skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Americans' religious affiliations and degree of religious adherence tend to follow a generational step-down pattern.

For instance, in my grandparents' day, both religious affiliation and religious adherence were relatively high. In Philly, where my mom grew up, Catholic schools were practically overflowing, and parents expected that the school would supplement and support the religious upbringing they were receiving at home.

Then in the next generation, there was a shift. Religious affiliation remained relatively high, but religious adherence and attendance began to decrease. Those Catholic schools continued to bring in students, but there was a marked difference; parents who were not particular devout themselves expected that the school would replace and make up for the religious instruction that many of the kids were not receiving at home. These people might still have identified themselves as Catholic, but they weren't really actively practicing their faith.

Nowadays, Catholic schools are largely on life support, because the decrease in religious affiliation that was precipitated by the decrease in adherence/attendance has now cut down enrollment to a much smaller number of families who either have high devotion or who have low devotion but see the schools as better than the public alternatives. Parents who in the previous generation might have sent their kids to Catholic school to replace the religious instruction they weren't getting at home have instead decided to disaffiliate and not give their kids outsourced religious instruction. Whereas in previous generations, they might have continued to identify as Catholic even though they were inactive, in this generation it's much more common to just shed the identity.

Obviously, I'm just painting a small part of the picture, of Catholicism in the mid-Atlantic region. Many other parts of the country with other religious makeups have followed different patterns. But I think we can basically predict what the religious landscape is going to be like over the next generation or two by following this step-down pattern. (This assumes that religiosity will continue getting weaker, which is not necessarily a sure thing. Religious revivals have been relatively common throughout history.)
The decade of vulnerability will never be addressed.
Maybe. I’m thinking about real “people” who exist without any kind of conscious observer in their head

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/
I memorized it. I really don't want to install a client even though I wrote one. I wanted the protocol to be simpler so the lazy client would be simpler but I realize it needs to check for request forgery.

Authentication is by preshared keys and the client prompts for them or you can set environment variables. The preshared keys are static, yes.
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It's a little worse than that.

You wont get access to interviews or access to information if you don't agree upfront to support a certain agenda.

A journalist who tries to report against the agenda gets blacklisted immediately.

Mika Brzezinski was threatened by the Hillary campaign who tried to have her fired from MSNBC for making remarks against Hillary on her show Morning Joe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mika_Brzezinski#Democratic_Nat...
The ship is partially free
Cool, I'll have to get updated and checkout Laravel Octane soon after clearing a work backlog, did notice Taylor tweet something about it.

I'm guessing your benchmarks are using native php-fpm and not through docker on your MBP?
As the Hard-Fought Amazon Union Vote Ends, a Movement Begins
After learning Django for a few months I decided to switch back to php/wordpress yesterday, php7 and php8 look solid and php remains to be the best language for the web in my opinion, Php8 added JIT which might extend itself outside of web applications. Hope moving to github will free the team to do even more on Php development.
So maybe the girls are ageist and should be trained out of it, for our modern tolerant society? France has a president with a wife who is 25 years older than him, and that is universally applauded.

I can relate to the feeling, but on the other hand, I don't think it is fair to demand unattractive men should remove themselves from the dating pool. Of course society cares more for young women than old men, but nobody would admit that officially.

I have personally also seen young women throw themselves at old men with power, btw.
Having a religion may be a way of life but not every way of life is a religion. At least as long as we are not stretching the definition of religion into meaninglessness.
util.promisify() seems to work for many of the node stuff I use a lot, like pipeline(), readFile(), etc. Perhaps require('xyz/promises') is a newer development.
1. Yes

2. Yes
I've grown tiresome of this trend to redefine words with well-known and universally understood meanings to basically "whatever I want it to mean".
Bradley Kuhn said most of what I could say about Stallman better.[1] The bottom line is Stallman made himself a less effective Free Software advocate by spouting controversial opinions about things he had no expertise in. Not just adults having sex with children.

It took many years to change Stallman's opinion on this 1 thing. He still didn't apologize for calling people prejudiced and narrow minded because they disagreed with him. Or mocking parents who he realized were right. And some people take issue with him not mentioning it until after he came under pressure to resign.

[1] http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html
A good tool to download YouTube video thumbnails
Too bad so many automakers failed to understand that continuous delivery means continuous purchasing.

You cannot just stop buying your chips for a year and then complain when manufacturers re-tooled around you.
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This is the case in all of the western world. We push women in the direction of careers and never mention the consequences.

At the same time, while in some ways people are rich these days, we can't seem to find the time or money to have kids. That's not much of a choice. It's more that people react their to circumstances. If anything it's a form of "ethical" birth control.
I normally use the Kanji draw [1] application which is also surprisingly good at
recognizing what I'm trying to input. Not nearly as forgiving as Google's
solution [2], which I sometimes have to fallback to, but usually it works if I
can at least roughly guess what the official way of drawing a character is and
check for inexact matches. Plus it's FOSS.

[1]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ch.seto.kanjirecog/

[2]: "Note that this will NOT work - at all - if you don't know basically how
to draw kanji. If you just draw something any old way that looks like it, it
certainly won't be recognised."
Someone needs to do the work of making that article readable on mobile...
I don’t know if we’re both in that case and Google has simply moved away from how we learned to coerce it (and other search engines) over the years, our habits now yielding negative returns unbeknownst to us, but I find myself in a similar situation.

Month after month, year after year, search results get worse, and harder to sift through. At this point, google is mostly a way to find wiki articles despite typos (because Wikipedia’s search is bad and can’t handle typos).
You seem to view constitutional law as being all about individual rights

No. I view the important parts as the individual rights. This is the reason why the United States wins: It guarantees individual rights. If Australia does that as well, then this is why it also wins. If it's just pretending, then it may not win in the long run.
For comparison, UK church membership is <10% and forecast to fall to to 4% by 2025.

Numbers for those claiming to be of "No religion" range from from 50 to 60% depending on region. 38% don't believe in God or any higher spiritual power.

The interesting thing is people will identify as Christian on the census while also not claiming to subscribe to any particular religion in other surveys.

2021 census (just completed this month) results will be interesting

https://faithsurvey.co.uk/uk-christianity.html
Thanks for pointing this out.

There's a big difference between church attendance and church membership... Unfortunately, the original linked article glosses over the difference, while the original Gallup study digs into it. According to Gallup, approximately half of the recent reduction in church membership can be attributed to people becoming less religious, while the other half is explained by people who still attend church regularly, but avoid formal "membership" in a congregation.

And, to your point, the historical data is very telling. My understanding is that the idea that basically everybody in the US used to be super religious and go to church all the time is largely a myth. In fact, I believe the high-water mark for US church attendance as a percentage of the population was actually around 1990. (Source: Sociologists of religion Rodney Stark / Roger Finke. Their book "The Churching of America" attempts to get historical stats on this question, and includes this graph: https://madeinamericathebook.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/fin...)

Take from these stats/trends what you will. Just adding some additional context to the discussion.
People may mention this, depending on your location, but as a society, no.
I left after poking around just a bit. This site performs very poorly in terms of latency after clicking on something and page loading times.
Surveys like that are often designed to get a representative group. It's not like they call thousand people on random and keep their responses outright.

After a while a certain demographic will be "full" and as such the effort will be to get responses for the groups not adequately represented yet.

Or another way is to weigh the answers. If you get 90% responses from elderly and 10% from young, you cannot just use the average. But can use models to apply those groups' answers to how big the group is in the demographic of the country.
I'm pretty impressed they have Jujube[0] but sad they don't have one of my favourite weird fruits, strawberry tree[1].

I wonder if no-one is actually growing them commercially.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujube

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbutus_unedo
Any of the big 10 tech companies wouldn't mind owning this if it becomes the standard way of developing back end JS. It gives them influence and the ability to lock out competitors.
No mosh client and no ssh? Wow. Not sure what the implications are though. Or, what the goal is.
Damn. Looks like I have lost a few of these.
So one example would be. Say you have a web application which makes HTTP requests on your customer's behalf (something like a website availability checker)

You want customers to be able to enter host IPs that they control and your site will retrieve the URL on that site that they specify to confirm it's available.

You don't want customers to be able to request things like http://127.0.0.1:8080 or http://192.168.1.1:6443 as you've got internal systems running there that are not for external use.

So in your code you set the internal only ranges to be blocked.

If you used this library to do that, it would be possible to bypass the restriction and request internal IPs by using octal encoding, as the customer could enter an octal IP and then the conversion would allow for ranges that should be blocked, to be requested.
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This looks great - can I ask what the motivation was for creating and open sourcing it?
Let's just be honest about what we are doing.
The world will be better off when we abolish freedom of belief? That doesn't sound like a world I'd want to live in.
Well, that’s tangible and something I can relate to. Though still seems far from Twitter mobs, seems better suited in a labour court or sth.

But it also answers my question, and it sounds like perhaps FSF is itself not stoked to have him back.
Agreed, it's been replaced by pure materialism/physicalism
As you said yourself, people do it to belong to a social circle.

What are you replacing this extremely important function with? Vacuum?
membership != attendance. There's a joke somewhere about people who only attend church for their baptism and their funeral.
Neat, but it should default to showing the ship to scale.
I am just surprised, after all this time, there is not a mainstream language+runtime that is intrinsically based on full state management. There are glimmers, commercial debuggers for Java and Javascript that support "stepping backwards," and the magnificent Redux DevTools (that I loved for its visceral usefulness, but stopped using when it seemed it was no longer mainstream, plus Redux boilerplate turmoil ugh).

A high level language streamlined on such an approach could be extended to be like executing within a git codebase, with a very visual experience. But the language and runtime need network effects.

I don't have a CS background, maybe this already exists and is not too exotic for full-stack work, I'm all ears if so.
AI trainers are some of the lowest paid employees in tech, barely above minimum wage here in silicon valley.
So you're asking for a Forrest Gump?
Or maybe the google AI has a funny side. Right now it's probably laughing its ass off reading teMPOral's comment.
Why do you assume these people are choosing religion at all?
The random thing learned from the article, is that ping parses octal, and apparently also hexadecimal. So now I can do ping 0x7f.0x1 next time I want to show off.
There's a setting you can enable that lets you see dead posts, you might need more karma. I always like to leave it on since there are the occasional insightful but controversial posts that end up dead.
Pretty sure that I am conscious. I am just not 100% sure that everyone else is.

Also: Peter Watts‘ novel Blindsight comes to mind here.
A, not the. I don't think you can argue with any sort of coherency that rejecting religion is a religion, unless you reduce the concept of religion down to a belief, in which case some people's religion is "bigfoot".
> how long before it is once again relegated into a demographic minority?

2-3 more generations to go I suspect based on personal experience where it'll be less than 10%.

My grandparents were religious and my grandma prior to covid hadn't missed weekly service her whole life.

My parents were "partial" religious meaning they went to major events and still have an identity linked to their religion.

I grew up in a religious environment. Decided that belief and faith system wasn't for me in my teenage years and once on my own became an atheist.

My wife and I will raise our children without it being in a religious environment.
What's the fundamental difference between code that is written as a part of the standard library and the code that is a part of a package?

Both are open-sourced and are written by pretty much the same people.
There was a religious leader making a similar argument some time back, but I don't think it holds together all that well. After all, back in the middle ages the amount of churchgoing people was near 100% and religions were promoting big families then just as much as now. So if religious parents "out-produce" their non-religious counterparts how did we ever get to the current situation where a majority is not religious?

The answer is of course that children choose their own way and don't stay religious just because of their parents.
No, you could claim the commits made by the victim this way. The steps would be:

1. Look for a contributor without GitHub account (i.e. xy@gmail.com )

2. Add xy@gmail.com to your GitHub account/create one with that address [0]

2.1 The commits made by the victim will now link to your account on GitHub

3. Send a mail to Nikita with your faked GitHub-profile

None of this will survive a thorough check, but under pressure this will easily pass a surface-level check.

[0] I think you need to confirm your primary E-Mail, but not secondary ones. Alternatively, you could look for commits made from an now deleted mail account.
Having the Church community while growing up was great. But the fact that admission to this community required total philosophical adherence is just bizarre.

Frankly, growing up in the church left me with a broken moral code. It was only once I left it in my teens and had to work things out for myself that I feel like I could properly ground myself ethically. Having a moral system imposed on you can do that.
"religiousness" is not likely to be an inheritable genetic trait, so the children of a religious person may or may not be religious themselves, and vice-versa. The overall culture is likely to have a more powerful impact on this than solely parenting.
> However, what is often overlooked is the psychological impact this can have.

Absolutely. It's hard to explain this. I maintain a mildly popular open source project. There's a strange dread when I think of reading my Github notifications. An issue or question influences my mood for the entire day. I can only imagine what maintainers of popular open source project go through.
> The reason North America, Australia, China are such attractive markets to sell into is because of their low sales tax rates.

This is obviously wrong, each of these markets has a) vastly different tax rates (e.g. tax revenue per GDP per capita in China is 50% higher than that of the US) and taxation mechanics, and b) vastly different reasons for their respective releveance (i.e. industrialization in China, but raw materials in Australia).
local buffers need to be sized to the bandwidth-delay product. come on computer people, you should know this.
Not only did a lot of these people interact with Epstein after he was convicted of having sex with a child, they actively worked to get him off the hook:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/07/17/steven-pinker...
Link via MaxBarraclough elsewhere¹ in this thread:

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/03/28/daniel-dennett-rapo...

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26620225
How would that bother you? Could they trace you with that information?
I don't know about that to be sure.
If you operate a grey crypto market your already with one foot in a US jail.
They could have given a limit with adequate margin for safety to begin with, too. I suppose they still could change the limits. Shipping companies that have ships over the new limit would be pissed, but it’s not like there is a real alternative to the Suez Canal.
> I don't understand why this option isn't used more by open source projects that want to be able to fund themselves.

One possible reason is that such dual licensing requires copyright assignment from external contributors.
Core77 is an industrial design blog. I’ve been reading it for over ten years. They cover hammers and screwdrivers the same way people in this site discuss Rust and hot new containers technologies. They are enthusiasts and are sometimes enthusiastic.
1 in 5 Islamic terrorists have engineering degrees (that’s nearly 10x the rate of engineers in the general population) and a further 2 out of those 5 have degrees in Islamic studies. That 3/5 of terrorists and doesn’t include those with other degrees. Suicide bombers are probably patsys, but they aren’t anywhere near the majority.

These people are smart, but are still indoctrinated. Despite the “religion of peace” propaganda, a clear reading of the Koran shows certain duties that cannot be avoided if you accept the premise that (unlike most of the Bible) it God’s exact words and also the final truth. The proof of the pudding is in the eating and the smarter the reader, the more inescapable those conclusions become.

It’s also not a fringe idea. Imagine if everyone in the US or everyone in the EU suddenly started believing suicide bombings of civilians is at least sometimes justified. That’s around the total number of people who actually believe that across the globe (even more believe in terrorism when targets and/or methods are changed).

More generally though, lots of very smart people get indoctrinated into cults every day. If our life history were just a bit different, you or I probably would have joined one too no matter how smart we are.
Deno makes sense in a variety of situations. The build pipelines of Typescript are excessively complicated and Deno hides that complication away (less dev effort).

Furthermore Node has its own maintenance/risk issues in production systems (think permissions), and Deno reduces those with custom built runtimes.

I cannot see it replacing Node though. Node has created a vast ecosystem that includes modules (npmjs), client side bundlers (eg webpack), serverside frameworks (eg express), etc. But because Deno is solving some of the issues for those who run sensitive code in production (eg Lambda functions) it'll most likely gonna become another VM on the public cloud providers' list.

All in all Javascript interpreter is becoming something like a JVM. Everyone wants to use it but without writing vanilla Javascript.
Giant ship blocking Suez Canal finally freed
Best practice of infinite scrolling in static site without using any API server
There's an unfortunate problem with the volume of internet voices.

Those with the most amount of free time, and the largest amount of outrage, have the loudest voices.

It creates an unhealthy amplification of irrationality and emotional response.
Yet Klingon script was rejected. Unicode character acceptance seems to be entirely arbitrary. Gotta make space for all the new poop emoji somehow I suppose.
I can understand that viewpoint (e.g. avid sports fans are a prime example), but it always seems to be a talking point of religious institutions themselves, with the goal of people thinking "oh, I'm bound to have some form of religion anyway, so I'll just stay with my current one".
> Ha! Things can disrupt JIT operations, don't these bozos know that

For a real world example of bozos not knowing that, see Toyota in 2011.
Thanks, that makes sense. I was thinking along the lines of applications interpreting HTTP headers like X-Forwarded-For, but trusting the client (instead of re-writing).
I'm tempted to think that the correlation isn't religion per se, but rather a pragmatic attitude towards the 7b people on the planet today.

If you're reasonably 'rational' (but not especially religious) you're not going to look at those numbers and think procreation is compelling for the sake of keeping the tribe alive.

OTOH if you're thinking that your particular religion needs a numbers boost, then the imperative may feel differently.
It’s completely flipped. Reality’s more like he did a bad thing once and now that’s supposed to invalidate all of the good he’s done.
At least a space sunshade is easy to undo - stop maintaining it and its "heliostatic orbit" (not quite - it'd be held in place by solar winds and the push would be controlled by rotating parts of the parasol) will destabilize. And also can be used to help terraforming Venus.

Either of those large scale projects is still well beyond our ability, but should be within reach in a century or so, if we manage to successfully insustrialize the Moon.
Stretch looks to be much more mundane and practical than Spot, which while impressive from a technical perspective always struck me more as a tech demo, than a useful product. Warehouse automation industry is booming and BD/Hyundai want a piece of it.