skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I won't stop anyone from learning anything they find interesting, and Logban is probably easier to learn. However I wouldn't recommend in general that anyone learn a constructed language. Learn the languages that people actually speak, they are much harder to learn, but in return you can actually talk to people, which is the point of learning a language.

That is instead of two people learning some weird language why doesn't one of you learn the others and gain the whole world of people who speak that other language instead of a rare language where everyone speaks something else.
You should look into conservation agriculture. It's less oil, less labor, less fertilizer, less pesticides than organic agriculture (and better soils). Only downside, lot of mice.
I grew up mainline Protestant too before throwing it away (I was young ~12 which makes it easier). My objection is to the broken nature of the reasoning and how that tends to corrupt evidence based reasoning elsewhere most of them time (though weirdly not always - people are inconsistent).

If the fundamentalists are a problem, maybe there’s a problem with the fundamentals?

Obviously religious people remain the vast majority and being a good person or not is largely disconnected from religiousness. It’s difficult for me though to not think that a religious person’s reasoning is broken in some way, and to be more skeptical of how they verify ideas in general.

If they can’t get something basic right, why would they be right about something more complicated?

A lot of the rationalization of religious people is complicated in a way that suggests they have some underlying idea of what the accurate world model is (they just want to believe otherwise): https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CqyJzDZWvGhhFJ7dY/belief-in-...

One thing I credit the internet for is allowing me to read and learn enough to escape it. I think most people will end up with whatever belief system they grow up surrounded by.
The issue here is less about the GPS signals and more about the math to compute heading. Its complicated, we did this in the early 2000's for ship pilots (portable heading system) in the US with mixed results. By the way you can get heading, COG and rate of turn. Rate of TURN is really what these pilots use from what I understand. (give you future prediction of bow / stern)
> some retailer may have lost a customer who went elsewhere, some supplier may have lost a retailer who went elsewhere, etc

But then that also created profits for another supplier!
Thanks! Our process has been client-driven from day one: we've got a good amount of technical and maritime expertise on our side, but it pales in comparison to the mountain of operational knowledge that our users have.

What this means is that all of our clients came on for the solution we were offering at the time, but each has had a strong impact on what the tools became, and what modules we've offered since then.

As an example, our first customer came on board for Covid-19 risk reporting (to improve communications with port authorities), fleet tracking and our routing tool. Under their direction, we released our port scanning tools and geofencing-related modules. Our second customer bought this product, and with their help we've been able to release (to name a few) a communications tool for port agents and flight tracking and heuristics.

This has been a good model for us: the benefit to us is an increasing price point for new customers as well as the ability to learn from parts of this process that wouldn't have known about otherwise, and the existing customers aren't charged for new modules and improvements.
A (not so) crazy night with pizza and TensorFlow
Nukes could be used safely. The opposition to them is political. The USSR had created 'clean' nukes with fewer byproducts.

Three nukes were used to create this canal in 1970:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pechora%E2%80%93Kama_Canal

And today the radioactivity is essentially negligible.
commits history have following:

- 8d743d5 Revert "Revert "Revert "[skip-ci] Fix typo"""
- 2b0f239 Revert "Revert "[skip-ci] Fix typo""
- 046827a Revert "[skip-ci] Fix typo"
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I agree: in retrospect, in todays context, those statements are not good public health policy. And saying "they are not effective in preventing general public from catching coronavirus" may indeed be a false statement, even at the time. But, when masks were in short supply and when it wasn't really known how much protection they provide (so saying "hey masks might help" may give people a false sense of comfort thinking that they're protected and able to live as normal), those comments, while not the most objective, make way more sense.

But I think this "they lied to us, we shouldn't trust them" rhetoric is silly and dangerous. Again, I agree, it's definitely a lesson to learn. Public health professionals are human beings too and I think it's fair to say they are doing their jobs to the best of their ability.
that's not an AI
> It's a pity English speakers are often taught the wrong (English based) pronunciation.

Really? Still? I was taught Latin many years ago by a very conservative teacher, who insisted on classical pronunciation rather than the anglicised version (so "mah-ter" rather than "may-ter" for mater, etc.)
I'm guessing because a lot of people here work on cryptocurrency
It's like super enhanced tree command! Very cool!
I wish it were possible to break down how much of twitter is bots reading other bots and then creating content for bots. They would never admit to how many 'users' are this but it has to be significant
If things behaved nicely, yes. There's all sorts of weird DNS caching behaviour out there. It's not unusual to find folks with DNS servers / clients that are caching records for 1 hour+, and then of course there's people running super old versions of Java that used to cache DNS forever by default (before JDK 6). There's a very clear set of user that seem to cache for 10-15 minutes, regardless of any DNS TTL.
>Of course each meter of depth is a little harder, but not that much harder.

lol - cut and fill on a slope is not trivial. It’s more of an exponential function than a linear one for the amount of material removed the deeper you have to go down. They dodged a HUGE bullet with the highest tides happening this weekend. If they had gone beyond a Tuesday with the drop in tides each day as the moon got further away it would have been sketchy if they could have gotten ahead of the tide or not.

The timing of this couldn’t have been tighter. Thankfully they came out on the good side :)
Combined with stunnel, https://www.stunnel.org/, you can use ssh as a "VPN" that looks like regular HTTPS TLS traffic over port 443! Great for getting around being stuck behind a firewall that locks down common ports and sniffs ssh connections.
Reading dostoesvsky brought my back to the church on a spiritual and emotional level, and the Abolition of Man and Mere Christianity bt CS Lewis brought me back on an emotional level.
> That's not a false positive.

"Moreover, positive real-time reverse transcription (rRT)-PCR test results that are close to the limit of detection (LOD) of an assay have a greater likelihood of being false positives. One key explanation for this is that when specimens become contaminated with very low levels of test target during the laboratory testing process, it produces a high Ct positive result near the assay LOD."

https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/documents/ncov/ma...
"why don't they just do X" can be a great question. Why not just use Riemann integrals for everything? Why not use timestamps as ids? Not knowing the answer is a good enough reason for asking, and I don't feel like I need to police people's feelings and decide if they were feeling curious or condescending when they asked. They'll learn either way, when the question is answered.

I can imagine some people might have asked questions in a disingenuous or insinuating way ("why trust vaccines if the supposed experts can't get a ship unstuck") but I did not personally see any of that.
Note: this is a bit cherry-picking out of context, which I'll admit sometimes happens in Christian circles as well. But I think understanding the context and culture of the time can make things a bit more clear. Yes, the culture of the time had a different handling of gender roles, and some of that persists in other cultures around the world to this day. These were letters written to the Christians in the churches of the day. Likely the content would be written slightly differently if it were written to a church in the modern day USA.

For example: Ephesians 6 goes on from what you clipped:
25 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her 26 to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. 27 He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. 28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself. 29 No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church. 30 And we are members of his body.

This seems to me to indicate that husbands should be self-sacrificing and putting their wives' needs above their own. All the submission indicated here is similar to the way that Christ (the Son) submits to God the Father. These would have been very strong and shocking words in that culture, that normally would have allowed for husbands to have complete "rule" over their wives, and instead is urging husbands to self-sacrifice for their wives. So if anything, it would have been improving the standing of women rather than "keeping them down."

If you're married, have you ever willingly given up on your own desires, instead following your spouse's needs/wants? Have they ever done the same for you? This seems to be what this passage is encouraging.
Definitely. About 12+ years ago, I had to prove to a vendor, with tcpdumps, etc., that they were connecting to the wrong server after we changed a DNS entry. 3 of their systems were working, the 4th hadn't been restarted and was connecting to the old address. Very frustrating.
(Recent related submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25545967 )
Almost every regulation on business could be considered "at the expense of private property rights". That doesn't matter to anyone except libertarians.

Likewise, any law could be called "blackmail", because they all threaten negative consequences if someone doesn't do what the government says, but that doesn't matter to anyone at all.

Those aren't serious objections to any regulation.

And it's ironic to call this "antithetical to free speech as a cultural phenomenon" when this would be a defense of free speech for 99% of the population.

The rights of a few billionaires who own web companies shouldn't trump the rights of the public.

Finally, where do you get the idea that companies simply couldn't exist if they didn't remove user content that doesn't violate a few regulations the law would allow (like spam, threats, obscenity, and copyright, which would all be clearly Constitutional content-based exceptions)? That reddit, for example, would have to shut down if they hadn't banned The_Donald or ChapoTrapHouse? That would be a fair objection, if you can support it.
SpaceX uses them to inspect still burning crashed spaceships (minutes post-crash).
Attack surface, stdlib is one library... packages tends to be hundreds if not more of libraries. Much easier to take over a package than a stdlib.
> This is silly and ridiculously judgmental

No it really is not. Just watching this panel/Q&A at the 'Future of Life Institute', with Elon Musk and others answering the question "is some form of super-intelligence possible?", creeps me out (Musk comes out the most sane): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0962biiZa4

> The author’s point is that by (say) 2050 we will likely see AI asking unsettlingly “intelligent” questions

More unsettling than the questions of a young child? What unsettling questions could it ask according to you? I just do not see what you're getting at, at all.

The question that arises when I read comments like yours is: are some humans so alienated from themselves and others that they believe machines will be able to invent and do science better than humans can? I just don't see the use cases.

Really, can someone please explain to me what the point is in spending ludicrous amounts of scarce natural resources and time into this notion of creating a human-like AI, when we have so many other challenges we are facing: environmental pollution and poisoning, financialization of housing, e-waste and right-to-repair (should really be called 'right-to-poison' since companies today are basically legally allowed to pollute [1]), and privatized science and technology (Sci-Hub)?

If we do want to build a human-like AI, shouldn't we first try to create a system where all humans have equal and free access to the sum total of all inherited knowledge? There is so much gatekeeping going on today, and I would like us to talk about it more: education providers charge students hundreds of thousands of dollars each, we have property systems that allow scientific inventions (which are tax-payer funded) to be commoditized and then 'owned' and traded by one company - making scarce some knowledge [2], which, thanks to digital technology, doesn't have be scarce at all. Perpetuating this system is my definition of insanity.

edit: Sometimes I wonder: is this desire to create an AI is just an attempt to escape the grief these people feel from not finding enough connection with other humans in their lives? Capitalist realism [3] [4]. Is it therefore a desire to fulfil an unmet need for belonging? Have they been getting lost inside digital worlds and interfaces, and have they come to desire this digital substitute, over human connection, because it gives them more control over their lives? Control we don’t have when we are constantly in a stressful and toxic social/work environment?

It doesn’t help that AI is also often portrayed in a romantic light (Joaquin Phoenix and the movie ‘Her’, but also many Hollywood blockbuster sci-fi flicks. I can’t help but this is a place where life really is imitating art?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mleQVO1Vd1I

[2] https://time.com/4089171/mariana-mazzucato/

[3] http://theoccupiedtimes.org/?p=12841

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/16/mental...
> Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Protestantism, Judaism, Islam: all of them spend a lot of time on this stuff.

They did spend a lot of time and they mostly failed. In many cases those school of thought that ultimately failed were also squashed during a religious power struggle (which is gives organized religion a bad outlook).
I doubt that the risk to lifeguards, that have a flotation device with them, approaches anything experienced by fire fighters, cops, truck drivers, etc. As noted in the article, valor in rescues doesn't seem to correlate with pay. The danger is mostly from sun exposure.

This is outrageous, frankly. The job is really not that hard.
A post religious society might not be a better one.

Religious institutions bring a sense of community and belonging. They are a large powerhouse in many social programs. Heck most children likely are preschooled through religious institutions.

I fear that post religion we could very well end up worse off.
I think you've confused cultures where people have a relatively high tolerance for discomfort because they consider it to be worth it (the examples you gave) and culture where people simply do not care about others' discomfort (how Stallman's colleagues describe him).

All those cultures have a goal in mind when inflicting discomfort. Does Stallman?
I generally agree with this. I think most of us that have set a DNS entry use a low TTL because of experiences we had 5, 10, 15 years ago. Really really bad experiences. I'm not necessarily arguing to increase the TTL, but maybe we should beg the question: with all the new routing tech out there, is low TTL still necessary?

K8s Ingress and Cloudfront alone will probably make the customer visible IP addresses nearly static forever. We don't live in the old world where we had to take a server down any more. It's all managed.
Do we really think the top lifeguard in LA is putting his life at risk? More like managing the lifeguards doing the tough work.

And being a lifeguard itself isn't even a dangerous job.

Not even the top 25 most dangerous according to this chart. And notice that all of these people make 1/4 to way less than these lifeguards...

https://www.ishn.com/articles/112748-top-25-most-dangerous-j...
Lots of people are worried about that...

But PVC pipe has so many advantages over copper/cast iron/lead pipe that they are overlooked.
This looks awesome, great job, thanks for sharing.
FWIW, "good review" is pretty debatable (source: was involved) -- it provides a decent overview, but you should read it with the thought in mind that the author did some pretty heavy cherry-picking to support their arguments. Also, this indeed is not "Kernel Debugging Quarterly."
I probably don't go because of a mix of:

1. Loss of faith in the institutions behind church (for reasons you cite). Similar debate around having a gay bishop in the episcopal church

2. I personally don't hold christian beliefs

3. Local church politics: My family wasn't involved in running the church, so we rarely saw the "politics". But in one local unitarian church I started to go to, the hardcore churchgoers seemed to always have some controversy, usually around left-leaning ideals.

Like many things these days, it's hard to just be casually involved. Those casually involved get turned-off (like the same reason I rarely go on twitter). And the vocal, hardcore folks stay involved, creating various biases towards extremism or a certain point of view.
I certainly wear one inside (and have a good one now)--and to me it falls into the can't hurt/may help a bit category. At this point, wearing them distanced outside and/or pulling up a neck gaiter for a few seconds when you pass someone on a trail is pretty much theater though.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, the exploit is the ability to inject code into the PHP Git repository. Not this RCE.
To clarify, even if we stopped 100% of carbon emissions today, the planet would still continue to warm for about about 100 years. It's not some future scenario, it's already done, we're just in the waiting period.
I could say the same thing about Twitter. The thing is, who gets to decide what types of power usage are "needed" and "not needed?" Clearly you and I have different opinions on the matter.
I work on an IoT product, and operations is already talking about potential production delays because of this. There's already a global plastic shortage, and this is only going to make things worse.
Parameters in artificial networks and biological networks are indeed very loosely related.

But we can bound computing power of any physical system if that system is doing computation that erases information due to the second law of thermodynamics. Erasure of useful information must increase entropy.

The Landauer limit [0] suggests that a brain consuming 20W at 36C can carry out no more than ~1e22 irreversible operations per second (20W / (309.2K * Boltzmann constant * ln(2))).

That bounds brains at ~1e21 FLOP/s (~10 bits erased per FLOP). The best supercomputer right now does ~4e17 FLOP/s.

That's log2(1e21 / 4e17) ~11 doublings of computing power until supercomputers will be faster than thermodynamic maximum of FLOPS power of brains.

Assuming we keep up the doubling time below 3 years, we will have supercomputers faster than a human brain in 3 * 11 ~ 33 years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
Alternative text base format was very common in the past because the standard binary format used to be machine dependent for speed (almost a direct dump of the structures in memory).
realize that distancing is the primary mitigation and that masks are at best marginal for the public, and recommend distancing when spending time indoors with non-household members.
OK, if you want to argue that bitcoin doesn't fit a specific dictionary definition then congratulations, you have won the argument!

But that is not my point. Bitcoin supporters don't support bitcoin because the alternative is "government-issued currency that is not backed by a commodity such as gold". They support bitcoin because the "fiat" alternative has certain consequences in the real world such as being subject to the arbitrary whims of a government.

Yet the existence of hard forks shows that bitcoin is subject to the arbitrary whims of a nebulous group of people. Therefore I don't see why it avoids the downsides (as they see it) of fiat currency.
My personal observation (having left a fundamentalist background, though still identifying as Christian) is that hardcore young-earth creationism of the Ken Ham variety has driven a ton of deconversion in my generation.

Ken Ham & his ilk have been teaching for decades, explicitly and repeatedly, that if you do not buy into their specific 6-day literal interpretation of Genesis, then you might as well be an atheist. [0] This line works great to rile up the faithful, but...

Fast-forward to today, and you have an entire generation of young adults who can no longer square YEC with reality, going: "Huh, I guess I'm an atheist then?"

Ham-flavored fundamentalism rules huge swaths of orthodox Christian tradition out of bounds, and it's been devastating for the future of the American church.

[0] https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/a-flood-of-nonse...
I don’t understand atheist online communities like you talk about. I’m very much an atheist, but I’m baffled by anyone who desires to have atheist get-togethers. What is the point? is it like fake bacon for people who like the taste of being preached to and preaching, but are atheist? Religious people do it because their are supposed to but what reason would atheists do it? When you were exploring atheism why did you go?