skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice that they mention the brave Flemish peasants ;). Although the picture of the goedendag (=good day) is incorrect!

Flemish myself, in schools we learn about Battle of the Golden Spurs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Golden_Spurs). It's probably the battle we are most proud of, because us peasants stood up against a fancy French army.

As it was taught to me, we drove the enemy cavalry into a swamp, and were able to use our goedendag (accurate picture here: https://www.liebaart.org/figuren/goedendr.jpg) to push them off their horses and pierce through the chain mail.
Low Hanging Fruits in Front End Performance Optimization
Corona is not going to hamstring the world forever, that’s just some authoritarian fantasy.
>Second Lateran Council banned use of crossbow against Christians.

Not sure if this is actually true. The council (specifically Canon 29) refers to ballistarii and sagittarii. Ballistarii may mean either crossbowmen or slingers, while sagittarii means archers. So there is no way of reading this as referring to crossbowmen alone- the ban is either against both crossbowmen and archers, or it's against slingers and archers and doesn't mention crossbows at all.

Some commentators suggest that this canon is intending to prohibit archery contests- similarly, Canon 14 of the council condemns tournaments. Others point out that at the time of the council, the Pope was at war with King Roger of Sicily, whose armies employed large numbers of Muslim archers (not crossbowmen). The canon means that the Papal armies could shoot at Roger's Muslim soldiers, but Roger's Christian officers would be excommunicated if they ordered their men to shoot back...

Text in Latin:
http://www.clerus.org/bibliaclerusonline/es/index3.htm

And in English:
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/lateran2.asp
The same stupid behavior is what often gets people to click ads. Surely they could load the ads at the same time as the results, but no, they make them come in just slightly later, right as you're about to click a link.
He's got charm and appeal to the tech community on the one hand, but as with a few other leaders like him, he's ruthless and shameless; influencing the market by tweeting about taking the company private at $number, forcing his employees to work during a pandemic, and probably a whole slew of other underhanded techniques to try and nab his dank stock price target based performance bonus.
Seems pretty standard to me. Anything notable here?
Sure but what good is an education method if the teachers don't understand it. I don't doubt that if you had a great teacher that would work, but considering how focused French education is on mathematics, this was one of the main reason why the social ladder broke.
Personally, I wouldn't recommend Maven to beginners. I would recommend beginners to learn Maven as it is one of the de-facto standards in JVM dependency management, but the documentation is highly confusing and the learning curve is very steep. Beginners will likely struggle with Maven concepts.
It's basically what all variables in Rust do, with customizable destruction by implementing the Drop trait.
>Never stash

Er, no. Right tool for the right job.

Whilst I agree that the idea of putting differing lines of work into different branches is great, that's not what stash is for. That's what checkout is for.

Stash is used to record the current state of the working directory and index while also returning to a clean working state.

I guess for the author, stash is used to preserve changes when pulling in upstream changes you missed. It can, but it does waaaay more.

What happens if, like many people, you're working on a few branches at a time. Could be a monorepo, could be a couple long living branches, w/e. What do you do if you've done work against a branch and want to lift and shift to another branch?

You could commit and rebase and all sorts of clever mangling of the history.

OR you could use the right tool for the job

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Follow up

[0] https://medium.com/@yankee.exe/mastering-git-stash-workflow-...

[1] https://git-scm.com/book/fa/v2/Git-Tools-Stashing-and-Cleani...
I've never heard that definition of "tragedy of the commons." Rather, I've always seen it used to describe a situation where everyone would benefit if everyone took one action, but individually the incentive structure is to do the opposite -- effectively you're able to get the things you want for minimal personal cost and with large external costs.

It very explicitly applies to shared resources like fisheries, and it crops up in much more mundane scenarios too. E.g., when water costs are split between multiple apartments you can pay peanuts for nearly unrestricted personal water use by offloading most of the costs to everyone else.
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The anectodal example in my country is the old (pre-WW2) math problems book that was used then and after war at middle education level (lycee).

Later on the problems from the book could be solved only by university students (engineering etc.) and nowadays only by math students.

This is anecdotal of course and there are still lots of bright kids eager to learn math today.
I used to run a dropshipping business. Me and my ex partners made good money. We made 50k USD of sales for our best month.

However, after sometime I realized that it would probably not be sustainable, because its not very defendable and tariffs are springing up left and right. The nail in the coffin was when me and my ex partner had an argument.

Is it possible to make a lot of money with dropshipping? Of course, but like everything valuable in life it takes time and efforts.
Clearly Google wants to avoid the native, offline experience that would be so convenient. I hope a hack is found to force ios apps to run. Image offline youtube, better social media apps experience.
I find this is nonsense. Code is the best documentation; I've watched people spend hours debating a spec that becomes obviously broken as soon as you spend 5 minutes writing it up in something with a typechecker.

Write the specification as code - make sure it's something that can actually be checked. Then you'll know whether it's actually any good.
Nitpick but important detail:

> The gist is that Marak, who’s on the brink of homelessness after his apartment building caught fire

It caught on fire likely because he was trying to make bombs: https://abc7ny.com/suspicious-package-queens-astoria-fire/64...
I don't follow. How is it that graphical tasks require multiple tools, but for every other type of work you need just one tool?

That seems just obviously incorrect to me.

I do all sorts of things, and use all sorts of tools. Am I missing something?
On Automation Part 4: Who made it, why, and in what context?
Ernie who?
I want this kind of tech enthusiasm back.
No, because then I won't get anything from this conversation.

Please, tell me, what else can I say to make you use a practical illustration of your position constructed on top of original example? I believe it's the only form of productive communication left that is possible in current context.
Brother HL-L2300D Monochrome Laser Printer with Duplex Printing

Thank you, that's exactly what I needed: a reliable compact duplex printer (to carry most of the burden of the old color MFP that now jams every second page ...)

Edit: Seems to have been replaced by the HL-L2310D, or HL-L2350DW with WiFi
Sound more like tokens, cryptocurrencies. How popular is cryptocurrencies in your country?
Why Billionaire Investors Become Increasingly Interested in Bitcoin?
· Part 1: What would a scrivener do if gifted a printer? https://sketch.nono.ma/a-scrivener-is-gifted-a-printer

· Part 2: If it can be automated, it will https://sketch.nono.ma/if-it-can-be-automated-it-will

· Part 3: The machine takes care of it https://sketch.nono.ma/the-machine-takes-care-of-it

· Part 4: Who made it, why, and in what context? https://sketch.nono.ma/who-made-it-why-and-in-what-context
FF has a default link that it checks for capture portals on wifi networks. I think that it must be turned on all the time, though something in the about: pages might turn it off.
Ooh, now do Chrome!
It seems you missed the point. It was not to "brag about advanced features". But to show that these features work exactly the same, wether you are in a Rails project, A Python script, a Rust crate or an Android App codebase.
If it’s not particularly contentious maybe it’s a good example for neophytes to follow?
Mozilla people - this is a serious issue. If you want to champion privacy, you NEED to have a big red button that says "nothing gets sent out" and you NEED to have an end-to-end test to make sure Firefox respects it.
excel is like pure FP in that

- everything you write is an expression that yields a value

- those expressions are "pure"/"referentially transparent" bc there's no way to do side effects (like writing to another cell)

the whole "recalculate value if any dependency changed" thing would probably fall more under "reactive" systems - you need the notion of inputs that a user can change.

but you're right that efficient recalculation is enabled by the calculations being side-effect-free! we know that changing a cell can only influence cells that reference it, so we only need to recalculate those, not the whole spreadsheet!
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That doesn't apply only to WSL2. As soon as you install the Hyper-V role (for WSL2 or to virtualize other VMs), your main OS becomes a VM with special hardware privileges (the Root Partition, in Hyper-V parlance), on top of the Hyper-V hypervisor kernel.
I would very much approve a food tax on the externalizes, determined by a review process per product if the seller request it.

It would however not be as simple that plant-based food would just be cheaper. Every kind of food type has a spectrum of climate impact, depending on multiple factors like farming method, transport, and local factors. A hunter shooting down an overpopulated flock of wild boars is going to have a distinct different climate impact than a pig farmer in a industry farm. Same for crop rotating farm that don't use fertilizers or pesticides vs one that massively contribute to eutrophication, burn down forests to make room, and leaves a desert behind.

A tax would at first fix the competition between similar products that only differ in the climate impact. Secondarily it would encourage locally over imported. And third it would make most plant-based food cheaper vs most meat. It would also add a huge tax on factory farmed meat and encourage farmers to use slower and much less harmful practices when raising animals.
Tell HN: I Installed Windows 10
I installed it after hearing people praise Microsoft and recent windows update. They told me it got better but

A. The amount of nagware is insane. They push me so hard to sign in with an online Microsoft account, subscribe to their office 365 subscription, and opt for one drive. Nothing new but it seems to have gotten worse.

B. I am greeted with Microsoft edge on first start. I can't close the window without going through the whole marketing manual. There are shit ton of pop ups telling me to try it and sign in.

C. Privacy settings are nightmare as expected. Why do they need so much information for diagnostics when it has never solved a single issue for me.

D. Ads in the start screen. :( Preinstalled garbage. Oh I also found spotify in there. Talk about apple being the bad guy.

E. I tried to install other browser. Got stopped by the smart screen and bunch of other things in the name of security. It wasn't this bad 2 years ago. Oh and when I set the browser as default, it changed after restart (ugh updates) to edge. Hm.
Chwazi finger chooser [1] is a fun use of multi touch.
A group of people place a finger on the phone screen and the app highlights one finger. I use this to pick the starting player for bord games.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tendadigit...
You really need to have something more verifiable than that before just throwing around a claim like that. What study are you talking about? You could at least try and find a link.
What evidence is there that anyone is doing that?
I have some AAPL and MSFT stocks and selling covered calls. They almost never get exercised. It's small but steady income.
I've been playing some music on the livedemo. I like it a lot. The harmony changes are easy to see as concentric slices slighty rotated. On heavy drum music the rythm also leaves a trail of spaced circles easy to recognize. You might be onto something here. Colored waveforms, like those used in djing software, might be better for locating a point in a song, but I've never been able to locate a chord change on those based on the waveform representation alone. I would totally love to try to "mix" some of those mandalas, or try an editor software using this visualization where I can move around a virtual needle, copy paste slices, etc. Not saying It will be better than using a waveform, but I would experiment with it given the chance.

Very nice job, congratulations!
Even if the author released sources you would not get any guarantee the games can run easily. There needs to be a community that is familiar with the source and keeps maintaining it.

There are a lot of game engine like projects on Github with full code available that are anything but easily runnable on modern operating systems.
Needs (2018) in the title.
More SaaS and less visibility = offboarding mess
Business stuff is not at all a grey area. From the ESTA application website, appropriate use includes "You plan to travel to the United States for business or pleasure."

Meetings are fine. You'll note the visa he was approved for is a tourist visa. Which is also fine for the same use - given it was approved with the use of an invitation letter from his employer.

You need to say something very dumb to a border guard to get denied on the basis of exceeding the allowed use of the visa waiver, but if you do, you'd get turned away then and there, not rejected at the airport the next time.

"Something" certainly got triggered, but it's highly unlikely to have been about going for business meetings.

My guess would be that something got messed up with his previous departure, such as e.g. failing to register that he left on time, as that is one of the things that would pretty much instantly disqualify you from future visa free travel. I almost got into trouble for that myself with visa waivers (though pre-ESTA). The main reason I wasn't denied re-entry was that I was still within the 90 day window of the previous entry, so I provably hadn't overstayed, and they could see I had about a dozen or so short stays that made it very obvious it was a mistake. But that was in person, with someone manually looking through my passport stamps - I'm not at all sure it'd have gone as well today with automated pre-flight checks.
Collecting the data is just the beginning. You can build a lot of interesting stuff from there. Check out my ADS-B project: www.foxtrotcharlie.ovh
You require driving license to buy knives and you can't carry them in public without a special license.
Isn’t that the reason people aren’t supposed to trust the RDRAND instruction from Intel?
Does anyone know if this is still an issue in 2020?
As a team owner, there is an opposite concern: we did several projects for a client with the promise that at some point there will be a startup where we'll be included as founders. More than two years passed and, although paid regularly, there is no indication that something will change in the direction we started. So I am planning to end it.

Now, it may be an idea to have a chat to see if there is any common ground between our worlds. Find me at iordachej at gmail
Why your LTV might be higher (or lower) than you think
Plants live, fungi live, bacteria live, and animals live. The differentiator is the ability to feel pain. Some small bugs (animals) already show no pain response, but most animals do. It is said plant feel pain, but that's a different kind of pain than pain in animals.

Vegans try --when possible-- not to cause pain on others, or reduce it as much as possible. We're against the commodification of animal lives. We (vegans) know that driving a car kills some bugs, and pests are being exterminated in the process of crop production: yet for most of us this is "not possible" to get around, for now.

But for most of us it is possible not to consume animal products, wool, silk, go to zoos or buy pet form breeders.
As soon as the furry/kink community gets a hold of this, it's going to be interesting for sure.
That's why the peasants in the battle of the golden spurs used a river to make a swamp. Which took the advantage away from the cavalry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Golden_Spurs
I know there are a lot of people hanging around here looking for a business idea or a side project with some potential, so here's one idea:

Create a customized version of Firefox that:

- has support for removing the top bar when tst or something similar is installed. It should probably be possible to disable/reneable it using a menu option and an optional toolbar button.

- actually disables all telemetry when you try to disable telemetry

- optional but recommended: a "getting started wizard" where you select your preferred search engine, if you want to install TST or Sidebery, and if you want to set memory consumption to sane defaults.

- otherwise works exactly like Firefox

- Charge $50 a year, possibly more.

I'd probably sign up immediately.

Questions:

Q: what if Mozilla finally gets it and implements this?

A: Fine, just go to the next thing they broke.
This is really neat.

And AFAIK not something that Vim does well. At least, in my vim setup, nested modes are clumsy.

Code-inside-markdown means Markdown has to support the syntax (and snippets and shortcuts etc). Or requires a entire language (or dialect) like erb being both Ruby and HTML which cannot leverage the ruby and HTML at the same time, AFAIK.

What is, or are the common vim solution for nested or mixed modes?
> First of all, the fork obviously isn't there for general consumption.

I didn't know that when I installed a package called "rebar3" and spend some time trying to understand what's wrong with my build. Oh, my bad, should've known better that "rebar3" was for internal consumption, and I need to install "rebar3-open" instead.

> Second, it would've been nice if you've raised an issue on GitHub and helped improve Nix instead of complaining and spreading borderline falsehoods on HN.

Thanks for suggestion. I did exactly that, and I fixed this entire mess. In fact, the current NixOS Erlang infra is partially based on that work.

> Ranting about how "it's a hack!" based on cherry-picked implementation details isn't convincing at all.

I professionally work with Erlang, and I know what is hack and what is not.

> Tell me a single major distro where it's okay to essentially redistribute packages from language-specific package managers without making huge adjustments in the way packaging is handled. I know of none. For countless software, distros just give up on packaging altogether because the effort required to make that adjustment can easily get out of hand.

Language-specific packaging should be left to language-specific package managers, they have more domain knowledge. Nix doesn't solve this dilemma in any better way.

> Also let me remind you that almost all Docker container images rely heavily on distro-provided packages. What are you going to do now?

Keep on using it? Take systems software from the distro-provided packages, add my own stuff on top. Building RPM is a nobrainer. I was considering Nix as an alternative to our deploy process, but realized that it would introduce more problems than solve.

> /etc in Nix is not world-readable, plain and simple.

Please take a closer look at what you're quoting. You missed a very important part:

> (or its analogue in /nix)

You see, if I want to utilize Nix to full extend and use its main "reproducibility" feature, I need to put all my configuration in a derivation. Configuration includes secrets. Derivations are world-readable.

> Neither do other distros

Distros maybe don't, but "bug-ridden kludge that is Ansible" (according to Nix user) does.
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Number 9 and 18 seem legitimate in their own ways
Afaik not possible.
Agreed. This is probably one of the fastest way to loose users in 2020.
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If I let someone into my space and they carry out a bunch of shit, they,re not coming back in ...
Too much verbing with nouns. Stop it.

Also, Git doesn't have pull requests. Did you mean GitHub?
Standard for github, maybe.
Other 32% lied /s
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In the right circumstances, yes, it could be a liability.

Here in Late Medieval Czechia we had a militant reformation movement called the Hussites. Of course, the rest of Catholic Europe sent in several crusades to crush the heretics, without much success.

One of the many reasons why the crusaders failed were so-called Wagenburgs [0]. Basically, the Hussite army would be underway with very heavy wagons and, if the scouts brought back information about an approaching enemy, would build a provisional fort out of them fairly quickly. Such a fort could not be swept away by a cavalry attack and if the defenders had enough guns (and by that time early firearms were already used in Europe), the knights tightly packed around the wagenburg would present a perfect target.

Plus, there were kids under the wagons with very sharp scythes, hacking at the unprotected horses' legs just in front of them, just as you mention.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon_fort#Czechs_and_Hussites
> Seems pretty standard to me. Anything notable here?

I agree, it's pretty vanilla git usage. I was curious to see any insightful take of whimsical twist, but it boils down to a basic take of good old git flow, which is git 101 for a long time.

https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

The only surprising thing in the article was the refusal to use git stash, which can't really be explained on a rational level.
Yeah, but it's not worth it for my purposes. Given the kinds of data and the wide variety of problems we deal with, it would be an investment of too much resources relative to the rewards.
> Why do we need a law that requires cars to have backup cameras?

That one is definitely part of the car upgrade treadmill rather than fully supported by evidence. It's also far from universal.

(See also "e-call", the EU proposal that cars should automatically text their location to the police when involved in an accident)
Right, captivedetect.canonicalURL: http://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt

Tho that isn't mentioned in the article, and I'd be surprised if mozilla collects any data there (other than something like a hit count).

Of course, there are also the update checks, both for Firefox itself and extensions (both not mentioned in the article either, and probably a bad idea to disable this functionality unless some external source like a package manager does the updating for you).