skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Christianity didn't "hijack" Christmas or Easter--those were patently Christian concepts;

You're arguing that no culture celebrated that days are finally getting longer in winter (e.g. complete with family gatherings and evergreen trees), and that no culture had spring/fertility (rabbit!) rituals, millenia before Christinity? Don't be ridiculous. Christianity came, hijacked those established celebrations, and rebranded them. Simple as that.

>I mean that I don't think "modern Western morals were significantly derived from Judeo-Christian values" is particularly controversial among Atheists.

Well, you think wrong then.

>Atheists have faith in lots of things from various political ideals to the belief that God doesn't exist,

You have a very loose unreligious view of 'faith' then. Do you need 'faith' to trust that you won't just float away when jumping, do you need faith that the sun will rise again tomorrow? I don't.

Not believing that God exists is not in any way a larger leap than not believing in Santa Claus or Harry Potter. I wouldn't call that 'faith'.

>even your apparent belief that religious minds are feebler than those of Atheists is an article of faith.

I never said that. But now we're getting closer: At the core, are you saying that your 'faith' then is nothing but insinuating and lying?

> "religious" vs "atheists" isn't a useful taxonomy for virtually anything.

You're barking up the wrong tree then - religious people should simply stop doing that. Why do they feel so threatened and keep bringing it up again and again? I've never heard of an atheist crusade that goes around giving people the choice between not believing or being killed. That's just ridiculous. No atheist goes around banning and burning books. Why do I find bibles in every hotel room, but not 'A brief history of time' or 'On the origin of species'? The only true religious freedom is freedom from religion.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/701478
For all the Germans here: ZDF Magazin Royale just yesterday did the show on Peter Thiel: https://www.zdf.de/comedy/zdf-magazin-royale/zdf-magazin-roy...
It seems like a quantum effect of our consciousness, 'putting the ideas into words changed them'. It's a perpetual chase after wording, and when you reach the post, it's already far-off again. This thought sheds some insight not only only on semiology and systems of symbols in human language, but into what I've been learning writing poems, and why it's so much fun to do it, I think, because the goal of the expression is changed, or heightened, by the act of reaching or moving to it. So it's sometimes, or very often for certain comparisons, more involved than programming, in terms of working memory.

On the topic of essay writing, the book Writing Under Pressure: The Quick Writing Process is a 60's university professor gem and fully informed me as to how I approach writing (and reading) nonfiction, anything which has an argument, a thesis, points to make. It turns the random churn of paragraphs into a pragmatic scientific method.
For travel nurses, jobs at home can't come close to pay they get on the road
I think people will generally read the log up to one day in irc/telegram/discord. Log of one day in these type of applications can be thousands of messages in a big group. Require everyone to read every message before sending a message is just unrealistic.
My experience with sse is pretty bad. They are unreliable, don’t support headers and require keep-alive hackery. In my experience WebSockets are so much better.

Also ease of use doesn’t really convince me. It’s like 5 lines of code with socket.io to have working websockets, without all the downsides of sse.
The latest BBC nature series Green Planet has lots of excellent time lapse videos of all kinds of plants, well worth a watch.

There are some clips available on youtube, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM-Ilh2lHZk
And you (probably like him) are going to miss the difference between theory and practice on this. His idea here is a good one. Explore and chip away at that 100% agreement thing when you see it.

Problem is he strongly appears to be the type with the dumb ego that can't distinguish between genuine "dangerous 100%-ism" and merely "being disagreed with by a lot of people."
OK but it shouldn't be necessary to know what's going on under the covers of your source code control system.
On Managed Services and the Market for Self-Managing Services (2019)
Gitlab tends to work with multiple developers working in a single repo where branches are pushed and the command to integrate the changes from one branch to another is git merge.

Github tends to work with forks - where each developer is working in their own fork. When the work in the fork is complete, since it is a different repository than the original one, in order to integrate the changes the command to invoke is git pull.

The difference reflects how the typical developer works with integrating changes on that hosting solution.
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Yes, its exactly like that - and that's fine. That is how they are designed and intended.
Forgive me if I put no stock in your opinions on tv quality when you don't watch any.
The Linux Foundation is not the vendor for Linux. "Vendor" here refers to the Linux kernel community and how it acts when security issues are discovered. That is, if you want to be pedantic, it's Linus Torvalds and everyone under him.

It doesn't really matter that it's not a legal entity, just "whoever is responsible for fixing the bug and releasing the fix officially". In security we call open source projects vendors because they act as such just like Apple would.
I'm not clear from your description whether you are your own boss. If so you could try working for someone else and see if that helps with procrastination.
elephant in the room: discord is another set of closed network protocols with a lot of centralized/multicast/relay servers. And it is free as in free beer: the discord ppl were granted tons of money. Where those tons of money do come from? From the usual blackrock and vanguard funds or their proxies? This is probably public information, but I have not looked into that.
If I want to interact with ppl on discord servers: either I have to build a google(blink/geecko)/apple(webkit) browser (which I don't and won't), or use their linux proprietary "app" which expects a massive distro with tons of big deps. The steam client is very far from expecting as much from a distro than this app, and they are both, roughly speaking, packaged/librar-ized google blink engines (libcef).
Why something that much toxic for internet can "succeed" (or make a lot of noise): it is insanely easy to use, provides full voice/video calls and more, and is free as in free beer (yeah... massive free bandwidth at a worldwide scale!!).

How to do the same with "open and sane protocols" and not force ppl to use a google/apple based browser?
Well it is super ez:
1 - get massive amount (I guess at least as much as the discord guys) of funding to make all the servers and bandwidth free as in free beer, worldwide.
2 - if you get 1, we'll talk about 2...
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There's something fascinating about plants, creating living organic matter from just dirt, water and air. It's like alchemy!
Can you explain how H2 would make it harder to scale SSE?
While I am intrigued by the tease of what kind of secrets could possibly have been discussed, this piece comes off as kind of try-hard, an excuse to flex that David took part in a private dinner with his #1 hero.
So you're just saying that he might be dangerous because of his ego, not necessarily his ideas. Y'know, I'm not going to disagree there.

But taking that big ego for granted, a "search for hidden secrets" is still one of the most socially productive ways you might use it for. Jumping on the bandwagon of a dubious social consensus can be a lot worse.
Wouldn’t you want to stay copper depleted? I don’t follow.
That actually done quite well compares to other message apps. The search query can be multi tags (text content, author, mention, is a file, contains link, before date, after date, at which channel) applies at same time. If you know what did you want to search, you can probably find it quickly.
At least with IRC, many would run bots which made channel logs available somewhere that could be indexed by a search engine. Doing the same with Discord will earn you a TOS ban.
From the POV of most of the folks working on OpenBSD most people are idiots. It's sounds like snark, but I'm trying to make a point here. There are umpteen OS for beginners (Ubuntu, TinyCore) or power users (Arch, most of the others) but OpenBSD is mostly for OpenBSD developers. They have been dealing with "idiots" who don't get that for years and years now, and part of their attitude is (IMO) just a heuristic for keeping out the riffraff.
That's a reasonable plan, although I'm not sure I perosnally agree about the utility of the blockchain there either, but it's not totally insane, I can see it maybe.

People are paying billions for NFT's without that in place though, and I'm not sure how many of the people buying and selling them are aware of or have even thought about that scenario.

So what do we take from that?
The author understands that and is writing for a crypto enthusiast audience that mostly does not understand that. That audience, and even people just tangentially interested, refer to categories of miners as their own terms that are loosely based on the architecture that supports them.

“ASIC” doesn't mean Application Specific Integrated Circuit to them, it means “super fast specialized mining computer that isn't an FPGA and also cant do general computation”

It is a new but decade-old context, so its not worth prefacing that anymore.
I think the majority of Ionic apps have been built with Angular, which I believe has had a fairly clean upgrade path. The React and Vue binding are newer but both aren’t to hard to upgrade (ignoring the vue2-3 transition, Ionic only ever supported 3)

Plus, with Ionic in contrast to the majority of JavaScript frameworks, you are using one built by a company where the framework is the core business. They have a long track record and sustainable business. They aren’t going anywhere.
I'm not familiar with NixOS, so can't argue there. However:

/lib/systemd and /etc/systemd make perfect sense to me -- /lib/systemd is what the package installs. /etc/systemd is the admin overriding what's in /lib. That's a perfectly fine solution in that the admin's modifications apply cleanly on top of whatever the package installs, and works nicely with package updates. Installing files into /etc is troublesome.

Stuff like PropagatesReloadTo exists because there exist things that are built from multiple cooperating units that need such measures. The vast majority of things don't need anything more than a 5 line service file.

One file for the dependency graph? How would that work, and why would that be a good idea? In systemd, the service declares what it needs. Why would I want to manually go mess with a file after installing some third party service to tell the system what that service needs?
This is interesting. Do mangoes grow true from seed? I have some apple trees grown from seed and they’re effectively ornamentals. I suppose I could ferment and distill the fruit, but I’m certainly not going to eat it.
It's not Premiere. That might sound flip, but Premiere is a learned skill and I have yet to discover really compelling reasons beyond price (which isn't actually that expensive) to use Not Premiere. From a feature perspective its workflow options are sub-par; for example, it doesn't directly interface with After Effects. AE Live Templates in Premiere alone has saved me hours of time rendering out of After Effects. And AE, too, is not optional; while I like AE a lot less than I do Premiere, it sticks because--and there's a theme here--nothing else really does what After Effects does while integrating into an NLE. The ecosystem matters.

I think Resolve is fine if you don't know other tools or your needs are small. I've used it in a pinch before when I didn't have any other options, it's totally usable. And there are some tools (grading, obviously) which are absolutely top notch, and if you are in an all-Blackmagic recording stack I can definitely see some benefits to ease-of-use when, say, pulling video recorded from an ATEM Mini and some Blackmagic cameras. But it's a limited editor with limited compatibility with everything else in my workflow and those of the folks I know.
Have you ever watched a YouTube video?
If you don't trust the site author, why would you trust something they've written in their own site?

My idea of trustworthy documentation on this sense would be an escrow or something like it.
If I had a couple billion dollars Id probably think I was better than the vast majority of people. Lets be honest though the vast majority of people are morons, I cite the last two years as evidence. Its not hard to be better than that.
@pytest.fixture
def libfact():
yield CDLL("./fact.so")

FWIW that's pretty confusing as it gives the impression the library is reloaded for every test, but iirc dlopen() will just return a handle to the existing one. I don't think ctypes has a good way to unload dlls so it should probably be `fixture(scope='session')`.

That gets more relevant when on-the-fly compilation is added to the mix, spawning a compiler for every test is a complete waste of time.
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> free alternative platforms like Liberapay do exist (still growing, too)

From the front page at liberapay.com:

> We currently support processing payments through Stripe and PayPal.

Not free, not alternative.
For mobile, if you ask me, the only sane cross-platform strategy is what Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile [1] intends to do: portable business logic, and leave the UI aspects to each platform, keeping them native.

Both Android and iOS have been making strides in simplifying DX for composing expressive UIs. It only makes sense to use those new Android Studio/XCode features as they come.

[1] https://kotlinlang.org/lp/mobile/
You’re thinking of the Executive Producer title, which indeed often just means their name is attached to the project to attract funding.

But each production usually has a single actual producer with great authority, traditionally including final cut in Hollywood: if they don’t like the finished movie, the producer may hire another director to shoot more footage and re-cut.
> My experience is that SSE goes through anti-viruses better!

Hmm, another commenter says the opposite:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30313692
My main problem with Discord is its atrocious way of handling logs.

There's no (that I know of) to export channel logs from Discord, nor to log to an external text file.

That means that if I'm interested in something that was discussed at some point in the past, I have to either use Discord's crappy search feature, or manually scroll back and manually scan through text to try to find what I'm interested in.

Discord's scrollback is slow and painful.

By contrast, IRC logs are just plain text files, so I can use powerful regexes or a plethora of text search/manipulation tools to work with them, and scrolling back through text logs is super fast... especially in a decent editor like vim or emacs.

I also own my own logs, and don't need to be connected to any server to read them. Reading/searching through logs can be done completely offline.

If Discord decides to ban you or some channel/server you're interested in goes down (permanently or even temporarily), you're completely screwed. You'll never get the information you're interested in out of it.

The only substantial advantage of Discord I can see over IRC is inline images (which are often just an annoyance, but can sometimes be useful) and voice chat.

Other than that it's bloated, opaque, and a worse experience for me than IRC.
I just have to say I absolutely love this title.
To push back a little on this “it’s not that deep” line of thinking - maybe not in this case but certainly in the past when colours were rare and expensive - “i ran out of green” is something an artist with a patron or a wealthy background would be much less likely to say - while another artist with less sound financials might be constantly running short of green.

The colours used by an artist can hint at their financial position, it is certainly influenced by the science of pigments at the time, and even global trade patterns, extreme weather events in the past, war, etc.

I ran out of green can mean different things depending on circumstances. Some of those things are pretty interesting. Sometimes even a not that deep reason is actually pretty deep. :)
In ELI5 terms:

What is a VNA?

What are some exemplary, common things I could do with it?
There is no way for a blockchain to magically know how owns the copyright to a work. Multi-year court proceedings are sometimes necessary and people still don't agree.

It is shallow criticism that often amounts to no less than "blockchain bad because it can't do that magical thing".

NFTs cannot solve this, and therefore don't want to. Once you accept that, they work perfectly fine for their actually intended purpose!
Your article is about religiousness in general, while the problem with HPV prevention is specific to a few specific denominations.
How strict is the definition of “literature”? Does it include religious texts? Political texts? Scientific texts? Philosophical texts? Is science fiction literature? All of these have changed history.

Things like Shakespeare and canterbury tales and those in other languages have modified language and blurred stories and politics. So I assume these count?
See, I think the pedantic technicality is the other way around -- that is, saying "Well you're watching this movie on Netflix on a big screen, so that counts as TV." It feels a bit like mocking someone for claiming that the New York Times isn't a novel when they're both things you read off folded paper in your living room. When people say that watching Netflix on a big screen in the corner of their room isn't TV, they're using 'TV' to refer to a medium defined by a fixed programme of highly-scheduled and localized broadcasts. I think that's a much more useful definition than "TV is what you watch on a big screen in your room", because that medium has very unique and distinct features, frequently contains very different types of content, shapes its content differently, and is often consumed very differently. Why isn't going to the movies or playing Charlie Got My Finger on your phone counted as watching TV? Is it the screen size? The location? Or the difference between playing a specific video you've requested and tuning into a schedule of programs being broadcast to the entire region?
It should automatically send first party cookies, though you may need to specify withCredentials.
Hey thats true, is that happening? From my understanding people are also re-uploading the images their newly deployed NFTs point to
USP, Unique Selling Proposition, a term I'm shoehorning for wan of a better one.

Different USPs, or pseudo USP as it's a weak U, more a network effect.. The USP of Facebook being closing a circle Facebook controls around you. Of Reddit being indexable/discoverable communities/interests, of Stackoverflow focused, transactional answers. Of Twitter being bullied into change from their earlier premise to serving bigmedia noise. Of Discord wasting users time for the reward of 'being part of..', that's their USP and Discord would die without the waste time through repetition that holds membership (for now).
You do require email and mobile authentication text message on sign up.
Interesting. I’ve switched from Sketch to Figma, because Sketch was unbearably slow.
Getting Root on Linux Amplifier Adds New Inputs
Things Delta told the SEC about its SkyMiles program
I went to the original paper (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.74263...) and this graph of their data: https://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/742639/fevo-09-74...

Long story short I've got some concerns with their analysis. To me it looks like the difference between now and the recent past is mostly just increased variance with a lot more brains on the smaller side. (This is more visible on the graph on the left, where the data points start to fan out as one gets later).

3000 years is also quite recent, and if this is a true effect I'd wonder why it would show up the same way in the Old World, in Australia, and in the New World, each of which were genetically isolated from the others for much longer than that.
No, it's not something you can take for granted. Ever heard of Vowpal Wabbit? It's one of the big old libraries in this space. Now read the first sentence of its landing page and compare. Good luck remembering what it does, or even just its name.
Some details for why in the discussion thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28166646
Good old Quark 4. Good memories of that applications
I have unwittingly 'violated' their terms a couple of times and, in both cases, received an email and notice to make the necessary changes within x number of days. They don't specify what the violation is but, in my experience, they don't require 100% compliance either.

Seems your case hasn't resulted from standard manual checks but some sort of automated sytem that was, maybe, triggered by a sudden spike in traffic?

If amazon affilliation is crucial to you then I would suggest moving your site to another domain, take on board the comments about adding blog-style content, and try again with another account?

In all honesty, all usual amazon complaints accepted, their affiliate program, in my experience, is actually run pretty fairly compared to many others. Certainly worth trying to get back on board.
> The thing which drops out of the problem is the notion that advertising need be irritating and intrusive.

Doug Adams is funny even when he's not trying to be.

He ignored that the "river rules" no longer apply.
Maybe I've been a bit unfair and I should give it a go, I just had so many bad maintainability experiences in the JS world that I was just staying away from it if I can.
Very few people seem to be aware that PayPal does in fact provide micropayments that have dramatically lower costs for low-priced transactions. Over at ardour.org, a large chunk of our income comes from US$1 transactions, and using PayPal for that saves us US$0.23 per transaction!

However, the friction is still too high for this to be a reasonable implementation of what you're asking for.

It is also harrowing to think about the roughly 25% reduction in income that we'd face if PayPal dropped this fee structure at any point.
That's just an appeal to authority. You're essentially claiming that the question is unanswerable because Douglas Adams-- a funny and insightful author-- said so. Meanwhile, I'm quite sure Frank Herbert would talk at length about little details of his characters and goings on in the Dune universe.

Hell, even Linus understood this-- see the "s is sad" commit[1] from a four-year-old and Linus' relevant rant[2].

It's delightful to me that the world's crankiest operating system maintainer is more willing to entertain trifles than a fiction writer!

1: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/20/255

Edit: clarification
I would argue that all timeline-based communication tools are black holes for information.

How much knowledge has been lost to IRC channels, chat conversations, forum threads, and so-on?

Yes, many of us have gotten good (or even excellent) at parsing through threads to find the nuggets of information that lead us to the understanding we seek, but it’s clearly not the environment that information wants in order to thrive.
Alternative to XD? Figma for ux/ui design + basic prototyping, Framer for slightly advanced prototyping.