skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Far be the thought of this from Henry's heart,
To make a shambles of the parliament-house!"

-Shakespeare (Henry VI, Part 3)
That assumes that running a business is your thing..
>In addition fossil never looses data, unlike git which can easily destroy branches that are not pushed, delete stuff while stashing or unstashing, delete stuff when rebasing and so on.

I have created a lot of feature branches that contain useless commits which I then later corrected with a simple git merge --squash. Preserving those commits sounds like a drag.
You can truncate the SHA-512 digest down to 256 bits though. Cryptographic hash functions mix well and don't suffer from the truncation (except to the extent that the truncated digest is shorter, of course). You don't necessarily need more storage (after hashing completes) just because you're using a new hash function.
Will like to learn more about the eBay sales, is it location dependent? How can I also reach out to you? My email is smithmayowa20 at gmail.com
Unreadable from Europe.
For something to be damaging there would have to be some damage somewhere. You wouldn’t describe a bad head cold as dancing and that will absolutely lead to a pissed off two year old with trouble sleeping for several nights.

When I taught kindergarten one of the children in the youngest class at the time was terrified of the Eensy Weensy Spider video and of the Elephant in a Hickory Dickory Dock video. I told her to close her eyes when it was coming up. She did. Eventually she got over it.

The idea that a scary clown can be “damaging” is a testament to helicopter parenting. Up to 1900 it would be a rare person indeed that didn’t have siblings die before they were ten and basically no one would make it b that far without having a friend or family member die. That’s trauma. That’s damaging.
Yep, I believe that was a relatively recent addition actually. They're making great progress on the dev tools side of things.
You don't feed palm oil to pork though
Until I switched to google for my email, Pegasus Mail was my go-to client. Amazing to see it still kicking after all these years, and still updating! Kudos to him for keeping up with it!
I wonder how skewed this number is in the US due to doctor's notes for (un-needed) school lunch exemptions, assuming the note got charted (which is basically mandatory with electronic records). Even when I was in school, (before allergies were cool) a large number of kids faked it for access to the alternative menu, or to be allowed to bring their own lunch and snacks. I suspect it's only gotten worse.
Thailand is a relatively poor country where labor is super easy to find.
> To use git you need to know clone, pull, commit, push. For larger projects branch and merge

What if you committed to the wrong branch? What if you tried to merge commits from another user and made a mess of it all? What if you pushed something you want to roll back? What if you committed with the wrong commit message and want to fix it? What if you followed the policy of "commit often" but ended up with lots of irrelevant commits, and want to fix this so that it only has meaningful commits. How can you find who committed what? Or which branches contain a commit?

I know how to do all of this. But these are genuine questions a user of git will need to get answered, and git quickly becomes confusing/inconsistent once you're off the "happy path".
It was not the best of comparisons [0]. tl;dr they had different memory and the AMD hardware was older generation (nothing better available, it's true) compared to the Intel. There were other differences too.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21976211
It's a word for a meat market, or a butcher's shop, in other words – a bloody mess.
> Should I learn to make pasta from scratch? No, that’s crazy. Nobody cares if you can make pasta from scratch and it’s not going to make any money.

I stared at this for a long time in complete disbelief thinking "But it's so delicious!" And I guess, if you do it for friends or acquaintances it will give you prestige, you will be the prestigious person who makes totally awesome pasta. Although personally I would rank doing something nice for people above the prestige you might get from it, so I guess the article is not for me.
Which is why there are dozens of Git front-ends, fragmenting the market, reducing the benefit of cross-training within a team. "Oh, you can't do that in your TortoiseStudioCodeThingy? I just right-click and select Frobnicate File, and it fixes all that!"

Thus editor wars, language wars...

Alternative: a tool like Fossil where the CLI is sensible from jump so the whole team doesn't replace it with something better, uniquely per team member.
> After the recent missteps by Chrome (mangling the display of URLs)

Me too! I'm not as bothered by software-politics as many of the commentators on here (I don't hate Facebook, and worked there for four years; I don't hate ads; I don't worry too much about trafficking and privacy...) but Chrome fucking with the URL was a bridge too far. I switched to Firefox and when Google walked back their hiding-the-URL business, I never bothered switching back, because I didn't trust them anymore.

Companies take note: users' trust that you won't arbitrarily change their workflow in annoying ways is hard to win back.
Here's my Firefox wishlist:

- Open new windows more quickly. Firefox feels sluggish (on Mac) even though it isn't, simply because it opens new windows far more slowly than Safari or Chrome.

- Use the platform native key store. I don't want my passwords stored unencrypted on disk. But I don't want to enter a separate master password either. I do want to use fingerprint/face unlock on mobile to reveal passwords.

- Give me a setting to autoconfirm all cookie consent requests and lobby for a legally binding do-not-track header. Cookie consent was well meaning, but it has turned out to make things worse. Let's move on.
Beware though - NextDNS is good but their servers being hosted in France the geolocation gets you IPs in france (when accessing Google properties for example) which slows things down a lot - 30-50ms vs 130+ in my case.

They should have thought about this - it is possible to force resolve the individual domains in the NextDNS UI but that gets problematic fast.
> Except that I don't have to understand the underlying data structure to use a more basic VCS like Mercurial. What makes git so special that I would have to do that before being able to use it?

I don't think it is special. Generally after a while using a given tool, library, etc. I find it useful to dig in a bit and see what's happening under the hood to help understand why it works the way it does. git just happens to be the tool under discussion at the moment.

> And for recovery from mistakes, I meant stashing the changes somewhere, deleting the repository and downloading a clean copy to start again, which I had to do a few times with Git and never with Mercurial (I might had to do it once or twice with SVN, though).

I think we're talking about the same sort of mistakes. It's hard for me to imagine a case where you'd need to blow away a local git repository entirely. Worst case scenario, there should be good refs available in a remote that are just a 'git fetch' away. (If there's no remote, then blowing away the local repo is essentially just starting from scratch anyway.)
Neat, but don't know if I can switch because of how it rolls off the tongue.
I think it's a sensible feature but should have been added just as a button on the standard video controls and as part of the right click menu. If a website goes out of the way to abstract both of those things into site controls then the browser shouldn't be adding additional menus on top to try to get around it it should let the site decide to add the button or not.

A great example is Twitch (which I would have assumed was one of the prime use/test cases). Twitch has these things they call "extensions" that streamers can add to the player of anyone watching the stream... and they pop out on hover from the right when you want to access their main settings. So instead of clicking the button to modify the extension suddenly the video is in the corner of my monitor.

That's when I decided to disable it for now :).

Edit: clarification
> Intel pays to solution providers to not to work with AMD in China

Wasn't there literally a US antitrust case about this?
Your initial dice roll is random, but after that, the actions you take are meaningful.

It makes far more sense to compare amongst individuals in a peer group.
Life is suffering. We cry because someone convinced us it's not. Fairy tales are just that. Read deep into history for perspective.

We're at the 100th anniversary of the Spanish Flu that happened right after WWI. If we were living 100 years ago, we still have Prohibition, mass bank failures, the Great Depression and WWII to look forward to before mid-century.

Be thankful you aren't in a trench.
What you're missing is the vast majority of people simply never traveled any real distance from their hometown at all. Spending a few months visiting Italy sounds lovely, but most people have always been too time-constrained for that kind of luxury.
Just to point something out.

IBM sponsored and was the primary contributor of resources to an independently developed Java work-alike called Apache Harmony. (about JDK 1.5 level, IIRC) Apache Harmony was, naturally, under the Apache license.

Google wanted something like Java for Android, so Google used Apache Harmony.

Sun was okay with Google having something like Java in Android and had said so. (perhaps reluctantly)

Oracle sees Sun for sale, and envisions a big "sue google" sign on Sun's back. Oracle buys Sun, to get Java and sue Google. Very soon after acquisition this becomes apparent. James Gosling leaves Oracle for reasons that were not quite clear at the time, but soon become clear.

Oracle claimed Google had used Java code. But Android had Apache Harmony.

So Oracle changes its argument to . . . But the APIs!!!

(Groklaw had documented all this back in the day.)
>The maximum trophic efficiency between two steps in the food chain is 10% so for a pound of meet you need at least 10 pounds of plant feed.

This seems to be contradicted by [1]. It says that beef it typically 6:1 (plant feed: meat) and chicken is typically 1.6.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_conversion_ratio
Electronic frailty index comprising routine blood test results
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Still open in 72.0 is the APZ bug where zooming out after zooming in results in the page being wider than the window.
I used it since the betas. I'm early Mozilla user too. But I quit using it when Google Chrome shipped its first beta. Then, it was matter of time I started to use it. Remember FF was so slow between 2008-2015.
Yes, the book had people form "belief circles" of that nature.
American Consumers, Not China, Are Paying for Trump’s Tariffs
Win10 (the version I have at work) has removed "keep above" and made it application specific, OneNote has it, Word doesn't. It's crazy.
Downvoted. There's no ISO standard for English, since language is a social phenomenon. "Correct" language is whatever the community of speakers uses in practice, not what someone claims is correct in a blog post (or even a book).
Firefox preview is fantastic. I started using it expecting a very unstable experience and... it hasn't been.

For me its been fantastic.
Watch “Legal Exotic Pet in the Philippines” on YouTube
On iOS/iPadOS _all_ browsers are using Safari's webkit engine to render. That goes for FF on iOS, that goes for Chrome on iOS - it's all webkit.
>Almost No one would purposely harm an intelligent animal

Thought experiment: is it ethical to eat animals that have been genetically engineered to be braindead?
Given how much of this is driven by upper management and ownership - just like Pivot To Video and other historically disastrous moves - I'm not really sure how much they can self-interrogate here. It'd basically end up being a takedown of their bosses, which always goes over well. If you're told to publish multiple articles a day (or even one piece per day) this limits your ability to do deep research or heavily-edited writing, and policies like that are common.

FWIW some unionized web news outlets HAVE been writing about this lately, but it's usually in response to ownership laying off chunks of their team and telling them to stick to clickbait. It happened recently at a couple of outlets that were (years back) originally owned by Gawker and changed owners multiple times.
It was a sound premise to investigate. EFF spent much more to demonstrate the weakness of DES decades ago, and it highlighted the need for stronger crypto and the fact that nation states would be more than able to break commonly-used crypto at the time.
Switched too ffx few monthes ago, good enough.

It's still not as quick as Chrome (my laptop is not recent, not helping) but I'd rather support Mozilla.
CA was also doing all of this pretty openly.

It'll be much harder catching the smarter bad actors.
Do you mean "liable" in a legal sense? If so, liable for what crime?
Have you looked at GiveWell?

"We search for the charities that save or improve lives the most per dollar."

https://www.givewell.org/

They don't care about overhead, they will recommend a charity that prevents a death per $5'000 and has a 50% overhead over a charity that prevents a death per $10'000 and has a 20% overhead.
In electronics instantaneous power still needs to be accounted for. You can’t just average it out especially if its many orders of magnitude higher than continuous.

I’d be absolutely shocked if biological systems were somehow different.
Because 7/11 handles all the products and logistics to deliver items multiple times daily. Where would he get things to sell, and how would they get to his store?
Gates did. Not sure either Musk or Jobs had rich families. You may want to check that.
Unless it's a matter of principle to you, the article loads fine without cookies if you disable 3rd-pary and/or 1st-party Javascript. The cookie consent banner doesn't even load for me, I assume that with 3rd-pary JS enabled you get some kind of redirect or pop-up? I didn't get asked to consent to or enable anything.

I have no idea why more people on HN don't use UMatrix with at least 3rd-party JS turned off by default. It's trivial to re-enable for the sites that need it, and a nontrivial portion of news sites I visit work just fine (if not better) with JS disabled. Most popups just flat-out disappear.
Have you ever read any of the original Grimm’s Fairy Tales? They are gruesome. Cinderella’s step sisters cut off parts of their feet to fit into the slipper kind of gruesome. Children have been dealing with this kind of stuff for a long, long time. Life leaves a lasting mark. If they’re terrified and nothing bad happens they learn they can deal with this. I wouldn’t do that deliberately to a child but lasting mark does not mean lasting harm.
I am just a fair programmer.

But I create great insights. Whole new ways to see a problem. Making the intractable and complex simple and obvious with a novel mental model.

For instance, I replaced a high end CAD/Illustrator style print production workflow with a simple form. Answer some questions and out pops a production plan.

It took me 4 years to earn that insight. The entire industry modeled the flow information exactly backwards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_Definition_Format). It took me forever to overcome my initial misunderstand of the problem -- I mean really, how conceited am I to think everyone else is wrong and no one else thought of this before me -- and see the problem like the production workers do. I had to bridge the domains of print production and software design.

Alas, it's been a while since I've had a gig which could afford that kind of investment. My last gig, recommenders for fashion, which turned out to be a complete hoax, devs were slaves to JIRA, "just do 80%" and move on, throw everything away every 2 years, unless it's "legacy", in which case just suffer with it.

I wonder if there's much room left for dinosaurs like me.
Ling Ling practices 40 hours a day
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wow, those seem quite fantastic at first glance. If I search for my real name I get every single profile I've ever created since the beginning of time - as opposed to google listing a bunch of random garbage. Names there are like John Doe returns famous people named John OR Doe above the person(s) with the actual name.

EDIT: I right click the search box and make qw and sw keywords for them.

EDIT2: I'm just looking for a functional google alternative.
Slack has started disabling unrelated features if you disallow notifications. For instance, you can’t add channels to the “ignore @here” list if notifications are off. I’m sure this’ll get worse over time.

FF needs a “disable notifications, but lie to the website and say they’re enabled” button.
Qwant doesn't work for me at all on Firefox. It displays an empty page. Does anyone else have that problem?

In the console I get a warning and an error:

> Content Security Policy: Couldn’t process unknown directive ‘script-src-elem’

> TypeError: browserLanguage is undefined
Not sure about that, at least in my workplace some of the people considered the smartest and best engineers are very quite, almost shy.
Firefox is definitely an amazing experience, especially if you use Firefox Containers[1]. My only gripe is that the UX of containers isn't quite ready for prime time yet (e.g. your container setup doesn't sync by default).

And there really needs to be an easy way to switch profiles. Firefox has had profiles for basically forever, but it's much easier to switch profiles in Chrome.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers
Unsure if this is just my hot take but...

GitHub is what mainstreamed Git to what it is today. Who knows what our industry would look like (with regards to source control) if GitHub never existed.

Probably still SVN and Team Foundation Server (shutter).
Re:qwant

France has a more permissive surveillance regime than the US[0], and as a foreign (US) user I have no recourse if they spy on me.

Furthermore, here are some quotes from qwant:

>We do not use any cookies or other advertising tracers to create your profile for commercial purposes. This means that you can use Qwant with confidence, we will never try to establish your psychological or commercial profile to sell it to third parties, here or elsewhere. [1]

Note the "for commercial purposes" in the first sentence, and the "to sell it to third parties" in the second. These are weasel clauses.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/24/france-big-bro...

[1] https://betterweb.qwant.com/5-reasons-to-be-brave-and-choose...
If your goal is just to monetize your website (via ads or perhaps sponsored content), manipulation doesn't really seem like it's in your wheelhouse. I suppose it's not utterly implausible that a political party or other major player could attempt to pay off an outlet's owners to use them for manipulation, but that seems a lot more expensive than just astroturfing on twitter and facebook.

One notable counter-example to my POV though would be that the Koch family has a tendency to hand big chunks of money to think-tanks, websites and universities for promoting their agenda. Not really sure what the best take-away from that is, though.
You have to remember that The Bible isn't one book. It's a collection of a bunch of different books in one convenient binding. I finally finished reading the whole thing last year and was surprised by how many different perspectives it contained. Anybody who says "The Bible says x!" is at risk of missing the point. It's far more accurate to say something like "In one of his letters, Paul said x" or "Esther told her father x." Context is critically important for this collection of very different books.
You state that as if it’s axiomatic; it’s not.
You should come back!
Still hanging out for Replay, which if it gets into mainline Firefox, will easily make the FF the best JS development environment: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/We...
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It’s typical for centuries, if not millennia, that politicians will start external dramas (i.e., wars) as smokescreens to deflect and to distract from internal controversies.
That's a really schizophrenic argument.

On the one hand because they are this large, they cannot currate content. On the other hand they are arguing because they are this large they are the only ones who can currate this content.

I would feel more sympathetic to your argument if the companies wouldn't argue both cases at the same time.
Yes; in addition to the other comments, there is also the shambles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shambles

(nowadays devoid of mead products but a nice picturesque place to visit if you can stand crowds. Try the bookshop)
How do I make sure that Mozilla is respecting my OS DNS settings and not using DNS over HTTPS at all?
FWIW if you don't need cgo then CGO_ENABLED=0 is sufficient to get a static binary. The tricky part is getting a static binary while also embedding C libraries. That's what the github issue is about.
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Documentary films need more funding
It's more like a usenet/twitter hybrid than reddit.