skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Exodus 21:16 KJV And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

The only lawful way to enter slavery was debt. Jews were freed in seven years and non-Jews in at most 40 years. This would actually be indentured servitude. Barbaric by today’s standards, but eminently humane by all other standards until the last 100 years or so.

> Exodus 21:20-21 KJVS
[20] And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. [21] Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.

The punishment implied here is death (an eye for an eye).

Someone owes you a ton of money. How do you get it from them? Today, large scale professional lenders spread out risk, but that wasn’t always the case. Instead, historically, not paying meant selling them into slavery to recoup what loss you could. Now, how do you ensure you get your money through their labor?

The logic follows. Likewise, if killing your slave risks your own death, it’s not something you’ll take lightly. If you did give out such a beating, you’ll be praying they pull through and are likely to never do it again. This falls into a similar category:

> Exodus 21:18-19 KJVS
[18] And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: [19] If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

In fact, I don’t think there was a penalty if the slave fought back against such a beating.

Even so much as knocking out a tooth was reason to be forced to free your slave.

> Exodus 21:26-27 KJVS
[26] And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. [27] And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

Once again, such severe restrictions did not exist anywhere else in all known history. Jesus said that some restrictions (he directly referenced divorce) were less that God really desired because of humanity’s stubbornness. Divinely inspired or not, they were still revolutionary in their morality.
> the Eleuther team has curated and released a high-quality text data set known as the Pile for training NLP algorithms.

This includes HN [i] HackerNews 3.90GiB 0.62%

Which if SciFi has taught me anything means we are all uploaded now and will live forever.

[i] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.00027.pdf
Interviewing DMs on twitter is research?

Whats wrong with looking at CS textbooks and see when the topic became common?
Understandable ^_^. It was this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QoT9fmPYr8
("Rust Lifetimes" by Doug Milford)

Imho the great thing about that explanation is how smoothly it moves from the basics to the more detailed parts of lifetimes. That made it easier for me to see the connections to the rest of the language.
What are your recommendations for real news? I've heard FT, WSJ, and the economist, and am looking to finally commit and sign up instead of relying on free. You get what you pay for is true in this case, and I don't wanna put drama based narratives in my head, which form my perception of the world.
I’d prefer my scientists to be less confident in their understanding of the world, and more humble about their knowledge. Maybe reading Kuhn does that for most people today, but there’s a long tradition of religion fulfilling a similar function, allowing “mystery” back in, emphasizing the imperfection of man. Religion should instill an attitude of “I don’t know, but I want to know.” That’s the right attitude for discovery.
I'm glad it works for you. For me there's a crucial jump in fluency of using something graphical to select lines that makes willing to be more precise.

I think a buffer of lines you navigate is just the right metaphor for working with a bunch of text. It's why line editors are generally considered obsolete.
I do believe that this incident was a demonstration of how easy it would be to disrupt the world economy via terror.
Thousands of people producing wildly inconsistent stories, including many who reported not seeing anything at all, and a wide range of photographers who all failed to get a picture of the purported "miracle".

Get a bunch of people convinced they'll see a miracle and make them stare at the sun, and sure, you'll be able to get a lot of people saying they've seen a lot of things.
Looks/works nice in lynx (text browser) as well, where google news itself does not. Bookmarked.
Sweeping climate law zeroes out carbon pollution for Massachusetts
I do love me some Pythonista, but it never occurred to me to run an SSH host in it. I wonder if this would be any easier today using iSH instead.
It is archived at https://archive.is/66zmT . You can generally go to that site and see if a url has been archived.
> This is low skilled labor

Agree with everything you said except this.

Teenagers lifeguarding at suburban pools is unskilled labor. For an urban beach, I want someone with medical training—say, a paramedic—as well as knowledge of the local oceanography and meteorology. They need to be able to pull people out of the water, yes, but also be able to close beaches when they become unsafe and anticipate when things will become unsafe.
>the hydrodynamic effects of these large ships in relatively shallow and narrow canals is underappreciated

I'm really surprised I haven't seen this mentioned. A long time ago, I was trained as a merchant ship's navigation officer. One of the things we were taught (but unfortunately had few opportunities to practice), was using "bank cushion" or "bank suction" to use the hydraulic interaction between the hull and a narrow body of water like a river to navigate tight curves. These days, there are simulations that I'm sure capture these effects to it's easier to get some experience with them.

Of course, in the case of the Ever Given it seems that the grounding was mainly due to not compensating for the strong cross winds.
Wow, evil landlords, C being bad. All my favorite things to discuss in one article!
In some places, the people who hold the purse strings are rather far removed from the actual developers, that it's a lot easier to just go with something that's "free".

I think this is one of the reasons why cloud computing monoliths like AWS are so successful. It's way easier to set up a $50/month VM on AWS then to get permission to spend $5/month on a VM elsewhere.
Neighbor Storage (YC W19 Reject) just secured $53M in funding and is hiring
Glad to see this is happening even with the largest employers. And for those employees who absolutely need that in-office/social experience, then you can offer them a credit to go rent a coworking space for the days that they need it.
(Un)signed commits: how we found a (non) security bug in GitHub
Curiously, one of the things that gives pilots and airline workers such powerful bargaining leverage, is exploiting safety regulations. If an airline is playing hardball with the union, the pilots go out of their way to create flight delays based on safety double-checks or "concerns" (a form of "work-to-rule" [0] strike), which the FAA gives them wide latitude to do.

Unfortunately, this works against those who work directly for those government agencies. At the end of the day, bargaining power comes from holding value hostage; and we react differently to holding on-time flight arrivals hostage, versus holding public safety hostage. It's a wicked problem for anyone who works in service of the latter.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule
Facts are supposed give rise to an emergent narrative. That is good journalism. What we have in 2021, are people curating facts and only including those that fit their pre-determined narrative.
It's interesting how your comment hasn't been flagged into the ground and garnered a response from dang. I guess sarcastic flamebait is OK when it agrees with the HN hivemind.

(meanwhile, my comment will be flagged in 3... 2... 1...)
There's no shortage of applicants. They get tons of applicants every year, but the FAA academy can only accept a limited number to their 3-4 month training program. Then they wash out roughly 50% of the trainees with their final exam, which is a set of ATC scenarios on a simulator. Existing controllers have to take the same exam to become a trainer at the academy, and roughly 1/3 of them also fail, so one could argue that the standards are set far too high. The survivors go on to their first posting, where they spend another year or two training before they can actually control live traffic on their own, and more wash out in this stage if they fail to certify.
Exactly.
Fundamentalists miss the actual fundamentals.

People mistake the American Evangelical Christianity that is a few hundred years old for the church established by the apostles nearly 2000 years ago.
That church was it which considered the weak as equally valuable as the strong, that insisted on helping the poor, that believed men and women both to be of the utmost value.
That established hospitals to care for the sick.
All of these things were not the norm.
The weak were considered less valuable.
Women were not worth as much as men.
Sick people should be avoided.
The poor aren’t worth helping.

People are rightfully scornful of American evangelicalism, but they throw the baby out with the bath water and try to pretend that the orthodox (in sense of true and right) church has not done tremendous good in this world.
Jesus was the ultimate troll to the religious authorities, that's why they killed him.

Another great example of his trolling was when he was cornered by a bunch of people wanting to stone him to death:

>31 Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him, 32 but Jesus said to them, 'I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?'
33 We are not stoning you for any good work,' they replied, 'but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.'
34 Jesus answered them, 'Is it not written in your Law, 'I have said you are 'gods''? (He's quoting the 82nd Psalm of the Old Testament here)[1] 35 If he called them 'gods,' to whom the word of God came--and Scripture cannot be set aside-- 36 what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, 'I am God's Son'? 37

[1]82 Psalm if the Old Testament: I said, ‘You are “gods”; you are all sons of the Most High.’
Self-Driving Cars' Look, Feel Is Clearer Through Final U.S. Safety Rules
Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18331219 (51 comments)

Google document where the reviewer and Prof Ousterhout had many insightful discussions on abstraction, simplicity of specification vs simplicity of the interface : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LLVzpncsDJREybjKxPmgllfX...

Google group with a longer thread between the two: https://groups.google.com/g/software-design-book/c/DvnQ1Bvqy...
Yep, CSS wasn't really supported anywhere until 1997. Most places were still using font tags and table-based layouts for quite a while after.
How does that work? Don't you have to defend a thesis?
> "we're nice and therefore right"

Golden phrase to describe a lot of folks. If I were to translate, it's behaving pleasantly and politely in order to justify poor decisions.
The verses you mention don't negate the previous ones. Yes, they said the husbands should love their wives, as long as the wives are subservient to their husbands, i.e., both things are considered necessary.
One doesn't. At least not only an optical illusion. There is no consistent set of reports. Given that the reports are all wildly inconsistent and contradictory, and many reported seeing and feeling nothing at all, it's clear the reports can not be be taken at face value.
Or ramming another containership into it.
I'm having trouble find definitive information about what the level of radiation is at the lake today. Does anyone know?
Rust-lang: rustc and cargo found leaking info
The second person on the chart has base pay of 140k, and overtime of 131k. If they have 1.5 overtime rate, then that is an AVERAGE of 62 hours a week, every week.
Is the "benefits" portion mostly money in a retirement account or something though? Otherwise I don't understand how a single person can have $125,900 in benefits.
There are certainly other factors at play in the decline of mainline Protestant churches. I'm not sure that evangelicalism's problems (subject of my comment) imply anything about whether they should be shrinking faster or slower than other types of churches.
Microsoft Graph – Using Outlook Calendar API
The Koch-Backed Effort to Block Election Reform
I prefer magit to other but GUIs, but I think selecting changes is the area it's comparatively weakest (compared to other GUIs, it's far ahead of -p). I'd like a better way to use a mouse, and a way to only commit parts of lines (I know this would involve non-trivial workarounds, but that's why I'm using a git porcelain).

Edit: I also dislike hunks, they never correspond to what I want reliably. Another annoyance is I think magit is quite good at the low level selection in general, but it's hard to get a high level overview because I'm always collapsing and un-collapsing things.
But even Russian/Chinese bots can step up as it is much easier now to flood forums (like reddit) etc, where e.g. a China critic article appears to kill any discussion.
This is probably unpopular here, but I wish people would just stop using Javascript on the server.

Well, I wish they would stop using it period, but at least in the browser it makes some sense.

Edit: to be clear, I have no beef with Typescript, Dart, Clojurescript, and the many other languages that compile into JS. It's JS itself I have issue with. I feel like it gives too much flexibility to young programmers to screw things up. There don't seem to be enough safeguards or training wheels. On large projects its my nightmare.
I used this feature pretty often, but it has one downside: all connections are multiplexed into single one which is not good for performance.

So I've implemented own client which decouples connections from each other: https://github.com/Snawoot/rsp#performance

Basicly, you get working proxy with speed almost as native connection as soon as you have SSH access somewhere.
Gnome 40 – The anti-desktop desktop
Do any ISPs generally change dynamic IPs more often than modem/routers reboot?
> where is the pull for good old family values?

Whose family? Which values?

This honestly just sounds like a “back in my day...” rant to be honest.
> It explains things which our beyond our natural/physical world. Those things impact how we live in this world.

(1) These two statements seem to me to be incompatible. We live in the natural world. If something "outside the natural world" (whatever that nonsensical statement means) affects the natural world, then surely it's partly part of the natural world?

(2) It is not my business to define what e.g. christians believe, but if I am not mistaken the actual resurrection of an actual man is quite central. How is this not a (bold!) claim about the natural world?
Interestingly, in my experience there is always a long tail of laggards after IP changes, where some folks do not notice the change for a very long time or at all. Having a long TTL makes this worse/take longer.
Wait how can you make that claim?
My duder you should watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HipTO_7mUOw
Manhattan especially is conducive to remote working IMHO. There is an incredible amount of collective wasted time due to the nature of commuting into and out of Manhattan. That's not including the more difficult to measure mental and emotional toll of such commutes.

Most people working in Manhattan probably do not live in Manhattan...or even the other NYC boroughs. A huge chunk actually live across the river in NJ.

I welcome remote work, and because my current employer is adamant that it will not be allowed once the pandemic is over, it's definitely another issue that will get me to jump ship.

I may feel differently if it was a different metropolitan area. For example, I am not familiar with the Bay Area commute patterns, but some ex-coworkers who left NYC for the SFBA report that their commutes are now heavenly compared to the hell of Manhattan commuting.
I think we're more on the same page than not.

For Lincoln, celebrate his accomplishments and how he helped us progress. For the difficult things, understand they are artifacts of his time. They are important to understanding him and can further help color who he was.

Reasonable Christians do the same with the Bible.
This is a precursory investigation into some beliefs, using logic instead of emotion: https://m-g-h.medium.com/in-data-we-trust-2978dacc8c22
People seek power, and God can be thought of as the highest form of power. Religion empowers some people by building a relationship between them and the supreme power of God. It also offers other empowering benefits like community, tradition and sense of purpose. But our will to power can be satisfied in many ways, and the opportunities for pursuing power have increased over time. Organized religion is being out-competed by alternative sources of satisfaction of the will to power.
What's really going to cause is a stir is the equal pay for equal work movement. The more remote the workplace gets, the less it will make sense for employers to pay premiums just based on location.
As someone who went in the opposite direction, I observed as I got older that “evidence based reasoning” is less useful than I had assumed. Nearly everyone has beliefs about the world that are based on faith whether they call it that or not. Very few political premises are based on scientific evidence that’s well established as say anthropogenic climate change. For the most part the data is mixed and hard to interpret and peoples’ views aren’t really based on the data anyway. (Try talking with a gun control advocate. First note that homicides went down in Australia after gun buybacks. Note reaction. Then note that homicides were going down at the same rate before gun buybacks as after gun buybacks. Note reaction.)

And basing your world views on faith is fine because for the most part evidence based reasoning can’t really tell you how to structure your communities and economies and raise and educate your children. Not for metaphysical reasons, just because the strong conclusions you can reliably reach with the current state of social and political science is just very limited.
One very useful program on Linux is "tsocks" which allows you to use many command line programs transparently with a SOCKS proxy. It works using LD_PRELOAD to intercept libc network functions. It hasn't had much development work recently, however.
What a beautiful idea. Like the application of quick analysis of ls or logs. Although now we are typically outputting JSON and collecting for Kibana.
I was in the exact same place as you about 10 years ago.

A key thing for me (I'm still not religious, though I'm religion-adjacent in some ways) was seeing that religion - despite what some would tell you - is at its best when it's not made to be about material truths at all. Its truths, really, are truths about the human condition and how best to live it out.

In this sense, even as someone who doesn't believe in metaphysical spirits, the heart of what they're claiming (if you really dig down deep past many of the surface-level particulars) contains a lot of truth.
> 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?

These are already in place. Most panels are looking for trajectories of illness and hospital capacity. Note, I have found these metric-based plans much easier to find for certain states:
https://covid19.ca.gov/safer-economy/
https://www.flgov.com/wp-content/uploads/covid19/Taskforce%2... (see page 9)
https://forward.ny.gov/metrics-guide-reopening-new-york (see "Diagnostic Testing and Contact Tracing Capacity")
https://www.mass.gov/doc/reopening-massachusetts-may-18-2020...

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

The turnaround time of testing? I'm not sure what you are bringing up here.

> Why has the media constantly downplayed good news?

This isn't a covid problem. For a variety of reasons, the media downplays good news across the board. They have a vested interest in keeping viewers "tuned in" to problems.
And where it's illegal, there's always "blue flu". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_flu
You didn't prove anything. Owners not caring about maintenance doesn't mean unions are good.
The workers will be back. As long as insufficient housing is allowed to be built, the culture will stay monolithic, split between grandfathered aging rich progressives and tech bros.

Either that or the city will crater like Detroit. Always possible.
Here's a story about our Series B funding: https://www.neighbor.com/storage-blog/announcing-neighbors-5...
>Exactly the attitude people used to justify their keeping Jewish and Asian people out of their clubs.

This is not the same thing. Being Asian is not something you "do". Homosexuality is the better analogy. And that's why we've made specific laws to exempt race, religion, gender, and now often sexuality from consequences. There are arguments that these things are different -- and except for religion now largely considered immutable aspects of personality that don't negatively impact the lives of other people.

In a society that's really free you can decide who you want to associate with. And that's our general principle in our society. That's why this is the default position that we take as a society. But we have called out very specific instances where we think that this can result in a tyranny of the majority or those in power, and we've made laws to exempt them.

It sounds like you want new laws so that we shouldn't be able to apply any consequence to people we disagree with? We should just always live with them, regardless of how vile we find their views? Do you really live this?

>In a society that's really free, you have some people who find a genuinely better way, and other people join them out of their own free will.

That is naive and not the point. Everything is not about "finding a better way" to do something. Some of it is simply if person A says they want to kill everyone I love then I probably want to let people know about this and if they happen to own a hamburger restaurant in my neighborhood then I probably don't want to eat there. Should my best friend eat there? I'd prefer they not. You're saying I don't have the freedom, in your free society, to say that I think this is a bad person and I think before your money flows to them I think you should know how bad they are.

It seems like you're trying to have your cake and eat it to. You want to be able to offend people and do things they find morally reprehensible, which is fine. You're free to do so. But then you want to limit other people's ability to react to it.

>We used to know that in the US. We were proud of it, and the world admired us for it -- For the sheer intellectual generosity and triumph of the human spirit it represented. Now, our own younger generations have no clue, and just wish to cram their own opinion down the throats of people they other and despise.

Have you studied US history? This is laughable. Blood was shed for much of the progress in this country. Fortunately, morality has tended to bend toward progress, but its because there were people strong enough to fight for groups that were marginalized.
This is the claim.

Unfortunately, macroeconomic theories are more religion than science.
Very likely he was doing a very dangerous job in 2019, no?