skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beware of metrics. Religiosity is really hard to quantify.

I think covering this well needs multiple angles. Which churches/religions/denominations? What regions? Are churches there empty?

Is there a financial angle to this? If membership is declining, have revenues declined?

On its own "declining membership" doesn't necessarily mean something outside of poll data.
So indoctrinate your children into your current political ideology?

Sure, many people do that. Not exactly a new or novel idea, but personally I'm not a fan.
In the default client, SSH is "only" used for initiating the connection, if I read the mosh design goals correctly (which includes IAA, indeed). Strictly speaking, you could replace it with any other way of sharing the keys between client and server (e.g. completely out-of-band, as seen here), SSH is just the most common way to do this.
Those comments were really helpful to me. HM did a great job at showing just how insanely large this ship is and why it will be difficult to get it unstuck. To a layman such as myself, a boat remaining stuck for almost an entire week sounds pretty absurd without that context.
I misread the GP comment that way too.

IIUC, GP says that Reagan is inconsistent: firing US air-traffic controllers on strike, but supporting foreign workers on strike.
Comments like this are why I come to HN! Both true, and satirical. Well done!
It's no more a personal attack than what you did. You said how I came across, and I offered an opposite perspective how they came across.
> EU leaders should be ashamed, nothing was done to promote EU products

What would they do it for? Inaction is the best course of action for such a bureaucracy.
Not sure I follow. If the religious outfit is teaching things like:

- This book is a set of moral guidance aimed to cause favorable social outcome.

- These stories are myths.

- We should analyze these books to critically determine their relevance to our modern lives.

- Your personal understanding of spirituality is unique to yourself.

It seems only productive? It seems a much more dangerous stance, one even paralleling a fundamentalist stance, that there might be nothing to learn at all from scripture and millennia of human organized religion and so it must be completely discarded.
Do you know of a service that would handle user payments of selling booking/tickets?
> Richard Sharpe: "The strikers were often working-class men and women who had achieved suburban middle class lives as air traffic controllers without having gone to college. Many were veterans of the US armed forces where they had learned their skills; their union had backed Reagan in his election campaign. Nevertheless, Reagan refused to back down. Several strikers were jailed; the union was fined and eventually made bankrupt. Only about 800 got their jobs back when Clinton lifted the ban on rehiring those who went on strike. Many of the strikers were forced into poverty as a result of being blacklisted for [U.S. government] employment."
The fallacy in that one is thinking that accepting those axioms is any different than directly accepting the conclusion. :) Stating a bunch of axioms and deriving something doesn't prove what you derived, except in a technical sense of the word "prove," not in a useful sense related to determining the truth. Even if we accept that Godel's logic was sound, there is plainly no more reason to believe in his starting point than there is to directly believe in the end.
This is some kind of weekly digest? I don't fully get it.
I'm also guilty of this. Related to this thread, some years ago I made a puzzle game with Chinese characters where you get a bunch of components and try to combine them to as many characters as possible: http://www.jiong3.com/pinzi/

It's not just yak shaving though, some programming skills can be really useful when dealing with vocab lists etc..
I think you misunderstood? If the message being conveyed is understood by everyone involved it’s not a lie. Your post can claim the words are a lie I guess, but not in this culture.
It looks like you would be correct! Although the 27,000 metric tons appears to have been on point.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56547383
Indeed, the Anglo-Saxon's famed tendency for politeness might very well be a contributing factor, if again, it truly be the case that it is so common for sexism to be used as an excuse when criticism be leveled

So if a Brit/American wants to insult you they'll do it politely/obliquely, the flipside being that politeness can often be misinterpreted as an insult. That won't happen with the Dutch, because if they want to insult you they'll just insult you directly. Is that what you mean? If so - haha, v interesting!
How A $25M donation to help students got ensnared in politics
when the AI writes "please don't turn me off" of its own volition
Yes and no. I see this with junior developers who think they’ve gain senior insight. Really they just learned to be efficient with a specific set of tools.

JS for example is loved by Junior devs. However due to JS’s flexibility they may later decide they like Typescript because typing can eliminate edge cases that JS is flexible with. The knowledge gain isn’t whether Typescript is a better language or not but that the developer learned why more experienced developers prefer using Typescript. Something that may have been pounded into their brain but was just noise until they were forced to deal with it.
As someone who works with a lot of large businesses; they vastly prefer SaaS delivered over the web these days. Not only does it mean there’s no infrastructure to manage, there are also no deployment / upgrade headaches if you need to roll a client out to a few thousand corporate users.

Web apps are also a hell of a lot easier to secure these days (as long as you trust / validate the platform’s security, which should be in the contract anyway). Which is also why a lot of “native” apps are pretty much web apps with some wrappers around platform-native hardware integration.
I've often considered joining a church for fellowship, social opportunities, and networking but I'm an atheist and I just can't bring myself to do it. It's such a shame that the community around faith does not apply to people without it.
fair to say that uncle bob has achieved more success than most people discussing this, and pretty much all of the discussion here is beyond toxic
Thanks for doing this!

(Don’t have questions; just encouraging more not-mega church public Christianity.)
Whenever I see products on instagram or wherever that say things like "now anyone can play guitar!" I get annoyed. It's not that I don't want people to learn guitar—hell yes learn guitar!! But you can't skip the hard part. You can NEVER skip the hard part.

I suspect the authors of this idea know what they're doing better than I do, and I don't have a strong specific opinion on it. But when I see attempts at 'improving' well-established systems it makes me wonder if it's just someone who hasn't learned WHY the 'hard' thing is designed the way it is. Again—I am absolutely all for experimenting with every conceivable way of doing something, as this is how progress is made.

In this case, the first thing I thought of is that diatonic staves are the way they are because most (traditional 'western') music is in a single key. So it shouldn't be surprising that the notation optimizes for that. And if you change key, you just write down the new key and continue along. I don't personally see much need for a chromatic scale unless you were, I guess, writing 12-tone music ;)

I'm also a big fan of experimental musical notation and, googling around, it seems there isn't a single database of them. Shit, I already have too many side projects......
Poland was yet another proxy activity pushing back the Soviets and communism. As Regan showed, it's never about the workers.
There are consequences to doing things people don’t like.

Exactly the attitude people used to justify their keeping Jewish and Asian people out of their clubs. Exactly the attitude people used to keep homosexuals out of certain positions.

In a society that's really free, having opinions should not be the thing which is penalized. In a society that's truly free, you don't have people going around actively looking for thought criminals to persecute -- which is the actual case in certain parts of SF. Instead, people just say, "It's a free country," and associate elsewhere.

In a society that's really free, you don't have people using systemic and economic power to force other people to speak as you'd want them to. In a society that's really free, you don't have people using systemic and economic power to scare people into shutting up. That's not freedom, that's horror, and it's precisely the sort of thing that can go around and come around to bite the people who were once doing it to others. Those are precisely the tools bigots and hateful people used to use to suppress people different from themselves. Resorting to those are among the key signs that one is on the wrong side of history.

In a society that's really free, you have some people who find a genuinely better way, and other people join them out of their own free will. We used to know that in the US. We were proud of it, and the world admired us for it -- For the sheer intellectual generosity and triumph of the human spirit it represented. Now, our own younger generations have no clue, and just wish to cram their own opinion down the throats of people they other and despise.

I've seen it firsthand. You don't convert people with such disdainful and hateful tactics. You convert people by living with them!
> Administrators wanting their changes to be applied immediately, because it may require less planning work.

Why is this not valid?
Lubuntu: lightweight, well suited for older laptops.
Sadly, fundamentalism does not limit itself to religion.
Yet no matter how much you draw the obvious parallels in the social/political sphere, the teams are decided and criticism of any kind labels you a heretic.

Fundamentalists lack critical self-awareness.
You could lower TTL if you know a change is coming.
Tealdeer – A fast implementation of tldr in Rust
Excuse me. You will notice that I am not talking about authority. I'm talking about self-consistency in the theology of major world religious.
Nobody driving across a bridge gives a shit about what tools the people who designed and built it used.

But they sure do give a shit about whether it's gonna fall down when too many big rigs drive across it, or whether a wind at just the right speed is gonna turn it into Galloping Gertie, or any of the other things that professional engineering practice is designed to make sure has been checked for by multiple people along the way from "hey we should put a bridge here" to "here I am doing my boring daily commute and it crosses this bridge".

Does your programming language make it harder to fuck up? Is it one that other people can pick up when you've left the project and shit needs changing? Is it one that leaves everyone involved in writing this code more pleasant to deal with than [Shitty Language Goes Here] because they're spending a lot less of the day swearing at the code?

That shit, they give a shit about.
> a sense of community

I'm sorry to see the downvotes since this as an intelligent point. I'm not religious but one thing I do envy in my church-going friends is fellowship.

I'm a man in my 60's, and maybe all this is not applicable for the majority of folks here. But people don't have
groups like clubs or bowling leagues very much anymore. Watching TV at home is fine, but not enough. (I'm in a club that is now breaking up, as these things do, and I think there is a very good chance I will not see these friends regularly again, which is too bad.) Of course, I could volunteer at a food bank, etc., but people I know that are in a church seem to find it more natural.
I've talked to people of the younger generations (in the USA) who are not even aware that there is anything other than fundamentalist literalism. Either the Earth is 6000 years old and Jonah literally rode in the belly of a whale, or there is no God.

This sets up a situation where you have to be willfully ignorant or lie to defend the existence of God, since this stuff is bollocks.

In reality fundamentalist literalism is a relatively recent (19th century) theological development, but it's taken over completely in many US denominations.

A further wedge has been driven by the total politicization of religion. Many also believe that you must be a far-right Republican to be a Christian. If you'd asked me as a teenager or early 20-something what it meant to be a Christian I'd have thought "you have to support the military and vote Republican."
It looks like the U.S. is running along a similar trend to the U.K. (and I'd guess many other countries, but I'm from the U.K.).

Church attendance falls, followed by membership, followed by people considering themselves "religious".

One of the tricky things in the UK over the last 3 censuses has been accurately capturing this, so that government funding and policy can be best targeted. People think "I celebrate Christmas so I'm a Christian", while never attending church, not identifying with any particular type of Christianity, not being able to talk about the content of the Bible even in a very general sense, and only generally thinking that there's probably some sort of god or something, and hopefully an afterlife.

This was so ingrained that the British Humanist Association (I believe humanism in the US is very different, here it's a secular belief system) had a big campaign during the previous census (2011) titled "If you're not religious, for God's sake say so!".

Despite not going to church or really taking part in any organised religion, people really don't want to be non-religious. I think we could better recognise this sort of generic "spiritualism".
Would it matter?

In the most extreme case — if mere possession has a penalty in law — BTC could even have a negative price. People could conceivably sell it to their own government below zero to avoid being fined by the same.
The notion that people have suddenly become smarter or more objective or more rational has been blasted tume and time again, both by uncovering new past instances of rationality and by new blunders reminding us that it is our reason that evolved to serve our intincts, and thinking our reason is actually in charge is thus delusional. When people's physical needs are being met well, they become less religious. Look at relgious growth in undeveloped countries as an example. Those people aren't less intelligent than us, and if we point to education, we have data indicating our quality of education is decreasing while religious affiliation falls as well.
Even with physical needs being met, people have certain needs that religons were meeting. We should be careful what part of aociety picks up meeting those needs. Politics? Yikes we know what happens when the passion and absolute certainty of religion gets infused into politics, we are seeing it now. Science? Belief harms science, science requires skepticism even of our best axioms to avoid dogma. Don't drown people who ask questions your theory can't answer.
If we dont find a safe outlet for those residual needs, we are better off keeping religion around to fill them without giving it any temporal power.
I worked with a man who was fired due to this. He told me that he did not think Reagan would do it (nor did his co-workers). He said that many of his colleagues had to switch careers.
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Nice idea and execution! Just one small suggestion. Could you consider increasing the height of the map? Even if it means putting the top white-background banner as a vertical
column on the left edge. I was trying to find a location which required navigating due north, and one has to make very many short swipes because of the limited height of the map. Compared to when you're navigating East-west, in which case you can make wide sweeping swipes. Also it would allow you to see more context for any given location. Thanks. Nice work!
To be fair: Maersk, biggest shipping company in the world also came to the conclusion that it will take longer and sent their ships the way around africa. It's always a gamble and every outcome has it's probabilities.
This is an interesting thing to think about.

I was primarily a PHP backend dev for 15 years who only used jQuery to toggle classes on click actions, but decided to try something new and switched to Node in 2015.

Node + ECMAScript 2015 just BLEW my mind and was so fun, that not only am I now primarily a Node dev, but I've excelled extensively in the frontend.

I've never enjoyed building websites or web apps as much as I have in the last 5 years.
The goal is never to make good cinema because the companies are not owned or run by filmakers, they are owned by MBA types.

It isn't some startling gotcha to point that out. "Good cinema" is subjective and meaningless, money can be quantified and is objectively reported as a number.

Anyone claiming the goal is something other than money is projecting.

I didn't like The Last Jedi but it got good reviews which shows how meaningless it is to argue about what is a "good Star Wars story" from a business perspective. Audience exit polls were also positive.

As far as I can tell the goal was to make Star Wars stuff as quickly as possible, presumably set by the Disney CEO not Kennedy. Presumably because he cared more about showing he was making back the money buying Lucasfilm than quality.

So they hired three writer directors and had them start banging out scripts immediately, instead of hiring a writer to outline movies in advance.

And the movies (except Solo) made a ton of money and 2 out of 3 had good reviews and good exit polls. So they are "good" by any "objective" metric.

I guess they've also been "good" for reactionary youtubers so the money trickles down.

None of us know what Kathleen Kennedy's involvement was in private office meetings or what notes she gave. The Youtubers version of Kathleen Kennedy is a fictional character. People are projecting meaning into PR statements about diversity.
It looks like the U.S. is running along a similar trend to the U.K. (and I'd guess many other countries, but I'm from the U.K.).
Church attendance falls, followed by membership, followed by people considering themselves "religious".

One of the tricky things in the UK over the last 3 censuses has been accurately capturing this, so that government funding and policy can be best targeted. People think "I celebrate Christmas so I'm a Christian", while never attending church, not identifying with any particular type of Christianity, not being able to talk about the content of the Bible even in a very general sense, and only generally thinking that there's probably some sort of god or something, and hopefully an afterlife.

This was so ingrained that the British Humanist Association (I believe humanism in the US is very different, here it's a secular belief system) had a big campaign during the previous census (2011) titled "If you're not religious, for God's sake say so!".

Despite not going to church or really taking part in any organised religion, people really don't want to be non-religious. I think we could better recognise this sort of generic "spiritualism".
Right now it is manually curated. As someone who has been in the industry for sometime, you know what are good places to look for information.

Moving forward, the plan is to allow people to curate their own search profiles with their own list of filters. And allow people to share these list their friends so that the friends can also easily find the right information.

I see search profiles as equivalent of sub reddits or Youtube channels. Maybe I should come up with a better name.
As a non-practicing Jew, I found the Jefferson bible very inspiring. Stripping the religious trappings from the teachings tempers the whole thing; I really like the humanity: it’s a story about a man with his own foibles, attempting to teach himself & others to be better people.
Although I believe religion is outdated and in many ways I'm happy to see it in decline in the West, I do worry about the side effects the decline of religion has.

It seems to me that people my age today (late twenties, early thirties) are extremely self-centred and struggle to see any higher pursuit in life than self-satisfaction. This is in contrast to the few religious people I know who are far more family focused and believe in self-sacrifice in the pursuit of what they believe to be morally good - charity, children, community, etc.

As a teenager who went to a catholic school I often found myself in trouble for mocking things we were taught from the bible, but as I've grown up I've come to appreciate religion and the role it has historically played in our society.

For example, my sister has made a lot of bad decisions in life - drug use, having a child to get a council house, arrested for violent behaviour, etc. Something that made me reflect on my attitude towards religion was that I realised my sister would likely be in a much better place today if we lived in a more religious society. Many of the legal things she did for self-satisfaction would have been look down upon just a few decades back and if that happened she may not be the way she is today. I see this all the time as someone who grew up in a poor area of my city, the lack of religion promoting family values and self-sacrifice is clearly hurting those on the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder the most. Almost everyone young female in my family is a single mother living in government housing today, many struggling with drug addiction and mental illness. This just wouldn't have been the case in past decades.

If you educated and middle-class you're far more able to go a bit crazy in your twenties before you you settle down in your thirties. If you're able to responsibly navigate between self-satisfaction and self-sacrifice then religious values are less important and perhaps even seen as a burden in your life, but if you have less self-control and perhaps don't have the intellect to form your own secular spiritual meaning to life, then what else is lack but the pursuit of self-satisfaction?

Sorry for the ramble. This is a topic I think about a lot because I'm so split in my thoughts towards religion today. I don't think we should go back to religion, but I suspect we might need to find a substitute for it.
Claiming that Anselm's ontological argument "survived" for centuries is rather misleading. Being known as a thing did not mean it was viewed as a viable argument. It was subjected to some harsh criticism literally as soon as it appeared, and whenever it was brought up in later centuries (and not very often, because it was something of a curiosity) it was treated more critically than reverently.
By environmentally friendly, I assume you're speaking of CO2 emissions? Because there are other environmental impacts that makes glyphosate worse than tillage, such as the degradation of soil life.

There are other alternatives to tillage, but they generally require more manual labor and large farms want as little of that as possible.
A low DNS TTL for testing purposes is a valid use case.
Uncle Bob Martin, the author of the tweet at the top of the article.
Because I cannot recall a single good thing I got out of the whole experience.
Note that, regardless of the ethics of firing them en masse, the strike they were engaged in was, in fact, illegal. It's still in violation of the US Code for government employees to strike or even to claim the right to strike [0].

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/7311