skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have never met an American, or anyone of any nationality that understands "book bans" refer exclusively to school libraries.

You are the first.

Book bans are bans on books, at a national or state/local government level.

Bans on books within a school have been a thing for a relatively long time where I am. Usually managed by the local school council for various different reasons.
> If we turned down every complaint just because it wasn’t deemed as harmful as another complaint that was turned down, few things would change.

Or, maybe we'd think differently about some things that have been normalised and are worthy of re-consideration.

Regarding "few things would change", like all these things, that can be good or bad, it depends on the situation.

> the logical fallacy you’ve stumbled upon is termed as “whataboutism”.

I think they're comparable in this context: "can be used legally, can be used illegally, the freedom of choice is given to the user".

I'm specifically not comparing "why is this an issue whilst animals are still being experimented on by companies that make beauty products". I'm explicitly trying to avoid whataboutism, to provide some logical comparison.

As pasquinelli points out in a sibling comment, the fallacy I did make is that of pointing out hypocrisy and expecting that to be worth anything. Sadly, that's a true fallacy at this point in civilisation. Unfortunately, I'll keep banging my head on that wall until either I'm dead or the wall relents.
Climate change already requires Apollo or Manhattan levels of urgency to be fair.
Corporate contributions also suffer from the same perverse incentives. If you want that promo, better make sure it's your code and proposal that made it into the standard.
Casinos cannot alter odds on any machine (or rather they could, but it would be highly illegal) and have absolutely no reason to. Variance does that job for them quite fine.
I remember going to the independent computer stores of Silicon Valley. There were many enterprising Asian rim immigrant merchants selling components from jewelry display cases.

For hardware, there was WeirdStuff (large bin of SPA shareware on dot-matrix print labeled floppies), Halted/HSC (used and new electronic parts and odds-and-end), JDR microdevices (when commercial engineers needed real tools and parts), and Radio ("Rat") Shack.

Retail software: the original Fry's Electronics branched out, NCA Peripherals, and Egghead Software. Later, the CompUSA tech hypermart came along and squished most of the independent stores and regional chains. Micro Center was one that endured. PixelUSA in Campbell always had the latest in prosumer DIY computer gear. Central Computer Systems (CSS) is less of cramped computer parts hypermart that is more of a convenience store; they also had almost every free and paid computer magazine and semi-commercial open source media distributions from Slackware to Red Hat (pre-Enterprise) Linux.

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Electronics. My dad was an electrical and A/C mechanic who got started with HeathKit with his father, who was also a mechanic.

My dad was too impatient and not interested in teamwork or doing things together.

From a young age, I knew generally the fundamentals of how passives (RLC), current, voltage, motors, and safety around electricity. I had the gray plastic front Science Fair 200-in-1 kit.
> quite fascinated how has the art progressed in the past hundred or so years. There are people remembering "we were doing it wrong". Incredible

If you think about it, that's practically a given in any engineering field that stuffers from high iteration / experimentation cost.
Serve as a trusted name conduit for a lot of shady products.
WordPress help me a lot in my early career.
> You mean a class 3 transfer stamp.

You mean an NFA transfer tax stamp. Class 3 SOT is a status given to certain FFLs to allow them to deal in retail sales of NFA restricted items. It does not refer to the NFA items themselves.
I got confused here:

> Clearly, B is polynomial time decidable, since we need only run a program p for at most n steps, where n is the number of states in p, to determine whether or not it is in B.

Couldn't program p have an exponential number of states, e.g. 2^|p| distinct program states? Then running the program for O(2^|p|) steps is clearly not polynomial time decidable in the size of the instance. I thought polynomial time, for the decision algorithm, meant O(|p|^c) for some c. Am I mistaken about something?
I came here to post this, you beat me. I remember an interview where 2 great players swapped gear (one was EVH, I think the other was Jeff Beck) and even on the other's gear they sounded like themselves.

I had the privilege of jamming with Tommy Emmanuel a few times in my younger days. He told me how his brother Phil and himself would find ways to match the sounds off records by using their fingers, as they didn't know about effects back when they were children.
Do the librarians not count as locals?

I would think most librarians are people who are relatively local to their library.
Around 2 years ago I was trying to move my blog to Wordpress. I found that the vast majority of themes want your money (unlike static site generators like Jekyll, Zola, and probably Hugo), I found numerous editing and cursor movement bugs in the Gutenberg editor (https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues?q=is%3Aissue+s...), I was unable to edit pre code blocks on the mobile app, and converting articles between Gutenberg and classic formats resulted in structural issues (someone else has elaborated on the technical reasons at https://gschoppe.com/wordpress/comments-arent-structure/).
yandex.com?
> living only for myself, doing what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it.

This. And ultimately having kids with this person is another ego-exposing (and hopefully ego busting - but that's not guaranteed) exercise that contemporary societies gave up trying with varying excuses ranging "economical" to "climate saving" reasons.
Real craps tables also have a wire down the middle to prevent sliding. Before the wire was in place, the trick some cheaters would do is to spin the dice and slide them down the table, so they look like they're rolling.

This was a digital craps table that somehow allowed the players to get away with sliding. So who knows what the actual technique was.
Wow, they call it a ruse! It's right there in the name!
Point taken. Western Europe is already a pretty big difference in many respects (I guess that also explains Lausanne as the default position)
Do you consider card counting cheating? Seeing gambling as paid entertainment is certainly the healthier attitude for the vast majority of people, but at the same time it's not like everyone who is able to make a consistent profit gambling is automatically a cheater. The casino needs to win in aggregate but that doesn't mean every individual is entering some unspoken contract to lose money in expectation (depending on the game anyway). They're agreeing to the rules of the game.
There are two operative phrases that you skipped over: "if not exclusively," and "in American politics."

I'm aware that there are ample other ways to (and entities that) ban books. Their severity is not meaningfully diminished by this conversation, and introducing them is a distraction.
I don't think there's anything inherently unethical about porn, but quite a bit of porn production involves unethical practices.
"I know I’ve seen fiction where it requires little more than cohabitation, but that’s not a real thing."

New Hampshire: Common Law Marriage: "persons cohabiting and acknowledging each other as husband and wife, and generally reputed to be such, for the period of 3 years, and until the decease of one of them, shall thereafter be deemed to have been legally married." (N.H. Stat. §457:39)

So not really a fiction. There aren't many requirements there.

The old law in PA did not even require habitation or a contract. All that would be required aside from regular eligibility stuff would be presenting themselves in public as husband and wife plus exchanging words of intent at one time to be married (verbal contract). That law was active until as recently as 2005.
Happy birthday WordPress :)

It is both excellent, and terrible. Choosing to use WordPress you will experience both in equal measure, without knowing when exactly.

Enjoy.
Reminds me of the Precursors in Star Control 2, if anyone else out there is a fan…
> when the elites of society are allowed to cannibalize the rest, becoming more and more disconnected as things become more and more unequal, and those in charge no longer have the best interests of the public at heart, it’s a sign of imminent societal collapse.

Pretty sure this is made up. We've had stable societies governed by kings and queens over a population of serfs.

I would say that the rise of discussions about the distance between rich and poor becoming popular and commonplace at every level, and organization/civil disorder/brutal crackdowns around that, tend to lead to Caesars and Napoleons. Republics transform into dictatorships at that point by necessity. Because after a long period of chaos and death, both the rich and the poor want a strongman to deliver them from a period of uncertainty into a period of prosperity.
Sure, but to achieve equal remineralization, you'll likely end up ingesting orders of magnitude more fluoride when delivered via drinking water vs toothpaste.
> There is evidence both ways, the original reports were that children's dental health improved after they stopped fluoridation in the 70s.

Has that effect been persistent? I would think the news of flouride being removed from the water would cause an increase in dental health diligence, but I would also be surprised if that effect didn’t wane over time.
This sounds exactly like the kind of phenomenon I should have in the dystopic, dark comedy future adventure game I'm building.

(Imagine Idiocracy crossed with Fallout and HHGG. see my bio here if curious.)
Show HN: Easy Prompt – A weekend project for formatting LLM training data
I've been doing sentiment classification to train a ChatGPT model as a hobby-project. Using a script to format the completions made it quite tedious/slow to go back and complete the output in my code editor.

To solve that (and for a reasonable excuse to play with Next.js + Tailwind CSS) I made this! I decided to share it here for fun.

Quick Stats:

Time spent: ~15 hours
Technologies: Next, Tailwind, ChatGPT for help with Tailwind.
Fun had: Lots.
Another option for your weekend plan to learn Lua is to do it with Love2D [0].

Really easy, well documented and fun framework that uses Lua.

[0]: https://love2d.org/
The only law you need is the rules of a game and a "theft by fraud" statute, which already exist everywhere. The rules of craps generally require that the dice tumble some number of times and bounce off a wall to ensure randomness, and I would be certain that the general rules of craps apply to this game as well. Dice sliding is against the rules already. This isn't a "legal loophole" sort of situation, it's cheating, and thus theft by fraud.

Note that card counting is a "loophole" to this idea, since nothing about the rules of blackjack prevents you from memorizing cards, and thus it is not against the rules of the game.

On the casino side, by the way, this means some very stringent RNG requirements in slot machines and electronic gaming machines (often requiring specialized TRNG devices), as well as testing gaming devices, from the most complex slot machines to the dice, very stringently.
Preventative dental care in the US is a thing. Have you lived in Europe? It’s not really a thing in the EU.
This just shows how little power we have over corporations, and how they can just get away with the stupidest things because "people will just forget about it." It's honestly sad.
I couldn't find a law articulating this in Nevada, though I did find one in Indiana. The important part seems to be:

(c) The stickperson may declare the following rolls invalid:
...
(8) If the shooter slides the dice across the table so that one (1) or both of the dice do not roll or tumble.

Though if the stickperson doesn't spot the roll as invalid and lets it be played not sure if any law is being broken. (There might be another provision addressing the situation where invalid rolls are done intentionally and repeatedly with the intent to deceive)

Found it here: https://casetext.com/regulation/indiana-administrative-code/...
For the record, the only clinical evidence about Novamin is very vague.
Love Lua. They even added a compile time feature to address the fact that c++ exceptions and setjmp / longjmp are undefined behavior when used together.
Yeah and failing that you were just destitute. Let's not act like that always worked out so great or is a serious solution for today's problems.
DMCA notices apply to copyrighted material not circumvention technologies. There is no safe harbor for distributing circumvention technologies. What Nintendo would need to proof to make Valve liable is that they knew or should have known they were distributing software meant to circumvent protection. Once Nintendo told Valve they considered Dolphin to be circumventing their protection mechanisms, proofing the above in court is pretty straight forward.
It doesn't really make sense to have an API to tell if reading from a file would block or not because page cache data can be evicted at any time. Even if there was an API that could tell you your next read would be non-blocking, there could be a race where the page cache entry could be evicted before you could do the read.
To me, it looks like Rust is suffering from "cool kids syndrome." It's hip right now, and all the cool kids are piling in, or some of the people who have been using it for a while are hoping to cash in social capital.

I don't understand this way of using technology or being in this profession; self promotion and dialogue through twitter, blog posting all over the place, conferences, panels, books, speaking tours, ego & self promotion all built around particular tools.

In the end these are tools for writing software and we get paid. Is Rust a better tool that some others? Yes, and it's what I'm working with these days. But it's not a lifestyle, and it should not be a culture/subculture. Other professions don't generally talk this way about their tools, why are certain people in software like this?

To answer the question: Rust is a good systems programming language. But I will say this: many of the people piling into it right now don't actually need Rust.
When I see these generational comparisons, I often wonder how much of it simply comes down to urbanization. Urbanization brings High Cost of Living and higher Stakes. Homes are more expensive and a higher barrier. People can't live alone so they put off cohabitating or marrying.

Anecdotally when I travel to the Midwest or other rural environments, I see meet lots of people who married young, bought houses young, and started families much earlier than peers in the city
Except people call it the "ground" floor which makes sense, not the "zero" floor which does not.
Were you actually able to convince yourself with all that or no?
git branch -d god
git branch -d master
All of these people are "bipoc", supposedly:

- Dark-skinned descendant of American slaves, living in the US

- Dark-skinned recent immigrant to US from Africa, whose parents were important government officials, and one of whose distant ancestors sold slaves to Europeans

- Descendant of Navajo Indians

- Descendant of indigenous Hawaiians

- Descendant of Japanese Hawaiians

- Decendant of Japanese immigrants from turn of 20th century, who were interned in a camp during the war

- Japanese immigrant who moved to US in 2005, for university

- Son of migrant Mexican farmworkers

- Descendant of conquistadores whose parents were top executives in a large Mexican corporation

- Lebanese Muslim immigrant

- Lebanese Christian immigrant

- And so on…

What interesting characteristic do these people all have in common, that "white" people don't also share? Absolutely nothing, other than that they don't tick the "non-Hispanic white" box on stupid USian forms.
Hypotheticals get thrown out the window when an actual law exists. I agree there's no further discussion to be had but not for the reasons you think.
Auto's manufactured pre-1986 are legal for civilian ownership and use, assuming 1) you are legally allowed to own a firearm, 2) It is not illegal to own an automatic weapon in your state/jurisdiction 3) fill out the ATF Form 4, 4) pay the tax stamp and 5) you can afford a $20k+ gun and ammo. They aren't cheap because they are rare. There are approx 700k in existence in the US.

https://www.atf.gov/firearms/qa/may-machine-guns-be-transfer...
It was so funny. I heard her half of the conversation getting into an argument with him and she goes, “No, I don’t know who ‘Seth Godin’ is and I don’t care.” I guess he threatened to write about how bad her customer service was on his blog.

To be fair our customer service was terrible. When a customer asked for our manager, I had a fake email address that I’d give them that I was in charge of. I probably fired myself about a half-dozen times.
Talk like this in the USA tends to equivocate between marriage (a legally sanctioned social and economic union) and marriage (a Christian sacrament, usually grudgingly including other major religions). IIRC the second kind of marriage has been in decline in the USA for decades because participation in organized religion is in decline and some states made it hard to get the legal status called marriage without involving a church. In most places there are other legal forms of sexual and social partnership such as common-law relationships in former British colonies.

I have trouble taking anything in this genre by an American seriously unless it clearly communicates the definitions it is using.
Anyway, "shame" usually just means indirect investment. I don't own slaves, but I probably own a piece of a fund that invests in another fund that insures slaves.
If this was a good article it would tell us the specific charges. All it says is

> All four face several cheating-related charges and are connected to one criminal case, records showed
It's more of a baseline level of the trust of the freedom of an individual to choose their own actions in their use of available tools.

I'm not intending to be critical of gun regulation, but it's a great example of a big, thick baseline for comparison because it has precedent for being protected as sancrosanct in the US.
Can’t be true. I bought a perpetual license just over 12 months ago (as in 5 days over 12 months ago). It still works fine, and it says it’s perpetual.

Edit: and isn’t. They offer a perpetual license here [1]

[1]: https://www.altium.com/altium-designer/licensing
Well it's a matter now of needing to pay above minimum wage or improve working conditions because low-cost immigrant labor is less plentiful than before. I don't think that would fix it.
Bleaching, braces, veneers, and genetics.

I have no idea if there is a genetic difference in the US, but according to Wikipedia, it seems modern toothpaste first took hold in America.

Colgate, a US company, introduced modern toothpaste in 1873. Later, toothpaste that had been developed by researchers in the UK and US, did not find commercial success in the UK, and they focused on the US where it took off.

This suggests that the US were more interested in the appearance of their teeth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toothpaste#:~:text=Pre%2Dmixed....
It is the Nevada legal code, not the US one, and the rules of craps don’t have to be part of it, there just needs to be a law that says if you intentionally violate the rules of a game in order to make it non-random, that’s a crime.

But it wouldn’t be crazy if the rules of games were defined by statute — they are in Pennsylvania, for example (or at least blackjack is).
Polyamory is at best a rounding error in all relationships of any sort. The vast majority of people are monogamous, serially or otherwise. I've seen quite a few poly relationships: when they weren't shallow excuses for openly having multiple concurrent sex partners (which I found amusing: just call yourselves single/casually dating--that's what that is, not a poly-relationship, and there's nothing wrong with it), they were tension-filled drama-fests because invariably one pairing in the group formed a stronger bond than the others.
All of that is terrible. But for some reason, the neighbors convincing her to sell her cars to them for a $1 really rubs me the wrong way. You hope that neighbors are going to look after an elderly person. I'd be having some words with those neighbors. And then maybe some full page ads in the local newspaper explaining the situation. Maybe a billboard and some yard signage as well.
The underlying Pew research study has a lot more meat than this pretty thin blog post: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2021/10/05/rising-...
I commend you for writing the first comment I can relate to! Unmarried* and been w/my partner for 10 years. (not counting common law marriage, aka state deciding after >4 years of cohabitation we are by default married, which would apply now)

This is the real logic that explains why we never got married. Why spend the money on it? People here say 'think about the people in your life' - but for me, that gets a shoulder shrug. I'd see my parents the same amount, I see other relatives an appropriate amount, I see my friends when I want; frankly I'd rather save the money and spare myself the hassle.

Now you could say "you could go to the courthouse" but, again, shoulder shrug. We could also not, which takes less effort.

So we never got married. Simple as that.
Indeed, even human adults drift in and out of levels of self-awareness. We spend much of our days in automatic.

I remember highlighting the line "Consciousness is consciousness of being conscious" in a Sartre essay when I was 16. It seemed profound then, but obvious now.
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its a common misconception, since that was sold to the public for the last 100+ years.. but not, actually, the demographics in recent decades show less social mobility overall, as compared to other developed nations in the same time periods..

source: Pew research reports and other
They can already do that, albeit subject to restrictions. Don't you see working at a meatpacking plant or a bar late at night as a bit different?
Show HN: Determine salary range overlap without revealing actual numbers
I’m pretty pro family but I have to admit you just absolutely smoked ‘em
Getting functions into Lua is my favorite use of macros in c++.
I hear that every few years from press releases written by people who sell statins.
you can’t even come up with a couple rational reasons one might settle into a long term partnership and have children?
I think the answer depends on one's world view.

Historically not the kind of topic that can be debated well on HN.
The point is that the comments saying it didn’t work won’t be seen.
> and they are essentially taking feature ideas from Altium, so it's a pretty easy switch.

I wish this was more of an attitude in the software space, especially the open source software space.

You don’t need to completely clone something, but paid software often tests UI with focus groups, A/B testing etc; Might as well profit off of that and steal the good parts. An example of how it’s not done is Photoshop vs GIMP/Krita. Both programs have extreme NIH syndrome, where they go out of their way to not implement something in the way Photoshop has, leading to -at times a very- convoluted UI and UX.
Morality ain't need saving
Have you ever heard of “fun” and “love” ?