skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After a few more leading attempts, I managed to give this prompt at https://beta.openai.com/playground:

What problem does the following pseudocode have?

def some_worker
if disabled_via_feature_flag
logger.info("skipping some_worker")
some_potentially_hazardous_method_call()

And receive this response:

The problem with this pseudocode is that there is no "end" keyword to close off the "if" statement. This means that the code after " some_potentially_hazardous_method_call()" will always be executed, even if the "disabled_via_feature_flag" condition is true.

And that's with a GPT3 without any special fine tuning. Of course, the name `some_potentially_hazardous_method_call` is pretty leading in itself. I rewrote the prompt slightly more realistically, as:

What problem does the following code have?

def optionally_do_work():
if disabling_flag:
logger.info("skipping the work due to flag")
do_work()

and received:

The problem is that the code will still try to do the work, even if the flag is set.

This does seem like a pretty trivial easier-than-fizzbuzz question to be asking, though, since it's so encapsulated.
Its true. The only lack of empathy is by those that wish to tell a women what they can do with their body because they hate women.
Its really simple. Want an abortion? Cool. Don't want an abortion? Cool. Anything else is none of your business!
Interesting that GOP confidence is down as well (since 2020)
Curious what you imply by readers being Indian Immigrant. Ironically, the abortion rights in India now are far more favorable for women than the US even though India is very religious and economically backward. Indian society has come to the conclusion that unwanted pregnancies burden women disproportionately and they should have the right to decide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_India
It's also very weird that the same type of people who normally talk about corporations/governments covering up pollutants do not talk about how many people could die from a potential lab leak.
“What happened to it” - as far as I can tell it has passed into common acknowledgement.
Its misleading because he doesn't like it
Yeah its a terrible way to lose weight, that's why stickies on places like bodybuilding forums encourage a moderate deficit plus exercise to maintain bone and organ health (1). But it goes to show that with a deficit you will shed weight. There is no special sauce in individual metabolism that makes energy from nothing at the end of the day. Losing weight is a matter of thermodynamics.

1. https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=165843261
8050 or 8051?
Personally I'm pro-abortion but I think it's trickier than you say. Evicting a living entity, even for people who are pretty progressive, is usually seen as a delicate subject. To me evicting an entity is a lot trickier subject than merely abandoning it, and the points against using force to evict that entity could have merit. Although we are both in agreement that you can safely abandon the life you created without any moral obligation.

Personally I see no moral difference between abandoning life before or after birth. Neither wrong, but abandoning before birth requires a forceful eviction.

>The only person it is tricky for is the mother, who is the only person in the universe whos opinion matters on abortion, and we must abide by the decisions of the individual.

I mean to frame it as only involved life as the mother I think is disingenuous. Perhaps the fetus is not viable but it has to be at least considered in this equation, even if only to decide offspring has no rights to compel their parent to keep them alive.
Distinguishing between security and privacy is important, because otherwise you get a bunch of uninformed conspiracists who insist that hardening a machine involves installing Tor; or that using Google is bad, in a topic about using cryptographic signatures.
In fact the ruling relies, for purposes of establishing that restrictions on abortion are an established part of the American tradition, on pointing to the existence of a bunch of state abortion laws that existed in the 1860s, which were all ruled unconstitutional in Roe.

It's effectively saying 'the existence of state laws that attempt to restrict a right, even ones which have been rule unconstitutional, is itself evidence that it's okay for states to impose restrictions on constitutional rights.'

Which seems like a very odd argument to make the day after striking down a 100 year old NY State law restricting gun carry rights on the basis that there's no evidence of a long tradition of such restrictions being passed by states.
Sure, but no state to my knowledge has banned all contraceptives, even though they already could so even in the hypothetical states would make them legal.
I can't agree that being part of a group, especially one so large and diverse, gives you purchase to make sweeping generalizations.
Giant sunspot doubled in size in 24 hours, and it's pointing right at Earth
They didn't give Trump the election. They were quite open about the anger at the courts at the time
Look up JOBS act (https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/jobs-act.shtml)
With a strong business plan, this could be a viable and great starting point.
Good luck!
Sex inherently has the risk of pregnancy no?
Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? Part II
For the same purposes, I use a script I wrote that can be thought of as a simple self hosted FF Send alternative.

Allows you to easily upload files to your server from a web interface and share them.

It's a single PHP script you chuck on a server (shared hosting or virtual private or homelab): https://github.com/aaviator42/izi
Discussion of Part I: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31682361
It's a loss of bodily autonomy because, well, that's what bodily autonomy is. The government is compelling you to use (and risk) your body for a particular purpose.

That's a separate question from whether that loss of bodily autonomy is justified.

> Women choose to have sex consensually, no?

Well, yes, sometimes. Maybe you could be more explicit about how you think that justifies the loss of bodily autonomy?

For example, maybe you have a principle like "If you played a necessary role in the creation of a person, then you can be compelled to use your body to support their life." Do you think fathers should be compelled to donate blood or organs to their offspring?
"We're pro-life." It's like, well what does that make me? You know what I mean? You're so pro-life! You're so pro-life, do me a fucking favor. Don't block med clinics, okay? Lock arms, and block cemeteries. Let's see how fucking committed you are to this premise. "She can't come in." "She's ninety-six, she was hit by a bus!" "There's options!" "What, do we got to have her stuffed? What are you talking about, she's dead!" "We're pro-life, get her out of that casket! Get her out! She's not going, we're pro-life people. There'll be no death on this planet."

-- Bill Hicks, 1993
Will definitely give it a shot, very polished looking. Always a treat to see Mac apps like that.
> Employers usually match contributions to traditional accounts (never seen any match Roth).

Employer matches must go to tax deferred, but IIRC, my last employer would match either Roth or traditional. They also had an after tax 401k with available automatic conversion to Roth (sometimes called a mega backdoor), which let me get a pretty good amount of Roth contributions.
What a travesty! What these pro life nuts don't understand is that if I can't have sex without consequences, my Friday nights will be ruined! A woman should have the right to choose whether or not to sleep with whoever and whenever! Support the right to choose!
This seems to be folk wisdom, but is it supported by any actual data?
> one of the few things I liked about China as well, which is similar int his aspect, people have no problem to say harsh truth

That explains the daily mass protests I see on TV in Shanghai and Beijing about slave labor. Or all the discussion about the Tiananmen Square protests. Or all those T-Shirt vendors with shirts that have the Tank Guy pic or Free Hong Kong slogans.
Given that I was not in the group, I can't provide any great detail. It sounded like people entered extremely vague sentence fragments.
Great example!!
Really good point, but why stop there? Why not individual counties, or individual townships, or individual neighborhoods, or gasp individual people?
If you hurry up maybe you can manage to raise in a non-down market.

The best thing you can do is to speed up raising operations and also target new funds with lots of enthusiasm still. It's the same phenomenon everywhere, only the very elite people and entities can afford to sit out and not play, if you are a new VC fund you have to play even in a bear market, matter of fact it's an opportunity because the bear is reducing competition downstream as the bigger and elite funds sit this one out because their priority is survival not swinging at the fences.
>"as long as contraception is legal"

Contraception can and does fail.

>"..as if women spontaneously get pregnant against their will and are forced to care for the baby"

I would refrain from judgement at late stages of pregnancy but early on it is not your business what they do. Mind your own business and do not stick nose where it does not belong.

Also if you are so pro life why not to go and right away imprison every official whose action (like sending people to war when not directly attacked) cause death.
Super interesting. I've been getting increasingly intense phishing stuff related to citi bank credentials (my account was hacked verify my credentials on shady citi site) as well as AT&T bill being paid (collect my prize for paying my bill).

They haven't managed to hijack an actual sender though, and their domain names still look slightly shady because they're things like citi01.

They AT&T one is html wrapped so I can't even click the link without seeing what it is (and don't want to because maybe there is some exploit that launches an app that does something? Am I too paranoid?)
>having full text of legislation that can be parsed by computers can be a gamechanger.

https://www.congress.gov/

for example:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/435...
> That is a complete failure and it just took one crypto crash.

Disclosure: I hold virtually no crypto (a few thousand XRP)

As I watch this show from the sidelines, I wonder if the latest crash (and no doubt future crashes) isn't exactly the force needed to distribute crypto more widely into more hands, normalizing to some roughly steady state value. After several swings of the pendulum, you end up at some more or less stable value with many more users, making actual marketetplace purchases with crypto more ubiquitous. I guess time will tell, eh?
Most Taiwanese do not see themselves as Chinese.

> Republic of China

Most Taiwanese would love to change that name, but China is threating war if they do.
Like the noble avocado, named after its likeness, a ballsack. [1]

The word 'avocado' is an anglicization of the Nahuatl name for the fruit, āhuacatl, which translates directly to 'testicle.'

[1] https://www.rd.com/article/avocado-origin/
> That's an extremely strong statement. It's the kind of thing someone firmly ensconced in a bubble would say. Is what you say true, or do you just lack the imagination or empathy to think of one?

All this says is: "What you are saying could or could not be true."

Why write so much to say so little?

If you think they're "ensconced in a bubble", say it. If you think they "lack ... imagination" or empathy", then say it.

Don't do this motte and bailey stuff of: "have you considered that you sounds like someone who's wrong?"
Here are two "damning" articles about the lab leak theory, for some reason these articles were not widely seen but highly recommend them if you are searching for the truth around the origin of covid:

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-gra...

and:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/the-virus-hunting-no...
I’m not talking about absolute truth. I am pointing my finger at those “scientists” that falsify or cherry-pick data sets, do not publish results that contradict their organization’s agenda, and similarly commit flagrant acts of dishonesty.
The first SMS from github is origin bound, it cannot be used for phishing: https://wicg.github.io/sms-one-time-codes/
My argument is that no autonomy is lost since the potential consequences of the actions are known beforehand.

No more or less than eating certain foods or consuming certain beverages.
FreeBSD Journal – 20022/05-06 – Disaster Recovery
Zachtronics' games have given me so much joy over the years, very sad to hear this. My favourite of the bunch is probably EXAPUNKS, but Shenzhen I/O is also wonderful. I was also surprisingly taken by Eliza, given how different it is from the rest. Thank you Zach!
It’s been nearly 20 years. I’d love to read a followup. Was it all worth it?
Ok, but move to Los Angeles and re-try that experiment.

In some environments here, I’d argue being spotted wearing a Rolex in a non-business context would get you laughed out of the room by those wearing the latest YSL shoes, Givenchy pants, and Botega Veneta belts. Sounds bizarre, right?

Like all cultural phenomenons, fashion and the status that goes along with is absolutely regional, and very much dependent on which communities you associate with.
PDF: https://freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Jou...
I'm not sure what you mean when you say "burner phone". I know for a fact that you can get a regular prepaid plan from T-Mobile and pay for it cash, no IDs; that fits the "burner phone" requirements for me. Do you mean that every prepaid plan uses that range of numbers?
BTC is official in El Salvador.
It's not terribly surprising. The biggest drop was among Democrats and (probably Democratic-leaning) independents, and this court isn't very friendly to their ideological priorities.

With modern polarization, "confidence" actually seems to mean "confidence I'll get the result I want from it" (e.g. how ideologically aligned it is to me).
I don't see the appeal of the bookmark manager either. I use Joplin's webclipper with tags and reference manager (Zotero) for academic work.
My friend, two things can be true at the same time. The religious right can have a strategy to end abortion for their own reasons and the 14th amendment can be an essential right that must be protected.
I meant how we were dealing with COVID-19 as it spread, not future consequences which I agree do matter.

Once we identified and sequenced the virus, knowing the origin wasn't going to change how many people were on ventilators in hospitals.
The headline is accurate, the Democrats and independents are not into the religion-related rulings and the Republicans are not into the Supreme Court not reinstating their king after he lost the election. Everyone is disappointed.
The lab-leak hypothesis has been suppressed because it is a politically unauthorized thought.

If the hypothesis is investigated and proven true, powerful people stand to face justice, which is of course unacceptable to these very people, and so the idea has been banned by way of media silence and by way of association with other unauthorized politics, i.e. with those who are right of center.
I don't think "lame" is an appropriate slur. Especially as John Maclean, a paraplegic, swam the Channel back in 1998.

What other regularly schedule commercial services have there been? The last airship service probably stopped in the 1930s.

Helicopter passenger (scheduled, not charter) was a thing in the 1960s and 1970s, but the closest I've found to the Channel was a Penzance/Scillies route from the 1970s at https://www.ashpole.org.uk/british-airways-helicopters-penza... . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_helicopter_airlines doesn't list any current services.
NASA puts out a new video called "What's up" at the start of every month with all the interesting, predicted events for stargazing. They post them to both Twitter [0] and YouTube [1] as well as on their Skywatching page [2], the latter of which is a great resource with daily guides. It's a fun start-of-the-month ritual for me to check out the latest events and add them to my personal calendar.

For actual notifications, most stargazing apps probably have some sort of news feed or notification system. I can't recommend a specific one but a quick Google search tells me Star Walk 2 [3] seems to support push notifications

[0] https://twitter.com/NASAJPL/status/1532030924489039877
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpgiZJm7szg
[2] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/skywatching/home/
[3] https://starwalk.space/en/tutorials/how-can-i-get-notified-a...
Only 27% think Roe should be overturned. Roe only protected first 3 months (first trimester) except in extreme cases. Your statistics do not support Roe being overturned.
Rights has a very specific meaning in the US legal system. Abortion is not listed as a right in the Constitution, and it therefore is not a federal right.

We can argue that it should be, but now we're talking about an ammendment, which is legally necessary and the real conversation the nation should be having.

*I don't think it could ever qualify as a right. Rights are negative, not positive. You could not guarantee the right to an abortion because now you're guaranteeing someone to the right to have someone else do work for them. Instead, it would need to be enumerated as a negative right, meaning that there would be federal protection against the outlawing of abortions.
Buck vs Bell is a fucking travesty. You consider it acceptable that the State can sterilize 'feeble minds' because an old man in 1927 said it was cool?

How about the realization that the law is an ass, and we need to stand up for human rights?
> "in some cases, transacting against the law is a good thing"

> "as a victim of ransomware, it is very much not a good thing"

Blatantly fallacious argument, the point isn't to defend ransomware, but to defend other examples of illegality that are justified.
So, more weird insinuation.

Got it.
IE had over 70% marketshare through 2005. In 2002, right after IE 6 was released, it was 85%. Everything else was in the weeds. https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/neil.the.analyst/viz/...
The Space Shuttle Main Engine built by Rocketdyne uses redundant M68000 processor to control the engine. I would say I was lucky to have chance to work on a system that has a great function such as SSME
Why do you believe I’m pro life?
> But just as you have no obligation to allow someone into your home (and are in fact perfectly within your rights to murder them if they refuse to leave), you have no obligation to grow another person inside your own body.

I find this an interesting argument, but I have to note the difference: the person in your home is willingly violating your space. The fetus is not willingly in your body, and is given no chance whatsoever to leave without being harmed.

So I don't find personhood irrelevant here, and I think the nuance still applies.

> There are only fallacies employed by people who desperately want to uphold some perceived status quo from time immemorial.

So for you, rights begin at birth? I'm not judging, I'm trying to assess your solid position.

> It's also important to note that there isn't even any reason to believe ancient Christians considered abortion forbidden or immoral. This is a much more modern invention, one given steam by the desire to oppose sexual liberation.

I believe this to be irrelevant to the discussion. I think we've already determined that modern anti-abortion Christians are, as a group, often hypocritical. But the discussion has diverged from them and is now about when rights are assigned.
My feeling is that until a fetus is able to survive outside of the womb, it is dependent on the women's body. It feeds off of it. It takes her nutrients, her oxygen, her energy. It alters her body to accommodate itself. Pregnancy is a great and special sacrifice, and it must be one made willingly.

At any point, prior to where the fetus could be viable without its mother, the mother should have every right to terminate that pregnancy for literally any reason at all. Anything less would deny women their right to have control of their own bodies and lives.

Again, plenty of people end up pregnant against their will. Others will have fully intended to have a child, but their circumstances suddenly changed. It needn't always be due to some medical necessity. As long as the mother's body is needed to sustain the life of the child, that life is subject to her whims. Her house. Her rules. The moment it can be removed and sustained without her, she should no longer have the right to abort it, only to surrender it.
For sure, the second factor is supposed to be "something you own" and phone numbers are not that.
Housing Affordability Is an American Crisis
Why would anyone want to buy food with crypto anyway? Can’t understand that.

It is not faster.
It is not cheaper to transfer.
It is not even as anonymous as cash I’d say.

I can see why would someone buy stuff online using crypto but this does not make much sense.
Knowing where the virus is, how it spreads, and its genetic sequence are of course important. But I don't think CNN running segments about whether it came from a lab or a bat in 2020-2021 would have helped with any of those points.
I think I've spent £30.80 on Alfred during the last 11 years, so I'm doing less than three quid a year. It's basically one of the first things I always install on a new Mac. Never needed a separate clipboard manager because of it either.
I'll compromise. Justices can miscegenate or plot to overthrow an election, but not both.
Do you believe prison in general to be acceptable? Why or why not?
Or if, you know, they were hired to work on a project where they get paid a salary. That seems to incentivize most devs.
What are you or Bill Hicks trying to say there?

If it were possible to prevent deaths of old age or to resurrect the dead, would you be against it?
You do realize that your two points are in direct contradiction?

You're mad at the author for not pointing out the WIV (Which had 0 confirmed cases anywhere near it until much later in the pandemic which is what the two bottom charts are referring to) but then you also grant that it looks like the market was the center of spread?

In any case, they directly address this;

> Importantly, even pneumonia cases that had no association whatsoever with the market (no work, travel, visits, or contacts there) still centered around the Huanan market and could not have been subject to ascertainment bias. The market was the only place in Wuhan where early cases had a clear association. There are no other epidemiological links to any other place in the city, other clusters only started forming later in Jan-Feb (Weibo data, shown above) and became more representative of the city’s population density.

> It is worth mentioning here that the Wuhan Institute of Virology (the alleged ‘escape’ laboratory working on CoVs, not shown in map) is located on the other side of the Yangtze River, South West of the Dong Hu lake, more than 16km away from the Huanan market, and no sickness clusters of cases were shown anywhere close in December 2019.

As for:

> It's not at all far-fetched to think the virus piggybacked 10 miles before finding a nice home for itself at a wet market, after which it went gangbusters and infected lots of people.

You still need to explain how there are two distinct lineages at the market among the first cases!

Picking and choosing one data point to be skeptical of is useless, the totality of the evidence needs to be weighed.
Couldn't make it past the unbearable editing and style to make it to whatever he had to say.
Please don't use derogatory terms like "conspiritards" on HN which obviously come from the term "retard".