skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But the most striking results emerged when participants were asked to generate existential explanations that offered comfort and peace of mind.

There's a whole great difference between "generating existential explanations that offered comfort and peace of mind" and actually having "existential explanations that offered comfort and peace of mind".

In the first case, the participants wrote some explanations that they thought should offer comfort and peace of mind (key word: should).

In the second case, those explanations actually offered them comfort and peace of mind.

The first case, explanations that you can up with that oughta offer comfort and peace of mind, are a dime a dozen.

The second case, things that actually offer comfort and peace of mind are orders of magnitude rarer (and historically religion has been found effective in this).

And it's easy to fool one's self (especially given the culture we're in, where it's a faux pass to be religious in "polite company") that, "this god-less scientific explanation should be fine for the purpose of meaning", as if people are logical machines satisfied with mere technical explanation, or as if those explanations arrive at some ultimate meaning, when all they offer are the mechanics of the thing.

I'm not saying the scientific explanations are wrong, and the religious ones are right.

I'm saying that the religious ones (a) are based on faith (so they command, assuming you do believe, a larger part of your inner commitment than mere objective reasoning), and (b) are specifically structured to answer the meaning/why part, not just the how part.

Sure, religious explanations can be innefective, if you don't believe in them.

But scientific explanation can not be as effective as belief, because you don't really believe in them: they're proven and broken down for you (as to how they work), so you don't have to believe in them.

So, it's somewhat like the difference between trusting someone blindly (like a kid does with their parents), and "trusting" someone because they do trustworthy things.

In the latter case, you don't really trust them: you weight what they do (and are always vigilant that they might fail to be worthy of your trust). Both cases involve trust, but one is an inherent belief, and the other is an observation based on past performance.

Never mind which is more correct: which one do you think offers more "comfort and peace of mind"? I'd say blind trust wins hands down - and likewise belief-driven explanations.
This could also be R, which allows for `function(x) {f(x)}` and (since version 4.1) `\(x) {f(x)}`.
> “If there are no solutions modulo a prime, then you know there are no solutions,”

Can anyone point me towards a proof of this?
If you wait enough time, you could get plausible deniability I suppose.
Are the Figma files available through the Figma API what you are searching for? Though it only seems to enable read access and "interactions".

- [1] https://www.figma.com/developers/api#files
> Google's big innovation was to count the referrers -- how many pages used the word "steak" to link to that particular page.

Then people fooled Google into showing the White House as top result when searching for "a miserable failure".

At the moment marginalia's approach of sorting pages into quality buckets based on lack of JS seems to be working extremely well, but of course it will be gamed if it gets popular.

However, I'd rather want SEO-crafting to consider itself with minimizing JS, rather than spamming links into every comment field on every blog across the globe ;-)
Also there is no guarantee they remember their address either?
> Nix, guix and traditional package managers that support multiple versions (like dnf) are better solutions than just containerizing the whole thing.

Interesting viewpoint! What are your arguments for this being a better solution than containerization?
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It might be because it is not actually an "anti-obesity forum" but actually a hate group that was kicked out for good reason.
Clean Code - I read Clean Coder first and got really turned off by Robert Martin’s preachy, holier-than-thou tone (you should practice coding for 4 hours per day _outside_ your normal job? Really?). My impression left a bitter taste that remained when I tried to read Clean Code, so I just didn’t bother.
Maybe that's what religion is to you. Will you honestly claim that's the focus for the majority of, say, the 65% of US adults that are religious? I guess huge congregations of religious believers that live their lives around heaven/hell, scripture, and infallible divine authorities aren't serious? "any serious practicing believer" is so plainly a No True Scotsman qualifier.
Except charging speed is now intentionally throttled by the iPhone itself. AirPods do this too. The learn from your schedule and intelligently charge slower and to a lower capacity in order to maximize battery health.
Examples 3 and 4 are cursed, to my eye. Curly braces denote a block, so why is there some magic syntax inside the block that denotes that this block happens to be a lambda? surely the block is the closure itself. The syntax to say what the block is goes outside.

Imagine if i wrote a conditional like that:

if x > y { return x; } else { return y; }

as

{ if x > y; return x; } { else; return y; }

It completely erases the usefulness of {}, and is cursed, cursed I say! And I’m looking at you, rust, swift, ruby, etc.
Well, it was named "fatpeoplehate", which is a tiny little bit of a giveaway. Funny the original poster forgot to mention that detail, I wonder why.
To be fair to Robinhood (I know..), "time in the market beats timing the market" has been a maxim some believe since they were trading paper in the street. The debate over the better strategy hasn't to my knowledge been settled yet.
Actually no, the private keys were generated randomly but the wallets were encrypted with a password. Private keys hashed from regular passwords don't have enough entropy. This encryption made sure that in case a hacker gets access to your wallet file, they can't access it without the password.
Maven is quite stable and effective - maven pom's can remain unchanged for years and still build. However it is not fast.
But it's really all about agency. More money in the budget gets you nicer sheets to sleep on, fancier cars to drive, but money is power, and with $100 in your bank account, you desperately need that job. But with $10M in your account, you can tell your shitty boss to go fuck themselves. At $10b, you can buy your shitty boss' company just to fire your shitty boss. You also get to change the world how you want to be changed and guide the future of humanity. Okay you're not god but you get to personally make decisions to influence humanity's future. Edward Snowden gave up the rest of his life in order to do that. For $10b, you'd get to do all of the stuff that Bill Gates the philanthropist talks about. Or MacKenzie Scott after she divorced Jeff Bezos. And still live the rest of your life and not be exiled to Russia.
Past related threads:

Jack Parsons and the Occult Roots of JPL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18715733 - Dec 2018 (63 comments)

The Last of the Magicians: On Jack Parsons and JPL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8831746 - Jan 2015 (5 comments)

Jack Parsons: Occultist involved in early rocketry - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7641580 - April 2014 (97 comments)
Reddit management is fine with literally anything as long as it does not give them bad press.
Somebody replied to a post of mine in a thread like this years ago stating that he was converting every Ruby gem in his dependencies into a .deb and he was installing them with apt. That was the right way to do and everybody else is doing it wrong. I don't remember if I replied but the sheer amount of work is astounding.
Sketch can be as open at it wants, as long as it doesn't do Windows, it is worthless for our designers to give their stuff to the development teams, so XD and Figma it is.
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Most package managers running in containers (whether apt, apk, or something else) aren't built for reproducibility, so doing e.g. `apt update && apt install neovim` can change the versions of libraries inside the container. Furthermore, people don't (in general) write Dockerfiles for reproducibility -- it's very rare to see one where the `apt install` command (or equivalent) has exact version numbers specified for all dependencies, the FROM command uses a hash, etc.
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Yes, a similar pattern except I started in 71. Coding on sheets but then punched up onto cards. The cards were printed along the top edge so you could riffle through your program in a box. The more senior people were used to punching their own cards on a 12 button hand punch. I never got the hang of that.

[Edit] oh, and chewing some card to push into a hole to make a fix.
> And upon visiting that IP address, the site forces https encryption.

This isn't true if there is a MITM attacker. When you visit an HTTP website, the website doesn't get to redirect you to HTTPS or anything else, because the game is already lost.

When you visit a website over HTTP the attacker goes first. The legit response never made it to the client, because it was replaced in transit with a redirect to the attacker's scam/phishing/malware website.
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Does FreeBSD `sendfile` avoid a context switch from userspace to kernelspace as well, or is it only zero-copy? I've worked with 100Gbps NICs and had to end up using both a userspace network stack and a userspace storage driver on Linux to avoid the context switch and ensure zero-copy.

Also, have you looked into offloading more of the processing to an FPGA card instead?
Modern machines are essentially distributed computers, multiple levels of cache per core, RAM allocated per core. The flat shared memory address space is an illusion. With such an architecture, immutability and not exposing pointers is a very reasonable approach for many parallel/concurrent workloads. It enables many optimisations.

An algorithm written for such an abstraction is also much more easily adapted to work across multiple machines (e.g. map-reduce).
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There's a lot of overlap. In fuzzing you generally generate inputs that exercise the underlying (hidden) branching conditions. Some explicit, some implicit.

In PBT you generate inputs that exercise branching and value range conditions for a known subset of target variables or other internal states. The targets being tested are explicit.

Or, to quote David on his visit to our office: "Hypothesis is basically a python bytecode fuzzer."
If you are some separate "right" that has no affiliation to these "Trumpers" then stop donating to/voting for the party that is supporting candidates that clearly align with or benefit from this type of thinking. I didn't confuse anything because that's the rhetoric coming from the right. Even if all of you from the right don't agree with it, you certainly don't do much to fight it. Very few people agree with their political party across the board. Most people vote for the "lesser evil." This is a common viewpoint and is essentially your viewpoint. Your actions of course define who you are.
It doesn't win for me. I needed some kind of vector program just to create a logo so I used it. I had to download the desktop version because that was the only way to access the fonts installed on my computer. I then uninstalled it after a while because I only needed it for that one thing. After a few months I look at my running processes and see some figma thing running in the background that was never uninstalled. That is enough for me to never use it again. I hate all of these online social "free" things now. I just buy real programs that I can keep and don't connect to my friends list or whatever a hybrid social network / work tool does.
Hasn't enough been already said and written about the importance and effectiveness of code reviews? Do we really need yet another article on it?
I like the idea of Freenet, but I'm having trouble installing it on MacOS. Can anyone point me where to go next?

- I downloaded the MacOS installer pkg, which installed the FreenetTray application

- When I start the FreenetTray, it says Freenet not installed. So I click install

- The installer says Java not installed, so it tries to download Java

- Then I get stuck here: https://i.imgur.com/Vu6OCek.png

I'm not sure what to do. Not complaining! Should I try to install Java manually somehow?

Really cool project.
The obvious answer is that every customer runs a different Ruby and not every customer pays to upgrade it at the same time. I currently have customers and personal projects with any Ruby from 2.4 from 3.0. I'm not upgrading that Ruby 2.4 project for free so it's going to stay like that for a long time.

Yeah, a ruby -2.4 switch would be nice but then every gem should pick its dependencies from back at the 2.4 time. Some could be dead by now. Actually those old projects usually get updated when the OS reaches end of life and they can't install the software on the new OS.

So economical and people reasons, not technical ones.
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur Clarke

It may be useful to rephrase this idea of religion as supernatural or magic, into something that's far more likely (though obviously not guaranteed) to be true or possible: it doesn't speak of magic, it speaks of technologies which we just aren't familiar with.

Turning water into wine is cool, but I can sit in my American house and instantly enjoy a conversation with my friend in Japan. Somehow, only the former is "magic"... whether or not something is magic clearly has nothing to do with how absolutely complex it is, but rather how well you understand it. Well, I'm not sure anyone reading this actually has a "I could rebuild it" understanding of how the global cell phone system works (I certainly don't), so maybe it has nothing to do with understanding; its more to do with desensitization and ubiquity.

Arthur didn't mean "all that technology around you is magic"; he meant: Envision what you think of as magic, as just potentially yet-uninvented technology. I don't read it as a statement about how advanced technology is or can be; I read it as a statement about how everything, including magic, can eventually be understood. Any sufficiently ubiquitous magic is indistinguishable from technology.

God created the universe in seven days. In other words, we're living in a simulation, and it took them seven days to code it.

More broadly, one side can argue that gays shouldn't marry, while the other says religion is a farce and science is the only path forward. If there's one thing humanity is great at, its taking it way too far. What if the third option is just to say, there's something more out there. Maybe you're being judged; maybe you're going to heaven, or maybe you're a simulated A/B test that isn't doing so hot.
> when the characters are running away from a threat which should clearly be able to overtake them

Many films have the heroes outrun an explosion.
That claim is utterly false. All you're effectively doing is saying that someone has maliciously defamed me before and so it's okay to write more of it. It's not. Cut it out.

The person that page accuses of being me is a well known, highly respected community member with a decade long extremely high volume history who is utterly distinct from me-- and whos interest don't overlap mine significantly (outside of Bitcoin and the Craig Wright scam). Moreover, Wright previously admitted that contrarian__ is not me.

[Aside, mpapec is an account Craig Wright has previously used to evade his ban on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21978954 --- perhaps Wright out spend some time responding to his pathetic lawsuit against me instead of delaying his response and harassing me online.]
I had the feeling this would be an ad for Nix after reading the first few paragraphs.

Is there really a difference from the Docker example given (“your Ubuntu version is EOL”) though? Any of your language or tools can be EOL’ed even if installed via nix, and you have the exact same problem in your hands.
Are there any examples of people doing this? Sounds interesting
As someone with lots of experience on small block Fords, but nothing Chrysler, I would say that a 3/4" spacer under a 600-750 CFM double pumper adding 40 HP just solved either the manifold leak or the throttle cable binding. Did peak power occur at the same RPM (i.e. was it really putting out more torque)? How fast was it spinning, and at what RPM did the power really start dropping off?

Was this measuring at the flywheel or at the wheels? I'm genuinely interested, it's been a long time since I've had grease under my fingernails.
> According to the Bible god created a simulation with humans and stuff. We live in it and have to fulfil the goals of the simulation or God will interfere or even shut it down.

Genesis begins with God creating the Universe not creating a computer and kicking off a simulation of the Universe. I’m uncertain if you’re simply misusing the word for effect or whether you don’t believe in reality and are projecting that onto Scripture, regardless the Bible refers to no simulations.
Your software is first a separate application running on the OS.

But gradually over time as its usage increase and it's extended by more and more even larger applications -- your app will turn into part of the OS. Containerizing your app doesn't help in this case.

Imagine how many services from the OS you are using. Next imagine each one running in a different container and you have to build your app using 100s such containers.
pretty sure he's talking about processes - a successful company is one that has figured out or is constantly figuring out what processes to do in what order. He just tried to read godel escher bach and all he grabbed was 'loops'.
You are too used to paying for volume. Most classic server providers give you a fixed bandwidth without additional traffic costs.
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And do you think you should be able to coast off this forever?

I'm presuming it's your tarot card deck? (That doesn't look like you've even printed since 2018?)
Can't help but think of Snow Crash when I see how hyper-"efficient" and intense the job of delivery has become.
> Why can't I just run Ruby 3.0 with a flag that tells it to emulate Ruby 2.6? Or 1.8 for that matter?

My understanding is that Perl 5 supports this, for any version of Perl released in the 1994-2021 range, but in large part because it hasn't had drastic changes in that time period.
For this use case, I'd rather have:

1. A simple Nokia phone that can run on external power without a battery installed, and

2. An emergency charger powered by AA batteries.

You'd still get the long shelf life (due to alkaline batteries), but also a phone you can trust will work in 15 years.
If you've got this kind of router, we tend to advocate that you simply talk over with the user manual for your login data. https://www.192168l254.com.mx/ Login Steps
First, you ought to open your browser and you ought to write the information science address, 192.168.1.254.
If this address leads you to a blank screen, attempt typing.
In step 2, the default user name and positive identification for your router’s interface ar typically ‘user name’ and ‘password’. These addresses ar wont to offer first-time access to the interface during a untroubled and untroubled manner. However, some router makers, like D-Link, don't merely give you this address.
In the third step, it's time to switch the default user name and default positive identification together with your custom user name. This step is very important to confirm the protection of your network. after you access the router’s admin panel, you'll be able to do no matter you wish and alter the advanced settings as desired.
it's funny because when it comes to any real disputes, AirBnb sides with landlords as much as possible (and as much as PR will allow), because that's who are they getting the money from. The guests are just the 'meat' in the machine so it would be more consistent if they allowed property owners to vet guests even more to avoid any issues/disputes in the first place.
For RoboCat's case - it does still allow to not accept a certain guest after looking at hteir profile etc, but IMO that's too far into the journey - it'd be better from UX perspective and satisfaction if such a guest never found the property as available in the first place.
You don't think that the guardposts at the border will report the jets they heard screaming overhead in the direction of the nation's nuclear reactor or capital 1200 km away?
The learning curve is the biggest issue. Nix is different, and that makes it hard to learn unless you're already into functional programming. I like it too, but damn, it's so hard to get someone up to speed, even if they're sold on the benefits and want to learn.
2. It's random for a random user. I'd suggest to try every suggested natively supporting browser with the list of given URLs to find which combination works the best for you.

3. An arbitrary IPFS gateway can be set up our rented, it's not a taboo. They are usually $10/Mon.
Hm... This is of course "arguing semantics", which some people for some reason seem to think is a trump[§] card to declare a counter-argument irrelevant, but still: Another way to look at that leads to the direct opposite: If it doesn't yield a useful result, it's not "work" but frivolous waste.

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[§]: Eurgh.
Hobby? Not everybody does anything for making money.

For exmaple Wikipedia, thausands of people write articles, for free, they got no money.
Huge amount of open source developers publishing their work for everybody, free.
The fact you need a version manager on top of your new, pristine and reproducible version manager is a bit concerning. Can’t whatever shortcomings exist be addressed in nix itself?
Are we really saying that how a belief makes you feel somehow justifies it as good or true? That's ridiculous. Beliefs are our intentions to model the real world. We act in accordance with our beliefs because we hope this will accurately accomplish whatever we are trying to do.

It doesn't matter how a belief makes you feel, if that believe is not based on evidence.

Delusions can make you feel good as well, but they also allow people to be dangerous.

We should be judging beliefs on whether or not they are true, regardless of how good or bad they make us feel.
Ditto. On the other hand, supposedly they're paying out someday.
Sweden did better than all neighbors in taking care of the old though.

https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/#...

That is the life expectancy given 2020 years mortality. Neighboring old people died less of covid but died more of other causes. Note sure if you should see that as a win. And even if you do, maybe you should consider that many other factors in society are way more important than the covid response, it is a very minor factor as we can see here.
Think bigger! Imagine it as the maintenance node and transportation hub for the new coast to coast hyperloop network! All subterran! Not only powered by renewable energy, but powering the entire network and nation by subterran HVDC also!
Privacy never existed. When everybody knew each other in a village, kids were under many eyes.
Looks similar to Firestore - identity aware, serverless, pay as you use.
If there are solutions, they work modulo any prime.