skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Christmas celebrations far predate the conversion of Scandinavia. The early Christians in the Roman Empire were celebrating Christmas on December 25 since the second century or so. It was officially marked on the church calendar in the fourth century after Christianity became the state religion of Rome.

There isn't much evidence that the solstice involves major celebrations predating Christmas. Whatever small celebrations did happen may have been appropriated by Christians, which makes sense given the persecution they faced.

I'm all likelihood, the date December 25 (winter solstice) was chosen as being nine months after the celebration of the Annunciation on March 25 (spring equinox) where the Virgin Mary was told she would give birth to Christ.

Throughout the history of Christianity, Christians have incorporated local traditions into our rituals and festivals, but placed into their proper framing and order (i.e. the one God is the source of all creation and is goodness). When Christianity came to Northern Europe, the church incorporated Yule festivities, placed into the proper order with Christ at the center and not the old Norse pantheon.

The arguments about Christians actually celebrating pagan holidays are from certain (usually) Calvinist reformers who had a revisionist interpretation of various Christian traditions, and felt they had debased Christ's church. The Puritans in England, for example, banned Christmas after they took power in the English Civil War, which suppressed the holiday (at first legally, then culturally) until Charles Dickens essentially revived it in the 19th century. Today, atheists have simply appropriated the Calvinist arguments for themselves.
svelte’s 2 way data binding is only within a component, and actually is 1 way if you look at the compiled output. very different than say angular, and pretty much equivalent to what you manually write with setState calls.

this is such a common misconception i feel like we should put this in the FAQ somewhere. people are fixating on the wrong thing when they go “oh ho 2 way binding bad”. its local and its compiled away, its fine.
Less than 99.9999% of encryption is for piracy, so no, the reasoning isn’t transitive from torrenting to encryption.
Blue-light blocking glasses have helped me with this.
1) The 9 € ticket wasn't about CO2 reduction, it was about providing cheap(er) public transportation for the masses.

2) Even 10 billion is not really much money for a state like Germany. If the 9 € ticket, or a successor, would be rolled out permanently you'd expect savings in different areas which could make up for the additional cost of a subsidized ticket. Make the ticket 30 €/month and you'll only have a third of the costs left.

3) Sounds fine to me: People who would normally not be able to pay for a train ticket were able to do so, enjoy what they could reach by train and have a nice summer. I don't think there's anything bad in this, especially for people with a lower income.

What this "experiment" clearly showed is:

- Make public transportation easy and cheap to use and people will use it

- German public transportation massively lacks capacity

You might call it a "hoax" but it showed that we're just as bad in public transportation as we are in broadband internet access. Politics didn't do anything to improve this situation in the last 20 years because gas was cheap and everything else was fine, too.
A long term consequence of using an ad blocker is that ad networks only show ads to people who don't use ad blockers, who generally speaking are less tech savvy. The ad networks respond by tailoring to them, and writers who are funded by ads shift their writing towards that audience.

Matthew Butterick describes the effect much better here:
https://practicaltypography.com/vote-with-your-wallet.html
I'd guess we'll see mid to large scale electrolyzer plants pop up in many locations throughout a country as soon as the build out of PV on roofs of private houses (also everywhere else) leads to daily overload on the electric grid.

These electrolyzers will then take up the excess electricity and convert it to hydrogen as seasonal storage and thus stabilize the grid.

Additionally, you'd combine these sites with either fuel-cell or hydrogen powered gas turbine plants, to then generate enough electricity when PV generation cannot meet demand.
In my part of Michigan ballots are still done on scantron sheets. Its the best of both worlds--paper trail with high speed input. And the equipment is cheap(ish) and bulletproof--its been battle tested in generations of schools with non-technical people using it.

Also, talk about a return on investment for the guy that bought it for $7.99 on Goodwill and sold it on eBay for over 1k
Indeed it was :)
No, the vast majority of encryption is not used for illegal activity.
> "Nobody has any inherent right to my attention."

Nor to your Internet bandwidth which you pay for and which on some providers is a (artificially) limited "resource" they'll charge you extra for if you use "too much" of it (unless they're like NetZero back in the day, delivering you free Internet in trade for forced adverts)… Nor to potentially compromise the security of your network (as has happened in the past due to some "shady" advertising networks delivering malware)… Nor to interfere with paid content (as happens on some streaming services which still show ads despite you paying to view the content).
Dude order RAM on the internet, it shows up where you live, you manually put it in place. What's the difference between that and downloading RAM? Like it's not literally the matrix with your spine plugged in, not yet at least. Everybody wants that matrix, like everybody is trying to essentially return to the womb.

That's the thing about the matrix, it's a womb. Like the thing is the idea humans can be used as batteries is backwards, totally energy inefficient. Forget about the batteries. Think of the robot war, very overlooked. Get them not to fight, and then? Your services are no longer necessary.
Apple doesn't believe in software that exposes their users to content outside of their walled garden.
This is actually something I am planning a plugin for, just like we have for Twind.
> when Russia does something to protect their border, ooooohhh, big bad russia

That’s funny, I didn’t realize that Ukraine was inside of Russia’s borders. I thought it was it’s own sovereign country.
Thumb up for function signatures!

I slowly switched from Perl to Ruby for writing my own text processing scripts. A loop with <> is very convenient but I was using Ruby for work (still do among other languages) and Perl for nothing. I was forgetting how to do stuff in Perl.
Model Y Earns 5-Star Safety Rating from Euro NCAP
On that gene editing...

(background on C3 vs C4 plants) https://ripe.illinois.edu/blog/difference-between-c3-and-c4-...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3075750/

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2021.71539...

https://innovativegenomics.org/projects/improving-photosynth...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/can-w...
I wouldn't expect cryptography to need much unsafe. I've never worked in the area, but I expect code mostly falls into 3 domains: parsing, "business" logic (negotiating algorithms, checking certificates/signatures the right way, etc.), and actual crypto algorithms. I see great benefit for Rust in the first two domains. In the algo domain, I don't see how memory safety adds anything as memory issues are an insignificant problem. And there are big challenges like sometimes needing constant-time impls, etc., and how to do that without always having to dip down to hand-written assembly for each target platform. No language I know of provides help in getting bitslicing right, for example.

Again, Rust is great for an awful lot of code, but we should still assess Rust's memory safety claims against the data structures code where you often need to disable the borrow checker. An awful lot of people only use safe wrappers around well-tested unsafe code, which is great, but the unsafe code is still being executed and may still have memory "unsafe"ty.
The argument I've seen against rent control is that it limits supply and ends up driving up prices. I don't have a moral problem with rent control, but I wonder what the negative externalities are in terms of affordability to folks trying to enter a market.
I'm pretty excited about this. Geometry shaders have been a poor fit, but mesh & task shaders seem poised to replace them and be much more performant (if also more complex conceptually).

For those unfamiliar (reorganizing a bit for clarity):

> A new, two-stage pipeline alternative supplements the classic attribute fetch, vertex, tessellation, geometry shader pipeline. This new pipeline consists of a task shader and mesh shader:

> Task shader: a programmable unit that operates in workgroups and allows each to emit (or not) mesh shader workgroups

> Mesh shader: a programmable unit that operates in workgroups and allows each to generate primitives

> [Mesh and Task] shaders bring the compute programming model to the graphics pipeline as threads are used cooperatively to generate compact meshes (meshlets) directly on the chip for consumption by the rasterizer. Applications and games dealing with high-geometric complexity benefit from the flexibility of the two-stage approach, which allows efficient culling, level-of-detail techniques as well as procedural generation.

> The mesh shader stage produces triangles for the rasterizer, but uses a cooperative thread model internally instead of using a single-thread program model, similar to compute shaders. Ahead of the mesh shader in the pipeline is the task shader. The task shader operates similarly to the control stage of tessellation, in that it is able to dynamically generate work. However, like the mesh shader, it uses a cooperative thread model and instead of having to take a patch as input and tessellation decisions as output, its input and output are user defined.

> This simplifies on-chip geometry creation compared to the previous rigid and limited tessellation and geometry shaders, where threads had to be used for specific tasks only, as shown in figure 3.

- https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/introduction-turing-mesh-s...
I suppose it's all relative. Sure, it's not slot machine or [any recent lootbox game] levels of vile tricks, but come one, it's free-to-play. Of course it's trying to keep people hooked. I also know multiple people who had to cope with Dota addictions ruining their relationships and lives (although I do happen to know quite a few game devs, being a programmer living in Malmö, so that's a skewed demographic of gamer-oriented people). At the very least there is a vulnerable segment of society that should avoid these types of games.
It can even be implemented in consoles version of the game.
list of real tech companies using svelte:

https://twitter.com/sveltesociety/status/1260209026563858432...
Thanks. I have to look this up every time (I'm in the UK) so for those like me, 5th graders are aged 10-11 normally.
I scoured articles trying to understand this, too! Is it simply the intersection of money/free volunteer labor and politics where money just wins?

On the other hand we have something similar in the USA so who am I to judge? :)

One party in our two party system appears to have lots of Russian connections now for some reason, and this does not bother most of their supporters which has approximately 45-50 percent of the population behind it. In past years this would have led to claims about treason or something similar from the same party, the path from Nixon to now it appears the only change has been how public the cooperation between the GOP leadership and countries openly antagonistic to the USA, i.e. Nixon/Kissinger with North Vietnam, Reagan/Bush with Iran and Trump with Russia.
Yes, it was a tech demo for some internal projects. I maintain the framework itself, but a lot of the work in other parts of the Deno system (Deno Deploy, Deno CLI) that are related to Fresh are done by other folks on the team :)
Yeah, I make recommendations on Reddit fairly often. I try to provide enough detail to make it clear that I’ve actually used the product in question, hopefully that helps separate my posts from those of astroturfers.
I was missing a flag which appears optional but breaks, I needed `--precision full` otherwise black square.
Wow, y'all need to put some affiliate links on there and you've got yourself a revenue stream. I'd consider it appropriate compensation for the value add you've created.
This exists, in a way, but it's not all in one place

This one comes to mind:
https://hackernewsbooks.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12365693
This was never more clear to me than when I read Mazzucato's "The Value of Everything" and then, immediately after, Krein's "The Value of Nothing".

It looks like math, feels like philosophy, and the aftertaste is one of bitter selfish persuasion.
AWS "just" runs linux but this is using unikernels tho ?
I made a summary of this article, because I found it a bit hard to read. I used GPT-3!

Here's the summary:

The author is saying that people who write about productivity are, in a way, the devil, because they convince people to do things they hate. The author is also saying that these people are not literally the devil, but are just as bad.

The article argues that humans are not "naturally" lazy, and that the feeling of being a "lazy piece of trash" is actually a result of the unconscious mind doing its job. The unconscious mind is only able to communicate with the conscious mind when there is a problem that needs attention, which can make it seem like the unconscious is lazy. However, the unconscious mind is actually responsible for solving a lot of problems without the conscious mind even realizing it.

The author is talking about how people who are successful often have to eat a lot of frogs (do a lot of things they don't want to do), but that doing too many things you don't want to do can lead to burnout. The author suggests that people should stop and think about what they really want to do, and not just do things because they think they should or because other people are doing them. The author also talks about how some people never get to experience true love because they're stuck in bad relationships, and how this can be just as bad as eating too many frogs.
You don't understand vm's neither. Ever used virtual network interfaces?
Not the person you asked, but I would guess the fact that "oh shit I forgot to sleep it's six o'clock in the morning" is a universal funny-because-it's-true joke made about all Civ games since forever? "One more turn syndrome"?

Honestly, on what grounds would you deny that Civ games are addictive given this common knowledge?
From Apple: "... because this category of applications is often used for the purpose of infringing third party rights."

Which isn't incorrect, because the overwhelming majority of Bittorrent traffic is piracy.
It's linked at the bottom: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.16351
Getting Started with Cosmopolitan Libc
As you are doing this, you need energy. You either need it from a source that doesn't generate red balls and thus is sufficiently dense energy to be useful, or leave the density of red balls after you've identified 200 to be remove lower than it was before you started.
A few people are trying for phones too. Fairphone pushed an upgrade earlier this year for the Fairphone 2, which is six years old. Very respectable.

It's Android 10 though, not 12, which makes me wonder whether they have run into the same issues as the Lineageos people (see https://lineageos.org/Changelog-26/ for details) and that even with their dedication, Fairphone will stop before a decade has passed.
Looking at the marketing pages for the two projectors mentioned is hilarious. They show images projected onto brightly-lit white walls with areas that are significantly darker than the wall, which is of course impossible.

Unless/until some material comes along that is tuned somehow to only reflect light that comes from the projector, they'll have to remain limited to dark rooms.
Adding a larger antennae adds more operational risk, does it not?
> The logical strategy is embrace extend extinguish ad blocking

The logical strategy is to extinguish. They never embraced or extended it.
That's what we're complaining about.
Any complex topic discussed in the public sphere will not be satisfying. Economics is especially bad since everyone, for some reason, thinks they're an expert in the topic and will argue in favor of the last popular idea they heard from their favorite internet economist.
On the other hand, the contrast ratio would be really good. :)
3. Yes, this is very unique problem in Japan and that's why it is difficult to see this issue.

> But, we aren't that different , really.

I am not sure if I understand your point. Both U.S. and Japan have relatively loose regulation against cult groups, but as a Japanese citizen, I think this situation should be changed.
The US is still has the second largest manufacturing output in the world.

This also isn’t the 1940s anymore in the sense that, while the world and the US are particularly dependent on China, China is also dependent on the rest of the world. Supply chains are global and span multiple countries for even basic items.
This perfectly sums up the culture of reddit.
I recently looked up the difference in CO2 emissions between burning 1kg wood vs 1kg petrol. Surprisingly, the values are relatively close:

Burning 1kg wood releases 1.65 - 1.8 kg of CO2. [0]

Burning 1kg of crude oil releases 3.16 kg of CO2. [1][2]

I would have expected the carbon density of oil to be much higher! To me, this suggests that a very naïve approach of growing trees and storing them in the places where we obtained the oil would be a hypothetically feasible way of significantly reducing the CO2 content in the air. And that is before the wood has been turned into charcoal etc. What am I missing?

[0] https://www.kaltimber.com/blog/2017/6/19/how-much-co2-is-sto...
[1] https://www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse-gases-equivalencies-ca...
[2] https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Barrels_of_oil_equiv...
that is because you keep promoting it as such. In reality there is no piracy without a day in court.
> Antifragility is benefitting from things breaking, not just coping with things breaking.

Coping with things breaking while fragile entities are collapsing is benefiting in the relative sense.
Hard to make sense of product description, but found a patent:

https://data.epo.org/publication-server/document?iDocId=6120...

Apparently, hydrogen and oxygen are combusted to produce high-temperature steam, which drives a turbine to generate electricity. Inventor claims the steam can be condensed to liquid water, then the electricity can be used to to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen, allowing the cycle to continue indefinitely, which is of course impossible.

Didn't know the European Patent Office gave parents for perpetual motion machines.
Superstition and Gnosticism go hand in hand in many ways, chiefly in the belief that matter or identifiable bits of matter are or can be corrupted on an essential level. In Japanese, the word “汚れ” has this nuance and you see it reflected also in any societies built on caste structures.
So having read the article summary, then the research paper, then reading the article summary again... it seems that the summary isn't at all an accurate summary of the research paper, but rather a narrow focus on the suboptimal cases where tree growing isn't super effective at sequestering carbon. It sort of completely ignores the cases where they observed enhanced carbon sequestration, increases in soil organic carbon, enhanced soil nitrogen availability, etc.

The emphatic message of the research paper is basically like, "tree growing to sequester carbon is very complicated, there's a lot we don't know, and there are a ton of different outcomes depending on how/where the tree growing is carried out."

One part of the paper I found most interesting was the section on nitrogen fixing microorganisms; they made it seem like the nitrogen fixation occurs via microbes pulling nitrogen from the soil and making it available to the plants. However my understanding is that those nitrogen fixing microbes pull N from the air, not the soil. Even good ol' wikipedia says "The bacteria are filamentous and convert atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia via the enzyme nitrogenase, a process known as nitrogen fixation." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankia) ... Undoubtedly there are microbes that can mine nitrogen from the soil, but why focus on those when the real bang-for-your-buck nitrogen fixation occurs when pulling nitrogen from the atmosphere.

Anyhow, great research paper, crappy summary.
Expect Change - that is really all we can say. Every acquisition is different, many of them are painful (not all) but none of them leave things unchanged.
"start seriously considering a little bit of CRISPR"

We should consider taking a collective pause to think things through. Our extensive technology use is pushing ecosystems out of balance at planet scale. Perhaps the solution is NOT more technology, with inherently unknown longterm consequences.
I dont think that has anything to do with oil. Kinda similar though, should the USA help democratic small countries from authoritarian bullies next door? Maybe USA should just let the world burn like the Europeans do.
I came across this video by Curtis McHale that completely changed the way I keep track of everything:

https://youtu.be/xlDfpcipCm4

I used to try bookmarking things using the built in browser bookmark manager and then later using Raindrop and even copying links into Obsidian but this wasn’t really all that effective. After watching the video I trialled DevonThink and was massively impressed. Now, every article I read that I find interesting I save as either a pdf or web archive so I can search and find it later. I also do the same for useful stack overflow posts so I know I’ll be able to find them if necessary. On top of this I bookmark all kinds of useful sites and categorise them in folders in their respective databases.

This allows me to keep Obsidian for just pure notes/writing. If I want to link between the two I can also use Hook to embed links between the two applications.

If I want to get proper reference formatting for something, I can open it from DevonThink in the browser and then save it to Zotero. Alternatively some people save everything to zotero instead of DevonThink and then index the folder using DevonThink so it is included in their search. Either approach works.

Highly recommend anyone with a Mac trying out the free trial of DevonThink, I think it’s like 100 hours of usage. Would dislike going back to living without it.
They don't have to fool all the people all the time, they just have to fool some of the people enough of the time to hit their sales quotas.
> It's very common to derive(Debug), and if the debug impl is only accessible via a method, then derive(Debug) doesn't work.

The right way of doing this is to define custom attributes as part of derive(Debug) and derive(Display); the derive mechanism can already do this. There's no need for a wrapper type to be used.
> I’m arguing in favor of going with cheap reliable energy and whatever the best

Then you're not doing a very good job of it. For all that you accuse others of "hysterics and dogmatic assertions", I think your posts earn that label way more than the comments you replied to.
Purple GM tomatoes reach major milestone in US
In markets where renewables are a large chunk of the theoretical maximum power hugely negative prices are common. Producing 5% of 1MW for 5 minutes might be costing you more than what you made selling 100% of that 1MW for most of the day.
See the documentation. They are using a number of "free" SIP providers. You can get the details from them.