skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Games of marking diagrams on the floor such that the player can only walk on certain places. … Rhys Davids suggests that it may refer to parihāra-patham, a form of hop-scotch

As kids we have played a game like this, called “the sun” (aka knives-grounds). One draws two concentric circles in a dirt/sand, one ~40cm (the sun), another one 1.5-2m in diameter, and splits this ring into few equal sectors, similar to chrome icon. Then everyone’s turn is to throw a knife into an adjacent enemy territory so that it sticks (1 attempt; everyone gets out for safety but the one who throws - they must stand in their area). You cut their territory along the orientation of the knife in two parts and join the lesser to yours. If a player become cut from the sun, he throws a knife blind. The one who can’t stand on their territory long enough to throw a knife loses. Hop-scotch was mostly played by girls cause they didn’t wear a knife.

There were many variations, and if you’re curious yes I’m oldtime russian.
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So the answer would be, no it's Mercurial.

I also used to like when I did not understand git well. After years of learning I mostly understand git and have mostly forgotten that Mercurial exists.
Could you tell us more about your inspiration :))?
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Why NYC? And fix hair?
EDN is excellent

The Haskell implementation is elite too

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hedn
Use a GUI client. There are many of them.
On the first line what do you mean by "The thing is that people didn't lose interest in startups. Startups lost interest in people." Or what, differently, do you want startups to do? (I"m genuinely asking, I'm curious!). I'm all for things like longer exercise windows, insourcing, etc, but I also think that startups, generally, have a much more inclusive brand of capitalism than most normal companies.

As for the rest, I'm not sure I follow the argument. I do not agree with the notion that every company that succeeds but has gone through YC would have succeeded without YC. I also don't agree with the notion that only companies that are going to succeed either way go through YC either. Empirically the latter is more easily falsifiable but I think both are false.
How do people do something like write a cohesive book
Sounds like the author is INTP personality type, if you believe in that classification system. I personally have the same problem. Luckily I am ENTP, which means I quite enjoy a good party with shallow conversations. It also stimulates diffuse thinking, so often a brilliant idea kicks in out of nowhere at 2am. Also the party lets me forget for a while that feeling of intellectual loneliness that’s otherwise ubiquitous.

There’s a saying that small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas. It’s very true.
Well, some people think failure is the best teacher. As an example the first generation of german rocket engineers whose work culminated in Saturn V and thus enabling the first moon landings basically started from scratch.
> Certainly you'd be in the clear if it was titled Fat, Honey-Loving Bear Stories.

If you're publishing the original book, you'll be able to use the original title because you'll be using the name not as a trademark, but as a descriptive term for the book.

For derivative works, you will probably want to make up your own name that you can use as a unique trademark to identify your derivative. (See, e.g., the recent Sherlock Holmes derivative works: Sherlock, Elementary, Enola Holmes.)
Impossible for the HN crowd: Keep your 2022 resolution past January
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> Just look at how badly Apple struggles with memory leaks now that they have switched CPU architecture and all the latent gremlins in their code start to manifest.

What the hell is this referring to?
Library of Congress Audio Recordings from 1922 that are now in the public domain
I've deleted many comments before submission because I decided I wasn't in the mood for a debate on the topics.
Wow, thanks for this tip! I have been using HN for more than 5+ years addictively and never knew this!
> sn't the modern thinking we should help young men express, not repress, their emotions?

How's that working out?
> The only remedy is to go back to Varna System and completely abolish the Caste System as it originally was.

Why would you think the only alternative to a caste system be a 2500 years old one? This just seem like a false dichotomy.
It's alleged in the TV series.
I fully agree. The challenge here might be if it's not a single user repo, how does the simple frontend deal with tricky cases introduced by other users?
I think that saying is a bit unfairly mailgned.

For making fire, there is the rule of three, the triangle, and you need all sides to keep combustion going:

- Heat

- Fuel

- Oxygen

knock one out and it falters.

We should describe infections the same way. Needed for infection:

- Virus/pathogen

- Outer defenses penetration (skin/mucous membranes)

- Immune system defeat

Seeing it that way, it doesn't have to be so mysterious. Some viruses are dormant or almost omnipresent. The infection may be triggered by other conditions changing, including factors that affect your immune system status or efficiency of your outer protections!
> After years of learning I mostly understand git and have mostly forgotten that Mercurial exists.

Meanwhile after years of learning I mostly understand git (and am pretty much the reference for colleagues) and I still wish more or less daily its UI wasn't so absolutely shit.

Also revsets, good god of all the awful things in git's UI gitrevisions(7) ranks so, so high.
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Newton wasted a lot of time on pursuits such as alchemy and mapping out the geography of hell. Not to mention surely some of his contemporaries would have came across many of his discoveries- the much better socially-adjusted Leibniz did, after all.
No. I had to use mercurial at my old job and everyone in the company saw mercurial as an easy and efficient alternative to git - something which I could not comprehend. And truthfully after using the "easier" solution, I'd rather take the code, print it out on punch cards and compare them in order to create the adequate changes by taping the holes accordingly and feed the punch cards back into the computer. Now that I'm saying it and having looked at how mercurial works underneath, it's not far off, with the exception that mercurial creates copies of all punch cards and keeps stacking them on top of each other. I've never hated any version control as much and I've had to use svn in the past. Git operates on a strict and crazy stupid model without adding unnecessary features and advertising them as "flexibility" or "ergonomics". I've worked with juniors who've never used git in the past and in all instances it took them a day at most to figure out how it works.
No, I did not know. But now I know, thank you!
I don’t feel so. Beginners can learn a handful of commands to gets started. And once they started to contribute to a production project they anyway have to learn some additional advanced commands (mostly rebase on top of others changes and conflict resolution). Things beyond a rebase a rarely used by anyone, so most people can just avoid learning those or learn when necessary.
> Part of me wonders if the OP were to meet one of the authors of the books he reads at a party, would he be able to interact with them? Probably not, and that’s my point exactly.

Come on. They already wrote what they had in mind. Why would you want to talk to them?

Sometimes it's not even worth reading their second book because it is about the same thing.

OP would probably wished his acquaintances were available in the book form because he could then skim the boring parts which in case of some people would be the whole thing.

And then there's this saying of specifically not meeting your heroes.

> A good book can be entertaining but it only takes a chance encounter to meet a life long friend, form a beneficial relationship, or meet a romantic partner.

That doesn't alleviate the fact that beneficial relationships and romantic partners can be intellectually unfullfilling.

The guy is going to parties. He just quits bit earlier than everyone else.

Most of us meet people really for one and only one reason. For social primate natural pleasure of physical interaction. Some people crave it more, some crave other things more. It's ok. No need to judge one way or the other.

> You’re going to go to a lot of parties in life, if you give up on them you are depriving yourself of valuable life experience.

True, but parchute jumping is also a valuable life expeirience yet it's not everybody's cup of tea. Same with interacting with people.

> It has nothing to do with books or how smart you are.

That's correct. However you have limited time in a day and people who get more kick out of the ideas than people have to make choices.
People might be interested in gitless [0], which purports to be "a Git-compatible version control system, that is easy to learn and use". It appears to be built on top of git, using a simplified conceptual model.

I read about it in one of Adrian Colyer's "the morning paper" blog posts from 2016, "What’s wrong with Git? A conceptual design analysis" [1], which summarizes the paper that critiques git and describes gitless. (The link to the paper at the beginning of the post no longer works, but a commenter suggested this [2] instead.)

I should point out that I've never used gitless, and I don't know whether it's still maintained, but if nothing else the critique itself is interesting.

[0] https://gitless.com/

[1] https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/10/24/whats-wrong-with-git-a-c...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20131230194321/http://people.csa...
My pain points with git are the detached head states (so puzzling) and basically everything that concern submodules (very brittle.)

Anything about undoing commits, going back to a specific version of the code is less painful but I almost always have to google for it because that are not daily operations and I can't reliably remember them. Maybe that would be easier if I used a GUI instead of the command line. Anyway, a simplified git with only basic functionality and dead simple error messages AND part of the standard git distribution would be very useful. After all git does a lot of things but I'm using only a core 1% of it. Even after 10+ years I reliably know only the basic clone, add, pull, push, checkout, branch, commit, merge, rebase, log, diff commands. I have to google everything else, even how to track a remote branch. It's checkout -b but Gould I also fetch and pull it before? You got the idea.

And it should be about files, directories and branches, the stuff developers reason about.
For an IT crowd I would think other methods would be used to prevent spam/bots, not actively promoting for censoring organic discussions (because a crowd says so).
So now it's gone for all time? Thanks :p

What I've done on reddit for throwaways is use 123123 as password so they can be reused. Not a one has gotten 'hacked' yet over months of use, I'm quite surprised tbh. Maybe I should publish the password on the relevant accounts once I decide to stop using them. Ideally there'd be a time factor before it changes hands to avoid confusion and editing old posts, but I would probably forget (hence the dummy password strategy).

Related: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/my_open_wirel... "It wasn't me officer" (of course IP logs... and not that I'd do anything illegal on reddit anyway no sir)
>Pretty sure I was talking about smallpox, as a general example how mandatory vaccinations helped in the past.

So how is it relevant to this conversation, which isn't about smallpox and where mandatory vaccination won't help?

SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 are both SARS, it's not a coincidence they're named such. The media simply called the first one 'SARS' when there wasn't a second one yet. Then they labeled the new one "coronavirus". You can see even the people reporting on this are confused.
I am making do with free video editing (OpenShot, and then moved to ShotCut), but I guess they are not as refined as Premiere.
Ask HN: Is HN becoming more an existential crisis echo chamber?
I feel like there is more and more posts about existential crisis and anxiety. I don't know if I'm noticing it more because it's resonating with me or are these issues becoming more prominent. I feel like the general sentiment here is atheism and maybe nihilism from people in tech who have more money than they need and now they don't know what to do next. It could be it's just me projecting as well. What I'm asking myself is is it becoming unhealthy for me to come here every day and read about these topics because they could be amplifying my own issues and there isn't really an answer to these questions.
> I get from the structure of your comment you’re trying to imply that “capture the value of those ephemeral capacities directly yourself” is better than “rather than yield them to the capitalist capturing the surplus value of your labor”, presumably because 100% for the former is bigger (and therefore better) than some fraction less than 100% for the latter. The flaw in that analysis is that in entirely ignores the compounding effect of returns that the parent poster mentions,

No, it doesn’t.

Weighing potential compounding of deferred gratification forms of capture when compared to recreational capture against nearly guaranteed degradation in some of the capacities to actually enjoy things and the risk of gambler’s ruin is an issue, sure, which the upthread paean to deferred gratification ignores the latter side of, but “capture for yourself, recreationally or otherwise” includes capture for deferred gratification that doesn’t yield the lion’s share of the value to a remote capitalist via wage labor.
My number one gripe with Twitter is that a link to a tweet is not a simple static HTML page. Instead (guessing here, haven't inspected) you get a page that loads some generic JavaScript, that reads in the URL and extracts that you are, in fact, trying to read a tweet with some ID, and then goes on to load the contents of that tweet by doing an "API request" to fetch its data (probably as JSON), and when the response comes in, finally the tweet's contents are turned into HTML and inserted replacing the dreading spinner gif.

My number two is that it's simply frustrating as late-comer, seeing all the established users talking to each others, while you must try to shout witty replies into the void in hopes that some of them are worthy enough for any of the cool kids to engage.
Something similar happened with Sherlock Holmes, where IIRC the first two volumes of stories fell out of copyright, but the third volume was still copyrighted and using elements introduced there was forbidden.

This is a terrible conceptual mistake on the part of copyright law.
this looks cool, just made a team to workout with my family.

Ate way too much these last few weeks!
> To put it back in the analogy: When you invent a hammer to drive nails, check and see what else it might be good for.

This is exactly what I disagree with - It's generally a bad strategy to look for things to apply crypto/blockchain to in my opinion, we should be looking for problems and defining how we want things to work in the future, and then seeing if crypto is the right technical solution to achieve that. I.e. we shouldn't start with the technology and work back to what problems it could be used to solve - this will end up discounting technical solutions and solutionizing before requirements are understood.

We don't do this for other technologies - for instance it's just as valid that a NoSQL database could solve an issue, however we don't go around looking for problems NoSQL databases could solve.
Well, while doing all these simple normal things you're not exactly improving family financial situation or even entertaining anyone, including the dog. Maybe their idea of normal is not aligned with yours.

Source: family of five plus cat and dog. After trying in line with the advice above for twenty years the results are... underwhelming, to say the least. I feel if more focus was extended to some parts of life, the outcome could have been at least partially more satisfying. That's why I'm calling for better judgement.
I stopped when I eventually empirically learned you all disagreed with me about what we interesting.
I have several smart plugs from TP-Link that I e.g. use to turn on and off the lights in an aquarium. While they work fine in general they sometimes have weird glitches where they turn on the light during the night or don't turn it on during the day, so you come into the room at 4 am and the lights are on, or you wonder why the lights are off at 3 pm. Never found out why they do it and no solution so far. I also have several mechanical plug-in timer switches from Theben, some of which have been working flawlessly for almost 10 years, without any software.

So given my experience with these "smart" plugs and the fact that the particular models I've bought have already been obsoleted after only two years I would be very skeptical about placing more such smart tech into my home. Dumb electronics are less problematic, so if I can have a system that is mostly dumb but has some central interface for automation I'd be fine with that. I would never buy a fully integrated smart home system where each individual component is smart though.
Tell HN: Update copyright year in your website
Just a reminder to update copyright year in your website if it is static
Oh and COVID means COronaVirus Disease. SARS is a coronavirus, both of them are coronaviruses.
Potato potato, as they say. It wouldn't be surprising if there was no link at all between reality and the poll.

Consider as a worse case; there is a political question with a fairly clear reality ("the legislators should legislate the value of exp(1) to be 2.5 to make life easier"). The silent majority ignores the silly poll, and the lunatics who believe this is a good idea all put in a vote because they want to promote their mad cause.

The poll could therefore be biased to be exactly wrong. May as well call it invalid data and save the time thinking about it.
I think most of copyright law is a conceptual mistake seeing as it hardly serves the artists at all.
No.

It was initially hard.

But once I read through the excellent Git Book[1] things became very clear and intuitive.

[1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
In my case, it may be weakness. My life is not that great, and I lack the fortitude to even dress it up and project a better life on social media. There would be benefits to this for sure, like appearing a little bit more normal and ‘out there’, and I think I’ll try to build a passable image over the next two years (I certainly need to get laid, did I mention that? It’s always been sort of about that for me, but it’s not an unhealthy or uncommon justification in society).

It can be a sign of weakness if you are avoiding it entirely because you can’t bother to present yourself, even just a little bit (which I am absolutely guilty of at the moment).

Look, we all need to get laid and look normal to make friends. Now, if you’ve crossed into psychotic territory where you are posturing for status and adulation, then yeah, you are fucked.
While I can resonate with the author's sentiment, his thoughts on the matter seem callow and slim. What he calls 'intellectual loneliness' smells simply of a craving for socializing with like-minded ones. Whether intellectual or not. Our (author, HN demographic) idea of fulfilling discourse might tend to gravitate toward the intellectual, but whether the convo revolves around intellectual or philistine ideas, I think that feeling of loneliness or alienation is shared and common to all unable to engage with like-minded denizens.
What software idea you have that could help the world but don't have the money?
Overwhelmingly, it's the Social Democrat party, not evil capitalists or car manufacturers, who are responsible for aggressively promoting cars and car centric policy and infrastructure in Sweden. This fact will grind the gears of both Swedes and misinformed Americans alike, lol.
Because it's the one all kids know from books and TV. I wouldn't even know where to look for a book with the original illustrations (I mean, if I spent some time searching hard I guess I could, but that's not the point).
If the laser is speed of light it shouldn't be necessary to predict insect positions, unless there are mechanical delays of moving the laser mount.
No, we need the power that git offers us for scaling workflows and contributions to large ecosystems. Software does not get less complex over time, but more complex - and we need a system to handle contributions to a complex system (read: large, distributed, multi-thousand developer/files codebase)!

git is as simple as possible while being as powerful as possible.

What we need is better education! Not only how git works, but also how clean and scaling development workflows work. I've seen too much "Lets just copy the code to the production environment"-workflows in my live already and I do not even have 3 full years of professional experience as a SW dev!
https://www.pekwm.org/

VPS support? Website integrations?! It must be some sort of tongue-in-cheek joke
Then we have to accept we are being misled about how many people did not previously know about HN polls.
And I'm in a 3rd world country making 3rd world salary.

Sure I'd like to get myself into big tech (not necessarily in America). But... I don't even know where to start.
This is not a coding error but partly a configuration error mixed up with poor general routines complemented by bad practice. Also the banking infrastructure doesn’t help.

Instead of fixing these issues this incident will most likely
change regulations in a way that it will be easier for banks to reclaim funds lost in similar ways in the future.

What consequences I can only speculate- but it might very well have severe negative effects.
I just found out this myself and giving it a try. Don't think I will miss the animations :)
When you're learning instead of making something for production, it may be wise to focus on a single platform (whether it be Windows, Linux, or mobile) and start from there.
The give-away that it's all self inflected melodrama is *he's going to the party*. If you want to go, go. If you don't want to go, don't go. If you want to go for a little bit, do that. And if for some reason you need to lie with an excuse versus saying "I've had a wonderful time, I'm going to head home.", then do that too! *But* do not try to speak from this tortured soul, zero agency, prisoner of parties that go on slightly longer than you'd like perspective on the same website that you present yourself as master of your domain. Sheesh.