skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is necessary but not sufficient for any new contender to do at least the following to have any chance of taking over:

- Interoperate with the major player(s), currently Git and in many places unfortunately still Subversion. svn2git probably did more for Git adoption than any other feature or tool, because it allowed a fairly painless transition without losing information.

- Solve at least one big problem with the current contenders. Git made it possible to run VCS without a separate server program and sped up VCS operations massively. Both of those were huge. Looking at the Fossil home page[1] it does have some features I personally have wanted in VCSes, such as integrated "bug tracking, wiki, forum, and technotes," but the devil is very much in the details of how that actually works (How easy is it to write your own custom frontend or add business-critical bug tracking fields, for example?), and it's not like we don't already have good bug trackers, wikis etc.

Just as a tangent, some issues (but not necessarily major or fundamental, depending on who you ask) with Git as it works right now:

- Does not use cryptographically secure hashes, and has no clear migration path to a different hashing mechanism.

- Git Annex is not yet built in.

- The command line is complex, including many niche subcommands and tons of rarely used options.

- The command line is inconsistent, such as `git rm` vs `git branch --delete` vs `git remote remove`.

- It is based on a less than ideal theoretical model of patches[2]. IMO this is the most exciting development in VCSes since Git.

[1] https://fossil-scm.org/

[2] https://pijul.org/model/
is this really that important, thought, since all servers feed power from uninterruptible power supply and most data centers have multiple power sources.
I think his current argument is that he doesn't have to give access (maintain easement) because his property is part of an 1851 sale of Mexican property which has a treaty that supercedes Californian state law. Essentially a federal treaty supercedes state law through judicial review.
This seems to presume that "childrens content" is a binary yes/no thing. This is certainly not the case. I know as an adult I still watch many of the same kinds of things I enjoyed as a kid.

I wonder if something like openly drinking alcohol on your channel, or having scantily clad assistants or something could be a way to ensure you don't get classed as childrens content.
How do you determine what is kids content and what is not? Is a Pewdiepie video on Minecraft qualify as kids content?
Here is the archive.org link since it seems that the website has been hugged to death:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200107003015/http://blog.eladg...
They're trying to automatically detect content that's aimed for kids. So creepy Elsagate stuff should end up being flagged.
This seems especially true for YouTube kids to me. Do kids really care whether the content was produced a year or a week ago? It's not a news outlet. We literally have enough content available for each kid's whole childhood. YouTube could decide to review and allow one new channel per month per language and the consumers wouldn't be affected.
I think it's pretty fair to expect that a product or platform like YouTube delivers a consistent and predictable experience instead of blaming users.

Yes, if you are worried, the smart thing to do is not to expose your kids to YouTube at all. Wishing that YouTube could be better is independent of whether you choose to expose your kids to it.

Also, it has nothing to do with being liberal or conservative, at least with me. I will let my kids watch a lot of stuff, if we intentionally pick it out. If you saw random baby shark or finger family between whatever videos you wanted, you'd be right to complain and no one would blame you.

There is zero product design behind the way kids are exposed to scary things. No product manager decided it should be that way. It just is that way because it's not prioritized by the business or it's too expensive.

Imo if YouTube markets at kids they should be accountable. They should clean it up.
Of course Git is replaceable. When a new tool that provides a substantial benefit over using Git comes around, it will be replaced.

If that never happens, then it's a pretty strong indication that Git is working perfectly fine -- so why worry about whether or not you can replace it?
Trying to divine the eccentrics of the nes would be a nightmare. In order to emulate the hardware properly, there are several bugs that need to be reproduced such as the oamaddr bug for example. Most small projects like this aren't striving for cycle and bug perfect emulation, just for proof of concept. If you want state of the art emulation for accuracy, look at mesen or bizhawk. Unfortunately they both incorporate so many other features that reading the "core" emulation bits is difficult. So for casual reference, projects like this one are great.

[1] https://github.com/sourmesen/mesen

[2] https://github.com/TASVideos/BizHawk
Why? (Serious question.)

It seems to me that the common (Western) standard of ~ 40 hours a week is something we inherited a generation or two ago, and consequently is considered to be normal, average, ideal, expected, realistic, fair, reasonable, etc.

As noted, societies have previously had very different norms which have been changed without societal collapse.

Applying the scientific method to the ~40-hour assumption is something we should, as rational actors, embrace. What few experiments conducted so far suggest at least some positive outcomes, but more importantly indicate more experiments are worthwhile.

Personally, submitting to 5 x 8 hours a week, 11 months a year, repeat until I'm too old to continue (or indeed to anything else) just because that's what dad did, isn't a compelling case.
Re: Apple using AMD cpu.

Apple can’t until either: Intel opensources thunderbolt or Apple drops Thunderbolt support.

Years ago Intel said they would but they still haven’t yet.

Edit: I originally stated Lightning and meant to say Thunderbolt.
Maybe Linus should update the docs: https://www.kernel.org/doc/htmldocs/kernel-locking/locks.htm...
I think it would be useful to add a warning there.
I would love to see a merger of Pijul and Darcs again. Having two diverging patch-based approaches (one declining, one not lifting off) is not a good thing.
Generally called aether, believe that ether is a misspelling which has lingered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_theories
We have no shortage of important and pragmatic ideas. The problem is that the people with really good ideas lack the power and influence to implement them.
The latest statement I have heard from him is that Australia is doing its part in countering climate change but it will not change its plans on coal mining. I suppose that implies that it is human caused since otherwise there would be no way for the country to do anything.
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The problem is there is no good way to tell if a user is a child without violating their privacy. You can't ask their age, they'll lie.

Targeting content aimed at children is... I'm not going to pretend it's good, or even long-term viable (malicious videos are still going to slip through). But it passes the extremely low bar of being better than age-verification gates.
"Australia is the world’s largest coal exporter, – accounting for 35 per cent of all coal exported" https://www.australianmining.com.au/features/where-does-aust...

If Australia stopped coal exports, we could have a significant impact on the viability of coal as a fuel source. If we're serious about climate change we could halt coal exports immediately, which would spike the cost of coal and lead to the closure of coal plants already on thin margins. Sounds drastic but maybe not if you consider how little time we have to correct course.

We'd need take care of the coal workers. Potentially continue their salaries for a year, then phase it out gradually. There's only $35k workers in the coal industry. Average $100k salary = $3.5 Billion per year. Doable.

I don't know what to do with the coal mines and their investors. I'm inclined to say screw them. Let them go bankrupt. But this might hurt investor confidence in Australia ...
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It sounds like the "pets / cattle" metaphor is finally returning to actual ranches.

I don't think software is eating the whole world but it's eating that one. That tells me it's ripe for disruption.
Why is that? My daughter has an extremely restricted access to screens. I code for a living. She understands that is my work. She understands we consider she is too young to decide the contents she watches. And even when she doesn't understand, she understands it's not her call.
Yes, I agree there a few things that could be done to improve, but they all basically involve giving semi-subjective 'weights' as to the reliability of individual reviewers.

E.g. more likely to be genuine if purchased, if not prepublication (except some people really do receive and review books in advance), if has many reviews, if reviews follow common statistical patterns both per-author and per-book, and so on.

The trouble with all of this is just that it's really, really hard to get right. There's a tremendous amount of 'tuning' involved.

It's probably not possible, but it really would be great if someone could come up with some general elegant theory to solve particularly the 'does this reviewer seem statistically trustworthy', in a way that effectively identifies brigading and harrassment, while still allowing for genuine 'oddballs' whose reviews and ratings go against the crowd.
> unfortunately still Subversion

Which is a better choice than Git for most projects, to be honest.
I'd rather have milk be readily available at $2.19 USD/gal than subsidize local farms.

I make six figures and I can get by at $4/gal but if/when you apply that reasoning to subsidies/protectionist regulations across the economy my ability to purchase goods and services is greatly reduced and so is my quality of life. I'd get by though. But it's not about me. It's about the family making half of what I make with three children that need to be fed and clothed. They're the ones who really get screwed when you hike the prices of commodities with protectionist measures. So given the choice of who gets screwed I'd pick the local dairy farmers every time.
It also increased the crop yields of farms downstream from the closed plants a signficant amount, this is in the linked study and not in the news article.
It would be interesting to compare the full results of decreased resource use for farming, also the replacement natural gas/ wind/dam versus the former coal power pollution.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0453-5.epdf
>but what we have now seems fairly optimal.

Based on what? The 40 hour work week is entirely artificial and came around at a time when people had shorter commutes and could afford to feed, cloth and educate a family on a single income.

Now people are churning out 40 hours a week, mostly in dual income homes, and a vast amount of people are struggling to put food on the table, clothes on themselves and their kids and a roof over their heads even here in the developed West.

What is optimal about it is that we've all been coerced to do the same amount of hours, give or take, and therefore your competition will be putting in the same amount of hours, give or take.

Meanwhile people are taking far longer to get to their place of work, often sacrificing lunches or eating in isolation, and then dragging themselves home to do the basic chores required of keeping a home for themselves. Add in kids and most are exhausted.

So what, except for the benefit of business owners, is optimal about this situation?

I'm no socialist looking for a handout here, but as times changes and the circumstances with them, society should change and adapt with it and not cling to relics of a by-gone era that were created to optimize life in a time we can barely relate to now.
I have no social network.. hmmm
So I am smart :-)
The combination of glue code and pipeline jungles are, along with feature engineering, one of the biggest pain points we've observed in users. This stuff gets copied and pasted everywhere, turns unmaintainable, and then is next to impossible to optimize.

It's as if a lot of ML framework authors believe that most users are researchers... in reality, data is rarely clean, rarely in the right format, and usually needs to be intermingled and transformed with other data before it can be useful.
My startup is one http://www.hyperfiddle.net/ Others are https://darklang.com/ and https://www.unisonweb.org/ and of course scripting google sheets with javascript

Low-code is very suddenly going to be a big thing in the next couple years and when it happens there are now 750M more "coders" and those types of people are not interested in git pull --rebase --fucked --whatdidido
Sounds like the problem is YouTube is trying to have their cake and eat it too -- in my opinion, content should either be "adults only" with whatever ads or "family friendly" with only untargeted ads.

Less targeting of ads in general would be a good thing. YouTube makes the rules around monetization and ad rates on their platform, so they just need to rework their business model to, you know, not exploit children.
The big tech companies fundamentally do not give a crap. Traumatizing young children is a roundoff error in their calculus.
Great read.

I came to the bit about his journey taking ten years and thought "his poor wife".

I later saw that they divorced.
I think his current argument is that he doesn't have to give access (maintain easement) because his property is part of an 1851 sale of Mexican property which has a treaty that supercedes Californian state law. Essentially a federal treaty supercedes state law through judicial review. So unfortunately the current interpretation based on the courts is that since his property is part of the 1851 sale which is governed by a federal treaty (which is always above the rules of state law), he doesn't have to provide easement at all.

I wonder if this means that any of the property owners involved in land as part of the 1851 sale can now block their existing easements for beach access.
You can look at actual numbers. Instead of a Model 3. Lets compare a Chevy Bolt with a Prius.

Chevy Bolt is about 3500lbs
Prius is about 3000lbs.

Chevy Bolts battery weighs 440 kg or about 968lbs.

Reduce the battery weight by 1/2 and save 484 lbs. So the weight drops to 3016.

So point stands if the battery power density improves 2X then the weight penalty disappears.
Yes, if it's public domain, there's no copyright holder, and it's impossible (and unnecessary) for anybody to license it.

This is about the situation that the US government is not permitted to obtain copyrights for their own work in the US, but there's apparently nothing to stop it being copyrighted in other countries.
There are a handful of AMD systems with Thunderbolt already. Presumably the situation will be better with USB 4.0.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21974514
Yes great point - also git for data and databases e.g. Datomic
"Under load though mobile CPUs hitting north of 40W"
Most ultrabooks feature 15watt parts. They might hit 17watt but will definitely throttle after that. Yes, if you buy a laptop with a high tdp part like 35 then yes, it will consume the most power.

My problem is that idle power consumption is what mostly dictates battery life. and the APU wont always be in C0. Especially when doing mundane things like a powerpoint presentation or watching a movie. in those cases the CPU consumes only around 5-8W on todays mobile processors. Like you said, the screen brightness is already at 5-10 watts. Factor in that you're either streaming a film from netflix, adding another couple watts for your ethernet or wifi chip. Or you're streaming it from your ssd. Meaning your ssd will be kept out of its lowest power state and also consume a couple watts on top of all your other components.

Unless you're rendering for hours on your battery, your CPU wont be the top contender for power consumption.

"SSD efficiency would be the thing that's nearly irrelevant." you'd be suprised. most hdd's are still more power efficient than flash storage. Especially the bigger capacities have active idle power consumption of 1.5w that is, before we're adding any reads or writes to it. Yes, ssd's can power down but its not a silver bullet.
The power to walk away and not buy is an almost ultimate power; and companies/everyone does respond aggressively to it.

It is extreme hubris to think you can use some other power to get consumers a product that they magically want more than the one they're going to choose to spend their own money on. People value their money; they'll try and get the best value they can for it.
I have seen it, yes. The sudden gore is obviously unfortunate for a toddler to stumble across, even for an older child. I understand that you would like to shield your children for such content, but I also strongly believe that it's possible to do so with communication, rules and strict guidelines on how to look up content and suggested videos.

"As a parent" is one of my favourite phrases, by the way. It translates to "I know better than you, regardless of your parental status". Which is fine. I was only wondering about the reasoning, after all. :)
paywalled?

This seems interesting, though. Does the plant just become a stranded asset or is there still a way to get returns out of it?
And it ran on film
But did you think that RCS, CVS, or SVN were also good enough? Or is this new?
Good, now where will all these elsagate creeps flock to? Youtube had this stink about it for years, hopefully they can wash it off.
it's not too late! 1798.185c[1] says that although the law went into effect Jan 1st, _enforcement_ starts July 1st.

OP, thank you for writing this. I bought a copy and will read it even though my employer has already done its own due diligence.

[1]: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
> This is not "have a discussion with your kids" territory, it's nightmares and trauma.

The big tech companies are so far removed from real users that they'll just tighten a few screws on their machine learning and call it fixed. You're a roundoff error to them, unfortunately. These people are the real machines, servicing the electronic machines to make money for their masters, the execs and stockholders.
I would agree that it is uncomfortable to watch but what the law "wants" is pretty clear, and Khosla has lost at pretty much every turn. Now the state is suing to create sanctions on him if he fails to abide by previous decisions to make the beach accessible.

Rather than be infuriated, be comforted in the fact that in spite of all his money he has been unable to overturn this law. He has made a lot of lawyers rich doing it, and will have paid a chunk of San Mateo's superior court's budget this year in fees. And he still lost.

Now the state and coastal commission are getting a court order so that they can start fining him without the need to go to court. Think of it as a really really regressive tax on a rich land owner. Let's say he writes it off as the cost of doing business and just keeps paying fines. Well I could single handedly double the budget that the coastal commission has available for keeping beach access open. That's a lot of resources.
Coding Interview Problems with Detailed Solutions, Test Cases, Program Analysis
Sorry, the "selling the Brooklyn Bridge" expression reached its expiration date in December 2019.
Exporting to Git: You set a "Git mirror" once, optionally with a remote URI, and call fossil's export routine. Example: I wrote a cronjob that runs once every night that does nothing but update my Git mirrors from the current Fossils.

cd $FOSSILDIR
for f in *; do
/usr/local/bin/fossil git export -q -R $f
done

Importing works... similarly. :-)
It's 7% of emissions caused by fossil fuels, not 7% of the fuels: coal is the worst of them.

Australia's emissions are smaller, however they enable much larger emissions elsewhere. Without that coal, India and China would be accelerating their transition to renewables.
It seems as if the default assumption for all kids content is the "kid" did it, and hence assumed they also made the playlist. Perhaps features will be added at a later date to re-enable features such as playlists with default implicit parental consent.

I rather like the hard handed approach as a parent (who can be both lazy and diligent) as I think it reinforces good parental control of video content.

This will force lots of behavior changes for both consumers and producers. The key will be how they handle the suggested videos, which may have unintended negative consequences, as I am sure the UX will still be based on generated maximum ad dollars, targeted or not, and not "healthy" video viewing.
Haha, called it!

Feynman warned about this specific phenomenon: basing new physics on the points at the extreme end of your graph, where the measurements are least reliable.

In this case, these points correspond to demolition of the most distant and youngest stars in the sample, which could differ in many ways from the common, much more recent events. Low metallicity is a difference that is obvious to every AP, but there is no reason to assume it is the only one. We just don't get to study any young-universe stars that haven't blown up.

Did anybody even discuss metallicity and possible effects on brightness of t1a sn's, when DE was first proclaimed? If not, why not?
Doesn't git fall apart for long wide checkouts and large files?
My Quantified Media Diet
Splunk is great because they managed to anchor it to security as a SIEM and have an inscrutable billing model.

Which potential security threat do you want to eliminate to reduce the splunk bill?
I'm assuming you're referring to this [0].

Looks like the two options are either the video is removed, or put behind an age gate.

Isn't the FTC's issue here that they simply don't believe YouTube when it comes to an account's age? A kid could be watching the targeted-to-kids content and still be on their older sibling's account, or they may have lied about their birthday (who didn't?) - either way, their argument is that YouTube and content creators are violating COPPA if the content itself is what they consider targeted to kids, and a kid watches it - regardless of what YouTube claims their account age to be.

So, putting the creepy videos behind an age gate - seems to not be a valid defense in light of the FTC's reasoning that age gates are not reliable. Which is why their silence on this side of the issue is confusing to me.

Unless there's some kind of tunnel vision going on here, and they're worried about the ad metrics or whatever that YouTube is generating from minors - and the FTC just doesn't care about the actual content of the videos, so long as you're very careful about what data you collect and how you monetize videos a kid might watch.

[0]: https://youtube.googleblog.com/2017/11/5-ways-were-toughenin...
Ask HN: What are more books like “Masters of Doom” or “Showstoppers”?
I recently read "Masters of Doom" and found it to be far more motivating than any self help book. What books do you think are similar to it?
"The cloud" is still file-system based - and it CAN and WILL disappear over night.
It feels that way, and it's heartbreaking that our entire species ended up locked into a tool with such a horrible interface.

In a way, the git monopoly is worse than Windows or x86 or IPv4, because it's not just a piece of technical infrastructure. Its arcane commands and its branching model have infected all of our brains. You can choose a different editor, you can choose a different operating system, but for as long as we all live, we will never escape the fact that "git reset" does a half a dozen confusingly different operations, or that renaming cannot be tracked, or that most users don't fully understand most of the commands they regularly use.