skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The historical strawman you're presenting is a wildly inaccurate portrayal of the period you're describing.

If you're actually interested in what Internet skeptics were actually focused on in the early days, read Cliff Stoll's books[0]. His second book is where he established himself as the leading thinker on Internet skepticism in the early days, and his first book is where he established himself as one of the most important protectors of the Internet, with his first book work leading directly to many of the digital security and privacy laws and principles we take for granted today. Early Internet skepticism wasn't driven by clueless Luddite thinking, nor was it focused on nonsensical issues. Most of the problems he pointed out in 1995 have only become more serious and more apparent in the intervening years.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Stoll
Exactly. They won't stop there either.
You still have to worry about head-of-line blocking across streams with H2. HTTP3 promises to really really fix these issues.
Well since there is no federal statute on it, and the Constitution doesn't assign it to the federal government, it goes back to the states. That's how everything works, by default.

There's nothing in the ruling that I'm aware of that would prevent Congress from passing a law on it. But I haven't read the whole ruling, and I'm certainly not an expert. So I'm open to being shown otherwise.
multihash: Self describing hashes, for future proofing
Mattermost CEO here, thank you so much, you are very nice!
We Identified Navalny's FSB Stalkers (2020)
I'm still a little salty about Blizzard handing out free TOTP fobs at conventions and implementing an iOS app to do it, years or even a decade before financial institutions offered anything.

It's a fucking game, protecting against gold farmers. How about protecting my non-virtual gold?
It seems like if they want to emphasize personal responsibility, they could stop trying to influence laws that prevent people from getting abortions or using contraception.
You just ignored everything that I said.

I was responding to you making the false claim that users can just choose to use chrome, in the competitive market.

That's not true because Apple anti-competitively prevents users from installing the real version of chrome, that isn't handicapped.

And then I used the analogy of Microsoft banning all competing browsers, which I'd hope you agree is and should be illegal.
One has a birth certificate,
would not buy, doesn't protect against initial config deployment.
Raycast has a decent clipboard history and snippets manager.
now do margins
Weights kill hunger, especially if you eat lean protein after (a shake made with water or low-fat Quark/Kwark). You can combine it with high intensity cardio too for burning fat.

Can't wait until the toddler starts school because then I can start again.
> Denying people information ... on-brand for Dan Luu.

Just to be clear, he does not deny the information. Chronology matters a lot, danluu knows this, and he does make it available. He also made finding it a personal journey for any first-time visitor looking for a date, costing about 60s per user lifetime.

He's unduly sensitive to bad criticism by ignorant people and admits as much. Reducing his exposure to them helps get him through the day, and so all the power to him.

As for the arrogance, I love this site and would keep coming here even if danluu were Pol Pot himself. Users and moderation make the site.
I found this discussion of unenumerated rights [0] to be helpful in explaining how a right to privacy was derived from the US constitution, and how difficult it is to establish a "test" for unenumerated rights.

[The Griswold case] says the penumbras around the First, Third, Fourth and Fifth Amendment create a right to privacy. So what they're getting at — a penumbra is just a shadow, right? — is that these textual provisions cast these shadows. And those shadows, which all contain this notion of privacy overlap with each other such that they coalesce into a right in its own right, so that the right to privacy under which the right to contraception is protected is derived from the shadows of actual textual provisions.

Very disconcerting that the rights to contraception, same sex marriage, and consensual adult sexual relationships are up for debate because they are not explicitly enumerated in the constitution.

[0] https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/05/31/the-fragility-of-une...
> are they going to offer tax breaks to incentivize companies to adopt a four-day workweek?

I'm going to assume you're asking if they'll offset any losses that occur as a result of employees only being 80% as productive.

You may be surprised to discover that studies overwhelmingly demonstrate that productivity is higher across 4 days than across 5 days. That's right, higher output in less time, all thanks to employees being better rested and coming to work in a better mental state.
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After gzip or brotli, the increased size of base64 is negligible. That 100k CSS is less than 70k compressed.
What does that have to do with control of one's body?
UFW, Docker, and Tailscale: Lessons Learned
Or some Apple TV app that constantly starts up for some reason that I can not figure out at all
Uhhh do you think it MIGHT have something to do with the fact that Sars-COV-1 had already caused an outbreak and the WHO already had already placed these viruses on their watchlist of viruses with the most potential to cause a pandemic...

EDIT:

> The SARS-related coronavirus was one of several viruses identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2016 as a likely cause of a future epidemic in a new plan developed after the Ebola epidemic for urgent research and development before and during an epidemic towards diagnostic tests, vaccines and medicines. This prediction came to pass with the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/after-ebola-...

EDIT2:

The research effort to predict future outbreaks evolved into some really cool stuff like this:

https://spillover.global/ranking-comparison/

Inevitably one of these will result in another outbreak and inevitably there will have been a lab trying to study it in preparation and inevitably another big-brain is gonna find some patent or paper that predates the outbreak and use it as "evidence" for their conspiracy
How to make a complete map of every thought you think (2003)
In fact it's not at all onerous, unless you are determined to violate it's provisions. If your business doesn't depend on privacy violations, then the "bureaucracy" that GDPR calls for is trivially easy to implement. There are no licences, and no registration requirements. Provided you aren't playing fast and loose with the personal data of Europeans, you're fine.

There's no "personal vendettas" going on; can you substantiate that allegation at all? The GDPR applies to everyone equally. And unlike some laws, it's fairly easy to read; it's meant to be understood. Don't bother reading some biased summary of the Regulation; read the GDPR itself. That's the best guidance on the intent, and the best guidance on how to comply.

/me: former data protection officer at a web development outfit.
Clarence Thomas said we should reconsider contraception as a right, which according to your logic essentially means we should reconsider sex except for having a child as a right. You can't advocate for personal responsibility and then take away all mechanisms to conduct it.
The German authority's namely RKI said they do not help for a long time. Until they flipped 180
I’m not sure, but given the “when fully charged outside” phrase in the question, I think the question is about charging using a public chargers: “Once your car is fully charged, do you move it away so that others can use the charger?”
Thanks for link! Really interesting added context for an outsider (Canadian)
I think they're referring to the hypocrisy of compelling vaccination on someone if you support the idea of bodily autonomy.
I have a European passport so after more than a decade working at FAANGs, I moved to Germany from SV and set up my own business. I've also lived for a few months in a number of different European countries.

Based on my own experiences, I'd say it makes little to no financial sense to move to Europe from the US, if you're going to work for somebody else while leaving a top-tier SV compensation package behind. Salaries are a lot lower, and taxation in rich EU countries is generally very high, you're looking at 40%+ effective tax rate.

In addition to that, a number of EU countries have painful wealth taxes. The Netherlands doesn't have a wealth tax per se, but it has a preposterous across the board tax based on an "assumed 4% return on the entirety of one's savings+investments". As someone with multi-million dollar investments in the US, this swiftly caused me to abandon Amsterdam as a potential base of operations.
Building a custom Pipedream action component with Gitpod
Take the simplest problem of searching over a continuous range between zero and one exhaustively. Let the value you search for be 0.1. By a diagnolization argument we can realize that even a search carried on for an infinite amount of time and granted an infinite amount of space would not terminate. After all, to find 0.1 you need to make it past 0.01. But to reach that you have to reach 0.001. And so on. Let abstraction map from N to 1 over this space. As N goes up, abstraction error goes up, but the problem is no longer impossible because the diagnolization proof no longer holds. Let b be a branching factor in a game. As b goes to infinity, the game graph becomes continuous. In learning formulations under the game theoretic school of thought you have to search the game graph to get the average of your policies proportional to your counterfactual regret. That implies walking the continuous game graph. In reinforcement learning the bellman equations give you your values. This is also defined in terms of the game graph. So again we fall prey to the problem. We've shown that walking continuous things is impossible even under conditions that are ideal - infinite speed and memory and we've shown that this relates to the learning problem formulations I spoke of.

Obviously this only gets worse when we impose reality - we don't actually have infinite space on our computers. They don't compute for an infinite amount of time either. But notice that before we searched for infinite space and time and we failed? When we move down to finite space and finite time we still have the property of completing after full enumeration. We have a finite amount of computing capacity. We have a finite amount of computational storage. Yet the growth rate for unabstracted game trees is exponential. Let c be our constraints.

An abstracted game maps n states to one state. So it has log_n(X) where X is your state count. An abstracted game has X states. Since log_n(x) < X we know there exist terminating algorithms for abstraction that are not terminating for unabstracted because log_n(x) < X when X = c. So we get log_n(X) < c when X = c.

This is actually much less than the real world gains. Since in learning we get the policy expectations multiple times over the game graph and the convergence guarantees relate to the complexity of the graph you get a much more worthwhile window than just the difference of log_n(X) versus X. For much tighter bounds check out game theory research. They get error bounds on the abstraction error too by choosing clustering solutions with provable properties. So it really has a much stronger formal treatment than you might imagine.
This is hosted on the website of Mary S. Van Deusen, who seems to be the editor of the Journal where this article was published in.
I really recommend looking at the other parts of her website[1], especially if you're interested in the history of computer science / programming [2].
Her YouTube Channel also contains interesting Videos [3].
I'm too young and did not live at that time, but I'm happy that she preserves these materials.

[1] http://www.iment.com/maida/

[2] http://www.iment.com/maida/map/computers.htm

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvU3pJbZBj0
After a re-read of the article I do believe you are right. Thanks.

My cynicism will live to fight another day though!
> Firstly, the supreme court decides what the 2A means and they decided it does
not mean that. The NYC law spit in the face of a previous supreme court decision. That can't be allowed.

I'm always surprised by how few people realize that the SCOTUS doesn't make laws for states. I'm also surprised at how deeply convinced the notion of "the federal government and SCOTUS supersede state laws" is ingrained into our culture.

The SCOTUS only provides opinions and jurisprudence on matters. They don't "make laws" and can't command anything with any sort of enforceable power. Abortion could have been abolished yesterday, last month or even last decade if any state wanted it to.

Any state level Supreme Court can run contrary to the judgements of the SCOTUS without having to fear enforceable retribution. We've seen this recently with the case of interstate "travel bans" during COVID, "Sanctuary Cities" during Trump's first couple months of presidency and the spotty legalization of marijuana in certain states.
> if you do have a technological solution to an economic and politcal problem, you have created a new political problem (for yourself): getting everyone to use and understand your solution

Many of th problems crypto aims to solve are not only political and economic, but also technological. The technology in this case may end up being a driver for new political and economic systems.

Similar thing happening with digital payments - like Apple Pay - that are overtaking cash and card swiping in many parts of the world primarily because of a tech innovation that allows for convenience, security, and privacy. Crypto stands to overtake some aspects of our economic activity in a similar way, regardless of what politicians ask for.
Yes. But pro-life/pro-choice stances are incredibly nuanced. A majority is pro-choice, but a majority support restrictions on late term abortions.
My point is that we spent so much effort in response to 9/11, but when COVID happened, we didn't even care to look into what caused the death of 1M Americans, and just took China's word for it.
I don't think anybody doubts that the first superspreader event happened at the Hunan market. The question is whether the first human/animal crossover happened there. With a high k disease like Covid-19 you might very well have a chain of transmission many links long before it starts going exponential as in, for example, what contact tracers uncovered about how the virus first got into France.
I also stopped because the extension was slow and unusable if you have a lot of tags
> The rhetoric each side adopts precludes/ignores the other side's arguments, and thus there is no communication.

This is the general case on most topics. Accepting the other side's framing is tantamount to "losing the argument" to most people. Often that framing defines the other side as essentially evil and thus not worth listening to or reasoning with. There are precious few places where actual debates where primary arguments are understood and rebutted by mutually respecting parties.
Global impact of the first year of Covid-19 vaccination
No idea tbh. I haven’t seen any reliable numbers in literature and N=2^26 is pretty big/unheard of. I guess we’ll see results in a few months.
Just think about what you're claiming here with this silly question. You honestly think Moderna patented a sequence multiple years ago, and then what, shared their research with the Chinese to unleash a virus and create demand for a vaccine they hadn't invented yet? Why in the world would they patent it before that?

It's literally the dumbest nonsense.

A more direct refutation though is that the authors were extremely out of their depth and didn't remotely understand the results from their BLASTing. The moderna sequence is the reverse complement and doesn't even encode proteins. In the DNA repair context for which Moderna the patent covers, it codes for a specific (Non FCS protein) and can even be found in birds. Did Moderna invent birds too?

https://twitter.com/emmecola/status/1468569894245572612

https://twitter.com/MGerdol/status/1496130768854212624
I use Raindrop but really wish they had support for share extensions in their macOS app. That way I could get rid of their toolbar button and just use the share button instead on Safari.
I learned assembly on a 68HC11 heathkit, damn those things were awesome!
It’s an order of magnitude more information than you or the other commenter provided. Saying: “Wrong, I don’t like that.” is saying nothing at all. Be specific you fool.
> It seems like the only way to have a federal right to abortion is to have a constitutional right (like Roe v. Wade).

A constitutional amendment would be ideal, but seems very unlikely.

I don't see why the Congress couldn't write laws guaranteeing access to abortion, though. We have laws in that vein, like the ADA.
It's life as usual - the biggest mainstream webshops here accept Bitcoin. I can buy anything I want that way - groceries, tech gadgets, kitchen machinery, garden equipment, whatever - with same-day or next-day delivery. The mainstream concert ticket sellers also accept BTC here. Not sure about plane travel, but I can use BTC to buy train tickets.

If I can't use Bitcoin at a store directly, I can simply take out some cash at a nearby Bitcoin ATM - nowadays there's more BTC ATMs than my bank's ATMs.
10 gigabit still only needs cat 6A. 25 and 40 gigabit takes cat 8, (and only goes out to 30 meters) while 50 gigabit is fiber-only.

It's... physically possible Kevin is doing something that requires 50 gigabit, but he's certainly not doing it with a normal wifi setup.
"The days of having entire websites rendered in neumorphism are behind us, but it will undoubtedly continue to have an influence. "

Too bad. I personally think it's a huge improvement over flat design.
If you never use those apps, you can also remove the executable flag with `chmod -x` and they won’t open anymore.
What are you arguing? That a barbell squat works every muscle in the body equally? Do you actually believe that is true?
Emphasizing the arrow (or in fact the most narrow error) is definitively a good idea in that case. Counting the number of arguments is in general a bit problematic: it is possible to end with an accidental functional value due to an extra argument send to a sufficiently polymorphic function for instance.
> I'd understand if "the left" was trying to take away some other person's right, but this is the opposite. They're trying to preserve rights.

The thing that makes these discussions so frustrating is that people often seem to be completely deer-in-the-headlights ignorant of the other side's arguments.

The argument of pro-life people is that there are two human beings involved in the abortion: the mother, and the child. Making abortion legal gives the mother the right over her body by removing the right of the child to not have her life taken away. In the eyes of pro-life people, "taking away some other person's right" is exactly what "the left" are doing.

Now you might not agree that there is a child in this case; you might think that children begin existing and having rights once they pass through the birth canal and not before. Or you might think that even if there is a child that has rights, the mother's right to bodily autonomy trumps the child's right to life. But you can't say "I don't understand where they're coming from; 'the left' isn't trying to take away some other person's right" without being profoundly ignorant of the basic views of the people you're arguing against.
So can ignorance and it's hard to tell which you're solving with that coin. I wouldn't want to work with you.
1990's huh, wow. I totally believe it. It almost feels like a solved problem, but when I tried to find an API that parsed text to a degree that was usable by an average dev, nothing came up. Many NLP/AI/ML tools could define the entities, or VERY general relationships, but never went far enough. I'm curious if the 90's solutions used ML, or if they went straight to text analysis (which is what I'm using).

> Ultimately though, I think the usefulness of these tools breaks down for both complex queries and even simple ones when the data model does not have explicit relationships defined.

Makes sense. Do you think it would help if a developer could define the relationships in the data model ahead of time?
It’s been a rough day. This made me smile. Thank you.
It's possible to "future-proof" A BIT, in the term of simplicity of design, small scale of the final product, cheapness of it.

Or, please make simple houses, give them large space for any new gear and make them last a human life, at the heritage the old house should be unmounted, recycled and rebuilt with current tech being upgradable enough for another human life. Made simple software that can be easily changed like classic Smalltalk/Lisp systems. Made things easy to recycle etc

Similar things happen in various domains: in the past we rush to made megaprojects, now we prefer smaller ones. That's the future-proofness: it's always a miss and hit scenario, but in most cases a small miss is not costly, a hit is just nice. Short terms can be predicted a bit, long terms demand simply the ability to evolve.
I've seen this mechanism as a CNC router for cutting pieces out of a sheet of plywood. Seems like it would work better for that use since the feed speed of a router needs to be slower than a pen in general.

This is the first Open Source one I came across with a quick search: https://www.maslowcnc.com/
Can I see them tomorrow? o.O
You should have read the link or listened to what I wrote. Yes. You are contributing to the outrage machine.
I admire that you have such a loving connection to your children.

And I get what you mean with survival, it’s a commonly discussed point in these debates. I think for the pro-choice side, if the technology existed to incubate outside the womb or to transplant from one person to another who wanted to give birth, we’d be for it. We are not pro-termination. But when it comes to the pregnant person’s autonomy, that takes precedence.

After viability and birth, others besides the mother and father can care for the child. And society owes its children that.

I believe the vast majority of pro-choice supports a limit at viability except when the mother’s life is in danger. Only 1% of abortions happen in the third trimester and nearly all of those are due to a threat to the mother’s life.

On the other side, I believe the majority of pro-life supporters want a complete ban.

If your beliefs are between the extremes, I think only one side represents that.
I think you may need to take a closer look at these numbers, there is no poll indicating that anywhere near 49% of US citizens are "dead set" against abortion being legal.

My understanding is that the number of US citizens who believe that abortion should be illegal in all circumstances is less than 15%.[0] Indeed, looking at this poll more than 75% of the people fell short of believing abortion should be illegal ("legal in only a few circumstances").

With the percentage so low, I find it hard to believe that the people in _any_ US state would like abortion to be banned. Again, it would be interesting if you had any data to back up this statement.

[0]: https://news.gallup.com/poll/393104/pro-choice-identificatio...
The court interprets the laws. This was a bad ruling when it was made. If you want a law, then the legislative branch can try to pass one. That's how our government was setup to work.

> Want a gun, sign up for the militia.

All able-bodied citizens are already part of the militia. The Militia is just The People.

the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Do "higher quality" servos exist that could be dropped in without much modification to the design or software?