skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen a couple of more substantive ones although unfortunately I didn't save links to them.

I remember a couple of cautionary themes were that (1) you might easily offend or alienate people, or make them suspicious of you, (2) you might find it hard to persuade people that things you knew about had much merit or utility, (3) you might not be able to take much advantage of your modern technical knowledge without infrastructure and supply chains, and (4) you might not be able to support yourself easily in an unfamiliar economy while attempting to teach others or manufacture things with your modern knowledge. Although you might feel that there are lots of cool scientific principles that you could demonstrate to convince people that your knowledge was important, it's also likely that you wouldn't know all the necessary details or have easy access to the necessary apparatus or raw materials.

Anyway, those were someone else's ideas from one of those threads—and they were expressed better there and with more specifics.
From a complexity theory perspective, the Darcs patch application algorithm runs in time O(2^n) in the worst case, where n is the number of patches since the beginning of the repository. That exponential merge happens in practice.

In Pijul, it is always O(log n + c), where c is the size of the largest conflict between the current repository and the patch you're trying to apply.

So, it is a double-exponential improvement in practical uses, even though you could totally make c = n for the sake of the argument.

The tradeoff is that Pijul doesn't handle the very cool (but rarely usable in practice) "darcs replace".

From an implementation perspective, Pijul is in Rust, relies on less external stuff than Darcs (for example no need for Putty on Windows), is available as a library.

edit: also, Pijul has branches, too, and Darcs doesn't. But branches are far from being as useful as in Git, and in fact most Git workflows use short-lived branches, which are essentially just patches in both Pijul and Darcs.
Only when the car is advertised to boomers. Fords new electrified cars commercial pumps techno.
I don't think it makes sense to include as unknowable as a hater's internal motivation as a defining characteristic.

Moreover even when there is "no good reason" initially, good reason might be found eventually. Scrutiny usually begins with the intuition that something doesn't add up, with the actual evidence arriving later. The "hate" for the fraudster precedes the exposure of the fraud.
It was treated more like "ok, yet another person complaining about it - here's what you need to implement, and why you won't".

The indirection tables are survivable for fixing short term mistakes, though.
Have you worked with doctor's? When I did I'd routinely sit in a room with 10-25 people and wait for hours on a doctor to show up to a meeting they'd schedule onlu to be told by a secretary he was busy. Everyone I know who has worked with doctor's has similar stories.

This hasn't happened to me with any other position in any other organization, including vice presidents of Fortune 500 companies.
Nice but judging by those standards almost everyone on this planet is a loser.
I quit drinking 12 years ago but made it a point to carry on with my day to day life and not avoid situations. If I'm in a situation where people are moderately drinking, I ... don't drink. If people ask me why I don't drink, I ask them why they do drink. At the end of the day, whether I'm getting shitfaced or not drinking at all is my business. I have had a few people make a big deal about it and I just tell them they're being an asshole and they must be really insecure if making a big deal about me NOT drinking is all they're focused on.

If you have social anxiety, talk to a therapist. My drinking got out of control from a cycle having anxiety which was relieved by drinking which would cause anxiety.

Life is pretty boring in the beginning when you quit. You start to realize how much of your social life is dictated by drinking and how much time and money you spend on it.
I don't know too much about the specifics, but Pijul is based on a new "theory of patches" that is different from Darcs' and which they claim is "formally correct". Darcs always had a problem with exponential merge solutions, and Pijul apparently doesn't, partly thanks to using what they call a "conflict-tolerant" format for storing the tree. See the "Pijul for Darcs uses" at https://pijul.org/manual/why_pijul.html.
I assume you're comparing to Reddit. I wouldn't say internet virtue points play any less of a role here.

Your total "internet virtue points" here are displayed in the top right corner (whereas on Reddit you have to go looking). The virtue points any given comments gains are not visible to other people (unlike on reddit) but losses are. That doesn't seem like a big net difference between the two platforms.

HN's karma system is just as good as Reddit's at faking a consensus and marginalizing whoever has even a slightly less popular viewpoint on a subject.
If you search and replace "haters" with "taters", it becomes a very strange essay about potatoes.
More precisely, all well-defined computable functions are continuous.

For another exposition of the same (or similar) results, see also Dan Piponi's post from 2008 "What does topology have to do with computability?" at http://blog.sigfpe.com/2008/01/what-does-topology-have-to-do...

Also, as a follow-up, you may be interested in Martin Escardo's 2007 post on the same blog: http://math.andrej.com/2007/09/28/seemingly-impossible-funct...
Give and Take: A Study of Consumer Photo-Sharing Culture and Practice (2007)
If you're US citizen residing in California, you had an option to vote for (or against) people that enacted it. If you didn't, now you learned that elections have consequences regardless of whether you participate or not. If you are, like me, an alien living in California, you can be happy that at least the weather is nice, so far they didn't find the way to mess this up too.
As someone who had constructed a stair once, I fully support the author. Any activity has lots of small and non-obvious details, which stop you from doing anything right when you stumble in then, and which seem easy and trivial in the hindsight. I guess, that's why it is called "know-how".
I tend to agree with Paul Graham[0] on this one, and less on the "last of the magicians" moniker. The idea is Newton tried to uncover truth through multiple methods and avenues, and we remember him for the ones the bore fruit, and not for the ones that didn't seem to pan out.

After all, in Newton's time, how would you know alchemy didn't work until you tried it rigorously? Or, more generally, how would you have even known for sure that empiricism and mathematics would be so successful?

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/disc.html
CIA left explosive material on Loudon school bus after training exercise
Privacy International’s open letter to Google: privacy shouldn’t be a luxury
I am horrified... at how plausible this sounds.

Like many IT people, I google
the heck out of a medical condition when I see doctors. Once I must have asked enough pertinent pointed questions that the doctor asked with a mix of sincerity AND condescension, “have you ever worked in a medical field?” No but like any curious individual I utilize the systems accumulating all human knowledge at our fingertips to inform myself... Doesn’t mean I can’t ultimately rely on your professional judgment, Sir
Running games on Linux is trivial at this point, Valve has made WINE so easy to use that all my games from Windows work without me lifting a finger. Civ 5? No problem. Random Indie Game that only ever worked on Windows 7? Works great.

Google did not put sufficient resources towards building a broad platform. If they had, then the Stadia catalog would have many more titles. Instead the AAA rabbit hole has consumed the resources spent on Stadia, and players still get a crummy experience.
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Ericsson has another philosophy where there connect multiple repos at ci/cd-time. They have open sourced a tool for that called Eiffel [1]. There is also a book [2] written by the author of Eiffel that is quite good. One of his argument is that when, as an enterprise, you buy a company with a big mature code base, you can’t just move it into another common repo with all custom tooling (also very anti agile to force everyone into the same suit). A big difference though might be that Ericsson deals with a lot of custom hardware for telecom networks. So their ci tooling might be more complex than google’s. Also, continuous deployment is not really an option for them. Then it is better to just have each piece sent out events on what’s happening (builds, test runs etc) and let event listeners in other parts of the ci/cd pipeline work out what to do.

(I have worked for Ericsson previously for 7 years but that was before Eiffel)

[1] https://eiffel-community.github.io/

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Continuous-Practices-Strategic-Accele...
They were a ticket/booking platform for concerts in ASEAN.

I don't know much else beyond they had a single table which contained both users and bookings where new bookings were just in new columns next to the user info. If the user w/ the most bookings had 51 then they had at least 51 columns. Every time the max bookings user added a new booking they would add more columns - what.

If the DB data structure of the core business looks like that, you can imagine the rest built on top looks absolutely terrible.

Diligence would've easily seen this, but it was never performed. The VC never made that mistake again. Trust but verify.
> Not to put too fine a point, but is this the Paris you've encountered?

It's absolutely part of it. I actually have no idea what your fine point is. Please spell it out for me.

> Do you expect others who've visited Paris to come away with quite a different perception, even being in the same places you were in or objectively no?

I don't think this is an objective conversation. I don't understand how someone couldn't have appreciated the things I did, that's all.
That's exactly why I used Uber in new cities - I don't know which cab company is honest and which is crooked, I don't know what's the good rate looks like, I don't know whether the route from airport to my hotel is supposed to take 10 minutes or 40 minutes... I don't have time or desire to conduct this research, yet less after a long and tiring flight. In Uber, I get price upfront - if it sounds reasonable, I go, if it sounds too much, I look for the other options. Much simpler.
Blake3 is 10 times faster than SHA-2
Car color and risk of car crash injury: case control study (2003)
If you want the gist of it just look at any project that has been exported from Google internals to github, I'll point to the moderately sized https://github.com/google/certificate-transparency/tree/mast... It's obviously a microcosm but having base, util, net and some directories for each project is pretty much how it goes.
Google's office suite is a collection of tools made by Google which run in the browser. It doesn't need to run any third party software which wasn't designed as a plugin. Stadia on the other hand needs to run third party software which wasn't originally built to run on it
The concept of collecting moisture from air is somewhere between decades-old (the modern plastic version) and centuries old.
How is this topic political?
Here you go
https://outline.com/pWXZNv
Nah, as far as I know there is no such policy:

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h00398/the-changing-fac...
I love that the charitable interpretation of Minksy's behavior is "an underaged girl propositioned him for sex on Epstein's island and he said 'no,' but then continued to associate and organize symposia with Epstein even after his 2008 conviction."

Wow, let's not go overboard with the guilt-by-association here!
>You're linking to press releases now,

So your first link in this thread, which is a press release, and your second link, which is a Dave Lindoff opinion piece, are valid, but linking a .gov release with a link to the actual audit means this thread has run it's course? That's intellectually dishonest.

>not even including USArmy which is what we were talking about.

The linked audit clearly states Army. Look at the audit page. Search the word "Army". First (and only) Army link goes to the Army section of the audit. Since you didn't even look, I'll post the Army section for you [1].

This has become completely dishonest. You're not even looking at the audits from the DoD, including the one you care about, to update your world view.

>You refuse to acknowledge that unjustified adjustments have overwhelmed the rest of the books.

I admit they did in 2016. The 2018 and 2019 audits no longer have that result. Do you acknowledge subsequent audits resolved the discrepancies and found no evidence of fraud?

[1] https://www.asafm.army.mil/Audit/
What does this enable that wasn't possible with plating or electro forming?
Which makes eucalyptus problematic. Its introduction to California has done an incredible amount of damage, especially because the ecosystem can't process it, the bugs etc that can eat eucalyptus leaves and wood don't exist outside of Australia
Sure, industry learned that exposing ports is dangerous. But they apparently didn't understand the deeper risk of trusting the network.

Cellular baseband is poorly secured, and it's privileged over userland. And its firmware is a closed-source blob, so it's ~impossible to fully assess the risks.

And so it's arguable that adversaries can pwn smartphones through baseband.

That's the analogy to Windows XP machines. Windows Firewall was just a stopgap. What helped most was going from dial-up modems, which are no more secure than network interfaces, to modem/routers with NAT firewalls.

So smartphones ought to have discrete cellular modem/routers. And that's an easy option for the PinePhone, given the kill switch.
Also, personalities tend to change if the testes are removed.
Beijing’s man lost by a shocking landslide in Taiwan’s presidential election
Latest commit from 7 months ago. Also, anecdotally I've heard it's not very user friendly in practice; more like a research prototype than usable software.
Google embodied cognition - while it is true semantics can be separated from the physicality of the incarnation of the system for simple software things, it seems likely any digital representation of the mind will include a lot of data about the material facts of wet brains, chemicals, diffusion, weird coincidences between same gene pathways affecting multiple systems and all.
It's comparable, apparently: https://pijul.org/manual/why_pijul.html https://pijul.org/manual/why_pijul.html#pijul-for-darcs-user...
The article read to me like one of those posted every 6-8 months with random thoughts someone had in one morning reminiscing old days with oranges compared to sports cars and complete disregard that, as time marches on, things change, people(customers/users) want more, convenience is prioritized.

I'll also reminiscence a bit: back in 2000s, my 266MHz, 64MB, 4.1GB HDD PC would let me install a 2GB full feature third person adventure game(Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, for exampler) worth nearly double digit hours of play, currently it takes 2x of disk space to install a basic platformer giving 1-2h of fun. Every new game lags to hell on a new PC because I have opted for 1 year old GFX card. I can view a PDF nicely with SumatrPDF yet Adobe Acrobat Reader takes 3-digit MB to offer same feature & 5x more time to start. I could use IRC in 2000s while Slack takes all of my RAM available. A website back in days would be few kB, I mean people here frequently compare HN with Jira or how funny it is that Netflix has to spend engineering effort to improve time-to-first-render on it's landing page which is static!

Those are facts, not so good: Soul Reaver vs Assassin's Creed is bad idea, because people didn't mind if grass was just flat texture or hero looked like walking cubes. SumatraPDF can open a PDF but Adobe Reader gives me annotation, form filling, signing etc. NFS2 was just racing, NFS:Heat players demand customizing exhaust gas color. Netflix home page loads more images combined than "back in days" and must adapt to big or small screens so it looks great everywhere. Jira lets me drag-n-drop a ticket while it took x3 time to update same ticket back in days in several form refreshes. HN is the simplest CRUD, it just lets me vote and post basic text, heck it delegated search to algolia(a different service)! The features Slack offers will require 5-7 extra different services if I were to use IRC.

But those kinds of reality don't get posts up-voted, so instead they are always like ranting about why Whatsapp needs more resources than the SMS app when both lets me send text to someone else?

Anyways, things change over time, in 2000s, my PC would lag if I opened MSWord & had windows Media player playing some HD videos or a game would crash if I tabbed out of it to check something. But now I have 20+ tabs open that live update stock tickers and have texts infested with hundreds of advert monitoring things while a tiny window plays current news in corner while am typing away happily in IntelliJ IDE, and have a ML model training in background. Now I can also record a HD version of my gameplay and tab out too. I think, in future complex development will take place in the cloud, we'll probably have high speed internet everywhere and online IDE or similar so everything happens in cloud. Similarly how 4GB HDD costed a fortune in 2000s but same price gets me a x100 capacity now, cloud resources will improve while prices will go down. :)
"We don't actually have a single repository”

This article doesn’t claim that. Its title doesn’t imply it, and its second sentence denies it:

”today the vast majority of Google's software assets continues to be stored in a single, shared repository”
If anything, a user friendly git is what we need, not yet another tool with bad UX.
Happened to me too, once! I remember passing by the Moulin Rouge, which I imagined like this:

https://cdn.civitatis.com/francia/paris/entradas-moulin-roug...

But instead I saw something like this:

https://dimg02.c-ctrip.com/images/100k1900000162nrc547D_Z_64...

(Plus dirt, bad smell, etc.)

But in general, Paris is a beautiful city with many really nice places. Can be very inspiring for a short stay.
The difference with buying food is that that is a recurring item where you as a buyer can learn over time about relative prices and quality and adjust your behavior accordingly.

Medical procedures are ideally one-time affairs.
I think "14" is reasonably understood as "underaged girl" even if there are countries where the age of consent is that low. At any rate "it was technically not illegal in such-and-such jurisdiction" is hardly a robust defense of middle-aged men "dating" girls barely in their teens.
>Do we not expect a disconnect between stated collection and what's dumped? Why wouldn't they collect everything, state minimal, and dump (on request) the minimal they state?

That's exactly what we expect. See Ruben Verborgh's tale in trying to retrieve his full data from Facebook, not just the summaries we're already presented with in the app - https://ruben.verborgh.org/facebook/
US healthcare's growing labor force contributes to high costs
I think there's a misunderstanding of what is possible with DNA[0]. We take DNA from dead stuff all the time.

I will agree with "you have to be physically present" is good enough password. This is Yubikey, which works fantastic. The problem with DNA is when it is compromised - you can't throw it away/change it without exorbant effort (bone marrow transplant? and then you're simply taking on someone else's identity? is that identity theft?).

[0] https://www.quora.com/Do-we-require-live-cells-when-extracti...
That's the future they are trying to tell us about.
Yarn is a bit more sophisticated and has a concept of "resolutions" which would be great for the security use case of forcing a particular version. Even if B and C need different major versions, say D@v1-with-security-fix and D@v2-with-security fix, yarn supports that too, since resolutions can be nested.

https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/selective-version-resolutio...
>If I claim that he's a fraud, though, I'm claiming that he's not actually any good as a quarterback.

For many people, calling someone a fraud is simply shorthand for saying they are a fraudster. Not that they have no talent, but that they commit fraud.
What is the appeal of a Chromebook over, say, a GPD Win or Pocket or something?
Pretty much my experience (I took a few days class in Bali). The timing was the hardest part, it helped having the instructor nearby giving instructions in real time.

I think what makes surfing hard is that you spend a lot of time waiting for the right wave. You can spend a long time in the water for just a few attempts. When you learn snowboarding, you will find the right slope (hopefully soft snow), and you will repeat the moves until you get it.
Well, random() functions that are normally used are defined on the [0, 1) interval of 32-bit or 64-bit IEEE 754 floating point numbers, for which it is very much computable to determine whether they are exactly 1 (there's nothing "real number" about them though, they all belong to a small finite subset of the rations). Of course that isn't really an open interval in the topological sense either.
Sure, go to yazz.com and click on github to see the source
Because positions on the topic are highly correlated with political affiliation
A bomb unexpectedly exploding in a major city is only one of many possibly nuclear scenarios.

What happens if, say, the US or Russia detect what they think is an incoming attack and have the time to respond before it hits?
The equivalent is really fast. Perforce and derivates have more in common with SVN rather than Git, so if your work is filesystem based and per-folder.
The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”

He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”

“I think otherwise,” the door said.
This essay has a taste of “Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance”. Really enjoyable and authentic style.
What is the point of this article? I've seen it on a few mediums, publications, the morning show.

Isn't there a whole set of enthusiasts looking at snapshots of the entire sky to see if changes or orbital patterns represent planets or other things for categorization?

It just seems like that is being ignored, and its also an aberration to elevate this action as interesting.

It has nothing to do with who gets the take credit for it. That's a red herring to the whole discussion.

It could have just as easily been another headline about "planet found in habitable range" with a random artist illustration. But honestly, maybe this way is more effective since the PR engine is going on overdrive. Its just weird to read.
To Hell with Hope (2016)
What about the device getting compromised?