skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Religion was always political.

We're still in living memory of highly sectarian societies where, for example in Australia, a Catholic was a lower social grade than Church of England and being a Methodist was something else entirely. All of these groups voted differently, associated differently and married differently. This hung on longer in small towns in Australia but was a definite societal attribute right up until the mid-1960s where it started to break down.

We had waves of social change that barely shook that structure: Catholic churches and schools were once almost exclusively Irish, but the immigration from Italy during the 1940s/1950s changed that ethnic mixture significantly with barely a murmur to the social structure or how those people voted (predominantly aligned with the left for working class reasons). The church publically told them how to vote and they did it.

As older churches like the Methodists disappeared (or were subsumed into more liberal church traditions) and the left started embracing social reforms (no-fault divorce, womens liberation, abortion, birth control, the breakdown of racial segregation) the religious part of society bifurcated: the more religious folk went to the right and the less religious folk just started walking away from church.

That division was the end of organised religion as a driving social force. Now, the thing most christians seem to despise the most is other christians of a slightly different faith.

Most organised religions have only themselves to blame for their quickly falling church attendance for that reason.
> the US is experiencing more inflation than other countries also hit by supply constraints.

How much more? I've read the opposite. There's probably some imprecision in "the same rate" so I'm willing to believe both are true.
Because she was a red herring. Her nomination was designed to soften the next nominee’s views, everyone knew it, everyone knew she would be ultimately pulled, and any time spent with her was a waste. Democrats met with her for optics.
They do reduce it, by a lot, enough to avoid overwhelming hospitals -- which are borderline right now in many countries and being filled up by anti-vaxxers. Those freedom loving people are taking up valuable beds, putting the lives of people at risk that have other medical issues.

Essentially, all of these anti-vax arguments boil down to: "You cannot definitively, absolutely, completely prove that the vaccines are 100.00% effective AND 100.00% safe for everyone always. I mean sure, you're not technically forcing me to take it, but your suggestion that I do my duty to society is too authoritarian. I would prefer to think of myself as a universe onto myself and take the personal chance of death comparable to climbing Mount Everest or driving F1 cars. Because freedom! Or something..."

Also: "Grandma can take her chances with getting COVID from me on the odd occasion that I visit her in the cheapest hospice I could find to offload her onto."
I managed to see Steve Martin live once at a nominally non-comedy event. I suspect I was one of the few in the audience for whom he was not the principle draw .... I'd know his name and a few brief bits of his work (in pre-YouTube days, word of mouth and re-enactments by friends were often all one had to go by).

Over the course of the evening I came to admire his real skill and talent in sensing the comedic moment and timing. Whilst it's true he had no peers in that regard on stage, he really did shine. And I believe a banjo was involved.
Really? Who has been to San Francisco and actually thought we need to further reduce sentencing or that there was too much police? I think most feel the opposite and SF doesn’t exactly mass-incarcerate… I am all for applying the rule of law for once but I am skeptical this is anything more than a PR tactic. Nothing of consequence will change until leadership in SF is thrown out and that will likely never happen.
You can get most of the benefit of an ORM mapper with migration functionality from something like this or sqitch (I use sqitch). There are really good reasons to use this over the built-in ORM mapper migrations:

- The built-in ORM mapper migrations facility might be an afterthought (I’m looking at you, Sequelize)

- You explicitly want to separate database migrations from code changes so that the code needs to be written in such a way that it can run (at reduced functionality if required) with or without the migration, and the presence of the migration should not affect the execution of the code.

It’s way too easy with in-built migrations to make a migration that results in downtime. Practicing direct migration with SQL drivers is going to be safer every time.
Spinning the ISS to achieve artificial gravity would be possible if the ISS had been designed for that from the beginning, but as far as I know it wasn't, so they'd have to either replace the whole thing or construct an addition that spins.

I'd like to see ISS greatly expanded now that access to space is getting cheaper, but given the constraints, designing vacuum sleeping bags is reasonable. (Also, expanding our range of techniques to limit the adverse effects of zero-G is useful in the long run. Ideally we won't have many people who need to be in zero-G for extended periods of time even if travelling to space becomes routine, but still the knowledge is good to have just in case.)
https://www.mining-technology.com/features/five-largest-coal...

This has Wyoming and WV as the biggest producers. Could differ from exports, but in retrospect production is probably more important. Those states are quite small. Vermont is too. Yet they have 6 senators between them.
The verdict is still out on that one.
Also: http://www.thestealthblimp.com
"the free market works well"

Unless there is too much inflation like in Weimar Republic, too much corruption like in Russia, too much monopoly like with Standard Oil, too many shenanigans leading to 2008-style meltdown (imagine that without central bank support), given working police and the justice system which is missing in many developing countries, given basic infrastructure like roads and electricity etc, etc.
It will have no impact on morality because few people actually derive their morals from a religion, even if they claim to. Religions contextualize and validate morals that adherents hold regardless of their active participation, and some religions even take this premise and run with it (e.g. that people have an innate instinct to do what's morally right which is in tension with their innate instinct to do what's wrong).
Putting the washing machine in the kitchen is just a result of limited space.

Houses in Britain with enough space will put it a different room, often called a utility room, scullery or laundry room. That would be difficult to find in London.

(Apartments in Denmark will put it in the bathroom, since the building regulations require a floor drain in case of leaks.)
Probably were thinking of 'st', or some other project under the umbrella of software that certainly sucks more.
> Free as in beer. Not FLOSS.

"Without paying or stealing" was the claim, free beer isn't bought or stolen beer.
Increase surveillance sounds right out of sci-fi movie..remember "pre-crime" ?
In the larger picture outside of the midwest, being anti-abortion was just the fundamentalist switch from being pro-segregation after trying out several other issues. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-ri...
They lower your chance of getting covid by about 50% if exposed and lower your chance of spreading it if you get it by about 50%.

So.. It's not perfect at stopping transmission but you can see how it would definitely reduce the R0 enough to prevent outbreaks in the non-vaccinate pops.
> They were given a herculean task of unifying 4 different audio standards,

Which 4?

Also, it's not fully ready for the pro-audio side at this point.
By "intelligent design" different people might mean different things, I don't know the roots of word, but for me fine tuning seems something very close to that concept. Imagine how many values speed of light could have, 1km/hour? 1m/hour? and life would be totally different, not trying to push idea of "intelligent design". My main message was something we could not comprehend today, does not mean it is wrong, someone in the future might prove it. So throwing one huge idea as non-scientific feels like ignorance to me. Like censoring some minority groups if you don't like the idea
actually...No earlier than the 24th now

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29560383
He was not. Hitler was appointed Chancellor by the president Hindenburg, it is not some obscure fact and can be googled in 5 seconds. I am confused why people keep insisting on such an obvious lie to be honest. Especially in this topic: Weimar Republic experienced the same degree of polarization and the breakdown of political process as the US is experiencing now. Instead of trying to make a new history it's worth reflecting on what is the next step after the political parties decide that their opposition is not worth any argument and needs to be eliminated.
Sometimes there just is no substitute.
Thanks, Aaron. I think people who have been using Node for years are skilled at the old Node ways and have huge inertia in their skills, their own code, and others' Node code. For them, the ideal platform would be Node plus some upgrades. I'm guessing they would rather extend their inertial frame of reference than leave it behind.

Then there are others of us who have been saying no to Node and legacy JS for years. We have no such legacy to maintain and no intention of ever creating any. But some of us (at least I) would reconsider platforms built from scratch on a new TypeScript foundation rather than layered on a pre-ES6 foundation. That would include a Deno-based Electron. You might have more luck converting people who don't use Node than getting Node users to abandon their legacy.

The state of cross-platform desktop apps is terrible. All attention is on mobile, and desktop OS makers have almost zero interest in supporting cross-platform desktop apps. (MS cares a little more than zero, Apple less than zero and barely tolerates their own Mac-only developers.) Only something browser/Chromium based seems realistic for the next few years.

On the server, there are a lot of alternatives to Node that are considered better by (and very popular with) large segments of the market. Deno will be one of them, I think. But for cross-platform desktop apps, Electron would be rejected completely if the alternatives weren't so bad and unlikely to get better. A better Electron, despite its inherent problems, could end up more popular than server-side Deno. Just a thought.
Interesting. When you rotate it in 3d space in your head, is the movement continuous?

I can rotate things in my head, but I get a very low framerate - roughly 1fps. Its easy for me to imagine the keyframes, but the interpolation between them is much harder.

I also tend to have a small rendering resolution - ex. I can render keyframes of details, but holding the entire image in my head simultaneously is difficult
I think so. The article talks about a vague initiative to make more arrests. The majority of SF criminals are out on the streets the next day after they are arrested.

If you want meaningful change first audit the funds disbursement of organizations which allegedly exist to aid the homeless of SF. You may be shocked to discover what is actually happening.
3 in 10. I mean I don't believe it by any means, but imagine that.

In saying that, I would likely want to believe in a deity if I was praying for cancer treatment that I couldn't afford as well whilst the stress of wondering how my family would survive crushed me into the dirt and all I needed was some vacation time to sort my head out and as I looked around, people were wearing MAGA hats.

Meanwhile those with drive were looking upto Steve Jobs as an idol who with infinite money, prayed to fruit or something idiotic like that?

Oh god it's so fucking tragic and depressing.
Compared to later generations, they don’t actually!
Your rosy view of the historical consequences of the French Revolution is, to say the least, questionable. I would say the main historical consequence of the French Revolution has been a lot of other revolutions which had even more tragic consequences (up to and including the ones in the 20th century that led to more than a hundred million deaths), while rosy language about "liberation" and "democracy" kept people from learning the obvious lesson that maybe revolutions just aren't a good idea.

As for the Civil War, the U.S. had to spend a million lives in that war to end slavery. (And, as you appear to recognize, that still didn't really improve the lives of the former slaves all that much--more than a century of Jim Crow was still to come.) The British Empire did it without spending any lives at all, and has never had the kind of Jim Crow issues the U.S. has had. So what is the advantage of revolution, again?
... and readdressed. https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/security.html

> It was found that the fix to address CVE-2021-44228 in Apache Log4j 2.15.0 was incomplete in certain non-default configurations. This could allows attackers with control over Thread Context Map (MDC) input data when the logging configuration uses a non-default Pattern Layout with either a Context Lookup (for example, $${ctx:loginId}) or a Thread Context Map pattern (%X, %mdc, or %MDC) to craft malicious input data using a JNDI Lookup pattern resulting in a denial of service (DOS) attack. Log4j 2.15.0 restricts JNDI LDAP lookups to localhost by default. Note that previous mitigations involving configuration such as to set the system property log4j2.noFormatMsgLookup to true do NOT mitigate this specific vulnerability.
Does it matter since some other law enforcement agency would have jurisdiction and could establish an arrangement to just have the feds do that anyway?

I don’t know that Bumpkin Fyfe being in charge has been shown to be any better.
Don't confuse "religiosity" with "spiritualism". I think you've described the latter.
I use sqitch quite heavily on one of our projects, and miss it on the one where we use Ecto migrations with Elixir (although, for in-built migration functionality, Ecto migrations are very good).

Installing sqitch and pgTAP (a unit testing framework for PostgreSQL) has always been a pain, so I ended up making a docker image that we now use at work: https://github.com/kineticcafe/docker-sqitch-pgtap
In case you missed it the other day, I made a GPT3-generated sleep podcast:

https://deepdreams.stavros.io

Here's the bit that generates the fairy tales:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/deep-dreams/-/blob/master/gen_scr...
> "And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!"

No, I don't think that was the thought process. I think they wanted to send a message and I think they wanted to test the waters to see if anyone would hold them accountable for deploying first party malware.
That was surprisingly intense!
> Also, Terry got a PPP loan for $20k for his one person soybean farm. Seems legit.

Well it could be totally legit. Single person farms still pay people, even if themselves, and $20k isn't that much. Besides payroll, they can be used for owner compensation, mortgage interest for business related loans, business rental payments, business utility payments, and continuing employee benefits.

For farmers, the PPP maximum loan amount is 2.5 times the amount of the average monthly payroll costs from the prior 12 months or the 2020 / 2019 calendar year, capped at $10 million.

See https://farms.extension.wisc.edu/ppp-and-eidl-loans-advances...
> Any genetic mutation which causes premature death of the host, or fails to be communicative will generally die off. Any mutation which keeps the host alive (or at least longer), or makes it easier to transmit the virus to another host, will keep the virus around.

Not necessarily[1]:

> Some viruses provoke severe symptoms in their hosts that make it easier to transmit the virus to others. But those same symptoms can wind up killing the hosts.

> Adalja said one example is Ebola, a deadly virus that spreads through the blood and body fluids of infected people. Another example is norovirus, which causes diarrhea and vomiting, and leads to hundreds of deaths each year in the U.S.

> “The virus, speaking anthropomorphically, just wants to spread and have its genes replicated,” said Adalja. “If the best way for it is to spread by causing severe symptoms it will continue to do that.”

[1] https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-011488089270
Are they religious behaviors, or just human behaviors that religions were taking advantage of?

Human behavior is possible, but difficult to shape on the individual level. There's much more inertia at larger scales and if these are things that should change, it will be very difficult.
WindowMaker is a component of GNUStep, which is a ... if not full, then more complete ... reimplementation of the NeXTSTEP / OpenStep environment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNUstep
This really needs to change with the mass availability of camera drones.
bigger picture, via IPCC6:

"There has been no significant trend in Antarctic sea ice area from 1979 to 2020 due to regionally opposing trends and large internal variability. Human influence very likely contributed to the decrease in Northern Hemisphere spring snow cover since 1950. It is very likely that human influence has contributed to the observed surface melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet over the past two decades, but there is only limited evidence, with medium agreement, of human influence on the Antarctic Ice Sheet mass loss."

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...
Thanks man.
I dont do social media at all. I signed up here not too long ago. I have lurked here for a long time and learnt so much, decided it was time to take part.

I have thought about not giving a shit and "letting the downvotes flow", but then I would become the kind of poster I would not want to read either. and that Dang chap has lot more to deal with, than me getting butthurt.

Cheers though, I do appreciate it.
If you're going to be that guy at least be correct

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/moneys
This is actually something that can be pretty safely ruled out.

For now. Musk paving the way: https://www.sda.mil/sda-awards-contracts-for-the-first-gener...

If you've ever wondered why the guy has plot armor.
What big company produces a chip, puts their name on it but leaves off their logo and trademark and also uses the wrong typeface?

There's something wrong here. Do we have a second instance?
its only a nightmare when you cant trust the travelers, or when the visit is not peaceful
That's a funny connection, I'm also occasionally a lucid dreamer as well.
> Wayland is also missing that one cool feature

It has one killer and necessary feature. It's smooth. Have you tried resizing a window under X11 and doing it under Wayland? I have hated those half drawn rectangles caused by X and the app not being synchronized for DECADES. In 2021 I can have a GUI that's almost as smooth as Windows 7 was.

I feel the rift in the Linux world grows bigger between the conservatives (fuck systemd! X11 was alright!) and the progressives (can I have HDR, fractional scaling, and hardware video acceleration on YouTube, please?). I want my computer to be modern and slick and fluid, I'm vain like that.

Yes, Wayland is still a beta, but it's here to stay, like systemd, like flatpak, like pipewire. There was no status quo before, X11 was a beta and crappy in other ways. Not suited for modern hardware. Deal with it. The xorg repo is there for anybody that thinks they can do better than Wayland. The reason why xorg had to be abandoned is a Google search away.
Drivers, customizations on top of Gnome (if you prefer them), App Store, flatpak instead of snap. Plus made by an indie company rather than some massive corp if you're into that sort of thing.
Yeah, it's a partial measure that carries no guarantees... which makes it a poor candidate for a fix to roll out to everyone, in my opinion.

It doesn't make sense to me why officials aren't focusing just on getting as close to 100% as possible of the vulnerable vaccinated. It's well known that surviving covid is a much better protection, and thus contributes more to herd immunity, than the mRNA shot+boosters.

Perhaps "following the money" can provide answers? A vaccine mandate is a great way of making a lot of money for some people...
Well, it was "a poisoned supply chain leading to people who thought they had bought the real thing shipping devices that ended up breaking"; it's just that FTDI was the company that poisoned the supply chain and broke the devices.
Uhm, don't take it that personal, I'm not saying it is wrong, I'm just saying people should not rely 100% on this. People should find their own style. Sorry for having a different opinion, I guess...
Indeed, the question is how fast is too fast. Right now, the supply problems seem to be dead weight loss, but those are causing inflation and aren't a symptom of it. We should worry when people start hoarding in warehouses, and then only to the extent that we think it's truly a waste and not a reasonable precaution to avoid, say, a toilet paper panic.

Purchasing power for the bulk of the US population had been falling since the 70's. We called it low inflation, but that's more from the perspective of an employer than an employee. It seems the low employment rate has finally resulted in purchasing power increases. If prices go up a little as well, I don't mind. Reprinting menus isn't hard.
The question is pretty broad "What is your present religion, if any?"

I identify myself as atheist but was raised Catholic. If you catch people like me at the right time, we might be answering "Catholic".
What model does that use?
Breed’s been mayor since 2018 and was a supervisor before that since 2015. How come she’s just launching a public safety plan now? And when is she going to take responsibility for her role in getting us to where we are now?
I doubt the politicians who railed against Omarova understood her proposed changes to the Fed. Only a single Republican agreed to meet with her so she could explain her ideas. I looked at her paper, and it's dense and (at least for me) hard to read. Her ideas may be good, and they may be bad. But, I personally don't feel qualified to make a judgement one way or the other. It's not my field of expertise.