skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I see a minority (less than 30% of Americans agree with this) enforcing social views on the majority- and it will not stop here

It depends on how you define "this." Polls that ask "do you support Roe v. Wade are useless because it's a legal decision and the public doesn't necessarily understand its legal effect. More granular polls show that the public is on both sides of Roe. Most Americans support some sort of abortion right, but most Americans also think that right should be narrower than Roe: https://apnews.com/article/only-on-ap-us-supreme-court-abort.... In particular, 2/3s of Americans think that second trimester abortions should be generally illegal, but under Roe's trimester framework, there is a nationwide right to elective abortions in the second trimester.

> This ruling is disastrous and shows the capriciousness of the current court in interpreting precedent to mean whatever is popular with their party. The 14th can amendment be limited but the second cannot

The difference is not the Court's "capriciousness" but instead the text of the Second Amendment, which specifically addresses the "right to bear arms," versus the text of the 14th amendment, which says absolutely nothing about "privacy" or "abortion" or anything of the sort.

It's disingenuous beyond belief to try and make a false equivalency between an expressly enumerated right written into the Constitution 233 years ago, with one divined from "penumbras" and "emanations" of the Constitutional text in the mid-20th century.
Reddit may have some high profile cases where they banned a subreddit, I find Reddit rather tolerant. For example, there are several longstanding subreddits dealing with kinky sex, drugs, and kinky sex on drugs. Opposite and controversial viewpoints have their subreddits: prolife and prochoice, progun and guncontrol, vim and emacs, etc...

Most bans are for really terrible communities, and yes, for a few of them, I think it went a bit too far, I wouldn't have banned the_donald for instance, despite not wanting to have anything to do with them. Really, they do the minimum acceptable for a mainstream service.
> Because there is an explicit provision on guns in the constitution. No mention of or allusion to abortion in the constitution. If the US wants to protect abortion through the constitution, they are free to do so. The US constitution has been amended many times. But that takes an even broader consensus.

The constitution is short and vague on many things. People read between the lines. That's just as true of abortion as it if of gun rights.

If you read the constitutions as written, there is no right for individuals to have guns. It's very clear, this is for organized militias. If you read the constitution as written most of what the federal government does today isn't allowed, it's all mostly approved by an incredibly wide reading of the commerce clause.

The Court is picking and choosing rights. They force Maine to give priority to their religion, they force California/NY/MA to give priority to their gun rights, they force everyone to abandon reproductive rights. That's a choice in how to interpret a very vague document.
Your argument is an excellent argument against the Supreme Court having originally decided Roe v. Wade the way that they did. It is not an argument for overturning it now.

Our country is based on rule of law. And a lot of that body of law is established by a body of past precedent. These precedents extend back nearly 1000 years, and are part of a web of what is called Common Law. The Supreme Court's unique authority and main job is continuing to add to and clarify that precedent.

What the Supreme Court is doing now is overturning long-established precedent. Originalism can be used to overturn virtually any past precedent you don't like. It is hard to overstate how much. Let me quote one of the current supreme court justices on the topic (see https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi for the full context):

Adherence to originalism arguably requires, for example, the dismantling of the administrative state, the invalidation of paper money, and the reversal of Brown v. Board of Education. Originalists have been pressed to either acknowledge that
their theory could generate major disruption or identify a principled
exception to their insistence that judges are bound to enforce the
Constitution’s original public meaning.

Her solution to this is:

No one is likely to ask the Supreme Court to rethink arguably nonoriginalist decisions like the constitutionality of the Social Security Administration, paper
money, or segregated public schools—and if anyone did ask, the Court would deny certiorari.

In other words, the limit on how much of the fabric of current law the current court can dismantle is to be found in the restraint of the justices in being willing to avoid hard questions, and not in the reasoning process that they apply to their decisions. But these things tend to be a slippery slope. The more of our rule of law that they undermine, the more that they will come to see it as reasonable to undermine more rule of law. And the more chaos that they create, the less willing everyone else will be to go along with what they said.
one simple way is to just not buy nasty stuff. Sometimes I spend 5-6 days with one meal max per day (rice, and raw garlic sometimes, that's all I eat), and these intermittent fasting are extremely regenerative, no exercise even needed
> I can’t recall a new Rust release ever breaking existing code. Is this what you’re talking about?

I have one case of code from late 2015 that stopped working in, IIRC, 2016, due to unsoundness being found in the borrow checker and it being fixed.

error[E0713]: borrow may still be in use when destructor runs
--> src/writer.rs:121:21
|
47 | impl<'a, F: Write + Read + Seek + 'a> Writer<'a, F> {
| -- lifetime `'a` defined here
...
121 | Reader::new(self.file)
| ------------^^^^^^^^^- returning this value requires that `*self.file` is borrowed for `'a`
122 | }
| - here, drop of `self` needs exclusive access to `*self.file`, because the type `Writer<'_, F>` implements the `Drop` trait

I ended up solving it by wrapping `self.file` in an "unnecessary" `Option` and using `Option::take` on `self.file` here. I guess I could have mucked around with `MaybeUninit` and risk UB instead, or removed the convenience `Drop` impl finalizer or made the impl non-generic.

I haven't had a case of code no longer compiling since then.
Multisig constructions were created for the torture case. There are unfortunately cases where this has proven true.

I know your opinion re usefulness, noted. It contrasts greatly with my experiences.

Some of us dream up ways to keep the State out, you keep dreaming up ways the State will defeat it. It is a cat and mouse game for all eternity. I am confident we will survive.
This could work - similar to what happens in some bluetooth pairing flows. But you could still send a text message with a phishing link under the same Sender ID and fool someone into opening it.
You'd really need to know that the specific sender would never a) send you a link, or b) send you anything without the "two-way verification" flow you suggested. I don't think any of those options are realistic at a certain scale.
You use the ISO setting (which is Gain on a webcam, often not a changeable paramter) which is much better than your eye on the scope. For example, looking at M42 through the Live View, you can easily see all the colors and fainter parts that aren't visible through an eyepiece. It's clearly picking up light the eye doesn't process or report to the brain through an eyepiece.

I'm not using an eyepiece. I have the DSLR at prime focus. The reason digital zoom works (to give more details) is because the LiveView screen doesn't have the screen resolution to show all the data.

Trust me, I spend a lot of time doing this (I build automated telescopes, solarscopes, microscopes for fun). The DSLR sensors beat all the webcam sensors (I'm still trying to find an affordable sensor board with good specs, for example, the Sony StarVis, that I can integrate so I don't need to mount a damn DSLR any longer- they're too big and heavy and need too much power).

I think there's two camps- one that really like eyepieces for the amazing results you can get with bright objects, and one that likes to look at digital images in real time, or later.
> It's more that the people who cant get enough food dont have anything that the people who have an excess of it really want.

Sure they do. It's just that forefingers own everything of value in their countries and every time they elect someone to do something about it, the US violently overthrows them, covertly or overtly.[1]

1. https://github.com/binka/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md
Did you click on the link and read the thread?
Eh, considering its popularity I suppose it is a "least bad" if one chooses a cynical yet realistic perspective.

Personally, after working with vanilla JS, then jquery, I looked at angular and react. I liked react so much better
Ask HN: If you could talk to a database in plain English, would you?
For the past 6 months I’ve been working on a Natural Language Understanding (NLU) API. Essentially the request would contain a plain english sentence, and the response would include a breakdown of actions, entities, agents, location, temporal, logic, etc. My hope was that I could create a “Stripe/Twilio for NLU”, but recent feedback has been that it’s more a “technology”, and less a “product”. It would still require a lot of development work to create anything of value for an end user. While I see the value of an API, I also agree with their sentiment, and so I’ve begun exploring problems to apply my API to.

One use case that tends to pop up frequently is “text-to-database”. Similar to text-to-SQL, but with my API I could target any DB regardless of query language. This would require a large amount of work, and I’m not convinced that it’s something that users even want. The strongest feedback I’ve received has been that it would be a convenient method for managers and non-technical to query analytics databases.

Is this a path worth exploring? Are there industries or positions that would kill to be able to query a db with a plain english sentence? Is this something that you would use, or want to implement?
Clap: New open source audio plug-in architecture
I don't think it's that simple:

> I previously got a lot more comments about dates on posts, so removing dates from posts was a pretty large net win on the number of comments I get about dates.

When most articles of his posted to HN has people complaining about dates, instead of talking about the content, I'd hide the dates from my site too. I've been here a while and I find the majority of those comments to be low quality and are a net negative to everyone else's reading experience.
Good to see this.

Bad that as a UK citizen I sometimes worry that my monthly sub to Liberty will count against me ('chilling effect').
Of course it does. It will impact other countries relationships with china. And it would impact the kind and level of scrutiny over this kind of research.
from the article:

1. Embedding providers (e.g., Hugging Face or OpenAI)

2. Neural framework (e.g., deepset or Jina)

3. Feature stores (e.g., FeatureBase, FeatureForm or Tecton)

4. Vector search engines (e.g., Weaviate or Vertex)
> Whenever I get phishing SMS they always come from a random 10-digit phone number so it's pretty clear they're scams

Sadly, Novant Health (a hospital system) uses a regular 10-digit number for their patient portal 2FA. When I was in college, accessing sensitive info like your SSN and W2s in Banner also had 2FA via a 10-digit number. (This was an entirely separate system from the login 2FA provider, Duo, which uses shortcodes in addition to U2F tokens and their app.)
> One of the legislative initiatives that has been undertaken by several states is a statute creating a trigger ban on abortion, wherein the Supreme Court striking down Roe would immediately result in an automatic complete abortion ban statewide.

Good. I think that laws that serve to protect defenseless children should be upheld. I do think that IVF should be reconsidered, but it appears that the intent of the law is to prevent children from dying, not to prevent couples who have trouble conceiving, from conceiving because of complications that may arise. I think those two are separate issues with different outcomes. I think a child that is failed to be conceived or dies during the process of being conceived is a fundamentally different issue to a procedure who's express and deliberate purpose is to end the life of the child.
In my experience, people mentioning that they're not American (and in particular they they are European) seem to think that confers some infallible wisdom to their arguments
> I wonder if that's because Clarence and Ginni Thomas have been committing miscegenation for years?

Please, I'm eating. Besides, there's no evidence of this.
CVPR 2022 – Whistleblower on Plagiarized Paper
You've only taken half of the statement, it was:

> Foetuses are disputably citizens and people

Citizens is one part, people is the other. Whether a foetus is a person, whether it has constitutional personhood, was argued by Texas in the original Roe v Wade case. You may also note that the difference between person and citizen has been debated many times before in constitutional law. From [1]:

> Thirty years ago, Bickel made a statement about the relationship between citizenship and personhood in American constitutional law that is well known among scholars of immigration and citizenship. He said: “It has always been easier, it always will be easier, to think of someone as a noncitizen than to decide that he is a nonperson.”

> What is expressed here is both a descriptive and normative claim about the significance of the category of citizenship in our constitutional system. Bickel argued that, as a historical matter, the Constitution has never set much stock by the category of citizenship; that one of the most disastrous aspects of Dred Scott was that it treated the denial of rights to slaves and free blacks as turning on their lack of citizenship; that the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment came close to entrenching this mistake, constitutionally, via passage of the privileges or immunities clause of section 1, which might have appeared to make rights contingent upon citizenship; but that, in the end (by way of Slaughterhouse,7 which eviscerated the clause), “innocence was restored.” And Bickel concludes by expressing satisfaction with this state of affairs: “I find it gratifying … that we live under a Constitution to which the concept of citizenship matters very little.”

In important ways, Bickel is descriptively right. True, citizenship status is still quite significant in a variety of settings, and conflicts between citizenship- and personhood-based groundings of rights persist in various contexts. Still, for a great many purposes, the “right to have rights” is not contingent on the possession of citizenship status. In the international arena, it is largely persons who are the subjects of human rights

[1] https://academic.oup.com/icon/article/8/1/9/682631
That was deliberate disinformation in order to save masks for the "frontline workers". Fauci has stated that in one of the hearings.
Lying back on a round-about, twirling at some 2G force, the back of your head hovering inches above the ground: priceless.
The communication at the beginning was that it was only spread through respiratory droplets, so therefore the combination of social distancing and cloth/surgical masks would be sufficient.

Airborne/aerosol transmission was only acknowledged by the WHO and CDC in May of 2021, over a year after the pandemic was declared. And taking that long to acknowledge it makes me think it wasn't just a strategic lie to preserve the supply of respirators for medical staff.
You have #2 backwards. The reason we're even debating this is because we can't agree on when the fetus becomes a person with rights. Pro-lifer's are very much arguing that it is murder. 43ish? states currently prohibit abortion after a certain point in pregnancy prior to birth [0][1]

[0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/what-states...

[1] https://www.axios.com/2022/05/14/abortion-state-laws-bans-ro...
Yup. Funny how Thomas, in his opinion, believes "access to contraceptives, "same sex relationships", "same sex marriage" are all "errors that need to be corrected in the context of "states' rights", but somehow "interracial marriage" isn't.
Guns are bases on the 2nd amendment.

Abortions on the 14th amendment.
> at least a few dissenters presenting more factual alternatives?

Are there not?
Done. Anonymized receipt: https://poipaas.com/img/pp_donation_receipt.png

We live in interesting times, it seems.
And while not disputing any of that, as far as I know, every single transaction I've ever made with cash has not been logged in my name and is not cheaply trackable. That's a good thing because it avoids heavy concentration of power.
You like federalism because you're a conservative and there is a higher percentage of conservative states than conservative people. And that is just a result of political territory gerrymandering battles of the 1800s. For example splitting Dakota into two states or admitting Wyoming as a separate state were all political gerrymandering battles that benefit your ideology today.
> If I have cell signal I have email, but I can have email without SMS access.

In the US populated area, maybe.

In the French country side, definitely not.
Blood on their hands’: world’s medics condemn US overturn of abortion rights
Clap: New MIT license audio plug-in format from Bitwig
How JavaScript's ES Modules Algorithm Works
Dates on pages is supposed to be handled by HTTP, but web browsers continue to be the worst UX ever, so nobody uses it.

$ curl -s https://danluu.com/ | sed -E 's/<div class=pd>([^<]+)<\/div><a href=([^>]+)>([^<]+)<\/a><\/div><div>/\n\1 \2 \3/g' | grep Integer
12/14 https://danluu.com/integer-overflow/ Integer overflow checking cost

$ curl -sI https://danluu.com/integer-overflow/ | grep -i date
date: Fri, 24 Jun 2022 19:00:30 GMT

https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc7231.html#header.date
Yeah, I am 95% neither of these were taught where I grew up (a lefty area in a solid lefty state).
> American women are indisputably citizens and people, whereas fetuses are not.

It reads very black and white to me.
You're not taking about "The CAT, saves you 1200 driving miles!", are you? It did not go right after the remains of Hurricane Floyd went over Nova Scotia and we knew _exactly_ how many extra miles that meant =:-D. Moncton (oh no, not again)...
> In 2016, 55% of voters were women, which trump won 47-44. By three points, which is a solid win in a presidential general election.

You're quoting stats for white women only, Trump lost the female vote 54/39.

Which makes this claim factually incorrect:

> Roe V Wade is the most important women's right won in the courts in the last 50 years, and women voted to overturn it effectively.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2018/08/09/an-examinati...

I'd imagine if you combined the age demographic information, the female vote that may actually be able to get pregnant and so be affected by this is going to swing even harder away from Trump.

The combined male and female vote swings 30% to the red between the 18-29 and 65+ demographics.
It would be difficult to pass a pro-choice (or pro-abortion) federal law which complied with the constitution, as the 'right' doesn't fall under any of the enumerated powers, and seems to be clearly within the power of the states. It seems like the only way to have a federal right to abortion is to have a constitutional right (like Roe v. Wade).
The "this comment" is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30935605, in case anyone else was confused.
I don't know about the other two but Australian coal was put under sanction by china in the wake of their call for an investigation. This, ironically, was quite bad for china since it indirectly led to power cuts in some provinces because they couldn't use the lower grade of coal otherwise available.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/03/australia-finds-new-markets-...

Power cuts later that fall: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58733193
Gee, no shit. It dominates the mainstream news. Why post it on a tech-news site?
I caught myself doing just that and I do something that works for me - I text myself, tens, sometimes hundreds of times a day.
The supreme court just said abortion is not constitutionally protected so SB-8 isn't bypassing constitutional rights.

You might disagree with the court, but that doesn't matter since any law similar to SB-8 related to guns would be handled by that court.

That said, I think CA/NY and others should absolutely do it. They should be super aggressive and start using the tactic created in SB-8 on all kinds of issues if for no other reason than the ridiculousness of relying on civilian enforcement of laws.
very cool. love the design and so far some really interesting sites. will there be any restrictions or requirements for sites that are merged in?
> So we end up in a situation where a healthy majority of the country wants some level of abortion rights

some level of abortion rights != Roe and the extent of Roe

I'd imagine an easy majority supports it in cases of threats to the mother's life, but does an easy majority support letting Roe stand without any sort of weakening? I doubt it
Not just DC. American Samoa, Puerto Rico, Northern Marianas Islands, US Virgin Islands, and Guam are all American citizens but can't vote for president at all, don't get a Senator, and collectively only get a few representatives, most of whom are ceremonial and don't get to vote.
Despite being made of flimsy material, some of these straw men are actually quite effective, it seems.
> Infected worker

To be honest, I hadn't even encountered the idea that lab employees were what, selling infected animals at the market? Is this a real thing people are arguing? Who even comes up with this stuff.
Looking at that list one starts to wonder, wouldn't it be easier not to turn the computer on, not to buy at all?! : D

Isn't this just mental that you are a hairline away of peril if you do not do a twentysomething steps massaging every inch of the system right away?! : )
Consent to sexual intercourse is not consent to pregnancy

It's as much consent to pregnancy as dropping a cinderblock on your foot is consent to a broken toe or eating ten cheeseburgers a day is consent to getting fat.
The basis of the decision wasn't ultimately in states' rights, but instead the view of a lack of constitutional protection against abortion bans.

The legal theory almost explicitly allows for a federal ban in addition to the state bans that tieggered today.
> To really get the benefits of a DSLR, you want long exposures like 20sec or longer to really pull in those photons.

A lot of modern smartphones support long (~30s) exposures, with compensation for motion during the exposure. Under the right conditions, they can take some very nice night sky photos -- and I suspect they'd do very well on the end of a telescope, too.
No.

Trying to map english to formal logic is a fools errand.

From my experience, what keeps non-technical people from writing queries isn't SQL, it's stuff like joins.
Does anyone have a hunch on what caused the 100ms reduction in the time to first byte? Is it just having a much better and broader spread on where Cloudflare has datacenters serving DNS lookups?
The US government can compel a man to sacrifice their entire body ( and blood ) for the greater good of other citizens should they wish. [0]

[0] https://www.sss.gov/
Because Western authorities have no power to investigate the Chinese?
Even worse IMO is blocking Internet Archive. Dan, can you tell us why do you do that?