skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is very hard to give details in a brief comment. It is certain that many converted out of genuine belief in the Christian god. That does not change the fact that converting from one religion to another was not without reasoning. There is myriad reasons but the general take on my comment is accurate. And it was quite common when visiting other cities to pay respect to the god(s) of that city in the pagan world. This is why many victories would involve desecrating or stealing the religious idols contained in the defeated city’s temples. Even if that city’s god was not your god, seizing the physical nature of the god was seen as a good thing as it enhanced your power and hurt your enemy.
This is neat.

I've looked at many calendar styles that fit my needs - minimal and straightforward yet adhering to the custom quirks I wanted. I ended up with a Spreadsheet (Google Sheets) where I align the weekends (SAT/SUN) by moving the Month's start date up/down. It helps me get a bird's eye view of the critical events this/next year and tentative plans - such as travels, visas, weddings, reunions, and other events where work and family inter-twins.

It helps me look at the coming year (e.g., 2024), a few months behind (2023), and the next (2025). In the spreadsheet, I have one sheet ("Years") that marks years against significant events for the family, such as the tentative kids' graduations, college, retirement, how old is someone which year, and, of course, the likely year behind which I might no longer be operational.

For instance, I can look up where and what stage we might be in the years 2030, 2040, and 2050. Heck, I have the years dragged all the way to 2100. I'm definitely not alive to see that, but it is fun to see what year it is if you can hit 100 or what it is going to be when I hit 80.

This is, of course, only for the big-picture items. The daily, weekly, and monthly go to the calendar, and the perpetual to-do in plain text. And I know that everything will go differently than the plan -- the idea is to build an idea maze of what ifs and then the repercussions of the events that can unfold in the future. It is fun; go and play the mind game this Sunday.

I had used David Shea's[1] printables for a very long time. Well, even some of the printables I made for my use and kids' are inspired by his work.

I just forked and cleaned out a bare sheet for 2024. I hope this is helpful to someone to start from or get inspired to do their own versions -- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YwAf8vgVR0FbTU6n1dVO...

1. https://davidseah.com
Just another reminder of the absolutely terrible state of our industry. Imagine anyone in any other industry taking this ridiculous stand. "Oh we don't fit roofs on Fridays, in case our roof leaks and we need to bring the roofer back in on the weekend". "We don't do Friday wisdom tooth removals, would hate for the dentist to have to fix a problem in the weekend". "No we don't fit tyres on Fridays, our tyre guy doesn't want to fix your tyre problem on the weekend".

The problem is the bugs, not the Friday releases. This industry is so utterly depressing to me. We get paid like kings to deliver like monkeys. Clown industry.
> in that studies of machine language performance can already falsify some theories of human language cognition.

They do not.

> Language competency requires component X...

I assume X is something like "can't be learned statistically". LLMs haven't shown that in humans (which is what we are talking about): Beside the fact that humans use much less data LLMs can learn arbitrary patterns, including patterns humans can't learn (just as humans can't "learn" to understand a 56k modem).

> The reason is that models in general yield insights.

Prediction machines don't generate insights by default, that isn't even their objective, so if they did it would just be by chance. You might as well say that by mixing random chemicals you might get a discovery in chemistry. It's possible but absurd.

> Where there is already an understood rational process, you no longer need the insight.

The rational process I'm talking about is the process of inquiry not the process under investigation.

> Sometimes the big leaps of scientific understanding come from looking at the data

You could imagine something like this happening abstractly but it hasn't happened, no one has proposed specifically how it might happen and no one is pursuing anything like this because there isn't any obvious thing to pursue. It's just wishful thinking. Maybe if I do random stuff I'll make a scientific breakthrough. Maybe! But extremely improbable and silly to go even further and assume that you would.
Wow the band was my favorite fitness… band. I was so sad they cancelled it
I don’t know who she is, but she’s quoting Voltaire.
To prove this, software that deals with medical stuff is somewhat more like aviation.
Maybe.

Let's say an election actually was rigged - do you think that is more important than whether our "democracy" is legitimate, always?

Do you think 10% of the HN user base has the ability to discuss this question, at all, and without losing control?
>reverse immigration
so… emigration?
Blaming DEI is a dog-whistle for 'people should know their place' The Free Beacon, Fox News, and the other last four you listed are in the business of telling old white people to be afraid of everything.

It's the same as denying someone a job because they are not culture fit for a company. It's because the people doing the hiring only want to hire people from their background, college, etc.

The safety issues and staffing levels have been an issue since Reagan fired the PATCO ATC workers. It's getting worse because traffic loads are increasing and it is getting harder to staff for a stressful safety-critical job.
Geely bought Volvo, what automotive IP do you think China doesn’t have?
Can confirm, am cat ~~owner~~ family member
It is true that Christianity was growing exponentially within Rome during the 3rd and 4th centuries, and that Constantine was, in classic politician form, simply acknowledging events on the ground that had long been happening. Likewise Theodosius established Christianity as the state religion as Christians became a supermajority. The story that Constantine's conversion somehow enabled the spread of Christianity is a myth.

However, I have never heard anything about a Jewish family structure being an attraction of Christianity. If anything after the first century Christianity was much more a Greek-influenced religion.
> I've never worked for a company that has releases every day, even every day of the week except Friday. That's not how it works.

I'm sorry you've had bad experiences but it absolutely is how it works. When it comes to web based SaaS software, all high functioning organisations release multiple times a day. Daily releases are a bare minimum.
Does it matter? Is wafer cost that large of a fraction of the price of these insanely expensive cards?
It’s harder to track and monetize people visiting your site through a free browser. Go direct to consumer and sell them an app, or take their data and sell it to the highest bidder.
I think just the safety regulations are enough to prevent Chinese automotive entry in to the American market
The only way to continuously ship in many B2B or enterprise environments is with copious feature flags. You can’t just change shit out from under you multimillion dollar clients — that’s part of the deal. So you flag it all out. Then changing the flag is itself a deploy by another name, and you are damn sure you don’t do it on Friday.
Maybe dimmigration? Unimmmigration?
Have you ever read any classical period histories?

Anything by the Persian Empire, the Assyrian Empire, etc., the Peloponnesian Wars, Carthage, The Mithrandatic Wars, The Galic Wars, and the Wu Hu in China. These were genocides/gendercides that had religious elements and were situations where all where non-monotheistic powers. Think about the Egyptian empires.

And that's just genocides. Polythestic tolerance is mostly a noble savage style myth.
Plus it lets people decrypt media encrypted by that key that they might otherwise have been unable to.

So we've established that a "private key" that is no longer private may still have uses to some people, it is not wholly "worthless."

Do you want to revise your earlier statement about the private key in the repo in question? Is it "worthless"? Is it a security problem? Do you know what that key is being used for?
Most recently? In 2022, when Amazon (yes, the entire company) lost about $3 billion during the year.
the world sucks
Many companies have used return to office as a soft layoff. Many employees quit versus large layoffs.

Things should normalize as companies optimize their workforces, office leases roll off, and remote/hybrid work becomes standardized.
Canada's always been like this.

I remember as a kid living in a single bedroom basement apartment with my parents and sibling in Vancouver as a kid, but we used it as a backup in case we wouldn't get a GC in the US. The racism was definetly palpable there as well, and education quality was crap compared to my average elementary school in California.

(Eastern) Canadians have a stick up their ass as if their QoL is better than the US, but most of their American experience is usually a rust belt town in Upstate New York or Michigan. Meanwhile, back in BC, almost every family I knew had at least one relative living in Sacramento, Spokane, Portland, Seattle, etc doing construction, municipal jobs, or something.

> Justinas Stankus

Tbf, his research is about ethnic conflict in Myanmar, so he kind of has to be in SEA

Not sure this post is HN related though.
> What is it with incumbent old companies far past their prime paradoxically having much more stringent high standards for hiring? Is it a coping mechanism to believe that they are still at the caliber they once were by treating getting a job at their company like some necessarily arduous odyssey?

I don't think it's some grand mystery; they're past their prime, not in a phase of aggressive growth.

Layoffs at these places are far more likely than new hires. If a new hire is made, it's exceptional, and naturally involves a lot of deliberation/friction.
Do pilots have any tools detect conflicting runway use?

Like, I would imagine light patterns would mark a runway as take-off, landing, or neither (plane crossing, etc). A pilot told to land on a runway not lit for landing would know something's wrong, and planes would know not to line up on a runway lit for landing, etc.
Jeff Dean wrote all model weights by hand
None of this refutes what I wrote.

If you're in the mood to read Wikipedia, then:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_involvement_in_regime_c...

Looking at the amount of brown color on the map, you may notice that Russia has invaded all their neighbours at one point or another.
Does one need the best and brightest minds to break crypto? Or does it just take a lot of full-time regular minds?

Because the academic/opensource communities famously don't have many hours to dedicate to the cause.
I’m a practicing Catholic but I am a passionate consumer of history in many different forms. I agree there is genuine belief but it’s unlikely to me that a Jarl in Norway woke up one morning and thought “today I shall be baptized!” and suddenly renounced all of their ancestors and prior beliefs. There is a path from A to Z and I believe it always included tangible benefits in their reality. Things they can feel and see. This is why I believe in Christ so deeply - I know it to be true with what I have felt and experienced.
Emigration means citizens of a country are leaving. In this case, it's immigrants to Canada who are deciding to leave, so reverse immigration is the correct word.
As a former Boeing engineer, other industries can learn a great deal from how airplanes are designed. The Fukushima and Deepwater Horizon disasters were both "zipper" failures that showed little thought was given to "when X fails, then what?"

Note I wrote when X fails, not if X fails. It's a different way of thinking.
... That comment proves you wrong.

There is no extant non-argparae integration
I heard about this some time ago... the timeline shows the sources should be available from august this year, but nothing yet on github ( https://github.com/MidnightBlueLabs/TETRA_burst )
This is why it’s important to check if an OSS project is also developed under an open governance model like at Apache or Linux Foundation.
Is there a "cutting edge"? The space seems pretty pseudo-sciency

I'm reading some papers on arxiv right now, and trying to implement them in our codebase at work. Those papers usually involve doing some common sense thing and measuring the results. Anyone could have come up with it, but they did the data science and showed some evidence it worked.

If there is a better way, I would love to know lol
You can. I did that within like 5m of turning on my new computer and have not had to deal with it since.
The concern of the central government for the poor owes a lot to Christianity, as this article states. Same with equality in marriage.
That's assuming AI still stay as it is forever.
In 3-5 years every job that can be done on a computer will be able to be done better by an AI designed for that job. The only issue will be adoption, not the tech itself.
(Your comment is very good and insightful; I'm just pointing these things out anyway).

> People there have to use metaphors to talk about getting nuked

... Not really, it's presented pretty directly in Barefoot Gen or in this corner of the world.

In the USA, you can make a movie portraying the US military in a bad light, but not only would it be harder to find an audience, it would also be much more expensive to make the movie. The reason is the US military offers assistance, staff, and equipment to filmmakers for free, as long as they're portrayed as the good guys.
Airliners face constantly changing specifications. No two airliners are built the same.
While there's some truth to this, I think separation of church and state is stronger in the western tradition simply because the western empire had no political successor. Had, for example, the Carolingian empire persisted as the new Rome I believe separation of church and state would have been weaker in the west. As another example, the eastern empire did become more of a theocracy as mentioned in the first passage. I think separation of church and state is simply more likely among a constellation of petty kingdoms than it is within an empire.
Christianity didn’t do anything that article states.

People did.

It is safe to say that what the Christians of Rome did to the pagans was not Christianity and was not an act of Christ.
There is a good coherent argument that the conversion to Christianity added additional instability to a system that was already very unstable. It may not have been fatal, but it probably contributed to a process that was already happening.

The Roman empire was already both politically and economically unstable by 150 AD - and was shrinking.

I think attributing to Christianity as the sole cause of the downfall of the empire shows a lack of the complex (mostly, but not entirely) economic factors involved.
You can just import them all into paperpile, which has good ways of inferring the metadata like title author year etc. and then connect to your google drive. Which will download them with nice filenames.
It is indeed confounding how something as simple as chat and messaging can be so difficult to standardize. I suppose looking at the shitshow that is email standards (and how difficult it is to ensure valid senders) gives some insight, but yikes.
Does an API exist that I may have overlooked?

In the video @ https://github.com/cztomsik/ava, I see "Workflows" but not in the app. What are these, and are they coming to the app?

Are quick tools basically the same as saving a playground prompt with variables?
Ah but you gave away the game just now; either they agree with you and I was right to argue as I have, or you had one specific point, one nobody else has made in the second thread. Looks like the argument really was about what I said it was, after all!
See graph in article:

Canada's emigration rate (exiting the country) was "quite high" at rougly 0.15% of popuation for 15 years 1990-2015.

It steadily declined to 0.07% in 2020 ... and <dramatic sting!> has now climbed a bit to 0.09%.

It's a trend in a small number and trends are interesting, however ... another interesting and true headline might be:

Canadians not leaving Canda forever nearly as fast as they used to!!
You can screenshot the first page and use gpt vision
You should check out "The Darkening Age" by Catherine Nixey. Once Christians became the majority, and especially after Constantine, the direction of persecutions reversed, and was then by Christians towards the remaining pagans. Many of the broken statues we now see were vandalized by zealous Christians eager to remove the vestigial influence of the pagan Rome:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Darkening_Age
If you can't trust a study of 20 clone mice to be representative of general impact of a vitamin deficiency in the wider human population, what can you trust?
Probably? It's not really scalable for me to answer every person's individual questions about how copyright infringement works.
Would you like people to not be concerned with aircraft accidents?
Recent similar discussion of the research paper https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38543133 (269 points | 2 days ago | 99 comments)
The term "reverse-immigration" is used by the article to highlight the number of people who emigrate after first immigrating. Which is certainly an interesting / concerning trend worthy of making note of. The choice of this terminology is deliberately chosen to make a distinction about this particular form of emigration
Immigrant turnover
We've got a document that outlines easily over 100 changes in about:config that need to be changed and locked (new ones are being added all the time), Nearly everything with a URL gets pulled out of the settings. Pocket is disabled, default plugins and the extensions that get installed for you automatically like screenshots@mozilla.org.xpi and pictureinpicture@mozilla.org.xpi get deleted, and we add noscript/ublock origin

The idea is to reduce attack surface as much as possible, and disable features like searching/calculating from the address bar, service workers, wasm, prefetch, webgl, redirects, the PDF reader (no files ever just auto-download or open in anything by default), Firefox View, webrtc, network prediction, the social API, reader mode, there's some stuff about certificates, TLS and SSL etc.

There's also a section for preventing fingerprinting, disabling telemetry/reporting/safebrowsing, all the stuff here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making... and to keep changes from being made so no auto-updates, and experiments/normandy/shield studies are disabled.

There are a bunch of guides to harden firefox online, and ours seems to be some combination of several of them. The Tor browser guys do some great work keeping an eye on some of the changes that get made.

In the end basically no active content of any kind is allowed by default. Some sites don't work at all with this stuff turned off or removed and it's a bit too locked down for day to day use but I'm surprised and how often things work well enough to get what you need at least. For example, an article might load just fine, but site navigation will be broken which isn't really an issue if you just wanted to read the article.

Most of the sites that will get you infected just by visiting them require JS, so disabling that alone helps a ton. For something you know is really evil it's often best to just download and analyze the site offline, but for poking around even in highly questionable places it's pretty nice.
Well a Tern GSD has a max carry weight of 379 lbs and a max speed of 20 mph. Only needs a 0.5 kWh battery too. Has infinite range, depending on your fitness.
> you have to be really good at learning how to not make mistakes.

Not exactly. The idea is not not making mistakes, it's whatcha gonna do about X when (not if) it fails.
Thank you! I will take a look.
Could I do a similar thing by doing convex sums of models for token sampling ?
I dont believe it to be an outrageous statement that late polytheistic roman empire was more tolerant than early christian monotheistic roman empire.

As a parallel commenter noted however, the level of official tolerance varied by era, who was in charge and where. Another parallel commenter noted that the rituals of the official roman religion were considered ritual first, and religion second.
This comment jogged my memory of a Ted Nelson video subtitled 'It all went wrong at Xerox PARC' : https://youtu.be/c6SUOeAqOjU
Same for me. I think we are all talking like we work on the exact same product. I work at an agency with many codebases, from different clients. Some we inherited that don't yet have good coverage, some with notoriously brittle third party integrations we can't truly test until it is in the live data environment, and some with clients who are very unresponsive and if we planned a Friday deploy the chances of a no-go because we couldn't get sign off or testers is pretty high. It is just all around easier to do midweek deploys in such an environment.

Do I envy the fully automated Friday deployment teams? Sure! But this is my commercial reality, and the pragmatic approach is to not deploy on Fridays.
This article touches on humility. Today, we see humility as a virtue, thanks to Christianity, and secularization of Christianity. That's why we see so many people say "in my humble opinion". To the pagans of Antiquity, humility was a vice, and pride was a virtue. And there is a difference between modesty and humility. Modesty doesn't involve dissimulation. When it comes to humility, there is some kind of hiding--that's dissimulation.

Read this interesting article 'How Christian humility upended the world': https://www.abc.net.au/religion/how-christian-humility-upend...
Air traffic is up this year only 4%, would that naturally correspond to a 65% increase in significant incidents?

The issue isn't whether or not people are tacitly insisting certain people "deserve" to be in certain positions due to their race/background, and those against DEI are lamenting the loss of the soft apartheid we had in the US that gradually eroded with the civil rights movement. The issue is: in chasing demographic targets, are jobs lowering their standards for employment, and are those lowered standards causing a hazard for those impacted by the performance of those who work those jobs?
> I'm not making the argument that "they are just like humans", though. I'm merely making the argument that I don't know that they don't understand.

They don't understand precisely because they don't act like humans, which is the only source of intuition for the word "understand".

> I could make the converse argument for someone shown a sample of the successes, though.

It's the routine mistakes that "reveals" that there is no understanding. By your logic you can point to a single success and declare that as proof of understanding. No ordinary person would agree. A teacher who sees a student regularly make errors in reasoning on an exam doesn't say the student "understands" the material.

> It seems unfair to judge "understanding" just by what the system can't do, and not by what it can do,

I'm not talking about "fair" (whatever that is supposed to mean in this context) I'm talking about an ordinary person's intuition about the word "understand".
A minute ago you dismissed the concept of a risk premium and claimed regulators needed to step in. Now it's ok for businesses to manage actual risk?