skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started with CVS in HS on a couple SourceForge projects, but skipped svn for the same reasons I used CVS sparingly: setting up servers was too much effort, (especially for non-open source stuff), especially on Windows. Instead of svn I fell hard in love for darcs in college (after the usual college tale of losing source files the day before a project was due in a stupid unix tool mishap with a command line that was one letter off from what it should have been).

Watching hg and git grow up and compete as a darcs user was fascinating. Neither hg nor git had the elegance of the darcs UI (and arguably never will due to disparities in the underlying distributed code model), but it was clear from very early on that both hg and git were beating darcs on performance for large, active repositories. (Which was never a problem for a college student working on teams of maybe 1 to 3, but obviously a hard recommendation for the real world.) I experimented some with hg at the time because it had good Windows support, but had no reason to switch from darcs in college.

My first couple of jobs after college had me spending a lot of time in TFVC, and that eventually that lead to a much greater appreciation of git (and pushing teams to migrate from TFVC to git), and by that point TFS had already starting supporting git side-by-side TFVC, though ironically those same teams pushed hard for GitHub Enterprise. (Which does seem to underscore that git and GitHub really were so co-beneficial.)

By that point a lot of what hg had done right the git team was starting to pick up. At the very least, we should remember hg for pushing git to be better.

(As one example, someone else pointed to `git stash` as something that they didn't think hg had, but as I recall `mercurial queues` [MQ] was one of the earliest hg plugins, and MQ influenced the designs of both `git rebase` and `git stash`, and MQ itself was mostly deprecated by `hg rebase` and `hg shelve` which learned a lot from MQ.)
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Or with Mr. Right
Frankly, yes. To paraphrase from a meme - the biker in black has to be lucky every time. A car only has to be unlucky once.

In a vehicle-bicycle/pedestrian incident at the posted speed limit, no matter who is at fault, it's the bicyclist/pedestrian who will be dead. If someone wants to be alive, as well as correct, they'd do well to make themselves as visible as possible.

But that's too practical a view to hold here on HN, I realize that.

EDIT - I just realized this is likely in response to 'their fault' in my original message. I stand by it though. Riding a bike at night on an unlit 50mph rural road with no reflectors while wearing black is, as the GP said, suicide by car.
And how frequently do power outages of this length happen in a given city? Considering none of the other gas stations had infrastructure in place to handle this event, I would assume it's the first time in decades, or ever.
For finetuning GPT-2 on custom text, my gpt-2-simple package (https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple) gets close to going OOM when finetuning the 345M model, even on a 16GB VRAM server GPU. Doubling the size of the model with the 774M model might cause it to not work at all, so I’ll need to test.

Of course, the default output from the model might be sufficient, although it’ll take twice as long to generate text compared to the 345M which is slow even on a GPU.

How exactly the large GPT-2 models are deployed is a mystery I really wish was open-sourced more.
While I'm not a fan of WeWork, it's not just newbs.

They've been useful to allow established companies to expand and "open an office" in a given city with a handful of employees without the time, expensive, and effort of a long term lease. My company has done it at least twice for a year+ before they grew it into a full office.
To be fair, I think it’s important not to conflate underperforming “generalists” (e.g. not a generalist at all, just someone who is equally unskilled in everything) and a true generalist, that is, someone who is a journeyman in every relevant field.

Regarding not reading the docs - I think good generalists are as likely to read the docs as a specialist. Reading the docs is a shallow form of learning that most generalists would surely utilize - on the other hand, a specialist’s knowledge in a given field runs much deeper (they consume talks and research, draw from years of their own observations in that field, have a network of people who are also specialists in that field).

On the utility of generalists vs specialists in a setting like the one you describe, I think it’s extremely important to have both at your company.
Here are a few

>Objectively measured physical activity may not be the key determinant of unhealthy weight gain in children.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3044163/

>Prospective studies, however, find little evidence of the more physically active members of a population gaining less excess weight than those who are the least physically active.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21832897?dopt=Abstract

>TEE adjusted for weight and age or PAL did not differ significantly between developing and industrialized countries, which calls into question the role of energy expenditure in the cause of obesity at the population level.

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/93/2/427/4597724
It provides value to people.
Everything related to people is so much easier when you avoid taking anything personally. It’s almost never meant that way. When it is, you’re still better off not taking it that way. Someone was rude to you? So what? Just keep going.

(Obviously, this doesn’t apply to things like targeted harassment. I’m talking about normal work discussions with troublesome replies.)

Obviously, this is hard to actually do. But it’s good to try, and management should definitely do this, especially with their subordinates.
Here is a dirty GDPR secret: HDFS is an append-only filesystem. It's way too hard to delete things in big data projects, so they get disconnected instead.
> It's a common social technique among adults with authority to frame requests as a question-- "Could you please....?" or "Would you like to....?". This is gentler and shows a degree of deference and courtesy from the person with authority to the other person.

Does it really? While the first version is clearly a request, I would interpret the second case not as deference or courtesy but as an attempt to emphasize the power one holds over the other person. "Rather than just telling you what I want you to do, I'm just going to hint at what I want and expect you to lie about your own preferences to keep me happy." If you intend to show deference and courtesy, don't ask whether someone would like to do something unless you're genuinely interested in an honest answer.

For those on the receiving side, I would suggest not answering the question at all. Consider it rhetorical. Instead, just say you will do it and ask where it fits in the current list of priorities, or else explain why you can't reasonably take on that task.
If we're talking outside the western world, things have changed far more dramatically. Across the developing world, hundreds of millions of people have risen out of abject poverty. My wife grew up in China, in a house her father built from a pile of bricks provided by his employer. She helped make their floor tiles, and this was in an industrial city. China's a different world now, and while they are the poster child, this trend isn't isolated to them. The chart linked below is astounding.

https://rwer.wordpress.com/2018/04/22/global-income-distribu...
I consider the communications infrastructure to be extremely fragile and prone to collapse. It already collapses under load easily, and while it can make through a short blackout, a solar storm/flare would take it out for a long time.

Yes, amateur radio makes a lot of sense.
There are a bunch of packages exploring ideas around labelled dimensions, although we are still far from the vision of caring as little as we do about registers:

* https://github.com/JuliaArrays/AxisArrays.jl
* https://github.com/davidavdav/NamedArrays.jl
* https://github.com/invenia/NamedDims.jl
* https://github.com/rafaqz/DimensionalData.jl
* https://github.com/ITensor/ITensors.jl

While these don't pass dimension labels along in the type, there are also a number of Einsum-like packages which should work on any storage order, and could be taught to interface with such types:

* https://github.com/Jutho/TensorOperations.jl
* https://github.com/under-Peter/OMEinsum.jl
* https://github.com/mcabbott/TensorCast.jl
I don't think it's more. I'd happily argue 80% of people keep to themselves 80% of the time, but those 20% gaps are highly visible in contrast.

But to the point: What's the socialite's internal monologue while being all chatty? What's the overlap between what they think is happening (e.g. what the script is, what the norms are) and what third parties would see?

I see social people who obviously feel connected to the group, but how much of that is just eating up their own internal version of what they see happening while ignoring the smell of any mentally suppressed interactions?
One technical person could make this work for everyone else.

I have a few pieces of hardware right now that are "broken" because the companies that made them went of business. These products have millions of owners. With the source code and encryption keys I could personally make this hardware work for those users indefinitely. And there are hundreds (if not thousands) of users just like me.
I just recently stopped using Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp. Taking everyone close to me to Signal.
Color me not convinced. They have a lot of leases. It’s top of market and they’re still subsidizing their customers. Won’t actually have leverage against a host of major real estate debtors. Nor will it be easy for them to sign newer leases again when that recession ends. And “we’ll just default” is a terrible story to tell during the road show.
There's alternators all over the place though. "Just" need to figure out how to get one turning.
Kubernetes Logs and Services: Beware These Pitfalls
While limited today, there are a bunch of applications in beta testing that leverage the key. I personally have a small keychain usb-c to A adapter that I use with my Yubikey Neo. I guess all in they decided a Lightning and USB A option wasn't as smart given most mobile devices are Lightning or USBC moving forward.
>You don't accidentally exceed your bandwidth and suddenly have to pay out the nose because some application wasn't behaving like you expected.

Just think of all the crypto mining out there for example, imagine how many people could accidentally allow crypto mining software to be installed and all of that data being transferred for half a month and then BAM big bill.

Or someone makes malware that just transfers junk data purely to rack up data charges for kicks, or worse someone at an ISP does it to boost earnings or because they hate their employer and want them to eventually get 'caught doing it'.
real reason for this is that the current advertising trend is "POI targeting".

google and other advertising companies (sometimes owned by telco, such as verizon-aol) allow clients to target users if they are near a starbucks or whatever.

this data now has a price in the market. my bet is that it had zero concern for users as the real motive.
I live in a rural area that is getting creeping suburbia (hence the cable). The phone lines/DSL, sadly, are out about as often as the power, and slower to get fixed. Power at the CO doesn't matter if the line maintenance isn't up to snuff.
> Out of curiosity what phone do you use now?

Pixel 3a

> And how do you feel about that ecosystem in terms of malware, tracking, advertising etc?

Out-of-sight, out-of-mind honestly. I like having all my media and everything in common formats I can download and move around as I wish. I have no loyalty to android and could easily switch to the next best thing that comes along.

I lost a lot of music and videos when I switched to Android though because Apple makes it really hard to decouple the media you own from their ecosystem (iTunes at the time).
What are the best ways to come up with startup ideas?
Being on the spectrum myself that is a level of not thinking social things through that I hope I am well above and beyond of. Socializing a chore for me even though I am a philantropist, but if there is a conflict of information I am not shy about pointing it out immediately, or, at worst. in a follow-up email. That individual was just not thinking it through that information can be incomplete, and it helps kinda quickly dumping some mildly conflicting information from several stack frames deep, even if it can be awkward briefly. If this was not a singular occurrence I can understand why he was fired: He was not up for the job or not taking it seriously enough.
It is very different than the classical statistical model. I can create quantum gates that manipulate all the superimposed qbits; There is nothing like this in the classical model where you can only manipulate a single probability.
* Not Hotdog

* Seefood
Nothing such as absolute trust. It has to be a relative comparison. For me it is Apple, Google, Facebook in that order.
It seems that hackerspaces would be the perfect place for retirees and younger folks to mix. The older people tend to have more mechanical skills through life experience, and can help the younger ones learn to make things (wood / metal working, general building techniques, etc).

Personally, I'm at least 15 years from retirement, and one of my plans is to hang out at either hackerspaces, libraries, or other areas like that.
>> I wonder if these people were always fired, or has something in the business changed that made immoderate instances of these traits a liability?

This is pretty much spot on. People want the upside of someone who is on the spectrum disorder but suddenly can't handle the downside of it. A person is more than their upside.
It's still better than not borrowing, isn't it?
> Soundex coding on driver's license numbers might enable bouncers to quickly suss out sloppy fakes

Wouldn't corrupt bouncers likely be a good source of 3rd-party QC consultants for those in the fake ID industry?

seems like this would get out pretty quickly. might stop home fakes, but that's about it..
All it takes is for a religious hardliner to reinterpret the decrees and the Quran for a more restrictive outcome again, right? Usually a literal reading?
This doesn't answer my question of whether the orbiter will remain in its highly elliptical orbit or not.
Yes -- good on them changing, and bravo to them for calling it out and saying why. In my opinion they put a lot of effort into making this post, and it shows.
If you're interested in the intersection between Lyme disease and investigations into it being a bioweapons program gone wrong there's a recent book on the subject.

<https://www.amazon.com/Bitten-History-Disease-Biological-Wea...

I haven't read it, but I heard an interview with the author and the book sounds well researched. It doesn't reach a definitive conclusion that Lyme came from a bioweapons program gone wrong, but it does talk about other bioweapons programs similar to Lyme.
I totally agree. You still need to get the fuel to space regardless of who is doing the propulsion work. Let's say that your tug is already on-orbit, how is the fuel going to be brought up? Would you not need to launch another spacecraft to bring you the fuel? How much would that spacecraft weigh?

Besides this, they would have to develop on-orbit refueling technology, as well as force the other spacecraft to use a bus that allows for rendez-vous and docking/proximity ops.

And also, how big is the market for satellite startups that are heading to GEO orbit? For now, it seems like it is just Astranis and GapSat.
David Sinclair mentions a CRISPR tech to kill ticks here: https://youtu.be/o9Fg-usoBHc?t=410
I do the same. I live within 200 feet of trailheads and hike all the time. I watch for areas of trails with overhanging plants, and avoid touching them as I walk by.

I have also started treating my hiking boots, hiking pants, and shirt with Premethrin. If you are careful, getting Premethrin into the general environment can be avoided.
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Just be careful that if you define an alias that shadows a built-in command, your alias will be (silently?) ignored. Mostly a problem if a future version of git adds a command and clobbers an alias that used to work.
It‘s the normal people that need treatment, not the abnormal ones.
As long as everyone agrees on the correct answer for Kirk vs Picard
Seeing more of this liberalizations lately, what major gender-rights issues do the Saudis have left to tackle?
You're at stage "bargaining", they're already somewhere between "depression" and "acceptance" - that's all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model
> lots of amateur content.

this presumes that mass media doesn't have any bearing on the culture it broadcasts to, when in fact, it is a two-way street.. and also that this is a representative sample size.
It’s also fun to play these word games. One person’s “so rude!” can be another person’s “haha what a hilarious intentional misunderstanding.”

Just another reason never to assume the worst and always ask for clarification if you don’t understand.
In principle, yes. But each and every Minister of Finance welcomes inflation as it increases budget revenues faster then expenses. And with increased revenues you can buy a lot of votes.
A hacker space is simply a community center with more tooling. While I think the word “inclusion” is overloaded today, I think there’s great value in community building. “Make Libraries Great Again” sort of thing. Build a space where people with shared interests can come together, and those without connections and interests can be introduced to them. Time and time again, research is showing that human connection is what keeps us happy and helps us live longer, healthier lives. Optimize for human connection, self actualization, fulfillment, and purpose.

Why this idea is not a first class citizen in the first world is beyond me.
The town where my parents live had a three week (!) telecommunications outage after an exchange caught fire, including a couple of days where the banks didn't have connectivity and had to go back to ledgers and implement a withdrawal cap.

Apparently the company running the backbone, Telstra, would usually bring in backup exchanges with a satellite connection on the back of a truck, but didn't have any available at the time.
As others have mentioned before, one possible reason could be performance, git commands work near instantaneously even for very large repos, perhaps mercurial was not able to offer a similar experience.
Those were obviously just examples demonstrating that his comparison was absurd. Do you really agree with him that remote work is as bad as prisons that only allow virtual visitation?
> I guess they will answer soon

You're way too optimistic.
One thing that I was very impressed with was how well the cellphone network dealt with the outage, for at least 24 hours all the base stations worked, after that point they slowly dropped out one by one as their batteries ran dry.

As decedents of an industry that was paranoid enough to generate power for their own equipment, its nice to see some of the cell phone companies take power seriously. It would be nicer if they could last a bit longer.
These convey different things, though.

"Bob, do X by Friday" works-- it implies a task is assigned with no expectation of discussion. This is sometimes necessary with children-- though even this is often improved by softening it a little-- "Bobby, I expect your homework to be done by the time I'm home."

"Bob, could you please do X by Friday?" is better, IMO. We'll assume Bob is a valued subordinate. It opens the door for him to say "But, ...." and provide input in a way that "Bob, do X by Friday" doesn't. There's an implicit contract, though-- an answer of just "No!" is not really expected.

"Bob, would you like to do X?" is yet softer. Input is expected! Refusal is explicitly contemplated and even considered reasonably likely. But again, an answer of just "No!" is not really socially acceptable.
I've got a 1.2 GB repository and it's pretty fast for that once you set Watchman up to cache tree changes. It's dog slow without that little added step though, mostly because there are a ton of small files.
And Dreamhost predates AWS by a full 10 years.
Good news, in the latest git release checkout has two new friends that split checkout's functionality: switch and restore. Plus, they have much friendlier flags for knowing if they are affecting the index, the working tree, or both.
Another casualty of the expanding Github empire.
I am not commenting on you directly, but, in general, I find the kind of control that the Google parental control app gives to be excessive. It makes talking unnecessary and gives a direct window to a personal dimension of the kid. You really have a total power over the kids phone and activity.
I get the reasons to install this on the phone of a child, but at the same time I'm afraid that it might be too much and that it might give to the kids the sensation of being watched by the parent all the time. Respecting their spaces, having their own dimensions that is out of the eye of the parent is also important, in my opinion.
I'm on my 2nd week back on-site after being remote for nearly 2 years, it's been a tough transition. On-top of getting what feels like a large pay-cut (1 hour commute, car maintenance/fuel, etc) and having to deal with a cramped cubicle in a noisy area, I feel that my family life is also suffering. My office hours end later than I like (5pm) and with my commute I am home just in time for dinner and to put my young kids to bed. I feel awful burdening my Wife with ALL Doctor appointments, getting kids off to school, making dinner, picking them up from daycare all while having a full-time job. We've discussed moving but that would improve my situation at the cost of the rest of my family (switching schools, further from family, etc).

Why did we end up coming back on-site? My manager (who works in Finance!?) couldn't explain to the higher-ups what we have been up to (very non-technical person) and they decided we were too disconnected from the rest of the company. Never even had a chance to plead our case or discuss alternative options... not sure how much longer I will be here.
To the moon and back! :-)
Or try AOSP, while imperfect its closer to GNU.
And this attitude is what sticks many people in a corner somewhere wondering why less technical people get ahead.

There are social norms that can be learned and studied by most people just like anything else.

Understanding norms helps professionally and personally.
And just look at that lovely, friendly new shade of blue! There's no way a company using that color can mean any harm!
Anyone ever had a company forum? Like Discourse or similar? That seems like a better format. Chat + forum.