skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even though I'm an atheist this concerns me since Church is one of the last remaining civic organizations.

People need to be apart of an community. In the before times that's how you made friends and meet partners. Now every single indicator of courtship is at all time lows , mental illness is off the charts and we're all miserable.

I don't have a solution but I'm afraid of the future we're entering.
Like giant mammals that have something close to the internet via aquatic sound transmission since before we got out of trees can't be a beautiful and complex psychic profusion. They must be chumps! These assholes didn't even invent money! Something something Star Trek IV.
Sure but the same principles apply - delays happen, and livestock ships are equipped to keep livestock alive with food and water well stocked in case they can't enter port for days(which again, happens all the time, sometimes papers aren't exactly right and the livestock has to wait on the ship until cleared for offloading)
I don't disagree with this, just like I don't disagree with the fact that many people who stood to lose from Brexit voted for Brexit.

I think the conclusion here could be that these are both true at the same time: Reagan's actions did had a largely negative effect on workers' rights and that many people who were to be affected (or were already affected) by his actions voted for him.
The silver lining there is that more companies should be able to absorb a double delivery when three weeks of goods all show up at once.

Most businesses can’t just skip a week and then process twice as much raw goods to catch up.
Indeed, I've known a lot of religious people like the ones you speak of. And I've known and read from many other "religious"/deist people who think those types of people are silly.

>If there was real compelling evidence of supernatural behavior I'd change my mind, but whenever it's been claimed and tested - it's bullshit.

How is it possible to test for "supernatural behavior"?
But you could make identical arguments for gaming, so I don't see how that applies:

>Because intellectual and entertainment pursuits generally benefit society.

The ability to conduct business under oppressive regimes in foreign countries also has value.

> Selfish fucks continuously buying up an already scarce supply of specialized microchips for the sole purpose of greed isn't really comparable.

The same happens with gamers buying up cards, and there have been shortages pre-crypto as well.

> Proof-of-Work crypto has completely screwed some scientists, artists, and just everyday people who might like to just unwind after a long day. During a global pandemic.

Why can't you entertain yourself with something that's less damaging to the environment, like watching a movie?

> Crypto in its current form tends to brings out the worst in us. It's kind of like social media in that regard.

The same could be said for the gaming community, which is saturated with misogyny and racism.

I suggest we ban gaming.
It's a lot of money but it's also a weird job. Lifeguarding at the ocean isn't like sitting beside the neighborhood pool. It's a pretty niche skill and seasonal on top of that. It sucks that we have to spend so much but given that, it seems inevitable that you either have a well paid staff or a less qualified one. A friend of mine was recently rescued from a tricky situation after getting pulled offshore in a rip current and I definitely know which side I'd come down on.
Dunno, they just provoked a hardening and possible review of the remaining infrastructure.
I do this all the time and run one browser with the socks proxy and another instance non-proxied.
NYC doesn't have an artificial skiing slope, but it does have beaches. Coney Island is wonderful, and I know a lot of people swear by Rockaway.
I guess this email will continue to haunt HN, since I have been sending it out in small batches.

Thanks to the many people who have converted over so far. Special thanks to the people who really, really hate subscriptions and therefore chose the 10 year plan.

See you all here next week when someone posts this again.
To take a counter example, do you believe that the Catholic Church has had a pattern of covering up for pedophiles in its clergy? If so how far back does that pattern go? Why shouldn’t we assume it goes back hundreds of years, or the full 2000 year history of the church?

By the way, that same old church taught wives to obey their husbands and to this day does not allow them to be clergy. The notion that women are not worth as much as men was not recently introduced.
I actually agree and disagree with the overall sentiment.

I agree because looking back (switched to macOS, used GNOME before), I think it's pretty unusable without customization. macOS really hits the sweet spot for me.

I disagree because the time I spent using it as a daily driver was actually rather productive, I recall being really efficient with it.

I'm not sure what to think of GNOME lately. In my opinion, it should seriously tone down the "desktop of the future" vibe because its users really don't want that. It's time to fold the failed "tablet UI" experiment and go for a more traditional desktop because I've yet to see a single touch device run GNOME in the wild.

GNOME: Experiment didn't work. Pack it up, go home and go back to your roots.
ketzo is accurate.
if a rich person is supporting fundementalism, its mostly to consolidate their power and protect his/her wealth.

Rich hindus allways have means to do so with out resorting to fundementalism.

for example, ambani supported congress (which is anti-hindu), and when congress got weak, he started support BJP (which is pro-hindu).
In both cases it is to protect his own interests.

Same is happening in US.
I definitely agree that there's value in having people do things that aren't necessarily in their immediate best interest, but I think the cause of ire is people being deceived in order to do the right thing rather than asked. In an ideal world something along the lines of "masks are effective however due to supply shortages should be reserved for the most vulnerable and healthcare workers" might have been more accurate, but would also have likely led to runs on masks.

The chain of events leading up to what they said makes sense to me, but it puts people in an odd position where we have to trust guidance not because it's accurate but because the organization issuing it thinks saying such will have the best outcome. If for example the PPE situation worsened again and masks became unadvised for similar reasons I think more people would be skeptical as a result.
Ask HN: Is it worth it for a tech startup founder to write a chapter in a book?
I was approached with a proposal to write a chapter in an Elseveir book. I am a startup founder so time is pretty scarce and this will take up all my free time for the next couple months. It sounds interesting to think about our field from a different, more scientific perspective, but 2 months of life might be a bit too high of a price if there are no other outputs.

Problem is that when I want to read some research about our field I would go for articles not books, which are fairly inaccessible usually.

Any chance someone here can share their experience writing chapters in those kind of books? Is it worth anything at all in any way?
Also of interest might be cleanlab (https://github.com/cgnorthcutt/cleanlab), the open-source software we used for initially identifying potentially mislabeled data.
I was mostly thinking about soil loss. Tillage results in a massive loss of topsoil through erosion.

Tillage is also devastating for animal life in the soil.
I think it depends on your definition of "younger people" in this case. For the "off the street" hires like your brother in law, those postings require you to be under 31.

That said, there isn't really a good path to ATC for those 18-22 either. The off the street bids require something along the lines of "4 years progressively responsible work experience" to even be eligible to start the process. The Collegiate Training Initiative (CTI) schools exist, but have not provided much meaningful benefit to graduates since the FAA's changes to the hiring process in December 2013.
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What is the line between overtime abuse, and what the union and government both agreed on?
And one three years before that. And one two years before that. If you Googled it back when the most recent "scandal" was new you'd see multiple years of news results because the new stuff hadn't dominated the algorithm yet. It's not a scandal, it's the known status quo of that organization.
hm. yes.

The other day I wanted to share a windows keyboard shortcut and thought it would be nice to use the windows logo to represent the key but was surprised it didn't exist like the Mac CMD one does... :\ At least it's been around longer....
So the author's theories certainly resonate. I started my professional career in the mid-80s and yes, having facility with C and pointers in particular was critical. I can remember asking potential candidates around that time to explain the practical differences between doubly dimensioned arrays and pointers to pointers.

Without a doubt, a SIGSEGV was always a prelude to a painful session with adb trying to track down where your arithmetic had gone wrong.
You can read the bible directly and see problems with fundamentals (I did).

It's just the 'no true scotsman' fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
Sorry, but if I'm maintaining your code, I care, very much, about which language you chose and how adequate it is for what the thing does.
> 2) The disruption will have introduced hypotheticals that nay spiral out themselves (butterfly effect style) e.g. some retailer may have lost a customer who went elsewhere, some supplier may have lost a retailer who went elsewhere, etc

And some retailers and suppliers may have gained customers
Really cool! Build a Video Chat App, socket.io, peerjs, codesphere
I can email the SSE Dean or the IT head to find out why. This seems weird.
After re-reading this whole thread I think I now know *why* we disagree: our level of "pragmatism" (or maybe "time scale") is different :)

You favor limiting the spread of misinformation today to prevent major issues *now* (because, as you pointed out, it has been demonstrated that people can be manipulated).

I favor open access to all type of information (even factually incorrect one) to prevent censorship and make it impossible for any particular government or group to control what citizens have access to (who decides what is good? Maybe, in 500 years, the "world government" decides that people with green eyes must be exterminated and that any opposing voice must be silenced).

You want results "now" and I aim for results in the "next hundred years".

But I can perfectly understand your point of view as other popular questions can also be reduced to a similar disjunctive (ex: "should our generation give up some commodities to leave a better world to our grand-children?").

It's a difficult question... and I think it is safe to say that it's OK for us to agree that we disagree :)
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> What about serialization makes it so intractable? Could some kind of language support make it better?

I've thought about serialization a lot over the years, and I think a big part of the problem is that we try to map our programming language data types directly to serialized types (e.g. mapping JSON objects to Rust structs). That can be useful, but I think often the serialized representation is sufficiently different from the desired data type that it's not good enough. So we end up with one set of data types for serialization/deserialization, and a bunch of code that maps between those and the desired representation.

I wonder if a system similar to Scheme's `syntax-rules` (or Rust's `macro_rules!`) for mapping the serialized data into the program's data types (and vice-versa) would be a nice mechanism.
If 401k contributions are included in earnings, why shouldn't pensions be?
I would love to see election reform, but how to implement it so that it is not (perceived as) one party locking the other out of power indefinitely? I propose a 16 year lag from it becoming law to implementation becoming mandated: if the opposing party comes to power and has different ideas, they can then modify the law, resetting the counter. This might encourage some level of compromise.

Alas, the fact that gerrymandering is still performed by both parties (in different states) inspires less than optimism.

I'm interested to know what HN might come up with.
I contest that organized religion, particularly Christianity has done net positive to the world though. From the crusades til now, Christianity has always seemed to demonize other groups, and for people in those groups especially (non-Christians, gays, women), the church has not done any good for them whatsoever.

But even I accept your argument that they had, why is organized religion the only way to achieve that good? Why not provide societal benefit through secular and people focused governance, for instance? Why does the teachings of thousands of years old people have to do anything with it, even if we do cherry pick them and only listen to the parts that we as a modern society agree are good? When you draw your philosophy from a book that says at the end “don’t change this or you’re going to hell”, then it’s little surprise that extremists arise with what are actually fairly reasonable interpretations of the Bible.
Easy or not, the pay numbers are obscene regardless. Let alone how many employees are in the 100k club. The danger is how much this contributes to their retirement payout.

California had to change the law to prevent ridiculous retirement payouts and that is where the ire belongs. There is no logic to public employees pulling down 100k retirements but this is where we are. People bemoan private employer payouts need to be watching their backs as they are fleeced by public employee salaries, boosted by overtime and other bonuses, and then their retirements. My favorite is Forbes's work on Illinois 100k club[1]

Look, the average pension for many public servants is not all that grand, it is the big money people who are fleecing not only the tax payers but other public service retirees. There is every reason a retiree should have a good retirement payout but when you start getting into multiples of what the average income of someone in your state is someone needs to step back and say, what gives.

Let alone the pension debt Illinois carries - this is not uncommon across the country

[0]https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-wo...

[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2018/10/26/ill...

[2] https://www.illinoispolicy.org/moodys-report-illinois-pensio...
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i'm curious how the OOTB JSX support will be used
I live in a smallish town. One positive side effect of pandemic and WFH is more socializing with neighbors. Kinda a different form of socializing, but it is a positive upside.
The Pechora–Kama Canal test used three "clean" nukes and today the dose measures between 9 and 70 μSv [micro-Sieverts] per week.

This is about the same as the local natural background dose.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02659...

You can estimate your personal yearly dose with this calculator, though for me it only works in firefox.

https://www.epa.gov/radiation/calculate-your-radiation-dose
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This is a terrible article. In this case, "lifeguard" is anyone in the 1000 employee lifeguard unit. The $392k is attributed to Fernando Boiteux who is an Assistant Chief in the LA Fire Department. Do you know a lot of people with 1000 people reporting to them who make less than 400k?
How about the way my parents found each other: traditional dating?

Can we stop trying to go to absurd extremes with everything here?
Some tug boats did sail in from far away places.
CloudFlare has a "Auto" TTL option, which is the default, and required to be used when reverse proxying through CloudFlare. There is nothing magical about "Auto" TTL, though: it appears to literally always be 299 seconds. A lot of low TTLs you see are probably caused by CloudFlare.
Lifeguards are first responders and medical professionals in a specialized field.

Boiteux is also a firefighter managing 900 personnel.

So yeah, I'm ok with him having a salary equivalent to a Staff Software Engineer.
> You can avoid drowning by simply choosing not to go swimming.

That's a personal decision, not a community one. At the community level that would be equivalent to banning visiting the beach. But yes, the rest of your comment definitely applies.

However as of right now, LA's government does not believe this to be silly.
From the wikipedia article on the tiaga bombs.

> "the current external γ-ray dose rate to a human from the contaminations associated with the 'Taiga' experiment was between 9 and 70 μSv [micro-Sieverts] per week". The report also recommends periodic monitoring of the site was recommended. In comparison, typical exposure from naturally occurring background radiation is about 3mSv per year, or 57μSv per week
"Middle class" is generally not a useful concept. The only two classes that matter to anyone but an academic are "working class" and "ruling class" (or as I like to call it, "owning class").

People often confuse the symbols of class for the class itself. Baz who grew up poor in a dilapidated tower block, speaks exclusively in east london slang, but now owns his own plumbing firm and drives a £100k land rover (with custom plates that say "working class") is not working class any more. He owns for a living. On the other hand a footballer who makes a huge salary is working class, because they have to work in order to get paid.

In the US and UK both this is deliberately obscured, but in different ways. In the UK, class is seen as inherited social status. In the US, class is seen as more or less a synonym for income or wealth. Both of these are wrong.
Jesus drove people out of the temple with a whip for disrespecting it. He called people (these are all based on KJV translation) "generation of vipers", "hypocrites", "whited sepulchres full of dead men's bones", he said it would be better some people to not have been born, that it would be better for some to have a millstone hanged on their neck and be drowned in the sea.

None of that was hatred. It was love. He was dealing with people's religious and moral failings.

It is not love to tell people they are okay when they are morally bankrupt.
Yeah, they have dredgers around for maintenance of the canal. This clip was from at least 6 months ago. https://youtu.be/P6st0k7KJmk

From the YouTube clip, it def seems like it's normal to see them when passing through the canal.
The conservation agriculture I'm familiar with uses less fuel, less labour, less fertilizer, less tillage but more pesticide than either conventional or organic agriculture. Another name for this type of agriculture is zero-till.
the livestock loss will be interesting to research as it was highlighted there was a significant number of ships carry live cargo.

Odd, the Sun has a great article on this floating job

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14484562/suez-canal-ship-reflo...
Just to head off any speculation about the reasons I didn't study CS books, it's 100% because I Just Forgot

> While reviewing this post, my friend Alex Koppel suggested another idea: comparing how much the corresponding language manuals talk about memory manipulation. In retrospect, that’s a much better idea than trawling Usenet posts. I just didn’t think of it at the time, probably because I was already trawling Usenet to understand the job market. That’s a good research lesson: don’t over fixate on one primary source.
Ransomware admin is refunding victims their ransom payments
They are now, look at the linked commit.
> I understand that now nobody can make e-ink display without paying fees, which I find insane as it is not an original idea

What exactly do you mean when you say "make e-ink display"? That's exactly like saying "nobody can make Microsoft operating system without paying fees". E-Ink is a company that makes lots of different types of displays that vary hugely. Do you mean an electrophoretic display or bistable displays? If yes, then you're quite mistaken because there have been and are lots of companies and startups making bistable displays. E-ink is just the most well known one. Others like Clearink have been winning awards at display shows but have not yet been able to scale their tech successfully. If no, then what exactly are you talking about?

> which I find insane as it is not an original idea.

Your point would be strengthened if you had been able to accurately explain what "idea" you're actually talking about.

> Something that anyone researching the field could come up with shouldn't be patentable. Currently the system favours the rich and promotes walled gardens.

Please try to explain yourself better please. I work in the display industry and I've never heard this from industry insiders. Since you think there is a walled garden, tell us, what specific patent (since you mentioned a patent) is blocking you from building your display product? If you try to reply with responses like "all their patents" or "patent thickets" then it will be clear you're not actually walled out of anything.
Someone I know got their career start as a janitor. Their first boss would teach technique by saying things like, "We used to have this guy, he mopped the floor like this (demonstrating), can you believe that? I do this now."
Richard Feynman has anecdotes on how the AEC was soliciting cockamamie ideas for applications of nuclear explosives to civil engineering to patent at Los Alamos. They weren't very serious, although.
GitLab also has all of these features, and it had many of them before GitHub, like built-in CI/CD. But for some reason I'm being downvoted for suggesting it on HN, curious why.
I can only speak for myself, but I try to treat the people I encounter well because people that don't are, in my experience, dicks. No higher power necessary. I've also found in my life that trying to derive purpose from some external motivator (religion, self-help books, etc.) is a recipe for temporary motivation only. Real, lasting change comes from self-discovery and discipline, in my opinion.
> To a large extent religious participation does seem to make people behave more pro-socially.

That's different from religiosity correlating with "being a good person" though, which I'm interpreting as "the ability to act both morally and independently".

It does seem that some people need religion to be a good person, because they lack the moral structure to do without (due to trauma or bad parenting or whatever). For those people, religion allows them to function in society with a set of business rules, but they still tend to lack a solid moral/ethical decision matrix to function on their own or act outside the contexts they have rules for.
>Chinese researchers published the genetic sequence of the virus. Moderna’s mRNA vaccine recipe was finalized in about 48 hours.

Maybe it was 'finalized' (whatever that means) in 48 hours, but this article gives a more accurate picture:

https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/vaccines/tiny-tweak-behi...

>Moderna and Graham’s lab also had a template to work from because they’d spent several years designing an experimental mRNA vaccine for the MERS coronavirus.
They run the canal at maximum capacity indefinitely. Due to the lack of downtime, any delays are in effect the same thing as a cancel from the perspective of the canal owners.
I could see it as being an either/or thing - you can get an annual stipend on home office gear or reimburse part of the cost of a coworking space.