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Ask HN: Git based package manager for LFS?
Do you know any git based package manager for LFS? I am looking something simple that will run on my PC, fetch source for me, git init , build from some configuration maybe tag version from this config as well and add binary to path. I was looking Gentoo/Portage but I couldnt figure out if it works the same way
That would be the “Ruby on rails creator”, lol.

There’s also no way to apply jointly for the card. You can input your joint income, sure, but they’re single-user accounts. You can’t, during signup, specify a lower balance in order to “free up” that credit for another family user. The thing is literally not built for married couples, who command an outsized share of spending & wealth. Stop trying to outsmart the gimped product and skip it, there’s so many better options out there.
Does it not concern you in the slightest, that when they've ended up speaking to higher and higher up people in the various organisations that they literally don't know why the algorithm decided the way it did? No one they've spoken to can figure it out, which means they themselves can't also rule out discrimination happening.

A lot of the technology we produce is fundamentally biased by our own perceptions, and in ML case most especially by the input data. The danger is a self-perpetuation of already established systemic bias. Given access to good credit is key towards economic mobility that can have massive ongoing implications. The fact that they're saying "It's just what the algorithm produces" should be triggering huge alarm bells, regardless of the veracity of any of his other claims.
California harboring massive amounts of corruption?! Shocking!
He said that they live in a community property state. (I have no idea where he lives.)

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1192540900393705474?s=20
Only sort of related, but... I really wish there could be a social network like Nextdoor that wasn't essentially flooded with NIMBYs. A local social network seems like a good idea, but in practice Nextdoor is the absolute worst social network I've ever encountered in two different locations that I've tried it. (And one of those locations was Michigan, so this isn't just California social issues causing this.)
Did you do it?
Something about this reminded me of Hunter S. Thompson’s campaign for Sheriff of Aspen, CO: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Aspen
Nolan Bushnell's failed attempt to change the arcade industry in 1983
This comment could be posted on every article about fusion until there is a new fusion power plant opening day announcement.

Do you think it's worthwhile to discourage humanity from attempting new things because there are existing sub optimal alternatives?

Or are you just trying to sound contrarian for internet points?

(Despite what you're saying being the safest, most boring, done to death, remarks on fusion)
nope, just a loud opinion
Yes! That's somewhat better than what I had in mind! (the granularity of chopping down individual branches)
I wonder if crying sexism is the new best way to get your issue properly looked at. Note: I am not saying this is or isn't based in sexism, just that DHH has no idea or very limited information as to what is going on and is making some very harsh assumptions.
The C spec has a concept called CHAR_BIT that specifies how many bits are in a byte. Looking for systems where it’s not 8 will give examples. I always link to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32091992/is-char-bit-eve... which has a TI DSP as the first answer, for example.
Latino or Hispanic? What's the Difference?
I was born in Halifax, and my brother lives there. Seems OK to me. But I speak from the perspective of someone that lives in London, in Wood Green, and you could not get anywhere more diverse and yet integrated.
The French Revolution post dates the American one and without French support the American Revolution would have failed. The French monarchy spent so much money supporting the Americans it basically bankrupted them and without naval support the Royal Navy would have had a much easier time moving troops.

> The expanded French fleet, in combination with the Spanish, outnumbered the British one and was able to temporarily gain sufficient command of the Atlantic to prevent Lord Cornwallis and a large British army, besieged by George Washington and 5,800 French regulars at Yorktown on the Chesapeake Bay in 1781, from being evacuated or reinforced by sea, forcing Cornwallis to surrender. This was the decisive battle of the war that ended with the Peace of Paris in 1783. Washington himself handsomely acknowledged the significance of the French contribution in a letter to Admiral De Grasse in which he said, “You will have observed that whatever efforts are made by the land armies, the navy must have the casting vote in the present contest” (Lloyd 1965, p. 174). The Canadian historian W. J. Eccles (1987, p. 153) is even more explicit: “French initiative, French tactics, French ships, French guns and men achieved that unexpected and decisive victory. The Americans could not have done it on their own.”

...

> The war also had very severe consequences for France’s much more disorderly fiscal system, where the finance minister Calonne and his predecessor Necker together borrowed over 900 million livres in the decade from 1777 to 1787 (Doyle 1988, pp. 43– 52). The situation was so bad that Calonne informed Louis XVI that no fiscal remedies could be found without a complete overhaul of the society and administrative system of the ancien régime, leading to the summoning of the Estates-General in 1789 and the outbreak of the French Revolution.

Power and Plenty, Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O’Rourke
Selling just under 1000 refitted nikon cameras over 4 years doesn't seem like pushing digital cameras hard. They even brought the nikon bodies through retail.[0]

If that's not dragging your feet I don't know what is. They could have defined the marked for professional digital cameras. Instead they just proved that a digital nikon would work nicely.

[0]https://www.nikonweb.com/dcs100/
I think that's extremely hyperbolic.

If your livelihood depended on an insight into the way Apple's financial systems operate, and your options were Steve Wozniak or the first person you saw on the street in a major city, you'd say "flip a coin?" I didn't think so.
It all depends. Do they make income from work or investments? Does the spouse have a credit history? Do they have work history?

Banks do underwriting in various ways. When I (white male) got an AMEX student card in college 25 years ago, I had a $3k limit. MBNA and Citi gave me $35,000 and $20,000, respectively.
> We are currently at we know we have an electrical problem in the walls that we know will cause a house fire in the future if we don't fix it.

I disagree. Permanent damage has already been dealt. To continue with the house analogy, we can probably still save a smaller or bigger part of it depending on how quick we are to put the fire down.

But irreversible damage has already been done: even if we were to stop our carbon emissions right away, sea levels would still rise quite a bit (more than 1m by 2100-2300 IIRC). Every species that goes extinct will stay extinct, forever. And many are headed down this path. Biodiversity has suffered a lot in many places.

Think about this: we can complain about having to deal with radioactive garbage in 100ky, but any species that disappears today will not come back, even after billions of years. And millions of would-be species from its possible ofspring won't ever be either.

Those thoughts put things in perspective. I find them daunting, and this has led a lot of people to take the "climate emergency" very seriously. Our house is already on fire. Even if we start putting it out, we know it will still continue growing at least for a bit after we start pumping water, but we'd better start ASAP.
The U.S. unemployment rate is 3.6%, close to a record low. People who want jobs can generally get them. Now is not the time for a universal basic income.
I feel their pain. We here in Colorado are also seeing a big influx from California and their stereotypical culture and politics is unwelcome to many here. The "pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps", "live-and-let-live" cowboy attitude most Colorado-born folks here have clashes in no small way with what most California's bring.

And why the heck can't they drive like normal people?! <grin>

Great thing about America, you don't like where you're at, you can move to someplace else. That goes for Californias and for Coloradans.
I did watch that but the documentary seemed very biased toward the defense.

Like... Avery's dna was found in the victim's car, and the victim's charred bones were found in Avery's fire pit. But the show plays these off and makes it seem like a police conspiracy.
To get an idea, start by giving your laptop a name ascribing intent and fate to it, and seeing people as a product of your laptop, rather than the other way around.
Building a World Where Data Privacy Exists Online
> why didn't they test before panicking?

Because that's the sort of thing that can blow out a lawsuit or result in bad press.
That’s because it was seen as a name of a product. Now it is a common idea/service.

Think “couch” vs Ikea.
gotta wonder how small the % of linux users was prior steam
Isn't it Goldman loaning the line of credit? I'm not sure why Apple is getting the flack here. Apple is essentially a dumb middleman that shouldn't care about your credit rating since they have nothing to lose if you default on the loan.

I do get Apple getting shit for partnering with a horrible company. But does anyone know if Apple has any influence over the credit limit? I am having a hard time coming up with a reason why they would.
Unbeknownst to me I had been driving around on a suspended license for 6 months. The traffic ticket I had paid was never entered correctly. Apparently my hobbies include giving courthouses free money. I walked into court with a copy of the cancelled check. The clerk's record showed the receipt with a big PAID stamp on the digital copy.
Cerner? Epic? Suck and suck!
The energy wind and solar provides are also completely different. Capacity factor between 20-40 for wind and solar and 90 for nuclear. They provide less than 1% of the global energy and they don't have any other usage than providing energy plus the are unreliable and requires backup from other sources such as nuclear, oil, gas and coal.

I am not ignoring anything I am simply pointing to the fact that when we talk wind and solar the true cost isn't calculated whereas with nuclear it is.

And with regards to the insurance of catastrophes then Three Mile Island was paid by the insurance. Fukushima disaster happened not because of the nuclear powerplant but because of a tsunami, it was also the tsunami not Fukushima that killed thousands of people and Tjernobyl was owned and operated by the state so who else should pay for it?

So yes let's be real. No powerplant in the western world has yet cost taxpayers anything that wasn't covered by insurance and it has provided unparalleled clean energy which at least those who claim to worry about climate change as the biggest threat to humanity should support.
There isn't and never will be a facist-killing machine.

There are only killing machines.

There is no decentralized information technology.

The are only information technologies.

The capabilities are loosely determined by the creator; the result is determined by the user.

Consider Bitcoin: fully decentralized in theory, yet in practice controlled by an oligarchy.
>> ''In contrast to its international competitors, the United States brings a worldview that favors early involvement of industry in technology development and a greater appetite for tackling technology risk if it leads to commercial viability.''

As an aside, fusion technology feels like a good testbed for what economic model is best for the democratization of a public good. Is government investment in the ITER countries a better accelerator than the American model
of private companies being allowed to take advantage of research in govt institutions? I suppose we will know in a few decades when fusion contributes to the power grid.
I thought DHH was in Chicago, not New York? (Though Illinois is also not a community property state, so there's that.)

That aside, his evidence is limited because Apple and GS both refuse to share the rationale behind their credit decisions. It's an algorithm. So he's basing it on what he does know.
> I've had people put it into their system as a comma, dash, space, and all sorts of weirdness despite my calling it out specifically.

Ugh, yes. And it's insane how many people seem to just NOT KNOW what an apostrophe is.

> checking in for flights

Yea, airlines seem to be one of the worst offenders. I have Precheck but Spirit in particular is never able to match the name on my ticket to the name in the gov't database so I never get it. Just one more reason to avoid flying them I guess.
I like top posting+keeping the reply text. That way, if I get CC’d on a conversation in the middle, I have all the context I need instead of a cherry-picked selection of what someone in the reply chain thought was relevant.
English teachers are generally petulant pedantic crocks anyway. We'd probably have more/better writers without them ruining the subject for people as they do.
The ironic thing is not that Californians are leaving the state. Why wouldn't you want to leave a state with dysfunctional politics and questionable policies?

The irony is they take their politics and want to impose the same policies and politics in the new states --which if successful would create the same issues they are running away from!
> when they've ended up speaking to higher and higher up people in the various organisations that they literally don't know why the algorithm decided the way it did?

I don’t think it’s really fair to expect a C-level exec to know the low-level details of how creditworthiness is determined. I’m sure they can paint in broad strokes, but expecting a detailed answer for why a specific person got approved for a certain amount is a bit of a reach.

In the case of Woz having a higher limit than his wife, I’m sure it boils down to the usual stuff like, oh I don’t know, not being a cofounder of a massively successful corporation and therefore being filthy rich for the last 30+ years.

There might very well be a case to be made here but not likely between two people who are so very different in financial terms (or were for most of their lives). Your credit score isn’t something that changes the instant you get married to someone who’s rich.
Making Sense of Smash Bros. Melee: The Illusion of Objective Ranks
Huawei defies odds to lead global telecoms market after 180 days on US blacklist
Perhaps the people who are "higher and higher up" don't know what the inputs to the algorithm were and therefore can't say one way or the other. Perhaps those inputs are sensitive PII which shouldn't be accessible to the customer support reps who are trying to answer these concerns.

Now that's probably cause for concern too, of course. Imagine if you actually saw the massive personal data trove that has been collected on you which is being used to make these decisions. Sends a shiver up the spine doesn't it?
Nah, pretty common Irish last name
Eh, I've used languages that were "hard to approach", one of my favorites (Erlang) is one of those (I use quotations especially because learning all of Erlang's syntax takes about a day).

This is a misapplication of the presentation really. It speaks to a level above selecting a language and is really about the design of systems.

Picking up Kotlin or Clojure is not "harder to approach" by virtue of what's provided in this context, it's harder because Clojure syntax uses parenthesis.

Like that's literally it.

Clojure with the same exact constructs represented with more C-like syntax would, at the level the presentation speaks to, allow the same level of simplicity.

I think a lot of developers feel "It looks funny" is not a fair critique of a useful tool, but just look at Erlang vs Elixr. I love Erlang, much more than I like Elixr, but Elixr gained mind share in large part because it's Ruby-like.

Cognitive overhead is lower working with a language that at least "looks like", what you're used to, and more developers know C-like languages, thus a language like Kotlin is "easier to approach" but necessarily "easier" in the way the presentation talks about
Both of you are missing the point. Once you normalize, car color would be an attribute on the car table, and to map those you need many-to-many lookup tables. It can be done obviously, but it's more effort to do, maintain and update. Depending on your requirements, graph db like features can provide an easier abstraction.
Errm, if I'm understanding that Wiki article right, one of the key factions in the Popular Front was a French communist party that was literally the local affiliate of Russian communism, complete with the usual support for Stalinism. Which wasn't terribly uncommon - part of the reason World War II happened the way it did was that Stalinist communism was a real, genuine threat in much of Europe, and of course much more than that in eastern Europe.
I think it comes down to technology. It's tempting to argue that technology for decentralization has been invented. Bittorrent, for example. But if you think it through, Bittorrent represents a very limited form of decentralization.

Effort is inversely proportional to popularity. If something is effortless and serves a need, it will become popular. Bitcoin was basically effortless to operate in the early days.

I don't think it should be up to users to carefully collect works that they want to "make decentralized". Decentralization should be the norm.

And it shouldn't be up to them to worry about the legal ramifications of doing so. The network itself should ensure anonymity, like Tor.

Currently there is no such technology. IPFS came close, but it fails the anonymity requirement.
> just that DHH has no idea or very limited information as to what is going on

That's the main problem he has. Major decisions based on secret information. (Or secret algorithms).
From your first comment:

"glib remarks" and "making them look like a biased hack to anybody who engages in serious thinking."

> you look like an idiot who is too lazy to spend the the 5 minutes on Wikipedia

Yes, thank you for insulting me a second time. And sorry, I don't regard Wikipedia as a reliable source, despite its selective citations.

Median income is a single measurement, it doesn't mean an iota if your country can't provide universal healthcare, free (or inexpensive) education, social security that is a genuine safety net for those who're in desperate circumstances, etc, etc. I consider these important elements of being a first world country.
That brings to mind the concept of a stronf interpretation of the 14th ammendment protecting against bad laws and promoting justice.
Generally, if you attack another country with nuclear weapons today I feel like you’d swiftly draw the world into a nuclear war?
This sounds exactly correct unfortunately. Also taking down clinics in Canada.
There's also a great book called Cows Are Freaky When They Look at You[1], which is about California hippie pot farmers who picked up and moved do rural Kansas in the 60's to grow their crop, and the boggle-eyed reactions they got from the locals.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Cows-Freaky-When-They-Look/dp/0922820...
Does it not concern you in the slightest, that when they've ended up speaking to higher and higher up people in the various organisations that they literally don't know why the algorithm decided the way it did?

That isn't what concerns me. I wouldn't expect the CEO of Apple to explain the inner workings of any of their algorithms. That's not their function. What scares me is that people who program or specify these things don't know how the heck decisions are made.

From credit decisions to self-driving cars, we are trusting black boxes with no idea why they make specific decisions.
so i did a little bit of digging into it and it looks like it does a delete command for each of the items that are selected in the list separately. this is all overly simplified as there are other things going on (selecting the nodes to be deleted as well as notifications to other subsystems.)

That item can be a node(website) that has thousands of visits associated with it so it needs to then delete each of those in multiple batches of delete statements chunked by the db variable limit(~100 or 1000 I think).

Then after that transaction sqlite rebuilds the indexes(17 by my count) on the database with those items missing.

then it does the next chunk and continues on in chunks until there are no more items to delete and then the next item that was selected begins the process again. there might also be a problem with redrawing the history list taking time away from the deletion itself too. it's tough to say exactly what the full bottleneck it but the chunking of the deletes like that looks like a culprit.
Destructors shouldn't fail: that's why they're implicitly noexcept in C++11. (You can, however, throw inside a destructor so long as you catch before returning.)

In practice, it's not a problem. If you really want to do something fallible on every success path, you can use an IIFE or a named function to isolate everything before the thing you want to do on the success path.

What cases do you have in mind?
What's funny about NextDoor is they constantly complain about homelessness, property crime, assault, etc., but continue to vote in the same kind of progressive supervisors who solve nothing. I see a few finally having it and saying they will look to more centrist candidates --but it's not going to change overnight.
Your biggest problem is that it doesn't work with a MIDI keyboard? Ok? I have to ask why this is so important? What is the use case here?
> Deactivate pre-loading of websites the website you look at links too and then talk again. Chrome uses all kind of tricks to trick you into thinking it is the faster rendering browser. Deactivate the gimmicks and then look at a comparison.

Why would I hobble interesting performance features of the browser just to compare it unfairly to a browser which lacks those features, or doesn't implement them properly? FWIW I have some forms of prefetch disabled, it's still faster. Chromium is in fact faster, in addition to having more of those "tricks" to hide latency.

> Still the whole argument is laughable, because even if I saw every page a second or 2 slower, it would still be worth it, if it protects my rights online.

What rights do you gain by using a Netscape fork rather than a KHTML fork? Both Mozilla and Google censor extensions and occasionally install proprietary components the user did not ask for; but Google doesn't preach about being some saintly do-gooder (and Chromium distributions with privacy and do-good claims like this are about as trustworthy as Mozilla).

> Also using more memory just because I have more, to the degree of using all of it, is not a good strategy. Sorry, I run other applications too, the browser is not the only contender for my RAM.

AFAIK it will size down when other applications allocate more memory.

> I highly doubt that Firefox does anything half as aggressive with regard to memory as Chrome does, in order to "impress the user" with their speed.

Is that... a good thing? Seems like you're spinning Firefox lacking sophistication as some sort of great advantage.

Added: If you just don't want to be attached to google services, or have the possibility to accidentally enable a google service, you can try ungoogled-chromium.
> This is flat out wrong. many communities already exist exclusively on renewables.

"Communities" maybe but what about (heavy) industry like the the one required to e.g. manufacture more wind/water turbines and parts, (continue) to research more efficient technologies in the future, to sustain the growing population etc. ?
At least the UK is seen by many to have been an evil empire.