skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Now every single indicator of courtship is at all time lows, mental illness is off the charts and we're all miserable.

I'm guessing this has far more to do with political and economic changes than decline in religion.
You should check out threat modeling.
I’m curious how these clean bombs differ from neutron bombs (which I thought had a point of minimizing leftovers by using everything up in the neutron blast)?
I was going to post "You just fucked with the wrong dupe detector" but I don't want to shame anybody so will leave that here instead.
MIT study finds ‘systematic’ labeling errors in popular AI benchmark datasets
+1 on this
I’ve used shuttle as the primary way to access one of my customers network for a year now, it haven’t gotten around to set up proper VPN access for external people yet. But it’s been working surprisingly well. I need to rerun the command a couple of times a bad day but other then that it’s behaved quite good as an ad-hoc VPN. You can also use a jump-host, I do this since I can only access ssh on one of the servers from the IP of one of my servers.

The only thing I could wish for would be an auto reconnect feature, been thinking about wrapping it in a shell loop to handle it but it requires sudo so I’ve been putting it of, I don’t like having a long running script with sudo.
Facebook accidentally announces “Re-Entry” social network targeted at prisoners
Numi – Calculator app for Mac
There’s always a valid point to be made regarding end users not “giving a shit” about the tech stack used to build your product.

But this author’s writing does not sound like he’s currently on one of those teams of people who produce sloppy, unmaintainable code because they can’t be bothered to stop and think of the larger structure of what they’re trying to build.

Because when you’re in that sort of situation, bring on the craftsmanship talk, please!
The transition date for TCP was Jan 1, 1983 (see RFC 801 and various other documents by Crocker, et al). I don't recall any shutdowns, though my Arpanet access at the time was limited to a dial-up TIP and some PDP-10s at MIT, and I might not have noticed. There wasn't any kind of summer holiday shutdown at the university I was at, nor at NBS (where I was interning).

The grad-level computer networking course I was taking in early '82 mentioned ISO (we used Tannenbaum, recently published, as a base text). The professor pretty much threw his hands up at all the ISO layers. "This is not how you implement networking in real life."

There's a lot to like in IPV6, as well as some things to hate. Transitions remain difficult, but seem unavoidable (sooo much software smuggles IP addresses in 32-bit ints, and changing millions of lines of code and updating database schemas to match is not very much fun).
Well, it's not the end of the world (and I feel much more sympathy for this guy's poor tenants than I do for pfSense customers), but...

Bad code going unreviewed from a single author into a main branch from which people build production systems is definitely beyond "Big whup" severity. The equivalent would be if one person pushed an unreviewed driver into Fedora Rawhide or an Ubuntu Beta, say. It's a clear violation of the principles behind the service the distro is supposed to be providing for you.

There are a zillion ways to make sure code gets reviewed before merge. Linux does it informally via Signed-off-by headers and a tree structure of trusted maintainers. Services like github provided automated tooling to enforce review. FreeBSD needs to just pick one. It's 2021, for goodness sake. A fixed COMMITTERS list just isn't going to cut it.
The state I'm living in has gone through at least 3 major completely different reopening plans. None of those revisions included a full return to pre-pandemic normal. None of those plans were followed at all.

There is no excuse to not have a fixed set of KPI's with a well defined end-state that includes a full return to normal. "Science", even rapidly changing science, doesn't tell you what KPI's to use. If the goal is hospital capacity, great... use that. If you can't formulate and articulate the goal, including a full return to normal, maybe you shouldn't have imposed the restrictions in the first place.

Honestly the fact that the plans keep shifting lead me to believe that the governor isn't actually looking at the data at all but is instead trying to feel the room to see when it is politically "safe" to fully reopen. A strong indicator that the time to reopen was a long time ago...
Most lifeguards will never be put in a situation like that hence why he was officially recognized for going above and beyond.
Everyone talks about how the blockchain can solve so many problems. This is a problem that the blockchain can actually solve!

The government creates a public ledger of every vaccine dose. It's then transferred to the maker of the does, who transfers it to the vaccinator, who scans your QR code representing your wallet, and then transfers the dose to your wallet.

Anyone who wants to verify your status would be able to see exactly which dose you got and when, and we could track how many doses are in warehouses.

And the system is anonymous until you give your wallet code to someone. So it's up to you how far and wide you wish the share that information and whether or not you give that entity personally identifiable information with it. You could even make it illegal to store personal information with the wallet ID.
Amazon security staff reported its own tweets as “suspicious,” fearing hack
Lincoln was a person. The Bible is meant to be the actual teachings of divinity. That's a key difference.

If we're meant to update for modern morality maybe we need a Newer Testament. Until then, the ambiguity of the words of long dead shepherds leave quite a lot to be misinterpreted, as well-intentioned your interpretation may be.
Guessing this is humorous, but it does seem like a job that could one day benefit from being automated. The job is highly rules-based, and the rules are well documented requirements.

The biggest two problems that immediately come to mind:

1) Current ATC communication with planes happens by human voice over radio. Wouldn't want to trust an AI's speech recognition over that medium, so you'd probably have to mandate some kind of pilot-ATC interface that all planes would need to carry. You'd get huge pushback from the community of small planes. Probably from commercial pilots as well, since they'd have to train on the new system, and it would likely add to their cognitive load, at least short term.

2) We've put a ton of effort into producing a good radar picture to let controllers know where planes are, but it's far from perfect and requires some intuition. Radar waves bend due to atmospheric conditions, and it's difficult/impossible to distinguish real targets from various forms of clutter. The heuristics we currently use are pretty amazing, but you still get things popping up on ATC's radar scope that aren't really there.
When 1 thing happens that can be used to justify encroachment on our privacy congress gets their war cries ready and demands immediate change.

When thousands and thousands of things happen which justify increased police oversight you hear "it's a complicated issue, we should debate it for a few more decades".
> I believe this was the start of union busting trend.

Union busting is at least as old an American pastime as baseball.
We Rewrote Our USD30B Asset Management Platform in Python
Same here, would not be against that.
>Barbaric by today’s standards, but eminently humane by all other standards until the last 100 years or so.

Why are we judging the laws of an omnipotent being by the standards of humans thousands of years ago? Why can't we judge his laws by the standards of today? Why can't he have made the societies he ruled better for the poor, women, slaves, etc... He could have told the Israelites that women should be equal to men, why didn't he?
What a lot of people would like to have heard in retrospect is something like the following even if a bit sugar-coated:

N95 masks are strongly believed to help but do not buy them. Save them for health care workers. We do encourage you to wear bandanas, gaiters/buffs, homemade cloth masks, or other non-medical PPEs. They are of unknown efficacy but they can't hurt. But don't buy N95s.

Which a lot of people would have heard as: You really should be wearing N95 masks and others won't do you much if any good but we need to save them for the important people.

(At which point, a lot of people would have been F this and tried to buy N95 masks for their own protection.)
It's marketed as a herbicide, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have an impact elsewhere.

For instance, we know that the gut microbiome has wide-ranging effects from digestive disorders to arthritis and auto-immune problems to obesity as well as mood and cognition. Here's a university study showing 54% of the bacteria in human gut microbiome are sensitive to glyphosate: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201120095858.h...

It may be the case that the skyrocketing rates of obesity or depression/anxiety or other chronic conditions have roots in chemicals like glyphosate disrupting gut microbiome or endocrine systems.
Use this all the time. It's very useful.
Slides: https://github.com/cloudflare/jgc-talks/raw/master/nginx.con...

Above link is direct download, which I'm biased towards since Chrome's PDF viewer supports left and right arrow keys.

Protip for users with tiny* screens: right-click video twice, enable Picture-in-Picture, arrange video so slides are still visible so you can follow along)

(* Specifically <24", ie laptops)
The nuclear option between men is basically a physical fight. The nuclear option for women in any circumstance can be a serious character attack on a man. The explosive is completely weaponized and can be deployed in a variety of ways (air/land/sea, or in this case sexual harassment, workplace harassment, reputation destruction in your peer sphere at school, work, etc). It’s an extremely tactical option that is readily available.

All it takes it is for a girl to even utter ‘that guy is kind of creepy’, and boom, people will extrapolate from something as simple as that.
I brought this up in Sunday school at a baptist church and it didn't go over well...

I said we are gods on this Earth because of our power to initiate the creation of a new life and the power to end a life.
Cyberpunk 2077 patch 1.2 'coming soon' with hundreds of fixes
"The next major patch for Cyberpunk 2077 is coming soon, developer CD Projekt Red said Monday, and will include hundreds of bug fixes and gameplay changes to the game on Google Stadia, PlayStation 4, Windows PC, and Xbox One.

As previously announced by CD Projekt, Cyberpunk 2077 patch 1.2 will address the game's unusually fast and lethal police response times, and offer some much-needed options to driving vehicles (and getting them unstuck from the environment). According to CD Projekt Red's extensive patch notes, the update will also fix visually amusing bugs, like NPCs moving after they've been killed and V's "incorrect position while riding a motorcycle."

The update will also address numerous crashes. CD Projekt Red says the update will address all platforms, but many crash-related fixes "make a bigger difference on last generation consoles and lower performance machines."

Cyberpunk 2077's second major patch, part of CD Projekt's longterm plan to polish its highly anticipated but botched release, does not have a release date. It was expected much earlier, but was delayed due to a hack at the game developer. The first major update, patch 1.1, was released in January.

Read on for the full patch notes for Cyberpunk 2077 patch 1.2. [...]"
Care to comment on why it's going out in batches?
Some alternative church-like organizations further out on the no-theism-required spectrum (maybe more limited in area affected).

- Ethical Cultures Society

- Unitarian Universalist Church

- Quaker meetings (for non-pastoral Friends, theism is present but not necessary).
There is a term for the cost of just holding something you can't move: the carrying costs. Different commodities have different carrying costs, so you can look at the forward prices for wheat, oil, pork bellies and so on and get a sense for how much it costs to hold on to something for a week or a month etc.

(On rare occasions the curve is inverted)

It won't tell you how much it costs this tanker to delay delivery by a week but it will tell you on average how much "the market" values a week's delay.

It is still a chore to go through and tally all the goods but I think a few main goods (oil, wheat, coffee etc) would account for a large chunk of it and if the carrying costs as a whole would give a sense of the order-of-magnitude of the economic loss.

The loss itself may be distributed between various risk sharing parties like insurance companies and so forth.
Is this the religious equivalent of a parent making the kid smoke a carton of cigarettes at once, to turn them off smoking?
The canal revenues were down about $15m/day. If it really cost $7b a day, then Egypt is massively undercharging.
Great! For even better results, please, set the background-color to `#C0C0C0`. (Netscape default. However, I'm not sure, if this was also the default on Windows, as well.)

Compare this bookmarklet: https://www.masswerk.at/bookmarklets/netscapify/
This belongs to the same category as 'newly baked CS grads getting $500K from top companies'.
It sounds like it means "there were a few things that I still used Amazon for, but now that my account is locked I don't even do that". They've stopped buying from Amazon altogether.
The Difference Between Free Software and Open Source
It really is, especially considering how different the rest of the organism turned out to be.
One data point in a sea of billions does not a pattern make.
> There's a pretty massive gulf between a heavy equipment operator who's making token contributions to retirement and would have a tough time with the mortgage if his spouse lost their job and a brain surgeon with maxed out retirement accounts, kids at ivy leagues and a vacation cottage on an exclusive lake.

The only real difference between these two people is the number of missed paychecks they are away from bankruptcy. Sure, that number is probably small for the equipment operator and large for the surgeon, but it's still a number. Their wealth goes down when they're not working. In contrast to the class of people whose wealth goes up when they're not working.
Getting hired to guard a pool is a completely different experience than getting hired for a beach.
Wasn't supposed to be an analogy but rather a simplification of the fact that delayed goods do not translate 1:1 to losses.
"YC W19 Reject"... lol. It's true! Fun story.
Did the Suez crisis have any implications for your business?
Do you suppose it has anything to do with all the infrastructure that had to be built out new for the baby boomers? All of a sudden you needed twice as many grade schools, then middle schools, etc.

We don't do catholic boarding schools as much any more (too much bad PR of several flavors, for example) but they definitely did at the time. I wonder if the church-going came first or the religious schools did.

I think a number of the traditionally religious immigrant waves arrived well before WWI, so that probably doesn't have anything much to do with it, unless those groups had far more children post WWII...
I’m not surprised my generation is only considered worth mentioning when money is involved. Whatever.
Yes! Some of my favorite, and definitely less well known than Narnia.
So in other words exactly like Astra Zeneca. A good vaccine whose reputation was marred by nationalism-driven botched design of experiment and clinical trials.

That said, the effectiveness of Sputnik V has been established to Western standards now, so the only reason for the EU to refuse it when it is in crying need for vaccines is political, not scientific or medical.
Maybe this is not super relevant, but my favorite hack is that any tree-like structure like this can be browsed with ncdu. Here's a gist for breaking down redis traffic by command for example:
https://gist.github.com/petethepig/0f33c910fb2edad8969a5775e...
Not once is it claimed that they are unique in this ability, infact the first line of the article:

> Octopuses have alternating periods of "quiet" and "active" sleep that make their rest similar to that of mammals, despite being separated by more than 500 million years of evolution.
They are illegal in US, differently from many of the civilised countries.
> You really cannot speak your mind with a female coworker in the United States.

Perhaps, but this is a different matter to how the poor are treated, wouldn't you say?

Do you feel that Canada also treats the poor poorly? or that it has merely also inherited Anglo-Saxon gender chivalry? As I'm sceptical of the former, but not the latter.

> In relationships, they know that they can always take the children. The government/society fully supports them regardless of the circumstances. A big female content creator in the U.S., neekolul, went on twitter to trash her ex-husband despite the fact that she was tried and convicted of felony domestic violence for stabbing him during a fight, but her fellow female content creators shrugged and supported her anyway. It's the most horrible example of many, but the point is, it's real. The people who don't believe it are delusional or have an abusive partner themselves.

Well, these would indeed be some of the doomsday stories of tribalism and gender relationships I often hear of Anglo-Saxon culture where everyone has decided who is right and who is wrong based on little more than “What team do you play for?”, that I have never experienced in the Netherlands.

But, then again, such stories, as in this case, seem to once again come from a team, and are anecdotal, so perhaps exaggerated. The other team frequently paints a doomsday scenario in the opposite direction, of which I am as sceptical as I am of this one due to it.

> I'm curious. Do you have any colleagues from the UK or from southern Europe? How do you treat them? I am similarly guarded with women from these places, although not nearly as much as I felt I had to be in the United States.

None that spent their formative years outside of the Netherlands, no.

The one very mild experience I had in life with someone who did seem to on some level believe in “gender relations” was indeed with a friend of mine who had Finnish parents, and was born in the U.K. but lived in the Netherlands since four years old and spoke Dutch accentlessly. Perhaps it's a coincidence that this is the one person who had such perspectives, but perhaps it isn't; it does make one wonder that the one person happened to be a natal foreigner, but his foreign ancestry was seldom something that came up.

There were certainly not gendered excuses or accusations of sexism, but there were sometimes remarks in the vein of “Are you even aware of that I'm female in how you treat me?”, at least initially, after which it mostly went away.
The Detail Story of the Walls of Jericho – Gospel of God
> ""How is it possible to test for "supernatural behavior"?

- "I'm a psychic and can tell what's in these containers without looking"

- "I can detect water with magic rods"

- "I can heal you with the power of god"

It's worth watching An Honest Liar about the life of the Amazing Randi.

What's interesting is even when Randi shows people how they're being tricked they refuse to believe it.

The above examples are pretty easy to test (and people do), but believers just ignore the results or make up reasons why results don't matter or can't be tested.
I want to say that the sole determinant of my preference for a programming language is how well that language communicates the intent and knowledge of past and present authors to those who will maintain and extend the code in the future.
A tweet where the lawyer states that other media outlets respond to appeals to report the same news with silence: https://www.twitter.com/SDonziger/status/1376212433258258435
Also http since https was not supported at the time. What a way to commit into an idea!
True, but staking pools might help mitigate the latter issue.
QAnon is also a filler of this void.
According the founder of the company making the eInk display used in the post we're talking about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25067359

> I hate to say it, but the only way we could have brought the price down with current quantities is if we built an inferior product as the price right now is the function of Bill-of-Materials.

Doesn't sound like patents is the problem
The comedian Emo Philips has a well-known joke about religion that may explain some of the decline in membership...

"Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?"

He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me, too! What franchise?" He said, "Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said, "Northern Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?"

He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region." I said, "Me, too!"

Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over."
And yet you are right about it being legal at the time. The word has multiple meanings, one of which is as a synonym for "correct". This is how it was used in the context above as the commenter made no reference to morality.