skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Bible" isn't really one book, and trying to read it as one is ... messy and hard.

It's a convenient collection of a whole bunch of short books.

I'd think reading individual books would be a better approach.

Story books: (written as narrative, can pretty much be read as is, just with lots of historical context need for some "wtf?" And "why is that a good thing?" Moments) Ruth, Esther, Jonah, possibly Mark and Acts.

poetic stories: ( narrative content, but expressed in Hebrew poems, so form and patterns etc more than just reading for the story) parts of Genesis, Job, parts of John, and Revelation.

History (biased, but still intended to be read as history, contains lots of individual short stories): Parts of Genesis, Exodus, Joshua, Judges, The Samuels, Kings and chronicles collection, some of the prophets, Luke, Acts...

"Wisdom literature" / poetry: Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, song of Solomon...

And a whole bunch of prophecy, laws, other stories, collected letters to people, and a whole bucket of misc.

Genesis & exodus, as a "ancient Israel primary establishing narrative" maybe a good start if you want to read a whole bunch of the Bible. But then skip and read some stories from later on in Jewish history, try reading some of the more famous Psalms, perhaps with some of the commentaries about them, to see what people believe the meanings behind them are, etc. Checking out some "Bible history timelines" may be helpful too, to get a grasp of when and why different bits were written, and to whom.

Reading about Jesus' life, the four gospels basically cover the same stuff, but written to different audiences, with slightly different emphasis (writing to Jews who knew their religious history, compared to writing to non-Jews living in Roman context who were still investigating this new thing, etc). John is kinda poetic, Mark is all about the action, Luke is trying to be methodical, and Matthew brings in a lot of expected past knowledge of things)... Reading them and comparing them can be interesting to see the different perspectives, but any one of them is enough to get the basic idea.

After Jesus, Acts gives the continued story, what the early church did. And then most after that is letters addressing specific people and circumstances. Reading them as "blanket rules for all ages" without knowing who and why they were written, knowing about the context, what was already the culture at the time, etc, makes them really easy to misread parts as endorsing things our culture does differently, compared to critiquing the situation at the time... I guess that's true of all ancient literature.
Unsurprisingly, "krk" is also a Czech word, meaning "neck". We do like our vowel-less words.
Let me explain how civil conversation works. You put forth an assertion, and usually, a good response has a counterpoint, seriously or in jest to show you that your position may have not considered the whole thing.

When you draw an absolute line saying drug abuse has no victims, I laugh and point out other “crimes” that do and by your logic are thus different and must be banned.

Now, if you make another point about “forcing people to buy from violent underground marketplaces”, this is where your original comment becomes entirely irrelevant and you’re projecting some unsubstantiated paranoia of yours as a factual argument.

These are addictive substances. Many if not most of them leave permanent psychological scars and inhibit normal human functioning in ways that, unlike naturally occurring substances such as coffee are considered DETRIMENTAL to societal health and safety. By limiting exposure of society to synthetics or dangerous drugs, we limit their harm.

Your argument seems to be everyone in the US population wakes up everyday thinking “where can I get five ks of that sweet sweet Birria” ?

Stop acting like a dickhead if you don’t have any experience with rehabilitating the victims of these idiotic policies you’re proposing and go outside your moms basement once in a while.
Look into psychohistory.
Study demonstrates universal human ability for logarithmic spacing of numbers
"Summary: The ability to map numbers onto a line is universal. But for an Amazonian tribe, this mapping is not linear but logarithmic. The finding illuminates both the nature and the limits of the human predisposition to measurement, a foundation for science, engineering, and much of our modern culture."

The original title ("Slide Rule Sense: Amazonian Indigenous Culture Demonstrates Universal Mapping Of Number Onto Space") is too long for HN and doesn't mention the (to me) most interesting thing of it being logarithmic; so I came up with this title but would welcome a suggestion of a better one.
> We really need an open source alternative to Photoshop. I just don’t know if gimp will ever be it.

I guess it depends on what you need it for. As someone who's a software developer and occasionally dabbles in video game development or some very basic design, GIMP is perfectly suitable for what I need. I actually haven't used Photoshop in years and don't really feel like anything at all is missing for my use cases.

Things like sometimes creating images for my blog posts, or favicons for my sites. Or touching up photos or removing some details, or maybe creating some textures for a video game/visualization. GIMP is just there and works well enough. For even more basic (or batch) processing, I'd also recommend XnView: https://www.xnview.com/en/ or IrfanView: https://www.irfanview.com/

That said, the quality of FOSS software is all over the place:

* since the UI/UX revamp, I'd say that Blender is one of the better and more high quality packages out there, what FOSS *should* be like
* software like GIMP, LibreOffice and Kdenlive take a middle spot: fully functional, decent quality, good enough to be a daily driver
* software like Inkscape and OpenShot are at the bottom of the barrel: only workable if there are no alternatives, bad performance and unstable, bad UI/UX and so on
Well obviously the correct answer is to abandon the von Neuman architecture and start processing in memory instead of burning more and more watts.

"Each UPMEM PIM DIMM contains 128 DPUs each communicating at 1GB/s with their 64 MB of memory for a total of 160 GB of PIM memory. The DPU is a 24 threads, 32-bit RISC processor – with 64-bit capabilities – working at 450Mhz (soon 600Mhz). A dual socket cascade lake server totalizes up to 2560 DPUs while the upcoming Ice Lake platform will welcome up to 28 PIM DIMMS, that is 3584 DPUs."
> open source as a whole sucks at building products, but is great at building infrastructure.

Yes, but Android? When companies promote OSS products, they become successful.

> totally orthogonal to building "a good product that people want to use"

An OSS product will not end up on shelves with glitzy packaging for people to buy unless some company burns money to do that. It's not a fundamental law and OSS isn't orthogonal to anything.
Thanks for that. I have to agree to being surprised. I've just looked on maps from my last Sydney office, for some comparison: There's a McDonalds at 377 George St and at 600 George St, both about a four minute walk. There's a third inside the Westfield which would have its own bathrooms. KFC is three minutes away with bathrooms.

The Marble Bar is a 3m walk, Century Bar is 5m, Ryan's Bar is 9m, Burrow Bar is 5m, and Papa Gede's is 3m. All of this excludes the mass of pubs and clubs that shutdown due to lockout. I definitely feel out of place with what you've shown me!
Because Brazilian fascists are pro-monarchy. Go figure ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yes exactly, your chosen option is to disconnect France from the shared grid (calling it "regulation" doesn't change anything).
They charge ~€0.70 to use the public restrooms around here. They are always clean.
Capital 'P' and 'T' and period after 'study'... ;-)
> or trying to find a coffee shop that will let you use its restroom

In Italy all the public business like coffee shops ("bars") have to let free access to the toilet by law, even if you don't buy anything.
Sorry, I had made a mistake. Wanting to create a major key starting with D# would end up looking like D# E# F## G# A# B# C##. The ugliness is even more stark.

- two double sharp keys
- F## to refer to G, C## to refer to D, B# to refer to C

Yikes.
(reacting to your writeup)

- gvfs might not support ws-discovery for smb discovery, but neither does macos. They both support dns-sd/bonjour/zeroconf for that; so getting up avahi up and running with advertising the smb service is the easiest way to handle both. Synology does this OOB, for example.

- gvfs is not an implementation of samba. It is a frontend to libsmbclient library from the samba package. Unfortunately, libsmbclient does read smb.conf and adjusts itself accordingly, without the consumers of the library having a say in it. The best way to debug gvfs problems is to start with empty smb.conf.
Nonsense. You can 100% copy ux of a product. There are many mac apps that closely replicate Photoshop (affinity, pixelmator, acorn)and none of them were sued by Adobe.

Also i think Photoshop is intuitive mainly because everybody is so used to it. Gimp just has very bad ux because they cant colectivelly agree and unify the ux. If the ux was very different but very good it might be even advantage but now its lot worse PS.
Libriscv: Basic Vectorization with V-Extension
For me, it's not so much a question of speed, but one of comfort.

The longer key travel helps with avoiding bottoming out once you're used to your keyboard. On a short-travel keyboard, where keys are basically "either fully up or down", I don't think it's easy, or even possible, to not bottom-out.

This also allows keys to not need so much force for actuation. Whenever I switch from my mechanical keyboard to my 2013 MBP or HP laptop (with a similar kb) I always miss letters because I don't press hard enough.

I honestly don't know whether I type quicker or slower on a mechanical keyboard. But speed has never been a limiting factor in my work.
I'd rather install the Amsterdam-style urinals than download another app
> it was clear from the post you challenged that the criticism was about lack of new ideas and commentary especially that countering safe narratives

Not sure what thread you were reading - the one I responded to said it was impossible in general to get anything new published. You can see hundreds (thousands) of new published works every year. They moved the goalposts by then saying that they only consider publishing to mean critical work.
They can have those interests for sure.

That doesn't mean their interests are the same as mine.

I'm not ukrainian, or russian, whatever the outcome of the conflict won't really affect my country unless we go out of our way to involve ourselves in it.

If staying out of it results in cheaper gas at the pump for me, then that's what we should do.
Whoa, I didn't know!

Now I'm wondering if I was told wrong 50 years ago, or if this is new research?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well-Tempered_Clavier#We...
Because it's a service the business is performing for the public and they should be compensated for it. It also makes it easier to opt out and reduces the regulatory burden, which benefits small business.

McDonald's and Starbucks etc. will have no problem figuring out how to qualify for the tax break and jump through the hoops to get it. Then the city gets hundreds of new public bathrooms that they don't have to maintain for minimal cost.

A small mom and pop bodega or flower shop or whatever that barely makes a profit might decide it's not worth it. If it's a requirement, that business just ceases to exist and the city is deprived of it. If it's optional, they can still operate, and the city doesn't end up a homogeneous wasteland of corporate brands. They just don't get a tax break, but if they're not making much money, they probably aren't paying much tax anyway.
ADJUSTMENT LAYERS, ADJUSTMENT LAYERS, ADJUSTMENT LAYERS (as Steve Ballmer would've put it).

For now I use Krita because... Well, adjustment layers.
Sometimes you call a G as F double-sharp.

I don’t think of it as ugly. It’s just what happens sometimes. Like if you start in G# minor and then use the leading tone. It’s way better to see F-double sharp than to see two different Gs fighting each other on the page. And it’s even worse to have to decipher those awful chromatic systems that are all painful to read.
The proposed solution in the article would not be pleasant for Earth.

Also as someone who has seen firsthand the failed attempts at bioengineering a continent, I'm utterly terrified of what geoengineering could do to a planet.

Humans are not good at foresight or the law of unintended consequences.
sdf.org doesn't exist, according to Firefox. What is with these websites that can only be accessed by Chrome? And how is that even possible?
People think co-ops are a hippy thing but MasterCard was a co-op of financial institutions:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastercard

I'd suggest many corporate open source efforts, like AV1 or Android and Linux are similar structures and follow a similar pattern of one corporation having an early dominance, and the other corporations facing the choice of standing together or losing individually.
> Use a language rather than a tool if you need the flexibility

The problem with a fully fledged language is the flexibility. There is enough of it to make a mess unless you and your teammates are highly skilled and disciplined. Messy code sucks to deal with, debug, modify; let alone when it's infrastructure code where a wrong logical loop can delete your database or persistent volume.

Infrastructure as code, not with code. DSLs, with their limitations, ensure there's a lot less you can shoot yourself in the foot with, and that everyone vaguely familiar with that DSL can read your code and be absolutely sure what it does, worst case scenario with a Google search or two. No such thing is possible with code in a language as complex and as flexible as Ruby, Python or JavaScript.

Disclaimer: i work at Hashicorp that happens to have one of the most popular IaC DSLs out there, but i have believed that tools like Pulimi are little more than a disaster waiting to happen long before joining.
Astronomers discover potential “water world” that could support life
I read an article about students using shared Google docs to chat in class and (to me) it sounded a lot like the experience of communicating with others connected to the same remote host.

I wonder if the Google Docs experience has an equivalent to the joy of discovering new systems and connecting to them and discovering new societies. I fondly remember some ephemeral connections made to the odd insomniac grad student or bored admin through those methods.
The UK is very different from continental Europe. Your statement isn't quite valid.

The EU has had the BMD reform in the past where education systems were standardized to a bachelor-master-doctorate three-party system.

To get to a PhD, you need first a bachelor (the name usually varies depending on the country, e.g., it is called a license in France), then a master.

That's the very common pipeline there. Doing a PhD without a master is a rare thing.
reference please

to my knowledge google indexing api is still whitelisting only (if not jobs search) and yoast does sitemap.xml update & ping.
D# would be extremely rare. I’ve only ever seen G#, and that was a temporary modulation within something larger.

Most people write “x” for double-sharp, instead of ##, in order to match how it looks on a score.
Maybe I'm weird, but what's difficult with Samba as an AD DC, with multiple sites or trusts? It seems easy to me, all you need to know is on the samba wiki.

The biggest "problem" is that distros do not ship Samba packages with DC support, you either have to use 3rd-party build like Tranquil's or build your own.
At least here, the heatpump and installer availability seems to be the biggest bottlenecks.

I'm not looking forward to it, but I may end up having to install (ground source) heat pump myself (assuming it will be delivered this season at all- quote delivery date was June).
Here, you get a voucher that you can use to get your money back and can use it in the business the bathroom is located in, or in one of the nearby businesses.
There's a really great opportunity to create monumental goodwill here at negligible financial cost. If 30% of gross traffic is crawlers, and half that is wasted, then that's a cornucopia.

Slice off a few percent of the savings to make the crawled/pushed/IdenxedNow pile free for the public to supplement other archival efforts, train ML models on, use for small-change operator recovery, seed torrents of public-domain content, etc. and I'll call it fair. All the (relevant) actors involved are so heavily peered that they could store it on 8TB M2 sticks and it would vanish into the noise of 1/6th of gross Internet throughput.

My initial instinct was to be all cynical like "great, a new model for SEO competitiveness that locks the heavy-hung dark fiber incumbents deeper into the fabric".

But I'm trying hard to be more positive and there is a really positive outcome here.
I agree. Also every software engineer should have written a compiler, a scheduler, a device driver, a small kernel, an IEEE compliant floating point library and a 3D raytracer in their free time between 30 courses by the time they have completed their degree! /s

Writing a filesystem from scratch is something I would expect from a full 5 years degree entirely dedicated to operating systems, not a generic SWE curriculum
> Companies don’t need an alternative to Adobe. The licensing costs are a drop in the bucket.

You are ignoring non-profits and countries foreign to you.
The above-ground landscape reminds me of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
Psychological Problems of Interplanetary Travel (1975)
What Is a Cashless Society?
I’m responding to this part of the parent’s post: On all fretless instruments, including most bowed strings and the human voice, enharmonic equivalent notes still have different pitches. The subtle differences in intonation is incredibly important and noticeable on the violin, for example.
Is it a business model? How much would I have to pay to use a restroom that’s been kept spotless by a well-paid, well-protected maintainer? What would it take to prevent the worst abuses and misuse by paying patrons (flinging, smoking, assignations, camping out, etc.)?

If the problem of where everyone can go is hard, why not at least try to solve the problem of where people willing to pay a lot can go? Lots of empty storefronts in downtown SF right now. $5 or even $10 a go could be cheaper and quicker than buying something I didn’t really want in some restaurant just so I can use their restroom.
Hey, why's the machine so slow? Oh, Frank is running a kernel build.
Isn't there a setting in nautilus for the thumbnails? I can't test it at the moment unfortunately as my server's SSD died recently and I haven't set up samba again. I remember it working, but being slow depending on the type of file. I guessed at the time some files seemed to need to read the entire file first.
That’s nonsense. You have wheels. It’s easy to go 100% and not get much in return for that extra effort.
Probably GIMP. Last time tried to use GIMP, I spend about an hour trying to work out how to remove an alpha channel without also applying it.

I could clearly see the image I wanted in the red, green and blue channels. But because the alpha channel was filled with full transparent, all I could see outside of individual color channel mode was the checkered background. Deleting the alpha channel or converting the image format from RGBA to RGB just erased the entire image to black.

I eventually found the solution in the eraser tool, which had an erase alpha mode. I had to set it to a really large size and go over the entire image.

Would probably have been faster to just write a script in python.
> I am aware of "gimp" as a derogatory term, but it pops up so infrequently, its primary connotation for me has become this piece of software.

This is also the way our language perception generally works: The word is just the signifier, a variable. The meaning, the significate, is not inherent in the word itself.

If enough people say "gimp" and mean the software, that becomes the default inference.
What is missing? Germany doesn't have LNG terminals, so obviously they're not on there. LNG is regasified to export to Germany through European countries that do have LNG terminals. Much of the increased LNG import is going to Germany.

I'm not sure where you're expecting natural gas in gaseous state to come from. It's generally transported in LNG form unless there's a pipeline (like between Germany and Russia). There aren't a lot of those connecting Europe to gas producers outside Europe, which is one reason why we're in this mess.

LNG imports to Europe are up significantly compared to before the war. The link shows that. I feel like you don't really understand what's happening.
>Central banks do a pretty good job of tuning the knobs that steer GDP or inflation towards the direction where they want it to go.

We'll see.
I don't know why you're downvoted. My son had to really do a pee (he was 3-4?) and the staff at a grocery store wouldn't let him use their bathroom. I asked: "do you really want to clean pee off the floor, because that is his next option." They told us to leave so I had him pee on the inside of the front door and we left, never to return.

Edit: we had a cart full of food doing proper grocery shopping, we weren't there to just to use the bathroom.
I know every comments on HN should bring something to the discussion, but there is nothing to add here. 100% agree, US should have been sanctioned for the invasion of Iraq (and much more).