skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, firstly I am unsure how any of the above refutes my statements about the British Empire.

You have decided to get into the semantics of conquest vs land theft. My reading of your reply is that conquest is an excusable activity?

My understanding of your argument rests on that everyone does it (conquest) so what the British Empire did was only unique in its scale.

I think your question and argument takes on more a personal morality question and I will present you with the way I think about it.

A couple of questions, if you have different answers to me then we just have different personal belief systems and we can leave it at that.

Do you excuse murder, rape, kidnapping, robbery in your current life as just being something people and chimpanzees do?

If the answer is no (I am sure it is) then why do you say conquest is excusable? Which by my definition is just larger groups of people engaging in the above mentioned crimes?

I do not want to be celebrating an organisation which is responsible for those crimes.

Finally, indigenous people's violence (and remembering there are 1000s of nations across the world which is kind of ridiculous to be saying them all at once) does not culturally define them in the same way mass violence defined the British Empire.

Violence, oppression and misery was the modus operandi of the British Empire.
Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (Epcot)
Precompiled OpenCV 4.5.2 binaries for Raspberry Pi 3 and 4 on GitHub
I've often heard it said that a particular prediction of Quantum Electrodynamics [1] may be the most precise experimentally confirmed value in physics [2], with an accuracy in the region of one part in a trillion (10^12).

I haven't heard the same claim made for the LIGO experiment yet, but I understand it is capable of detecting distance changes smaller than one part in a billion trillion (10^21) [3].

If this LHCb result is confirmed, given that it involves the detection of a mass difference of one part in a hundred million quadrillion quadrillion (10^38), would it qualify as a new precision record in physics? I'd be grateful if anyone familiar with the field could comment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_magnetic_moment

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_tests_of_QED

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO#Observations
I've found that bashing my head against a black box isn't a good way to solve problems I encounter. I've dug into open source code or libraries innumerable times to either find a workaround for an error, patch the error, locate a bug ticket or file a bug ticket.
Funny, because the lowercase "L" was the first thing that came to mind about Ubuntu Mono for me :)
Religion, spiritual beliefs, ghosts, lottery ticket "investing," superstitions, luck, horoscopes, phobias, ritual sacrifices, Capgras delusions/changelings, and faith healing are examples of what I categorize as magical thinking.

These are the ways of animals who cannot control their emotions long-enough to think clearly and honestly between banging on bones in front of a monolith.

If the average member of society is ever to progress beyond being a bunch of easily-misled rubes herded into tribal cult ideological pens, something needs to change where decent, intelligent people are lionized over minimally-useful celebrities and charlatans.

(The United States was founded by primarily anti-intellectual merchants and landowners who scoffed at the Old World's stodginess and intellectual pursuits.)
just slightly off-topic. i have not been able to find a way to give ratings or review iOS stock apps on the app store.

am i missing something or we just can't rate the stock iOS apps?
No, the problem here is very real - rust doesn't have a reasonable c++ interop story, which means you have to rewrite potentially very large amounts of code at once and hope you don't regress anything. At the same time you have to continue normal development work, which is necessarily still C++, because again, you can't adopt rust in small sections.

Basically to rewrite one DOM feature in rust would have a high likelihood of requiring rewriting the entire DOM implementation in rust, which would also require rearchitecting. While doing that other people would be wanting to continue working, but they don't have a rust build to work on so they have to continue in c++, thus sadness and conflicts. The other solution is to implement features in rust, and use a c++ wrapper to interface with that rust implementation, but now you've lost the memory safety advantages of rust (most of which are lifetime related, not bounds checking), and the C++ interface itself could be exciting as it could end up having to marshal other types.
to mars and back in a few days at 1g.
Anyone read 'Quo Vadis' of Henryk Sienkiewicz (He won the Nobel in literature 1905)? I have read a lot of novels in my life till now, but Nero's carnage against Christians depicted in it remains one of the most gruesome things I have read about.
The best propagandist makes it a little believable, right?
so -

You saw sagacious Solomon |
You know what came of him |
To him, complexities seemed plain |
He cursed the hour that gave birth to him |
And saw that everything was vain |
How great and wise was Solomon |
The world, however, did not wait |
But soon observed what followed on |
It's wisdom that had brought him to this state |
How fortunate the man with none

You saw courageous Caesar next |
You know what he became |
They deified him in his life |
Then had him murdered just the same |
And as they raised the fatal knife |
How loud he cried "you too my son!" |
The world, however, did not wait |
But soon observed what followed on |
It's courage that had brought him to that state |
How fortunate the man with none

You heard of honest Socrates |
The man who never lied |
They weren't so grateful as you'd think |
Instead the rulers fixed to have him tried |
And handed him the poisoned drink |
How honest was the people's noble son |
The world, however, did not wait |
But soon observed what followed on |
It's honesty that brought him to that state |
How fortunate the man with none

Here you can see respectable folk |
Keeping to God's own laws |
So far he hasn't taken heed |
You who sit safe and warm indoors |
Help to relieve out bitter need |
How virtuously we had begun |
The world, however, did not wait |
But soon observed what followed on |
It's fear of God that brought us to that state |
How fortunate the man with none

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Brendan Michael Perry / Bertolt Brecht / John Willett

How Fortunate the Man With None lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG Rights Management
> Over half of the Welsh population votes for Brexit

Many of the residents of Wales who voted for Brexit are English: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/sep/22/english-peop...

The areas of Wales which identify the most strongly as Welsh had the some of the lowest votes for Brexit.
How is this different than Consolas (currently default font in Visual Studio)?
George Hotz on TuSimple IPO
This reminds me of two strategies of playing Starcraft PvP.

No 1: Play very aggresively in the beginning and use your excellent micro management to make sure your opponent doesn't have enough time to stop your expansion. Sure you are going to lose one or two bases but then you have a full three bases to devastate your enemy.

No 2: Play conservatively, let the opponent expand but grow your available bases (usually only 2) to full potential quickly and devastate your enemy with your big army. The key is to grow your army quickly (you opponent meanwhile is busily expanding his new bases) and to use a lot of micromanangement to harass your opponent (e.g. dropping a squad of marines to kill all drones of a new base).

Ultimately it falls into micromanagement and how familiar you are with the map.
Might I again refer you to the fact that you can literally buy arsenic on Amazon.

Would they do it? No. Would it be risky? Yes. Would it be illegal? No.
Woah! In all the years I used that I never put it together. “NERO burning ROMs”.
I'm surprised to read that despite persecution, Russia allowed them to transit through their country.
Seneca himself was ordered to commit suicide by Nero.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger#Death
Still kind of weirded out, not understanding why Tesla bought one of the top supercapacitor companies (Maxwell Technologies) in early 2019[1] for a bit over $200m (all stock deal).

[1] https://electrek.co/2019/10/07/tesla-maxwell-ultracapacitor-...
Religious faith hasn’t declined. It’s just re-branded.
The Schindler of Germany, John Rabe

> John Rabe was an ordinary German businessman in China when the Japanese invaded Nanking in 1937. Nearly 70 years later, a memorial was dedicated to the "Good German" who saved thousands of Chinese lives.

https://www.dw.com/en/memorial-dedicated-to-the-oskar-schind...
I couldn't see anything wrong with the post, it seems perfectly professional and dry. Then I realize that the link was updated from one with an arbitrary excerpt:

> (Windows took a different approach and got it right. In Windows, it's okay for multiple DLLs to provide the same symbol, and there's no sad and desperate effort to pretend that a single namespace is still cool.)

There's no need for technical topics to be emotionally charged, it only detracts from communicating the importance, correctness or benefits.
Right or wrong, there are examples of people talking about how their tech stack was their competitive advantage for their startup. So it's not a surprise that some would see a particular stack as a disadvantage.
The police going to ask them in the first place was a wrong decision. A family minding their own business doing nothing wrong should not be burdened with someone showing up at their door saying "we think that you're the children of a murder rapist. If you don't help us that's definitely what we're going to conclude. If you do help us there's a chance that we'll conclude it anyway, but you never know. He's dead now so we have no requirement to overcome a legal defense. What say you?"

That's known as a devil's bargain.

> Maybe their reaction to learning

A more likely outcome is irreparable trauma.
Alot of these comments seem to be some form of trying to justify her decision as not being unique or spiritually inspired. I would encourage you to let things be what they are and not over analyze them
Yeah man, definitely! Just imagine that you have 2 more hours than other people for EVERY DAY.

OK, I also figured out that sometimes those 2 extra hours are pretty useless if I couldn't figure out my goal in the world. But still a pretty good 2 hour :/
That's not the explanation, it's just the first sentence (as an example of the tone, I presume):

> It's basically a giant jigsaw puzzle.

> You find some rock that has the same text in two languages (the rosetta stone for example helped decipher old egyptian)

> Then you read more and more texts and reconstruct new words from context. Often you have multiple possible interpretations but then new texts are found and you can improve your old assumptions with a new context.

https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/myt3dc/e...
It is funny seeing this:

> These same people would've been in the mob in salem executing so called witches a couple hundred years ago and would have been just as certain in their beliefs then.

after this:

> I don't know you and can't speak for you.
No doubt that is almost certainly true, but if you read the article, you will find that she was intending to become a nun when she fell in love and started a family. It sounds like she practically postponed her dream of becoming a nun and got the family responsibilities over with before heading to the cloister.
Yeah, but in this case it's hardly a niche stack, nor would it have been hard to change it.

The stack could also easily add F#, unlocking a new pool of talent and perhaps simplifying some of the dev work.
Oh, I totally disagree with you. I'm well aware of how Chromium's C++ code works, and I'm aware of oilpan, I don't think it's fair at all to say it solves memory safety issues.

Proof's in the pudding. ITW exploits are there.
Apple is to app developers what uber is to taxis and carpoolers.
IMO one of the reasons that works for Elixir is that Elixir itself is built for all sorts of concurrent workloads.

In most other languages, you’re sending everything to the queue. With Elixir you only need a small subset of background work to go to a queue, which is usually work that would stress the database.
I'm not "in the field" yet; and I didn't take any courses I just kinda "dove in" on contributing to some open source repos because I've been a python dev for like 4 years now.

The pytorch codebase for, say, a transformer (a deep learning architecture which makes use of "attention") - is still not something I've yet grokked. I have however been able to pitch in with bug fixes as I continue learning and getting to that point.

This is how I would hope an entry-level position would be at a job. At some point companies have to realize education is just a part of it and that it takes time; particularly when things change this fast. I have no real-world clue though unfortunately.

Anyway, working on machine learning with vision is the first time I've actually felt like my work was exciting. The "result" you get is so much fun and working together with people given the proper culture is presumably a fantastic experience. I just (personally) can't get excited about using my code to write CRUD/frontend anymore. Not to imply those are the only two options; but that's been the case for me until recently.
Conservative, moderate have a civil conversation, find common ground
A religion is the embodiment of spiritual principle.

A cult is an institution which exists to empower and enrich leadership structure of the cult.

Given the infallibility of humans, there can be lot of cultishness in religion.

Paradoxically, a lot of cult members are actually true believers, often trying to - and doing - quite some good, meaning there can in many cases be some good 'conscientious externalizations' of even some otherwise crappy cults. This is harder to grasp but it's real.

There are many otherwise secular groups that exist in this sphere especially among 1) ideologically oriented groups - and 2) corporations. My personal exposure to these kinds of environments triggers that 'weird feeling' whenever I visit such-and-such campus, in the Silicon Valley and elsewhere.

There are political organizations, even 'nice ones' in 'nice countries' that take children, not even teens, off in isolation to places like 'camps on islands' to 'teach them their values'. Because of the lack of obvious religious artifacts, it doesn't set of the usual triggers, but when taking a more holistic view ... it seems a bit unhealthy.

Even more meta, it seems to me that cultures that have very deep and complex behavioural patterns, idioms, norms, language structure etc. exhibit a lot of the same attributes.

You could go so far as to point at many 'major cultures' ... but to be a little less controversial, my experience with both Amish and Mennonite community certainly has elements of this. But I reserve judgment. It's complicated. And also they are some of the most inconceivably kind people on the planet. FYI they are effectively pacifists, as 'God's Children should not take up arms against one another' etc. - they won't join the Army.

Edit: from a purely secular perspective, where the notion of 'there being a god or not' or where 'beliefs' etc. irrelevant ... than really what is the difference between the Soviet Union, for example, and a cult? They exhibit all of the same artifacts. The only difference being, in some cults, there might be some kind of supernatural extra beliefs to go along with it. Stalin used (perverted?) a secular ideology in the same way as a cult would use their own system of beliefs. 99% of the resulting systematic and authoritarian externalizations have nothing to do with the 'core beliefs' in both cases.

Edit 2: whether 'core principles' are ideological, spiritual, corporatist, nationalist, or even cultural, you get a lot of the same type of group dynamics forming.
Iirc Apple was using Drop Box before Dropbox existed, as a place for other users on the network to drop files onto your hard drive.
This may be subjective. For others (including me), it drives the irritation level higher and makes it harder to pay attention. Ranty writing fuels my own tendency to get annoyed and ranty; it makes me want to disengage to preserve my own mood. ("Holub on Patterns" is one example of a book I couldn't finish because of this quality of the writing.)

Personally for me, concise and information-dense writing makes me sit up and pay attention.
Just curious to know, isn't religion also an ideology? Every ideology at some point turns into religion!
Me neither. I rarely had any good sleep that left me with a refreshed mind. Early morning is usually my worst time.
Seems like a great service if you’re already using tailscale.
Yeah this reads like it was written by a child that thinks they’re really smart.
A filesystem and an internet browser are two very different things! Files = Windows explorer, the filesystem. Which is not internet explorer, the browser.

Dropbox and Files indeed aren’t really competitors. I often use Files to browser my Dropbox files!
Replacing small components like a single codec or parser wouldn't require anywhere near what Google is asking for in that document. I'm not saying to replace V8 with Rust.

> but now you've lost the memory safety advantages of rust

No you haven't.
Prettified: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tyingq/devbbcjs/main/main....
Yes, and the depiction of the fire of Rome is truly suffocating and terrifying. And the development of the protagonist’s conversion is very convincing. And also, more on topic, Nero is so dynamic. Seems like such a modern villain with so many believably awful traits.
The major app makers seem to think electron is the better choice, and I tend to agree.
The continued closure of our shared land border doesn't indicate to me that you guys are headed in the direction of reason.
> My comment referring to System I & System II is not meant to suggest a "small set" of ideas. Rather, I'm thinking about reactive/unconscious thinking versus deliberate rational thinking as multiplying the complexity of our thoughts.

For sure, I think I know what you're getting at. My point/theory is that a small set of fundamental ideas, System I & System II being one of the ideas, can plausibly explain why affairs on this planet are so amazingly suboptimal considering the capabilities and resources at our disposal, and that very few people seem particularly concerned about or even aware of the abstract phenomenon.

> Add system 1 and system 2, this complexity is further multiplied by self-deception or irrational thought.

Exactly....these flaws are multiplicative: the resulting problem of combining multiple is (at least at times) much greater than the sum of the individual parts.

> And if that doesn't blow your mind, then realizing how pitiful the human mind performs on multi-dimensional problems compared to computers will put the fear of the event horizon back into your weekend. (>_<)

Oh yes...and, this poor performance can regularly be observed in culture war threads right here on HN, a community of fairly exceptionally intelligent and logical people, on a relative basis (people tending to think about certain things only in relative terms is another example in "the small set"). To me, it is unmistakably obvious that The Problem is with the way the human mind currently works, and until people are able to realize this, I think we will have to be satisfied with our marginal improvements approach to the world. I can't for the life of me understand why people are so insistent on this, but the world's a complicated place.
No country is willingly importing this divisive rhetoric. Aspirational young citizens who repeat the same formula within their home countries and are quickly rewarded with status and power. So the scourge continues.

Short-term, this toxic, zero-sum behaviour reaps havoc. Long-term, American culture capital will have been exhausted and the US will have signed its own death warrant.
Relevant video discussing fire keys and other common keys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9b9IYqsb_U

And since this thread is about elevators, I have to also mention another video of theirs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUvGfuLlZus
This isn't a ratio of one part in 10^38; it's an absolute difference between the particles' masses of 1x10^-38 grams. The ratio implied depends on the mass of each particle. I presume this is far less than a gram, which means the radio is also far less.
You make it sound like she was forced to do this. There's nothing in Christianity that forces you to give your money to the Church or to become a nun. You do this on your own free will.
I can see them asking that.
> the murders family

It's rather important that we say "accused's family". It's irresponsible to label someone a murderer without giving them an honest opportunity for defense.
Oh, they are definitely willingly importing it.

If there is ABC movement from a powerful country, then those in the external country will want to use that to further their agenda to the degree that it is aligned with their own.

The CIA used to (and still does) try to push some kinds of narratives aboard, most prominently in the 'flower' revolutions in E. Europe, but much of the pop culture one's just happen 'organically'.

Particularly in the Anglosphere.
I actually used SparcLinux back then. It wasn't much to write home about. Pretty much everyone with lower end Sun hardware (meaning SparcStation 20s and below) preferred SunOS 4.x (retroactively renamed "Solaris 1.x") until Solaris 2.6 came out. 2.5 was okay. 2.4 and below were pretty awful.

For example, I worked at an ISP that originally set up a shell server on Solaris 2.4. People hated it since most opensource stuff wouldn't compile out of the box. We had to downgrade to SunOS 4.x.
> And believing that religious believers accept 100% of religious belief without reasoning about them is a misunderstanding.

Had they reasoned about them, most 2000 year old customs would have hardly survived.
Maybe you’re talking about a different kind of symbolic knowledge than the OP. To give an example humans can instantly tell whether an arbitrary sentence is grammatical or not which is a deep kind of symbolic reasoning that computers absolutely cannot do right now. And humans can also get the semantic meaning.

Then again math is hard for us. So I think there are nuances.
Sorry to disappoint. Just your regular pork belly bacon. Old style thick slices.

Anyways being way older I am now more into BBQ and veggies.
> This is a really excellent topic to bring up -- the fact that glue code grows essentially quadratically.

I think this was the motivation driving Microsoft's Language Server Protocol.

https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/
Indeed, the article did a good job of making me wonder how long it’ll be before we’re all using Tailscale.
>So she gave them all her money

Do you have a source for this? I don't see it in the article.

>and it was then she began the long, considered bid to join one of the strictest orders of nuns in the world.

It sounds like it was hard for her to get in, and the group is fairly exclusive. I think cults try to get people to join by making it easy to join.
Oddly I had to on my new iPad Pro. Wasn’t there.
I think function composition is powerful glue, indeed. Attach some side effect to the arrow, and all of a sudden you can implement a state machine, a reader environment, promises, or even continuations.