skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you look at the reality instead of aggregated statistics and packaged narratives, you will find that gun deaths in US very much are not of the charts in places where religiosity is off the chart. If anything, these two things are negatively correlated: the more religious a place is, the fewer gun deaths (despite no scarcity of firearms among the religious).

We can debate what off-the-chart means, but when we cross-reference the states with the highest gun death per capita (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/...) with the states that are the most religious (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/02/29/how-religio...), we find a lot of overlap.

Correlation is not causation, but I can't see how we can claim these two are negatively correlated.
You could also said that the conservative are looking at understanding was worked in the past and not throwing everything out the window for the newest fad.

To me, it seems like a precautionary principle, let’s take our time and not throw the baby with the bathwater, things a changing fast, we must preserve what was good or we risk falling into some traps like communism/fascism (that where secular endeavours)

Ultimately, we need to find out what was great about our roots and also what need to change to face up modern problems.

A problem we have now, is that these stories were written in the bible which prevented them from being updated as they would have been in an oral tradition, and now the update is way overdue.
Eh? How can you steal something that's infinitely copyable?

Ahh never mind, I don't feel like getting into it.
I want you to hit me as hard as you can.
So much right and so much wrong about Ubuntu's IoT management infrastructure. Really, when managing a distributed fleet of machines, you want to have a few things that almost no platforms provide:

1. Atomic rollforward of remote machines.
2. Atomic rollback.
3. Something like tail scale that allows remote connections when behind NATs.

A lot of this is covered in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8edDcy3oeUo
I'm not the parent poster, but-- It's all topical and coherent, but the text flits between loosely connected points rather abruptly. I had to read it twice before it made any sense. I could see why it would trigger one to think it might be artificial.
Most of the country is empty space.
I'm not sure the bottom part of your argument makes sense. Religious people trust God, but I don't see a reason they would trust or distrust any specific government or news organization unless that government or news organization claimed to be divinely backed. I don't see why religion would cause someone to be more likely to blindly trust a news organization over the government. There's been a lot of US patriotism tied to religion ("In God we trust.", "God bless America.", "endowed by their Creator").
> a long, happy life is guaranteed by forces outside man's control. This will likely alleviate a lot of the tribal issues we face as well.

I suspect it would make it worse. People without a purpose tend to invent tribes and social status to fight for. School kids and prisoners are great examples. Their purpose is basically to passively exist while their physical needs are provided for by the system. Another example is neighborhoods with high unemployment and lots of people living on social welfare.
A bit side track, if you want to use the liveview feature but not ready to develop with dynamic type language (Phoenix LiveView is based on Elixir), and being more familiar with the node.js ecosystem, checkout ts-liveview (which is based on Typescript)
I couldn't agree more with this, now dead, comment. Time to pay attention, folks!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28658113
and also heavily penalize suicide, promoting self preservation instincts! allowing proponents to fall back on many options making suicide more of a non option
FYI, specialize is the American spelling.
>dead cat bounce during covid

I had no idea about this until I looked it up. It made sense on its face but still such a weirdly well-put phrase.

Also they really began running their drivers into the ground. The few remaining people I knew working for them have all quit.

There's videos of the drivers getting so mad they destroy things along their route their last day. Much like doordashers eating/stealing/destroying an order in protest. Which I believe to be an asinine thing to do which only hurts the consumer, but I have to wonder at what leads to that kind of rage where no fucks are left to give.

We need to get rid of these incumbents and duopolies, shit Comcast gets away with being a monopoly and we all just take it,despite seeing repeatedly the end result of one company standing alone surrounded by laws of their own creation.

I used to love amazon when it was a book store. I loved online shopping I think about a decade ago now.

Someone recently mentioned I have that I'm jaded in my profile, and indeed I guess I am, but I was so hopeful as a child and young adult. This is the result of being lied to my whole life.

We were promised hover boards and and an internet that shared ideas and companies that could actually make the world a better place.

What we got is something far closer to Johnny Mnemonic imho.
Broadcast video was 60 fps in the 70s and 80s? I thought NTSC was 29.97 fps.
PipeWire handles ALSA much, much better than jack ever did on any of my machines. Oh, and handling audio permissions via Unix groups made me want to rm -rf /
A person might believe and be rational, but it seems like believing makes being rational harder, so you have less rational people among believers.

Whenever you can shut down any discussion with "god willed this" or similar then rationality will suffer. How do you get around that problem? I feel the only way to fix that is to remove that ability from them, ie state that God is just nonsense and they can't just invoke his name to shut down discussions since people don't care about God. People are still dumb even without God, but they seem a bit less dumb.
Maybe inspired to be a competent sysadmin
For those people that have a PDP-10 sitting around :P
last I checked DigitalOcean completely blocked port 25 on their droplets.
Everyone on the planet is planning to route around the US financial system. We shot ourselves in the foot over a trade war we lost.
What about an AI that refuses to start for a drunk driver? Boom, problem solved at the fraction of complexity and no innocent people get butchered up in the testing phase of a software that simply can’t reliably work with current tech.
My impression of flagging on hacker news is that it's done for stories that have too many parts "political arguments" and not enough parts "hacker news". I never thought it was about whether the story was considered misinformation.

Also, there's a more direct story here, which isn't marked as flagged
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28644428
I have not used that so can't comment. However, it looks like it is on top of IMAP or JMAP. I have >70K mails in my archive. Try that with IMAP and do a search and you will see what is wrong.

In comparison, LIV read mails directly off the maildir. It is basically the dumb down, web version of mu (https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/), which LIV is based off.

Maybe my statement about other open source webmail is too provoking; but I think this is one of a new kind of webmail.
>Really? You think programs can't just load all of the libraries in a given directory?

They can't, a library implements a specific API.

>except they still boil down to the exact same interface. "Button X was pressed... button Y was released... moved +X+Y"

Well no, with multitouch the interface has changed from that to a series of events, and you have to handle gestures too. Some apps still don't support these. This isn't just for mobile devices, laptops all have these touchpads now too.

>Or are you going to tell me that we should support a screen whose resolution is measured in _more than_ billions of pixels wide and tall?

This would be for pointing devices, so yeah, with a high DPI mouse then you might want to make it 32-bit or 64-bit. This wouldn't be for billions of pixels but to subdivide into many fractions of a pixel. Example: the original Win32 API only uses 16 bits for mouse coordinates, so a new API is needed and the apps need to be changed if they want to take full advantage of that mouse.

>That doesn't change the fact that unicode is broken in most apps.

Please report those bugs to the developer, that should be fixed.

>Programs that do handle that type are exactly what I want to stop. I absolutely never ever want to copy HTML from somewhere but there's often no way to disable it. Formatted text? Trash. Send me a file. Picture? Trash. Send me a file.

I can't agree with this, I copy formatted text and pictures all the time. Your program should have the ability to remove the formatting.
Geez glad I’m not the only one. Can’t here to find a cogent description.
Why does the Fed has a mandate to make average consumer prices increase in the first place? What does the increase of CPI have to do anything with the growth of an economy? And why is the Fed including housing (which is not a consumer good) to calculate CPI?
A better balance would be to build the webapp in hybrid mode, some logic can be run by client-side javascript. Only the event handlers that rely on data from the server needed to be sent to the server.

In this pixel paint demo, the state and reaction of "changing the pen color" can happens locally: https://github.com/beenotung/live-paint/blob/dd3b370/server/...
I've been there couple times during wintertime and it's an absolutely amazing place to visit. Highly recommended.
B&H is also amazing for telescopes for every level of astronomer. I can't even imagine trying to source a legitimate lense on amazon, much less a complete setup.

I think amazon's days are numbered now that most stores have great online equivalents like walmart, target, and best buy.
> I think the vast majority of people would prefer having social contact via video calls to the alternative of having no social contact or having it only via text chat

Cursory evidence - namely, your up-versus-down-votes on this and the GP comment (both currently gray) - suggests that said majority is not really all that vast.
I know another French joke that is extremely targeted in exactly the same way. It's from Canada, and it pretty much only works when read aloud.

Eh, did you notice there's no h in 'ere?
It's 'cos they left it in h'Ottawa.

For people who don't know the accent, French people don't typically pronounce the h initial in words like 'here', (or 'humpty' for that matter) and they add an h to vowel initial words like 'Ottawa'.

Another joke we have refers to how the French pronounce the English word "happiness."
> Of course, we compromise: by taking turns, and by putting up with the fact that one of us is, to some degree, dragging the other along for the ride. But we can also tell that we are compromising, and that makes each of us feel sad, and somewhat alone.

This is actually the problem. Compromise is when two people in an adversarial relationship both try to look out for themselves and inevitably walk away disappointed.

When two people view marriage as a self-giving endeavor, rather than a self-serving one, happiness follows. You're happy to give and happy to be loved in return.

The trouble is for so many people, a mutually self-giving relationship is unthinkable.

I've been married for 15 years and my wife and I couldn't be more different. I'm an engineer working on my second Masters degree and she has a high school diploma. Our interests differ wildly but we're very happy because we both share a desire to serve and make the other one happy. Me first is the problem.
Most Christians have already shed a lot of now-disproven beliefs. Angels aren't literally flying in the sky over our heads. Literal stories get re-interpreted as metaphors or the definitions of words changed. Contradictions get solved by picking whichever one agrees with the culture at the time. And there are a lot of contradictions, so if logic was enough to un-believe a Christian, they would all have become atheists already.
Very cool. Reminds me of a few years back when I was writing apps for facebook..along with there fan pages. They had there own markup language 'fbml' and 'fbjs'. The app was executed in a sandbox inside an iframe, which you could add as a tab on a fan page as well.
A few times I broke thru there sandbox, allowing me to run any xss on page load, even on the fan page...it grabbed there token and added friends, invited a random number or friends to a fan page, likes fan pages, then post a status update...all random, nd it would base it on how many friends the user had. Anyway, a big problem was other developers stealing my code thnx to it being JS...So I ended up using every bug in JS like this, to confuse. I made a function that would pull element names/type/src etc, then used that as a alphanumeric definition. So my source had no spelt out names...on top of using JS hacks..then finally obfuscating.
I rmbr the last time I did this and released it into the wild..it was patched up by FB in the morning after it sent to a security researcher who posted on his popular site for his audience to reverse engineer, which they did in a few hours...everything but the few lines that was passed to fb's sandbox that returned the broken code which enabled me to run the xss....
Gooooood times...javascript is fun#!
Biden Pushes Companies on Vaccine Mandates
This is a great move as these sort of metrics will unconsciously push individuals to become better drivers in the same fashion weight balances help you lose weight.
As a knowledge worker, I think they fact that I have a property right over my work product is good for me. I agree to assign this right to my employer only because they pay me very well to do so. I see others, who don’t have some kind of similar property interest in their work product, get treated a lot worse. In this world where landowners and shareholders have so much power, it’s nice to be able to carve out a nice living using nothing other than what I can create with the organ between my ears. I think if it took that away, it would cut off one of the only routes to income mobility in the 21st century.
Its to prevent attention seekers from enabling FSD and then going into the backseat... again.
An Analysis of Minecraft-like Engines (2012)
I just read this on Blind:

> Why are you even working if not money?
Universal Turing Machines and number theory and formal logic aren't going away - the universe runs on math, and our brains operate in binary. Those statements are ground truth - there's no room for breaking things down further.

Consciousness is an algorithm performed by a computer with messy biological parts, some of which are analog, which may have serious implications for the level of strictly digital computer power you need to successfully implement the algorithm in silicon. The same applies to intelligence, and it's an open question as to what exactly the relationship between subjective experience and intelligence is.

You are a brain in a bone vat experiencing a subjective construct produced by a biological computer processing binary states consisting of internal feedback and sensory streams made entirely of patterns distinguished at any moment in time by the presence or absence of electrical impulses. Each neuron can be receiving a pattern of up to ten thousand individual bits, and whether the neuron fires or not depends on the current state and precise pattern of inputs.

Everything you experience, think, or do, is determined by those electrical patterns.
Can you please not post like this to HN? We're trying for higher-quality discussion here, to the extent possible.

It's especially important not to post unsubstantive stuff to a fresh thread, because threads are super sensitive to initial conditions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think they break third party apps because it's a real pain to keep maintaining a bunch of incompatible old versions of an API forever.

Also your last paragraph doesn't follow to me because the whole reason these apps exist is because they are web apps. They wouldn't exist otherwise. That's the whole reason they are sustainable now in the first place. They're the default because it's the cheapest and easiest way to deliver a product for billions of users.
I'm not the most academic in the world, but in his own terms, his biography is a bit of an oddball. The subject matter, the plot, the writing are rather convoluted, and the plot never has any basis in actuality or character, but with this he seemed to be an unlikely candidate for the role "Aged 12-18".

[generated by GPT-2]
More like Brooks was the one being right (for like 3 decades now) with his ‘No silver bullets article’, in that we will not have another order of magnitude productivity change in programming after high level languages became a thing.
If you need help setting up containerisation, please let me know.
(once you provided proof it is worth the work (ie screenshots))
https://archive.is/OJLUN
Least expected indeed. To me those two only come together if opposites attract. Although a queen marrying an (originally) dark eye? Definitely counted as an upside in Jasnah's eyes.

If they do marry I hope Brandon makes a sequel like Mistborn 2 and we'll see what a descendant of Jasnah/Kaladin could do.
Previous related threads:

What Color Is Your Function? (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23218782 - May 2020 (85 comments)

What Color is Your Function? (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16732948 - April 2018 (45 comments)

What Color Is Your Function? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8984648 - Feb 2015 (143 comments)

What Color Is Your Function? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8982494 - Feb 2015 (3 comments)
They don't have to be fun at all. I have friends who talk passionately about JavaScript, how it's a fun language.

I like to understand what draws different people to different things.

I have fun with F# because it's like a puzzle that just works once you get the pieces to fit.

I hate Perl while others love it. I find it fascinating to discuss what brings someone to get joy out of a tool.
I think this is the fundamental disagreement.

Preserving the ICE is like preserving the cigarette. The cigarette's place in classic culture, in classic movies and nightlife, is profound.

Doesn't make me sympathetic one little bit. Petrol engines, cigarettes, it's fundamentally unhealthy, get rid of it.

If Ferrari is unwilling to convert to electric automobiles, then Ferrari can go the way of Marlborough.
"Please don't fulminate."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm not saying you owe facial surveillance companies better, but you owe this community better if you're participating here.
"A hit dog will holler."
That's pretty good. The translation notes are completely bonkers.
For a detailed look at picking a good data structure for voxel engines, I'd recommend this fantastic article https://0fps.net/2012/01/14/an-analysis-of-minecraft-like-en...
> for those looking for a position in the top 1% of salaries within rich companies within rich countries.

Ah yes, my favorite: any advice must apply to everyone on the planet - after reading this Paraguayan field workers are starting to polish their resumes on LinkedIn
It made sense to me the first time I read it. Perhaps I'm an AI lol
I don't know about alsa, I don't remember what happened when I tried that years ago. Yeah Unix permissions is bad, Pipewire is definitely better there. The security is a big improvement but I also wouldn't say that's anything revolutionary.
How would you know if it was? It was more likely sold by whoever collected it. The very existence of this pool of data is a risk, and just because the sky didn't fall today, do you stop wearing a seatbelt?
I mean does it matter? Not like assistants get anything out of patents either. For the most part these days even the inventor pretty rarely gets most of the benefit from patents, they've usually signed it away before they even 'invented' the thing.
I don't presume to analyze someone's marriage, let alone whole life, based on a few paragraphs.

Nevertheless, I can't help but notice that the writer of the article describes herself as lonely, having had "trouble forming friendships", "inconsiderate", and having "love for confusion".

The fact that she feels lonely in her marriage speaks to me more of her innate nature than her marriage. I wonder whether most non-optimal marriages are like this -- people bring their own problems to the marital table, in hopes that the problems will be solved, and become invariably disappointed that it doesn't solve them.

Regardless of what the underlying cause is, my sympathies to the author. Loneliness is a terrible thing to experience.
I've heard good marriages described as a 100 / 100 partnership, not just a 50 / 50 one. You described that idea excellently, thank you.
The day-to-day mundane aspects of "IP" law* do "work fairly well," yes, but their purpose is not to benefit the public, and as it happens, they do not benefit the public. There are spectacular cases where they cause great and spectacular damage to the public like those you mention, while in the common day-to-day cases they cause less damage, or in any case subtler damage. Occasionally they provide a public benefit, but in those cases they are malfunctioning, and often such cases get fixed.

Fundamentally, the operation of "intellectual property" is to treat your intellect as someone else's property under the law. By granting economic monopolies to private companies in particular goods, such as the sale of copies of _1984_, the government converts the abundance provided by our modern machinery into artificial scarcity, thus providing those companies with monopoly profits. The rationale given for this is that it provides an incentive to create those goods in the first place, but where economists have analyzed these incentives quantitatively, it invariably results that the monopoly rights currently granted cause enormously more harm to the public than the extra production they propel.

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* "Intellectual property" is a fairly incoherent group of laws that it rarely makes sense to discuss collectively. Here I mean copyrights, patents, trade secrets, sui generis database protection, and noncompete agreements, rather than trademarks, mask works, and privacy.
> steal again

Can we avoid the conflation of piracy and stealing? Stealing under the pre-internet definition has very different consequences from the duplication of copyable resources.
No streaming site will ever have licenses for the bizarre remixes of video game themes, or the Sesame Street theme, that made their way around Napster.

More than the music, though, Napster had chat rooms where you could get legit recommendations of new music that far exceeded the recommendation engines of today.
I use SES, i don't pay more than $1 a month for email. And google costs $6/m not $50.
Intuition can be secular. It is possible to conclude that the crying baby is feeling pain, or make many other types of hypotheses, without providing citations or using a religious framework.
> Their phones were to be surrendered as part of an investigation. Wiping them is destroying records.

Yeah, isn't that very literally obstruction of justice?
Where did you grew up?
Previous discussion..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23743869
What's the opposite of this experience I guess.

The Toyota as you've cited, or a similar Hyundai?

Where the sheer volume and implicit agreement with the customer is predicated on the fact every single part is engineered for reliability, and the automobile wins the "total cost of ownership over 10 years" prize in Choice magazine for its segment?