skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I admit that I like C, but I would use it only sparingly (if at all) professionally at this point despite expert-level C experience and skill. However, that 70% figure is deeply saddening to someone coming at this from a C perspective - C is _dire_ in safety terms and I have personally found and fixed a large number of C bugs. The idea that it's _only_ 70% is pretty sad, because it means we are well and truly doomed.

I write this tongue in cheek, obviously. I've seen dire, dire security bugs in Java in particular but also in terms of fitting parts together (lo, broken ACLs, useless AWS SGs, inter-process assumptions that don't hold, injection vulnerabilities of myriad types, etc.). The truth is, we are doomed, and not just because of the 70%.
While I sometimes debate atheists on this or that (such as denial of consciousness or "soul" or afterlife claims or resting on circular reasoning that they prima facie don't exist), their "100% assume nothing" stance is waaaaaay better to debate pretty much anything on vs. pretty much any person who takes seriously their (usually unfounded, at least empirically; I'm putting aside externally-unverifiable personal/subjective experiences here, which I do believe happen) religious beliefs.

It's been excruciating existing as the sole "loves to debate" member of my original nuclear family (who are all fairly hardcore Catholics; I was raised in that but my naturally-questioning naturally-curious nature eventually led me off that path). Sincere religious belief is almost anathema to sincere debate (since some things suddenly become "unquestionable" or "heretical to question"); and it seems that many people feel "lost" unless they have some framework to make sense of things... but even then, people use reasoning that just seems terrible to me (such as thanking God for the survivors of a disaster but not questioning God at all about the non-survivors; at least Mr. Rogers made some sense when he said "look to the rescuers").
Why even bother "trying to live a good life" if "a good life" is just a human construct and there is no judgement on that in the afterlife?

By your assumptions, every atheist should just, like, die or at best, live a meaningless life.
This is the IT equivalent of the grumpy old man declaring that "in my day we walked to school 10 miles barefoot through snow, uphill both ways!".

And it's just as stupid.
Check eBay. There are plenty.

I will state the obvious, but it's a helpful obvious:

1) Any spec of dust will be super-visible. Trying to clean dust off once you're done is painful; you'll usually just make more of a mess each time. It's a lot easier to do it right the first time.

Go really overboard here. Wash your hands AND use gloves of some type without lint AND use tweazers. Make sure the environment is impeccably clean. Vacuum, dust, etc. the room. Wash the table. If you've got a HEPA air filter (and with COVID + pollution, it's not a bad idea), move it into the room. Go wild.

2) Use a dSLR you don't care about. If you're who you sound like you are (an old-time photography nerd), you probably have a 15-year-old one you never use which sells for $100 on eBay. Use that one.

I did this with my favorite dSLR, which was from 15 years ago. It's obsolete, but the controls fit me like a glove. When I finished, the metering was messed up -- it consistently over- or under-exposes in auto. I don't know if I broke something, or perhaps if it just failed at some point before I started (it'd been sitting in a drawer for maybe a decade now; I didn't test it much beforehand).

I didn't break anything (else?), but it would have been really easy to do so. These are fine, precision, delicate parts. Don't use a $2000 modern model.

I use it as a full manual camera now, and it's a heck of a lot of fun.
I've been using Nim for a few years now. You're right, it is fun, by syntax alone. The performance is great, too. The development of Nim has been slower than some would like, but this has not been a problem for me.
Have you read about macros in Scheme/Racket? For example, with define-syntax-rule you can define a rule to transform code that looks like code.

(define-syntax-rule (repeat3 body ...)
(begin
body
body
body))

and you just use it

(repeat3 (print "Hello!"))

expands to

(begin
(print "Hello!")
(print "Hello!")
(print "Hello!"))

and the output is

Hello!Hello!Hello!
There is, frankly, no such thing as a "god hating atheist". Those two notions are incompatible. Consider, for example, how little you (probably) care about fairies. Are you a fairy hating afairist?

You may find an Atheist that says something like "If god does exist, it's a dick". but that's not really hating god but rather pointing out the silliness of believing in a supernatural all powerful being that is good which allows evil to happen. IE, the problem of evil.
Note: this is for Delta, not for Omicron
Yep, like the unskippable ads on legitimate DVDs, where you couldn't be certified if you made a DVD player that let you skip those video files like all the others on the disc, and you couldn't legally make an uncertified player because of the DRM.
How much time do you spend on social media (including youtube and HN)? How much time do you spend watching tv? How much time do you spend watching sports? I have shifted my attention to what is most important, doing these spiritual practice things first, and letting those other activities slot in around the time. Our lives are basically determined by what we put our attention on, so why not give the prime real estate to what is most important? We are all going to die. It's best to confront that reality each day and make peace with it in a ritualistic way that also brings meaning to each day.

I didn't start doing all of that overnight, by the way. I worked with my spiritual father on a pathway that started very simply, and this is my current level of participation, but I am sure it will continue to grow and change over time.
This is excellent and gets us most of the way there.

The final step would be for it to be compostable (eg. lined with something waxy).
Can you give an example of this? I am having a difficult time understanding your meaning.
Similar. I don't use Windows, but every now and then I need to test or develop something on it for work. Every time I do, it's a shock.
I've had good luck explicitly not renting at airports. Airport rentals often cost more, some airports charge an additional fee to rental car agencies who then pass that on to the customer, and I'll often have an easier time getting the car I want at a medium sized lot.
I've heard a couple different stories about trying drugs like heroin. Some say that they felt addicted immediately, some say it takes a while. Then there's Carl Hart who says that he has occasionally done heroin for years without developing an addiction and he knows others like him.

If I had to guess, I'd say that there's a significant minority of people who can do addictive drugs without getting addicted and it's probably related to genetics. Maybe it has something to do with sensitivity to pain and executive function.

Either way, I don't plan on ever trying anything like that myself. I suspect that I'd be one of the unlucky ones.
> 100% atheism. Was raised some kind of protestant

Please don't conflate Christianity with religion or the lack of Christianity with atheism. Many religions are very spiritual, and I remind you that talking about our spiritual practice is the whole point of this thread.
World's Greatest Con: 0101: How To Fool Hitler https://worldsgreatestcon.fireside.fm/2

The whole season is really good, but this is the first episode
Please explain how being a god-hating atheist is spiritual

I think if god-hating atheists do exist it’s an inherent contradiction. Perhaps you are confusing people who practice “satanism” mostly as a way to troll religious people as god-hating.

There are definitely anti-religion atheists but I don’t see how that is spiritual.
I only read the article (not the study) but I also take issue with the following:

> Imagine being able to swap out broccoli for sweets, Ben & Jerry's or some other sugary treat and achieve the same health benefits.

The study finds the genetic variation/gut bacteria metabolizes the sugar directly from the intestines as opposed to being deposited in the blood-stream and triggering insulin to remove it and begin either the metabolic process or storage.

That is a metabolic benefit for sure and as a result could protect from metabolic and chronic diseases. But nothing about that process improves the nutritional value/health benefits of the sugar. Broccoli contains vitamins, minerals, and potentially enzymes (depending on cooking method) which the sugar doesn’t gain.
ML on a C-64. Pretty interesting.

Reminds me of when everyone in the SV bubble was all excited about "graph theory" because Facebook was using it. But it's something that was being done in 16K BASIC back in the 1970's.
They have a full isle of sugared breakfast cereal though.

I have no judgement about people eating junk (in reasonable amounts). I eat it too from time to time.

But a full isle of junk for the "most important meal of the day"?
Well, if you only do one flight per charge, yes. One of the club around here tried to use an electric plane for instruction, and the constant takeoff/landing cycles killed the battery real fast.
I believe the argument isn't that there was zero politics before, but that it was creative/technical, and oh, we also have some political talks. And now it's politics, and oh, yeah, we still have a few technical talks.
Honestly, I take this as not hating god but rather hating the belief in god.

I don't hate god anymore than I hate leprechauns.
Windows 10 also ships with Solitaire, except it plays a video ad after every game and the only way to remove the ads is by paying for a $10/month "solitaire premium" subscription.
Devops developed and ran product? Never heard of that. What disconnected manifesto did you read?
I fail to see the bigotry in what you are quoting (or the surrounding text in the article). Could you point more clearly to what you think is bigoted, and why?
> You'd just have more and more websites that block European users.

Great! It frees up space for more respectful alternatives.

However ads are universally disliked and the problems the current ad model brings (privacy, spam/scams/malware, inappropriate/illegal content, etc) are generally universal too, so it's just a matter of time before similar regulation is enacted outside of Europe too.

> because it would ruin all the freely available websites.

Laws against theft/robbery/carjacking ruin free/below-market-rate car rental websites too, yet nobody is complaining about those because society has decided that theft is bad even if it would technically open up new business opportunities that wouldn't otherwise be possible. Why should this be any different?
went looking for webgpu options recently. threejs has a reasonably functional webgpu renderer. there were one or two others out there. very excited to see this start up.

honestly i'd love to use use aframe with the threejs webgpu renderer, as a good enough option. except aframe is still stuck on commonjs modules & wont work with a bunch of the modern bundlers. it just feels like hella brownfield developmemt. makes me kind of want a promising young upstart take on dom-for-3d.
> "I don't think Microsoft realizes that if they re-introduced a lightweight Win2k style OS for professionals they could charge any price they wanted for it."

Then buy an MSDN subscription and use the enterprise or even server editions. You did say "any price" after all.
Why would you believe in a God whose morality isn't superior to yours? Conversely, if you care for those around you and you knew God's will was ultimately better for them, why would you not obey Him over your own judgements?
The Russians love their Tyrants, 800 + years of history is proof. Stalin is a hero and is placed on the same level as a Saint in Russia. I've got a theory that even though he killed millions of Russians, they gave him a pass because he killed even more Ukrainians.

To this day in Russia they celebrate him, could you imagine the Germans walking down the street holding parades for Hitler? It's disgusting and jailing this historian and making up charges against him is just more evidence how insane it is.
Unexpectedly, Lex Fridman's interview with Richard Wrangham about the role of violance in human history and how we're similar and different from other big apes was really thought provoking and introduced some new interesting concepts/distinctions to me.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3txWhPWf2YuGN25cIJxm0e?si=J...
It is. But it’s equally distributed.
You can find a reasonably extensive set of passages from the pre-400AD famous Christians about how the genesis story is supposed to be interpreted allegorically and not literally on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegorical_interpretations_of...

Of course, they would not consider the allegory an "error" in the same way that modern fundamentalists would.

It is not a fringe belief/conspiracy theory that biblical literalism is a relatively new Christian tradition, but rather well accepted fact among religious historians.
Yeah the project is solo. I thought that if I designed the game to be moddable from the get go it would encourage people to mod it and create a modding community. This would make the original game stand the test of time because mods gives people a reason to revisit or keep playing the same game over years.
Here are 2 of the programs austincheney referenced. What in particular is wrong about comparing measurements of these programs?

n-body Node js #6

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

n-body Java #4

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Raised Christian, became an atheist, then evaluated a bunch of religions for myself. Found Christianity to be the most historically and spiritually compelling but still didn’t believe. After feeling hollow and aimless for years I re-evaluated things, read about Jesus love for me. Really meditated on His perfect life, sacrifice on the cross, and resurrection. He died for me, in my place. It became personal. When I realized that it changed my life. I’ve never felt love like that. It transformed me and freed me. I’ve been following Jesus, praying, and reading the Bible, the inspired and sufficient word of God, ever since.
It is not necessary really.

There is unlikely any non-state actors[1] that has the ability to transmit signals to L2 . Just receiving signals even now (only 2 out of 30 days to l2) the OP used a 6 meter dish. Most of interplanetary mission signals are handled by the DSN.

Any sort of encryption will add both b/w requirements and compute requirements . The CPU/network budgets on such missions are very very limited. Every bit and cycle counts.

Finally standard encryption libraries, algorithms et al, are not likely suitable . I am no expert, but I have not read of any modern algorithms with very low network overhead + compute requirements designed for these kind of use cases, that is also secure from brute force or other attacks.

Mission risk is also a factor, even handshake failures can jeopardize the mission. It is one thing a website did not load because of TLS negotiation failures and $10 B mission overshot its orbit because handshake failures on the encryption layer.

[1] Threats from state actors for science missions is different category of concern, harder to quantify and with not much history of actual attacks. Collateral risks like from the ASAT Russian test to ISS, or in dual use missions would perhaps not apply here .Usually science teams collaborate well even if there is lot of tension in political sphere.
The only data point I've seen that empirically supports religious prevalence is that very christian countries have a statistically significantly lower level of dishonesty. (see: China for a counterexample)
> Steam now has >80% of the Top-100 Windows games running on Linux.

When it works. CSGO claims to work on Linux but has stopped working for many months now. There is a fix that includes changing a library but you risk getting banned by anticheat.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/csgo-osx-linux/issues/2659

It has been going on for almost a year.

If you want to game, you should just to dual boot Windows or buy a console.
Heh, well some familiarity with cosmology is assumed. All (AFAIK) supermassive blackholes are in the center of galaxies.

By my math 99.987% of the universe is further away than 12 million light years. As mentioned in the article it's so big that from earth it's 16 times larger than the moon (as viewed from earth of course).

Seems reasonable to consider 0.012% of the universe "near earth" when talking about galaxies or blackholes at the center of a galaxy.
I think this could be very useful, any plans for Android or web app?

Also maybe a nice to have feature would be to group similar articles by theme so that when I sit down to read one article I can read all articles around the same theme while I'm still focused.
My favorite is easily Rationally Speaking by Julia Galef.

The episode that pulled my in initially was "Are Boomers to blame for Millenials' struggles?" from November of last year, but all episodes since have the same features that enamoured me initially. The episode was a master class in talking beyond the rhetoric and digging into the meat beyond. In the aforementioned episodes, she digs into policies that may have affected Millenials', as well as looking into voting demographics that brought about said policies. It resulted in an incredibly nuanced view (For the Boomers here on HN who may be put off by the title, it's not the typical generational hitpiece, but an addressal of them).

Julia puts in a lot of work for these episodes, making sure to read up extensively on the topics before the episode, and inviting guests of varying stances with meaningful experience to contribute. Going as far as inviting multiple guests for an episode, and reading all of said guests published books on the topic before recording. She will often go back after the interviews to offer clarifications to hanging questions that occured during the conversation.

http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/245-are-boomers-to-blam...

Julia for me sets the bar for what empathetic and reasoned conversation can be if one is willing to put in the effort.
While this isn't for me as I don't use iOS daily, I wanted to say that I'm impressed with your response to feedback.

And, for what it's worth, I saw the landing page on desktop and it felt nicely done, and the animations had a purpose.
National UFO Reporting Center
watching Jordan Peterson lectures of course )
> C unsigned integers are completely well behaved: they do arithmetic modulo 2^n

Sadly, one rarely finds an excuse to work in the field Z_(2^32) or Z_(2^64), so while that behavior is well-defined, it's rarely correct for whatever your purpose is.
The "paying users" is exactly the group that DRM is designed to hurt (control). There is a large class of users that won't mess with torrents or whatever for a number of reasons. Ones that apply to me are 1) I don't want my internet service cut if the ISP gets a complaint, 2) Yes, I know I can use a VPN service to get around (1), but then I'd have to find a trusted VPN and there have been ones in the past that were outed as honey pots. 3) You have to be part of the "scene" to work around (1) and (2). 4) I have some disposable income, so at this point in my life I don't feel a "sting" by paying 5 - 7 bucks a month for a streaming service. I'm sure that for other people, lack of familiarity with how to get content through unauthorized means.

Now for the control that they want over users like me. If I could easily do it, I'd subscribe to one service, grab a bunch of content to watch later, then unsubscribe a month later and go to the next service in line. Also they want to control how I use the media, such as watching offline (by using the "download to watch later" button they provide, they can ensure that I don't download it to all my friends' devices, and that I still am a paying customer at the time I decide to watch later).
I didn't address the time component. The morning prayers/scriptures takes about 20-30 minutes. Lunch time Psalms is 5-10 minutes at most. Family prayers after dinner are about 10-15 minutes. Bible reading after that is about 15-25 minutes, depending on how much we discuss what we read. Evening prayers on my own are another 15-20 minutes daily.

Vespers on Saturday night is about an hour (and my wife and I go to dinner afterwards usually, as our weekly date). Church on Sunday is about two hours, and we usually spend time afterwards drinking coffee and chatting for another 30-60 minutes with other members of our parish, but not always.
According to the video in the article, the data rate is 66 MB/s (100kB per frame). So a Pi with 8GB of RAM should be able to capture almost 2 minutes of footage.
So then how would Joby's service be any different than the above? Seems like the same problems to me. Gotham Air attempted this sort of service but went bust, and now the website just bounces to google.com
When she begged to be homeschooled, what were her reasons? Were they more about wanting academic acceleration or having problems with the social environment at school?
If one subscribes to the right of self-determination of peoples, it does raise a problem: at which level is this right manifest? In federal countries like Canada where the provinces, also sovereign like US states, have the right (in principle) of negotiated secession, it naturally falls along provincial lines. But even that isn't clean, at all.

Along the border with Ontario there are significant English-majority communities that would want to separate from Quebec, themselves, should Quebec separate. Some indigenous communities would very much prefer to leave as well in that case. Quebec separatists usually fall back on legal arguments about why Canada is separable but Quebec is not.

But that just evades the real question, just as pointing out that US states cannot secede dodges the question about whether they should be able to. Should communities be able to separate at a sub-provincial/sub-state level? Is this at the level of large regions, of counties, of neighbourhoods? In the extreme, I'm reminded of parts of the Dutch-Belgian border which runs through the middle of household kitchens and pharmacies; there's even an enclave within an enclave.
> My hit rate for meaningful messages skyrocketed since applying the above approach.

As a skeptic and non-believer of all things spiritual, whenever I have one of those "meaningful messages" moments (we get them too), my reaction is to debunk that feeling by thinking about how others might have interpreted the same event, or how the fortune cookie supply chain actually works.

It's funny that some people lean into that feeling and assign it great cosmic meaning while others rationalize it away.
What I pasted is a response to the question about a bigoted professor at Princeton.

>Robert George is an example of someone you’ve praised publicly, who has deeply held, well-considered viewpoints that I think would be hard for some students to countenance—his stance on LGBTQ and transgender identity chief among them. I wonder why you think it’s worth it to have a professor like him on campus.

He is the leader of an organization against same-sex marriage and has a history of making very offensive comments about LGBTQ.

>"The vote in New York to redefine marriage advances the cause of loosening norms of sexual ethics, and promoting as innocent — and even 'liberating' — forms of sexual conduct that were traditionally regarded in the West and many other places as beneath the dignity of human beings as free and rational creatures." - Robert George