skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Visa is desperately trying to figure out where they can fit in before they are made irrelevant. Why pay visa fees when you can handle the transaction directly? It won't be bitcoin but another crypto surely will be fast and cheap and usable as easily as a debit card.
> you're liberally using branches, right? Branches are cheap in Git

Branches may be cheap in Git, but they're expensive in typical modern software eng. process. For every branch, a PR must be opened, code must be reviewed, full test suite must be ran, the testers must ok that the change does not require extending the test suite, and only finally after the whole ordeal we're ok to merge. That's why I prefer my branches big and meaty.
I get where you're coming from but the fact remains that experts had strong suspicions and beliefs that masks, and in particular N95 masks would give protection against the virus. And they did not communicate this with the public because they were afraid of shortages for essential workers.

Experts were deliberately "shading facts" or leaving out important context to influence the public to act a certain way.

That's really not much different than lying! I would argue it is lying but others might disagree.

The end result was that for at least a few weeks Americans went around believing masks don't work. I vividly remember reading these reports and telling friends "well y'know they aren't recommending masks I guess they don't work to protect you". I wasn't alone all the people in my friend group came to the same conclusion.

And yes the experts are smart! They can hide behind "well we never explicitly said they didn't work!", or "we didn't have all the data and didn't feel confident recommending them"

But they were not transparent about what they knew! And the reason they weren't being transparent was to protect mask supplies for medical personnel.

People can hide behind the legalese and lawyerly defense of "well it wasn't technically a lie!" but to many normal people like myself that's just laughable! The intent was to mislead the public! Most people just consider that lying...
I have been interested in learning Latin by self study, but memorizing conjugations and declinations seems like a chore.

There are some modern variants of Latin that seems to simplify these aspects mainly Interlingua and Latine-sine-flexione(LSF). Are these worth while to learn?. For example if one is up to speed in LSF, can one still make sense of classical latin texts and poetry etc?.
I actually found the OSI Reference Model to be incredibly helpful both as a student and later in my work life as an operations engineer. I was able to successfully break problems down in a methodical layer-by-layer approach to troubleshooting and find the root causes and solve extremely esoteric and difficult problems that other people, including very smart talented engineers, were completely stumped by. This wasn't because I was smarter or knew some secret, but because breaking problems down into smaller pieces and identifying and learning tooling to examine those problems in isolated pieces makes it easier to find the actual cause.

While it is very true that the OSI Reference Model doesn't map to real life systems exactly, it's still a relatively accurate view with a little bit of hedging as to what layers something might fit into. Additionally many of the protocols that were built for OSI networks have been adapted and implemented on top of TCP/IP networks and are extremely valuable in some circumstances at global scale, because the telecoms people designing these systems /thought about/ global scale from the get-go, where-as it was mostly an afterthought for later computer systems researchers. X.500 in particular is a fantastic protocol, that while convoluted and esoteric, enables some very complex replication topologies while providing strong guarantees that are simply not possible in lighter weight protocols. When thinking deeply about identity management and authentication, X.500 is not a bad thing to fully understand, even if you end up implementing a lighter weight protocol, because while "over-engineered" it's well thought out.

That said, ASN.1 notation is a hellacious curse and should have been burned and buried in the pit it came from before it ever saw the light of day. Unfortunately, it's a key component of nearly all the X. series standards built on top of OSI.
Can you tell how a neighborhood voted just by looking around on street view?
Unions often will not allow termination via the contract. If the company doesn't like someone they need to take it up with the union. If the union likes the "bad person", then you are probably stuck as everyone else in the union will walk off the job if you try to fire that person. If the union hates someone that you like, the union can refuse membership to that person (I've never heard of this happening, though unions often do refuse membership to someone unknown to you who might or might not be good)

Of course each union contract is different, but it is very common for it to be impossible to fire a bad union employee as the union won't let you. (and in fact the union often won't even let you collect data that shows how bad they are).

None of the above applies to every case. If you don't show up for work, then you are out: no union will defend someone who can't even be bothered to show up. If you do something illegal you are out. These days sexual harassment is something the union won't defend (in the past that wasn't true) and so you will be fired for that. Each contract has different fine print.
I think its more than lying. I think the media runs full on disinformation campaigns aimed at the public. Q is a good example of this. It mixed truth with fiction to throw people off that had legitimate concerns. It succeeded in making large groups of them seem crazy, or even goad them to commit crimes to discredit them. Funny how it went away after the election was finalized.

If you read detective novels, you will often come across a suspect that knows he is being tracked or followed. So they will deliberately make moves to throw the detective off track. They employ tactics to misdirect, confuse, and use all kinds of subversion to point the finger in the wrong direction. And the often practiced one, is to accuse others of what you just did. So watch for confessions through accusations.
If an individual can accomplish this, what makes you think a government doesn't.
A quick google search for 'contradictions in the {bible, new testament, jesus, etc.}' turns up a fair few pages. Viewing them either gives the answer as zero full-stop, or a long list of subject and their relevant citations. In looking at the citations, there does seem to be merit to the contradictory claims. I'll admit that the contradictions are a bit 'small' and may not always alter the main theme or may mix up the new and old testaments, but they seem to exist nonetheless.

I may not be all that up to date on what 'scriptural literalism' is exactly defined as, but as a lay person that would mean to me that contradictions would be a difficult circle to square.

What do you make of such contradictions and how do they affect your adherence, if at all?
And you make that assumption based on what?
HN has a strong bias in the same direction as Malcolm Gladwell and the "well ackchually"s of the Internet.

This constant search for a counterintuitive result or explanation means that most comments on things just end up with a massive contrarian bias.

This makes sense. After all, no one is writing "oh cool" and no one is upvoting that.
In all of those examples, its possible the person DOES have a good understanding of the adjacent domain. And in all examples, it is possible they will miss some subtleties, but people will give their opinions a lot of weight.

Just as an example I see a lot: branch prediction. Some programmers don't know about it at all. Many do know about it, but think that it still works in some form like "assume the branch will go the same way it did last time". Which is how it worked in the 1990s. Then it evolved, and then it evolved two more times. Today there is something like a neural network that learns how the branches will go. (And careful, im a programmer so I may be communicating some subtleties wrong there!)
I am interested in one more detail.
average family income for all church members.

I have observed hindus, muslims, christians, jains.
My observation so far is, religious fervor is directly to 2 factors.

1. is that religion a minority in a given state ?
2. whether you grew up in prosperity (not wealth, but above middle class)?

societies which are poor tend towards fundamentalism.
religion gives some sort of escape place where poor might forget their harsh reality and usually its provides some sort of alt-reality that their after life is going to be good.
rich people who already seen those comforts dont search for such answers.

Also, if that particular religion is minority in a country, the religion offers companionship and keep the group close. also, it forms the main identity of that group which is difficult to get away from.

for the above reasons, In india, there are a lot of atheist hindus, but not many athiest muslims or atheist christians.
A great Twitter thread with many articles/resources if you want a critical lens at the global logistics supply chain.

https://twitter.com/CharmaineSChua/status/137586855212986368...

I found this article on the impact on super-sized ships on logistical infrastructure useful and fascinating. It describes how the creation of ships too big to fit in the Panama canal (post-PANAMAX ships) was received by 1) Panamanians 2) East Coast / Gulf Coast ports 3) West Coast ports. The Panamanians spent billions expanding their channel to bring port fees and promote attendant value-add services. Ports across the East and Gulf coasts overinvested in trying to make their port the preferred one for these new ships. Clearly, not every port can recoup investments in higher cranes and deeper harbors. There was an irrational optimism on the East Coast, as they sought to take business away from West Coast transhippers (dock in Southern California and ship to the east by train.) In response, the West Coast logistics industry sought and received a series of infrastructure improvements to make transshipment from their ports viable. So, just a few shipping companies are able to increase the size of their ships (for economies of scale) and end up having a major impact on billions of investment dollars in more than a dozen cities. Policy makers in the US aren't able to pick just a few cities to focus investment in. How can you tell a city that they aren't going to get those jobs? Perhaps the US should set a maximum ship size to prevent this wastage of resources; but one could argue the efficiencies for consumers could be worth it.

https://www.ijurr.org/article/fungible-space-competition-and...

The size of these ships keeps increasing at an astonishing rate. See the chart in this excellent talk: https://youtu.be/gdkvAXcZD7U?t=892

Moreover, the hydrodynamic effects of these large ships in relatively shallow and narrow canals is underappreciated. We're liable to see more such incidents as ships get bigger and bigger.

https://www.ft.com/content/171c92ec-0a44-4dc5-acab-81ee2620d...
some of the suggestions seemed borderline condescending

e.g. "why don't they just do X"

as tho' the actual experienced engineers working over there on the problem couldn't come up with better ideas than some guy who happens to spend a lot of their day on the internet.
Speaking of CS Lewis, everyone should read his cosmic trilogy. It’s so astounding that I’m surprised it didn’t get the attention that the Narnia books did, and the third book is on par with 1984 and Brave New World, written as a modern fairy tale yet also as a sci-fi in the tradition of HG Wells.

It’s such a good series and probably paints a better understanding of what a fallen world means and what a proper relationship with God is like, yet using sci-fi literalism instead of religious dogma.
1. A CO2 level of 950ppm (or higher) produces a noticeable cognitive decline when compared to 550pm: https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/27662232/4892924...

I have lived across new buildings in Eastern Europe and there are very few if any buildings which can reach 550pm, typically they will sit at 950ppm. (Admittedly I cannot speak to ventilation quality in Western/Central Europe)

If the EU desires digital leadership it needs to solve this cognitive burden. Europe is uniquely at risk here, because their main competitors (USA and China) sit at lower latitudes where houses can be more leaky.

2. Payroll taxes are mostly absent in the USA, UK, Australia, Scandinavia. They can be replaced with income taxes or land taxes, or simply by reducing Government spending by increasing the aged pension rate (the welfare system occupies about 50% of National Government spending).

These are important because the Tech industry is unique for individual exceptionalism in talent and salaries. If a USA startup pays 3% of a salary in payroll, but as an EU startup I pay 35%, how can I compete? Either my labour costs are much higher or the salaries I can offer are much lower.

3. The EU has freedom of movement so agricultural practices and workers need policies at a bloc-level. Australia has been successful in controlling its borders, and for the past several years has had essentially zero unauthorised boat arrivals, despite its huge coastline:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/St...

We as tech workers should realise that if these workers are removed from economies, the demand for automation and AI will increase, meaning greater demand for tech skills.
"There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be."

Oh, that's crap. There are more than 100 victims of child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy where the Church itself covered up the crime. You can play with definitions however you want, but that is not a misperception of the Church, but a realistic view of the actions of the Church.

I've been Catholic, and the Church exists to extend the existence of the Church. Any other action is in service to that goal.
30 is old? I was building VAXclusters 30 years ago.

I've been in the industry 41 years. It's been interesting watching the younger generations "innovate" the same stuff we used 30 years ago.

I'm in for another 8 years.. One because I have to boys to put through college and two, because it's interesting, challenging and fun work. Even if I do see the same issues over and over again.
> Think of them as an overprotective parent, not as an enemy.

You often hear the phrase "nanny state" used by the middle of the US against the coasts, so someone using this parental phrasing as if it's a good thing surprises me. This is exactly the type of patronizing that reinforces that nanny-state impression and destroys trust in expertise.
Indeed, but "your group is a philosophy too" doesn't have the same rhetorical impact.
> Programming has not changed all that much and it was not so long time ago that programmers routinely knew assembly and how many cycles (and bytes) each opcode took...

That statement partly highlights the problem. It assumes linear execution, when in reality, for most performance-critical products, out-of-order execution is the reality. For example: https://smist08.wordpress.com/2019/11/15/out-of-order-instru...

Most programmers on Apple platforms don't actually think about execution order -- because they don't have to -- but also because Apple is actively using Clang to discourage assembly and writing for specific CPU architectures. It makes Apple's job of releasing new silicon that much easier if they don't have to worry about breaking existing software custom written for a previous architecture.

And this still assumes a one-to-one relationship between the code you're writing and the computer it's running on or designed for. When you get to the cloud, or cloud functions, that breaks down even further. If using Heroku, for example, you don't even have to consider how to deploy your code and you can make it pretty far running a production service.

It's possible for closely related fields to still have very large differences. Consider drivers and cars: The more automation is introduced, the less we might need to know about what the automation is doing for us under the hood. Anti-Lock Breaking (ABS) in cars might be a simple example where folks know about it because there's a light on the dash and instructions in driver's ed. But if we didn't have those indicators, how often would anyone know about it and other such features? Some technologies remain undocumented until discovered later by experimentation, the VW diesels come to mind. Specific chip designers likely know more than your average programmer, just as specific car manufacturers likely know more about their products than drivers would.
No one is allowed to strike. LOL

It's war, where all is fair.
I think the current noble lie is coming from the Central Bank that they are not worries about inflation.
Yep, that matches perfectly my (shorter) experience
Conversely, Bitcoin doesn't need more energy (in any significant quantities) when transaction count goes up.
Your suggested term works, too. But why is it bad that a good concept has a gendered term?
There has been a lot of “mother knows best” going on during this thing. Asking basic questions gets you quickly branded as dangerous and a pariah.

I mean, why has the media never asked politicians to produce some kind of end state to restrictions? Why have politicians and “experts” been allowed to just extend things and “wait two more weeks” without articulating a clearly defined goal?

Why has the media never questioned high cycle rates for PCR tests?

Why has the media constantly downplayed good news?

Alas....
It's not appealing to any kind of gendered stereotyping though. It's a quote from the founder of "The Boy Scouts Association".
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/when-should-i-wear... (this article is from 1 year ago today).

>It was simply unclear whether cloth masks or the simple medical masks would help significantly if the population would wear them.

That is under-stating what the early messaging was. In Canada, the official messaging was not neutral, it was actively anti-mask early on. It focused entirely on the potential (unproven at the time) dangers of wearing masks and discounted any potential (unproven at the time) benefits.

Given how many Asian countries were heavily using masks early on, given how many health professionals were arguing in favour of masks early on, and given how quickly policy did a 180 to mandatory masks, this messaging could only be one of three things: intentionally misleading to protect supplies of PPE, intentionally malicious (why??), or incompetence in communication strategy verging on criminal negligence.

I welcome any arguments to change my mind. That early messaging should not be underplayed as "it was complicated".
So Deno is still committing to TS runtime?
It's odd to equate supporting Solidarity in Poland with the destruction of democracy. I seem to recall the effect was in the other direction.
I agree, but beware that many people end up filling a religion shaped hole with other things. look at how many of our fellow atheists have joined the church of social justice. adhering to a new kind of religion and dogma. things you can't say, heretics who must be cast out, good vs evil, original sin, preachers, zealots, self flagellation. it's all there, except for a path to redemption.

https://reason.com/2020/06/29/kneeling-in-the-church-of-soci...
We take all the information you (a ship manager) have about a vessel (route, plans, crew composition), with all the information externally available (piracy, flights, fuel costs), and tell you where to route your vessel and what the best choices are for the crew, and the purchases you're making.

Does that help? Happy to try again, it's a pretty complex piece of software that simplifies a complex job: unfortunately we're not as good as our software at simplifying the explanation.
Most people however dont mind them at all and they practically do zero harm. However, forcing people to split it into two commits likely means it wont ever get done.

Because who wants to go through previous commit files to check for typos in other peoples code. People wont, either they fix it as they are noticing them or not at all.
There is where I love working with good dev tools.

In VS Code, you click the source control button, you instantly see a list of everything that has been modified.

Click on any particular file, you get a visual diff. Press the "+" button, you stage the selected file/files, add the commit message and check them in. Continue that until all the changes are in place, properly sectioned off with appropriate comments.

Yes, this doesn't apply to anyone using the raw git commands, and knowing those is important. But in getting stuff done and keeping everything nice and neat, developer tools to the rescue.
> My mother (Christian) couldn't get around the idea that she had no right to impose her perceived morality on another

I mean... you probably can't get around that idea either. Or do you believe that any and all of your rights can and should be taken away if a majority of the people agree you shouldn't have those rights anymore (even if the majority are religious nutjobs who decide you should not have a right to consume alcohol because it's immoral)?
One definition of the term in question:

https://biratkirat.medium.com/step-8-the-boy-scout-rule-robe...
Have you read much gpt3 stuff? While it's coherent in a sentence it is very rambling over paragraphs to pages. It could probably do fine for a grade school or bad highschool paper. I think if you turned it in for college you'd get an f.

On an unrelated note my fake daughter is now a TA and the professor lead off saying "we are in a golden age of cheating". They're going for way more short assignments as it's a lot more work to cheat on those than one make or break test.
As others have stated, your habits can be much better in this regard if you use a git GUI client that allows you to stage only certain lines / hunks with ease.

I personally didn't like git GUIs and only ever used it from the command line until the release of Sublime Merge[1], which imo is hands down the best git client. Exactly what I need, not loads of extra cruft. Plus the performance you expect from the people that made Sublime Text.

I almost immediately paid for a license after I started using it and still actually use git from the command line for a variety of other things, but for staging changes Sublime Merge is invaluable.

[1] https://www.sublimemerge.com/
Wrong, gpt4 is new and has not been implmented as a chat bot.

Also wrong that previous chat bots were not shut down for being offensive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)
It's not just the "flyover" states, its more rural areas. I've seem many religious billboards in Oregon and California.
Tesla bought $1.5 billion of BTC just a few weeks ago. The demand is there.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/08/tesla-buys-1point5-billion-i...
I mean I see the point, I think their comments made a lot more sense in the context of where things were back then, and they didn't consider how they would be viewed after the initial panic phase was over.

> the result is eroded trust that health advice being given is in your immediate best interest.

I would argue that they are making health advice that minimizes the population-wide risk; I don't expect them to tell me the optimal thing for me to do to protect myself if that advice means that the population-wide payoff is worse (i.e. "hey everybody the best thing you can do is to grab an N95 mask" might be optimal for everyone who is able to do that but that is not the optimal thing to do for the population). I kind of understand people's frustration but I just don't personally feel that this was that controversial.