skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was actually trained in ~15th century longsword (modern term) fencing, in the Italian school.

We actually had a drill called the "villains blow"[0] designed to deal with an untrained assailant attempting an overly strong top down blow. The basic story is that a peasant (villain basically means "poor" back in the day) has gotten their hands on a sword and would like to express their displeasure about how their life is going on you. It's scary how effective the drill is, during slow speed training you have to actually fight to slow the weapon down. At speed it'll end an engagement with one blow; someone chopped in the neck tends to stop fighting very quickly. In a sword fight between a trained person and an untrained person, the trained combatant will win convincingly the vast majority of the time.

Beyond that there were fairly complex drills about fighting multiple opponents when unarmored, which we never practiced because it's a logistical nightmare. It can be done, but it's going to be very hard to pull off; you effectively have to move in a way to make your opponents interfere with each other. Doable, but since unarmored longsword fencing is a very high stakes game, chances are even if it works you're leaving with an interesting scar and perhaps fewer fingers than you started with.

One manuscript (I forget which) had some section that basically said this "if you find yourself set upon by five or more peasants while in harness (hard plate), stand as you will and cut them down one by one". It is extremely hard to kill someone wearing full plate armor if they're standing and prepared. You either need overwhelming numbers, specialized weapons designed to defeat hard armor, or they need to be knocked down onto the ground first (there's a reason "he fell" was a euphemism for death in combat). Ideally (if you're not the knight), you'd like to see all three. This is what happened in Agincourt, where freaked out English archers (who wouldn't be ransomed if they lost) swarmed and drowned the exhausted French knights in the mud while beating them to death with hammers for good measure.

As an aside, the difficulty of getting up in armor is vastly overstated[1]. Yes, plate armor is heavy, but any armor that you can't move in is a death trap, plus the vast majority of this stuff was worn by men who would be in fantastic shape, since fighting was their only job. The problem with plate armor isn't that it's impossible to get up in, the problem with plate armor is that it's impossible to get up when you're being opposed. Think less "I can't get up" and more "I can't get up with another guy on top of me trying to kill me". Plus while armor is heavy (50-60lbs isn't unusual), it's not that heavy; for comparison a typical Marine might carry 100-200lbs into Afghanistan.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yTH0ADnBZg

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzTwBQniLSc
Depends on how deeply the library is integrated into their code, and on what flaws the other alternatives have.
Fixing that dumpster fire that's your email inbox
Tempo is the minimalist email client for Mac that helps you focus. Here's a quick introduction to its approach.
The in home streaming has been a god send for this pandemic and having a new baby. Baby doesn't like sitting at the computer desk, so taking my handheld and using the home streaming I can play Slay the Spire anywhere around the house hosted by my linux machine. Works great!
Maintain and replacing cables is OK.

But tomorrow weight of this tower with new equipment there can become 1000t. And new cables need to be installed. And so on.
Who gets priority when Covid-19 shots are in short supply
I've read that Valve was worried about Windows Store eating their lunch (i.e. creating a walled garden around gaming on windows platform). So Valve started investing heavily into gaming on Linux as a hedge.
I've tried endlessly to get SANE running on OS-X back then (in the SnowLeopard days) and could never get it running.

I guess I kind of lost my sanity with SANE ;-)

Anyway, it wasn't a solution, extremely hacky at most. Not something what you want to spend your time on if you buy a scanner that is supposed to work with your OS.
I run a bootstrapped SAAS. I really and truly understand where Josh is coming from. I have fully sympathy for him and whatever actions he took for his best interest after a gruelling 7 years. I am really grateful that he has shared the numbers so openly. Josh, you don't know me but please go and do whatever the F you want to do and don't listen to what others say. You deserve it!! It is disappointing to see comments like "what did employees get" ? Employees get salary and as long as they are happy working for the company and company takes care of their well being, they are not entitled to any additional founder benefits. Not all companies are unicorn where "early" employees get a big piece of the pie.
The numbers work out to 7.5% equity owned by 10 employees. Would that be a typical equity share for a company like this?
For features other than printing A4 business documents in Fast quality? Photos, CD-R, model making decals etc often require proprietary Windows drivers to do right.

For printing academic research papers in reverse page order to hand staple and read, indeed you don’t need drivers.
I think this is the study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...
I don't think they follow up. I just received an item that offered me a free gift for a five star review last week (I didn't do it).
In my experience the non aviation geeks are also worried about 737 Max’s.

That’s validated by the fact that the involved companies are referring to it as the 737-8 instead, which will not fool anyone who knows anything about aviation and is geared entirely towards ordinary people.
I’ve spent 20 years in vim, Emacs, and various IDEs and I’ve come to the conclusion that nothing is more powerful for editing text than Vim’s interaction language, no system for text editing is more powerful and easier to customize than Emacs, and some languages really benefit from an IDE.

So: I use Emacs with EVIL (vim emulation), and for Java I switch to JetBrains IntelliJ, also with Vim emulation turned on.

Like a woodworker who builds their own tool bench exactly how they like it, a programmer needs a toolset that suits them and that they understand intimately. Yes, you can get a bench from Lowes and maybe save some time, but in the long run you’ll be better served by the one you built.

Where the analogy breaks down is that a woodworker can customize an off-the-shelf bench pretty easily, but a programmer has a much higher barrier to customize/build plugins for an IDE. On the other hand customizing Emacs (or Vim, but I think Emacs is much easier to dig into) is trivial, and with a bit more effort writing really advanced customization that script your editor for whatever you need is pretty easy. If something breaks, in your code, an installed package, or the core editor, you can just debug it with a first-class built-in debugger.

I often have project-specific code to e.g. spin up my current job’s integration test environment and run the test I’m looking at. Could I do that in Goland? Probably, with enough effort. But I can keep using the same tools I’ve used for 20 years to do it.

If you’re interested in getting started I would recommend Doom Emacs to a new user these days.
It probably was, but I guess selection favoured the men who had the capacity for other pursuits.

Our poor masturbating long-forgotten cousins, left as a cautionary tale in the evolutionary tree
You got a 12
https://rolladie.net/roll-a-d20-die

Your mystery illness has now been correctly diagnosed. It’s somewhat treatable. You are given access to a support group that knows your pain.
I started programming in the days of punchcards. Since that time I have tried more editors and IDE's than most people: ed, teco on teletypes, XEDIT on IBM 3270 terminals running on IBM Mainframes, CDC 6600 editors running on the Kronos OS, the editors on the University of Illinois Plato system, TextMate, Sublime Text, Jetbrain's IDEs, Eclipse, Xcode, Visual Studio and VS Code, and countless other less important editors and IDEs.

The idea that I use Vim and Emacs because I don't know better is simply uninformed. I use Vim because no other editor connects my mind so directly to the code I am working on, as fast as I can think of where I want to be in the code or where I need to make the change, I am there and made the edit with just a few keystrokes.

I use Emacs because of its phenominal collection of packages: org-mode for writing text, outlines, interactive agendas, literate-programming; magit for git, auctex for composing LaTeX, tramp for editing remote files over ssh; dired for viewing and organizing my directory contents and hierarchies. In addition to the hundreds of commands and built in packages there are over 4500 contributed packages that provide amazing facilities. All of this in a self documenting, fully programmable system.

I pay for a subscription to the full set of Jetbrain's IDEs, they're great and worth far more to me than the much more expensive Adobe subscription that I have but use very little. PyCharm and CLion are great tools, and I've done most of my recent Java using IntelliJ. However, for writing code other than C++ and Java, I find myself most comfortable in Emacs.

I believe that I could put together the right set of packages to make C++ or Java development on Emacs a satisfactory choice, but one of the weaknesses of Emacs is its programability and extreme flexibility--at some point you have to stop sharpening your axe and start chopping and here having a Jetbrains IDE definitely pulls ahead.
I've played some online ranked in Linux with DE. On some of the older patches I had random crashes upon reaching castle age so I'm currently sticking to windows though.
One big advantage of universal basic income is that it could be used to simplify the tax code, and eliminate programs that are often gamed:

1) pay everyone the same UBI subsidy,

2) set income tax to a fixed percentage regardless of income source

3) eliminate most (or all) deductions.

If you don’t like (2), then add a second tax bracket at 10x median income. Note that even with a flat tax rate, (3) makes this proposal would much more progressive than the current US tax system.

Doing this would substantially reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy, since welfare and social security could be eliminated, as could most of the IRS.

Instead, the government could focus on public health (and drug rehab) programs, job training, education, etc.

All of this would be less adversarial than the current system, since “gaming” the government would just lead to being healthier and more employable, which is a net positive for society.
Aerospace controls engineer here - while the airframe might not be passively stable (as is common for civilian aircraft), dynamically unstable aircraft have been stabilized with control software since the 70s [0]. If you've flown on an MD-11, you've flown on an 'aerodynamically flawed' aircraft. Most real systems are dynamically unstable without some kind of controller (implying software) in the loop.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaxed_stability
had a boss that marketed our product as having AI solutions while it had nothing to do with AI, lol.
Wouldn't fees be considered negative punishment?
Yea but you can also just use Open-Source bitwarden and either self-host, use free-tier for personal use or buy their service for 10$/year and it also enables sharing credentials.
Guam is not sinkable, but it's very vulnerable to mission kills. Guess what's the point of the PLA Rocket Force? Hint: they train often about massive strikes on Guam and Okinawa.

If US bases are disabled by overwhelming missile attacks, and hypersonic missiles successfully interdict the US Navy, it's only a matter of time before Chinese air superiority over them makes them completely useless and barren.

Remember, the US is a fundamentally naval power. The US simply cannot project power outside of the Northern Atlantic without it's naval capabilities.
the same people who are good at starting companies aren’t always the same people who are good at growing or managing them

This is an excellent insight
Good thing you were able to find what was causing it. Thanks for the reply! :)
>the server —if one exists— knows what's going on

Yes, but deploying even the most basic client input validation will mean we cant just ship a thin message passing shim masquerading as a server! Our cloud costs would go up by at least 20%!!1
ah okay that makes sense, m3o is basically a microservices framework then? Pull the pieces you need (basic authentication, service communication etc) and all you need to add is your business logic?
Both have many variants and many ages. It’s just Ryanair.
do it man! point the godot devs to it as well :D
This observatory taught me a life lesson: after finally beating Trevelyan after 100s of attempts I learned I'll never be very good at video games.
Applied to one of your roles, thank you! Looks interesting.

Can we email our resume as well?
I had a cold and couldn't get a test 8 weeks back. No serious illness, no loss of taste/smell. Around the same time my depression which I've been gradually recovering from (got off SSRIs 12month ago) got a lot lot worse. I wish I could have gotten a test and at least know if the two were coincidental (literally happened at the same time) let alone causal...
System Tests: Lessons Learned from Developing for OSS Project
The symptoms are zero-sum, leaping from host to host.
I finally got myself to start exercising
There are a few countries where multicast is usable.

It worked on 80+% of UK internet connections in circa 2008.
In higher quality electric bikes, most companies put batteries into the down tube or create a channel for a battery. In mopeds I imagine the batteries are larger and they are aiming for much cheaper prices. A good electric bike will cost more than a gas moped.

Cheaper electric bikes tend to be off the shelf parts and so you don't see integrated stuff. Usually batteries are in bottle cages, rear racks, or a "Shark Fin".

Here is integrated:
https://www.prioritybicycles.com/products/current

Here is a good, but inexpensive shark fin one:
https://www.radpowerbikes.com/products/radrover-electric-fat...
PSA: The Instagram PWA does not show any ads. Yet
You should checkout the link wolfram74 posted...

China built an earth based one, wolfram74 posted a link to a moon based one that JPL proposed for funding.
To be fair I start to have the same doubts as you, I noticed a lot of recommendations for Brothers printers, seemingly out of nowhere recently.

Might be due to a couple of bad HP printers hitting the frontpage of HN recently, and people genuinely being happy with their Brothers, but it pulled my suspicion trigger as well
Few years ago I noticed BBM Enterprise touts end-to-end encryption pretty strongly in their marketing, without mentioning an up-front caveat.

https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/products/bbm-enterprise

Turns out that by default, BBME is not end-to-end. The initial handshake is transparent to Blackberry, and they could use that to decrypt future messages without your knowledge.

To enable true end-to-end, you have to opt in to an out of band handshake to start each new conversation, an option you can turn on in their admin console.

How many people are actually going to opt in to dealing with a confirmation SMS for every new thread?

I reached out to Blackberry at the time to update their literature as it was misleading, but no action was taken by them.
That’s got to be it. No way would a test card number actually work. Live payment processor environments decline them. They only work in payment processor test environments.

If the merchant’s backend doesn’t special case them and sends them through, they will be declined.
This has gone beyond aviation enthusiasts.
I think you will find a not insignificant number of regular people who are skittish about flying on a Max.

Would love to know how many more clicks there are on flight details on booking websites once Max returns.
Those jobs that the employees chose to take would not have existed without Josh actually starting the business. He created something. He took the initiative to be a builder and took the risk and responsibility that comes along with that. The investors wrote a check that amounts to peanuts for them. The employees put in their 8hr days and collected a regular paycheck. The founder is the person who deserves the payout here.
if you have never dealt with a line of inkjet printers all of which try to gouge you on ink and fail just when you need them most you cannot appreciate just how big a difference a cheap laser printer from an honest and user-friendly company can make :)
I found someone that has Starlink. They ran the above test and obtained an "A".
In what countries doesn't the media thrive off fear and sensation?
Depends on what you mean by lately, past few years? Yeah a bit. Past few months? Not particularly.

Don't particularly like it here but it remains one the only good places to find and discuss good tech / hacker type stuff (r/programming seems to have much of the same stuff as HN a week later and with much lazier discussion)
Its interesting I have chronic kidney failure and I was asked to fill in a questionnaire about broadly mental issues it was a densely packed two page one.

The only one I had was feeling a bit upset about how it effected my skin some horrible looking scabs.

edited for spelling
> It was stability - it just worked and at the same time competitors didn't.

This is absolutely huge. We've tried Teams (and I have previously used Webex and Hangouts).

It seems like there is _always_ one person that struggles with other video services. Can't join, video/audio issues, CPU usage, latency, etc. Painful when 10%+ of a meeting is consumed by getting one last, key person trying to fix their issues.
I dont know how to tell you this, but 99% of the world population (and I am pretty sure at least 85-90% of Americans) WONT retire with anything even close to $3.7 MM.
Cruise is teaming up with Walmart for robo-delivery in Arizona
This is a horrible part of COVID that no one seems to get. Chronic conditions are life changing, and no part of it is good.

It's different, but as an example, I injured my back (i don't really even know how) and was in intense pain for approximately 8 months. You know that feeling when you burn your hand on something? It normally last 5-15 minutes, well it was like that, but inside my lower spine all the time, for a solid 4 months...and then in duller state for another 4. I am still struggling with pain from time to time, but i'm once again able to sleep a full night (something i couldn't do for around 5-6 months), do physical things and not regret every movement. At the start of the injury, i was probably the fittest I've ever been, but now i'm probably the least fit i've ever been. It's seriously sucked. Who am I kidding, it still sucks...coughing hurts...but its improving and that gives me hope that one day it'll be 'normal' again.

Until you've had a long term injury, you have no idea how to sympathize. Right in the middle of this i had a close friend get upset with me that I came over when I knew he was painting, and didn't offer to help. I was frustrated he even considered it a possibility, i was struggling to sit in a car for more than an hour, how was I going to paint a wall or ceiling? People just don't understand.

To everyone suffering with something that inhibits their ability to enjoy life, i'm sorry but wish you the best. To everyone looking in from the outside, assume its 10x worse than what you see and reconsider your next move.
This is just factually incorrect. Republicans are significantly more likely to own guns than Democrats: https://www.statista.com/statistics/249775/percentage-of-pop...
Given how most actual AI solutions work under the hood, this might not even be a lie!
Let the natural selection do its job and clean the planet from weak entities.
I've had a Brother 5150D for over 10 years without problems. Some issues with Windows drivers over the years, but pretending to be a recent Brother model has always worked.
Different approaches for different aspects. For discipline calculation sheets, there is not much other than having a basic file-level version control and validation engines for importing the data. For other areas, I have built pipelines that maintain diff-able JSON in a repo and handle converting to-from a spreadsheet for their 'UI'. We are also always using or building integrated solutions for data and calculation capturing. My personal push is to introduce discipline engineers to things like Jupyter notebook for "hand" calculations.
> > Doctors now blame all symptoms on anxiety!

Doctors are sometimes like developers, when they don't find the root cause of an issue they blame it on the network or the OS
How many people actually look at what plane they're meant to get when they compare times, dates and prices for their booking? Let alone what plane is actually at the boarding gate 6 months later...
That article, and Gregory Travis' assessment, offer zero actual evidence that the design is unstable. Lot of hand waving and "the engines are different so it must be dynamically unstable" but no actual evidence, which is obvious because no independent engineer/pilot is going to be able to effectively assess the upset aerodynamics of an airliner and come to a different conclusion than both the FAA and EASA about whether or not the aircraft is dynamically unstable.

He's somewhat right on other details, but that doesn't make his assessment of the aerodynamic issues correct.
As another poster said, the very large company I work at bans Zoom. We can use Teams, Webex, Skype, etc.

How can you say there is no alternative?
At the very least new training for the pilots.

The whole thing has been badly handled. The FAA/EU agencies should have declared at the very outset that airlines will need to bear the cost of retraining the pilots who will be flying this. It was the attraction of not having to retrain pilots that was the biggest incentive for Boeing to pull the shortcuts they did. At a bare minimum the aviation agencies should have pulled that benefit away.
That's way more meaningful. Had gout, experienced at least an 8.
This is a good point.

There is a feedback loop to anxiety and stress and illness.

Some illnesses cause minor problems for decades, but you remain mostly fine.

Add in a huge dose of stress hormones, and that minor condition can go crazy. You now have more things to stress about.

Inflammation can cause inflammation. Sometimes breaking the cycle is enough.
I had to work on a small MacOS app written in objective C at my last internship. The documentation was horrible. It was basically non-existent. I understand Swift is the primary language now, but wow, there was basically nothing in the online API reference.
Apple’s signing processes have only gotten less complex from a developer point of view.

But.. this article is completely correct about SwiftUI documentation.
It’s not clear that’s true. Flying doesn’t appear to be causing covid to spread.
The Literal Translation of Every Country’s Name (2019)
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2020...
Mind blowing talk
I mean it still only adheres to safety standards of the 70's by using a loophole in the regulations...
I will say that the WWDC sessions are well presented, and are a good place to start. But you can't use a video for quick reference, and you might be missing context from knowing how it worked the previous year to understand what the new enhancements are. Expect to dig into 2019 videos too. SwiftUI being new at least has the benefit that its sessions can't be any more outdated than that (yet). At most you're reconciling two years.

The Landmarks tutorial is also very well done as a starting point. But a tutorial isn't a substitute for documentation.

https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/swiftui/
Simple access to media input devices in Go