skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In mid-century US, religiosity/faith were also promoted by capitalists as counters to rising global popularity of Communism/Socialism. The 1954 addition of "Under God" to the USA's Pledge of Allegiance was marketed (in part) as a means of differentiating from the Godless Communists. I'd be surprised if this big push toward an obvious "Blessed Nation" wasn't a primary driver in the shift.
Let's put it this way. Just because we have zoos doesn't make those animals native. There is probably some threshold of self sustainance and propagation in the region to call it native, after many centuries I would presume.

More to read here :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_species
Who told you I write software? The cats are definitely liars.... I mean lawyers. Whatever, but they always get me on technicalities.
Super cool. SE/30's are amazing machines. Does HN render on netscape <= V4?
Neat. I'll add this to my toolbox.

Somewhat unrelated: I discovered some time ago that the column command (from util-linux) can print trees of hierarchical data (up to 2 levels deep).

From the man page:

$ echo -e '1 0 A\n2 1 AA\n3 1 AB\n4 2 AAA\n5 2 AAB' | column --tree-id 1 --tree-parent 2 --tree 3
1 0 A
2 1 |-AA
4 2 | |-AAA
5 2 | `-AAB
3 1 `-AB

column(1): https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/blob/master/text-util...
this is insightful.

there is an anti-Christian slant in the education world.
I can't deny what you say is true but something about the Dog and Mule robots is very creepy and disturbing on a deep, visceral level that I don't get from quadcopters.
And tax imports from places which don’t tax carbon. Works for physical stuff, doesn’t work for digital stuff.
On the down side, because the solution was so boring, they are likely to learn much less from this experience.
Anecdotally, but I know a number of people who do university assignments for money. Many of the clients for the folks I know are at the university level are folks with poorer then average English language skills and are usually in intro writing courses. I'd be terrified if I were one of them right now.

GPT-3 would be a godsend for cheaters, but still requires a human to jump in and rewrite whole sections.

No, if you want to REALLY want to cheat using AI, you should most likely utilize either 1. Abstractive Summarizers (e.g. Pegasus) or 2. paraphrasing tools (e.g. like at https://quillbot.com/). I believe that Quilbot is primarily powered by MLMs like BERT rather than CLMs like GPT-2 (but someone who works there can enlighten me more).

Copy and paste a text that you want rewritten in your own words (e.g. the ideas of a really smart individual), and then it rewrites it using totally different language but preserving the same meaning. (old) Plagerism detection tools don't work and hell, it's not hard to fool the never ones. You can try tools for detecting if something is AI written by a particular model and weights (e.g. to prove if they used GPT2-Medium), but if I fine-tuned those same weights, than proving it was plagiarism will become exceedingly difficult.

Welcome to the brave new world of cheating. Also, techniques like this are coming to a CS department near you (in the form of source code generation powered by NLP models).
Manhattan will be fine. It's reinvented itself many times before.

100 years ago it was filled with warehouses and factories. Those all left and never came back, and they were renovated into housing and offices.

If the offices leave, all those buildings will be renovated into WeWork like spaces (if not WeWork itself) or into more housing. Especially if everyone is working from home, people will want bigger places to rent. A single person may want two or three bedrooms (one for them, one for the office, maybe one for a guest). Not everyone can or likes to work from home, so if offices start closing, a lot of people will still want an office like place to go to to get away from kids and family or just to get more space.

New York is still a cultural center. People will want to live there.
Will anyone care to read it? In a reductive dystopian way, I am just looking for the authority figures in my ideological landscape to signal to me what my position should be on this or that topic. In this landscape, argument and evidence matter less than just communicating an "actionable" judgment. Maybe there could be a Rush Lim-bot. I suppose some iteration of GPT-foo will be good at generating genre-consistent narratives, but could that instead be screen plays that render as tiktok videos? The tech is super cool, but I struggle with the "why, really?". Does anyone benefit beside platform operators?
Decoupled Drupal: Past, Present, and Future – Part 2
While the fraud implications of convincing generative text is quite daunting, it's great to see progression in this field.
> I’m a bit sad how remote work is likely to hurt my social life

Interestingly I see it the other way around, I can now focus on having a social life and seeing people outside of my work. No more 3h commute!
"... But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes."

Great quote.
I used to ask about linked list (and connection pools) as a stage two fizzbuzz just to give a straightforward requirement to see how people think through something that has a little bit of a hard bit and might make the interviewee think to make sure requirements are met.

It also helps a little with culture to weed out the “I’d use a library” or “I’d Google it” as the purpose is to just walk through how to code something.

I never asked anyone to write a linked list, but it is sort of straightforward to write in a short period of time.
> A developer has his/her work translated into direct value to the company.

Only in companies whose product is software. In other companies, IT and in-house/backoffice software systems are a cost center, just like the accounting department.
deno has a lock file like other package managers. If you use a lock file, deno will refuse to run if the file has been modified.

Deno caches everything offline and only reloads if you use --reload flag.

I would recommend going through the manual to learn more about deno workflow.

https://deno.land/manual
This is a deeply unempathetic position. Any group of people being taken advantage of by their employer should use collective bargaining to improve their position.

We can and should argue about what just compensation and treatment is, but saying that an entire class of workers can't get together to fight for that just compensation? That is morally bankrupt.
So was the reason the ship became stuck because it was drawing a penis shape in its course path? Or was it getting stuck unrelated?
SEO Google Chrome Extensions – The Ultimate List
I made a list of the best 101 SEO Google Chrome Extensions.

I would like to hear your opinion about this list.
Is it just me or is the Evergiven listing to port?
"Deno can store and check subresource integrity for modules using a small JSON file." - https://deno.land/manual/linking_to_external_code/integrity_...
But every opportunity is unsolved problem.
At the risk of sounding picky, I am statistically much more interested in socializing with a randomly chosen person from this website than a randomly chosen person from my town (excluding my household).

Even my kids’ friends’ parents are often tedious to hang out with. “Can you believe <insert thing from popular TV>?” Or some town gossip that is interesting only to the other half of the conversation.

I have non-work friends, most of which I met locally, but there’s a common interest beyond “you happen to get your mail delivered by the same person”.

Work socializing has some advantages for introverts. You don’t generally have a lack of topics to discuss; if one gets boring, you can switch to another.
Are rents still decreasing? I look on craigslist from times to times and I think I'm seeing less apartments available than like 3 months ago.

Although I'm looking at the prices and for what I used to pay for an old 1br, I can get the same but 3br and a parking in low pac height.
Next.js 10.1 – 3x Faster Refresh, Image Improvements, Apple Silicon Support
It does require a high school education: https://fire.lacounty.gov/be-a-lifeguard/

And remember, the people making these salaries are at the top of their field. They aren’t the lifeguards at your condo’s pool, they are highly trained ocean rescuers. The person at the top of the list is an Assistant Chief at the Los Angeles County Fire Department and manages 900 people. Few people have the experience necessary to be qualified for that position.
Oh small world me to I worked for Telecom Gold who ran the UK service (in the many varied corporate structures).

What would be really strange if you worked on GLE a PL1/G program the US side made for our Billing system.
1Password on my original iPhone SE is a train wreck.

It often doesn't show the button to enable biometric unlock, so I'm constantly having to type the full password
You also need to figure out how to get power to the machines. I'm imagining a canal dug by excavators on centenary like electric trains (but higher). When done leave the wires in place and make ships turn off the engines for electric power.
Did you ever take a look at miniserde? It's pretty much just an experiment (e.g. no support for enums), but it seems like the general approach it takes would cut down the amount of code per type.

[0] https://github.com/dtolnay/miniserde
The day Christians remove Paul's letters from the Bible, then your argument will make sense.
Similarly, AWS Route 53 alias records use a 60 second TTL and there's no way to change that, so that's probably about a quarter of the Internet right there. Also when creating a manual record in Route 53, the default is 300 seconds and you'd have to go out of your way to pick another value.
In Canada, they make ice wine from grapes that are harvested in winter when they are frozen solid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_wine
BART's explanation for this is that heavy overtime plus few employees results in lower total lifetime costs to cover the same area (of time or space) than no overtime and more employees. This is likely due to post-employment costs since most CA pensions are defined benefit not defined contribution.

I would be unsurprised if this weren't also true for other CA departments.

Though there is a likely positive feedback loop as increasing compensation with a fixed budget results in fewer hires, more work, and therefore more compensation.
Not amelius, but one case that happened to me is that Rust requires wrapping a `T` in a `RefCell` if two closures use it as `&mut T`. This happens even if you the caller know that the closures are invoked from a single thread and do not invoke each other, and thus only one `&mut T` will be in effect at any time. This is because closures are effectively structs with the captures as fields, so both struct values (and thus both `&mut` borrows) exist at the same time even though their respective fields are not used at the same time.

Not only do you have to use `RefCell`, but you now also have panicking code when the `RefCell` borrow "fails", even though you know it can't. rustc is also not smart enough to notice the exclusivity at compile-time and elid away the RefCell borrow flag test and the panic branch.

fn foo(mut cb1: impl FnMut(), mut cb2: impl FnMut()) {
for _ in 0..10 {
cb1();
cb2();
}
}

let mut x = String::new();
foo(|| x.push_str("cb1,"), || x.push_str("cb2,"));

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

Fixed using `RefCell`: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=release&edit... . Inspect the ASM and trace the use of the string constant "already borrowed"; you'll see it being used for the borrow flag test because it wasn't elided.

The equivalent non-Rust program could use String pointers for the two closures. I'm not sure whether they could be noalias or not, but at the very least they wouldn't need to generate any panicking code.
Rising standards of living seem to have correlation to suppression of religious instinct.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_instinct

I had difficulties understanding religion, until I had few religious experiences in the span of few years. Looking back, it was most definitely some sort of brain chemistry.

As environment becomes more stable, brain probably has less chances to get into religious channnels.
Its not a test, its a practical application!

Would the PNTBT have even mattered? According to wikipedia it banned all tests except those underground - which arguably this excavation would have been.
You make strong assertions that would be difficult to prove in general and based on a lot of assumptions (e.g. that materialistic reductionism is the only accurate worldview). I believe the viewpoint you espouse that religious people have broken reasoning is bit myopic in understanding human rationality and intellectual pursuits as well. Humans are complicated as is our understanding of reality we all share.

Good counterpoints are people like Donald E. Knuth, who is a preeminent mathematician, Turing Award recipient, and also a devout Lutheran [1]. He gave a talk on science and religion at Google even that gives a more nuanced view on science and religion [2]. There's also Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome project who is a devout Christian as well. Other non-western examples include Ramanujan who attributed his mathematics to "divinity" [3]. Of course otherwise rational scientists can also become besot with irrational pursuits and beliefs, like Linus Pauling obessions with Vitamin C [4].

More broadly the religious concepts implicit in the Judeo-Christian creation mythos (and other major world religions) also encourage (in many scholars opinions and mine as well) a view that the world is a result of rational thought and not purely a choatic war that man happens to be besot by and perhaps might survive. For example compare the differences of Genesis to the Enuma Elish "There is no suggestion of any primordial battle or internecine war which eventually led to the creation of the universe. The one God is above the whole of nature, which He Himself created by His own absolute will. The primeval water, earth, sky, and luminaries are not pictured as deities or as parts of disembodied deities, but are all parts of the manifold works of the Creator. Man, in turn, is not conceived of as an afterthought, as in Enuma Elish, but rather as the pinnacle of creation." [5]. It's my belief that the inception of science (not mere technologists vs philosophers as the ancient Greeks or Romans had) is encouraged by a societal belief that the world has rational underpinnings and isn't just mad chaos.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth
2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPpk-1btGZk
3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan
4: https://quackwatch.org/related/pauling/
5: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/creation-and-cosmogony-...
Historically, religion and government go hand-in-hand, and use each other to reinforce their own power.
New Noninvasive AI Method to Inspect Live Cells and Gain Critical Data
The shipping of livestock is controversial here in NZ and some (likely high) estimates suggest a death rate of as much as 1 in 10.
The issues are pretty closely tied to conditions at the other end of shipping (feedlots, slaughterhouses etc) as well as the shipping though.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018765098...
Great points. For our friends outside India -

- 50 Lakhs = 5 million = around 70K USD
- EMI = Monthly Mortgage Payments
I was just looking for git tooling and found a few node base projects with npm-install instructions. I thought deno is going to eat these things up for teams. We don't want C++ devs to need a node tool-chain for one tool.
This is another effect of low attention media. There's no nuance. An astrophysicist is a scientist. A options trader is a financier. An embedded C dev is a coder.
> however I am anti-anything that tells people to just shut up and do what you're told because some expert knows best

There's a word for this that describes an increasing brand of thought on the left: authoritarianism.

The boot's on the other foot!
> So maybe the girls are ageist and should be trained out of it

I'm not convinced that having a preference for romantic partners reasonably close to your own age is ageist any more than my own preference for brunettes over blondes makes me blondist, or my preference for women over men makes me homophobic, or somebody else's preference for same-sex partners makes them heterophobic.

We all have preferences. Some of those are based on very rational reasoning: e.g., I want to reduce the likelihood that my partner will die decades before me simply because they're much, much older than me (though of course there are no guarantees); or, I'd still like to have children so I'm not yet interested in dating post-menopausal women. Some preferences are much more emotional or physical: does this person make me hard/wet?

I'm not demanding "unattractive men" remove themselves from the dating pool. I'm suggesting that perhaps they might want to take the other person's feelings and preferences into account before foisting themselves upon them.

When I was 36 a 23 year old threw herself at me, when I was 39 a 22 year old was interested in me (I was, of course, flattered but gently demurred because I wasn't attracted to her). When it was still possible to go to nightclubs (and not that I went that often) most times I'd get my arse groped by one or more women when I was at the bar or on the dancefloor. Mostly younger, often much younger; mostly attractive. Mostly it was flattering, occasionally irritating.

This is not a flex[0], and I don't consider myself to be a particularly attractive man - especially not with 12 months of COVID flab on me - but I am acutely aware that some women at least do find older men attractive. The difference, you'll notice, is that they initiated, and the reasons I'm mostly OK with it and not creeped out even when I'm not interested is that they represent zero threat to me, they can mostly take the hint, and there's no power asymmetry in their favour.

Well, that and the fact that it's an enormous ego stroke.

That's not the way many women feel most of the time when they get unwanted attention from guys: they clearly do see us as a threat.

[0] To balance any perception that this might be a flex: I probably show romantic interest in individual women a handful of times per year and tend to go for those who are closer to my own age - at the very least into their 30s (does this make me ageist?) - and I've been turned down by plenty of them (hence still looking). I'd probably pursue more women but the reality is that once you're out of your 20s, and particularly once you're into your late 30s, the pool of available women who are close to your own age shrinks A LOT. Like REALLY a lot. Find someone when you're younger if you possibly can.
> The issue is this: Would a man have gotten a $10 billion valuation based on hot air and zero results for years and years?

Adam Neumann?
My problem is more so that “being lonely” or “dreaming” is not something that has an actual definition.

In research, various different ad hoc definitions may be provided that are then measured, but these definitions run apart in different research that deals with it, and so all measure a different thing.

I once read research that defined “level of attractiveness" ad hoc as “the distance at which the participants place their chairs next to each other when asked to sit next to each other”, ehh, yes well...

For the sake of research, dreaming in humans is often purely defined as the stage of r.e.m. sleep, whatever the experiences the human may tell might be.

The other problem is, of course, that very often, the ad hoc definition chosen, can very easily be so chosen in support of the conclusion that the research wishes emerge.
Btw - this comment is especially funny now because TODAY an article came out claiming that Foucault was actually a pedophile.

https://www.ruetir.com/2021/03/29/writer-says-philosopher-mi...
I'll never understand why companies think directly involving themselves in the political discourse is a good idea.

It would honestly even be different if Jeff Bezos himself tweeted these things, but to see the Amazon corporate news account try to one-up Elizabeth Warren is so bizarre..
Here Dr. Fauci is answering a different question: whether a patient with positive rt-PCR test result is still infectious (shedding virus that is replication capable).

rt-PCR test cannot distinguish between live, replication-capable SARS-CoV-2 and its remains, or inactivated copies. It detects short snippets of genetic material, not the entire virus.
Yes, but some of Jill's customers come at lunch and couldn't afford to wait in the longer lines. Those customers now go to John's having waited a few days to look for an alternative. Jill gets 20% of John's clientele, but John gets more [impatient] customers than ever!

There will probably be some additional flow of customers as people realise they're too lazy to walk to Jill's/John's, Jill's was only better when they were doing the extra trade (freshness), or that Jill's is back to being quicker service (and then you have a chaotic effect as more people drift back the wait time gets longer).

The potential complexities of such simple systems are fascinating.
Coverity has a bunch of false positives and true positives, and FreeBSD wasn't coverity-clean before this patch landed. No one in the FreeBSD dev community has time to watch every Coverity report that comes in.
wireless road: https://ebird.org/hotspot/L1296120?yr=cur&m=&rank=mrec

This hotspot is relatively new so the larger lists aren't associated to it.
The other concern is that they've starting to be deployed via policing - and all of the consequences that will entail.

The laws aren't yet prepared for this and it will cause the same types of impacts on society. A lawmaker put forward banning arming them, which seems like the bare minimum [1] - but what happens when they're used to "herd" protestor? Is that a good thing or bad?

We as technologists keep repeating the same mistake, of developing new tech, ignoring the impact it will have on society, and then being shocked at the negative response by broader society.

It's disappointing to see almost no discussion of the impact of tech here on HN, just superficial discussion of the tech itself.

As a software engineer, what matters is not the code you write, but the impact is has on the customer. It takes most engineers many years to learn this.

As a technologist, the exact same thing applies.

[1] - https://www.wired.com/story/new-york-lawmaker-wants-ban-poli...
And yet our society is more polarized than ever. From your anecdote, one would think that declining religion would result in peace and love overflowing in society, but we see the opposite. Public morality cannot be maintained without religion; we will sadly see the end result of that in coming years.
I'm sure when boomers eventually will relieve the world of themselves, you'll get to bear the blame for all the wrongdoings.
> They run the canal at maximum capacity indefinitely

We have to stop doing this with all of our critical systems, it causes hiccups to be so costly.