skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't read the article, but the Spanish Inquisition is generally misunderstood in the historical context and innumerable myths have been spun about the affair through later Protestant leaflets and the like (outrageous claims of the genocide of millions, for example, compared to the actual 3,000-5,000 executed over the course of close to four centuries; compare this to the 150,000 secular witch burnings during the same period elsewhere in Europe). Most people don't even know what it was about, its historical character, or the historical antecedents that led to it in the end. Typically, it is used as a rhetorical device to halt discussion through whataboutism, like calling someone a racist without merit ("What about the SPANISH INQUISITION? You know, that horrible SPANISH INQUISITION? Oh, yes, the SPANISH INQUISITION was bad.").

How many people understand the converso crisis and its antecedents that threatened the very existence of Spain? The widespread social unrest that resulted that the Inquisition was brought in the resolve? Or that the judicial standards of the Inquisition were ahead of their time?

Persecution and forced conversion were not the objective, and indeed, the very notion of forced conversion is understood as not only evil by Catholics since it violates the conscience of the unbeliever, but it is an impossible feat because conversion can only be done freely. Rather, it was the widespread fear of feigned conversions, to obtain high offices, among the general populace that led to widespread unrest (many conversos had attained high ranking positions in the Spanish government). Whether there was any truth to these fears is another story, but the unrest was such a threat to the stability of Spain, that the Spanish Inquisition was called to resolve this crisis by subjecting the matter to an orderly judicial process. Some may argue that the later ultimatum of conversion or expulsion is a kind of de facto coerced conversion, but that's debatable, especially given the number of Jews who left for places like Poland.

We can criticize the affair (which, despite the investigation of claims of heresy, was actually of a secular character), but the attention it has received though the "Black Legend" as some egregious orgy of evil (committed by the Protestant's favorite punching bag, the Church) out of step with even the common practices of the day is simply wrong. Sadly, these sorts of things can seep into historical accounts and curricula, especially when they agree with prejudices. So I wonder about the substance of an article that uses this episode as a basis for investigating this question.
OpenJDK is developed 90% by Oracle employees, others just take it from there, there is no proliferation .
West coast of North America is less humid than many other places, and hence 12C in Seattle is not 12C in the Midwest or East coast. Less humidity means less heat transfer, and so 12C in Seattle can feel like 17C in NYC. And 12C in NYC can feel like 6C in Seattle.
It's a pity WASM and all the tech around it wasn't available 20 years ago when Javascript was added to the browser, we'd all be using python now and node.js wouldn't exist at all ;)
Despite the claim that the driven wheel hubs are only in 8880 they also show up in the Porsche 911 GT3 RS (42056) which is fascinating for the combination of technical detail (no rear-wheel steering, though, sadly; maybe speed-dependent direction is simply beyond Lego) and fairly accurate appearance.

What has always bugged me a bit is that the large car models are a bit too heavy for standard Lego motors to power them.
If that's the case then why are they ok with the founder leaving? I don't think this is a scam or anything, I just wish I understood the mechanics of how their business works better than I do
> Start clearing products with any detectable heavy metal content, and you'll start clearing shelves.

Great. And maybe then producers will take it more seriously?
Digital Village
Maybe it's just a symptom of everything moving to the cloud over the last decade. You're definitely right about power user tools like Zapier, but desktop-based software has become less amenable to power users.
Yurp: https://archive.md/mjh8U
Similar stuff has happened in Germany, in fairly recent times. You could make your own cement, no problem. But good luck trying to unload it anywhere in Germany without paying a fee to certain individuals.
Because people want to pay their rent and eat. “Hard problems” take a lot of work and time and no one is going to pay me to ponder on a tricky algorithm [1]

[1] actually there is. It’s called “academia” and from what I’m told it’s pretty miserable to be in
This have been discussed here but there was a time (Windows 9x/XP area) where GUIs were « intuitive but with some learning curve ».

Of course it was a little harder (but not that much) to master the tools of this era but once you understood the basic paradigms (files, folders, windows, menus, toolbars, common discoverability, common keyboard shortcuts, F1 for help…) you could become proficient in any unknown software way more faster than today.

Now, there is nearly no transferable knowledge between 2 softwares. For me this looks like « knowledge lock-in » (which adds to the vendor and data lock-in, btw).

Well, we still have Linux if we want to learn something useful. But even there if you use it professionally, you’re probably going to be stuck with all those « I’m unique » Electron apps.

tbf, I think what we are missing is a truly high quality multi platform GUI toolkit able to work with modern language. Most are still only officially supporting C++ and nobody wants to write a complex application in C++ anymore.
Is anybody else super tired of this aesthetic:

https://assets.website-files.com/5f10771cbfea70224f1ce526/5f...

I know companies all jump on design bandwagons, but this one of these hideous illustrations of amorphous blob people is not only one that every company has been riding for the last few years, but should have never existed in the first place.

Not to mention the egregious usage of 90s HTML hyperlink blue. I get it, that ugly is ironic and cool, etc, but I'd really like to just pass through this phase of ironically self-aware, ugly design.
Sifted’s List of European VC Scout Programs
Yes, it is on GitHub even. https://github.com/NAalytics/Assemblies-of-putative-SARS-CoV...
The thing people (read: businesses) want to pay for is a) increased revenue or b) lowered costs. You better have a _very_ compelling story on why your product does one or the other, and why they should pick you and not one of your three competitors.
And the fact that that was 1) motivated by other concerns (principally: ensuring availability of then VERY scarce masks for medical personnel and first responders), 2) bad advice, and 3) backfired very badly has been public record since ... March of 2020. See Zynep Tufekci's "Why Telling People They Don’t Need Masks Backfired"

Given that there is indeed a mask shortage and that medical workers absolutely do need these masks more, what should the authorities have said? The full painful truth. Despite warnings from experts for decades, especially after the near miss of SARS, we still weren’t prepared for this pandemic, and we did not ramp up domestic production when we could, and now there’s a mask shortage — and that’s disastrous because our front line health care workers deserve the best protection. Besides, if they fall ill, we will all be doomed.

If anything, a call for people who hoarded masks to donate some of them to their local medical workers would probably work better than telling people that they don’t need them or that they won’t manage to make them work. “Look, more masks would be great. We are doing our best to ramp up production. Till then, if our medical workers fall ill, we will all be worse off. Please donate any excess — maybe more than two weeks’ worth per person — to your hospital” sounds corny, but it’s the truth.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-face-...

Oddly, it seems to be those who still most strongly resist wearing (or bully others for wearing) masks who seem to recall those first few weeks of ill-advised messaging.
Careful, you should reread the HN posting guidelines - specifically "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity." This site is for discussion, not promoting your startup, and a large portion of your comments have been just that.
Right, indeed. I guess I was thinking about the functionality of having multiple hard links point to the same “file” (inode)
The hearing was scheduled for 2021-09-20, over two months ago. Any idea what the outcome was?

I tried poking around here[1], but CPUC public discoverability is up there with the worst of enterprise...never mind that a decision/resolution/ruling/general order all sound roughly asymptotic to a non-lawyer.

[1] https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/
yes, but (a) that is now; the languages themselves had their heyday when search engines were a lot less good, and (b) it wasn't finding the language homepage itself that was hard, it was finding third party pages with code examples, blog posts etc.
"100 channels and nothing's on" is an old phenomenon. People become paralyzed by choice because they feel they need to make the optimal choice, which simply doesn't exist.
You can get reinfected with all sorts of respiratory viruses. Like I said, nothing to lose sleep over.

Antivirals have a very limited window of opportunity. Nothing will make our concerns disappear. At some point, we need to move on.
Have you tried googling yourself? For example https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-and/climate-sk...

"Wobus, Small, and their coauthors simulated natural snow accumulation at 247 winter recreation destinations across the CONUS. They incorporated five climate models and two emission scenarios: RCP4.5 (moderate emissions) and RCP8.5 (high emissions). In this as in other studies, high-emission scenarios present more worrisome forecasts than moderate-emission scenarios, especially toward the end of the century.

Under both scenarios, winter season length could be cut short by more than half in some locations as soon as 2050. Shorter ski seasons “could result in millions to tens of millions of foregone recreational visits annually by 2050, with an annual monetized impact of hundreds of millions of dollars.”"
> Nowhere have I said juniors can't learn SQL either

Then why invest so much effort trying to convince me that they shouldn’t learn SQL or that ORMs are better than learning how the underlying database manages their relational data? ;)

If I come across arrogant it’s because I’ve spent meany years managing fixing a great many failing dev teams and the comments you’re making resonate heavily with those who are usually against the changes I make. They always come round to agreeing that those changes are for the better after living with them for a few months.

But I guess we’ll never prove that on a message board so I’m happy to agree to disagree for the sake of etiquette.
Virgil was not only a creative genius and maestro of culture, but a true philosopher of design.

I was never into his whole aesthetic, and never owned any of his pieces, yet he was one of my favorite designers in the world. One of the most sophisticated and savvy designers to walk the earth.

I’d 100% recommend going through the lectures and interviews he has given, for all kinds of creatives. He gives a masterclass on how to cut through the superficial with creative and intellectual integrity.
Actually the EU is working on mandating backdoored E2E so they don't want this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29200506
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29308617
Thank you! What’s ipmi-enabled?
install ublock origin and put following filters

||youtube.com^$3p,frame,redirect=click2load.html

||youtube-nocookie.com^$3p,frame,redirect=click2load.html
yeah, good for if you want to develop another business but not detatch yourself from that one for example.
https://www.gazeta.ru/science/2021/08/27_a_13919672.shtml Here is an article in Russian about the effects of sanctions on RD-180 engines (these were powering the Atlas rockets run by ULA). it mentions a few interesting details: Energomash is loosing a third of its income, they will likely have to close down production of that engine, and that they won't be able to resume production of the engine in the future. This means that
we, as a space faring species, are likely to loose the know-how for the RD-180, just like we lost the know-how for the F-1 engine of the Saturn-V.
Do you complain about price or systems? Recent subscription gaming SaaSS have negative value even.
If someone solves a problem of mine because they're motivated by money instead of the problem domain I don't really care.

Are you upset that the gas station operator doesn't have a hobby about gas?
Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring Software Engineers in Austria, Germany and Remote
Yes and I don’t care, I am not buying crappy hardware with “a made for Linux label” that doesn’t work. This is a $400 phone shaped device with an LCD that’s not even 1080 with a weak processor, emmc (an old iPhone 6S used nvme), single camera setup, all because I can’t uninstall apps but somehow know how to install and use mobile Linux.

“Linux hardware” has no real world benefits but many more problems. Most people won’t buy it either, and rightfully so. This is why Linux on mobile will never be served by crappy hardware. It isn’t production ready and at best it’ll be really competitive for phones from 2015.

I could at least expect a working phone, but I doubt they can install spyware when they can’t create an OS.
This is one of those "but actually" things that always happens (and why I can't give a straight answer and why I should have hedged that statement as well). The question was about the US and Apple and I responded about the US and Apple, but I should have know I'd get a "but actually" if I didn't hedge everything.

I don't know what country/network you're talking about, but it looks like Uzbekistan might be the only country that's valid for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CDMA2000_networks

Beeline Armenia doesn't have a shutdown date, they also have GSM/UMTS/LTE service and their CDMA network is at 450MHz which the iPhone has never supported. MPT has an LTE service. That leaves Perfectum Mobile in Uzbekistan which looks like it's still heavy in CDMA. Uzmobile also seems to run CDMA at 450MHz, but again the iPhone never supported that. Going through Perfectum's website and looking at their suitable models feels like growing Verizon and Sprint's website from years past.

Yea, I should have hedged further and said "in the US and for Apple's purposes." Really though, I can only find Uzbekistan as an exception. And I could see Uzbekistan lingering on CDMA. Are there more?

I'm not even saying that old tech doesn't linger. Part of it is that CDMA wasn't popular in most of the world. GSM support will stick around longer because it was so popular. Most places that had CDMA networks have replaced them. CDMA kinda became a dead-end technology as Qualcomm's UMB evolution didn't happen - once Verizon chose LTE, there wasn't much of a point.

Honestly, it would have been cool if you'd added information about countries and networks where CDMA might stick around. I'd love interesting information - I literally went around looking for the information not included in your comment. Without that information, it just feels like "I know you were talking about Apple and the US, but actually..."
Citation needed, imgur not accepted. "some guy saw a definitely-genuine image on the internet" is not proof of anything.
Ask HN: Low/no code sitebuilder/framework for medium CRUD web-app
Hey HN, what low-code framework can you recommend for a medium complexity CRUD web-app? Bonus points for open-source/self-hosting.

Background: after experiencing how far site builders have come, I'm trying to embrace low/no code into my prototypes. What I like about that:

- better ownership by the non-devs/less dependence

- reduce feedback cycles / let people make simple changes on their own <> lets devs/POs focus on harder problems
Fixed mast?

Here in NL we have a type of mast that can be dropped under sail and re-set right after crossing under a bridge. This is a pretty exciting operation best practiced a large number of times without the presence of a bridge before you try it for real. Failures tend to be fairly spectacular.

Here a demo on a very small boat, I've seen this done with a big Tjalk and that was most impressive (but I can't find any video of that):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTwGCPgCsII

With a big ship it will look like an accident is about to happen until the last moment when the sail drops, the mast gets dropped backwards and they are barely out from under the bridge on the far side or the whole operation happens in reverse resulting in very little lost speed.
Done! (For macOS) https://github.com/heyvito/kabegami
i don't know the story under wasm, but i looked into what it would take to embed python into a browser years ago.

the hard part at the time was obviously all the hooks between the dom and the javascript runtime as well as concurrency story. python 2 was not built to be driven by callbacks, which is how the whole browser/javascript ecosystem works.
Oops Writeups
>IMO I think the only solution is to create more mountain towns and ski resorts

Not a great solution. The mountains are sensitive ecology, with poor access for the most part, and even the big mountain towns that do exist are under constant threat of going up in smoke in the summer.
Very nice. Interesting that on Safari on my (admittedly old) laptop, random3 runs at about ~17ms per frame (60 fps), whereas random4 takes ~34ms (30fps). Re-drawing the sun and its gradient & blur each time is enough to cause requestAnimationFrame to miss frames.

Btw, I think the sun should to be scaled to the canvas size also - on small windows if take up the whole thing!
What new features do you need from it? I don’t think there’s much interest in this device, I guess I don’t care about the kernel because I’ve used old ones with no issues.
While this is an edge case for most people, you are allowed to keep it, rent it out, whatever. The regulation doesn't work that well, as there are some loopholes and there are still significant numbers of mostly uninhabited second homes.

A lot of places in the Tirol have issues with affordable housing for workers while at the same time new hotels are being built and existing hotels expanded, increasing the demand for affordable housing by increasing the demand for workers.

There is also a small workforce crisis going on since covid, as a lot of people lost their jobs in the pandemic (hotels and restaurants closed) when lots of workers left the sector and many of the seasonal workers are not returning.
That is very impressive. I can do some neat tricks with cars and trailers but with boats I'm pretty hopeless.
From the link:
"although the resemblance with the lunar analemma is striking"
Wierd. While I don't disagree with you that one of the primary uses of zoning has been racial discrimination and segregation, Ambler v. Euclid was about industrial land use in the context of otherwise residential property. The decision may indeed have to led to an expansion in the use of zoning for racist purposes, but it was not in and of itself about such a purpose.
Unity's WebGL player is alive and well:

https://docs.unity3d.com/2021.2/Documentation/Manual/webgl-g...
I'm pretty sure it would just seem like actual magic to them
Even if you owned the land already, price of construction being what it is in the western US, the home will be several hundred thousand dollars. That's out of reach to a lift operator making $12/hr.
I wonder how legit this site is. It says:

> These SVG images were created by modifying the images of Pixabay.

And indeed, the images seem to be taken from pixabay (e.g. [0], [1]), however the pixabay license is NOT CC0, and specifically forbids redistribution [2]:

> Don't redistribute or sell Pixabay content on other stock or wallpaper platforms.

[0]: https://svgsilh.com/image/1801287.html

[1]: https://pixabay.com/vectors/grooming-cat-kitty-kitten-feline...

[2]: https://pixabay.com/service/license/
The founders also have a Spotify marketplace sidekick to Tiny https://www.wecommerce.co/
And still rents and apartment prices are exploding in Innsbruck. Even couples that broke up keep living together for months because the affordable housing situation is dire
At least their images are connected to the message somehow.

Most of the sites I see using this nowadays just slap them there like font icons, i.e. just to look cool with the graphic having absolutely no relation to the text.
... or "mobile" construction workers who live year-round or part-year in RVs and the like, and move to where the work is.
This is kind of absurd. The point of on-call is not to have regular off-hours work, but to have someone available for emergent situations. Since anybody who intends to operate a service with constant availability must always have someone who can respond to emergencies, on-call is the system used by the world's most successful tech companies, not just two-bit upstarts. It's hard to imagine anybody serious about running any kind of online business who is going to respond to an outage on Friday night by saying "we'll look at on Monday at 9:00 PT." It's unfortunate, but it's really not that different from ER doctors, firefighters, utility workers, and numerous other workers working with similar constraints.

Besides that, the rotation is known, and planned for, long in advance. So your "long-awaited weekend trip" shouldn't have been scheduled during your on-call shift in the first place.
Not sure how you are going to convince people who live in a blizzardy mountain town to start walking to work en masse. Snowmobiles are popular in the winter at least.
The Chinese last name Mu ranks 98 by population. We didn’t see WHO do anything about it. They simply knelt to dictator and found a stupid excuse
In its intention maybe, but it just doesn't work right. There are still a lot of mostly uninhabited second homes
I think part of the problem is that while maybe wages will be pushed up a bit, eventually the equilibrium is still a situation we won't like. Like long commutes and bad living situations.
The Tech Caffeine #20: This Week in Tech
If only this were Keyne's most famous theory. I believe he (or the greater school of thought built around him) did argue that stimulus through discounted interest rates should be balanced in a timely fashion. But I have to look around the world and wonder which - if any - of our leaders is brave enough to do this? The long trend downwards in interest rates everywhere has not had the desired effect and there are a lot of negative side-effects. But on paper the CPI is kinda OK so it's not a problem, right?
> If you look outside of the consumer macOS ecosystem, you'll find that power users are alive and well.

Interesting you say that in a comment thread about an article that mentions several times how macOS and a couple bits of software designed for it helped popularise the command palette (which is a power user-friendly tool). Apple’s OSes have always have advanced features for power users, from the Apple Script of all to Automator and Shortcuts, and all the places where Spotlight is used. MacOS is for noobs is quite far from the truth. Sure, it can be used by noobs, but it does not mean it is restricted to them.
I heard that originally the Russians wanted to fuel their rockets with pure alcohol. But they abandoned that when they discovered the fuel would too often disappear before launch...