skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are those questions for which you seek answers that you believe some churches are not adequately addressing?
> he OSI model was what smart people who thought deeply about the issue decided we should do.

And yet, they came up with 2 layers of stuff that only a limited number of applications actually use (session, presentation), 2 protocols instead of one at layers 2 and 3, a much more complex layer 4 protocol. The application side of network programming would likely be much more difficult if we had used an OSI network instead of TCP/IP.
WebAssembly would be analogous to CLI (Common Language Infrastructure) in .NET land, which includes CIL (Common Intermediate Language - bytecode) and CLR (Common Language Runtime - VM).

.NET BCL is the Base Class Library. Outside of a few classes in it that are fundamental to the runtime (e.g. Object, String, Array), it's not actually required for cross-language interop on .NET platforms. E.g. if you have two different C compilers both outputting CIL, they can interop just fine without any objects in the picture. WebAssembly interop is really more like that, and doesn't have the high-level object model layer that .NET also has (and which is used in practice).
I agree with you. I beliebe that many people are trying to emulate papers like Vapnik's SVMs in an attempt to appear as ground-breaking because, well, the competition is enormous.

There isn't clear distinction between the engineering aspects and the theoretical aspects, as the article said, it looks as if we are trying to get approval by mathematicians so papers become a convoluted amalgamation of different ideas and more often than not actually provide the worst of both worlds.
That's like saying "the most solid philosophy is shaky math." Yes, while plenty of philosophers have physics envy and wish that they were mathematicians, it's not necessarily the best philosophy that is written from that perspective.
Lodash might, or might not, offer the same guarantees that a stdlib generally offers: backwards and forwards compatibility, a clear deprecation and removal schedule, etc.

It's great to have high quality third party libraries but stuff like most of lodash should be in a stdlib, already.
The explosive eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in 1991 injected enough sulfur-containing compounds into the stratosphere to substantially reduce the amount of sunlight reaching Earth's surface. In response to the increased reflectivity of the planet, the surface temperature cooled by about 0.3°C during 1992, with temperatures returning to their normal levels by 1994. But what happens when a much, much large eruption occurs?

Roughly 74,000 years ago, a "super-eruption" took place in Indonesia, the largest know eruption in the past 100,000 years. The Toba eruption was enormous, throwing out roughly 1000 times as much rock as the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens (Fig. 1). Dust trapped in polar ice cores shows that ejected material spread around the globe, indicating that the eruption injected substantial material into the stratosphere, where it can strongly affect climate. How much and for how long the Toba eruption actually affected climate and life on the Earth's surface has been the subject of intense debate.

https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/shindell_12/
> So many people just want to belong to a group, or were raised in it and know nothing better. They don’t practice what they preach.

And it's not necessarily a bad thing when you frame it as a cultural institution. For many people, they grew up with the church and its traditions. Their families and friends share the same traditions, and it's part of their identity. They may not believe in the supernatural stuff or even feel aligned with the moral system, but it's still part of their culture.

You could say that's hypocritical, but we expect a an attitude of humility in regards to many cultures who have even more "backwards" practices than this. I think we ought to apply the same attitude here.
> Which 2FA would mitigate.

Or Rust, right? </sarcasm> https://github.com/php/karma/search?q=exec
Unfortunately egomaniacs like UBM are on hiring committees. It's worth sticking your fingers into whatever flavor of the week garbage is out there on a weekend so you can atleast talk about it during interviews.
Would you say that your feedback is ever subject to counterpoints, maybe even outright refutation? Or is any pushback just blowing off steam, emoting, and you’re ultimately right in the end?

I notice you “allow for pushback” but do not use the verb “listen” in regard to it.
"Pick the language and stack based on your team’s needs and comfort, based on your business’s need and risk tolerance, and based on how easy it will be to produce software for your target users in that language or framework. That’s your criteria"

Yep especially the part about "how easy it will be to produce software for your target users". Case in point. My company uses PHP/Laravel framework for our SAAS and we didn't just choose it because it was cool but because Laravel comes with a great ecosystem, packages and community and most of my team was good in PHP for a while. I actually tried to go rogue by trying to force Golang on my team (long story) but almost dodged the bullet when my CTO told me to go pound sand just because I wanted to switch to Golang (I am the CEO). I am so glad I have people to tell me that I am wrong when I am.

We have not only created a great product but the time to market is 20 times of what could have been if we had switched to Golang just because it was cool (and don't get me wrong, I love Go as an amateur programmer and even wrote an internal tool in it to help our team). But for our core SAAS product, focus should be on time to market, customer needs and our team's strength and I am so glad we stuck to what works for us, PHP and Laravel in this case. I hardly have a customer asking about the Programming language we use (may be 2-3 have asked in last 7 years and those were technical folks from customer's team)
This is fascinating. As someone who programs primarily in Python, I have been struggling with adapting to a JS-heavy environment in the past several years.

I have began utilizing Node + React for frontend use cases but find that my build pipelines become incredibly cluttered and esoteric rather quickly.

Am going to explore wasm solutions, thanks :)
The thieves filed a fake tax return in my name so they could steal the refund. The IRS takes that stuff pretty seriously, fortunately.
Looks like https://istheshipstillstuck.com/ has updated their message!
Jeremiah Denton Blinking T-O-R-T-U-R-E in Morse Code
Unfortunately at 02:53:44 GMT a web request which, due to high botnet activity and a packet storm, experienced poor routing conditions and unfortunately became wedged in one of the major transatlantic fiber optic cables. Network operators are working to free the stuck request. It is estimated that 50 billion requests per minute are queueing in the cable which will soon become filled if the situation is not resolved quickly. Experts fear the effects to international browsing, and some requests have already begun to take "the long way around."
Completely unrelated, but I think it's a damn shame the new Matrix movie isn't going to be a machine wars prequel.
Does it really matter? We live in a time where there’s no necessary relationship between the government that you pay taxes to and the one that supports the people who pay you. That’s what remote work makes possible. You’re suggesting that free movement is wrong and that people owe a debt to whichever government they happened to be raised under.
I never thought it would be so difficult to convince people that arming robots and blocking out the sun is a bad idea. Didn't anyone see the matrix?!
Trust. I can trust code that is part of Java, .Net or Python standard library is good or decent quality. With npm you can't trust anything, package can go away, malware could be inserted in them, backward compatibility could brake.

Say you grab a 10 years old Java/.Net project source and a node one, and try to setup a developer environment to be able to create a fix. Would you bet that on average is 10X harder to get stuff to run on node ?
There does not seem to be a shortage of church variety to choose from. It's not about churches not being able to answer questions clearly; the reality is just that fewer people believe in gods.

For comparison: in the Netherlands we already dipped below 50% in 2017, and the number of religious people keeps dropping steadily.

In 2019 the remaining religious minority was composed of 20.1% Roman Catholics, 14.8% protestants (various types), 5.0% Muslims, and 5.9% adherents of other religions.

Edit: bear in mind that this is people who consider themselves religious. The percentage of people actually member of a church/mosque/whatever is below 30%.
Well yes, but the point is that everything in the stdlib receives scrutiny and a long-term commitment to mainenance/upkeep. A small proportion of pypi/npm receives these things, but the vast majority is abandonware trash. You only have to briefly scroll through the main PyPI index to realise just how awful it is:

https://pypi.org/simple/ (caution— multi-megabyte html)
Well, that was a really short few weeks.
Her being violent is just your view though. It's not hers. Thus calling a mediator here.

I'd honestly like to hear how you'd have liked her to respond instead of calling the cops. Be silent?

And I'd also honestly like to know how you'd expect your teenage daughter to react if some bully comes and accuses her of something unrightfully, from her perspective.

The answer to both has to be the same since it's the same story, but from different perspectives.

Apparently you don't like "call a mediator" as an answer, presumambly because that answer is only because somebody grew up without a bully and thus has not learned how to handle this kind of thing on their own.

Obviously "fight back" can't be the answer here since you would not have liked that with your neighbor. But "keep silent" can't be the answer either that you are requesting.

So, which is it?
The OP didn’t sound like it was referencing client / server applications, rather writing native applications using web abstractions.
I remember that the main, central example in "Domain Driven Design" was basically software like this.
> It just exists because JavaScript developers don’t want to learn something new.

Are you sure? I started building a desktop application recently. As much as I abhor Electron and refuse to touch anything built on top of it, there basically wasn't any other choice due to the absolutely massive amounts of libraries written for the web. I threw a couple of them in and it saved me at least 90% of work compared to what I would have to do if I'd chosen Qt (or anything else native). Would I rather spend a week and have something to show to my client, or roll up my sleeves and re-implement everything myself (which would take about half a year before I'd have anything working at all)?

(For the record, I didn't downvote you. I consider it a shitty practice to downvote somebody for their opinion, without even replying.)
Is this being posted because of this?

The Working Group's White paper on Japan and covid-19

https://www.kalzumeus.com/covid19-japan-white-paper/

Any updates on this paper and the eponymous group?
They're all just tools. There's things to be discussed tool to tool (language to language) for sure, but I generally agree with the idea here.

>woodworkers take pride in the finished product, and seeing that finish product being used. They are not all hot on the tools they use

For a while another hobby of mine was photography, and oh man photography has so much tool talk online that I lost interest in any online discussions / forums. Comparing this lens to that and so on was so prevalent that it seemed entirely disconnected from the hobby of actually taking a photograph.

Decades ago I took some outstanding photographs with an early days digital camera that would be greatly outclassed by a random camera on a smartphone now, but does that matter?

I suspect it is because high level talk about tools is just easier than talking about the actual code / effort and hard work it is to make a thing.
Having an imperfect moral system imposed is better than having no moral system imposed. You have a context for which you can deviate, but if morality is all relative, many will be lost. You need something to ground yourself to. That's where familial culture and religion come in. One isn't necessarily better than another, but its useful to have as a starting point
> [...] Firefox. Version 86

Few days ago, there was new version released (87). In certain situations, when silent upgrade had been made during using the browser it displays an "Oops, something went wrong" notification with a button to refresh. If you will close and reopen the Firefox the problem will vanish. It is less kind of crash but more likely as problem to free/monkeypatch resources.

I have run into the same problem on Linux but I have quite complicated Firefox configuration with at least few extra profiles (about:profiles).
Define "involved". Then think of all the anti-malaria work around the world. And think about how many government computers around the world run Windows and Office. Then think about who uses Azure.
Also restoring forests may have adverse effect, I've heard different researches on this topic.
How does extraditing him make him pay up anything? It is also not guaranteed that the UK courts would agree to the extradition.
However ineffectual it may feel at times, I and many others are grateful for the nuanced work you do here encouraging us all to maintain constructive, good-faith discourse. Thank you dang!
It's like rigging your house with explosives in case you get hit by a tornado.
Not publishing on github probably removes 99% of the entitled crowd who think github is some sort of google/facebook thing you get some free service from in exchange of losing your privacy or something.

Having a couple of projects on gitlab, with proprietary naugthiness like issue trackers duly disabled, I don't think any human, entitled or not, has noticed them. It's a quiet life at the end of the long tail.
Correct pronunciation is rather relevant for your first point, if you are trying to read poetry.

Both latin and classical greek poetry has a "rhythm" based on the pronunciation of each syllable.
In latin you won't get the rhythm unless you are very knowledgeable of the poetic forms or the correct pronunciation of words, since vowel spelling is overloaded: there are 10 latin vowels (excluding diphthongs) and 5 ways to write them traditionally.

Same goes if you are interested in following a christian mass in latin. Songs make little sense without medieval/vatican pronunciation. I can read an ecclesiastic text, but I get nothing of what they are singing, since I was educated in classical latin.
The alternative is to develop the entire stack in house. Unlikely that you’ll do any better and meanwhile your competitors will pass you by.

It’s really just the consequence of asymmetrical outcomes. Most of the time it all just works and so if you don’t keep up you’re out of business. When something goes wrong the whole world is exposed.

I guess with npm you do have the additional wrinkle that much of it is outside the std lib which increases risk a bit.
Regarding the feeling offended to hearing "no", I think this has little to do with researchers/academics and more to do with managers and people who have to do it.

Generally, I would argue most researchers are very similar to what you attribute to engineers, e.g. they often answer "no" first (I have heard that commented on by outside observers multiple times). In fact researchers (academic or otherwise) are trained to find flaws in systems quickly, which typically involves saying "no that doesn't work because ...".

The flip side of the coin is that managers (and Professors or group leaders are essentially managers) don't like to be told that something can't be done. Especially if it was their idea. This is the same in many industry settings. So they really dislike to be told "no".

The irony is that at some point in the transition from researcher in the trenches (PhD, postdoc ...) to Professor/group leader many start to think that the PhD students/postdocs say know because they don't want to do the work. It's really weird, because pretty much everyone who is in academia is strongly self-motivated as they should know from their own experience.
Many people do practice rationality. The real differentiator is practicing reasonableness.
I would love to see stats on religious prevalence and incidence of crime, homocide, etc. My guess is that such stats won’t put religion (especially Christianity) in a favorable light.
Free? I'll take it!
I could have constructed my previous comment better: yes, nobody's going to prison for sime non-paymens but rather fraudulent activity and failure to compensate the victims of such actions.
Many models workflows in Python: Part II
> Science was never meant to explain those things but we have tried to make it a replacement by trying to naturalize everything. Things that go beyond this realm of understanding and reason.

Criticizing a flashlight for being a poor saw is a flaw in the criticizer, not the flashlight.
So, what's the going rate for pristine lakes nowadays?
It becomes a problem though when you don’t subscribe or even understand the core tenets of your faith - and yet it is your identity. So you vote with your friends and family even if you don’t know what you’re voting for. And when you feel your tribe being threatened, you get defensive and defend your tribe - even when you don’t know what you are defending.

That is why the US has become so divided recently. That is why the blind devotion to a cause should be questioned by every believer. “Wait a sec, do I really believe this? Do I really want this to be my identity?”

You can be a good person without being a Catholic or a Muslim.
libuv bindings ?
I agree. I forget who I'm quoting (and butchering), but it's become one of my favorite aphorisms that "Data is everything. Once you have the right data structures and relationships, the algorithms are apparent."
I agree for every language besides JavaScript.

JavaScript is clearly superior.
> I think it's because the newspaper industry has tunnel vision.

I don't know about that. Most people who wants to read the news will often opt for a tablet like the iPad because not only they can read on it, they can also watch videos, send messages, etc.

It's all about maximizing the use of their money with a device that can do as much as possible. I do have an eReader, but compared to tablet owners it's a small market.
I know we typically don’t upvote humor here, but that was really good.
replace "religion" with "philosophy" and it reads better - after all, religion is just philosophy.
lol thanks!!
I thought I knew what Christianity was, growing up in church. After I attended a theological seminary, I realized I knew nothing. Also I stopped debating religion with people online because I realized majority of religion debates are extremely shallow, yes even those with popular sciences like Richard Dawkins are shallow.

On the other hand, being just a regular member of my church, I also don't want to bring my background when I talk with my church community. Majority of people don't have the education that I had, and to explain half-assedly will just confuse them more.
it seems plastics recycling is a highly controversial topic on it's own:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24441979
At some point they'll probably figure out they can charge money to hide articles.
> The hypocrisy is that they preach and ideal and fail to achieve it?

No, I don't think that's the case. I think the hypocrisy is that they don't try. What turns people off of organized religion is seeing so many who participate with words but not with their hearts. Of course when you have Jesus Christ as your role model you're going to fail to live up to it a lot of the time, but if you're not at least trying then in what sense are you a Christian?
Right behind the giant understatement of calling Node a “modest success.”
Google “Costa Concordia” for a simulation of that scenario.
Very cool, and nice to see more options here (especially open source ones). I remember looking five years ago, and being very surprised that there was no Stripe-equivalent for adding scheduling to an application.

Between this, https://www.timekit.io/, and https://www.spurwing.io/ (which is my project), hopefully people will stop re-inventing the scheduling wheel with each project.
N.N. Taleb's Principia Politica
That's not true. $58B worth of goods were delayed for a few days. That definitely didn't cost anything even remotely that much.
Completely agree. My statement was made in jest (I don't know how else to deal with this completely bonkers situation, except with humor). It terrifies me how the same individuals who claim/promise to want to save humanity are also the ones locking up our shared inheritance. [1]

[1] https://newint.org/features/2012/04/01/bill-gates-charitable...
I'm really curious - has anyone ever worked somewhere where _all_ packages are _actually_ reviewed?

I'm pretty sure this really is a thing in some places (defense contractors, etc), but I'm curious if anyone's actually been exposed to a real company that really reviews everything.
SaaS metrics in the era of Product Led Growth
The whole point of science is to explain "the supernatural". Lightning was once considered "supernatural". Now it isn't. Science did that. Science does not acknowledge the existence of an afterlife because there is no evidence to support such a conclusion.
I assume you saw The Second Renaissance? If not, you're welcome! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sU8RunvBRZ8
Java is definitely not a scripting language
This is false. It is true that the church teaches that you can be saved without going through the church, but this does not apply if you are aware of the church. Invincible ignorance does not apply to those who are not ignorant.
The churches can say they have no profits, but there's a lot of money getting spent on dubious things that a typical non-profit doesn't have.

So you can tax the golden altars they build, or the private jets the pastors fly around on, or the castles the leaders live in.

There's a huge sham in all this.
It's a repost from a few days ago.
Giving Farmers Billions to Fight Climate Change
Yep, that will be something to follow. It will be really interesting to see what kind of market emerges here by allowing new custom runtimes to compete, with specializations for a different niches and environments.
This is cool and exciting to see. I've mostly watched Deno from the sidelines, only playing with code a little bit, but it's clear Ryan and co. are serious about applying the lessons learned from Node. Best wishes to him and the team.
"all trading schemes are complete cons" should be your default assumption
Even if one believes, the notion that these often corrupt, sometimes malignant control organizations we call churches are a necessary expense of both time and money is a harder sell in the modern world.

The social role that churches play is where the opening raises real concern. What comes after organized religion may well look more like conspiracy theory.
I started using Firebase hosting for side projects. Easy to setup, deploy and free for up to 360MB/day.

https://firebase.google.com/pricing
It's bigger than you think, it's about the same size as the Church of England.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/11297461

https://faithsurvey.co.uk/uk-christianity.html