skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Interesting: The least religious countries/territories have more economic, social, and political stability and are far wealthier and more technologically/scientifically advanced than the most religious ones.

And 8/10 are in Europe, with 1 being run by a European country for the last century when it became developed.† Which also correlates to a lack of corruption:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

Which also seems to be inversely related to places where cousin marriage is prevalent:

* PDF: https://www.gwern.net/docs/sociology/2019-akbari.pdf

* DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2019.07.015

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_marriage#Prevalence

There's also the fact that 7/10 the top democratic countries, many of which also appear on your list, are constitutional monarchies:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

What happened in European history that could have perhaps led to all of these countries moving in the same developmental direction?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_Europe

† IIRC, Japan also explicitly modelled their system after the UK's during the Meiji Restoration.
That seems like something that would already be reflected on people's resumes, so it seems odd that a different photo would make a difference if that's the concern.
While not quite the same thing, I've read that the games in Super Mario All-Stars use basically the same assembly code as the original NES versions, just with updated graphics.
Most data scientists I work with just sneer at Excel. Using a programming language is often using a sledgehammer to crack an egg though - sometimes you just want to look at the data in the csv, and I still see people doing this in R/Jupyter - just open it in a spreadsheet, trust me - the UI is better.
I don't think there is any significant technical challenges to running this on lambda. You'd just need some sort of workflow to update the lambda image with each blog update. A big downside to hosting on AWS though is if your site gets HN'ed, you could have a hefty bill on your hands.
Well I've heard that in the US in certain areas (mainly rural) that if you want to get a job and are not a churchgoer you can forget about it :) If that's true it's not all that free to be unreligious in my opinion. But I've never even visited the US so I'm not sure how true this is.

In Europe this is absolutely not a thing. Well, unless you want to work at a religious organisation I guess.
Ok, but what about those stuck behind in the walled gardens and currated feeds?
> US has the worst… it takes 24 days… to set up an appointment with an specialist.

The worst?

HN is one of the few forums that repeatedly leaves me speechless.
I run a fork of HN that you can find in my list of projects. https://status.shawwn.com/

You won't find much discussion there (but feel free to start some). Basically, you can submit whatever you find interesting.
>"Don't you think if diet and lifestyle change worked, we would recommend that to everybody?"

This is the crux, "worked" means a different thing to a health care professional: to them it means when you tell 100 people to do it, most of them get better. It has nothing to do with root cause or mechanism of disease or any of that.

They know if they tell 100 people to make the diet and lifestyle changes necessary, only a few will get better because most people didn't go through with it. Therefore in the doctor's experience it "doesn't work".

Congrats by the way.
If we limit god to any god worth worshiping

Which is the underlying problem here. That article is about the Abrahamic model of a god, even though it doesn't say so. Omnipotent and perfect - that's the Abrahamic model, underlying Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religions.

The Graeco-Roman pantheon was a better fit with reality - a group of morally mediocre gods with their own agendas, mostly indifferent to what the mortals were up to. The transition to the Abrahamic religions resulted in a lot of cruft - devils, angels, prophets, etc. A legacy code problem, in other words.
In Russia, piracy is still the default option for most people. It's literally easier to torrent something than to bother with Netflix or other streaming services. Like, you pay money and get a worse result, because there's DRM and other licensing-related restrictions — why in your right mind would you even consider that? Some people do use Netflix though because they tell themselves "law is law" or "the creators need to be paid" or something similar.

And all those news of people's "bought" content disappearing, or accounts getting banned without a way to appeal, aren't exactly doing any good to the "legal" entertainment services either.
I'd thought that these were related to the 9/11 quilts (though reading the article they turned out to be quite unrelated), at least one of which is still on display at the Pentagon. I've never found a good explanation of the quilt phenomenon - unlike the Afghan carpets which were driven by a mixture of anti-Taliban sentiment and good-old-fashioned commercialism, the 9/11 quilts seemed to motivated by a return to traditional values in the aftermath of tragedy.
This seems to be a solution that comes at the cost of the consumer which is fine if they want to pay for it, and seems to be an option provided for more latency sensitive applications.

Obviously, one could eliminate the cold start issue in general by just constantly paying for a running EC2 instance.

But cold start is still an issue for the provider as cold start is a cost to them, even reducing cold start of internal runtimes would be a massive benefit (For example pre-warmed JITs). Better cold start times means better bin packing for their services, and overall less cost to everyone.
I made the same mistake. I've been aware of Inkle Studios' work for some time now, and I thought it was an article on new developments in that.
Every pieces of information is always biased unless its Shannon entropy is zero. Your FM radio tuned to nothing is basically it.

You’re welcome. Here’s my cryptocurrency address:[just kidding]
Reddit main page is just comedy and politics. You'll want to check out the niches like its Rust community. Other language-based communities as of late have favored chat-type environments over forums.
You can just set a setting on reddit to always use old, you don't really need an extension if you browse logged-in.
Junior dev out of school maybe be more valuable for those companies than junior dev with a few months experience: the first one will more likely accept things than the other one, plus a first experience that ended shortly may not look very positive to a recruiter
You need at least a minimal amount of experience for that though. It took me a couple months to find a not crap junior job out of school.

Just three months of experience made it so that recruiters barraged my LinkedIn.
I agree that if something breaks on the Times, it should be ranked higher. But 99% of the time, the news didn't break on Times or some other paywalled site. Still, Google will rank it higher - and I have to waste my time : opening it, closing it because its paywalled, open the next result and hope that it's not paywalled.
Interesting. I had only looked at RouterOS 6. I have had trouble with mikrotik software before though. (I have a CSS 610 and a lot of its core features were completely broken before)
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Completely agree. All of the incentives are wrong for security rating companies.

Rating vendors are incentivized to have a rating for every company regardless of whether or not they have any insight.

Rating vendors cannot act like real attackers, so they must rely on passively collecting some surface level information. This is often no better than you would get by walking through a website with Burp on and checking the list of alerts.

You can pay rating vendors to help you "improve." That is to say, they are incentivized not to fix false assessment data. They can get you to pay for that.
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Reminds me of a story my mother told me. Basically, my family are all "Muslims" and "religious". But there was one dark secret... my grandpa loved bacon. Whenever his cousin who was a Hodja came to visit us, my grandpa would hide his home brew raki and his lovely bacon.
It might be interesting to read the newspapers for september 10 2001 or read the stories for the days before a big event, but other than that? It has very little value.
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I mean, a god might say that any destiny you choose is good, because it would proceed from the laws of physics, but you could still choose what it is.

Personally I don't think it's worth caring about, just like it isn't worth thinking about how our universe might be a bubble in a greater universe that's just about to pop and destroy us all in an instant ;)
I am Canadian. This is not true. Doctors are quickly available for check ups and basic stuff. Some surgery have long waiting list. I imagine 6 months would be typical for knee replacement. The good thing is that the thickness of your wallet doesn't affect your priority, just the severity of your medical needs.
> if a shop is only hiring junior developers, it's because any senior developer can smell the stink for miles and wouldn't want to join.

That's possible, my assumption was they didn't offer enough to get any senior developers on board.
iOS sideloading is awful. What if you don't have a Mac? What if you need to spend a week away from yours? What if you want to load something and forget it? There is nothing like F-Droid on iOS, and there never could be. Granted, this affects enthusiasts more than the average user, but it's still a key difference.

At least you can use extensions on iOS Safari now. This is a major step forward from when I last used an iPhone (iPhone 6 before I switched to Android). On the other hand, you cannot switch rendering engines (as I have, to Gecko with Fennec), nor is there likely to ever be a way to install an extension such as "Bypass Paywalls Clean", which I have in Fennec --- an essential for me, among a number of other great FF extensions).

As for iSH, I again must commend Apple for a step forward, as there was no way this would have been allowed a few years ago. It's true that it runs in emulation rather than natively as Termux does, but still, not a bad step. (Termux, btw, can be allowed to access any of the user files, but can't touch the root fs on Android without rooting.)
It's such a catch-22.

You want more people to want to use your favorite niche forum. But every niche forum that's gotten popular has been ruined.

Reddit has a few great subreddits. They aren't unpopular, but I also prefer not to market them. Let the people who really want it search for it, I guess.
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Imperceptibly, over a decade, it seems Google and Microsoft are changing places.
And in academia and many large companies with standard rates of pay - “London Weighting”
I just want to re-iterate that these are some of the same divers involved with the thai cave rescue in TFA
Thank you for doing that, it's really fortunate that you are, but please understand that not all of your coworkers do the same thing. I think it would be nice if they did, but currently they do not.
An article that starts by implying copper, nickel, and manganese are "rare-earth elements" is not a credible source of information.
They do not, but see the link above; this all got argued a couple weeks ago.
...and this is why road markings have legal standards in many countries.
To me a "being" with power able to create reality is different than physical matter just always existing.

I'm not saying it's right, it's just more convincing than saying that matter has always been here that doesn't make any sense at all. Example: Something coming from nothing. Everything has a primary mover.

The only way to reconcile it to me is there is some supreme thing that can transcend our time and physics and everything else.
I can't wait for that new wave of rich people telling us how "earth is beautiful from above" and how us peasants should "stop making kids and eat burgers" that they can continue jumping in their little rocket and enjoy being above us all.
Someone has already compiled ffmpeg into wasm, so there's that as an option. As slow as that might be, but it could be done.
Thanks for that link! Very useful substantive analysis

How does it apply in our case, by the way? In our case we take the payment decisions out of the hands of users and into the hands of community administrators.
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Why would you choose to save lives and reduce suffering in a far off land when you could save lives and reduce suffering for your own country? That is what I have never understood about foreign aid charities.
The fee could be (partially) be distributed amongst publisher based on conversion like articles read, and time spent on that. In theory this would still provide an incentive to compete on quality, similar to music streaming services.
Nutrient density. Organisms will consume as much nutrient sources as needed to meet micronutrient requirements. If food gets less micro dense, as it has, our bodies are compelled to eat more until our needs are met.
Voting against it repeatedly in congress and senate counts as a source?
Nope, this was his first.
One of the few great things the BBC has saved. Not a massive fan of the license but understand the massive need for this!
There are proposals to manufacture kerosene* from carbon dioxide and hydrogen. The carbon dioxide can be sourced from sequestering existing carbon dioxide emissions or more expensively from atmospheric carbon capture; either way, making and burning the kerosene is carbon-neutral. I think this is not currently economic because petroleum is cheap and energy is expensive, but petroleum is getting more expensive and energy is getting cheaper, so at some point the curves will cross. But I haven't looked into the process in enough detail to know if there are currently other costs that impede mass production.

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* Kerosene is C10-C16, and diesel fuel is C9-C25, so kerosene can be thought of as a particular grade of diesel.
>I missed two interviews because I couldn’t manage time to attend them and I was not in a position to take the risk of losing this job.

Comments like this make me feel fortunate myself that I always walk in with the mentality that I can be fired at a moments notice or I am willing to quit if a better opportunity arises. It's relieved an astronomical amount of stress off my shoulders even though normal people would consider that absurd. I frankly don't care. It's out of my control so why would I be worried about an employer that threatens to cut my salary in half if I'm late due to unforeseen circumstances? Unfortunately, nobody ever tells you about these events or how to handle them. You just gotta figure it out on your own.
Like everything else in the US, these major newspapers merging in our lifetime seems inevitable. I just cannot believe how dirt cheap the subscriptions are, and yet, I'm not going to subscribe to a single one of them because their content is too varied in quality, let alone a handful.

It seems like it would be impossible to start a news business off the ground today without a powerful investor, which means the publication would have some intentional bias.
It's not true they offer no scientific value. A few minutes' continuous zero-g for relatively low cost is useful for some experiments.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/features/nasa-support...
Reddit, hacker news, stackexchange, LinkedIn, Instagram
I don't really think of NYT book review as the same thing as NYT news.
It’s just a curated list of all sorts of random links, stored on airtable.

The site is as low tech as it gets. I was just trying to make something fun and help people discover interesting sites.

It’s mostly personal sites/blogs and some indie publication.
Here in Indiana it costs $95 to form an LLC, then $35 every other year. Then you get a tax id from the IRS to report income. You're done.

California is ridiculous with their fees. If it were me, I'd register the LLC in another state and pay a registered agent fee (you need a physical address in the state you register the LLC). Here's one for $99/yr:

https://startupsavant.com/best-registered-agent-services#zen...

Living in CA and having the LLC in another state might have some tax implications you could review with an accountant.

My business partner and I initially setup a partnership for rubylane.com, but then had to change it to a regular corp because once we actually had income, we were going to have to each file personal state returns in every state we had customers, ie, all 50. As a regular corp (and probably an LLC), you only file in the corporation's state. According to our CA accountant, an S-election would have put us back into the situation of needing to file personal returns for every state we had customers.

There are other tax implications you should review with an accountant, for example, if you setup a regular corp (no S-election) and decide to leave money in the corportion, you will get taxed on it at corporate rates, whereas if you pay it to yourself, you'll get taxed at your personal rate.

Another thing to keep in mind: everyone thinks that corporations provide some magic liability protection, and that is somewhat true when a group of people form the corporation. But if you are the only officer, a corporation doesn't provide much protection IMO: anything liability incurred by the corporation is obviously caused by you, so "piercing the corporate veil" is not much more than paperwork. Just my opinion. You'd be better off with an umbrella insurance policy - again, just my opionion as I'm neither a lawyer nor an accountant.
If you look at the solutions at model.energy as you vary cost assumptions, the solutions go from 0% nuclear to 100% nuclear in a step-like manner. It's almost never the case that the two get mixed. There would be some mix in a variable demand scenario if (for example) some of the demand varied along with insolation. But in the baseload case, it's like Highlander.
>Supported browsers: Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge

You forget the best viewed at 800x600 badge!

Seriously though, why is this even necessary? What are you doing that can't be done in FF or Safari?
The GameBoy is distinctly different from the (S)NES. It uses an 8080/Z80-ish CPU core instead of the 6502/65816, the audio and graphics hardware have different capabilities than the NES, etc. There were a lot of games that were both on the NES and the GB but they were rarely 1:1 ports for these and other reasons.
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> I agree; what I am trying to say; is there is no excuse for God. People have spent centuries making excuses most of them much smarter people than me. In a 21st century context it seems apparent that Gods possible excuses for creating a universe that mandates suffering are running out.

I mean, an obvious "excuse" is that he's not optimizing for the one single quality you chose (absolutely minimized suffering).
The fact that Bloom filters are so far from the information theoretical limit for the problem they address offers some hope.

I think it’s reasonable to expect that there are many structures out there that can achieve the same API in less space (time?) and that at least a few of those can achieve a better API in the same space, even if it means giving up some gains to store extra metadata.

Example: linked list hashmaps, which store two extra pointers to remember insertion order.
> Please don't guess.

I'm not guessing. I'm just answering you by ignoring/disregarding your personal experience, and instead treating you as a random variable sampling the population of people who use all possible software, and then talking about what that random variable would look like.

Why? Because we don't need anecdotes to know this particular thing — we have the data. We know what the random variable actually looks like. (How? Because people have downloaded "all of Github" or "the entire Debian package archive", and run Valgrind over it, and uploaded the resulting dataset to BigQuery!) By the Law of Large Numbers, we can actually do stats about, effectively, what "all software" looks like.

By volume, the majority of POSIX software that calls malloc(2), is incompetently-written, with no checks on the return result of malloc(2). This is an objective, verifiable fact.

By volume, the majority of POSIX software that has a call to malloc(2) that does check the return value, exists as the result of a managed-language compiler emitting a language-runtime-level check into the compiled binary, rather than as an explicit source-level check. Another objective, verifiable fact.

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It so happens that the software making up the "backbone" of an OS / average LAMP server is more competently-written, because it's had a lot more attention and engineering time put into it.

But the same "power law of features" from e.g. Microsoft Office applies here — there's a core set of stuff everyone uses, but every user also has some weird stuff they are in the small minority of users for. And that stuff is what breaks.

As it happens, that lesser-used stuff is also usually mission-critical to the operation of a business; otherwise people wouldn't be driven to use such not-a-lot-of-engineering-effort-put-in software in the first place. People are using this stuff "in anger", if they're using it at all.

Which means that, sadly — insofar as most developers creating business-process IPC pipelines, don't already have the hard-won experience to build in fault-tolerance for individual processes within that pipeline — we see production systems where these malloc(2) failures are Single Points of Failure for the entire system. The flakiness of these long-tail programs, drags down the reliability of most systems-as-a-whole.
David Solomon, the CEO of Goldman Sachs is an electronic music producer.
Probably not as many as you might assume. There's also the issue of the Game Boy running on an 8080 derivative, unlike the NES and Super NES, which ran on 6502 (and 65816) derivatives.

You might be interested in these articles covering each console's architecture:

* NES https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/nes/

* SNES https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/super-nintendo/

* Game Boy https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/game-boy/
I have similar feelings about kanban boards and other team-task-trackers. Physical forms are better, because it gets very hard to deal with them when they're too full or overflowing.
Based on the comments in this thread, this is the most I've ever been disappointed in the HN community.

What Branson & his team did today was incredible and will pay off in spades for the future of humanity.

I'd rather live in a world with folks like Branson instead of a world made up of the astonishingly short-sighted naysayers here.
It's easy to use web search and see that iTunes let you buy music. The point of the statement you're reacting to stands even if buying music from iTunes isn't possible anymore.
Or just have a download the source data for the graph/table in Excel button on every page/for every data source. Sometimes it is nice to do your own cool D3 chart but still have a no-work-for-me answer to requests for slightly different graphs.