skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Christianity had their issue and politicized Christianity had done enormous damage to our society trough bigotry, segregation and straight up wars, but it got better in the recent decades and meanwhile it's by no means perfect we're throwing away the only western moral framework with no replacement in sight. this will do a number on society coesion and it's already visibile in certain aspects.
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> it lacks a lot of features to make it useable at scale.

Can you elaborate on this?
There have been a few Firefox commercials on cable television that aired during season 3 of Mr. Robot.
I'm going to have to watch this later, because the cat I've got on my lap appears to be deeply alarmed by the blinking eyes of the "pi" avatar.
Because they don't work for money but for power.

The same reason rich kings don't just stop being kings.
Sounds like bad foreign policy , there are plenty of examples in history of what is bad for EU is even worse for the rest of Western countries. But works in reverse also, what is bad for the US is bad for the EU. Isolation is never the answer and only makes dictators that suppress human rights.
allow doctors on H1B to come from india. That's what they do in UK.
given this, it would be nice if a standard emerged of offering biometric+password. The idea being you get both the convenience of biometric, plus the security of a password. Of course a password is inconvenient, but thats only if its a usual password. In this case you could use a simplified password which is quick to enter.
The system in my house just has an exterior temperature sensor. You don't need an Internet connection to know the temperature outside your house, and the "outside temperature" it's getting from the Internet may be quite different than the temperature of the air outside your house anyway.

Knowing when you're home can also be done quite well without any Internet access - just see if your mobile device recently associated to the wifi.

These things can trivially be built without the privacy concerns. The business model might be a bit harder if you can't collect the data, though...
>if there is no payout the bad actors will give up the attack

I'd argue that isn't true. Ransomware is a form of terror in the form of "losing everything". And that threat of impending loss combined with 'backups are hard wahhhh' and the fact that no Corp I know backs up user machines...

As a numbers game, it pays. Well. And even if it didn't, some still hack for the "lulz".
Some side effects of this that are worth thinking about...

As churches see less membership, at some point congregations merge and one church is shut down.

Many churches do outreach and provide services to the community, the poor, and the homeless. This often includes shelter from the elements, soup kitchens, food pantries, meeting places for groups like AA/NA/etc.

When a church shuts down, the distance that the population has to travel can increase, and there might not be enough room to provide the same resources to those populations.

Additionally, it's not necessarily a problem, but more of a musing... What happens to all those old churches? The impact on the property market has to have local effects...

I wonder how many churches are shut down, but are just maintained by a skeleton crew of maintenance people in the hope that their customer base will increase enough one day to restart their services and reopen the property.

I assume churches don't pay property tax, so as long as the church is in hibernation mode and not actually totally dissolved, could they hold onto the property indefinitely for just the cost of maintenance? Or would them not providing religious services anymore cause them to lose the exemption?
Incoming DCMA takedown notice in 3... 2....

(seriously though, Lego is famous for being bulldogs in regards to their trademark/brand!)
What else is new?

Religion is the most conservative institution ever created. It does not adapt (well, almost..) it doesn't change (also, almost..) and it's no wonder that with developments in science and culture, religion doesn't seem as important as it used to be.

It's been going on for a while, in suburbia the main purpose of religion has nothing to do with religion, it's mostly about community, church is the place when you meet a talk with your neighbors. That's it.

Well, strong economy is also there to "blame", one talks to God only when one needs something, nothing wrong with that just to make a point that when everything is good religion is on decline.
First you'd have to solve politics. Good luck with that.
Trademark infringement. They could argue it is a different category than the toy company, but I think that line of argument is already lost given they are using LEGO style bricks on the website.
I just don't understand the value added by a smart speaker or an "AI Assistant" of any kind. It seems like so much effort for such a minute return on convenience.
I have effects pedals that do the same kinds of things. Its more or less an mechanical synthesizer.
I have questions: 0) How widespread is this program announced, and which students take advantage of it? Maybe students of art are more cautious. Maybe business students don't know about the program. 1) Are they all framed and behind glass/plastic/whatever? If so, they're mostly protected from casual damage. 2) Are these originals or copies? 3) Is there a policy, communicated to the borrowers, that damage has punitive consequences? If so, that could be a deterrent.
First taxonomic description of elusive bird shows the plight of Borneo's forests
No worries!

Okay, honestly this is great. The content, flow, and ramp-up in complexity is wonderful.

Please, please, please add a way to resume your learning session without starting over from scratch. I didn't click on "Start next class" once and was booted out to the main menu. There seems to be no way to resume my "next class" without restarting the entire module. Once you have this, I'll be a paying customer.
Some of that is going on. I've heard of some orgs being asked to pay a ransom in hopes of picking up a trail to the perpetrators following the BitCoin.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/ransomware-abettor-sentence...
I'm not sure where you're getting that this requires transmitting all the microphone data to the cloud. All of this could in theory be done on the device without cloud processing at all.
You can't do anything but let it publicly fail. These incompetencies are usually the result of the top not believing that the cost is worth it. Also a well run IT department often gets "nothing's ever broken, what do they actually do?" so you get rewarded for doing break/fix.
I urge everyone to read these two fantastic papers:

It's The Prices, Stupid (2003): https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.22.3....

It's Still The Prices, Stupid (2019):
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05144
Depending on how it's mounted...I can unlock my S8 reaching over the top of the phone where my finger is basically upside down.

I hope it means that Samsung compares the data on the whole sensor, and not that anyone can unlock it :)
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Are you speaking from experience? The article is about the author’s experience from a year of using Haskell.

I don’t think it’s fair or constructive to disagree with his findings unless you also have experience using the language, and it doesn’t sound like that is the case.
LEGO have a very friendly[1] explanation that they must pursue legal action to protect their trademark internationally.

They have rules about using their trademark in names, logos, websites and URLs.

[1] https://www.lego.com/en-sg/legal/notices-and-policies/fair-p...
Slowly getting there, but (IMHO) until mobile telcos start to push IPv6, I'm not seeing the momentum pushing it into normality.

Thing is, IPv6 took a while to come about (1) to solve a problem that had in the meantime created many workarounds and alas those workarounds work and still carry on for so many. Hence the return on investing in IPv6 when you have existing infrastructure is outweighed by the costs still and in business - it just works carries more weight than Engineers desires.

I still wonder when it will become the dominant over IPv4, but even those news items saying that xxxx will be the year of ipv6 moved onto IOT and xxxx will be the year of IOT.

But good that HN are onboard, but what factors do others see are for the stagnant uptake on rolling IPv6 out?

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6 "In December 1998, IPv6 became a Draft Standard for the IETF, who subsequently ratified it as an Internet Standard on 14 July 2017"

edit add - formatting and reference
I doubt there's any AI involved in this. I think they've never bothered to really consider what a fingerprint actually looks like. This is fairly evidenced by how every single phone fingerprint read seems to readily accept many other body parts and I suspect also things that have similar conductivities to human skin.
> The ability to take the feedback and double down in just a few days is motivational.

Maybe. I took it slightly differently. They received negative feedback after a 10 minute pitch, and immediately dropped everything to change their product & strategy to appease a potential investor.

Was monetizing in this manner at this moment the right strategy for them? That's a pivotal decision to make and not one I'd throw together at 2 am to try impress a party with no skin in the game.
If the trend continues, we can expect parity in Christianity and religiously unaffiliated by roughly 2040. However I would expect the decline to increase in rate at some point, as the network effects due to the ubiquity of the Christian community start to fall apart.
Of course, I'm not discounting these things, nor am I suggesting it can't be done other ways. I'm just saying that this is what you get with a smart thermostat that you don't get with most non-smart thermostats.

The thing I really liked about the Nest is that I just turned the dial to where I felt comfortable and it just took care of everything else for me without me needing to do anything. As long as you're brave enough to put screws in a wall and hook up a handful of wires to connectors, it took about 15 minutes of me getting it out of the box to it being installed and configured. I can't say the same about any other programmable thermostat I ever had. Seriously it wasn't an awful lot more complicated than the mercury switch thermostats I've installed.

The handful of Honeywell programmable thermostats I've installed had a disastrously bad user experience. In fact, I installed the Ecobee in my current house because I got so pissed off going through the programming cycle of the Honeywell I gave up before I got to Wednesday :'D
It's their thing though, right? It's their passion.

The author seems to be making a weird argument, to me:

If you're working for love, status or meaning (rather than need)... you should... stop? Morally? Because you have enough money already?

There are poets, painters and golfers who continue their careers long after they achieve financial independence.

I wonder if this author would describe them in the same terms.

"You're too famous, get off the stage".
Nobody I know ever bought Kinder eggs for the toy, it was always for the chocolate with a random toy as an added bonus. With that said, as others have said, collectible card games and such still do it though, so your point stands.
The fact that America has the 10th highest GDP per capita [1] and huge swaths of it are little better off than a third world nation is a complete disgrace.

1: (its 4 micro city states above it, which are economically special, and 5 nations that could reasonably be considered full sized countries, however all of them still have relatively small populations)
I am an infosec professional who pitches utilities and public government. This is spot on.

The second call back is always more expensive for them, but sometimes someone needs to touch the stove themselves to see it’s hot.

If you genuinely can’t afford it, I’ll help for free, but there’s only so much time in the day and I won’t eat the cost of stupid or politics.
I don't think your issue was related to microphone permission. I have never allowed the microphone permission to Google Maps and haven't faced any such issues.

Disc: Googler.
I want better windowing security, but I also need to be able to present my desktop in a video conference call. Expecting people to switch before they can do normal desktopy things isn't reasonable.
It's RobinHood ransomware, I don't think it was EternalBlue either...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/a-closer-look...
So, actually reading the paper. What it appears that they are doing is blowing up the concept of a 'server' entirely, and replacing the system bus with network. So you can have a bunch of 'servers' racked together which create a pool of cpus, ram, storage, and so on, all of which are connected by the network. And then they pull from this pool of resources to create vNodes which are like virtual machines.

I like the idea. It'll be interesting to see it develop. It could be the core of the next ec2, or I guess it could be nothing.
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In addition to what others have said about correlation vs causation, this "less religious societies have more violence and social problems" view doesn't stand up to the statistics
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/our-humanity-natural...
I found the OSX specific XDG section helpful, because I've been setting it to ~/.cache for years! Good to know there is a better way that the OS understands (a bit a least).
i use ~/prog
We use a baby monitor in conjunction with specifically patterned clothing. The monitor observes the pattern and assesses whether the baby is breathing - if not, it will alarm on both the phone and the crib monitor unit.

Is it strictly necessary? No. But it helps me sleep, and that means the baby sleeps better because he's not being visited and monitored by a human.

We've had one false positive in 6 months. That's an acceptable tradeoff, in my mind.
I have kids. They forget to turn off lights, mess with my thermostat, leave doors unlocked. The peace of mind of being able to remotely check/access/control all of this is great.
I understand one hypothesis is that it is some sort of matter, but the anomaly is that we can't fully account for why galaxies don't fly apart, given our current models and observables. One explanation for the anomaly is that there is stuff which interacts with observable matter in a matter-like way. That is, we don't know there is any new form of matter, rather, one of the conjectures is that the inconsistency we have observed can be explained by positing a new form of matter which interacts with known matter in a way we have not yet experienced or accounted for in previous models.

The point is, the real discovery is not the existence of any new form of matter, because we have not discovered a new form of matter, rather, the discovery is that we've found a very interesting point at which our theories are inconsistent with reality.
Prices are high because of inefficiencies in the markets caused by bad laws attempting to subsidize one class of people by another.

Hospitals aren't able to refuse treatment to those that can't afford to pay for their services, insurance companies are forced to insure unprofitable people and the net effect is to try and coerce people into a redistribution of money from people that require more care from those that require less care to cover these expenditures.

Because there is no mechanism to coerce people to do this willingly both industries to give the invoices to the government (who created the problem) thereby getting rid of the requirement to think about how they will fund their expenditures - making it the governments problem to figure out.

This thereby allows them to continue uncontrolled expenditure in an ever increasing downward spiral to catastrophe as in effect they are spending 'other peoples money' in the hopes that "eventually these invoices will be paid" through some sort of government sponsored coercion mechanism forcing socialized heath care or some other such method with the same result.

Its really quite simple and clever.

-5% of the population accounts for more than half of all health spending.
-50% of the population with the lowest spending accounts for only 3% of all total health spending.
I used to work at a RAID hardware company (since bought by SUN, now Oracle though I have no idea if that model is still sold). Salesmen were told to demonstrate the system by pulling a random drive from the production disk and put it on top. 15 minutes latter someone from support showed up with a new disk (not IT, support), the salesmen made sure they were still next to the machine to show off that support knew about the failure and could replace it quickly.

If you don't have the same confidence in your systems you need to fix that.
Well, to be fair, you can do all sorts of things with Postgres if you build custom extensions for it
Huh? How does moving from desktop app to browser remove hard elements from the equation?
All I'm saying is that there would be a lot less mentally damaged people if America had paid more attention and listened to the hippies. And I mean 'listening to the hippies' in more ways than just the obvious one in this context.
http://thankahippie.com/2014/06/01/we-owe-it-all-to-the-hipp...
I think there is a lot of confirmation bias on these sorts of discussions on places like HN.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that the number of companies started as lifestyle businesses, freelancing, etc. far outweigh what we think of as "startups" here. Many of them are very explicitly targeting number of hours - I know a bunch of people who went freelance mostly because they can target 30h/wk that way a lot more easily than in traditional employment.
From my perspective using GKE or any other k8s service isn't you running k8s. It's you paying devops salaries to release managers.
Besides the other replies to you discussing correlation not being causation - is the purpose of your comment to disseminate truth or convince others to join a religion? And why don't you link to us religious missions of non-Christian religions like Islam or Judaism?

Let's (easily) debunk each of your sources to demonstrate their complete irrelevance to this topic:

- The Mass Killings article you post describes mass shootings, which are a specific type of homicide with a narrow definition. Homicides overall are down dramatically since the early 1990s. Mass shootings are aided by poor gun control policies and mass availability of guns in the United States. Mass shootings are not prevalent in developed countries that are not the United States in significant numbers.

- The Violent Crime article you've cited only talks about the past two consecutive years, not the decade-long time period cited by the religious affiliation trends in this article.

- Homeless populations probably aren't sampled in this phone survey, so the homelessness rate can't be correlated with the information given here.

Your weak correlation to religion is entirely debunked by choosing just about any Western/Northern European country, or much of Asia like China, South Korea, and Japan, and noticing that their religious affiliation numbers are far lower than the US has ever been, along with their violent crime rate.

What do Christian churches do? They certainly don't pay property taxes, so they don't fund public schools, police, or mental health services, like a normal business or resident would if they occupied the property.
What is the end state for Baltimore?
I've seen the same in traffic simulations.
If none of the routes are optimized for tons of traffic, 1 slow driver can gridlock an entire city at rush hour.
The 'trust' in the post wasn't about privacy but about the breathing monitoring I'm pretty sure. I.e. they would have still worried about their kid some even with the device.
I would love to live in "a society which vociferously opposes sexual violence". Where is this place? The society I live in falls over itself to excuse rapists.
What's disheartening to me, a life-long agnostic, is that this change doesn't seem to correspond to an increase in rational, scientific materialism. Indeed, it seems like science is on the outs as well with increasingly common denial of basic scientific facts when they conflict with ideology. Instead, this seems to be a change of aesthetics - trading one set of pseudoscientific beliefs (Christianity) for another (new age mysticism, astrology, goop.com).
If we look at anthropology the same way we look at physics or chemistry, then the challenge to scientific pursuit becomes clear: complexity.

What I mean is, if we consider a human society from a strictly physical perspective, the number of fundamental particle interactions that make up that society are far too high to analyze or simulate numerically.

Same with chemistry: the number and variety of chemical reactions that occur within all of the human bodies of, say, Tahiti, is way beyond our ability to directly analyze or simulate computationally.

Heck, just going from quantum mechanics to chemistry exceeds our abilities in many cases. What we call chemistry strictly emerges from quantum mechanics, but we can only use QM to directly analyze only the most simple chemical reactions.

Then animal biology emerges from chemistry, then anthropology is one discipline that attempts to study the interactions of a particular set of a particular type of animals within an environment.

At each step along this ladder we have had to develop new techniques to analyze systems that are too complex to directly analyze with techniques from the previous step.

So from this perspective, the issue is not that anthropology is not a science, the issue is that the scientific challenge is so huge that we don't have many useful results yet. It's so huge we might never have results that are as clear and easy to understand as physics and chemistry.

> In fields where it is difficult or impossible to run controlled experiments, claiming to be a science is often misleading.

Science does not require the ability to run controlled experiments; observing existing natural processes can provide evidence to support or refute hypotheses.
It's a pity we didn't take a page from Iceland.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-03-31/welcome-t...
This community doesn't have the capacity to discuss a lot of things, yet it does.
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It's easy to imagine someone being forced to sell a kidney because they're down on their luck. Doesn't seem ideal.
Why don't all retired people just stop working?

Why don't actors who could live a comfortable middle-class lifestyle off TV residuals just stop working?

It's the same answer: most people like to do productive stuff at least some of the time.
My olive-curing manual is now an Amazon paperback
Printed edition sporting a new juicy cover is now on Amazon here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1699379149

I wrote an ebook manual on how to cure fresh olives.

Previous discussion at:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231573
I found the story and the discussion interesting.

I only started actively using HN recently so I haven't seen it four months ago.