skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn’t Zig…not really production-ready? I was under the impression it was still a bit of an experiment. I’m aware of people using Rust in production on large-scale systems, but not Zig.
You can disagree for sure and I respect that (assuming you are woman and it is your decision what to do). But when men (predominantly) order women to prison for abortion - fuck those men. There is no need to demonize, they are already there.
> There's a very small skew towards males preferring it be illegal

Women favor legality by +28 percentage points

Men favor legality by +17 percentage points

That's...not a particularly small gender skew.
you realize import taxes turn into higher prices for the people buying the stuff right?
> It's only plausible if you know very little about biology.

Not trolling, series question: what would these same ppl say about the monkey pox outbreaks? Why now? Why so random?
This movie is about to get hackernews'ed ;)

The residuals for whatever service will stream it are going through the roof.
Funded. Get ready for swedish marooned family part 2!!!!
This would be great for space travel and off planet colonies.
Transgender men are speaking out loudly about this on social media right now, as they are also obviously impacted.
> they just need someone to take care of them, it doesn't have to be their mother.

Wouldn't it then make more sense to require the mother to take care for the fetus/baby before the age of viability (as she's the only one who can), not after that (and/or after birth) when anyone can? Right now, it's the reverse.
Left out, walled gardens for phones.
Also Japan is the world leader in fax technology. Fax. Many fax companies are only viable because of the Japanese market.
Why do you think I hate women? In any case women nor men have full autonomy over their body anyway. See Buck v Bell.
Many of the others called Roe v. Wade "settled law" in sworn statements. That didn't stop them from voting to overturn it today.
"Hate him."
The overwhelming majority of men can't get pregnant.
Online privacy: how to protect it for normal people
Even if there are a large number of customers who are vocally against the Touch Bar, there are still many apps and workflows which have made it part of the regular ecosystem. Imagine also those in media industries who only started using Mac after it was introduced; they won’t have as much reason to care about the change, only the features/flexibility which it gains them.

Anecdotally, friends are pretty evenly split on whether they like it or not but by and large none really care that much. Give them function keys, they’ll use them sometimes. Give them a touch bar, also… sometimes.
The Catholic Church opposes the use of condoms[1]. Even in areas of the world where AIDS is rampant. They are not sex-positive, they are procreation-positive.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_HIV/AIDS

Edit: I suppose the Catholic Church is sex-positive when it comes to their clergy and underage parishioners. Disclaimer: I went to Catholic school for 11 years.
I’m not arguing that children are property, but rather your own body is. When a born child leaves your body, then they can no longer infringe upon your right of self ownership. I don’t see a conflict here.
Does that also mean all household members should be in the same house while watching? Kinda defeats the purpose of their mobile apps.
Hard disagree - the expected behavior should be:
If I launch an item from the dock/finder AND I also don't context switch to another application, then and only then should the window show in the foreground and steal keyboard focus.

I can't even begin to list the number of times where I've hit the enter key in an IDE at the exact moment that a application with a crucial modal message box steals focus.
Could you please make your substantive points without name-calling and swipes? It's against the site guidelines. It's also not in your interest, since it weakens your case.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> That’s exactly what you see happening in the US right now.

No, with the January 6 riots? we see a minority no longer interested in the democratic process now that they don’t feel they are winning anymore.

How can you look at this Supreme Court, where multiple appointments were the result of heavy lobbying by large wealthy conservative faith groups to a president who lost the popular vote, and parliamentary tricks to keep the seat open, and see it representing a return to majority rule from rule by elites.
Did not realize that; I think you likely know more about movie economics than I do. Why only movies about real life? (or said swedish maroon stories)
>Haskell is equal or better (sometimes significantly so) in almost every relevant domain. For domains in which ocaml is a better choice, it is not the globally best choice (i.e. both ocaml and haskell are bad in those domains).

I think this assertion is false, but it would take a lot of careful evaluation to prove it one way or the other. The most salient counterexample that comes to mind is modularity and namespacing.

Of course it's possible I'm wrong, and Haskell is objectively superior in every regard. But the OCaml language and ecosystem has [a decades long track record of stable and evident success stories](https://ocaml.org/industrial-users) and I find it well suited for the kinds of problems I like to tackle. I also like the prevailing vibe in the (still) small community.

This exchange reminds of a difference I've observed in the cultural tendencies in the OCaml and Haskell ecosystems: in my experience, OCamlers tend to not be very invested in arguing for the supremacy of OCaml.
I had in mind physical casinos so I would say yes but testing also depends on each country regulations. If I recall properly (I worked in the testing industry long time ago and with slot machines) the problem with online games for my country at that time was that there was some confusion on which regulation to apply for them as games where not played where they were hosted.
I have been looking for a (relatively) inexpensive binoculars/tripod setup so when I am out of town and in the boonies, I can enjoy the stars. For everything I look at, though, there's a caveat -- bad collimation, poor eye relief, etc. If it isn't one thing, it's another.
It didn't take a crypto crash, crypto has been a failed currency since BTC hit a dollar...

Extreme deflation is arguably more deadly than hyperinflation. If you know that by holding a dollar today, you can get 2 dollars worth of goods tomorrow, why are you going to spend a dollar?

Likewise, once Bitcoin went from fractions of a penny to a dollar, what incentive was left to spend it? You could argue an ideological want force it as a currency... but how many people's morals hold up at 10x returns? 100x returns? 1000x returns?

If BTC (or any major crypto) had become the official currency of a country, it'd be a failed state by this point.
Don't fall into the trap of taking the opposite stance of bad arguments.
A well balanced breakfast, being necessary to the start of a healthy day, the right of the people to keep and eat food shall not be infringed.

Who has the right to food? A well balanced breakfast or the people?
This comment could easily be adapted into a form letter to oppose the majority of Supreme-Court-decided expansions of civil rights of the past century.
no/low taxes has been done since the 80's and all we have for it is massive wealth disparity in this country. It's a failed policy that punishes the majority so a few can be obscenely wealthy.
The wealthy economic zones also require we be OK with little to no environmental regulation, Hong Kong was known for having medical waste simply be dumped into the ocean. It wasn't unheard of to find used syringes and such wash up on the beaches..
Long story short, nothing to do with your actual business or business model or innovative technology or hand-wavy "disruption" or large addressable market size or traction or any of the other things that VCs tell the plebs matter, when in reality they only matter if you don't have anything more valuable like the above. This is how companies raise ludicrous amounts of money without ever finding product-market fit, because of the Ivy league / family / prior possibly irrelevant past history matters more.
You know we know exactly who killed JFK and it's not controversial by anyone who seriously looks into it right?
They’re not going to have a video of it jumping, no, but they can look as probabilities as they’ve done. This has ruled out the bioweapon theory which got a lot of chatter a couple years ago, and it’s shown that zoonotic origin is heavily favored as the likely candidate. That doesn’t rule out something like a natural virus infecting a worker who made a lab safety error but it hasn’t made that look extremely likely, either.

For anyone honest, the big question here is how we prevent this from happening again. The conclusions seem pretty solid: be careful about pushing humans into wild animal populations, better surveillance for emerging diseases, and continue pouring money into research on things like rapid test and vaccine development so response times can shrink.
If your choices are Roth or not 401k, you want to do not if your tax rate is currently high, and roth if it's currently low. Both rates relative to your estimated rate when you plan to take distributions.

Note that the more of each flavor you have, the more it pushes you to the other flavor. If you have a large regular 401k balance, your taxable income will be high in retirement, so you may not want to defer more taxes until retirement age. And if your Roth balance is large, you have access to a lot of untaxable income, so you may want to defer more taxes until retirement.

Otoh, if you expect to have taxable invesments, and retire early, living off of taxable, you may have the opportunity to convert to Roth at low rates.

It kind of depends on how much you want to optimize.

Also, some companies offer an after tax 401k, some with automatic conversion to Roth. Then you can take the limit of tax deferred contributions and contribute a significant amount to (effectively) Roth and have both.

Oh and one more thing. The contribution limit is the same number of dollars, but Roth dollars are more valuable than traditional dollars, so Roth contributions gets you more money into tax priviledged accounts (of course, Roth contributions are more expensive, too).
That's funny. This has been a problem for every experienced Haskell programmer I've known who works in Haskell professionally. I wonder what domain you work in where performance and space leaks haven't been a concern?
Patent, by definition, is shared and public knowledge (but not a public ownership)
I think he meant particularly Ginny and Clarence Thomas, not people of different races in general.
> To develop further the point about "what doesn't scale" there is also the function with unnamed arguments and currying.

Not sure what you mean by unnamed arguments, but criticizing automatic currying is totally valid.

> Functional programming with immutable values is a wrong pattern for programming languages. Many algorithms, almost all actually, are naturally expressed in imperative style with mutable arrays or variables.

This is a huge jump. Any imperative solution can just be expressed as a fold of some sort and many algorithms, esp. those that use stacks, are easily expressed recursively. Which one is more "natural" is 100% subjective, but I'm in the declarative is easier to reason about than imperative camp. Moreover, the idea that "unnatural" algorithm expression implies "doesn't scale" needs much more elaboration.

> What is needed is to bridge the good things from OCaml, the type system, the pattern matching with tagged types into a modern, imperative programming languages.

> Rust is a sort of answer but they got it wrong because it is too low level about managing the memory, the ownership pardon, and everything else so programmers cannot just express the algorithm or the logic they want to implement but they have to spend a lot of mental energy thinking about ownership issues and unneeded accidental complexity like lifetime annotations.

It's not "wrong" just not what you want, and honestly the ownership model isn't that bad. The overhead amortizes somewhat as you get used to it. I of course agree there is room for more languages with ML-like type systems though!
> Where do we draw the line? At what point is a fetus a person? And from there, we can determine where its rights to not die at the hand of another person begin. And yes, we have to factor in the health of the mother, the health of the fetus, etc into these decisions.

That is irrelevant. At most, where you draw the line could affect what type of abortive procedure doctors would be allowed to employ - if you believe that the fetus is a person, you could mandate that the doctors must remove it from the mother's body without harming it.

But just as you have no obligation to allow someone into your home (and are in fact perfectly within your rights to murder them if they refuse to leave), you have no obligation to grow another person inside your own body.

There is no nuance here. There are only fallacies employed by people who desperately want to uphold some perceived status quo from time immemorial.

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

...sure, by specifying the whole url and calling an external program where the actual shit downloading happens. The same as bash, C and so on. Of course, it is in very bad taste to do so, and by no means a standard or even common thing to do when using makefiles.

Maybe it would be OK if cargo let you download code, after giving it a sort of "unsafe" flag or something. But the current behavior is just bonkers.
To me, his title is somewhat misleading though. It seems he's against the extreme "everything is an object" version of OOP. I think taking things to the extreme is almost always a bad thing. Sometimes goto is a good solution.

I do agree with most of his points though, which just so happens to be closely aligned with how I've ended up programming. I like to use interfaces, so my objects hierarchies are very shallow and use a lot of delegation, overriding few if any methods.

I also write a lot of free-standing functions, some long, when I feel that's best. I also mix in a fair bit of functional-like programming, especially when massaging data.
The creation of a whole new federal branch - "homeland security" was created under BushII. Cushy federal jobs with pensions all funded off that sweet sweet defense budget.
So now airline travel is ruined all for security theater..and you think ACA is overreach?
I'd like you to lay out, very specifically, why what is essentially an extension or growth has more rights than a fully formed and independently living human
It’s usually somewhat worse. However depending on how close you are with that company, you might be able to be a representative of an overseas business [1], or they might be able to sponsor you using directly with a local entity or a hiring service (though idk which ones might offer things like this).

[1] https://www.gov.uk/representative-overseas-business
> Airborne was always known

In the early days China even claimed even that this thing is NOT contagious - and yet they already started isolating patients at this time.
> Catholics oppose the use of condoms

Not really. Catholic doctrine might, American Catholics, especially, do not:

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2016/09/28/poll-finds-...

> Even in areas of the world where AIDS is rampant.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/18/health/zika-pope-francis-cont...

(Benedict XVI made somewhat similar comments in 2010 regarding AIDS in Africa.)
HN in general tends to be on the pacifist, anti-militarist, technology-solves-everything side. Which is a pretty decent thing in general, don't get me wrong, but dogmatic followers of such attitudes got us Trump, the invasion of Ukraine and now this shit.

Si vis pacem para bellum, and there will be war. I honestly am unable to think of a scenario that will prevent a collapse of at least the US democracy, if not the rest of the world with it (because let's face it, the US picked up the tab to ensure the freedom of democracies while us Europeans stood aside). The only thing capable of stopping the spiral towards death is if the Democrats win a solid majority in November... but that is completely unrealistic.
Or maybe the women in red states can vote for democrats? The 2022 elections outcome could turn out very unexpected.
I had a similar course using the 68HC11... but that was in 1991 or '92. I am (pleasantly) surprised to hear that this kind of class is still running. Haven't done embedded for a long time, so I don't know if the 68HC12 is current or not.

Wouldn't worry thouhg. Even if that chip is not in wide use now, the skills you learned are transferrable to any other.
> and it just took one crypto crash

I'm mostly crypto-skeptic, and appreciate your insights, but this part is to be expected with any market: when the value of something is up, certain business models become profitable and start manifesting. When the value goes down, they stop being profitable and those models vanish (or become sustained externally).

It's easy to see in high profile markets like resource extraction, real estate, venture capital availability, etc

So of course the business model of "use crypto as a currency" will vanish/diminish when the currency value of a coin is substantially down.
I would argue that legal consistency should be the priority.

The legal argument is simple:

- The Constitution enumerates federal powers.

- Abortion is not enumerated federally (Article 1 Section 8)

- 10th Ammendment states that anything not explicitly enumerated to the federal gov or explicitly denied to the States is the legal territory of the States

This reversal doesn't ban abortion across the US. It returns the decision to the states, where it should be legally.

If we want a federal solution, we need an ammendment. This is exactly the same as how prohibition required an ammendment to ban alcohol.

Emotions, morals, etc., while important for driving the end result, still must comply with the legal system.
Truly retro. Only thing it's missing is setting the background to match Mosaic/Netscape gray.
That's not how to read these numbers. Your way of counting doubles the actual gender gap.

63 percent of women say abortion should be legal in all/most cases.

58 percent of men say abortion should be legal in all/most cases.

That's an ~5 percentage point gender gap, not a 10 percentage point gap.
I guess the disagreement is around the word "undetected". It's possible some failure was covered up and I trust the Chinese government to be capable enough to do that.

> virus has to be collected and be propagated in the lab

That's a weaker statement than the one I replied to. I'm referring to the how it's necessary that it needs to a "pandemicable" virus that enters a lab "undetected" and I guess leaves the lab "undetected". There's several possible ways the virus could have made it into Wuhan:

- Improper handling occurs somewhere in transporting the samples from bat caves (w/e) to the lab.

- Improper handling of samples in the lab.

- Improper disposal of samples in the lab.

- Entering a more speculative area; bat samples are used in experiments and improper handling or disposal occurs.

- Deeper into speculation: Improper handling/disposal of viruses used in gain of function research.

And when any of the above occurs, use the state's staggering power to cover it up.

> You can interpret a molecular clock or a phylogenetic tree qualitatively

I'm sure that could work but I imagine the error bars are quite wide as otherwise that's definitive proof and we wouldn't be discussing this online.

> unless you think the Wuhan lab tested the Virus in Laos

Nice attempt at absurd rhetoric. Strengthens the argument doesn't it?
I was involved with a non-profit with a low-eight-figure (USD) budget. The board members were chosen because they either had money or had influence over people with money. In other words, busy people. Over the years the CEO reduced the amount of information that got to the board, in part by replacing competent staff with lackeys, and the reality of the organization diverged ever further from the stated objectives and value.
> Only if you consider making it easier to break the law to be solving a problem rather than creating one.

The question at hand, raised by Schneier, is if the technology has the capability to solve any problems. This seems objectively true: that it has the capacity to help solve the very specific problem of transacting in spite of unjust laws and tyrannical governments. This is a problem we aren't used to having in the West as of late, but certainly it's a common problem for many in history.

What you're asking here is if, on net, we ought to consider it a harmful or beneficial technology, to the point where we ought to promote its development or stifle it. That is a separate, more complex question than the one raised of if the technology can solve any real problems.
Has there ever been any analysis as to what the confidence level was before Marbury vs. Madison?
I used Netscape through 4.x, up until 2000 or so. It took years before Phoenix / Firebird / Firefox was considered "stable" (I'd say Firefox 2.0?) There was a solid 4 or 5 years there where IE was your only real choice. Apple was even shipping IE with the Mac!
I haven't tried this, but "under 15 euros" seems a little optimistic. The servos cost US$2.75 each [0] and you need three of them plus a fairly beefy 5-volt power supply --- the USB ports on your laptop are not going to cut it. But the big issue is the Pi. The cheapest Raspberry Pi I can find locally (that isn't a Pico) is a Raspberry Pi 400, which is US$92 [1]. For some reason a bare Pi 4B is US$230 [2], and even a 3B is US$130 [3].

I had the impression that the Pi didn't have hardware PWM, but the pigpio library used [4] says it supports hardware PWM and thus servo pulses on pins 0-31. (Shows what I know.) So if your Linux process gets delayed because the CPU is busy, it might cause arm movements to pause, but it won't command the servo to move to a wildly different position.

Still, I feel like an Arduino or Pico sort of thing would be a better fit. Much cheaper and no worries about pauses. A BluePill costs about US$11 [5] and an ESP32 is about US$7.10 [6]. That's still not quite cheap enough to hit US$15 but it might fit into 15 euros. Can the BrachioGraph software be hacked to run in MicroPython?

(I calculated all these prices using AR$207/US$ but that was the price yesterday; apparently today the peso is worth 7% less and it's AR$222/US$, so adjust accordingly.)

The PantoGraph [7] looks more appealing to me because its parallel kinematics remove the need to move heavy servomotors around.

[0]: https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-619943977-mini-serv...

[1]: https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-905167031-computado...

[2]: https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-876846669-raspberry...

[3]: https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-1143260129-raspberr...

[4]: http://abyz.me.uk/rpi/pigpio/index.html

[5]: https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-737177975-modulo-de...

[6]: https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-916790826-nodemcu-e...

[7]: https://www.brachiograph.art/how-to/pantograph.html