skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I’m amazed it is even 47%. That’s crazy. I don’t know anyone my age that goes to church regularly. I guess there are tons of old people that do so.

This varies considerably by region. In the south there are loads of these new "hip" mega churches with young pastors that appeal to the millennial crowd. I'd say the percentage of younger/middle age people that still identify as religious is somewhere around 50% here.
Why police unions are not part of the American labor movement

https://theconversation.com/why-police-unions-are-not-part-o...
I was raised liberal Catholic by an atheist father and an eclectic hippie New-Age-Catholic-Hindu-dowsing-crystals-homeopathy-and-runic[0]-divination mother, for the purposes of getting into a good school.

While it is fair to say that one specific fundamentalist young-Earth creationist Baptist certainly turned me from “it isn’t true but it doesn’t matter” to “it is actively harmful for people to believe this”, I should also say that the liberal version of Catholicism at my school — liberal enough to not explicitly condemn abortion or homosexuality, even though this was the U.K. in the 1990s and Section 28 still in force — had terrible sex education which completely ignored the existence of e.g. chlamydia, and I do think that was due to the religion given how quickly I learned about it the moment I moved to the next step in my education.

The open-mindedness may have been good for me as a teenager going through a goth-paganism phase, but it also meant she gave my dad homeopathic remedies when he got bowel cancer, and she got Alzheimer’s 15 years younger than her mother “despite” her use of Bach flower remedies for memory.

[0] naturally this meant I learned to read the outer border of the Allen & Unwin edition of The Hobbit, and the text in the hand drawn maps inside: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/...
That thread was a good chuckle though -- a bunch of mostly software devs brainstorming on freeing one of the biggest containers ships from their comfy armchairs. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26585282
This just isn't what the vast majority of people mean when they talk about class. No one uses 'working class' in casual conversation to include doctors, hedge fund analysts and lawyers.
Not OP, but yes, I think that any consumer of organized religion is doing it because fairy tales are easier than life and death is scary. That is all it really is, right?
Note that the discussion was about Anglo-Saxon culture, not the U.S.A., which is a beast of it's own and the problems you speak of are not Anglo-Saxon culture, but extreme capitalism.

You will find many of the benefits of which you speak in other Anglo-Saxon nations such as Canada as well. In fact, Canada ranks far higher than the Netherlands in social mobility indices, and social mobility in the Netherlands is not very high compared to other developed nations, only average, but social mobility is very low in the U.S.A..

The arguments you raised here were not of anything that was spoken of in this discussion, but of how much less capitalist the Netherlands is than the U.S.A., which would similarly apply to any other developed nations.

The topic spoke of gender relationships, which is entirely unrelated, and I remain that I'm sceptical that it's truly as bad as claimed, for I have seen as many anecdotes that point to the opposite from Anglo-Saxons.

But yes, I have seen many an Anglo-Saxon rant on the internet that speaks of a ridiculous, dystopian doom scenario in Anglo-Saxon gender relationships, where the male cannot walk outside with his own children alone, lest he be arrested on the spot for child abduction, and the female cannot buy his own automative vehicle, for the salesman would first ask for permission of a male relative ere he be allowed to do so. — these stories seem very exaggerated, but I have certainly read stories that go to this length.

I have also read counter anecdotes that claim that there is no real problem, and that much of it seems to be outright whining of how bad it is for the home team makes me sceptical that gender relationships are truly as bad as they claim in the Anglo-Saxon world. What I do think is perhaps the big problem is the tribalist nature and tensions, and how quickly people see ghosts, and complain on being mistreated on their tribe. The Anglo-Saxon seems to very often be a team player by nature, an be quick to shout sexism or racism, when other factors might be at play.
No, this is the original definition of class struggle. Anything else ("middle class", "upper class") is just an attempt by bourgeois to divide people by trying to make them feel like they're part of a different, special group.
If anyone wondered what a quality email forward looked like, this could be one.
It seems like there are basically two types of programmers: those that think that programming languages are "done," and those that disagree.

To the former type, any modern language is roughly as good as any other, by definition, unless you've got an unusual use-case that requires something really specific. Thus any attempt at language advocacy sounds like tribalism or elitism. The people in this camp love to make analogies to woodworking tools, since innovation there stopped a while ago (presumably).

The latter type is perpetually depressed.
Absolutely, there's always room for domain-specific languages (or notations).
You know, I used to think that HN was a collection of some of the smartest people on the Internet. Don’t get me wrong, there are some incredible people here. But I guess what I have learned over the past 10 years is that HN has as many blind spots as any other online forum. If you want SV advice, this is the place to be. If you want to dislodge a stuck mega ship, look elsewhere.
We wanted the hero to be a Death Star, but in the end it was just the moon.
But why people create Coffescript, Typescript, Kotlin (which compiles to JS), and many more? Why are we compiling ES7,ES8,ES9 to compatible version of basic javascript then? Why do we use wasm?

I think this shows the lack of willingness to write a vanilla, all-compatible javascript. Also it seems people use new features without understanding how those get compiled to a lower version.

Sorry when I meant vanilla I did not mean ES9.
It seems amazing to me that you could replace all the air traffic controllers in one day with no impact on service. I mean even if military ATCs are available and qualified, it seems like you wouldn't have the numbers, and it seems like the kind of job where you would need a significant onboarding to learn the specifics of the airport where you're working
Robert 'Uncle Bob' Martin. It's complicated.
You seem to be implying that it's not professional to mention a haircut. What is unprofessional about it?

I've had my haircut mentioned at work… because I'd had a haircut. It's people trying to be nice or make conversation, and neither of those things are unprofessional.
Yes, for 40 minutes to 1 hour.

But I bet you still ran forwarders on the old hosts for at least an hour after you cut over DNS.
Church membership i think ignores the fact about the explosion in alternative beliefs and practices.

For example, meditation, san pedro, ayahuasca use etc has exploded tremendously and I think there is a significant cross section of the former religious population that have found relief from daily hustle via these alternative non-denominational activities.
I would say programming languages are like musical instruments. Python might be like a guitar, easy to pick up and easy to start playing songs with knowledge of a few popular chords. C might be like piano, requiring manual dexterity in both hands and deep knowledge of music theory. Maybe Clojure is cello or something. All really capable of playing beautiful music in the hands of a skilled musician. Don’t just stick to brass or woodwinds, explore what you resonate with and play the best music on.
In my experience nothing has been able to replicate what religion does for communities. Every Sunday hundreds of people get together and chat over coffee before service. This mass gathering offers the opportunity to find other people with similar interests which in turn leads to small groups. Some will say, "That's what meetup.com is for.". I agree, meetup.com is great, but it doesn't have that central core of hundreds of people before splitting up into smaller groups. Meetup.com cuts out the larger group entirely and pushes people into smaller groups automatically. That's an important thing that gets lost.
Right. So I would say that people working (up until then) secure government jobs with good benefits and a high enough wage to live a good suburban lifestyle middle class, not working class (which in American usage implies manual labor and low to low middle wages, neither of which applied here.)
About the cargo part - it's entirely possible that some cargo is non-viable. It is going to be onboard days longer than predicted. Anything even faintly perishable may be degraded.

But good news for sure!
Those lawyers are correct.

Not all jurisdictions of the world legally recognize the concept of 'public domain'.
I felt the same way. It didn't feel coherent at all.
> at the top level, the economy does seem to be valuing data work highly. Adwords & Amazon marketplace antitrust cases suggest that "data work" is at the core of these mega businesses

What is valuable about adwords isn't the "data work", right? It's their pricing power in the advertising space...
Can people get too much exercise? Mitochondria hint that the answer is yes
I mentioned in a parallel comment that I had similar experiences, so I'll jump in until the other commenter does. And to keep spirits cooler, I'll mention my experiences in martial arts. I gained my black belt in Aikido in a wonderful dojo, wonderful teachers, doing many activities together otherwise. I found a few lifetime friends there and love as well, so it was definitely more than "training", it was a real community. Yet I'm not going there anymore for a dozen years already. The entire teaching is based on life energies and ki flows which... just weren't there for me. I was able to progress nicely also without them - faking them to be more honest, I could have been continued growing in the technique, but what was the point continuing something I don't believe in? What was the point in rebelling and showing them how simple sportmanship gets the same peace of mind, does the same precision, builds the same attitude towards "martial" and life in general? People are good if they choose the good, and not everybody needs the supernatural element in order to stay good. And I don't mean a fear of supernatural punishment, but in my Aikido case, a belief in supernatural and benevolent support.
Wow, that's quite the list! Why was such a bad (overly simplistic?) implementation allowed into a standard library?
Most of the Suez Canal is twinned, this ship got stuck in the southern single lane area.

I think Egypt will more seriously consider twinning the southern part after this event.
Last thing one should want is to give religion power. People need better education, more tolerance and less judgement.
I spent the first half hour learning about all this being really confused when I kept seeing Evergreen written on the side of the ship (and not the much smaller Ever Given near the bow.)
US 1963 plan to create a canal through Israel using 520 nuclear bombs
Agreed that just quoting the delayed value does not tell the whole story.

But it could be a pretty good proxy: to some approximation, everything in the supply chain would be set up to work with the 9.6 Bn daily flow of value - everybody's financing payments, payroll, working capital, etc. The time is gone. Just like if you had to take two weeks off (unpaid) because you were sick, you could work more later to get that money back, and recover some of it if you work overtime, but you still missed that window to make money.
Your comment would be a lot stronger if you could tell us what those reasons might be
I learned how not to get rid of a whale at least.

In case I’m ever asked about that...
I feel like if this person was interested in “sparking a conversation,” they wouldn’t open said conversation with “I hate how bloated web abstractions are, but I guess they’re popular for some reason,” with the exact same digs at electron that have been rehashed in every HN comment section.

I agree, to be clear — I use many of said abstractions, and they’re often quite bloated and everything else this person is complaining about. This just doesn’t strike me as someone who’s asking for insight; it’s just complaining, and it’s fine to point that out.
Appealing to originalism, accurately or not, still isn’t descriptivism.
If you work on a non-open-source project using libraries from open-source projects, you should always:

1. have the ability to rebuild everything from your own repo, without requiring an external source to be available.

2. Specify versions of every library, preferably with a hash of their contents in some form, that gets checked at build time.

3. Subscribe to the serious bugs, announce, security, and/or major release lists for each library, so that you know when something big is happening.

4. Keep old versions that you used.

5. Update to new versions only when you have an expressible need.

Every bit of software has a cost. Sometimes that cost is in dollars, sometimes in reciprocity, and always in awareness.
Find someone that wanted to leave the EU and is fine with the new situation isn’t enough, they needed to find people who voted to go and then where significantly negativity impacted.
Patent/copyright insurance? Sounds good, and not difficult to get a check written for, considering how much is spent on the service of open-source scanning.
Paywall, wish I could read this article.
>Did they earn their living by working? Then they are working class. If you make a salary or a wage, if you have a boss, you are working class.

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.

They might work 500yd from each other but they are not the came classes of people. The arcs of their lives from birth to death are wildly different. Both depend on their wage to sustain their lifestyle. But the doctors (and the other people in their neighborhood) mostly wouldn't be caught dead living the way the heavy equipment operator lives (and the reverse is only slightly less true).

Referring to the latter working class is something usually only done before telling the former they need to stop drinking bud light, driving 30 cars, get the project boat out of the yard, vote a certain way, talk a certain way, etc, etc you catch the drift.

Working class carries a very strong implication of blue collar work or not significantly more than blue collar amounts of money. A social worker or paralegal is working class. An investment banker or law firm partner should find other words to use.
If you're running for major office in the US, announcing your fealty to God is a kind of real-world implementation of Pascal's wager. That is, if you are openly atheist you will earn the condemnation of a large cohort of believers, and lose many votes. But if you're religious, only a small few atheists will write you off as a candidate. So it's always to your political advantage to claim religious adherence, even if you're not. Arguably patently insincere lip-service actually works better than principled devotion in this respect.
Also new this year for Lockdown, the Oak National Academy produced an intro course:
https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-key-stage/...
I'm slowly learning to play the guitar. I'm at the level of enthusiastic beginner and my main issue is finding time to practice (without my children joining in). With that said, reading the music never struck me as one of the difficulties. Building an understanding and intuition of how different notes and chords relate to one another however...
You're missing:

- These myths are the only ones we believe. The other ones are false and harmful.

- There is an invisible man who created everything and sits in judgment of all of us for the purposes of what happens to us in an afterlife that nobody has been able to observe.

- Follow us so that he does not judge you unfavorably.

The problem with the Bible is that the main character is God, and so everything that happens in the book affects him. The lessons do not give proper ethical cause and effect reasons for why you should do or not do something except that God is displeased with your humanity. Churches can add to these lessons and actually teach ethics, but they originate with the idea that a perfect being is really bad at creating perfect beings.

Despite how many churches start having pastors with spiked hair and jeans and sneakers and tattoos, THAT does not change, and it's fundamentally ridiculous and harmful.
Finding and Fixing the Root Cause
They were pretty open even at the time that they were trying to save all the masks for medical workers.
It's free and has moved up the canal quite a bit now.
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-...

> When the Director of the CDC asserts an opinion, she has to optimize for two things - being right, and keeping power. If she doesn't optimize for the second, she gets replaced as CDC Director by someone who does. That means she's trying to solve a harder problem than Zvi is, and it makes sense that sometimes, despite having more resources than Zvi, she does worse at it.
These sound bad, but it's notable that they don't contain any concrete examples. These could easily just be smears.
"but I feel it wasn't a realistic representation of actual cargo loads."

Completely unrealistic since all boxes were empty [0], and there's a cut when it lifts the only heavy object, which also is done at much lower speed.
It's a demo, although still very impressive. I hope one day to see BD selling robots in kits.

[0] Easy to infer from how they move when picked up or fall on the conveyor belt; also well loaded boxes would easily break or at least strain if picked up by one side.
What Are Natural Foods?
>programmers vs cpu design

You went a bit too far. I'd presume a lot of programmers do know CPU architecture well. While not common some of them to work on boring web platforms, some still do. Also most CPU architects would be decent programmers to begin with.

Programming has not changed all that much and it was not so long time ago that programmers routinely knew assembly and how many cycles (and bytes) each opcode took... Nowadays it might be regarded as an arcane art by most, of course.
I think even in the UK definition, professionals like doctors and lawyers would be considered middle class.
I find the whole situation really interesting for so many reasons. The fact that the strike was against the law is one of them. However, the most interesting part to me is that it highlights the core dynamics involved in a union. Specifically, the idea behind a union is that it changes the power dynamic; by organizing and working together, the employees try to level the power imbalance between employer and employees.

A strike is a particularly clear manifestation of that idea; the employees are saying "give us this, because if you don't we won't work... and you can't just fire us all as it will be catastrophic for you". And it is a powerful manifestation of that, and has a history of working well for the employees.

However, in this case, the "employer" has nearly unlimited resources. And the answer to the statement of "you can't just fire us all" was.. "You are incorrect. You did not put enough thought into your position in all this. You are fired... and blacklisted". Regardless of the side you fall on as to whether the reaction was appropriate or not, it did shine a spotlight on the fact that every union is in a different position, and all factors must be considered before resorting to a "might makes right" action (which is what a strike is, even if it was right before might is taken into consideration).
Show HN: WebRTC-Echoes: Interop for C#, C++, Python, TypeScript, Go and Servers
100M Indian users' data leaked online
Religion doesn't have to equal church and rigid dogma. The word is probably ruined in our society by it's connotation.

My religion changes often based on new information, ideas, and philosophical exploration.
> But I bet you still ran forwarders on the old hosts for at least an hour after you cut over DNS.

I promise you we did not.
I think you're likely ignoring other confounding effects;

> - loneliness

I'm not convinced churches ever solved this meaningfully--my mother left her church specifically because they never treated her as an equal adult, being a single parent. She was lonely _within_ the church. Yes, this can obviously vary by church--but it's a fallalcy to claim that churches as a whole prevented loneliness.

Especially not for those subjugated *by* the church (LGBT, single parent, unmarried, women [depending on doctrine]...)

> - lack of dating/marriage

* an entire generation growing up in the shadow of the 2008 financial collapse, as well as unprecedented debt from college, climate change, etc. driving down the desire to start a family

> lack of community infrastructure

This is much more influenced by increasing polarization and tribalism, which churches have helped cause by providing a platform and existing insular in-group--it's a self-selecting population that inherently echochambers, making it difficult to relate to outside groups, thus further damaging community.

Overall, you make these claims that churches are significant in these ways, but you don't give any supporting arguments for them--you quite nicely fit the churchgoer stereotype in that way.
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Computer lip-reading could improve hearing aids
The hard part I'm referring to is the work of training your ears and fingers to do what you want them to do. Similarly, learning an entirely new orthography or notation is always going to involve training yourself, and you can't skip it. There are absolutely ways of making things easier on yourself: books, videos, gadgets, etc., but you still can't just bypass it. At least until we can learn kung fu via direct brain interface ;)
It's caused by the nature of PR. Everything is soundbites, no time for explanation. If I have your ear for 30 seconds or a minute, I'm going to say "Free trade good" before the clock runs out, because it's closer to what I want to say (net good, distribution can be an issue) or has the effect that I want (healthcare workers get masks first), without giving all the details that a proper explanation would be able to give.

Attempting to tell people the details would conflict with the idea of a soundbite: final advice from an expert. Which is a bit unfortunate, because at the expert level a lot of knowledge is not final, it's a discussion with nuances that change as evidence is produced.

It's probably not great that world has ended up with no attention span, but here we are.
Ah thanks for the heads up. It requires WebGL 2 which isn't yet in iOS's Web engine I believe? And IIRC all browsers have to use it on iOS. It does work on Android.