skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are complicated moral issues at the "zygote" stage, as you mention. But the article clearly shows that the vast majority of the developed world--most of those countries being far less religious than the U.S.--has achieved a moral consensus around the beginning of the second trimester, 12-14 weeks. (Incidentally, that's also around the point that much of the Islamic world believes that a baby gains a soul.)

The immediate political debate in the U.S. isn't about zygotes, but rather fetuses. The Dobbs case involved Mississippi's 15-week ban. Under Roe, states cannot ban elective abortions even at 15 weeks. At 15 weeks, the baby is a fetus, it has hands, feet, a face, and thumbs that it can suck. https://visitantlit.com/2012/11/19/pregnancy-week-15.

Most of the developed world has deemed that a human life at that stage warrants a certain level of protection. Most of the developed world acknowledges that society has a right to intervene after that point. Even if they recognize exceptions to that rule, they simultaneously recognize that society has a right to protect those lives and a good reason is required to extinguish them. For example in liberal and non-religious Denmark, abortions after 12 weeks require unanimous approval of a special committee, with an appeals process that kicks the decision up to the Ministry of Justice: https://abortion-clinics.eu/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Denma...
with all due respect your religious beliefs are irrelevant to the discussion and have no place in a discussion about people's rights to health care being revoked by an unelected minority.
Atom even allows specifying an Email address: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4287#section-3.2.3

So if someone wants to contact you, they can do so directly.
Yeah, sitting on the sidelines, the headcount seems absurd. I came up when startups were meant to be efficient. Now I hear startups like Better.com that had 10k people? Feel like I'm in opposite land.
Pip freeze will pin explicit as well as transitive dependencies
Research their political donations first before deciding to patronize them.
Sure can pin versions, it’s easy too, if you just use «pip freeze».
I've also been curios, for some time now, but got no concrete good examples. Good question! Hope you'll get some good answers!
Nothing you do, aside maybe from putting it behind a login, will prevent your content from being ripped off. Its just a sad part of what we have to live with.
"Those not comfortable with toxic language should pretend this is a religious text"
That's the common counterpoint, but is there 50x the demand for developers? I work in tech and I know how hard pressed people are for developer talent but it is not more than a couple fold off. I doubt companies and startups would have enough work to hire >=5x the developers. Thus, AI can be very disruptive to that job function.
Lay off skittyboo; doesn't seem like you are "honestly" trying to clarify anything.

Have you considered that you might be making a wildly inaccurate assumption that island ecology tends toward homeostasis? Does it bother you so much that someone might believe that disruption and wild fluctuation might be much more typical of ecosystems, even without the intervention of Homo sapiens sapiens?
Oh, really -

Phytoplankton bloom with 700000 cells per liter density is visible to the naked eye.

This gives the colour (red, green, or brown) on the sea surface. This means that the
satellite maps showing visible blooms may directly repudiate the article. Or not...
Not my field of expertise.
It's really nuanced and difficult for outsiders to grasp fully. The author says "In Germany, abortion is always illegal (sort of) but simply not punished in the first 12 weeks." which is not true. You also have to have a "Schwangerschaftskonfliktberatung" (Pregnancy Conflict Counseling, gotta love German).

This counseling session is mandatory for abortion not being punished. The thing is, in rural areas this counseling is often only available through church-based institutions (which often try to discourage abortions) and during the pandemic many state-based agencies that provide this counseling were used for contact tracing.

So there are many small hurdles which are difficult to put into numbers.

I don't try to detract from the author. It's a good effort at classification. The devil's in the detail.

Edit: I do understand that the counseling itself is mentioned in the article. The intricacies of it are condensed to "tricky". Which is true, but really difficult to classify.
> You can sign up for emails that go into the black hole of your inbox

I feel like Slack has already become a black hole equal to my Inbox in all respects and am hopeful that the Interoffice Mail envelope will stage a comeback for the things I really need to see.
An interesting toy – Pickagram by Pickagram (KickStarter link)
Republican Counties Have Higher Death Rates Than Democratic Counties in the U.S.
> A "gatekeeper" presumably will not be allowed broad limits entitlements on side-loaded apps or apps sold in a third party store.

You're presuming that, but if Apple does indeed have valid privacy and security reasons for setting such limits, presumably they will also make the case to regulators. I suppose it all comes down to having faith in our democratic institutions will act on behalf of the public's interest.

> There are relatively few enforceable privacy features at the software level.

Then what is the point of App Store review if it can't even do that? Is Apple so powerless over its own platform that it can't harden its security model with further updates?

No. I believe this whole debate makes assumptions about what Apple can and can't do, and it seems eminently foolhardy to believe that manual review is somehow the only way in which Apple can control its own operating system and provide security.

> The way Apple platforms achieve privacy is a mix of technical measures

And certainly, Apple is capable of far more technical measures than you and I can dream of.
Funny enough, the Chinese and Japanese restaurants in my area are basically always on point and have the fastest delivery, despite having the most complex preparation. Why can I order sushi faster than I can order a few items that are pulled off a shelf and thrown in a bag? Especially when the cost of delivery as well as margins seem to be higher for the latter. You can't tell me it's harder to delivery a bag of snacks than a sushi roll.
The UK Government design team have a blog post on this: https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2020/02/24/why-the-gov-uk-des...

> Avoid using inputs with a type of number
> Do not use <input type="number"> unless your user research shows that there’s a need for it. With <input type="number"> there’s a risk of users accidentally incrementing a number when they’re trying to do something else - for example, scroll up or down the page. And if the user tries to enter something that’s not a number, there’s no explicit feedback about what they’re doing wrong.

(https://design-system.service.gov.uk/components/text-input/#...)
Bazel by itself is not nearly as useful as Blaze (the Google-internal version), in large part because of how standardized the internal ecosystem was around Blaze. A few reasons (non-exhasutive list):

- Blaze defaults to building everything remotely, on a massive farm of build servers. (This farm was sizeable enough to have its own capacity planning teams. Yes, plural.) There are a few startups trying to clone this SaaS for Bazel, but it is - predictably - not easy.

- Since all builds were remote, build _telemetry_ was also uploaded and available on the intranet. This meant that if you wanted to ask someone "hey, my build failed, can you help", you could literally send them a link "https://google-build-system/00000-11111-22222-the-rest-of-my..." with all the information about your build: the thing(s) you were trying to build, the options you were building with, all the foreign keys you needed to look up build timing data, etc. You could also query company-wide build telemetry data to see what people were building more frequently than others, if specific areas needed engineering investment, etc.

- Since builds were remote, they pretty much had to be hermetic and reproducible, which meant platform teams - e.g. C++ team, Java team, Python team, Go team, etc. - could make infra-level changes and test out the effects on various teams. This is a very Google-scale specific need: allow another team to do your infra maintenance for you, i.e. upgrade the Python runtime underneath you. (Yes, this comes with caveats. Google eng tends to live at head, so while there are "my team needs to control our rollout to the latest infra version" concerns, there is a consistent mandate for most teams that "upgrading to the latest infra that we run on" is a priority.)

The big place where problems came up was when source code needed to exist _outside_ of google3: open-source repos, for instance, very frequently have to do a delicate dance of figuring out (1) is their primary source of truth going to be inside google3, where the tools/infra are uniform and Better TM, or on github/etc, where they have to configure their own test stack, CI stack, etc., and (2) what are the downstream implications of decision (1).
tl;dr: Apple bans VPNs from informing users that they can be used to bypass censorship.
I've heard this about AutoHotKey: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/ahk/

Not just macros, but deeper automation of anything in a Windows UI, with a great depth of community scripts and knowledge.
There has never been a rape exception for child support in the US, multiple cases where men had to pay their rapists: https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...
> Is a zygote more alive than the gametes that came together to form it?

Uh, life sure, but human life? If human life doesn't start at conception, when?
What the Supreme Court did was say that if there is to be a federal guarantee of that, Congress has to make it so by passing a law saying as much. That seems kinda reasonable to me?
Unfortunately this is not quite the same thing, It just plays around with how the existing frames are displayed instead of generating new ones based on the motion vectors in video files.

It is best described by MPV's documentation at https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/Interpolation
> Abortion poses risks to the mother psychological and physical.
> While there’s some mental risk to the mother related to carrying a baby.
> I haven’t seen studies on the exact damage carrying a baby to term is, but I expect it’s relatively low when compared to abortion.

Post natal depression is a thing, and has both mental and physiological impacts.

Likewise post birth trauma is a serious issue and can result in permanent health issues for the mother.

See
https://www.instyle.com/beauty/health-fitness/maternal-suici...
You're in the minority. Apparently those types of websites generate much more revenue [0]:

I spent 3ish years making these kinds of websites (specifically those click bait-y “Can you name these Canadian snack foods??” quiz sites). They generate _a lot_ more revenue. Like more than double.

Digital publishing’s main business model is paying as little as possible for 1 click and monetizing that click as much as possible on the other end. The sales “funnel” isn’t a funnel here, its just two steps “1. Show link to article . 2. Show ads.”

Now if you’re an organic heavy site like NFL.com, you get plenty of free clicks just by reposting articles to social media. Its more important to keep your brand strong with a couple of small, highly paid ad units.

But if you’re just an average publisher, you gotta literally pay for attention. It turns into a game of spending $1.00 for an ad on Facebook/Tabola/Outbrain/Snap/etc and trying to make $1.30 when they land on the page.

Long term bet IMO is still high quality organic content makes more profit, but you can still make a lot with 3-4 engineers and average-ish content.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32133656
Yes I do love it, but have since moved on, now the arts hold more interest and, interestingly, promise, for me than computers per se. Though technology seems worthy of keeping tabs on, I now try to go days without if I can; it's much healthier for the mind, and body surely, to be analog, but technical things did and do develop my mental faculties. Luckily I have found many and more analog sources of challenging.thought processes and some I'd say even more complex than computers (unless it's compilers or some linear algebra, logic or hard science monster, which anyway weren't my field). It's unfortunate that I can't find time now to code a good old hobby project up.
Could also be more likely that it's cheaper to extend the life of an older DC by accepting higher temperatures and failure rates than to upgrade the hvac to accommodate newer higher density designs
You cannot make a webpage that has dynamic interactions and responds the way a desktop application does WITHOUT Javascript unless you reload the page AFTER EVERY INTERACTION, and the page reload screen blip is visually disorienting.

folkhack I'm reading this, I've done quite a bit to address accessibility and will continue to do so. But disabling JS because not going to happen. The whole thing is built with React. And to make a comment like that is incredibly myopic and egocentric as if NOTHING ELSE MATTERS except javascript being disabled.

What world of technology do you live in where the terrible UX of no javascript is acceptable?
You have to do the opposite and increase your prices. Everything you do needs to be about value, not price. The market is bimodal and the first mode is a race to the bottom, so you need to find the companies that care about results more than price.
Legally speaking, the only actual one of issue is the child porn. The first amendment allows private parties to happily host and run literal Nazi pride events if they want, and there's very little legal way to stop it.

However, in the same vein, if you want to host said Nazi pride event and need to find private companies and businesses to provide catering and other services, they all legally have the right to tell you to fuck off, and if that means you can't find ANY services, then that's too bad for you, stop being such an insufferable prick.

The right of assembly is essentially codifying "if you are a cunt then nobody will want to deal with you" into law. We've had to work around it in some cases, because sometimes people treat things like skin color and gender and other horrible things as a proxy for "cunt", but explicitly exclusionary and violent ideology is not a protected class.
They require the franchisee to be a full time manager so they are more invested in the cleanliness of the store.
> Sixel should be more universal

Agreed!

So try sixel-tmux: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux

> It would allow non-sw engineers (hence Windows)

I run Windows 11 as my main OS. sixel-tmux was written to help the users of non-sixel-aware terminals: every time a sixel sequence is intercepted, it's either:

- rewritten to ASCII art through derasterize if your terminal doesn't support sixels

- passed as-is if your terminal supports sixels

> to see graphics from embedded systems that use serial ports

If you use a serial port software such as minicom inside a terminal running sixel-tmux (ex: Windows terminal) it should work
>They weren't just handing out unlimited copies of books.

I don't think that's accurate. This lawsuit didn't happen until they stopped enforcing the constraint that (# of concurrent digital loans) ≤ (# of physical copies IA and their partner libraries have). Thats very different from a regular library, where the number of copies they loan out can't exceed the number of copies they physically posses (or ebook licenses they have, which is a whole nother rabbithole).
That's what I use
FFMpeg and its libraries https://ffmpeg.org/about.html
While the same startup refers to their employees as "headcount" and "resources"...
I currently manufacturer a fairly niche product with nothing but a 7 year old $250 3d printer, some off the shelf parts, and a bit of custom electronics. Very high profit margin, as I am the only producer of this item (!).

I'd love to move to a more "robust" process, but options for materials and widespread access to 3d printing provides a lot of versatility for a single-person business where I want to control the entire product and process end-to-end.

Just need to find your niche.
Pain registers: shifting the site of execution
Indeed. They could have easily isolated themselves from the fall out if they wanted to make a point about the law.
Machine learning finally comming to Hobbiton - a guide on logistic regression
Women don't 'give up their organs' in the course of a normal birth...
> because they do not get paid enough to put up with the shit they're subjected to

Yah. And the crap is a primary concern, too. We need to figure out how to make things better. Especially on the things that teachers complain about that are demoralizing because they can be expected to negatively affect student outcomes.

I think improving comp has a distant and uncertain effect, but fixing a lot of the crap could be more impactful. Right now we incent administrators not to hold students accountable; how can we do the opposite?

Also, how can we systemically study interventions in a way that we can draw meaningful conclusions-- instead of leaping from educational trend to educational trend because they seem like they sound like they'll do something.

> and selection bias is a major confounder in attempts to do that.

It's got a huge indirect impact that is difficult to control for, too. If I have a student who wants to be disruptive, other students will call him or her out, and they won't find much social validation from it. So, it's not just the attitudes of individual students affecting their own outcomes, but everyone else around them.

And even second order things. I would probably be a below average educator in a difficult public school classroom. And instead, I'm an extraordinary one in the environment I'm in. Horses for courses.
My dad used this to produce business documents for a long time before switching to Word.
In my country no politician will bring up the issue because it's so toxic, for all sides. You can't win and you will lose votes.

We have abortions up to 12 weeks.

Honestly, I think this is a good situation. It's a super divisive issue and there is no need to argue about it. Christians here accept that most abortions would take place illegally and endanger the mother if it was banned. It's swept under the rug. Pro abortion people think 12 weeks is ok, I mean you probably know youre pregnant by then.

It works. Everyone stays the fuck away from the issue.

I look at the US and think its fucking insane how this issue is being used politically by everyone. It's a terrible issue to make political. And frankly it is the supreme courts fault, as Ruth Ginsberg herself said. The court allowing abortions full stop meant one side won. No questions, no discussion. That is not how a normal society works. You can't ignore all pro life people and say abortions allowed up to birth. It's ridiculous and undemocratic.
Logistic regression re-discovered incl. binary cross-entropy cost function, gradient descent, including all the math needed for that. It's assumed that you can sum and multiply two numbers.
https://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/roe-v-wade-reversal/ Is all you need to understand why the state should not only allow abortion, but actively encourage people to get them. Unwanted children unequivocally make society worse.
But if the concerns you have for your own son are justifiable, surely you should be at least somewhat concerned about the 100 million+ other tooth-fairy-believers among whom your son will have to live?
As for what should/can be done for those millions, I only wish I knew.
I'm an American who has lived in the UK. I can report back that we're definitely not the ones who invented the term "eating beige".
They opened a new headquarters in Vancouver recently:

- https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/the-internet-archiv... (Jun 16, 2022)

- On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31774608 (219 points | 64 comments)

But it seems like a strange location. Why not really branch out and meet the world instead of just sticking around North America?
It is interesting that in many countries in Europe the situation have settled in some kind of middle ground, but in the US the sides seem to push for the extreme outcomes - either a total lack of restrictions (including some advocating for "after-birth abortions") or a total ban. Moreover, the propaganda seems to often conflate non-extreme proposals with extreme ones - such as calling restricting abortions after 15 weeks "abortion ban" without qualifications. I wonder if there's a place to arrive to some reasonable compromise here or the only solution is to oscillate between the extremes, geographically and temporally, depending on which tribe has more power at the moment.
That’s not bad actually. Any power plant is gonna be decommissioned after 50 years anyway.
The HTML in email isn't modern HTML+CSS. IIRC due to Outlook and backwards-compatibility, it's out of date.

The author is saying that RSS readers render the content using older HTML standards. I don't know if that's true, but that's how I read their statement.
The man's financial responsibilities are to the child. Neither parent has the right to abdicate their own or the other parent's responsibility there.

The mother can make choices as the extension of her bodily autonomy rights that make the responsibility moot. But thinking of this through the frankly mens-rightsy lens of child support is limiting your understanding of the contours of these rights and responsibilities I think.
Which is more heinous: the idea, or the patent on the idea? Or does this make a difference:

"EA's Patent Pledge allows other developers to use five of its patents without the risk of being sued..."
It should be noted that this is a rare and unpopular opinion. The overwhelming majority of people are going to be disgusted by a 32 week abortion on either side of the issue.
Second this recommendation. Fun read! I know a lot of HN folks won’t be as impressed as I was, but I had no idea they wrote the first several versions of WordPerfect for DOS in assembly. To me, at least, THAT is impressive. I wouldn’t even know where to begin to start a project like that in assembly.
It’s cheap to pay someone to create a rough draft from an outline, no need for AI. However, doing so isn’t very helpful.
No, that was what PrimeNow was. PrimeNow is discontinued last year.

Amazon Fresh is scheduled fairly large delivery windows, usually at least a day out. If you get super lucky there might be an available slot later the same day but not often if city.
In a few weeks everyone would have forgotten about it (sadly).
>You would have the legal right to back out of donating a kidney, even if you already agreed to do it and it would save someone's life. Similarly, the argument goes, you should have the legal right to have an abortion (or at least induce labor, if viability is possible) at any point during a pregnancy.

that's not really a good analogy because prior to donating the kidney, the kidney recipient isn't dependent on your kidneys, whereas at the moment of conception the zygote/fetus is dependent on the mother's body. A better analogy would be being able to take back the kidney after it's been donated, although that's also flawed because you're not really giving anything up when you're getting aborted.