skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see that the growth of China is driving Americans nuts, and they are trying to manufacture all kinds of ridiculous reasons to hate the Chinese, and not disclose that their reason number one is envy. The situation of religion in China is much better nowadays than it was ever before. A few decades ago the Chinese government would incarcerate anyone who propagated religion in the country, and nowadays must religions can be practiced as long as they orderly register with the government. The fact that a big newspaper complains about this issue after many years of progress shows that they are trying to feed the ideas of religious bigots in America who claim persecution daily, while trying themselves to persecute the ideas that they don't agree with. I find this completely appalling.
Not only did we go all over our little town by ourselves, if we did something we weren't supposed to be doing, someone would call our parents. Not the cops, not CPS, our parents -- which was far worse.
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I would move to sales. Sales is the only skill that helps you make money fast, if that's your goal. What I really mean by that is as you get better at Sales, you increase your "personal conversion rate" - which I define as a person's ability to convert someone into a paying customer.

When you're good at sales + you're already a developer, you can build your own Saas and sell them (like most solo founders do, except excel them at selling it).

When you're good at sales + you work for someone else, you can still get rich fast by taking up a commission based job (most tech startups I know of these days, provide around 10%).
completely agree. I'm roughly same age as you, same experience. When we were kids we literally ran all over the place until dark with no adult supervision. Man I still remember coming home, having cuts and bruises all over me, having a pencil stuck out of my arm, bleeding, covered in poison ivy, the works. But I loved it! Those were some of the best memories of my life, exploring the woods, building tree forts and swinging from tree to tree with garden hoses we strung up in the trees, finding lizards, swimming with tadpoles, catching carp with my hands, building fish traps. Playing football in the mud on those perfect autumn days.

We used to build spears from old broomsticks and shields from rusty trash can lids and ride our bikes down hills at one another jousting each other off the bikes. I remember one hot summer day we actually figured out how to make our own fires by rubbing sticks, sparking rocks and using a lot of very dry pine needles. We then cooked ourselves some random veggies we stole from a neighbors garden. It tasted absolutely disgusting but of course everyone said it was delicious.

I don't get why so many people in our generation turned into complete snowflakes with their kids (don't forget our generation is also responsible for "gender neutral parenting").
Although I consider this a crisis, I assume NIST put WWV on the chopping block for the same reasons your local town puts the libraries and parks on the chopping block first, followed by one fire station: visibility and, though I don't like the word, "pain".

There's plenty of important but not sexy work going on (research into the kg, cryptography research, etc) that congress and the taxpayer might happily throw overboard (local equivalent to, say, fixing that bridge or surveying all gas lines for leaks -- "haven't found any yet so why not skip a year?").

This is a canary of a far more fundamental problem.

And yes: the existence of stratum 0 sources like GPS does nothing to alleviate the need for RF sources like WWV, any more than GPS removed the need for LORAN-C, the decommissioning of which is now recognized as a serious mistake.
Creating huge files is usually a bad idea. It does not matter if they are a sequence of lines of characters, a gziped collecion of XML data, a binary format that requires 6000 pages of documentation, or a SQLite database.

If you can spread your data among many files, you probably should. Not everybody can.
I’m not even religious but I recognize that Christian values basically underlie all of western culture, down to a belief in human rights and humanism itself.
I agree 100% but I think you are putting the blame in the wrong place. When the system is bad, people will abuse it - always. i.e you will always get busybodys and idiots.

I think CPS has too much power here, to intervene in a case where there was no obvious harm.
Underground churches are getting stronger every time they are persecuted.
Wealth and prosperity are much more dangerous for most of the christian churches in the western world.
It's an Android permission issue. Put it into /sdcardX/Android/data/com.nutomic.syncthingandroid/files/ and Syncthing can write to the folder just fine.
This isn't a real life example, but illustrates the sort of facts that are difficult to maintain in a BCNF relational database...and are still difficult to query in a non-BCNF relational database.

Paper covers Rock
Rock crushes Scissors
Scissors cut Paper

In Prolog we might encode that:

wins(paper, rock).
wins(rock, scissors).
wins(scissors, paper).

loses(X,Y) :- wins(Y,X)

Relational databases are good for storing context-free facts. In table T, the interpretation of row R1 is independent of the contents of row R2.

A practical real-life scenario for Prolog might be a "help wizard." The next step depends on what steps we have already tried (and not tried) and other kinds of state. The next step can be expressed as a Horn Clauses.

X /\ Y /\ NOT Z -> Z
NOT B /\ NOT W /\ X /\ Z /\ A /\ Q -> M
etc.

If the Prolog and the Horn Clauses look a bit like regular grammars, writing compilers is another area where Prolog has been applied historically. The first version of Erlang is an example, and some of Erang's design made more sense to me after learning a little bit of Prolog. But I am into learning mostly useless subjects.
I think what they are really meaning is "There are starving kids out in the world. Be grateful you have all this food available and don't waste it."
My wife’s grandparents are very much the “you aren’t leaving until you clear your plate” kind of people and it’s given her mother a lot of anxiety around food and weight. I grew up in a family of 7 where food was scarce and some nights you were lucky to get anything at all for dinner so I’m also inclined to eat way too much at each meal.

Because of this (and for other reasons) we never ever make our daughter clear her plate. If she says she’s full she can walk away. We also keep healthy snacks around the house (fruits, vegetables, whole grains, a very small amount of “junk” food) so she does “graze” throughout the day. But we don’t force food habits on her because I don’t want her growing up with a complex around food or her weight. It’s more important to me that she make healthy nutrition choices overall and keeps in touch with her body about when she’s hungry. I feel like pushing for a clean plate goes against that.
I thought the first firearm generally considered a machine gun (as opposed to human powered Gatling guns) was the Maxim gun, which was belt fed. All the major military powers in WWI other than France and Austria used Maxim guns or derivates of it. Austria used what is essentially a delayed blowback operated Maxim gun, and it was belt fed. Early light machine guns were magazine fed (e.g Bren Gun, BAR, Lewis Gun), but these aren't typically what militaries typically refer to as "machine guns". Some called them automatic rifles to distinguish them from machine guns.
Ask HN: “Database” filesystem
I don't know how to organize my media library into directories.

The structure I currently am mulling is dividing the content by decade, and then sub-directory by a major theme. I would then rename the each media unit with a lot of content so I can easily do a "find".

However, a better way to do this would be to give each media unit a set of fields and then create the hierarchy when I need it according to my current need.

Is there (was there) any tool to do that on the POSIX enviroment? Say a special file-system that I can ask to create a the directory structure (I don't want/like fancy browser or third party solutions).

In essence, wouldn't this be like a database? Or even a bit like git, in that it can effortlessly jump to another branch, or state.
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Ya, it is unfortunate. But I think it is the process working the way it's supposed to. It sucks that we have to touch the stove sometimes to learn that it's hot, but that seems to be how it works. Facebook touched the stove and their stock price got burnt. Now everyone else is learning from that so it doesn't happen to them.

I think it's the system working as it should, and I just hope people don't over-react and try to throw the system out when it seems to me to be actually doing a pretty good job at healing itself here.
It is exactly that: think of it as the first principal component, of some group of tests.

Obviously this always exists. The argument is really about how big the 2nd component is -- if it were comparable, then talking about the 1st alone would be very misleading. And for a typical bundle of school-like topics (like math/english/biology exams) it's quite a long way down: IIRC a factor of 3 or 4?

If the bundle of subjects is different, then the size and meaning of the components will vary. In the tests the army does to slot recruits into all sorts of roles, I think manual dexterity is one of the things they care about which is almost uncorrelated with g. Eyesight is I think one of the only things negatively correlated with g (and it's thought to be nurture: bookish kids spend too little time outdoors).
> Does China have a state religion? Seems like the government clamps down on all of the major religions, is it a secular culture?

A somewhat tongue in cheek take is: China's state religion is Communism and it's state Church is the Communist Party of China. All of its leaders, officials, and people are required to study Communism and pay lip service to it, whether the believe it or not. However, no one there can take Communism too seriously, because the party's real religion is that of centralized power and submission to it: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/11/world/asia/china-student-...
We need a mashup with psDoom. Where your suckbot battles the inner demons in its own head. And inevitably kills its own kernel before it's even made it out of the kitchen
The packaging is lying to you. Reheating is not a danger. Leaving food out for too long is a danger.

The worst case is that reheating doesn't reset the timer. If you put the leftovers into your fridge within a few minutes of eating, you have tons of time left on the timer, and don't need to worry at all.
I wonder how lucrative being a private investigator is these days.
> I wonder how we got to this

Here's my hypothesis

1. Paradoxically, because life is safer. You're less likely to die of a disease, starvation, birth condition, injury, etc. which makes your safety and health more controllable. So it gets controlled.

2. Fewer people have kids. After having kids, most people get more lax because they realize that children are remarkabley robust and also impossible to control 100% of the time.

3. People that do have kids have fewer of them. There's the cynical "we've got backups" angle, but also the "we can't monitor every single minute for every single kid". My wife is the oldest of 10 children. The dynamics of that family are very different than a 1 or 2 child family. There's a lot more compromise, by necessity.

4. Media exposure has increased the sense of danger. Each seat belt lapse, kidnapping, SIDS incident, etc. has 100 times the reach it used to, while the unexpectional cases are obviously not reported on.
Two comments:

i) The term reasonable, I wishfully think, covers this particular incident. I don't think the average family in Canada worries about kidnappings, robberies etc.

ii) How are you expecting kids to grow, and what is the lesson, if you are the watchful un-trusting guardian for even simple tasks for a big fraction of their non-adult life?

(P.S. I remember everyone walked back from elementary school, we ran errands for our parents, ... Any different experience?)
Questions, question... I invite to learn some mathematical logic but I can give points.

But what's say there was some conjecture that if proved to be the case proved a unifying theory of everything in Physics that relied on that conjecture, but that conjecture couldn't be proven under the given set of axioms... then in that case wouldn't it be that there were some truths about the universe that aren't possible to prove?

- Well, the axioms of a given model generally can't be proven. Every model one builds begins with "unprovable things". However, the "truth about the universe" would have to be demonstrated by experimentation and mathematics would only provide the model. So every theory about the universe is using something unprovable (the axioms of its model). But Godel's theorem in particular (technically Godel's 1st incompleteness theorem) is still just a statement about proof processes work and how truth-assignments work. Whether are ineffable truths or not is a different question.

"There's this thing we can't prove under the given axioms"..."Ok, well just extend the axioms"..."Right but there is still this other thing we can't prove under that set of axioms."..."Ok, so rinse and repeat?"

- Yes, you can do that, well you can talk about doing it. In fact, Godel's "completeness theorem" is based on this procedure, more or less. The thing is you start with a set of axioms, add a proposition that can't be proven either true or false under the axioms, and decide arbitrarily whether to make it true or false. Continue forever (or transfinitely, depending how huge your system is) and you get a complete truth-assignment. Of course, there's no algorithm for finding all these undecidable propositions so this procedure is very theoretical. You or I or an AI couldn't do this to arrive pocessing this complete set but mathematically you can say "I hereby choose all the unprovable axioms and string them together thus (one of those weird "axiom of choice" things). So this approach is used, it's just it doesn't us to escape unprovable things.
Politics. We need folks that can think deeply, systematically and with compassion.
Beeminder taking this to characteristic extremes: https://blog.beeminder.com/waisted
I do not understand why your position, that the Christian church gets the best benefits of government for itself, is in agreement with the position above, that the church should not criticize the government.

I would understand your position more if you objected to the Christian churches operating with official approval of the government. In that case it would be very obvious how the church is gaining government power/favors for itself. But how is this church doing so?

Even if your answer is that this behavior is in the DNA of Christianity and will come out at some point, are not the state-sanctioned churches a bigger threat (and, arguably, the unsanctioned churches are helping for now to question the legitimacy of the sanctioned ones)?
That makes sense as a training mechanism for kids to not just overfill their plates regardless of how hungry they are.

But it is important to realize that food that you force someone to eat after they feel properly full is worse than wasted. Not only have you already spent time and money to prepare it, which you won't get back, but you also just made their stomach ache. And you have taken whatever little agency they have as a kid - now they freaking don't even get to decide how hungry they are.

(This is not directed at you, as you seem to have a reasonable system in place. Your comment just seemed like a good place to plug this rant) :)
I've run OpenBSD on my Thinkpad for two years, only plugging it in at night, and everything works (sleep, resume, good battery life). Which Thinkpad model do you have? When did you last try OpenBSD? Maybe I could help.
The missing implication, that even parents completely missed, was “you should be grateful to have food, and you show that gratitude by eating all the food on your plate.”

Still completely unhelpful to the starving, and still orthogonal...
The problem seems to be conflating the notion that Christians in the US/Western nations are persecuted with the capacity for any Christian or Christian group to be persecuted elsewhere.

Because it's a common response to things like the gay wedding cake and "happy holidays," etc. It's not surprising those things evoke such a dismissal.

But such a dismissal is not all inclusive. Because we don't see, say, gay marriage as a persecution of Christianity doesn't mean we believe Christians are intrinsically incapable of being persecuted.
I would love to see a post on how to set that up!
Why do you think that’s true? China has cracked down on: democracy in the 80s, Falun Gong, Tibet, Islam, and now Christianity. None of the previous groups have “flourished” yet. Some have basically died, others had to go abroad to survive, none are mainstream in China l.
This is not true. CPS comes out all the time for ridiculous things like 8-year-olds walking alone in a neighborhood (first time). Read any parenting blog.

We really need a law like Utah's in every state.
Not realistic, but when I was 13 or so my father worked for the Forest Service, and we spent a week at a cabin in a California wilderness one summer. While we were out there, we ran into a young guy who was working a summer job where he wandered around the wilderness, camping and taking notes in a little book whenever he heard an owl. I've always wanted to get paid for something like that. Of course you can't demand $200 an hour, and it probably gets scary at night.
Would want to try my hand at cooking, although not really sure if I would enjoy high-pressure restaurant cooking as much as I do for myself & my family.
Why tie this to a specific framework when you can make it more generally applicable?

(I'm not a React user)
Parents (or other adults by proxy) seem to think they have to do everything possible to ensure that low-probability harm doesn't befall kids. Maybe it's lower birth rates making each child relatively more important. Maybe it's an overall cultural intolerance of risk. In any case, these adults fail to consider what that hypervigilance does in terms of developmental psychology. Not to mention the amount of time and mental energy it takes on the part of the parents or neighbors to be constantly monitoring kids that way.

The mass media and entertainment may play a role. Everyone can probably name several scenes or news events where a parent takes their eyes off a kid for 5 seconds and the kid is missing and it becomes a disaster. Those have major emotional impact and may influence real-life parent and neighbor behavior.

The paranoia has extended so far that Amber Alerts, which are almost always people known to the kid or the kid's family taking the kid (not really forcefully abducting, and not intending harm, many times just custody disputes or relatives who think they know better), are broadcast region-wide. I remember some idiotic website over a decade ago actually emailing their entire national customer list to notify them about an Amber Alert. And this was a long time ago. This paranoia has been creeping up for a long, long time, and it's not doing any favors for today's youth.

For every kid this level of vigilance saves from serious harm, I suspect it emotionally and psychologically cripples many more.
Money isn't the be all and end all to some people, you can live cheaply if need be and still have fun.
The finish-your-plate mentality can be especially troublesome in a household where food disappears quickly. I had an older brother and a dad who ate a lot, so if I didn’t take enough food in my first serving then I might not get any more.

It took me well into college to realize that (especially in a dining hall) I could serve myself a conservative-sized portion and get more later if I was still hungry.
I would be a carpenter or custom furniture maker. My childhood was spend working with grandfather creating broad range of wooden products starting with kitchen furniture and finishing with music instruments. As an electrical engineer I could create new electrical tools my grandpa never imagined and be way more efficient than he was. Also open source CAD tools open new horizons.
It's not just the attitude of some people that they should punish the parents for not meeting some bar of parenting, it's that this attitude connects with a state instrument with an easily triggered process. Without this easily triggered process you'd just have judgmental neighbors.
The best that ever happened to my health was gaining complete control over what I eat.

I eat only what I want, when I want. And how much I want.

The trade off, of course, is dying alone. But hey, health!
It entirely depends on the child.
Insurance companies use them a lot!
Note that this is not an experimental study, it's just a new theory that is competing against all the theories that try to explain what happened at the very begin of the big bang. Until there is some experimental evidence (or an overwhelming theoretical evidence) this is not confirmed.
Right. Don’t be greedy and control how much you put on your plate so you won’t overeat or waste food.

Are Americans incapable of doing this?
Some form of agriculture is pretty appealing. More scope for being outdoors during daylight hours, and (somewhat) more tolerance for people who prefer to work alone.

The money side of things doesn't look great, though.
The Ontario law preventing children from carrying and administering their own medication was changed in 2015[1].

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-law-passes-to...
I apologize. I misunderstood your point...perhaps something about the framing misled me and made me read less carefully.
I think part of the answer is that these churches are tied to Western missionary movements pushing a Western reading of Christianity (not so much on purpose as because that's "Christianity" to them).
As long as you keep the food in the fridge and heat it properly when you reheat it (so it gets boiling hot) the vast majority of food keeps for several days in the fridge.

I leave pea soup and pot currys at room temp (19-23c) for 24-48 hours before I eat them; after that they keep for several days in the fridge.

If you live in a warm climate and/or leave food uncovered all day then you're asking for problems. In those cases I wouldn't reheat them..
> The concept that artist should come up with new ideas and create something new is narrow.

I think it can even be stifling.

> The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

-- Hannah Arendt

I guess it's different for different people, but I find myself agreeing with these two things I came across recently:

Stephen King: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8TkQvdJVbc&t=7m05s

Chad VanGaalen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4z2wSMp81Y&t=9m40s

Like, just do it... pursue what you find interesting, follow your inner voice. If you want to do something that's been done, but you haven't done it, do it! Maybe it will lead you to something original even, and if not, so what.

That's not advice, but it does work for me, so if anyone feels like it works for them, I would "advise" them to not be put off by people telling them they're wrong with some kind of formula.
Humanity isn't yet omniscient; therefore, no-one should hold a total claim to truth in the way that either authoritarians or religions do.

Therefore I have sympathy for neither of the parties involved in the events described by this article.
Either a Chef or a Film Director :)