skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A better solution is to keep it as it is. It has survived millennia. It's their land and states can renege their promises.
All of that, plus a context of wartime

And this deathcount was for an event that extended for 16 months between 2918 and 1920. We are in the eight month of covid-19 still
Indeed. Just wait until we're good at colonizing Mars. Then colonize Mars.

I tried this strategy once. In college, I picked up a cool looking electric guitar from a pawn shop and tried to learn to play it. It turns out, though, that I wasn't immediately good at it. Worse, it looked like it was going to take a ton of effort before I was playing crazy Eddie Van Halen solos and stuff.

So I decided to put the guitar in storage and wait until I was good at playing guitar before picking it back up again.

Oddly, 20 years later when I dug it out, I still wasn't any good at playing the guitar.

I'm sure it's different with space travel though.
I've commented this a few times in the past unsuccessfully so here I try again:

Ages ago I stumbled upon a website that described a way to run Windows 1.0 EXEs on Windows 10 (32bit obviously). Iirc it involved patching the PE header with a hex editor to say it's for Windows 2.0 or maybe 3.0 and then using an old version of Borland resource editor to recompile the embedded resources, since the that format changed some time between 1.0 and 3.0 and that old editor happens to support both variants.

The page had screenshots of some old programs like reversi, calc etc running on 10. Some looked a little glitchy but it basically worked.

Unfortunately the site either went down or my googlefu is weakening.
Along these lines:

Even This Shall Pass Away by Theodore Tilton

Once in Persia reigned a king,
Who upon his signet ring
Graved a maxim true and wise,
Which, if held before his eyes,
Gave him counsel at a glance
Fit for every change and chance.
Solemn words, and these are they;
“Even this shall pass away.”

Trains of camels through the sand
Brought him gems from Samarcand;
Fleets of galleys through the seas
Brought him pearls to match with these;
But he counted not his gain
Treasures of the mine or main;
“What is wealth?” the king would say;
“Even this shall pass away.”

‘Mid the revels of his court,
At the zenith of his sport,
When the palms of all his guests
Burned with clapping at his jests,
He, amid his figs and wine,
Cried, “O loving friends of mine;
Pleasures come, but do not stay;
‘Even this shall pass away.’”

Lady, fairest ever seen,
Was the bride he crowned the queen.
Pillowed on his marriage bed,
Softly to his soul he said:
“Though no bridegroom ever pressed
Fairer bossom to his breast,
Mortal flesh must come to clay –
Even this shall pass away.”

Fighting on a furious field,
Once a javelin pierced his shield;
Soldiers, with a loud lament,
Bore him bleeding to his tent.
Groaning from his tortured side,
“Pain is hard to bear,” he cried;
“But with patience, day by day,
Even this shall pass away.”

Towering in the public square,
Twenty cubits in the air,
Rose his statue, carved in stone.
Then the king, disguised, unknown,
Stood before his sculptured name,
Musing meekly: “What is fame?
Fame is but a slow decay;
Even this shall pass away.”

Struck with palsy, sore and old,
Waiting at the Gates of Gold,
Said he with his dying breath,
“Life is done, but what is Death?”
Then, in answer to the king,
Fell a sunbeam on his ring,
Showing by a heavenly ray,
“Even this shall pass away.”

–Theodore Tilton

_and_

The ivory gods,
And the ebony gods,
And the gods of diamond and jade,
Sit silently on their temple shelves
While the people
Are afraid.
Yet the ivory gods,
And the ebony gods,
And the gods of diamond-jade,
Are only silly puppet gods
That the people themselves
Have made.
Unfortunately I don't maintain a list (it's on my to-do list), but sure! Here are some good books I've read/am reading lately.

- Nietzsche's Philosophy of Religion by Julian Young

- The Portable Nietzsche by Kaufmann

- A Secular Age by Charles Taylor

- The Art of the Islamic Garden by Emma Clark

- Notes on Culture by T. S. Eliot

- In Praise of Shadows by Tanizaki

- The Qur'an: Oxford World Classics

- On Bohemia by Graña

- The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt

- The Individual and His Property by Stirner
why AB test when your competition can do it for you ... SMH come on google
Absolutely sickening to see how people don’t care 100s of thousands are dying as long as their “stock market” is up
I released Landr few days back on Product Hunt and it got really good response and reached top 5th product of the day - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/landr-3

Landr is a landing page creator which helps you create websites for your products in minutes.

With growing internet popularity everyone wants to have a digital presence and having a website for their product is a must before they launch. Through Landr, i'm trying to make it easy for everyone to create landing page websites for their products with ease. Landr is very different from the traditional website builders you see on the market today. All these website builders are mostly drag and drop solutions. Even though they provide you with all the tools needed to build websites, unfortunately not everyone is creative enough to build good websites using these tools. Landr solves this problem by providing users beautiful list of templates to choose from and not having to worry about customising them at all. Users just have to select a template, fill all the inputs needed for that template, check the live preview of their website with the current details and then just create it by the click of a button. It's that simple.

In the first version of the product I'm providing SaaS templates. In the next version the plan is to provide templates for other category of users like freelancers who want to showcase their skills,students who want to showcase their portfolio to everyone on the internet.

I hope Landr removes one more problem from this world.I'm happy to answer any question you guys have.

Connect with me on twitter to join the journey of Landr: https://twitter.com/sunilc_
Churches in USA are not nearly the same as in most other countries. They are funded bottom up and also have to survive by serving their community well.
If you need to ask for some community center funded from some abstract government, you don't have the local community, at the first place.
Oak: A more portable alternative to C, powered by Brainfuck-inspired technology
> AFAIK, the difference would pretty much be that they actually have (pretty loose) limits on what they can spend money on, and on endorsing electoral candidates - and they'd have to publish information about their finances.

I'm not from the US, so I 100% expect those things from churches already. These sound like completely reasonable demands I would have on any public institution.
There are underlying reasons, much of which can be gathered under the umbrella term of "virtualisation". Modern computers use layers upon layers of software or hardware to present an interface pretending to each higher level that things are simpler than they really are.

These abstractions, however, are leaky, and almost all of them are leaky in the temporal sense. There's a pretend continuity or constant throughput that's not really there.

Everyone knows that operating systems run short time slices of processes on physical cores, so that each program can "pretend" that it runs continuously on bare metal. But of course, not really, so there are gaps in the flow of execution that can occasionally be perceived by end-users.

If that were the only sin of pretense, then that could be worked around, or carefully tuned, but the reality is that it's just one of many layers.

The garbage collector of managed languages (e.g.: JavaScript in Electron) pauses execution within the process too.

Even unmanaged languages have variable overheads when allocating or de-allocating from the shared heap.

The desktop window manager helps each application pretend that it has a rectangular surface from (0,0) to (w,h), when in reality that is transformed and overlaid. That can introduce a lot of variation, particularly because the DWM has its own threads and its own garbage or heap.

The video card in turn is no longer just a block of memory mapped into the address space of the program doing the drawing, but is its own little computer with cores, threads, schedulers, locks, clocks, delays, and so forth.

The display in turn might further delay things because it has complex overdrive or scaling logic, so it needs to buffer frames.

It's turtles all the way down.
That's because it's a legally meaningless phrase. Being a church, however, is legally different and gets benefits like not having to register before claiming charitable status.
> States and cities can't run deficits and so can't create the funding for this out of thin air.

They can issue bonds to raise capital and, last I heard, the Fed is buying.
> There's biological reasons why bats are reservoirs of viruses

Interesting. Source?
wow these are good:

http://wondermark.com/c/2007-10-11-344ennui.gif

http://wondermark.com/c/2008-03-11-389island.gif
Well I was raised by a famous “pastor” who traveled around and “preached” to both receptive and dismissive congregations across the US. I experienced more churches than most people.

I’m telling you this whole Christianity thing is a scam.

sudo apt-get remove religion

It’s a mental cancer.
Might have been, sometimes it is ironic how OS/2 gets so much praise, when around this time the APIs were quite similar (given its historical relation). Most likely from devs that never actually coded for OS/2. :)

Thanks for the DISPDIB.DLL overview, I wasn't aware of it.
> Mainland Chinese learned to eat anything and everything that moved

That's an incredibly broad brush you're painting with there. China has as much culinary diversity as geographic regions with smaller countries. If you throw it all in one pot, you might end up with "anything and everything", but almost nobody would eat all that.

If it looks as if there was such a thing as "Chinese food", then only because the majority of early Chinese immigrants to North America came from only four counties in Guangdong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siyi , establishing a standard for Chinese restaurants that later ones had to follow to seem "authentic".

"Weird" food is generally confined to regional delicacies. E.g. 土笋冻 (sipunculid worm jelly) is pretty much only made in Quanzhou in Fujian, even though the worms it's made of can be found elsewhere. (The Chinese Wikipedia article mentions they actually have to import them now because the local stock suffered from pollution.) https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9C%9F%E7%AC%8B%E5%86%BB
Is there any way to report these?

I found one obvious one the other day, but after about 15 minutes of searching couldn't work out how to report it without a seller account..
But soursop seeds are not eaten?

FWIW, this French study concluded that there's no evidence to support a connection: http://www.anses.fr/sites/default/files/documents/NUT2008sa0...
Well, actually, Europe is the main exception to the rest of the world. America is in-line with most of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, India, and South America in that religion still plays a major role in everyday life. In fact, religions are growing, not shrinking, worldwide.
“Irregardless” is part of a penumbra of unorthodox English words
ah I indeed did not get that; weight gain sure, but that seemed a separate item from
wife’s chagrin. Thanks for explaining!
This quote left me dumbfounded, marveling at sheer level of incompetence (or bureaucracy) some places have:

"Three weeks after the attack, Hydro had a total of four functioning PCs in all of the U.S."
This is still behaviour management, but not entirely in the schools circle. Society as a whole needs to help manage the behaviour - we manage the dads behaviour by arresting him, manage the rest of the family through in person support and finally worry about the school.
You can easily mirror your repository on Gitlab or elsewhere and Gitlab even automates that for you.

And all developers on a project have a backup on their local computer. It might not track the master/main HEAD from Github, but in the event of a disaster you still have backups to recover from.

The nature of git's descentralized nature is misunderstood and I fear the misunderstanding comes from people that did not work with CVS/Subversion.

In any case you still need a source of truth from which releases are cut. And Github has been damned convenient to use as one and you can easily take your git repo and move elsewhere if you want to.

Sure, you can't migrate the links, the project's stars, etc, but that's not part of git. On the bright side, given you can mirror the code, you can keep the Github repo as read-only, which afaik is what the Linux kernel has done.
The issue with this is always the same: which taxes ddo you want them to pay? Since most churches don't make a profit in the strict accounting sense, their won't be much Corp tax. And (AFAIK) they already pay payroll taxes (the main place church money. You could maybe tighten that up and make sure everyone is declaring benefits (use of the private jet) properly. But the USA just made that whole mess much more generous for CEOs so presumably a mega pastor would benefit from the same allowances. So what's the plan here, sales tax?
I love this comic strip illustration of the poem: https://www.zenpencils.com/comic/ozymandias/

Also, looking at an aging Ozymandias, played by Jeremy Irons, in the new Watchmen show made me think of the poem again.
Ask HN: Is it possible to get PhD without completing bachelors
Hello! I have been an employed software engineer for a bit more than 8 years, after dropping out of a traditional bachelors degree program in 2012, due to financial and personal reasons.

I have been the “theory guy” in every job I’ve had in the last 6 years, and I would really like to be able to learn more theoretical math-and-computer-science-related subjects, since I am more financially stable and seeing a therapist regularly. I don’t have much interest in completing my gen-Ed’s, but I genuinely would like to learn more theoretical math/compsci, and I can only get so far buying used textbooks on eBay.

Is it possible to get a graduate degree without a bachelors (in the US)? If anyone here has done that, can you give any advice on how?
I’m pretty fiercely atheist, but the churches around me are where the local homeless get food and a reprieve from the cold. If you closed that today and diverted the money to a secular replacement, there would be a pile of bodies by the time it was operating.
Webpage -> Remote server running "isolated browser" -> Local Browser

Use case is to protect security by not allowing any arbitrary website code to run on your local browser, the remote actually renders the webpage and just sends you pixels -- I think.

Kind of like a proxy on steroids.
Well... how were they?
Can we please talk about the elephant in the room?

There are software engineers, designers, project managers, etc., at Facebook who implemented this bug/feature, right? Given the competitive nature of recruiting and employment at Facebook, this feature was not thrown in by accident, or as a bad joke. This behaviour was implemented as part of a bigger feature, or by itself. It was designed, prioritized, and consciously scheduled for implementation, testing, and deployment. It won against other competing ideas with respect to scheduling, budget, and fulfilling team, departmental, and organizational objective key results (OKRs).

Artifacts that mention this behaviour exist: whether it be in email chains, project-planning and task-management tools like JIRA, commit messages from version control systems like git, deployment logs, and many, many other such things.

Some of those people participate in this forum. Some others no doubt know who they are or who they could be to fair degree of accuracy. Do the rest of us care? Or, do we just point fingers like we are doing now and then go back to hibernating / feigning ignorance until the next time something like this happens again?
>I grew up in the southern United States

That explains it. Your only experience with Christianity is with the oddest strains of it. I see that stuff pretty often with American "atheists". What they refer to as church feels like a fever dream, or something entirely alien.

>Anyone who thinks, believes, or sells otherwise? You’re a lunatic.

I disagree. You disagree with me, so you're insane.
> You can’t fart in China without CCP knowing exactly who did it

I seriously doubt that. It's a police state, but let's not exaggerate, eh?
Pretty impressive. I didn’t think much could survive such a massive explosion
Yes Man
How do you explain deaths in Sweden, UK, New York and other hotspots hitting essentially zero?
Reading books > Reading articles on HN

Although i admit, HN is addictive.
And you'll replace Christianity with what? Another religion? Atheism? Other religions have the same problems and Atheism is its own religion - requires faith to believe.

Humans are religious beings... you won't get rid of it by only focusing on the negative aspects of your own experiences.
I research about sources (both publications and authors) to see what credence I should lend them. The little I could find out about this book was a review at [0] that concludes with "I would not recommend this book to those beginning a study of Invasion Biology. It is a polemic presumably aimed at the practitioners of what the author holds is a pseudoscience, and perhaps also at policy‐makers."

Make of that what you will.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4242384/
I've noticed that a lot of the discussion around environmentalism is focused as if the bad decision-making is happening at the consumer level. The pervasive belief that A: electric cars directly reduce your personal carbon footprint (they do, but the substantiality of that depends on where you live) and B: travel is a major drain on the environment are very suspicious to me. These are pervasive beliefs among environmentalists. Meanwhile very little attention is paid to corporate and nation level changes. The best thing you can do for the environment is vote. This feels counterproductive but it's entirely true.

In addition, it seems to me that the discussion around nation level changes has become focused on a developed nations vs developing nations issue, when in reality it's all of our issues.
I was about to make this comment exact comment. It is OP who is delusional about the world around him.
It's not exactly high effort either. If a business can afford to build a megachurch and run TV campaigns to fill it, it shouldn't have a problem finding the time/money to file a fucking tax return.

I'll happily to make an exception for any church that is truly run as a genuine non-profit charity, and most income really is spent on good work in the community - not on investments and buying really nice things for the pastors.

But that's going to exclude most of these businesses. Unless that changes they won't get any sympathy here.

I remember watching the collection round at a church once. Pensioners who literally had breadline incomes were all putting significant amounts of cash onto a plate - for the Catholic Church, which is literally one of the richest and longest established businesses on the planet.

I will never, ever forgive that organisation for leeching off its poor devotees quite so shamelessly. Likewise for any other church with significant wealth.
Sure. I'll get pissed off at the US when it actually breaks whatever rules get signed, though, not just because I don't trust it to keep its word.
What an absolutely bananas story! Sorry that happened you but thanks for sharing it.
This is the kind of hate speech that should be banned from HN. But it’s left-friendly, so it won’t.
It doesn’t matter because in order to get nonprofit status they’d need to fill some forms explaining how it is managed, financial statements, maybe perform external audit if they are large enough etc. If they are not willing to do that work, they won’t be eligible for nonprofit tax exemption.
Mapping StackOverflow knowledge base into real-time programming assistance
I would love to try out all these cool alternatives to pure JS plus Vue or React, but at what point is this a good idea for a commercial production application?
Maybe that is because those countries were hit earlier than the US?
What has survived millennia “as it is”? The United States? It was founded scarcely three centuries ago. The Christian church? Ever hear of the reformation, of Calvin, of Protestantism? I.e. one of the main reasons the United States exists?

It absolutely has not survived millennia. What you call your Christian church today would be unrecognisable to the faithful of a century ago, never mind two, or five, or ten, or twenty. Or are you acknowledging that Christianity is the cult of Mithras, and that it’s still a death cult?
I wasn’t intending to be malicious by leaving out the full sentence.

Fair point about being a new phenomenon.
Maybe you poisoned yourself trying to get rid of the bud eaters. Where you using a slugcide?

EDIT... nah, I'm reading about the compound and could be perfectly the plant. Today I learned that the Cucurbitaceae make some of the most bitter substances known among vegetables, wow.
Here's an article about a recent Mac ransomware, it was on HN a while back.

https://www.wired.com/story/new-mac-ransomware-thiefquest-ev...

But still, a lot less of these stories than for Windows.
Isn’t it because older tools never go away ?

Newer tools only come as alternatives to faster tools that continue to be usable at any time.

For instance I choose to use VSCode and consciously weight it down with plugins and extra linters, because the trade-off is fine for me.

But I know vim is only a click away, and if I wanted sheer speed I’d do it there. And I actually do use it on a day to day basis, it’s just not my primary editor.
Look, you were raised by fraudster, to begin with, and have seen only fraud. The whole Western modern humanism (which we like so much) is based on Christianity.
Replying to add more nuance to my point: this unorthodox position is fine and useful for scientific discussion, but responsible public policy advocacy ought to be based on a consensus, especially when so much estimated risk is attached to the public policy decision.

In addition, his correspondence always misrepresents what starting a lockdown is: a lockdown need not be necessarily long, yet Ioannidis constantly portrays it as a "long lockdown". Ideally, lockdowns happen at the early part of a poorly understood epidemic, and as soon as reliable evidence becomes available that the epidemic is not dangerous, they are quickly lifted.
I agree, but I think the article should have used ”self-hosted Mercurial” once, to clarify.
People opposed to the Judge’s order want the police weapons to remain on the streets in the hands of criminals. They also want to ensure the arson goes unpunished. How despicable.
St Vincent de Paul is the one I'm most familiar with. Time and again you hear accounts from people who were refused welfare for one reason or another and turned in despair to the SVP. They're not an alternative but they are invaluable to the people who fall through the cracks in society. They rely on donations from churchgoers and all are unpaid volunteers.
You assume the funds are disbursed by individuals rather than vehicles, you don’t specify which legislation you’re considering, etc etc etc. I don’t think you have enough facts here to start crunching numbers. In the UK for example there is Gift Aid for individuals: https://financial-coaching.co.uk/blog/post/self-assessment-a...

A number of schemes exist around various countries to promote incentives to donate, and they typically end up with people paying less tax overall than they would otherwise. (Note: I don’t think it’s a bad thing, no critique meant).
> It has survived millennia.

By "millennia" you mean "at most 300 years, maybe"?
I don't think they understand what utility means...