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Ask HN: Data Engineers, which programming language(s) do you work with?
It's usually phrased as "I just believe in one fewer God than you".

Christians don't on the whole believe in Thor and Zeus and so on, and neither do Atheists. But the Christians seem very hung up on approximately one God, especially those who have the most superficial beliefs. Thus it can be seen as a small difference.

I say approximately because, well... Trinitarian Christianity. Most modern Christians claim to believe in "One God" who is somehow also "Three persons".

If you don't regard the New Testament as the Holy word of God, but just some stories then this Holy Trinity sure looks like the explanation for the Kessel Run in Star Wars, or that thing where Klingons changed appearance radically in Star Trek, or a dozen other places in fiction where holes in the story were patched clumsily and fans pretend to look the other way.
This is very anecdotal.

I’ve been using computers since I was 4 years old, starting with a Commodore PET.

I’m longsighted, so what do I draw from that?

Only that we should use stats properly lest we become superstitious.
Brian, I feel your urge to solve this huge issue. Though I think only Elon gets to do this (with a tweet storm) while getting away with it The mere mortals should probably solve it in meetings. Hope you can weather through this and wish you the best
It takes inspiration from compiz so I imagine it has all the compiz flare, like spinnan cubes, burning applications and wobbly windows. It's kind of nostalgic that new WMs are still showing off the same demos as when I first discovered linux.
> "Conspiracy" is just rhetoric.

I believe that's at the heart of what we're discussing. There's an important distinction to be made between actual malice and simple ignorance. This is not a Russel Bliss/Times Beach situation, as you seemingly imply. This is many independent actors all working independently on many potential solutions, each of which stand to gain massive financial benefit for exposing malfeasance. I would not confuse that with "looking the other way for a paycheck". It's quite the opposite, in fact.
> Big Bang is the best available explanation of observed facts.

Best available is not proof. The sun rotating around the Earth was also the best explanation for a long time in Human history. Traditional physics theory was the best until we started to observe things at the atomic level. Certitudes in Science don't age well, and should teach humility more than absurd dogma.
Anti-bodt levels drop after some months though, according to what I have heard on news and read online fwiw, and that is when the second dose is recommended.
It was indeed the "get Brexit done" that won it, along with distrust of Corbyn. People were so sick of it, including many remainers.
You don't need to change the status quo.

You just need to stop contributing to it if you believe that it is harmful to you and you are okay with the consequences of your choices.

I am not walking around with a soapbox telling everyone they should leave FB and Instagram. Instead, I am simply not participating in it and hoping that this can serve as an example for others.
"I don’t have enough familiarity with Portugal to say what’s going on, but any time I hear high taxes being blamed for widespread issues I get a faint whiff of oversimplified libertarian ideology."

Bingo
That's like saying:

Medical drugs have been in use for hundreds of years. Fearing experimental drugs isn't rational.

Or

Doctors have been doing surgery for hundreds of years. Fear of surgery isn't rational.

There are at least three entirely rational reasons to "fear" vaccines:

1. They're a category, not a specific product. Safety of one doesn't automatically imply safety of all. See examples above.

2. The history of vaccines is full of failures which ended up injuring or killing healthy people e.g. polio, in more recent times, Pandemrix.

3. Vaccines appear to trigger deeply problematic psychology in which people point blank refuse to believe in any downsides at all, something you don't see in e.g. chemotherapy, surgery, drug treatments and so on. Probably it's the combination of giving them to healthy people and the collective/coercive policies that often accompany them. If anything goes wrong at all, ever, then you've hurt an innocent person who was previously fine and who trusted you, which would be tough for even the coldest most calculating person to handle. And people in public health appear to be the exact opposite of that.

Therefore the sort of people who believe most strongly on vaccines are often poorly informed about them. You gave us a great example of this problem above when you revealed you thought VAERS had only 28,000 reports in it total. This is basic data and you weren't aware of it, so how rational can you really be on the topic? Certainly, vaccines are surrounded by immense propaganda as a topic.

By the way in case you're wondering, before the COVID mandates I never thought about vaccines, had taken my set of shots and held "anti vaxxers" in contempt like a typical HN user. Not anymore. Watching the process of development, testing, rollout subsequent cover-ups of the real data, and blanket censorship has changed me forever. You can't unsee what happened.
>It's a hundred countries, thousands and thousands of organisations and experts, and millions and millions of others

In most countries it's literally official policy to fire doctors if they question the vaccine or speak out against it.
You disagree with science based on a 'feeling'. Myopia in children is what we're talking about, and sunlight exposure is not the only factor. Similarly, having similar habits doesn't mean you will get the same result.
I honestly wish more open-minded folks had pushed back on my Christian fundamentalism, in a kind way to broaden my perspective. I was raised in an evangelical family who believed in the inerrancy of the Bible, a literal hell, and that God is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient, so quite hardcore. I carried most of these beliefs with me, although strangely enough, my dad encouraged reading, logic, and critical thinking. Then I spent years working with refugees, so when evangelical Christians embraced Trump, I was out and deconstructed my fundamentalism.

Before that, I took classes at my state university with arch-atheists and worked for companies with Christians, atheists, and agnostics. Never did I face discrimination or harassment. My church was always warning about secular humanist professors trying to destroy young Christian's faith. In reality, people who believed differently shrugged their shoulders and moved on, both in academia and professionally, even while my family was always talking about feeling constrained and censored by their work culture, specifically around LGBTQ+ topics.

I now work for a company (and participate in other spaces) that has all the different religions, non-religions, sexualities, nationalities, and genders, even before I left fundamentalism. I never felt "censored" by anyone there.

People that where not straight, white, and Christian gave me so much space to learn. They were patient. They took me aside and explained things when I said something stupid. I am humbled by that, and I want to encourage every effort to be more inclusive. Even things lambasted as symbols, tokens, or virtue signaling can instead be more charitably interpreted as trying to show that the person using them is safe, saying to the world, "I am trying to be an ally and making sure that everyone feels welcome." Moving to racism: imagine a society that 50 years ago would hang you in a tree for your skin color. Wouldn't you be a bit jumpy when someone does a micro-aggression? I know I would be on edge. Matthew Shepard was not that long ago. Prop 8 in California was even more recent.

This all to say, I would really try to sort out what is religious discrimination and what is trying to create a safe and inclusive workplace. The paradox of tolerance is that you cannot tolerate intolerance. If you believe your religion discriminates against people based on race, gender, sexuality, nationality, or other religions, then yes, you will face discrimination.
There’s always Edge if you want Chrome without the Google and want some closed source bits (for streaming or whatever).
Polices aren't extremely corrupt but just sometimes incompetent. Prosecutors are corrupt.
For those into this, r/sleeperbattlestations on Reddit is centered around such conversions.
looks like they need to beef up their web hosting solution.
not a biologist by any mean, but i think location is very important, especially for an air transmitted disease like covid : mouth / nose / lungs are all part of the "outside" of your body, aka the mucosa.
That's probably where the largest part of the infection takes place in the case of a natural covid infection.

Vaccines otoh enters your bloodstream and may result in infection everywhere in your body, touching many places that wouldn't be by a natural contamination process.

(disclaimer : please correct me if i'm wrong, and in all case never take medical advices from random people online)
Ranking skin color above money in the USA is…interesting.
Trying to produce distilled smartness (AI) is like trying to extract waterness from water. Desire to exist, desire to understand (intelligence) and desire to act (will) come together in one package.
LIDAR certainly can see painted information on the road (possibly better than cameras in some situations) see e.g. this [1]. They can also read some road signs and there are proposals how to make them more readable for LIDAR. That said I don't say LIDAR is sufficient for autonomous driving, we will need a suite of sensors.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/LiDAR-point-cloud-a-high...
And I like describing the proper spelling of words :P
As we speak nature is serving us with a particulay nasty "decision" called climate change.

No, we're still at the mercy but just on a different scale. Earlier it was the individual, now it is the population.
To what quantity of refugees does that scale?

Being able to turn away _all_ refugees is a luxury that some non-Mediterranean European countries have because there is a buffer state before the refuge is actually on your land. But when the refugees are flooding over your border at the rate of 2 refugees for every 1 of your citizens, how effective such a policy in practice?
> Your idea of better laws would mean no Tesla and no SpaceX.

Tesla, SpaceX, and Elon Musk are not cool/impressive any more.

And with every tweet, Elon becomes less respected by the public.

It’s telling when you see this sentiment on Tesla Motors Club, r/SpaceX and r/TeslaMotors.

Elon was on a roll. But he royally fucked up the past 2 years.
Increasing interest rates causes people to hoard money over the short term but since interest is being reinvested rather than spent this leads to an increase in the money supply over the long term.

If you want to stop long term inflation you actually need 0% interest rates or lower for 0% inflation like Japan.
I have my browser set to English in a non-English country. Set your locale to what you are comfortable with reading. It doesn’t (shouldn’t) factor into things except the language the website displays. Unless you are Google, then it might just randomly pick a random language (my results flip flop between Portuguese and Dutch, despite manually changing the language back to English repeatedly).
I'm using these FF addons CanvasBlocker and Spoof Timezone to spoof UA and timezone. I checked vytal.io and it shows those addons can't fully spoof web worker method. I usually use https://browserleaks.com/javascript to test spoofing addons.
Not the wrong kind, but broken. And, while your vision might be fine, the other issues are still there.
Love it. Personally, I've been looking for a beaten up (non-working) Sun Ultra 20/40 to build a PC in.
> he never tried

Are you sure this isn't because you aren't rich enough? :)
Exploration of the Dirty Pipe Vulnerability (CVE-2022-0847)
Long, detailed read that digs into the recent dirty pipe vulnerability of the Linux kernel: Exploration of the Dirty Pipe Vulnerability (CVE-2022-0847)
All novel linguistic constructs are 'misuses' in some sense or another that have become accepted.

In this case that's not so though, the etymology is from the Greek '(upon|near|against) the people, and does not necessarily refer only to disease.
I do, because it is all BS.

It should all be pay per view, via smartcards, or similar.

And then more and more people would think twice if it's really worth it, to them.

While the producers can GTFO, and do something meaningful with their UBI, or whatever :-)

Case in point, I recently watched a playlist on YT about some topic, while doing stuff concurrently.

About two dozen documentaries, all in all.

It almost doesn't matter who is producing them,

they all resample and mix the same stuff,

over and over again, in variations of the same theme.

Even carrying over the same mistranslations and mispronounciations,

thereby communicating wrongness.

But should be correct, because it was on TV, they should know what they do,

how dare you to question them!?

Monkey see, Monkey do! Boo!

There rarely is anything original.

This went on for maybe 3 to 4 hours, then I canceled it and put some music on.

Much better.

And don't even get me started about the so called 'independence' of those arrogant mouthpieces and sockpuppets.
Yes, the struggle between knowing enough to act correctly and not acting because we don't know enough to act is the trade-off we wrestle with at the heart of medicine. This is what it means to do no harm. Improper actions don't need to be the result of a conspiracy to result in disaster, no. However, what we do have to do, is work with the best information we have to make the best decision we can and act when we're confident we know enough. Where we don't make the right decision, in hindsight, we learn from it for the future. If our processes and systems, uncorrupted - as best we can tell, say that it's much, much more beneficial to perform a procedure or take a medication then we generally do that. That's how modern medicine, as we know it, has worked since it has been modern medicine. It's always a game of statistics and learning.
See also: 'When NASA gave spiders drugs to see how it affected their webs, 1995'

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/nasa-spiders-drugs-experime...
Pathfinder – A starknet full node written in rust
Related: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
> To me, one of the basic rules of social etiquette is never talk about religion or politics unless you’re amongst people who share your views or it’s a specific religious or political gathering.

This strikes me as a tradition that seriously bolsters religious & political partisanship in America.
I get your point, I'm not going to tell you I'm right.

But realize the article says 'researchers think' and 'evidence suggests.' Far from proven science. If it's more firmly established, I'll gladly admit I'm wrong.
My parents would call it square eyes lol
It is discrimination, and I say that as an atheist. Imagine asking a devout Hindu: “you really don’t eat beef? How crazy is that? Do you know how good it tastes?” or questioning a devout Hebrew about he not doing any work on Shabbat.
> And they give ten seconds warning in advance of this happening.

which is infinitely better than the <1 second that tesla gives you.

> those warnings need to be on a hair trigger with many false positives.

unless it is actually reasonably good at tracking threats and traffic. look, if you have multiple sensors of different types, then you are able to take firm action when things turn south quicker than a human.

A lot of tesla's problems are because they have shit sensors, and a stupid approach to designing the system (no lidar, no radar, no multiview cameras, no high res GPS or maps) They also have an overwhelming pressure to just yolo shit, rather than test, and redesign.
It sounds like you just have a bad office though. Eg I don’t hot-desk; if I had a problem with my chair I could ask for a different one (e.g. something like an aeron or something wacky looking); I have good screens and for most equipment I could just ask for something if I needed it. It’s typically easier to get these things in the office than at home and certain necessary upgrades for working from home (eg faster Internet, dedicated office space) could be very expensive and/or impossible without moving.
The big problem for vision systems (in particular if they don't use a lot of cameras) is that it's very difficult for them to determine movement and distance. This becomes exaggerated when objects move perpendicular to camera, one of the reasons is that the distinctive features of cars, trucks, buses are not so clear anymore. There are quite a few examples of hilarious mischaracterisations in these sort of cases.
This story gets repeated every year and it never is a problem. It’s the yearly marketing stunt to end up in the “Bild” our trash tabloid.
Just to cross check:
More coffee -> less MAOI -> more serotonin -> less depression ?
> Putting myself out there for "training" helps so my issues don't build up.

That is a good point and probably a nice argument for venturing outside of one's zone of comfort occasionally.

That said, what about people whose quirks make others reflect negatively upon them? Something like ticks that make other people uncomfortable (had a person occasionally grunt loudly at the office, really distracting), yet wouldn't really make their actual work performance any worse? If those ticks are involuntary, sometimes they might prefer to partake in remote work.

Moreso, what about people who are anxious, agoraphobic or have avoidant personality disorder, or something like it? People who might socialize in a limited set of circumstances, but might have to deal with panic attacks or undue stress in larger meetings or other types of social situations? Dealing with all of that due to no alternatives might be pretty debilitating and demotivating and might not be something "solvable" (at least in the short term), yet the person still should be able to make money so they can survive.

Of course, I cannot make claims for others, but personally it's nice that we can accommodate various types of people and their preferences, as long as they actually get things done at no significant expense to anyone else.
While this is probably to early, the question of AI rights is one we have to answer in the foreseeable future. I hope we as humanity will do it right and I am a little scared this dismissive attitude will carry over.
but that's how being open minded works.

regardless of what each of us believes, there are beliefs that we would reject. how we treat people that share those beliefs is what matters.
Your arguments have persuaded me to give it a try. Though I'll go for dwl - a wayland alternative based on wlroots to dwm.
In my opinion it's not so much the case of analog sounding better, it's about the difference in tangibility when I use analog gear and the focus on sound rather than the music theory.

When writing using software I spend far more time thinking about the music theory. This usually leads to pretty sterile sounding (but musically good) pieces.

When I write using analog I focus more on the sounds and how they work together, spending hours tweaking knobs and faders. There are far more "happy little accidents" when doing this, most of which I couldn't imagine doing with software since they are not planned. I write much more interesting music using analog.

It's similar to playing a real guitar versus a software guitar synth, there are weird little quirks and surprises when playing a guitar that can't be emulated with software.
> it waited patiently to make a left hand turn.

Having been in a t-bone collision (other driver's fault and he got his parole revoked for that) the USA government traffic engineer love affair with unsafe intersection design is horrific. Traffic circles fix most turning issues, and do it without a big control box and expensive poles for mounting signal lights.

In other words, many collision chances could be removed with safer intersection design, with benefits to both computer control and human control.
I agree, the usage of the word “epidemic” has become an epidemic.
How is it in an opposite direction with computers? Whenever you are writing a program you are trying to as much as possible fulfill what your user wishes.
It is always the worst time to buy a house. This is due to the monopoly nature of location.
> I find it ok to see and visit coworkers now and then, but work is not meant to replace one's social life.

Work has been a critical component of social life for many generations now. It is extremely strange to offhandedly dismiss its role like that.

> Do I have colleagues (current or former) that are friends? Yes. Do/did I feel a need to be in the office to spend time with them - no.

I started my previous job in mid 2019. I made multiple friends at the office in 8 months before the lockdowns started that I still keep in touch with. After we went full remote, I worked there for an extra year. During that time, my team have doubled in size. Not only I did not make friends with any of the new colleagues, I don’t even remember their names now.

I finally quit in 2021, because I absolutely loathed full time WFH. I am now commuting to the office every day, with rather arduous 50-60 minutes one way commute, and I am extremely happy, making friends again and feeling very motivated.
and yet, for all the countries which don't do that, none have presented independently verifiable incontrovertible evidence of a show-stopping problem the others have not presented or addressed.

You know, the thing about silenced people is just that - they're actually silenced. You don't hear from them. So, all these people shouting about being silenced while also shouting about the vaccine not working or not being necessary and posting links to studies and case reports and nonsense?

Yeah, they're not being silenced. It's just that the evidence they're posting just isn't good evidence. The studies they're posting just aren't good studies. The case reports they're posting, well, they're just that - single case reports. Case reports do not generalise to populations.

That's all.
i worked for a blue chip finance dept in mayfair a lifetime ago, squeezed maybe 25 of us in a room no bigger than say 35m^2 i could literally elbow my colleagues
To others commenting on the comment above: read the entire comment, the first paragraph is a satire on the trivialization Musk and others often do of complex subjects.
They aren't independent actors. If you spend any time in the journals, it's all funded by either the government or pharma. Mostly the government. And given regulatory capture, these entities might as well be one-in-the-same. Disagree with either, and kiss your grad students goodbye. There is also an unspoken professional hierarchy. It is simply understood that if you run contrary to the current 800-lb gorilla of the field, your career is going nowhere--look into what's been going on with the beta-amyloid hypothesis for the last 20 years, or recall Planck's remark that "science advances one funeral at a time".

Or, to paraphrase Lewis Grizzard:

"One boy, one whole brain. Two boys, half a brain. Three boys, no brain at all."
That is better served with mainframe languages, thankfully C wasn't never a relevant language on mainframes.
Tiredness of the eye muscles after many hours forcing the focus to a short distance.
I believe the Russian governments humiliation here is timeless.
I get what most people mean with "post capitalism" but if there's one thing I think that will stay with us humans that has to be the need for capital.

We may eliminate the need for food, water and shelter but we will still crave "value" in 200 years, only that it will be a lot more abstract, human connection, human intelligence or something else but it will be there.
only if you count sleeping.