skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mainframes died for a reason, and that reason wasn't the capabilities of their specialized hardware blocks, but

a. the difficulty of using them in unintended ways, such as wiring together a bunch of them to get better performance

b. the specialized knowledge required to get them to do anything at all

c. the limited use cases of the hardware (see a.) which made it expensive

Applauding OpenCL because it is more like mainframes than CUDA... seems nonsensical to me.
Microsoft banned me from playing Minecraft until I provide personal info
Curious to hear the HN take on this. Some people I talked to seemed to think this is a small hill to die on.
Am I just weird that I find this uncomfortable? The stated purpose is spam prevention, but CAPTCHA exists for that purpose. I'd be more than happy to fill out a CAPTCHA.

I've been happily playing Minecraft for 12 years now, and I've gotten more than my money's worth out of that game. If my insistence on privacy means that I can't play it anymore, then perhaps that is a price I'm willing to pay. :(
> That the NRL is of a different opinion only shows that they are an extremist organization, way out on the fringes

It's the oldest and largest national anti-abortion organization in the United States, hardly the fringes. They do a lot of campaign financing.
Maybe that behavior is Linux-exclusive? Under macOS and Windows, if I only use --ytdl-format='bestaudio/best' with livestreams mpv will spawn a window with the video.
We have a free market to make decisions about what uses of energy are worthwhile and government decisions about how to allocate energy are likely to lead to cronyism if not outright disaster. If you want to reduce the use of energy in order to reduce carbon emissions, the market oriented solution is a carbon tax or a cap and trade system.
> It's important to note that whether this is sinful or not completely irrelevant to whether it should be illegal. The fact that so many Christians don't see this obvious fact is frankly disturbing - as is the fact that organizations like the Catholic Church are engaged in trying to push such theocratic ideas.

I agree it has nothing to do with whether it's sinful or not. Basic human rights stand for religious as well as non-religious people. Therefore anyone can push human rights in the way they want, whether they're the Catholic Church or not.

> There are many huge sins that are perfectly legal. For example, eating pork, killing cows, and working on the Sabbath are much worse sins according to their respective religions, and yet they are perfectly legal activities.

Again, the things that are illegal, do not undermine the basic human rights. So, in modern society, eating pork shouldn't lead to death (which doesn't, not even in religious terms) but same goes for working on sabbath. ONLY if you subject yourself to it, and only then, you, personally, waive the human right to live.

> For legal matters, the only thing that matters is balancing the rights of one individual with the rights of everyone else, and with the good of society of large. From all of these points of view, allowing access to early term abortion is a clear net win, even if it infringes on the rights of a kinda sorta potential person (the fetus). As the fetus gets closer to being an actual person, the equation changes.

I think we're on a very bad slope here. The question of whether something is good for society at large is the one the Nazi's followed as well. By that, we should think of the rights of every single individual. Therefore, killing a human is not allowed, unless it's for the inevitable life of another human, there should not be a question what the answer is. Neither as a fetus, nor as an "actual person"

Identity politics and their resulting policies should be avoided at all costs. We should focus on the individual and their rights, and the group, or society if you
will, will benefit.
It is absolutely frustrating to me that people are trying to say that pro life people are coming to the conclusion due to their religion.

I'm sure some people are, but the idea that the only way you can derive ideas like "human life has worth" is from religion feels like a huge step backwards.
Well multiple was perhaps a strong word - it was two people on two occasions, one 19 and the other 50. Prefer not to give my location but it was a liberal area (and more significantly, they shared the opinion with the knowledge that I would be at least open to the idea).
Unfortunately, evangelical leaders have promoted this as a sort of magic moment when a human begins. The has resulted in opposition to emergency contraception (Plan B) under the perception that it's an aborticant.
Oklahoma has less than 4 million people and a bit over 1% of the U.S. population. Roe applied a radical viability standard to the whole country.
Marketing usually talks about unthrottled speed only, including Apple's here as far as I have seen.
Even WP didn't really get Reveal Codes on their own program right when they went to Windows. That tool is just way more appropriate for monospaced terminals instead of WYSIWYG.
I think you also have to track suicides and lasting psychological and physical damage.

https://www.bmj.com/content/313/7070/1431

There’s a lot of data out there; it’s political and I’m sure we can both point to evidence. My point was simply that abortion isn’t a non-risky event; it’s high risk. Not simply due to immediate risk, but long tail risk.

It’s hard having this discussion because we can both find evidence to the contrary. That said, if you know people who’ve had abortions, many regret it. The risks really aren’t tracked or shared either.

Regarding your 1 year old comment, a 20 week old can also exist out of a body. And there are 1 year olds who need life support. The argument doesn’t hold. The same arguments against infanticide hold up for abortions. I hold no judgement really, but the debate should be taken in good faith.
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I understand why the mechanisms are the way they are, I'm saying that the intellectualization of criminalizing abortion in the US under libertarian theory is a lazy argument. "People shouldn't interfere with others" is fine in a hypothetical setting. Put into practice under the US legal system you just end up with tyranny of the majority at the State level, meanwhile the Federal government is powerless to intervene because of anti-democratic measures like the Senate and the Filibuster.

There's a reason why "states rights" has typically been used to justify inequity.
I'm fine with abortions being accessible, more power to you, but this is something that makes me uneasy at a philosophical level, if that makes sense. Because you start asking yourself when exactly that moment is. Like, I get it, it's the stereotypical engineer/scientist kind of thinking, but there has to be one moment where the fetus isn't a conscious creature, and one second later it is. Can we ever know? Is a newborn even conscious? It hardly looks like it to me. It's pretty much acting on instincts only.
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On "not the path to AGI": Gary Marcus on the Mindscape podcast is worth a listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANRnuT9nLEE&list=PLrxfgDEc2N...

Transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2022/02/14/184-...

"...And then there’s natural language understanding and reasoning, and I would say we have not really made progress at all. GPT-3, which we may wanna talk about, gives the illusion of having natural language of understanding, but I don’t really think that it does. And we are nowhere near, for example, an all-purpose general assistant. ..."
In reviewing neighborhood covenants whilst searching for a new home, I was surprised to see some of them make explicit the fact that running a business in your home is allowed, provided that it doesn't generate significant traffic/parking.
Uber still exists and that is proof that their plan worked. They didn't just break laws (and a lot of what they broke were just regulations, not "real" laws, and those regulations were often corrupt anyway): they also lobbied to get the laws/regulations changed, including through the California ballot proposition process and by directly approaching politicians in the EU, and they have won numerous lawsuits.

The Internet Archive appears to have simply decided they could break copyright law, which is a very well supported area of law unlike taxi regulations, and they made no efforts to protect themselves. Pretty stupid. I certainly would not donate to an organization that might waste my donations on stupid things like this.
> or blasting them with chemicals to prevent rotting

That's kind of a given. People generally don't like it when their homes and furniture decompose.
"The new study, conducted by researchers in Texas, Missouri, Massachusetts and Pakistan ..."

Pakistan?
Thankfully none!
More to the point, these "but it's non-sterilizing" complaints NEVER came up about other vaccines before COVID was made a political point by one political party
An awful lot of stuff. I wouldn't even know where to begin, especially if you're willing to consider a hybrid model where some parts / sub-assemblies are manufactured elsewhere and delivered to you (for example, having PCB's produced by OSHpark or PCBway, etc.) and you do final assembly in the garage.

If it were me, I'd also be looking at scenarios that involve any kind of "thing" that I could acquire cheaply and re-purpose somehow. Making lamps out of old wine bottles, that sort of thing.

Robots, unmanned vehicles of various sorts, all sorts of small electronic gadgets, probably some auto accessories... really, the range of things you could (at least hypothetically) manufacture in a space that size is huge.

Now whether or not you could manufacture the thing at scale may be a different question. You could probably easily accommodate doing something the size of a small home appliance (think: washing machine size) if you only had to do one at a time. But doing that at scale might well require more space. So is the intent to stay in the garage and run an enduring business there, or just to ship a prototype, prove the model, and then maybe expand? Or is this purely an academic thought experiment?
It should be noted that even the Bible only seems to recognize the importance of the being inside a pregnant woman after quickening, which is essentially when the mother can start to feel the motions of the fetus, so around 16-20 weeks. The notion that life begins at conception seems to be quite modern.
Tiny wooden boxes.
There are in fact quite large historical and cultural differences between different parts of the US. You could write whole books about the differences. The government as it stands only became so centralized and powerful between WWI and the Great Depression. Prior to WWI some 5% of Americans were primarily German speakers. Large populations today primarily speak Spanish. There are large divides in culture, economic activity, religion, and on and on.

The founders weren’t all “slavers”, and in fact a number were abolitionists. They very idea that people didn’t need a monarchy or landed nobility was literally revolutionary at the time. The whole global abolition movement grew out of the Scottish enlightenment which heavily informed America’s founding. I would also point out that most democracies have constitutional courts.

Frankly this whole situation could have been avoided if either congress had literally ever acted, or if progressive jurists weren’t so afraid of Lochner and substantive due process around individual rights. Bending over backwards to find a right to privacy in the “penumbras” of various rights was a complete failure.
Author here. We have been working on enabling modern, high-level software architectures on micro-controllers for some time now and we're at a point where we feel like the bits we've built could use some scrutiny and feedback from the wider community. It is all open-source and it is ready for you to try out.

If you're interested in building software for embedded devices, but turned off by having to do everything in low-level C code running in a kernel context, we're definitely interested in working with you to build an alternative. A high-level, robust alternative that makes it easier to build quality services for the internet of things powered by micro-controllers like the ESP32.
Lol.

Edit: to be clear, in my experience childbirth (and what comes after) has undeniably lasting, long term consequences for the "donor" / mother. Not to mention the immediate family, broader community, society at large, even the environment. Certainly more so than any organ donation (in my country at least these tend to occur in the moments surrounding death). To me, the parent comment seemed so removed from reality that a lol summed it up :)
There is a perhaps novel, perhaps not, argument to be made that virtually time-limited lending of a digital copy of a physical book you own is covered by first sale. May be a reason the publishers never pushed it.

There's also a whole other issue around scraping copyrighted public web pages in general but between being a non-profit archive, respecting robots.txt, and (at least mostly) taking pages down on request, TIA seems to have mostly skirted legal attention in that respect.

(Though it's probably a bit legally iffy. If I create an online comics museum and start hosting all sorts of syndicated content, I'm probably going to get a letter from a lawyer.)
I have very fond memories of using Creative Writer and (more so) Fine Artist as a kid. Thanks for sharing this.
I have been blogging since before it was called that. I wrote a post about using the A* algorithm for path finding in games. The included code was used by quite a few game companies, some of whom I ended up working for. Recently I expanded the blog to include video which has been a learning experience for me. Mostly I do this stuff for my own entertainment but it has had a pronounced effect on my career. People don’t ask me basic questions about functional programming and category theory when they can see what I do online. http://justinhj.github.io/
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"God" and "heaven" are not clearly defined at all. Nor measurable.
> with no additional money

What happened to the $190 billion schools got in COVID aid? Are both the paragraphs you wrote completely unsubstantiated and just based on your own gut feelings?
"the issue of whether a fetus is a person is irrelevant"

It's not a straw man. It's a hypothetical test of his reasoning. He says viability doesn't matter to his argument, but throws out that induced birth could be an option. His argument is not that "abortion should be illegal at viability, but you should be able to induce birth". You are twisting his words.
They took away my first 200 dollars I made on a website when I was in middle school
Respectfully, I think this analogy breaks down pretty fast.

First of all, pregnancy is overwhelmingly a choice (of course there are exceptions)--it's not our hypothetical organ donor's fault that the hypothetical recipient needs an organ, but it is the parents' "fault" that an unborn child (recall we're not debating point-of-life at this point in the thread) needs to be born insofar as the child's life is the result of a risk the parents knowingly entered into (again, there are exceptions).

Secondly, if our hypothetical organ donor backs out, our hypothetical recipient can get an organ from another donor--with few exceptions, there's no way to transfer a pregnancy (at least not outside of some extremely early window).
You need to read the article further; the author mentioned what you talk about.
Show HN: Linux on Surface Pro X
Seeing the Asahi project making so much project is encouraging but I've had my eye on the Surface Pro X work for quite a while. Equally impressive but not moving as fast.
Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_and_evolution_in_publ...

The movement seems a little weaker nowadays, but goofball trends tend to come in waves. See, for example, social conservatives replaying the 80s and 90s anti-gay playbook adapted to target gender nonconformity in general and trans people in particular after a decade or so where they seemed to have given up. Majority comments on the Roe vs. Wade reversal about other progressive rulings that depended on the same case gave them new energy.
LUA is essentially build as a plugin language. It's simple and well behaved, very easy to spawn when you need it and throw it away when you are done with it. It can also be isolated, if you don't want to give people access to file-io functions for example, you just don't load them into the interpreter and everything works as expected.

Most other language are not like that, they rely on global state and want to take full control your program. The interpreter also tends to be full of functions you can't get rid of, so they are impossible to secure. Even simple things like spawning two independent interpreters are often not supported. A language like Python really wants you to extend Python with modules, not extend your program with Python.

Long story short, writing a Lua interpreter is just a couple of lines of code: https://www.lua.org/pil/24.1.html
Is that… a ribbon UI?
It's not surprising that it's possible, sixels are basically just a canvas. It's that they've always been a novelty, very rarely used or supported. Yet somehow they made it into a commercial product in 1992 -- that's surprising!

I think sixels are seeing some resurgence today, terminals are fast enough now to use it to render video. I wonder if GNU ls will add ls --thumbnails :)
They kept it analog
Fwiw, I think a lot of people do.

Polling has shown that 72% of the country supports per-trimester restrictions with essentially open access in the 1st, increased restrictions in the 2nd and emergency only in the 3rd.

I know you’re going to ask for a source, but I don’t remember where I saw it.
I'm not talking about sperm and eggs dividing independently, I'm talking about a mixture of sperm and eggs in a uterus. That mixture is on its path to life, and it looks every bit as lifelike to the naked eye and (largely by extention) the moral instinct as a fertilized embryo does.
In the mountain west, the Chinese Elm has exploded. In my neighborhood, 95% of the trees that grew naturally (i.e. they are established, and a human didn't plant them), are Chinese Elm. If it weren't for homeowners planting alternates, I suspect it would be Cottonwood's along the canals, and Chinese Elms everywhere else. Those things spring up everywhere, even cracks of sidewalk where there's no dirt! And their roots go aggressive and deep, and are very hard to get rid of once established.
Every conservative is theist? I know several counterexamples.

Ergo, the clear definition is missing.

What is more, "God comes and brings that person to heaven" is pretty much only applicable to a minor subset of Christianity, which only overlaps about 40% with conservatism, hardly the modal belief or even a sizable plurality. That would be Catholicism, with purgatory. Further, it isn't the most novel of beliefs. That'd be Mormonism, with its "Spirit World" reinterpretation of swedenborgianism, or potentially some theories among Baháʼí adherents.

When you use beliefs to define biological and legal processes, things get murky and edge-case-y really really quick. You shouldn't advocate for using beliefs to define biological or legal processes, especially in a pluralistic society like the US and Western democracies, but also in general. It is a hallmark of bad governance.

This doesn't mean morals and ethics have no place in law. Only that unfalsifiable beliefs shouldn't drive law or science.

A great book on this, which has been life changing for many, is "The Demon-Haunted World" by Carl Sagan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World
Curiously, what is that day job?
Author here, a roaring bitmap could absolutely have been used!

The concept is similar and it absolutely should have been mentioned.

> Presuming user IDs are non-sparse nonnegative integers (as SERIAL/BIGSERIAL pkeys usually are),

I personally wanted to build a method that worked for textual content easily but with that constraint (which is valid and what I ended up doing in practice) a roaring bitmap definitely works!

I want to give this a try in the future
> aside: the United States' legal system is actually itself rooted in Christian beliefs and morals

This seems fairly debatable to me. The filtering of English common law through an enlightenment lens seems like a better description, IMHO.
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oh wow, free today, what a deal. Can't wait to pay you tomorrow, once all my notes are in your proprietary system and it's difficult for me to export them.
It's a hassle to do this correctly and upgrade the dependencies. Use poetry.
U.S. investigates California Tesla crash that killed motorcyclist
> Late-term abortion on-demand is nonexistent outside the US

TIL.
We don't need to, but that's the way things are going. Allowing abortion for rape and not in other cases is ideologically inconsistent with the idea that fetuses are persons, and so what we are actually seeing is that state legislatures are passing extreme legislation to maintain consistency with that premise. They are able to do so because states are so polarized that they can pass extreme legislation without any repercussions.

Half of the problem here is that reasonable people think this will be a states' rights issue with reasonable exceptions that local people can all agree on, but with which others might differ. Whereas what's actually happening is that extremist state legislatures are seizing on the issue to pass the most restrictive abortion laws they possibly can, and the GOP at the national level is salivating over the prospect of a national abortion ban as soon as they regain control of the government (see statements from VP Pence, Mitch McConnell, and various House republicans). People thought throwing the issue back to the states would be the end of it, but it's clearly not.
People vote based on their beliefs. It's not common for people to separate their beliefs based on how they came to believe them. That is: I got my morals and beliefs and political leanings from the people I'm around, and there's not a clear demarcation in my mind between them.
Would you talk to the cows about a solution of individual responsibility or would you talk to the rancher?
> I had heard of Go for many years, but never stuck with it; it gets constant negative press on Hacker News/Reddit

I think on Hacker News it's really fashionable to criticize Go, and this has led to a culture where Go gets significantly more negativity than it deserves.

As technologists, one of our most important jobs is to see through such fashions and judge languages/tools/technologies based on their actual merit.

While gauging sentiment about things on a forum like Hacker News is generally really helpful, it should not be the main basis of our decisions.
> .... So even IF we grant that a gamete or zygote or 4 cells or 6 weeks old fetus or whatever are live beings based on whatever definition we agree or fail to agree on; what rational differentiator would cause us to force a woman to donate blood and organs, sacrifice and risk their health for them?

Because the moral obligations of mothers (and parents generally) to their children are different than the moral obligations surrounding blood donations or anything else. If you said that fathers have a moral obligation to sacrifice their bodies and lives for their kids, either in providing for them or in war, most of the people who oppose abortions would agree with you.
phrased that bit poorly, I meant "easilly accessible content for learning to drive" is leaps and bounds better than it was back then - with YouTube being the platform.

Back then the best you would have got was some onerous DVD-ROM software with low resolution videos and poor presentation, or at least very awkward. Like the training videos you get given at work...