skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What if we defined sexual intercourse this way? Let's find the biological moment where sexual intercourse has technically occurred, and rest our moral judgement on that biological definition. So, for example, rape with a condom is a whole separate class of crime, because sexual intercourse never occurred. Nevermind that the real impact to thinking, feeling people is almost totally disconnected from that specific biological definition we've picked.

You are writing this as if this is not something we already do. Not in the way you mentioned, but in many states and jurisdictions outside America, rape refers to vaginal penetration with a penis. This is an attempt to define sexual intercourse. Other sexual crimes are classified differently (either as sodomy or sexual assault). This is not because these other crimes aren't equally terrible emotionally, but because PIV rape can cause a child, which is considered worse to do without consent.

> In addition to my questions from the previous comment, here's another thing I'd ask Christopher Hitchens (if he were still alive) or those who agree with him on this subject: Is it wrong to have sex with a woman born with a condition that allows her eggs to be fertilized, but leaves no chance for them to ever implant, thereby invariably killing one or two fertilized "humans" every month she has sex? Or, in abstract terms: Is it really the fertilized embryo entity that we care about? Or is it in fact the imminent life? And if it is the imminent life, then why is pulling out okay (or is it)?

I imagine it would be the same as his answer to generic trolley problem questions.

But again, you asked for one example. I gave you one. There's actually plenty of secular pro-lifers, modern, old, etc. You should perhaps read more before just pretending it's a primarily religious position. Ultimately, the Christian position on this (best explained by the Catholic church) comes from Aristotelian ethics, not a particularly Christian worldview, or even one that requires scripture to defend. Almost every pro-life defense rests on the simple claim that a fertilized egg is human and has particular rights. Perhaps the only 'religious' claim the Catholics make is that humans have rights independent of the status of their brains, because humans are made in the image of God. But frankly, if we were to reject that claim, we would be forced to reject the enlightenment ideals this country and secular liberalism were founded upon (most secular philosophers make little attempt to defend why humans have rights in the first place).
Like the aborigines did it.
So does the brain of all artists that have learned and been inspired by copyrighted works.
UK Railways are 9km longer today due to hot temperatures
There are literally thousands of shipping languages that don't have the most vexing parse problem.

If that is Rust's entire syntax advantage, it isn't a very big one.
a competitive engineering group I worked for ten+ years ago definitely had this exactly. Except "ssh from outside" was also carefully monitored, and the primary admin visited a few times a month in person. That computer admin was not the boss, it is a secure environment with a lot of top-down control. Engineers were occasionally terminated, while the executives rarely were. Its a real thing in the city.
This is, unfortunately, a legitimate reason not to make solo suppliers a part of your supply chain. Inability to implement things like mandatory vacations and separation of duties does mean only you need to be compromised to become a threat vector, and that is easier than compromising multiple people. It doesn't mean you can't run a solo business, but you should focus on selling to organizations that are not likely to become the target of a supply chain attack.
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Try to make this *look good* in **YAML**.

^ I have quite a lot of YAML hanging around these days like this.

Markdown is surprisingly effective as an XML document markup replacement.
> That's why these things are nationalized and why uber isn't running our nuclear power plants for "hyper growth and exponential profit"

Isn't it something to cherish then that renewables enables precisely that?
Yes, the hoarded data is per se dangerous. It should not exist, as in, it should be very illegal to collect and retain. That goes for non-tech companies that do similar things, like credit card companies.

[EDIT] That is, things like credit card companies selling your purchase history. Obviously they do need to retain some of that information to operate, but they shouldn't be able to sell access to it or use it for any other purpose. Ditto banks, magazines selling subscriber lists, all that crap. Should not be legal.
Someone already called out HUD. The other thing to be very careful with is PII because what you have could be incredibly sensitive. I wouldn't be so worried on the legal front, but more a personal front that I wouldn't sleep well at night knowing lax data retention and security policies could out someone.
Rejecting reality is just stupid. Being poor is no excuse for acting stupid.
So, there's "todo.txt-cli"† that can help manage todo files in a more task-orientated fashion, while still just using text files. As a bonus, it got something of a cult following a few years back, and there are apps for both mobile platforms which can interact with them too (even out of dropbox, iirc).

† https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-cli
On a related note, factory-installed Toyota display systems can sometimes be locked and require an "ERC" code to unlock. The display in my recently imported car was in Japanese and seemed to be stuck, as none of the buttons or rear camera worked. I learned from Google Translate that it was in some kind of anti-theft lock mode, and after going down the rabbit hole I found out that I could access a secret menu by holding radio power and turning the headlights on and off three times, which revealed a screen displaying the display's serial number and asking for an "ERC" code.

It turns out some fine Internet people have written C# (https://github.com/alexeyfadeev/erc-calculator) and Python (https://github.com/Berks/python_erc) packages to generate these codes. Was really cool to figure this out without having to pay some shady site in Bitcoins! The display is still in Japanese, but at least I can use Bluetooth and the rear camera! Hope that helps someone.
Why would all countries not just use rails that can tolerate all possible temperatures.
What happened at TMI was wildly exaggerated by anti-nuke activists. Obviously they took full advantage of the public's ignorance to instill fear into the public such that Nuclear was DOA in the years and decades after their agitative activism. And, so here we are.
That sounds like the kind of thing that's going to break somebody's workflow, a la spacebar heating.

https://xkcd.com/1172/

I have no idea whose workflow or why, but I can't help but suspect that git 2.37.1 will have a --disablePushNewBranch flag.
Don't create a programming language to kill another language. That never works. Create a language that fulfills a specific purpose.
Their comment is explicitly against HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article.

You don't need to respond to it, flagging will do.
> I'd like to see someone actually prove a security risk rather than hypothetically posing it.

A security risk is by nature hypothetical. If the risk comes to fruition, it's no longer a risk, it's an event or an incident or whatever.

I think it's right to say such data harvesting posses a security risk. I don't necessarily think the nationality of the corporation collecting it makes a huge difference though. If the concern is state level abuse of the harvested data, sure, it's much easier for any given state to access data when the data is stored by an entity that has strong state influence, but given the patterns of hiring at large scale data collectors, it can't be too hard to get state operatives into positions where they have large scale discrectionary access to data.

Also, I'm not really convinced that the FCC is expected to consider national security concerns, or if they have significant regulatory oversight of the app store market either?
> I think the world will be more stable when there are few major players around with not a single one having complete control / dominance.

Until one thinks they can get an edge over another one by jumping them:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_wars

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Military_history_by_c...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Military_history_by_p...
The difference is that Europe stopped doing most of this a century ago, and US didn’t.
Hi Nathanaldensr,
All sexualities and genders are welcome to our platform, including heterosexual people. If you create a listing (for a room or to show interest to find a room) there is the option for heterosexuals :)

We just provide a bridge to create a safe place for the community :)
> Is this (organ transport) really an unsolved issue that some kind of "drone highway" would solve? I doubt it.

I didn't say it would solve it.
In this euro centric conversation the max speed for an ebike in most of north america is 32kph (20mph). This is a decent compromise of speed and safety.
This isn’t some speculative thing. It literally happened in the 2003 heat wave, where crops failed due to the extreme heat. With even higher temperatures in this heat wave it will certainly happen this year too.

As these sorts of heat waves become more frequent, our food supply will become more unstable which, left unchecked, will eventually result in famine even in rich parts of the world like Europe.
> What that sounds a lot like to my ears is “white man’s burden”. I.e. we the developed world have a responsibility to control and parent the developing world because they can’t do it themselves.

The difference here being that it's not about taking control of the developing world, but saving resources humanity as a whole requires to keep earth habitable for us - this affects everyone, poor or rich. It's just that Brazil, right now, has a very unfortunate combination of a corrupt government, very valuable resources, and responsibility for the integrity of the forest.

> It’s temping to try to police brazil’s extraction, but the far less paternalistic and colonial thing to do would be to police our own demand for what they’re cutting down the rainforest to provide.

That isn't mutually exclusive. At the very least, there should be sanctions put into place until Brazil starts actually trying to prevent extraction, not actively supporting it. But I could still see a global organization responsible for keeping core areas intact.
I agree. I also lately seem to be in a mood to enjoy doing math and pointing out why such performative statements, if taken at face value, would either 1) do more harm than good, 2) would be impossible.

As you might guess, in my current mood I’m not great at parties.
Had the same thought ourselves. World class DevEx (developer experience) has been the domain of big-tech for a long time. Probably one of the core dividers that make big-tech....big.
We crave an authority that will give us knowledge and control of the unknown.

Even bad information gives us a small sense of power and security.
this is kinda off topic but do anybody know about tiktoks recommendation algo? i've been working on a little algorithmic newsfeed project but wanna improve the recommendation system.

im wondering if it's harder to get the same quality data as with short video, but still curious to know how they got recommendations that much better. is it just more/better data into the algo, like with rewatches etc tracked? or actual tech improvement?

bc yt shorts and ig reels don't have the same recommendations even with about the same data.
Poland is about the worst country in the EU for on-shore wind so a very cherrypicked counter example.

Do you have numbers for off-shore parks along the Baltic coast? That would be much more interesting.
Supramolecular adhesive with usable temperature range of 400 degrees Celsius
You don’t even really need sight to discriminate.

Different minority groups get different results from phone call inquiries by voice, because they have distinct linguistic patterns not present in General American English. LGBT people also have their own distinct patterns, though not all LGBT people use them.

Also, some visual markers are probably present in the gay population at a higher rate than the general population, like earrings, dyed hair, or wearing clothing not tied to their sex.
> Equality and sameness are not the same

That’s a grossly capitalist exploitative viewpoint which overlooks hidden power structures to excuse any degree of inequality. Any difference whatsoever between anybody can be traced back to hidden power structures, and to deny this is fascism and morally equivalent to the January 6 toppling of our democracy and also slavery, which founded our nation in 1619.

It’s time for a discussion of alternatives to the engine of inequality called capitalism. You see, when I buy something from you, we are both exploited in ways we know not, because they are hidden.

The more you know…
Both health and safety and accessibility/ADA requirements. I was playing mini golf the other day and realized you couldn’t even build that course anymore, it’s not wheelchair friendly. The cost of starting or running any business open to the public has gone up astronomically with the growth of overwhelming bureaucracy at all levels of government.
Using runtime classes can also be handy if you're willing to use `instanceof` (or the speedier constructor comparison) to disambiguate between types, such as when you want to branch on Left/Right in an Either, or None/Just in a Maybe, or Error/Success in a Result, etc.
You are all missing the point.

War is a constant.

It was in the past.

It is a constant today.

And it will be in the future.

All nations are, at heart, "evil" in this regard. Essentially, nations are just scaled up street gangs with more destructive weapons.

The only proven method of keeping these street gangs from getting too far out of hand, of keeping all our war at the level of low intensity conflict, is MAD. Nations behave only at the barrel of a gun. To argue that America is "evil" is as irrelevant as it is to argue that America is "good".

For instance, I know that all nations can be said to be "evil" at root, and "good" at root. Here's the thing though, do you think it matters to me if China is "evil" and "good"? Of course not, they're just a different street gang. The US has a responsibility to humanity to keep them in line. Should it matter to China that the US street gang is "evil" and "good"? No. They have a responsibility to humanity to keep the US in line.

In the age of weapons of mass destruction, only mutually assured destruction has ensured these street gangs don't come into conflict. Relying on sunshine and rainbows and unicorns that crap out skittles is nonsense. This is not a children's game of "good guys-bad guys". There are no good guys or bad guys. Only nations, (street gangs), pursuing interests. They are kept in line only at the barrel of a gun. Take that gun away and they will run rampant.
Little consolation when you're waiting 15 minutes for the R train on the sweltering platform, ugh.

But yeah – sadly London's system used to be pretty cool, but the clay interior has acted like a battery, slowly absorbing the heat, and it simply can't absorb any more. It's a massive engineering problem (and oversight).
Hansen and Rubin did something like this in 2001 [1]. I have some audio samples of their program's product from monitoring the Lucent site at 6 AM, noon, and 2:30 PM - decidedly different sounds at each time.

Edit: The page on Hansen's website about this project (Listening Post) is available in archive.org, but without any audio samples alas [2]

[1] http://legacy.spa.aalto.fi/icad2001/proceedings/papers/hanse...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20020414095256fw_/http://www.ear...
Nope, homeschooled 100%. I did go to community college when I was 13, I guess.
Lots of books (4000 in our home library), Khan Academy, and no personal electronics for the kids.

>But how on earth were you supervised. I guess one parent must have been stay-at-home.

Mom still is, and she's good at it. The real answer is that it's not any more effort past 6 or so kids. I've been taking care of kids my entire life, essentially, and it really does become self-sustaining. Turns out tweens and young teens are great at taking care of babies. There's a picture somewhere of 10-year-old me wearing my new baby sister in a carrier.

Dad's a principal engineer, he's been remote for a long time, we saw him plenty. (he's also somewhat active here, Hi Dad!)

As long as you don't spend money on things like TV, and buy in bulk to cook at home, it's really not too expensive. We'd spend about $1300 a month in groceries.

> I think if you have 10 kids, then someone checking in to make sure that the kids are being fed, supervised, educated becomes a thing that probably needs to happen.

Where's the threshold for the state examining their anuses because obviously something must be wrong here?

We did have CPS called a couple times, once because I was doing my college coursework at 14 sitting on the patio roof. I hopped down, we sat around and listened to the spiel, then I politely asked them if they could fuck off because my Sociology 204 class was about to happen.

We also scored at the top of our (good) school district in standardized testing. Like, all of us were the top score in our grade.
The lines without AC were constructed (mostly) in the 19th century. It's not possible to fit AC.

Alternative ways to cool the trains have been under investigation for decades, but there isn't an obvious solution.
Play Store apps spotted distributing malware for Android devices
That's an odd article.

"The stockpile is unknown, they've already burned through half their likely inventory thus far, produce only a few dozen a year, and are using balistic missiles on weird targets" seems to point to the opposite conclusion they're going for.
Arguing otherwise is me not being a functioning democracy?

While I would love to take that on I am genuinely puzzled by what you mean. “No one can question American democracy because they don’t have a better one?” Sorry but if that’s it that’s a dumb take.
Hacker Posts Internal Roblox Employee Documents Online
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, we’ll use more government regulation." Now they have two problems.
I like how most of the comments insult you and tell you to educate yourself, rather than answering a fair question about immutable and immediately-recognizable characteristics.
Carbon dioxide isn't deadly.

I meant an nuclear accident not a tsunami.
Just like Fukushima was hit by a catastrophe bigger than expected the same could happen in Germany.
Maybe a plane crash, none of the existing power plants is germany is build to withstand one.

And who said about coal instead of nuclear?
Coal is used because german politicians intentionally blocked wind and solar power.
Personally I am not the "G" in LGBTQ+ but I prefer to be described as gay than queer, because in many parts of the world where I lived or visited, queer is still a slur and carries a lot of emotional baggage with it. I don't think it's problematic for a modern website to choose to use gay as the catch-all. Really how people choose to be referred to is just a matter of personal preference, it's not nearly as important as actions or intent. If the site is legit, people will appreciate it all the same.
https://archive.ph/LuGK2
Autocomplete for flatmates seems to use UK addresses only? I guess this is not meant to be a US product? Didn't find anything in my major US city anyway
It depends on the risk tolerance of your customer, but you would likely fail.

The reason being: What happens if you get struck by a bus? Your business dies overnight (or until the hosting bill doesn't get paid) and now your customers are screwed.

Many of the controls are about what happens when staff depart, both planned and unplanned? What is the power structure in the org? How do you prevent employees from damaging your business operations?

Resilience is important to any enterprise, and many audits now evaluate how hardened your business is.

Maybe a morbid startup idea of "I'll ensure business continuity if you die so you can pass SOC2" lol
What incorruptible body could take control of the amazon on behalf of humanity? How would we chose its leaders? Who decides what is protected and what isn’t?
New method identifies the root causes of statistical outliers
As a child I was equally interested in hardware and software but ultimately ended up earning an MSEE because I wanted to design CPUs. At the time I was in school (early-mid 2000's), software development generally wasn't viewed as being significantly higher paying than EE. The huge boom in software development didn't seem to start until at least a few years after I graduated. While I was in school the general sentiment toward the tech industry in general was somewhat negative due to the recent bursting of the 90's tech bubble. That said I do recall a meeting during my senior year of undergrad called by the chair of the EE department asking for all graduating seniors' thoughts as to why enrollment in the EE program had dropped off so much since our class started. I think "other engineering disciplines are less difficult" was a much more common answer than “significantly higher pay in software".

Throughout my first several years working as a CPU designer, I watched as the software industry expanded rapidly. The potential pay seemed to be much higher than what was available as a CPU/IC designer, and on multiple occasions I seriously considered a career change into software development. The CPU/IC design industry seemed to be consolidating during this same time period.

Then shortly before COVID hit, I started learning of various large software companies moving into the custom IC space, and the number of opportunities available to CPU/IC designers seemed to be expanding. Over the last year or so my pay has increased significantly due to the apparent worker shortage our industry has been experiencing. It's not as high as what I've read an average FAANG SWE can make, but it's now high enough that I'm not feeling the same urge to make a career change that I was several years ago. I'm able to work mostly remote, have a great team, and get to solve interesting problems. That said, a fair amount of my work does consist of writing code. Having said that, the semiconductor industry seems to be notoriously volatile. Things are good now but could quickly take a turn for the worst. All of the software companies currently experimenting with designing their own custom ICs could decide these side projects are no longer viable.

If I was giving advice to a current college student, I would probably steer them toward software development rather than hardware. The unfortunate reality is that there seems to be many more opportunities and much higher pay potential working in software development than hardware. If I had started college 10+ years later I would have become a software developer. Is the CPU/IC design industry different from other EE fields in terms of potential pay and job opportunities? Maybe it depends on the specific employer.
What? they didn't really counted all the plankton in the ocean?

Scientists are shocked

Google: principles of ecology: "distribution in mosaic"
Another good time to go is early January, just after school starts up. It's not hot, and it's not crowded.
There are weird governance issues with the C++ committee too. Acceptance or rejection of a feature can depend on which reps just happen to show up that day.
it came back up soon after this post, but it was down for around 30 minutes
> If you think the world is stable as a result of the US, you should think again.

"Stable" in some kind of Platonic absolute sense, or "more stable that things would have otherwise been"?