skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an extremely ignorant position that trivializes "religion". First of all, as I have written elsewhere, everyone is religious. The question is: how good and true is your religion? To call it merely irrational is to show a total lack of understanding of the subject. And because religions are many, it makes little sense to speak of "religion" categorically in this way because they often have little or nothing in common. You have to address and criticize particular religions for particular reasons.

Furthermore, those who defect from the religious faith on which their society or civilization was built often ride the coat tails of that religious faith without working out the logical consequences of their rejection. That is, it is better to describe the rejector as a heretic or an apostate than someone who has somehow freed himself from the faith in question and all its trappings. Many of these ideologies we're seeing are profound distortions or perversions of some selected element of Christianity or previous heretical position. That's one reason heresy was always regarded as dangerous. It comes from the Greek hairesis meaning "a taking or choosing for oneself, a choice"[0] meaning taking a cafeteria approach toward the dogmas of the faith which exist as a coherent whole. Any distortion or selectivity produces severe downstream consequences like ideology. Secularism and liberalism are examples. They are Christian heresies and cannot be comprehended apart from the Christian context within which they emerged.

Nietzsche, who was an atheist, was smart enough to see this. The "Twilight of the Idols" is all about how silly this secular triumphalism, or even just contentment, is because it fails to see that the consequences of having "killed God" are not yet fully made manifest, but eventually will be made manifest because this state of affairs is unsustainable, and that this will result ultimately in total disorientation and chaos (I disagree with Nietzsche that God was merely an instrumental idea, but he did at least grasp the parochial and myopic nature of so many atheists and secular people; for him, atheism was a terrible thing). Intellectually serious atheists are all in agreement about how terrible atheism is (i.e., not the provincial variety like Dawkins). This state produces a fertile ground for ideology, i.e., irrational half-assed false religions.

[0] https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=heresy
Their use of ‘advantage’ as a word reminds me of this classic Calvin & Hobbes strip.

https://www.languagetrainers.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/201...

Looks like the 80s/90s kids that were brought up on these skits are finally taking over!
Oh, this reminds me of the elevator banks in my office. I’m sure there’s something going on there. It can let me know which of 8 elevators is coming to pick me up as soon as I press the button.
Why the heck is ed on the list? It’s probably included in every *nix distro ever made. After all it is THE standard editor. :)
NYT again playing at Captain obvious.
Would it have better fit in with those layers if instead of voting on the UK leaving the EU they had instead voted on England leaving the UK?
I recently watched a video [0] that contrasted all of the OO Design Patterns with Functional Programming equivalents. After reading about how this author wants to make "glue" code "first class" and how the Unix pipe operator is an example of single-character-glue-code, my thoughts immediately went to the aforementioned video presentation. Perhaps my "glue code" is simply gold-old "function composition"?

[0] Scott Wlaschin "Functional programming design patterns" https://vimeo.com/113588389

[Edit] Spoiler alert: each of the design patterns reviewed and contrasted in the video I mentioned seemed to "disappear" in FP since the equivalent is simply to use functions and/or function composition. Recently transitioning from C# to F# for my .NET Core projects, I felt the "glue code" the author mentions disappear in a similar manner with greatly-reduced code bloat.
> My exact sentiment at the time was "there's no way developers are going to be dumb enough to give up control of distribution." Wow, was I ever wrong :-(

You were only one word off the truth if s/developers/consumers.
For those that cannot afford it an option to defer some amount of the taxes until sale is one common proposal.

Myself I don’t favor this option and think if you can’t afford the land tax on your property then you’re making very poor use of that land and the tax is working exactly as intended if it either encourages you to downsize to another place or redevelop your property into multiple units (for example). You can also take a loan on your property to pay the tax that is repaid from sale of the property when you do decide to move or your pass away. I don’t think people should get special favorable treatment just because they got somewhere first, it’s awfully discriminatory.
News is made up of things that literally happened and often have video proof.

Religion is made up of things that did not happen and have no evidence. If something does have evidence of being true, it is called history.

You are confusing obsession and focus with religion.
Well first thing is I took a sleep study (monitors and all). I think at first they thought I had Narcolepsy, but after the study it was clear my legs just didn't stop moving.

They prescribed me Mirapex, which is normally a drug for Parkinson's patients but it's in like a 1/5th dose. I take it a couple hours before bedtime!
time to start playing league of legends in black and white
I always wished elevator buttons could toggle. If you accidentally press the wrong floor, just press it again to cancel. This may not work in all situations, but in some situations, it could be a time saver.
>They allow overbooking the flight but you can't book the same seat twice.

ok, but how do you overbook a flight without booking at least one of the seats twice?
Yes my neurologist also suggested I take Vitamin E and Iron supplements.
I literally would kill people if it meant I could spend a whole, single, uninterrupted day, just working on tickets.
I'm glad you quoted this because it's actually plausible.

It's a given that Files is downloaded much more often than Dropbox: it's integrated with the rest of the iOS ecosystem and iCloud, I'm confident there are many more iPhone users with the Files app than with the Dropbox app.

If they added a "Dropbox" metadata, that would organically return it on a search for "Dropbox", and being popular (and well rated presumably?) might float it up above the actual app named Dropbox.

Although it bugs me in general that an App Store search for an exact name doesn't always put the app with that exact name first, app search has worked that way for awhile, and it isn't implausible to me that this specific thing happened as described.
In the article, they use the term "domestic" to refer to a Pakistani agency posting in Pakistan. The definitions are slightly more clearly explained in another post[0]:

> Foreign-led efforts to manipulate public debate in another country

So it seems to be the nation whose public debate is being targeted, meaning that it could theoretically be either 2 or 3 depending on the intentions of the actor and Facebook's ability to discern it, but definitely not 1.

0: https://about.fb.com/news/2019/10/inauthentic-behavior-polic...
What's interesting about stated/explicit corporate values is they are almost always based on what you'd call "slave morality", like being good, traditionally moral participants. That's because those values are for underlings and PR for the general public, though set by the top.

But of course, they are actually run under the master morality of doing what is expedient to achieve the goal (usually money).

> Most of the time, they're not doing it because they knowingly follow Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy, but rather that they parrot the philosophy from other corporate examples... as predicted by Nietzsche.

It could also be that in the modern world, most powerful institutions don't associate themselves with religion directly (like pre-modern power structures, kingdoms and empires, etc) so they have no default values to fall back on. Large corporations transcend nations and cultures, so cannot even fall back on those specific cultural values. Thus they must make their own, not necessarily to mimick others, but because having a large organization with no publicly stated values is simply confusing to us hairless apes.
A tool that could do a bidirectional sync over FTP or SFTP. Think of it as similar to Unison[1] without needing the client running on each end.

I needed it at the time to synchronise a local copy of a web-site with the remote web-hosting space. Other people were also updating the site, so I needed to be able to pull down changes from the remote side as well as push my local changes up.

[1] https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
No. But it needs to be explained what other form it takes.
Google's Commitments for the Privacy Sandbox
One thing I learned from psychedelic usage is the powerful of the minds ability to imagine things about reality and present them as reality itself. I think the realization of this sort of thing might contribute to many psychedelic users to adopt a more ~spiritual outlook on life, which I believe is more aligned with how things really are.
> What is the utility of truth?

I don't understand the question. Truth is the correspondence of the mind with the real. The value of some truths is mostly instrumental. The value of others is that it is good for us to know them for themselves. If you are using "utility" to mean "value", then maybe you accept this, but utility is typically something like a species of value, as I understand it. Pure practicality is incoherent. They needs to be a terminus.

What is "need" here? Toward what end? Need is always about ends.

> Reflexivity is precisely where meaning/religion comes from. From the self.

Meaning doesn't come from ourselves. We cannot invent meaning. Either something means something, or it doesn't. What you describe is mental illness and delusion. I also don't see what this has to do with truth/utility.
> agreed and the world would be more navigable if they adopted distinct names, garb & beliefs the way the other religions did.

Athiesm is to religion what not collecting stamps is to a hobby. We aren't the ones creating an imagined reality. We're just saying until there's substantive evidence to support the existence of a deity we probably shouldn't assume one exists.
It’s “chleb” in Czech, at least in the dialect spoken by the ones who ended up in Central Texas - I remember the sign hanging over the bread aisle in the Czech Stop in West (get the sausage and sauerkraut kolache). “Laib” is Franconian (northern Bavaria) for loaf, and might be part of other regional dialects or German, in general.
The people who draw the distinction generally don't like the pilgrims settlers because of what they did when they got here. In contrast to immigrants, who did not "settle" anyone or any land. You can see a lot of this in today's politics as well.
> It's possible that the opportunities given to migrants relocating to any highly developed nation are equivalent.

That's an excellent point, and one I doubt even needs to be answered to any degree of certainty. Everyone wants a better life, and that can be had in many ways and places.
Yes, it's really a miracle of what you can accomplish with intelligence and capital investment. Very high wages even for agricultural workers, a small labor pool, and massive yields.
... cheese, machine screws, steering wheel covers, arriving on time for appointments, the CIA, and Thursday. Have we left anything out?
in event of subsequent abuse the stores want to ban an organization

A corporate shouldn't get to be the gatekeeper of anything - regulators / courts in a democratic system should decide such things so that the corporates can't abuse their position against a smaller entity. And CAs should be held accountable by the regulators too - a simple regulation like asking CAs to collect legal ID and certificate of registrations before issuing certificates to any person or entity can take care of this. Thus, if any illegal ill-practice is detected in any software, the regulators or the law can be informed and the developer / entity easily identified and necessary legal action can be taken.
Agreed, I was specifically responding to their last line which casts a blanket assertion
Is it bad to point out the obvious? The way people process and vet information seems to be fundamentally in opposition and tied to their political party, reinforced by machine learning silos, diametrically opposed tv networks and further fueled by hostile nations tinkering with narratives. Let's not forget, without "he who shall not be named", this wouldn't have been possible.
This isn't really an elf issue, more of a python issue, if you have internal symbols hide them.
Australia, like the US, is an immigrant nation, you can move there from anywhere and be considered an Australian within a generation.
I didn't see a definition, but this seems to be a concise instance of the effect:

> These minimal improvements in each phone are indistinguishable to the average person. It's still 2007 we are stuck. All they can do is add another camera to the back. Refining.

It's kind of interesting that all of the examples lie in mass culture. Sports. Phones. Marketing. Cars.

Writing is covered in Part 2:

> It managed to get the top of Hacker News without anyone realizing it wasn’t a real person writing it [GPT-3 did].

https://paulskallas.substack.com/p/refinement-culture-c1b

Even so, writing that appears on the front page of HN is not likely to be too far out of the bounds of normal. That's the whole idea.

What all of these phenomena have in common is mass market selection pressure. You have a thing that needs to appeal to the largest possible audience.

Is it any surprise that the things that pop out the other end of this Darwinian selector tend to look the same? To be a little too optimized? To lack personality or quirkiness?

If you want to see counterexamples, look at any niche community. They're all over the Internet. Some of them surfaced during the last US presidential election, to the shock and horror of the masses. These communities seem to be growing in number, and exploring ever more exotic norms of behavior, aesthetics, spirituality, and ground truth.
There's no conflating. Scientism-types being atheist (or anti-theist) seems to be a pretty universal pattern in my experience. If I called someone a bible-basher, it wouldn't be conflating to say they're a Christian - it's a prerequisite. It's also a stereotype, but if I were to call somebody a bible-basher you'd (presumably) know the kinds of character traits I was implying (sanctimonious, primarily).

But this feels like describing the colour blue - if you don't already know what it is, being on Hacker News, I don't think I can help you. Familiarising yourself with the philosophy of science (like Karl Popper's ideas for a start) and then looking at the way that many redditors and HNers talk about science (especially pop-science in astronomy and physics) or treat whitepapers, "new study finds" journalism etc would make you notice the difference.
Very clever! Needs more syntax highlighting, though...

For anyone still confused, you can click into the code on the laptop screen there and edit like normal. They have applied matrix transform and blur via Cascading Style Sheets to make it all look cohesive.
Suppose the amount of matter/antimatter produced at creation is chi-distributed. So there's some random variation, and each universe gets a different random value. Then if it's too close, then there's too much background radiation and the universe doesn't support life.
Monetary inflation where distributed to the poorest:

- Increases income and wealth relative to debt.

- Decreases the real value of debt, and the costs of payments (both interest and principle) on it.

- Increases net spending power relative to the rest of the economy. (I'm presuming a net wealth transfer effect here.)

Even in the absence of a net wealth transfer, that is, where money is injected generally to the economy rather than specifically to the poorest, the net reduction in cost of debt is a benefit.

You are still useing the word seigniorage incorrectly.
Nowadays Rails has good_job[0], which lets you stick with Postgres for background jobs until you need more than a million-ish a day.

[0] https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job
Windows 7 Recreated in PowerPoint
I’ve always wondered if the main computer in Star Trek has to be so big just to manage the turbolifts. Three dimensional elevators with multiple exits per level, probably prioritizing routes dynamically based on the passengers and the military alert level. Imagine the algorithms.
Nice! It could probably benefit from passing the file as an argument:

import sys

file = sys.argv[1]

instead of call to input()

You could probably do:

if len(sys.argv) > 1:
file = sys.argv[1]
else:
file = input(...)
No. Your premise is that you will go find a better audience, meaning higher LTV, which means you are targeting SaaS companies who have not yet found product/market fit. That being the case, it is too early to make large strides with content marketing, so it feels like you've stepped into a nasty catch-22 with your own value prop.
A problem I have with this approach is that sometimes my thoughts don't stabilize, but keep going in cycles.

I think it would be best to do X, but then a few days later, the reasons I had no longer seem important and I think it would be better to do Y. And so on..
I care less about codifying beliefs than about if those beliefs are true or not. I may not have the cognitive tools to recognize all the secular ideologies that I have adopted, but at least there are mechanisms in place to examine if aspects of them hold up to reality or not.
Site is down:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27487376
Honestly, I like the idea. Sounds great and easy to deploy!
> most people don’t have the time to weigh the evidence of say 90% of their beliefs.

Most of the "beliefs" you refer to actually don't have to be beliefs at all. They have no practical consequences; they don't change anything about what the person who claims to have them actually does. Such beliefs don't have to have their evidence weighed because they make no practical difference. When people say they "believe" them, they don't mean they're actually using them to decide their actions; they are just signaling.

For most beliefs that do have practical consequences, people do weigh evidence for them. However, this does suggest a clarification to the characteristics I gave for religions and ideologies: that they start from beliefs that are in the "don't have practical consequences, so saying you believe them is just signaling" category, but then use them to justify beliefs that are in the "do have practical consequences, so should be judged by weighing evidence" category.
Sixteen Years Old, $1.7M in Revenue: Pandemic Reseller Hits It Big
Noted about 5 hours ago as I post this. See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27486505
What Does Solarpunk Look Like in Practice?
Screening reveals coeliac disease cases in children have doubled in 25 years
Ah, yes, the “Daughters of the American Revolution” types.
Just in case this is interesting, a potentially more elegant way to solve this with modern JS is to use 'for(let i' instead of 'for(var i'.

The reason is that 'let' gives 'i' 'block scope', meaning that each iteration of the loop block gets its own scope so that 'i' isn't overwritten each time, and each function you declare captures the value of 'i' at the time it was declared.

In other words - the way you originally expected 'var' to behave is how 'let' behaves!
Long time ago I was accused of being "un-Canadian(TM)" by neighbor because I do not watch hockey. Actually I do not watch sports at all but it did not matter to him. God knows what would've happened had I admitted not pouring maple syrup on my morning eggs and bacon.
> In his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King Jr. wished that “one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.” The very idea that a nation might have a creed—a word associated primarily with religion—illustrates the uniqueness of American identity as well as its predicament.

That was a quote from the _Reverend_ Martin Luther King Jr, no less, so it's fair to say he knew the connotations and chose that term deliberately. Honestly, it still bothers me when I notice how often leftists will quote King, while never acknowledging the role that Christianity played in his work. He was an extremely well-trained Baptist Minister, with a doctorate in systematic theology. For whatever reason, I don't really see the modern Social Justice types taking many cues from Baptist Theology these days.
I have been trying to play it...

https://archive.org/details/zx_Secret_of_St._Brides_The_1985...

I cannot find the bit that tells me what the commands are.... Been a while since I played a game like this
The mandatory for immigration "life in the UK" test is basically a Buzzfeed "how British are you" test made legally binding.

Unbritishness definitely gets thrown around, especially these days.
Assuming pypy does what it says it does: Python -> RPython -> C -> LLVM Clang -> LLVM IR -> 'JIT', you're still paying a large tax compared to something like RPython -> Some IR -> 'JIT'
They also don't pay the same taxes as small businesses. The market is completely rigged. Apple should be split and fined.
> A hapax that is unique to all records of a language is quite rare.

Depends on how well attested the language is. In Koine Greek I would imagine they’re relatively rare, but in Etruscan or Epic Greek much more common.
The Apple brand is still where things mostly "just work". Sure, it's significantly declined in the last few years, but it's still ahead of Linux, and while Windows was great during the Windows 7 era and Microsoft definitely has the resources to compete, it seems like they're intentionally degrading the experience with Windows 10.
I think that would depend. If half the particles in the cat turn to antimatter and the other half stay as matter and annihilate each other, it’d be the mass of one cat.
Can you give me an example or two to clarify? Many things might not be well known to someone, but could be if they wanted to track down that information. That's a little different than something which has to be taken on faith by everyone.
With CPU and sensors getting so cheap, you'd think AI missile targeting would be taking off. IR+Radar seems like such a basic early-2000s strategy given how shockingly cheap everything has gotten.

The fact that Radar + IR is a spoken of as somewhat novel either tells me the defense industry parasites are way behind or the public intel is just several decades behind.

But given the speeds I can see the problem being more difficult that I think.
It also changes on page refresh!
In which case the real difference here is not where one is immigrating from (America or elsewhere), but rather where one is immigrating to: an immigrant-dominated society like Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US, maybe Argentina too; or one dominated by people whose ancestors have lived there for countless centuries, such as most European, Middle Eastern, African or Asian countries.

The original quote we were discussing, "Immigrants to America tend to become American; emigrants to other countries from America tend to stay American" is mistaken because it is viewing it primarily in terms of Americanness, instead of the nature of the society receiving the immigrant