skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jesus goes further than "lack of resistance", one of the reasons the people you call "collaborators" (they weren't) were so enraged by Jesus was by his appearance of active support for the "occupation" and him telling them to their face they deserved to have it all taken away from them and given to another people, as for example, in the Parable of the Vineyard.

Another reason they hated him is because Jesus associated with actual collaborators, like the tax collectors.

I am really baffled about how this can be twisted into comfort for people oppressed by occupying forces. Especially the part where he tells them Jerusalem is going to be destroyed and that they’ve earned it! Prophesying the destruction of the Temple and mass death and telling them they’ve earned it is comfort for other oppressed people?

> They thought of Jesus as one of them. Not as a Middle Eastern man.

The whole point is none of them think of Jesus as a man at all. Certainly not evangelicals. What do you mean by this?
And you also have to do neither on linux.

Also, just to compare apples to apples. If you buy a laptop with macos or linux preinstalled you of course have to do nothing because someone else did it for you. Install macos on a dell laptop and tell us how easy that was.
Clarity also claims decidability. It gives up recursion and restricts looping.

https://github.com/clarity-lang/reference/blob/master/refere...
In Austin, TX there was recently a practicing urologist (he has since retired in the last two years or so) by the name of Richard Chopp.
Theft of something that was purchased in a transaction for perpetual use, a digital analogue of physical property. It's not a private company's place to redefine how civil property rights work, to their one-sided benefit.
I am at the same position right now, and have been for a few years. macOS stays out of my way and lets me get on with my work.

That said, a lot of what makes me effective at my work comes from many years of breaking, fixing, bending and molding Linux to my personal and professional needs; from understanding filesystems, their pros and cons, from compiling the kernel with different options; from compiling software from source in order to get an obscure library compiled in so my GPU would be accelerated, etc.

Granted, the entire Linux ecosystem is much more stable these days but those were good times for learning about computers just trying to get your own computer to work. :)
"web3" certainly looks like BS to me. Or, at least, it's just a buzzword lacking any real meaning.

But perhaps I simply don't understand it sufficiently. No matter how many explanations or advocacy pieces I've read about bringing the blockchain to the web, I don't see what the actual value of doing that is. The cost/benefit ratio of it seems incredibly unfavorable.
it's a chair on a string why is it surprising that the line can turn?
Maybe this one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28401224
Today’s mail servers often don’t know who’s in the receiver’s address book or who they have received mail from before. That seems to be an untapped source for scoring on the server site. If the SMTP server also hosts the mailbox, and can access well known folders (Archive, All Mail, Junk) it could quickly decide after the RCPT TO how to react. Options: Slowing down to increase sender’s cost, requiring proof of work (hashcash style SMTP extension), adding scoring information for spam filters, issue a temporary unavailable (gray listing), you name it.

Some have contact lists and email from the same provider and synced to the cloud (e.g. gmail/gcontacts; e.g. iCloud+ email hosting and icloud sync for contacts). One would expect these data sources work together, but it seems that today at best one informs the spam filter of the other, and not necessarily server side. There is potential in moving the smartness to earlier stages of the transmission where the sender is also bearing some of the costs.

JMAP (sic!) is a good step to standardize syncing here. Still think there is untapped potential even there.
I don't want anybody to get the wrong ideea from your post. Linux package managers solved the software distribution problem 20 years ago and are the most stable, feature full and elegant way to ship into production. You have reproducible builds, dependency handling, clean removal, rollback, exepction handling, logs, automated upgrades, etc.

The problem is complex so the solution is not one youtube view away from being understood. Deb packages helped Debian to ship tens of thousands of software packages with frequent updates for years and years with few maintainers.

I am sorry to say this, but calling it a mess says a lot more about you than about the package formats.
I think this is a pretty astute analysis/taxonomy of analysis.

I'm interested in read/study more about: "the broad political-economic or cultural questions: who is participating in, sponsoring, and getting rich off of web3 technologies? What is the particular political or economic dynamic that makes the blockchain attractive? Given this, what will it be used for?", or "the culture, values, and especially the backers of the web3 world."

These are all things to be investigated that don't have a "yes" or "no" answer, but are instead "what's going on and what might it mean.".

The only thing I found myself taking issues with is the author's confidence that the technical issues ("Can the blockchain do anything that other currently existing technology cannot do and/or do anything better or more efficiently than other currently existing technology?") are "difficult to definitively resolve to everyone's satisfaction" but the second category "Will the blockchain form the architecture of the internet of the future" has a simple yes or no answer that will somehow be definitively resolvable.

My own thinking-as-an-engineer reaches the opposite conclusion -- the first category are relatively simple technical answers which can be be evaluated on technical merit, while the second category is future-prediction, political dispute, and narrative choice, and that's what's difficult to "resolve to anyone's satisfaction" with a consensus determination somehow.

Probably both categories are actually a mixture of both.

But what's going on right now is more knowable than predictions of future paradigm shifts, either way. That's actually the main thing I take from OP, let's lessen my interest in arguing about predicting the future, and increase it into looking into "what the hell is going on right now anyway". (Like what are the social and cultural and political factors in the current rise of blockchain interest, and who does it benefit?)
I've heard Singaporeans say: it's not a country, its a company. This regarding the way it is managed.

As the PAP party has been ruling the place since its sovereignty and demonstrations are forbidden, it is quite authoritarian. Every time a other political party grows in strength they find some dirt on the main guy and put him in prison.

The migrant worker thing is disgustingly Dubai-esque.
A stock represents ownership in a company that makes things. The value of the stock is relative to the performance of the company, not the amount of fools available to sell to.

Crypto represents nothing and is backed by nothing other than sunk-cost.
It's not "the" monoid in the category of endofunctors though, just "a" monoid. That also describes Applicative (less powerful) and Arrow (more powerful).
It sounds like he found out about the incidents shortly after each happened, and had them continue the harassment.

The statement from eBay is worded strangely, and doesn’t contradict this.
If all you need is parts you can use bricklink. The prices of sets are not just driven by the manufacturing and martials but also by the creation process. There is a lot of work that goes into manuals, designs and building instructions as well as the customer service around it.
Ha, I'd be open to better names like this. I've seen someone talk to a client before about what a bus factor was when explaining why we were putting together a handover document and you could see the client visibly wince whenever "hit by a bus" was said. I usually go with "if one of us is on holiday".
Fix your diet, eat less. Try going on 1.5 meals a day rather than 3 meals a day.

Take long walks. Increase your body's metabolism without wearing it out.

Reduce sugar, salt, caffeine and other stimulants.
Then as someone else said, stop telling customers and users the exact opposite. I wrote more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29432683#29449389

You tried to sugarcoat this - to pretend like forcing customers to change dozens of cards in December was exciting - and in the process, lost all trust. You could have simply described the problem honestly and transparently.
Interesting. I did a similar evaluation in early 2021 and landed on microk8s as the right balance of features, ease of deployment, and not having to do much hand-rolling or other manual stuff.
Indeed. Or, as the OP says:

> This is not really that rare online, where basically all discourse is subconsciously understood to be people taking speculative positions on various topics (called "takes") against the value of their online brand, but it's particularly acute in the web3 world, where every project and community is blockchain-based, and all of your beliefs can be and usually are securitized into crypto tokens that can rise and fall in value

And also, as I agree with the OP, about blockchain and about our world in general right now:

> But my feeling is also: Why do I have to bet at all?! Why am I in this awful, ugly, unfun casino in the first place?? Is there a way out of the casino?? And if not, can I at least just get slowly tanked on free booze and annoy people with a reminder that the house always wins?
> I don't really consider it to be a serious attempt at a useful cryptocurrency though.

was being widely used for tipping when the lightning network was just a twinkle in btc's eye

seems to have declined for that purposed, but was the reason i have a small bag still. maybe missed my chance to sell at $0.70 but my original $70 bag i got to tip an openra server ended up doing quite nice ;)

someday my doge will hit $1
Well, I am not upstanding at all. I would still vote to convict on that jury for uttering death threats re: the funeral wreath. A reasonable person would reach that interpretation, I think.
Smart contracts are huge in crypto currency and are likely here to stay. Afaik all of the top 10 crypto currencies by market cap have smart contracts or plan to have them except bitcoin and tether.

They power decentralized apps and defi. Without them then a blockchain doesn't have much utility aside from processing transactions.
The thing about companies past a fairly small size is that you cannot reason about them as a group with characteristics much beyond sharing an employer. Are they good people? Yes. Are they bad people? Yes. Are they vindictive, legalistic people? Yes.

With this in mind, I would say that the cake shows that some part of the org is good people. We might consider being careful about how quickly and how aggressively we generalize this. I know where I've been in companies where parts of engineering were good people while other parts of the company had wonderful and bountiful opportunities to become good people.
A bit tangential, but I've always hated how opaque AWS makes the process of picking instance types, since they hide the specs and prices behind layers of complexity, mostly to make it easy for developers to waste the company's budget.

Does anyone know any browser extension for instance to place information inline, such as specs and monthly/yearly pricing?
Well, crypto-exchanges already offer deposit accounts backed with reserves. If at any point the reserve ratio falls below 1 (we don't know if this has already happened), the quantity of bitcoins in circulation will increase as a result of that.
It's a very long way to say "no, I don't want UX to get better, why don't you instead join us and become a linux nerd, from 0 to 100". It also implies these are the things that make Linux good over macOS and Windows, when I can think of a lot of other benefits, including essentially eternal support for a wide range of hardware, the best printing stack (sharing that with macOS somewhat), independence from Microsoft and Apple, extreme customizability of any component of the OS and choice in who to trust with putting together your base system (aka distro).
I don't get it, this is not a house with limited square footage. Discarding is of almost zero importance, in fact, you have it logically backwards because discarding incurs a cost of investing your precious time to make a decision. While retaining only requires you to have an amorphous blob somewhere, a non-event. This is especially true for things tens of megs to a few gigs. Of course not yet true for 4K videos, but we are approaching that point not year by year as cost per TB approaches 0.

By saving stuff, you future proof the high possiblity that it becomes completely unavailable anywhere online and you have the last copy. And you can easily find it by search, I have this happen all the time. In many cases the audio cassettes that accompany an old pedagogic text have been digitized by one person who shares a zip one time and then the link dies forever. Ten years later when I finally free up time to study the material, it will be too late.

The important skill: don't download or even browse crap you certainly won't use within your lifetime. It is a time sink. Develop a strong preference for only looking for things you'll immediately begin studying or have a concrete plan to study in the coming 6mos.
Yup, starting with 1.18 the started blending old chunks with the new ones. Earlier there was a hard transition, personally I prefered the hard cut, there was something to it, something mysterious about it, but I get why they wated it removed
I mean considering the extreme amount of creative liberties in the source material which started as an example of the genre of bios which is both biography and propaganda written decades if not centuries after the death of their subject, was then heavily edited (Origen already complained about that in the third century), before being carefully handpicked and arranged by the Roman church as a political tool, a bit more creative liberties would not change much things.
Related: a review of a recent history of Singapore [1][2]. The PAP was ruthless in its push for total control.

[1] https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n06/thomas-meaney/the-ba...

[2] Archived: https://archive.ph/RfIDP
> And in most places, electric cars take petrol out of the car, and instead, see things like coal or natural gas burned, to make the electricity to charge them.

This is true, but also a good thing, while you present it as at best a wash and possibly a negative.

Coal powered EVs are better than gasoline ICEs in most situations, and nobody has a 100% coal grid anymore so the benefits are even greater. There's lots of reasons why but the main one, which is relevant to this conversation as well, is the inefficiency of ICE compared with electric motors.
What did you expect from people who ruined "crypto" by using it for only one kind of system of which cryptography is only one element?
> You didn’t mention the lack of a good theory for tree diffs/patches here. Is that because you think there is a good theory or because you think not having a theory doesn’t matter? Or just that it wasn’t worth mentioning?

I'm convinced there is a good theory. Moreover, since line graphs (i.e. totally ordered bytes in a file) are just a particular case of trees, that theory could even be implemented in the same way Pijul is now, where the "easy" case just means blobs linked together.

But I'm also convinced that there are so many edge cases that I wouldn't want to even start considering that before Pijul sees some real-world usage at a decent scale. If everybody misses the point and ends up preferring Git, then why even bother?

> though I don’t see that behaviour with operating systems. Perhaps they are considered too sacred or something.

I guess everybody sees how they would start to write a VCS: just read files, maybe write diff, imagine some datastructures to store that, fix the bugs and problems, that's it. Fewer people can see how to write operating systems, and even people who follow hobby tutorials immediately realise the complexity of handling all the hardware.

> I think most programmers aren’t stressing enough file systems enough to find that they are sometimes buggy and hard to deal with accurately and efficiently, and if pressed might mumble something about calling fsync.

That's right, but on the other hand if you look at the "massively parallel, structured filesystems", called databases, the space is tiny:

- There's a multi-billion-dollars company (Oracle) built at a time where nobody wanted to write fast databases.

- An academic project (Postgres) which grew extraordinarily slowly, and somehow managed to survive as a research platform, funded by public funds.

- Two single-author projects led by extraordinarily motivated people, one of which isn't meant to support concurrency (SQLite), and MySQL/MariaDB, built because there was no affordable, non-experimental database solution.

- Recent years have seen some progress funded by giant companies like Google for their cloud infrastructure, but we're not yet seeing many CRDTs in production.

The same goes for theory-based programming languages: both Haskell and OCaml have barely survived for 20 years before being used at massive scales. Rust has had a slightly easier time, but not much easier, despite being supported by Mozilla.

Yet, most engineers would consider databases "basic" technology, because they use them a lot, and (quite fortunately) don't need to implement them to build on top of them.
Well I can see that now someone has a hiring problem in the near future.
What about the good old nslookup? Or it is no longer good, just old?

P.S. apparently, nslookup uses its internal resolver, instead of the system's (as dig does). Thus it has been deprecated for some time to avoid confusion [1]. Not sure if anything has changed since.

[1]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/93808/dig-vs-nslook...
"The Sea Peoples are a purported seafaring confederation that attacked ancient Egypt and other regions of the East Mediterranean prior to and during the Late Bronze Age collapse (1200–900 BCE).", interesting. I think the author is convinced they were Greeks, then?
I’ve been loving FIG terminal! The auto complete is lovely.
I made a video exploring underwater caves in the new worldgen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OusWYZ3yWW0

They seem to go on forever.
So mega bloks isn’t much of a competitor?
I think Parler drank so much of the kool-aid that they thought they were "true patriots and no true American would dare be de-platform their website". They're ideologues not pragmatists.

Kara Swisher had a very interesting interview with their CEO, John Matze. Its a good listen.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/opinion/sway-kara-swisher...
It makes me wonder if there’s a way to put together a standard rider that overrides those clauses. Then it just becomes an exchange of paper to sign.
As I recall the original conception of the web was such that it was inherently browsable _and_ editable (the first web browser was also a WYSIWYG editor). After people forgot about this and subsequently rediscovered an easier form of publishing user-generated content via web apps (PHP) "Web 2.0" took off. Ever since then I've used "Web 3.0" as a casual tongue-in-cheek reference to emerging web technologies and concepts; I never thought I'd see it seriously applied to technologies like blockchain and asymmetric key cryptography.
They are and they keep getting hacked and losing millions of “dollars”

Here’s the most recent (that I’m aware of)
https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2021/12/2/22814849/bad...

They never learn their lesson
> But blockchains do introduce a technical capability that never existed before: shared, “trustless” access to and control over data.

But that's not a new capability. You can do that with existing tech. At most, it seems to me, what blockchains introduce is convenience, but it comes with a pretty heavy cost in terms of computational resources.
On the other hand, the "bus" scenario makes it very clear that it's the worst case that's a) not planned, b) no, you can't just call them anyways, even if its really really important and c) not something you can wait out until they return.
> Now I'm more convinced than ever that it's better to pay the price of an owner leaving

And it's also worth to pay the price to get the owner to not leave. So many companies seem to think penny-pinching is worth it, or only start giving out raises when actual attrition starts going up and many more people are already invisibly in the process of quitting.
Which "inalienable right" applies here?
4660 Nereus
https://www.spacereference.org/asteroid/4660-nereus-1982-db
So you want in the extreme to package a distribution as unikernel?

Or add a binary launcher in front of a squashfs image of a live distro?

Something like that could be done with AppImage I guess.
The vast majority of contracts opt out of the working time directive, and the stated hours are about reasonable expectation - not contracted hours.
This was an interesting article, but I found this editorial warning a little odd:

> Please note that this article includes images of human remains.

I don't think I've ever seen a warning like this before in any anthropological publication, or even in a museum or exhibit. I can't say I've ever found looking at skulls to be particularly weird or shocking, especially if they are extremely old. But, is this a warning that people or the general populace are requesting or feel is necessary? Or, is it purely an editorial decision?
I believe Matrix spaces are very much like Discord "servers".
I keep wondering where all those millions invested in NFTs (fairly insanely, it seems to me) are actually coming from, and one plausible potential answer is "all those rich people web2 'created'" who now have more money than they know what to do with.

I don't think they are somehow separate things in that or other ways, as if "web3" is like some new counter-power to "web2".
With < 5% marketshare? It was probably more the publisher (news companies) and marketplace revolts (Facebook) that checked Google, not Mozilla.
They also made a (bad) typewriter after lego released the lego ideas typewriter.
Not to mention that "how Hollywood works" is seriously problematic as it is. I'm not sure it should be replicated.
A BTC wallet is infinitely more user friendly than a banking website that only works in chrome xor firefox and constantly locks you out for reasons they don't want you to know about and severely limits your transfer sizes. If you do EFT and wait between 3 and 10 days each time, even bitcoin is better than this.

Centralized web is horrible and dead. Literally _anything_ is a better alternative. The user can be convinced to adopt superior tech even if he does not explicitly know the problems. It just has to feel better.

> it doesn't need to be technically elegant, but user-facing elegant.

dont worry bro. the "set user = happy" voodoo dance has already been done. every cryptocoin wallet is a browser plugin or mobile app with 90% of code for themeing with all the bugs and slowness smartcrap/web users are accustomed to. you are even discouraged from rnunning yoyr own node