<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: schuyler2d</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=schuyler2d</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:59:44 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=schuyler2d" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by schuyler2d in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This sounds really interesting but possibly qualitatively different than programming/engineering where automated improvements/iterations are part of the job (and what's rewarded)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:10:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281109</link><dc:creator>schuyler2d</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281109</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by schuyler2d in "Those who can, teach history"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not even kidding - the AskHistorians reddit. I use their Sunday digest links as a magazine:
<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/search/?q=title%3A%22Sunday+Digest%22" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/search/?q=title%3A%22...</a><p>It's filled in both so many gaps and made me increasingly curious about many periods/places that I previously felt disengaged about -- and led to much more reading of actual history</p>
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<p>That is somewhat mitigated by grouping comparisons of S/M/L change sizes.<p>It <i>would</i> be interesting to group changes by line-deletions, say to indicate rewrites (and size of them)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:10:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45921299</link><dc:creator>schuyler2d</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45921299</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45921299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by schuyler2d in "James Watson has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>on top of that, I personally know several women scientists that had to put up with his misogyny first-hand.</p>
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<p>All my teacher friends (before this article) had joyously reported on lunch rooms being loud again (and even fights and lol, sex) happening.... But in a good way. If kids aren't getting into some trouble then they're not interacting and learning about society and human nature enough</p>
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<p>I can't imagine the Cloud Act being effective without Microsoft (and French gov) complicity.<p>If they can make successful tax shelters they can architect the entities and the architecture to remove this option.<p>There's some 9-eyes thing where this is a feature not a bug</p>
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<p>I do this with audiobooks/podcasts and then can start with the lights off and lying down.  (important part I find is making sure the dynamics are low -- no high-volume ads or flashy punctuated sound effects)<p>Not sure if any other buds work like this but the Bose QuietComfort Earbuds seem to auto-pause based on some kind of fitbit/sleep indicator which help even more with staying asleep.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:25:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45737703</link><dc:creator>schuyler2d</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45737703</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45737703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by schuyler2d in "Vitamin D reduces incidence and duration of colds in those with low levels"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From the article:
> Another argument supporting the suggestion that species which have lost their GLO gene were under no selective pressure to keep it, is that all species which have lost their GLO gene have very different diets but all of them have diets rich in vitamin C<p>What would a diet poor in vitamin C be considering that "everything else" makes it?  I guess root vegetables?  It feels like, if anything, this would imply a GLO gene decay more often than has happened, no?</p>
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<p>Well, xz is a rare event too.<p>There's no knowing how many backdoors were added by small network companies or contractors. But there's rarely accountability when it happens because the company would rather cover it up, or just not ask too many questions about that weird bug</p>
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<p>I was so sad when I lost xmonad support on Ubuntu 24.<p>I think the closest thing that could get most of the way there is <a href="https://github.com/domferr/tilingshell/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/domferr/tilingshell/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:16:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45308397</link><dc:creator>schuyler2d</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45308397</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45308397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by schuyler2d in "Like humans, every tree has its own microbiome, a new study has found"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The headline is a little crazy. This is like someone talking about the Human Genome Project and the headline reading "scientists discover humans have DNA" 
The diversity at many levels was even known. They're just trying (which is great) to get far more known genomes (the same way we are doing with human microbiomes now)</p>
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<p>I'm pretty sure they weren't unrecognizable or mystery and it's just being used as a pejorative for food they didn't like</p>
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<p>A friend of mine argued that "math is invented" rather than discovered. This seemed wrong to me and in arguing against it I found
<a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nominalism-mathematics/" rel="nofollow">https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nominalism-mathematics/</a><p>At least at this stage I think it relates to whether you believe "the universe"/reality is a sort of momentary collection of the currently-existing things. 
Vs seeing reality as the set of all things that might obstruct "me" or any entity from doing something.<p>To me, even if the wall is invisible it's still a wall</p>
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<p>Just balance that as well with what chemicals and elements show up in farmed salmon and wild salmon (heavy metals, micro plastics, PBDEs,...)<p>Not saying one's better, just that all our food sources have higher and lower quality steps before market.</p>
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<p>In the profitable cases (and maybe just as open offer), why not just sell them back to their staff/former owner?<p>There's no point to keep the IP of games that are shuttered.<p>Maybe the offer was made and a bunch didn't take it?</p>
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<p>Well the evidence is circumstantial. A bunch of Canaanites celebrate a spring festival with unleavened bread. Later they adopt a different religion that has a spring festival and an Exodus story with a new god called YHWH is glommed onto El.<p>I think it depends how "natural" one thinks the reason for unleavened bread is to Exodus. There's obviously plenty of mythical aspects to the story but the oldest are more focused on the river (Song of the Sea) and the battle.  Why not combine rebirth/reinvention stories -- one a feast and another the beginning of "freedom"<p>But it's fair to say that most of Passover as a story and holiday is unrelated.</p>
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<p>I'd answer a bit differently than replies so far. Later monotheist post "merging" of El and YHWH didn't really have space for El's son so they had to treat him as a lesser and then hostile God.  Any worship for him was considered bad.<p>Otoh, just like "Easter" is an echo of an earlier holiday, it just so happens Canaanites, as I understand it, celebrated the end of the storm god's season in spring ... Very similarly to how Passover is observed. With a sacrificed lamb shank bone and some other aspects.</p>
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<p>There's definitely some relatable and transmitted stories like the flood, etc. However, the Levant and Egyptian gods "grew up" in different contexts than Mesopotamia. Egypt was pretty centralized from the beginning and their gods were not based on cities. "El" means mountain and Baal was a storm god -- neither of which has (to my understanding) any trace to specific cities.<p>That said, I agree there was some idea of a god "living" someplace specific -- e g. YHWH living in the Arc so they could carry Him into battle.</p>
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<p>I don't want to completely refute this because I'm also an amateur and there are a lot of instabilities of consensus, but Baal was at least also the son of El in Canaanite religion which predated an Israeli kingdom.<p>My understanding is more that Yahvists had more nomadic origins and populated (/conquered, possibly the Levites[1]) a Canaanite cultural context and then there was religious syncreticism and interest in merging them. Depending on the specific passage's history there's either a ret-coning of "all one god" or at least the interpretation that way (including how your links translate those passages).<p>[1] <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Exodus-Richard-Elliott-Friedman/dp/0062565249" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Exodus-Richard-Elliott-Friedman/dp/00...</a></p>
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<p>Agree in general -- I think the tiktok/shorts wave is biasing strongly for shorter video and then the time format kills any followup/2nd iteration-explanation<p>But this one was pretty good.</p>
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