skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
-While I agree with your point, I'd just like to chime in that skydivers tend to do several jumps in a day.

I tend to spend a few days at a skydiving hotspot every summer - not to do any jumping myself, if the plane works I'm perfectly happy just staying in my seat, thank you very much - but the kids love to watch, and it is one of few places with a huge playground where I can just let my kids roam free and not be worried about them at all.

Anyway - the Cessna Caravan managed 3-4 cycles/hour, and from what I could tell, there were approx. 20-25 people jumping that day - so, every other trip you got to jump, for perhaps a dozen jumps in a day for the most eager ones.
One thing left out that I have in my past is whitewater kayaking and I've always wondered how safe it is statistically as there are always horrible drowning stories...
Delegated Credentials for TLS
World Stone Skimming Championships
I don't think so.

There's a difference between expert systems and black boxes.

Black boxes are problematic in domains where what matters isn't just your decision today, but the evolution of your decision making process.

Easy examples being finance, medicine, legal, education etc.

In these areas, when you are explicitly weighing competing interests/rights/harms, it's pretty important that you be able to explain your reasoning to another. So they can check it, so they can test it, and so they can apply it if it's good.

Not just because your decision could be wrong, but because the process by which we evolve our decisions is important (think precendent for law, blow up analysis for finance etc).

If we want to push our understanding of a domain forward, black boxes populated with a lot of data aren't super helpful.

They are able to spot complex patterns yes, many of which can be cleaned/restructed into simple patterns.

In reality most of the best uses of ML thusfar have been either rapidly screening/classification based on simple patterns (think OCR on a check - the character recognizer engine in the machine isn't really teaching us much about language or typology, it's just processing existing patterns), or in domains with extremely rigid game mechanics, where the rules never change but you can run a billion simulations (chess, go, video games etc).
A better statement is that Github rather killed the momentum of Mercurial, which was also picking up steam in that era (Python, OpenJDK, and Mozilla all chose Mercurial over git).
>WARNING: This paper contains language that some readers may find offensive
I have dyslexia, and I can attest that I find it easier/quicker to read than some other fonts.
What garbage collection? Isn't staging area actually a feature? I've never used anything else since when I started needing something like 5 years ago git was already a recommended choice, but I also never felt like I needed anything else.
>don't have these issues

What issues does this change create?
> Liberal democracy is going to die. Data is becoming the raw materialization of power, and this is making dictatorships more efficient than ever before.

Why not make the data public? If data is power, you criminalize the hoarding of data, and require it to be shared openly with all. We would still be headed toward a surveillance state, which comes with a high risk of authoritarianism, but at least we would have a shot at keeping it democratic.
How do you work on more than one thing at once with svn without manually managing patch files?
Why would they? There are so many ecosystem tie ins between the Apple Watch and the iPhone. Besides, what does the development tool chain look like? Develop an Android app for the phone and a Swift App for the watch? What is the debugging experience?

With Swift UI it should be even easier to use views on both the iPhone and the watch. Offering support for Android goes in the opposite direction.

Then on the other hand, with the Watch OS stand alone store, Apple might be moving into that direction of not requiring a phone at all.
There are serious consequences to calculating inflation.

If the published number spikes, so does the COL adjustments for social security. This would easily put the government underwater.
wouldn't change a thing. Apple built on freebsd; Android userland and libc is all BSD
>Google has made progress with partners in this space with Wear OS and Google Fit, but we see an opportunity to invest even more in Wear OS as well as introduce Made by Google wearable devices into the market.

I think it's pretty clear Google hasn't made much progress with Wear OS. Otherwise they wouldn't have needed to buy both Fossil and Fitbit.

Maybe they should just use Fitbit OS and scale it up this time.
Personal electronics are off limits in environments where exfiltration is a concern. You put your personal devices into a metal cell at the entrance, and walk through a metal scanner, airport-style.

I've experienced this in a couple of factories that build consumer-grade devices; I can imagine this to be even stricter on places where stakes are higher.
You literally need to know two commands to work with git in a simple project; add and commit. I don’t see how that is any complicated?
While I don't doubt that Geiringer did a lot of important work, I'm a little frustrated with how difficult it is to read about that work itself.

Look at a Wikipedia article about a relatively obscure mathematician, say, Robert Remak:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Remak_(mathematician)

Right away it says what fields he worked in and mentions some of his results. The rest of the article goes into a bit more depth about his work and then finishes off with a paragraph about the tragedy in his life.

Compare now with Hilda Geiringer's article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_Geiringer

Her work is described in very vague strokes, "two variable Fourier series" and then mentions statistics, probability, and plasticity... so, what did she do exactly? These are very broad fields! The article does mention the Geiringer equations, but there's no corresponding Wikipedia article about them.

The majority of Geiringer's article is instead taken up by the fact that she was a Jewish woman with relatively very little attention given to her mathematics.

To be clear, I'm not saying that this is a Wikipedia-exclusive phenomenon. The BBC article is also rather "soft", as a popular article must be out of necessity, but for minorities, sometimes they (we?) must deal being talked about in nothing but soft articles. The geek feminism wiki calls this the unicorn law:

https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Unicorn_Law
If status is not tied to a sense of self then I don't know what is.

You mentioned in another comment that the skills you've learned are not you (roles?). They are just things you have. You've just said that identifying these roles as an abstraction is an essential part of understanding the self.

All of these things increase order in a society, and therefore, survival value. This is what I was responding to.

I didn't say that more of a sense of self, whatever that means, makes more community based cultures.
YouTube is hemorraging red ink, if it wasn't suppprted by the rest of Alphabet it would quickly become unsustainable. Kinda hard to call that a "successful" acquisition.
p2p and trust networks, but it has never been pulled off
> The right mostly doesn't give a shit about the dispossessed, at least as far as potential government intervention goes. They're more social darwinist; if some men are really suffering, maybe they should stop being such losers, goes the thinking.

Well yeah, being against government intervention is sort of the classic definition of the American political right. People on the right believe that when possible you should choose private charity over government programs. They also donate more to private charities.
Ditto for every identity group.
Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google. Although, it might be more appropriate to call Google 'Alphabet' now. But FNAAA doesn't have as much of a ring to it.
mercurial with a list of different plugins for each project? no thanks
"There are several richer IRC clients; the author of this article suggests https://thelounge.chat/ in a later article about IRC."

I have no dog in this fight as I do not use slack nor do I use irc anymore ...

However, reading this comment thread makes me think that what you all really need is neither a slack alternative nor an irc alternative ... what you all really need is a very well written irc bot.
Actually, I am wondering if its both. Could you create a 'buzz' around your book/topic via a short synopsis/tweet/TLDR/etc. while promoting a larger conversation with a link to that forum/etc.
Everyone should have equality of opportunity, including heterosexual white men.
It's not 'local', but the FOSS replacement for Facebook/Instagram is email.
Looks like the company didn't even survive 12 months:

We sadly inform that as of Spring 2019 BOHR∞ (BOHR TECHNOLOGY Inc. and its subsidiaries) is no longer operating and is in liquidation.
The incident may be isolated, but the overall trend is valid: if people come, take a selfie and leave without buying anything that still fits the title
Oh no they owned the fitness tracker market prior, the initial Smartwatch product, the Ionic, was a flop, seemingly their launch of the Versa helped because it was a stylish smartwatch with the fitbit brand and focus, the software was still quite bad compared to Google and Apple's efforts. I would go further to say that Pebble's product was actually much better.
I see the author did the same search engine in Go a while ago. So I suppose the project being a side project to learn a new language. Or is there a different reason?
The Apple Watch Series 3 with cellular is $329. How much cheaper can you get a smart watch with cellular, gps, health sensors, etc?
Mercurial, darcs, monotone, others. It was a popular area for a while. I think it's less about Linus wrote it than Linus used it (for the Linux kernel) though. If somebody else had written it and he'd used it, the outcome would have been the same.
To be fair, Apple does this too to some extent. However, given their most recent commercial re privacy and all of their public statements on the topic, I don't expect them to exploit it for profit quite so shamelessly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py0acqg1oKc
This law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1325
People have added better UIs on top of git. The problem is they don't come installed by default out of the box, and unless everyone else you work with is using them too it becomes quite hard for you to communicate properly over git issues (especially in writing development workflow docs). hg has a better UI out of the box, and is notably easier for new users to pick up and become productive with.

You're underestimating how much inertia is created simply by being the out-of-the-box default, and how hard that inertia is to overcome even by better alternatives.
Thank you for identifying yourself. Can you tell us how you became fake news? What decisions led to you spreading falsehoods?
Is it ok to do something you hate 95% of the time and love for the remaining 5%? Only if it's your best available option...
I do think an Apple Watch meets all of your requirements pretty easily. You’d have to spend more on an LTE model, though.

I don’t think Fitbit has ever tried to compete in this space.
Thing is most of these can simply be fixed using an alias, its not that hard to remember '-b' creates a new branch, but 'gcb' followed by the branch name I want is probably easier, however maybe someone wants 'gcob' or just 'cob', thats what Alias is for.
Wow, that is a beautiful post, thank you for writing it out that way...it makes me pine for VCS in my job.

Can you or someone else reflect on my file system? I work for the government doing statistical analysis of healthcare data, and there is no VCS where I code, other than how you name the files and where you put them in folders and how you back them up manually.

I am facing a major data-branching event where I'm going from ~40 scripts (R, SQL, STATA) on one dataset, to then three overlapping but different datasets and having ~100 scripts. I just don't know if my brain and wits are up to the task of maintaining these 3 branches with 3 different languages, given all I have is folder/file names and my knowledge reservoir and memory...

I know this is a perfect use case for git, but I've never used it before and no one else in my department uses it. I don't know if I have the time and energy left at this job to implement a new system of VCS AND reproduce my code for 3 different-but-similar projects.

Burnout approaches...
And interviewers ask him "are you a socialist?"
To me, this isn’t about making a stronger push into the wearables market (sure, that’s what they will say), it’s more about collecting as much personal data as they can to better target ads with.
I doubt Git would be popular without GitHub. Had the GH founders instead been more familiar with Mercurial, we would all be using the latter. Having used both extensively, I think we would all be better off in that alternate history, but such is life.
If the BBC is trying to build a case that female mathematicians were treated poorly 70 years ago compared to their male counterparts, they would somehow need to show that there wasn't a similar supply of men who made an obscure but significant contribution only to get coldly treated by the establishment (somehow I think there's no shortage). We must be careful to not fall prey to example-ism, building cases out of salient examples instead of evenly sampled trends.
>But it's not meant to be a warning about [private communication], but about how anyone can something something that can be used against them, privately or not

Okay, the internet was created for military communications. So, with your logic, you should have a problem with it being used to power eCommerce, pornography, YouTube, Facebook and hacker news.

This ain't literature class.
"E2EE coming soon"
> Tourists tend to be cheap

Maybe that depends on where you live. In my village tourists tend to tip 25-100% of the final bill and spend 10x more than non tourists.
John Gruber^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H

Dan Lyons^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H

Steve Ballmer had another colourful analogy, he used it in response to companies claiming that a merger would create a powerhouse to challenge the market leader:

"It’s like taking the two guys who finished second and third in a 100-yard dash and tying their legs together and asking for a rematch, believing that now they’ll run faster."

(Thanks to "raldi" for finding the quote on Daring Fireball, and identifying that Gruber was quoting Lyons, who said he heard it from Ballmer, although the words here are Lyons')
The problem is that now the situation almost the same in some offices :(
> I got concerned for a moment that this will end up forcing all extensions to be available only from Add On store, (similar to Chrome). Thankfully it’s not that.

Mozilla is working on achieving exactly that, and in fact Firefox is already worse than Chrome in this aspect, see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21418604
I would think driving in the right lane is more dangerous on the freeway at least, because of onramps and offramps. I only drive in the left lane on a motorcycle.
And there are alternatives that make better sense, too.

But the existence of something even worse doesn't excuse something that is merely bad. And git is so much more widely used that its total overall harm on developer productivity is worse.
Wait, what companies did Netflix acquire? I can't name one, but the comment is true for the other four I guess
Looking on Pixel sometimes I think that Google is not interested to have phone that is taking the world. I think it is more interested in taking word of OS of phones and have phone that is part but not taking world. If Googles tries to take world of phones, then other companies like Samsung will start developing their phone OS which Google do not wants. So I think that the current state of the market of phones and phone OS-es is the one that Google see is optimal for them.
> My very cursory understanding of the international legal agreements on this subject don't seem to take that into account.

Even nativist politicians making incorrect claims about the law here tend to claim it requires efforts to seek asylum in the first safe country, which even if true would, in fact, fully take into account the problem of an intervening country that shared the same problem being fled from in the country of nationality or habitual residence. See, e.g., referring to this claim:

https://fullfact.org/immigration/refugees-first-safe-country...
...which is the value of robust systems designed to limit the impact these people can have.

This is precisely why mechanisms like separation of powers and whistleblower protections matter. This is also why social conventions around honesty, reciprocity, fairness, etc. matter.

When these mechanisms and conventions operate smoothly, you get a sort of "security in depth" against abuse and exploitation. People acting in bad faith find their worst impulses thwarted, both by societal / legal systems and by average citizens who are empowered to help hold them to account.

When they don't, you get dangerous patterns of corruption and indifference; these weaken trust in the system, making it harder to fix over time.
I think by segregating suffering individuals into their racial groups you're setting up adversarial resource competition that is bound to create societal tensions and create discord, even though you probably think its virtuous to acknowledge historical discrimination without giving much thought to the people using it a social lever today in ways that harm society.
Dependency leads you to getting screwed over in negotiations... from American IT to Chinese manufacturing. Autarchy is not a serious option but you've got to have options for exiting lopsided relationships.
Git is a simple or as complex as you need it to be. And the complexity doesnt come at a cost to anyone who doesn't require it but uses git anyway.
Google Maps, Google Earth, Youtube, Google Ads, all started from aquisitions, to name the big services. They have many more small services and features coming from aquisitions.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio... for a good chronologic list.
They "began to die" years ago and had shrunk to less than 10% of their post-IPO valuation. Not that I expect Google to be very price sensitive about this kind of deal.
Show HN: I built an abstraction layer on top of Stripe
It'd be better to not have to do these things at all, i.e. if the commands just made sense out of the box.

These are problems that every single person learning git has to figure out and then come up with their own solutions for.
These live on air admissions of prior ignorance that you mention maybe for illustrative purposes, a PR gag to explain the difficult approaches to each other they had taken in development. It's like late night shows.

You must be one of the people who think really tv programs were really real.
This moment when you have no say anymore on what you want to install on your own computer without a corporate cloud server deciding for you...
I think the Google acquisition of Motorola is relevant as well. On the surface, it looks like it makes sense, but Google has a horrible track record with these things.
As someone stated below, YouTube is still not profitable. Waze is really not adding to their bottom line, and DoubleClick was to increase their advertising reach. It’s really not analogous to their hardware acquisitions.
I really wish more companies with altruistic hearts would simply embrace the Patreon model.
There could even be a QR code on the front so that selfies become even bigger drivers to the fund.
At least one of the donation levels could be free pizza every month (or whatever works)
A strict definition of a monopoly says there is only one seller, but in reality monopoly power is a spectrum. When someone calls a company a monopoly they are claiming that they have the power to unilaterally set prices beyond what a competitive market would bear.

http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/monopoly-power....
perhaps a "state of chill"? nothing fancier that to be kind, be cool, and be able to put yourself in others' shoes for a second.
Netlify Status – build pipeline down for past 4 hours
> […] the main "smarts" lives on the backup server (the Snebu binary), whereas the client side just uses find / tar to serialize the data. Backend side compresses, deduplicates, snapshots […]

So am I right to infer that there is a ridiculous amount of overhead in the data transfer, as opposed to some of the other software mentioned? Would you use this over the internet? Or an untrusted network connection?
This and the casual smartwatch market where FitBit's versa already sells great (even though it's not great at all). Google's offerings here are sparse, littered with confusing options and half-assed design. A cohesive pixel/Fitbit product can help create a proper Anti-Apple Watch product.
The number greyed out comments at the bottom is defiantly increased. I'm not sure if that's because there's more extremists or because people are less tolerant of the minority viewpoint or more willing to down-vote low effort jokes than previously.

We definitely have more obvious bots that post walls of propaganda interspersed with links to sources of questionable reliability.

The biggest thing I've noticed is that recently (like 6mo or less) people are much more likely to down-vote every recent comment in your history if you say something that offends the median ideology. This used to Never(TM) happen but now it seems like even the most minor affront to someone's world view triggers it.
The exercise was to imagine it working perfectly. : )
Sure. Most adults can learn lots of things. Most of us only care enough and have time enough to educate ourselves on a very small subset of the tools we use and tasks we perform on a daily basis. By and large, I trust the tools I use out of the box to be safe (subject to what common sense typical functional adults would be expected to have).

It is often reasonable to provide the option to use tools in ways that are less safe. Sometimes that's unavoidable. You can certainly use a chainsaw unsafely although I also think it's perfectly reasonable for chainsaw manufacturers to not provide easy ways to defeat the various safety mechanisms that are built in.
It's fairly well-known that there is more medical knowledge about men, and women are affected in different ways by diseases, about which more knowledge is needed.

See for example this article: https://www.ft.com/content/7864ae80-9597-11e8-95f8-8640db906...
Just wanted to make Stripe more accessible to the normal folk.
While I think a world where BSD would have become dominant would have thrived, things would have been different. Because of GNU existing before Linux, and it never fully adopting Linux as its kernel, Linux has always existed seperate from a specific userland. In my mind, this allowed more variety to be created on top of it (for better or worse). Moreover, Linux' license has encouraged a culture of sharing around kernel components that the BSD license did not mandate.

In an alternative timeline where BSD would be dominant, would we have e.g. free software AMD drivers? Would we have such big variation in containers, VMs, and scalabe system administration as we do on Linux? I wonder. No doubt that world would also be prettier than what we have now - in line with ways in which the BSDs are already better than Linux - but who knows.
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The thing is that data by itself is useless. You need the right infrastructure to make it work. Data without context is not information.

But the point here is that there's data that shouldn't be collected in the first place. And that data, especially biometric data, is what allows data autocrats hack human beings. And you don't need a lot of data to hack a human being. Just enough to know someone better than that person knows himself or herself.