skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is one of the most widely asked questions about Christianity...

Perhaps because existing answers are unconvincing to those asking :)

To that end:

> How can God welcome everyone into Paradise, oppressor alongside oppressed ... ?

Your god supposedly made this universe, and dictated the laws that govern it--metaphysical and otherwise. I have a difficult time making excuses for oddities in those laws alongside that.

From the outside, it all looks like a bit of a cup game [1]: We have sinned against god, and have been stained eternally by that. God demands punitive justice for our transgressions, yet we cannot redeem ourselves independently, by god's laws. The only way to wash the sin from ourselves is for god to send himself (which is also his son?) to die for our transgressions, satisfying this punishment (though he'll be raised 3 days later), such that we can then pass into his kingdom.

(1) Apologies for irreverence, this just sounds like when a bunch of 3 year olds are playing war in the yard:

"I shoot you with my laser!"
"Well my atomic armor blocks your laser!"
"But my laser is hooked up to my fusion backpack, and cuts through your atomic armor!"

etc.

(2) I don't understand how in any way this reforms us sinners that we may pass into heaven and exist alongside each other--we haven't undergone any transformation on our own such that we understand the terrible crimes we're supposedly guilty of; we're certainly (in the church's view) not any less likely to commit sin if we know about these crimes we've committed and the supposed significance that god himself had to die (but only kind of?) for them.

In either reformative or punitive justice, it makes no sense: we're no less likely to commit these sins by threat of punishment, because we can be forgiven simply by believing in Jesus. We also aren't any less likely to commit sin by being reformed because... we haven't reformed at all, we simply believe in this story.

I'd kindly request you to consider looking at this from a secular view, as if someone were proposing this as a system of justice in a secular context: Does this seem a reasonable way to structure a society, where those who break the laws of the society can send someone in their stead for reformation or punishment? I strongly doubt the efficacy of such a system, and I find it so strange that folks accept it in a religious context.

> The Cross is meant as a way of reconciling this tension, and a great many sermons have been devoted to trying to explain the mystery of it.

Perhaps god could have explained it more clearly and saved us all a lot of confusion :)

As it stands, I see no reason to believe this tension exists in the first place. In order for this explanation to make sense I first must subscribe to your premises--that god exists, that we're guilty of eternal sin which we're unable to address ourselves, etc--which I see no reason to do.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bto_3Z1dqc
Humans have been lying for personal gain for only a short amount of time. I guess yea, we should all just decide that lying is bad. That's a novel idea.
"Hacker News" bots can't prevent duplicates but at least the Amazon bots string together decent sentences.
There are a billion hacker-friendly ways to do this: https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/22615/14305
Radiotherapy and immunotherapy shows promise for treating advanced bulky tumours
Women are not 'being segregated' (which is a strawman argument on your part).

Men are refusing to giving advice, because there is past history of women falsely accusing them of being sexist when they do give it. Your claim purporting that it never happens - i.e. 'before having any occasion' - skews the time-perspective. And is against the odds that male investors have faced, which is why they now clam up.

This is nothing to do with 'segregation' - that's a silly interpretation on your part. Investors are wising up to hold their tongue, than to let aspersions be (falsely) cast upon them otherwise.
I found it to be a bit of a Snowden moment. Of course they were doing it, why all the surprise? Balancing good performance in emissions tests with the power and brunt that consumers enjoy in the real world had already made turbochargers and variable valve timings widespread instead of simply increasing displacement. In fact there were multiple other scandals in the decades before where loopholes in emissions regulations were treated the same way as in accounting or racing. I believe regulators were complicit by using ineffectual metrics like NEDC - no car buyer really expects to reach the quoted performance.
> a perfectly rational explanation involving probability

Baader–Meinhof phenomenon is probably the closest formal explanation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader%E2%80%93Meinhof%20pheno...
It was under his reign that this toxic workplace culture was created.
It's 100% his doing.
Why can't we just have a social network that requires you to sign up using your government ID? No bots, no fake accounts - problem solved.

There won't be any anonymity on that network, sure, but there are plenty of other social networks where you can be anonymous.
Green investing 'is definitely not going to work’, says ex-BlackRock executive
The CCP is 100 million people, FYI.

This thread is great, OP asks for less reductionist good vs evil viewpoints and gets 20 replies saying 'no its actually that'.
Renaissance Tech's Medallion fund has been regularly hitting 15%/yr for a couple of decades. Most sane people think this is absurd and there must absolutely be some pyramid scheme fuckery going on. But it just keeps growing. The folks who are making their buys have figured out some winning scheme that just keeps on winning.

But I doubt there's such a thing as 20% that's going to keep going over anyone's lifetime. Not by means other than criminal.
They compete on different use cases, most js/ts apps cannot be (reasonably) compiled to wasm and also wasm sandbox doesn't limit what the environment can do.

As a glaring strawman if you expose eval to wasm it will not help you.

Deno's sandbox will allow you to crate a dedicated worker with no network/disk access to handle sensitive informations, or to force your application to use a specific worker as a proxy (by making it the only thing with network acess)
Yes, at the same time other parts of Europe had serfs. The effects of that caste system have some current day ramifications (landed gentry vs everyone else), but it both allowed for people to become free, and it was abolished by the 14th century.

As compared to the African slave trade which was active less than 200 years ago, and which I was referring to. While Norwegians were active in the slave trade, they did not bring slaves back to Norway.
Despite all the focus on Tesla, companies that makes a minimal, good and inexpensive electric car/truck will win big as far as I'm concerned. Bonus points for an iconic look.
That's only true to a certain extent. Current prices have more to do with the Fed buying 10s of $T of everything than will actual company values (minus a small handful of companies). 2022 will be interesting as life gets back to "normal" and the Fed has to unroll the Titanic.
Ignoring the silly Overton window flamebait and the conflation of legislation and executive order, if we can't understand the difference between a de jure single-party system and a two party system with mild corruption, then we're lost.
I'm not sure that was created by a bot.
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17831943
I tend to ignore P/E as a long-term, absolute metric because 1) it doesn't account for cash on-hand 2) it ignores expected growth 3) it ignores interest rates.
They cant change the license of existing stuff right ? RIP.
> in pycharm [0] you can even execute your print statements in the debugger if you so wish

In my experience, debuggers are really good to expose hidden control flow. But usually, I know the flow, and using a debugger for human-in-the-middle print statements is just going to slow me down. Worse, those print statements are ephemeral, so I'm disinclined to write a nice formatter.

Print debugging leverages the language -- want to print in a certain condition? Easy. Have a recursive structure, an array, or a graph that you need to investigate? A naked print sucks, a custom formatter is great. Need to check some preconditions/postconditions? Do that in code. Don't try to check that stuff by hand in the debugger.

Speaking personally... the only thing I like about icecream is that ic(foo) both prints and returns foo, because you can inject it into code basically for free. But I already have a solution to that:

def ic(x): print(x); return x
> This is what happens in a meeting when someone says "there are no bad ideas".

No, I think this is what happens as the date approaches April 1st.
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

This is a fantastic read.
Amazon knows full well the benefits of fake reviews, and they absolutely would pay their employees to give fake reviews. As they were reported to have started doing in 2019.

Their employees would likely be the ones creating cheap profiles.
You can even have the JSON version:

location /json_ip {
default_type application/json;
return 200 "{\"ip\":\"$remote_addr\"}";
}
>were saying back in 1996 when P-E valuations really went off the rails.

At least this time around, it's worth noting that money has become much cheaper, which inflates the price of every asset. When that's factored in, the present valuations are actually quite reasonable.
I was on the Ubiquiti train, but then I found out the owner started cutting costs and outsourced development and now there's headlines about ads in the dashboard. I assume it's only a matter of time before they start cutting corners in manufacturing and quality of components.
if it isn't secret...why do they need cameras to watch the ballots? if all the votes and names will be read aloud, there's no way to cheat and change a vote
Former CEO my foot, he is just as in charge as ever; nothing happens without his approval.
> the cost of using print is extremely small, smaller at least than breakpoints.

I don't think it is, at all. The cost of using print is re-running your applciation with a code change, whereas the cost of a breakpoint is re-running your application with a breakpoint. Clicking in a gutter in an editor, pressing a keyboard shortcut, or typing "b <line number>" into your debugger is no more time or effort than adding a print statement, and re-running your program.
That's kind of what I was underhandedly getting at, yeah.

And when applied to more debilitating conditions like schizophrenia, "consent" is even more wibbly-wobbly.
public-inbox seems to be the best of both worlds indeed. Interestingly it fits your option 1: posting is open and the admin is in charge of handling spam.

But public-inbox goes way further with other means of pulling, and the easy and trusted replication gives it the same status as the code: the repo is the source of truth, not the email endpoint. I could see projects using that and, say, gitolite as the two main bricks for running a project. Now all we need is a simple CI/CD system that is designed to run on its own rather than in a specific ecosystem
Syntactic sugar makes a big difference as well, e.g. Rust's `?` operator.
I disagree. By putting it on the blockchain it becomes a crypto asset. That’s a new primitive.
Yes, in the long run the economy is driven by productivity growth. However there are debt cycles at work:

https://economicprinciples.org/

The world may be near the end of a long-term debt cycle, we will have to see.

In 1996 PE multiples were indeed high and there was indeed a correction. For instance the Nasdaq went from 1300 at the end of 1996, to over 5000, and back to 1300 in 2002. There was obviously productivity growth over 7 years, but valuations are another thing entirely.
The Winner's Curse
My own admittedly uninformed understanding is that there was cheating all around, but VW was by far the most flagrant. BMW and Mercedes diesels required DEF (diesel exhaust fluid), whereas VW did not. Marketing and/or executive leadership (again, as per my understanding) pushed the notion that the additive would make diesels appear to be less attractive and who wants to add a second liquid beyond fuel every few hundred miles?

But weren't they all cheating? The diesels with DEF were still above the legal limits, albeit to a lesser degree than the VW's who didn't even bother with DEF because, I guess, if you're going to cheat anyway...

How incorrect is my understanding?
It's not just Amazon. You'd be surprised at how middle-upper management operates the same way at large enterprises. At least from my experience. Some were good at their jobs, most were there because of who they knew.
Cryptography won't help if you want a secret ballot.
But the German company is still called Volkswagen?
> yet Wikipedia continues to use the term “Dark Ages” as the article title.

The article is about the history of the term "Dark Ages", why shouldn't that be the the title? If you go by link counts, there are 741 links to the Dark Ages page but 2582 to the Early Middle Ages instead.

> Why don’t they use the term and what term is preferred instead?

"Dark Ages" is itself somewhat ambiguous. In its original incarnation, it referred to the entirety of the time between the "Fall of Rome" (itself hard to specify) and the Renaissance, as its early users saw Rome as the pinnacle of human civilization and looked down on everything following the end of Rome as unimportant, at least until they themselves were bringing back the splendor of Roman civilization. Later scholars were instead nostalgic for the High or Late Medieval civilization, so instead they narrowed the term to exclude their favored era, resulting in it referring to only the Early Middle Ages (to ~1000). Some people go further still and exclude the Carolingian Renaissance from the Dark Ages, pushing its end date further still to 800--there's no neat alternative term for this range, but Age of Migrations covers much of the themes.

In any case, periodization of that time period of European history is immensely challenging. The decline of the Roman Empire brings with it a decline in the written record and our knowledge of events in the period diminishes drastically, only recovering with the Carolingian Renaissance. Furthermore, the Roman Empire doesn't fall in an easy cataclysmic moment (there's no Battle of Hastings here), but instead disintegrates at different rates in different parts of Europe, with the final vestige only falling in 1475 (Principality of Theorodo). Meanwhile, there are several overlapping themes going on: the rise of Post-Roman kingdoms (such as the Franks and the Lombards), a mass migration of peoples (including the Anglo-Saxons and various Slavic groups), the Viking Age, the birth of Islam, the Great Schism between Eastern and Western Christianity (and other schisms within those sects!). For the boundary between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern, you can point to "about 1500" and note that several major changes happen about the same time (including total conversion to gunpowder weapons, Protestant Reformation, discovery of the New World, and the Fall of Constantinople)--that doesn't exist between Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
The quoted paragraph reminds me of something I once read from a blog post by the WhatsApp team
Ya, this is like releasing superbowl ads weeks out now so they don't get lost in the flurry of activity a few days out
There have also been aggressive tweets from the official "Amazon News" twitter account. It seems like this is the initiative of Bezos or some SVP who is too powerful to stop for normal company controls.

https://theintercept.com/2021/03/29/amazon-twitter-hack-unio...
That's not true from any perspective. At the end of a buyback the company owns more of its own shares, and investors own less. The company bought something for its money.

Dividends are payments to those who own shares, and the company does not own more of anything after a Dividend pay out.
Excellent description of the HN mentality. Many are so afraid of false positives they'll do a middlebrow dismissal of everything. "Actually, XYZ isn't that great because..."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24613148
[Shameless Plug] A blog post I wrote about file creation time in Linux: https://www.anmolsarma.in/post/linux-file-creation-time/
I concur.

I saw this tool to find pytest cases after I implemented my own simple fzf shell function that uses bat for preview.
https://github.com/dbaty/testfinder

I also implemented simple bash functions to:

+ Select a CMake target to build

Extract all add_executables defined in the CMakeLists of my project directory and pipe the fzf selection to cmake to build

+ Find and sort (by mtime) all compiled executables placed in the cmake build directory

It can be hard to remember the path of the executable produced by cmake, so i find all executable files in the cmake build dir, ls -alh, sort them by mtime (you want to execute the most recently compiled binary) and pipe to fzf

Any time I pipe something to grep, I think if this could become an fzf-based command. Highly recommend people do the same with their workflows.
Thank you, I know it's a dumb question. Wondering about the cost/effectiveness of demolition of the ship vs the daily costs of having the canal blocked. I thought it might be like using explosives to dispose of whale carcasses.
Disraeli, Man of Imagination
The ambassador program is real but the most recent batch of tweets circulating ARE from fake accounts (as in created by third party trolls fake, not created by Amazon PR fake).
I'm definitely far from the best source here. But I have the same objective (just went into a CS program because of that) so collected some resources along the way. I can share them with you but plz consult a professional before taking action.

1 - CMU has an introductory course about computer architecture CS61A. The book website is: http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/ which contains a batch of introductory but non-trivial system programming labs. That book (CSAPP) also fits what you want. For example it has one chapter dedicated to code optimization. IMO it serves as a "staging area" that you can explore many aspects of system programming and computer architecture.

2 - Which internal to learn depends on your daily usage. For rexample if you use Python then reading "Fluent Python" as well as the CPython internals helps a lot. It breaks dow to programming language theory, compiler theory and a bunch of other topics.

3 - Checkout Awesome C projects for something to work on. The compiler/lexing & parsing/memory management/profiling parts should be useful. I'm definitely not an expert of those so I'd suggest start from something simple.
Or you can just unplug the toaster.
Don’t worry. There won’t be a lot of people soon. Those who survive are wealthy enough to have their children artificially.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/male-infertility...
If they're paying employees, why make fake accounts? Personally, as a trillion dollar entity, I would pay people to use their real accounts and give me glowing reviews. I would pay $0 for a tweet from an obviously fake account, what's the point in that?
Meanwhile, Tesla's Autopilot is using deep learning to detect roads, cars, objects and people.
The mainstream corporate media machine doesn't cover it because they're complicit in it. You have shit like what happened to Cory Feldman on the View: that hag Barbara Walters saying "you're trying to ruin an entire industry!" when he tries to expose the horrors he and others went through.
Well Buffett is 90 years old, so there's one example of a lifetime of 20% CAGR.
The profile pictures have visual artifacts consistent with GAN generation https://twitter.com/erikhinton/status/1376636650420203523
They have to expect to figure out how to make non-terrible AR glasses in the nearish future. There's no other explanation for why they (and several other companies) keep dumping money into AR tech that's cute to use for a couple minutes, but otherwise terrible outside some very niche applications, on current devices. They want to be ready to take advantage of the new tech on day one, when they finally figure out how to package the hardware.

Maybe it won't be this year, but I 100% expect to see widespread AR glasses becoming the next smartphone revolution before 2030, if only because so many big tech companies seem to be betting big bucks on it. Certainly seems more attainable than self-driving cars.
So your criticism is actually in the context of ICE and PHEVs - I assumed you meant pure EVs since that what this thread seemed to be about, and for those autonomy numbers seem to be strictly lower, hence my confusion why WLTP would be more doctored in this regard than NECD.
> If anything, modern manufacturing uses far less than it did decades ago, with less pollution, people renting things more than wasteful owning,

I don't think we live in the same world then, we've never imported/exported so much shit, third world countries are catching up with the west in term of how they want to live (personal cars, bigger houses, more electronics), we're polluting more than ever, &c. all the metrics are going up, not down

> Life is what you make of it.

Well, yeah, exactly, but what can you make of it when you work 8 hours a day 5 days a week for the 40 best years of your life

> You can focus on yourself and you don't need to judge others

Or I can think about myself _and_ others by thinking that the world would be a much better place for everyone including myself if people didn't have to work so much for so little.
Vice versa, it's interesting to me why German speakers tend to approximate the pronunciation of e.g. "think" as "sink", rather than "fink" or "vink". There's even some British accents where it sounds more like "fink". English is hard :D
Reminds me of the movie October Sky.
I always laughed at the launching sequence where the rockets keep exploding.
How about 'rolling coal'?
Who told you that modern manufacturing produces less pollution? It may produce less of some things, but plastic and evergy use is way up in recent years. For example, a modern car has far less recyclable or recycled content than one from the 80s (more plastic, less steel).
> will enter service in 2038; the year the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is due to be retired.

So they end up with one, again, if they even build it. Even the UK can do better than that, though admittedly the French carriers are at least notionally more capable than the crap Gordon Brown foisted on us.
Early years of Effective Altruism (EA) was about promoting "earning to give" as it was a straight-forward and simple way for people who are late in their careers to do a tremendous amount of good (by giving to cost-effective charities). But as the movement grew, there are more individuals joining at the beginning of their career and are more flexible with what they can do: enter https://80000hours.org/ (80,000 hours is roughly the amount of hours people will spend during their working life).

There is now a misconception that EA is about "patch fixes" rather than addressing "systemic causes". This is unfortunate, as numerous people within EA are concerned with the far future and broader goals than helping most-in-need individuals immediately. For example, pandemic risk (and decreasing it) has been on the EA radar well before the current pandemic.

One lesson from EA, is that you can't in good faith say "I can't do much good, I'm not working in a non-profit" -- since just about everyone (who is well over the US poverty level) is able to give at least some amounts to charity. And since giving to cost-effective charities can be 1000x the positive impact of average charities, you don't even have to give much to do a lot of good (see https://givewell.org/ for recommendations).

As for people who want systemic change, EA is all in favor of it - connect with others working on the same issues, and focus on effectiveness as you do the best you can with your efforts.