skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disagree. According to Pew polling, pro-life folk are more likely to be religious, more likely to be more certain about their belief in God, and are more likely to attend religious services.

Furthermore, more than 50% of pro-life folk identify religion as their greatest source of guidance for deciding right from wrong (compare with less than 20% for pro-choice folk). [1]

So yes, most pro-lifers are driven by their religious beliefs.

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[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-stu...
Economic growth is more than just using finite material resources. It’s technical innovation, labor productivity increase, efficiency improvements due to economies of scale, specialization, efficiently recycling scarce commodities, etc etc

Yes, we obviously need more economic growth, there simply is no alternative.
Every once in awhile Slack dedicates a bunch of developer time to fix UI lag. Loading the emoji autocompletion used to be very fast, and slowed down over time (we only have about 50 custom emoji.)

At some point they refactored some things, made stuff faster, and wrote a nice blog post about it, and the emoji autocomplete was lightning fast again.

Then of course, it slowed down incrementally over the next couple months until it is now unbearably slow again.
> If slack polled all their paying customers if inter-compatibility was important, do you think any of them would agree it was?

Being able to use slack to talk with their clients / suppliers who don't use slack (and who often have their own preferred chat system) would definitely be important/valuable to many of them. Hell, I've worked at more than one place where you couldn't use slack to talk to a different department and this was an issue recognised by management.
"Knowing your sense of purpose is worth up to 7 years of extra life expectancy."

Uh-oh.

"Research shows that attending faith-based services 4 times per month will add 4 to 14 years of life expectancy."

Looks like my atheism is is worse than smoking, who knew.
Was just kidding. Forgot to mention that.

Nice having a name for that, though.
hmm facilitating war, even if it means defence just doesn't sit quite right with me. shame we live in a world where this is even a thing
Also a tough marketing pitch - if you emphasize "rapid" delivery, and you can't deliver in those 15-20 minutes, you'll leave customers dissatisfied. If you offer them the more realistic 30-45 minutes, you'll leave customers wondering why they're paying you the premium.

Especially in situations where you absolutely need something delivered immediately, the difference between 15-20 and 40-45 minutes is enormous.
I think that's the main thing - the amount of energy lost by bringing a bike to a stop is nothing compared to that of bringing a car to a stop from 60 MPH.

And they're probably better off just adding a generator in-line with the pedals (in fact, I'm surprised these things have "direct drive" at all and aren't just a generator on the pedals with a wire to a motor on the front/rear hub).
Most people don't realize that PAL came 10 years after NTSC. It also did not have to worry about maintaining backwards compatibility with the pre-existing black&white only format that was only a couple of years old.

As much as I hate all of the pain that compatibility caused, it was an impressive feat of engineering. 30000/1001 was such a magic number that haunts me to this day.
I built and led the team that was responsible for the MongoDB user experience. We designed and built MongoDB's integrations with programming languages & third party systems (Drupal, Hadoop, Storm, Spark, etc). Our team wrote the MongoDB user manual too and we were responsible for the websites.

My blog has a lot of talks / posts about the work our team did if you want to read up more about it.
For the government to redistribute real productive capacity and resources to the elderly, they first have to exist. The demographic crisis already means the elderly are going to need quite a bit relative to what we can produce; without growth things would be even tighter.
I'd really want to know the same.

Also, in similar vein, is there any examples of making something that was private before into public infrastructure, with good success?
> That is also a kind of growth!

Yes, but not one that benefits from investment, which is how rich people get paid for being rich. Rich people want very, very, very much to be paid for being rich. Since a dollar is a vote, this concern completely dominates our political and cultural thought processes.

The tricky part is that retirement funds use exactly the same mechanism, so those of us with retirement accounts have incentives to keep quiet. The wheels won't come off the cart to Ponzi town until a minority of people are net asset holders, but that's well on its way to happening. Exciting times!
In order for info to get from here to there:

The phone network requires a geophysical route/medium across which to shluff a packet. Said packet is destined for an endpoint. Said endpoint is associated with a payer. Said payer, in order to pay, is virtually guaranteed to have had to do KYC at some point.

Ergo, if you can call, you can be tracked with only knowledge of the endpoint, and the topology of the networking medium.

Nature of the beast I'm afraid. Your forebearers wanted this. Are you not pleased? Does this mot make you feel safe? They worked very hard on it... For your safety, you see!
Maybe you should understand what medical interventionism means, before typing out a meaningless and unrelated argument.
I don't follow - on the scale of rodents to whales, I'd say we're still on the smaller side.
Yeah, I came here for the obligatory Doppler shift joke. I don't see one, so I'll give it a try:

Maybe they're called Blue Zones because they're moving towards us so quickly that we can see all their wrinkles more clearly. So they're not really centenarians, but they just look older!
For some cameras that didn't allow custom iso adjustments (e.g if you were going to push or pull the film) you could scratch off or put tape over the dx code to make the camera think it was getting a different iso film and adjust autoexposure accordingly.
I stumbled on this place, https://puzzledabq.com/, in Albuquerque earlier this year.

Probably one of the busiest establishments in the area from what I could tell.

So the retail side is probably pretty solid right now too.
> Polls look pretty extremely variable. Some polls show half of Americans are against abortion.
> Some polls show that of the Americans that support abortion, support drops after the first trimester.

Those are two separate claims that can easily both be true. A big problem with polls about abortion is that its not actually a well defined term (how many weeks? is mothers life in danger? rape? etc).

> This seems like the shy republican polling problem in 2016 all over again.

Not quite on topic, but polls did not give hilary a 100% chance to win the 2016 election. Polls are extremely good at predicting events (compared to say a literal coin flip) but lower probability events do occur. Go flip a coin a bunch of times and you'll get 2 heads in a row (25% chance! thats even worse than what 538 gave trump [1]).

[1]: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/
I've witnessed firsthand that the main problem of Teams is that Slack is now so deeply wired into our daily working life that people cplain about Teams just because it differs from Slack.

It doesn't even matter if the choices and ergonomics are better or worse... Since it's just not-Slack, it gets rejected by a certain (IMO quite large) share of the population.
It's not just your town or a local phenomenon, quite the contrary. For the reasons you've succinctly outlined, it's like this everywhere in the USA.
There are two fundamental reasons HATEOS just doesn't work in practice. The first is that most services can't easily or reliably know their own absolute URLs , and HATEOS (and the behavior of many HTTP libraries) is inconsistent around relative URLs, so hacky and unmaintainable response rewriting gets applied at various levels. The second is that if you are diligently following a convention for how paths are constructed it's utterly redundant information--you can simply synthesize any path you need more easily than you can grok it out of HATEOS. The reasonable bits of REST that are left are not just HTTP verbs and JSON, but significantly the use of entity type names and ids in the path portion of the URL rather than in query parameters.
Note that this is just records of some of the federal agencies, not all of them, according to the linked ACLU report:

> "Although the litigation is ongoing, we are now making public the records that CBP, ICE, the U.S. Secret Service, the U.S. Coast Guard, and several offices within DHS Headquarters have provided us to date."

The NSA is still vacuuming up all the metadata and a good fraction of the content from the main nodes where it put those fiber-optic cable splitters on the main trunk lines what, 20 years ago or so? Under the Patriot Act provisions, pushed through Congress in late October 2001 wasn't it? Just a few days after the Senate got shut down by those anthrax letter attacks sent to Daschle and Leahy (no, it wasn't Bruce Ivins).

Then you've got the backdoors into Google and Apple, the whole PRISM thing... I doubt they've shut any of that down. See Yasha Levine's "Surveillance Valley" for more on that.

https://yashalevine.com/surveillance-valley

It's not quite China yet, but I'm pretty sure that when our politicians and bureaucrats and their corporate masters look at China's system, their main emotion is one of envy.
Where Data Centers and Abortion Rights Intersect
> Are you suggesting the Great Lakes are occupied by foreign states?

I am definitely not suggesting it's a foreign state. That's less probable than unknown domestic military activities.

Reports of odd lights in sky or water. Or general nonspecific stories of "weird shit".

There's more too, but those are fish stories (sharks, people claim).

I like to do outdoorsy stuff, so this is what I've heard from fisherman, ferrymen, etc.
"Vendoring" means including the library in your package. So instead of listing it in requirements.txt, you copy the code of the library.
No, I haven't. JSON can be used as a hypermedia, and people have tried this, but it hasn't really worked out very much and the industry trend is against it, towards a more RPC-like approach.

I'm using HTML as an example to demonstrate the uniform interface constraint of REST, and showing how this particular JSON (and, I claim with confidence, most extent JSON APIs) do not have a uniform interface. Which is fine: the uniform interface hasn't turned out to be as useful when it is consumed by code rather than humans.

There are good examples of successful non-HTML hypermedias. One of my favorites is hyperview, a mobile hypermedia:

https://hyperview.org/
I'm not sure if you are agreeing with me or disagreeing. I was answering the original question - why has REST become non-REST: it is not suitable for client-server apps.

>Compare and contrast: what SQL admin GUI clients do to discover the DBMS schema. They essentially spider it.

Not really, there is information_shema where they get everything they need to know about structure separately from data.

> Have you ever written a web scraper, for a site that doesn't really enjoy being scraped, and so uses stuff like CSRF protection "synchronizer tokens"?

Yes. Awful. Do we want all APIs to be like that? Why?

> It's right in the name: in HATEOAS, hypertext is the engine of application state. Hypertext as in, say, HTML.

Fully agree on this one. Just that HTML is unsuitable for machine-to-machine communication, so it is not used for APIs.
I'd do a lot of research in the market before starting a food business at home. Rules and regulations are pretty intense and if you're selling stuff for people to consume it usually has to be prepared in an approved and inspected kitchen, which is very difficult for home chefs. It's not impossible but prepare for a _ton_ of roadblocks. Most folks end up renting time in commercial kitchens that take care of crossing all the t's and dotting the i's so they are properly inspected and certified for commercial food prep, but you'll pay a premium for their service.

And the next major hurdle is actually selling product to stores. Good luck getting into real grocery stores, if you don't have a relationship with them or some kind of major in they won't even give you the time of day. You'd have to start small and super local, like an indie grocer that is willing to take a chance (and almost certainly have you take on 100%+ of the risk and pay to take back any unsold product).

I've listened to some folks on cooking podcasts that tried successfully (and unsuccessfully) to get into selling their own sauces, condiments, etc. and it is a hell of a difficult journey. They all spent easily six figures of their own cash to get it all bootstrapped and off the ground too. I don't think a single one ended up being happy in the end or felt like it was worth the trouble.
You have provided no reason to believe any of your claims apply to the economist in question.
I can say “I find people who defend our obsession with growth tend to be benefit heavily from our racist status quo, and would prefer for it to continue”.

It’s lazy, and anti intellectual
It seems like services, information, tech are all huge contributors to modern growth beyond just "raw physical" goods. Seems like it could have a substantial impact on Earth, especially when you consider innovations.

Imagine having high billions-trillions of people and millions working on a given innovation or line of research or whatever.
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I will add that there are a lot of excellent publicly-available DIY loudspeaker designs out there. Many of which do not have readily available flat pack DIY kits.

There might be an opportunity there.
I'm sure the reasoning starts and ends with the icelandic krona. Always follow the money.
Drive to your nearest midwestern state university. I bet the bikes are locked outside that gym.
I can pretty much guarantee that this is due to customs/import charges. Consumers will cancel orders over a surprise bill from that, a big business won't care at all or will have their own broker.
Toll roads in the US for both cases.

There were some crazy routes to get from A to B. Toll roads cut an hour or more off some popular routes.

And in reverse, some states have bought out some toll roads, after they were deemed not profitable.
The IRS raises the limits every year. I imagine they will raise it quite a bit next year.
Sorry, the attack works in laptop monitors not crt.
> Guaranteeing financial security to anyone is impossible.

Plenty of countries have done just fine. What you described is horrible mismanagement and not the only way to do things.
... and? In reality that's probably not how some not insignificant minority of Teams users access the service.

I have clients that create external accounts for me under their domain. Once signed in, I can no longer sign into a different account, so my meeting with other clients have Company A in my email... kind of odd.

Of course, I can't actually create a personal Teams account, because my company does not use Teams.

So, I decided to burn everything MS Teams related out of my home directory, and start fresh. I am now a guest user for every company that needs calls done via Teams.

Arguably a worse off solution, no?
> I wonder why are we so complacent with these kind of things?

There are many reasons for this. It's partly due to the illusion that the current internet culture has created that expressing one's voice on a social media platform is an effective form of protest. It is not. How many change.org petitions are people going to sign until they realize that it means absolutely nothing?

I think this one of the biggest and least-discussed erosions of public discourse and assembly. By fostering an online conversation at the expense of an in-person one, we wind up shouting into the abyss instead of at the people who deserve to feel the pressure.
Yeah give copilot another decade of development and it should be able to replace a junior dev for sure.
Perhaps there will be a wage spike if there's less EEs
You don’t mention Content-Type anywhere I could find in your post.

I don’t think hypermedia is only for humans.

You can totally do REST for computers. You’re just supposed to divide knowledge along Content-Type boundaries.

It’s true people mostly don’t do this, but it works great when people bother to describe rich Content-Types.
Encouraging stagnation among the easily impressionable English-speaking audiences of the economically successful nations i see. Good luck convincing certain Asian countries that they should stop their growth in the name of the "steady-state economy" just because.
It's amusing how he goes from "...You can do fantastic computations now with a small material base in the computer..." to criticizing the concept of GDP ("We really don’t know that the standard is going up.") contradicting himself so quickly. The standard doesn't go up, but i sure like me my computer!

"...Does growth, as currently practiced and measured, really increase wealth? Is it making us richer in any aggregate sense, or might it be increasing costs faster than benefits and making us poorer?..." increasing costs of what exactly? Manufacturing? Materials? Servicing? Marketing? Privately held assets? State corporation stocks? The cost of a pint at your local bar?

The interviewer isn't any better. "... to accept the idea of having “enough” and that constraining the ability to pursue “more” is a good thing. Those ideas are basically anathema to modern Western society ..." completely CLUELESS take that implies that the ideas of striving for wealth, growth, luxurious consumption and people wanting things are exclusive to Western countries, but then you read about "Making ecological room" and it becomes clear what is the exact point of all that fancy talk.

But back to the economist:
"My duty is to do the best I can and put out some ideas. Whether the seed that I plant is going to grow is not up to me." wink-wink

With all due respect to academia, i don't think that ignoring the harsh reality of how people behave, attempting to lightly enforce a feeling of guilt upon the society thanks to which the academia has the privelege to just "...put out some ideas" is responsible at all. I sure hope that this is just a one off case of a bad interview.
What Daly is saying really is more that growth as currently measured (i.e. GDP growth) isn't a good metric and is one that can't go on forever. He's not (in his own word) agains't growth of wealth, but he's rather asking whether GDP growth is the metric to optimize for.

Saying we're bound by the laws of thermodynamics is a bit silly in my opinion. It's almost like saying we shouldn't invest in solar panels as the sun will eventually explode and won't shine anymore. A lot of GDP growth in developed nations comes from increase in efficiency, not increase in resource usage. Higher agricultural yields from better crops, self-driving cars, more efficient computers; they're all things that have the potential to drive much higher growth than their resource usage. Which I guess in ecological economics would be differentiated as "developments" rather than "growth".

Now I do agree that higher growth doesn't automatically means higher standards of living. Things like automation, while highly efficient, result in most of the gains going to capital owners. How society should deal with this is another interesting question.
Maybe. But I was responding to the assertion that embryos grow into humans by default. They don’t. A massive number are aborted spontaneously.

Banning all abortions leaves us in a position where women can be prosecuted for something that happened naturally. Or if not literally prosecuted, left without medical care to deal with a spontaneous miscarriage (as just happened in Texas).
Turns out I suck at getting names right.

Like wanting people to send money to me by means of PayBack (bonus points), instead of PayPal, and vice versa at the supermarket's checkout counter.
Strange then that i.e.: the Okinawa Blue Zone seems to have been dissolved in modern (record keeping) times.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3362219/
It's still valid for v2. While it's a bit easier to use in almost all respects, the documentation is still kind of crazy because it's mostly autogenerated.

In Go, the first thing you run into when making an API call is figuring out how to handle the errors, and the aws-sdk-go docs still don't give you much help there --you have to still dive into the official REST docs, or worse, the Java docs via google, and sort of guess how each exception/error code gets mapped into what Go error.

Jumping into the library code works for most Go libraries, but with the autogenerated REST bindings that is the AWS SDK, it usually isn't much more illuminating.
The government playing ads that say “don’t have kids if you’re not ready” isn’t eugenics. I fully believe 95%+ of people are capable of being good parents at some point in their life. That point might not be when they have kids though.

Now obviously we shouldn’t be killing people, because that’ll lead to everyone being scared of being killed. Since people aren’t fetus’s they won’t worry about society discarding them.
Reality has a definite left wing bias. Deny it at your peril.
WSL is a fully fledged VM under the hood, it's just well integrated.
> Again. - this is because the public thinks abortion is a finicky woman choice being dramatic in the final moments

Well that might be your opinion, but in my experience everyone I know that sit on the pro-life side of this debate seem to have concern for the fetus driving their opinion, more than “finicky woman choice being dramatic in the final moments” being the driver. I think that is why polling dramatically starts shifting at the point within the pregnancy where the fetus starts developing into the recognizable human form.

It’s easy to disconnect the humanity from a fetus when it’s physical characteristics are no different from other animals. However, once it becomes recognizably human, it makes it more difficult for people to be advocates of abortion choice.

The democrats don’t want to acknowledge this moral difficulty. They even try to avoid words like “baby”, “person”, and “child”. Recently was some news around President Biden’s slip of the tongue on the topic.

https://twitter.com/DanODonnellShow/status/15215217089261854...
What about sleep? Do they sleep a consistent amount of time compared to industrialized zones?
> Large and tall people have more cells, and higher chance of cancer.

I've never looked at it like that. Is it true?
Severe pandemics are actually really bad for elites, since large scale death increases the value of employees. See e.g. "The Great Leveler" by Scheidel.
It’s not impossible. I’ve got a friend who is 84 and still traveling the world and sexually active, and everyone in his immediate family has made it past 100. He also got covid twice. Really depends.
I saw a pontoon houseboat built in a 2-car garage by a shop teacher. Assembled outside of course. People even live in these puppies.

Can beat a lake-cabin, especially for people who live near lots of connected lakes.
You got the quotes mixed up, the relevant parts are:

>>I frankly wish we had a tax free investing account option available instead.

> isn’t that a 401k?
This design would have made so much more sense before the top of the case closed loop watercooler radiator setups became popular.

I still like this a lot, but now the top down fan and some kind of ducting to help direct the air out the top / side vent makes more sense. There's so much heat these days everyone needs the baffles inside of a case.
... you go to a doctor to have it set and casted. Unless the break is so minor that you can self-treat with RICE. You don't have to be a passive recipient of a medical treatment flowchart.