skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the comparison to an APC (armored personnel carrier) is apt- knights were armored enough to be nearly invulnerable to the weaponry a peasant would have access to. To compare to something modern, I'm sure enough street protestors would be able to disable an APC and kill the soldiers inside at least some of the time, but the soldiers in the APC could likely win the 40:9000 battle cited in the article. Remember that knights had the height of military technology, this was an age where any iron tool was still extremely valuable.

The only thing that would hamper modern soldiers is that from everything I have read medieval knights weren't possessed with any qualms about killing; life in general was much more violent than we experience now.

For more reading about this mindset, acoup.blog [0] has an excellent review of Bertrand de Born's work. What struck me is just how casual violence is treated, and that war is a treated as the expected normal condition. The peasantry definitely did not hold these views, but given that the nobility had a vast armament advantage and copious experience in killing I doubt many modern soldiers would be quite so callous. The only modern exception I can think of is child soldiers; but they have been subjected to abuse specifically to train them to be able to commit horrific acts. Maybe I am wrong, but I don't think most soldiers in modern militaries would easily be able to slaughter their countrymen with quite the same abandon. This is speculation, but I suspect that the nobles were able to do this because they viewed the peasantry as semi-subhuman; see the American antebellum south for the types of atrocities that that mindset enables.

[0] https://acoup.blog/2020/04/16/collections-a-trip-through-ber...
War should sicken everyone involved, with each soldier that comes home dead acting as a motivation to ask the question "Is this worth the cost?". If one side never has to ask that question, how do you slow the war machine?

Related, I'm currently not afraid of my government using the military against us any time soon. I think the morals of the soldiers would severely limit this. With a fleet of robots, it seems it would be much easier to suppress the people.

Everyone knows this is the future, and saw it coming, but wow, I naively thought it would take longer.
We need to stop browser development besides security patches. No new features and start taking features off.
Yes, we will automate score capturing over all projects in real-time in the future. https://github.com/ossf/scorecard/issues/12

The work to capture current vuln state is tracked in https://github.com/ossf/scorecard/issues/52
Absolutely not. I honestly can’t identify with your comments in the slightest. The only part of math that I ever learned by memorization was addition and multiplication tables in elementary school. Every subsequent revelation was based on pure understanding - zero repetition required. Up to what level of math have you studied? I honestly can’t imagine anyone thinking they’re good at undergrad-level math if they do it by memorization rather than understanding.
But are also subsidized considerably less. Where oranges see 0.3¢ per calorie produced, corn only receives 0.1¢ per calorie produced.
‘It’s crazy, but I started my own bank’: the story behind Starling
Might depend on how far the knights/armies were from home, what their logistics capabilities were, or how much they could take from the local peasants or environment.
Until recently, the hunt was broadly successful (maybe not every single day, but certainly every week).

Hunter-gatherers are the only type of group for which there are no anthropologically/historically documented cases of starvation. In contrast to pastoralists and agriculturalists, which have suffered starvation regularly.

Hunter-gatherers across nearly all of the globe always had a diet of meat and plants. It is absolutely false that it was plant-based "most of the time". Eating meat has absolutely not always been an unaffordable luxury -- that's a complete myth. Meat as a "luxury" was a totally new phenomenon that arose only with agriculture.

For the vast majority of human history, meat (or fish) has been plentiful and broadly consumed.
and to wamk next to him in a normal, casual way

It must have been very difficult for him too.
I went to India last year and found the vegetarian burgers awful. I think the American palate requires a little bit of a different taste than the Indian.
The issue for me isn't viewing the pdf but getting rid of it afterwards.

Almost all of my storage used on my phone other media are PDFs, but I can't split them up like I would on a PC e.g. I want to keep the textbooks and datasheets but I don't need every paper I've ever read.
Actually i spoof the location to say you're at area 51 in my remote isolated browser. It's done using chrome DevTools protocol, which is very simple to use, using the method `Emulation.setGeolocationOverride`[1]

You can try the demo https://demo.browsergap.dosyago.com/

and you want to go to the "Browser Geolocation" link at this site https://mylocation.org/

[0]: https://github.com/c9fe/ViewFinder

[1]: https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/tot/Emula...
Browser Devtools for Tailwind CSS
The goals are different. Our goal is to help both open source developer improve their project so that it is more secure for the community in the long term. It also gives the consumer this information for free, rather than paying / subscribing to a service.
Images can be quite small. Debian slim image is 25.9 MB compressed. Alpine image is 2.7 MB compressed. Meanwhile, Selenium’s standalone Chromium image is 348.1 MB compressed.
That's indeed the number 1 problem with the visualizer. ACF waves can greatly vary in magnitude and if there is a loud bass wave that's 1000x bigger than small wavelets from background music, those wavelets will be present, but barely visible. That's also why classical or otherwise "peaceful" music looks so good: all waves have about the same height.

I've in fact tried implementing the equal loudness contour - try adding ?acf.aweight=1 to the URL. However the result is mediocre. I've also tried applying a few bandpass filters for low, mid and high frequency ranges, rendering them separately with different colors and then mixing images together. The result is, again, medicore. I've been entertaining the idea that ACF waves are ought to be rendered like ocean waves: via light reflections.
With the exception of reducing the exploitable surface, what is the point of debloating chrome?

Code only gets pulled off disk and into memory, and out of memory and into the cache if it actually gets called yes? So the initialisation code for something like WebUSB would get called as the browser wakes up, but then never called again and the majority of it would never even make it off the disk. Are there really gains to be made here?
Not aware of the docker image in question, but a docker image starts empty (0 bytes). A full operating system (Ubuntu 20.04) base is is 75MB.

You can probably slim that down a bit if you needed, but installing your software on top might only take a few MB. So cutting chrome down from 60MB could well be a good goal.
I think this is the relevant part about the robotic aspect being discussed

> Cold War doctrine envisioned engaging the enemy along what’s called the Forward Line Of Troops, or FLOT. In the new concept, according to a briefing at the conference, a Forward Line Of Unmanned Aerial Systems (FLUA) will fly ahead through no-man’s-land into enemy-held territory, followed by a Forward Line Of Robots (FLOR) on the ground, followed in turn by the Forward Line Of (Human) Troops. The unmanned systems will flush out the enemy, stumble into meeting engagements and ambushes, take and receive the first hits, and map the enemy position for the human troops coming along behind them.

Patton famously told his scouts to “go down that road until you get blown up then, report back”. Presumably robots would be assuming this role going forward.
Polearms were always very effective against mounted troops, if they were disciplined enough to use them together.

Even in the Napoleonic wars the best defence against cavalry was the square with soldiers using bayonets on their muskets.
Malware often tries to do the same "am I running in a VM" checks to evade researchers' attempts to analyse it, and of course people want VMs in general to become indistinguishable from physical machines, so you're in good company.
> military service was reserved for aristocrats only.

That varied by region.

Often English Lords were required to provide troops or arrows on demand, and those both came from the peasant class.

(Frankly, peasant men would have to be tough to work in the fields in the mid-day sun, so were ideal stock for battles.)

Otherwise what was the point in appointing nobility if they weren't contributing an army, but just collecting taxes?
Also when plant-based burgers actually meet the nutritional profile of animal-based burgers.

Right now the Impossible Burger still significantly trails behind an equivalent-weight beef burger in protein, and has a bunch of carbohydrates (which beef doesn't have at all) [1].

Our diet is already far too stuffed with processed carbohydrates, so it's unfortunate that the Impossible Burger adds even more. Hopefully, further improvements can focus on healthy proteins instead.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/health/is-the-impossible-burger-healthi...
Is IQ pseudoscience, or thinking that one population group may have a higher IQ than another pseudoscience?
well, I'm from India too, so :)

Also, I said it's trivial to make Indian food vegan, not that Indian food is vegan by default. What specific ingredients are irreplaceable in Indian cooking? I've replaced paneer with tofu, kheer (and consequently, most milk-based drinks) is trivially made with oat milk, vegan yoghurt can replace curd in 99% of the dishes (like chaat, raita, etc), vegan butter is indistinguishable from dairy-based butter. Ghee doesn't have a substitute, but it isn't a big deal. Naan has curd in it traditionally, but it's pretty easy to make it without dairy. Since going vegan, I've made virtually all of my favourite Indian dishes and it was no more difficult than the traditional recipes.

South Indian food (where I'm from) is even easier as most dishes don't have dairy to begin with.

Some milk-based sweets are the only things that I miss out on, but that's probably a good thing anyway.
They (adhoc) pay scale for everyone ... as they are focused on pay parity. Everyone starts at the same equal level pay per job title and you can not negotiate your worth. Also, you have to take a lot of tests and go through a gauntlet of interviews. Personally I was exhausted after the first one in which they detailed their long drawn out process and dropped out. So, I'm gonna go through all that and I cant negotiate my worth/years of experience?

I will say its a good place/company for starting your dev/design/tech career.
I’ve found Elixir (+Erlang/OTP) to have some incredibly powerful primitives that make it fairly simple to develop concurrent programs.

OTP underpins WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Discord. People have been building very cool high availability embedded Linux projects using the Nerves framework. It’s very good for certain types of concurrent programs.

It won’t take over HPC simulation any time soon, but most of us aren’t working at Sandia, Oak Ridge, etc. Its great for systems that should naturally scale out but don’t map naturally to a GPU. For systems that want to scale up but are forced to scale out due to frequency limits, it’s not as good as C++ written with uArch in mind.
Interesting! Daiya is very bland to me. I do like many of cashew cheeses.
Pfizer’s ultra-cold Covid-19 vaccine must be kept at -94 F
Do You have a citation for the 8 inches claim?

I found this interesting article while looking:

Heights across the Last 2,000 Years in England: https://oro.open.ac.uk/53774/3/53774.pdf
I wish more science, and generally more work was done this way.
Dispense with ego-flattering prizes, narratives of discovery that put lone geniuses in the spotlight, turning PIs heroes and dictators at the expense of their team...
I understand this is not practical for all fields, but it would alleviate much of the pettiness and unethical behaviors that have become so normalized in academia.
Generally you want to start out with stim and combat shield, but sometimes the widow mines are the way to go instead.
I appreciate libertarian ideas about privacy, freedom to own weapons, speech, religion, etc. I just don't agree with them a whole lot on economic issues, but they have personal freedom down pat. I think the point about government isn't that I'm so worried about the government --currently--, but I know government almost never gives something back that they take away. In this case it's privacy. Hopefully the EU government (or at least the members of the EU individually) will realize this is an autocratic power grab and doesn't make anyone safer. You'd think they'd have had enough with dictators and autocratic governments knowing everything you do given what happened in WW1 and WW2
Bernard Cornwell wrote a fictionalised account of the battle of Agincourt (the book is called Azincourt). It's very good if you enjoy Cornwell.
> Sometimes good food involves suffering

It never needs to. You're performing mental gymnastics, I'm sorry. It's never true that this sort of immense suffering just needs to magical occur for the world to operate normally. There are limitless delicious recipes that require 0 suffering, 0 pain, 0 murder.

> I don't think we should go out of our way to hurt animals

That's what the entirety of animal agriculture is. We go WAAAY out of our way. It's expensive, inefficient, unhealthy, and immoral, and we do it anyway.
Who has the money for that?????
Show HN: Manipulate immutable collections with no performance hit
Why is that happening? How successful was the open source software?
Probably disk space. Saving webUSB once isn't a big deal, but if you have 30 copies of Chromium on your computer it could add up
Cops want to be able to see everything. I don't think it comes necessarily from want to see nude in particular. Government likes power, the more they get, the more they want. That includes cops. They can't think beyond their own mind often. Most people would probably (at the beginning) use backdoors responsibly, but when it becomes mundane they will use it all the time and without compuncture. This leads to power grabs and politicization. If it's not an option at all, it helps a lot.
To use a single third party utility like dig that would retrieve entries from both /etc/hosts and from zone files, one could use a program like pdns_recursor with the "--export-etc-hosts=on" option.

https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/manpages/pdns_recursor.1.h...

Assuming for example, one had HOSTS entries

127.0.0.1 localhost
93.184.216.34 example.com

pdns_recursor is listening on 127.0.0.1 and /etc/resolv.conf contains namserver 127.0.0.1, then

dig ns example.com

should return "localhost" as the NS RR for example.com so we know the A RR came from /etc/hosts not a.iana-servers.net

Additionally, adding the "--trace=on" option will output debugging info that will tell whether the answer came from "local auth storage", e.g., /etc/hosts
Most reasonable people once observed & agreed that the earth was flat and women were unfit to vote.

It would be unwise to consider everything reasonable people observe or agree upon facts.
There is a different reason as well, most of these stores highlights reviews of 1 and 5 star. Some people (well I guess all people that leave reviews) like to be highlighted, so they only leave 5 or 1 star reviews. This was a pain when I was managing a Google app and part of the performance review was the average rating. This was a small app with few reviews so the jokers that liked the app but left 1 star review to be highlighted really made a negative difference.

Just to be clear, I was OK with users leaving 1 star if they didn't like it or even better had some constructive feedback. But many were like "great app": 1 star, or "Hi single guy here, and ladies around?": 1 star.
Republicans Back Trump’s Refusal to Concede, Declining to Recognize Biden
non-paywall link: https://archive.is/8y94i
What does that mean? This claim seems too ambiguous to be meaningful.
Of course there were a lot for fat/incompetent knights across all times and all countries.

More interesting questions are:

Was the average knight fat?

How common were the?

How effective were fat/incompetent knights on the battlefield?
Ask HN: What does the best possible education look like?
To the best of my current knowledge, the entire field of education is based on the constraint of needing to prepare an educational approach and materials ahead of time, to be consumed by multiple students, with limited support from a teacher. At the same time, there's an assumption (that I agree with) that personal attention from a good teacher is a major contributor to the education of a typical student. So What if we removed that constraint?

Let's then assume that we had unlimited funds, and could hire the best possible educational expert on a subject, perhaps the one who is best suited to write the textbook and lesson plans, to instead teach a single student directly, without any time or resource limits. What would the ideal course of study look like then?

Expanding upon this, here's my proposed research question: "If a curious, capable and motivated student has unlimited access to a kind, knowledgeable and motivated teacher, how should the relationship between the be structured to optimize the educational benefit?".

In particular, I'm interested in time allocation - how much time should the student spend studying per day? How much of that time should be spent with the teacher, how much on their own, how much with peers (with or without the teacher)? How much of the time with the teacher should be spent on the student listening to / watching the instructor, how much of that should be spent on the student asking questions, how much on the instructor watching the student tackle tasks and providing limited guidance? To what extent should the education be directed by the teacher, and to what extent by the student? And is there any framework that would guide both sides in this endeavor?

Are any of you familiar with studies on this and could perhaps direct me to some reading material? Any relevant research, or if possible, a suitable theoretical framework, or even just some good search keywords regarding this would be highly appreciated.
I know of malware long ago that would attempt to time how long CPU instructions take, based on the theory that a VM would be significantly slower, but more recently, especially with hardware-assisted virtualisation, the differences have become close to indistinguishable.
The problem with war is that if your side doesn't develop its armies, the other side will. Today, that other side is China. For all the faults of the United States, of which there are many, i'd prefer it any day over the Chinese politburo.
They need a judge currently. However in the USA it's a rubber stamp and warrants are almost never not given. It's around 98-99% are granted in FISA courts and it's a total joke.
> That's basically what you're doing when you're giving a review on "the purchasing experience" on Amazon.

No, it's not.

> that packages get lost sometimes or the UPS driver might drop your TV.

I would never leave a bad review for those types of things, since they're not in the sellers control. I'd knock a star off if delivery was delayed because it didn't ship on time though, which has happened on more than one occasion.
I want to know what I eat. For example, if I eat meat I want to know if it is pork or beef.
Plant-based does not cut it on that criteria.
Call it what it is, not what it pretends to be.
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Ok yeah that makes more sense, thanks for the reply.

Btw here's the doc of yours that said it was p2p, I guess it's outdated. Might be good to remove or update it. It was publicly accessible within the demo instance linked in this thread, as an asset in the "sponsor" room.

- Document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vR8RTTH8Dr1KwiWE...

Under platform overview:
"Stack
Video is streamed peer-to-peer via WebRTC.
Uses Firebase (Google cloud storage) for the database
Works on Chrome / Firefox, and on any laptop or computer. Tablets and mobile not supported yet."
> I just looked at a few random Amazon losing and I couldn't figure out who I was supposedly buying from.

Then either you weren't trying very hard or you need to put your glasses on. It's in the same place on every listing that has Add to cart/Buy buttons: under those buttons, after the "Secure transaction" link.
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Tiennanmen square would be a case in point. I believe that they brought in troops from other areas, because they were alienated enough from the citizens of the city, and the local garrison wouldn't have shot their own neighbours and families.
I teach programming. What prevents students from colluding over their tablets/mobiles/laptops while taking the exam from another device? Can't the student mirror the screen elsewhere, leading to interesting possibilities for cheating?

Proctoring is not a solution that I am comfortable with. I do not want to peer into the private lives of students and their home environments. Not every student is well-off, and has a private space all to their own for 3 hours.

I think taking tests from home does not really work with any of the models I have seen discussed this year. Cheating is real. It has nothing to do with rote learning. I am out of ideas which are foolproof.
Oh God this has nothing to do with Go.
SoC means just add power, everything you need to make a chip operate is integrated. No need for hundred active components! Terms and conditions apply! Something like that.
I've watched someone struggle for literally hours in Emacs wading through dependencies to track down an issue. He then resorted to grep and kept spending time.

The same task would be accomplished in one click in Eclipse.

There is a reason why specialized tools exist.
As someone who pretty much only orders vegetarian when doing Indian takeout, these sound amazing.
Huge thing is mindset- one thing the Total War series got extremely right was shock value and the ability to win battles by routing opponents. Getting charged with a horse would be terrifying (speaking from semi-experience, I've been charged by both bull moose and cattle). Nevermind the animal also having someone on top of it armed to the teeth, I can easily understand running away in terror.

From my amateur research, this is one of the reasons the Romans were so effective- they weren't always better armed than their opponents, but their culture and training promoted better cohesion. Whereas in the scenario of a medieval peasant facing a knight, even negating the shock value of being charged by mounted troops the knight likely just has far more experience in battle and is less likely to rout. Every peasant revolt I've read about seemed to end with the nobles riding the fleeing peasants down and stabbing them in the backs. Makes one reconsider the modern connotation of the word 'noble', although maybe it was a bit of a euphemism even back then. I know chivalry was much more of an ideal than a creed people actually followed.
That is all true as long as the RNA doesn’t replicate itself and only produces antigens. However, I couldn’t find any papers at all that discussed if any of the current mRNA vaccine candidates self replicate their RNA to amplify the antigen production. I’d love some good references that address that.
This is absolutely backwards.

No amount of reference sheets will help you with mathematics if you don't understand something.