skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's helpful to point out that the Bible contains a variety of types of literature including historical narrative, poetry, etc., some of which uses figurative language that is not intended to be taken literally.

We all understand this when we use modern language such as "sunrise" which is not literally true (the sun does not actually "rise" in the sky though it appears that way to the casual observer) even though we're educated enough to understand basic astronomical phenomena such as the rotation of the earth giving rise to daytime and nighttime.

A Biblical literalist who takes figurative language in the Bible literally would end up making the same mistake that someone taking "sunrise" literally would. This is not at all an attempt to classify as figurative language all controversial or supernatural claims of the Bible (its claim that Jesus was crucified, buried, and raised from the dead is clearly supernatural and impossible to classify as figurative), but so many of the lists of contradictory claims in the Bible rely on wooden interpretations of what is pretty clearly figurative language.
> given the emphasis on faith and belief that everyone is flawed

Forgive my possibly abrasive tone, but "given the emphasis on faith and belief that everyone is flawed" falls apart when the focal point of the church and the religion it purports, the god, is held to be infallible.

The notion that all these disparate groups can cite the same 'source of truth' as their guiding principles, yet come to such significantly different conclusions as to fight wars over them shows those principles aren't as useful or reliable as members of any church make them out to be.

That's where my frustrations come in: churchgoers seem inherently aware of these intense differences, yet don't seem to question the reliability of their text (or view, or belief, or...) despite all these alternative conclusions from the same tools and evidence.

(In Street Epistemology the "Outsider Faith Test" is used to demonstrate this; broadly phrased, "If it is possible for a person of Hinduism to use faith to justify their belief in their god(s), and it's possible for a Christian person to use faith to justify their belief in their god, yet those beliefs are in opposition to one another, is faith a reliable tool to determine what is true?")
Indian here offering a slightly different perspective. I absolutely love remote work. Even before pandemic I used to work with remote team all the time only from office. Theirs stigma associated with remote work here. Employers don't trust their employees.

But if some employer does offer me remote with same pay as that of in the city I would love to work remotely precisely because

- I can work from hometown where living cost is minuscule of that of city. I was spending around 25K per month in city. It's just 8K now in hometown.

- I don't have to take a loan of 50 Lakh to buy a 1000 sq ft apartment in the city whose EMIs I am gonna have to pay over 20 years of my life because I already have a home. I can actually invest my earnings on my dreams. This alone is enough for me to forego any advantage that working in office might offer.

- Once you take a loan you have put a price on your freedom. You can't leave a job even if it sucks because it pays better. In India, the economics and everything plays out such that taking loan and buying apartment is considered safest route if you are going to work in city.

- People argue that remote hurts social life. I disagree. Remote work actually allows you to build your social life by letting you choose people you want in your life.

- If I am happy, I am going to put 110% of my efforts to ensure my employer remains happy with me.

Edit: I haven't even mentioned the advantages like savings on time, fuel and the fact that theirs no pollution in my hometown. It's so peaceful here I wonder how I got okay with 2 hour commutes with heavy traffic and awful pollution.
Sometimes the safest way to deal with the so-called legacy systems we all know and love
That's a surprise - I've handled migrations like this in the past, and we always setup a simple proxy to forward traffic for a while.

I've definitely lost count of the number of clients that would cache the old IPs, despite valid and low TTLs being in-place well in advance of a migration.
Forbes lends out its SEO juice to any content marketer willing to pay them for placement, this is the result.
This title was pretty confusing. I assumed it meant running a VPN connection over SSH (for instance, by tunnelling).

This was a common technique in my halls of residence as an undergraduate -- tunnel OpenVPN over SSH, plug in an secondary Ethernet card to your computer, then bridge the virtual adapter and the new Ethernet adapter. You could then plug in your Xbox/PlayStation into the ethernet adapter and bypass the rather strict filtering that was in place.
Show HN: Beehive – Talk 1:1 About Anything
Seeing random stuff regularly reposted, spawning nearly verbatim comment threads, is part of the rhythm of the changing seasons on HN, and a welcome sign of spring.
Bundling unrelated changes together is the main issue in the article. The author may not like hearing this but Git is a collaborative tool and thus when you submit your code you aren’t just committing code that you understand but someone that will also review your code — to understand as well.

Bundling 12 unrelated changes does a disservice to your other team members.
Nice to see another perspective on this.

Also, I absolutely vehemently disagree with Stallman’s idea that children may not be harmed by consensual sexual relationships.

However I have observed that one reason some people hold this view is that they themselves experienced abuse they have not yet come to terms with.

They hold the view because they want to hold onto the idea that what happened to them was somehow ok. This is a way of holding off a complex trauma.

I am not for a second saying that this accounts for or defends pedophilia.

However we do need to be careful when taking a statement like Stallman’s to necessarily be an indicator of his own tendencies.
What happened in Wuhan? Why questions still linger on the origin of Covid-19
A lot of modern software has to ship a browser version and this simple fact can be all it takes to inform downstream choices.

Let's go with WebSockets as an example. You decide you need them in the browser. This will likely mean some other component will have to support them too. By now you need a pretty good reason to reimplement it over something else. If you need a handshake you may exploit the fact that WebSockets open with a standard HTTP request. Your handshake over another socket may look pretty different. DDoS services, proxies etc may support WebSockets but not arbitrary TCP or they may support it differently. A WebSocket "message" doesn't exist in plain TCP, will you make your TCP protocol work the same or will you handle frames differently?

Point is - your choice may be between just WebSockets or WebSockets AND something else.
Speaking of New York, they've had their own lifeguard controversies (a lot more legitimate than the one this guard is trying to imply) https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/peter-stein-nyc-life...
Structural batteries would be the worst possible "advancement" we could make in that particular arena.

First, if the battery is fully incorporated with the structure, you have to discard the whole product when the batteries stop holding a charge. I hate the environment as much as the next guy, but that seems a bit excessive.

Second, if you're using these in, say, a car, what happens when that car gets in an accident? What would have been minor, potentially only even cosmetic damage, now requires a full rebuild of the vehicle...to the point that most people will likely throw them away after one accident.
That doesn't sound as efficient or cost-effective as ordering things from an automated delivery restaurant nearby.

1- Decide what you want made and how you want it made (by choosing ingredients and cooking methods from a UI)

2- Place your order

3- Automated Restaurant queues your custom order, picks ingredients, cooks according to your preferences, and packs it

4. Drone (or human) delivers it rapidly, while still warm

Better to fill a big warehouse-size restaurant with robots than to fill a million kitchens with robots.
Lifeguards are taught to push dangerous panicky people under the water and approach from behind to reduce their threat.
Francis Schaeffer, He Is There And He Is Not Silent.
I prefer this to the full-fat version anyway, even on modern CPUs. Bookmarked
I will be perfectly honest and tell you why I did not convert and will not in the future. You and I made a deal. I honored my side - I made the one-time payment you asked for ($11 - I was indeed early). Now I expect you to honor yours.
The linked list thing happened to me very recently.

3 interview rounds and all asked linked lists questions back to back.

I was very honest in that in my 2 years on the job, (ML, DS) I had never once run into a situation where I would use a linked list. I didn't remember if Python even had a default linked list implementation and I decided to implement it from scratch. Wrong decision.

I didn't get through, but the choice of linked lists was quite bizarre, esp. for a Data Scientist position. I would have much preferred a coding question that was relevant to the job or a take home assignment.

Well, I guess it was a good signal nevertheless.
Have you looked at tug boat propulsion units lately? Those things look like black magic.
Yes, usually the management level who wants plausible deniability.
So, whilst I was thinking of some old white guy from the UK I saw last night complaining about 'cry-baby safe spaces', and felt that I could happily not listen and judge him, you are more sensibly thinking of ... a gay rape crisis centre that wants to publicise and support victims, but they find themselves in Russia or Turkey.

So its not enough to have freedom of speech, one also needs freedom from persecution and the other rights listed below:

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...

Yes.

I agree.
> If I suggested an idea they often HAD to ignore it, because they couldn't claim it as their own. Especially the grad students who were trying to get a PhD by coming up with a unique idea of their own, but also the profs because it would be an admission that they "the experts" didn't understand what they were doing.

That's what authorship is for. What's the point in supporting academia if you can't get authorship?
Open ocean water certified?
What you say about churches being welcoming agrees with my experiences too, from what I've seen of others, given that I don't attend. But I think faith is only part of the reason for attending.

Essential in the choice to join a church is the desire to seek out a kind of 'marriage', where for better and worse, you promise to look out for others in an extended family and to help them when they need you. That sense of belonging is one of the big things that brings everyone in a church together -- the wish to be part of a community that regularly joins together and where you can share your life with others.

Membership in a social club can't do that.
Fair. I am actually a dog and have not fully learned to read. I apologize for my bullshit.
Yeah the American treatment of Asians at universities is dumb beyond belief, and it is racist. In fact the entire American implementation of affirmative action is dumb. We are in complete agreement.
God forbid that car gets in an accident.
Why friday at 3pm?
The parent was not commenting on morality and only pointed out that Reagan was correct about the strike being in violation of Federal law ("correct" is one of the many meanings of the word "right").
Because:

1. Gmail won't let me send stuff faster and

2. it gives me a chance to reply to people individually.
Migration accidents happen. If your TTLs are long, those accidents cause long disruptions and big downtimes. That's a poor customer experience.

I definitely think it's worth the millions or billions of DNS requests.

Use short TTLs, your customers will thank you.
Apple’s M1 Chip Gives It the Tools to Compete with Tesla Though the Apple Car
I miss when we were called slackers. Then we built the Internet and modern world but nobody gives us credit for that.
Women’s History Month spotlight: Honoring women developers
Hey HN!

I'm Dhruv, and along with my friends Amit and Catherine, I'm excited to share Beehive. Our app [1] lets you have instant 1:1 phone conversations about any topic, such as a project you're working on, something interesting happening in the news, or career advice.

To use Beehive, post your topic, set an expiry time of 5 - 30 mins, and wait for someone else to give you a call. While you wait, you can browse and answer other posts to build your stats, follow your friends, and check out different categories.

Building meaningful connections online is hard, made only more difficult by the pandemic. And while text-based platforms like Twitter and Reddit are useful, they can’t replicate the power of a 10-minute conversation. So we built something that does: Beehive enables private conversations with real people. Think of it as a private Clubhouse.

We’re excited to see how the HN community uses Beehive and hear your thoughts. To join, put @beehive_social as the user who invited you. Looking forward to your questions and feedback!

[1] https://www.askbeehive.com
This , again , is a skewing of facts: while it is true there is a gender disparity in tech , with about a very low 20% women in tech engineering, in open source it is 10% or even less.
Never think you are overpaid- you are not, definitely not if you are a developer, it's just that many others are underpaid, that's the problem.
I was happy to have a low 10 minute TTL a few days ago when Netlify's apex domain IP address stopped working and I had to change it to the new IP that they announced on their status page...! :-) [0]

Netlify's "previous" IP was down for ~4 hours.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26581027
Yes. Cops and Firefighters have lots of overtime too.
HN is not a jobs board, please see the FAQ
See, but even your straw man is based on that post schism period. And the church is what taught us that even those traditionally “on the fringe” should be valued and not discarded. You’re taking up the position the church convinced the world of to argue against her. I really do think your beef (and a legitimate one) is with evangelical Christianity (and possibly Roman Catholics but probably less so). You should read up on where those traditions arose from.

The question really is did Jesus rise from the dead?

Was Plato actually on to something when he said there were more “real” things which made our reality look like shadows.

The reason the church will continue to be is because there is no higher symbol than that of Jesus. There is no getting beyond that idea. Once you see it, there is no going back. So I’d be very careful reading old books if I were you.

Even quantum mechanics is starting to make us realize we might not understand what really constitutes reality. That at the deepest levels there is two eternally existing relationships.
it appears that in LA, lifeguards are part of the fire department. the "top paid lifeguard" is a fire chief. If you look at other top compensated LA public employees, there's tons in the fire department and port pulling down "$400k+" if you count benefits + whatever "other pay" is.
Author here. Why wouldn't interviewing DMs on Twitter be research? I'm getting "oral histories" from a bunch of different people and comparing them for common patterns. It wasn't the only thread of research I did, but it was really helpful to orient myself at the start.
If you fuck up bad enough those containers end up landing on the tugs, killing the crews. Not to mention increasing the quantity of stuff blocking the canal.
Nice gif showing the ship movement on FleetMon:
https://twitter.com/yukihilog/status/1376377678626844676
You say that most Protestants are loving people but that doesn’t seem to be the case at least in the US. Evangelicals are not the only group to vote republican/trump, but they are the vast majority. Very few Christians seem to see the problems (fundamental ones) with that regime but just want to vote for a madman because their goals are met at the expense of literal death and suffering (see Birx’s statements from yesterday).

Again to iterate, it’s not just Christians who voted and continue to vote for him, it’s also a bunch of other people, but the common denominator seems to be an undertone of selfishness and heartlessness, people who are afraid of everyone else and want their life to not change the world be dammed, so yeah can’t really see anyone supporting this ideology to be a good person.
Hah, thanks, appreciated..
I'm in Canada though so it might be impractical :)
Do you have any advice/resources for coming to terms with death as a non-believer?

I've had existential dread for as long as I remember, but it's gotten far worse as I've slowly lost what faith I had over the years.

There's a certain irony in being so scared of death that it ruins your life.
Yes to all of this. I have either participated in or can think of examples of all of these examples from this gym group.

People are people. We don't need gods to make us care about each other.
Not necessarily. I pay only $1 a day for water, but if you stop giving me water for 7 days the damages are going to be a lot more than $7. That doesn't mean it's reasonable to charge me more than $1 per day for water.

Obviously an extreme example, but the situation with this ship is likely similar. The damages probably far exceed the $15m/day in revenue (though I suspect they are far lower than $7b per day).
How would you use routing to balance load at that granularity?
r/iamverysmart here we come.
> I’m about to accept a PR that will increase druid’s compile time about 3x and its executable size almost 2x

I looked at the PR and it is a mere 700 LOC. I agree that compile time are an awful thing in Rust, but there are big glaring issues as well: LOC expansion and dependencies expansion.
Awesome. You really nailed it. In my experience the output for spreadsheets turns out to be key so good job highlighting that (https://github.com/birchb1024/frangipanni#output-for-spreads...).

One suggestion: it may help to generalize the newline as the node separator. You may already be doing this (my go is rusty) but instead of https://github.com/birchb1024/frangipanni/blob/7543b4ee15ae7... be able to override the "newline" as the node separator, like you've done with the "spacer" param.

What do you do when the same line is encountered?
However, people don't go around claiming that Lincoln was God's chosen one and that his word is sacred. That's why we're fine in understanding that Lincoln was a man of his time and many things he said should nowadays be considered garbage. This is not how religion sees the Bible and the words of Jesus and other prophets.
The email cold-call How to
Is this a new paradigm that we've discovered? Software devs are dogs and lawyers are cats (despite their insistence they are not)?
A statx(2) Linux system Python wrapper
At my previous job, I needed to access the birth time attribute of a file on Linux. If I am not mistaken, the standard library doesn't support getting it on Linux (st_birthtime - time of file creation is supported on other unix systems, such as freebsd, see: https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#os.stat). So, I created this wrapper for getting the file status (birth time, etc.) using the statx(2) linux system call.
I think it would be fairly shocking to find that something like dreaming would evolve in two species whose most recent common ancestor didn't dream.

To have two non-closely related species implement sophisticated cognition in a way that overlaps so much suggests that intelligence and consciousness, or at least the kinds that we experience, doesn't or can't take a wide variety of forms.

It's not surprising that a dog dreams; there's a dog analogue for most human things, right down to the eyebrows. But an octopus? Wow.
Counterpoint: My wife has a medication that has short shelf life and isn't widely distributed so it needs to be flown via air.

Airplanes stop flying my wife no longer gets her medicine, she now dead.
They are amazing at knowing why the DJI moved up/down. Just for yesterday though. I think for tomorrow you have to subscribe.
Keeping in mind that the tugs on each side had to come from opposite directions because the canal is blocked, I expect there was a bit of a commute.
New Fire-Simulating Tool Could Improve In-Flight Fire Safety
From the article: "It's still widely grown in Iran, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and Turkey, where it's sold in markets as musmula".
Ha! I never thought I'd see a patio-style charge more to a govt. Only on hn...
> Maybe if NYC builds artifical skiing slope

Is Meadowlands too far away ?
Many things protect from inflation. Any fiat currency can be made completely proof against inflation.

We've just made a judgment as a society that a small amount of inflation is good, in part because it drives economic growth.
There will likely be some kind of npm at some point.
I feel like the Bible constitutes some kind of evidence for the divinity of Jesus. Weak evidence for sure. But evidence none the less. As I see it, even "Jimmy down the bar told me..." constitutes evidence of some kind.
More services need multi-year options, preferably with discounts.
Not so, RSA signed messages were suggested in 1999: http://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/osdi99.pdf
You really should look into D&I training, either through your employer or via outside sources if your employer doesn't have a good D&I program (they should!). These types of accidental slips are toxic to the work environment and you need to focus on and address the unconscious biases that led you to word the question the way you did.
Less people in dense Manhattan offices will reduce the value of the real estate. Presumably if it's a long term trend then more of it will convert to be residential. This would bring less people by day than full offices, but probably more people by night. It still allows for a pretty vibrant city.
26.9% of wealth distributed amongst 26.8% of households -- firm grip indeed.
Somewhat related is the classic "How to Avoid Huge Ships":

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Avoid-Huge-Ships-John-Trimmer/dp/08...
> People at this scale need to be treated like sheep, but if they figure out you're herding them they stop listening to you.

Not really. Tell people the truth. Tell them what you know and let them decide for themselves how to act on that. Have faith in your fellow humans to do the right thing, even if it doesn't always seem like it is right to you.

"Mother knows best" assumes everybody shares the same values and belief systems you do. That is a poor assumption.
I talk about this more in another reply [1], but I'll restate here:

If it's possible for all these varied denominations to come to wildly different conclusions about god, the world, and his desires for us, all based off the same source materials and epistemological tools (e.g., faith)--differences that're important enough to have fought wars and divided nations over--why then do people believe these source materials and tools are still a reliable way to determine how one should live their life?

The fact that these huge disagreements exist is evidence to me that the bible specifically and religious texts generally aren't reliable systems to learn about the world.

What frustrates me is people who "church shop" seem to be aware of this, because they're seeking a church that is similar enough to their existing beliefs yet the indicators of that are difficult to find because even within the same denomination a specific population can hold different beliefs, yet they don't extrapolate to the wider issue of the base beliefs being the issue.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26624502
Presumably because "we" aren't paying the FAANG employee.
flagged because paywall
Were the rules changed mid-strike?
Why Bitcoin dropped and why it stopped