skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quakers and other similar groups were a minority and generally only had very limited influence at the time. Even in the case of North America, Puritanism had a much bigger following and well.. Puritans were not known for their openness to new ideas and in fact were as cruel to the Quakers as the Spanish Catholics were to the Jews and Muslims ("Boston martyrs"). Generally both catholics and protestants burned witches at comparable rates. Most were burned in areas where protestantism and catholicism were directly competing with each other (Germany and the surrounding areas).

Luther and Calvin were both were keen on witch burning while for instance the dreaded spanish inquisition did not even officially recognize the existence of witchcraft (the number of people executed in spain is generally low compared to most major protestant countries and almost all there were convicted by secular courts rather than the inquisition). When given free reign, Calvin in this attempt to turn Geneva into a ideal puritan state he created dystopian theocracy, not any less oppressive than almost all Catholic states at the time.

Generally the ideas you're describing were formed by humanists like Petrarch, Erasmus, Bruni etc. (who were all catholic) prior to the spread of protestantism, while they were embraced by some protestant groups, they were mainly further developed by (mostly) secular enlightenment philosophers (most of whom again were from Catholic countries). Most breakthroughs happened in places were people first embraced secularism and stopped taking organized religion too seriously (I agree that this was more likely to happen in Protestant countries but mainly because less organized and smaller protestant churches tended to be weaker and easier to ignore than the catholic church).
Oh, and use tweetdeck.twitter.com. All your lists in view, keyboard shortcuts, it's the strictly better Twitter experience.
gevent for the Working Python Developer
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I don't agree at all. If the patent system didn't exist, there would be no companies with the capability to develop the vaccine. Because there's no profit motive.

The government would be willing to fund a vaccine, but there would be no capability to create it.

What is difficult to understand about that?

Do you think we could create a new vaccine within a year if there were no companies with multi billion dollar R&D teams?

Could we build iOS or Android if there were no software developers?
Meta wants to capture your biometric data so that your facial expressions and body language can be mapped onto a 3D avatar in virtual reality. Is this really the future of the metaverse? or is it just what Mark Zuckerberg thinks what the metaverse should look like?

I am a little skeptical of this vision. And I imagine most of the "metaverse" will be experienced through flat screens - and text, voice, and video will remain dominate. VR will grow but do we really need to map our physical expressions onto an avatar to play games or collaborate together? Why go through all this complexity when we can just have controls to enable our 3D avatars to emote?

If you really want to convey facial expressions and a personable experience, just enable video.
Is it even using an async DB connector?
When we were hunting for baby names I found that fiction character naming books (ex: The Writer's Digest Character Naming Sourcebook) were really great for inspiration. They tend to focus on the perceived qualities of the names more than the social qualities and are often more bold in their offerings.
The Lenovo generation of external UltraNav keyboard has one huge desing issue: the cable is conneted by USB micro B and thus it is not question of if, but when it will break. I thought about just soldering the cable directly into it, but there dose not seem to be a way to non-destructively disassemble the keyboard.
São Paulo's been living it for 14 years. I'd love to hear from residents how they feel about it too.
Every business exists to make money, the same with most people.
The article by itself is not evidence.
Maybe address the OP by providing your customers with a feedback function here so if they can't recover revenue, they can get feedback for why a customer intentionally left?
Here's an idea: like, capitalism, but with some restraints on it to protect the world. You know, like how we have regulators that (nominally) ensure food safety and clean air and whatnot.
Wish this existed years ago! It would be interesting if there were phonetic ways to filter names, for example: starts with consonant/vowel, has X syllables, ends with X letter(s).

A more advanced version of this could be a system that detects phonetic/orthographic similarities between names that you do or don't like, and shows you an optimized list of names based on your apparent preferences.
I agree that the pinephone hardware specifications are quite underwhelming. I wish the top of the line phones had mainline Linux support...
FYI, see the usage note here:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hone%20in

The app itself seems to be oriented around viewing most popular names. It would be nice to have a way to view least popular as well.
> I have limits where it comes to people who I know are trying to influence me into believing stupid false things to their benefit.

The market for astrology already exists. Their whole thing is getting people who are into it to prefer them because their math is better.

I get the anti-pseudoscience reflex, but (1) it's the wrong way to think about astrology and (2) it's weird to pick on astrology apps for their 'ethics' when the practice is more or less benign. We're not talking about a cult where people refuse medicine for their children here.

From an employment perspective, Co-Star seems way cleaner than places where lots of people I know and like work. Better horoscopes than missile defense or spy drones or brutal retailers like Amazon. Better a stupid, fake typology than spyware that reads people's emails to hit them with more effective ads. Better to produce models of the positions of stars than models of human faces to power militarization of the Israeli border.

Re: (1)

Astrology as most people practice it is a low-stakes system of prompts for reflecting on oneself and one's environment in a way that is useful and healthy, but can easily be neglected when you're just trying to get from one day to the next. Taking it too seriously is a mistake, but it can be useful without being correct about the capacity of the power of heavenly bodies to determine human personalities or affairs.

If we had nobles using court astrologers again, I'd say attacking astrology as harmful would be valuable. But when it's more about prompting for reflection or producing a shared vocabulary of personality, I think it ranges from helpful ritual to benign nonsense.
I'm in #4. My neighbors are prime across the street (#3 and #5) and non-prime on my side (#2 and #6)
You mean equality.
This feature is available for the linux/android combination using kdeconnect. Unfortunately I don't think there's an iOS app for that.
GreenCell may have some in their inventory. Also Luxnote has for pretty much all the models, but they don't build them AFAIK.
It seems exactly backwards
Competent people still make mistakes, they are not omniscient nor omnipotent. Being competent means that you did everything that a rational person ought to have done in a situation, and you did those things effectively. A perfectly competent person can be given bad intelligence about where their target will be, or the bomb they're dropping could have a faulty guidance system. Even with no external factors, if something were so easy that there was no need for human judgement, it would have been automated already.

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.
Yourself as a Facebook employee, you should know first hand that your employer lies to their own workforce without flinching. The only thing I will trust Facebook with is when they report their earnings.

The Facebook brand has become utterly toxic. Meta is a clean slate, but there is almost zero chance they will not load it up with toxins again. They have no incentives to be a good citizen.
Your numbers are way off. The CDC estimated the hospitalization rate in the 18-49 age group at 3%.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
Another industry which often flies under the radar of many people is the marketplace for products which eBay, Facebook Marketplace, Amazon, PayPal, Stripe, etc. will not touch.

The market for [non-FDA] diet pills, MLM eBooks, "mind, body & soul" empowerment videos, etc. is massive - even more so during the pandemic when employees are getting bored at home.

A business I knew with saw revenue rocket during the last 2 years, and they owned the whole stack - affiliate marketing schemes, an ecommerce platform (which still supports IE7!), virtual call-centres, right down to a payment processor (that also accepted adult content, CBD products, etc.).

The experience really opened my eyes into how much money there is to be made by... how can I put this politely.... exploiting overweight gulliable people with low self-esteem.
I was talking about they guy's wife at the sporting goods store. Regarding the article, I offered my opinion. I made nothing up.
> First of all the fact that the hashes are truncated does not matter, collision attacks are not an issue in this case, preimage attacks are.

Incorrect.

Preimage resistance would matter if you needed to produce the plaintext, not just collide a fingerprint. If you're trying to swap out public keys while deceiving the user into thinking it's the same, a collision suffices.

> Secondly, in recent linux kernel versions /dev/random is basically the same as urandom but better as it blocks at boot until enough entropy has been collected, although i can see this being an issue in older android devices.

Correct, but the Android versions that have the SecureRandom bug are also overwhelmingly likely to have such an old version of Linux. :)
> Misuse of computers is easy and a problem but no use is presently a bigger problem.

This argument seems to be from that techno-utopian era, when we thought that just having access to computers would elevate civilization, and that we'd always have access to computers, so things would keep getting better and better as long as we embraced technology.

What happened instead was a bit more complicated than that: when people got access to ubiquitous computing, it did teach them a new set of skills, and they did lose some old ones. But, we don't live in the world many people expected would come about as a result.

We live in a different world, with many tradeoffs we hadn't expected. Some good things, some bad things. But one thing I think it's safe to say is that the average person is not using computers as tools to think in more abstract and sophisticated ways than they were capable of in 2002.

So, the argument he's making is phrased as pragmatic, but I wonder to what extent that argument just assumes a certain, positive outcome. Would the author make the same argument, with the same level of confidence today?
Encouraging people to “find their own values” and to “actively interpret the meaning of things they read” , without any grounding in reality or science, will mostly result in people either growing more ardent in their existing beliefs (whatever they happen to be), or make people spin wildly out of control in conspiracy theories and/or magical thinking and superstitions.
> A new optical storage medium is long overdue. This time, it will probably be without support from the media industry.

If anything, I hope that will massively help its adoption. Blu-Ray is a DRM cess-hole of unnecessary complexity. Players – which many people bought blu-ray drives to be – have to be cryptographically secure, contain "upgrade only" firmware (to enforce key revocation mechanisms) and contain a fairly complex microprocessor. There's no official linux support.

All of these anti-features directly compete with "low cost" and "widely available". If I could put 10 TB on a DVD-sized disc, even as a WORM storage medium, and the disc was cheap, I'd buy the thing tomorrow
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And hobbyists don't even have to pay the student price since Wolfram has made the full version of Mathematica free (as in beer, not as in libre) for Raspberry Pi users.

It's such a nice, accessible environment for learning. My daughter is still too young to begin exploring SageMath, NumPy, SciPy, etc., but we've had fun together plotting things in Mathematica.
> Python does a lot well for a lot of people.

That's why I use PERL for my web server. ;)

I'm not denying Python is an amazing language. I have to use it for machine learning, and I've grown to really like it since the first time I used it in the 90's.

Just seems odd. Like, if you had a catering business and you drove a Ford Escort, and decided to add a bunch of trailers to it because it had too little capacity in the back seat. And then tried to optimizes those trailers because it was too inefficient, rather than just buying a delivery truck suited for delivering food. OK, that was an awkward analogy.
And just to pull on this thread a bit more ... what factored into your employer (or anyone reading my post) rating of an engineers performance?

Is it largely based on soft skills assessment. Or somehow code quality is being judge?
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If starlink/rural fiber is more broadly available, I’d see many people forgo cities altogether. Why live in 500sqft when you can have 500 acres all to yourself.
(A) If the app on my phone stops working because someone stole my ID, then I'll likely notice next time I try to use it.

(B) You have to compromise both password and 2FA.

(C) Walking into a government office certainly raises the barrier to stealing ID.
odds are, if you have prime neighbors, you are even.
I wouldn't call it "back to normal".

In addition to the mask mandates, which are more bothersome than you make out (e.g. it's pretty tiring to do cardio at the gym with a mask), there are other restrictions. Parents aren't allowed on our school campus, we don't have any in-person school events, kids get tested once a week, kids have to stay at 3 feet from each other at school, no wind instrument classes.
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why make it about race?

Those school also have student that are not black and latino.

There are 2 distinct problems:

1- School in poor neighborhood don’t offer calculus

2- Poor neighborhood have more Black and latino.

Changing math for everyone or reserving spot for black and latino in university is not the solution it will just make the USA less educated compared to other country.

there is only one real solution are:

1- Make sure school in poor neighborhood have enough funding to offer calculus

2- Stop telling minorities they are not smart enough and couldn’t succeed if they tried.

Asian parent know kids are smart enough to learn math and just need to work hard! that’s why they send kid to tutoring school. And that’s why asian are good at school even if they are a minority
> Fortunately vaccination cuts that pretty close to zero.

Unfortunately as can be seen in table 5 from the link below, vaccination does not bring the fatality rate close to zero. It brings it closer to zero depending on your age. Bearing in mind this applies to hospitalized patients only(therefore not exactly IFR), the rate of death was reduced by vaccination in people over the age of 50, but not in people under the age of 50. Vaccination helps in certain cohorts.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
I never do any graphics intensive stuff so I have no idea.

But perhaps that is what happened. But that really just makes it even plainer that Windows is very inefficient. Why would enabling the GPU cause high power usage when the machine has been sitting idle for hours with the screen off?
I remember reading somewhere that a lot of our dna is pretty much this 'security' you speak of.
If this drug is administered in the hospital, you already have a severe case and are far more likely to die.
OP is most certainly talking about software development jobs being 100% remote...not all jobs being 100% remote.
I'm in a similar position (haven't worked in climate tech, but have been diving in recently), and am interested in connecting with others who are trying to find the most useful way to deploy capital in service of a better climate outcome. If you're up for connecting, my email is in my profile.
The Day trading quant gets cold sweats as he reads this.
The 2000s housing bubble was greatly exaggerated
The anti-vax movement is in the uncanny valley of media trust. If they had more trust, they'd follow traditional institutional recommendations as most had done for decades. If they had less trust, they'd realize that Faceboot et al are just more media sources hijacking their sense of social proof. The path to actually rejecting "the media" isn't to just follow substitute media that promotes opposite viewpoints - you have to reason from first principles and look to falsify every single thing you read.
> there was virtually no predictive power to 'secret test cases' that we ran without providing to the candidate.

this brings back some unpleasant memories of a take-home i got from a FAANG.

basically i was given a loose spec to implement, with no real data or test cases (and was told that none would be provided when i asked). after submitting my work i received a terse rejection with 0 constructive feedback for my 6hrs of work. uncool.
The clear requirements of take home tests make them my favorite. They allow me to express how I work: get a list of reqs, walk away and think about them, make some decisions on directions, then let the code lead me.

I strike the style required. I capitalize on opportunities to make decisions I can discuss. "I used tape instead of jest because this example product will be distributed to many developers. The reduced API-surface area keeps us focused on the how's not the what's."

I tone that down if the role seems more rote-work like, at which point I try to highlight my ability to solve problems and learn quickly. For example, a comment above some network call: "// I was getting a cors error and found out I can run my own proxy for this"
Not when you split that billion among the many millions of people who own shares in the company.

I also remind you that the year of incorporation was 1874
Wish there was an option for "I'm not sure, show me this name again some other time"
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I’m fairly sure that the few n years of our lives are full of examples of very abstract things we didn’t learn through language.

Like, the whole of 3D space, physics, object permanence, etc are most definitely not learnt through language at all (though arguably, we might have some innate knowledge on some of these categories? I believe 3D objects reliably break down into the same basic 3D shapes in all humans)
Of course, I see now
This is brilliant. Great work, Kyriakos and Raouf!
Preferably one that manages to keep the progressive policies that have ruined most major coastal cities far away but at the same time, having some semblance of infrastructure so I can make great use of the geo arbitrage available to me thanks to living in said rural area. This is one of the reasons why I am highly optimistic about starlink. Once the tech is mature and fully deployed I'll be able to develop and live on my 100 acres where I will not be subject to any sort of virtue signaling by individuals whose ancestors are the cause of most problems we see today in our current societal climate.
Some day some billionaire is going to save the Earth from a giant asteroid impact and there will be a bunch of people saying "meh, he only did it as an ego trip."
> full name with given name, to see how it reads, sounds

This was a critical step when naming my kids. You really need to see how yelling the full name sounds. If it is too awkward or has syllables that don't fall together easily, that can make it difficult when you (eventually) need to yell at them for doing something stupid.

Same with the first + middle combination -- those need to flow together well for occasions that require less than full yelling.
AdTech gets a lot of flak, but I did spend quite a lot of time in my career building tools on the opposite side of this. We also did reverse engineer what the big networks like Google were doing but with the objective of learning the best techniques to use – which is actually quite disappointing in practice, these days the most important measure of being a real user is whether Google can doxx you or not.

It was quite fun for a while, and some of the tools and techniques ended up having applications beyond ads, for example developing 0-day techniques to unmask Tor and VPN users (webRTC leaks, etc.) that could then be reused on seized/honeypot onion sites to catch predators.
And when you give a central authority permission to dictate these "inconvenient measures" to the population, what is the recourse when those authorities act in a contradictory, dishonest, or incompetent manner?
Seems like a catchy slogan: “The CCP is not China”.
I would probably sanitize the db by ignoring the names from the last 20 years or so.
Well hopefully money serves as a tool for prioritizing resources for important problems. Seems to be working well in this case.
I know a guy at Nike that had to deal with a similar problem. As I recall, they basically gave in -- instead of trying to fight the scrapers, they built them an API so they'd quit trashing the performance of the retail site with all the scraping.
I'd imagine that scaling up ICU capacity has to be more efficient than constantly enacting mandates on the entire population for a decade.
We bootstrapped our open source Google Analytics alternative to $500k ARR
Officially Lexus doesn’t want that, in reality, they care about sales.

They’ll be upset if this “gray” traffic doesn’t convert well, but Lexus buyers just might be the type with the disposable income for gambling.
Yes - which why I doubt we will see full "reopening" everywhere until they open up boosters to everyone and provide time for people who want them to get them.
I have enough to read already. I choose not to spend my time reading texts by known con artists, whatever the texts may contain. If the truths expressed therein are valuable, someone else with more authority can repeat or re-discover them elsewhere.
Server processors usually don't come with iGPUs. There are some Xeon variants that have them but it's not common.

You're right though, servers usually have some sort of very basic GPU for basic graphics. Sometimes from Matrox and others.

The parent comment makes no sense at all for a different reason. Intel wants to enter the top dGPU market and yes, Linux dominates the server landscape and yes, Intel probably wants to sell dGPUs to all the cloud providers and would have to continue to support Linux in that case.

Parent comment is simply FUD. It's sad it's been upvoted.
Forgive me if I don’t want to read anything written by someone making an astrology product.

Typical Capricorn.