skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was very surprised at the office that all the pears would be eaten up each week before they ripened. I mean sure it's a matter of taste, but I used to think everyone let them soften. The obvious solution was to grab them early and hoard them in secret until they were ripe.
first time in 80 years, anyway.

for rather more of the 19th century than we think, regular church attendance was more like 35% of the country.
There's a great discourse in one of Dan Brown's books about whether people leave religion because they have found better answers elsewhere, or because they have stopped asking the questions.

Separately, I observed that that the areligious are much more likely to have few or no kids while the religious folks put a much greater emphasis on it. As the secular world moves towards a place where there's no pressure to marry and procreate at all, how long before it is once again relegated into a demographic minority?
Very interesting and informative read. Great article!
They are choosing religions that reject elite priesthoods [...]

They choose no religion.
> What character decomposition database is this using..

From the about page, it seems that it's using Wikimedia data: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Chinese_character... .

To add to your comment, there's also RADKFILE/KRADFILE, which is used by a lot of Japanese dictionaries out there (including jisho.org), and also IDS (Ideographic Description Sequence) data: https://github.com/cjkvi/cjkvi-ids . The latter, I believe, is not meant for general lookup, but nonetheless can be quite informative, such as identifying semantic/phonetic components.
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A review of Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata on the excellent polyMATHY channel:

https://youtu.be/5oJctKy_r6s
Being in the US and in the industry, deciding to sign it gave me pause. There's already talk on Twitter about what to do with the list of signatories.

Like others have said here, my daily life is substantively better thanks to rms. I use GNU Emacs all day and of course benefit from the vast infrastructure that GNU and other GPL-ed software provides. There's probably no one many of us (including many in the anti-rms crowd) owes more to than rms in the context of technology.

Once it's clear FSF won't be bending the knee, I'll be adding an FSF membership to help counter some of the corporate sponsorship pullouts. I wish there were more I could do to give back.
Performance keeps getting better, particularly with PHP 7 and 8. And just last week, “Laravel Octane” was announced... it lets you serve a Laravel app using Swoole, and early benchmarks on a MacBook Pro suggest 25k+ HTTP requests served per second!
Isn't this good? It'll be fixed in one place, and 270k other projects will get the fix, more or less automatically? Bugs happen, I'd rather they happen this way than the code had been copied into the other projects.
I've been doing latin on duolingo. This would be a good compliment.
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Except me. I don't like making tools, and I am a software engineer, ironically.
I don't understand the connection being made between having a bytecode compiler and being a scripting language.
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probably diplomatic immunity/coverup. bigger fish to fry, so not worth prosecuting a rapist.

that's pretty messed up.
> Putting public money into the effort rather than the hodgepodge of private funding that has so far fueled a good portion of the research, including a Bill Gates-backed initiative at Harvard that wants to do a small-scale test this summer in the wild, could help provide some accountability.

I really don’t want my tax dollars going toward this quack project. I also don’t want Bill Gates involved in any public projects.
East Asia in general has done really well with Covid. In the US, I fear that nobody will learn anything from Covid. Those who treated it as nothing more than the flu will come out of this feeling that they were right all along and treat the next pandemic exactly the same way. There was one guy interviewed at the Trump rally in Tulsa who had a friend die from Covid and still went to a rally without a mask saying he didn't know what to think about the pandemic.
> We've learned a lot since the unix philosophy was created. One of those things is that, if you want software that lasts, software that performs well, you need to be strongly typed.

Unix itself, for example, won't last even 10 years. Look for it to be gone by the mid-late 1970s as it gets replaced by strongly-typed objects passed directly between applications to control our fusion-powered flying cars.
It is similar to an article I read a while back saying we need "data engineers" not "data scientists". I think its generally true. Why my company, while it can do data science consulting, is choosing to focus on data engineering consulting first.
NPM scared me right from the beginning. There was so much stuff getting pulled in, that it was pretty clear that this can't be secure. This is what mostly kept me away from node.

I have the same feeling about PyPI, but to a way lesser extent. Python can already do much by itself, so that the amount of packages one installs is controllable.
Well maybe....make the Suez Canal wider? Like, double the width, so if this happens again ships can pass?

Or would it just lead to ships being made that can accomodate the entire width of the super-wide canal? :P
What I find most exciting here is:

> Our infrastructure makes it possible to... create custom runtimes for different applications [like] Cloudflare Worker-style Serverless Functions

Fascinated to see what happens here. The serverless / edge compute paradigm fits Javascript hand-in-glove philosophically, but until now it's always felt quite clunky to me. When I've tried it out, I've always been left thinking "but this would just be so much easier with a server".

Reading this has made it click for me why that is. A new paradigm needs a new set of tools native to that paradigm.

The entire server-side JS ecosystem is currently structured around Node, a fundamentally stateful-server paradigm. You can try to abstract over it, but only so far. It's not the serverless paradigm that's clunky, per se, it's that the tools right now were built for another way of doing things.

As a concrete example - Deno has an import system based on URLs, rather than on-disk node_modules. I thought that was a cool feature for convenience, less overhead, more open and sharable packages, etc. But now I realise the full intent of it. It's much more than all that, it's a fundamental shift in the paradigm: no implied dependency on stateful disk in the runtime itself.
No wealthy person became wealthy on their own. Almost by definition they participate in a market, which can only be established by some kind of state-like entity to prevent descent into chaos.

The marvels of modern life are all due to the stability and infrastructure provided by government. For one to rise to a high level of wealth by exploiting public resources, then simply abscond with their pile of gold, is to breach the social contract that enabled them to rise so high in the first place. It's pulling up the ladder.
I think this is another example of "worse is better" [1] -- it's something that's yucky, and has a lot of flaws, but worked (for some value of worked) well enough for a lot of people.

[1] https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
TL;DR: This is an Inserter from Factorio that can move and built its own Transport Belt.
The old version of the document was worse, and Stallman's personal website to this day rejects the use of singular they. That's the context. It's why there's little doubt to give the benefit of.
Religion is a way of life. You surely have one, it's just not very ritualistic.
A large number of packages may be using it but the actual danger posed is very much dependent on the application using the library. That's a little hard to assess.
They have chosen new religions and a new elite priesthood, they just have different names.
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If you don't use JIT your competition will put you out of business before the next ship blocks Suez canal.
Quakerism would fit the bill, though I don't know how many people are choosing it these days.
On the flip side, it is a technological miracle that 1 year and a day after I was last in the office, I was able to get my first dose of the Pfizer vaccine (or, for that matter, that a vaccine even existed).
Are there such drones without human remote control?

What would help at least me is to see this dogs actually used for something useful where they are the best solution, what I mean used in production not demos - because I can't imagine that many scenarios where are a good solution over a drone or a robot with wheels.
Kiva bots are cool and have some advantages but I wouldn't say they're that much more advanced than other AS/RSes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_storage_and_retrieva...

For warehouses willing to make capital investments automating the process of getting bins to pickers is a pretty well understood problem. Getting boxes out of trucks like Boston Dynamics is doing here and getting items out of bins and into boxes like we[1] are doing are the frontiers of warehouse automation right now.

[1] http://www.righthandrobotics.com/
I think the point being made is that no one wanted to publicly question the wisdom of the main founder because she was a well connected young woman.
I normally don't mention the names of companies with which I worked in social media posts, but Dialcom has been dead a long time. I don't think it matters.

They also used PRIMOS. I worked in FORTRAN (4), PL/1, and C.
The OSI model was created by telecom people, not computer people. This is important because the two groups have radically different views of what networks are for and how they work, to the extent that they spent a lot of the 80s and 90s talking past each other.

In the telecom world at that time the fundamental unit was the "circuit", meaning a two-way voice telephone call. The upper frequency limit of a voice circuit is 4kHz, so the Nyquist criterion said that digitising a voice circuit required 8,000 samples per second. The required signal to noise ratio fit nicely into 8 bits, so a digital circuit was 64,000 bits per second each way, with strong real-time jitter and latency guarantees (because, voice).

If you weren't using the link for a while you still had to pay for it by the second because you were getting the guaranteed 64,000 bits per second all the time; that bandwidth was reserved for your use and nobody else could mop up the spare. Meanwhile the correctness of the received data was best-effort because the odd corrupt bit isn't an issue in a voice circuit. If you wanted more bandwidth then you could pay for multiple circuits to the same destination.

In telecoms all the intelligence goes into the exchanges; the phone is merely a dumb end-point. If you want services like call forwarding you type numbers into the phone, but all the application software lives at the exchange.

If you talked to telecom engineers about the future, they would talk about video calls. They would be just like phone calls but with higher bandwidth.

Meanwhile the computer people needed the exact opposite to what a voice circuit provides. If you send a file another computer you need it to arrive bit-for-bit accurate, but you don't much care about bandwidth and latency. While a physical pipe has a certain capacity, you don't need or want to reserve bandwidth on it, you just want the data to move as fast as physically possible.

So telecom people wanted to provide a smart network connecting dumb end-points, with guaranteed bandwidth and latency with best-effort correctness, while computer people wanted to connect smart end-points to a dumb network that provided guaranteed correctness but only best-effort bandwidth and latency.

Things got worse when the Web started being used by people at home. Now most of the data was flowing in one direction, but circuits were fundamentally about equal bi-directional communication. So now half of that expensive bandwidth was being wasted.

The "adults in the room" attitude of the telcos didn't help; they had over a century of experience running international telecom networks and thought they knew how to do it. Therefore they weren't interested in the opinions of those hairy computer guys.

For more on this, read "Mother Earth, Mother Board" by Neal Stephenson.
This is a bug in library, something the develops did not know off. When someone has to audit every package first there will be almost no open source anymore.

The real problem is that the standard library of node/javascript is too small so you need dozens of packages for basic operations.
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The number of robots and their speed are really impressive. But the concept is not so new. I saw robots driving around with parts at a car manufacturer in 1991 or 1992.
I think there signifigant a difference as far as what you know goes from being a good judge of someone and deciding to share something with them VS. figuring out they have some massive abusive sex ring going on.
Zerodium buys vulnerabilities and exploits, not direct access though. You can’t sell them this kind of backdoor.
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Looking at the commit history [0], it seems that the majority of the commits aren't signed. So no, this would probably not work for identifying everyone.

[0] https://github.com/php/php-src/commits/master
You're being downvoted, but this can be true in the Hispanic community. One must realize that a third-generation Cuban American in Miami lives a totally different experience than a naturalized Colombian carpenter in East Boston, both of which might struggle to relate with the trials and tribulation of a Mexican or Guatemalan teenager who crossed the border alone during the past four years.

So yes: some fractions of the Hispanic community are highly conservative (the Cuban abuelitas and abuelitos playing dominos on Sundays LOVE to vote) and others are quite literally the opposite. One thing to note is that Spanish-language media leans conservative -- I think this is what you're talking about. Previously immobilized voting blocks in South Florida are leaning conservative partially because the news coverage of 2020 has been from a conservative angle.
So deep
Maybe people are leaving church because they have started asking questions.

Not the kind of questions religion 'asks', which are answers in disguise.
Any source for that?
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it's more nuanced than that.

they prefer to be able to remove information about themselves.

they strongly prefer you don't have the ability to remove information about someone else.
> So let me make clear here, if I ever start a company based on open source principles and it looks like I am going to get squeezed out of business by Amazon if I keep sticking to those principles I will probably abandon those principles (unless I'm already a billionaire and have something really cool I want to work on anyway) because damned if I would let Amazon beat me. The chance of my abandoning those principles will correlate closely to how bad my finances will be after losing out to Amazon.

If you want to keep this option open, then make no such promises or (perhaps better) formulate the promises in a way that is aligned to the options that you do want to keep open for the company.
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There's a Japanese site (which is accessible unless blocked beyond control) called Niconico which hosts these kinds of videos, and more professional streaming sites such as the Crunchyroll (under acquisition by Sony), Funimation (subsidiary of Sony) or the Japanese Hulu (under control of NTV, a Japanese media conglomerate). In other words, I don't think YouTube has a chance here, unless they were technically under Play Movies.
There’s out- and inflow, too ((children of) the religious becoming areligious and vice-versa).

I expect those to more than compensate for the religious having more kids, on average.
You may also want to avoid the United States. Several national governments and organizations such as Amnesty International have issued warnings against travelling there due to several factors, including corrupt and violent police, level of violence in general, dangerous prison system, etc. Also, border control routinely denies entry for obscure reasons.
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I think it is not that bleeding edge a thing.

Flipkart (India's Amazon, acquired by Walmart since then) deployed similar things in their warehouse: https://inc42.com/buzz/flipkart-deploys-100-automated-robots...

Yet another warehouse robotics startup from India: https://www.greyorange.com/
I think the problem is that people (myself included) rarely update npm packages, and perhaps the upstream creators of some libraries won’t update either, mainly out of fear the update will break some part of your project.
Much sarcasm.
> how long before it is once again relegated into a demographic minority?

Many children of religious people are areligous, which is a primary reason how we got to < 50% church membership in the first place.
Wouldn't it be similar to corporate tax?

Tax profits, so that any existing donations would be tax deductible?
You'll lose your money. Deno will be free. DenoPro won't be though.
Can anyone explain a scenario where this is exploitable? I don't understand how this is likely to result in SSRF, file inclusion, etc. What applications are taking user supplied IP addresses?
Wokeism is the new thing in elite west coast culture. It’s just not officially classified as a religion because it’s less organized
I had a unique experience growing up in a religious family (that is very tolerant and respectful of all world religions) while simultaneously being immersed in Scientology via a private school experience.

The thing that underscores all of my experiences has been hypocrisy. So many people just want to belong to a group, or were raised in it and know nothing better. They don’t practice what they preach.

I can’t help but think the world will be better off when we abolish big religion.
> whoever is behind it

That would be Microsoft.
Ryan Dahl (author of the announcement post) is the creator of Node.js, so I think he's got a right to say these things! Also see "10 things I regret about Node" [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3BM9TB-8yA
Or we could burn less fossil fuels, restore forests? I think of this passage every time sun-blocking solutions are discussed:

> for the fossil fuel companies and their paid champions, anything is preferable to regulating ExxonMobil, including attempting to regulate the sun.
- “This Changes Everything” (Klein, 2014)
> Well, yes and no. I can see how it's a burden, but they're also the people with the most hands-on experience. If they won't explain, how can anyone else learn?

Take a sociology class at your local community college, read a book, read some blogs/articles by women, people of color, and other minorities.

There are a lot of really good ways to learn from the people who have taken the time to write/speak about the issues they face.
I love pristine lakes too but we should look at the cost/benefit before deciding.

A pristine lake doesn’t have infinite value, right?
This is hard to define as there is ambiguity between religion and spirituality.

Even a subscription to pure scientific worldview is a religion in itself.
This bug is not NPM’s nor JavaScript’s fault. It’s mostly due to bad specifications of how IPv4 addresses are represented in text.

The writeup at https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-netm... has a link to an informative ancient expired IETF draft https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-main-ipaddr-text-rep which describes how things stood in 2003.

A more recent and more official RFC from the IETF on the security implications of inconsistent parsers discusses the issue behind this CVE https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6943#section-3.1.1

The problem is that for a very long time the IETF did not specify the textual syntax of IPv4 addresses, and the POSIX specification for parsing dotted quads is bonkers.

I think it is unfortunate that they fixed the bug by aligning with inet_aton()’s ancient foolish support for octal, instead of inet_pton()’s newer strict decimal syntax, forbidding leading zeroes.
Interesting.

I've taken to calling my partner "partner", to be gender neutral. But in the short term, people probably incorrectly infer I use the term because I am gay. Or, if they're presumptive but less presumptive, gay or bi.
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The figures are given in TEU's which is equivalent to a 20 foot container. Most of the containers are 40 feet, so the number is half that. Still impressive. Also, above deck appears to be stacked roughly 10 high, 24 wide, and 28 bow to stern, with some areas not filled in, so about ~6000 on top and ~3200 below deck.
Eventually they will need a solution which can grip boxes more like a human (especially being able to adjust grip to handle boxes that begin to deform).

This one-side suction system will obviously fail if the box itself cannot hold its contents without ripping or deforming.

I would rather see the robot get better than we start using bigger boxes with lighter loads just to make it easier for the robots. I already receive too-big boxes and too much paper packing stuffing.
Well, it should make them uncomfortable, but more for the fact that those children and grandchildren need a fucking world to live in.

I actually posted the same thing about empowering women in another comment here. Call me imperialist if you want while I help save the planet. I don't mind.
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IMO, probably better to say “incorrect” rather than “lie”, as the latter implies intent to deceive. While I am extremely skeptical about BTC (and even though this post is about a BTC scam), I don’t doubt the sincerity of its proponents.