skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The relevant question isn't really why religion is declining in the US, but why it hasn't declined sooner.

It's possible that religion is treating the symptom of another problem. Assuming someone religious attends an organized function related to that religion, it's making them part of a community and might be helping them feel less lonely.

2018 study shows that half of Americans feel lonely. [1], but a similar kind of study on people in europe surveying if people had anyone to ask for help or discuss personal matters has a much smaller amount [2]

The European study indicates that income inequality has an effect on social isolation, with the lowest incomes having twice the amount of isolation.

The income inequality in America is even more pronounced, and geographically, many of the areas with the highest levels of religious beliefs seem (on a map) to line up pretty well with levels of poverty and income inequality.

Usual disclaimer about correlation/causation and everything... But perhaps economic conditions that cause people to tend to be socially isolated are being self-treated by pursuit of religious groups because the community it gathers results in a decrease in the isolation symptom?

[1] https://fortune.com/2018/05/01/americans-lonely-cigna-study/
[2] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/D...
There I think it's just supply and demand. Around the 1970s the job market shrunk and suddenly everyone wanted a college degree so they could get a decent job. The pressure's continued to increase to the point where you have 400+ students in an introductory classroom. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21951104/ns/us_news-education/t/mo...

There are some new universities being founded to increase supply, but online education is taking off too.
This is a site for "disrupting" anti-competitive bullshit, what did you expect?
This is the right answer for many small colleges in the US. Rate of attrition and individual discount rate are what keep up the revenue and the lights on year over year.
Can you really even have been a doctor for that long at age 30? That's barely even "start-of-career" by my calculation.
I have a few echos and a google home, and I love the feeling of living in the future by controlling things with my voice.

It may be naive, but I think the device vendors have way more to lose if it turns out they are actually recording all the time, not just listening for the wake word.

It will be the wrong road if we end up at 1984, but I’m hoping for the Culture, or at least the Jetsons...
The problem:

Let S be a finite set of at least two points in the plane. Assume that no three points of S are collinear. By a windmill we mean a process as follows. Start with a line l going through a point P ∈ S. Rotate l clockwise around the pivot P until the line contains another point Q of S. The point Q now takes over as the new pivot. This process continues indefinitely, with the pivot always being a point from S.

Show that for a suitable P ∈ S and a suitable starting line l containing P, the resulting windmill will visit each point of S as a pivot infinitely often.
Ok. So a person is forced to sell a kidney because they're down on their luck. That person then becomes less down on their luck because they have received money for their kidney. Where do the problems start?
This would be my approach order and time/space/multiples of the busy stations. It’s crazy how often I see them load up the first station with things that aren’t necessary at that point but will fill up your hands and slow down the process for everyone that is putting food on their plates. Napkins and cutlery and prime examples. They should be at the end once your plate is loaded you can pick these up and move along.
> You think, say, monks or rabbis are worse persons, then?

I don't know any rabbi, only catholic monks. These monks I met are lovely people, in a moral sense. In an intellectual or cultural level not so much. The world and culture has become much bigger than their ancient readings.

However, I suspect their character and good nature is not so much a result of their "belonging". After all they "belong" to the same Catholic church that was, for so long, a shelter for pedophiles.

> What about Homer, whose rituals you may imagine never changed in his lifetime.

With all respect for Homer and classic Greek culture I need to stress that the pace of change today is much more accelerated than in ancient cultures.

Classic Greek culture is indeed the foundation of all western culture and certainly deserves to be studied by anyone seeking enlightment. But the logic, political philosophy and worldview we have today is an huge improvement over them. Every year are adding much more to our knowledge than within Homer's lifetime.
I think that'd be great. But kidneys are an easy starting place because you genuinely do not require two kidneys.
The Unlikely Marriage of Databases and Object Storage
My biggest concern is that Mozilla do not offer the option of using DoT (at least in the current stable channel). You can configure a different DoH server, but not a DoT server.
Right. I tend to forget about it because for the most part you only get reCAPTCHaed when creating a new account...
Spillover effect. Catholics might not have the terrible reputation that evangelicals do, but they all fall under the Christian umbrella.
I think some people _have_ found that though in other places. I look at music and going to shows and the community I’m a part of there and do see the sense of belonging and care that you might find in a religious setting.. hell when we go see our favorite artists, I call it “going to church”.
For context I have an anxiety disorder. This makes entrepreneurship even more difficult as these hard decisions are very hard to intellectualize even if you want to as it can cause panic attacks and in extreme cases disassociation events.

One helpful thing though is the same framework I use to manage my anxiety is a great decision making tool for business. Forcing yourself to actually ground yourself where you are right now and look at what's actually going on. Basically cutting through the meta narrative and seeing things as they are. Early on in dealing with my anxiety the name of the game was pain avoidance. Use whatever I could to go numb basically. After a while, some of us at least, realize what's happening and are able to take the steps to change that perspective. Going numb constantly is no way to live. A focus on the process and what's happening right now as opposed to the maybe outcomes is really key. You learn to basically coexist with the anxiety, and as weird as it sounds, find a place of peace inside of it. To me that's what this post is saying. See things as they are, and lean into the pain rather than go numb. Ironically when you do that you realize the imagined horror is usually worse than the reality and in terms of business you make the hard decisions to get things done.

This post resonated pretty deeply with me and I appreciate him sharing.
Honestly, I would rather get an email from my hosting company saying my project has been taken down after receiving a DMCA notice than get a visit from a process server saying that a huge corporation has filed a suit against me.

Not having a DMCA for trademark means that the process server is very, very likely to knock on your door for naming something after Lego.
I think colleges should just define a minimum SAT score and then select students through a lottery.
Eat, Drink and Be Wary: Ex-CIA Officer Reveals How Eateries Are Key to Spycraft
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I meant the distinction between majority and worst. What is "worst" in this context? And by what measure?
Hi! How old is your son?
For takeovers of larger systems, probably not. They're clearly finding vulnerabilities/targets, doing some minimal investigation to set a price to charge them, and some other basic effort. Doing it 10000 times for a single payout probably wouldn't be worth it.
Penetration tests are a huge deal right now. Many companies outsource it to security agencies who then perform the pen tests and report results.
This is so disheartening. 6-20 yrs is not enough prison time. This isn't acceptable. Law makers around the globe need to rewrite the punishments for these crimes. Child abuse seems to be much higher than older days.

As much as I love tech community, it's sad to see how most comments here are discussing the technical details of the case and not enough outraged by it?

> I have never understood the appeal of BitCoin as a means of purchasing or selling illegal materials.

> I don't think Bitcoin can be anonymous if it goes through an exchange.

> This is why you should exchange your Bitcoin to Monero.

> How do they establish the second address's identity?

> good, they could never trace dollars
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How is Apache non-permissive? It deals with more things (like patents) and it's a bit complex, but it's not viral I'm pretty sure.
related from early today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21264814
I didn't imply that everyone is kidding. Only that all opinions are going to be represented whether that person believes it or not. One person does not speak for everyone. They only speak for themselves.

People commit atrocities in the name of religions and we don't seem to blame the entire organization for a single extremist.
Yeah that's him, a different article mentioned he was a Sales VP at Intel
Really close. :: between variable name and type instead of : and similarly superficial things. As the sibling comment pointed out, the semantics can take some time to wrap your brain around.
...as a parent, that anxiety was already there for me, and I think it's there for most other parents too. I used to wake up and check my daughter in the middle of the night because she hadn't cried in a while. This would have brought me peace of mind.

This echoes my own experience in this area.
UC Berkeley also has a similar program, FYI
There is a huge amount of evidence that women and men are different statistically. That is, anyone can have any interest or personality trait, but on average the genders have separate distributions.

This is very controversial among political activists, but established fact in the relevant sciences.

Pinker's "The Blank Slate" is a good introduction.
Rival theories face off over brain's source of consciousness
Have a look at https://info.explara.com/switch-from-meetup-to-explara
You will love it. Map your domain, bring multiple groups under one network and just grow like https://hub.tie.org in 60+ cities powered by Explara Community.
I've been using Haskell on and off for almost ten years, and the "front end" of the language, including its syntax, is pretty much the only thing that I absolutely hate about it.

The endless operators, all the language extensions required in 2019, the madness called Template Haskell, the absurdity of point free style, the multiple ways of achieving things by cleverly using . and $, the uncanny valley of do-notation (why does it look different? F# gets it right). It's too easy to be clever. It's too easy to take shortcuts that the next person won't understand.

I'm completely fine with the underlying semantics! Lazy evaluation, the majestic typechecker, concepts like monads, functors, lenses. Even when it comes to syntax, I love how functions are declared, the way parenthesis work, currying, all the "simple stuff". I adore all those concepts and apply them to other languages. I long for a Haskell-like language without the stuff I mentioned above.

I think the problem is that in Haskell everything feels like an afterthought, everything feels "bolt on" rather than "built in". 99% of the hot stuff is implemented using libraries. That's similar to Lisp and C++, other languages I hate (I also love Lisp parens, but I hate macros). Now that I think about it, I prefer less extensible languages that require adding code to the compiler to extend it: C#, F#, Go, JavaScript.
I don't follow.

The audiences for Starbucks Latte and Cappuccino are different. Starbucks is indifferent whether you buy one or the other though.
How could they know when the founder sold stock? Is this public information?
When glasses with display become usable.
> The questions that cultural anthropologists are asking cannot ethically be answered with science because there are too many variables to separate out a dependent and independent variable.

This only holds if you have a really strict and useless definition of science. If I told you I had hardware and simulation software, and you fed it in a lot of historical information, and it then simulated the results that best fit with its best attempt to cross-validate it against more recent and better known events, we might reasonably say "yeah that sounds like a scientific approach, we are using different sets of data, even though lots of it is imperfect, to make inference by exploiting common human processes across time"

But if I tell you that piece of hardware is the human brain, for some reason people change their view, it becomes 'qualitative' and 'non-scientific.' Which only really holds if you have a mystical view of the human brain which puts it in its own class as distinct from any other piece of computational machinery used in scientific inference.
in my (limited) experience, Haskell projects (and to a slightly lesser extent, functional programming projects) work best when thoroughly planned out in thorough whiteboard/spec sessions and are then implemented by a couple of gurus responsible for the code, who work almost exclusively in functional languages in their day to day. there seems to be a need for way more thought-per-line-of-code in Haskell/FP projects.

many engineers (and businesses!), culturally, come from the opposite angle (legions of generally pluggable engineers on java/python/golang plowing through tickets/features). that's fine, but it isn't super amenable to the Haskell world, because IME non-imperative setups require different mode of thinking about design, so harder to drop in and crush a ticket. i wish i could explain this more, but i'm struggling to articulate with examples.

i think the thorough types really help you get up to speed on data structures, but unless you are in a functional mindset pretty much exclusively, your (my?) brain spends a lot of time un-imperative-ing itself. also, laziness can be a factor, so need some expertise there.

it also helps to have conventions e.g. old school java (are we point free, or not? etc. etc.)

all in all i think it requires a lot of discipline that can easily break down, whereas some of the popular imperative languages you can still sort of plug along (=> punt the technical debt) despite that.
6to4 has been de-preferenced by most operating systems.

what isps provide 6to4 tunnels, or even 6in4 tunnels (which i can only assume you meant?)

(agreed on the proxying point, you'd have to explicitly trust the proxy operator)
Nevada Area Codes
Pipedream
Go for it (why would I take offense?). Rust is a fine choice. I'd pick Rust if I ever really needed to eek out every bit of performance out of my system and/or needed safety and was willing to trade quite a lot of developer productivity to get there. Mission critical real-time systems, high-end games, resource-constrained devices, etc are good applications for Rust (and of course there are many others). Rust is a great language and I'd like to use it more often; I just can't justify the productivity hit.

If Rust ever approaches Go's ease of use/learning curve/etc without losing its performance or incurring other costs, I'll happily make the switch for my productivity-sensitive applications as well.
Facebook's Community Standards are the antithesis of free expression.
> he has said he has no plans to sell any shares

That's nice. Plans change if you end up owing legal damages.
The normative base I’m talking about is the religious importance levels in various countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Importance_of_religion_by_coun...

The United States is one of the most religious countries for being as wealthy and developed as it is. Many of the similarly developed nations that remain religious are the oil theocracies.

As I mentioned, the Internet has allowed people to read opinions beyond their own filtered literature. A religious school or household won’t buy books that question religion. But an entire generation (the millennials shown in the article) grew up with Internet connections that largely took them beyond those filters.

I know that part is speculation on my end, but eliminating the Internet’s role in inter-connectivity as a possibility is an odd hypothesis. I have friends in Japan in shared interest groups for Japanese pop stars, how would that have happened before the Internet? Writing letters?
Sometimes I say as joke that in reality the universe are not expanding but the things inside that are shrinking.
...your child is probably ok seeping at night

"probably ok" is exactly the level of confidence that left me with anxiety around this issue. It's not exactly a convincing statement to make for people worried about whether their child is still breathing or not. Regardless of the rationality of the concern.
The bank wouldn't be the one executing the order. In a situation analogous to a CLOUD Act situation, the account holder would be ordered to withdraw the money from his foreign account and turn it over. To the foreign bank, it is no different than any other customer withdrawing money from their account.
I don't see how this is any different compared to Beowulf, Mosix, Amoeba and other mass-machine boundary-eliminating systems that were attempted back in the 90s. Am I missing something that makes this better suited to the task of resource utilization across nodes?
I would just use ZFS snapshots and replication. They're read-only, and they only use as much space as the difference between the current state and the snapshot.

Plus, you'll have solid data integrity instead of relying on buggy firmware in your RAID controller.
In TNG they ask the computer for someone's location every other episode, usually without hesitation. Didn't go so well for Barclay, when they walked into his cringy holodeck fantasy program.
The power company that got nailed with the $30 billion (or whatever it was) judgment for possibly causing a huge destructive fire is publicly traded. This matters because if shareholders had to eat that loss, it would destroy the valuation of the company and stock would plummet. Execs and board of directors get a lot of pay as stock and options, so cratering the stock isn't acceptable. So instead they passed the loss onto ratepayers i.e. innocent customers have a surcharge for decades to pay for a fire caused by utility negligence (and whether the utility did in fact cause the fire was never proven one way or the other, but it's easy to create a villain for juries to blame). We need to get a grip on our insignificance compared to natural forces. Wildfires are as inevitable as hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, etc. Humans can't stop them, but we can be prepared to flee and/or adapt to the resulting changes to the environment. Humans dominate Earth because we make plans and we adapt to whatever the planet throws at us.
I subscribed to your service a couple of years back, and you were leaking other customers' home directories. The whole thing was just a shared, dedicated server with shell access. Super sketchy.

Back then, you also stated that you offer super-secure access and all of that jazz. Funny that you are double downing on all the compliance bullshit and ransomware buzz words now.

The compliance statements are pretty questionable and make no sense for the services you are offering. Surprised you don't provide 'military-grade' encryption. Just throw all of that in there keep the thing.

Buyers beware. Do your homework.
Why do people still use Facebook?
All the worst jobs I've ever had shared one common characteristic.

Knowing exactly how to fix a problem, having the skills to do so, and being absolutely forbidden from actually doing it.

This sounds like one of those "opportunities".
Those who "engage in empiricism" might want to look empirically at the effects their "superior accounts" tend to have on others. It's not so clear that this approach is working.

To be specific about this site: on HN we have a clear mandate—intellectual curiosity—and a set of principles based on what serves that (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Discussion that stays within those guidelines is welcome, and conversely, when it isn't able to stay within those guidelines, we intervene. There are different degrees of intervention depending on how badly the guidelines are being violated. But intervention, or moderation, or whatever you want to call it, is indispensable. The system doesn't reliably stay within the guidelines on its own.
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totally understand the hassle of figuring out how to pay taxes etc.

we definitely want to champion this idea of having fiat and crypto side by side, and how to do it properly.

going all crypto might be too brutal and we think the hybrid approach makes more sense: work for a company that pays you in fiat (for bills and legacy stuff ;)) and crypto.

life is an experiment ;p
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Exactly! He knew it, the whole company knew it and took advantage of it, and didn't disclose it publicly until questioned by a reporter.

I see parallels to the genetic testing kits: it's all fun and games until police use it to find people who committed crimes. Just wait until investigative units realize FAANGs have recordings from inside houses that they can supeona.
It’s too bad neoliberals like Klobuchar and Buttigieg are using republican talking points to scare the left from pursing Medicare for all. Bernie or Warren are the only options. We need to fundamentally change so many aspects of our society and half-measures aren’t going to do anything but protect the broken status quo.
Hospitals manage uncompensated care right now, its not as if its an unknown.
If you don't care for maximum POSIX compatibility, i.e. your script is bash-specific, it's better to use "hash", which is going to ignore aliases (but not functions) and also has the benefit of caching the command for further use.

hash foo &>/dev/null || { echo "foo command not found blabla..." >&2; exit 1; }

more info:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/592620/how-to-check-if-a...
It’s pretty simple. Mozilla’s employees are fiercely liberal. For example, a small group of vocal employees managed to oust former CEO Brendan Eich over a tiny donation to a conservative political cause he had made many years before he became CEO. If you have a conservative bone in your body, you are not welcome on the Mozilla campus.

So they don’t object to Facebook’s data privacy practices. They object to Facebook’s media-perceived role in Trump’s election. The reality is that if they applied the standard they are using to exclude Facebook from their advertising plan in a non-hypocritical way, they would quickly run out of places to advertise online. Most major online media outlets, including Google, have data practices that actual privacy activists consider to be abhorrent. Their policy isn’t about privacy - it’s about politics.