skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about this here? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25043465
I don't understand your comment about tools. Checkout is a git command (with an admittedly terrible ux). It is not part of git data model.

Like the article writer, I never myself use stash. I personally don't understand why they were added to the git ux. I think they needlessly make git more complex. Under the hood, a stash is just a commit anyway. You might retort that this is an implementation detail but as usual with Git, this leaks into the way it is used: if you ever lose a stash by mistake, you will have to go fish the corresponding commit in the reflog.
what makes you say that? (genuinely curious, but also I agree a little bit)
> 1) tech where few can increasingly control many
> 2) Advanced nations ability to conduct war with limited human cost on their side.

Indeed. Moreover anti-war protests often are conducted on a "don't get our children killed in your war" stance, therefore 2) will considerably reduce them. See squarefoot's comment above.

1) will be useful against protests at home, and also (to some extent) to control the population of an occupied country.
Lob a molatoff cocktail from above and hit the engine intakes and you can get a Mobility kill.

Armour in built up areas is very risky with out infantry support and the APC's would not be just driving around with out having dismounts supporting them.
If I remember correctly, Valve started doing this some time ago as an "insurance policy", when Microsoft spoke about locking down Windows (before they introduced Windows Store).

It is amazing to see how far Linux gaming has come since then. 10 years ago almost none of the big games worked, 5 years ago lots of games worked after fiddling with wine config, and now most of the games I have tried work out of the box after enabling Proton.

Imagine what will come in the next 5 to 10 years.
Thank you, this is helpful.

Political psychologists claim that, generally (and, of course, as a simplification), the right is over-sensitive to danger, while the left is under-sensitive. If I understand you correctly, you're saying that conspiracy theories aren't actual beliefs about what is actual reality, but rather potential threats, and so, tend to focus on hidden threats -- because that's where "real danger" is presumed to lie -- rather than overt ones, like, say, global warming. Is that what you're saying?

So I think I understand the general framework better now. Nevertheless, while conspiracies are, of course, always possible, they're quite implausible. I can't help but think about Hofstadter's "paranoid style":

> The paranoid’s interpretation of history is distinctly personal: decisive events are not taken as part of the stream of history, but as the consequences of someone’s will. Very often the enemy is held to possess some especially effective source of power: he controls the press; he has unlimited funds; he has a new secret for influencing the mind (brainwashing); he has a special technique for seduction...

> ... Having no access to political bargaining or the making of decisions, they find their original conception that the world of power is sinister and malicious fully confirmed. They see only the consequences of power—and this through distorting lenses—and have no chance to observe its actual machinery. A distinguished historian has said that one of the most valuable things about history is that it teaches us how things do not happen. It is precisely this kind of awareness that the paranoid fails to develop. He has a special resistance of his own, of course, to developing such awareness, but circumstances often deprive him of exposure to events that might enlighten him...

From what I see in popular conspiracy theories, this is what happens. They form around a Hollywood thriller's perception of power, but those who've seen power up close -- whether in large corporations, the military or politics -- know that this is not how power works. Secrets can't be kept; conflicting interests make it hard if not impossible to get enough people on the same page, and the less mainstream that page is, the harder it is; even the craftiest people are clumsy and make mistakes all the time.

The few successful plots and revolutions in history never happen even remotely to the way conspiracies say they could happen. E.g. they're virtually never dropped from above on an unsuspecting public, but almost always start with restless masses and pervasive instability like Russia's mutinous and depleted military in WWI, or Cuba's series of insurrections; you can usually see them coming a mile away. Even the relatively surprising Iranian revolution was at least as much grass-roots as it was led from above. So even if the framework is one of identifying threats, their originators'/believers' unfamiliarity with history and power looks for threats in the wrong place.
How Can I Scrape Business Listings Data from Google Maps?
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The outcome is "an election in which a large number of people don't believe it was a fair contest".

What matters is people's belief that the process has integrity. By its very nature, most vote fraud is hard to prove as due to the privacy protections in the system, it will boil down to people saying "I saw fraud happening with my eyes". And there are people in the US making that exact allegation right now under oath. I take no position on whether they're correct or not, merely observing that polls show the number of people who don't believe the election was run properly is dramatically higher now than it was before election day (amongst Republicans, Dems of course love it and are sure there's no fraud at all).
IRA was started by a Peasant and it defeated British 'Knights'
And Pol pot was a Peasant and he defeated American 'Knights'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army_(1919%...
I've uploaded this PDF to archive.org [0] because I find it preposterous that acm.org _requires_ cookies despite them being blocked client-side.

[0] https://archive.org/details/3372297.3417866
I have a huge (already downloaded) library on Steam Windows.

Does anyone know how to "share" the game resources so that the Linux version only download the executable/runner?
"[S]ince at least 2016, Zoom misled users by touting that it offered 'end-to-end, 256-bit encryption' to secure users' communications, when in fact it provided a lower level of security," the FTC said today in the announcement of its complaint against Zoom and the tentative settlement. Despite promising end-to-end encryption, the FTC said that "Zoom maintained the cryptographic keys that could allow Zoom to access the content of its customers' meetings, and secured its Zoom Meetings, in part, with a lower level of encryption than promised."

That's the concept of E2Z2EE (End2Zoom2End Encryption)
I agree that comparing different runs of the same program will be amazing.

I think that running Pernosco off-premises will be acceptable for many people. I use it a few times per month while working on open-source projects like Reposurgeon and Flex, so I'm not revealing any trade secrets by uploading those recordings. I've learned that the database built by Pernosco from a large recording can be 100GB and take an hour to generate on a 36-core AWS instance. $4 per debugging session is a pretty reasonable price compared to buying that hardware myself.

And they are offering an on-premises solution, running on your own hardware. For a tool this good, the price for that is bound to be large enough to give individuals like us reason to think twice, and then probably a third time. Given the potential time savings, I think that it should be easy for even a small company to justify the purchase.

On the gripping hand, this is non-Free software. Some will avoid it primarily for that reason, and I can't really fault them for sticking to their principles. I think that it's entirely possible that Pernosco, or debuggers like it, could effectively eliminate traditional debuggers like GDB. GDB would still exist and still work, but without the nearly-omniscient viewpoint that Pernosco offers very few will bother to use it. It's like looking through a keyhole. I've thought about this a lot over the last few months.
To compare "its sunny but I said it's raining" and the media reporting complex is beyond stupid.

How can you even compare?

It's silly that there exist people in the modern age who still believe the news.

And it's these lying news (who are private owned) who define "misinformation".
I haven't tried this myself, but you might be able to add the existing directory to Steam on the Linux side and Steam might be smart enough to download exactly what it needs, since all the assets are already present.
Um the English longbowmen where highly paid professional soldiers or mercenaries not peasants.

An English longbowman was paid more in real terms than a Squaddie is today
Original article [1] with Update:

A spokesperson from Google reached out to clarify some details about the Device Lock Controller app. To start with, Google says they launched this app in collaboration with a Kenyan carrier called Safaricom. In a blog post dated July 28, 2020, and titled “Growing access and inclusion with more affordable smartphones“, Google talked about the launch of Safaricom’s new “Lipa Mdogo Mdogo” (“Pay Bit by Bit”) financing plan that allows Kenyans to purchase a new Android Go Edition smartphone in affordable installments. On Safaricom’s FAQ page about this financing plan, the carrier says that they will “lock the device” following 4 days of nonpayment.

But what about the app’s quiet appearance on the Google Play Store? Apparently, that was just a mistake. Google has confirmed that the Device Lock Controller app should not be listed on the Google Play Store for users in the U.S., and they will work to take down the listing. We have reached out to Google to clarify if the company has plans to partner with more carriers or financial institutions in the future and will update this article if we hear back.

[1] https://www.xda-developers.com/google-device-lock-controller...
The article says that in one case they can evidence it, but an individual MP isn't a police force. At any rate, the reasons behind the design of elections is to pre-emptively block fraud because proving it retroactively is hard. Hence the private ballot box, polling stations, the reluctance to use computerised/internet based voting and so on. People have to believe the system is inherently robust. Why, because what sort of hard evidence could be generated for those sorts of problems, and at what scale? People registering with their friends/family addresses so they can tip votes outside where they live is inherently hard to obtain large-scale evidence of.
> you really do have to babysit Rust to get efficient codegen

Reminds me of the time we had to write a high performance SQL engine at university. In Java, and it boiled down to exactly the same realization: We spent a lot of time babysitting the GC instead of actually making the actual SQL engine better.

The plan was to use C++ instead, but that option was dropped by the lecturer shortly before the project started :/
I was in a need of new phone and waited for P5 announcement with my final decision.

P5 is underwhelming if not disappointing.

In the end I am a happy owner of OnePlus Nord. Shame it lack slot for expandable memory but i got a bit over 200GB on it so it should last a while. And on paper it beats every Pixel in bang for money category.

Highly recommend it.
IMO, git flow came about when people didn't want to or couldn't abandon the idea of trunks in TFS.

I've heard its benefits explained as "more security for the business", while in practice it only leads to extra complications and accomplishes nothing a git tag couldn't.
What I want the most is a readily available vegan food on every corner. For instance, it is surprisingly difficult to buy anything vegan on a highway stop/petrol station where I am from. Vegan burger from MCD will mean a lot.
Scala is incredible for web apps.

I can write my React/JS front end [1] and highly concurrent, real-time scalable backend [2] using the same language, build tools etc.

[1] http://slinky.dev

[2] http://zio.dev
I agree and disagree with this simultaneously. I don't think they should add restrictions like this however I will paste a tweet I tweeted today of what I'd love to see from Twitter:

>I'd love a filter where Twitter only shows real people who have verified their ID with a passport. No companies, no bots.
How do we deserve Valve?

Okay: Any possibility to support their open source work? (except of using steam)
Isn't that a "if she floats she's a witch" type argument?
Neat, which brand of GPU?
That's true! I ran afoul of that several times. It was easiest to clean up my environment, but I thought about writing a patch to rr that would bail out before recording anything if it detected those variables. Having that would have saved me from having to rerecord a few things.
if you can mount the Windows partition under Linux (ntfs) you may be able to link your Steam Library under the Steam Linux client, but you have to know that some compatibility issues will arise with non-Linux partitions.
"There isn't a single country in the entire world that could challenge USA to a 1-1 military battle."

That was also true of Nazi Germany. But is actually quite possible to defeat USA on the seas and on land if different countries join against it.

Europe is not Iraq or Afganistan, as a whole, it is stronger than the US. I have lived and worked in China(and the US) and while I believe they way weaker(China) than what they project, they can f*ck the world immensely. They can contaminate the Pacific Ocean (with radioactivity and other poisons) forever.

BTW most of the intelligent and educated(engineers, scientists) people in the US comes from outside the US. Not reasonable to believe they will contribute against fighting their own countries.

This "war on everything" American mentality needs to stop.
It doesn't seem like click bait or misleading [1]. Maybe it's changed in the last few minutes? Adding "How to" and messing with the capitalisation doesn't seem like an improvement.

[1] Currently "Disable All Telemetry and Data Collection in Mozilla Firefox Quantum"
There's a lovely irony in that article being littered with double click ads
Also I must say it's ironic that on a site with a bunch of programmers you still get downvoted for posting the fact that the media lies and that you cannot do anything other than laugh when the media decides to become "disinfo fact checkers".

Do people really believe that when a company says "we will become independent fact checkers" that that is even possible?

Did you learn nothing from your past experiences of what happens when a company says "we will become an independent fact checker, TRUST US, WE WILL NEVER LIE AND BE 100% HONEST AND OBJECTIVE".
Regardless of your view on "misinformation", this sounds like a stupid idea that's meant to cover Twitter's butts in the short-term.

The goal of any social platform should be healthy engagement. Where is the research that this change will foster that? Twitter isn't really the place to be testing half-baked ideas.

Also, misinformation is coming from mainstream media as well as conspiracy theorists. At least conspiracy theorists are trying to find the truth. Twitter doesn't seem to acknowledge that, so what we're doing is creating digital totalitarianism? That's their great idea?
It surprises me that this is just happening now in the US. Here in Germany, McDonalds has been selling various plant-based burgers for years, if not decades.
Sounds good to me. Twitter is not really slowing down the like action, but it will say to you only “hey, this may be a fake news, are you sure you want like it?”. People are stupid, in a perfect world this is useless but we live here...
Unfortunately Java seems to bleed its culture everywhere:

Modern PHP development seems to be about how much of a pyramid of class you can build to serve a single request.

Then you have all the new typescript frameworks, proudly inspired by Spring.
Earth is ~4,000,000,000 years old;
Humans are ~200,000 years old;
Religions are ~2000 years old;

And Earth is Flat as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_writings

"Religion was born when the first con-man met the first fool" --Oscar Wilde (b. 1854)
"For explorative things, python has the edge" -- I'm a lazy programmer, how can I get contextual auto-complete like I can with Scala (and other type safe languages)?

From my experience, auto-complete for Python shows everything (like JavaScript's), so I end up googling.
It's not a completely different beast, is it? It's basically like a regular flu or severe cold, and yes rhinovirus can be deadly to the elderly, it's just nobody normally notices or cares because rhinovirus isn't "new". If anything it's actually less bad than flu because flu kills children too and this one doesn't.

Nonetheless, the original SARS-1 (which is way closer to SARS-2 than say OC43), is known to be causing long term, debilitating health complication among significant number of survivors

And yet it didn't turn into a worldwide outbreak, so one must ask how much value this classification scheme actually has, given that SARS-2 is really nothing like SARS-1 in either infectiousness nor severity.
Also as metatron's video points out, a knight probably has battle experience, so he knows what works and what doesn't

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=622e3hBcb7s
Seems like someone would earn exactly $50 from doing that
Why not just run a livecd os.
True censorship is when government does it. If you go to jail for promoting some information, that's censorship.

Twitter and Facebook are part of "the public". You are even using right now a website very heavy on "censorship", or how I call it "moderation". If you don't follow HN guidelines you will be silenced. The efforts by members of public to reduce spread of misinformation and polarization is part of why we should trust in public to handle information. But if you do not like HN, Twitter, Facebook you can look for another website.

Apparently Parler is getting recently popular as an alternative to Twitter and Facebook moderation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler
Switzerland perhaps, but there is still plenty of tax evasion going on in the middle east and Dubai for instance.

That being said, I think you are right about Schmidt. It can't be for something so simple, being that high profile.
I very much disagree; the only people I've known to have trouble with Maven are experienced developers who expected their build tool to work in a very specific way (i.e. that they would define a bunch of commands for it to execute and tell it what to do). For a beginner who comes to it with no preconceptions, maven is very easy: you fill in the parts your XML editor tells you to, list your dependencies, and then run one of their short list of phases for what you want to do: https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to... . What could be simpler?
I got their atlas book. It is really nice and probably make for a nice gift if person likes traveling.
well are europeans show likewise ?
The New Rules of Content Marketing
Bump.
https://www.gariautility.com/utility-vehicles/
I've seen enough people fall into this trap where they correctly identify the out of control corruption and destruction of our current economic system and therefore conclude that QAnon must be the objective truth. How they go from A to conclude B on this one? I have no idea. There-in lies the issue with all these disinformation campaigns. We live in hypernormal times and few are equipped to make sense of it.
I have no relevant information for that era so this is purely a translation note. I'd love to learn more though, would you mind sharing additional reading you find pertinent?

I question your use of "seceding" for "conjuré". As far as I understand, the connotation of ~seperation from a whole~ is absent in the original french which I'd argue speaks more of the spontaneous and unsanctioned nature of this militia's constitution.

As in "le peuple ..., conjuré entre soi" could be adapted to "the people, having organised to take arms"
I'm all for this functionality but if the said users go to Chrome because "Firefox has no privacy" this is ridiculous. Firefox is our best browser in this domain, let's not kill it by complaining indefinitely on it.
To see what the telemetry actually entails, go to about:telemetry. It looks like enough for fingerprinting, but doesn't seem to include websites visited. A bit more info here: https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-now-shows-what-telemet...
Ironicaly you missed the most important point: who decides what is fake news?

You still don't get it that _NO ONE_ can claim they know what is/is not fake news because everyone has their own incentives.
> So that is what the comment in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24919073 might have alluded to?

Oh, no, it gets much worse. Take the blue pill, turn back from this rabbit-hole now; Here Be Dragons.
Apparently this still leaves a boatload of telemetry options switched On.

I had the Preferences option Off for years and yet there was a laundry list of telemetry options enabled in about:config.

This is shady as fuck if you pardon my French. Completely unacceptable.
Famously redone in 1939 or 1940 in the Netherlands to try and slow down the German invasion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Netherlands#Dutc...) ; actually TIL the system was built in the 17th century.
Nazism is one thing , national socialism is another (with non-capital letters)

to my understanding , national socialism is in principle a socialism that is tooled to deliver social policies within a ntaion-state , which is not a very controversial idea .

there is no intrinsic need to punish anybody for anything

and frankly , thinking that one's nation is "gifted" is not an illegitimate opinion, even if its probably wrong ,as long as it doesnt translate into any kind of racist or expansionary policy
Strawman, I never mentioned QAnon.

> We live in hypernormal times and few are equipped to make sense of it

EDIT: no, there are not "few" equipped. Because no one knows who is lying NO ONE is equipped.
Standard for other places as well.
The Future Is Greener Than You Think
What would it take to replace Twitter and Facebook?
I'm pretty sure no one here thinks what you proposed. The issue is that those protesting are also claiming to have the objective truth when most likely their "truth" is even further removed from the object truth than the mainstream media's is.
IDEs are one of the biggest barriers to programmer development, flexibility and knowledge. They try to insulate you from your actual environment and encourage lazy practices and thinking.

I learnt java in eclipse and it was dreadful. Code completion stops you learning, IDE errors and auto fix stops you understanding compiler errors. build shortcuts stop you understanding how javac and maven builds work.

In short they take all of the available deep knowledge your programming language and environment, hide it from you and then pretend it's a good idea to replace this with a load of superficial knowledge about how to click the right buttons in some bad software.
If you're interested in the demoscene I would suggest taking a look at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/

Created by Jim Leonard / Trixter and he's done an excellent job. Selected demos from PC and Amiga with top notch production. I highly recommend Volume 3.
Ask HN: Does Google use app data to optimize its search engine?
Since PageRank counts the number of links to a page to determine how important it is, I would think that their todo or note app contains a lot of user-generated content (pages) too, that probably link to websites.
Any idea why option to edit 'toolkit.telemetry.enabled' is disabled?

https://i.imgur.com/DCLiMZh.png
I would say a lot of the constraints are more based on the incentives given by our economic system, which naturally aren't necessarily fixed either, but pretty hard to change