skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the people who believed in evolution more out of faith than true understanding actually did the legwork to remove their biases and objectively study/experiment on the subject, they would come to find that evolution is real. And if Jehovah's Witnesses actually did the legwork to remove their biases and objectively study/experiment on their religion, most of them would run as far away as they could.

Some things just have to be taken on faith because life is too short to get a PhD in every subject, but I sure hope the world continues to move towards evidence-based rather than magic-based foundations of default belief.
The problem is that the open protocols which were initially used by the dominant client to achieve its dominance later became closed when they "seamlessly" forced their users onto a closed protocol. OSS licenses solve the open code issue to varying degrees but has largely fell flat on the issue of open protocols. So if coopting IP-law (aka OSS licenses) is the wrong approach, what is the correct tool to address this problem? Would other legal concepts like like contracts help? Something else?
What correct predictions and functional devices do religions create?
Seems like a great class action lawsuit waiting to happen.
Describes my workplace. Too pedantic on layers and abstractions. Endless code reviews over nonsense. Before anyone says this - we have linters. The problem is nits about how the code reviewer would do things.

The pedants also can't figure why nothing gets done.
>>>> Thus is the curse of being a religion. You do one thing that general society helps. And then they just criticize another piece of your belief system.

>>>> There's no system that will perfectly allow people to both find value and meaning in their world AND also promote totally free action of others.

In turn, that's the curse of infallibility.

>>>> Catholics are against birth control because we're for a world in which human life is nourished, valued, and lifted up within the family. Not that it's seen as a problem to be dealt with. A knock on impact of that mentality is the sex becomes seen as a sacred act of deep value to humanity, an act with profound power and responsibility.

A way out of this dilemma is to acknowledge that sexuality and reproduction are not supernatural phenomena, therefore there is no need for them to be a topic of theological interest, any more than the orbits of the planets or the evolution of species.

>>>> Almost no Catholics suggest that we legally outlaw birth control.

Cynically, I wonder if that's strategic -- to avoid alienating voters until abortion is outlawed. Also (I took "Catholic classes" when I got married), birth control is portrayed as causing abortion.
Elder-friendly technology is a growing market
I tried to read the linked article. Its author considers Walmart to be a wonder of the world, which uplifts the poor and "is the most successful social welfare system ever implemented, saving billions and billions of dollars for everyday Americans without costing taxpayers a dime".

Prior to this mind-boggling statement, Zack presents his bona fides regarding his knowledge of Amazon; I'm sure he's pretty clever, and doubly so regarding Amazon. But his lack of insight when it comes to Walmart, let alone the factual inaccuracy of his statements regarding the way Walmart takes advantage of its employees' crushing poverty [0] is fucking insanity. Walmart absolutely does cost taxpayers. It disturbs me that someone so incapable of grokking the consequences of these so-called Wonders of the World should be so well-positioned to benefit from them.

On the other hand, I suppose that it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. [1]

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/walmart-and-mcdonalds-among-...

[1] --Upton Sinclair
You can't exactly put a country in jail so the only real way to punish a country is economically. Once we start talking economics, it is a lot easier to punish Bill Gates than a homeless man. China is #2 in the world in GDP and Laos is #118.

Beyond that, it wouldn't even make sense to punish Laos if the virus did have zoological origins there. The first outbreak didn't occur in Laos so there is little validity to accusations of a coverup or mishandling of that non-existent outbreak. The only reasons people have wanted to punish China is because they believe that China either created this virus and let it leak or that their initial reaction to the virus is what allowed it to spread globally. There would be fault in the case of China. There would be no fault in the case of Laos.
there is matrix, the best option, both secure and reasonably well made(element and alternative clients), but it miles behind telegram in terms of UI/UX even though it's on par with whatsapp/signal/etc
Rust is basically C++++ so I doubt it's what that commenter had in mind
> Religion has been a major source of soothing and a major source of suffering for all of humanity's past

The idea that religion is such a big source of suffering throughout all of our history is one I stopped believing once I took a closer look at the actual nature of war, particulary how a country's elite is moving closer to war and how "religious" said elite actually is.

IMO the amounts of blood shed over millenia would have been the same under atheists.

And because today most of us are Atheists/Agnostics, and because most of these millenias' rulers weren't, it is our "agnostic hindsight" which follies us into believing that this suffering was all just caused by religion.
Sampling seems reasonable to me, especially now that we can spin up vaccines so quickly. In this new age of rapid mRNA vaccines it may make a lot of sense to catalog and sequence viruses before they jump the species barrier.

This is off the cuff so I’m not sure.
Just because you met a few people with a fragile grasp of complex scientific topics doesn't mean the science is wrong.

Evolution is a fact. It has been demonstrated over and over again, is observable, and has predicative powers.

Religion has none of these things, and your particular religion is well known for being absolutely traumatic for people who follow it and even more so for people who leave it.
My mom got bitten by this. After my dad died, she uploaded a video of him playing his violin with a baby on his lap. The music is in public domain, and it was demonstrably an original recording of a (sorry, dad) rank amateur. It got blocked so fast that my adult cousin, the baby in the video, couldn't watch it. This isn't understandable, it's ridiculous overreach.
> Twice now you came at me with ad hominem and nothing substantive, but I'm the edgelord.

Yes, you are the edgelord. You literally refer to yourself as a jaded asshole in your profile, so don't be upset when people choose to see you as the persona you present. You get what you give.

>Refute a point or move along.

"Every one of our institutions is rotten to the core, none of it can be fixed as they all have evolved to protect themselves" is low-effort juvenile cynicism and hyperbole that deserves no more than the snarky dismissal I gave it. You're not making substantive, intelligent arguments in this thread, nor are you making thoughtful replies to anyone else. The only refutation I can offer is that you mature emotionally and stop seeing the world in such narrow-minded and reductionist terms. Assuming you're not just shitposting, I mean.

And you don't get to tell me where to go.
Ok but the person I replied to said “ Sorry but that's a lot of hogwash.”

That seems like a statement that the claims are false, not a request for evidence.
AI doesn’t exist. In the past 5-10 years AI has been rewritten to AGI. AI now means math models. Just look at the movie AI and others like it. I guess when you become a buzzword it’s time to change the meaning. Thankfully the UK and US court system are sane.

When “AI” says no I don’t want to invent a patent I want to play music (or whatever else it may desire) I’ll believe it exists.

Machine learning, deep learning, neural network, and gradient decent are better terms but I’m not an expert.
Study after study has shown that all-cause mortality drops the more plant-based a diet is, up to and including vegan. Ditto for drops in cardiovascular disease.

> hurting themselves with fat free

Yes, if you drop below the minimum fat intake level required to sustain life, you will have health problems. No one disputes that. But a diet that low in fat is very difficult to maintain.
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4655#comment-73772

> ... the beginnings of intelligent ... assistants in our IDEs ... specialize (sic) in ... C/C++, Java, Mobile. They will have intimate knowledge of common APIs ... trained on tens of thousands of code projects pulled from the open repositories across the web (google code, github, bitbucket,...). In addition to having 'read' more orders of magnitude more code then any human could in a lifetime, they will also have rudimentary ability to extract programmer intent, and organizational patterns from code. ... The computer automatically bringing up example code snippets, suggesting references to existing functionality that could be reused.

This person (Marc DeRosa) predicted Github Copilot within a margin of one year. Incredible.
This is what censorship does. If you try and suppress potentially wrong opinions and dissent, don't be surprised when people take more of an interest in information that goes against the official narrative, even if it turns out to be incorrect.

Btw CBC is the propaganda organ of Canada's liberal party (I exaggerate a bit but not much) - take what they say and the way they characterize people as anti-x or alt-right or whatever with a grain of salt.
Just look at nutrition science as an example for why this isn't so.

Salt, fat, cholesterol, fructose, etc have each gone through several wild swings in good for you / bad for you. The science is entirely unsettled, yet forms the backbone of many doctors' recommendations.

Then, when the science gets taken in by mainline cultural space, it gets blown up into all sorts of utterly nonsensical, mystical woo-woo. Somehow moderation turns into paleo, vegan, fruitarian, or alkaline based diets.

People shoot wheatgrass or fast on lemon juice. All sorts of vaguely scientific sounding bullshit that isn't backed up by actual data.
I'm a big fan of TID: Trust in Developers.

That means building out an application and experience that has the following:

* a substantial education component. You are an expert in X, so educate developers so they can get better at X
* meets developers where they are (in terms of languages and tooling)
* allows both high and low levels of abstraction (including a well documented and consistent API)
* free to start (even though we all have to eat, developers want to kick tires with minimal effort)
* encapsulated functionality that does a few things and a few things well. The RDBMS is a model here.
* an open feedback loop, typically on GitHub or in public. (Slack is a bit of an anti-pattern here.)

I don't know how devs are going to use tools built for them, but the last thing I want is for them to be disempowered. The farthest end of the empowerment spectrum, of course, is open source, but there are business model problems with that. I've written on that before: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3438

For another smart, if different take, read this: https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2020/11/26/addressing-the-deve...

The post talks about tooling and a cohesive structure as the next great opportunity.
Early 1990s, we had two 10base-T lines to each dorm. Still most people used old school modems and didn't even know what ethernet was. I bought a load of cheap ethernet cards nearly wholesale and demo'ed-then-sold them to students for a couple of years. Didn't pay my tuition but gave me a few spending coins.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computationalism

It's a very common worldview among the tech set.

Edit: Uh, downvotes, really? I think it's totally reasonable to assume this as a given since it's, like, pretty obviously true. If anything the parent needs to provide their own extraordinary evidence for why consciousness would be non-computable. I'm just trying to provide some context for them to read up more on some stuff that apparently everyone but them (who has given it any thought) already knows about.
State-sponsored group targets Port of Houston using 0-day in Zoho appliance
Perhaps AI can't get a patent, but AI can still generate prior art and thus invalidate patents.
NASA's AR graphic novel is meant to recruit a new wave of astronauts
wow, this site is great. Thank you. Bookmarked! (simpsons season 2-9 really was the best, but until season 15 it was still "ok i guess")
Doesn't Matlab fit equations like that easily in a built-in fashion? Why use hand written routines?
> Meng is right now enjoying the freedom of Vancouver’s lovely streets and the luxury of her own $15 million mansion there through privilege of bail in a free and open democratic society under the rule of law. The two Michaels, by painful contrast, suffer conditions equal to torture in the lawless Chinese gulag.

> Pre-trial detention in China is used as a weapon of duress which, in its aggregate, adds up to torture. The accused are held in harsh conditions in a “detention center” designed to break resistance and crush the human spirit in order to extort a confession. As a result, such self-incriminating confessions, when they happen, are false. The following description of those detention conditions comes from my own experiences during 23 months in captivity, in addition to listening to and reading about other prisoners’ experiences, including conversations with prisoners released in 2019.

Full description: https://thediplomat.com/2019/12/the-cruel-fate-of-michael-ko...
Alright, let’s agree to disagree on whether or not supply should be increased.

Would you at least agree in a hypothetical US in which it is not possible to build further supply that banning renters would be the next logical step? Again, this is not to say or not say that supply should not be further built.
You don't control your device OS or otherwise have access to a machine you do, your OS does not offer modern packages, and you don't have the ability to otherwise pull in development toolchain resources.... yet it's supposed to be the projects problem you can't compile something started in 2021 from source on your older setup?

I get your current situation is less than ideal for you but at some point you have to accept the project is not the source of painfulness associated with you trying to compile new apps from source, it's just the trigger.
> - special snowflakes internal abandoned framework that only two people in company know

And remember that today’s darling framework all the internets are raving about is a special snowflake abandoned framework tomorrow that no one gives a damn about anymore.

The corollary to this is that the spice must flow, and the wheels must keep spinning, thus the hamsters^Wdevelopers must keep rewriting everything using the current darling languages, frameworks, and paradigms, restlessly contributing to the ever growing carbon footprint as CI/CD pipelines keep chugging away at each oneliner commit!
It’s giving me some pretty heavy mid-90’s BBS vibes. Even the menu with the big BTOP++ logo reminds me of a main menu on a BBS.

Now if we can just slow it down to 240 characters/second to simulate the real experience. It won’t be authentic unless it also slows down when you’re changing colors because of the ANSI escape codes.
I wonder how this will dovetail with something like GitHub copilot. Obviously there will have to be a line somewhere. AI wrote 10% of the code in this system => patent allowed. AI wrote 90% => no patent. But where is the line?
> we need to figure out another way of working that isn’t agile,

Isn't devops the next generation? (I mean devops as promulgated by Accelerate: https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Software-Performing-Techno... , not 'smoosh the devs and ops teams together, add Jenkins and hope for the best'.)
You can get pretty far with git builtins.

When you're looking to review what happened on $review_branch, you really only need to lookup where their branch begins, and then take look at the diffs.

Where the branch "begins" is the merge-base of your current commit (assuming you're up to date) and the review branch tip.

review_branch=origin/branch-name
branch_point=$(git merge-base $review_branch HEAD)

git difftool $branch_point $review_branch

One advantage is that "git difftool" has support for vimdiff and a whole bunch of other diff tools. The upside of leveraging difftool is that you can use all of the bulitin git diff stuff, eg. using `-- <path>` at the end of the command to limit the diff to just the specified paths.

If you want to diff everything in one shot, "git difftool -d/--dir-diff" will do that too.
It's funny how standard business dealings of having subsidiaries and offshore investment vehicles are being viewed by the Russians as a "Russian classic" just because critical thinking overload. :-)

The article does not really describe anything controversial or out of the ordinary.

I'm sure many countries do similar investments and arrangements. For example, IDA Ireland has offices in the US, and runs ads on Bloomberg TV. How's RDIF that much different?
Conscious beings flourishing is the goal, whether they be human or AI.

That might seem like a fine distinction, but the importance going forward is stark given a quote from TFA:

> The third judge, Lord Justice Birss, took a different view. While he agreed that "machines are not persons" ...
It's amazing how many people jumped in to comment without even a minimal glance at the article.

Please folks, before jumping in to comment, at least make sure the article is about what you think it's about.
See also, the Natwest three.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NatWest_Three

Being foreign puts a pretty big taeget on your back in the eyes of US law enforcement agencies.
You seem determined to ignore murders spiked in places unlike Seattle last year too. And how does your hypothesis explain less total violent crime?

You haven't shown the city council embraced defunding the police either. They cut a fraction of a percent from the police budget last year. Lots of cities had to make cuts to lots of departments. The $5.4 million the article said they fought about this year is under 2%. And it's just what the police spent over budget last year.[1]

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-p...
Why not do both?

cat test.py | py2many --nim=1 -
http://dpaste.com//5ALVT7MK4
For reference, this is John Lin who posts semi-frequent devlogs[0] of his voxel engine progress - an engine that is, in my opinion, one of the best voxel engines in existence rivaled only by Dennis Gustafsson's "Teardown" voxel engine.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ptH79R53c0
Obviously a few people were hoarding a lot of cash? It could be 7 people with 100K and the other 90 had 50K in total..

As the statistics joke goes, when Jeff Bezos walks into a bar, it becomes a billionaire's hangout by average net worth...
Used them recently for brunch. Super easy, scan the receipt, and go.

They seem to have ignored a few sacred truths. They scaled more slowly, raised capital less aggressively, and shockingly have real human customer support.

This is the interesting bit: https://pos.toasttab.com/products/toast-delivery-services

Get started for free* and pay one flat fee per order, not a percent of sales.

Their own driver network for deliveries, and if you’re already integrated with everything Toast, why not?
This article argues that they are currently used transactionally to launder money. Not the only way to launder money. Not an easy way to promote prosperity among the poor, either. Not even a heuristic to tell the good sources of money from blood-stained ones.

To get to (B) from here, we must endure some path dependence that takes us through an era of unaccountable wealth transfer.
This "Allow Wake Timers" option does not exist in this location on my PC.
It pisses me off to no end when someone says something like, "Given how much google/fb/amazon has been in the news, theres no question that they're now evil"
Tesla offers ‘Full Self-Driving’ option, prompting criticism from regulators
Put another way: the claim that humans cannot be modeled as equations equates to the claim that humans cannot be modeled using physics. Do you want to defend that?
Here's an example from The Secret of Our Success:

> In Indonesia, the Kantus of Kalimantan use bird augury to select locations for their agricultural plots. The anthropologist Michael Dove argues that two factors will cause farmers to make plot placements that are too risky. First, Kantu ecological models contain the Gambler's Fallacy and lead them to expect that floods will be less likely to occur in a specific location after a big flood in that location (which is not true). Second [...], Kantus pay attention to others' success and copy the choices of successful households, meaning that if one of their neighbors has a good yield in an area one year, many other people will want to plant there in the next year.

> Reducing the risks posed by these cognitive and decision-making biases, the Kantu rely on a system of bird augury that effectively randomizes their choices for locating garden plots, which helps them avoid catastrophic crop failures.

> The patterning of bird augury supports the view that this is a cultural adaptation. The system seems to have evolved and spread throughout this region since the seventeenth century when rice cultivation was introduced. This makes sense, since it is rice cultivation that is most positively influenced by randomizing garden locations.

> Whatever the process, within 400 years, the bird augury system had spread throughout the agricultural populations of this Borneo region. Yet it remains conspicuously missing or underdeveloped among local foraging groups and recent adopters of rice agriculture, as well as among populations in northern Borneo who rely on irrigation.

> This example makes a key point: not only do people often not understand what their cultural practices are doing, but sometimes it may even be important that they don't understand what their practices are doing or how they work.
Ruffle nightly builds broke for a good week because Firefox signing broke. We eventually decided to let nightly builds continue without a working Firefox release, but the end result is that Firefox users can't update Ruffle anyway.
A mailing list message isn't documentation. And that isn't the same as saying no one should use it ever. Especially in context.[1]

[1] https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/kernel_fp.html
In my experience, almost nothing is 10 bucks anymore at Amazon. Having prime would have meant - 5 years ago- that I would get it tomorrow or within 2 days, but now it means I will get it by the end of next week. Then the product I bought will come apart within 2 months. Right around the time the return deadline expires. The customer experience is at least one order of magnitude worse than 5 years ago.
> takes an asymmetrically large amount of effort to rebut

And so... you'd rather just badmouth him on HN instead? This entire subthread is an ad hominem, and entirely inappropriate.
Please let there be a consumer version sold at the hardware store in the not too distant future that is on par with current home sized generator costs. But seriously, my state has loads of untapped uranium. I am looking forward to these becoming common deployments and helping balance out the renewable energy sources in small towns. Install a few of them at every sub-station.
Insulting the president stopped being an offense a while ago:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/25/insulting-fren...

I still don't see the hypocrisy you speak of, though. France is a reasonably religious country overall but extremely secular when it comes to school and politics. The edicts you describe simply enforce these principles (e.g. "No religious symbols allowed in school, be it a cross, a star of David, a hijab, etc...").