skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the way they implemented this without any special markdown or action necessary on maintainers’ part.
You've never seen a non-religious club? Or a political group? Or a volunteer society?

There are plenty of non-religious communities all over the world. Look at any co-op if you want an example.
> What is a "good person?"

"How we ought to live,"

-Socrates
So I’m curious to hear what people think is wrong.

We know there is a God AND the Bible is some sort of authoritative (most would claim the most authoritative) description of who/how God is and how he wants us to behave towards him.

Often there is also a third correlating claim that our interpretation of the Bible is the most correct interpretation.
Calvary Chapel churches are usually pretty solid.
Thanks for providing a source!
I also grew up in a Christian house and am now atheist--I never understood how people could reconcile "church shopping" for a community that aligns with their views (e.g. not homophobic) with the notion that the core religious concepts are supposed to be infallible. If you disagree with various churches on some doctrinal/sociological point, how do you know that your current church is correct on God existing, or knowing what he wants?

Part of my de-conversion was driven by what looked to me like people willfully deceiving themselves that it was possible to "choose" a church who fit their worldview, without treating the cosmology claims the church inherently makes with the same skepticism.
to be fair, if you start with ruby on rails, it's hard to understand why anybody would use something else. at first ruby felt horribly cryptic compared to the Java and C++ I studied in school, but once I got better at it, I fell in love. unfortunately I've only used Java and Javascript ever since lol. serious analysis aside, ruby and rails are awesome tools and were a ton of fun when I used them for work
It took them a few days to dredge away meters of sand. Why would it take more than a few additional days to dredge away another couple meters of sand?

Of course each meter of depth is a little harder, but not that much harder.
Bringing up 12 tone, when first exposed to this music, the first thing I did is rewrite it on a rearranged chromatic staff. It is so clear that it belongs that way. But it certainly isn't easier to play that way.

So I feel a "new" notation system that is easier to read, not that interesting, nor that helpful. But an "alternative" system that is optimized around composing in a certain way is interesting, and helpful, but when you're done it probably makes sense to write it in traditional notation if you are going to write it down.
> If they had achieved suburban middle class lives, what made them working class

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.

Did they make their living by owning stuff (e.g. landlords, investors, etc.)? Then they aren't working class.

Edit: Surprised to see downvotes, Wikipedia defines it thus:

> "The working class (or labouring class) comprises those engaged in waged or salaried labour, especially in manual-labour occupations and industrial work."

White collar jobs are definitely working class folks.
Same here. I read this because the headline resonated --- nobody does care which programming language you use, they care about the results you provide for them.

What I got was a story about first idolizing a stranger only to be disappointed by them, to the point where the worship turns to disgust. Why do I care? He's just a guy who shares his thoughts publicly. He doesn't need to be better than anyone else.

Don't worship people and you won't be disappointed when they don't fit perfectly into your ideals.
Does this mean you need to ship a new Rust binary for every application you build when the Unicode consortium updates the tables?
that may still be the right choice given that now there is a huge backlog
If I crack a bad joke due to my social ineptness, you may call that sexual harassment. However, due to my social ineptness, I will simply reject your definition of sexual harassment and insist that I was just making a harmless joke.

Perhaps some people with different expressions of that "disability" have the capacity to "learn" that they're "wrong". I don't. To suggest that I should have that capacity because others do is... ableist, I guess?
Weight lifters can go beyond 50+ lbs, safely, only if the weight is basically in barbell (or dumbbell, or whatever) format. A large 100lb box isn't being lifted by any smart weightlifter alone.
Jetpack Turns 10
The problem is that responsibility and risk in busienss gets passed down to those that do the actual work. You're not really concerned about your blog going from 2 readers to 1M/day, you're concerned that iff your blog volume jumps that much, your job and perhaps livelihood may be on the line because the business doesn't understand why you didn't prepare for this and doesn't understand why you now suddenly need a bunch of more resources to accommodate this change in demand.

Most all these long drawn out what-if discussions almost always dance around the real topic everyone's discussing: who is taking the risk and whose neck is on the line should things go south. If businesses were more willing to take reasonably accessible risks back from their employees doing the work, we'd have a lot less of these discussions. Instead they just go on and on. Who has to do what or will get fired and have to deal with explaining to future employers why they were fired. Instead, we end up passing as much risk as possible to customers and innovation suffers.
The author also neglected the extras that would needed to be lifted including (usually) the transmission attached to the engine (another 200 lbs right there)
You should be able due to GDPR, no?
Fauci did not lie initially; public health was so crazy that they convinced themselves that masks really do not work. Fauci saying it was a lie is the real lie because it would make him appear to adopt (what today is) a politically unacceptable position.
If i may respond with two quotes from the Nazi Propaganda minister:

"To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realised as being true, that is called propaganda. In the beginning there is the understanding, this understanding uses propaganda as a tool to find those men, that shall turn understanding into politics. Success is the important thing. Propaganda is not a matter for average minds, but rather a matter for practitioners. It is not supposed to be lovely or theoretically correct. I do not care if I give wonderful, aesthetically elegant speeches, or speak so that women cry. The point of a political speech is to persuade people of what we think right. I speak differently in the provinces than I do in Berlin, and when I speak in Bayreuth, I say different things from what I say in the Pharus Hall. That is a matter of practice, not of theory. We do not want to be a movement of a few straw brains, but rather a movement that can conquer the broad masses. Propaganda should be popular, not intellectually pleasing. It is not the task of propaganda to discover intellectual truths. Those are found in other circumstances, I find them when thinking at my desk, but not in the meeting hall.
Speech on 9 January 1928 to an audience of party members at the "Hochschule für Politik", a series of training talks for Nazi party members in Berlin

We enter the Reichstag to arm ourselves with democracy’s weapons. If democracy is foolish enough to give us free railway passes and salaries, that is its problem... We are coming neither as friends or neutrals. We come as enemies! As the wolf attacks the sheep, so come we.
Why Do We Want to Join the Reichstag? Der Angriff, 30 April 1928"

He seems to have been of the opinion that giving them a platform to voice their hatred even louder was beneficial for them.

Is saying things not an action? Especially when the things being said are of the genocidal-wannabe kind?
It’s obscure enough that I would expect this bug to turn up elsewhere, even though it’s an example of a fundamental security risk of parsers that don’t accept the same syntax (http://langsec.org/), and IPv4 addresses are a specific instance of this risk that has been written about for years. (Tho usually the weirdness of inet_aton() is treated as quirky rather than dangerous.)

I like the twist in the vulnerability report, using differences between IPv4 parsers to get past protections against things like SSRF, which I don’t think is explicitly mentioned in the IETF draft and RFC that I linked to.
But so many of proprietary tools are horrible! Some years ago, I worked in embedded space and after experience with Nordic's small devices and Analog Devices IDE for Blackfin, I dread using any sort of proprietary tech.

Those were pretty expensive products (we are talking $5k-$10k price range) and they were working way worse than just a single emacs window with command-line uploader.

The amount of time I wasted fighting with those tools was huge. And the worst thing, this was really time wasted. If I spend a week setting up OpenOCD I can at likely apply this knowledge to my next project. This was not the case with proprietary tools.

Paid is not always better, and we should not feel obliged to pay people just because they are in the same industry.
Optimization of information consumption from social media
I am validating a hypothesis for my project and I want to ask you for help.
A bit of context. We consume a lot of information from social media every day (quora, reddit, twitter, hacker news, and so on). People use feeds for articles, subscribe via mail, monitor in their spare time, use Evernote to save the desired article, or in a business approach to monitor mentions, they use YouScan.
We work out a hypothesis: we indicate topics, keywords by interest, select sources that are relevant to you, save and filter information for you, thereby reducing a large flow of unnecessary information.
What is the profit? You do not need to spend an infinitely long time searching for information, it will find you by itself, since it will be stored in one place and everything is always at hand. You can easily find the answer to your question or topic of interest using tags. How do you consume information from social media and how much would such a decision make your life easier?
Illegal strike was illegal. Government employees are not allowed to go on strike.

Can you imagine if police or military were allowed to go on strike? The potential mayhem has no upper bound.
Shipping containers with IoT and OTA software updates
I think it'd be more interesting to measure the impact on the end user. The article mentions a drop in queries, but aren't DNS queries a drop in the bucket compared to the size of most web pages anyway? Is the difference really noticeable?

Do you get faster web pages if you cache for a longer time? If you do, shouldn't web browsers "soft-invalidate" (use the entry, but update it right after) the cache entry when you're just past TTL and "hard-invalidate" (update it before using) after? Do they do that already?
> I left the Catholic church in my teens and was angry for the experiences I'd had.

I know of too many Catholics who say the same. Not growing up Catholic, it's hard to relate. Their stories often involve excessively strict dogma or scriptural interpretation that denies or vilifies innocent human nature. E.g., taking your girlfriend to mass to hear an incendiary anti-abortion sermon, then losing said girlfriend due to that mass, then later ending your relationship with the church out of frustration.
I think it implies some social mobility. So these people likely came from a working class parents to and achieved a suburban (read:upper) middle class life.
The website offers related book recommendations. I would also recommend Alex Madrigal’s Containers podcast series. [1] [2] [3]

[1]: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/containers/id120955917... "iTunes"

[2]: https://soundcloud.com/containersfmg "SoundCloud"

[3]: https://www.stitcher.com/show/containers "Stitcher"
TuSimple’s S-1
An experimental just-in-time compiler for Tailwind CSS
Amazon bought out a company with an nearly ready product.

But at this point they aren't the only company making that style of inventory/robot system now. There are a few clones out there in use.
> You can never skip the hard part

That's not true. Or else we would still be using Roman numerals
>Ryan Dahl left the leadership of the Node.js pretty early in its development. A lot of people can be considered "the creator" of Node.js to be fair.

Don't think so. I have been using Node.js since 2010 and following the ecosystem. Node.js is the child of Ryan Dahl. Other than Ryan, perhaps Isaac Schlueter is the most influential person who developed the NPM as a separate project and later merged into Node. Ryan could have done it himself or embedded it in Node.js, but guessing from Deno he is not keen on a centralised package repository so could have let Isaac build NPM as a separate project.

From what I could observe, the overall API is still pretty much the same from 2010. What's changed is V8 getting updated to newer versions (and thereby supporting new ES features) and other performance optimizations. But no one can't deny or take away the creator credit from Ryan.
Someone needs to email this guy for this little thing, if only to get a good base implementation that was presumably tested in the scenarios this program purports to assist with.

The following BROKEN link shows the directory listing

https://web.archive.org/web/20080828224649/http://bazaar.mik...

but the files were not indexed by IA.

Further, "steadyhamster.py" generally does not exist in Google.
Google has definitely changed in the past few years. I've noticed that it ignores quotes when it feels like it, and is very aggressive at "synonymous" substitutions (which in many cases aren't - e.g. I've seen it replace "FreeBSD" with "Linux"). It's making it harder and harder to make queries for something specific.
Maybe for those cases where one can get random IP from their ISP and has a e.g. hopto.org configured?

One would probably be OK if it was 5 or 10 mins, but it depends on what's behind that dns entry and how often ISP can change the IP.
Pretty disappointing, honestly.
Why is it

git submodule update

and not

git submodule pull

I understand pull in this context would be a submodule command, not a git command, but why use different terminology from git for what is the same idea?
In the US the term "middle class" doesn't mean the same thing. In the UK it means above working class but below upper class. In the states, it means anyone that's not poor or rich. Mostly everyone likes to think they're "middle class" in the US whether they're blue-collar or white-collar.
I'm not sure what you mean by "your children" and "your current political ideology," but, no matter what you do, children are going to acquire a political ideology, there's nothing you or anyone else can do to stop it, and there's no guarantee at all that you're going to like their ideology. Most of them get at least the initial version of it from their parents. A lot of peoples' ideology gets shaped in early adulthood, when they're either at school or on their own for the first time. My parents didn't raise a communist, but that's what they got, for better or worse.

I have never personally known a clergy member to be particularly political, but we know that a large part of the US is politically driven by religious forces. Like it or not, church and state are not fully separated.

I guess what I'm saying is that none of what I've written here was particularly intended as advice to you in your position as a religious teacher of children. I will say, however, that Jesus himself did have some explicitly political teachings. Matthew 19:24 comes to mind:

> And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Do with this what you will.
Relevant: The Responsibility of Intellectuals by Noam Chomsky

https://chomsky.info/19670223/

Spoiler: It's to tell the truth.
This is a definition intended to push people towards your preferred ideology rather than a neutral description of how the phrase is used out in the wild.
Quite, but I'm also saying that your analogy was terminally flawed. Supply chain shipping != shipping your widget from Amazon.
> Now I'm in my 40's I do wonder if the lack of religion in society is leading us to a bad place

I'm an atheist and have considered the same quite a bit. I wonder if some people need something to believe and direction and religion helps fence these people into society friendly pockets.

I wonder today if what I would consider is that overly woke pocket (which I respect is very relative to personal views) and generally more extreme politics on all sides need something to believe in a fight for and religion when done well is a brilliant force for good in society this way to coral that energy to good places.

...but at the same time religion can be horribly controlling and toxic. And when religion finds absolute power it tends to go badly so I think the trade off between too much and too little, we are better going towards too little.

Maybe somehow we need to look at the good parts of religion and work that into a non-religious society. Even little things like I'd love to see shops closed on Sunday again and return this as more simple downtime for family, friends and self. Also realise we dont need to spend money every day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23hvLiA2akE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2MmX2U2V3c
Reagan was a master of politics.

Here's the warm, friendly letter he sent, before getting elected, to the union union of Professional Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO), promising to improve their working conditions if elected President of the US:

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8422/7536594466_92b4d4e020_z....

The letter ends with Reagan making a promise to work together in harmony: "I pledge to you that my administration will work very closely with you to bring about a spirit of cooperation between the president and the air traffic controllers. Such harmony can and must exist of we are to restore the people's confidence in their government."

Instead, once Reagan assumed power, he became a ruthless adversary of the union.

--

Sources:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/7/9/1107835/-Rememberi... /

https://www.npr.org/2006/08/03/5604656/1981-strike-leaves-le...
That ignores that we are social creatures living in an extremely interconnected global economy.

Rugged individualism doesn't scale to that level and if we left everything only up to that then we might as well just abolish all institutions, including governments.

Or to put it another way: There's a reason religion has been so successful for millennia, it provides a shared worldview and vision for people struggling to find their own.
I'm being serious if you know nothing about space :)

Did you know my experimental observations of quantum gravity & string theory are as good, if not better, than the world's top scientists? If you print this comment on paper, I will have been published & peer reviewed, too!
I can only speak from experience about Christianity: I have found very few sects of christianity that don't have some mixture of 1. arbitrary claim to absolute certainty regarding the "Will of God" --Bible is inerrant, the denomination's understanding of it is inerrant, etc 2. Non-sensical "lesson-of-the-week" structure" where very few actually make any progress on any lesson 3. blind acceptance that the church has to be a functional business. the first one is the most hurtful -- the leaders offer certainty when certainty is far from possible. It amounts to "God gave you your brain, but it's mostly for decoration, you don't need to think when it comes to your faith, just accept what we tell you/is written." The business side can also be hurtful.

I was reading recently about scientists attempt to measure cognitive differences between the religious and non-religious -- by looking at things like math proficiency. I think that's really missing the impact of religion. Religion doesn't make you bad at math, but it likely makes you bad at 1. finances -- how much pct of your income are you regularly giving away? 2. philanthropy -- how much of that income really went to helping people vs church administration, continuing the Sunday lesson? 3. Political engagement -- i would hypothesize that being religious leads folks to more frequently vote against their own self-interests.
I think the JS ecosystem has such a huge amount of raw developer-attention that even if Deno only gets 10% of the market, that's probably enough to bootstrap all those foundational packages/frameworks.

Also: if you're porting from Node, the only things that really have to change are the system/IO API calls. The import style is a bit different but that could pretty much be automated. It's still just TypeScript at the end of the day; your core logic will be the same.
Once upon a time, I worked in a saas company that would sometimes switch customers to a new instance of a service by switching DNS records -

1. Create instance of service running version n+1

2. Switch public DNS records to point to new servers

3. Wait for TTL to expire

4. Turn off old servers

(Obviously I'm simplifying; if nothing else there should be testing steps in there)

Unless I've missed something, wouldn't the author's suggestion to artificially raise the TTL by ignoring the upstream TTL result in the application breaking for customers if they used a DNS resolver that did this?
It's not that it wasn't fun. It's that the media goes into absurd hyperbole on every subject.

This boat was going to be stuck for weeks, and maybe forever!

...and now they'll shift to absurd hyperbole on some other topic that is potentially more damaging.
> adhering to scriptural literalism

What scripture? As Bart Ehrman has written in his books condensing scholarly tomes for the layman, there are many scriptures, and we don't have the originals. The Comma Johanneum being the clearest passage that there is a trinity is not found in the Greek until the 15th century. Mark thought to be the earliest gospel, it ends without a clear resurrection from the earliest manuscripts - a resurrection was tacked on later. The story of the adulteress Jesus refused to condemn is not found in the earliest scriptures. And on and on. Much of contemporary scripture were things invented centuries after the events recorded.
I'm not sure that's right. By virtue of how caching works, it's significantly less of an issue for very large services which will have absurdly high cache hit ratios all the way out to the edge within the 2.5-5 minute windows just by sheer user volume per 2.5-5 minute window.

It's everyone below that that don't operate very large scale services that will see the benefits from longer TTLs.
I agree with you that it would be nice if more of core supported promises, but I think there are probably plenty of examples of them keeping up with the times or charging ahead as well. Top-level await and optional chaining are a couple features that come to mind.
Defensible Machine Learning
I think life, in general, is pretty good and has been in the U.S. As a result, it's not surprising to see the numbers decline over the years.

That said, religion isn't going anywhere. The metaphysical questions we have are still the same since the dawn of mankind.
The idea is to assume we have an unbroken record of genealogy in the bible and add up all the lifetimes of people mentioned, which gives the ~6000 years. [0]

I'm not sure whether there is any basis for this assumption in the text though..

[0] https://creation.com/6000-years
I went to a Protestant Christian school for 9 years and church until I was 16. As someone with learning disabilities, Tourette’s, and (at the time) gender identity issues; Christian’s made my life a living hell for things I had no control over.