skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check your original comment. You did not qualify that only “profound secular beliefs” are religious in nature. Rather, you speak in general saying “secular beliefs are religious.” So now you’re moving the goal posts.

Using your original logic, -any- belief can be religious in nature. “Today was 85” -is- religious from your original position because perhaps people ritualistically check the weather every morning like a prayer. The weathermen are like priests disseminating knowledge, and small talk is used to find other weather checker cultists.

It does not matter what belief Id offer up, because it will match your original definition because your original definition is so broad as to be meaningless. Other comments have already said this in fewer words. If you are unable to identify what it would look like if you were mistaken, then you shouldn’t be confident that you are correct. So how could someone identify the difference between a secular belief and a religious belief?
Until we figure out a way to make lots of money from deep space missions, progress will be slow. The space race was, imo, mostly a race to optimize nuclear warhead delivery systems.
Why should a bar be upset about this?

Anti-vaxxers as a group tend to be stupid, entitled shitheads.

Dumping a bunch of entitled shitheads onto my competitor seems like an awesome plan.

We had a waitress crying today because she was so happy to see us again instead of the idiots she's been seeing the last two months.
Indeed I was not aware of that feature. Thanks!
How an Indian Scientist Connected Possible Dots of Lab Leak of Covid-19
People who are saying that is not possible and that it does not make sense economically speaking have won. We are now in hands of managers, not dreamers.
As it mentions, 2001: A Space Odyssey came out about a year later with a Hilton in a space station, so that pretty much portrays the vision at the time.
Well, they’re gonna find out eventually. But I guess it might be easier to withdraw an offer than fire someone who’s started.
Is Tailscale / Taildrop fully open source? Such that I can set this up myself for my own purposes 1:1? Wanted to use Tailscale's service but saw this on the sign up page:

> Sign up with your identity provider...

This frightened me enough not to use Tailscale, I don't want Google / Microsoft sharing any more of my data. Is this still the case?
I'm a little conflicted who to believe. But it sounds like there are specific keywords an app developer can specify for their apps that signals to the App Store search what to rank for (kind of like having keywords on your website tells Google what your page is about). From my understanding Apple manually put "Dropbox" as one of the keywords and that is what they removed. If other app developers can put in keywords like that (and not just Apple for their own apps) then it doesn't sound too bad... But if it was a separate system that is not accessible to other developers to manipulate then that is less cool.
During covid, I wrote a tool that takes the avg daily infection rate in my county, makes some rough assumptions about incubation time, time-to-transmission, duration of contagion and asymptomatic rate, and tells me the probability of someone with covid having been in the supermarket down the street within the past few hours (based on capacity and traffic data of people in the market).

It wasn't usually very reassuring, but it felt better to see a number than just go in blind.
It’s security theater because cases are plummeting anyway, without the proof requirement to enter bars. We can see this because much of the country doesn’t require vaccination proof to enter public places and is still seeing COVID recede as their vaccination rates mount.
I pounded my head on this problem in a multi-agent system course in graduate school. Needless to say, I could not outperform a simple naive algorithm however hard I tried.
Optimization of Collateral allocation for Securities Lending (2019) [pdf]
It is cultural imperialism. Just because the people participating in it do not notice that it is doesn’t make it not so.
Mars missions are feasible now. See for example the missions described my Zubrin, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Direct
> Now Azure? Well, if you can't say anything nice....

clearly you haven't been using the same Azure that I've been using.

I have nothing but good things to say about it. Azure DevOps is fucking fantastic in every way. I know there's more to Azure than AZDO but it came to mind first, so it got mentioned.

LOGGING IN to AWS is enough to make me hate it. Everything about AWS is wrong, from how it works to the company that runs it.

AWS can die, now, and my life would change, but I'd be happier because I'd know AWS was dead.

AWS earned my hatred, by the way. well and truly earned it. screw AWS. screw Amazon.
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Good point, thank you! I was also thinking of bundling some advanced examples (with in-depth, step-by-step explanations) in a video course. Do you think this might sell?

NOTE: I did my best to prepare a decent documentation website for the users, so I am not planning to hide anything from them. But this idea of creating advanced problem-specific applications doesn't sound bad.
I would not be surprised if there is a billionaire and/or large nation state pushing this all over. If you can stir up social issues to stymie productivity, it makes it easy to grow your own economy. Even easier if your country is homogenous and doesn't have a legacy of racism to atone for.
The actual reason:

> In conclusion. Too early, lack of experts, rapid evolution pains. It was stacking risk on top of an already risky project.

Rust was extremely immature and too early to be used in an OS at the time. It just hit 1.0. By then, Fuchsia already wrote its kernel Magenta (now Zircon) in C++.

In short, it did not make sense to write the OS kernel in Rust from both a technical and business standpoint at the time.
don't know about 'phoning the company', but someone from the previous place might consult their linked-in profile and contact some acquaintance from the new place informally, with the aim to bad mouth their former peer. I stopped updating my linked-in profile, because this is quite possible, if you have worked in a toxic work environment (in terms of security: all what is in the realm of the possible, is also likely to happen in reality)
I wonder if a similar analysis could find whether there is a 'skull and bones effect'.
Well, you have to make an assumption either way. I'd say it's more likely they'll do what they've done in the past than not, particularly where the status quo of power structures is threatened.
Translation: "Subatomic particle changing to antiparticle and back confirmed after hundreds of incremental tests and subsequent analysis showed a high enough degree of sigma of certainty"
Sometimes 'state-of-the-art' falls short and the moonshot is all you've got.
It has this reputation but I haven't found scientific evidence.
Awww. It had to happen sometime!

https://xkcd.com/548/
I've personally followed Andrew Singer's/BODE's work and have been present in his (and other forensic genealogists) presentations to the forensics community. I was literally in the audience 2 days ago for another of his. I am a professional Forensic Scientist who is specialized in DNA. My educational background is in biochemistry & molecular genetics. Feel free to ask me anything.

There is a lot of misunderstandings in this thread so far. For one, on the idea that "sperm does not automatically equal murder," is of course logically true. DNA evidence doesn't equate that point, but it does suggest that there is a putative perpetrator who could be responsible for the crime. It's not up to forensic scientists to decide who committed what crimes. We can tell that the person was "there." It's up to the detectives to argue/figure out, and ultimately the judicial system to decide the outcome/verdict.

She was raped and killed, who's DNA was on the vaginal swab? Most likely the perpetrator.

Secondly, to suggest that modern DNA forensic science is questionable is farce. There have been major issues with interpretation in the past with non-accredited crime labs/analysts/methods/persons making bogus conclusions, but these days, and for the last 15+ years, has just plain not happened. If there were unqualified interpretations they would be thrown out of the courthouse in a nanosecond.

The absoluteness of DNA mixture interpretations is getting better and better. Google "probabilistic genotyping." A human can reasonably look at data and discern multiple DNA profiles up to a few people when it comes to certain limited mixtures. Prob. Gen. software can deconvolute up to about 10 distinct people in a DNA mixture. It's basically brute force computing. I bring this up because some of the examples other's posted here happened when such tech didn't exist and bogus interpretations were going on.

As for the ethics point. I have met with many victims personally. Not one has ever not returned genuine overly emotional gratefulness of our efforts. Many brave victims become spokespeople and support for other victims. They tour my lab all the time in wonder. I can't tell you how many cases we've solved. DNA evidence, investigations, then a line up, then "that's the one!" happen all the time. These would have never happened without DNA evidence.
Hard to tell for me what triggered this. She completely changed careers at that point it seems, maybe it was burnout.
Facts on Possible Lab Escape of Covid-19
I prefer Comic Code too. It's missing a few ligatures and it has a rendering bug on the T on windows with some sizes, but it's still my default font in vscode.
Nothing comes to mind, really. I call people names when they threaten my life in traffic, but that’s about it.
No matter how they dress it, the FLoC id gives away personal information. That's unacceptable.
Awesome, it’s a small world. I was his teaching assistant during the times he taught EE301 (Signals & Systems) so chances are I’ve corrected your exams!
No, it was just BoostInteralApp('files').

Now, since both Dropbox and Files were results for the "dropbox" search term (because the Files app contained "dropbox" in its metadata if Dropbox was installed, and metadata got indexed by the search system), the latter ended up first due to getting boosted.
I generally agree. Though we've sort of swung in the opposite direction it seems where parents will fail to instill an upbringing that doesn't end up with their kids being 35 and still at home. Also an absolute disaster by my estimation.
> It seems that you are saying that religious beliefs aren't really valid because they aren't based in reality.

For the specific example I gave (Thomas Aquinas), it's not really a question of the beliefs being "valid" or not; it's just that they have no practical impact at all, which means it doesn't really matter whether you believe them or not, at least not if the beliefs are taken in isolation.

However, it is a problem if people then try to use such beliefs to justify actions that do have practical impact. For example, consider the split between different branches of Christianity after the Council of Chalcedon over "homoousios" vs. "homoiousios", which caused several wars over the next few centuries.
This article is a good example of things that might work in theory will probably not work in practice.

It is also a very positive example of giving correct headlines to an article.
Go bears!
Social media are letting people consume in filter bubbles. Social media is also fueling polarization by slot machine like dopamine rewarding attention seeking like buttons.
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This seems like sloppy ML, there are sub-fields that deal with sequences and time series and would be great at modelling such complex interactions. Language models do something like that.

My bet is that all the fancy ML is useless because the sellers are not adapted to the buyers. They want to sell X and buyers need/want to buy Y. If they used proper targeting they would reach a much smaller audience.

So they have an order to show 1000 crappy flash drive ads, but you only want to buy other things - what are they going to do? Skip you? No, that's money lost. They will show you the ad even if it is ineffective. Greed explains the bad targeting.
I'm pretty comfortable judging the act of excising all of one's (ten!) children from one's life as being a shitty thing to do.

Even other cloistered orders allow letter-writing, and there are semi-cloistered orders where family can come visit any time. There is nothing about the act of becoming a nun that mandated her cutting of her connections to her children.
shareseer.com to find public company filings efficiently
It promised anonymity. In 2021, I have no doubt it really was an NSA project - a financial honeypot.
Hhh
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Secretaries aren't an obvious case in my experience. A good number of them appear to me to work as hard as the boss they assist. And in some cases they appear pretty much as capable (but they never carry anything like the same responsibility).
> But here’s the key idea: competition occurs at multiple levels simultaneously, and the winner at any one level generally succeeds by suppressing destructive forms of competition at the level below.

- https://evonomics.com/the-ceo-of-sears-jon-haidt/
Interesting take. I felt developers, by racing to the bottom on price, killed themselves.

When a neighbor I did not even really know (and this was perhaps close to 10 years ago) told me she never buys apps anymore, she only downloads the free ones, I knew the jig was up.
Apple's explanation makes perfect sense. They didn't manually put "Dropbox" as one of the keyboards, but the integration of Dropbox with Files results in "Dropbox" being automatically added to the metadata of the Files app, and the metadata automatically gets indexed by the search system
I do and most people who chose to use Zoom over Google Meet and other competitors do it for those features. For classrooms, there's no other vital option except Microsoft Teams.
The point is that the manual boost was for the Files app in general, not for the "Dropbox" search query specifically.
I think GP was saying the opposite, i.e. it’s nominally about political power as you said, but in the local context they’re going after white men who have no political power and ignoring politically powerful groups.
Just another reason we need decentralization.
Totally agree. I don’t think I’ve been bored since I was a teenager. Every day I think to myself, all the things I could do with extra time in the day, if I didn’t have to work for a living. I am counting down the days until I retire! My nightmare actually is I die the day after I retire, just as I’m getting ready to start living my life!
Wait until you hear someone noun “solve,” it’s the most infuriating sound to leave a PMs mouth.

I’m hoping we can come to an agreement during this meeting to find the solve.

Would ___ work for this solve?
> To replace Android or ChromeOS?

Both. If CastOS (which is Linux-based) for the Google Nest Hub was already replaced via an update, it is completely obvious that Fuchsia is not only here to stay, but will definitely replace Android AND ChromeOS.

I think Unix has had its day and its quite refreshing to see a new OS that is designed for security and is actually optimised for modern hardware and CPU architectures from the start.

Downvoters: So Google did NOT just replace the Linux-based CastOS on the latest Google Nest Hub update with Fuchsia and it is still an 'experiment' that some were still hoping for? [0] Are you prepared to present evidence against my answer to the parent's question?

There is no need to be scared of change, especially when Google inevitably replaces Android and ChromeOS with Fuchsia.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17568335
This reminds me of Master of Orion 2, a game I have spent countless hours on.

My typical strategy depends on chosen race and other game configurations, but I tend to prefer a slower pace. Peacefully building my empire while focusing mainly on research and trying to build strong relations with other races.

However, on the hardest difficulty (called "Impossible") the only way I ever win is playing with extreme aggression and conquering everything in reach with force as quickly as possible.
> it's just that they have no practical impact at all,

That's funny because a system that kept a civilization together for 1000 years is being claimed to have "no value" by someone who has no idea how to keep any society together and is mimicking the conventional wisdom of those overseeing a disintegrating society as a result of this ignorance.

Not only does the work of Aquinas have value, it has more value over the long run than anything being produced today, as no ethical system that we hold dear has a chance of keeping anything going for even three generations, let alone 100. Modern society is suffering from collapsing birthrates and social disintegration at an alarming rate, and we are pretending to be smarter than those who set the rules of a civilization that was far more stable and productive than our own, with far more profound accomplishments.
> But now, many of the people who would have decried this kind of hegemonic influence delight in it.

> it's quite ironic listening to people on social media talking down "American Imperialism"

Typical retarded horseshit from "Hacker" News.
For some of us from excolonies, this is starting to feel like neocolonialism.

We see our elected leaders bending the knee to the new east India company.

It looks like we have been recolonised before we could decolonise.
>> A small, quick software team moves faster than the enterprise wants to go.

Ha. I’ve worked on a team that worked much faster than other teams. We’d sit around trying to find work to do, and when a project showed up, we’d knock it out fast because we needed something to focus our nervous energy on. Then we’d run out of things to do and get bored again.
Ask HN: What things that tech recruiters do, annoy you the most as an engineer?
For me it's definitely their desire for everything to be a call. If I'm even remotely interested, that'll be a 30mins call to setup. I really only have 3 basic things I want to know to see if it's even worth perusing: Salary range, tech stack, team size. And when you ask them about those things: "Oh, well cover all the on the call".
Welcome Thread – v128
Maybe 10 years for the general population, but possibly it already is for some governments.
"Bizarre" seems a bit strong - anyone remember reading Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl? I remember reading it as a kid, and the concept of the "Space Hotel USA" seemed a little fantastical, but not out of the realm of possibilities. That was published in 1972.
Most of those resorts lease the land from Disney, https://www.wdwradio.com/2005/02/wdw-history-101-how-to-buy-...

https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2019/12/30/disn...
The interesting question is who's funding this ideology. CRT is very fundamentalist in its nature (i.e. you either blindly follow our dogma or become our mortal enemy - no middle ground) and it also has strong flavor of Marxism (I mean those calls to dissolve the family institute in favor of some communal state). Also, the woke like to hide behind blacks and women and pretend they talk on their behalf. Based on these traits, I'd say the origin of their funding is probably Hamas because their tactics is very similar.
This.

I loved my first job. Every thing about it. But looking back in hindsight, it was a vanity project of the ceo, and was never going to recoup the manpower investment. Requirements and goal posts were ever-shifting. I was too naive to even perceive role status and did little or nothing concrete to forward my career except turn out (quality) code.

I loved it.

I would be frustrated to distraction if I were in that position now.
Does Tailscale include automatic client node updates in any way? How to ensure all clients are up to date at any time?

How do you assign devices to logical networks?

How many virtual networks can be run concurrently on a single device?
got the computer engineering degree, but havent engineered many computers nor robots
Ruby does similar:

Run:

class Foobar
end

f = Foobaz.new

Output:

NameError (uninitialized constant Foobaz)
Did you mean? Foobar
If the enemy doesn’t know you’re there, you don’t have to fire from maximum range.

Either way, if the enemy turns and flees, from your perspective you’ve won the engagement. Whatever their purpose in the area was (SEAD, strike, air superiority, etc.) has been subverted.
You got wooshed yeah.
> French politicians, high-profile intellectuals and journalists are warning that progressive American ideas — specifically on race, gender, post-colonialism — are undermining their society.

French politicians are dipshits, who cares? Are you all really dumb enough to think that woke college kids are the biggest problem on earth? Of course you are.
I would wager just about every country has a dirty history that can be used for political purposes. I worry about this type of political approach being exported to more cultures, because at some point there will be a breaking point where everyone is too far down the road to reverse and we head into wars.
That reminds me of https://franklinchen.com/blog/2011/12/08/revisiting-knuth-an...

Basically, Knuth was writing a beautiful but excessively low level program. His challenger wrote a dozen lines of shell-script.
Were you reading the facebook post or the forum post? The moderator switched the url; you and GP might be talking about different things?
AFAIK witch hunts were often driven by political reasons and the church lent their credibility for it. Sometimes the church initiated them. Claiming atheists would have been a part of this is a bit far fetched, to put it mildly.
The charm meson definitely has its pluses and minuses.
> I still advise using Redis as a reasonable hedge against someone famous tweeting

Early stage startups die because of lack of PMF. Diverting focus and resources away from finding PMF kills companies. Most companies should focus on the product, tech debt be damned.
That's silly. Use whatever makes you productive.

I actually hate syntax highlighting (find it weirdly distracting), but i would never tell anyone else how best to program. If it works for you, use it. If it doesn't don't.
The problem with talking about "morals"-vs-"ethics" is that it isn't very clear what is the actual difference between them.

One point of view–to which I subscribe–is that the terms are synonyms. One comes from Latin, the other comes from Greek. English does that sometimes.

Others insist they differ in meaning. But there doesn't seem to be any consensus on what the actual difference is. I've heard many proposals, and the only thing I've found they have in common is that they disagree with each other.

Some people say "morals" is about principles and "ethics" is about their application. Others say "morals" are religious and "ethics" are secular. Yet others say "morals" are personal and "ethics" are professional and/or political. I'll just stick with using the two words as interchangeable synonyms myself.
Given you’d sign up with an email anyways, I don’t see how it’s sharing more data by using oauth versus a password.