skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would take that as at best an argument that originalism could be applied in edge cases where a law is ambiguous and hasn't been applied or tested before -- but that's a rare situation, even among appellate courts where truthfully many situations could be decided based upon recent cases or controversies.

The difficulty of many recent legal controversies is not that they are legally difficult to resolve using typical jurisprudence but that the outcomes of the case are controversial. If that's what you mean about becoming a super-legislature, then the issue is probably with the nature of judicial review rather than how it's being done.

Legislative intent is frequently applied by scholars who subscribe to different legal philosophies but not necessarily tell the original intent of a law. Debates within a legislative body are probably better evidence than second hand sources, but on the other hand -- legislatures are typically made up of lots of individuals who don't speak with a unified voice, and there may be differing interpretations of the law.
I disagree. It is an efficient system, which pays dividends to its investors every month:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/257364/top-lobbying-indu...

If the US government was really efficient, US citizens would be paying big pharma and the military industrial complex every day in order to go to work.

You don't need more efficiency, you need less corruption. And that starts by severely curtailing lobbying.
And we know all ccTLDs are accurate, like how .tv always means the site is owned by people from Tuvalu.
It's an interesting psychological design challenge. Games are trying to do two things simultaneously:

1. Give you a deep sense of gratification when you succeed.

2. Keep the stakes low and make the game feel safe to play.

Humans experience things in terms of contrasts, so the easiest way to ramp up the gratification on winning is to punish the player if they lose.

But what punishments are available to a game? You could imagine a game that demanded access to your bank account and withdrew cash every time you lost. Or maybe it deleted a random file off your hard disk. Playing would definitely work up a sweat and give you a profound sense of relief if you won. But it would completely undermine the sense of safety needed to make a game feel like a game and not a job or task.

Because of (2), most games can't really take much from you. The main punishments they are able to mete out are:

1. Waste your time. Give you timers or cut scenes that have to be replayed before you can jump back in.

2. Bore you by making you replay stuff you've already played.

3. Destroy virtual items. If the game randomly generates treasure, then losing it on player death can be particularly anguishing because you don't know when you'll get it back.

But, really, that all boils down to wasting your time. Because you can always get back that lost item if you grind long enough.

That means that the cost model for playing the game varies widely based on player free time. Like you, I simply no longer have a lot of free time that I'm willing to pour into games. So, while I still like them, they're effectively too expensive for me to afford.
The most viable (and likely cheapest overall) option, would be to give the bums access to housing, healthcare, etc. Then there would be far fewer bums in the first place. It's a win-win, but alas tends to be politically unpopular. Especially in the US.
Crying? Did you leave some Linus Torvalds level feedback, like tell them to find a new career or something?
Aren't unions the reason we have a number of worker protections and standards, including the 40 hour work week?
We got that issue here to mixed in with a bit of anti-5G.

It pisses me because I can barely get LTE signal. For some reason, most carriers except version are dead where I live, which is odd because I live inbetween suburbs and a busy road. It's not like I'm in the middle of nowhere. Even with version the signal strength is crap.
If you trace this thread backwards to its root (by essentially responding to every answer with "so what?"), you end up with the question "would it a 'bad thing' if humanity were to become extinct?"

Anecdotally, the vast majority of people I've met - from all walks of life and religious/political leanings - will answer this question with an unthinking "yes, of course that's bad".

I've been curious lately why this is. From the standpoint of Christianity, isn't the end goal rapture followed by total extinction anyway? From the standpoint of agnosticism/atheism, wouldn't an extinction mean the end of human suffering?

Why are we as a species so afraid of not being able to sustain ourselves through a constant churning of new births? Is it just our monkey brain ultimately calling the shots?
Think about how few people believe in Bigfoot when video, photographs, footprints, eye witness testimony all exist.

Think about how many people believe in Jesus without any of that physical evidence.

If anything, the physical evidence turns most people off. And I'd argue that most Bigfooters don't even believe in the physical evidence, but use it as a tool to hopelessly attempt to convince other people to believe in what they already believe is true.
Set up the linters to only lint code that was changed. This way legacy code doesn't need to be fixed all at once, but will slowly get fixed over time
Just looking at statistics of who has any kind of diabetes isn't valid either. T2 diabetics are vastly less likely to use injectable insulin, where as 100% of type 1 diabetics must use insulin. Type 1 diabetics are commonly young, hence it being known as juvenile diabetes.

T2 diabetes gets more common in the overweight and those unable to exercise because of mobility issues increasing their levels of insulin resistance, hence the rise you see in the elderly.
Being able to demonstrate technical understanding of a problem isn't credentialism. Conversely, having an undergraduate degree in X isn't evidence of expertise.
Plurals at Etsy
My most favorite is Lufthansa USB drive: https://webimg.secondhandapp.at/w-i-mgl/6107ec05459d38277e6b...

It has very nice and slick look, and is actually very useful.
Where can I learn about the relationship between set-theory and SQL?
I recently started implementing the Postgres protocol in Rust (https://github.com/dmeijboom/postgres-conn). So I guess I’ll be experimenting with creating a Postgres proxy which translates PRQL on-the-fly.
21 million Bitcoin. 2.1 Quadrillion Satoshi. For all time.

Unlike gold which can be mined in the trillions from asteroids.

Your argument that Bitcoin is trivially copyable was /an/ argument in 2014. We are in a different place now.
> I have found that databases in general tend to be less sexy than the front-end apps

I don't know if there is a single soul who believes this. If you are designing a database, it is much more cooler than front end apps.
Repeating it is a great way to paint yourself as one of those dolts that likes to act like they care about EVs for the virtue points.

Everyone who's ever used a drill knows that while speed and torque are inversely related in most of a motors normal operating range you don't get insane torque at low speed. Of course you can wind a motor differently to mitigate this somewhat but still, not a huge improvement. You wouldn't see reduction gears on all sorts of things if this were the case.
I can't answer for Atari but I know that games from that time would usually derive randomness from user input timings. There simply wouldn't be a readily available source of (good) entropy available otherwise and using a complicated algorithm to harvest it and "mix" it would be prohibitively expensive. And who cares for crypto-grade entropy in a game anyway?

It's actually still common with much more recent games where there are viable strategies that involve putting the RNG in a known-state (for instance at init) and then performing very precise actions to trigger a normally random event with 100% certainty. Here's an example for Final Fantasy XII: http://www.fftogether.com/forum/index.php?topic=2778

Basically the strategy is that by using a "cure" spell several times in a row and looking at how much health it regenerates in the game you can guess the position within the RNG output sequence (that is fixed and resets when you power down the console). Then when you know where you are you can plan your actions knowing ahead of time what the RNG will output and whether it'll be favourable or not.

I believe that what you observed in Pacman was however due to a primitive AI: each ghost would have a simple strategy and stick to it, making them predictable and non-random by design.
In a typical protected memory situation, yes, this is done by the OS setting up a faulting mapping of OS-dependent size at low addresses, though the C runtime startup code could do it if the OS did not. (Not sure how Win9x handled it, by the way—wasn’t it supposed to map the DOS VM in the first 1M?..) In bare metal environments, there is usually something at address zero—if you’re lucky, it’s ROM, and you get a bus fault if you try to write there; if you’re not (as on the 8086), it is part of an architecturally significant part of RAM such as the interrupt vector table, and spectacular amounts of chaos can ensue if you touch it at the wrong time.

Technically, while the C standard does require that

void *p = 0;

makes p be a special pointer value equal to any other one obtained that way and unequal to any normal pointer value, it does not require the memory backing the variable p to actually store all zero bits. Neither does it require that p be equal to q or r in

int n = 0; void *q = (void *)n;
void *r; memset(r, 0, sizeof r);

nor, of course, that actually dereferencing p cause any particular behaviour like a crash. (POSIX may be stricter, I’m not sure.)

Therefore the designers of the WASM C ABI could have made (void *)0 an all-ones pointer instead, for example, or better yet that minus some headroom, and guarantee a crash on dereference that way. Of course, this would be a DeathStation-level perversity, and I doubt Clang would be capable of dealing with such a platform out of the box.

...

Now that I’m thinking about it, a more realistic solution would be to have (void *)n be stored as n but actually refer to WASM memory address n - 64K or something like that during codegen. Perfectly ordinary platform as far as C is concerned, possibly a bit of binary bloat(?). Don’t know why they didn’t do it that way.
>Your reasoning there is based on assumption that "the purpose of a uterus is to support the baby", which is... well, apart from being absurd, it's also yet another attempt at derailing the discussion; your idea about intended purpose of body parts is not relevant to anyone's bodily freedom. It applies equally to all body parts.

I do not think it is comparable to organ donation. I do think you are required to provide the basic necessities, but are not obligated to go beyond. Due to our limitations with artificial wombs and fetus transplants it is not possible to provide the basics without carrying the pregnancy.

>All of which belong to the same branch of a single religion, like I said above.

Those are not the same branch of the same religion. It is mighty convenient that you left off all the other branches along with different religions I mentioned.

>What you have in mind is called "political correctness", and recent events prove that there's been way too much political correctness towards religiously-motivated social pathologies.

I don't really care if you are PC in general. HN, however, is supposed to be a civil place. Bigotry like what you spewed isn't in keeping with the guidelines.

>You still hadn't answered to the proof that it isn't - unless you want to argue that someone's religious superstition is more important than fundamental human rights.

If you can't stop bringing up religion there is no point in continuing. This has nothing to do with religion. There is good biological evidence life starts at conception.

Here are some resources which contain biologists and biology text books.

https://www.princeton.edu/~prolife/articles/embryoquotes.htm...

https://www.princeton.edu/~prolife/articles/embryoquotes2.ht...

>Not human - a zygote. Humans have minds, that what makes us humans. Zygotes, like cadavers, provably don't

Toddlers don't have fully formed minds. They only have a minimal level of sentience and consciousness. I am concluding that toddlers are not humans. Great reasoning there.
The problems do not go away, they just become more present for more people. I commute in the mornings and evenings on the redline subway in LA, and I've seen just about every substance you can smoke smoked on the platforms or in the traincars. It doesn't let up when the traincars are full of people commuting to work either (which despite the car centric image, many people actually do use the trains in LA to get to work), it just gets more sweaty and hot inside and more noisy as more portable speakers compete with eachother.

These are societal problems. More people using transport doesn't make people with issues simply poof into thin air or suddenly en masse take up private transport to go places to free up public transport for the sane. More asylums would certainly improve the situation getting unwell people into care and safety, along with better drug treatment programs for the addicted, but these aren't transit department problems to solve. Even if security got harsh on the train platforms and meth users were readily kicked out of the train, it would just amount to kicking the can down the road without having a mechanism to institutionalize more people or force people who don't want to change their lifestyle into care.
Ah, I didn't know Mastodon was designed to be public like Twitter.

In that case, yeah. It would be nice to see an alternative to Facebook that respected privacy.
The ghost behavior is the real genius behind the game. Even if you don't realize it, your subconscious learns how each ghost operates and longer you play the more you learn how to exploit it.
Causation frequently removes correlations that would otherwise exist.
Freedom from the emotional challenge of interacting with other human beings you have not met before.
That's true - the package is auto-generated using [wasmpak](https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-pack), that's why TypeScript definitions are clunky. I did the initial prql-js release and I'm actually not sure about the free() issue you are talking about.

We are currently working on compiling it for both Node.js and the browser target, and would be happy to see some advice if you are familiar with WASM!
In the case of SQL/NoSQL I think it is the other way around. In order to use a NoSQL database to its strength, you have to know all access path up front [1]. Because you are designing your table structure with all the queries in mind. In SQL on the other hand, you can always go for a normalized structure and you are pretty safe to be prepared for most requirements that are coming in the future.

Additionally, I think drafting a DDL schema is a great way to learn about a new application domain. It forces me to ask hard questions. And that improves my understanding of the domain.
I guess that is similar to some people who like to prototype using Haskell type signatures.

[1] Unless you mean specifically a document store without schemas.
For most US residences, there is at most 1 wired broadband provider to the house (coaxial cable), and they provide an unspecified anemic upload bandwidth.
On Twitter, Elon Musk has been posting a lot about how people should have more children. I'm mentioning it not because of him, instead because it offers insight into a common misconception.

Those threads show thousands and thousands of replies by young people about how they can barely take care of themselves. High cost of living, no access to housing, unaffordable healthcare, etc.

What is not intuitive is that this reasoning, even though it feels so right and just, is entirely wrong. If you were to be wealthier, you'd not have more children. Add even more wealth and you'd have even fewer, not more. The wealthier people are, the less children they have on average.

The other insight you'll get is the gloomy image people have of the future. This really needs work. As humanity we need to have a better story than "it's all downhill from here".
No one is forced to use Apple products at all. Choosing an Apple product over non-apple products is a choice. There is extensive competition with Apple products. Choosing to buy an iPad, and being upset that they can't install linux on it, failed to do any product research before buying the product.

Many people, myself included, choose to use Apple products in part BECAUSE of how those products work and function, today. I don't want to install additional browsers, app stores, or other crap on my phone, I just want it to work well, out of the box with reasonably high security. For my needs Apple products provide that today.

If Apple's products don't fit your needs, the solution is trivial - don't buy Apple products.
"You people"? 30 years ago I had just recently started mastering the toilet and was moving on to other things like reading and speaking words other than mama and dada so I'm not sure how much political capital I was exercising during that time period.
Take a look at the Abortion Act 1967 if you're acting in good faith.
If it exists, there's porn of it. And a relevant xkcd.
If anyone is interested in leveling up their swag at the expense of time, going directly to tailors in Asia (I use Vietnam) can massively increase the quality, while providing the same expense and delivering more money to those who make your clothes.

For the same price as a sweater with a logo on it, I got bespoke wool pea coats made for everyone on my team (made to fit to their measurements), with custom printed lining and an embroidered subtle logo on it. Final cost with shipping was about $70pp. Tailor made clothes look so much better and it makes people want to wear them more. The cost was time - it's about a 2mo turnaround and you'll be looking at about 8 hrs of spend on your end coordinating things.
> Chrome's dominance of the Web is very scary. Not as scary as IE's, since it's open source, but still, it's such a huge beast that it's almost proprietary through complexity. I don't know if there's an easy solution out of this.

I'd say that Chrome's dominance is much scarier than IE's. One reason has to do with user data.

When IE was dominant, user data was not nearly as valuable. Today, user data is how Google makes money, so they are strongly incentivised to harvest it. While I understand Chrome isn't exactly the source of the harvesting, it reinforces reliance on Google services for the vast majority of users.
Why? A cuff is inflated by a pump, which is way more annoying than an electrical measurement.
Even then, the heavy lifting of pushing the dozens of updates is mostly in the kernel, isn't it?

Don't get me wrong, it's pretty good and just the fact that you're pushing these stats reflects quite well on my (external) impression of Phoenix: most don't even bother to try and just resort to "hardware is cheap".

It's just that this should be the default. Reminds me of this tweet from @SwiftOnSecurity:

> Once you understand your computer has 16 cores running at 3GHz and yet doesn't boot up in .2 nanoseconds you understand everything they have taken from you.
There's no "shaming" happening. My remarks were about the subject of the comment, not an attack on the poster (who is anonymous anyway).

I already flagged the comment. The point in adding my own was to help set standards for HN, which both serves the purpose of allowing the poster to realize why their comment doesn't mean HN standards (if your comment gets flagged and dead and it's not clear why, that's not helpful for a good actor who just didn't know the rules), and to help others be aware that these kinds of comments shouldn't be allowed.
FTL == flash translation layer
> (not that C is the best language out there)

I think there are many people who might actually agree with this. Tbh, I think anyone making the argument the other is making, would rather Rust follow the path of C than the path of C++.
Linus Torvalds is cautiously optimistic about bringing Rust into Linux 5.20
I don't buy that line of thinking.

People can still (on average) have career growth by taking an ever larger piece of the pie. And then they retire/die, leaving more pie for the young ones.

Also, we have the tech to make this pie comfortably big.
Reddit is not working for me
The “right” way to do Dunes is to bike camp there. Ride your bike to your nearest train that gets you to the loop and take the southshore train (or do the whole thing by bike).

You can do a similar trip to Zion up north which is even easier from the Northside. You can be sleeping in a hammock walking distance to the water in either direction pretty trivially.

I’m less familiar with the western suburbs version but have friends that do starved rock this way.

I don’t think it invalidates your point and the time it takes to get to somewhere “outdoors” is actually my biggest complaint about the area but both of those parks are definitely doable after work… so long as you stay the night.

Here is a link to a group that does those trips as tours and does advocacy: https://www.oofd.org/
Again, like I said in the comment that this parent comment replied to: provide a waiver that basically says the candidate can't use the feedback legally. It's a similar thing with the NDA on the reverse end.
The article specifically points out that Germany has similar regulatory and cost overrun challenges, so in general it can't be used as a counterpoint - the example case where things went well for Germany is attributed to waiving procedural requirements mandated by the EU.

Even when with guaranteed EU protections, the system can be inefficient.
In my opinion, the biggest advantage of Angular is how batteries-included it is. Everything just works out of the box, and project configuration is very standardized. The framework owns everything from common UI components (Angular Material) to your build process (Angular CLI) to non-core packages (router, forms) to state management (RxJS).
Yes. It looks like this:

export type ValidWords<T extends string> = T extends ""
? "valid"
: T extends `the${infer Rest}` | `of${infer Rest}` | `and${infer Rest}` | ...
US Presidents have had the ability to make false claims based on video of something completely different, create material using actors and/or compromised communications, stage events or use testimony that information has been obtained via secret channels from appointees heading up agencies whose job it is to obtain information via secret channels for a long time now.

If anything, recent events suggests the opposite: deepfakes can't be that much of a game changer when an election candidate doesn't even have to try to manufacture evidence to get half the people who voted for him to believe his most outlandish claims.
In like Flynn
Side note: being an employee in Europe comes with a degree of job security (being a contractor doesn't unless you somehow insure yourself privately). But, employment benefits come with massive paperwork complications for remote people (like who pays if you fall from your chair during work). Pros and cons, as always.
If it's a magic link for logging in:

1. You open the link once = you're logged in

2. You open the link twice = you're presented with an error that the magic link has already been used.
Procedural Music Composition with Python
Funny, I thought it was about a teenage podcaster talking with a professional for a very long time.