skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Git will be replaced by something that uses intuitive metaphors like "save", "load", "undo", "go back to old version", "update my work with work from colleague", "update the official state with my work" and others.

Those are the usecases that Git already handles. Each and every single one of them. Somehow you conspicuously left branching out of it, which is the main value added by any version control system along with merging. Thus I really don't see the point of arguing that Git will be replaced by a tool that does exactly what Git has been doing by design since it was released.
There are a couple.

https://goodereader.com/blog/reviews/the-best-e-ink-smartpho...
I use IFTTT to get RSS feed updates into my inbox! This is the applet I've been using for many years now - https://ifttt.com/applets/rhYv7ixE
Ant Finance was incredibly "predatory" in how it was issuing high interest loans to poor people, at least in the CCP perception. They do not allow such things. It's that simple, it's detest for "payday loans".
Applied scientist is not and has never been the definition of an engineer. Dating back to the term’s earliest usage, predating both modern English and the scientific method, it has meant someone who designs and maintains complex machines.
About those new Covid mutations
I don’t think Ma was old enough to remember living under an emperor like Mao. Maybe he doesn’t realize that Xi is one now?

Xi’s reign is bad for China’s progress, but good for every other country. China will become more centralized and bad laws will be enforced which will disrupt all progress towards innovation. The danger of a Chinese metro surpassing Silicon Valley is gone for now.

The longer Xi and his allies rule, the more China will remain destined to be a giant copy machine, nothing less and nothing more.
A lot of tech company reporters seem to write nothing but negative articles. David Streitfeld, for example, wrote nothing but negative pieces every week or two for years, at least the last time I checked pre-pandemic.
That was a great episode. I've been really enjoying all of Lex's podcast episodes. He has on many of the top thinkers across many different fields. AI and CS in particular.

https://youtube.com/c/lexfridman

Some more of my favorite episodes (not necessarily CS related) I've listened to are:

- Matthew W. Johnson on Psychedelics
- Manolis Kellis on Biology and CS
- Michael Malice on Anarchy
- Michael Stevens on education

I haven't listened to anywhere near all of them, so I'm sure I'm missing many amazing episodes.
If you leak from NSA they either attempt to assassinate you, or you get put in prison. Due to the massive illegal spying programs run by the NSA, they have lots of avenues for finding out who leaked the data.

If you leak from Apple (and they find out) then Apple can sue you and maybe get a civil judgement against you take your assets and possessions, but you remain a free person.

Huge difference.
>>UX matters.

Of that was the case then how come Git reigns supreme in spite of the lack of a polished UI/UX?
How could a technologist, who's not in charge of the $BigTech be able to fix the problem? They can't. So, they offer the user a work-around. Then, the user never complains to $BigCo because of the Help and still nothing gets done. And later, we complain that we're not fixing $BigCo and we're all mad at "the help".

How, really, could you improve the Google service for everyone?
I don’t remember the last time China did anything that warranted a positive article. That is likely a direct result of the authoritarian control China holds on information. How do you report something positive when you can’t trust the source? At least in America journalists can say whatever they want. In China, they’ll be arrested, disappeared, and who knows what other barbaric acts of punishment.

Simply put, by its very nature China instills mistrust, distrust, and critique.
I don't know why you think that given all the negative press that big tech has been getting for at least five years.
> Absolutely, why on earth would you think I wouldn't?

Because in this very sub-thread, you're making statements like:

> China's response was, as now, to only briefly close these horrific places of animal torture.

In contrast to what? The horrific places of animal torture from where our supermarket meat comes from?

Pardon my skepticism, but I'm not sure you're applying the same standards to their barbarism, as you are to our barbarism. You don't seem to be applying the same standards to their ineptitude and malfeasance as you are to our ineptitude and malfeasance.

It comes off as nationalistic baiting, which is incredibly frustrating, because it's happening in the context of lordnacho's post. There's a prevailing zeitgheist in the US that all our problems are the fault of other, bad countries - which is used as a diversion from finding actual solutions to these problems. We've seen this play out over the past year, to the tune of 250,000 dead.

You're surely familiar with the meme of a an incompetent authoritarian regime that's busy blaming everyone around them for their domestic problems, while their people starve. Over the past year, we've been living this meme. We should be looking back at it with self-reflection, as opposed to cheerleading it.
The ROM comes loaded with a terminal emulator that is operated via the N64 controller:

https://github.com/clbr/joyterm/blob/master/main.c
Go at a homeless camp in SF and look around for someone who hates Google because their old rent controlled unit got sold.

No astroturf needed to find people who hate the rich in a society that punishes the poor.
Ant Finance can't take the profit and offload the risk to the bank system.

That is not how finance works in any country
> misconception that the light from reflective displays like eInk is somehow different from that of emissive displays like LCD or OLED. Light is light.

There is one specific difference between the light from LED screens vs e-ink : polarization. LED displays work by adjusting the polarity of the backlighting and then passing it through a polarizing filter. An e-ink display image is unpolarized light. It's not clear whether the polarity of LED has the potential to cause eye strain or other negative effects, but it is certainly a quantifiable difference.
Did the N64 have an MMU? I guess so, COP0. I wouldn't have guessed that.
The rising dislike of the tech giants and the anti-trust investigations are extremely similar to what is happening in Europe and the US, so I don't particularly see why this is some sort of surprising thing requiring special explanation.
yeah, I'd love to know as well. Both Moderna and BioNTech licensed technology from University of Pennsylvania, but I don't know if that is only the 1-methyl-3’-pseudouridylyl bit. If I find out I'll update the post.
I read somewhere it might of been police on PA system.

Cant wait to read couple years down the line a leak from FBI describing how they groomed someone to do this (as they regularly do) and things got out of their control.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ev974m/isis-fake-bomb-terror...

https://www.france24.com/en/20121018-new-york-bomb-plot-arre...

etc etc
I enjoyed his talk, but i can't help but feel like these style of talks always use the same examples: game of life, fractals, esolangs, and some sort of human-computer interactive art system (usually the last one has a lot of variety so maybe that should get a pass for this critique). I would love to see these sorts of programming as art talks with a different set of examples. Not that i don't love fractals and the Game of life, but there's got to be other stuff too.
And that's not a small difference, it's the difference between a liberal democracy (with its many mistakes and flaws) and an authoritarian dictatorship. The both-sides fallacy should be avoided here and elsewhere.
It’s a Scheme with a built-in actor system. I don’t have any experience with it though, other than reading the tutorial.
I contend that it’s well known in the tech community that if you bash Apple, you will not get invited to the next event. If you criticize a tech company as a tech journalist, you’re not going to get invited to the next unveiling, the next product release, and that will have a detrimental impact on your career. Some can ride that line without worry, but rank and file tech reporters DEPEND on access, and will not do anything to disrupt it.
If one's willing to entertain conspiracy theories, none of that material would be put out under FAAMG branding, but rather lesser outlets would conveniently obtain a copy.

That said, the idea is pretty hard in the way of conspiracy -- simplest reduction: why would tech companies take the risk of getting involved in that way at all? When they're already making money hand over fist?
What is your point of confusion?
I think that's unlikely. It can't cost them that much to run and it does serve an important strategic purpose of preventing anyone else from gaining control of a key piece of infrastructure that their whole business depends on.
Funny enough, Aggregability is NP-Hard, so comprehensive consideration of the larger set is not actually practical/possible.

Here's the proof:
http://www.cs.utep.edu/vladik/2006/tr06-29.pdf

Perhaps there are mechanisms around performance under external test, auditing, or safe harbor due to documented good-faith, but it is not possible to guarantee correctness for the full set from a subset.

Similarly, some approaches will plainly fail to perform well with subgroups of people due to sensing technologies. That may appear as model bias, but it's really a matter of physics and available entropy.

For the time being, mechanisms that use machine inference as an aid rather than a guide (leaving the judgment to the human in the loop) are probably the best we can hope for.
Only a month? I don't recall the last time it actually worked. I always end up having to do -"string" and put it in quotation marks, kind of like telling Google "why, yes, this thing I put that minus sign in front of really is something I don't want to see in my results."
I think it's unfortunate that you've chosen to make such vague disparaging comments.

Here are 37 Ruby programs — https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Presumbly you can show us 2 lists: which of them are your idea of "idiomatic" and which are not ?

Merry Christmas.
Appallingly
I think you mean "herd immunity".

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

"Herd Mentality" is something else:

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

Also, it is not that enough people will get sick, but that enough people cannot pass on the sickness. This is a subtly different but important distinction and is why getting vaccinated is important for the community not just the individual.
Because when a big tech company becomes a monopoly, the government will regulate?

It is already a combination of Amazon + PayPal + Instacart + Netflix
Are wrapped (toroidal) screens no longer a standard video game thing? If not, when did they go out of style?
Good point!

So my strategy with the fundamentals are a dead end in other words.
I would therefore rephrase your last sentence to:

"Stagnate on old methods, die on old methods."

My focus on fundamentals was really not productive. The people that I referred to as "naysayers" were right. I was wasting my time learning about fundamentals and stuff aka reinventing the wheel to understand why something works.

Hmmm... I need to reflect on my old perceptions and views now and error correct or rather "bugfix" my brain.

Thank you too! :)

Edit: to clarify what my goal was in all this:
Basically, if you understand or rather know something deeply you have "power" (as knowledge will give you power). But again this way of thinking seems to be deeply flawed and employers don't appreciate it apparently.
If they intentionally leaked nothing, this would be perhaps a reasonable approach.

The fact that they leak positive stuff sometimes, and coupled along with the fact that they run a global network of torture sites (and hacked the computers of their own congresspeople who are their oversight, then lied about doing so) means that they probably aren't as do-good and trustworthy as you seem to think they should be assumed to be.
I recommend WizFile [0] as an alternative (same developer of WizTree, which is a far better WinDirStat alternative).

[0] https://antibody-software.com/wizfile/
What would you suggest instead :) ?
> nature does not function in complex numbers

It's the opposite in fact. Almost everything in the nature works more naturally with with complex numbers. Complex numbers are algebraically closed unlike real numbers as you point out and that is very important part of it. Everything becomes more difficult if you try to force them into real numbers.

Quantum wave function is an explicitly complex object. Making it anything else makes it more difficult.

Here is great and easy to understand explanation: https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html
It's the proximity of the situation to Jack Ma's comments that tips you off as to the true reason for the actions. It's not just normal anti-trust, the timing suggests an attempt to punish any opposition to the CCP or Xi.
The Church of Scientology debacle is a good example.
If you don't care too much about the vibrant colors and viewing angles of IPS and OLED, I can recommend VA screens. They have far better contrast than IPS. The black is indeed black. I find it great for working in dark mode on text. However the colors and viewing angles are a trade-off. Although I find the viewing angles are still better than TN and can be somewhat mitigated with a curved screen.

I personally use a curved 32" 4K VA screen. The resolution, text size and contrast make this great for text heavy work.
Mailing lists are terrible to search through and navigate, at the very least. GitHub and Gitlab also implement some nice features such as auto-suggest ( to check if the subject has already been discussed) and smart linking.
One of the highest utility-density pieces of advice I've ever gotten:

"Assume positive intent. Ask lots of questions."
> The UK is no island?

An island that has high-speed railway connections to Europe is not exactly isolated from the world, not to mention it's ferry connections with multiple neighboring countries in mainland Europe.

Additionally, Great Britain has about 3 times the population of Taiwan, and it's urban centers have between 5 and 7x the population of Taiwan's largest urban centers.
Nice walkthrough! I did not know about FETCH_HEAD.

Another (complementing) way of getting an idea how Git works is by reading the source of Isomorphic Git[0]. Being in JS and with fewer (as of now) features, it’s a bit more accessible than reference Git.

[0] E.g. https://github.com/isomorphic-git/isomorphic-git/blob/main/s...
I’m not sure where you get the idea apple employees don’t know the org chart. Everyone has “Apple Directory” which is recursively click-to-show everyone and their boss and their reports, as well as contact info and even where they sit.

It also shows the internal mailing lists, how to get yourself on it (if it’s not self-add) etc. Then you can find the disclosures you might need for black/ultra-black projects...

It’s actually relatively simple to get access to anything you need, if you have the need and aren’t just curious.
Have you looked at the continuous testing, e.g. [0] for AMD and [1] for Intel?
They consistently deliver latencies below 300 us, and for the most part, even lower. Intel largely below 50 us, AMD more around 170 us.

Remember, DAW deployments are not actual hard realtime.
If you drop one chunk of samples every night, no one cares.

[0]: https://www.osadl.org/Latency-plot-of-system-in-rack-c-slot....

[1]: https://www.osadl.org/Latency-plot-of-system-in-rack-0-slot....
Tried it (rpi4), working.
Even managed to encrypt the SD.

Can't get nixops to work from my x86_64 notebook to deploy on the rpi though, I gave up on that.

Nixos is really nice, But I find that the declarative conf still has a lot to iron out.

Currently I only use it as a base system with declarative podman containers for pihole, freeipa (manually docker-built from the fedora image), postgres, nextcloud. Only nginx installed via nixos conf on the base system.

I use podman containers since I could not find a way to have user-namespaced containers, or even just containers that don't share the whole /nix, which I find as a huge security risk. I really don't care about disk space. Duplicate everything but let me isolate those containers as much as possible. Podman containers give me read-only filesystem, too. Maybe nixops might have helped, but it would have prevented me from going read-only filesystem

I tried using the declarative part of nixos to configure nginx, but I ended up dumping all the nginx conf on the single "extra" conf variable since proper declarative nginx vhosting with more than one location just does not let you do what you want (and is broken: do NOT reader my locations!!).

Manual dump of the conf also for the cni network management of podman.

wpa_supplicant most of the times starts too early and I didn't manage to make it run later, crashed. I am using ethernet without problems.

So for me Big Kudos to the Nix(,Os,Ops) teams for the work done, I believe that is the future we should work towards. But we are still a far way off on many things. Documentation is also really scarce (and at rare times wrong), which increase the already steep learning curve.

So sorry for the 'bad' review, but know that I still do not lose faith and will keep learning and trying. The basic idea is really that good for a sysadmin like me.
> but if you can’t tell anyone about it, does it matter?

Some people need to be publicly associated with work for it to matter to them. Others don’t. It’s just a personal choice. If you work on a lifesaving drug inside a big pharmaceutical company and never get any extra money or accolades for it, you still saved those lives. Your work still definitely matters.
It looks like the project is alive:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/planner

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/planner/-/merge_requests
Weird that the example you used for what couldn't happen to Zuck was a western near billionaire killed in his jail cell in Manhattan.
How would you have any idea what China does except through various news articles? Why would an authoritarian control of information lead to only bad information getting out?

China does not have a great government, but American coverage of it is also extreme propaganda.
Okay, but from your own explanation, this is only a hypothesis and it's possible that sanitation had nothing to do with it either. So I'm not sure what this really shows us except that we can make up any justification for anything after the fact. Correlation is easy to show, causation is hard.
No, the herd mentality is about the dog that rules the herd
Wow that is baffling.
So can you explain how exactly in a liberal democracy, Mr.Epstein got Epsteined?
ffpip is the real Santa
> and I’m very excited to see, or hear, what happens.

The cynic in me says the sound budget will get cut further.
In addition to what others have already said: "unsafe" just means that the compiler does not understand your data structure well enough to enforce its invariants. And that's okay! The zen of Rust is not to eliminate unsafe code. That would require a compiler so ludicrously sophisticated that it would be borderline magical. The zen of Rust is to reduce unsafe code to the minimum, to have only 1% or 0.1% of your code that is unsafe and needs to be reviewed extra-super-duper-rigorously.
> Youtube was completely built around Flash

Youtube exists because of Flash. They were are the right time and place to have a flash object sitting on a webpage that could play video in a reasonably cross platform way.
Be transparent and just say: $8000/year for enterpise license for 8 seats. Additional seats at $700/year/seat.
I have an account there and I use it but the interface is atrocious and they seem to actively be making it worse.

Recently they removed the facility to, when saving a pin, to type the name of the board to find it, now having to scroll through an alphabetical listing.

Before that, they also redesigned the website such that a refresh of the page was required in order to save a pin to two different boards, an action they explicitly support.

The website is also a slow resource hog.

Of course, it comes with the tried and tested “corporate morality” where there are rules against various things that are phrased in terms of moral concerns that are really about keeping their app on the Apple store — this naturally includes vague standards on “nudity” that are not worded in a gendered way, but there is an unofficial code that everyone knows that it very much is.

The most annoying moral preaching I encountered was that I searched for “boy's love” once — the genre of male–male tragic romantic fiction, that got me a preachy message about pædophilia that made me suspect my i.p. address was probably passed on to some U.S.A. authorities. It's really quite a big genre and has nothing to do with pædophilia.

They only recently added a way to search one's own's pins, and it's very lacking and doesn't reliably even catch words in the descriptions thereof. Sometimes it does; sometimes it doesn't.

What can be said about it is that the algorithm for finding related things is generally quite good — the interesting thing is that it's actually better at finding the aforementioned boy's love fiction than most of the websites that actually host it.

The problem is that there is no real competitor.
Same reason you would prefer a Kindle (or other hardware e-reader) for reading normal books over a tablet.

The eyestrain thing apparently doesn't affect everyone, but for those it does it makes staring at a screen for hours a non-issue.

Also, although it probably isn't such a useful function with a monitor (except in warm climates), this sort of screen will be fine to read outside compared to - say - a laptop screen.
The main thing is that people do this because it works fairly well. Nobody ever says how to counter them. Arguably, not even professional persuaders like politicians haven’t figured it out, because the most common response during elections or debates is to just counter attack with similar tactics
Exactly. How did Epstein got Epsteined not in China, but in the U.S.?
Apologies, I meant to say large public companies in my OP, i.e. those listed on the stock exchange. I'd be interested if there was any examples of those using compromising political information for leverage. I understand however that if it happened we may not have heard about it.
> They are public enemy number one, and anti-China sentiments are popular and applauded. I don't remember the last time I've seen positive articles about China.

China has been in an undeclared war with the US since the 1950s. Xi was dumb enough to reveal that.

There's no "positive articles about China" because the CCP is only interested in taking from others - even your organs.
I don't think that uncovering faults and cracks is a disincentive. Prohibiting use of machine learning techniques and technologies definitely reduces the addressible market, and, thus, profit incentive.

There are plenty of reasons to do research and make strides, but "big pot of gold at the end of the rainbow" is one we have to acknowledge the existence of.

As far as paper angle goes, sometimes the angle is "what we spent the last year doing is noteworthy enough to warrant publication".

Read every paper skeptically. Make it prove to you that it has the data, rigor, and reproducibility to support its claims.
Care to share? A convenient, trustworthy plugin that lets you exclude sounds ideal. Anything for Firefox?
I run Debian on a T470. Everything works perfectly.