skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not talking about the thrill of a new relationship. I would define a feeling of old, secure warmth towards your partner of 50 years as romance, and your satisfaction in a 50-year-old relationship is primarily a function of whether you have that. That's the kind of thing that makes someone happy to take care of their wife for 5 or 10 years as she suffers through alzheimers.

But in any case, romance is absolutely the basis of a relationship, otherwise you could marry your best friend. If you don't have it, you're likely to be dissatisfied. Of course it can wane - but that's also why you work to get it back, because if it goes away for good, your relationship is going to suck.
I think what the GP is getting at is that science is a process, not a priesthood. Being part of the social institution of science doesn't automatically make one's opinions more valid, what makes their opinions more valid than the layperson is the correct application of the scientific method. Believing someone "because they're a scientist therefore they are right" like most of the general public is still a faith-based approach, believing someone because their paper managed to convince most of their peers they were onto something and produced reproducable results is a scientific approach. The GP is essentially claiming that many people are believing the right things for the wrong reason if I've interpreted the point correctly.

The problem is in this brave new post-pandemic world we've elevated scientists to the social position of prophets without the general public really being aware of how the scientific method is supposed to work or the limitations of things like statistical modelling. Science is a mere process that society has foisted the role of a priesthood onto, and I really think that this is asking for trouble because for the most part people have trouble differentiating science from pseudoscience. This rising tide has lifted all boats, including the quacks and charlatans of the world.
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Compared to today, in the 1970s and 1980s some things about programming were harder and some were easier. Back then, computers were amazingly slow and limited, by modern standards, so it was much easier to understand how they and their comparatively tiny operating systems worked. But coming by that understanding could be difficult. There was no internet, no Stack Overflow, no GitHub. Just books, magazines, and driving to nearby colleges to meet with other computer nerds in so called user groups. Another challenge was that computers back then were so slow and so limited that to solve what today would be considered easy programming problems often required you to invent a succession of clever hacks just to fit your ideas into such a miniscule computing vessel. (One example: https://blog.moertel.com/posts/2013-12-14-great-old-timey-ga...)

In sum, getting started in computing was probably easier back then because you worked in such a small, simple computing environment. But, compared to today, the difficulty ramped up rapidly with the complexity of the problems you wanted to solve. At some point your solutions would run into the limitations of the machine, and then you had another problem to solve. That made it hard back then.

But it also made it fun.
> “Believe in science” is just a new religion for the intellectual class.

Amen. Credentialed scientists are now the high priests of yesterday.

The layperson is expected to defer to their authority and all cases, and ignore that they too, are human.
If that 87.50 is deposited at the bank, then they can now loan out against that as well, no? Then, on a 100$ initial deposit, they have lended out over 100$.
Men tend to get dumped, mocked, or injured if they share their feelings, while women tend to get dumped or mocked if they share their knowledge and ideas. Isn't it handy that stereotypes align with the mechanisms that enforce them? It's nothing innate. None of these stereotypes have any guidance for nonbinary people, so we tend to just get shoved into whatever box is most convenient for the person on the other side.
“believe in science” always makes me think of Nacho Libre
No? Even in a democracy laws need to be enforced and that has been really hard if a company violating local laws is not based locally.

It's the same problem why Russian ransomeware groups can roam free and piracy is hard to deal with online.

What the laws are, thats politics. How to enforce them is just a matter of technology.

What the GFW shows is a means to an end. You may not agree with the particular end in the case of China and the CCP (I don't either) but the means itself is a result of addressing a rational need that all governments have.

The danger of the GFW is not that China is using it for oppressive purposes. It's that it works and your local democracy may well also look to it to address the same need for governance it has.

Unless you're saying there's some going to be a "world government", different countries will continue to disagree on what is legal. And the path ahead is to either accept the impossibility of internet governance, or to build up more walls.
There's a cycle that a lot of people go through when they graduate. They've been told or are predisposed to the idea that cities are the place to be. And they can be like a campus - lots of places to meet others, etc. So they happily move to the city.

But then something happens. They get married and realize the schools there suck and are completely unaccountable to meddling from parents. So they have to move to find a decent school.

Or, they or their spouse or friend gets mugged, or their house gets burgled, or any number of other crimes that are prevalent in cities run by a single political party. So, they move to escape the crime.

If people have the means to move, they will do so to get out from under high crime, high tax, low service regimes.
Forget the curvature of the earth. The controversy is how a belief in science, which is necessary, translates into a non-trivial understanding of human life, which is voluntary - this is where things get "religious", in the sense of tendentious ideological reductive thinking.
Scientisim

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism
It’s quite alarming how much misunderstanding I find in articles the mainstream media channels in my country write about about anything I have professional/deep knowledge in. I wonder how much nonsense I’m reading and perhaps blindly accepting about subjects in which I am not as knowledgeable.
The OP said, "I can't imagine having multiple children and living with no car."

My point was that hundreds of millions of people have families without having a car.

I didn't say anything about being a pedestrian.

And container trucks aren't allowed in the city before 10pm, so I doubt you'll spend much time riding among them
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This was missed in the first place, and was a violation of the license. But this was quickly fixed.

I don’t want to defend the „thief“ ai, but I think the original author is being a bit too dramatic. If you don’t like people „stealing“ your code, chose a more permissive license. But then also less people will use it.
The "CLS" in line one was duty in those days. "F#* all your crap, here comes my program! Tadaa!"
I agree with the sibling comment by Nevermark: the scientific method isn't easy to understand at all, partly because nobody has a consistent definition of what it is. Your own comment illustrates the difficulty. You say the scientific method is easy to understand and then start talking about experiments.

Experiments? Is that actually a required part of the scientific method? Apparently not: lots of fields presented as scientific to the public can't do experiments. Most obviously, neither climatology, epidemiology nor economics do experiments, despite being fields with enormous direct impact on governments and therefore people's lives. You can try to refine it to "making testable predictions" but then it would require that the predictions are actually tested - real scientific papers often make predictions without testing them against reality.

What about computer science? Is it really a science? Most people would say the scientific method is a way to discover knowledge about the natural world, but there's nothing natural about computers. I myself am not convinced computer science is a science, but, it's treated as one by the institutions.

The prevalence of papers that simply present unvalidated statistical/algebraic models raises huge questions about what science is in theory vs what it is in practice. In theory, science is about discovering knowledge about the natural world, by refining hypotheses which make testable predictions into validated theories. In practice science is whatever granting agencies, universities and journals find interesting. Nothing anywhere in the so-called scientific system actually tests that the work is following the scientific method, nor is there even a working definition of what that would mean. The result is that scientific journals routinely publish pseudo-scientific claims without realizing that it's what they're doing (see my other comment).

In fact many fields are almost entirely a-theoretical: social psychology papers like the one this thread is about aren't rooted in an attempt to refine a grand unified theory of the mind. They're just testing academic folk intuitions, and are often driven by political or ideological concerns more than an attempt to derive theory.

In such a world, deification of The Scientific Method™ is naive. There is no such method, just a hodgepodge of tactics and social conventions that seems to work better than nothing, but which may or may not be actually used by something labelled as scientific.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/coll...

but after looking the brief intro of how us colledge doing recruiting students, I believe my gov (Taiwan) is going to the (almost) same way
I agree. 4% is the most commonly discussed yearly withdrawal rate, and it might be too high.
> Pretty key point right here: it takes a lot of infrastructure spending over a long time to build a city. Can't just snap your fingers and change how that money got spent.

Your not wrong, it’s take the Neatherlands 30-50 years to transition from a car centric culture that would make even an American blush, to the cycle centric one they have today.

But as with trees, the best time plant one was ten years ago, the second best time is now. If we keep using the excuse that you can’t build people friendly infrastructure, because there’s no other people friendly infrastructure for it to work with. Then you’ll never build people friendly infrastructure, and you’ll be forever stuck in a car dominated hell scape, where a 30 min drive to do anything is an inescapable reality.
The paper referenced was written in 1974 and concludes with "The typical aromatic characteristics of roasted coffee can be obtained from roasted coffee cells which have been derived from cultures maintained in active culture at least one year. Cell populations eventually appear to lose their ability to produce coffee precursors. The reason for this coffee culture roasting aroma instability is unknown although one obvious explanation could be cell selection from an initial possible heterogeneous cell population..."

I wonder what changes have been made in this iteration of research or if there has even been any improvement.
It's much less than the full picture to say Houston doesn't have zoning restrictions. Technically there are no rules called "zoning restrictions" there, but they have complex ordinances that produce very similar effects. [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/TaU1UH_3B5kl
Or one exaggerates results. Anybody read wisdom of crowds? Went back to the original nature paper (was it from 1904? Not sure) and I think the book made cited the result with ten times higher precision as in the paper.
Pretty bitter blog tbh. Not sure he's really gotten over his ex-wife.
I have just published first release of Zero High performance RPC like framework
Can you more specifically link, or hint to which tweet(s) discuss this?
Maybe we should take the hint.
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> ex-wife

> By design, she gets fucking nothing and is not invited to the funeral. Please respect my wishes here.

I wish him to be able to forgive before his death. Just for the love of my children, I would allow my ex-partner to my funeral if my children wish so.
> as Apple (due to Steve Jobs: there is some interesting stuff you can find on this) is so puritan.

As this "puritanism" is an interest of mine, can you point me to some of that interesting stuff you had in mind, please?
AI's response on GitHub:

"@jorgebucaran sorry for PostCSS/Browserslist migration from colorette. I understand your feeling (but it was an only move in case of colorette 2.x API changes and following API breaking change in patch release).

If you want to send another PR and replace chalk to colorette, I am OK with it. Babel’s users will be happy in both scenarios, since all colorette and nanocolors are both much smaller than chalk.

rebranded it as nanocolors

It is not true. Nano Colors was influenced by colorette API and internal design and I mentioned it in top section of Nano Colors docs. However, it is not rebranding:

I mix ideas not only from colorette but also from kleur, another great color formatting library.
colorette and nanocolors has very different results in benchmark showing difference in internal implementation.
If you compare kleur, nanocolors, and colorette you will see many similarities (because it is open source, and they share ideas between each other), but also many differences:
In color detection. Nano Colors uses process.argv to be compatible with Chalk.
In color’s functions. Nano Colors do not generate RegExp on every call for performance reasons. It also doesn’t have init/raw separation.
This is not in the true spirit of open source.

Forks and idea sharing are also an important part of open-source if they are coming with respect to authors of origin ideas and mentioning them.

You are mentioned not only in docs (colorette mentioning text in Nano Colors docs was even approved by you) but also in LICENSE.

Before colorette 2.x API changes, I promote your project to other projects because I tried to find chalk alternative. I sent you PRs. I used your library in all my projects for a year.

We all stand on the shoulders of giants. We both used Chalk color detection algorithm as reference. We both using other source code to find the best optimizations.

If you do not like that your tools is also used as an inspiration (with mentioning you), feel free to replace this PR with PR of replacing chalk to colorette."

https://github.com/babel/babel/pull/13783#issuecomment-92710...
The Netherlands had a relatively large cycling population even before they built paths everywhere, the new infrastructure only contributed to a modest increase in numbers over the last four decades. Some new towns in the UK instated very high quality cycle paths in the 1960s, but to this day they are very lightly used.

Overall I think it's a cultural/convenience thing.
How China’s ban on ‘sissy men’ is impacting big tech
I read the thread, and it sounds like these libraries end up in what I think of (from other ecosystems) as “core” tooling: package managers, linters, &c. I definitely wasn’t expecting that: most of the other ecosystems I’ve interacted with have had a “vendor or reimplement” mentality when it comes to dependencies in common tooling.
GMO objections are 95% objections about what's done with GMO (e.g. engineering crops to be more resistant to cancer causing roundup).

Reporting on GMO objections is 95% about repeating the same studies that GMO crops themselves are safe to eat.

Both sides are scientific, neither are lying but one is profit driven, disingenuous and has a far larger megaphone to not just drown out the other side, but entirely misrepresent its objections in the eyes of the public (and link it to astrology, antivaxxers, climate change denial, etc.)
I wish the legal arguments (the fact that the original project was under the MIT license - that's right, the original author has no rights to draw consequences from this rip-off) didn't blind everyone to the fact that "ai" behaved not ok. Not in the spirit of OpenSource. If he encountered problems with the library, why didn't he want to contact the author first and suggest changes to the original project? Why didn't he write that the project is a fork? Why is he now pushing his library into projects that use colorette? Seems like an unclean pursuit of some imaginary power, instead of a desire to develop free software.
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Wasn't that what Google meant to do when they carried the slogan "don't be evil"?
You're giving those organs to two or three sick individuals who need them in order to live, not to a "system".
There are other countries with cycling cultures that aren’t flat.

Sweden is very not flat, and they have plenty of extremely well used cycle infrastructure. Hell their kids cycle to school in snow.
> China hasn’t tried to hide the evidence that COVID stated there.

That is not true, China claims Covid started in the US.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58273322

> making accusations based on thin evidence is not going to encourage collaboration.

exactly which is why China should have been completely honest and transparent from the start. I dont understand why you keep saying there is thin evidence, we know Covid started in China, we know China delayed in giving crucial data about Covid, they dont support an honest investigation, China bought PPE from other nations leaving them exposed.

They literally murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people and yet you still defend a dictatorial regime?
My apologies, clearly I need to read more carefully.
This doesn't seem as useful as it implies though with the proviso statement that you can wind up with deadlocks in sync mode that you wouldn't have in async mode. Sounds like more of a footgun you can hand yourself.
I'm losing my mind with people who keep replying with "That's open source baby! Don't make it open source if you don't like!"

The problem with this behavior is as follows:

- The MIT license requires attribution of the original work. The author contacted the person who forked this privately [1]. It wasn't done until the Twitter thread.

- Questionably the fork was renamed and didn't include git history to make the first point even worse. Git history was only rebased in after the Twitter thread [2].

1 - https://twitter.com/DerianAndre/status/1441851684095811585

2 - https://github.com/ai/nanocolors/commits/main?after=566a49b0...
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> Besides, associating meditation to religion is like assuming fasting == religion.

Meditation and fasting are both integral parts of Sanatana Dharma (called hinduism by westerners).

Dont mix these with you perception of Christianity.
Expecting obfuscation to increase security is a fool's errand. However expecting it to cut down on re-use of your code then it will no doubt work.
Google on the server side can see that you are using incognito. It could choose not to track you out of respect for the choice it knows you made. It instead does the exact opposite.
The PRL-4 media referenced is mostly the same macro and micronutrients that all plants need plus a small amount of sucrose (30 g/L) with 10% coconut milk added.
There are NIMBYs elsewhere in this comment tree telling me that evil rich developers lobby to have zoning relaxed so they can destroy the city with their horrible high-rises. So which is it? Which class of evil rich person controls everything?

Or is it possible that the YIMBY progressives who actually watch this issue in their local communities are right, and the biggest problem is NIMBYs vetoing everything to protect their "neighborhood character" and "the environment"?

NIMBYs hold a lot of power in local governments. They may be almost the only ones to turn out in many local elections and referendums.
The world is a complex place. It's not just open source vs closed source.
Agreed, but this was surprisingly painful to achieve do on my raspberry 3.
Couldn't agree more. I've been moving every three months or so and it actually sucks. On my gap year it was great but with a job (even though it's remote) and a girlfriend, jetlag and the desire for stability, it definitely takes a heavy toll.
What exactly would be different here if the project was under GPL?
And Clojure!
DuckDuckGo said NO, but when I replied as a black lesbian they wanted me
Now those vendors that perfected traffic shaping for university p2p control sell the tech to oppressive regimes. Win win!

https://masaar.net/en/sandvine-the-surveillance-octopus-in-t...
Without a sequence point the result of that expression is undefined behaviour. Is that what you're trying to say about Rust?
As someone who lives in a major city in the US with a dense walkable city center, the health care system in cities is frequently a mess of bureaucracy and completely overwhelmed by demand.

The suburbs (not rural though) have much more accessible… everything really. Go to a Target (a “basically anything that’s not food but also some food” store) in an inner city and they’ll either be out of half the things you need or simply not stock them at all. Suburban stores are fully stocked and prices are lower, with larger sizes available.

The same dynamic exists in healthcare to the point if I actually have real healthcare needs, I go out to the suburbs. I went to the ER in the city one time because I had cut myself pretty badly while cooking. The person who was stitching me up had to stop halfway through to rush and deal with 3 gunshot victims who had all come in at the same time. I sat there with a bleeding, half-stitched hand for 2 hours until they could get someone else.

Much of this was driven historically by racism, redlining and white flight, but it still doesn’t change the fact that health care in cities is more expensive, significantly more burdened and way more of a bureaucratic machine.
> Why does someone living in NYC, Chicago, London, Paris need a car to get to work?

There are more cities than that, and many have terrible public transport, even in Europe. I live just outside a city with around 125.000 people. Public transport is terrible, it takes an hour or more to use the bus for traveling 15km (I need to leave home at 6:30 to be at work at 9:15, if I take the bus, but it's a 20 minute drive). Also most of the jobs aren't actually within the city center. Many can bike and do so, but that's not an option for everyone, especially during the winter and autumn.
Intersection != Equality

I fast. I meditate. I'm not religious.

One may be religious and not fast nor meditate.
The last question for Edge has turned out to be, “when do people realize we are funded by Jeffrey Epstein?”
Not all religions are same and abrahmic religions are regressive religions.

Christianity has largely reformed.

Judaism is too exclusionary to affect the whole world.

Unfortunately islam is still being practiced like it was 1000 years ago.