skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a challenging article. To paraphrase, it suggests that a suite of religious practices have been shown to have real world benefits. The author suggests that scientists should overcome their personal allergy to religion and instead trust the data. He suggests the compromise of rejecting the "theology" of the religion, presumably because it is "unscientific", and instead focusing on the empirically observable physical social practices.

I agree with him, but suggest a few further considerations. Wouldn't a truly open minded scientist be forced to consider that the real world impact of religious practice is evidence (not necessarily proof) for the causal effect of something that is outside of empirical measurement? Only a mind that has the improvable a-priori belief in physicalism could reject this possibility. A commitment to physicalism is not itself provable by science, and therefore is merely a religious belief, although it is disguised and subconscious most of the time so we don't notice.

And how does he think that we can decouple the "theology" of the religion from the practices? Could a hall full of strangers start swaying together like in the Jewish Shuckle, feel the same unity felt by the synagogue? What came first, the theology or the swaying? This sounds like a cargo cult mentality, where by imitating the behavior of the rich, you, too can become rich. Even if it worked a little bit, it's hard to imagine that it could become popular or last. I think team sports played in Stadiums is the best imitation we have so far, and even that is only sustained by a narrative ("your" team "battling" an "enemy" team).

It would be interesting to see if an idiosyncratic hodge-podge of different rituals cobbled together from various religions could ever work. As far as I can tell, that is exactly what New Age religion is, and that is far from impressive.

The way forward is to stop and re-think the blind philosophical pre-commitments of our day, which are a slowly eroding set of modernist beliefs from the Enlightenment era. This gave us a dualistic world view, with the complete separation of a "spiritual" and "physical" realm. As science is built to only examine the physical, it naturally produces confirmation bias that there is no "spiritual" and gradually we went from dualism to believing only in the "physical". It is this erroneous background assumption which leads us to misunderstand what scripture even means when it talks about heaven/earth and angels and other "spiritual" beings.

https://thesymbolicworld.com/articles/how-the-scientific-rev...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXOdlIXDsr8&t=0s
They can pay for data, too. Your sentiment isn’t enough if you want to impede their access to data.
The point is what I do shouldn't be hard at all. Two phones with wireless radios. Why can't they transfer data peer-to-peer? They should make it easy to do that.
I believe some of the Ubuntu ones would occasionally just not recover correctly, some kind of video-card issue most likely.

In any case, Win10 did not signal VirtualBox to save state -- or else didn't give it enough time -- so I would occasionally come back to my office to find everything I was working on gone due to some mystery-reboot that I didn't recall scheduling.
A lot of CD players in the early 80s had real flaws that impacted audio quality. It wasn't until the early 90s that digital audio (and CD players) were reliably good.

This article describes a lot of the problems with early DACs in the 1980s: https://www.stereophile.com/content/pdm-pwm-delta-sigma-1-bi...

> But they didn't go for the Burr-Brown solution of adding an adjustment pin to the converter chip, prescribing the use of an external trim pot, and praying for constant temperature.

Yikes! Some early CD players' sound quality was temperature dependent!
The value system (and its underlying philosophical premises) which is being perpetuated by the society in which those areligious people live was crafted by religious tradition.

> Additionally, for most ordinary people over many of the thousands of years in question, participation in the dominant religion of the time and place was compulsory.

This is kind of a weird statement; for most of human history there was no line between religion and culture. So if participation in human culture is "compulsory" then I suppose you are technically correct, but then your statement is vacuously true.
Remember when Google left China. It's not a pipe dream to expect a strategic choice against working for a tyranny. (Yes, it is unusual. We can hope to make it less so.)
I'll be a bit more charitable to this than I normally am. We're all polarized to the point where this sort of talk is normalised enough that he might not even instinctively think of it as condescending.
I too feel the same way.

I think that's because not everyone had access, inclination or capability to access all that. Speeds were way lesser, bandwidth wasn't unlimited, most people were still on CDs and were more keen on converting them for the MP3 players.

Now that everyone can listen to all the music at any time using user-friendly apps, maybe it isn't as rare anymore.

Nowadays, everyone's on the internet, practically all the time, with everything standardized, be it interfaces, commerce or buzzwords/jargon.

From 'The Incredibles' -
>> If everyone is special, no one is.
“ society needs to accept that free-will is an illusion “

The funny thing about pushing the ‘free will is an illusion’ argument is that it sounds exactly like a faith argument.

How is one going to ever prove that free will does not exist when most of us are running real time experiments during most of our waking hours.

For some reason, the universe gained consciousness even though it could have outputted zombies that would never argue whether they are not zombies :)
I'm not a big fan, but it is interesting/exciting/terrible/wonderful that you can use document.write as an lvalue, if you wanted to have it do something else.
Yep, in addition the other part that helped me understand was how it encodes eval for actually executing code. Details are on this line, https://github.com/aemkei/jsfuck/blob/1f02651e98da1c13aef76d... , and details of that are:

1. [] => An array object

2. []["flat"] => The built in flat function on the Array object

3. []["flat"]["constructor"] => The constructor of any JS function is the Function constructor, which can take JavaScript, as a string, as its sole parameter. Thus, to create a function that executes any CODE_AS_STRING:

4. []["flat"]["constructor"](CODE_AS_STRING) => gives you the Function object, and finally:

5. []["flat"]["constructor"](CODE_AS_STRING)() => executes it

Thus, all that's left is to encode the strings "flat", "constructor" and CODE_AS_STRING using the patterns described early in that file.
Decyphering something like these was a part of so many job interviews
Here's a good response by Monty from Xyph: https://web.archive.org/web/20160304013821/http://people.xip...
I’m pretty sure it was still there when I went a few years ago!
I think it would be more accurate to say that hierarchical organizations make it easier for sexual abusers to hide, with the Olympics, sports, Hollywood, government, industry, academia stories we hear every week.
Most important: don't give your phone number to companies! It is used to link your activity across sites and apps.

You of course can't get an Apple ID, a Google Account, a Twitter username, a Discord account, et c without giving a phone number. There are several good reasons for that but the biggest one is for identification.
Why get a warrant when you can just use tax/printed dollars to purchase the data?

Turns out the Constitution can’t protect us from businesses selling our data the the government.
I don't know about Andriod, but Apple has had this for a while. You just put the phones next to each other on a good wifi network. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210216
Maybe that was so, but this was Neil Young and Steve Jobs introducing uncompressed audio in 2012, not mid '80s, so neither one of them is making sense. As I linked elsewhere this is Monty's response: https://web.archive.org/web/20160304013821/http://people.xip...

And explained via Video: https://www.xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml
> All raid. Your odds of a dual fail failure are too high.

These two sentences are in conflict. There are RAID modes where the failure of two drives is recoverable. You probably know this, since you mention one of them in your next sentence. But maybe you don't realize that RAID 6 isn't the only way for an array to survive the failure of two drives, especially if the failures aren't simultaneous. You should read up on some storage systems beyond traditional hardware RAID and ZFS; there are quite a few interesting ideas out there you should open your mind to. Btrfs would be a great place to start your investigation.
I just searched back in my old files and found a simple C program that I wrote and was last modified in August 1981. I just now tried compiling it and although it threw up some warnings about return types and implicit declarations, it compiled fine and seems to run fine.
>This is your problem, and GNOME's too: GNOME doesn't own the Linux desktop.

I'm sorry I have no idea what you mean. This is not about the Linux desktop, this is about GNOME. If you don't want to support GNOME then there's no reason to discuss this, because it doesn't matter, you can keep going about your way and you don't have to care about them. Am I missing something here?

>The status quo on GNOME should not drive protocol standards that impact the entire Linux desktop ecosystem. Why should GNOME's fairly isolated status quo be the burden of every application or app toolkit developer?

They aren't, and they don't? I'm extremely confused as to what you're talking about here. This again is about what you would have to do to support GNOME. Not any other Linux desktop.

>The inverse is a burden on the compositor. There are far more apps and app developers, and even toolkits, than there will ever be Wayland compositors.

This doesn't matter because the issue here is how to make apps that aren't broken. Some things simply cannot be fixed in the compositor, they have to be fixed in the app, and this is one of them. I sympathize with your concern and I wish it wasn't the case, but sometimes app developers have to do some work that they don't want to do.

>Because you will get a vendored copy of libdecor. In a runtime like the Steam runtime, you might wind up attempting to load a version of libdecor linked against an incompatible libc if you try to use the system version. This is not a problem that would occur if a protocol were used instead.

That isn't how flatpak works at all. You don't use the system version, you only use the vendored version, and you do that specifically to avoid that linking problem you mentioned. Also libdecor does use the protocol so I have really no idea what you're talking about again here, sorry.

>libdecor also has the potential to create other problems.

Sure but the problems there would be exactly the same as they would be if you did it all in the server, so libdecor is not making it any worse. The only difference is that the code moved to the client.

>If GNOME cared about what experience was good for the user, they would have cared about the fact that the Wayland compositor they shipped into production runs many games with missing window borders because of their own initiatives and sway within the Wayland ecosystem.

Well I'm not sure if you saw this part in my previous part but those apps are broken according to the xdg-decoration spec. It has really nothing to do with GNOME at all. All Wayland apps need to provide fallback window borders if they want to work correctly in all situations, if they don't then that's a bug.

>The user experience in GNOME is genuinely worse due to this strange insistence on moving a problem from one location to another.

I don't see why that concerns you if you're not a GNOME user and you have no interest in supporting GNOME. GNOME can deal with their own problems, if that causes them to lose users then that's something only they have to care about, not you.

Continued...
Commercial promotions don't belong to the hn frontpage
WW2 was 90% Christians killing Christians. People forget how easily the powerful can manipulate the poor to kill themselves.
I have late 80s DOS utilities I wrote which I still use semi-occasionally, and some slightly newer (early to mid-90s) Win32 ones that see regular, even daily use --- the same binary works on Windows 10. I still have the source but I don't remember the last time I fixed a bug in any of them. The modification dates are all closer to the turn of the century than now.
That doesn't fix the issue of the copyright holder being incorrectly identified. A musician uploading their own music should not have to give up their revenue to a company that holds a copyright on a different recording of the same public domain score.
My first remote job was full of people calling me up, introducing themselves, helping me out. They showed me not only what was going on in the company and the code, but also how to communicate remotely.

I'm sure not everyone has that same experience, but that means there are problems with team communication, not with remote communication.
What is there to research? It seems obvious that people don't trust the authorities to have their best interests at heard when the authorities offer suggestions.
That’s what some people believe about politics and political parties, which is why China banned different parties:)
> Secular philosophy has failed to produce enough value for ordinary people living ordinary lives

Consider the situation: you want to get an abortion. Or you know someone who does.

I don't think I need to spell out the debate. But the secular world view is producing value for people who don't want to be afraid that they will spend literally INFINITY TIME being tortured. (And arguably it produces value for the religious, who do utilize secular services even when their religion forbids it).

The secular world view offers you freedom from judgement, both mortal and immortal. Many people find value in the freedom to not worry about superstition.
How to train large models on many GPUs?
It only just now occurs to me that Senuti is iTunes backwards.
Archive.org earliest reference I could find to audiogalaxy satellite is from august 2000: https://web.archive.org/web/20000815233144/http://www.audiog...

While napster's from 1999: https://web.archive.org/web/20000815233144/http://www.audiog...

So, I think you're right. Strangely wikipedia agrees with my first thought... Maybe someone should fix it.

EDIT: audiogalaxy satellite came after napster, but audiogalaxy had a mp3 since at least may 1999.
For sure, and also normal non-superstar age-related high frequency hearing loss starts to make a big difference.
IP theft or not, the entire tech company was hit very hard around that time. Telecom was especially hard hit. Nortel was hardly unique. Disclosure: I'm in that business, work for Ciena which now owns one if the remainders of Nortel. Opinions are mine.
Sycamore Networks: From $45 Billion to Zilch:
https://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014241278873239261045782...

Telecom's big fall:
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2002-04-07-02040600...
> front-end

> no screenshots
That's some serious home bias.
It doesn’t derive anything. The word had a different meaning before XX century. Modern usage is to weaken the statement, the closest I can immediately think of is „possibly”. On chyba śpi = he possibly sleeps.
'Got thirteen channels of shit on the T.V. to choose from.

I've got electric light.

And I've got second sight.

And amazing powers of observation.'

from: Nobody Home, The Wall 1979 by Pink Floyd

And today even less home with even more shit.
It's valuable to bring those concepts to the fore. Easy to say it's not novel but what is? But anyway this was 5 minutes of your time.
Well, the interesting thing is that the blind philosophical pre-commitments of our day are dying off, as the religious are the only ones having replacement rates of children. Darwin was right.
CD's are now to most, an artifact, like cassette tapes, and getting thrown out. You can find remarkably good classical and jazz CD's at thrift stores now. I have expanded my musical "vocabulary" quite nicely, thanks to the trove of discarded CD's the new listening public can't bother with.
2028 will be the year of Linux on the desktop, so…
If 8 drives is safe with dual parity, then significantly more than 8 drives would be safe with triple parity, right?
The guide was last updated in 2001. At that time, GameFAQs only allowed plain text guides to be uploaded. The guide's author did not choose to write manually fully justified plain text instead of rich text with graphics – they chose to write manually fully justified plain text instead of left justified plain text.
> some religions place much higher importance on rituals than on their believe systems

I don't think any religion actually puts belief systems anywhere below the highest level of importance, because any ritual is always predicated on a belief system that gives it meaning.
Flying by the Fat of the Sea: the secret of shorebirds’ marathon migrations
>Napster, in many ways, gave birth to BitTorrent, Bitcoin, and all of the derivative work thereof.

You say that, but before Napster, there was Seti(?), a program that would search for extra-terrestrial life - by distributing the work load on top your personal laptop
Flexible !== awful
“This is the most interesting interview question I’ve ever walked out on”
The politics of today are in the context of the most un-religious America in its history.

Whether that is related is left as an exercise for the reader.
The provisions you describe are a minor inconvenience compared to the sweeping provision that criminalizes circumvention of anything that could be construed as DRM
> BRTFS-raid2 seems to be good for up to 8 drives if that is your use case. But there is no easy upgrade path to that 9th drive. You should not be running less than 3 drives for any data you care about.

What the hell? Can you please clarify what you mean by "BRTFS-raid2", since that's not a term that has previously existed and BTRFS does not have any functionality remotely similar to the long-obsolete traditional RAID2, and none of the RAID functionality that BTRFS does have has any limitations or safety thresholds for going beyond 8 drives, especially not the RAID1 mode (which is the most plausible thing your raid2 could have been a typo of).

If you have an 8-drive btrfs RAID array, going to 9 drives is as simple as `btrfs device add`, optionally followed by a `btrfs balance start`. Neither of those will reduce the redundancy of any data stored in the array. And I can't see any reason why you're suddenly talking about 3 drives right after talking about 8 or 9 drives.
UC Berkeley used packet shaping to make Napster slow as molasses if you were downloading from someone outside the UC network (or Stanford because we had a direct connection to them). So you basically kept retrying till you found someone who was on a UC network connection and then noted their username so you could hit them up again next time.
> There are hunter gatherer bands roaming around the Amazon right now. They seem to exhibit at least as much "upstanding behavior" as the evangelicals sloshing around the US.

Considering how violent are cultures of hunter-gatherers, I’d say that they are much less morally upstanding. But, they provide a good data point here: the hunter gatherers are typically highly religious. It’s just their religions are pretty bad at creating positive societal outcomes. Not all religions are created equal in that aspect.

> Scandinavia is fairly secular and has many nice attributes, the US is off the charts in terms of religion, violent behavior, gun deaths etc.

If you look at the reality instead of aggregated statistics and packaged narratives, you will find that gun deaths in US very much are not of the charts in places where religiosity is off the chart. If anything, these two things are negatively correlated: the more religious a place is, the fewer gun deaths (despite no scarcity of firearms among the religious).
> Pretty much everything of any complexity that has been built to date, in human history (including software), was built with synchronous communication (not to say things aren't written, but things are ALWAYS discussed).

What about open source projects like the Linux kernel and git? As I understand it discussion primarily takes place on the mailing lists, which are, by their very nature, a form of asynchronous communication.
This is indeed done with a warrant - a gag ordered one.

The ones done without a warrant are a tiny fraction of the ones done with. The "burden" of getting a warrant is almost purely token at this point. The agents write some stuff "based on my knowledge and experience" and describe the who and the why and the what, and the judge rubber stamps it. There is no real consequence or penalty for misstatements of fact in the warrant application, and frequently the basis for the probable cause is simply wrong. 100% of the signed warrants I have seen contained obvious and blatant falsehoods.

It's pretty much a rubber stamp either way.
what was that service in the post-Napster world, it was sort of exclusive, very well curated (so to speak), you needed an invite to join, even music industry insiders used it, described by Trent Reznor as the "world's greatest record store"... till it got shut down.

I think it used a pig as a mascot. Then there was an even more secret attempt to revive it

OiNK! FOUND IT!

https://nymag.com/news/features/42391/

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/01/oink-founder-fre...
>Not every application needs a UI toolkit. There are also a lot of UI toolkits. Now many of them struggle with the fairly unimpressive task of displaying a window with reasonable looking borders. That's not a good user experience, and it's certainly not a good developer experience.

Sure, but if you don't use a toolkit then you need to take care of the missing pieces on your platform, in the case of Wayland one of those missing pieces is window borders. If you're a toolkit developer and you can't implement window borders, then I would suggest not advertising your toolkit as having complete support for Wayland.

>I really do have a lot of opinions regarding what you are saying, but I'm honestly running out of steam on replying to each point blow-for-blow because it feels like I already expressed my point and the reply is just what I said but inverted.

I'm sorry if this seems rude but both your opinion and my opinion don't matter and I don't care how you feel about this. That's nothing personal towards you. We're just two people having an informal conversation, it's just not helpful for us to look at it like we're trying to sway each other's opinions, so don't feel like you have to convince me of something or rebut my opinions. If you feel you don't want to support a certain type of decorations then that's perfectly fine, I'm happy for you to carry on doing that. But the technical reality of the situation and what that means for the challenges you may face is a different discussion from what you or I feel, and clearing up the technical stuff is all I'm interested to discuss.

If you have some other technical things to present then please do that, otherwise you're right that there is nothing more to discuss here. I'm only typing here to correct some misconceptions that I saw you had about the whole situation with libdecor. I find that most people who are upset about the situation don't really understand it fully or missed some key piece of information. I usually try not to do it point-by-point but it's really hard when you list a lot of points. However it does seem that a lot of your statements are stemming from a few initial misconceptions, so I can summarize that if you want.
I think that’s true. See also, the Loudness War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war). It doesn’t matter what tech you’re using if the final master is ruined.