skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In switzerland, you can easily work up from day hikes to hiking refuge to refuge to pitching your own tent. (for your first hikes, shoes and a portemonnaie will suffice; in accessible areas the general rule is "if there is a view, there will be a restaurant.")

trails: https://map.wanderland.ch/?lang=en&photos=yes&logo=yes&seaso...

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/hiking-switzerland/45239794 (TIL that trail maintenance is

refuges:
https://www.sac-cas.ch/en/

We don't usually bother with trail maps (as everything is well signposted and difficulty-graded[1], and we do dayhikes so rarely leave a drainage) but they're readily available in analog and digital formats. PostAuto allows you to do through-hikes as well as loop-hikes or there-and-back-agains. I find Swisscom to have the best backcountry coverage, if that's important to you.

(if you'd rather learn in a group, I'm sure you have a local hiking club.)

a short guide to the types of people you're likely to encounter on the trail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBDSHMQWvXA

Finally, if you start hiking you'll be able to start participating in the Swiss National Sport: guessing where people come from based on their trail greetings.

(guessing is easy mode, hard mode is playing what in the States is known as the Mennonite Game: figuring out a possible personal connection to people you've just met)

[1] https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/hiking-switzerland/45239794
TIL hiking trails were recently added to the Constitution by referendum. https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19995395/...
Clinical Parameters and Artificial Intelligence
Wizz Air Takes Legal Action Against Ryanair over Buzz Brand
The Hungarian LCC alleges that the “Buzz” brand is very similar to its own name “Wizz” Air.
Identifying the good developer with the frequent job hopper and the expert beginner with the developer who stays at the same place seems rather unfounded. I have also seen the job hopper who left just before it became clear that his architecture was actually not all that great. Also, wanting to use the standard stuff vs. rolling out your own is more a thing of incentives. If you are a frequent job hopper it is nice to learn something standard. If you stay at the same place you will have to suffer from the standard boilerplate that the not-so-great framework requires and that has to be typed over-and-over. It is more a matter of incentives than that one thing is necessarily better than the other, I think. One great advantage of the programmer who stays is that his decisions are backed by skin-in-the-game. S/he has to suffer through the consequences of his choices.
Could someone break down the significance of this for those of us who are less hardware-acquainted? Does this represent the cutting edge of RISC-V CPU design? And how difficult would it to implement this design properly instead of simply emulating it with an FPGA?
Japan and China use regular Western comma grouping for Latin numerals. The myriads are used only when using Japanese/Chinese numerals: １万円 for 10,000 yen, ２億円 for 200,000,000.
I like these sorts of analysis, whether I agree or not.

I've come to believe though, that they need humour. There's always a tendency to over-extrapolate, get hung up on typologies which crack under weight and to assume the model is the main thing going on. Humour gives them a productive "playing with ideas" vibe, keeps it honest.

In software development, for example, I always think that demographics play a big role. Every decade we get more young programmers than the last. Many older programmers "graduate out" one way or another. The resulting demographics are unusual, with a years of experience pyramid more like the military than most professions.

Technology, methods and philosophy change rapidly. This is both exasperated by and causal to the demographics, and the youth/pace of the field itself. A lot of software culture has this relationship with the demographics. Maybe 60yo developers are more likely to produce important new things, but they are outnumbered 100-1 by 20-somethings... enforcing youth biases, etc.

I think a lot of this essays thoughts on learning might be affected by software demographics. A lawyer, accountant or aviation engineer's thoughts on learning and career progression probably encompasses much longer time periods. In software, we think in much shorter timescales. Between the age of 22 & 27, a programmer has progressed through a "career." Between the age of 22 & 27, an accountant has progressed through a cadetship.
> so what the dog wants to communicate is that she wants a food treat.

More like "I want my usual food treat, I didn't get it today".

Have you ever been late to feed a cat its regular meal? You will hear about it.
Acting. It's given me so much confidence to tackle any problem. Luckily I have a great Coach.
If you download a Windows application e.g. https://www.textpad.com/download you often have to decide whether to download the 32-bit or 64-bit version. Not a big problem for any of us HN users, for sure. But it's not a great interface e.g. for my dad, who just bought a laptop, which "runs Windows", he doesn't know whether it's the 32-bit or 64-bit version.

Might not be so relevant today for Windows, as I guess it's been a while since 32-bit Windows was popular. But the point stands, that during times when there are multiple versions in popular use, as will soon be the case for the Mac platform, asking the user to choose which they have is confusing, as they might not know.

Being able to download a single binary and it "just works" is exactly the user-interface for a download page that you want.
- Take an improv class. It's excellent for building confidence, meeting new people, learning social skills, practicing creativity, being funnier, and generally having a really fun evening once or twice per week.

- Writing posts or making video tutorials is really great. Can be profitable, lead to professional growth, but also it's a great hobby and a fun way to create some value. Even if you don't become a successful/professional blogger/youtuber, it feels awesome to record a tutorial, see the views go up, and receive comments from people who found your video helpful. Also it develops writing/speaking skills, motivates you to learn the topic in more depth, clarifies your thoughts and understanding, gives you valuable feedback from more experienced people, grows your audience.

- Gamedev and Computer Graphics are REALLY fun to do. For people here I recommend Godot and Houdini, it's incredibly interesting, entertaining, and satisfying.

Here's a quick tutorial that I've made on procedurally generating a pretty landscape with Houdini:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=o3mbIRZhv20
Even when I know how to potentially solve a problem I often search it on StackOverflow anyway because I know often I'll find a much better solution from developers who are either more talented than myself or have simply spent longer thinking about all the edge cases.
Why neuroscience has trouble locating consciousness
Do you genuinely not understand how someone might buy an unsympathetic publication to leverage its user trust to your own advantage? It is not new, nor China specific.

reasonable question.
I’m seeing this too. I usually read HN on an iPhone and everything from the voting buttons to content is wrapping in odd places.

I use the site every day and noticed it yesterday. (As I’m typing this, even the wrapping in textareas is broken.)
Yep, I read the article that far and then came back here to ask if people think that's an OK thing.
As the late Terry Pratchett wrote in his book Small Gods, "....the truth is too precious to die for..."
First aid.

Become a volunteer as a first-aid responder. You will learn and practice how to react in a lot of unusual situations (kids choking, burns, wounds, people fainting...), learn more about healthcare-related subjects, and live incredibly unusual experiences. It's a highly rewarding skillset.
https://zero.sci-hub.st/6400/5174e8f2acfdd03584eb6a754f9a394...
He commented "his health had been in decline for the last few years but accelerated dramatically in the last few weeks. Not covid." [https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/hmngx7/ron_graham_pas...]
Chicago Lockdown Diary: Upbeat and Running
Exactly, this is a centuries-long strategy adopted by the Catholic Church.
For most applications the machine code is not the bulk of the size, that’s assets like images. These aren’t duplicated in a ‘fat’ binary so the size increase is rather modest.

The advantage is convenience for the user (and developers), one download that works transparently for all computers.
For me it was "[t]his was not cannibalism because of economic difficulties, like during famine. It was not caused by economic reasons, it was caused by political events, political hatred, political ideologies, political rituals.”

That’s some hell on Earth behaviour right there and a new low for how low I thought humans could go when it comes to politics.
I use git blame, but in the same way I use the rest of git: I find the commit which changed a line, and then look at what else that commit and the ones before/after it did.

I guess there is some value in being able to have a quick description of the commits shown when looking at the blame output though.
Salesmanship. You have to sell yourself and your ideas in many life situations anyway. Why not do it with a maximum impact? And it brings in money if you choose a marketing/advertising job path or start your own business.
Very supportive of this in general. We are all human and (presumably) enjoy mastering physical challenges!

But for me the physical challenge of playing the piano scratches a totally different itch than the physical challenge of rock climbing.
If he has any degree of self-awareness then perhaps those 30 years were riddled with anxiety over losing the job and not being able to find another one.
Your probably right.

If 1+ billion internet users had their own domain names, we'd never hear the end of the

Never use your own domain for anything ever

horror stories.
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance", John Sedgwick, shot at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, 1864
Statistics is just statistics. Many compare Swedens death/capita to other countries figures and conclude it is bad. But this is in fact not a god measure at all because this figure dont account for how far the spread is over the population, Sweden is very different here. Because Sweden have been more open they are also far ahead of other countries and much more people have been exposed and got antibodies. Sweden cant simply be compared to others that are more in the beginning in the pandemic. Sadly media forget this.

The virus cant be stopped so sooner or later other couties must open up and then they going to get more death. Just look at Spain that open up now had to lock down a reginon now with 200.000. Saying Swedens way is bad right now is far to early to conclude, when the pandemic is far from over. We have to wait at least a year or two.
This is one of the reasons I still test in IE6 (as well as IE3, Lynx, Netscape 3, and Mosaic.)

It is hard to anticipate all the different ways a client (user agent) can interpret the page.

I did not know much about aria or modern Web accessibility techniques before I had someone using a screen-reader (one I had never heard of before) test the site.

I had already tested with so many other clients, kept it mostly text-based, and took care to use elements as they are intended.

The user was able to complete the tasks without issues.
This has been tapped out many times in different ways already. ETH has developed these and given them over for open source management and commercialization. The have a whole host of research projects around low energy cores and different accelerators.

The idea is to have very competitive core for the 64bit embedded core that is fully open and has lots of ways to combine it with other cores and other accelerators.

This core is cutting edge for a commercial open source embedded 64bit capable chip, but it is not the highest performance core in RISC-V.

Play around with this website to see all the ETH chips, many are RISC-V: http://asic.ethz.ch/
Solid8 CEO racist tirade against Asian American family caught on video
In American Boy Scouts, Pioneering merit badge. How to tie anything to anything, how to make shelter, how to lever/hoist things.
I'd an Aunt who recommended amateur dramatics for the same reason. I didn't follow her advice, unfortunately.
70% of startup ideas suck.

Is there anything to support that claim? ... why not 99%
The 'original' RISC-V core was called Rocket.

https://github.com/chipsalliance/rocket-chip

So they picked a European rocket as a name.
Sandboxing in Linux with zero lines of code
Of course it is. fzf [1] is all you need, and it behaves deterministically.

[1] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
Profit Sniper 1000
What a mass of rotting reindeer carcasses taught scientists
I’m not sure the “10,000 hours/5 years” rule is a particularly relevant one, these days. Tech mutates so quickly, it's near impossible to become an "expert." Also, many developers are...how can I put this...a wee bit obsessive. It’s quite possible to hit 10K hours well before 5 years.

I liked the analogy about the quirky bowling style.

That has happened to me -several times.

I’m primarily self-taught in most of my tech. It has tended to result in very highly-developed, but narrow, skillsets. Not necessarily a bad thing, but “brittle.” It has happened so many times, that I no longer feel that I am an “expert.” I am now “experienced.” At least the first five letters match.

But it has been a long road to where I am now. Humility has been forced upon me, and I now have a lot of “narrow skillsets,” to the point that they inform each other. For example, a lot of the stuff I did in PHP has helped inform my work in Swift, and vice-versa.

I’m choosing to specialize in a specific discipline and tech stack, which, just by itself, gives me a lot to learn. I am working to develop a “broad base” in a small-ish venue, with a lot of “sharp peaks.”

It’s really humbling. The more I know, the more I know I don’t know. Also, since I am constantly trying out stuff I don’t already know, I’m a perennial “n00b.” Usually, this manifests by not always being aware of the jargon (I know the tech, but not the name). This may result, I suspect, in my being treated rather shabbily by folks in the field (It may also have to do with my age. I have found that the way people treat me changes radically, as soon as they find out that I'm "long in the tooth," so I now make it obvious to avoid that). This has helped me to just keep my damn mouth shut, and open it only to eat my humble pie.

I write about that here: https://medium.com/chrismarshallny/thats-not-what-ships-are-...
The burden of proof should be on you.

Otherwise, I can easily say that you are a CIA agent. And any attempt at proving your innocence is merely a way to cover up your guilt. Do you truly not understand how the CIA might be hiding undercover agents by making them look like reasonable people?
My impression of prominent criticism of the early iPhone was that it was shallow and self serving. The things competitors were saying about it, like implying it wouldn't be successful because people really wanted a real keyboard, seemed ridiculous as a serious rational.

It is generally safe to assume, baring strong evidence to the contrary, that a large dominant incumbent will fail to adapt in the face of fundamental change to an industry brought by a new entrant.

That there are still large groups of people that take the other side of this assumption is surprising to me. The most recent prominent example is everyone out there saying that incumbent car companies are going to out complete Tesla in electric or self driving cars. That view seems to be on the verge of being undeniably wrong.
I've followed this process a few times and then noticed that the last step didn't really add much value.

It felt good at the time doing it because that's what I was "supposed" to do. I'd achieved the supposed "testable code Nirvana" and... meh.

The first step was life (or at least, career) changing though. Bringing a piece of shit code base under control with integration tests was a process that blew my mind.

That's what led me to start questioning the efficacy of jamming architectural changes into code in order to sacrifice at the altar of the unit testing gods and that maybe, just maybe, unit tests' steep demands and limited value means that they suck.
Proper deep-dives into things with long-form content are great. I'll happily watch a 50 minute documentary by History Time, or a 2 hour deconstruction of tropes in 90s crpgs by Chris Davis. For me (and I know I speak entirely subjectively), anything less than half an hour on a subject tends to be just skimming the surface. I'm happy with the way youtube is moving towards longer form essay style content in gaming, music criticism, history, literature theories, science, geopolitics, programming and the like. Often, I wish channels like for example Caspian Report did _longer_ videos on the subjects they handle, because although people have short attention span, I think 10 minutes isn't enough time to properly talk about the politics of the countries they cover.

5 minute videos of disposable entertainment just don't really do it for me.
Japanese-style curry is more or less a Meiji-era British import and wasn’t popular within Japan until the 1960s. For that matter the British weren’t one to homogenize groups; they made extensive investigations of the local cultures and power dynamics in new lands they explored, rejiggered the power structure to suit their preferences, standardized this totem pole and put themselves on top. Racist, but definitely not lazy about it.
Learn to play polo, to sail, hunt, fish and play golf. Those people all seem to have plenty of money.
60fps on iphone6 too
I want to see this run on reesult sets from trustworthy elections. I don't get the impression that their monte carlo approach is a great baseline.

Then again I'm essentially illiterate on this subject.
He's had the job for 30 years. I don't think your snide remarks are taking that into consideration. Maybe he knows more than you?
There’s a tendency to conflate “spicy” flavor with “chilly” or “hot”. They are two orthogonal parameters, you could dial (up or down) them independent of each other. Most spices aren’t chilly, they add unique smell and flavor without burning the tongue.

Coming to India, almost every cuisine is spicy for sure. At least I don’t know of one that is not. Indians grow up immersed in spicy food and can’t live without it. And to be honest once your palette gets used to spicy flavor it’s hard to go back to bland food. Anecdotally I’ve heard many westerns complain about blandness of their food once they are used to Indian flavor.

Very few Indian cuisines dual up “hot” knob. Andhra Pradesh cuisine is an example of that. It’s almost at the limit of not killing the flavor.

So to summarize about India, we almost universally love spicy food. Some of us like it hot too
Which part is it that confuses you? On github the commit messages and hashes on the left hand side indicate the last commit that touched those lines, and you can click on them to see the full commits, including changes made to other files. Alternatively you can click on the "View blame prior to this change"-icon (between the commit messages and the code), which will do as the name suggests: Show the commit which previously changed those lines.
I also like "git branch -d @{-1}" to delete the previous branch, which can of course be aliased.
I am not sure whether it is a good idea to use an SMD component for one of the two connectors. Connectors are exposed to a lot of physical stress in particular when plugging in and out. Through-hole connectors are more robust with respect to this kind of stress.
Spend Less Time Checking Mail and yet Not Miss a Thing
Reclaim lost focus and time by using tools which don't hanker for your attention
California’s Gig Economy Ballot Measure Fails Workers, Labor Groups Say
Man those domain squatter bot companies, they aren't even interested in selling the domain back in some cases. I don't understand the business model. Maybe they're buying google pagerank score.
This one may grow on me, like a tumor.
Cloud Computing vs. Edge Computing: Friends or Foes?
now that there really captures the groupthink that permeates government actions

someone's mom and people in general only matter if they are scared

if they are not scared then they have no rights, their opinion does not matter and they must do what the scared people want,

being scared and weak gives you more rights than being strong
`git commit -p` works as well.
All useful except butchering a hog - a human being does not need to eat hogs to survive and thrive.
I tend to use a GUI (SourceTree) for most of my git work. It allows (encourages, even) me to write fairly extensive commit messages.

One of my tricks is to copy the entry I made in my CHANGELOG.md file, and make that part of my commit message. I may add a bit of extra to it, in order to establish a technical context.
Let's look at the track record of the supposed experts at FHM. A few favourites:

"The virus will not spread in Swedish society under the current circumstances. We might see a few cases." (February)

"A large proportion of the population will gain immunity, this will lead to herd immunity. No patients will have to be triaged away." (March)

"The number of ICU patients and infected elderly is stabilizing. Our measures in society are proving effective." (March)

At some point, a responsible and reasonably intelligent person will realize that maybe this particular expert is lacking in expertise and the two dozen or so of other domestic experts (all of them virologists, epidemiologists, professors in medicine etc.) that are fervently recommending stricter measures might have a point.

Swedish politicians have a great knack for avoiding the responsibility they ask for in the elections, and they're really good at shifting blame. I sure hope they won't get away with it this time.
This is exactly what happened to The Simpsons. Had they stopped at season 8, I would be cherishing those memories. Now they just feel sort of sad.
Non-determinism. Hackers are so used to finding a logical, elegant solution that we sometimes forget that social behaviour is not deterministic and that, when judging others, we do neither have perfect knowledge nor we are entitled to fully know and understand the motivations of others.
Two weeks ago I learned how core dumps work on ELF-based operating systems. Last week I managed to write C code to produce symbolic stack traces from core dumps on at least 2 different operating systems and 3 different CPU architectures. This week I used that to identify why the Python interpreter is core dumping on an embedded target.

I'm closer to 60 than 50 years of age and am closing in on 40 years of professional software development experience. I like to think I can still learn new tricks.
Things Every College Student Must Know
-> Logical fallacies, being able to name the reasons why an argument has problems is a great skill to have and it's kind of interesting.

-> Linux terminal, amazing how much more fun using a computer is with just the terminal (also a browser to Google the commands)

-> Wood working, it's fun to cut timber and build things, especially if you have an office job like myself.
What maybe surprised me most about learning to dance is how much you learn about signaling and how important signaling is to get two individuals work as one. Giving and reading signals was never my strong side, but it have improved a lot after learning to use signals in dance. The way I hold my hand or some light pressure on the back tells the one I'm dancing with what I plan for us to do and it often even works when I do moves the partner have never done before