skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, there are 4 types of locust that are edible according to Kashrut, but my understanding that it's mostly for the environmental reasons - because migrating locusts causing so much damage to agriculture - the Rabbis permitted to eat them (similarly as some vegans are saying that oysters can be eaten since they're sustainable and clean the oceans).

Lately I heard another explanation by Prof. Yigal Bin-Nun[1], that when so called "Judaism" became an organized religion it simply assimilated the previously existing dietary norms and taboos. And the pork wasn't eaten in the entire area even before the first mention of the Israelites. The exception being the Philistines who brought a European pig and wild boar to Canaan. Recently there was a DNA research paper which confirmed that the wild boars in Israel are of European origins, not local ones.

So according to this theory it might be that locusts "whitelisted" by "Judaism" when the Himyarite kingdom was converted, probably because locusts were already consumed before the conversion. Of course it's only my speculation.

The more traditional theory on Kashrut origins:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4493194

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4493915

EDIT: yet another theory is that pork was prohibited b/c swine shares some similarity with human anatomy and thus both species can share common diseases. So it was prohibited to eat in order to prevent epidemics/pandemics. There is some mentions of this in Jewish sources, but it mostly sounds like an afterthought.

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[1] https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%92%D7%90%D7%9C_%D7%9...

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58348355
It is indeed. Could you explain why you’d recommend leaving it out in that case & what you’d recommend instead?

Thanks!
Because it was the best idea someone had in 1950. And humans don't learn, you just wait for the old ones to die and new ones to enter the workforce with new ideas.
The article specifically mentions getting away from alcoholism as one of the major benefits of the work on guix.
Rails + Phoenix dev here who loves both. Elixir is far from having the conciseness of Ruby and Phoenix is super far from having the tooling of Rails (and Rails from having the tooling of Beam and OTP). From my point of view they are two very different beasts, each one being great in its own domain. The similarities are mostly syntactic and superficial.
You'd have to find the bookmark folder first. The bookmark manager is old, crufty and hard to use. The bookmark bar is unusable with the keyboard, only usable with a mouse, and badly. Bookmarks lack metadata such as "added at date" or "added on company laptop".

And don't even get me started about mobile browsers...
If insects were such a valuable and risk free source of nutrition wouldn't we see a lot more human cultures eating them?

They've been around forever, but somehow we share a mostly common disgust for eating bugs. Is it farfetched to assume that perhaps that disgust allowed us to survive.
> I feel like sometimes the US(the CIA or both?) is so clouded by their fear of USSR communism that they blindly ignored and funded extremely dangerous entities.

It changed over time. During the late 40ties, the US was still confused about its position on the USSR - for example, in the occupied West Germany, the US confiscated hundreds of copies of Ukrainian translation of George's Orwel Animal Farm and handed it over to the Soviets to destroy it.
Works also in livemode ;)

Shouting in the Datacenter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
Neh. Computational problem can and are being solved with engineering solutions. Just because a crafty cousin can program something that almost work often enough to build a business on top of it doesn't mean that engineering programs is impossible.

"Programming is a tool to solve problems that you have in the domain of computers"

Again, this is wrong. Computers are tool with well defined set of operational constraints. You use such tool to model problem _outside_ of the domain of computers, and while it's true that programmer primary effort is in understanding the model and writing transformations that produce useful result, that process is a craft only if the practicioneer is an artisan.
I use https://histre.com/, which also has a Hacker News integration.
That 246 includes all deaths directly or indirectly attributed to the storm. Not specifically the power outages.

"In addition to hypothermia, DSHS attributed the storm-related deaths to "exacerbation of pre-existing illness" (10%), motor vehicle accidents (9%), carbon monoxide poisoning (8%), fires (4%) and falls (4%)."
If I buy a widget for $100,000 and sell it of for $105,000 do you expect me to pay income taxes on the $105k or on just my $5k profit?

The former would be absurd and in most cases would make it impossible to be in business-- you'd take a net loss on every transaction unless your markup was greater than your tax rate. Good that went through fewer hands would be astronomically less expensive.

So why do you think that it's weird that a landlord doesn't pay taxes on the portion of his income that goes to the costs of operating the business?
The payback calculation was a direct reply to the concern that VPP use will wear out the battery too fast. The only reason it was done was to show that if VPP would trigger often enough to meaningfully harm the pack, it would also pay you more than enough to replace it.

In practice, VPP will be rare, and thus the payouts will be low. But so will the harm caused to you by participating, assuming you already own a suitable system.
Back in the 90's, more than half of your emails were regularly unsolicited spam. Have you considered that by letting everything through your system will be inundated with messages promising to regrow hair or increase the size of certain appendages?
Founder here - one of the reasons I didn't do the IPO idea was I found this company doing a great job with their newsletter: https://www.renaissancecapital.com/IPO-Center/News
Other people usually means averaging out your vision with theirs which can lead to compromises that in the end make it not worth it. I'd rather make something that I think is perfect that no one else uses than something that started out being super satisfying and cool but ended but being mediocre and useful. The latter is called work and my hobby is not to "work, but more". It is to have fun.
The article was removed from the website after the uproar, 4chan crazies or not. It’s preserved here:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/s...

The author later clarified they were predicting a possible future, “for better or for worse”. They didn’t outright deny they supported that specific idea, though, nor does it directly contradict WEF’s stated goals (although it’s on a much shorter timeline).
I had this feeling for years touring as a musician in an (underrated, in my opinion) indie band. Ultimately I don't think it matters if you love the act of creation and value your own work. A sprinkle of public acclaim is plenty for most egos. It really doesn't need to be the reason you get up and do it.
> If there are multiple routing nodes on the same link, coordination between the routers is required. For this the gnrc_ipv6_auto_subnets implements a simple UDP based synchronisation protocol where each router announces the number of subnets they want to create.

This is one benefit NAT has, you don't need coordination between routers. That's important in various business environments where you could have 2-3 or more levels of routers, each controlled by different entities. With NAT+DHCP you don't worry about how the public subnet can be divided up, each party just NATs and moves on.
Not wanting to pay for tooling is the major culprit.

One can pay for a CRM like Sitecore, AEM, low code like Outsystems, or enjoy the freedom of manually glueing HTML, JavaScript and JSS.
That's really well put, and I think is exactly what strikes me as off about these threads as opposed to what I'm used to on HN. It really seems like these conspiracy theories are way more indulged here than they would in any other thread.

I'm with you, also from Germany and very rarely eat meat (my rule of thumb is that if it's already dead and in front of me, I'm not going to save anyone by throwing it away -- think BBQs and the likes. Or when I visit my grandparents). Also, I'm firm in the camp that everyone can make their own choices, and don't shame anybody for eating meat. I just don't think it's viable going forward and I've made the choice a few years back to limit myself, because to me it seems only logical. Also like you said, it simply shouldn't be subsidized as it is. If someone wants to eat meat badly enough that they're willing to pay large prices -- great. If not, there are numerous protein sources out there that take less toll on the environment.
I've been including it as step one in my work routine for over a year now, it's so much easier to pick work back up the next morning when I can be exactly where I left off the night before
If you're going to lowkey troll, you should at least back up your points.
Yes, mobile Firefox was great until version ~60 something. You could install all the extensions from the store. But now there's like only 18 extensions for mobile.

But there is another way to organize bookmarks like one would expect.

_shameless plug_

You can use Websktop webapp for this. That way you'll have a fully customizable grid of bookmarks. It could look like this:

https://i.ibb.co/5T3pnXH/mobile.png
do you have more info on this? all the sources I've seen online say it's impossible
Comparing all the official Ubuntu remixes for RAM and disk usage
what's the setting called?
A noble move for those willing to dare.
Relevant xkcd? https://xkcd.com/1217/
People singing in the office are my single worst nightmare, as I instantly lose the ability to concentrate on anything meaningful.

Thank God for shy people.
Thanks for writing that up!

I think it doesn’t quite answer what I’m after though.

I’m thinking less about resource discoverability and more about authorization and fetching resources from the database. For example, if the URL doesn’t include the post ID and I need that to check if the user is authorized to post a comment, I’d first need to look up the comment thread to get the post.
India government to set up expert groups to explore adoption of common chargers
It's still 'controversial' and little used in the US:

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/an-emerging-push-for-time-o...

> A new idea is to vary the price of kWhs, making the price higher for residential customers during peak demand, and lower at other times, allowing for more precisely pricing kWhs at what they cost.

> With today's flat per-kWh rates, "customers who use the grid more during peak demand are underpaying for the costs of meeting that demand," Brattle Group Principal Ahmad Faruqui told Utility Dive. "Customers who use the same kWhs during off-peak times pay the same bill and are subsidizing the others. TOU rates can redress that inequity."
Does Betteridge's law of headlines apply here?

> Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
> If you know the whereabouts of those "big whales", feel free to report them here

Nothing happens to the big whales, that is the point. Look up Steve Cohen
I like tensegrity structures as sculptures and engineering exercises, but do cringe when I see attempts to make things like tensegrity footbridges applying these forms too literally.

There have been some neat robots that walk by changing the cable lengths though.
You need a way for vendors to put their own custom data here.

If you don't, then vendors will invent some other weird extension 'just write this magic sequence of bytes anywhere in the drive, and when you read it back it will have changed into the drive statistics encoded as JSON!'.
Personally for me it's missing key feature - selectable, custom sounds (already working in Pushover)
This allows to mentally prepare for situations like production down is much more important than home automation done and I want to instantly distinguish between them, not have heart attack every 1h.

Desktop app would be really nice, even in Pushover there is a lack of ability to get notification on my desktop and dismiss them both on desktop and mobile. Only strange web version with separate notification stream.

Price of myNotifier also seems pretty high vs Pushover, considering it doesn't have more features.
Exactly. This is the most important part people just don't get. Customers are really, really bad at solving their own problems. In my domain, they all come up with a crude and barely functioning variant of excel in a web browser.

Listening to a customer is not some manual variant of a mechanical A/B test. You really need to immerse yourself in their world and peel off all the things they say that gets in the way of the problem. Its a skill of empathy.

I think the real 10x leaps that 'create new markets' don't just conjure up problems out of thin air: they are novel ways of solving a familiar problem. At best, they solve problems for which people have come to accept the lack of a good solution and thus don't articulate as problems anymore.

In the most extreme case, an innovation creates a new problem in the sense that suddenly a desirable alternative for the status quo can be imagined where it couldn't before. To me, that still implies the innovator just deeply listened to the customer and discovered a potential problem others failed to recognize.
> I read it slightly differently, they're saying a law could apply to a British subject overseas.

Perfectly reasonable way to read it, and maybe even how it's intended. I'm just pointing out that because parliament cannot be bound this means that anything and everything can become law.

So pointing out that it could become law by act of parliament to apply to British subjects
anywhere doesn't mean much, because anything could be, British subjects involved or not.

This is as opposed to e.g. the US, where ordinary laws are actually bound by a constitution.

For the question of "is it British land" this is just "well, what is a country?", and comes down to "is it recognized as such by other nations?".

But nobody cares, so this will probably never be settled, and more likely end is that it falls apart by natural forces before it's settled in law. It's just not worth bothering parliament with this.

Unless the "sovereign" state of Sealand decides to lease out some of its land to the Russian military. Very quickly this will be settled, in the UK's favour. Settled legally? Well… by whose law?

> the judge didn't feel that Sealand counted as British land or a British Shop and that the law didn't apply to British subjects overseas so in this case the crime was outside the scope of the law.

Right. As written it seems that the law did not apply.
Unsure if your own comment is sarcastic, but GP's quote is from Drax in Guardians of the Galaxy.
social media is such a trap. It makes you feel like you're getting praise or criticism, but you're not getting either because it's just a way for your critics and followers to showcase their own egos. It eviscerates the actual work.
I’m building Scriffer.com as a platform to save all your thoughts on internet content. You can highlight and share pages and they’re all saved for later.

I’m thinking of adding user profiles to be able to follow people and see what they’re reading and noting too.

I’m not sure if it’s entirely a spiritual successor as I’m too young to have used del.icio.us sadly.
Embracer enters into agreement to acquire The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit IP
Google doesn't want you to use and organize bookmarks in Chrome simply because they are the biggest ads and search engine company, so they will earn more money if you search more instead of relying on your bookmarked library.
How to make app stores friendly to Open Source – Voices of Open Source
Moral: Computers are hard
Author of the article here:

All I ever get from beginners are questions about the "best tool" by which they usually mean "a set of rules and procedures so that I don't have to think about the problem".

> The person is trying to ask the question in a way which suggests that he or she does know how to solve the problem in ways that are not so great, and is just looking for a better way.

It's pretty much always the exact opposite since they rarely understand the problem that they are trying to solve to begin with. And that's the issue! They want a "tool" to just do it for them, even if that tool is not even appropriate for the task at hand. And the questions asked are usually in the form of an XY problem: "how can I use X to do Y?". You might be able to bodge the tool X until problem Y is solved but that doesn't even mean it is appropriate to begin with.

For example: I get a lot of questions at the moment about Entity Component Systems (ECS) and asking what is the best way to make one (or which to use) because they want to make a game. But their games don't even require one in the first place since they have such a low number of entities and components that an ECS would probably be detrimental to them in the first place (performance and productively). But to clarify, if the individual wants to just learn about the topic rather than apply it, then I usually recommend them to learn about relational databases first and how they are implemented.

Many people want to use a tool because they've heard someone else (usually a semi-famous programmer or a big company) using it and then following it in a "flash fad" rather than asking whether or not it is even appropriate to use. I will state that this perfectly _rational_ to do by the way since you are trying to outsource wisdom to others that appear to have it. However, programming as a profession is a best 70 years old, and as a result there has been not been enough time for evolutionary selection pressure to reveal the wisdom, so many people (especially beginners0 are effectively walking around following whatever the latest Fad is hoping for wisdom and a set of rules to follow.

> People in this type of field sometimes have a hard time admitting they don't know how to do something. Particularly if they are not such beginners and have a track record of solving problems on their own, which has become part of their self-image.

Humility is a virtue but also a very difficult one possess. For beginners reading: don't be afraid to make mistakes and look foolish. It is a heck of a lot better to look ignorant but honest than to look ignorant but arrogant.

I highly recommend reading the previous article to this one posted (Pragmatism in Programming Proverbs) to get a better understanding of what I am expressing, since "The Essence of Programming" is a sequel to that article.
EDIT - formatting poetry for Hacker News is tough...

- Humility -

Humility is not letting someone win

or pretending not to care when you lose.

It is not feigned ignorance or polite dishonesty.

Humility is not a trick to gain approval,

nor is it an abdication of your pride.

---

Humility is a stand taken to the end

with passion; an opinion that you choose

and live by with conviction and integrity,

but if shown to be in error in part or full,

and that the truth not be on your side...

---

you change your mind.

---

And furthermore you admit it publicly

and you learn from it internally.

Never let passion to stand up for truth fade.

Don't let desire for becoming right be outweighed

by undeserved pride.

---

Sincere pride,

real humility,

true integrity;

they are one and the same.

---

The true integrity is tough and admits its errors

Value your sincerity enough to live your values

Only then is real pride obtained

or the admiration of anyone,

whose opinion is worth a damn,

gained.
Kashrut doesn't says that one need to cook meat, the only exception is being liver, which requires special preparation.

So beef carpaccio, or steak tartar are perfectly Kosher. Exception are Ethiopian Jews who traditionally don't eat popular Ethiopian raw meat dishes.

IMO if something can't be eaten raw - it's best to be avoided in any form.
Completely beside the point, on both counts.
What angers me on Windows world is how the WinDev team routinely sabotages VB and C# efforts to be back to those productive flow in graphics programming on the platform.

Managed Direct X, XNA, all killed when their advocates gave up fighting for them.

Nowadays they proudly refer to Unity when one complains about missing .NET bindings to DirectX.
How would this work as a vaccine? I understand there are antibody therapeutics which inject specific antibodies into your system to help fight off COVID, but do those antibodies last and reproduce? Something else?
A thousand times this. Especially around people who are trying to work / concentrate.
That is driven by consumer demand though.
For the most part and in most countries, including wealthy ones, people born after 1980 don't really expect to have the luxury of being able to retire at all.
A phone we were developing could be made crash by taking a photo of it with a Xenon flash camera
"...But without Guix I would still be a confused alcoholic with daddy issues crashing on someones couch...."
You really think Apple would say "no" if Samsung or Google said they want to connect their devices to the Find My network? They'd give the keys in a heartbeat.

But neither G nor S is willing to provide extra coverage for Apple nor do they want their phones connecting to a system they can't datamine.
One deterrent is simply that sending email is not free, you pay about a cent per email (this is the blockchain fee and not imposed by us)

Second, we will have a allow/denylist that will ensure you only get mail from people and companies you want. This is enforced at the blockchain level and impossible to bypass
Or control how loud, when and for how long you sing. Some people have trouble sleeping/working with noise and/or have different schedules than you.

For me it's always a godsend to find a quiet place, if the source of noise (no matter how objectively beautiful) is not under my control I can get sleep deprived within days. Yes I have earplugs and noise isolation cans but they cause ear issues long term.
> It turns out that the song contained one of the natural resonant frequencies for the model of 5400 rpm laptop hard drives that they and other manufacturers used.

> The manufacturer worked around the problem by adding a custom filter in the audio pipeline that detected and removed the offending frequencies during audio playback.

Does this mean that every machine with a hdd has the same problem? Is it just about finding the right song or do engineers include some kind of dampeners to prevent this?
Specifically Rhythm Nation.

You might be wondering "does it really matter which Janet Jackson song it is? Is that relevant to HN, or even the CVE?".

...

You're welcome.
It's easier to manage four people than one
Just get yourself an Android device and install the app on it:

https://m.apkpure.com/here-one/com.dopplerlabs.hereone

Run it through VirusTotal if you're in sight about the APK's provenance,

Don't let this type of planned obsolescence rule your access to your devices. That is, assuming the app works without some sort of cloudy backing - but then I guess it should of it was to be used in places where network access can be spared or non-existent?
Using Pushover for this and fairly happy. What sets this apart?
Reminds me of this https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/my-hardest-bug-eve...
Back in the day `aws ec2 get-console-output --instance-id $ID` used to contain the public key that can be extracted using regex. Not sure if this still works.