skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not confusing anything. I’m clarifying because statements like this article make it seem like Christianity is the problem and not the people.

When Saint Francis was told by God to “rebuild the church“ the message was that the church was decaying from within.

my point is that the article states that Christianity did so-and-so. My rebuke is that to say that it was Christianity was like saying that it was a teachings of Christ that led to the persecution.

All I’m doing is adding clarification because the church right now has enough evil in it to go around and not focusing on the good but focusing on the evil only destroys the goodness of the church.
Which city? I am in Toronto and our family doctor is amazing. Hospitals definitely have a very long waiting time but I have heard the same from UK/EU.

Australia is much better but it's a far wealthier country with far fewer people
I think the author read "inadequate" in a different way than it was written. The way I read the tweet is not "then your practices are shit", but rather "then your practices are not ready yet". I.e. as an assessment, not judgement. It's a bit of a "you must be this high to ride" situation for Friday deploys. With 64 releases, I don't expect the release pipeline to even be ready for this - we're doing a few releases a day and I'll still choose not to do some of them on Friday afternoon. (Especially dns changes that could bring down everything)

Then there's a risk of something going wrong regardless of how well you're prepared. Don't release on Friday is stupid, ignore Fridays is stupid. How about "work on your release processes, so that the scope of what you're comfortable releasing on Fridays grows over time"?
I have a bachelors of science in history. Have you ever read Howard Zinn’s of peoples history of the United States? You should.
> Regarding motivation, you are making a claim that contradicts the evidence.

No, I'm not.

> There were ongoing provocations post 2014.

There was an ongoing war post-2014, because of the Russian invasion.

> The Ukrainian authorities willingly provoked conflict with Russia.

No, Russia provoked conflict with Ukraine, by invading the country, annexing part of it, and, with a mix of proxy forces, Russian-paid mercenaries, and Russian state forces continuing fighting Ukrainian forces in other parts of the country, for the entire period from 2014 on.

> It has become a proxy state of the west.

Yes, it has become dependent on the West in a way it never was before as a direct consequence of the war initiated by Russia in 2014.

> War would most likely have been prevented if Ukraine remained neutral.

No, it wasn't, and this is demonstrable because Ukraine had not stopped being neutral at the time the war started.
Certainly the concern is why air travel is so safe.
Yes, you need time for hackers to hack on the new thing. 5 years from concept of the core thing, to production ready of the thing that depends on the core thing is pretty good.
ok thats pretty wild, you would take the zlib deflate/inflate code, (for example in a library like lodepng) and then like chunk 95% of it in the garbage? so basically every block would just be uncompressed? kind of funny but it would probably work pretty well and your code size could get down way way smaller than the current typical png code.

seems like the downside is that this is "worse than nothing" compression, the image file would be bigger than the original blit of the data. for example 1024x1024x32bit color means 3 megabytes for one image. or do i miss something?
DEI where D = Diversity, E = Equity (NOT Equality) and I = Inclusion.

Diversity is achieved for sake of achieving the diversity. When they do not find qualified people who are described to be diverse, they lower the standards in every industry. Same is the case for FAA.

FAA lowering their standards to increase diversity

https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/06/27/the-disastrous-initia...

From the article: The FAA discarded its longtime use of the difficult cognitive assessment test and implemented instead a new, unmonitored take-home personality test—a biographical questionnaire. Among the questions asked are: “The number of high school sports I participated in was … ” “How would you describe your ideal job?” “What has been the major cause of your failures?” “More classmates would remember me as humble or dominant?”

Here is another example of lowering standards: Oregon governor signs bill ending reading and math proficiency requirements for graduation

https://news.yahoo.com/oregon-governor-signs-bill-ending-154...

From the article: Backers argued the existing proficiency levels for math and reading presented an unfair challenge for students who do not test well, and Boyle said the new standards for graduation would aid Oregon's "Black, Latino, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Tribal, and students of color."

Again, it comes to, lower the standards for everyone to achieve diversity. Proponents of diversity blow the horn that it raises our standards, which is a lie. That would be true if there were true diversity, based on merit but DEI is all about Equity same outcome irrespective of skills, efforts or qualifications.
I’m not convinced of the premise that the population of a given nation needs to always be growing to remain functional.

It’s illogical in the purest sense, and if the systems in place rely on infinite growth then the systems are not sustainable and need to be reconsidered. A society shouldn’t be shoehorned into a lower quality of life under the assumption that infinite growth is not only possible but necessary, simply because the constituents of the S&P 500 operate under that assumption.
This might be the worst real example of a jump to conclusions based on a casual correlation I have seen in my entire life.

I don't even know how to properly deconstruct how irresponsible this style of thinking is, it's just so flabbergasting.

In science you can't just draw lines on the wall between random shit like you're Charlie Day in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

ACT scores are very obviously not a product of your raw brain power as an isolated variable, they include a number of other factors like how much sleep you got last night, your family life, the quality of your curriculum and teachers, your socioeconomic status of yourself and your peers, and, of course, whether you spent a year in a global pandemic emergency while your school district scrambled to switch to a fully online curriculum with zero notice.

There is a very well-documented labor shortage for air traffic controllers. Fewer people are covering the same shifts - that is fact. If we are going to ignore the scientific method and start pointing fingers, this is so much more obviously the type of thing to start scapegoating.
It’s still very unfortunate that these platforms don’t just let people use custom USB inputs, instead of asking people to buy stuff over and over. There are obviously things that won’t work as well, but this is acceptable in many circumstances!
IANAJ but I've been curious about Middle East religions.

> So that they can go to hell instead of the jew, or whatever?

Anyone who follows https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Laws_of_Noah is an OK chap apparently, probably not as cool as a Jew but I guess not to burn either? Shabbath stuff is only important if you are a Jew.

> meaning that you can take the elevator on a Shabbat

If you are really strict and not disabled you would not use elevator even with this workaround.

> I was under the impression that Shabbat was on a Friday or Saturday

Outside of Israel some places switched to Sunday because otherwise too few people care.
If you don't need recursive CTEs on sharded databases, they'll work today. We're actively using them
It's reasonable to monitor risk at an individual level. Considering one person's fuckup can affect hundreds of people directly, this is reasonable. The two concerns are not mutually exclusive.
Is it one of those weird moments where we push this conversation to it its logical conclusion with a response of blocking protected parties and immediate chorus of 'but you can't block like that!' You can only block the right people that we tell you can block. Blocking wrong people can be bad mojo.

FWIW, this was my last response. I am removing myself from this conversation.
Elon Musk Signals Alex Jones Could Be Reinstated to X 5 Years After Twitter Ban
Worx ZipSnip 'Electric Scissors' (read: cardboard gun) $45, makes cutting down cardboard, even thick stuff, a breeze:

https://www.worx.com/4v-zipsnip-electric-scissors-wx082l.htm...

Govee smart electric (ceramic) space heater:

https://us.govee.com/collections/space-heaters/products/gove...
In the US at least, there's typically a presumption of survivors. One benefit to this is it provides "real-world" training (even if everyone's dead) - collapsed buildings are especially difficult/expensive to simulate. Rescuer safety is the major variable in deciding how much time and effort to put in.

So you'll see searches continue for an "unreasonable" period of time, both because people seem to survive in unreasonable circumstances and also because you've already got everyone out there - but once the weather turns bad, they'll usually start scaling it back or call it off (unless there's high confidence that something specific needs to happen in a specific area).

USAR teams have a variety of listening equipment to attempt to localize victims in a collapsed building, and while that ability could definitely be improved, I'm very skeptical that sending in a bunch of cockroaches to crawl all over people pinned in rubble is the best we can come up with.
Rome was in significant moral, cultural, and economic decline and those that chose to hold on to that failing and disturbed culture are not the ones you should be sympathetic to. They willfully and knowingly drove themselves into ruins. Christianity and it's doctrines (as they are understood in the mostly conventional, trinitarian, organized fashion) are very clearly formulated in direct opposition to late Roman culture and it's vestigial but pernicious influence throughout history.

Yes, it is true that the Christians destroyed Rome. That clearly the intent.
Would be fascinating historical fiction if in an alternate timeline Romans advance glass making good enough to invent microscopes and telescopes 1500 years before this timeline, so instead of embracing made-up stories to explain things and suppress people, they double-down on science instead.
To me the solution is clear: if a job requires in person attendance, compensate the worker for one additional hour per shift for commute. This still provides some compensation without needing to discriminate based on commute distance, and also not requiring businesses to pay more when the employee has the choice but prefers an office.
Personally I would far prefer the dense city to the suburban area requiring parking.
Not quite; turn any GUI application into a Python command line program.
Given the insane demand for these things right now, the real cost is not being able to sell it.
Commentary on Xunzi's "Discourse on Heaven"
I hope that if they end up holding the sword, they're also willing to actually push the damn button when needed.
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for political and ideological flamewar and ignoring our requests to stop. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, no matter what you're battling for or against.

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The "feel" of the app is identical across distributions because the app controls everything inside its window and the look only varies slightly in terms of colorscheme and window decoration if that.

There is absolutely no legit purpose for in app purchases on a desktop OS. Its not hard to pay for substantial software suites and most of what would be an app on platforms which at one point would have had an anemic browser experience is simply a website on platforms where fast cpus and 14-28" screens are normal.

Nobody needs a bunch of adware apps you can pay $3 to decrapify or games that are a slog if you don't buy fake potions for real money.

There are enough good free basic apps for virtually any use case and the more complex use cases need up front investment and users not in app purchases.

What use case do you imagine for this feature?
I really don't agree with any of your examples here, or the combativeness of your comment.

Roof work is usually a fair bit more deterministic than software.

For car work, it's not uncommon where I am for the tire guy, the vehicle inspector guy, or the guy who knows how to work on my brand of car to have unavailability.

My dentist has scheduled work earlier in the week with the explicit intent that if something goes wrong, I can be seen quicker. I appreciated this gesture, even if it wasn't exercised.
A robot would require extra sensors and thousands of extra lines of code.
With this technique, the victims' screams will alert rescuers to their position.
Productivity and the link to wages has diverged lots since the 1970s in the US. In a vacuum it certainly follows that productivity should enable wage growth, this hasn’t played out as much in the real world. Once you factor in inflation, wages have hardly risen in comparison to productivity.

The reality is that the wage level is the intersection what an employee thinks they can get and what the employer thinks they can get away with, and usually the employer has the upper hand.
Regarding this thread, I really want to caution on the desire to automatically assign worse car crash rates to covid-19 infections, or any other specific cause.

Car crashes and ATC mistakes are two different sets of data. Just because they are going up or down at the same time and you can overlay some other event on top of it means absolutely nothing on its own.

There are a lot more reasons that car crash rates can be getting worse. For one thing, they have been trending upwards since smartphones have become prevalent. Car crashes weren't trending down for some time before covid-19. Also, the number of screens installed on automobile dashboards is increasing every year.

Still, I won't automatically assign blame to smartphones or automotive screens unless someone at least attempting to use the scientific method weighs in on the subject, because our intuitions about statistics are often really, really wrong.
Kinda reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(video_game)

The game has no instructions, and starts off with a password that you have to guess to continue.
Afaik Australia is neither far wealthier nor does it have far fewer people, at least as I would define "far".

Let me check.. GDP per capita at purchasing power parity was 62k for Australia VS 58k for Canada last year. Pretty comparable. Population is 40M vs 26M. I guess you could argue that's far fewer people, but in the range of countries those are in the same general vicinity.
Literally all of them.

Do you really think that nobody works where they live? Who do you think works at all of the local shops in your town? Everybody drives in from a different city to staff your town while everyone who lives there drives out to staff another city?

I live in one of the top metro areas in the US. My commute to work is 15 minutes at 25-45MPH through residential areas.
Wow, what a nice coincidence to see this on HN! Just two days ago, I was hacking up a similar project. https://github.com/livetheoogway/python-uime
This one is a much smaller hack to spruce up your local scripts. Although it's still a work in progress with features pending, I'd really appreciate any initial feedback or thoughts. Thanks for checking it out!

[0] https://github.com/livetheoogway/python-uime
Tentative, fluttering optimism: Ferment in head and neck cancer treatment
Many file systems struggle with a large number of files in a single folder. It's a relatively new problem to have.

A few lines of python or a shell script are required to rename them on import

I can see how it is annoying, though. It is, after all, the first of the 2 biggest problems of computer science:

Naming
Cache invalidation
Off by one errors
Those don't exist. There are too many free variables. Some get much closer than others (for instance via formal verification), but all specs are by necessity a model of reality, not the full reality itself.

Nobody actually has any trouble knowing what a bug is. Like, this is just a non-issue, I've never in my career spent a non-negligible amount of time debating with anybody whether something is or isn't a bug. We discuss whether fixing bugs have worthwhile return on investment, and we discuss the relative priority between fixing bugs and doing other things, but this meta-debate about "well technically it complies with this spec so is it even a bug, really?" just never comes up. We all know what bugs are.
SBF's crypto portfolio would be up billions this year if he wasn't in jail
Curious what you see as the main pros and cons of Australia vs Canada.
Anecdotal, but from what I have seen: people who are fearing being laid off are either a) already looking for another job or b) cruising until they do get laid off.
> They are factual, direct, and speak their mind from their perspective with no regards to your feelings.

Passive-aggressiveness is the opposite of being direct.

I'm fully in support of being factual, direct, and speaking one's mind.

Pei was arrogant, condescending, and behaved in a cowardly manner.
They confiscated all our shoes. Crashing into someone at the bottom with shoes could be a problem too.
Australia has the same issues as Canada but none of the same benefits (aka TN visa eligibility).
This is why I don't type and dictate my passwords using voice. Never been broken into once!
A lot of people changed their driving habits significantly, and there was a period of significantly less driving. Many people commute much less than before. At some points, traffic was so much below the usual that several record breaking Cannonball runs were had that are unlikely to be broken unless there's a significant relaxation of speed limits nationwide.
They are referring to Tesla selling the lower half of a car. It'd be battery pack in the middle, motors, suspension, wheels and then you build the rest of the car around the barebones powertrain from Tesla.
Where the heck did it increase that much? There has certainly been a creep in potency for flower, but we're talking about maybe upper-30's for most of the 'high-potency' bud. 90% stuff is things like concentrates, which have been available long before legalization.
> A therapist should be able to spot an undiagnosed case of something like bipolar or BPD from a mile away though.

These are very difficult to diagnose. At the very least, they’re inconsistent between therapists. Latent schizophrenia is also, by definition, not something you can see from a mile away.
Actually what's happening in those examples is that issues DO happen on the weekend, the customer just suffers or calls someone else to patch things up till it can be addressed correctly. Difference with tech work is that your employer typically suffers.
Lots of people can't visualize things but have vivid dreams, it's a mental skill that's widely underdeveloped rather than a condition.
They actually did say that it will be green: https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/16/apple-confirms-rcs-messages-w...
For your education:

What area were you in? Could it be that it was a rough area? My experience in the GTA is that there definitely are better/worse schools, but there's less elitism in that doctors/CEOs/lawyers will still send their kids to good public schools and private schools are not especially known for academic eliteness (in fact, the most elite academic schools in the GTA are all public, with the exception of 1)
Some people obviously aren't true Scotsman... I'm from the US and have no attachment to Scotland; if I claimed to be a Scotsman and you pointed out that I'm not, and I said "well that's just the no true Scotsman fallacy!", then I would be totally full of it.

In the same way I am not a real Scotsman, your toy example of an easily specified snippet of a function that doesn't do anything useful is not real software.
> And I find this idea quite uneducated in history, frankly.

He literally linked you to a lecture by a professor teaching his history course at Yale. Disagreeing is interesting, but “uneducated”?
I have about 300 logins and my memory ain't so good after too many hits to the ol' noodle. You don't expect me to remember all of those without a password manager? I'm much more worried about the SPOF inside my skull.
My aunt lives in Tel Aviv from 1933 to 1952. She told me they actually started shelling the city that night, not the next day.

As well, there was fighting in the streets. They had to turn off the lights at night and hide in the basement to avoid raids. There was a sniper who was shooting at their apt from a nearby mosque and they would find shells on their balcony. They lived on Ben Yahuda St.

Just thought readers might appreciate a first hand account of what it was like to be a Jewish Israeli at the time.
I wish there was a full demo video on the landing page, so I could evaluate it without actually inputting data
Early UNIX software can run fine on modern GNU by just compiling it.

...providing you can find a suitable compiler that isn't obsessed with exploiting undefined behaviour.
Because you didn't have an internet connection there was little they could to that would benefit them, not so much anymore.

(FWIW, in the 90's there were a few instances where commercially produced software managed to go out carrying viruses. :( )
The book the person above you linked is basically “backlash against the backlash” on this topic.
Yes, because it's integrated far more closely with the system.
One of the few movies with a mathematical consultant, Len Adleman.

If the name sounds familiar, he's the A in RSA.
Careful with percentages, sometimes it's base do total mass ratio whereas sometimes it's on oil mass only. There have been high potency strains (>20% THC by dry mass) since the 1960s, it's just that they're much easier to produce reliably now thanks to tech advancements.

I don't think it's a concern for mushrooms though, because people aren't looking for the strongest trip necessarily.
> Perhaps an automotive "TCAS" would also be useful.

Forward Collision Warning systems and automatic emergency braking are becoming common in new cars. The problem and solution spaces are pretty different, so I don't think applying TCAS directly would be helpful --- I don't think there's a chance of cars having transponders anytime soon, and certainly deer, cyclists and pedestrians are unlikely to participate in an active transponder system, and there's no opportunity for cars to pull up or sink. At the same time, TCAS does not instruct to reduce or increase horizontal speed.
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