skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the end of the 1930's to 1950's vertical monopoly shouldn't detract from the many ways the entertainment industry is monopolistic today. Indeed, my impression is no one could even summarize all the ways unions, rights, contracts and etc divide profits, limit who can do what, etc.

My impression buying a historical piece of the entertainment industries is a lot like buying a company with large patent portfolio. No one knows whether the buyer is going to use the pieces "offensively" to cut off the rights of others or "defensively", to get leverage for cross licenses and so-forth.
I don't see details on the API, but it seems likely you could write a libvirt provider for it and use existing virsh tooling (Cockpit / CloudStack / ...).
Screenshots are trivially easy to fake. Friends don’t have to be character references, just public opinion defense attorneys who play dirty.
Hey, since we're on the topic of better social networking, I wonder if a side project I've been working on for the past few months might be of interest to you. The website, Reason, is an app for helping people connect with others with similar interests through group chats. It's kind of like Meetups, but online and designed for people who would like to find semi-regular groups of friends and acquaintances to chat about some specific topic.

https://www.reason.so/
USB3 did have blue color coding on the plastic interior of the connector. That doesn't exist on USB-C. You'd have to color-code the metallic connector or the connector housing. Forcing a color-coding scheme on the connector housing would clash with branding, so you'd likely end up with companies ignoring the color coding.

People will also ignore the color coding even if it existed. Counterfeiters would add the color to add legitimacy to their incompatible products. Color coding would not physically prevent you from plugging the cable in.

The people who feel gaslit over a USB-C cable not working would probably also feel gaslit over buying the "wrong USB C cable", because they bought a "USB C cable" and "USB C should just work, why do I have to remember which of 12 different connectors my computer uses, I thought the point of USB C was a unified connector".
Every tool is also a weapon, obviously. We haven't stopped making hammers because they can be used to hit people.
He should feel fortunate that Google only deleted his Google analytics account not whole google/gmail account associated with it. There are countless horror stories like those as well on internet.
Surprised this is the top thread and unchallenged.

Buddhism arrived in China via the Greek Bactrian kingdom

{{citation-needed}}. Buddhism arrived in the geographic region currently encompassed by the modern Chinese state via multiple routes over more than a thousand years including innumerable exchanges through the overall Tarim Basin (Xinjiang) or "silk road" area via modern Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan but also via Tibet and by sea through Southeast Asia (Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and probably some sporadic oceanic contact with South Asia and Buddhist kingdoms in Indonesia). Tajikistan in particular is only slightly archaeologically investigated to date owing to its remote location, poor infrastructure, geopolitical challenges and IIRC the use of mines during 20th century military conflicts. In short, like any other set of ideas it probably arrived in waves of migration, monkly pilgrimages, exchanges, and instances of official diplomacy. There are records of Buddhism being preached to China by the geographically proximal Yuezhi people as early as 2BCE. Classical Chinese history teaches that Buddhism "came to China" in 67CE. Hellenistic artistic styles are, to my knowledge, never mentioned.

Buddha as depicted in East Asia is wearing Greek robes

The robes are not Greek, they are Buddhist. Buddhism was established in the sixth century BCE. We can read that in Buddhist tradition monks are only allowed a robe and a begging bowl, and that the historical Buddha also set forth a tradition that discouraged iconography as improper worship of likeness (idolatry). This may be because Buddha composed his philosophy in reaction to the prevailing religious environment, where he had previously partaken in such habits which were and remain deeply culturally entrenched.

In short, Greco-Buddhist art is influential because it is, in a sense, the first major period with any voluminous production of "Buddhist art" (a notion decidedly not Buddhist), and in any event, the Hellenistic style robes primarily only affects Mahayana art, and the modern geographical scope of China also encompasses an endemic Vajrayana philosophy, Theravada, and Tibetan. Even within Mahayana artistic tradition in China, I don't see how a cursory inspection of - for example - robes depicted at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Buddhist_sculpture or https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Buddhist_sculptu... could conclude they're all Greek-influenced. Such a claim is tenuous at best.

there are elements of Greek philosophy in Buddhism as practiced in East Asia.

I have never heard anyone make this claim. If we flip the claim, as Buddhist jataka tales are known to Christianity, the reverse could also be said: "elements of Indian philosophy in Christianity as practiced in Europe". Such a statement, outside of tangential academic arguments, is broadly untrue.
Compilation Meets Documentation: OpenJDK JEP-413
I'm a nuclear engineer and also unlicensed and also know very few who are, but...

> for me to call my self a "Professional Engineer", I have to pass a test almost wholly focused on Civil Engineering

isn't true. The FE exam has a number of discipline options, including Electrical and Computer[0] and the PE exam is then done be discipline.

[0] https://ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/FE-Electrical-and-Compu...
>Why can't we just have a minimal place to just publish our thoughts, without having to use a static site generator or setup a Wordpress/Ghost instance?

Because if this gets even remotely successful (actually used by people) you'd need a way to pay for costs at minimum. So you either get people to pay (hard sell given the "free" competitors) or monetize by other means -> bloat

Self host (open source) and you're probably worse off than just using a static site generator.

Not trying to flame your effort here, just that there is a really fundamental reason for why we can't have nice things. This model only works... if it doesn't work (doesn't get popular, doesn't actually get used by people)
Ok great info, gonna check for one with a huge battery. I'd like to learn more about undervolting and such to see how much battery you can save. I want to work on it on battery
for long stretches of time, activating the GPU periodically to crunch or render something and then turning it off to save on power.
Any appearance of civilized intelligence is pure imitation, as a rule. Ritual, conformity, hive-politics and gratuitous feces-throwing are still the dominant paradigm. Don't let the ability to operate complex machinery fool you.
Any university can hand out an honorary doctorate. You can also call yourself Dr. Whatever with zero credentials without getting into legal trouble. You will not have the license to practice medicine in the state, but that's not really what the word "doctor" means anyways.
Apache POI – The Java API for Microsoft Documents
Al-Qaeda was defeated? How does that reconcile with ISIS popping up a few years later, and Libya and Iraq still being in the grips of civil war?
You can't have too many angels
No that’s just the financial year they employ, companies can choose this method of accounting.
Cambria.
> USB-C bashing threads represent the 'HN echo chamber' for me. :)

I don't understand how you can possibly call it an "echo chamber" when there are (1) reasoned arguments (2) supported by facts with (3) dissenting opinions. That's almost the opposite of an echo chamber.
All of this is actually pretty good publicity for irc.
I've looked it up [1]:

Lumen uses ray tracing to solve indirect lighting, but not triangle ray tracing," explains Daniel Wright, technical director of graphics at Epic. "Lumen traces rays against a scene representation consisting of signed distance fields, voxels and height fields. As a result, it requires no special ray tracing hardware.

So, it technically does use a kind of raytracing, but not the hardware triangle raytracing that requires DXR.

[1] https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2020-unrea...

Distance-field raytracing isn't a new thing in UE either, they've been using it for shadows and AO for a while.
There was a huge backlash recently when they announced microtransactions and pay-to-win features on their upcoming MMO called New World
It doesn't work like that. We don't get a new shoreline miles away.

What we get is every single existing ocean port city (which is a lot of the largest cities) being threatened by more frequent flooding. They're all right at sea level, because that's where you build port cities. Not all of these cities really depend on being ports any more, but that's how they became major population and business centers.

They don't just pick up and move something like that. There's no place you can say, "Oh, they're going to move New York over to X, so I'll buy land there now". Even if they did for some reason decide that it was so bad they had to abandon New York (or Charleston or San Francisco or lots of others), there's no one place that it goes. The whole human geography of it changes.
There is also the ticking time bomb of the Camp Century remains:

> In 2016, a group of scientists evaluated the environmental impact and estimated that due to changing weather patterns over the next few decades, melt water could release the nuclear waste, 200,000 liters of diesel fuel, a nontrivial quantity of PCBs, and 24 million liters of untreated sewage into the environment as early as the year 2090. Transition in ice sheet surface mass balance at Camp Century from net accumulation to net ablation is plausible within the next 75 years under one climate model, and after another 44 to 88 years the buried wastes could be exposed between 2135 and 2179.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Century#Residual_environm...
Property rights tend to require a functional society to effectively utilize.
Portable Fuchsia Emulator (FImage)
That's a big part of it. Another part is that most Go developers want to keep their Cgo dependencies as small as possible (preferably zero) for portability and performance reasons. It's also problematic that Go is not really OOP, and in particular immediate mode programming implies that state is inferred by the pass each frame -- meshing this with the COM/OLE model is bananas. You basically need to do everything the library is doing to draw, cache and render the UI again to render the state in COM. It's a ton of bookkeeping.

Worse still, while the Gio layout engine is pretty good at culling non-visible stuff, ultimately the framework doesn't know what will be visible until we're in GPU land, so there would have to be a ton of bookkeeping added to test if, for example, some text was clipped or if things were overlapping.

In practice, the best way to model things would be to just allow the developer to do something equivalent to pushing fields full of ARIA information like in the browser. But now you're losing all the advantages of the immediate mode and layout engine, etc.

It's a lose/lose situation, unfortunately.

I think the real solution is somewhere in the middle. I think screen readers need to grow some OCR abilities, and libraries like Gio need to learn some better navigation tech, like supporting tab, keyboard nav, etc. Something like that.
<rolls eyes>

The problem was re-framed because western industry mostly stopped belching obvious pollution and that framing of the problem did not resonate with western voters who could see that the rivers and sky were cleaner than they'd ever been. It used to be that smog was a feature of weekly weather in urban areas and if your dog jumped in a river 50mi downstream of a textile factory you'd know what color they were making the day before. By the 90s that kind of stuff was cleaned up a ton.

Not everything you don't like is the result of the evil other guys.
> pkgsrc doesn’t have Apple M1 binary packages available yet.

basing this reply on my past experience with pkgsrc (in a netbsd or linux environments though) as long as you can point pkgsrc to a decent compiler and it can complete its bootstrap phase, it'll likely work.
Edited above - the first complaint was for criticizing engineers, the second was saying he was an engineer during the time his license had lapsed. So sure, technically more was involved in the complaint. Effectively, the complaint was about the criticism.
Not yet. The key is to keep adding properties and unlock other deals, eventually Amazon/Apple could convince broccoli in ways MGM never can try. Deeper pockets, way better distribution etc.

It took several deals for Disney to line up MCU fully. They spent a lot on Pixar, star wars and MCU , fox acquisitions to become the force they are today.

Without these acquisitions, Disney would also be largely a back catalog like MGM being sold today .

The theory is that sum of the properties are worth more than each individually.
This can be done in (neo)vim too, and with a bit better precision and less typing.

:g/<regex>/<command>

is the general form for [g]rabbing lines that match a regex and applying a command over them. You can also chain the command:

:g/<regex1>/g/<regex2>/<command>

I'll admit this isn't exactly something you intuit as easily as a drop-down menu, but (neo)vim does have tools for all these things out of the box.
> That's like deferring to people who work in the tobacco industry about what's dangerous or not with cigarettes

It's not a symmetric bias. If someone selling you tobacco or ad spam tells you it's safe, one could reasonably be skeptical. If that same person voices specific concerns, it's more notable for coming from them.
I've had some luck forcing it to use integrated graphics until explicitly told otherwise, but CPUs tend to run hot as well. I have not yet tried new Zen processors but due to power draw I suspect they perform good in these conditions
They also want him to agree he:

The final order requires Marohn to agree that he made an “untruthful statement,” a “false statement,” and “engaged in conduct involving misrepresentation.”
A Press Conference About What Happened to This Morning
SICL is interesting because it aims to be written 100% in Common Lisp. This means no kernels or stubs written in C, and also means that (in theory) any conforming Common Lisp compiler should be enough to build it. (In practice, various compilers end up showing various limitations when building SICL at the moment - building it is a pretty intensive and interesting process.)
Firmware that does not suck?

Because that's something the current "major vendors" really are irredeemably terrible at.
Digital Death Anxiety
>We could really use laws that force, once again, some sort of separation between production and distribution.

Why? We’re not talking about food, water or the environment. There is where laws should be enacted or enforced.
In high school I helped a friend rip up the floor tiles in his basement which were probably from the 50s. Years later I realized I could have been exposed to asbestos, is there any way to know whether asbestos would have been in the particular tiles I was ripping up?
FITT Finder chose FusionAuth and left auth security to the experts
Sounds like a different civil arrangement than I am used to. Is there a link to one of the plants you can send me so I can see the layout? I mostly work on high head run of river plants, but some are an upper and lower arrangement where the trail race of one plant is the head pond of the next
> There's no way to create an empty file

I use a nice little app called New File Menu to do that. It supports a bunch of defaults & whatever other templates you want to create. $2 on the Mac App Store. I’m just a happy user.

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/new-file-menu/id1064959555?ls=...

Website: https://langui.net/new-file-menu/
Reddit works the same yet does not has the same feeling at all except for niche subs maybe.
Twitter is certainly the worst because of the format that drives "low quality" interaction between users. Everybody is yelling at each other, in the hope to garner a few new followers or likes. To me it's definitely the most toxic social network, far ahead of Facebook or even Reddit.

Yet driving that outrage up is what gets Twitter eyeballs thus revenue, so there is an incentive for that platform to generate this sort of behaviour. Twitter absolutely loved Trump presence, they made good money out of him.
this is new (from when I looked at it 15 years ago). good for them to expand beyond their original focus.
Philosophy should have a category of its own. It has only very little overlap with religion and almost none with spirituality. More or at least the same with art, reading, writing, education, history, culture, and science. And it touches most of the other topics somewhat as well.
Exactly. This lets configurations accrete over time and ultimately get to a place where you don't have to think about your changes and they "just work" for you.

I think emacs is more likely to have breaking changes, but I haven't used it a terrible amount, so I can't really say.
Check the facts and think for yourself.

In this case the accusation is that the accused used completely anonymous means to harass the accuser. How the accuser knows that the accused is responsible is not stated.

The problems here seem obvious.
Slack’s search is excellent for me. I use it probably at least once a week to find something important for work. Granted, I’m usually searching for things that I know will be an exact substring match of the message I’m looking for, but for that it works great for me.
Startpage.com was bought by an adtech company. Of course they say they don't use any data from Startpage.com but ...
> Most people know some basics of color theory. [...] And many people know that specific colors are really just wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum. [...] There are many systems involved to turn an RGB triplet value into a specific wavelength of light.

A 5-year old asks you "The Sun is a big hot ball! What color is the ball?". What do you tell them? They ask "And sunlight?" You say?

Most first-tier astronomy graduate students simply get Sun color wrong. A widespread misconception, perhaps first learned in Kindergarten, then reinforced by incorrect textbooks, persisting unintegrated into grad school. But more interesting here, is that first-tier non-astronomy physical-sciences graduate students often answer with some variation on "it doesn't have a color; it's rainbow color".

Confusing wavelength and spectrum and optical color. As in TFA, and discussion here. So I suggest very few people have a firm grasp on even core basics of color theory.

OT (from an email draft in my other window): What if those students had instead learned Sun color correctly in Kindergarten? How might it then have been used over the years, to teach other topics better? For example, color is often taught preK-1. So how might color be better taught, with improved conceptions, progressions, and interactives, building in part on this firmer grasp of Sun color?
> Hell and heaven realms where you can get reincarnated into if you've lived an especially bad or good life

The hells (there are many cold hot and cold hells) and heavens and other realms of the dharmaic cosmology are important metaphors making a lot of philosophical/psychological sense. You can easily tell where are you supposed to reincarnate if you are sufficiently self-aware. Once you practice enough you can become more or less free from the tendencies of your mind which are meant to put you there or there and this will improve your overall health, mood and productivity. You can even realize that you already are living in particular realm actually despite living in the same world everybody else is from the physical point of view.

> Enlightenment is now impossible in this world because it's too corrupt. If you chant enough, this or that Buddha will reincarnate you into their personal realm where you can become enlightened.

Also makes sense: it indeed is very hard (if at all possible) to become completely free from how your neural system is preconditioned to react to what happens around. And if you feel bad about this you better chant than panic or do unpleasant things other religions followers might believe they should to do.

Also, no matter how much mythology does Buddhism contain, that comes packed with very practical and objective goodies, readily available to everybody interested. Buddhists would teach you to maintain mental health and wouldn't label you a heretic if you ignore parts of the teachings or interpret them your own way (unless you start propagating your unorthodox views too aggressively). Isn't this nice?
> I think there is a bunch of entitlement but if it wasn't for everyone being pissy that Freenode isn't just rolling over is just disgusting in my opinion.

It certainly nudged everyone still undecided to move to other networks. And it is not OK to suddenly change the terms on which channels are managed, freenode was chosen by the projects on its merits (history, being a haven for all the other projects, its staff, spam handling, and most of all trustworthiness), and if that changes and the only reason you cannot move is because there is now a new policy telling that you can’t do a graceful move, it is bad.

This is not VC-funded startups competing for the spot on "best smart hairdryer of the week" and using shady practices to get the audience, this is a volunteer-run open network supposed to cater for the FOSS space, and aggressive lock-in is generally not what is expected here.

(heck, I have seen plenty of projects adding "this has moved to gitter/matrix/discourse/etc" in the topic during 15 years I have been on it, without seeing any action taken)
I use my MBP charger for my iPad and Android phone and it works well. Am I in the minority for doing this? Maybe, but my guess is not.
I should have caveated my comment with “screenshots that can be proved to be real”
Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon CEO on July 5th
OpenApoc – open-source rebuild of XCOM Apocalypse
> You don't know that, you assume that.

I don’t have to assume that at all. We’ve got hundreds of accounts of open source maintainers and communities of what happened. Their channels were taken over for mentioning Libera in the topic. No warning was given or possibility for redress before the takeover would happen.

If that didn’t happen like they said, then congrats you’ve discovered a massive conspiracy there. But then again, it should be trivial for anyone including the new staff to provide logs to the contrary.
Hello,

Off topic:
I was not aware of the company called picnic. Their execution of the online supermarket concept seems impressive to me. Unfortunately I can‘t try their service as I’m not living in the Netherlands. I‘ll watch this closely to see their progress. Nice
Social bookmarking site moderation is in need of an overhaul. Moderators have turned into gatekeepers who can’t be unseated.

I’m dreaming of an “old Reddit”/HN-esque discussion board where moderation policies are opt-in. E.g. submit a thread to /r/bayarea, users compete to moderate e.g. ban/censor content. Users “follow” moderators to opt-in to their moderation policies. Basically upvoting/downvoting but for moderation itself.

Even better if a user’s moderation policies could be forked and lightly edited. I even think there’s room for a learning curve here, given how thoroughly social bookmarking sites have trounced traditional media.
No we cannot wear mask because there will be no scientific research showing that masks will specifically reduce the transmission of what you have.

We are science oriented here folks, not a flat earther.

It's the reason Fauci used in the beginning where they didn't recommend masks.

What an idiot. Fauci is fortunate that Trump was a bigger idiot.