a financial institution?

I’ve been using Reddit since 2010 without issues, behaving poorly enough to get permabanned (which is different than being banned from a subreddit) is serious. There’s a story being left out here.
Shouldn't we consider at least sperm to be alive? At least it can move semi-autonomously. Which to me kinda look like being alive. By at least some level of definition of life. Thus life exist before fertilization.
Oh, argument over I guess.

You don't get to play the fallacy card when you start off stating your premises is irrefutable. All you've manage to argue here is "it's murder because I say so."
Capitalism is a system that gives humans agency it ain't an utopia. All of those things can be documented from the beginning of life on Earth. As a fact, ecological damage is even worse under Soviet Union. Blaming capitalism is a vague argument that says more about the author political ideology than of the many complex underlying causes.
>I still think the long tail of creators and artists have more influence in the society than they had in the 2000s and before.

Yes, even if discovery of things in the long tail, much less creators profiting from it, is difficult, it's hard to accept the claim that it's more fringe today than it was 25 years ago when it might not have been created at all or would only have been shared with a small, local audience.
I gave up anonymity. I just learned to lean into taking control of my ID. Some time ago, I realized that there's no way for me to participate online, without things being attributed to me.

I learned this, by setting up a Disqus ID. I wanted to comment on a blog post, and started to set up an account.

After I started the process, it came back, with a list of random posts, from around the Internet (and some, very old), and said "Are these yours? If so, would you like to associate them with your account?"

I freaked. Many of them were outright troll comments (I was not always the haloed saint that you see before you) that I had sworn were done anonymously. They came from many different places (including DejaNews). I have no idea how Disqus found them.

Every single one of them was mine. Many, were ones that I had sworn were dead and buried in a deep grave in the mountains.

Needless to say, I do not have a Disqus ID.

Being non-anonymous means that I need to behave myself, online. I come across as a bit of a stuffy bore, but I suspect my IRL persona is that way, as well.

That's OK.
Wait a minute. What did the OP say this time that is dishonest?

I'm totally aware that vegans consistently invade this kind of thread on HN to promulgate their vegan propaganda, like little prophets of malnutrition sent into the world by a god of famine, but this time, what was the lie? I can't see it.

As far as I can tell it's true that meat production and consumption is very unevenly distributed: the USA and Argentina produce almost double as much beeef as anybody else:

https://ourworldindata.org/meat-production#beef-and-buffalo-...

https://www.mekkographics.com/meat-consumption-by-country-an...
PTSD? Have you considered MDMA, ketamine or Ayahuasca? Nitrous Oxide is also said to work on the same “glutamate pathway” and may also have some therapeutic effect. You’d need food safe stuff though like you find in whipped cream, not from a car’s nitrous bottle.
The issue of abortion is one of many great examples of both sides talking (very loudly) past one another.
What's ugly here is calling your peers names just to defend a huge corporations PR.
I don't know what I expected but this short text, not even an article or a rant, left me completely unsatisfied. Why bother writing, let alone promoting on HN, when you don't have anything to say.

In my frustration, I opened the front page and it's even worse.
In a nutshell: an iterative improvement on the UNIX concept of everything is a file. In UNIX everything is a file unless it isn't (a device, for instance, which just looks like a file but does not behave as such), in plan 9 that is so cleanly implemented that you can run one window manager inside another (and if you want while using the CPU resources of yet another machine) without losing stride.
I think the main argument that Dawkins wanted to make is that many pro-choice arguments are completely missing the point and don't engage with the pro-life arguments at all, rather than try to engage with all pro-life arguments, and do a full exploration of them.
Whenever I hear the word "Private" I immediately check my gun. There is nothing 'private' about reddit moderation, especially on a large sub like atheism (if i remember correctly, I haven't visited that cesspool since 2019). Power mods control tens of subs and cross-enforce their delusions and purity tests across them all, and reddit admins are obviously, pathetically, in league with them, always with the asymmetric tolerance and double standards. ("oh, they say 'kill all men' on female dating strategy? That's just their freedom of speech sweety. Now please remove your anti feminism post, it's harmful and ban worthy, fReEDoM oF SpEEcH dOESn'T MeAn FreeDOm FroM ConSeQuEnCEs.")

You have to stop looking at it from the ridiculous and childish private\public perspective and start looking at it in terms of right to exit and availability of alternatives. If a small, 1000 km^2, irrelevant country bans something, that's not a big problem because the residents can easily move out or otherwise subvert the ban. If a giant corporation with monopolistic control of its niche bans a thing and treats certain users unfairly, that's a much more serious violation of free speech. It's all about how easily you can get alternatives, once you reach a certain usage/alternatives ratio, you don't have the right to be "Private", you must be forced to be fair.

The public\private thing is a sort of "Stories for Children" heuristic that used to approximate the truer underlying dynamics somewhat decently, before bad faith authoritarian fan boys milked it into oblivion with cliché "Just build your own X bro" mindless slogans. The original idea being that 'public' things are usually things like states, courts, police forces and other societal structures that are usually very difficult to exit or be free of. While 'private' things are (the cliché example goes) things like gas stations or coffee shops, things you can easily exit and replace. The heuristic obviously breaks down whenever the private entity in question is $GIANT inc.
I see your name in like the sixth Google result on page 1.

You can't "put the genie back in the bottle". It's out there, the Internet remembers forever.
No people to it if plan be is _easy_ not easily accessible.

Abortion is _never_ easy.

Even if it is easy accessible.

It's such a typical "I have no idea about the topic but insist on pretending I do argument".

Also we did advertise how safe airbacks are in the past, it didn't make people drive more reckless as people generally do not balance risks and gains when they decide to drive fast.

It's bs like saying because there is a hospital close by you are less care full with taking you heart medicine.
Well, it's inter-operable between mobile phones. But not between arbitrary devices in general. E-Mail is probably the closest to that ideal?

> If you send a message from iMessage to someone with Android it goes via SMS.

Interesting. I think there are some Android messaging apps that also fall back to SMS, but it's not a behaviour I would find particularly useful.
Fat’s Function as Protector: Insulation Against Emotional Distress
I actually felt a little bad when I electrified my son's play kitchen to add lights and went for an Arduino Nano. That's a bunch of lights along with some programming (microwave timer and state machine, dimming when idle, undimming upon any input, PWM brightness control for the burners) running on a 16 MHz µC, which is most likely overkill for that. On the other hand it was cheap and programming it was accessible.
> As an added bonus, that would complicate further Russian invasions in the future, as the Russian army still heavily relies on rail for its logistics.

To deter further invasions, they could bomb/destroy entry points from Russia, Belarus and Crimea/Donbass as well. It would be quite effective, but deter commerce with the separatist regions. The Poroshenko government bought coal from Donbass after 2014, practically sponsoring the separatists.
> Asking people to maintain total anonymity always, with any
> slips punishable by permanent publication of that PII, might
> be the current status quo, but is not where we as society
> want to head.

‘Sea,’ cried Canute, ‘I command you to come no farther! Waves,
stop your rolling, and do not dare to touch my feet!’
Imagine getting downvoted for the radical opinion that females aren’t complete idiots when it comes to what an abortion involves
That doesn't even work, I'm fully doxxed here and in other places and it has no idea what my name is.

Even for OP it doesn't work, it just guesses "H* Boppre" (with a different name liks Hans, Horatio, etc. every time) which just so happens to be close enough to their actual name because their nickname is their real surname.
If you have an issue handling tech debt due to PMs, you'll have that problem with other tech debt too; typically solved by having a better process to handle it
One you can’t leave
Why is this a problem, exactly?

1. We already produce way more food than the entire world can eat, even if it were distributed equally

2. When population begins butting up against the limits of food production, demand for cheaper plant based food will rise. Most will be unable to afford meat, making the meat market naturally shrink itself for economic reasons. Likewise if meat becomes too expensive due to resource constraints.

3. At the point where population exceeds food supply, there will be at worst 1 generation of starvation, and then population will stabilize to have enough food

3a. Infinite growth of the population is not sustainable or desirable. Even if meat were banned, this same story will eventually happen again with any vegetable that is less calorie efficient to grow. Do we want 30 billion people eating literally one food, or 25 billion eating a varied, though less land efficient diet? At some point, the world will have to accept that there isn't enough food to have 3 children. At that point, when the 2 child policy is global, what kind of diet should be possible? We can stretch it so that we're all eating literally one crop and there's absolutely nothing more we can do to feed the world, but hopefully we stop breeding a bit earlier than that, to end with one where people can still enjoy meat.
>...Every attempt to exert pressure has put the west in a less favourable position.

There's a largest war started by russia (8 years ago!) and going on in the middle of Europe with a threat of use of nuclear weapons.

As evident by now, russia is uncapable of maintaining any trustworthy agreements with any other nation, let alone its neighbors. It openly laughs at any civilized rule of law principles and considers this a weakness.

It may not seem that way on a distance, but this war is against the West, against its values, its societies, and its economies. The whole world already feels the blows.

Russia is increasingly acting as a rabid dog. The 'anti-russian sentiment' is a product of its own making, not for the first time in its imperial history.

How does one deal with a rabid dog that brought itself to your yard? Asking the dog to deescalate? Abandoning your yard? Letting the dog into the house?

This dog is driven by a violent agony and the violence will eventually tear it apart. But meanwhile someone needs to fend it off and contain.

Ukraine so far is fending the rabid russia with its own flesh and blood.

The war is on. Can the world exert more pressure? Not dragging feet with delivering the offered weapons. Not diluting the sanctions. Not agreeing to buy the stolen grains or harboring the russian assets. Consolidating and be decisive against the aggressor instead of making this Yankees' business or, worse, let the rabies take over Ukraine...
Then I'll make it really simple for you.

Human life begins at conception. Deliberately killing other humans is murder. Killing a human being in the womb is thus murder.