skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We barely have two parties.

Both Democrats and Republicans are more similar than different on all but a few social issues (these issues can change over time-- for instance, many Republican politicians used to be pro family planning and contraceptives). Both parties use those few social issues to sow all the division they can.

E.g., Clinton finished what Reagan had started with NAFTA (Democrat and Republican parties both support neoliberal policies)[1]. Clinton, continuing Reagan's initiative, dismantled the federal welfare system[2]. Clinton signed into law an expansion of policing, lengthened sentences, and a three strikes-- life imprisonment provision[3]. Clinton also supported deregulation and signed Gramm-Leach-Bliley which effectively repealed Glass-Steagal[4]. Clinton could have been a Republican except for a few social issues such as, his justice picks supported Roe v. Wade[5].

Clinton wasn't an outlier. Obama proposed changes to the CPI calculation to reduce, already low, Social Security (public pension) benefits[6]. He continued with financial deregulation signing the Security Modernization Act into law[7]. He supported privatization of schools[8]. His landmark health insurance legislation, which maintained private insurers and health care providers, was originally proposed by a far right think tank, the Heritage Foundation[9].

[1] https://time.com/5468175/nafta-history/
[2] https://www.history.com/news/clinton-1990s-welfare-reform-fa...
[3] https://www.ncjrs.gov/txtfiles/billfs.txt
[4] https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/glass-steaga...
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_Supreme_Court_can...
[6] https://money.usnews.com/money/retirement/articles/2013/04/2...
[7] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/financial-services-act-...
[8] https://blackagendareport.com/obama_legacy_III_privatization...
[9] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2010/apr/01/barack-oba...
Maybe, but they already have PWM controllers in them, it's just they don't use the full range so you lose a few bits. By just using the full range it would be incredibly trivial change in software to just use the full PWM range again.
The once "unthinkable" has already been normalized. We are unfortunate enough to live in interesting times. Expect further destruction of your constitutional rights.
Like the old saying goes if you don't know who the sucker is at the table, you’re it
You can use the following to set it as part of your install and setup automation script if you have one

defaults write com.apple.terminal SecureKeyboardEntry -bool true
Get into YC?
Thanks, I think? I'm not sure why it's necessary to consider one's body "property" to advocate for having some semblance of control over what happens to it. And it's pretty obvious this right is not absolute since parents are still allowed to circumcise their children and sign off on medical procedures done to them.
but you can order a print of the Mona Lisa very easily for like $15
It's not backwards.

I'm arguing that those things should drive policy and laws, but we can't implement contradictory laws, and we can't just ignore existing laws when making new ones.

Instead we need to revise, rescind, or modify laws in compliance with existing ones. Otherwise there is no point to having laws to begin with.
> To overturn a precedent, it is not enough that a majority of Supreme Court justices think it was wrongly decided, you also need a case – which requires a state to enact and seek to actively enforce a law violating the precedent

You don't need a new law that seeks to ban all birth control to challenge and lead to a repeal of Griswold. Maybe a former court would have tried to limit scope, but Dobbs vs Jackson wasn't about a total abortion ban, it was a ban at 15 weeks, and yet here we are.
> and I feel few people actually have legitimate scientific interest in discovering the truth

Not to be glib, but what would be a legitimate scientific interest in discovering the truth?

That this plausibly could have been of natural origin would seem to override any value in discerning where it actually came from.

If it was a lab leak, "Oops." We hastened it occuring naturally by some amount of time. Lots of people died, but that would have happened in an inevitable spillover event anyway, albeit farther in the future.

If it wasn't a lab leak, well there we are.

Or, in other words, what would we do differently if it were a lab leak? Increase biocontainment protocols? Okay, so we've made human-origin less likely. We still have to deal with naturally-occurring in the future.
> None of them can explain what made them change their mind on this short time frame in spring 2020.

Really? Can you point to interviews with these people that have no answer when asked why they change their mind?

It's quite a strong statement to say what you said, and it would surprise me to see an entire group of people refuse to answer a question. That would be quite something.

But I suspect a more likely description of the scenario is that you just don't want to accept their judgements, and replace their actual answer with "no answer." I'd love to have my suspicions proven to be wrong! Show the evidence.
The “am I a joke to you?” Meme can commence on ape owners?
While you're mentioning single-byte assumptions, add some more:
- All space, dash and underscore characters are single-byte

I might disagree with some on your list, such as the below:
- Excel can losslessly save CSVs it opens

This is not always false, depending on how careful the user is. Double-clicking to open a CSV file is definitely, but using the menu to import data, then going through the UI to treat every column as Text (and not General) should be fine

I might also add a couple:
- A header row, if present, only spans a single row
Interesting! I'm sure you thought of the possibility of having reviewers pull code they are asked to review rather than having it pushed to a non-master branch in their repo, which would have avoided the Gitolite headaches; what are the advantages of the push model?
DuckDB user here. As far as I can tell, DuckDB doesn’t support distributed computation so you have to set that up yourself, whereas Athena is essentially Presto — it handles that detail for you. It also doesn’t support Avro or Orc yet.

DuckDB excels at single machine compute where everything fits in memory or is streamable (data can be local or on S3) — it’s lightweight and vectorized. I use it in Jupyter notebooks and in Python code.

But it may not be the right tool if you need distributed compute over a very large dataset.
Thanks for sharing those thoughts. Many European immigrants arriving in NY's harbor to be admitted (often to get their names changed for them by 'helpful' officers) probably got more than a bit emotional seeing this great sculpture promising them a better future.

Many had made a long sea-voyage after leaving their families behind. One of them was my 16-year-old grandmother; her only companion chickened-out at the last minute. They faced an unknown future armed only with promises. Liberty's very substantial promise (different to each of them) wasn't always kept, but no doubt many of them felt better about their brave choice.
It's not that space leaks are not a concern; it's that it's actually quite easy to avoid creating them, and if you manage to do so and it becomes a problem, it's usually easy to track down. I don't know any experienced haskell programmer who would even mention this in a list of complaints about the language (which they are sure to have, but they will likely be more abstract).
You're right. i posted the wrong article. The point of that article is that abortion was so widespread and unregulated that most founders wouldn't even think it worth their time to write down their opinion about it.

This is the droid you're looking for: https://www.npr.org/2022/05/18/1099542962/abortion-ben-frank...

It reiterates the thesis of the first article: "It just wasn't something to be remarked upon. It was just a part of everyday life."
You posted the "Personal Use" section of their terms, and intentionally cut out what comes before and after it.

For anyone curious to read the full terms, they're here: https://boredapeyachtclub.com/#/terms
Not too paranoid. Don't click anything.
I get it, you hate women and want to punish them for having sex with you. Please reflect on your position.

Your position is horrendously misogynistic, and if you do not understand why, you should talk to some women. Probably don't lead with your sentence as you are likely to get hit in the face.
The Sleep Debt Collector Is Here
Being competent is not table stakes, how can they tell who is competent?
Roberts' concurrence did not extend to overturning Roe - he stopped at Casey.

In your hypothetical, Roe would still be the law of the land today.
It's too easy to look over this stuff sometimes.

As a parent, I don't always make the right choices. I can beat myself up, but sometimes you just need to point them to something amazing and just let them experience the wonder of it all. It definitely feels like a "reset" to the relationship... even if only for a day.
Untangling the Milky Way's evolution through big data – Space
The cruelty of the right wing is the point, as they say.
They can't enjoy the wellbeing of starvation.
Oh, the old Internet. He even tells people to call him:

> 206.440.0247 <- YES, you can CALL! Just say "I read your notebooks book."

> Call at whatever crazy hour. Let me know.
I have been trying over several versions to get bleve to work, using MM installation guides and forums, but it's never successfully indexed anything.
IBM ISAM (enterprise access manager) was doing this 5+ years ago. The prompt for one time code will look like this [1]:

1234-_______, and email/sms will have two numbers 1234-554566.

Don't think they explained the reason for the first part in the message though. Just highlighted it in a different color.

[1] https://philipnyecom.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/otp.jpg
Yes, but in real life blame doesn't matter. What matters is the alternative (a hardwired credit card terminal or cash) would've worked, and this didn't.
lol jet fuel melt zoonotic origin beams right
Less probable than such a coronavirus originating in Wuhan of all places?
Discovering and Debugging a PyTorch Performance Decrease
Don't cherry-pick phrases. The text is:
> A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Our formal militia is vastly better regulated than the population bearing arms.
Kind of wild this pervert is still where he is thanks in part to Joe Biden.
We routinely abandon that strategy because it is highly inefficient.
Un-paywall: https://archive.ph/ftbiO
Are you willfully misrepresenting other arguments? There's a curious pattern in these threads of you ducking out of conversations when nuance is attempted.

The remainder of the reasonable discussion around this topic is centered around the blurry point between inception and when viable birth is possible. The vast majority of people would classify a fetus, minutes before birth, being aborted as murder.

As well, in most countries restrictions occur at some point in the pregnancy (recognition of the trade-off between bodily autonomy and the rights of the unborn). In my country that happens to be nine weeks unless there's an emergency.
I think its more because only the greatest artworks have ended up being curated. I'm sure if NFT art were as old as physical art there would be more to choose from. I want to also say that in my view I don't believe an NFT has value by itself unless its being used somewhere that people like. For example: a skin in a (popular) game. Otherwise it really is just a file sitting on a computer. It ought to have an impact somewhere and there ought to be at least some backing promise that such an impact will stay.

I really do think digital property has value but only when you do it right.
Another good guess!
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Try turning off ad block and behold.
Except it isn't particularly fast, cheap, secure or anonymous.
This only works if everyone does "you build it you run it".

It also impacts team sizing and the minimum number of people required to continuously support every project so it can be kept alive.

If you have a centralised ops / support function then they need things to be standardised so that they can support them.
And I could name a half-dozen US government -.gov - websites that are downright terrible with respect to usability and security practices. Since when does Nintendo represent all of Japan?
Despite having visited the US many times, I have not the slightest idea of how big a dime is (or what it is worth), so it isn't a useful indicator of scale to me and, I suspect, much of the rest of the world.
> The vast vast majority of Americans are ok with contraceptives, same sex marriage has firm constitutional basis, etc these aren’t going away

Across-the-board bans on contraception aren't happening, because almost nobody wants such a ban.

But overturning Obergefell? I think it is likely. According to 2021 polling data [0], there is still majority opposition to marriage equality in Mississippi (55% oppose) and Arkansas (52% oppose). It looks like the state government trying to overturn it would be a vote-winner in those two states – especially considering that people who actually vote often skew older and more conservative than the population in general, so opposition to it in those states may be even stronger among voters. There are other states where support is still quite weak, such as Alabama (49% support, 47% opposition) and South Carolina (50% support), so the same might be true for them as well. It only takes one state to act to get a case before the Supreme Court.

[0] https://ava.prri.org/#lgbt/2021/States/lgbt_ssm/2,3,9
How funny that you write this comment as if “comptime” is the thing that is the “simple code” alternative in this context: most static languages go with the usual angle-brackets thing for generics, which is fairly declarative and somewhat limited. Zig however has gone with a more general approach: use “comptime” functions which take types as arguments in order to specialize functions. That is way more fancy.

You can get away with not writing macros in most languages that have them. But a lot of static languages makes you use generics (parametric polymorphism) pretty frequently. And this two-stage evaluation (something like `funny(@comptime T: Type, a: T, …)`) is the simple-code flagship feature, in your book?
Modern molecular techniques don't really have to leave signs. Indeed scientists synthesised a copy of sars-cov-2 from the sequence data a few months after the sequence was published:

"it is possible for researchers to reconstruct the virus in a lab, using either fragments of virus from patients, or fragments of DNA that are synthesised chemically by biotech companies. " https://www.varsity.co.uk/science/19172

It seems you can basically type any sequence you want and have it made up.
Yes, of course.

Just like you can create anything, and license it as you wish, and keep a list of authorized licensees on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_tape.

The NFTs are better because...
The last thing I heard yesterday about this event is that they found the employee's bag where he presumably left it when he slept. He "just" forgot it there when he woke up...

For all the talk about the USB and the handling of data, I so wish it had sparked some conversation about the drinking problem in Japan, but nope, not one bit about that. But you'll regularly hear how dangerous and evil Marijuana is...
No realistic takes on crypto allowed on HN, you might get banned.
>> The lab-leak hypothesis is meta-scientific. When it was first tossed around, the lab leak hypothesis generated two predictions:

When and where were those two predictions published? Can you give a link?
U.S. tech industry frets about handing data to states prosecuting abortion
You are downvoted, but it appears to me that you are accurate in your assessment. I haven't followed this debate much, but every time I look I to it I see weird insinuations, misrepresentations, and "obvious" assertions that are not in any way obvious. It seems like a gigantic waste of time, like debating creationists. I'll wait for my scientific peers to blow the whistle if any of the claims have credibility.
Amazon, Meta, Google and more will pay for abortion, but not birth
Some of the biggest companies in America will pay you literal cash to go travel and get an abortion in a state where it’s legal, but won’t pay you more money if you decide to keep the baby. This is beyond insane. Where are the people in tech that are fighting back against this?

Thoughts? Opinions? Comments?
How precisely would you want the date to be presented? Does the exact date matter to you? Is a month/year enough? Just the year?
I would not be suprised if this approach backfired to a certain degree as it would just increase the amount of thoughts, thus distractions.

Most philosophers just end up with even more questions than they started with and end up dying miserable and frustrated.

This is a stark contrast to, for example, Krishnamurti's teaching which could be summed up as "observe your thoughts without trying to analyze them, just sit still and observe them, and notice that each time you try to analyze the thoughts it's the thoughts trying to analyze thoughts, so you will just spin in circles: so just observe, and something magical will happen.", which eventually leads to some kind of an eureka moment in the mind which magicaly resolves this issue and this thought doesn't appear again.

So now this is really not a thought anymore but a instinctive understanding.
Eg first you had to thought and concentrate when you walk, but now you never think about walking, it's instinctive.

The more you focus on walking down the stairs the more likely it is that you will trip.

The author's mistake, from eg Krishnamurti's perspective, is that he belives that thoughts are good: but the best understandings that you have, the things that you do best, you don't actually think about at all. So this more eastern style "no mind" philosophy tries to move one away from these schizophrenic thoughts that constantly invade one's mind and towards "understanding" (cessation of intrusive thoughts by understaing what causes a thought to intrude the "stream of consiousness" and disturb the human).
It's not fully anonymous even WITH crypto. They have call centers. Banning crypto won't make ransomware go away, it will just increase the cost of ransom.
Partial application and function composition are the meat-and-potatoes of functional programming.

Automatic currying is syntactic sugar that can make these two easier and clearer as it gets rid of a bunch of named arguments and lambdas. For example, I can write:

foo a b c = a * b + c

I can then apply this partially like this (foo2 just takes argument c):

foo2 = foo 10 20

and compose it with other functions, for example like this:

composed = foo2 >> bar >> baz

Without currying, you'd have something like:

foo (a, b, c) = a * b + c

foo2 (z) = foo (10, 20, z)

composed (a) = (\b -> foo2 (b)) ((\c -> bar (c)) (baz (a)))
People who follow the label affinities are PITAs. I'm not a libertarian, too much belief in the need for people to recognize obligations as well as rights. All the approaches have some positions of merit and many of BS.
Strange, that hasn't been my experience at all. All the first generation Indian immigrants I know tend to be center-right, with a few who are libertarian in their thinking. My parents were registered Democrats but I would consider my father center-right still, he voted for Reagan as he had suffered under stagflation.
That was an incredibly frustrating read. You click on an app in the dock and it doesn’t come to the foreground, and Apple marks this as “works as designed”?

Just no.
Fertility Doctors Move Embryos, Expecting Abortion Law Changes
Trolling? Language-specific submissions invariably end up as either metadiscussions about the language or as PL comparison discussions. You’re as on-topic as anyone else here.
Ok but the Fed must "print" money in proportion to people "deprinting" money, otherwise the division of labor collapses and your losses will exceed those incurred by the depreciation of stockpiled capital.
I'm a hack, by ear, guitar player and have been totally bemused by how anyone makes electronic music. This video kind of explained the concepts along with showing off a cool machine. I actually fancy building one!
Computer Simulations of Proteins Help Unravel Why Chemotherapy Resistance Occurs
Ah, of course! I was thinking of this incident specifically, though it seems I remembered the details wrong; the miners who died seemingly did so before the WIV got involved:

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

> From 2012 to 2015, WIV researchers identified as many as 293 coronaviruses in and around the mine. (...) The institute in November 2020 disclosed the existence of eight other "SARS-type" coronavirus samples taken from the site.
> I'm sorry but it really is not a nuanced issue.

So you would support an abortion procedure on a fetus after 8 months and two weeks of pregnancy? If you believe this to not be a nuanced issue, then are you in opposition to the original Roe vs Wade ruling that determined personhood for a fetus once it reaches a viable age for survival, and you instead support the ability to abort a fetus all the way up to the moments before birth?

> There is no need to defend these people as some sort of morally principled people confused by the underlying nuances.

I'm confused which one of my comments leads you to believe I'm defending the anti-abortion crowd. I was responding to a comment saying that this is an issue of bodily autonomy rights only. It's not. There are the rights of the unborn child at play as well, hence the nuance.
> There's a field-wide omerta about gain-of-function risks – who wants to ruin their relationship with the NIH, & admit research that's pretty typical across many leaky labs worldwide, may have killed 20 million people (and counting)?

Claims like this, without evidence, reallt detract from any other point you want to make. Because it seems that your thumb is pretty heavy in the scale, without any evidence.
Sadly, in a downturn VCs seem to back their connections (most likely their alma maters) when making choices. It is a bit obvious if you think: They choose ideas which have been pitched by people within 2-3 degrees of connection if they went to same/similar known schools. Although it doesn't change quality or success chances, the proximity provides some degree of personal vetting.

In my limited observation, a good number of small startups were still getting their Series B in early 2010, when most folks were still busy laying off or freezing hires. Those did have either a good university brand backing, a serial entrepreneur or both.
SMS really just needs to die, and we'll all be better off.
Lysistrata
I do, via my Nextcloud install. But I wanna say HN is a real pain to read via RSS, mainly because of dupes.
OOP != class hierarchies. Unfortunately when the industry shifted from procedural programming to OO they chose C++ and Java. These languages are mostly procedural languages with classes bolted on. They pretty much forced you to write hierarchies - it was the only way to get the good parts of OO - loose coupling, polymorphism, inversion of control, etc. Since inheritance was the only tool in the toolbox industry programmers naturally were driven to try and leverage inheritance for everything even though it is the worst part of OO.

Modern multi-paradigm langues do a much better job of letting you use OO when OO works, functional when functional works, etc.

You should use the tool that works when it works. I do plenty of functional and OO programming in ruby, declarative programming in SQL, mostly functional style in JS. There are plenty of places where each one works great.