skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found interesting this article about common ideas among mystics from different traditions:
https://centerforsacredsciences.org/index.php/Articles/the-m...

Then the site offers a recommended reading list, if you wish to go deeper into some of the traditions: https://centerforsacredsciences.org/index.php/Library/recomm...
For the record, Carrier is a crank who you should have also many good reasons to doubt his word on topics in ancient history since he always works with an agenda, evidence for him is only useful when it fits. Contemporary historians don't take him seriously, and no one really should, his work isn't serious.
Pretty sure the historicity of Jesus is not a controversial subject in mainstream historical circles. To be sure, the theological arguments as to whether He is the Son of God who will return to judge the quick and the dead, etc. etc. are a matter of religion, not history.

But based on what I understand of the documentary evidence, it seems fairly well-accepted by reputable scholars that a Jewish rabbi named Yeshua or Jesus was born in Galilee, was baptized by John the Baptist, preached in the Holy Land, and then was crucified under Pontius Pilate. I'd take arguments to the contrary more or less in the same vein as "Holy Blood, Holy Grail," or any other kind of woo-woo Dan Brown-esque kookery.
Can the Forest Service make this up with use fees? Like, could California pay the Forest Service to take care of its land surrounded by California?
With DWDM one can increase the useful bandwidth of the cable; some useful links from a recent presentation that I had handy:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VKpAIx0zG-U

https://nlnog.net/static/nlnogday2024/NLNOG2024-02-Yurii_Pol...
There was a Quanta Magazine article on this a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41080366
Something I learned: One of the last logos Paul Rand designed was the logo of Enron.

I really like his redesign of the Ford logotype; although Ford doesn’t seem to have used it.
It could be affection and spiritual relationship. Or it could be a biological son but this Mark is not John Mark who is likely to be the evangelist. https://overviewbible.com/john-mark/
What do you mean by "fully connected" here?
An inexperienced good employee will slow you down far less than an experienced bad one.
Or lungs anywhere in the US
I couldn't find any information - I think the instrument there is a Fairlight CMI, which Peter Gabriel actually helped develop. But considering how prominent Hancock was in electronic music it wouldn't surprise me if this was built custom. OTOH Hancock likes computers in general so maybe he's just a nerd :) https://old.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/120mqfs/herb...

Bonus cute video of Hancock showing the Fairlight off on Sesame Street: https://youtube.com/watch?v=daLceM3qZmI
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not, but half of the US thinks WE should have an authoritarian government. We may soon be in a post-democracy world.
> do firefighters not get qualified immunity when acting in their official capacity?

They do. But torching federal land might be somewhere the federal courts wouldn't find it.
Great, so in addition to being guilted into tipping for ordinary, expected service so not to threaten the possible "tenuous" economic circumstances of servers, now I get guilted if I have an expectation of a professional environment when I contract a personal-taxi from a large personal-taxi dispatcher. I'm not a social service dispensary, I'm a customer. I'm paying for a service, and I'm allowed to have certain expectations for the service.
You could also say that the US is evidence that stealing Indian lands works. Add to that the benefit of having two oceans as a buffer zone between it and the wars in Asia / Europe.
On Literate Programming
The irony of your comment is that tech workers want pay increases (amongst other things) and here we're talking about avoiding paying for their product.

NYT is a great publication and I'm happy to pay less than a $1 a day for tons of great content.
What's old is new: defensible spaces around houses [1].

[1] https://www.fire.ca.gov/dspace
JumpCrisscross, what do you think of the suggestion elsewhere in this thread[1] to tax the value of that restrictive covenant/easement?

Only saw that idea just now and it seems interesting enough to investigate further. I'm not a tax guy though so don't know if I'm missing something obvious.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42046657
Funny... no one mentioned

Jim Warner Wallace's

COLD-CASE CHRISTIANITY

It really should be read by everyone!!!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C26ZMVNZ
At this point Marvel and DC actually need each other in order to have a comic book market. The more readers you get at Marvel, the more potential ones you would get in DC (because they cover different social issues) and vice versa.
What Jeff Bezos Got Wrong About Newspaper Endorsements
Snark aside… only sort of?

If I remember right about how these ecosystems work, you need the controlled burns so that the underbrush goes up but the trees don’t. Without the controlled burns, the trees also go up, and then “next year” all you have is the new underbrush… and the problem repeats.
I frequently turn notes about infrastructure, pipelines or databases into diagrams with an LLM to ground my team's understanding.

The VSCode Mermaid plugin and the GH integration make this very simple to do.
If a candidate makes a totally false claim in the media should the election be invalid until every voter can prove that they have got the correct brain wash? Obviously not. There is no way to undo the damage from the false claim. So the results will be valid as long as election laws are followed and any dispute can be adjudicated in the courts.
Here you go. I can agree, the comedic timing is excellent.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lQDvsf5lAp0
At long last we have created the Torment Nexus from Sci-Fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus.
One theory I have (no idea just a theory) is that obesity and overeating are partially the result of missing nutrients.

Something close to 50% of Americans are deficient in Magnesium for instance. But there are a lot of trace minerals and nutrients and they interact to some extent.

Is it possible people are trying to get enough of "something" when they overeat and this leads to consuming too many calories? Maybe it's not a self control issue so much as you have to eat a lot of Domino's pizza to get what your body is lacking?
AWK is truly a gem. While it has some warts and quirks, it is nevertheless an extremely flexible, performant, and simple scripting language whose omnipresence is a remarkable asset.

It's rather far afield from AWK's normal range of applications, but I recently wrote a portable AWK-hosted interpreter[0] for my own general-purpose scripting language, which provides some handy options for bootstrapping. It would be very interesting to explore building tools like assemblers or even a simple C compiler in AWK.

[0] https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Decker/tree/main/tools/awk/
In theory that's how it works. In practice the amount of documentation is onerous enough most managers just decide it's not worth the effort.
Yeah that would be great. There's a bachelor's degree requirement for all management positions. Even if you've been there 20 years, you can never be "one of them". Pretty crazy imo. They passed up people with multi decade experience in the company for someone completely new because they had a bachelor's. That blows my mind.
Have you found somewhere else to get it?
I will stop complaining about executives measuring my performance with objectives and metrics they define, if I can define my own metrics and objectives for them and measure executive performance, complete with PIPs, layoffs and forced attrition for the lowest 10% of performers. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

I will be happy to sit in an office with my VP and HR and explain to them that we have to let them go due to not performing up to $COMPANY standards, but we wish them well and here is 2 months salary and a copy of your NDA and non-compete; can I have your badge please?
> It's basically like any relationship coupled with confirmation bias. Basically, if you get onto the shit-list of your partner or friend or manager, it is difficult to get off it.

On that note, the article "The Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome" by the Harvard Business Review[1] covers similar ground and was discussed on HN[2].

[1] https://hbr.org/1998/03/the-set-up-to-fail-syndrome

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39879250
Facebook already stole the “Metaverse” branding from Neal Stephenson and now they are trying to set up a data haven. They should put their hub in a southeast Asia island and name it The Sultanate of Kinakuta.
Normally I'd agree (as a native english speaker with about twenty years of writing assembly under my belt), but the title tripped me up, too. I figured they forgot an "an" or an "s" at the end of "assembler" and i was surprised to find that no 6502 assembler was produced. It could be because I've written three different assemblers over the last two years, though, so it could be i was just projecting my own interests.

Still, I don't really care what it's called.
Aldebaran 1959 Spacecraft Concept (2010)
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> Striking during election week is kind of a crappy move to pull

> there's not a clear button the Times can push on behalf of the union to end the strike immediately. The Times would either have to sign a blank check to the union now

But that's the thing, NYT Leadership can choose to offer agreeable terms and end this now. They simply elect not to. Management often likes to drag out negotiations and then play the victim.
The Netflix documentary Quincy is an excellent watch, as Quincy takes you through all kinds of highlights and lowlights of his career and personal life (including his objectively bad dad skills).

My favorite two tidbits:
- Sinatra single-handedly forced casinos in Vegas to treat black performers properly. He was Big Mad when he found out Quincy and the black band members were forced to sleep across town from The Sands.
- Buzz Aldrin played Quincy's arrangement of "Fly Me to the Moon" on the moon!

RIP Quincy, thanks for "only" twelve notes ;)
There are things that public cloud is great for.
Cost efficiency at high performance is not it.
For Gitpod, performance is critical to their product offering, because any latency in a dev environment is terrible UX.

Example: What performance do you get out of your NVMe disks?
Because these days you can build storage that delivers 100-200 GB/s.

https://www.graidtech.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Results...

I bet few public cloud customers are seeing that kind of performance.
Predicted outputs: GPT-4o inference speed-up for editing tasks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle's_ir...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licking_ice_cream_cone
The cerebrospinal fluid already surrounds the spine and brain. "Pushing it up" sounds a bit like pseudo-scientific new agey talk.
This is like owning a house and stacking cordwood right next to it so all the termites can get in.

If you own something you got to take care of it and if you don't want to take care of it you should get rid of it.
I agree that we should extinguish authoritarianism where ever we find it, at home and abroad.

It is also important to recognize the link between this domestic authoritarianism and foreign. There is an incontrovertible link between the rise of American authoritarianism and Russia's attempt to invade Ukraine.
Free markets don't necessarily lead to the best outcome, and certainly not to the best outcome for a society.

If you go read the actual invisible hand quote from Adam Smith, that so many people are fond of quoting, he is pointing out that the free-market leads to unintended outcomes and side-effects:

"By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention."

His argument is basically that sometimes merchants accidentally do things that benefit society. The unstated opposite is the issue.

The concept of free-markets is nebulous, and thus more of a political football than a serious thing. Every culture has limits on what it will allow of the market, and what is considered not allowed. A monopoly that harms the consumer is not allowed, but we do allow monopolies in circumstances where it would be massively inefficient not to operate as a monopoly (utilities is the most common one, e.g. only one company is allowed to own power lines in your neighborhood).
If Mammoth is your home, your concerns extend beyond those of an economic commodity.
ActBlue Technical Services (CWA 1400) unionized and ratified a contract this year.
The US Forest Service used to deliver 12 billion board feet of lumber a year. The sale of this lumber helped fund the org and its mission. Environmental lawsuits from activists in the 90s drastically restricted the amount of logging being done on these lands and production dropped to a trickle.

(The Biden administration increased the amount of logging in the last few years from a historic low. But the goal is still only to log up to 4 billion board feet next year.)

While not a complete replacement for each other, prescribed burns are specifically more necessary now because of the lack of logging. And more importantly, these agencies are only collecting a fraction of the fees they once did to sustain their mission while having more unharvested forests to maintain.
Germany's paying almost two decades of Merkelnomics, and Europe is paying for it's choice of favoring exports outside the EU rather than focusing on building a strong internal market.

The economic union is still not a union when laws and taxes and regulations still heavily change from country to country.

Merkel's decision on not taking drastic measures and the over reliance on Russian energy (as a matter of fact the second pipe between Russia and Germany started being built after 2014 is now showing its shortcomings.

Volkswagen focused on Chinese and overseas markets and as soon as those disappeared it started cracking. That's just the tip of the iceberg.

EU has plenty of ways to steer the ship, we went from an economy as big as the US one in 2000, to being half the size of it.

EU has money and capabilities to move forward, but a lot has to be done not just giving hundreds of billions in generic "innovation" over the next year's, but also by reforming our corporate law.

As a former startup founder I had more incentives into incorporating in Delaware from Italy than in my own country. Why? Because stock options essentially do not exist here. But I can't be giving equity straight ahead to people that I don't know what they will bring.

There's also too much laws protecting employees. Way too much. It's very hard to fire people here, this creates also a stagnating job market where workers don't want to risk losing their security for a better job where they will be on trial for 2/3/6 months before protections kick in.

There's many things on which Europe keeps being behind but populist agendas won't face it.

We'll still hear how they will pour hundreds of billions in startups, that will move to UK or US as soon as they can because being an entrepreneur in Europe only gets you
Is it that different though? Local residents seem to be deciding what kind of housing can be built on land that isn't theirs.

I can't build a fourplex on my lot, despite having the room for it, because people living elsewhere deemed it so. Instead it's a SFH with most of the lot wasted as setbacks, and is worth more than it should because of it.
Your general skepticism of the impact of diet on autoimmune disease modification is warranted, but only in a very hand-wavy sense. Also…

1. The article does not claim that diet modification cures autoimmunity

2. Autoimmunity is partly but not wholly genetic, and the genetic component usually can’t be described as “a genetic alteration”— it’s more a collection of a large number of interacting genetic predispositions (and that is usually coupled with various environmental and random factors). Either way, diet and genetics interact in many ways.

3. It is not at all surprising (in general) to find that interventions at the level of lipid metabolism result in measurable changes in disease model biomarkers… Although the specifics are very interesting. This is a great paper.

(biochemist)
And then they go on to be a (difficult to work with) 10× developer?

Instinctive social judgement definitely exists. Is it a good metric to find good employees? Dunno, maybe?
Well, they shouldn't do it here either then. The analogy is quite deep since history repeats itself:

CIA training paramilitaries against Russia/USSR
Increasing the chances of Russia invading
Giving ever more weapons to the "freedom fighters"
Country ravaged and destroyed by war
Lots of dead combatants & civilians (needlessly)

Of course the war in Ukraine is like other proxy wars (in Yemen, Afghanistan etc) and can be analyzed by comparing them. For example, Iran did the same with Houthis in Yemen, as US CIA did with far-right paramilitaries in Ukraine. If you call Putin an unelected dictator who bombs a neighboring country to maintain their influence and hegemony rather than let a rival take it over, then what do you call the Saudi monarchy doing that in Yemen? And now that country is ravaged by a decade of needless fighting in a proxy war. In any case, the Ukraine war is not a special snowflake, at all. It's very similar to many other proxy wars.

It's also a war in which Russia invades a country in an attept to bring it to the negotiating table to agree to permanently stop shelling two breakaway republics, very much like with Georgia, so we can see what happened in Georgia (i.e. Russia didn't continue to take over the country, at all) rather than invent fantasy scenarios that Russian orcs want to genocide all Ukrainians, or will go and take over the rest of Europe if they succeed in Ukraine, etc. It is quite reasonable to look at similar situations to infer what the motivations were. And it's NOT reasonable to say "it's all Putin" when every US ambassador said every Russian leader (including Medevedev with Georgia) would react the same way to the "red lines". 73% of the Russian public supports the Ukraine war just like 73% of the US public supported the Iraq war. Public support wars. Similarities matter, and they matter most of all because they help us understand how to prevent and end wars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War

For example with Georgia, despite all the similar motivations, and nearly the same actors in similar circumstances, the motivation to say "there is no analogy AT ALL, period, end of story" is that you can then claim Russia will be emboldened and continue its rampage further, if a peace agreement was reached. Most civilians want peace, and don't want carnage, so to justify continued carnage (resulting in 2 million dead civilians in Afghanistan, for instance), you need a narrative that is even worse than sending people to die in wars. So people bring up all kinds of claims (Russia will invade Europe if not stopped here etc.) So if a counterexample is brought up (e.g. Russia didn't continue past 1 week in Georgia) you have to shut it down very quickly. But the analogies are there, and the public's reactions on both sides is similar too:

https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/szfl96/when_the_so...
Please check https://overviewbible.com/john-mark/ even if he had a son called Mark that was not John Mark who is likely the evangelist. It's possible "son" here is meant spiritually.
Nothing is perfect. But that doesn't mean that China and the threat it poses is legitimate or acceptable.

If Europe can be freed from authoritarianism than we can and must do the same in other places.
That website is fucking amazing
>It's not a distraction.

It absolutely is. It asks people to engage in a frivolous debate about semantics when, in reality, the issue is much larger and far more complex, with more intrinsically important and impactful aspects to it than that.
From the OP:

"Land use restrictions are common in the supermarket industry, because it costs about $10 million and requires a good plot of land to open a new store. It’s much easier to open a store in a building already suitable for a grocery store than to build something from scratch."
Netscape lives on: 30 years of shaping the web, open source, and business
Might be making that hour-long call soon if NYT Management doesn't make some changes to support their union...
This kind of reminds me of when airspace was separated from Land property rights. There doesn't necessarily need to be any underlying logic or consistency, so a very tailored legal interpretation could be formed in theory.

That said, I think I'm much more practical solution is to focus on the buyer's rights and non-competitive behavior then limiting sellers rights. It makes intuitive sense that people would be able to option or sell indefinite use rights if they own the thing itself. It is less intuitive that individuals have a right to aggregate such options for Monopoly.

Now that I think about it, it seems there could be some comparison to the corner crossing cases that are being litigated too
Does anyone have any tips on how to persuade non-techy friends & family to switch from WhatsApp to element-x?
If you have the time, could you explain what you think "gender studies" entails? Not to step on your broader point at all, but I think you might need to pick a better strawman here.

I can only speak anecdotally with my many years in the "liberal arts", but feel pretty confident you would be laughed out of the classroom for bringing such a thing up, whatever side of it you are on. Its just more of a thing people like us argue about on message boards, not really something academics would care about beyond a fraught data point! For I hope obvious reasons.

And no I cant speak for the annoying guy you met one time who was a gender studies major. I'm sure they were very annoying though.
I've had the same thought and wonder if this is the likely long-term ticking time-bomb for GLP-1 agonists. Hunger is a check-engine light. Turning it off is a bad idea without a clear understanding of what is triggering it.

If your body is malnourished in a fundamental way, turning off the nutrient-seeking system is going to lead to a wide spectrum of pathological deficiencies over time.
By none.
Don't you mean the contract you signed is telling you what to do for 16 more years?
It's because he's not a "free speech absolutist", does he think felons should be able to vote? Of course he doesn't.

His "free speech absolutism" is a way of signaling the kinda guy he is and the kinda guys he wants to be associated with.