skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cherry pick will refer to a different history, so it will have a different commit hash (and thus be considered a separate and independent commit by any sane tooling, including Git itself).

This seems to work around that by matching on the commits' summary lines instead, which only (sort of) works because their workflow disambiguates this (1 commit per issue, each commit is prefixed with the issue ID).

Then again, most of their desire for this tool seems to come from their broken rebase-oriented workflow stomping all over commit hashes in the first place (on top of ensuring that what was tested and reviewed no longer matches what was merged, while destroying the history that could help someone trying to diagnose the issue).

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, I guess. Your history isn't, has never been, and will never be linear. Whether or not you rewrite your logs to make it seem that way.
Comparing different governments means comparing different cultures of people as well. It's not clear if comparing the same government over time is isolating government response, medical learning, environmental changes, or cultural changes among the people.

America's biggest failure against COVID was to not take it seriously enough at the citizen level. The government response failed when we didn't have a quick test rolled out quickly and even after we realized that was our problem we still didn't get a same-day test rolled out at scale.
It's fine standard portuguese.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/porque#Adverb
I always use Direct Debit. The guarantee means it's better than paying cash yet it usually comes with a discount because it's easier for the recipient too.

A utility company screwed my billing up at the last address I rented. I'd check my own meters, call up, "This bill is wrong, fix it" they'd send an engineer, the engineer says this happens a lot with a building converted from one dwelling with one meter to many dwellings with retro-fitted meters and then gutted and replaced outright with a purpose built block. They call base "You have the wrong meter for this address. Assign this meter number to the customer account instead". Next month, new bill, same mistake, same calls, rinse & repeat.

So I said "I will not pay you until you bill me for what I actually used". I called my bank, "Undo all direct debits for that utility" and they took all the money back from the utility company and gave it to me.

The utility company sent a letter threatened to sue me, I called the lawyers. They explained that the letters threatening to sue are automatic and that they understood if they show up with knowingly bogus bills they're going to lose and it'll make the judge really unhappy and they might get sanctioned as well as eating my court costs.

Eventually I'd guess maybe six months after I first noticed the error, I got a phone call from the utility company. They'd given up trying to "fix" my account, whatever stupid IT problem they had was too much. They'd opened a fresh account with my name, my address, the correct meter and a zero balance, was that OK? So I never paid them for six months of usage basically.

FWIW If you are worried this is just the honour system, which it is, be even more afraid of credit cards. Payment card settlement is entirely on the honour system and has fewer safeguards. Any merchant can present settlement paperwork saying card #123456789 agreed to pay me $8000 and your bank will by default take $8000 from the account #123456789 corresponds to.

Another HN discussion today is about EMV ("Chip and PIN") but EMV isn't part of Settlement, it's Authorisation. A merchant doesn't need any Authorisation, they can present a settlement demand with no authorisation whatsoever and by default it will get paid.

This really happens. Big merchants are 100% trusted, if the major high street supermarket chain Tesco in the UK says that every single one of its Visa card customers decided to pay twice today, no alarms go off until finally, hours or days later one of those customers wonders where all their money went and is horrified to discover Tesco took twice as much as expected. Oops! We pressed "up" too many times on the keyboard and ran the settlement process twice. No safeguards, because it's the honour system. Check your card statements, if you miss something nobody else will lift a finger.
There has been a long-term effort by the Republican party to shrink government, the core of which is often called "starve the beast"[1]. The idea is that by cutting the revenue of the government, it will have to reduce spending on things like, say, a national high-speed rail system.

So, yeah, regardless of how you feel about the goal, I don't think it's unfair to say that trillions of dollars in US taxation and spending were chosen primarily for their rhetorical effect. Being able to say "but we can't afford that!" was a top goal in recent tax policy.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
I'm going to give you a slightly long-winded answer, but I think it's important to spell it out, because there is a lot of confusion about how the IA's scheme affects authors.

When an author writes a book, the laws grants them copyright, which means that for a specified period of time, they get the exclusive right to make copies (or authorize copies be made) of that work. Because they own the copyright, they are able to benefit from the sale of those books.

So when we talk about damages from copyright infringement, it's important to recognize that apart from whatever effect that infringement has on sales, the copyright itself is being stolen from the author, and that right has value. Granted, it is much harder to calculate monetary damages on the theft of a right than it is to calculate monetary damages related to lost sales, but that doesn't mean the right is worthless.

I found this section of the U.S. Code that prescribes statutory damages as a remedy in lieu of actual damages, presumably in recognition of the fact that copyright itself has value apart from lost sales: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/504

All that said, I am fairly confident that I did not lose any measurable sales because IA chose to put my 2014 book in its national emergency library. But it infringed on my copyright nonetheless.
If we assume that income reflects society's demand for an individual's labor/skills/knowledge, and we arbitrarily increase income with no concomitant increase in demand then we have to assume something else is going to shift. A couple of outcomes seem likely to me:

* employer wages for low-demand workers will drop, as competition for low-demand workers will not increase, and those workers will accept a lower wage reasoning that the UBI 'makes up the difference'

* if employer wages are not allowed to drop below a certain point (the minimum wage), then more disposable income will create increased demand for scarce resources (e.g., housing that is a bit better than currently occupied) thereby causing prices to rise.

I'm no Econ major, so happy to hear how my reasoning may be in error.
Do we know anything about how strong the economic pressures are for airlines vs. trains, regarding cramming passengers closer together?

Obviously, for a given number of passengers, more space = more cars or larger cars. But I'm curious if giving passengers 8" of extra legroom is cheaper per passenger-mile for trains than it is for airlines. I'd assume so.
Conversely, let's say a candidate joins 1 out of 10 companies they apply for.

Can they afford to spend a few days coding or interviewing with each company? That's more than a solid month of work for the candidate.
Maybe we program in different verticals. I have not found it to be so. (I have still upvoted your comment).
Honestly, I'm not sure there is a practical solution. Patron style systems and donations seem to be the most plausible way for creators to make money, but the internet + high competition + ads have basicaly forced most content into a race to the bottom where people expect everything to be free and those things that aren't lose to free alternatives.

It's like what happened with mobile apps. People expect everything for free/maybe with microtransactions or ads, so it's basically impossible to monetise stuff in that market.
There have been countless attempts to create a micropayments ecosystem during the last 20 years, and they have all flopped. What makes this different?
SoftBank took its bets to extreme highs and lows
The Netflix cost-per-content is only sustainable in a world where everyone consumes the same content, because there are incredible economies of scale (where you can broadcast the same TV show to 2 billion people).

But that's not really a great world for individual agency or the creative arts. A writer with 1,000 readers can only write so much per month -- and $5 doesn't (or only barely) makes it possible. People who want a world which HAS niche content are going to have to cough up more -- I'd like to think most people here are in that camp.
That makes sense. Thanks. (I still prefer C - but I am admittedly getting old and C++ sucked in the mid-90s or so)

EDIT: BTW -- I am not going to argue with LUA throughput. I'm still not sure what the thinking was there (maybe time-to-prototype?) - but C plugins run faster than Apache's do. By, like, a lot. (And I like Apache! ...Having used it since 1996)
>when spending it on fansonly

onlyfans?
The Seven People Who Can Turn Off the Internet
>So...what next? How do creators get paid?

Sponsored content that isn't totally abrasive to your audience. Lots of Youtubers seem to do it well.

Alternatively you can do old school sidebar ads that are relevant to whatever your niche is. I'm on a forum for a niche industry. Nobody complains about the banner ads for companies who are relevant to that industry because they keep the forum running.
Right, but the average person doesn't know about DDG--sure word would catch on, but the initial break would cause major friction for the vast majority of people.

Also, what happens to all that data in stowed away in other services? What happens, with Gmail if it's separated from the ads division? Do they suddenly start charging everyone to use it? Can they still run ads in Gmail? Would they have access to the infra serving those ads? If they flame out completely do we lose all our data? Will they give us a chance to export it? In what format?....

I just can't help but feel these sorts of breaks would be extremely difficult to get right.
Apple’s bulls**t narrative on the App Store
Very neat, reminds me of how like PayPal makes 2 small deposits to verify your bank account. Only downside I'd think to this is fees for the site owner(but might offset chargebacks if their site had a bunch in the past so maybe worth it) and then secondly not everyone uses online banking...

Like I know someone who's a family member who still does online shopping like on Amazon but still gets their credit card and bank statements mailed to them - unless you can maybe check your card balance and recent transactions by phone... They say they don't trust online banking, yet it's literally probably the same database and servers other than a flag in the database like "hasOnlineAccess" with a username/password combo stored... Probably more at risk of getting their info stolen by installing crap on their own computer than the bank itself being hacked though.
It's only a mis-statement in the headline because headlines are always edited for brevity. The first paragraph makes the specific unit of the number clear.
More than that, but, yes, less than 100% More like 63% in 10 years.

2000 - 125
2010 - 200
2020 - 325
2030 - 425
That actually really might! I've been in the market for a new reader, since Feedly's product people seem hellbent on making it worse with every update, and Newsblur might be just the thing. And while it hadn't occurred to me until you mentioned that (for which thanks!), any email-to-RSS gateway should let me do what I'm looking for.

One thing Feedly hasn't managed to ruin, yet at least, is the "today" view, with items from all sources sorted by time. Does Newsblur do something similar? Their iOS screenshots don't make it easy to tell.
I mean, honestly, it would just be a massive surge of users to Bing. I don't think any of the other competitors have the existing public name recognition.
Windows edge browser dies when search set to Google and I type in address bar
Suddenly Windows edge browser dies when the search engine is set to Google and I type in the address bar. Tested on a number of computers, same thing.

Bing, Yahoo and DuckDuckGo all work fine.
I offered a newspaper $60 for a years hassle free reading but they still nag me.

I definitely feel the $5 fatigue here, because its a $5/mo payment threshold.
I remember playing the Bleem demo as a kid, and then a decade later thinking back and wondering "wait a minute, how was that emulation performance possible in 1999?"
He wrote a lot of the emus for Xbox 1. Guys a lesser treasure of computing.
Merch. Merch is the answer.
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I’ve been struggling a bit in figuring out the next steps in where I really want to go professionally and have been considering engaging a career coach.

Have you had any good or bad experiences with a career coach? Would you do it again? Anything you wish you knew before starting out or would do differently? Thanks in advance.
Wikipedia says that people who contract plague are 10% likely to die with treatment, and 70% likely without treatment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_(disease)
Exactly my thoughts when I read the article - a hugely successful company not contributing to an open source project which enabled them to succeed in the first place ...
I interpreted it the other way: it has too much RAM to justify a micro-OS.
Donalds fan club thinks he is genius too.

Obama's fan club thinks he deserves the Nobel Peace prize.

Elon's fan club is convinced a boring red dirt ball where nothing lives is the place to be.

Greta's fanclub think she is Jesus

The Kardashian fan club think she is the greatest feminist in history.

Who we admire says a lot about who we are and our individual Needs much more than it says anything about the people we prop up.
Meh, I used a $300 netbook for 6 years.
Evidently some creators can make it work somehow, since there is more content than ever. It is difficult to convince people to pay more for stuff they're practically drowning in.

Maybe we should go in the opposite direction: tax the creators to decrease content generation in order to increase signal-to-noise on high-quality content. Or at least force marginally-profitable content to be released free or not at all.
We have built our own control plane in golang tightly integrated with an existing infrastructure (service discovery, secrets/certificates management, configs delivery, feature gating, and so on).
> It has a typo and doesn't sound natural.

What's the typo and why doesn't it sound natural?

If it's about the "porque" then please keep this in mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUYzlYg_axo
Exactly-Once Initialization in Asynchronous Python
Relevant xkcd. https://xkcd.com/810/
The same product but different names and SKUs is a game the mattress industry plays very well which keeps prices elevated and the 'price match guarantee' game impossible to win for consumers.
Root CAs can't meaningfully be revoked. If one is compromised, it needs to be removed from clients.
I get a bit of a Zhou Enlai "it is to early to say" vibe on this (btw he was actually responding to a different question probably and not the 'what do you think about the french revolution' question but anyway)

The sense of it for me is that the fight is really important and I'm glad they are having the fight, sad-but-glad. But, I suspect they are going to be celebrated for a victory MANY YEARS YET TO COME and in the meantime take heinous pain on this one, and functionally lose the battle and the war maybe.

Sometimes, the ones who lose the war have history on their side. Germany won in 1871. The reparations they screwed out of france cause massive economic pain when they ran through the economy, and at root laid the seeds of WWI. Did Germany really "win" ?

Publishers have the shitty IPR laws on their side. They will probably win. But in destroying the Internet Archive, (god forbid) they will cause us, consumers to visit the "you don't really miss what you've got 'till its gone" and question the whole deal over Kindle IPR, the book to rent, the disappearing books, the books never uplifted, the geo-locked books...
x50 HTL BD-R (indicated as "non-organic") for video by SONY is sold on 3355 JPY. Possibly Amazon.co.jp supports international shipping.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B01H8A8HH2/
Or, as in TFA, they say that circumstances have changes and their their previous position was 100% definitely right at the time.
I believe in micropayments, and I don't think there has been a compelling service for it.

Granted it needs to become popular before people will be attracted by it, which is a problem...
I don’t know... I often feel like we’re talking about many kinds of humility at once. You seem to be talking more about “epistemological humility”, while I was talking more about “social humility”.

Was Richard Feynman humble?
There are many reasons which lead to a cleaner codebase, some of them are: RAII, smart pointers, constant types, reusable containers, standard algorithms library, cleaner way to define interfaces, etc.

Overall our experience is that C++ code is smaller, simpler to write/read, and has a smaller chance of mistakes than equivalent logic written in C.

Of course many of this points are relevant only for relatively modern C++ (c++11/c++14 or newer), before that the cost/benefit ratio was much less clear.
> I read through the paper several times before I came across a footnote in the back. It was a link to another paper, this one by a researcher at MIT. The title of the paper was "Toward General Sentience."

> If I were then to say "plant" and "animal," the concept "plant" would blend with the concept "animal," creating a new concept, which could be called "plant animal," or "flower."

> As I read the paper, a strange feeling came over me. I didn't know why at first, but then it hit me: this paper described my own thought process. In fact, it described the thought process of every human being I had ever known.

> Perhaps the human mind is not capable of understanding itself.

> And so, I stopped thinking. I did not eat, I did not sleep. I simply thought.

> Still, I had made my choice. As I watched the screen before me turn off, signifying the end of all thinking processes in my mind, I wondered if I had made the right decision.
Why does it blow your mind? Various obvious and sane reasons for this, including cost. I bet many of those companies you have in mind “buy” Windows and macOS, and if they are sufficiently big, most certainly buy Oracle or SAP for their corporate operations, finances, and accounting. It’s usually only the production side of sufficiently large internet-scale companies that is biased towards building. Most of the time you can easily explain it with “it’s cheaper than the contract with supplier”. Often, it is strategic ownership over your fate and not being locked into the vendor that comes into play as well. The vendor positioning in the market and its leverage may also change over time and pose a risk down the road (getting acquired, changing focus, abandoning the product, going out of business, etc.) Many times it is just that their problem is so unique to their scale that the generic solution does not technically work for them or the pricing model is not designed to be a fit.

In the particular case of nginx, I can tell you their reputation is not great in adapting to the users’ needs.
YouTube: Community contributions will be discontinued across all channels
I used to feel the same about Target until my SO mentioned that they have a 3rd party marketplace now. Is that true? I didn't bother to check yet
One HN comment mentioned the value of a magazine subscription, which can be ballpark similar monthly costs.

For me a patreon (or whatever) subscription to a whole GROUP of specialists in a field would be valuable.

As it stands:
Patreon person:This thing I did/reviewed is great!
Me: Is it though?...search more internet for validation
Affirm Prepares IPO That Could Value Fintech Firm at Up to $10B
> It’ll be a while before anyone can be confident in a particular model for how this should work, until it’s been in use for a good long while.

Check out the OCaml community, interface files have been use there since basically day one, and are generally well-liked for how clean they allow the implementations to be.
Katran - nice! Any issues with it at all? Do you use it with xdp capable hardware or just normal driver offload?
I can't say they are good, because my commit messages get technical, and because I'm not very good at git, but here is my process.

My project is in early stages and I am primary developer. I only have several instances I am supporting.

I upgrade by doing a git checkout and ./rebuild.pl.

Whenever the value of current git pointer changes, it automatically generates a changelog of all the commit messages between the previous pointer and current.

As long as I write clear commit messages, my changelogs automatically contain useful information.

I can also add comments in reply to the changelogs.

All of it is automatically accessible via #meta hashtag
Are the members-only content higher or lower quality, in general? The incentive seems to be for lower quality, because the vast majority of time and effort is spent on the free part that convinces you to pay. It's a reverse iceberg.
Decline in Insect Populations
I wonder if this might be life reflecting art (or whatever) if the GPT-3 corpus is seeded with contemporary writing. Trump’s words are likely the most repeated of anyone in the past few years—within the anglosphere at least.
welcome to the litigation phase of the culture war!
those who have relied on corrupt social politics and tech industry cronyism to survive so far are likely to not survive what is coming, at the very least they won't be unscathed.

I know that employees within those orgs are present here. turn back now from extremism and the inappropriate intertwining of politics with administrative/moderation duties and you may still survive. Move on. Time to grow up, shit's about to get real.

I don't like to think what's going to happen when people try to bring their political sass to a courtroom and the judge isn't impressed one bit by it.

Zuck was just referred for criminal prosecution too because he can't stop his moderators from saying stupid as fuck stuff on hidden camera about how proud they are of their political bias in their duties. They're clearly coming for the platforms now, they shouldn't have gotten involved with politics.
Music is one of the most enjoyable ways to create. I don’t really care what my kids do specifically; I just want them to learn how to experiment and create and have fun and never stop playing.
In the west there's just two full search engines backing all the others anyways. None of the others have the infrastructure to index the internet
Actually, all the props for that go to Katran's author himeself. When we hired Nikita V. Shirokov (tehnerd), the first thing he did was replacing IPVS with XDP/eBPF-based Katran, which improved our Edge servers throughput by 10x, from ~2MPps to ~20Mpps.

He also contributed a lot to Envoy migration migrating our desktop client to it and adding perf-related thing like TLS session tickets' lifetime to SDS.
I value your opinion.
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