skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if religion did play a role.

One particular case that is interesting: USA. USA is pretty religious country(>2/3 believe in god and angels) relative to other western countries(where religion is in decline and below 1/2). Its often argued that the religious nature(protestants) of USA shaped the superpower and its economic dominance. Nearly all founding fathers were wealthy land owners who were also deeply religious. The god that they believed in was a wealthy god, who told his subjects it was okay to pursue wealth and fortune. So its not surprising that Televangelists ask for crazy donations and live like the wealthy.
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does it contain western storytelling traditions? or are some story elements simply common to both western and chinese traditions? or are there even chinese elements that have found their way into western traditions?

i am not familiar with historic chinese writing so i can't tell. but maybe you can share some insights.

greetings, eMBee.
That struggles to explain how fertility rates have ever dropped. For higher fertility you would need stronger biologic instincts, the present lack of which suggests they would conflict with something else important for viability, a high "materialist profit" from having having children, which the man's child protection services will catch on to if your group grows big enough, or a "sense of duty", which again seems increasingly hard to maintain as the group grows for an array of reasons.
Not deliberately.
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The issue with gaming is that the community as a whole is toxic, probably due to the lowered barrier to entry (a redux of the “eternal September”) which means that immature kids can now join games and swear all day on the mic.

I remember back in 2008 I used to play Crysis and a side-effect of the game’s insane hardware requirements (for the time) meant it weeded out a lot of bad actors. On any server you’d join the chat was always polite with real conversations instead of swearing & complaining which is all that I seem to notice now on modern games.
Hacker News and Reddit are the worst though.
I easily got each and every word spoken. And had time to think.
A lot of old videos have a pleasant pacing.

Rob Pike 2018 — on average i got two out of three words and had to spend mental effort on interpolating — that was painful.
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You jest, but here in the UK, where menthols were banned several years ago, we tax sugar in beverages (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43659124), and food producers are under pressure to cut salt and sugar from their products (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/salt-reduction-ta...).

I understand the rationale behind this prohibitionist, paternalistic approach (maintain a healthy work/consumption force, reduce burden on socialised healthcare, improve GDP), but the additional cost to the economy is already built in to these goods - smoke tax (it’s not just tobacco, it’s anything you could burn and inhale) in the uk more than covers the cost of smoking related illness.
I've deleted all my social media accounts besides Reddit and HN. The only thing that's stopping me from visiting these two is addiction. I don't read the news, mostly, why bother? It does much more harm than good. You don't need 1000 hrs of newsreading to vote effectively.

My next step is to make a personal website with some contact details and a scraper script for the links in the HN top 30-40 that I can run as a cronjob.

While cutting social media is not a panacea, I have found a significant improvement in the amount of free time I have, and I don't compulsively think about what other people are doing.

It's a good exercise to assume that engagement in social media is work and multiply how many hours you've sunk into it by your usual hourly wage...
I don't get the gist. But my interpretation would be that missions supported literacy to read the bible. Once you were able to read this capability could naturally be applied to other domains (instead reading just the bible) as well?
Luckily I never got into Instagram or Twitter, but I was big into both Reddit and Facebook for a long time.

I cut off Reddit completely after a run-in with yet another subreddit wannabe dictator mod. It just wasn't worth the drama, not to mention the crappy usability of the site, especially on mobile.

For Facebook, I can't cut it off completely, it is unfortunately indispensable for arranging events and interacting with my group of friends/acquaintances. I mostly interact in a couple of concert/festival-related groups, and run one of them myself. That said, I have cut off all games and apps, and I mute all the stupid meme pages that people like to share from. New ones do pop up once in a while, and obviously those get muted too. The result is that my Facebook experience is 90% chatting with like-minded people about music. I use a Chromium plugin to delete all of posts and likes that are more than ~6 months old, because nobody should care about old FB posts.

I also keep my FB account for Messenger, as it has become the de facto standard instant messaging service here in Denmark.

For discussion on other subjects, I'm a long-time member of an old-school forum that charges $10 for an account. That seems to weed out most of the low-content trolls and idiots, and aside from a few deliberately stupid subforums, the discussions are relatively intelligent and entertaining.
Yes, I agree but for me personally I don't care even if that dystopia happened. It's still worth it for me, again, personally. I'm against mass-surveillance because then it affects everyone, whether you agree on it or not but in this case I'm actively buying this thing and expose myself to it.
Anonymity is about names, not about records.
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Before calling it utter rubbish, maybe you should do some research[1].

1: https://www.europeanneuropsychopharmacology.com/article/S092...
How is messaging confidental data? Remember, FLAG_SECURE prevents users from taking screenshots themselves as well and prevents display of content in several other cases (e.g. screen mirroring).

Your conversations aren't nearly as sensitive to require such a large breach of usability.
I own a ZX81. It's not working.

I own an acoustic coupler. It is enormous.

I used to own an Atari XE, a luggable CP/M thing (I can't remember the brand, but Osborne or Burroughs might be it), a HPUX machine with monitor (sync on green and heavy), an Atari ST, and a Mac Performa something ro other. I lost these after an illegal eviction.

http://www.thegameconsole.com/atari-xe/
This is rich coming from a site that perpetually nags me with "We've seen you before. You should sign up!" to the point where I almost never bother to click through to any article on Hackernoon any more.
>Every credible study has shown that immigrants are net contributors to the economy contributing far more to the tax base (and hence to the infrastructure) than they take in terms of services

But all of those studies were conducted in countries with regulated borders. Your entire argument is flawed and, ironically, emotionally biased. I have no personal attachment to immigration either way, there is a rational argument to be made here: would a billion uneducated third worlders dumped on a country like England over the span of a month overwhelm the infrastructure?A million? Look at NYC, for example. Our subways are packed at rush our already. Same with Japan. Rationally, there is obviously some rate of influx that a city cannot accommodate, and this rate is probably not impossible in today's world.

Your friends are terrible examples.
I'm doing a CS degree currently and I'm somewhat amazed at how easy it is but also at how much the other students struggle. I do a bunch of extracurricular activities such as mathematics problem-solving seminars with two professors (there are only 4 students that attend and I'm not even a math major!), cyber CTF events, hobby projects, etc. These extra activities are making my learning far outpace my education and I really wish I was at a "harder" university. I've sort of reached a stage where the units themselves are formalities and just provide a framework where I build other knowledge.

The majority of my class struggled with mathematical induction, which literally has two steps and is not designed to present a challenge. The C programming assignment that required a simple use of fork()? A major problem for a lot of people. I could go on and on about it.

The only upside is that every single professor I've had seems to enjoy passing on knowledge when you're actually interested. I've had 500+ word replies to questions I've asked on the forums. I've had professors help me weeks after a unit has finished with problems that are only slightly related to what they taught. If you treat your university experience as an opportunity to learn and have exposure to brilliant people then it is really productive.
I'm not sure why you'd prefer ultrasonic over bluetooth - the hardware already has bluetooth (the consumer Xiaomis link to an app for various statistics and control functions), you can explicitly target the signal (it's typical for a bunch of these to be sitting near each other), you don't need to mess with the user's volume settings and you get bidirectional communication.
Now build a Spirodela that can fly and release it into venus sky. Dead worlds are go for synth bio experiments.
1Passwords Android app quality is pretty lacking in comparison to any other competitor, so it's not wierd that they didn't even enable the secure flag.
Linux fscrypt[1] [which Android uses for user data] doesn't work like that, you don't need to mount/unmount to decrypt: if the key is evicted from the linux keyring and the page cache is cleared, the user data will not be accessible on locked screen, even by root. It needs the a key in the kernel keyring to decrypt the pages associated with just the encrypted files. It's pretty neat!

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.18/filesystems/fscrypt.ht...
Why not other cryptocurrencies that don't use POW?
The UK is (probably) banning caffeine for under 18s, so it appears that governments think “yes”.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45342682
Which is partly a genetic trait. This is getting complicated...
This is part 2 for data inheritance: https://lwn.net/Articles/446317/
How anonymous do you want to be? Are you trying to hide from the recipient only, or also from their payment processors, or the government?

Each of these requirements has different solutions.
All of the above. I don't think it's sensitive and I think the risk is negligible but even if it happened I still think it's worth it. Like I said in my sibling comment I'm against mass-surveillance in general because then you have no choice but here I'm actively deciding to expose myself because I find the utility worth it.
The scrum masters feel 100% like a scam to me. The "work" they do is a complete joke - they basically have a couple of rigid scripted behaviours that could be performed by a bot or an intern - ask people about tickets' statuses, ask if a ticket cannot be split into smaller ones, ask people to do estimates, ask if X can help Y on task Z etc (all these questions are so basic that in general any experienced dev has already asked them themselves in their heads before coming to a standup). Also, from what I'm seeing, they "work" maybe for 1-2 hours a day. The only redeeming factor is that they usually make way less than a senior dev (at least here in Europe).

I suspect Scrum Masters will be completely purged out of the industry in the next 10-20 years, as the execs realise they provide negative value (sadly, they'll probably be replaced by some other fad role, and the same people who are scrum masters now will just retrain into that fad).
Yes, Enlightenment Now makes one systematically reflect over humanity's progress; it repeatedly bludgeons the reader with illuminating data.

And speaking of Pinker ... looking forward to see him in person tonight here in Ghent, Belgium! He's coming for a discussion ("the night of the free thinker") :-)
Or, more simply, the USA has had huge amounts of natural resources available to it, and profited from the wars that wrecked the previous superpowers.
> nor does it take 500ms-10s to start a process or 100us to context switch. You're off by 3+ orders of magnitude on the first

I'm relatively sure 10ms is not the worst case cold start time of lambda.

> Cold starts are a symptom of something else (likely shipping function data)

Which is all part of spinning up a containerised function in lambda.

About memory, despite being shared memory, does a container in lambda running a node process use 35mb of RAM? Because that's the claim.
Are you for real? It's hardly a bold claim that education helps spread and retain knowledge. This is well known and supported by numerous studies. We know that parents' economic and educational status correlates well with children's economic and educational status. Also, this area was more or less completely converted to Christianity. If everyone's Christian, that can hardly account for the fact that economic and educational status correlates with distance to these missions. The article also mentions that this same relationship did not hold for the Fransiscan missions, who similarly promoted Catholicism and belief in the Bible, but didn't focus as much on education. This is unexpected if Christianity by itself was the primary cause.

Also, I'm not an expert on the Guarani or Jesuit missions, but it seems that actually the natives were the ones who dictated how labor was to be organized: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/614138 This says that they established a sort of proto-socialist system (my word, not theirs) of communal ownership and redistribution of food on mission lands by threatening to go on strike, essentially. Since the Jesuits were totally dependent on the Guarani as the primary labor force farming and feeding the missions, they couldn't impose the harsher labor regime they wanted. This doesn't sound like unenlightened Indians being taught the value of hard work by Jesus, it sounds like a well-organized group of people who knew the value of their own labor and took steps to ensure that they could benefit fairly from it.

All in all, if you want to claim that the power of Christian belief alone can account for these findings, I think the burden of proof is squarely on your shoulders.
>smoking a few cigarettes per day (except the couple percent in the severely mentally ill population)

Smokers are mentally ill? Really? I’d say that people who see smokers as mentally ill are neurotic and have an authority complex, and probably have far greater issues than smokers.
The abstract mentions limiting social media use to about 30 minutes a day. Why not eliminate it completely? I'd imagine the gains from maintaining relationships can be found elsewhere (e.g. phone calls or real life meetups).
anyone wondering about the dark forest theory without getting spoilers for the book, it's essentially this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#It_is_dangerous_...

greetings, eMBee.
This still means any open file handles would need to be closed and buffers flushed, right? That’s still a problem.
Granted the cells are currently producing oxygen but they are only so few - what's the worst that could happen?
Use a cryptocurrency that has default private transactions, Monero comes to mind: https://getmonero.org/

Alternatively you could donate "offline" and just send them an envelope with a note and some cash in it.
As a long time science fiction reader I really enjoyed the book for the uniquely Chinese perspective - worth reading for that alone. Personally I rate the basic story premise as okay but not the most audacious SF I've ever read and the approach used in the first book to extract the disk drives from a hostile ship verged on idiotic. But, like I said, worth reading for the insights into Chinese culture.
which books do each of these questions relate to?
To be fair - they're using the background location feature in a way that sucks your battery flat much more quickly than normal.

Apple are most likely to cop the flack for that, and given a few recent poor choices on Apple's part regarding making un-acknowledged changes to try and maintain appearance of good battery life, it's not _too_ surprising they're choosing to more heavily enforce rules in that area to reduce the number of complaints that hit _their_ support lines which are directly attributable (but not to the majority of iPhone owners) to people bending or breaking app store rules...
Well, if someone is only peaceful while on meds, I would not feel at peace at all with that person around. People forget their meds/choose not to take them. And then all that was supressed comes out. So does your anecdote sounds.
So maybe if she would have had a real therapy which does not rely on meds so much, she would know how to handle her demons better when beeing without drugs.
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Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P)
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Great talk and quite a few photos of things I had found photos of before.
PARC wasn't just a ridiculous concentration of money and very smart people with a budget, it was a ridiculous concentration of money and very smart people who had creativity and vision.

There's nothing like it today, because the only vision you'll find in the current crop of smart+budget shops is how to make more cash from ads and/or the web.

Even at SpaceX, the getting-to-Mars vision is more than fifty years old.

PARC was about enhancing human creativity, cognition, and potential, and everything else came from that.

Not only is no one is working in that space today, but all the big smart+budget shops are more likely to pollute that space than contribute to it.
> This is scarily prohibitionist.

The US Federal Government is prohibitionist when it comes to cocaine, marijuana and nuclear weapons. But when you start proposing bans on products that earn billions for multinational conglomerates, out come the little guys pointing at their Constitution.
...and easily defensible borders for when things did go pearshaped, and peaceful (and weak) neighbors to avoid the drain of constant defense, and had lots of internal cultures to draw from. And in any case throughout certainly the first half the 20th century the US was not uniquely religious; much of europe was too, and non-coincidentally shared the same faiths. The ascent of the US appears to have occurred at least somewhat before the loss of faith in europe.

So... who knows? I mean, there are so many differences you're never going to be able to pick the various effects apart without careful - but subjective and error-prone - plain old reasoning.

I don't see any particular reason to believe religion played a very notable role, but I don't think it's an absurd notion either: I just don't know, and haven't seen a very convincing argument either way.
You'll have situations like this everywhere.

1) You think that the current system is untenable and the only way forward is to refactor according to your plans.

2) Your manager thinks refactoring is going to take a long time or might even break a system that works.

This is as much a social problem as a technical one. It's a problem that you aren't going to fix in one meeting. You need to work on getting to the same page.

Some possible approaches:

- Make your manager aware of the problems that the current build system is causing. Make sure your manager actually knows about it when a dirty build environment causes an issue.

- Try to understand why your manager resists the change. Is he afraid that lots of people will need to learn a new system? Does he worry that a new system might break in other ways? Does he think refactoring is wasting time needed for other projects?

- Be open about possible solutions. Don't focus on a specific solution like Docker, focus on the problem instead. If the problem is a dirty build environment, maybe a script that cleans up the build environment might have similar benefits, with less risk?

- Try to find solutions together instead of choosing between my solution / your solution.
I really struggle with the concept that some programmers cannot write FizzBuzz. I'd expect it from someone who has finished their first programming unit.
I’m more curious about why the Jesuits chose to build their missions where they did. I highly doubt they placed them randomly, and strongly suspect that they placed them in places with good opportunities for building thriving communities.
I came across the following HTTP header in a response from angelfire.com today:

P3P: policyref="http://www.lycos.com/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="IDC DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa CUSa PSAa IVAa CONo OUR IND UNI STA"

Having never heard of P3P I decided to look it up.

https://www.w3.org/TR/P3P/

It was obsoleted at the end of August this year.

The wiki page I linked in OP mentions some criticism agains P3P.

Being a privacy minded person, I found P3P interesting for several reasons:

- How come I’ve never heard of this?

- Why did they decide to obsolete it?

- Will we see somerthing similar but better in the future? After all, the media, government, and even the public at large I think is becoming more and more aware of privacy issues.
Looking at the competition nobody is even close to the "fraction of the cost" unless we are talking 9/10 or 4/5 as fractions.

You can get a lighter and much more powerful Lenovo or Dell laptop but not for what you would normally call a fraction.

And despite their good build quality, neither the masses nor the Mac complainers are buying XPS's or X1's. The reason is of course that they are neither universally better not significantly cheaper.

Apple is still by far the best at things that are hard to put on a spec sheet, while Lenovo and Dells spec sheets are kicking Apples ass.

And you are not going to see things change or a new player come in and take this market, because the market for laptops is shrinking. This is why apple is trying to increase revenue per unit and unit churn rate. Us premium laptop users are becoming a niche.
>Echo is doing far more surreptitious surveillance and analysis, i.e. not just listening for the trigger word

This should be trivial to prove.
> Your conversations aren't nearly as sensitive to require such a large breach of usability.

Yours might not be, but this isn’t true for everyone.
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Interesting how one doctor casually dismissed a bite from a bat. Bats are pretty well known for carrying all kinds of interesting diseases.
they have the tools to combat bots

You mean they have tools to combat bots that they don't bother using on their main site?
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I agree, the Facebook mobile website is shamelessly bad. That's what we are talking about, right?
You and parent are mixing up the 2 lines of 13" MBP.

Non-touch bar has two ports. Touch bar has four.

https://support.apple.com/kb/SP775?locale=en_US
And if the judge is feeling especially generous, they'll respond to you with a Wikipedia article on contempt of court.
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