skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is, to say the least, not obvious that Constantine's conversion to Christianity was the thing he did that had most impact on commerce in the Roman Empire.

You did indeed mention "three aspects". But merely mentioning a thing proves nothing. For instance, you say that the Roman Empire's adoption of Christianity had an effect on the practice of slavery, which had an effect on commerce. Plausible, for sure. But Christian Rome didn't abolish slavery or slave-trading, or anything like that. Do you have evidence that what changes Christianity brought to the institution of slavery in the Roman Empire actually harmed its economy?

Again, you mention lending. Many Christians have been opposed to lending at interest, or to lending at (what they see as) excessive interest. But so far as I can tell the Roman Empire did not abolish or greatly restrict lending when it became Christian. Constantine himself set a maximum interest rate of 12%, which doesn't seem unreasonably low, and it seems that that stayed in place for at least the next couple of centuries. (And, in particular, until after the fall of the Western empire.)

So I think you need more detail and more evidence for the claim you're making.

Also: "Christianism"? The usual term is "Christianity", as I'm sure you know. People sometimes make a distinction between "Islam" the religion and "Islamism" the political ideology, but if you make a similar distinction then it seems to me that what the Roman Empire converted to was Christianity rather than Christianism. Are you making that distinction, or some other distinction, or are you just hoping that your choice of wording will annoy Christians?

(I am not a Christian and think it's very plausible that the Roman Empire's adoption of Christianity was bad for it and for the world. Also, possibly, for Christianity. So I'm not making the criticisms I do out of a desire to support Christianity and suppress criticism of it.)
Russian attacks on farms, silos deliberately trying to destroy Ukrainian economy
I voted against it as I didn't want to lose my EU membership; which we were told would happen.

A few years later, an unrepresentative (to scotland) tory government takes it from us anyway because they were frightened of nigel farage and some middle englanders don't like hearing polish in their local tescos.

A lot of my friends who were remain for various reasons seem to be leaning towards independence. 'We were told it was a one time vote' isn't a good enough reason to stay pegged to this ship. The worst outcome for scotland already happened, we lost our EU citizenship, so what's the use of carrying along with the UK?

That being said, I would hope that the SNP aren't running things after independence.
I always admired Brits for allowing people from Scotland (and maybe other parts) to actually vote and decide if they wanted to stay in the same country with them.

If people all over the world had the same right, I suppose a lot of the wars could be avoided. Just imagine Ukraine allowing people in Donetsk and Lugansk to actually decide their status themselves, instead of using an army to force them into Ukraine.

Selectively applying right to independence is maybe the single worst problem in the whole world, whose solution could lead to immediate benefits to everyone.

And before someone claims otherwise, I would even go as far as the community level. If a city in Scotland vote to stay in Britain, I would allow them to become independent of Scotland and stay. In the same ways as I would allow a city in Donetsk to stay in Ukraine if they want so.

Freedom of association is the basic human right, and no majorisation should be allowed to happen. Never.
Spain will only veto Scotland if the independence is not agreed between the UK and Scotland (in the same spirit of Spain's opinion of Kosovo independence).

Spain parliament is against unilateral declarations of independence.
Yellowstone officials assess damage after historic floods
> the Huy Fong one is a bit BS

If you look at nutrition facts for larger containers it's about 9% sugar by weight.

(It starts out higher in sugar, but some of that is consumed during fermentation.)
I don’t get how the Scottish independence movement can be anti-Brexit, which was about the UK wanting more independence and self-governance.

If that’s what they’re after, why would they want to join the EU after leaving the UK?
If you're asking this question and not a Mac user I'll eat my Macbook.
> You can't have an association of nationalists; they can't resolve their inherently opposing interests.

You can and you do - see for example the Visegrad group: https://www.dw.com/en/this-is-how-the-visegrad-group-works/a...

Or in fact the EU itself - an association of distinct national identities. But in a sort of reverse no true Scotsman fallacy, it is popular to ascribe outwardly hostile intentions to nationalism. If a country maintains its borders and national identity, but also peacefully coexists with its neighbors (as much of Europe and indeed the world does), then it's not "true" nationalism.
One huge government ruling the entire world sounds out-of-this-world-super dystopian to me!
Nothing says "British far right" like a Cabinet full of ethnic minorities.
That isnt correct, perhaps "poor" might be a problem depending on what dept Scotland would have after independence, but definetly not small.

Joining criteria are (https://ec.europa.eu/neighbourhood-enlargement/enlargement-p...):

* stable institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights and respect for and protection of minorities;

* a functioning market economy and the capacity to cope with competition and market forces in the EU;

* the ability to take on and implement effectively the obligations of membership, including adherence to the aims of political, economic and monetary union.
Do you think the Roman empire was notably rational, and that if Constantine hadn't converted to Christianity it would have been more rational than it was under Christianity? That seems highly not obvious to me, and I would be interested in any evidence you have.
Kafka Streams is a core part of the open-source Apache Kafka project.

You may be mistaking it for kSQL, or ksqlDB as they call it now, which is a Confluent project built on top of Kafka Streams.
Yes the newsfeed can look like that which is why I unfollow almost everyone...

I use it to stay connected with professional connects many whom are friends and then I message them on the platform. It works well for this i.e. mantaining one's professional network.
This is why we need a professional organization to hold software developers accountable to the same standard as other fields of engineering.
> "Note that it's an open question if the Scots economy would remain worse per capita, not disagreeing there is/was pain ahead in transition"

"Remain" is doing a lot of work here. Scotland runs a sizeable deficit with the rest of the union and with the decline of North Sea oil revenues that will only increase. Of course that might not "remain", but leaving the UK and then joining the EU is going to create a 5-10 year period of turbulence as well.

Still, there's more important things than GDP.
Linkedin is only useful because of the network effects of having a lot of people on it.
Most of the complaints about linkedin are about the people on it (and the tendency of some to use it as a platform for self promotion)
Any platform looking to replace linkedin would have the same issues.
Doesn't the fact that Scotland owns the oil fields answer the economic problem, at least while everyone still wants oil? (not rhetorical, I haven't seen the numbers & I presume that's what TFA and its sequels aim to address, among other things).
The 80 amp charger that allows backfeeding to run the house will charge the lightning in 8 hours, the included 32 amp charger that plugs into a dryer outlet will do it in 19 hours, still less than a day.

There are no loads in your house that will pull 80 amps continuous for 8 hours which is why it can run an average house for days while only taking 8 hours to charge. Your average house has 200 amp service which is normally enough to support the additional charge load.
I dunno, in my home state dead men can still win elections! /s https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-hof/dead-rep...
Same experience here. We're using Kafka Streams and it's a horrible experience due to its unreliability. We need a full-time person just to make sure it stays up.
I use linkedin for prospecting. I would love a tool that makes it easier to identify companies that likely have a need for what I'm building and the specific person within that firm who is responsible for solving that problem.

This could be based on job title, job postings, a correlation between a job posting and the hiring manager, individual posts, etc.

At one point, I was paying 200/month for Sales Navigator. I found that while the tools were were nice, they weren’t really worth paying for and I was still doing a lot of manual work.
No, because if I search for the polls that show it I only get results for this news! Sorry. There were a few polls that showed it at the time of both referendums, the BBC definitely covered it. If I find one in amongst the sea of bad search results I'll post it.

It shouldn't be a surprise logically, as the cases can be seen as similar, but the media prefer the simple black and white cases so we're a rarely spoken of breed.

Edit: sorry, typo, I wrote "It should be a surprise" when I meant "It shouldn't be a surprise".
> people rowing themselves over to live illegally.

Complete misdirection. It's lawful for asylum seekers to arrive by otherwise-unlawful transport. It'd be better if they didn't have to, of course.
The only currency in El Salvador is the US dollar.
What constitutes a big enough change to bring a new vote?

Leaving the EU?
professional's won't take you seriously unless you charge $50 minimum per year, probably closer to $100.
Who exactly in the cabinet is far right? Truss, Sunak, Javid, Raab and the rest hardly come across as the right wing mob. Rees-Mogg is the only one who maybe comes remotely close and he’s got one of the most minor positions.
It's the best of both world. No city pollution, 90% of usage is fully electric, small batteries, your "what if" problem disappear.

> batteries are highly recyclable

Yet only 5% of batteries are recycled world wide

> Lithium is super plentiful. Cobalt reduction and eventual elimination is making progress

I'd suggest you to look at the mining industry and come back to me with your sustainability talk.

> EVs are the future and it will be great. Let go of your fear, it is not rational.

Freon is the future and it will be great. Let go of your fear, it is not rational.

Leaded gas is the future and it will be great. Let go of your fear, it is not rational.

Leaded paint is the future and it will be great. Let go of your fear, it is not rational.

Asbestos is the future and it will be great. Let go of your fear, it is not rational.

Radium lipstick is the future and it will be great. Let go of your fear, it is not rational.

The future is the end of personal vehicles, a fleet of state/city owned and shared small sized electric vehicles would be a vision of the future I can get behind. Three tonnes of steel and 600kg of battery to move our fat asses 30km a day isn't a future I believe in, it's a waste of space, resource and energy. Nothing in the auto industry makes sense right now, making them electric just displace the problem slightly further from us.
The text they are currently trying to rip up against the will of the EU? The only viable solution is that the UK rejoins the EU or becomes subservient to it... but neither will happen anytime soon.
Floods close Yellowstone for the first time in 34 years
That doesn’t actually remove the pressure for growth from what I can see.

A network site has value only when the people I want in my network are on it. That’s pressure for growth, whether driven by me inviting them or you enticing them somehow.

I doubt you’ll find many people willing to pay for a subscription to a new upstart LinkedIn that doesn’t have at least some critical mass of users already. Would I pay $20/yr for an actually better LinkedIn? Probably. Would I pay $100/yr for news.yc? Absolutely. Would I pay $20/yr for a networking website with 50K users, 0-3 of which I know? No.
Plugging the project of a friend: https://mazury.xyz/

It's web3-focused for now (and the blockchain is core to how it works: i.e. to collect certified attestations) but I think it has much broader ambitions.
That's cool, but what I'd really like to see would be some form of tool to define different strategies and visualize how they would've worked.

I mean, probably professional traders have tons of these to do back-testing, but it would be nice to have something simple that people could use to check basic strategies.

Just as an example, when I was still into BTC my "strategy" was to buy $100 very month, and in the end of the year I would sell just enough to get my money back and only if the average price went up in the year. It worked well for the bull years, and losses (if I was forced to realize them) were capped at $1200/year.

I think a tool like that should be good not just for crypto, but also to help those understand that sensible investing is not about timing the market and picking the right lottery tickets.
The false compromise fallacy: why the middle ground is not always the best
Don't know why this was downvoted into oblivion. Seems like the point adds to conversation, isn't rude, ignorant, etc. Whether or not you might agree with them.
Mercury looks rather neat for quick dashboards.

For dynamic data I build my dashboards with Flask and Plotly. However that is certainly a more involved process to migrate Jupyter notebook Python plots to JS plots.

For static data one can just export html(with embedded JS) from Jupyter notebook that uses plotly.

The main difference with quick solutions is the level of customizability.
>Not to discount this, but teenage angst has been around for generations. How come young men today decide to shoot their classmates instead of, idk, writing bad poetry or standing under the window of a girl that rejected them, the way their fathers did?

>I think the main deciding factor is being exposed to a certain brand of toxic masculinity that promotes misogyny and equates violence with power. One of the strongest red flags for mass shooters, leaving depression, bullying, etc etc far behind, is a history of misogynistic behavior and domestic violence.

The forefathers either had enough hope, restraint, or we have simply forgotten of all the times they took emotional decisions. I can't think of anything personally besides some old fiction[0] that would back up the 3rd possibility. The second possibility seems backwards to me, if anything it should be the opposite, modern men would be less inclined to violence towards women, if not, then what benefit did 200+ years of womens activism do? And the first I have no perspective on, but consider the very real chance that young men today unlike their forefathers see no way out (Even if this perspective is only an illusion, it remains very real in their minds), which the original blogpost tries to address by telling them there is a light at the end of the tunnel and offers activities they can do right now.

For the record, most of the people against "toxic masculinity" would classify the standing under the window of the girl that rejected you to be stalking, and an extension of that toxic behavior.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorrows_of_Young_Werther#C...
As the Atlantic overturning meridional circulation slows down, we can expect more la niña weather cycles and droughts in Mexico and California.
That's 70% of CVEs, not 70% of all bugs, which is a massive difference. Most programmers don't deal with CVE worthy bugs on a daily basis, no matter what programming language they use.
Because the line about Brexit being about independence was stupid. The UK enforces far more control over Scotland than the EU ever did.
Good to know. I think $5-10 sounds very reasonable.
I have the same complaints as everyone, though I think LinkedIn may not be so easy to replicate. If you think about it, they have basically made a voluntary resume board on which (I'd guess) a majority of professionals or close to it have posted their resumes. Most people just use it as a static site, but the business, and importantly the overall network effects that push people to add their profiles, are subsidized by the small group that posts all the crap that's on there.

To replicate this, you'd need to find some other way to incentivize everyone to sign up (or at least for som niche). It can't just be the technical capability of adding a profile.
> If you think having referenda is comparable, then let's have them every 5 years too, on both Scottish independence or rejoining the the Union, and on Brexit or rejoining the EU.

Yes, absolutely. Once Scotland is independent we absolutely should keep checking to see if everyone thinks it's a good idea.

If the majority votes to rejoin the rest of the UK politically, we should do that.
Do you happen to be hiring for support engineer or customer service roles?
> Unfortunately, there are very few developers working on the preprocessor and very few users of "#pragma once", so this will likely have very low priority unless one of those users takes the lead to fix it.

$ cd
$ rg --stats 'pragma once' -g '*.{h,hpp}?'
45406 matches

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Neurosis and Human Growth (1950) — Karen Horney
Unfortunately it's not the 90's and a lot of things have changed in geopolitics. France is quite against expansion and there are a lot of questions around what to do with Ukraine. Scotland wanting to join as an unproven independent is really unlikely.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2020/02/05/what-would-it-...
From the article: "Gatrel opted to take his case to trial, defended the entire time by public defenders."
Notwithstanding the bizarre "far right credentials" point:

- Liz Truss (current Foreign Secretary) was SoS for DEFRA under David Cameron.

- Sajid Javid (current Health SoS) was BEIS SoS under David Cameron.

- Grant Shapps (current Transport SoS) was Minister for Housing under David Cameron and later party chairman.

- Brandon Lewis (current SoS for Northern Ireland) was Minister for Housing under DC.

- Ben Wallace (clearly ultra right wing (/s), and SoS for Defence), Minister for Northern Ireland under DC.

I don't think this is an exhausive list, these are just the SoSs I can think of off the top of my head. Your statement is just so untrue it just makes me think you don't know much about UK politics and don't really care enough to even google your "facts".
> The cells also surpassed 1,000 cycles while retaining 93% of their capacity.

Doesn't anybody think that best ever possible equivalent of 1000 cycles achivable only in lab condition (for example charging and discharging 5000 times from 40% to 60% only in ideal temperature) is a huge waste of non-recyclable cells? 93% will be totally impossible for any human use.
> The issue was a vote on staying in the EU as much as staying in the UK

I don't even remember it coming up but if it means a lot to you then I can see you'd be aggravated, but how would it obviate the once in a generation pledge? Scotland can't join the EU if it goes independent anyway, the vote to remain really was the only practical way to stay in the EU.
I’ve been working on an OS project to help people get on this bandwagon: create-rust-app [1]. The folks over at shuttle.rs also wrote a blogpost around a similar topic which was a very interesting read as a rust developer. [2]

[1] https://github.com/Wulf/create-rust-app

[2] https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2021/10/08/building-a-startup-wi...
The EU and the U.K. are very different kinds of union. The EU can not require you to host nuclear weapons against your will for example which is a key issue in Scottish independence.
You do realise that the UK is trying to break that NI protocol unilaterally? That is a very poor example right now.
The biggest hurdle for Scotland joining the EU arent the requirements, they'd likely pass those without too much issues. The biggest hurdle is probably Spain who wouldn't want to give the Catalan independence movement a good example.
> immigrants generally don't want to go to Scotland

Fewer migrants come to Scotland than England, but again: migrants come to Scotland, they enrich society, and their population is demographically useful.

> the problem doesn't affect you.

It was shown very recently that 'concern' over immigration in the UK is correlated to newspaper reporting, not levels of migration.
@hellokittycity

There are ideas like that

https://it.slashdot.org/story/22/06/13/0134242/two-tech-ceos...
I want a LinkedIn where I can post my skill set and what kind of roles I’d be interested in and employers come to me.
70% of all security issues is not 70% of all bugs. For the large majority of software products, security issues are an infinitesimal minority of bugs, and arguably, for a significant chunk of software products, security issues are not even critical.
I wager there's quite a few stories exploring this premise.

I remember reading Stephen Baxter's "Voyage" in the 90s, in which Kennedy escapes his assasination, the Apollo program ends rather differently and NASA subsequently stretches/evolves the hardware to put a crewed mission on Mars, rather than building the Shuttle. It's been a long time, but I think I recall enjoying the geeking out on the equipment and little historical details.

(I've since read the novel has been widely criticized as plagiarizing the Cox/Murray book on Apollo history, which I read 20 years later and is an amazing achievement.)
Interesting the rest of us don't think of London like that what with Westminster being there, but I take your point.

You'll have to relocate Westminster to somewhere in the home counties. Oh and let Wales & the North join your party :)
You would be very surprised how much the upper realms of banking likes financial crime felons. The Federal prisons are full of them, and they go right back to the industry.
They're also the Tory party of criminalising dissent, corruption, Russian influence, and offshoring refugees.

The fact that homosexuality isn't as controversial as it once was doesn't preclude their authoritarian nature.
C vs. Golang Python extension performance
As Scotland doesn't qualify to join the EU upon independence I'd have to say it's not.

What else would be big enough?
Excuse me, but literally today is the first day that the government starting flying asylum seekers to Rwanda[1], and yesterday they published legislation with the intention of breaking international law[2]. They've also recently curtailed rights to legal protest[3]. The Prime Minister has a history of law breaking including illegally shutting down our parliament[4]. This government only got their majority when UKIP candidates stood down in favour of the Tory party at the last election. By any reasonable definition England is currently governed by the far right.

[1]:https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61791994

[2]:https://news.sky.com/story/a-mess-unrealistic-doctrine-of-ne...

[3]:https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56400751

[4]:https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/11/uk/scottish-court-uk-parliame...
Sounds comparable to the Windows metro rewrite of control panel— an attempt to modernize and make it tablet friendly, but only 80% of the way there, so the old UI had to still be maintained behind the scenes.

Didn't expect a mess like that from Apple.
Why does the EU need to form a realistic opposition to the U.S.?
Obviously the status quo within the UK has changed a lot since the 2014 Scottish independence vote - the key aspect being Brexit. This change was sort of crucial to many of the key talking points in the vote: EU CAP subsidies for farmers, sole EU membership (now from a different prior state), border controls, etc.

The prior vote was relatively close (55/45) so it's reasonable to expect that 200k people might've flipped to the 'Yes' camp.