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> Recently I’ve come to the same conclusion that religion isn’t supposed to be supernatural mumbo-jumbo, but rather ancient science

Science calls for the use of data, and constantly modifying and updating knowledge based on data.

Religion, or at least all the implementations of it that I know, are not about throwing out the old if new, conflicting data is discovered.

As far as I can tell, religion is a relic from tribal days, and still serves much of the same purpose today. It can assist in societies without formed legal systems and can help foster higher trust within its members.

Humans have insufficient time to evaluate all of the motivations and priorities of others, and religion provides a nice framework with all the various social events and traditions for the tribe to coalesce around.

Growing up, I learned that plausible deniability is very important for humans. For the same reasons that flirting is a thing, it’s not beneficial for someone to walk around with an explicit list of people/tribes they value over others, in push comes to shove scenarios. But it is beneficial to signal it implicitly, and going along this line of thought gets into politics.
I’m sure these business owners would have like to know about these changes with more than two weeks notice during the Christmas holidays.

It’s not easy to move staff. UK citizens need to secure a Visa to work in the EU. This is the kind of move that requires months of planning.

It was not a “given” the situation would end up like that. For instance if the UK was allowed to collect VAT on behalf of the EU you could imagine the experience of the average “shopper” to be somewhat better.
Show HN: A simple web app to create a custom counter, share it and update it
I've been dealing with a lot of CD copying problems lately. I'm working on a setup to automatically detect and correct errors reading audio CDs which I've found don't use checksums or other mechanisms to prevent small defects from mangling the bitstream.

I'd previously used cdparanoia, but found it not paranoid enough.(for some reason it always outputs aiff regardless of options as well)

I'm looking at defeating the drive cache by actually reading the disc in a second and 3rd drive and doing a NASA style "all 3 must agree".

It's annoying, but I've got 800,000 CDs to rip right now, and I have to make sure each one is perfect.(Without proprietary solutions)

I also need to be able to positively reduplicate heavily scratched discs. It's a tough problem.
Women use the word guys when addressing a group of men and women as much as men do.

It’s a generational thing but even older women now use the word for addressing mixed groups.

Conversely, there seems to be an aversion from actor/actress in some circles whereas before it was observed more.

With regard to presently and momentarily, I prefer the more modern meanings. Disinterested: I’m dismayed it’s trending toward a confusing new meaning and hope I’m not misunderstood by the new meaning.

Sometimes prescriptivism works to keep things uniform, but there’s only so much you can hold back the tide.
I for one, am at LEAST 50% less effective with people if I am not face-to-face with them.

[ONE reason why ] I'm convinced that this whole pandemic thang is a conspiracy against ME, personally.

I do not make friends online --never mind participate in social media-- due to the simple Fact that I just don't seem to translate over the wire. Only my closest friends seen to avoid being offended by my text messages..
What is your source for the TDS in Seattle water?
It's sillier than that:

1. We could have had blue passports without Brexit.

2. Many of these unfavourable conditions on UK firms and UK citizens are imposed by the UK government itself.

It's not a simple case of the larger trading partner giving the smaller one unfavourable terms. In this case, the smaller partner chose to impose hardships on its own firms and people, while the larger partner was willing to offer more benefits so long as they were mutual.

For example, those UK musicians who can't tour the EU any more. That's a UK decision. The EU was willing to allow that touring as long as EU musicians could tour in the UK on similar terms. But the UK declined. That's why there are petitions about it, because if the UK changed position on that, the EU would probably accept.
Nor did I said they were, rather Switzerland, Norway and others (too lazy to search which ones I still miss) governments, managed to negotiate their position with EU to their best interests.
The main issue I see here is the interaction on the "customer" side. There are too many buttons to click.
I have good noise-cancelling headphones. They do very little for human voice and children shrieks.

My in-ear stage Shures with passive isolation work much better but spending whole day in headphones is neither pleasant nor healthy.
Hey HN! This is a simple web app to create custom counters. You can display the counter on any device which has access to the web and you can update the counter value using UI or programmatically with a HTTP GET request. The counter can be used for anything you imagine, as long as it's a number - e.g. the number of pushups you have done this year, the number of days you have worked remotely, the current value of your investment portfolio.
Hopefully you will find it useful! All feedback and ideas are welcome!
I can't provide an example of something which doesn't exist, i.e. another program with dd's syntax.

I didn't say it wasn't simple. But it is very weird.
Having worked in a number of Telco NOCs, that's probably not the best example for the point you're trying to make.
I guess you missed to read the comment I replied to.

"Making constructions or the standard library do things (subtly) differently without a fall-back to the original functionality is a much bigger problem: then you have to inspect every occurrence and verify if it still works under all conditions. "
:-) me. This is what the UK asked for with the brexit.
There is indeed no information in this article, but that doesn't mean there is information behind it (see links and other articles).

Import/Export stopped overnight for many companies, goods started being stopped at the border and slapped with very high tariff.

Long story short, if you buy a cheap thing from amazon Germany/France, it might very well come to your door with an additional £30 in VAT and handling fees. Hence many companies stopped shipping overnight.

The problem is the worst for supermarket and perishable, see many news about cargos stuck at the border and expiring. The UK relies very heavily on imported food. It's really scary if we can't import food anymore and grocers are going bankrupt with cargo rotting at the borders.
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I have a pretty nasty example here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25890126

How do I regression test five different pieces of DAQ hardware? My best plan is to pull them working systems and deal with them missing. I don’t think it’s a good use of resources to buy extra DAQ cards just for a regression test bed.

Regardless of that, moving from python 2.5 to 2.7 is not trivial because not all used libraries were even updated to 2.7 from 2.5. Some that were broke backwards compatibility. How far do I have to bend backward just to get in the right place to update to python 3? I see many comments trivializing the effort needed to update to python 3 because they know of narrow use cases and expect large amounts of resources to maintain code. That isn’t the reality for most users.
Python 3 was always going to be backwards incompatible. That was the point. It was also why you where give a decade to migrate.

This is the same stupidity you see in hospitals, with medical equipment running Windows 7 or older. The companies knew when they sold the equipment that it have a service life beyond the EOL date of the OS, yet make no plans to provide updates. The customers where also given all the details, to ask about support lifecycle before buying, and apparently also don’t care.

The sad part about the software industry is how little some people care about providing their customers with the updates and support plan they should be entitled to.
Lots of firms and the banks that own and fund them have been making a killing out of exploiting us Eastern Europeans, actually. All of this while enforcing privatisations, austerity and deregulation in our countries to force us to accept such low wages, both abroad and at home.

The high paying jobs won’t come back without class struggle. Just because the periphery of the EU was pillaged to such an extreme doesn’t mean the working class in the centre wasn’t exploited too.
Only it's more like 150K in the expensive parts of the U.S, which is 2x the compensation in Europe. So you're saying an average German team can't handle the complexity of an ad targeting or deliveries startup?
I don't know. I read and really enjoyed this book, and even follow a mild version of intermittent fasting for a while. (only ate 12pm-8pm for a while).

Then a few months ago I started following some fitness YouTuber's advice, which mostly boils down to "count calories and consume less calories than your body uses". I started a basic course of counting calories and eating at a deficit, and dropped ~7kg in a few months (and hopefully am still going).

It wasn't even that hard - mostly counting everything and cutting out some of the stuff that is really high in calories. I still ate fairly well, e.g. I'd eat my favorite hamburger - just would skip the fries to be under the calorie count.

Of course I've only done this for a few months and it's hard to say if my body will eventually force me to expend less energy.

I take comfort in the fact that a lot of bodybuilders go to extreme lengths to drop down in body fat, so they've done anecdotal research on this area a lot. And most of them are not following intermittent fasting, or keto, or anything like that - they're just reducing calorie intake when needed, and going up and down in weight fairly consistently.
I'm not against off-topic responses, but going around every thread on the subject you can find to paste exactly the same thing isn't really in the spirit of discussion here, as far as I can see.
I think I saw a photo of one on twitter that was more black than blue. Oops.
You should read up on Dutch disease and how that might affect a country with a large financial industry and a highly regarded currency.
People that have that much wine are collectors. The fate of most of what they have is to be sold on, not drank by them.
> 32MB of RAM

I have 32 GB now and IntelliJ still struggles to keep up...
That's another advantage of using Qubes. Worst case scenario I botch the image-burning Qube, which is temporary anyways.
> People who stress over code style, linting rules, or other minutia are insane weirdos

> Code coverage has absolutely nothing to do with code quality

> TDD purists are just the worst. Their frail little minds can't process the existence of different workflows.

Amen!

I have skipped the Monolith one because I'm not "that sold" onto it, but I'm certainly not on the side of "put your monolith on a cheese grater and leave with thousands of services"
Programs in any language can crash due to a single character syntax error.
If you are addressing a mixed gender group and say "Can all the guys please raise their hand?" what do you think will happen?

I don't think this word really refers to both sexes as strongly as you might think.
Thanks! I'll look for it. Infographics in between would be helpful!
Yeah of course that happened in addition to everything else!
I am using mine as a DHCP, DNS, and VPN server.

Something I've noticed is that the SD card corrupts easily, though that may be simply because I'm using a phone charger as the power supply.

I discovered that although the Model B does not support natively booting off USB, you can still put an updated bootcode.bin [1] on the SD card which will enable this functionality. Hopefully my flash drive will not corrupt as easily.

[1] https://github.com/raspberrypi/documentation/blob/master/har...
There’s no word to describe David Duke & Charles Murray without including xenophobes and bigots, because David Duke & Charles Murray are xenophobes and bigots.
Past tense and past participle of bathe is bathed.
The discussion is about ArcGIS, not Python.
>It sounds like you're talking about toy databases which don't run at a lot of TPS.

The original talk was explicitly about SqlLite and in-memory databases, no idea where you got the rest of.
Oh, I know only too well!

If only we'd stayed in, we could have joined the euro and fixed that issue.

As it is, places will have to compete or we'll need a second currency?
I hear very often criticism of Python's transition but considering how insanely popular the language has grown I don't understand why.
Imagine working hard your whole life that you get to a point that most cannot even dream of getting to and having some schmuck on an online forum who knows nothing other than some headline hoping that you would fail.

It appears the trend is becoming that just by being negative and short on everything is some kind of lazy hack to appear intelligent.
Don't get me wrong, I hate how university handles exposition and evaluation of subjects. It encourages exploitation of memorization and test solving techniques instead of focusing on the quality of the subject.

However, life is very rarely optimal or fair. The only effect we can productively have on the world is through how we approach it, instead of focusing energy on how our actions are interpreted. It is unfortunate, but that is the most logical outcome. Focus on yourself, not on others.
> A release that is only supported for five years is a hobby project.

and how much are you paying for support?
If you don't see the value in having a diverse workforce and company at any scale, I doubt anything I can say will convince you. There's enough research out there showing the benefits, if you're willing to take just a few minutes to go look for it.

Your competitors will read that research.

edit: carlhjerpe is right- this is super condescending. Downvote me.
If you want to see more about him, there's also a short documentary on youtube[1], and he has apparently written an autobiography called "Thanks for Coming!".

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5KSizpv_1g
Is it quality they can't identify, or price? Is there even an objective measure of wine quality? Price at least is objective.
Where is the evidence for these two groups and the behaviour you describe? Anecdotally, my experience is quite dissimilar, so I'd be interested to know.
Typeless: All the benefits of TypeScript, without the types
Rebuilding an industry takes time, those resources that was previously allocated to this industry is now allocated elsewhere and need to reallocate again. Also the expertise that is required to run a business like this is either gone or doing something else.
Godiva tried to expand too fast in my view and the quality of the chocolate is mediocre (compared to other Belgian chocolate) and priced too high.

Starbucks made a similar mistake around the 2007 financial crash but seem to have recovered so it’s not a total dead end for Godiva yet...
I do not understand why people have to wait to discuss the blockers? Discuss a blocker whenever you have one.
In about 1997, after a pile of Mac OS 7 machines reached end of life (replaced with Windows PCs), I put MkLinux on a couple and ran one as our company firewall for quite a few years and the other as some kind of file server. Rock solid with an uptime of several years when they were shut down for good. Also compared to Mac OS of the time which had trouble running for a whole working day.
oh cool, another commie socialist article about how we should all just blend into grey and give up our humanity and submit to the powers that be. thanks vice, you fucking fascists. why is this shit on hackernews.
I see variations of this idea a lot but I find it hard to agree with them. Right now (in California) I can buy a week's worth of low calorie healthy groceries (including a variety of leafy greens) from Walmart for around 30 bucks. I'm fancy so for me it's around 45 via instacart (sub+tip). That's not too bad for most Americans. Even if it is for some, rice, beans, and milk alongside a wide variety of filling vegetables can be bought for gallons/pounds on the dollar. The problem isn't access to healthy meal options, it's that most Americans with a choice would rather just eat food they enjoy more. Personally I never saw the issue since private healthcare means the added health burdens get priced in.
>can supercharge your productivity by giving you those dopamine rushes

These dopamine rushes unfortunately have a nasty side effect of turning people into TDD zealots.

TDD works great where it works, but it often has a nasty side effect of spewing out tests which don't tell you anything useful and demand near constant maintenance to keep the build pipelines alive.

The zealots seeking a dopamine high will tolerate this in pursuit of their high and will churn out unit tests. The zero-benefit-high-cost unit test maintenance eats into the entire team's testing budget without producing a commensurate return on investment.
“Guys” (a plural noun) is gendered. “You guys” (a pronoun) isn’t. It’s that simple.
Not required for Mirroring but if you want to use as a second new screen then it's!
https://xpra.org/trac/wiki/Clients/HTML5 this seems like a start. Never tried it though.
For those interested in something similar with sway, you can:

- Add a headless display with `swaymsg create_output SOME_NAME`

- Configure its resolution and position like you do for other outputs

- Start a VNC server on that output with `wayvnc --output=SOME_NAME`

- Start a VNC client somewhere else you want to use your second screen (there are some that are browser-based)

Unfortunately it is somewhat undocumented: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/5553 but you can find some info on the net: https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/k1zl41/thank_you_de...

I saw in that readme that they wanted ways to get rid of dummy adapters. That above is one such possible way for sway.
Hikers would be horrified at the prospect of carrying a 750ml glass bottle any distance. Most of us, incidentally, develop a taste for whiskey if they don't have one already. It's a lot more weight efficient, and its drinkable at most any temperature sans ice or mixers.

Jim Beam even sells a 750ml plastic hiker bottle. If Beam isn't your thing, you can always use it as a decanter for your preferred poison once you've finished the OEM liquor.
About != the same

So a systems programming language, 13 years younger than COBOL, or 10 years, given that the work in C started in 1969.

http://cm.bell-labs.co/who/dmr/chist.html

> C came into being in the years 1969-1973, in parallel with the early development of the Unix operating system; the most creative period occurred during 1972. Another spate of changes peaked between 1977 and 1979

But lets make you a favour and consider 1972, it makes C a 48 years old systems programming language, only surpassed by NEWP (1961) as oldest systems programming language still in use in 2021.

Maybe it is about time to start talking about C the same way people talk about COBOL.
Fiat currencies proof-of-work is taxation, inflation and interest rate control. That accounts for 1/2 of your productivity, just so that governments can have a monopoly on their currencies.

Not to say that managing fiat money is tremendously wasteful. Credit cards alone take 3% of every transaction on fees that barely make sense. Banks charge ridiculous taxes on pretty much everything they do, and don't even guarantee your money can be withdrawn.

Gold and silver on a per unit-of-value basis require more energy to mine than Bitcoin.

When you compound all of that, you'll realize that Bitcoin energy expenditures are overall not so much of a big deal.

But if they are a big deal for you, at least be consistent and go after gold and silver mining, to start with, and do fight against governments' monopolies on currencies, as those are a lot less "green" and more widespread than Bitcoin.

Additionally, you can come up with new blockchain technologies that don't require PoW, and/or support the existing ones that don't require PoW by parking your money on them. You can also short Bitcoin in a futures market in order to protest against it.
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Of course there can be words to describe subsets of larger groups.

They’re also people; is there no word to describe them without including all people?
So basically if one creates +- distilled water by home purification all is fine, since we don't notice different taste (our child doesn't complain and neither does my pregnant wife, in contrary) and we don't use some metal piping to transfer it. Funny how slightly different distilled water behaves, ie tea leaves take much longer to release its content.

Potentially beneficial minerals in the water can be easily substituted with a food supplement tablets if one feels food intake is inadequate.

Minimizing PFOS to practically 0 on top of god knows what other pollution could be in it still sounds like a great idea. I wouldn't care about this if I was 60+, but we are far from it and our kid(s) deserve a bit less pollution in their most fragile stage of life. Heck, all kids do.
It's not just elite artists though. I know plenty of small folk artists that tour Europe regularly as there's plenty of interest over there. Usually they can chain a few festivals across the Netherlands, Belgium, and France with smaller gigs as well. These are people who already survive on an extremely low margin of profitability, and every single one voted against brexit. And it's not like the UK is going to magically replace that income, what with the collapse of half the smaller festivals due to covid.
I am a devoted dense urban city lover, but I completely agree with this take on Citylab.
The elite artists aren’t having trouble. It’s the tiny bands making $1k a gig at little venues that get hurt here.
Sure you can and plenty of people still do.
To be honest, this is not something that would happen overnight. I don't think it will happen, but it's too early to say
You didn't get what OP is saying. The point is not that nobody wants remote work. The point is that today the office is an important part of our social life, and as long as we don't find a replacement people will be willing to go back to the office. Not all the people would want that, not going every day at the office either. But having an office so that you can socialize is today required by a lot of people to be happy in their life
The discussion is about a specific version of ArcGIS that only supports a version of python that reached its end of life, so I beg to differ. My point stands: if you had the need for a really long supported tech, in the order of decades, choosing a tech based on a dependency that had a clear life span of 5 years or so was a poor choice. If, still, you need that, you can support it yourself, by forking your own version, but python owes ArcGIS nothing.
I remember reading the results of a study a few years ago that said people in poverty suffered something like a drop in cognitive ability. I wonder if the effect reported here is related.
These experiences are all commmon in certain public parks in Lisbon. If there's political will, having meaningful natural experiences in community is easy, cheap and I'd say even more rewarding.

The problem is in the communities. I remember a sunny day back in 2015 - I was living in a suburb near Redwood City with lovely, expansive parks. Naively I decided to take my shirt off while I was lying in the grass and get some sun. It took less than 5 minutes for a group of concerned mothers (whose group was yards away from me) to come berate me for "exposing myself to children". What sort of education is this?