jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Historian here. That's a generalization. Manor lords did not "terrorize and pillage" the surrounding countryside.

Have you read the article? I can tell you it's a correct summary of an established views on medieval society, such as it is.

A common misconception is to view medieval serfs, free peasants and wage laborers as "oppressed masses" from a modern perspective, colored with romantic glasses from 19th century tales such as Robin Hood or Ivan Hoe. That's just incorrect.

Sure, there were plenty of peasant revolts (Jacquerie - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquerie) against the nobility. Both those were generally not against the foundations of the societal system from which manor lords derived their authority, but rather prompted by the precarious living conditions these groups found themselves in.

People didn't revolt because they felt "oppressed or terrorized", they would revolt when they got too hungry or felt unprotected.

The Jacquerie happened against the backdrop of the 100 years war. Warbands consisting of unemployed English, German and Spanish mercenaries roamed the French countryside. French nobility was pretty much powerless to do anything at the time. That's what prompted the lower classes, who felt unprotected, to engage in a violent uprising.

Most of the times, the legal framework which governed the relationship with a manor lord wasn't questioned since that's what provided a sense of stability and order.

Also, the "medieval age" spans 1.000 years if you use commonly accepted termini ab quo / ad quem (476 - 1453). But manorialism itself extended well into the pre-modern age up to the French Revolution and, depending on where you lived, well into the 19th century (Russia, serfdom was abolished in 1861). It certainly wasn't a catch all system: there were many variations and adaptations.
Unfortunately we don’t have a better working definition.
This is a perpetual problem for which there is no good solution because historically women typically were known primarily as someone's wife. So we don't really have a well-developed set of words and rubrics for how to show our respects for women in a way that is both clearly feminine in character and also clearly indicates they made it on their own merits and not as someone's wife/mom/daughter/whatever.

I don't know how this will be solved. Some people don't even like the idea of needing it to be clearly feminine or female nomenclature.
I'm really tired of how much phone-home Apple products do these days. At this point I don't even put a SIM in my phones any longer, and only permit them access via a travel router (which does have a SIM, for LTE backhaul) which runs a VPN client and on which I have root to inspect/block traffic. My latest blog post shows the dozens of dozens of connections that a Mac running Big Sur will make just sitting idle at the desktop on a fresh install.

Apple's products are only private if you want privacy from their commercial competitors. If you want privacy from Apple or the US federal government to which they provide tons of user data (without warrants(!) or due process), you're in for a constant uphill battle.

Using everyday devices should not be creating hardware-serial-linked permanent records that the state can download at any time; to me that's stuff of a true dystopia.

Apple has not yet integrated this viewpoint, and seem to regard privacy as only important against companies that aren't Apple. Device backups (full message history and attachments), as well as Photos stored in iCloud, are not end to end encrypted permitting Apple (and by extension the state) to read and access all of it without your involvement.

It's a bummer they're extending this attitude to browser-related traffic too. There seems to be a new trend inside of Apple that they're still figuring out here (see also: the addition of ContentFilterExclusionList in 11.0, and then its quick removal in 11.2).

Did you know that if you entirely block access to all Apple hosts, you can't even add a Gmail account to an iPhone?
I saw McCoy Tyner in the early 90's at Blues Alley, and sat maybe 4 feet from the piano.

Absolutely amazing experience, seeing his hands fly over the keys.
Actually, OS upgrades should not result in loss of data. It's not like your data is part of the OS in any way. If anybody says otherwise he is full of it.
There needs to be some testing of FSD solutions in real world scenarios and there will inevitably be deaths. There are thousands of deaths on the road every day right now.

Even if FSD is mature and 1000x safer than human driving then there will still be deaths. Are you suggesting that if FSD is 1000x safer then it still shouldn't be allowed on the road because there is the possibility of deaths?

I'm not claiming that FSD should or shouldn't be allowed on the road right now. My point is that we shouldn't wait for the chances of death to be zero.
We're planning to make more "normal" installation scenarios if we see good interest. Using gem was a quick way for us to get the idea out.
Ah, gotcha. So the product that is being sold is simplicity. Are you the creator? If so, I would suggest:

- more contrast between text and background

- explain who the intended user is (web dev w/o strong LAMP background. I would find it easier to turn all that stuff on than to try to use a new product, and it's not worth even $1 to me to do that... so I'm clearly not your target customer)

- explain what your value prop is (it's not "Now You Can Share!", it's, "Now You Can Share With One Click"). The way it's explained, it feels like a new capability...

edit, formatting.
They also no longer hand out Christmas presents. But those had been on a downhill slope for a while.
Turns out one plus one can be one! https://youtu.be/rOOmQEsdaxg
Question: Does a smart teevee need to be hooked up to the internet? I have a dumb teevee so I genuinely don't know. If not, can't one simply not ever give it access to a WiFi network, plug in a Chromecast/Firestick/Xbox, and call it good?
Yes and no. If you read other pieces of his, he goes into more detail about how there's a difference between objectivity and partisan neutrality. He calls partisan neutrality the "view from nowhere"---a framing device that divorces politics from its real-world effects.
A week of coding is a long time, and you have to keep it up to date. (It's basically a quarter of a month of salary. That's a lot of money.)

Depending on contracts with an employer, there might be legal hassles as well.
You probably don't want to do this. Players will get quite reasonably upset if the AI predicts thst the opponent will use an attack, so on their screen they hit the opponent out of the attack, then a rollback occurs and the opponent has actually blocked.

Some games like Killer Instinct have AIs that learn to play like a certain player. It's pretty cool!
> Traditional newspapers never sold news; they sold an audience to advertisers.

Hey, it's HN's favorite (if tired) maxim about "if you're not the customer you're the product". I usually think of that applied to Google or startups, not sure why I never made the connection with non-paywalled news sites.
Well, plus a lot of hassle.
> I struggled a lot using Emscripten to port FFmpeg to wasm - you have to compile EVERY dependency to wasm

This is a scenario where the Bazel model is a good fit IMHO. Bazel rebuilds all of your dependencies from source. This makes it easy to compile all of your dependencies with an extra flag (eg -fsanitize=address for ASAN) or using a different compiler (eg Emscripten).

While it can be annoying to wait for the world to rebuild every time, this is a use case where it shines.
Lentils. Just boil them in water with a stock cube. Done
Scott Adams describes a possible solution in "Loserthink" (there's probably a longer section on this in one of his other books: "How to Fail at Almost Anything...").

It's called "wiggle your pinky". If you're on the couch and cannot get up, just try to wiggle your pinky. If you have enough willpower for that, move your arm. Then move your legs, put your feet on the floor, and you're already halfway through getting up.

The same with a difficoult (programming) task. Just open the file in the text editor, without having the intention to actually do something. Then scroll a bit through the code. Something might catch your interest. After a minute, you're already in the middle of the task.

Summarized: Just do the tiniest step into the direction of your goal, without the intention of actually doing anything to reach that goal.
But also, don't get into a self-negative interpretation of these thoughts or experiences. Letting yourself be upset is good, but also self-sooth and be forgiving on yourself. It won't work if you just blame yourself and tell yourself you're bad/stupid etc.
I ran formatters on a largish codebase over Christmas when all the PRs were done. You just have to pick your moment. If it's really hard then get everyone to agree on a date to do it and make it each developer's responsibility to either merge before or rebase after the change. It can be done.
Thinking that the pandemic will blow over before a sufficient amount of ventilators are available may actually be too optimistic.

Car factories and similar manufacturing plants can probably be turned around in a matter of months, and will be able to produce millions of respirators over a year or two.

The virus, unless properly contained, is likely to be a threat for at least 1-2 years, and that is assuming no significant mutations to restart the cycle.

During WW2, the US started ordering Essex class carriers in 1940. Even though they were not present during the critical months of early 1942, they did turn the battle of the Pacific in 1943.
“[3] Corollary: Avoid becoming an administrator, or your job will consist of dealing with money and disputes.“
https://medium.com/zoom-developer-blog/zoom-url-schemes-748b...
Because there is a fuck ton of misinformation and outright incorrect info
What are the chances they should have added the date this was published : 100%
Elixir with Phoenix feels like programming with simple and straightforward abstractions around HTTP server, HTML generation and DB querying. Ruby on Rails feels like some sort of divine incantation. Rails has a lot of magic and hand waving, and there are recipes for doing everything that you would ignore at your own peril. I don't get the "hold on to your butts" feeling with Elixir.
One could rephrase your comment like this:

The implication of your comment is that there is something inherent in males that makes them more likely to end up in prison. Are sure you want go down that road?

That‘s the point I‘m trying to make.
While I do agree that the system has many opportunities for improvement, the idea that the vast majority of the people “in the system” can be rehabilitated is comical. Most people that can be rehabilitated have their run in with the law and straighten their act out. You don’t end up with a mile long rap sheet and on parole if you are amenable to rehabilitation. Let alone prison. You just don’t. If you actually knew a parole officer and heard what they had to deal with on a day to day basis, for very little money, you would become a “tough on crime” person. The bigger question is why do we have a culture and society where so many turn to a literal “life of crime”. Why do people begin stealing, doing drugs, and committing violence to begin with. A lot of it begins at home, but nobody wants to talk about that.
I wonder (honestly) if the answer is that AMZN owns remote and WMT owns in person?
> The idea that your employer should be able to look at your expenses and judge which ones are valid and which ones aren't, and then adjust your pay "appropriately" is offensive on a deep level.

It truly is. I may have a passion for Alizé and Cristal and to afford that passion I may want to live in a rural setting. That’s my business. Who are these people to try and tell me that whether I live in SF or Nebraska, they’re only going to let me drink André?
Thank you for the resource! I’m realizing through these replies that I’m talking about a different (and much more common) Ford Model A- but it looks like he has one of those in his collection as well.
If some companies do location based pay, and others don’t, won’t the market naturally begin to favor those that don’t?
> The market cap is a counter argument because it shows the trust people

See also Enron, WorldCom, Nortel, Bre-X (for the Canadians out there).

> […] and lately corporations put into Bitcoin as a store of wealth and a hedge against inflation.

Given its volatility, I'm not sure how useful it is as a store of wealth. Less than a year ago it lost half its value in two days (before the recent run-up):

* https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/13/bitcoin-loses-half-of-its-va...

If you think inflation is coming, then you need to stop working in economics and/or finance, as you're burning up returns hedging against it, at least in the US/industrialized world. The last time it was a problem was >40 years ago (mostly due to OPEC):

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FPCPITOTLZGUSA

Outside of specific circumstance, deflation is the predominant force:

> But Inflation is not inevitable. There are numerous countervailing forces that have been at work for much of the past 50 years. The three big Deflation drivers: 1) Technology, which creates massive economies of scale, especially in digital products (e.g., Software); 2) Robotics/Automation, which efficiently create more physical goods at lower prices; and 3) Globalization and Labor Arbitrage, which sends work to lower cost regions, making goods and services less expensive.

> Put into this context, Inflation is periodic, driven by specific events; Deflation is consistent, the background state of the modern economy. To fully understand this requires grasping how scarcity and abundance act as the drivers of the price of labor and goods. My suspicion is many economists who came of age during earlier eras of inflation fail to discern how the world has changed since.

* https://ritholtz.com/2021/02/stop-stressing-about-inflation/
I have been in the blockchain space for about three years, and there is an explosion in tech and innovation in the last six months. Visa, Mastercard etc... are integrating, bank regulators now allow banks to connect to public networks. It just astounds me sometimes how people can be so confident in a review of a platform type and done so little research. I urge you to take a second look. Blockchain is primed to disrupt the financial industry.
Reminds me of the interview with Tarn Adams from Dwarf Fortress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAhHkJQ3KgY
Good tip. I am realizing that the Ford Model A I’m referring to in my post is a totally different. car but I know this advice still stands- my dad had forums he would visit to find parts, I wonder if I can figure out which ones those were.
Even more trivial, single-leaf Merkle trees is all that is needed.
Our local computer graphics prof hated this and set the loop rate random for the opengl idle function on our submission server. At one point it hang for 5 minutes between frames.
It definitely does. You are not going to have enough people migrating to make a large enough difference. By all means, go to Thialand, they will welcome you with open arms. More money in the economy means more jobs for people.

More people with a higher level of technical skill will also enrich the community should you choose to participate.
It's probably this source that I misremembered (the numbers are close enough for me to have made a mistake). That explains why I couldn't find anything. Thanks.
Sure but their job is infinitely easier than ours : they have the resources, unity and will to breach us.

We are a bunch of disorganized folks with no budget and with no agreed goal on what is the best way to achieve this.

Also in defense you have to protect all the walls, in attack you just have to breach one.

I'm not saying we should do nothing, but that they will almost always be several steps ahead of us.
Please tell me I am missing something. There is no salt. The hashing algorithm is hence vulnerable to a simple dictionary attack. It does not matter if you do a gigazillion rounds. Someone can still pre-calculate a list of common passwords and then test that list against each and every user.
My dad would still be alive had he not had a gun.
Did you read the link you gave me?

He did not talk at all about freeing the slaves, but rather about the condition of their transport. To me it seemed that if instead of freeing them, they would have instead improved the transport conditions, he would have been satisfied.

Or in other words he did not see a problem with owning people. He had a problem with treating them badly.
I used to dislike the cold, always feeling I suffered greatly from it due to growing up in poverty in the UK and living in damp spaces (mould on the walls, condensation on the window, a cough always a breathe away).

Then I was homeless, sleeping rough through UK winters.

One does adapt, and fairly quickly too. The first nights I slept out during snowfall I didn't get much sleep as I was shivering too violently and uncontrollably. On subsequent nights I discovered cardboard (helps prevent the moisture from dew covering your body and subsequently freezing, as well as acting like an air cocoon around you holding warmer air to the body).

It was still below freezing on those nights, but I'd adapted the environment enough to remove the most severe effects. In turn, I was able to adapt to the temperature itself. I would feel myself slow down, and fall into very deep and peaceful sleeps.

It's been a long time since I was homeless, and I am fortunate now to have a roof above my head during winter. One thing remains though, I still never use the heater and leave all of the windows open in my flat. Last night was -2'c in London with a Northerly wind, and yet all of my windows were left open and I slept soundly.

For me, I tend to have a problem in the other extreme now: I find it hard to stay awake or do anything when the temperature is too high (above 30'c) and plan most holidays to be in cold climates or off-seasons so as to ensure I get the most out of them (side-effect of also being cheaper and avoiding a crush of tourists too).
The effect of inflation eroding your funds can be eliminated by investing it effectively thought. Serious savers should be earning returns well in excess of 2%; my regular bank account pays more than inflation. Similarly competent lenders would have priced in margin on top of a 2% inflation expectation, so they'd be making a slightly smaller profit on their loan portfolios rather than a loss.

That's not the case when a governments freezes withdrawal of certain assets whilst proposing to give them a 6% haircut.
From a talent perspective, this is a brilliant move. The Tungle team is top notch. I think they bought a team that knows calendaring inside and out, not a technology per se.
Meh. Everyone sucks at press releases this week (thinking about you, Sony). This just seems so much more bloodless, dispassionate, and frank than it ought to. It's obnoxiously contrary to write "The iPhone is not logging your location."

I mean, really? That's just argumentative. My mom is gonna look at the location history visualizers people wrote and respond "Really, Apple? Cause this looks very much like log of my locations".

Somebody at Apple's PR needs an ass-kicking. This ought to be a video with a short transcription from someone on the phone team (not Jobs) that just explains it without getting defensive of semantically tricky.
Understand their code.
Petzold's Code sort of fits and is worth reading regardless. From a more academic [and mathematical] standpoint, Knuth covers a lot of history as it comes up in The Art of Computer Programming...and there is its bibliography, too.
I've long suspected the reason that all videos of UFOs are smeary/unclear is because if they were clear, we would be able to see which kind of aircraft it is in the footage, and it wouldn't be a UFO (but an air balloon, commercial aircraft, glider, etc.).

One thing that is certain is that if no alien air crafts have ever visited earth, then all UFO videos/pictures must necessarily be unclear, because otherwise we'd see that it's not a flying saucer.
Oh, it's you! Great. I'm confused. I've been using HTTPSwitchboard now for the last several months and love it. Is µBlock the successor to that, or are they for different things?

edit: Ah, I followed the link to µMatrix and I see now, I think. HTTPSB became µMatrix, and µBlock is the "easy" version of µMatrix. So I guess I should upgrade my HTTPSB to µMatrix, then. Is that right? Thanks for all your work on these tools!
Don't worry, you're not the first to find that this looks similar to Verilog. I have commented about the syntax aspect on EETimes: see http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=13252...

It's more than the syntax though, it's about having a language for hardware design that most developers (yes software developers) will be able to read, understand, and write. For all sorts of purposes, from playing with FPGAs to designing devices for the IoT. And I think this is something pretty unique :-)
An extra 6 months won't kill you at all. Plus, I think finding a technical co-founder, or CTO will take longer than expected. Those 6 months are pretty much a sure bet if you devote enough time to learning, and you'll have the skills to do it yourself. Finding a technical person is a risk
https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/education

See the train for no cost or fee links at the bottom. I know ISVs and BPs can get 5-day lab courses for free but IDK about the general public.
Bike insurance is substantially cheaper than car insurance. It’s also substantially cheaper than paying for fuel.

You could get an ebike, insure it, and come out well ahead just from fuel savings.
Bigger problem is the parents who let their children watch youtube or whatever way too much.
Apple is the one that declared this list to be the source of truth. Facebook is just information customers of Apple's decision.......
> But it doesn't require major investments.

Having lived and cycled in Amsterdam to me it did seem like a major investment. Sure if one were to design a greenfield city then it’s not a big deal. But to pivot a car centric city to safely accommodate cyclists is a major change. The city residents have to go through the transition process which isn’t going to be fun.

I’ve seen it done half ass way in India and US which end up being deadly for cyclists.

I am all for cycling, I absolutely loved my two year stint at Amsterdam. It’s a life changing experience. But let’s not underestimate the costs involved in transition. Also, the city residents have to be onboard with the process, as they are the biggest stakeholders. Otherwise the implementation will get dumped half way through with disastrous results.
Addendum: Out of pure interest I just went into a deep dive into the Signal-Android repository and tried to figure out where exactly the SGX remote attestation happens. I figured that somewhere in the app there should be hash or something of the code running on the servers.

Unfortunately, `rg -i SGX` only yielded the following two pieces of code:

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/master/libs...

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/master/libs...

No immediate sign of a fixed hash. Instead, it looks like the code only verifies the certificate chain of some signature? How does this help if we want to verify the server is running a specific version of the code and we cannot trust the certificate issuer (whether it's Intel or Signal)?

I'm probably (hopefully) wrong here, so maybe someone else who's more familiar with the code could chime in here and explain this to me? :)
It may be helpful to talk about consensus based systems like Stellar and Ripple. Is this included in your altcoins section?
See also: http://www.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CheneyMTA.html

It looks like work/research in this area has been going on for at least ~20 years.