skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sierre-Zinal and Pikes Peak are strictly not even ultras, as they are not long enough. Not to take anything away from them, they are both really good races.

I'm not sure that I'd agree that most serious ultra runners are doing one or both of these two. UTMB is next week, and most of the trail world elite will be there. They will all be tapering right now!

Also, Comrades is a road race, and these are very different form the trail ultras - a lot flatter for starters.

I wouldn't be surprised if we get a female outright UTMB winner in the next 10 years - hopefully 5.
I made the mistake of starting to read this in bed last night and got totally engrossed. Looking forward to finishing it off over the next few days. Many thanks for writing this and sharing it.
Serverless is purely a cloud marketing term for the next rendition of a web CGI like solution we all used to do to make any programming language run behind a web server, e.g. C, Python, and so on.

You can trigger it by other means, such as if a file is added to a cloud based file storage (think Azure Blob Storage, not Google Drive, though it wouldn't surprise me if that's a hook too) or something happens in your cloud based database. Or old school: someone visits a URL.

The whole web aspect of serverless is just the most popular.
> Git will let you blow away a month's work if you mistype a command.

Fortunately, that can always be undone with another command
The dive computer support lives in libdivecomputer
Google contributes to Mercurial as well.
I use transferwise' borderless account, I believe their fee varies, but I am sure I used TW to transfer less than $10K to EUR for a fee of 0.38%. It now says[0] it's $4.48 to convert 1000$. Changing $1000 to HUF has $4.98 in fees.
Both were lower a couple months ago.

Revolut will also allow you to move 5K GBP per month without any fees[1].

[0] https://transferwise.com/gb/borderless/pricing#conversion_fe...
[1] https://www.revolut.com/legal/fees/#exchange
Regardless, I'm still not going to live in a collectivist dictatorship.
I think it might be because most everyone here understands that human sexual dimorphism is a thing, and it's unrelated to personal politics. If you need evidence, check literally every single track and field record on the books. Show a counter example, and people here might be more willing to entertain your snark.
> Git will let you blow away a month's work if you mistype a command.

It's sad to hear someone say that, presumably you've been bitten by it.

What you describe is not true. While it's easy to blow away work you haven't committed, every commit you've made in the past month is saved in the reflog. Going back to any one of them is as easy as finding it and typing git reset --hard.

Erasing something from the reflog is hard. Possible, but it's not going to happen by mistyping a command or two.

Makes me sad because of course I agree the git UI is terrible, and I don't blame any user for not being able to figure it out. Although Googling "how do I recover lost git commit" does pull up useful results.
I will be affected. I think I will take a serious look at sourcehut[1] now. I get a good vibe, but the bus factor scared me away before.

[1] https://hg.sr.ht/
Out of curiosity, is there a legal way to go after people that do these? e.g., File a police report?
What Do Rally Playlists Say About the Candidates?
You seem to be mixing up a factual claim with what is almost a religious one.

Banning stuff does in fact work. The Consumer Products Safety Commission has banned all sorts of stuff: https://www.cpsc.gov/Regulations-Laws--Standards/Regulations...

Despite that, Mexican cartels aren't selling shoddy cribs and high chairs on the streetcorner.

Automotive regulators have banned a wide variety of unsafe things as well, but people aren't sneakily removing their dashboard padding and the like.

It's true that banning some things doesn't work, and I'm generally against drug prohibitions. But I think banning Juul will probably work just fine, because we aren't banning the substance entirely, just a delivery mechanism.
It was the reward for building the railroad in the first place.
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Maybe it's best to wait until after we've hammered away at the problem on warehouses of human-scale hardware for 50 years before calling it inscrutable? The paper that put neural networks on GPUs is ten years old. I get that the problem looks hard, but so do lots of things.
"Tackling this problem" means killing off 4 billion or so people. You decide who and when. I'll wait.
It's not just rubygems that has this issue, it's all the other repos too, most of which (AFAIK) don't enforce 2FA

Also worth noting that whilst MFA helps, it's not a panacea as MFA isn't generally compatible with automated CI/CD processes, so API keys will still be required, and can be leaked/lost/stolen.
Yes, I had one of those Toshiba 3100, they were more properly "transportable" or "luggable only", as they had no battery.

And notwithstanding that, they anyway weighted some 5 ot 6 Kg (but they were tough and had a "proper" keyboard).

It is not clear if the Grid Compass was EL or plasma, here:
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=900
they talk of amber plasma and surely the photo here:

https://history-computer.com/ModernComputer/Personal/Grid.ht...

https://history-computer.com/ModernComputer/Personal/images/...

looks a lot like amber plasma (as the Toshiba 3100 and other "portables" of around that time).
I'm reminded of that article I read on HN a few months ago about how "you're not Google/Amazon/Facebook" and you probably shouldn't base your technical choices on what these companies are doing because chances are that you have a massively different usage profile and very different priorities. Still, everybody wants to be like the big guys (dress for the job you want, not the one you have) so you still often seen small-ish websites using a ridiculously overpowered and over-architectured backend.

I think there's a bit of that in Git vs. Mercurial. Git was built specifically for the Linux kernel and it shows. Most of its quicks and features make sense in that context. But the thing is, the overwhelming majority of projects out there are not anywhere similar to the kernel. They have fewer contributors, there are generally much more centralized, they don't use 90's style mailing lists, they don't deal with dozens of millions of lines of code etc...

I think for that "silent majority" of projects Mercurial was a much better choice indeed. It's simpler, for a long time it was much better documented, it was also easier to migrate from SVN and other centralized version control systems. But Git was cooler, it's what the kernel used, and if it's good enough for the kernel then it's good enough for me!

That being said at this point it's clear that Git has won. I've been slowly migrating my (active) projects to Git over the past couple of years. I'll have to use Git one way or the other anyway, I might as well try to uniformize my workflow. RIP Mercurial, you deserved better.
You're literally commenting on a counter example.
Stellarium [1] is pretty amazing for looking at stars and planets, and their motion.

[1] https://stellarium.org/
Persuasive Cartography: An Interview with Map Collector PJ Mode
And on top of that, inter-government cooperation to tackle a global problem. Like we had to address CFCs pollution. With the political will to sanction countries that deny the evidence and won't play ball.
Well you might if Congress was overhauled but most of them get re-elected without term limits. People often mistake the President for some kind of autocrat who can make arbitrary decisions when the real power is in the legislature.
I did say it was interesting! Safe, not so much.

To be fair, I think he basically fired it up when he got to the interstate, manually set the throttle to the speed he wanted to cruise at then turned it off again before coming off the interstate.
Btw, I just extended 3geonames.org - another open location code system - to support elevation, something no other system does. (eg. https://3geonames.org/RIGA-FRIDAY-OKEG )

(3geonames codes are made up of 3 place names and show a semantic likeliness when spatially close - an “anti-feature” of what3words, for example)

The slides for a recent talk at Perlcon 2019 announcing the system are here: https://3geonames.org/riga.html
Also I will never forget glorified.bodily.passage and pigs.pigs.pigs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11896883

But don't confuse glorified.bodily.passage https://map.what3words.com/glorified.bodily.passage with glorifies.bodily.passage https://map.what3words.com/glorifies.bodily.passage, which is in a totally different part of the world.
The word Encarta brings back many nostalgic memories of me. Back in my childhood, I found a folder of Encarta's files, where all the videos used in articles was located. That folder contains thousands of videos. I edit those videos using Windows Movie Maker, add some music and add titles and credits. Then I will show my creation to my friends and guests come to my house. When they praise, I feel myself like a big movie editor.
Performance is not the reason GitHub chose git over mercurial. They chose git because their core developers understand internal architecture of git better. They were more proficient in Ruby and C than Python, so git was a natural choice for GitHub.

Python language used mercurial for quite sometime to manage all it's repository, they moved to GitHub not for performance but for inertia of mass adoption, knowing very well that git has inferior user interface and they need to rely on GitHub to make it work for them. Facebook, Unity engine still use mercurial.
Unless the attacker had very poor OpSec, it would be hard to track them down, even assuming the relevant police force had the skills/manpower to do so.

Then you get the delight of likely jurisdictional issues, if it turns out the attacker is not a resident of the same country as the victim that reported it.
No, a lot of it was just outright treaties and contracts that were then later ignored.

And there is/was legal theories of war, which weren't applied to the "savages" back then.
I just quoted the 100m and the 50K records but feel free to compare all distance records for men and women: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_records_in_athle...
This is approximately what the Moscow Times said

I Don’t Believe a Missile Is to Blame for Russia’s Deadly 'Nuclear' Explosion. The basic laws of physics mean there is no such thing as a nuclear-powered missile.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/08/14/i-dont-believe-a-m...

Which is confusing.

Most non NPC's would have guessed it was just a satellite with nuclear power. Second would be something really simple nuclear near by or on board.

But is Russian really trying to fool us into thinking it's a missile? Given even the Moscow Times is onto them and willing to publish what's the game plan?

They couldn't have known it'd blow up, so pre-planning was not possible.

If it is their game plan, it's worked 100% though, the media in the west is fully playing along with Russia it seems. The media seems to be unable to work towards what it really was at all.

It's hard to even see in the media if they launch space satellites from that location? Do you test rockets with a working satellites? Why isn't there a list of possibilities from the type of radiation? If it was a nuclear powered missile how does it land? Does it spew out radiation so it find-able anyway?

I guess cheap clicks regurgitating the Russians line and the Americans who's internal funding relies on Russian threats are the most cost effective.

But this should be solvable through open information and a little logic.
Partially the same for Scala. They build the (currently) 185 most used open source projects. Very important since they just did a major overhaul of the stdlib and are working on a major overhaul of the compiler (Scala 3.x/Dotty)
This is correct. The readers should not be the ones paying for this, it should be the publishers who use the platform.
Since the large majority of all humans will still be alive in twenty years the climate will still be ruined even if no more children were born starting today.
Read that again - I didn't say a single outcome in a single race, I said records.
> Scientists have been giving confidence intervals and no one really paid attention to the wurst case scenario

The problem is, we've passed the worst case scenario scientists came up with in some areas:

Greenland's ice is melting at the rate scientists thought would be our worst-case scenario in 2070 https://www.businessinsider.com/greenland-ice-melting-is-207...
Following closely on from Webmin's compromised CI/CD pipeline, this is another instance of the growing problem of supply chain attacks.

With the software supply chain being as complex as it is, and the large number of moving parts, we're only going to see more of these ...
In running, female only trophies follow the same philosophy as age group trophies. Overall winner is reserved for whoever crosses the line first. Then there are M/F age groups for older runners (5y wide age groups most often starting at 30), and "female overall winner".

Having male only trophies is most often redundant because 99% of overall winners are male. That's just life. From time to time, an high/elite level female runner shows up when there are no elite male runner and she takes the overall winner. And that only happens in niche races (niche being every race longer than a marathon and some smaller city races). Ultras are also more likely to have DNFs (did not finish).

There's yet to be a popular race (6 majors, olympics, world championship, even regular "city marathons" etc.) where there's an overall female winner, because both m/f elites show up and men win by a huge margin.
I thought this would be another rant, but this post was actually very well written and really informative. Key points are:

* Medium policy changes and how they affected readers and authors

* The importance of "owning" your own posts

* Possible alternatives to medium

* Issues with CDN wrt privacy

* Issues with commenting services

* Use of custom fonts

* Sharing to social media without being privacy invasive

* Google AMP, and how Google strong arms you into using their tech

... and much more. Highly recommended!!
Define useful.
> The irony is that these "anti democracy" protestors are exercising their democratic right to protest!

It's also irony that when "protestors" (or just people voicing their opinions) exercising democratic rights to protest are treated differently because they don't agree with your view.

From what I chatted with my friends, this is not about loyalty to any party. It's as simple as, when people spreads misinformation about your hometown, others seeing them and starting to talk legitimate shit about your hometown, you feel angry and voice your strong opposite opinions.

> Others could be simply influenced by the CCP mouthpiece
Yeah, right. A large number of Chinese students/immigrants, being in Australian democracy and with access to all press articles on both sides, have lost their judgements and can't tell what are facts at all.

> some could actually be paid - the stakes are high enough.
Please back this claim with sources.

From my experience, the people sharing the posts are ordinary people, who simply voice their concerns. Given the sheet number of them, paying them is not practical.

The irony is that we did see some posts about HK "pro-democracy" organizers paying protesters for them to go on the streets.
Just that git (w/o the central hosting/PR concept/issues) is the total opposite than proprietary, and despite the popularity of the social network GitHub (because that what it is) the market for hosting git repos is very active. Look at Gitlab, Bitbucket, Azure Repos, AWS, ... which are all just fine.

I agree however with the fact that it is a pity to rely on a single tech which is not even the best of breed.
Why would a CI/CD need to permissions modify and commit code to a repo?
IP addresses are limited and even small costs are better at forcing people to conserve limited resources than "free".

For an example, 5 cents isn't much, but charge that per plastic bag and suddenly people are using a lot fewer disposable bags.
Anything looking at 2040 timescales is inherently not enough. That’s the definition of passing the buck!

No, there needs to be a decision at the individual level and the investor level to forego easy money on building the next furry slipper delivery startup and only buy (a lot less for a lot more) from companies that take this seriously, work for companies that take this seriously, and invest in companies who can be serious today.

Otherwise, Earth will solve this little problem one way or another. The talking monkeys may not like it, though...
There's no better data set, and it's not a big assumption to assume closed source/unpublished code has roughly the same usage patterns.
Rubygems acted when they were notified [0]. There were a few affected by this at the same time, not just rest-client.

[0] https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/wiki/Gems-yanked-an...
Nice achievement! But is it just an approximation of the content? It does not appear to be a scaled-down version of the web page - so I wonder how useful it really is. I wish there was a more substantial demo page with more graphical artefacts.
Mercedes sparks privacy row over use of location trackers on finance vehicles
Seeing a fair few female names in the ultramarathon category. Again, keen on evidence for "women cannot physically compete".
Apparently the YC interview days are quite exhausting for the interviewers : because of this in every YC batch there is at least one coffee startup.

It is subliminal stimuli.
NAT has messed up Internet so much that people can't even ensure security without it. You have firewall for security. If we had not relied on NAT for security we would have actually configured them.

Anyways, we are gonna have to configure firewalls for IPv6 because there is no NAT.
Going off of wikipedia, it looks like Julia started in 2012, two years before Crystal.
at RhodeCode we used to have a hosted Mercurial repositories service. Actually, it was a per-customer isolated instance that we hosted on digital ocean. We have all the logic and code still here, i wonder if we should bring that back to have people host their Mercurial repositories.
How does that NOT translate to 'faster' in a endurance race?
Do you still use it? If so how does your WPM compare to a standard keyboard these days?

I've always wanted to try one of these out but I'm not much of one to make it myself.
This record isn't really that impressive. Average distance a day was 382 km a day. Assuming riding on a road without hills that much can be done by any good amateur, the cyclist just needs perseverance to do that every day all year long and not having to care about a job etc.
What about the idea of adding particulates to the atmosphere to block a portion of the sun's rays?
IPCC reports are all about getting scientific data acknowledged officially by governments. Of course many of those government officials participating in the process are going to push back against a draft that contains statements that have consequences that inconvenience them on the political field.
That's to be expected. So yeah, when reading an IPCC report it's good to keep in mind that it is going to be conservative.
This is pretty common among all professional sports. There is a standard league and a female-only league. Women are free to compete in the standard league, but it's just very uncommon for them to win, which is why the female-only leagues were created in the first place.
Say your CI pipeline runs automated tests, builds the gem and pushes to Rubygems, it needs permissions to push to Rubygems.

So if an attacker compromises the API key used by that pipeline, they get the rights to push to Rubygems.
From the stuff I like, he hates Trip Hop, is somewhat OK (but amusing) about Synthwave and seems to like Dark Ambient.
The goal of school is uniformity. Everyone takes the same classes. Kids who like science are in the same class as kids who don't like science. This has downsides but also advantages. It is better to have a society where everyone has had "roughly" the same childhood and therefore the same starting conditions.

As soon as the kids leave school and go to university there is a huge variety of degrees which lets students take advantage of their individual strengths.
Seems rather similar to the strong_password case from a month back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20377136 . I wonder if anyone has checked basic things like scanning all of rubygems for "pastebin" or "eval( * http * )".
I'm not so sure really, in my experience the performance difference only becomes noticeable if you have a very large repository. For the Linux kernel I'm sure it matters, for "my library with 100 commits and 10k lines of code" it won't make a significant difference.
I don't know what "good" product placement is, but selectively publishing accurate test results only if they support your cause is dishonest, yes. And if you have no demonstrated conflict of interest and commit to publishing your results regardless of what they say, then that is not "marketing" - it's "research".

Marketing is dishonest "by definition", because its purpose is to persuade, not inform.
It is quite funny because BitBucket started as a GitHub for Mercurial users (it had only Hg support).

Then they (after it was sold) added git support and now they are removing hg.
Savannah allows using mercurial[0] and is likely less evil than sourceforge.

[0] https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/WhyChooseSavannah/
Yes, I agree, it's not only rubygems, npm had the same problem not so long ago and it is a general issue in all repos.

One thing that would be inconvenient but would protect against that would be to have the api work as usual, but need to use MFA and login to the website to approve a new release (and have information there listing the ip and time of upload). That would only make sense for heavily used gems like this one but it seems that it would stop most issues?
> It is superior to Git in every way except performance and adoption.

Performance is such an important advantage, though.

I type git diff hundreds of times a day, and when I switched from hg to git at Mozilla, this made such a big difference in my life.

These days I type hg histedit maybe fifty times a day at Google, and I cry every time because it is so. glacially. slow. hg diff too. And I'm working with a relatively small repository.

Speed matters for tools we use all the time.

I'd also posit that the process of writing "plugins" for git is much easier than writing hg plugins. A git "plugin" is just a shell script that uses git. If you can use git, you can write a shell script that uses it. An hg plugin...whoaboy.
Go for it. Knock yourself out trying to prove there are no differences between the sexes.

While you're at it normalize success at giving birth based on the fraction of men to attempt it.
I guess I sort of assumed that the revenue the railroad would receive from trains traversing its rails would be sufficient income, and wouldn't need any additional land. I mean, these railroads do have a captive customer base, since their customers can't just "choose" another railroad provider. (Hmm, this is beginning to sound like our cable-centric ISPs.) So, is all this (that is, the historically crazy high revenues that railroad companies have brought in) where the term "robber barons" comes from?
A gigantic "no thanks" to vhemt.org. Thanks for the recommendation on the book. I'm gonna pick that up.
Made and tried to use a sort of chorded keyboard out of a keypad. The idea breaks down when you need to emit some key combination like Command-Shift-[ (I am a Mac user).