skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It _can_. The idea of having prototypes that can be used immediately but very small in scope, not thinking about what you're going to be working on next week right now, making sure you're setting up systems that can give you fast feedback etc, are immensely helpful for difficult problems.

Just taking the examples that are mentioned here:

> Designing an architecture for a new, ambiguously scoped system.
The MVP is, can you take the top 2 most ambiguous risky part of a potential solution and script it out. Then present the operating characteristics. Anti-pattern: create a story to design an architecture.

> “Improve system performance”.
Profile various aspects where you have a hunch that things are bad. Investigate theory a, b, c to improve performance. Are they trivial fixes or need a large refactor. Build up buffers for the uncertainty but react when things become more certain. Anti-pattern: "timeboxed performance improvements"

> Coordinate a rollout of a backwards incompatible change across N dependent systems.
Sometimes you can't help but do a very large rollout, so alright. But one essence of agile development is to keep your rollouts as small as possible.

Just to be clear, I'm not saying these things are not difficult problems, but agile (with lower case a) development _can_ really help, if we want it to.
> Yes, it is fun to map social structure onto armies and then be all judgmental about the inequality.

The quote is actually not judgemental, just descriptive. Your second paragraph seems to quite aptly explain why the structure of armies matches the structure of society. That claim of armies mirroring society is a very common claim on this blog, and your explanation is indeed the explanation this blog has given when expanding on why armies mirror their societies.
Have been using raindrop for a couple months. Maybe it varies by collection size or location, but I rarely experience a request that takes more than a sec to complete.
Hell, this is a current argument some people have against wearing bicycle and motorcycle helmets.
> nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law

There is no federal law granting the right to abortion. Therefore, states may have enact their own laws to either affirm or restrict access to abortion. This process is due process.
T-shirts fall into three categories: vintage, new, and unacceptable, with the latter category compromising the bulk of the world’s supply. Within each category lies another, more precise subset of rules and rankings. Make no mistake, this is complicated.

The most prized t-shirt category is vintage. As shown earlier, white people need authenticity like they need oxygen and to have an original vintage t-shirt from the 1970s or 1980s is a very powerful social status symbol. The ideal shirt will have a funny logo, a year attached to it, and will be as thin as rice paper. In the event that two white people have shirts that meet this criteria, the superior ranking is given to the person who paid the least for the shirt. Acquiring a shirt at a vintage clothing store is seen as less respectable than sorting through racks at the Goodwill.

The second category of t-shirt is new and there really are only two options. The first is American Apparel, a company that constantly reminds you it is based in downtown Los Angeles. They are considered an acceptable white company since they produce things that are very simple, but also very expensive. The second acceptable new shirt is Threadless. This Chicago-based company produces artistic and funny t-shirts that are acceptable for concerts, Whole Foods and 80s night. White people like these shirts so much because they are designed by white people, for white people. Sort of like a white FUBU.

Finally, and perhaps the most important to be aware of, is the unacceptable category of t-shirts. There are a few simple rules to follow in order to avoid wearing the wrong t-shirt. First, if it’s made of a stiff, thick cotton, throw it in the garbage immediately. White people t-shirts must be made of the softest, finest organic cotton. This is law. Unless it is vintage, the shirt cannot be made in a foreign country (unless you can certify its labor conditions). The shirt cannot contain a current sports logo. Shirts with sports logos are acceptable, but they must contain a logo that hasn’t been used in 15 years. Last and not least, it cannot be baggy. Your t-shirt must be tight-fitting for both style and mating purposes.
Toronto's Adventure Playground was my favourite dangerous playground from when I was a kid. Epic dangerous fun.
https://youtu.be/ejG3RjtEte8
Hahahahaha no. I live in Louisiana, which had a law passed a while ago that said the moment RvW was struck down, all abortions are illegal. No exceptions for rape or incest or risk to the mother; someone put a baby in that womb, and you, as womb-bearer, will carry it to term no matter what.

It was a wedge issue when the GOP picked it up and made an unholy alliance with the raving fire-and-brimstone preachers of the South that got Reagan in office. It has continued to be a wedge issue that the GOP has relied on to get their asses in office for pretty much my entire life.
in general I think state rights lowers division, as a federal system is winner-take-all while a State system can be live or let live. of course the issue is when States violate Constitutional rights and hide behind State rights. however, diminishing States rights in favor of Federal rights ultimately has the same risks, i.e. let the lesson of Trump scare the hell out of us.
Every night they will be in slightly different locations.

The moon moves several degrees in its position in the sky every night and rises later each night. Something like an hour or possibly more. So that's 15 degrees per hour difference. It's been a long time since I've looked at the exact numbers, but those rough numbers gets me close when planning. I use this from time to time when shooting full moon shots. If I shoot the day after the full moon, the moon rises later which means its a bit darker after sunset and not noticeably less full for creative purposes. However, whatever the moon is rising behind will look different. Cityscapes will have the building lights lit and much more obvious nighttime look where day of full moon tends to happen closer to sunset so you have that twighlight look instead.

The planets, being further away, move much less in their positions, but they definitely will be in different arrangements. So if on one day they are more or less in a line, the next day they might be more triangular shaped.
Neither did various crypto scams. The big exchanges that the regulators will go after are all centralized.
https://archive.ph/tZaM3
>If the fetus is a life, none of this stuff matters.

This is irrelevant to my personal views on abortion because I believe that individuals have rights over their own body which supersede anyone else's rights to their body. We hold this as true in all other facets of bodily autonomy. I have no legal responsibility to risk my life to protect my fellow citizens. I have no obligation to regularly donate blood or bone marrow. I can't be compelled to donate a kidney. I can even arrange for all my healthy organs to be thrown in a fire or buried underground after my death rather than allow them to be used to save the lives of multiple people. This is all because my body is mine and I can control what happens to it. If I refuse to allow it to be used to support another life, that is my choice.
Yes, it should still be! The motion of the planets in the sky is relatively small day-over-day.

A good way to verify yourself would be to use a tool like Stellarium Web [1] and set your location and set the time to tonight at say, 3am (the planets become more visible as you get nearer to dawn tomorrow). You could even change the time from say 6/25 at 3am to 6/24 at 3am to see just how much / little it changes night-over-night.

[1] https://stellarium-web.org/
The phrase “founding fathers” is gross and embarrassing as an American. They weren’t deities and they didn’t happen to invent the ultimate possible government for all time. We’re using computers to talk about stuff they literally wrote on animal skins with bird feathers! They rode horses to go visit other states, we have global fiber optic networks. Even if they were good ideas then, it’s not remotely the same world we’re living in now.
It's not just a plain white shirt. It's a plain white shirt that looks plain for normals, but special for people in the know.

With that said, not all wealthy people do it.
> What you seem to complain about is that voters in California cannot impose their social view on the inhabitants of Utah.

What nonsense. This is not about state's rights.

Just yesterday the Court decided that no, California doesn't have the right to restrict guns. That's the inhabitants of Utah imposing their social view on the acceptability of guns on the residents of California.

It's about states rights when it comes to things you don't support, like abortion, and it's about the constitution and the rights it gives everyone, when it comes to things that you support, like the right for every nutjob to kill children with AR-15s.

There is no logical reasoning behind these decisions aside from a vindictive, right-wing court, imposing its social will onto the entire country.
> For a regular user the “petty actors” as you call them are actually scarier. Who wants to have their hard disk encrypted and pay $$$.

They seem scarier. In reality it's not so clear what is the bigger threat. Many got a taste of this with COVID restrictions, but that is clearly tame to what would be possible with the information that was already gathered or if they had even more info about you.

> But in my opinion for the regular user, this is not an immediate problem.

At least not as obvious and many do not seem interested in privacy. Not sure if they are very afraid of being robbed, but it is a more tangible threat. One can only see what mass collection of sensitive information can lead to when looking at (relatively recent) history.* And it is as easy as ever to create lists of whatever needs to be erased by whoever can command this.

*: i.e. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Liste (can't find the English article on Wiki)
Obviously modelling your program like Car extends Vehicle is bad, but thinking in terms of real-life relations makes thinking about complex subtyping relations like covariance much easier to grasp.

Compare:

> If B and C are subtypes of A, then List<T> must be invariant over T since List<B> should not be a subtype of List<A>, which can contain both B and C.

with:

> List<Cat> can't become List<Animal>, because you might add Dogs to that list!
I'm sure there are plenty of conservatives who would like to argue for this decision, but aren't prepared to make that argument, because it's not about logic to them: it's about belief.

Maybe that's because the conservative with the compelling argument feels unwelcome. Or maybe it's because the compelling argument doesn't exist.

Making a less compelling argument under the guise of "devil's advocate" is more comfortable, because when you are writing a flawed argument you don't have to fix the flaws: you can let them sit there.
In the middle ages it was considered to become a person at the 'quickening', when it started to move. The reasoning being that the soul had entered the body at that point.
> But we are a republic. And the Supreme Court doesn’t issue law, that’s Congress’s responsibility.

Within the bounds of what is permitted by the Constitution. If you believe that bodily autonomy is a fundamental right guaranteed in the Constitution, then laws are irrelevant, as this is outside the bounds of what law is permitted to be written.
It's interesting that that is 3 more engines than the first stage of the USSR's N-1 rocket, which theoretically could have beaten the US in the space race.

It's also has been bestowed with the honor of creating one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions in human history.
Gitlab CEO: 'Remote work is just work'
Did you read my comment? I don't dispute the existence of the grey area.
That's not a "fact" at all, actually. I can tell that you tried hard to frame the issue in such a way that you could present this "fact", but it's still just an opinion. In fact, for many centuries, a lot of people have felt and thought and believed that personhood is not conferred until birth.
macOS Monterey unannounced security misfeature
What was your story on May 18, 1980 when no one was prepared for Mt. St. Helens to explode and people died?
> Seems like a side issue to me. If I forcibly put someone under my control, it should be my responsibility not to kill them.

That's the trouble though - unwanted pregnancies are either accidental, forced on the mother (in cases of rape), or too dangerous to continue due to unforeseen complications. That's more like waking up and finding you're medically tethered to a person that now depends on your body for survival and less like the pilot example.

What's really damning of the "pro-life" movement here is their general opposition to contraceptives - sometimes including condoms. It's pretty clear that the main goal is to control sex, not preserve life.
Forget “Open-Source” Algorithms – Focus on Experiments Instead
I mean do they need to be worth anything for them? If it works it works. There is value in it only if selling - else if they are using it for the foreseeable future then the only value it would have under normal circumstances is it's junk value.
Yeah I really hate this. And they've had just stupidly obvious bugs to fix for so long. For instance, in the web client their logic for handling quotes is broken. So you literally can't search for an "exact match" (even though Pocket anyway sucks at exact matches), you just get """"my search term"""" with 4 quotes that returns either 0 or 1000 results. I can't fathom how this particular bug could be more than a one-line fix in the HTML escape logic.
The lack of dates anywhere on that site is a continual low-level nuisance. Does anyone know what doctrine prevents having dates on these articles?
What you're describing isn't moderation, but strategy. What I'm talking about is people who have agency but choose not to exercise it because it's inconvenient.
I think we are talking about different complexities of projects. In a complex project in a complex environment in a team larger than 2, a mockup often does not cut it. I've seen underspecified requirements leading to misunderstandings countless times. I have never seen a situation where I thought that writing down those 5-15 acceptance criteria upfront was a waste of time. The discussions that follow when a deadline was missed because of misunderstandings feel much more like a waste of time to me.

In a simple project a mockup can be enough, but then what do you need a PO for?
Almost happened this week in Malta: https://www.euronews.com/2022/06/23/barbaric-maltas-abortion...
Land Rovers became a status signal because people with remote country homes that they kinda actually did need an off-road-capable car to reliably get to and from, would also drive them in the city sometimes, or in resort towns, or other visible places. People who had no actual use for them started imitating them and buying Land Rovers.

Then people a notch down from even that level of cluefulness caught on. Land Rover started making cars to cater to that market, which only cared about Land Rover because "it's a rich-people brand" but had no idea how they'd gotten that way, and just wanted a suburban SUV with Land Rover branding. I assume Land Rovers, at least newer ones, are now considered a bit embarrassing for at least the second group (the first wave of imitators).
While I don't agree with your premise that emotion is not the main driver for the vast majority of people, I'll go with it:

- At what point do you believe it becomes a person? Viable to survive outside of the womb, heartbeat, insemination?

- How do you define innocent, as one who does not have actions that cause harm to another, one who does not have intent to harm another, or something else?

- If defined as one who does not have intent to harm another, how do we know what the unborn child's intent is? Do you assume that the child is not developed enough to have intent? At which point does the child develop intent?

- What if you would consider the child already dead from other causes and needs to be extracted, should the mother be allowed to have it removed? What if the baby is an ectopic pregnancy, growing outside of the womb and likely to cause significant harm or death to the mother, is the assumption that the mother is not as innocent as the unborn child and therefore we should prioritize the child?

I'm ok and even excited to take a reason-based approach (ironically stating how I have have feelings about taking a reason-based approach), I just hope if you want to go down that path, that you will go deeper down it with me.
They do, this guy insists on using his phone to join Zoom calls
I don't know, It was more of a hypothetical. They certainly can now.
There is a lot of misinformation packed in two small paragraphs. Let’s try to unpack.

First, are you aware that the right for individuals to bear arms was not considered a right by judicial opinion for most of US history until 2008? For instance, in US v Miller 1939 it was decided one didn’t have a right to own sawed off shotguns because it bore no “reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well-regulated militia.” You see, many read the amendment as the right for states to have a militia, not the right for individuals to bear arms for self defense. In fact, I believe most founding father documents support that interpretation. Interpretation matters as much as the document itself.

Second, the US government hasn’t tried to force injections of experimental immunotherapies. It was no longer experimental after it achieved approval. No US government mandated the vaccine besides in situations where vaccines are already mandated. They strongly encouraged through rewards, but they always provided alternatives to requiring vaccination. For example, masking and testing have been at times adequate alternatives. The government has required vaccines for public school and the military for decades (centuries?), and it has been widely regarded as saving millions of lives, so it’s very weird that it’s an issue now. Oh right, culture war.
“As a black man, I’m fine when other people say the N word. Doesn’t hurt me.” - same energy. Just because you have the privilege to ignore slurs doesn’t mean everyone else does. Your view on slurs isn’t mainstream in the LGBT community.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/white-gay-privilege-ex...

https://www.them.us/story/white-gay-men-are-hindering-our-pr...

https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/8/16/white-lotus-kn... [1]

I’m glad you feel comfortable in your social standing. Some of us are still fighting for our right to exist. Allowing unchecked bigoted language like that is the ultimate privileged position to take. The next time someone objects to LGBT slurs, consider checking your privilege and staying quiet. The original poster even admitted he used the word deliberately to get a rise out of people. It was done deliberately with malice.

[1] “Historically, when we look at how the LGBTQIA+ community interacts with itself, there’s a clear dichotomy to who is “superior.” White cis gay men have always been elevated to a higher status than other members of their community because they’re the most accepted and privileged in society. They move further away from their community because they don’t see themselves as a part of it, but more so a part of an elite society that offers them what they want.”
A cursory search points to a Range Rover being almost thrice as expensive as a 4Runner or a Pilot.
>OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things.

- Alan Kay -

Other remarks from him about OOP are (paraphrased):

- OOP is a recursion on the notion of the computer itself

- The internet\Erlang is more OOP than java

His vision for OOP is something akin to distributed computing: Each object is a seperate computer with its own private memory that absolutely nobody can write to, it presents to the world an interface which is the set of all messages it can respond to (messages might or might not be asynchronous, and might or might not be unreliable in order,delivery,etc...). "Late Binding" because you have zero gaurantees about anything not explicitly stated in the object's contract, anything the object doesn't promise to respect will be violated, you better not depend on it. This is to give freedom to as much different implementation of the same interface as possible.

Two other analogies I encountered are

- Objects are like hardware ICs (their interfaces are the external pins and the type of signals the IC expects on them, their internals is the private hardware and signals that nobody is expected to inspect or modify)

- Objects are like seperate programs (their interfaces are the GUI/cmd the program presents and the set of all possible actions you can do, their internals are the executable code and in-memory data structures that nobody is expected to inspect or modify)

Inheritance actually precedes mature OOP, it was introduced way back in Simula-62, the proto-OOP language that wasn't a proper language as much as a simulation framework. Inheritance makes perfect sense in a simulation framework, because you're modelling a small world with a definite ontology that you can articulate and be sure of, the creators of Simula stumbled on it when they found they were repeatedly duplicating code verbatium. The analogies of Car<Vehicle and Cat<Animal make perfect sense, this is what inheritance is really made for, it's just that most real software isn't discrete event simulations with platonic ontologies.
> The critical difference is the individual rights of the fetus.

Theoretically yeah, but the stats [0] pretty much moot it. Some quick clips:

- 79.3% of abortions were performed at ≤9 weeks’ gestation

- nearly all (92.7%) were performed at ≤13 weeks’ gestation

The point here is that "nearly all" abortions occur very early in development. It's hard to imagine that something the size of a chocolate chip has "individual rights", especially when balanced against the rights of the pregnant person.

This is important because as you move through the trimesters, cases become crushingly tragic [1]. We're talking things like "we probably thought your fetus was abnormal in the 2nd trimester but you couldn't bring yourself to do it until the 3rd", cancer, fetal death, etc.

There's this myth that it's like Celebrity Deathmatch out there: women vs. babies, but the stats are clear: nearly all abortions happen in the 1st trimester, and then when they don't it's typically scheduling or something very tragic happened.

All of which should force us to ask: what's the urgent need for regulation on this?

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/ss/ss7009a1.htm

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10426234/
Does this count?

EventTarget -> Node -> Element -> SVGElement -> SVGGraphicsElement -> SVGTextContentElement -> SVGTextPositioningElement -> SVGTSpanElement

And the whole tree could be described as "crazy", but it does actually make sense.
Keep coping with these "obesity is not a health issue" and "obese people live longer".

Obese people are the only group of people that routinely die young.
>I am not a billboard.

X2
> … using objects you can model or imitate real life, but that is silly.

1994 "It should be clear to anyone that models of the world are completely different from models of software. The world does not consist of objects sending each other messages, and we would have to be seriously mesmerised by object jargon to believe that it does.

… we use different sets of building blocks for modelling the world and modelling the software …"

page 6 "Designing Object Systems"

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Designing_Object_System...