skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That piece just uncritically reiterates the precise things the McDaniel piece I linked rebuts.

Specifically:

* The similarities in how western Christians celebrate Christmas and Saturnalia was celebrated aren't that numerous. In addition, the Christmas traditions that do have Saturnalia parallels seem to have arisen independently relatively recently, long after Saturnalia ceased to be celebrated.

* The date of Saturnalia, while close to Christmas, never coincided with it.

* December 25th as Christmas seems to have an origin independent of Saturnalia.

* The celebration of Dies Natalis Solis Invicti on December 25th seems to postdate Christmas.

Additionally, the piece you linked does not deal with Alexander Hislop's work, which seems to be the origin of the alleged "pagan" origins of Christmas, Easter, etc.
I'd recommend reading The Community Engagement Trap[0] by Rosie Sherry (which should also be shared here on HN), she talks about Community Discovery as the process for getting these deeper understandings.

[0] https://rosie.land/posts/the-community-engagement-trap/
Mark Cuban recently launched a community at https://biztoc.com as sort of a WSB for business people. I wonder if that will/could work without an umbrella topic.
I'm using a GNU/Linux phone, which feels like it gives me the best of both worlds. I have a full blown capable PC in my pocket should I need it, but it doesn't do anything that I don't want it to. I use it mostly in a pull-only manner - the only notifications I get are phone calls, SMS and IM messages from closest contacts. I can also receive notifications on work e-mail and work IM, but only when I explicitly leave the clients open, which I rarely do since I'm usually in front of a PC when I work anyway.

I think the only app that ever bothered me with unwanted notification was a backup app reminding about backups, with a big fat "don't remind me anymore" button attached to it ;)
> and are still considered experimental

No, 5.36 stabilised them.

https://perldoc.perl.org/perldelta#Core-Enhancements

> The 5.36 bundle enables the signatures feature. Introduced in Perl version 5.20.0, and modified several times since, the subroutine signatures feature is now no longer considered experimental. It is now considered a stable language feature and no longer prints a warning.
Next.js 12.3
Tongue in cheek joke went over most people's heads
"loses" - thanks for the correction. Hyphens - yeah, lots of those along with the forward slashes.
I would make a list of the top 10 or 20 companies that you are interested in working for. Then start to investigate if you have any connections in said companies and reach out to them.

Starting your own business is also a good idea, but in that case you need to think about how much runway you would need.

I would keep the role on the CV. If it comes up, you can just say, “during my time at company Foo I did X, Y and Z”. It’s easier to do that than to explain the whole in the CV if you leave it out.
That and no one is forcing you to work on said weapons. If someone has a moral issue with working for DoD, I think that's a little naive but that's their right. Demanding the company you agreed to work for, as a subordinate, comply with your personal vision of morality when you're not even in a leadership position is just childish.

Corporations by design are almost never democracies, you are working as a laborer for a dictatorship/oligarchy that's licensed by the overarching government for meeting certain legal requirements. That's it. If you want to dictate corporate values then gain authority within the company or start your own, or leave and go work for someone you see as more aligned with your values. As a rank-and-file engineer you have as much say in corporate values as a plumber has in his clients' choice of religion.

Exception to this is if you're a founding member of a startup, or working for an extremely small company where your contributions carry a lot of weight. In which case congrats, you're on the ruling council of the oligarchy by default, and if the company ever grows to a certain size maybe some idealistic low-level engineer will get indignant about your values :)
The most important things (quality of community) are not generally quantifiable and proper “measurement” depends on the leadership ability of those who choose to foster the community.
>> much of wealth gain is lucky opportunity windows

He sold gum, he sold Coke bottles, he sold magazines, he worked in a grocery store, he delivered newspapers, he sold golf balls, he sold stamps, he detailed cars, he invested in stock, he invested in land, he went to business school, he worked as an investment salesman, he worked as a stock analyst, he worked as a general partner, then chairman, then CEO at a company.

The lucky opportunity was 82 years to compound returns.

The question is why he wouldn't quit at 50 with a few hundred million and live off of the money instead of spending the next 42 years making more money which he will then give away to someone else to decide what to do with after he dies.
I'm aware! The issue is the mixed content (wheels, and... not wheels) on pypi. If the data is incomplete, it's useless in the sense that you're never going to be able to guarantee good results.
> What if the lady actually enjoys the thing, then let her enjoy the thing.

She doesn't, that was where we started. She knows (thinks) she has to use it, but the things she is doing can all be done on Linux, and she is only ever complaining about the computer. RStudio Cloud works just as well on Linux.

What do you call it when someone has a thing they do every day for many years, in spite of the obvious drawbacks, knowing that there are well-trodden alternatives, and without ever having seriously considered trying the other options?

If it's not "real addiction," then it's definitely another word which I'd associate with unhealthy behavior.

I've been a computer people forever. I bought a $500 machine that is perfectly good, and there's no reason for me to send it back just because Windows seems to have an issue. It's less than 3 years old from the manufacturer, refurbished. There should be no problem, and without Windows there is no problem.

But we get people with replies like this:

> get her the best windows laptop you can afford, make sure it's secured properly with updates and such and that it "just works"

$500 is plenty. Why should I spend more than that on a laptop? (Hell, they gave me back $75 just to try applying the thermal grease myself, if I can save that kind of money by being resourceful, I'm gonna do it, and I'm gonna show as many people as I can that they can do it too.)

By the way, I should have definitely laughed at GNU/Neckbeard. That one is going in my pocket for later... LOLOL
The Most Complex Thing Ever Observed in the Universe
That also came much later and if we take it in the same sense many of the founding fathers used the word "God", it would not be compatible with mainstream Christian theology.
it is odd to me that QWERTY was designed specifically to slow speedy typers down because of the mechanical devices could not keep up. even after the physical limitations were no longer an issue, we decided to keep something intentinonally designed to slow people down.

that's having full 1Gbps fiber connectivity, but instead choosing a 56kbps dial-up modem instead.
There's a ubuntu Linux that attempts to be visually and software compatible:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2020/07/10/ubunt...

https://linuxfx.org/index.php

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=linuxfx

- no personal knowledge of it, though.
My wife keeps an ongoing email draft to herself with her to-do lists; she’s been doing it for the last 10+ years. She’s aware that there are now better solutions for this, but it’s a force of habit and it works pretty well for her.
No, `className` is the DOM property exposed to JavaScript that corresponds to the `class` attribute in HTML: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/cla...
First step: ask yourself if this is really a worthwhile pursuit.

Then ask yourself again.

Then ask yourself, of all possible changes I could ask my wife to make for me and my happiness (spending more time together at social events or at home, getting more dressed up for fancy occasions, changing some frustrating personal habit in the household, communicating differently, etc) is this the one I want to cash in my chips for or should I hold out and use them for something more important.
> What to read to understand central banking

To the list of books to read I'll humbly add:

"The Only Game in Town" by Mohamed El-Erian.

https://www.amazon.com/Only-Game-Town-Instability-Avoiding/d...
> What's the difference when compared with other scripting languages?

Compared to every other scripted languages I've tried, it's always faster - so much that it often rivals compiled code (even with extra optimizations as explained before)

> Is it just all-around faster

Yes - also faster to deploy, and harder to break in deployment due to dependencies rarely evolving. No need to pip install whatever.

Consequently, tracking modules' versions (say in python) and their break in compatibility is a thing of the past. Some may say it's because it's dead. I guess I'm a necrophiliac then, because it makes my life so much easier that I'm loving it :)
What predicts a successful startup founder according to science?
Right. I started a comment picking at the Buffett example before seeing yours. Sure, he's been lucky to preserve his mental capacity into old age, but it's not fair to dismiss his persistence. In particular, Berkshire has one of the few mega-cap business models that's actually possible to replicate on a small-scale: start/buy a cash-flowing business, use the earnings to invest in more, repeat. It's easier if you figure out negative cash conversion cycles before everyone else, but that part isn't necessary to apply the model.
I recently spent about 3 weeks looking for new Go positions, just by advertising open for work on LinkedIn.

There are plenty of companies interested, many of them startups. I don't think anyone with a strong Go background looking for a job right now would have any trouble at all.
This seems like it would make her dependent on you, and takes away her agency. Please don't do it. She's made her needs clear, and supporting those needs means a Windows laptop.
Have you tried just the tip?
Those accusations contradict each other.
The semi-snide comments from the Boom side is, as the kids would say, "sus".
And how could it not have become ad-driven?

Choices have consequences. We made a choice (free), and now we live with the consequences (ad models).
> > Syntactic sugar for if err != nil { return err }; similar to ? in Rust

> Yes I didn't want to make the tired comparisons to Rust but Rust does have the excellent syntactic sugar for returning errors.

Many people seem to forget that Rust didn't start (even in its 1.0 release) with the ? operator. It started with the try!() macro, which expanded to something not unlike Go's "if err != nil { return err }". The ? operator was added later, as a shortcut to the same semantics as the macro except for also being able to work with Option instead of just Result, based on developer experience with the macro (the two major annoyances being not being able to use the macro with Option, and the nesting when chaining several uses of the macro).

If Rust was able to create the ? operator based on developer experience with its try!() macro, I don't see why Go won't be able to create its own error propagation operator based on developer experience with its "if err != nil { return err }" idioms.
Fresh looks seriously cool! I'm especially fond of the plugins concept for bringing in compiled assets like Markdown and SCSS. And Getting started with a `deno run` command is very exciting for new-comers too!

Shameless-self promotion: I've been working on a similar web framework built on Deno and Cloudflare Workers. It's called Keywork[1] and it's made for folks who would like to create web apps for the V8 runtime, without getting too attached to a single cloud provider.

Keywork has powered all my projects as of recently, but Fresh looks like a serious contender. I would love to chat with the Deno team if they're floating around this HN thread! You're creating amazing stuff!

- [1] https://keywork.app
How feminism has made me a better scientist (2018)
fib n = head (apply (Matrix [[0,1], [1,1]] ^ n) [0,1])

https://wiki.haskell.org/The_Fibonacci_sequence
I'm a Go developer now (oops thought it was a Rust position, will fix this next year). I would put it firmly in the middle of my ranking of industry languages.

Haskell, Rust, Ocaml, F#, Elm > Scala, Kotlin, Swift > Go > Java, C#, C++, C > Clojure, Lisp, Elixir > JavaScript, Python, Ruby, R, Php, Perl
Their mobile hardware is generally comparable to competitors' flagships both in tech specs and prices, so aren't the profits more of an issue with scale and efficiency? It feels like quite the stretch to claim that Apple is able to massively overcharge for its phones because they control access to iMessage.
Caddyhttp: Enable HTTP/3 by Default
This was exactly my experience at Goldman Sachs. Sorry, I should be posting under a throw-away, but let's be real for a moment. That place was nothing but a cult. Yes, they make lots of money, but you need to sell your soul. I never worked in a place with so many sheep (non-believers but scared to speak-up) and assholes (believers, only because they profit / climb the corporate ladder) _at the same time_. Fortunately, I escaped after two years of that prison sentence. (The whole experience feels like Shawshank Redemption when I write about it now!) All the global investment banks where I have worked, Goldman had the fewest number of mid-career/senior hires. The intern/fresher pipeline was so deep. Now I understand why! They are so much easier to brain-wash.

Two stories stand out in my new hire training:

We had multiple "partners" (super senior, old-school MDs) tell us: "At Goldman, there is not publically available org chart." Fucking dead wrong. I raised my hand at each of those bullshit meetings and said, "I'm sorry, but this is incorrect. There is a website where you can view and search the org chart." (It was amazing -- no lie/joke.) Each PMD was so "surprised" to learn this. Not sure if real, or encouraging people to do face-to-face networking.

Second, they showed all these weird propaganda videos about how Goldman is closely tied with the US gov't, especially during World War 2. So weird, creepy, and out of date! Many senior partners leave Goldman and enter US politics. In American English, they call it "the revolving door" (between private industry and politics). Many democracies have this problem. But why celebrate it? Fuct! The whole thing felt so sleazy. Why is this important to non-US citizens? Many people looked bored and only read their mobile phones during these 90 minute(!) videos.
It's a euphemism for suicide.
If she doesn't want to use Linux, forcing it on her is not going to have an outcome you will be happy with.
PsDooM
You see this type of post here because HN tends to attract the type of person that usually has the mantle of "tech expert" in families (often times, much to their regret and dismay...).

It doesn't really have jack shit to do with gender in any way other than the historical imbalance in the IT space meaning the person here is more likely to be male (and frankly - that's changing somewhat, as well it should).

The same type of posts pop up for grandparents all the time, and kids, and aunts/uncles/extended family.

It's not about "controlling his wife" it's about doing literally the exact thing you wanted:

> "teach her best practices, from a place of love, to empower her."

That's literally this post. He's trying to make a tech decision he thinks is correct (whether it is or not is moot), when he's clearly been placed in a spot to make those decisions, since it seems like he's setting up the machines and making the purchases (and his first suggestion of "update to an ssd" was vetoed.)

He's then working to ease the pain points of that choice by asking for a more coherent and less jarring way to do it here.

Did he make the right choice? Who gives a fuck - that's a conversation for him and his wife. Is this post creepy? Hardly.
Show HN: Yelp for blockchains - Explore, rate, and review ETH addresses
Super excited to share an early MVP of Triton. It allows anyone to visually explore blockchains as a graph, where nodes are addresses and edges are transactions. Each node has a reputation score, calculated based on analysis of its neighbors, transaction profile, as well as user feedback.

We built this after one of our founders accidentally sent 0.35 ETH to a phishing site. He tried to investigate, but soon realized that there aren't any good solutions for users to keep themselves (and each other) safe in web3.

Triton can help solve the reputation problem for web3 transactions that Yelp solved for dining out. Use cases include investigating stolen tokens, DYOR on new NFT drops, and screening addresses for signs of fraud before making a payment.

We'd love any feedback on the product

A couple of interesting addresses to check out:
- 0x03B70DC31abF9cF6C1cf80bfEEB322E8D3DBB4ca: a phishing-associated wallet
- 0x7ab9287bbb0a6d76af16e648c93d503c5baf5432: wallet associated with the Pixelmon NFT founders
>Surprised to see language satisfaction so high.

Who else do you think responds to these surveys? I have a long list of grievances against Go, so I don't use it, and am not qualified to participate in a survey.
SELinux, Rocky is good for servers (successor to CentOS)
I am forced to use Python, and I hate it.
I recently encountered https://privacy.sexy here. It looks like it handles the telemetry side really well… as long as you’re happy to run a ton of someone else’s bash script as an administrator. It’s all open source.
because people like them very much?
She's not going to be happy using Linux unless she doesn't want to use Windows.

It's probably not worth trying to introduce her to Linux if she isn't interested in it.
Its irrelevant in the example, because the Buffet-like person is only using one strategy in the example, available to everyone.
That's a discussion because by and large those two choices are equal with minute differences in perceived social status and comfort, but the fundamental function is the same.

On the other hand if I'm spending 2 minutes debugging why my microphone isn't working or why my 2nd monitor blinks out when my computer goes to sleep, that is a waste of my time. If I can figure out any general Windows or MacOS software in 5 minutes but need to read a manpage or ask my partner how to do some trivial piece of work or why I can't edit a document my coworker sent but everyone else can, you are intentionally sabotaging my life with your decisions.

There's many things that are up for negotiation and consideration in a relationship, but wasting someone's time for the sake of some self righteous quest for privacy (that argument is moot btw, considering that you have now encouraged your partner to take risky actions such as finding new software and finding new ways of doing things without a "it just works" approach) crosses a line.

If you use a cellphone, have a WiFi router, don't use a VPN with no records at the router level, or are located within a city, you already don't have privacy no matter how much you personally believe you do.

Source: I work a lot with adtech and my partner works in a personal identification business
Highly recommend checking out more of Michael Levin's work beyond just xenobots, it's very exciting stuff.

I found this to be a pretty entertaining, pop-sci digestible entry point to listen to (includes a section discussing the xenobots stuff as well): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0TNfysTazc
> Afaik perl is a plain old interpreted language with no JIT, what makes it so fast?

IDK. I didn't waste time checking why.

My guess is that due to the much smaller code size, it reaches a sweetpoint where it fits nicely in the L1 or L2 cache.

But it's just a hunch, I couldn't prove it.
Those don't seem confusing to me considering LotR shows Elrond facing off against Sauron in the Second Age and Hobbits were never indicated to not exist in the Second Age (why would you think that?). They tell you right off the bat that this is well before LotR, so I don't know why you're making these strange assumptions.
Python is pretty much the second best available language for everything.
What about usb-c headphones?
Makes me wondering how many of those thread replies are part of the same campaign. Some are so insanely praiseworthy of the venture. This also reminds me just how atrocious the reddit UI is.
Seems it is well past time for a 'Glassdoor for Online Lodging' to take it out-of-band for the online lodging apps.

It'd have to be properly moderated, and vetted for having actually stayed there (automate with Google/Apple timeline?), but it could be very valuable.
By the standard of commenters on some websites, everything is "roundly mocked".

Besides, both were just Apple's entrances into particular markets, not technologies themselves.
I did in fact finally reach my home after long wanderings:
https://okturing.com/src/14174/body
Won't this result in soil depletion, as you bury vital non-carbon nutrients?
Dude just don't. Talk with her and figure out what kind of specs she needs and help her shop for one she likes. She knows what kind of tool she needs and how to use it. This is an Am I The Asshole post in the making otherwise.
> you will be jailed by huge dept for the rest of your life.

Even $100k in student debt is not that huge on an engineer's salary. People regularly take on multiples of that debt to buy a house. "rest of your life" is an absurd exaggeration - and I'm saying this as someone who thinks the deck is totally stacked against students today.
> redditers are incredibly harsh when shilling, etc. is discovered.

Ehhh that depends the subreddit, big corporate products as Disney are highly astroturfed and get downvoted in to oblivion if you call them out. That's why you see alternate subreddit as r/saltierthancrait and r/freefolk.

Their astroturfing gets more agresive as they lurk and comments on those subreddits too.
That seems like it would slow things down a bit, which is a problem in a higher rate world. Not sure business travel is going to stay on the same trajectory either.

Of course weirder stuff is happening:

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/israel-ba...

Banning 4 engine aircraft from Israel means no more 747 freighters or new leisure supersonics.
being trapped in a small jet full of people that want to be being seen for flying private seems like my personal version of hell
It is pretty good with a nice ripe avocado. Just remember you have to choose between buying a house and eating that toast.
>climate change has not killed millions of people[

"We found that 5,083,173 deaths were associated with non-optimal temperatures per year, accounting for 9·43% of all deaths and equating to 74 excess deaths per 100 000 residents."[1]

[1]: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5...
What gopath?
"Set up" and "supported" are extremely different things in my mind. I donate to organisations, but I do not take credit for founding them.
Efficacy of R21/Matrix-M vaccine against malaria after 2 years' follow-up
If you really want to do this (trust me, you don't) then just get her laptop setup with Linux and run Windows in a virtual machine.

The only way you might win this is showing her how different windows 11 is from 10 and say "you might as well try something new" and go Mac.

You're going to lose this battle.
> If you need 20 year old code to run on new machines, the same thing occurs - you hand it to a recent Perl 5 and it works.

You're only noticing half of the picture.

If you want to write code that'll still run in 20 years, do the same.