skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For companion (and succession) planting I'v made quick referential page [1] that I have collected, so i can use directly in garden.

It is really basic/unfinished, focused on Central Europe (also I'm planning to make it more general - as I'm currently gardening in Norway).

At the end I want to make something that will automatically recommend list of plants that I can plant on specific plot based on what is/was there previously. At the moment it is just list where I have to search manually for specific plants.

Sources are not clear there because it is mostly just for my personal use.
But for example for companion planting I'v processed wikipedia page [2]. Now I manually review sources from there, because not everything that is stated in the table is really supported by the declared sources.

[1] https://plants.llllll.eu/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companion_plants#cite_...
DuckDuckGo
/s
people can gamble if they want to.

But the borrowed funds used to do this is probably not as productive as investing in capital infrastructure.
I would suspect that even after a vaccine comes out travelling of all sorts will be depressed; maybe to the point of permanently moving the needle.

As an analogy, public health experts suggest we should do away with shaking hands in the future. It may well be that social norms such as travelling, shaking hands, etc will permanently change.
Russia was a Western power as far as Central Asia and the Caucasus were concerned
I don’t need the money I’m investing today for at least 10 years, maybe 20. I’m betting that the U.S. economy will not stay depressed for 10-20 years, which seems like a pretty good bet.

I did not invest heavily during the 2008 financial crisis, and looking back, I have regrets about that. I invested more aggressively this time around on the downturn.

And my younger siblings and colleagues all seem to be taking the same long-term approach. They all read /r/personalfinance and some are trying to “FIRE”—again, on a 10-20 year plan.

The article seems to take an implied short-term view by talking about how the recovery might or might not be V-shaped. Honestly that seems like the crazy approach. I don’t know anyone, personally, who is investing today with hopes of pulling that money back out in a few months. That is what a symmetrical “V” would be at this time. Obviously that is not going to happen.
> Not always, though. See every bug and exploit with C arrays ...

That can also be perceived as a a flaw of the language design in that it does not allow one to write dumb, safe and fast code. Which are such languages in existence today?

edit: fixed typos
Lot's of interesting discussion going on. Since I can't update comments here I've made it a gist with warm.css and cool.css.

For those of you asking, feel free to do whatever you want with this CSS ^_^

https://gist.github.com/deleerium/ca6ddeed5dc07a81f764a83ecd...
How to Make Money from Podcasting
Yes please! The lines don't even need to wrap, but for some reason the <pre> blocks have `max-width: 200px` on small screens, making them infuriating to read on mobile.

Moving slow is good, but if every comment that uses it has a reply with the same thing that improves the formatting, something needs fixin'.
>It has been noted that mention of a mutation in a sonic hedgehog gene might not be well received in a discussion of a serious disorder with a patient or their family.

Imaging being told by a doctor that you have sonic the hedgehog disorder.
It is the wisdom of the crowds. People do know that the group think and hysteria are all made up.

For all the scare mongering sheltering at home the facts are that the disease is not radically dangerous.

Note the hysteria and the fake outrage when pointing out that an 80 year old' "premature" death is not nearly as sad, impactful or tragic as that of 30 year old'.

Modern society keep its citizens in check by promising them that they are all "equal" and that they will do "everything" possible for everyone. The outrage is to salvage that facade, that illusion.
> But whats important? A functioning app or good looking one?

Depends on your audience.
HashiCorp Consul 1.8
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332329656_Unikernel...

researchgate is much much nicer, and gives a lot of info: citations, related papers, you could go see info about authors, ask questions, see what project this paper is on. Researchgate allows discovering interesting papers in a seamless maner.
So then why do you buy from amazon instead of elsewhere?
This is exactly it. And I could fill in my own profile that I share. And when the switch is on the search engine would have access to it to filter ads and allow marketers to target me properly.
Security tips for journalists covering communities of hate online
Eh, sounds like every other website to me.

Wouldn't people say ACM are out of touch if they don't adopt all the common junk you see on websites? Their website is so out of date it doesn't have a cookie banner! Best I get my information from somewhere that keeps up with the times ... and the law!
What Went Wrong: Corona and the World After the Full Stop
If visual noise is an issue, I made a VSCode theme specifically for muting things like quotes and semicolons, that way I don't have to choose between explicit semicolons and reduced visual clutter: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=wildpeak...

The theme was primarily made for me, but I published it because others might find the idea useful.
I love fold expressions, but if you're inside a variadic template, you've long left the realms of "simple and dumb". IMO.

I mean, they're only readable to people who have dabbled in variadic templates in their free time. That's how many people on your (future) team?
What did Amazon do to Elasticsearch?
I'm a little bit hesitant about vitamin deficiency. this sounds like orthomolecular medicine and I wouldn't trust that. I'm especially hesitant if that vitamin is fat-soluble because it can accumulate in your body fat and eventually be poisonous.
Kotlin, like C#, has a two-colour, double API system for synchronous code on threads and on coroutines.
Glamorous Toolkit
Good writeup, but is there any mitigation for TLS shootdowns?
That seems like it would be a terrible idea. The ability to create money up until the point of inflation seems like a key tool to manage economic disasters like COVID-19.
Indeed and they are lining up new ones next week

https://mobile.twitter.com/freddiesayers/status/126132013778...
Libertarians have no problem with voluntary charity, just with compulsory charity.
You're right, coffeescript's refusal to use python's more sensible ternary idiom ('normal' if condition else 'abnormal') is strange, especially since it already has the useful trailing-if idiom ('normal' if condition).
> You really can’t compete against free.

Sure you can, you can set a negative price such that you pay a user for using your service which bing literally does [0].

[0]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/rewards/search-and-earn
While I’m not suggesting using Go for game development, don’t most games include code written in a language with garbage collection? If not C#, then a scripting language like Lua?
Tangially related: is there anything as good as Jira. I know it's industry standard tech, but it's _so slow_ and clunky, I pine for alternatives.
>Way way way way way harder, I'd think. It's basically never been done in the modern era.

Also never been really tried, except by second tier companies with small recourses like Trolltech/QT, or even smaller open source attempts like Wx.
Google used its other monopoly, in search to aggressively promote chrome.

“Upgrade to a safe browser”.

They always use their monopolies (video, search, maps) to venture into different markets.
I had good teachers who just let me sit at the back of the class and work at my own pace, they would mark any work that I handed in.
> The impact on businesses will be that, since laborers will have more job mobility, businesses will have less negotiating leverage over employees. This is a good thing.

Again, 2nd order effects. Businesses will rely on employees less too. It might make businesses more capital reliant, lowering the entrepreneurship rate further. It might not, but the point is that saying it will be good because of labor mobility is like looking 1 move deep in a chess game.

> Because cash can pay for anything, UBI is cheaper than any equivalent social program which purchases goods on behalf of recipients. When combined with the overall lower cost of administration, this makes UBI definitionally less costly and more impactful than other social programs, dollar by dollar.

UBI is 3 times as much as our current social programs. It doesn't matter how cheap it is to administer if the actual allocation amount is so different. It's 15% of GDP, and yearly, not a one time cost.

I strongly disagree that increasing the budget for social programs from 800b to 2.3t is not worth thinking about the potential 2nd order effects, which was my original point.

> Sweden is worth mentioning because, for basically any reasonable path in society that one can imagine, there is government money available to motivated citizens. This is the vaunted alternative listing of "other social programs" that your perspective values so much.

I don't think Sweden avails government money the same way UBI does. If you could buy weed, alcohol, video games, vacations, travel, pets, furniture, sports equipment, or any other recreational activity in Sweden with their social programs then I would take this point more seriously.

> Similarly, Alaska is worth mentioning because they really do send no-strings-attached money to every resident. This demonstrates that UBI does not have to disrupt the social and economic fabric of our society.

Alaska's UBI is literally a dividend from an investment fund. 25% of oil's profits would be put into the fund and payed out as a dividend, and the fund was well managed, leading to around $1000 a year in peak years. This is a very different structure, both in quantity of money payed out as a dividend as well as how the money is being taken from, to what is proposed in many UBI policy implementations.

Alaska's money doesn't come as a re-distribution of tax, it's literally an investment fund. Alaska's amount is also 10x lower than most UBI proposals. When we have a $60 trillion dollar fund that we can draw 5.25% every year to pay for UBI, then I'll agree that Alaska is an example that UBI doesn't disrupt the economic fabric of our society.
> It's called being facetious

Then stop being facetious. It wasn't clear you were being facetious, anyway.

> Completely irrelevant

No, it isn't, not to the point I was making. You also don't get to decide what's relevant to a point someone else is making.

The point is that Vista's version number is 6.0, 7's was 6.1, 8's was 6.2, and 8.1's was 6.3. All seemingly minor version number bumps, all major releases.

> Yeah, the reality for my machine is that the upgrade did not take

That's unfortunate — but nobody else's problem. If you have a capable machine, harping on about ...

> They sell hardware

... doesn't really stand. They may be selling hardware — but you don't have to buy any.
Actually most of stories that influenced my decision are from US: employees fired by algorythm, fired because trying to unionize, etc.
It seems all of this is impossible in France but still, this is not a culture I want to support.
Everything you need to know about the Angular Compatibility Compiler(ngcc)
I've been learning Blender. Started with Blender Guru's doughnut tutorial then branched out from there. Made a simple virtual pet game where I made all the art myself. I ended up also downloading LMMS to make my own theme song for the game. It's been pretty fun.
This is classic Whatabout-ism.

Good is not the enemy of perfect. Google and Facebook should be shattered into a thousand little pieces. And we can also look into other monopolies.
I was expecting something on Food Supply, what is the current issues with it?
It's sad but true. People even deny native genocide. I had a comment yesterday saying the natives didn't experience genocide but were simply "moved off their land".

But I guess I can understand it somewhat. It took me a long time to come to terms with it as well. The genocide of the natives didn't sink in until I saw a list of the native languages that were wiped out along with the natives. It was dozens and dozens of languages. Many times more languages than exists in the whole of europe.
> you have to have a constrained palette, which more-or-less precludes any sort of antialiasing

> I have only ever seen one piece of antialised pixelart

You haven't seen a lot of pixel art then. Just visit Pixel Joint [1] (a well-known community) and on the homepage (which is updated all the time) you'll already see a few. One of the most distinguished members even has a popular "tutorial" [2] that discusses this and other techniques.

If you're interested, there's also Pixelation [3], a community where people discuss techniques in depth.

In short, anti-aliasing can be done by hand and using a low color count. There's also "index painting", something that many "hardcore" pixel artists consider cheating, but which creates the style without manual work [4].

The point others make is true, though: The sharpness of newer screens ultimately reduces their visual appeal (although there are people who actually prefer them).

[1] https://pixeljoint.com

[2] https://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11299&PID=1...

[3] https://pixelation.org

[4] http://danfessler.com/blog/hd-index-painting-in-photoshop
Angular Compiler(ngtsc)
I think most people would think Haskell is too small and that we have enough experience with it to judge the merits of its design.
> But what else is there?

That's my point. Stocks outperforming cash, bonds, and precious metals isn't some universal truth. It's a product of Fed/USG policy (and other factors).
The elephant in the room is Baidu.
i don't know if you missed it but there was a 2 month worldwide lockdown just recently. when is the last time there was a lockdown for flu? even if the curves are shifted versions of each other up until now do you really think that lockdown had absolutely zero effect on the covid curve? so how do you explain the many people that haven't contributed to the covid curve (flattening the curve duh) yet (unfortunately).
I'm not familiar with Go but apparently it has "embedding" which is a little different. Maybe that works. But it's largely playing the same role - a way to extend a class you might not control.

So I'd rephrase that I suppose, perhaps we don't need something called Inheritance, but we do need a way to extend objects we don't control without breaking encapsulation.

As an example if you had a method that outputs XML and you want JSON, you can use an adapter object to call it, read the string, and reformat and pass it through. That works (and I've done things just as bad or worse many times from necessity), but it's definitely more hackish and less efficient than a solution that uses object fields to output JSON natively. Inheritance is my familiar way to do this in cases where I don't control the code (in which case injecting a Writer class of some sort probably makes more sense).
A Conversation with Bertrand Russell (1952) [video]
> Make your code simple, dumb and verbose all the time

This is a frequently encountered argument, and sure, if you look at any single line, it looks very obvious what it does. But I would argue that verbosity and lack of abstraction has severe drawbacks for a programmer's ability to understand the overall codebase, and it is disastrous for long term maintainability.

You start out with 20 identical pieces of boilerplate code, and a few years later, you have 20 subtly different pieces of code. Good luck guessing whether the differences were intentional, or accidental. Good luck refactoring the code.
What makes floobits awesome is that it could will allow someone using Vim and someone using Emacs to do pair programming.

And if you can make Emacs and vim users happy then you can have world peace.

The only problem we had with it, was that it was only 99% reliable... And that 1% error (in the connections dropping and such) was annoying.

But I still consider floobits a project with great potential.
Depressed travelling has some interesting plays here.

This means that AirBnB is dead. And all those people that bought multiple houses, with multiple mortgages, which they can no longer service, are going to go bankrupt. Good riddance.

You can’t short AirBnB, but what other companies can you short? The loan processing companies? Zillow? BofA?
Herd immunity
The base salary in the warehouse is $15 per hour in the US, and similarly higher than average in France.

It's a bit odd that the one retailer than meets the most aggressively demanded Progressive goal, seems to be the target of near-daily attack articles.

It's almost as if there's something else going on with all this anti-Amazon news... isn't there?
I’m not saying you’re wrong, but you first need to establish that there is, in fact, a large group of people living in cities because they “have to” for work. I don’t think this can be treated as a fact without some evidence. The power of cities isn’t some US-only phenomenon, it has been the dominant economic engine for centuries.
Try floobits.com is the implementation of this idea.
Urgh I agree, I've seen people twice my age use them in presentations, it did not improve the presentation.
I wouldn't recommend Vaadin. I worked on a work project using Vaadin 10+. Despite 10 and 14 being LTS releases they felt like they should still be in beta, my team ran into countless bugs. Vaadin didn't fix any of these bugs with any sense of urgency, even with a paid support contract (obviously less relevant for a side project). Working on that project almost made me leave the company, and the use of Vaadin was a significant factor in that.
It's evident by this point that you can avoid total lockdowns and still control infections. Permanent lockdown is simply not a realistic solution, so I expect we'll all start tending towards the Swedish model, regardless of how much gnashing of teeth and fiery twitter rhetoric such decisions will generate.

As for the apocalyptic atmosphere - it doesn't seem possible to really predict how bad/good things will get. How many predicted during WW2 that upon its exit would be a period of unprecedented social progress & economic equality?
Perhaps it would be an idea if we could add our own CSS in a textarea on our user page.
Genghis and his descendants certainly conquered a huge area, but the empire quickly broke apart after Möngke (Genghis' successor) died, into the Ilkhanate, Yuan dynasty, Chagatai Khanate, and Golden Horde. Most of these didn't last more than a century, but more relevantly, the Mongols weren't particularly interested in spreading their culture and largely kept their language a private matter. Subsequently Mongolian (the language) basically doesn't exist outside of Mongolia/Inner Mongolia (China) and culturally there is far less influence as compared to say, the Russian or Spanish empires.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_the_Mongol_Empire
...but what if your impression is just based upon the bubble of news you consume? Isn't it possible you, from France, don't get unbiased news about US companies?
hmm. I just tried turning off JS and reloaded Firefox. Everything seems to still work fine on HN with the theme on. I don't know much about web dev so I'm not sure what could be causing it.
How to Concatenate Slices in Golang
Linux is the most mainstream Unix-like server operating system. We're making only minimal changes to Linux and hoping to get them upstream. (The NetBSD rumpkernel is a bit different from this by the way.)
Use stylus to automatically inject it.
So, naive code attracts naive programmers? I'm not sure this is the ringing endorsement you take it to be.

I should also add that Hungarian notation is the prototypical example of dumb, verbose code, that wants to make individual lines easier to understand by dragging type information into every single variable name.
The market overreacts to bad news. So Buffett bought American Express during a scandal, which (he checked) didn't actually affect their business.

For the USA, business is affected, the question is if it's long term: Will closed businesses reopen? Will unemployed find work? Will the US lose its centrality to China? But however bad it is, the market overreacts.
A16Z Wins VC Sweepstakes to Back Clubhouse, Still in Beta, at $100M Valuation
https://wiby.me/ exists to solve this exact problem. I've found some pretty neat/odd websites on it in the past.
Some jira devs probably read HN. Most of the time jira is on the front page, a product manager shows up to comment.

In any case they'll probably see it.
According to https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/algorithm/stable_sort:

> This function attempts to allocate a temporary buffer equal in size to the sequence to be sorted. If the allocation fails, the less efficient algorithm is chosen.

Or is this not what you consider a "functional construct"?
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What does "proven to work" mean with regard to masks? A lot of the measures put in place are unproven but thought to be reasonable.

Hand washing and social distancing appear to be the most important. That means soap and 6+ feet for at least the next 2 years. That is definitely doable. I don't see masks as a long-term strategy.
There's More Than Code
mind sharing a link of this article, can't seem to find it
They are toys. You pay money and get nothing in return. Let’s say AMZN shuts down. What do common equity holders get? What if they never shut down? Then what do the common equity holders get?
> isn't all pay hazard pay?

Not really. Not all jobs are risky. I fail to see how being in a well ventilated warehouse is risky. It's not like they're interacting with customers.
Java Web Start is such a big success.
We can afford to maintain it. We can't afford to maintain it with the corruption that is current public bidding/contracting process in many places.
Do you think business would have planned for this? I agree that government has failed but I doubt business would have done any better. Who would pay for stockpiling supplies?
I find that it feels just as challenging (and satisfying) at my current ascension of 18 as it felt when I struggled to complete a run pre-ascension. Which is a remarkable achievement in game design.

I do wonder if me getting bored with it will occur at Ascension 20, Ascension 20 with Heart, or sooner.
Imagine thinking that China is less evil than Amazon.
The pandemic is killing the attraction of megacities
It's free on the Mac App Store and open source (MIT)

https://github.com/subethaedit/SubEthaEdit/tree/master

I thought this was a new version and got somewhat excited... :(
Paywall: http://archive.vn/icR9U

(is, fo, li, md, vn, ph, and today are alt TLDs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today)
But finance is always about connections, said Michele Sindona.
Yes! Why does it show up like that at night? #eyesablaze
Not quite what you're asking for, but you might be amused by the etymology of "thagomizer":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer
I was just saying that freely giving up an item does not necessarily mean theft cannot later occur if that item is not given back. The parent suggested the keys were not stolen because they were given. I say they were stolen as soon as they were used without consent, much like a bank spending your money and not giving it back.

I'd say the last point about crypto is a feature, not a bug. A lot of proponents absolutely cheer on the fact that no individual, business, or government can come along and sweep up coins/tokens and hand them back through force if appropriate cautions are taken. This is unfortunately the other side of that. The idea of people using exchanges as a value store and not as a pass-through or escrow service has always confused me for that reason.
The “ridiculous” failed coup attempt in Venezuela, explained