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Ask HN: Is anyone else worried that Mercurial is disappearing?
While it's great to see distributed source control systems supercede systems like Subversion, Mercurial is an elegant distributed source control system, one I personally love compared to git. Yet 'git is eating the world'. We're losing all other systems, including and worryingly if you want to host open source publicly among a community.

> Mercurial seems to have a lot of sentimental support — the argument being that it is the saner and more intuitive DVCS. Which is surprising because, as stated by BitBucket; over 90% of users use Git. So there is a clear winner. Still the idea of a winner-takes-all does not sit well with some developers.
- https://j11g.com/2019/08/21/git-is-eating-the-world/

Does this worry anyone else?
Please don't do that.

It makes recycling more costly, as the recycling factory have to spend more time sorting it, or just refuse recyclable garbage because it's mixed with non-recyclable and sorting is too costly.
The impasse Hong Kong finds itself must be solved by the Chief Executive. Her leadership in this matter is severely lacking and one wonders if the has any autonomous power at all, or if its all controlled by Beijing. Especially seeing how she evaded that question quite gracelessly a few days ago when asked by a reporter.
Can't believe you've added autism to this list.
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I find I tend to write bugs after around 7 hour's work, and during the first four, I can throw myself at a new task in a way that at the end of the day I'd be utterly incapable. I think shorter office days would benefit most mature developers. ( I say mature here because I've worked with people who only manage to get things done through many hours extended foot dragging and procrastination. If you can focus, short days can be beneficial. )
I consider the current native speakers of New Mexican Spanish, whose family settled in New Mexico in the 1600s, to be equally a part of the "unified American culture" as you are.

The same for the Amish who speak Pennsylvanian German, the Gullah speaking people, the Cajun speakers, and the many indigenous people of North America who speak Navajo, or Hawaiian, or language at home.
This is a false premise candidates do not ‘spend all their time in florida’
With respect to Ted, there’s virtually nothing of content in this post... I’m confused. 404 SEO issues are nothing new, and “friendly” 404 browser intercepts have been discussed much more coherently elsewhere. I don’t at all mind discussions bringing up something other people might already know, but this doesn’t really delve into anything and merely mentions the existence of this issue. A comment from OP (or anyone upvoting this) explaining what they found interesting here would be helpful.
This isn't necessarily true.

If a 10m pop area has a 70-30 split, it's still better to campaign there than a 5m pop area with a 50-50 split. In absolute numbers it's still 3 million supporters versus 2.5 million supporters.
> decide this is as good as it gets.

He just wrote a very long article explaining just that.
Democracies are not as agile as they used to seem. The ability to move with conviction on short notice is an edge that the Chinese government has over Western nations.
"get a dataset that can help you solve some problem".

Oftentimes designing and creating the dataset is as difficult as coming up with an experiment in the natural sciences. If your problem is solved by a toy dataset on the internet, then it's not really a problem, and its only machine learning in the same way programming bubble sort is software engineering.
Can someone who knows HK weigh in on how likely this is to be subtle deliberate messaging, or whether it’s like Qanon (where “Q” just says vague things, and the followers go wild with all sorts of interpretations that confirm what they already think).
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That doesn't seem to be the case, if you look at the infrastructure cost breakdowns the total construction cost for phase 1 is estimated at £6.6Bn, with the remaining £9.6Bn going to things like project management, mitigation costs, and land acquisition.

If you take a look at the construction costs, of the $6.6Bn only £665 are going towards the rail and control systems. With all other items being largely the same regardless of rail speed, I have a feeling (though I could be quite wrong), that the cost difference between low and high speed is marginal.

Source: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Interesting. It wasn't a bad solution at the time, being able to pass around commits was nice and more straight forward than the patch mechanism on svn. Git and Mercurial were significantly superior solutions though.
By naming it postwoman, you are discriminating against transwomen and giving the impression that you don't care about them. /s

We need to be 'diverse and inclusive' as possible to care for eveyone in the LGBTQ+ community. So please change it to postwomxn. /s
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Justyna yesterday I was complaining about GitHub monoculture in the context of Atlassian sunsetting Mercurial.
Outages like this are normal, but the problem is lack of good competitors.
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Thanks, I'll check it out. This is the group from the article? I admittedly didn't read it because of the paywal. Just lurking in the comments :)
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Have a look a low wage/low skill jobs. There is no such thing as security, employees are subject to their employer's benevolence. They even have to accept circumstances that might violate laws. They can't fight it because they need the job, even if they hate it.

I'm too busy to do the research for you, but Amazon warehouse workers are the first examples that come to my mind.
The second part seems pretty direct.
This is sad. As someone who loves browsing the "hidden" side of YT where videos and channels with sub 3 and 4 digit viewcount lurk and discovering weird obscure content, this feature was a godsend. I have been able to contact users that otherwise leave absolutely no contact info on their pages to ask them about certain content they have uploaded on multiple occasions.

I really dislike how stuff like twitter and Instagram have become the standard form of reaching anyone, as I have neither and your messages can very easily become ignored due to the very nature of how these two social networks operate.
Typescript is a lot easier to deal with if you stop treating it as optional and do it from day 1. Avoid using the any type and things fall in to place. If it's tedious, you're probably doing something wrong or sub-optimal. Or you're just dealing with a bit of hairy old javascript that probably needs a bit of refactoring in any case.

IMHO we're reaching the point where typescript (or similar languages) should be used by default over untyped javascript in professional environments. It's like having tests, which are also not generally considered optional. I've been in CTO type roles and already insist on it when I can. I don't think I'm alone in this and many organizations only do typescript at this point.
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What I mean is they could buy land somewhere like the outskirts of Quainton [1] at the current "much more than 20 minutes from Euston" land price, then add a HS2 station that turns it into "20 minutes from Euston" land.

Or if Quainton is too expensive/green-belt-y, do the same at Wormleighton or Newton Purnell or somewhere else along the line.

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/idx4iCxQjVjEU5WCA
> there is a real lack of intellectual stimulation despite there constantly being work to do

My wife is taking more of a leading role with our 1 year old (maybe 70/30 between her and me ... also in Germany) and she gets her mental stimulation through voraciously reading about changing dietary requirements of children as they age along with general child developmental research. In fact it is leading us to a discussion about startup opportunities.
It's all subjective. I much prefer the Queen's Wish look. The other one looks like somebody's MySpace page from forever ago.
There are some information on the SDK here :

https://www.upmem.com/developer/ or more directly https://sdk.upmem.com/2019.2.0/

It seems you have to compile an executable for the in memory processor, and they have some sort of daemon/infrastructure to communicate from the main cpu to the PIM.
i guess the idea is, considering how much worker productivity has improved over the decades, even working 4 days a week, one should still be able to survive just fine (at least that is my interpretation)
I don't understand what point you're trying to make. All I did was ask a simple question: if trust in Rust is hard, how do you handle trust in other ecosystems? The details on exactly how big or how small the standard libraries are (or why they are that way) are less important for this particular question. Consider the size of Python's standard library vs C or C++ or Rust. The size of C or C++ is much closer to Rust's size than Python's size.

Also, while some of your historical context is interesting, I don't really appreciate your editorialization, which I often find is off the mark personally.
Other Java stdlib packages can't depend on Joda-time. If it wasn't added and I used joda-time I'd have to convert to the old datetime classes if I wanted to use it with stdlib packages.

Another example was CompletableFutures which were inspired by ListenableFutures from Guava.

I can now use these with guarantees that they will be stable as Java has strong commitments to backwards compatibility.
here's a side by side: https://i.imgur.com/OLfbGEY.png

maybe I'm remembering the enhanced edition

but yeah you get the point: they have that "3d model to sprites" style while the background looks like straight pixel art
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I flashed the rom to run linux before my last one expired (it was x86) as an alternate solution.

In theory, you can run chromiumOS directly if you disable signing and live with the warning beeps.. Perhaps it can be more easily done via neverware's builds, but I'm sure how realistic that is without installing PC style bios and running like a normal PC testing chromeOs, where that is possible.
For people advocate 10-hour days, it's possible that they are plagued by meetings/etc. so can only work efficiently during certain hours. If you look at the sum of high productive hours it could be just like you: 2-3 hours.

I think 3 hours of high productivity is maximum for me too, the thing is it is very difficult to reach really high productivity, so I can wrap up my work in maybe 4-5 hours writing SQL and report (exclude the meetings and break/etc.) and still have energy to write code in my spare time for around 1-2 hours. How and when to achieve high productivity and enter the flow are pretty random for me.

If you can reach high productivity for 3 straight hours a day I'd envy you, because you probably achieve more than people (like me) who work 5-6 hours in sub-prime conditions. I'd rather to work full of energy for 3 hours during the morning, take break in the afternoon, and come back for another 1-2 hours. Much more enjoyable.

BTW I found that useless meetings drain energy really FAST.
AnarchoCaps always came across to me as being based around "Free to choose... if you are rich"
It's a shame tunnels are so expensive! I dream of a day when motorways are buried out of sight.
I'm currently trying to revive a 2yrs old codebase written with TypeScript/React/Redux. I made the capital error of not checking in node_modules apparently or pinning versions (ie using yarn or npm shrinkwrap), as I now get tons and tons of type errors from dependencies on build. Problem seems to be that all the @types packages are somehow out of sync/broken/hell I don't know. I also don't have access to CI logs anymore so I can't figure out which versions it used to resolve to …

The @types definition packages for react-router, redux-thunk, etc. give me "error TS2605: JSX element type X is not a constructor function for JSX element". Most popular answer on GitHub is to rm -rf node_modules and rebuild, however that does nothing for me. I tried upgrading some @types selectively and triple-double checked that the resolved versions make sense, but nothing so far.

A codebase that used to build cleanly now throws ~30 errors on build, without any changes to it. Insane. Always pin your exact versions in JS land …
Autism rates are stable, and only appear to be increasing due to better diagnosis. Cancer rates are increasing due to people living longer and cancer being more common the older you are. Diabetes is up due to obesity being up.
Our team comes in the office once a week for some face time. But we have plenty of face time throughout the week on Webex Teams. We've eliminated the friction for remote face time.

If anything, it's an improvement over the in-office because instead of interrupting someone at work, we politely message someone (or the team) about doing a quick call once it's convenient for them.
I am not sure which one I prefer.
2nd order lies are still lies.
Productivity boost from not writing tests or thinking about function preconditions is also nice ... until it isn't.
Fucking modern web dev piece of shit where you can't even ctrl+F among the big list to find what you were seeking. Guess at least it covers a decent breadth of styles.
We have an all-generation family vacation each year in TN (lots of food and drink). Coming from MA, we are used to recycling and so would collect recyclables and take them to the grocery store collection point (curbside was garbage only).

This year, we did the same and noticed the recycling collection bins were gone. Went inside to inquire and were proudly told, “Oh, we got a big new landfill opened up with plenty of space; we don’t have to recycle anymore!”

Ugh.
The concept of "smart memory" is good (though not new), but I think the devil could be in the process-technology details; DRAM and logic are not that compatible.

But let's hope they've figured it out.
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In university, we did programming exams on machines with no hard disks, which booted from DOS floppy disks.

The teacher recommended at the beginning of the exam to save often, especially before running our programs, because if they got stuck, we would have to reboot, losing everything.

Of course, there was still a guy that typed for a whole hour without saving. Upon running his program, it obviously crashed and he lost all his work.

I got the habit of saving constantly pressing ctrl-s ever since. I do it even in apps that don't save anything, getting annoying sounds from my computer.
Except that is wrong. The average Trump voter had more money and assets. Disproportionate wrong-headed electoral college are what got him elected - he lost by 13 million votes!
Venray tried this:

https://www.wired.com/2012/01/russell-fish-venray/

They didn't get huge that I can tell. Might be a tough market.
Reminds me of this article I saw the other day.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2213655-having-kids-mak...

People with kids are happier than those without, only after their kids move out.
You think it was always there but autistic kids then were labeled "crazy" or weird? I strongly believe that our hormones and system can be affected by outside things such as pollution (any kind of it)
I am working for a relatively small consultancy company. We are team of 5 programmers working on various small programs for government.
It gets crazy coordinating between different people trying to get to know where to get data etc...
I am changing to a pure backend java job next month. I can't wait to see how other programming jobs look like. (working at this consultancy is my 1st job as a programmer and I've been here for past 3 years)
There is: https://onebar.io/privacy-policy
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Ah, I completely misread it both times.
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Sure, but the idea that texts have different readings depending on perspective is a pretty postmodern one. I was criticizing the claim that the text was likely specifically directed at American liberals.
When the "urban/rural" divide is brought up in American political discourse, it's always done so describing extremes. Yet living in a city - even a large city, doesn't always mean living in an urban "pressure cooker," nor does living outside of a city mean seeing more wildlife than people. I live in a suburb of Austin. I don't hunt my own food or drink from a well, nor am I surrounded by concrete jungle.

The premise that urban and rural dwellers generally have such radically divergent ways of life that it's infeasible for a single entity to govern both is a bit of a populist myth.
I'm curious. Could you by any chance know some reason behind this? Is the salary not sufficient for the zone, or people do enjoy working, or they just simply think they would be bored as they take it?
I think this looks more consistent than both: https://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/gsg-content/uploads/2018/...
All the companies you mentioned have backroom commercial agreements with Oracle, which is why they are allowed to run the TCK.

The existence and reliance on that TCK however means that Java is NOT an open platform, not as long as you insist on having implementations pass the TCK, compliance that's defined by whatever Oracle wants. And lets be clear about this, we are talking about what Oracle wants, not about JCP, which btw is only a farce of a standards body, not a real one.

This problem is old and I invite people to not be ignorant about the issue at play. Please read Apache's open letter to the former Sun Microsystems, as it does justice to this issue better than I could:

https://www.apache.org/jcp/sunopenletter.html

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The irony of the situation is that the direct competition, .NET and C#, are managed by a real standards body and alternative open source implementations (e.g. Mono) have been allowed to exist, without backroom deals with Microsoft ;-)
This is what I said in a different comment: there are people like that in film too – they make films their whole life, found a certain level that they feel comfortable with and settle there. That is a perfectly fine choice and in no way should anybody talk bad about it.

The only thing that bugs me however is when they try to come up with excuses why their works don't live up to the standard of other artists judge themselves by. Jeff listed some quite compelling arguments for his decision, most of them economical, but it still feels like an excuse of somebody who knows they could do better, which is kinda sad.
My point is that although many only think about ISO C libc when talking about C's standard library, the reality is that with a few exceptions, libc always goes alongside POSIX across the large majority of platforms with a C compiler.

So in reality POSIX complements libc as C's "runtime platform", even though ISO C never considered to make libc that big.

My historical context is how I experienced how things went, throughout the media we had available at the time.

I surely welcome factual corrections when I fail off the mark.

Everyone benefits from learning proper history facts.
>Also I would like to have a mode when an amount of text, rather than the length of session would be considered because for things like this HN comment even 3 minutes is too long.

It has a feature like that, just click on "Words" on the same thing that lets you change amount of minutes. If you want to do less than 150 words you can change the limit in URL to anything you want to too.
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> Cancer rates are increasing due to people living longer and cancer being more common the older you are.

Then we should just compare cancer rates for people age 20-to-40 who live nowadays to cancer rates for people with the same age from, I don't know, 100 years ago? Or, better yet, compare this to people who don't live in an industrial society like ours.
I broadly agree, but I think the fundamental missing piece in current AI is not 'body' but action. Agents using action to experiment is a step change in capabilities over passive observation (pattern matching). You can use experiment to tease out causal relationships, this is not possible with passive observation. I think the bodies role in nature is merely enabling action. Action is the key, and you don't need a nature-like body to get this. AI driven action, that is what we need.
Did you have your types root set to `node_modules` in your `tsconfig.json`?
This sounds awesome. I'm held back a bit, I have always been warned against working less than a full workweek, since it would presumely substantially harm my (European) retirement build-up (unless I would make a lot more money than I currently do). I have never investigated yet, but would before cutting working hours.
So we can't have opinions on public statements of people if they are 'successful'?

The choices are his, but people can still have opinions and voice them.

e.g. Jeff believes marginal revenue increases would not be enough to offset marginal expenses. Others have different opinions, and voice them as a response to a public blogpost. I see nothing wrong with that.
It's hard to believe that. The cancer rates in wildlife have been increasing for a reason, and it can only be explained by pollution in general (not micro-plastics in particular).

The problem is not the microplastics themselves, but the fact that plastic is a very effective sponge for absorbing all sorts of persistent pollutants.

It's even used to collect pollutant samples, due to its huge absorption properties. It can't be good that's for sure, and in many cases, it's being overused.

I'm all for forbidding the use of plastic in many common use cases. My local supermarket sells packs of 4 peaches in a plastic container, wrapped in a plastic sheet.

I always have to take the trash out after grocery shopping, due to all the discarded packages, come on it's ridiculous.
I worked at the help desk when I was in college back in the 90s and our mantra to users (and ourselves) was “save often and make backups”. We figured the more people we could inculcate that practice into, the fewer “I’ve been writing all afternoon and the computer just crashed, I can get my work back, right?” and “My only copy of my thesis was on this floppy and now I’m getting a disk read error, you can fix it, right?” visits we’d get that would end in tears.
because it's representing the states themselves in addition to the population that happen to live in them. if you don't like all this you really should ask: why have states at all?