skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The themes here remind me of another politics-is-the-new-religion article by David French, "America Is in the Grips of a Fundamentalist Revival". [1]

In it he draws a distinction between religion and fundamentalist religion (which the author has a background with), with a key quality of the latter being a lack of a sort of humility, a certainty that they're right. Which in turn leads them to be less tolerant of opposing viewpoints - because (in their view) they can see right and wrong so clearly, it pulls them to the position that "error has no rights".

That being said, I think it is easy to pay too much attention to the extremes.

An analysis of the US's political problems is out of scope of a HN comment, but one thing I did recently was read books by two prolific authors on the US left and right [2] (who each have historically been aligned with one of our two political parties). They both contained opposing narratives covering the last 100 years or so, but what was very interesting was how they both overlapped around certain key historical/political events.

I think reading these books was quite helpful for my understanding of US politics in a way that isn't really covered by the news cycle (in the future, I'd like to spend more time reading these sorts of books and less time on news).

[1] https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/america-is-in-the-grip...

[2] Paul Krugman's "The Conscience of a Liberal" and Charles Murray's "By the People"
IBM Suing GlobalFoundries over Chip Roadmap Failures
> For most people who aren't using a trackpad, it feels imprecise and terrible

Um, are you sure that isn’t because you’re not used to it? I find it feels that way when I’ve switched from Windows or Linux but you get used to it pretty quick.
Ahh I must have missed this button. I will try to go look for it and report back when I have a d3 example working in my bare HTML page.
The Kalman filter is but one example of estimating unknown variable (the target location, heading, speed) using a joint probability distribution of multiple sensor inputs with different characteristics.
Despite claiming “a direct and (emphasis added) bidirectional link” exists, you’ve only argued for a link between technological advancement and population size, and not vice versa. So it would seem we actually agree?

(E.g. you don’t seem to be arguing increasing the human population by X% leads to X% technological advancement.)

Current human population levels are ecologically unsustainable without several major shifts taking place — Sir David Attenborough counts regulating the human population size among them [1].

[1]: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/10/david-attenborough-wa...
> no holds barred clarity

There's a big difference between 'clarity' and confrontational, negative language.
I raise you the WLCG and OSG computing grids with distributed global datasets. Checksums of transfers and verified reproducibility works wonders.
Funny: I implemented the opposite: A minimal app to increase the scroll acceleration, and also enable scroll acceleration on Linux and Windows.

https://github.com/albertz/mouse-scroll-wheel-acceleration-u...

I really missed scroll acceleration when switching over from Mac to Linux. Scrolling long web pages or big source code files was so annoying. And just increasing the scroll speed is also not useful, as I still want to have the possibility to only scroll a little bit (pixel by pixel) when I want to. So I really want the dynamic acceleration.

This simple tool just implements that in user space, by injecting further scroll events.

Later I tested it also on Mac, where it would just increase the acceleration. And after getting used to it, I really like the increased acceleration.

There is also a long discussion for libinput on adding mouse wheel acceleration: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/7
As an American I find being accused of being unAmerican is usually something I find humorous:
1) If you don't blow stuff up on 4th of of July you are unAmerican!
2) If you can't eat Hotdogs like Joey Chestnut you are unAmerican!
3) If you don't own gun you are...
IBM case:

https://3s81si1s5ygj3mzby34dq6qf-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...

GlobalFoundries response:

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet...
I'm not religious, not an atheist either. When I was a kid we went to church. I'm curious what (if anything) other parents substitute for organized religion with their kids. Or do you choose to participate anyway even if not devout? To be clear, I'm a big fan of questioning everything, but I definitely see benefits to being part of something like organized religion and wonder how I will fill that void with my son.
I had to turn these off. They were on by default without permission: https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2019/11/04/exclusive-apple-a...
Men do 90% of everything. Start world wars, end world wars, save people’s lives, murder people, invent lifesaving technologies, invent murderous technologies. Women seem to want a world where they are 50% of the CEOs but not 50% of the prisoners and that’s not how “maleness” works.
What’s even more interesting is that most ideologies also adhere to a standard religious framework as well:

- anthropology

- problem of evil/sin

- redemption

- eschatology

If your system he answers to these, you basically have a religion.
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It’s interesting how you’ve written so much here and not given what concrete example. Makes it very difficult to examine your argument, when you simply state that secular ideology is religious. I think it’s worth noting the definition of secular is:

> denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.
this is a major factor to consider.

Also, the 20th century saw massive changes in where people lived compared to "their country".

prior to world war 1, this was a far more mixed affair (see, the austrian-hungarian empire and the greeks in anatolia).
I think religion does imply the organized belief in a supernatural deity vs in a secular ideology it's unorganized belief in a somewhat connected set of ideas which are debated more discretely between people who want to. Seems silly to say that engaging with a secular ideology is the same as being in a religion.
I think I get to see the full text in iOS private mode without logging in. Didn’t have to click away anything, either.
I recovered this document from an 8" floppy diskette on a S-100 system running CP/M. Interesting that, the more things change in programming, the more they stay the same!
>The secular world would benefit from adopting more formal definitions of their belief system.

Just as the religious world contains Christians, Jews, Scientologists, Muslims, Hindus, et cetc" with sometimes radically different ideas, the secular world too has a great many different people with different belief systems.

>If you believe you are not religious, it just means that you don’t have the cognitive tools to recognize the secular ideology that you have adopted

This is just a sort of tautological argument, wherein you adopt that "to be religious" is the same as "to have a belief system". Given that axiom, you are right! I'm a fairly militant atheist but I have no problem accepting that I have a belief system, an imperfect one too. I just don't think there is a god.
> emigrants to other countries from America tend to stay American

I don't think that's true of Australia. American Australians tend to assimilate pretty well, and after a while people tend to mostly forget they were Americans originally, even if they still have a bit of an accent. The Australian politician Kristina Keneally is an example. She was born in Nevada, grew up in Ohio, didn't move to Australia until her 20s. But I don't think anyone really thinks of her as "an American". She's an Australian politician. You might like her politics or you might dislike them, but nobody really cares about where she was born and grew up. She's one of us now.

The Australian media has even taken to (at times) calling Virginia Roberts Giuffre (the most notable public victim of Jeffrey Epstein) "an Australian", without qualification. (She married an Australian man, had kids with him, now they live here.) Whereas the American media just calls her an American.

The Australian media always wanted to view Mel Gibson as an Australian, even when he said that he himself identified as an American rather than as an Australian. (I think they are less keen on that now that he has made himself a bit of a persona non grata through his behaviour. America, you can have him.)
Or brains and reward-systems have evolved for an existence as semi-nomadic subsidence hunter-gatherers. We're not equipped to deal with "temptations" modern society has to offer.

While porn might be a particularly good example, there's plenty of other traps as well. Social media, games, gambling, ...

All that is geared towards maximized 'engagement', e.g. to make us as addicted as possible in as little time as possible. It plays into our worst tendencies.

https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/
I think there are two major factors to life quality that many American cities somehow missed or never really cared about enough, being able to stroll through cities by foot and decent work conditions (mostly reasonable work and commute times & holidays).

A friend of mine moved to L.A. in the early 2000s, he's still there, married to an American, but he burned out in his job there very quickly. No wonder, they were living in a small apartment with a baby in downtown L.A. and he had to commute for 3 hours daily. He got back at 10 to 11 PM and got up at 6 AM to get to work again - every workday, with almost no holiday. That's insane by European standards.
Seems that British nationalism runs pretty deep too, no? How else would you explain brexit?
I can go across the street to a dozen different stores. If I travel a little further, I can go to even more stores.

No matter where I go, with Apple and Google, I'm have to use their payment systems and give each of them a 30% cut of my apps' revenue. They both have a duopoly in the mobile operating systems market and the mobile app distribution market, and Apple has the majority of the market share in both markets in the US.
I bet no one will serve any time for this brazen wage theft and fraudulent pay reporting.
I agree with you that in the absence of what we conventionally call "religion" doesn't mean the essential character of religion is erased. Abandoning one religion means adopting another. Abandoning a religious faith with thousands of years of refinement for some quackery invented yesterday, especially without proportional reason, is not exactly the move of a sound mind.

I also think religion serves a real need, but all real needs have real objects. And so I do not use the word "utility" here as if the content of the faith didn't matter, that religion is just some instrument that gets us this "other stuff" and has no intrinsic truth or meaning itself. A true religious faith is practiced because it is about the ultimate meaning of one's life and thus the meaning of everything else in life. Thus everything is always subordinate to one's faith. It is important for the faith to be true in order to be able to live one's life in the light of true ends, not mythical counterfeits. This does not contradict the essence of your main point, namely, the the eviction of one religion does not abolish religion. It typically just replaces it with something inferior.

> “Why do science and philosophy matter?”

I would say philosophical and religious answers. Recall that philosophy is also reflexive.

But indeed, scientism is indefensible. It is a philosophical position and thus cannot be defended scientifically. You cannot simply assert it without justification.
This only happens for games that are popular online (or for games that are just wildly popular, like Chess.)
Anecdotally, it feels true. I, like many Americans, know an enormous number of immigrants and poor people that moved into the middle and upper-middle class through hard work and discipline. There is still plenty of opportunity to do that US if you apply yourself. Economic mobility is very high in the US (which is distinct from social mobility).

When I've worked in Europe, it has always been evident that this is much harder to achieve there for poor people and immigrants. The entire social system is setup to limit the ability of ambitious people to rise above whatever station they were born into in a way that isn't really a thing in the US. This contributes to why engineering wages are relatively low in Europe.
I put an activitypub fediverse project on hold a bit back, but would like to get back to it.

One of the various ActivityPub Vocabularies that one can post is an "Arrive" verb[1], as in, I arrived at this place. This would work well for a foursquare like check-in system. If you want something more real-time, you could either keep updating the location of that Arrive object, or just keep posting, every time you move more than 10m or whatever.

Sorry that I don't have anything helpful right now to offer! But I thought I'd share, as this is definitely part of the shared, open-standards based social systems that I hope we start to build, use, enjoy, & extend.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-arrive
Honestly, if I were to make a platform and someone else were to come by and somehow force my hand regarding what should be allowed on it and how they should be ranked in it, I’d just shut it all down, even the company if need be, give their money back to whatever investors there may be, and walk away. Let them have fun building it themselves if they want it to run any other way.

But that’s just me, and it probably speaks volumes about some of my flaws.
I'm also curious to have more details. I'm Canadian and historically have been a big proponent of our country, to the point of smugness. But I'm currently very bearish on our future and curious to hear what others are thinking.
> This is a toy language implemented by a single person—use for quiet enjoyment only.

Quiet enjoyment training! Soundless hedonism! Or would that be unsound hedonism? Am I breaking the rules of propositional logic or first-order?

Can I make quiet enjoyment the focus of my online persona? Hot Ziggity! I need some cheese and toast!

Edit: Will ya look at this!

Self-Hosted: self-hosted parser and interpreter are done, work on self-hosted transpiler to C for bootstrapping is around 90% complete.

Compiled: Foolang is intended to be capable of producing native, monolithic executables—without compromising the interactive development experience.

Performant: type-annotated and compiled Foolang code should perform about as well as equivalent -O0 C++ code. To be fair: this will require more effort from the compiler than C++, but not drastically so—a partial evaluation pass should cover most of it.

Type inference: while Foolang's typesystem should be considered weaksauce by today's standards, doing basic type inference is critical for the intendend functionality.

Supervised and isolated threads: Foolang threads will not share memory, hopefully providing a subtrate for fault tolerant computing akin to what Erlang does. (Unlike Erlang Foolang does allow thread-local side-effects.)

Smalltalkish development environment: while Foolang keeps it's code in files and allows you to use your favorite editor, it still wants to provide an integrated experience similar to Smalltalks.

Extensible syntax & code generation: Foolang is intended to offer a compile-time computation facility similar to Lisp's macros, allowing both syntactic convenience and ability to generate code.
Unfortunately, this name choice destroys your discoverability.

Try googling for the word “okay”. Now, try googling for the word “google”.

The Chef and Puppet communities have some of this problem themselves, although with Chef you can at least include the original name of the company that created the product.

Imagine if IBM was to launch today, and they chose to name themselves “Machine”. Just how useful would that name actually be? Or if Microsoft launched today, and they chose to call themselves just “Soft”.

It’s not like you can copyright the word “okay”.

Naming is hard. For many reasons. We know that. It is one of only two “hard” problems in computer science, and I submit that it is the only universal “hard” problem.

You need to spend enough time to get this right, and do so before you launch, otherwise you are crippling yourself for the life of the company or product.

With respect, nothing you do with your product or company will make a difference if you don’t have a suitably discoverable and memorable name.
I've been here myself, and I've seen it in others.

Having too much responsibility to early in one's career I think is a significant risk factor, especially combined with certain personality types. Moreso if you lack a strong professional network and/or mentorship. This situation is often correlated with clueless and/or ineffective and/or hostile management, which is it self an exacerbating factor.

I don't think it's the only cause, but it's probably a common one.
The other catch I see is how ‘life changing’ your job as an engineer can be in us vs rest of the world. US definitely is the better bet for the young and risk taking.

You can always go back and settled wherever you want after making a ton of cash in the US (assuming it works out), reverse isn’t true as much.
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I don't see how being an atheist means someone lacks the ability to recognize ideology. Religion may help because it gives practice putting boundaries on ideas which are obviously ridiculous. You can't go around pushing everyone to follow Deuteronomy for very long

Overall these pitfalls can be avoided by following some principles: reject taboos, seek more information, avoid metaphor, accept that some things you can't know
What is the utility of truth?

If it has none then I don’t need it.

Reflexivity is precisely where meaning/religion comes from. From the self.
I think this was discussed there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8933979
I feel alot of developers could benefit from learning other languages
I mean that is basically how I find the store brand all the time. Look for the brand name thing I know by heart because the logo has been seared into my brain since birth and then go from there.
That is the former CEO, and yes, he was very disconnected from reality most times.
No I meant there have been multiple sets of multiple interviews, never at the same company.
Consider it like any other resource for scientific exploration. If it was a radio telescope array and a group from Oxford made a discovery while analyzing the massive amounts of data those generate, the array facility wouldn't get top credit for the discovery.
Also, social control is quite a bit stricter in a lot of (especially northern) european countries compared to the US.

Showing one's wealth is in bad taste, and bragging about status is considering being an outlier.
This is slowly changing (since about the 80's) but prior to that, showing off your middle class wealth as a status indicator was frowned upon in certain circles. especially considering the hardship most people endured during and after ww2.
Its online mirrors[0] (which works without API keys) could be used as dictionary program to GoldenDict via LibreTranslate wrappers[1], so it may be used as a "LibreTranslate Desktop app" with a Scan Pop-up feature for translating any selected text in any app on PC.

(GoldenDict could be used as alternative GUI to Argos Translate engine's GUI[2] directly, but keep running engine on personal PC in offline may highly decreases PC performance)

JFTR, Here is "Google Translate Desktop app" implemented using GoldenDict + `bash` + single Shell-script.[3]

Alternatively, there is Python wrapper to GTranslate for GoldenDict.[4]

[0] https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate#mirrors

[1] https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate#language-bi...

[2] https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-translate#gui

[3] https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict/wiki/GoldenDict-as-...

[4] https://github.com/xinebf/google-translate-for-goldendict
Well, I quote the statement to show how vague it is, among things.

Neural networks are "universal approximators" in that they work as well as virtually any previous approximation method. So given big snapshot of input data and human judgement on it, they can approximate that. They can also approximate a snapshot of some input-output pairs not produced by human but having patterns (solutions to differential equations, for example).

So, they can approximate what humans do in a given domain. But there's no reason to think they're acting in the same way as humans and I'd say very few people seriously working on ML believe that.
Comparison Operators in Arduino Programming
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Wake me up when 'deep learning' has independently created a language to communicate within a group of peers while under environmental pressure.

(and that language is co-expressive with human languages)
To clarify the point, when other Swedes act a little “unswedish” it may be cosmopolitan cool, but it is limited to the national/ethnic in group. When Arabs, Somalians, or Nigerians, or other foreign peoples act unswedish its expected, and if loud, an annoyance
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Even though the vitriol may be directed at an inanimate object, it may be distracting and obnoxious to the person who is reading.
This is a commonly held view among the punditry. But the author ignores the obvious counterexample: all the division in the 50s, 60s, and 70s such as over desegregation, civil rights, abortion, and the Vietnam war, despite higher rates of religiosity. You cango farther back: the civil war. America has always been deeply divided.
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There are religions, there are ideologies, and there are tribalisms. Tribalism is the underlying cause of most of humanity's bad behavior. And unfortunately, it creeps into religions and ideologies more often than not.

In other words, as the article states, rationality is not going to increase as religion decreases. Tribalism is a fundamental human tendency, and few religions / ideologies address it correctly – if at all.
Intervocalic s > r (rhotacism [1]) is a well known phenomenon in early Latin. Any Latin grammar from the last 150 years should mention it.

The comparative method proves the original phoneme was /s/ in many cases:

generis - compare Greek gene(s)os, Sanskrit janasas

jus, juris - compare justitia where the /s/ was not intervocalic

robur (archaic robos), roboris - compare robustus

The 3rd declension has many s-stems like these though there are some original r-stems also like jecur (< PIE jekwor, compare Greek hepar).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhotacism
> Kernel methods owe their name to the use of kernel functions, which enable them to operate in a high-dimensional, implicit feature space without ever computing the coordinates of the data in that space, but rather by simply computing the inner products between the images of all pairs of data in the feature space.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_method

As it relates to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_tangent_kernel

To me, this is JFM. Not sure if I'm connecting the dots right either. I just don't know of anything else claiming to solve the curse.
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I have a script for this so that I can use modern Linux tools on macOS buy without having to go down dependency hell trying to get all the versions correct.

The script uses its name to look for a corresponding dockerfile/container (which it auto builds if needed) and then mounts the file system inside to allow you to run it on one or mode files locally.

See eg

https://github.com/alblue/scripts/blob/main/ctags
https://github.com/alblue/scripts/blob/main/ctags-Dockerfile