skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is religion anyway?

I have my own take on this. I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts.

A religion is: an organization with a set of ethics, and with practices that help to encourage those ethics as well as inculcate those ethics into new adherents. It also has a positive evolutionary affect on its members[1].

> What exactly is the difference between religion and science?

I think that, if you're going to talk about science, you need to be very specific. People use the word "science" to mean a great many things. You risk combatting a motte-and-bailey[2].

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1. IMO, this bit is what distinguishes religions from cults. It's very possibly for sub-groups of religions to be cults (as well as the reverse). It's not important what the documents say - what is important is how it's practiced: the "lived experience".

2. http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2014/09/motte-and-baile...
And not all entrepreneurs... Remember luck is a big variable in this market
This was a predictable outcome of the following factors:

* Criminalizing possession and creation of child pornography equivalently

* Conscripting the tech sector into detecting it via SESTA/FOSTA.

Look forward to reading stories like this ad nauseum.
While there may be some valid critique in this video, it’s oozing frankly disgusting amounts of pompous dismissal and consequently I cannot trust its motivations.
This felt really on point until the end:

> I don’t think there’s a demonstrable pattern of high-profile scientists or science advocates getting away with destructive, narcissistic behavior (at least no more than in other professions)

I nearly laughed out loud. Academia is notorious for having toxic, hierarchical dynamics. I'm not sure if the author is really unaware, or if they're blinded by wanting to form a science > religion narrative, but this last part seriously undercut what was otherwise a great article.

But yes- growing up southern baptist in Dallas, the thesis strongly resonates with my experience. You'd see powerful business-men who should have had outsized egos being genuinely humbled by their beliefs. Those beliefs had a lot of flaws - I left them behind for a reason - but there was something unique and valuable about the way they cut through egos.
I think we can assume Brian McManus read over the past HN thread (April 2022) with the skeptical comments about the feasibility because he puts a screen shot of that thread in the video. Deep link to the HN cameo appearance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrc632oilWo&t=39m48s
That might be true for Germany, but for US/FAA, the high-5-figure/low-6-figure training devices from Redbird are able to be logged (as sim time) and that time credited towards practical experience for required ratings.

https://simulators.redbirdflight.com/products/topic/simulato...
Companies that impose this arbitrary engineering ladder are silly imo, it only ever results in the illusion of "upward" mobility and people feeling better than other team members despite having no leadership skills. Ideal company has Engineer, Team Lead(s), Engineering Lead(s), clearly defined roles and who has the decision domain over what.
Until we can say we understand the body completely, we're certainly can't be dismissive of ALL pain. As a chronic pain sufferer and a spouse of a medical professional, we both have observed that hubris in doctors is still a serious problem in the medical profession.
Squad units are trucks (like a 550 chassis) with lots of compartment space rather than tank/pump. There's a lot of equipment, far more than would fit in a car. "Fire cars" (SUVs really) are for moving chiefs, not equipment.

There is a lot of variability in US fire departments. The kit for a city department is very different from the kid for a rural district like mine.
> I guess you still lock your house even if proffessioanal thieves can pick your locks.

No. I'm hoping that lock-makers work with professionals who do pentesting on locks.
It’s more a matter of finding a church that’s a good fit for you than “organized religion” as a whole. There’s a lot that comes from people who claim to be Christian that’s not supported by the Bible at all. It’s just something they were told and repeated.

There’s also a lot that non-Christians claim about Christians which also has no basis. The internet amplifies the controversial falsehood without requiring that retractions be published (and circulated) at the same level. This leads to a lot of crazy talk.

The only filter anyone has for this stuff is to actually read the Bible to know what is in there. Otherwise you’ll have no basis for questioning the weird things that people tell you.

I even started a blog of interesting things I’ve come across when reading just to try to encourage people to read it themselves. As somebody who grew up in church, became agnostic, then atheist and am now a devout Christian again I think there’s a lot of people like yourself who may be able to relate. My most recent post was creating an “is it Christian?” litmus test.

https://www.readnotmisled.org/p/the-is-it-christian-litmus-t...
Lots of things from that "debunking" were well covered in the original post. Other than ad hominem attacks, I've not seen anything substantiative from Thunderf00t that address this new video.
I’d live with corruption if they were at least competent at delivering essential services.

I expect most only complain about corruption because the basics aren’t being delivered, not out of a sense of civic responsibility.
Aware harder. CCR is part of a larger whole. A whole with depth and breadth. By the early 80’s The Minutemen recognized CCR and Bob Dylan in there political song writing, But there were other contemporaries of CCR as well with philosophical and virtuoso depth
> Love your neighbor as yourself.

Sometimes I wonder about the original intention and meaning of this expression

I’ve come to believe that maybe Jesus meant it as: “Love yourself as your neighbor”

Meaning: unless you love and accept yourself, it’s going to be hard to love others as well.
"Disruptive children" are arguably dusruptive because the system is soul sucking and one size fits all. Its just not going to work for everyone. Forest schools all the way
It’s a bit more complicated. Normally with our friends we split the bill in half 50/50 no matter what we order. These friends though always pick wine much more expensive than we would.
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=970945, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3761013
You don’t want your $75+ car used as a public restroom? Elon frowns from the throne atop his ancestral government-subsidized emerald mine.

edit: typo
Huh has the link to this on the bottom of the page been there since jan1?
I really appreciate the limited dependencies. The readme says it needs only "libcurl and one of GnuTLS, OpenSSL or mbedTLS"
Wasn’t suggesting that anyone should - just wanted to suggest a solution to the problem they described.
> is to my eyes scandalous. But somehow unremarked

There's a lot of remarking going on - Private Eye, for example, have been banging the "NHS privatisation" drum for a couple of decades at least. The Guardian, too, mention it not infrequently.
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This is going too far.

College lectures exist for two reasons: 1) because books didn't exist 2000 years ago, and 2) it's the only thing 1 teacher can do when stuck with more than 20 students at the same time.

Modern research shows how bad lectures are, but many colleges are still lectur focused because of tradition.
Is this officially from the same people who run golang.cafe? If not, your socials all link to the wrong organization including github.
> The billions of people who have gotten Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccines show how safe they are, those experts say.

I don't like that "testing in production" is now a norm in healthcare.
I think creating cannons along the designs of Gerald Bull would be more promising. Just huck cube sats into orbit. Obviously you'd probably want a cube sat with no moving parts or something that could withstand what I'd assume to be like 10K G's.
There isn’t much lock in with phones or tablets as people go back and forth between iOS and Android. Apple’s advantage is simply selling a compelling product with great advertising which is why they are so profitable.

I find it odd that people get so invested in Apple as a company, but while beating them head to head is difficult it’s also potentially extremely profitable.
That's funny, I did the same analysis with sci-hub. Back when there was an organized drive to back it up.

I downloaded parts of it and wanted to figure out why it was so heavy, seeing as you'd expect articles to be mostly text and very light.

There was a similar distribution of file sizes. My immediate instinct was also to cut off the tail-end, but looking at the larger files I realized it was a whole range of good articles that included high quality graphics that were crucial to the research being presented, not poor compression or useless bloat.
I have my private pilot license and I instinctually tensed up when I saw that plane crossing the runway...
Historically, evolution's solution to drastic ecological changes has been mass extinction events followed by recovery periods of millions of years.

There are plenty of easy solutions to climate change, but none of them are fast.
Shouldn't it?
No they are not safe in general, but sometimes they only enforce it if you are trying to circumvent the reason for the original ban.
HBO Max pulls nearly 200 ‘Sesame Street’ episodes
My degree is in Religious Studies (which I actually think has been more useful to me in my software career than CS). I don't know who the author of the article is, or what the overall theme of the website is, all I can see is that it's an email newsletter?

On the one hand I like that William James is mentioned, he's one of the fathers, some even consider him the father, of Religious Studies. The Varieties Of Religious Experience was the first serious academic attempt to _describe_ this extraordinary human aspect that we call, not for want of a better term, Religion. What had tended to happen up till then, and indeed what continues to happen, is that academia tries to _explain_ Religion. Religious Studies isn't fundamentally opposed to explaining its subject matter per se. But rather it is more fundamentally concerned with, well, _studying_ Religion. Which of course does mean at least being open to theories, such as the ego one in the article, but ultimately it's primary concern is more to create a dedicated space in which Religion can _present its case on its own terms_. Humanity _needs_ Religious Studies, just because Religion is Seriously Fucked Up™, doesn't mean that it doesn't deserve serious academic attention, quite the opposite.

So, on the other hand I'm a little hesitant about this article, because it is both invoking Religious Studies and trying to explain Religion in the same breath. I actually like the ego-control theory, I have no bones with that. And we were certainly not discouraged from coming up with our own theories at university. But what I took the most inspiration and value from during those undergraduate years was the sheer power of dedicating the entire weight of an academic discipline to the uncompromising _study_ of a subject matter _without_ the explicit agenda of trying to explain it away. Like I said, that does not at all mean that Religious Studios wouldn't welcome an overarching Grand Unified Theory of Religion, it's just to say that, if you learn anything about Religious Studies today, it's that a GUT is way, way down the list of Religious Studies' priorities.
That's true. However, before the web, it was absolutely common to anonftp to some site, download the software, type ./configure and make, and off you went. That's how software got distributed. And Internet standards.

Not the same as the web, of course, and your grandmother wouldn't have been doing it.
True, I mean it's an important metric, not that it's directly inversely proportional to quality of life.

Like air quality, for example. It's important, but pretty much everyone living in a city trades it for something else.
So what do you propose, that they send out applications at random to households in the community?

There is bias in everything, but at least they aren't adding more than needs there needs to be.
We'll find out if these things are seen as advantageous by enough or not. I don't necessarily agree that the points are all just pros, but I am open to democratic changes of monetary systems.
America's Natural Heritage
> And yet it is the private system in the UK that is taking away scarce supply from the NHS making it more vulnerable.

It's not a system doing it. Healthcare professionals are choosing to work for private companies instead of the NHS. If you would like to ban that, then say so, but don't pretend there's an amorphous system to blame.
The short answer is no.

The long answer is the whole of history
The Asteroid That Wiped Out the Dinosaurs May Have Had a ‘Little Sister’
I feel like clicking the link and getting hit immediately with four tiers of subscription option from the Financial Times was a strong enough case in point that I scarcely needed to read the article itself.
The demographics have changed, but they take that into account in terms of how they handle and manage care.

There's a lot of thinking and work that goes on to cover working out the changing needs of your population that has to be handled by any well managed healthcare service.

In the NHS specifically I am aware that they also have change management procedures that exist to try and understand how to provide continuous improvement as needs and situation change.

That's not to say things are perfect, by any stretch of the imagination. For example the NHS still has a big blindspot when it comes to tech. Most people aren't willing to take the effective pay-cut of being a techie and working in the NHS, a lot of people inside the service don't really respect people with tech skills and there's still a bit of a holdover of not paying much for anyone that isn't a doctor.

That's not to say the situation remains static, some doctors for example are slowly accumulating tech skills as a result, so what will probably happen is that success for a tech person in the NHS is going to require a prerequisite medical degree, at least in the near term.

Which though I don't think it's the best strategy, I can't also argue it's a terrible one to expect people who provide tech services into the NHS have a reasonably high level of domain knowledge.

This is a large institution with a substantial mandate, we should expect to pay a reasonable amount proportional to what it provides us. The fact that it's substantially cheaper than other healthcare services while still providing a very high quality of care leads me to believe that it's doing a pretty good job meeting that mandate.

So I don't think blindly questioning it without taking such things into account is helpful, nor do I think that pointing to costs as being "too high" are helpful without considering what is happening and why they are being paid for in the first place. Chesterton's fence and all that, it's not enough to just cut costs, you have to ask what doing so gains you. There are too many social programs which we cut because "spending less is good" without asking if the spending actually gives us a positive return as a society.
Deception vs. authenticity: Why the metaverse will change marketing forever
Because as it gets better, it provides more value. In its completed form it basically replaces a driver. Calculate how much it would cost to have drivers capable of driving 20 hours/day (rest spent charging).

If they actually make it self-driving at a human level, it's value is clearly over $100K.
Is there anything specific you have in mind that Smith had which ‘modern race activists’ don’t?

Smith certainly seems extraordinary but that Douglass remark seems to be (at least in isolation) rather unclear—what sort of ‘understanding’ is meant here? And presumably Smith stood out amongst his contemporaries too, so neither ‘modern race activists’ nor nineteenth-century ‘race’ (or other) activists would in general be as talented as he was.
Is that unique to scientific academia though or a problem with academia itself?
Epic game store definitely tries to enforce exclusivity. Prime example beeing Square Enix games. FF7 Remake first released on Epic Game Store and only much later released on Steam. Kingdom Hearts still isn't available in Steam and probably never will be. It's one of the prime reasons I will never buy from them. That way lies madness.
The Soviet Union was an extremist sect of scientism: they killed millions of people for not converting.
Over half of people infected with omicron variant didn't know it, study finds
Quantum Wordle: guess any one of two words in the entangled pair in six tries
There are a few of these but many of them require javascript. To avoid requiring javascript I prefer to add this to the nginx configuration on any of my VM's:

location /ip/ { gzip_static off; ssi on; index index.html; ssi_silent_errors on; }

Then in /ip/index.html I just add:

REMOTE_ADDR: <!--#echo var="REMOTE_ADDR" -->

If that nginx node is behind a load balancer then a different variable than REMOTE_ADDR may be required. By not requiring javascript, one can use curl or any other command line https tool to get their IP.
> No they should not. They need to live in the same world we do, using the same tools we have.

Grand prizes with honorariums and perks of various kinds are a longstanding tradition with value.

I was mostly kidding, but: Kernighan totally can afford a big internet connection wherever he is. But he chooses not to buy it. The social benefit from him having one likely outweighs the personal benefit from him buying it.
German industry was very interconnected with limited domestic competition in those days - a free market it was not by a long shot.

Edit: It's fine to make broad claims about free market and growth, but please provide some citations to back up sweeping statements (and also to allow to go deeper into definitions).
Yes citing counter example of how the problem is not on one side of the political divide is clearly wrong...
It seems like any agent holding any property on anyone's behalf should be protected against unreasonable search and seizure. "Their effects"

Why would it matter where it's held?
What war? This is about user privacy. Apple implemented replacement APIs allowing for tracking that doesn’t impinge user privacy. Facebook is just mad that they can’t microtarget you on iOS anymore.
Yes, that makes you a data hoarder. Normal people would just use one of the many other methods of getting free books, like legal libraries, googling it on Yandex, torrents, asking a friend, etc. Or just actually pay for a book.
There is a good side to the service economy: the stuff you don't own, you don't have to fix (it's the service provider's problem), and therefore there will be no planned obsolescence, and less waste.
Yes, but that's a different thing to complain about than 'explain the universe or define the entirety of life habits of your practioners.'
Have you ever hated child porn so much that you sent private medical photos of someone's naked children to multiple strangers?

If not, you obviously aren't as committed as Google about ending CSAM.
There was a link to the API documentation at the bottom for as long as I can remember using HN, but I’m not sure if it always pointed to the GitHub-page linked in this post.
UK Universities push for ‘vital’ £24,000 a year tuition fee
imho it's just an extreme version of "right-wing government fucks it up for the common folk while enriching the upper class, left-wing government has to come in and fix it all again, badly, because they'll be opposed at every step of the way by the right wing in opposition"

Brexit was a horrific mistake, one that will take decades to fix (up to and including the UK re-joining). In the meantime, the folks at the top stop just short of telling the poors to eat cake.
We have the same issues in Canada with our public health system. No one wants to talk about this, but my unpopular opinion is the real problem is our retirement program and lack of fertility - we're way too generous, and without a tax base there's only so much we can do.

Unless a politician actually makes the unpopular move to cut retirement benefits or massively increase fertility this is only going to get worse.
Most highly capable students do advanced work at university instead of just racing through and leaving.

No one cares how fast you finished your degree, when you are 30.

We are only reading OP article because Sivers made a website to sell CDs when the web was new, not because of his excellence as a student or as a musician.

This very website exists because Paul Graham made a website ViaWeb to sell stuff on the web, not because Paul Graham was any good at making the stuff the stuff the website was selling.
> yeah that isn't free either, it adds significant bloat to your metadata

yeah, 4 bytes for every megabyte

> s3 really isn't the right layer to implement compression. filesystems aren't either. it's better to leave it up to the application.

yeah, I'm sure you're right and Amazon have absolutely no idea what they're doing and like to spend unnecessary CPU cycles doing pointless work and add "significant bloat" to their metadata

... or, you're wrong (like in every previous comment in this chain)
You would think that but a lot of people can't see beyond its the Tories in power. We'd be better off with proportional representation but the beeb did an excellent job at mis-selling that to the masses
Finder sucks so much.
> To claim that the most basic and easy internet security precautions are at a "crazy level",

Basic and easy internet precautions are not "register and run a domain and host your mail yourself". Basic and easy precautions are don't reuse passwords/use a password manager, use a reputable email provider, enable 2fa with totp, and dont click links from your emails

> first you need to somehow believe that no one is targeted by these schemes.

I don't see how you come to that conclusion at all. The assumption is that _everyone_ is targeted by those schemes.

> But somehow there's a whole international industry that thrives on stuff like Western Union transfers. Why is that?

Because they're low risk high reward, easy to set up, and you only need to make one mistake.
You make a good point - I’m not sure it (always) does. However, it’s been my experience that hiring managers believe it to be a good indicator.

My sense is that hiring managers think academic experience is so far removed from the needs of industry that that won’t be able to understand or evaluate the merit of academic experience. I’m of the opinion that they’re mistaken, but ah well…
The point of private enterprise is it has to cost less or be a better product to survive, which is why things like cars are unbelievably better than they were 50 years ago, or even 10 years ago.

E.g. saying a state-run car company would've done better because all that profit money would've been perfectly allocated is not right. Otherwise the government's perfect decision-makers would be starting car companies left and right and making a fortune, instead of working for the government.
If you don't launch to escape velocity, you launch to an elliptical orbit that intercepts the launch altitude.

That's why you basically always need a rocket engine anyway.
Can you explain what you mean with this rhetorical question?
The real issue here is that VPNs for security purposes has always been a hack or misuse of virtual private networks. The real intended use case for VPNs is right there in the name: extending a private network remotely. Persistent connection to this remote network and guarantees that all network traffic uses this virtual interface is not what VPNs are built for.