skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Of course correlations are not causation, and the negative correlation that I expect between religiosity and happiness does not mean that atheism makes people happier, or religion unhappier. What it means—and this is supported by several sociological studies (see here for one)—is likely that people either turn to religion or maintain their religion when their social situation is so dire that they’re unhappy. When conditions are good, and there’s lots of social support, including help for sick people, old people, free medical care, and so on, then there’s no need to be religious, no need to supplicate a god for what your society can’t provide. When you’re well off, your country gradually loses religion, the thesis of Norris and Inglehart in the preceding link.

>In short, what makes people happy is not religion, but material well being and the assurance of material aid. That’s supported by the study’s finding that immigrants, including Muslims from the Middle East, quickly gain the happiness of their new country, while (I suspect), still keeping their religion, though perhaps in an attenuated form.

This does not contradict my point- if you live in rural Appalachia, there's a good chance you have a pretty hardscrabble life. Religion is adaptive in this circumstance, and you can become happier by becoming religious. The author of the article you linked also goes on to quote Marx, saying that abolishing religion is curing the masses of their opium addiction, and curing them of their delusions. I would argue that irreligious people are just as delusional, but with different failure modes. Apathy, nihilism, and lack of a sense of self dominate the irreligious; moral absolutism dominates the religious.
The chumbox (https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-intern...) used to be a good barometer of the spamminess of a site's content.

It appears that recently Wordpress rolled out the chumbox on free sites. It turns every one of them into a ghastly display dreck. It also normalizes the chumbox. Seeing a site without at least one chumbox these days is becoming difficult.

It's not hard to imagine a future in which the Gut Doctor follows you around to every site you visit, like Big Brother dressed in a clown costume.

Strangely, I also find myself going directly to the HN comments before even clicking on an article. Maybe its the inevitable result of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect finally wearing off:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
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I don't know man, the redesigned 1040 forms are pretty easy to fill out:

Anyone whose life is so plain and simple that they can do their taxes with just a 1040 or a 1040EZ form really doesn't understand how taxes work.
Well, if people aren't ready to pay for "accurate, current information on topics that are relevant to the continued health and progress of society" may be said sources of such information should naturally die-off and people which weren't ready to fund them should bear the consequences which will be disastrous?

On other hand, this bias thing is not inherent. ABC survives somehow in Australia, even though current clowns in the shitshow in Canberra work hard to kill it.
I enjoyed watching his documentary, but I'm not part of sailing circles. In what way is it considered controversial?
My personal experience is not what you are advertising here. I like Chrome because of the features unrelated to performance on Google's own assets - it simply has been the better browser. Yubikey support. Enterprise management capabilities. A robust extension ecosystem. Security. Better memory management for multiple tabs. Some of these are no longer a differentiator for Chrome, but Chrome got there first.

Firefox, IE, Opera have all been way late to the game on some or all of these features.

In the past I have been in the position to help make decisions on browser support at my company. We easily decided on Chrome because it was faster and more secure than IE, but more manageable than Firefox at an Enterprise level. Firefox is just starting to catch up to these feature sets. IE gave up. Safari is a literal running joke even amongst the most ardent of MacOS supporters at my company - features are simply non comparable.

I never once saw an incompatibility problem in Firefox that made me open Chrome. I currently run 2 browser sessions on my main computer - one in Firefox for personal use and one in Chrome for work use. I like and use Firefox, but Chrome has momentum.
It's not. It's an example specifically picked to make the limit sound reasonable, because it concerns only the text of the play itself.

What fattens email is layout information and inline images, which the example completely ignores.
I'm not sure how U.K. views the BBC, but it seems to be an effective example of this model.
It's not just news. It's ever website, with some notable exceptions, such as HN (minimal, curated, informative headlines, no bloat) or some private blogs (as the one linked - 2.2KB, 0 trackers, yet questionable headlines).

Recipe websites (and I'm not even talking about big names like allrecipies) give you the author's life story (for SEO) and a mountain of trackers, ads, and javascript. A recipe on "TasteOfHome" yields >200 requests, 4MB of data, and just uBlock Origin (which is the 2nd stage after my piHole's DNS based blocking) already blocked 42% of the website's content. Not to mention a plethora of websites rendering "support chat" overlays or pesky newsletter popups. I'd much prefer some sponsored content - "This recipe works best with a KitchenAid(tm) blender! Buy one here!". Seems to work for YT creators.

And "Tech" sites like TheVerge throw a compressed 5MB at you, with about 20% blocked. The layout is confusing and most of the stories are what I like to call "the stage before clickbait" - the ones addressing the user directly, presumably to create some sort of personal connection to spark interest ("OnePlus 7 review: designed to make you want the OnePlus 7 Pro"), or headlines with 0 informational content ("Laptops are getting weird and wonderful again").

Aggregation sites like reddit are unusable on a phone (not to mention the content). On every refresh, a popup prompting me to install their app shows up. A total of 3 screen elements are used to push me to their app - which is not going to happen, as I only use reddit as a search engine flag every once in a while.

One of the few decent ways of reading the news (for me) is to rely on the WSJ's iOS App (if you are a subscriber, the iPad app gives you a very useful, traditional newspaper layout that is easy to navigate and read, and so are their notifications). However, I would highly doubt I'd become a subscriber by bothering me with paywalls.
Toolchain support, at the minimum, often consists of having a compiler flag to allow the use of intrinsics for the new architecture - pretty much the opposite of what you're hoping (automagical support).

There's a fair bit of work where people try to autovectorize code. I'm happy that folks are pushing this work, but, well, I drive a manual (in this regard).

It does happen that code does auto-detection and skips to a particularly compelling platform-specific optimization path, but it's a huge pain. It's unlikely that someone will optimize for each and every variant, but they might draw a line here and there through the myriad of architecture choices and offer something.

Sorry that the story isn't better. I generally hand-code stuff - not in asm but with intrinsics (which is getting a lot of the benefit of asm, but without doing all your own codegen for the boring bits, scheduling and register allocation).
The churches are funded by public money?
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It's hard though, the BBC is often quoted as an example but they have always had to deal with the government of the day trying to exert influence.
You’d think a short extract would be enough for SEO and then hide the full article behind the paywall server side.
This approach ends up blocking you from receiving updates due to do incompatibilities between your changes and upstream so it's not a great solution.
For your second use-case (adding some interactivity to a mostly static page), Vue works really well.

For a full on SPA, Angular is lovely to work with.
I think there are quite a few examples of successful low code platforms.

Excel/sheets, wordpress, MS Access, moddable games, arguably even the web itself...
I feel you... that pesky people with different and well argumented opinions... tsk tsk...
Sure

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Address = 172.16.31.1/24
Address = 2001:__::1/64
PrivateKey = __
ListenPort = 443

[Peer]
PublicKey = __
PresharedKey = __
AllowedIPs = 172.16.31.2/32, 2001:__::2/128

[Peer]
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AllowedIPs = 172.16.31.3/32, 2001:__::3/128

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PostUp = iptables -A FORWARD -i %i -j ACCEPT; iptables -A FORWARD -o %i -j ACCEPT; iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE; ip6tables -A FORWARD -i %i -j ACCEPT; ip6tables -A FORWARD -o %i -j ACCEPT
PostDown = iptables -D FORWARD -i %i -j ACCEPT; iptables -D FORWARD -o %i -j ACCEPT; iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE; ip6tables -D FORWARD -i %i -j ACCEPT; ip6tables -D FORWARD -o %i -j ACCEPT

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[Interface]
Address = 172.16.31.2/24
Address = 2001:__::2/64
PrivateKey = __
DNS = 172.16.31.1, 2001:__::1
[Peer]
PublicKey = __
PresharedKey = __
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It is correct, but it hinges on your interpretation of the phrase "modern browser." Edge was falling behind on implementing the web spec compared to Chrome (among other things.)

> This is incorrect. They absolutely can as demonstrated by the fact that former Edge works great, has better hardware acceleration than Chrome, and consumes less power.

If Edge had all those things but could only render HTML4 and below, would it be considered a "modern browser" still? I would say no. That's an extreme hypothetical but it was similar to the future Microsoft saw for Edge, and a major factor in the switch to Chromium.
> that page isn't great at showing up in search results

I have twenty years of experience in getting that page to show up in search results. :)

Currently, a good way to get to it is these search terms:

posix issue 7

that actually takes us to the newer version; the above is issue 6.
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almost everyone hates ads especially in their email

This may surprise you, but there really are people who like getting "circulars" from their favorite stores by email. I know (older) relatives that intentionally stay subscribed to supermarkets and clothing retailers so that they can read every single email looking for special offers, just like it was 1995 and they were clipping coupons from the Sunday supplements.
Religion is "bad" in the eyes of many for completely legitimate reasons, not just because of the opportunity for fraud.
So send a social worker / mental healthcare professional.

The police can wait outside in case they’re needed.

Police are decidedly not mental healthcare professionals.
It seems extremely exaggerated, such explosions require complicated bomb design, otherwise the first stages of the explosion throw the reacting matter away and it won't react completely.

However, 5 megatons can destroy city completely, and if it explodes close to ground, it will create lots of contamination. Then it is up to the winds. Bad wind will make this contamination a major catastrophe thousands of kilometers away.
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People always want more

Automated stock trading platforms operated by massive Wall Street investment banks always want more.
I was recently at a Microsoft heavy tech conference and spoke to at least 50 .Net developers. Anyone who also did front end did so in Angular. I was surprised at how popular it is!
The use patterns of email in the HD readership do not mirror the world at large, & are especially at odds with the corporate world. I mean, 20 years ago I fought the "email should be plain text only!" battle, too, but it's time to move on. We lost -- and, moreover, we were wrong.

Formatting in email is valuable.

Being able to include an image as part of the email (vs. just as an attachment) is valuable.

I use both features many times every day.

Now, the issue in the article doesn't seem to come up for me because I don't use Gmail at all, and most of my interlocutors don't, either. But that doesn't change the fact that the behavior in question is bone stupid.
I would argue that no news source is unbiased, at least I've yet to find a news source that has no bias whatsoever about any topic related to politics and society.
As the OP can the title please be changed back to my original one? It was far clearer what this is actually about.
Depends on the nation. I suspect it would be fine in a lot of Europe, and is already the case in a lot of Europe I believe. In the former British colonies,and the United States in particular, that wouldn't fly over too well. The US public broadcasting networks are often not news outlets but entertainment sources (kids shows, education, etc). The US and to some extent the rest of the colonies hold a lot more distrust for the government than European nations and a government funded news organization would be considered a government shill.

Also, a US government news organization would have to contend with laws which would make it difficult for them to function .
Recently I had to hide a bunch of functionality for certain license type in a product. Spring + AspectJ turned it into a enjoyable experience - just add one annotation, two classes, one for aspect, another for exception mapper in rest and you can mark any class as "requires certain type of license" in one like of code now.
I have to disagree. Whole genome sequencing has only been prevalent in the past few years. I can agree that much of this has to do with the cost and complexity involved and the rise of new techniques and more computing power has opened up whole genome sequencing which has only been around since 2003 (1) and has been highly expensive and not used frequently until recently (2).

The majority of research I’ve come across in the past decade has been still focusing on DNA microarrays and qPCR which are focused on coding DNA. Perhaps I’m not seeing all the papers published for the studies you are familiar with and as such have a bias to believe that only a small portion of research is using NGS and is focused on non coding DNA.

1 https://www.yourgenome.org/facts/timeline-history-of-genomic...
2 https://academic.oup.com/hmg/article/25/R2/R157/2198171
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>I think nowadays Firefox is a much better browser and that Mozilla is better at guarding my interests, so I would use Firefox even if it weren't a better browser, however the market isn't necessarily interested in that.

Agreed. Firefox is really fast, and I love it. Been using it for a couple years now. But even if Chrome was demonstrably, objectively faster, I would still use Firefox.
I agree with most of thing, but I also think it needs a little flavour as to "informational" vs "aspirational".

I agree with both of those, but would also classify the examples you gave below as the difference between "mass advertising" and "intent based advertising". TV ads vs AdWords essentially. One is to capture interest and change behaviours, the other is to sell to an audience who's already in the market for your product.
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If what you are saying is true, then predominantly atheist countries (or societies) are mainly unethical and immoral (exaggeration).
Children of atheist parents will grow to be rapists psychos (also exaggeration).
> Police in the US are the very model of probity, courtesy and professionalism compared to almost every country in the Western Hemisphere

You specified western Hemisphere, which includes only the eastmost edge of Europe, but still leaves (half) of the UK, France and also Canada and Ireland. US police is hardly going to beat those on many positive metrics.

Odd choice of geographic region for such a comparison in any case.
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I started reading The Guardian a few years ago because the site loaded so fast, and that in turn literally caused me to change my views on various issues. Perhaps food for thought for the other news sites.
Front-end development is really great right now, because of React, which makes it so you can develop in one language, but unlike past attempts like GWT [1], doesn't rely on leaky abstractions.

1: http://www.gwtproject.org/overview.html
We trialed a service that was supposed to earn us a lot more ad money (yieldlove.com). Well, revenue did go up. But while I already complained about the horrible quality of those ads (surfing everywhere else with Adblock), the scammy ads that were shown were too much even for my boss. We went back to just using normal AdSense.
Perhaps not everyone agrees what newspapers are 'meant to be'.

Maybe their owners and managers generally seek to maximise profits. Maybe those which have an overriding mission (NYT? WSJ? The Guardian? The Economist?) are exceptions.
> Figure out a way to make biodegradable balloons less expensive than the rubber ones

That's easy: Tax rubber balloons so they're more expensive than biodegradable ones, done.
I run a company that has a bunch of small-town local news websites and we run into this all the time. It takes money to keep a website running. And in order for people to have the time to go into the field chasing down stories, they need to get paid. And our own advertising that we run to get and retain readers costs us real money. But where does/should our money come from?

Right now we're get some money from businesses advertising on our sites, but it's small money because it's small businesses in small towns. Just enough to keep the lights on, with a little left over for reinvestment into the company's mission. None of the founders have taken even a single paycheck. And taking business's money makes me nervous because I feel pressure on every article we write to make sure we're business-friendly to not scare away advertisers, which is not a good pressure for a news company to have.

And in towns of 5k-10k residents, your audience is limited to the point where referral ads or Google ads are pointless. Probably half of our company meetings have some kind of "where are we going to get money" conversations.
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> I don't understand the distinction you are making. People with mental illness make choices, are lead into things, etc.

> People who are expelled from school or incarcerated don't want to be in that situation but they are anyway. That seems like mental illness to me - counterproductive behavior that can't be willed to stop.

Fair point. I probably shouldn't have made that distinction.

> The tragic fact I'm trying to communicate about attempts to help people is that the first step is to get someone who is vulnerable to trust authorities. And then that trust is necessarily betrayed, because the whole point is to try to help people without their consent. Not being able to trust is a primary cause or contributing factor to being unable to function properly in society.

In many of the more extreme cases that is true. However it doesn't always work out that way. Realistically this is a far to broad a topic to be generalising the way we have but it's still been a read regardless.
This is a ludicrous position. Apart from the fact that they have different editorial positions from each other. They cannot be both unbiased.

The BBC makes some effort to be unbiased - by giving air time based on e.g. based on success at the ballot, but inevitably reflects the metropolitan position of most of it's employees.
> A 100% renewable energy commitment does not mean firms’ electricity is completely carbon-free.

It doesn't have to be. There is nothing wrong with buying renewable energy credits as long as somebody (anybody) uses that energy at the end of the day.
I'm developing a very new approach to tackle this problem with my project https://wishpage.tv/ Its still moving but a request based approach to news might work for a small niche.
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I wrote an XSLT stylesheet that could turn an XHTML document into a display of its own source, complete with indenting, code folding and syntax highlighting. I was quite pleased with that :)

When I worked at the BMJ all of our content was stored as XML and rendered to the browser using XSLT, although this was done on the back-end and the resulting XHTML embedded in our various Spring applications. This sort of thing is probably the most common use of XHTML today...
Play a round of perl golf?

perl -pne '$_=$#$_++?$_:""'

I'm rusty at this but shaved off six chars, five if you count the 'p' added to switches.
In (as far as I know) no countries would you be killed by atheists if you're non-atheist.

To be fair, Russia in 1920-1930s was pretty close to that. One surely may argue that communism is also a religion, so they were simply getting rid of the competition.
This is extremely helpful, thanks!
I've been burnt by the non-Euclidian enormity of ExtJS, so I understand the desire for something simpler. On the other hand, when you leave the world of progressive enhancement and widgets (ie. jQuery), you find yourself needing a lot of common infrastructure and picking and matching that can be quite tedious (never mind dependency hell), which is something that react always had issues with -- and that seems to extend fractally, where it's not just MobX vs. React but then what framework/project setup you have on top of each of these choices. And now hooks.

Still, angular always struck me as going slightly too far into Java-land -- my Struts/J2EE/DI battle scars are larger than even my ExtJS mutilations.

And in between you've got VueJS/Vuex, which seems to move a bit too close to react at times, and EmberJs, which seems to move too slowly and/or without many people watching it.

I really want to go back to late-90s desktop UI development sometimes…
Yeah, this is really a story about how apps take advantage of people who aren't judicious about what they install, and aren't careful about what background & location data behavior they allow for the apps they have.

My guess is that Apple is already working on a plan to curtail these abuses -- or, rather, working on ways to make it easier for normal people to do so. Obviously if you're reading HD, you understand these issues better, and are more apt to use the tools already in iOS to limit bad behavior.

>they really should hold their partners to a much higher standard given all of their privacy rhetoric.

Agreed.
Hi HN, a couple days ago I released a Google Sheets Add-on to pull JSON API data directly into Google Sheets. You can enter the URL, query strings, and any required headers into the Add-on sidebar, and can make dynamic requests by referencing cells in the sheet. For example, the API request URL can point to a cell containing today's date, which is useful if you want to refresh the data every day.

I made this after working on a lot of reporting projects that required aggregating API data from multiple marketing & analytics platforms.

As a quick meta-example, here's a Google Sheet that checks the Hacker News API for current Show HN's and automatically refreshes every hour: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14RsAm8s5JtsH2ots79c0...
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thank you for posting and hosting this; press releases about papers are so unhelpful, and should be banned from HN, IMO
Yes, WMATA has managed to move a lot of S9 buses up and down 16th St. NW at busy times of day. Judging from what I see, the S9 is efficient at moving such people as get on, less so in moving numbers of people. It is routine to see three mostly empty S9s go by a stop before a local bus (S1/S2/S4) arrives.