skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are further nuances. While a majority favors legal abortions in early stages, there is a very substantial group (across the political spectrum) that disapproves of late stage abortions (except in unusual situations, such as to save the mother's life).

The issue has been polarized into two groups:

1) a single cell is a human being
2) a nine month fetus isn't a human being until the last foot has emerged from the birth canal.

Many, perhaps most, think both of these positions are utterly ridiculous.
They give you pretty much all control of the hardware. The ultimate sign of that is, that you can install Linux on the ARM macs now. Apple even made some steps to make this reasonable. You do have full control of the hardware.

On the other side, a booted macOS has certain limitations in place. Not even root is able to write to certain partitions and such stuff. This is not because "we know better", but because these limits provide some fundamental security. A partition which cannot be written to, cannot be modified by malware.

You can boot into a mode where this protection does not exist, but for productive usage, it is a good idea to have that protection in place.
The constitution has been ignored for a long time already

> Literally, the main reason for the US federal government to exist is to protect our rights.

This is not the reality... the purpose of the US Government in today's market is to gain power and control everything.
> they force you to use SMS for 2FA

It's not exclusive, though; you can switch to an authenticator like Authy or even a hardware device like Yubikey.
I feel like you're talking past what I'm saying to continue teaching the same math lesson you've taught hundreds of times before, which is exactly the kind of discontinuity in communication that I'm trying to highlight (and, evidently, failing). It's difficult to articulate, and I already feel like this reply is rambling quite a bit, but hear goes:

> we are definitely not asserting that the two expressions are the same.

Correct. Not the same, equal. Because that's definitionally what the equals sign means. "A=B" is a symbolic representation of "'The expression A' equals 'The expression B'". I hope we can agree on that?

>if your view were correct we wouldn’t spend time teaching how to solve the equation.

What I actually said implies the exact opposite. You teach how to solve equations because that's the use case for equations as tools. That's not a bad thing, it's an extremely useful thing to teach.

But teaching how a tool is used is not the same as teaching the fundamentals of what a tool is. It can help in that goal, certainly, (and might even be required as a prerequisite) but it's not the same. It's exactly like you said:

>We teach algorithms like long division and the quadratic formula because they are relatively easy computations to learn but they don’t in any way lead students to fully grasping a concept.

It's not fair to blame students' "innumeracy" for not being able to derive "0=1" as "an equation without a solution", because they've successfully learned the thing that they were actually taught, that equations are "things with unknowns that we have to solve for". Of course generating a solution that has neither unknowns nor a solution is foreign, because everything they've learned about it as a tool goes against that.

(It's worth noting that there's another reason that the teachers teach this, one that's perhaps even more important for the school system; it's an easy thing to evaluate student understanding of. You can easily test whether a student can "solve" an equation, and return the correct answer. It's something you can get immediate, iterative feedback on. You can't really test if they actually grok a definition, because they can just parrot a definition with no understanding.)

Fundamentally, my argument is about language, not mathematics. You're saying that students aren't able to derive answers based on the definitions of terms, but not only are those definitions wildly divergent from their English meaning, they're divergent from the actual definitions the student are learning via practice.

Take, for example:

>There are values for which the two polynomials evaluate to the same number. Those are the solutions.

Values of x, you mean but didn't say. Because it's so heavily implied in the existence of an "equation to solve" that unknown quantities you are solving for are the ones written in the equation itself, that it's not even worth mentioning. But it's precisely this linguistic assumption that obscures what an equation actually is to students.
Historically most people didn’t live in single family homes. They lived in very crowded, multi-generational and small dwellings connected to many neighbors. Shared public spaces were used for getting together, etc. Most dwellings did not have kitchens, etc. Our idea of a home for “regular people” is radically different than what people have lived in.

People need to probably drastically limit what they think of when they think of affordable housing. Think multi-family homes where each dwelling supports 4 people and is < 800 sq-feet. 1 bathroom, 1 communal area (w/ small range + table) and 2 bedrooms.

Look to the disposable homes of Japan I guess.
There are apps performing packet filtering by presenting as a VPN client. Can’t stop Apple bypassing that when it wants to, however.
Boom - nice. Here's a fork with that: https://github.com/bfirsh/stable-diffusion/tree/lstein

Requirements are "requirements-mac.txt" which'll need subbing in the guide.

We're testing this out with a few people in Discord before shipping to the blog post.
My experience with most people saying "we are building more housing" is that they drastically overestimate how much housing is getting built, especially relative to yesteryear. If you look at net increase in units YoY, it's usually quite modest even for booming, "in-demand" areas.

The other part is that the same things that make it slower to build more housing also make it more expensive, all the various bureaucratic processes.
I read a lot about ball lightning in the past. And from what I gathered, there are a couple of different phenomena that are described as "ball lightning".

The one that is most prominent in literature is that of a glowing ball that sometimes can pass through solid objects (windows, sometimes even walls) without any problems, and that stays a couple seconds to minutes.

I think that in this case the best explanation is what Wikipedia describes as "Transcranial magnetic stimulation", i.e. a sort of hallucination created by electromagnetic stimulus in the brain, like an optical illusion. It has been shown that strong magnetic fields in the brain can cause "light-effects" to appear which stay for seconds to minutes and then vanish. Having seen what the EMP from a nearby lightning can do (like fry electronics), it's not a long stretch to think that it could cause some EMP-like effects in our brains too...

Other phenomena, like the one that was filmed in China (I think?) are probably plasma discharges that are similar but unrelated to "classical" ball lightning.
> That’s not a diss to AWS security mind you, I’m sure it’s top of the line.

You are sure. Whew!

Terrified am I
Even outside it.

Took a train to Sintra, there were endless and endless 6 story-miles long buildings forever. Portugal seems insanely dense.
Tokyo seems to have solved this by building houses and transportation right? What's preventing other governments from duplicating this? Politics? If so what was unique about Tokyo?
"this behavior" presumably being XProtect causing numerous beachballs/day... C'mon - let's be a little less snarky and a little more charitable.
You’re forgetting household size.

As with all wealthy countries, household size has fallen in Portugal over the past few decades, so the same amount of people needs more house. This is especially true in the context of empty nest retirees.
> Will be interesting if the blue states ever decide to stop forwarding income taxes to Washington, claiming they're tired of paying for the red states

It will be even more interesting if the red states then stop sending the blue ones things like food, water, and energy.

It may turn out that those things are more important than simulated pieces of green paper.
If I recall correctly MIDI itself had a typical latency several milliseconds on classic-era dedicated hardware.
> One thing I don't like about Apple's approach to security is locking the user out, making the OS like a black box.

If we're talking about prevention of execution of unknown applications, that's not existent. Right click any application, click open, and it'll show you the same warning with "Open" added. So, you can always override Apple's warning.

I like how macOS makes you read the warning box before making a decision, tbh. Yes, it's no Linux in terms of flexibility, and freedom, but I like the OS nevertheless.
Not compatible. For the mouse, the Fire Button and the Up are used for the two buttons and the PotX and PotY are used for the mouse X,Y data.

For the two button joystick the up/down/left/right/fire are as usual but the PotX is used for the second button.
I can’t share any links, but I’d posit that “things getting better, then getting worse, then getting better” can seem subjective and self-fulfilling.
Airbnb and uber for all their benefits have taken away a lot of urban planning capabilities of local govts. At the same time, they expose the general unwillingness of local govts to accomodate the need of the population or those who bring in economic value (tourists, transplants).

If you are becoming a tourist hub, then create an off-town tourist area and add a convenient transit line/people mover to the central parts of town. Tourists get reasonable housing, locals don't get displaced and the influx of population does not destroy the cultural vibe of your town.

Prohibition never works, and piracy is a reflection of an unmet need. Banning things merely airs out open wounds, and leads to grey-markets such as shady uber/airbnb equivalents within the city. If you want to reduce abortions, banning merely leads to riskier abortions. Examples of this are dime a dozen.

When demand arrives, the cities MUST adjust to incoming demand. Couple examples of working uncomfortable compromises are: 1. Paris - Choose a small district and allow it to go full skyscraper. The rest of the town maintains its architectural identity. 2. Barcelona - Go full superblock. Means that tourist activity gets neatly distributed across the city (removing bottlenecks) and tourists do not lead to increase in car traffic.

I could go on and on, but 1 fundamental truth stays. Bottlenecks only help those who control access to it. The key is to eliminate the bottleneck (more housing). Band-aids (rent-control) or equitable distribution of bottleneck gains (no-renters->only-homeowners/ more single-family-housing) never works. It only leads to the situation festering (see Bay Area / SF), and makes for an even harder problem in the future.

I'm not sure if my comment conveys any cohesive point, but I hope folks get something out of it.

p.s: fuck NIMBYs
True. The new ones won’t just be fantasies, though.
Maybe worth noting there's different kinds of B6 - Pyridoxal 5 Phosphate and Pyridoxine Hydrochloride and that pyroxidine hydrochloride was used here.

PLP has some interesting effects at higher doses such as lowering prolactin levels and increasing dopamine, but can also be quite toxic when taken at higher doses.
Yes. I did.

Apologies.
If PostHog sounds cool but you're a Product Designer and not an SRE, great news, we're looking for you too! See link above.
> He is saying that his goal is to make humanity multi-planetary, so that it can survive a disaster that may happen to the earth.

Great, that's a cool goal. Especially with so much concern about existential threats to humanity on earth.

> This goal is impossible with anything resembling current technology. This is obvious if you think about it even for a little bit. So it's either a lie, or he hasn't thought about it for more than a little bit.

Or he wants to improve on current technology, like he's been doing.

> No I'm not. I'll repeat it again: SpaceX and Tesla are serious companies producing worthwhile products that people want. They have both broken ground in areas where no company has broken ground for a long long time, and they have generally left older companies in their spaces in the dust.

Okay you backed down on that now, but you did say it before in the part I quoted.

> This doesn't mean that Musk doesn't try to present them as even more than they actually are,

Like all companies including the many competitors I listed.

> for purposes that I'm sure are part ego boosting, part clever marketing. He often outright lies while doing so, or promises impossible goals in impossible timelines.

I still think it's that you hate Musk and are fixating on him. When I asked you to explain why it's a scam for example, you couldn't. So just a bit more thinking through things seems to help bring a bit more clarity and perspective.

I mean you're asking about other companies and CEOs, I can't understand it you must be willfully looking the other way. The CEO of BP has has branded himself a visionary leader who is fighting climate change, for example. And that kind of bullshit is common among petroleum corporations, that was just the first example I searched for.

So, it's just all pretty rich to hear you talking about how other CEOs are great and don't do all these terrible things you imagine Musk does. I mean, there are perfectly good reasons to hate Musk, but when you start trying to say other CEOs are much better by comparison and that's your justification for it, I think that demonstrates it's not very rational in this case.
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Yeah, go watch the Not Just Bikes video and you'll see that what he's talking about isn't rural. But of course, you won't really see the issues unless you try to walk. When I was 19 I was living in Orange County (CA) and my car was in the shop. What was normally a 15 minute drive to work turned into a 3hr bus ride. I probably would have saved 15 minutes by walking, but these are the design differences. You probably wouldn't notice the difficulties unless you actually attempt to walk.
I followed https://replicate.com/blog/run-stable-diffusion-on-m1-mac
The most desirable areas aren't filled with buildings at every corner.
Making tech accessible and safe for people who don't know any better should always be welcomed.

But when you do that yet hide things from people who do know better, you're not making tech accessible, you're making tech worse.

I really don't like how these companies behave sometimes, their utopia involves people with 0% knowledge and 100% obsession.
that only works for network requests that use dns. some (including a number of apple & google services) go directly to an ip address, which is why a firewall like little snitch is still valuable beyond dns-based blockers like pihole, nextdns, and adguard (this is what i use on ios). you used to be able to install an application firewall on jailbroken iphones, but i don't think that's an option any more.

on macos, i used to use hands off! from one periodic (and before that, metakine), but they've since disappeared. i now use lulu with pf firewall via murus lite as a backup, but may switch to little snitch again (used to have a license but was unable to upgrade it so switched to hands off! via a promo) for the better UX.
I've been generating thousands of images with Stable Diffusion and my overall take is this is super primitive tech and it's unclear if/when there will be major breakthroughs in terms of "mainstream" use cases or general impact on society. I think it could revolutionize gaming or marketing if it gets to the point where any meaningful prompt instantly leads to mind-blowing images. Currently you have to keep laboring against its tendency to produce grotesque, mutilated, dystopian, hell-like imagery.
My daughter is an equestrian and the quality makers of riding boots, half chaps, etc. all mention their use of YKK zippers in their product descriptions.
Special deals are the way to go and make them rare enough that they feel special.

Otherwise, the big old "stop texting me" button is going to come into play.

I like the local businesses that send coupons via email, those are nice.
If only Firefox had support for PWAs on Desktop.
It is And an indictment of FAANG's.

Why do we think that FAANGs set the standard?
>>Nice. I hope this ushers approvals across the planet.

TBH - this will just shift sales of that fuel type to the still "dirty" countries fuel supplies where banning it will not happen, sadly.

Oil companies are not our friends.

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I was just thinking about this yesterday; the amount of human infrastructure built around the petro-chem industry:: Land use, pollution, corruption, just plain evil, etc...

Along with the fact they lobby and get subsidies and everything where the Earth provides their raw input for "free" and the rest of the world suffers.

/r/fuckcars, but seriously - Petro-chem, for all the great things industrial revolution has given us, is the most insidious industry on the planet. Look at fucking ARAMCO's cap/profits last year. Largest company on the planet. BigOil is a nightmare.
> very large amount of work done by very competent engineers,

Of course, and this is partly why they were successful: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-27/synopsys-...

> Someone who succeeds to reproduce a stolen manufacturing process is very likely able to further develop such a process on their own.

And, this is why we'll have to wait and see if their current, successful, strategy will result in future, independent, advances.
> In their defense—both Apple's, and the public's—the general populace is, like, 99.99% OK

Majority of customers purchase one of two options in a duopoly isn’t really an endorsement of the options, but rather a critique on the lack of options.
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DDG was always better when I tested Kagi and Orion was not performing any better than brave either. Both products are far from terrible but based on the merit and value of the product alone I could not pay for it. The privacy angle is worth paying for but why won't I just use DDG? I use private tabs a lot and having to login to kagi or searching the internet logged in with an account tied to a payment method isn't a positive thing for me. Good idea but bad business model is my experience with both products.

But YMMV so don't let me discourage you from trying them.
So EM radiation guided loitering ammunition when?
I really don't get this reaction, and it seems very common. I don't really read the Atlantic much any more, haven't for a long time, but that's because I don't read much of any news periodicals. Nonetheless, for a periodical, they have always presented a pretty broad range of views, and the range tends to always be somewhat middle of the road. So no extreme takes on any particular subject, but within the range of what they publish, it's very common for one writer to disagree with another.

This seems to be getting painted by a lot of you as a bad thing. The views presented here don't represent the views of the Atlantic. They represent the views of the writer. And other writers also published by the Atlantic disagree. Some of them think you should be afraid. Some of them think you should not be afraid. That isn't hypocrisy or "rich." It's a publication showing you a range of views from people who disagree on subjects that are far from settled. How is this supposed to be a bad thing? Do you want the editorial board to instead only publish takes that all agree and present only one side of any subject?
Seems like a reasonable argument.

Technology is doing vastly more for climate change than behavior.
> California is the biggest producer of food

"Dollar value" and "calories" are two different things.

California produces a lot of high-dollar-value luxury crops, but doesn't actually produce many of the calories that stand between the population and starvation. It doesn't even produce enough calories to feed itself.
We can look at it from the source side, and assume that what gets produced gets eaten (not entirely accurate of course). How have food production, processing, preservation, and distribution changed?

An interpretation of the obesity epidemic and resulting health crisis is that we are now producing a toxic quantity of food.
Is there a way to disable the scanning that doesn't involve disabling SIP which prevents you from running iOS apps?

macOS really seems to try to frustrate power-users with these non-optional security features. I even had to make a separate note document with the commands/references to disable the various security features. I don't understand why they choose to frustrate this audience by making it so difficult.
made me curious how many search queries I'm doing: averaging 2000/month:

sqlite3 ~/.mozilla/firefox/*default*/places.sqlite "select strftime('%Y/%m', last_visit_date/1000000, 'unixepoch') as yearmonth, substr(p.url,9,14) as search_backend,count(1) as hits from moz_places p where (p.url like 'https://duckduckgo%' or p.url like 'https://www.google.%/search%' or p.url like 'https://www.qwant%') group by search_backend,yearmonth order by yearmonth asc,hits desc;"

add any search engine you use with another 'p.url like'
How do they replace the lubricating function of the triethyl lead?
Not the future, it did already happen, albeit on a smaller scale with Cruise: https://www.thedrive.com/news/a-swarm-of-self-driving-cruise...

The worst part is they were never really transparent about what the issue was.
It's a serious question, yet your answer is to dismiss it and change the subject. You may find it hard to believe, but some people do not want to use the rather intricate git CLI.