skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Christians happen to be the most vocal because this country has a very large population of such, and was founded by such as well.

I mean, the rights of individuals in the US is legally guaranteed because of belief in God, and the nation still stands under God.

74 million people voted in 2020 for a loudly Christian president and vice president. From that pool, a large percentage would have defunded the library as well. But not all were Christians. So the library probably represents a similar demographic, and why not provide towards a demographic, which likely included the Muslims, Jews, Hindus, secular conservatives, etc.

I disagree the major axis of thought in this country is pro-LGBQT by number of people, but would totally agree it's the presiding trend in most of the media, and maybe more than half of politicians, thereby seemingly being the major axis of thought.

As for secular morality preachers, I didn't know they exist. I wonder how they deal with moral standards if they're not set in stone, as they're believed to be in the Bible.
Tomorrow killing Jews might become the moral thing to do. Who's to say otherwise? The Nazis thought it was moral.
There's dangers at both ends of the spectrum.

Much of our culture applauds the anti-consensus actor, the lone
visionary who goes ahead despite the disapproval of the crowd. And
that's understandable. As Spike Milligan put it "Progress is like an
old car. It takes a crank to get things started." Progress depends
upon the unreasonable man. What looks like "knowledge over-confidence"
turns out to be "justified confidence" in widely unrecognised truths.
Further, in entrepreneurial circles, if you're prepared to risk your
own money and time on a crazed venture then that's celebrated.

But in reality you create risks to externalities far beyond your own
wallet. Such a culture absolves the reckless engineer of causing great
harms because they are "a genius" and we want to ride their coat
tails. Some of this seeped into Silicon Valley culture where many tech
people see the digital world as their own personal laboratory to
experiment on masses like bugs in a petri dish.

This could be contrasted with the socially conscious non-consensus
actor, who departs from crowd wisdom at great personal loss and just
wants to be left alone to do their own thing. That's a different breed
of individualism. It's often rooted in falliblism rather than
over-confidence. Such a person, out of wisdom, knows how stupid they
can be themself, and sees the crowd as no better.

I would say dangers at the other end of the spectrum, of blind
unthinking assent, group-think, conflict avoidance, is much better
documented and understood. Whether that's a negative or positive
depends on the context. On a frontier rugged individualism is an asset
while more measured conformity tends to work in long established
communities. The contrast of the North American frontiersman and the
Nordic observer of small town "Jante Law" is marked.
I bet you could find a subpopulation of India that is responsible of most of the homicides in the country. I bet you'd also find a lot of poverty, systemic oppression and alienation from society in that group. Then you'd start to perhaps understand the issue more broadly than by the color of skin.

However, if you are motivated by ... other things, I'm sure you can just jump to conclusions and tell us all the statistics you have about African Americans.
As someone who grew up playing Doom II along with Quake I/II/III I can't thank you enough for name dropping that book.

I've always followed id software's games but never really knew their origin story or the full history of how it all came together. I'm about 2/3rds of the way done with the book which I've read in 1 sitting so far. I felt compelled to stop to make this reply. This is one of the best books I've ever read in my entire life.
Did the same in 2016 - 2019 using libovr and qt with opengl and had the same experience. We worked mostly in the viewport however and only did vr sessions as needed as for the most part it was the same when iterating. I also believe it messed up my eyes a bit as it can be quite straining for prolonged periods.

I owned quite a few headsets but I got rid of them over time, the novelty wears off quickly and it's a good way to captivate people new to it but the setup quickly gets cumbersome and impractical for day to day use unless you have a dedicated space for it.
I mean this is pretty specifically what dang explained is counted a dupe.

> Because those things don't change as a particular release goes through its life-cycle of status updates, status updates don't count as SNI.
IBM Topview – 1984
The Lessons of Xanadu
Electricity in Transition
Well, I'm 10 years younger than dewclin Senior and I recently switched to a Nokia dumb phone for the summer and I have been keeping a record of screen time and what I was actually doing on the laptop. Using a paper page a day diary.

I'm not in the tabloid market segment, and perhaps I had the insight to self-diagnose? Did dewclin Senior do much before the iPhone arrived?

Perspective: I remember that Uncle Dave spent most of his (long) retirement watching sport on the telly back in the 1970s/80s. Any chance of sparking an outside interest?
My bets are that this arrangement would almost certainly be considered tax dodging if the Dutch authorities ever find out (and he didn't pay taxes there). I'm not a tax lawyer, much less a Dutch one, but I looked into similar things: the basic rule is that every country wants you to pay taxes there, and when in doubt you are usually taxable (which can easily mean that you're fully taxable on your global (!) income in more than one country - most developed countries have bilateral double taxation agreements to sort this out, but then you need to look into the specifics of said agreement - definitely something you should leave to a professional).

If you spend more than half of the year in a country, you'll usually need a very good reason if you want to avoid being fully taxable there (in some countries it's a hard rule, some look at the circumstances). Just taking a two-day trip every month looks a lot like deliberately trying to dodge taxes - such things can easily lead to criminal charges.
> but my point is that it could do more, including checks.

Could you explain more how you see this working?

For example: the build system is running a build step. It has determined the inputs and the outputs for that build step. It is going to execute a subprocess for that build step (say, GCC). It wants to ensure that GCC doesn't accidentally depend on files other than thaie that the build system knows about. How can that functionality be implemented with checks in the build system interpreter?

I suppose it could run the process with something strace-like and monitor which files it accesses but isn't that just a way of implementing a sandbox? I'm not sure what you mean exactly.
I was playing a drawing game last week where one person would draw and everyone else would guess what it was as the drawing is appearing. It’s incredible how some people could clearly and confidently guess correctly off of very minor clues, like the legs of a what would be elephant or the hilt of a would be sword. (Keep in mind there are basically scribbles of drawings, not exactly art.)
Similarly, people don't want to evaluate interesting restaurants, they want to jump on the bandwagon known as Yelp or Google reviews. There's something wrong with jumping on the bandwagon, but there's more right than wrong.
Could it be a kind of survivor bias? Of people who come up with anti-consensus views, you only see the really confident ones; those less confident in their unorthodox views probably don't tell others so much.
What the study is describing is a psychological trait known as dogmatism.

You might be familiar with the words "dogma" or "dogmatic" in their religious sense: a set of beliefs that members of a religion are expected to accept as true.

But there is another, broader way that "dogmatic" is used that does not necessarily have to do with religious dogma.

In psychology, dogmatism is a defined as exhibiting great certainty about the correctness of one's views and an unwillingness to consider new evidence, or an unwillingness to adjust one's views in light of new evidence.

Last year I read about a fascinating 2020 study that measures dogmatism in a novel way, and I created a little web app that adapts the study's technique to determine your own level of dogmatism:

https://shaungallagher.pressbin.com/blog/dogmatism.html

Going back to the 2022 study that OP posted, one thing that irks me is the way the authors lump all religious belief into one bucket:

> Because several issues that we examine have come into conflict with religious thinking, and because religion can itself be a polarizing factor for attitudes and beliefs, we also test for an attenuation for issues more associated with religiosity.

I'm Catholic, so that makes me religious. But I have friends who are Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Baha'i, etc., and their belief systems are vastly different than mine. Yet we all have this trait "religiosity" that really tells us very little about what any of us believe. The question the study uses -- "How important is religion in your life?" -- to gauge religiosity, without making any distinctions between vastly different religious beliefs and practices, is bizarre to me.
I can't help but be skeptical that religiosity in the abstract tells us anything meaningful.
Full humanization of the glycolytic pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man." A good hook, but I had a tough time finishing Notes. The narrator really shows that yes, he is in fact a sick and spiteful man. Not one I'd want to pick up again.

I got pulled into Dostoyevsky through Brothers K, which led me to Notes eventually.

Do you know what translation of Notes you read? I think I read P&V, and if I read it again I'd want to try something else
You can do that with git-appraise: https://github.com/google/git-appraise
Who assumed that? I don't think I have seen many assumptions on who they are. Only some people claiming they are them.
You should re-read what your wrote. You are advocating for tax evasion by not paying the country where you are working and violating immigration laws by working under the pretense of a tourist visa.
> a multi-hour back-and-forth endeavor between StackOverflow suggestions and compiler errors

Sounds like the authentic 90s linux package experience! (except with 's/StackOverflow/mailing list/')
But that's why this whole study is really trash.

The point of this paper is to conflate two issues. One is disagreement with consensus, based on underlying problems with adoption of the practices such a consensus might seem to support.

As others have mentioned, GM crops are likely fine to eat, however it is not trivial to ask whether we should adopt the uses of gm linked pesticides etc. Roundup causes cancer - they paid the fees from the court cases they lost. Now it is being replaced by an even less understood insecticide.

It is not trivial to ask whether we should have a high level of scrutiny toward recently generated vaccines and methods. That is not the same as disregard for vaccination.

By conflating these issues, in the commonly arrogant (overconfident?) tone of academia, this is more of the same Newspeak garbage that has become all too common
-- Well you're from Cheshire - and that's the DailyMail - so you tell us! =) --
A Slack Bug Exposed Some Users’ Hashed Passwords for 5 Years
One of my favorite quotes, is by Stephen Jay Gould:

"The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best -and therefore never scrutinize or question."
The devil as always is in the details, but in the broad strokes we have a pretty uniform/composable way to float stuff from the Nix store into Starlark and thereby put all of nixpkgs within Bazel’s reach. Doing like custom Bazel cc_toolchain stuff against Nix wrappers is, uh, an adventure. But you grind away at it and now you’ve got the C toolchain you want. Wash/rinse/repeat for all the other languages you use and before you know it you’ve got Nix’s determinism and Bazel’s crazy fast build times.

When I was at FB there were dozens if not hundreds of serious hackers working on this sort of thing, and they were fucking good at their jobs, but technology usually moves forward with time and this setup smokes where FB was at in 2018. I don’t know what they’re up to now, I bet it’s good.
security to backstage = the security personnel protecting the entry to the backstage area
I reckon it depends on where you live. I grew up in southern Chile where we don't see that many sunny days, and yet it has the highest incidence of fatalities due to skin cancer [0]. Skin cancer being one of the most common cancers in the country overall (3rd most common) [1].

I can attest, on a clear sunny day in Punta Arenas, the sun will absolutely char your skin after a few hours sun bathing out in the wild.

All of this, of course, due to the hole in the ozone layer present on both hemispheres. You can see the historical dataa showing the evolution of the southern hemisphere and correlate that to the high incidence of skin cancer [2]

One of the tradeoffs of having penguins around I guess. So yeah, down here, sunscreen is a must.

[0] https://www.elsevier.es/es-revista-revista-medica-clinica-la...

[1] https://medicina.uc.cl/noticias/cancer-la-piel-uno-los-cance...

[2] https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/climate/ozone-depleting-sub...
i'd still consider it cringe bc it's an outdated meme that suggests somebody is probably a reddit user.
> settled for decades in knowledgeable circles.

Which also describes phrenology, the static universe, and phlogiston theory.

A nice collection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superseded_theories_in_science
That's not voodoo, that's perfectly reasonable behaviour.

Why are you wasting time with ipfw?
There is a companion website for the book, that is still a work in progress:

https://codehiddenlanguage.com/
This made the rounds last summer during the Euros with the Italian sports journalist Tancredi Palmeri tweeting "Stop with this stereotype about Italians doing hand gestures. It's not t":

https://twitter.com/bettinghub/status/1415779102460715009

(the original video has been deleted)
Don’t tell Project Gutenberg, or Wikimedia, or Codecademy.

(Your assessment is an unfair and inaccurate overgeneralization. One can use the internet to read books, blogs, articles, courses, etc, but of course you know this.)
..without public edit history, active moderators and useful watch tools.
Won't Ctrl+Z work better than everything else (and need less explanation)
An electric car doesn't need an inverter, it can charge directly off the produced DC.

Nor does it particularly need a "whole assembly" for mounting etc, as it would be built directly into the roof of the car. It may well be that using a solar panel to replace the metal skin of the car will turn out to be equal or less weight than it otherwise would be, though of course much more expensive.
Thanks for the explanation. So it's a different situation from e.g. hardware H264 decoders, where the extra silicon makes a dramatic difference.

Then the main concern remains interoperability. I'd still pay a bit more to make sure my friend's random device has a better chance of working at all. Bluetooth is already a tire fire so I wouldn't like to add another layer of interop issues.
Wikipedia allows anyone to audit edits and raise issues if things are fishy. IMDb allows edits but the history is only visible to admins.
> glorious new dawn of political groupthink

[citation needed]

I don't see any reason to think that "groupthink", aka societal or subcultural values and beliefs, is at a notably higher level than much of history. In the west, look at the long dominance of the Catholic Church. Even after the rise of the Protestants, it was often more a set of competing orthodoxies, such that large groups were eager to cross oceans to get away from oppression. And when those people got to the US, quite a lot of them were eager to become the oppressors. Looks at the predominance of blue laws across the US. Look at who got tarred and feathered. Who got lynched. Who dealt with segregation and Jim Crow. Look at the Red Scare, the socially narrow dominance of mass media, or how eager and how violent the forces of conformity were in the 1950s.

I think today people are generally freer that at any point. But two big things have changed. One, the rise of the internet means the one-way, conformist channels of mass media have given way to everybody talking to everybody. And two, cultural power is no longer concentrated in a narrow slice of society, such that people previously unheard are now having some things to say.

I get why some people see that as "political groupthink". When you're in a dominant group, you're not used to getting challenged. But personally, I find it bracing, causing me to rethink a lot of things I took as givens because that's what the people around me believed. The death of old paradigms is always uncomfortable, but personally I'd much rather live in this era of ferment than in one where everybody believes the same comfortable old certainties.
I looked my own name up on IMDB and found that I had starred in a soft-core gay porn movie. I was intrigued, but somewhat disappointed that I didn't remember any of it. Also disappointed that it seems to have been the start and end of my illustrious film career.
Similar. I enjoy the effort someone else has put in to work all the bugs out.
Wikipedia is not considered reliable either:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Wikipe...

> Content from a Wikipedia article is not considered reliable unless it is backed up by citing reliable sources. Confirm that these sources support the content, then use them directly.

But, unlike IMDB, it's (supposed to be) verifiable.
There could be others with the same name as you?
A friend of mine from somewhere around Como has a gesture where she taps her upper arm with her index finger while making a theatrical pained expression. I have no idea what it represents or means. She usually does it while reacting to something she doesn't like, perhaps particularly being asked to go along with someone else's suggestion which she thinks will be arduous.

It vaguely suggests someone shooting up heroin, but i'm not sure why that would be relevant.

I have not asked her about it. I think i prefer the mystery.
Maybe but why are you wasting your time with a second degree?
I’ve used this before in embedded code to save rom space by not having to include malloc. The stack _is_ the heap! Just have to be very careful about when you can call another function.

The best version of this is where you allocate a block on your stack then pass that as a pointer up to the next function to use. The one who owns the memory is the one who allocates it (Rust style?). Or, have the linker allocate global blocks works too.
At least on the B-2 they eject upwards. On the B-52 the navigator and radar operator eject downwards (the other crew members eject upwards like you'd expect). The ejection process on the B-52 is complex - it even moves the control columns and work tables out of the way before the seat launches.

http://www.ejectionsite.com/b-52.htm
no, it's a sign on product market fit at best and being good at marketing at worst.
I stopped IMDBing long ago and switched to Metacritic, which is what I currently trust for anything entertainment-related.
Look into SVG too, as it produces vector images and later you'll be easily able to scale them up to print posters.
More likely is that this guy used a service. Or, he could start a service. Or he is the service, and this profile is his calling card.
Good point on Antarctica. Weird as it seems, the reseach shows you're six times less likely to die of skin cancer if you're a sunseeker. (Twice as likely to get it; just not die of it.) Plus longevity benefits, etc.
needs a [2020] tag. Mihaela van der Schaar's research group is highly productive, I'd be surprised if they hadn't published some update to that methodology by now
Maybe part of a scam, like Geo Slam who pretends to be a top notch Hollywood producer which lots of connections to get money (and vacations, and...)

Strg+f, german investigative journalists, made a nice story about that case. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KV8i2Q1TXU (german, should have english subtiltes)
I think for me, the epiphany was the scale of parallelism, probably thousands of times greater than I previously considered. The article also contrasts between the classical view which looks like a single thread and something with quite a bit more concurrency.
Have always considered Atlas Shrugged to be the best example and anti-thesis too. I’ve met a lot of people who say it’s their favorite book but it becomes clear they’ve never really read most of it or finished it under light questioning. But it will get you invited to those parties anyway.

On the left, they’ve never read it and mentioning will cause your brunch invite to get lost.
This seems like one of the widest tangents to an unrelated (even if important) topic I've seen on HN :)
(2011)

Click on past to see the previous discussion.
If `push_back()` & friends took an (optional) extra allocator parameter, it'd be pretty ideal. It'd be nicer if the implementations were forced to be single-word containers like Stepanov wanted...
Language Talks Banned at Handmade Seattle
Funnily enough, pretending to read a book will almost always make you better at these conversations than actually reading the book.

This is something I learned the hard way back in school. Whenever I actually read the book/chapter/article I would almost invariably do way worse on the quiz or essay compared to when I "cheated" by only reading a couple of summaries or reviews.

In fact, I really enjoyed reading Eco's Name of the Rose, but I didn't get OP's palimpsest reference and even after looking it up I still don't remember the exact context where this came up. I remember the novel more for it's retelling of early Franciscan history and the proto-Protestant movements in medieval Europe, and not so much for the whodunit mystery plot.

The reason is that a book has so much content that every reader will have a completely different takeaway and will remember different parts of it. However, most of the so-called classics have an semi "official" interpretation and "memorable quotes" that you're supposed to bring up.

That's not to encourage people to skip reading books, though. Reading some books can be a very pleasurable experience in itself in the same way that you wouldn't get the same experience from just reading the plot of a musical play or watching it in fast-forward.
> I do think GM crops are bad, though, because they are associated with strain patenting and seedless plants; because they contaminate neighbouring organic plots with non-organic DNA; because they are often sold in conjunction with herbicides; and frankly, because I hate the way their lobbyists act on our legislators.

Are most of these an intrinsic problem with "GM crops" in general or with "most GM crops as delivered now"?
OpenAI was the first on GPT-level text generation, as it was (I think) on DALL-E level image generation. It's winner takes all rather than marketing.
cover the sun with your left hand and position it so the bottom of that hand is just covering the bottom of the sun. then start measuring with your other hand, from the sun to the horizon