skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re also kind of easily disproving the thesis of the article. Drug dealing has always had an “always on” culture and this is nothing new or novel.

They want to push that FaceTime and location tracking contribute to dealers feeling as though they’re “always on”, but that’s largely false.

Before these were commonplace, if a dealer wanted to get a hold of someone they’d call them, page them, or otherwise “find” them. There are new tools now, sure, but the always on culture, I’d argue, has always been there.
Opinion: Excellent video on Superconductivity.

Well worth watching and re-watching in the future!
The last point, about Ancient Greek read in the "modern" pronunciation (with Φ, Χ, Θ read as fricatives rather than aspirated stops) reminds me of how Mandarin, which is how Chinese poetry is often read nowadays, is not great for representing the sounds of the poetry as written, since it's lost all final stops (-k, -t, -p) in closed syllables.

Other topolects such as Cantonese preserved them, which makes it a better correspondence if you care about hearing something closer to the Middle Chinese that Tang poetry was composed in.

How do we know so much about Middle Chinese pronunciation in the present day? Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME8wzyR6pO8 for a layperson's introduction.
For stuff like "this line doesn't make sense next to this other line. Why was it added?" Sometimes a line was deleted between them, sometimes it was a bad merge, sometimes the rest of the commit tells you "oh, it was added to make the Foobar work."

I have allocated some of the valuable left-hand-only keyboard shortcuts in my IDE to searching Git history. It tells you the "why" when the "what" doesn't make sense, and the "who" when git blame shows some reformatter.
Thanks.

- It's still ok to "git-pull --ff=only", right?

- Is it possible to enforce this at the CI level?
Maybe because the underlying assumption is that the dark/little/poor people are the only ones this will be used on? The ivory towers care about virtue signalling and property values.

But if you notice, there is a big crime wave in SF... which threatens property values. Genetics database? Double plus good!
Fair enough. The important difference is the glutamate, though.
That's true, but every structural engineer interviewed about those reports says something like "yes, that should be fixed, but it shouldn't have brought the building down." The smoking gun has yet to emerge.
That’s not really a fair representation of reality. YT and others aren’t really “free to follow”. There are implications for their choice. For example they may face less anti trust scrutiny from the progressive left if they continue to perform censorship that aligns to that political ideology. They may face less scrutiny when it comes to taxes or privacy laws as well. It is precisely because we can’t prove or disprove these links that there should be no situation where state employees ask for censorship (either hard bans or actions like algorithmic changes), period.
How fossilized? While it is not used as an everyday language, there is a yet growing library of literature, and vigorous philosophical debate that happens in Samskruta. BTW, an unrelated rant, the other thing that grinds on me is that the Ganga river is ALWAYS referred as Ganges (another anglicization)! Ganga is easier to pronounce, so why did that get anglicized, I wonder?
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This seems like a good thread to link to https://missingmiddlehousing.com/ , which is a site I've seen discussed directly here on HN several times previous. I am still in the process of consolidating my opinions on this, but I did find it an interesting, useful read.
We've gone past mere constraints and are now in the era of strait-jacketed interfaces.
I don't think remote work would become that common fast enough.

Even if it did, remote-work-driven sprawl would be terrible for humanity. We should still congregate for environmental reasons, whether that means 5 story walkable towns, or 20 story city. No where does SFH fit in the picture. Li-on will not save us.
Not arguing that, but that is decidedly not racist.

It's why educated Blacks in the US are moving back to red Southern states more so than they're moving to blue Northeast and Western ones. It's much cheaper and easier to build new housing in suburban Dallas or Atlanta versus San Francisco, New York, or LA.
The video looks great, appreciate the recommendation.
> They are ruthless enough to either work with them or wipe them from existence.

Were the Soveits/Russians more or less than the Chinese? Were the British in the late 1800s? Alexander the Great?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herat_Citadel
Cool. I should give it a try!
Why on earth should a member-owned structure be limited to some little store where everyone knows everyone? In the US some fairly large organizations, including juice makers Ocean Spray and outdoor chain REI, are co-ops.
I appreciate your recommendation. I'm no friend to intelligence agencies, but I don't want to necessarily put myself out there as a competitor to something like the old Lavabit. I'm not looking to be a victim of the US government any more than I want to see my customers victimized by them.
I found several reports on this after a simple search. Here is one such report: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/milwaukee-segregation-...

Here is a noteworthy snippet from that article that you might find useful for future conversations about this:

In fact, a New York Times analysis of 2014 census figures shows that income alone cannot explain, nor would it likely end, the segregation that has defined American cities and suburbs for generations.

The choices that black families make today are inevitably constrained by a legacy of racism that prevented their ancestors from buying quality housing and then passing down wealth that might have allowed today’s generation to move into more stable communities. And even when black households try to cross color boundaries, they are not always met with open arms: Studies have shown that white people prefer to live in communities where there are fewer black people, regardless of their income.

The result: Nationally, black and white families of similar incomes still live in separate worlds.
It's worked fine in Chrome for years on Macs with P3 displays, I don't know why Chromium would be any different.

While Firefox only finally brought proper color management last month. [1]

Maybe's it's a Chromium-on-Linux thing?

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/89.0/releasenotes/
Heatshrink
low effort article explaining precisely what `finally` does in JS that is in no way surprising
What you say is particularly true for image editing and Darktable especially: there are already tons of image editors available in all levels of dumbed-down-ness. Lightroom is actually one of the more complex tools, all things considered.

Which is exactly why Darktable is special: it is verbose and technical, but offers deep control and complexity, which is truly unique in image editors.

(I want to compare it to Emacs, but it sort of lacks the extensibility to be a good analogy. But it is certainly more emacsian in spirit than any other image editor)
It doesn't really matter given the quid pro quo that could be facilitated through such engagement.

There are more ways of implementing incentive structures and control mechanisms than you can possibly imagine, which is exactly why people are right to be concerned.
Generally most M&A's like this turn into a talent smasher event (think atom smasher, aka particle accelerator), and the people scatter to the four winds in hundreds/thousands of different landing zones instead of coalescing into another convergent organization. Emergent consensus centered around such a large organization takes a lot of effort and time to build because it operates through social trust pathways (that predominantly operate in the time domain), and once fissioned, the byproducts do not transitively transfer that trust, it has to be built anew.

This adds to my suspicions that the long-term IBM C-suite goal of the Red Hat acquisition is to eventually convert Red Hat to be like their captive mainframe revenue and profit stream. I would not at all be surprised to see a gradual deterioration in Red Hat quality in the coming 10 years.

Watch the general level of support engineering skills in what will eventually be a Blue-washed Red Hat L2 Support. That is your canary. What you are used to today in that tier will be gradually relegated to the tech leads for L2. Don't look for tech leads by title; look for the leads who gates decisions to escalate to L3. Highly-skilled L2 organizations grant most if not all their support engineers autonomy to escalate to L3. Profit-squeezing L2 organizations (what I suspect may be happening with Red Hat in the coming years) will gate those escalations, and staff vacancies with relatively down-skilled engineers.

Note that I also enjoy working with these relatively down-skilled engineers. No complaints about "bedside manners", and they can address common scenarios. Given enough time and exposure to more experienced staff, they would absolutely step up to highly-skilled L2 levels. The challenge is often these situations see those more experienced staff leave too soon. In my experience you need at least 7, ideally 14 years to season new staff to those skill levels, and the attrition rate is high over that time; troubleshooting well under pressure with grace is a very difficult combination of skills and characteristics to find.

Two ways I've seen to effectively deal with this on the customer end is find an alternative solution (not really feasible in this case at this time, though I'm watching several possible developments), or up-skill your staff. You'll know you've reached the right skill level when your engineers can delve into the internals of the product sufficiently that they routinely convince the down-skill L2 support engineers to escalate their lead within a day or two of engaging.

If my suspicions bear fruit (I really hope not, the vast majority of my clients hold massive people and capital investments in the Red Hat ecosystem), then this is extremely bullish for AWS. Their customer-obsession-to-a-fault culture would swiftly exploit IBM's strategy, and there would be no contest. I can see several simultaneous attacks AWS could mount to neutralize Red Hat's position if IBM's strategy at the end of the day really is what I currently suspect.

I'd really like to hear from others that have found other workarounds for this eventuality.
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Image-manipulation tools should stop trying to build a database of files, and instead operate on directories. Otherwise, the displayed library doesn't reflect new files when you copy them into the directory hierarchy.

This always sucked about iTunes too, whereas EphPod simply used the files on disk and thus was always accurate.
Catch up to what?
I keep three windows - two on my main 4K monitor. A third on my glitchy old one. Each window must have one thing.

Often the old monitor has the TO DO list or a design so I'm reminded what I'm doing.

The main two windows usually have something like the following:

1. main file/documentation

2. main file/subclass data model

3. design file (e.g. DB schema)/requirements

4. tests/design file

5. main file/tests

Sometimes I do need a little more, so that's where the other monitors come in. But for the most part, one window one file helps.
Question: Will this also impact projects who test and observe behaviour of apps like the german https://mobilsicher.de/?
I typically take this a step further, returning from trivial or common “fast-path” cases up front and falling through to any complex logic.
Brendan Gregg literally wrote the book on this kind of stuff, if you search for any of this tracing stuff it comes up with his website anyway.
Writing headlines is difficult. My immediate question when I read this one was: Which factor is the cause of the surge in hospitalizations in the UK? I knew that the delta variant was spreading in the UK, but apparently that was not the cause. Perhaps a new variant?

The truth is that there is no surge in hospitalizations, but perhaps some minor increase. So the existing vaccines also give a decent amount of protection against the delta variant.
I intend to add it to my quotes collection.

Should I attribute you or someone else? :-)

Edit: added as a private bookmark to pinboard with tags:

technical_debt quotes by:whatshisface
I see that computing power is in high demand for quite some time to come.

I do believe there will be stagnation unless a different way is found. In the same way Henry Ford said people wanted a faster horse not a car.

And regarding travel, I would like to have faster, much faster transportation. However it hasn't come, yet. There seems to be a local optimum between costs and practicality.
I think most of the author's pains could be implicitly solved by using tags on merge.

That way you maintain a linear history, you get clear marks of when each pr was merged and you can see what happened in between.

The obvious downside here is that you'd need to add yet another step in your process and come up with a meaningful system for this.
What other federal body has jurisdiction? The reason the FBI investigated is because the city, county, and state weren’t.

No one is claiming that all of the FBI “have their hearts in the right place.” I’m just refuting your statement that the average person in the US would be better off without them.
> The reason why I prefer squash commits is not only the linear history but also the fact that I’m simply not interested in the sausage making process.

I see this a lot and in my opinion squash on merge is just a very poor version of using rebase to put your commits into a proper state before merging.

A commit should be one logical set of changes. It's great if you can get a piece of work done in one change, but often larger work requires several changes.

Beginners seem to treat pull requests as places to pile commits until you get something reasonable at the end (the sausage making process). A better way is to curate your work and clean up the individual commits as changes are requested in review. Then you have a coherent history with commit messages that might tell you something useful.
Now just add a cryptocurrency to it and you have a great SaaS business with a vibrant reseller market

All luck for the resellers

But you, your business and your actual equity investors will be rich
On the about page, I found

> We call them “Missing” because they have typically been illegal to build since the mid-1940s

but I could not easily find and further explanation about why this is, etc
Social media companies do restrict my speech because they were never entitled to be sanctioned to be a public forum by the state, with legal & market protections by the state, without having to abide by the Constitution. If the government does not protect the Constitution & our natural rights, then the government does not represent the people & the consent of the governed is lost. If the Constitution is no longer the rule of the land, we live in a different system. aka a Technocratic Corporatocracy. Again, totaliarism does happen & is happening within the current Technocratic Corporatocracy regime as it stands. We would be better off if we had a Constitutional Republic, because Terms of Conditions or Arbitration Boards are imposed on the people & do not protect people. There is no transparent & participatory governance that respects the individual. The Constitution does protect the people only when it's enforced. There is no consent of the governed, only coercion of the governed.

Your insults only expose the fact that you have no interest in ethics or logic, only power. Like a spoiled brat, you want power over other people & you want it now. What a way to run a civilization. The inconsiderate spoiled brats want to tell everybody else what to do.
Did I say anything about communism? No, that is what you brought up. I mentioned possible abuses that are specific to a government agency, abuses that are the result of politics.

There is no reason to think that a government agency would be any more transparent than Equifax et al. are right now. Consumers have the right to receive a free credit reporter from these companies, and the right to dispute information in that report (also free). Maybe there is a need to adjust the regulations in order to combat particular abuses or problems that are happening right now. That does bring up the question of what specific abuses you would like to see fixed -- you did not actually mention anything in particular that Equifax is doing or how a government agency would avoid such a problem.

The previous president spent 4 years trying to use government agencies to punish political opponents, and just before leaving office he filled those agencies with loyalists in an attempt to sabotage his successor, all without regard for the effect such actions might have on the public. Those are forms of abuse that is specific to government agencies and it would be a disaster if it happened at a credit rating agency. This is not an argument that the government is always worse than the private sector; it is an argument that when it comes to something like credit scores the government should not be in charge.
Ganges is what the Hellenic Greeks called it. Most English words for Indian things come from Greek.
>He might have been aware of when his life would end, since he passed away just one year later," says Ohnishi. "Maybe that's why he chose not to write the whole sentence, and only the first three words."

This isnt a popular opinion since HN (and media) tends to deify Jobs, but people forget he died an ignorant death at his own hand. Jobs was diagnosed with a curable cancer and against all reason, he decided eating fruit would fix the problem.

The idea that Jobs had any deep philosophical ponderance of the human condition or introspection on his own mortality is comical.
The point is, the UI looks vaguely similar to Lightroom, and many people come to Darktable expecting a free clone of Lightroom. Scores of these people then hit the forums and complain about "missing features" and "incorrect behavior" and such. It's a real problem, and happens very regularly.

That's why they try to put it front and center that Darktable is not Lightroom, is not trying to be Lightroom, and should not be expected to work like Lightroom.
Performance and memory requirements have doubtless gone up but I use a five year old MacBook Pro and it's perfectly fine for browsing. Performance isn't really irrelevant of course but browsing generally doesn't push anywhere close to the limits of available processors.
The same is true of the other two.

The video named "FLIR1" shows pixel blooming effects common on FLIR infrared cameras.

The video named "Go Fast" shows the effects of imaging a slow-moving balloon from a very fast-moving sensor.

I suspect there are a few Navy pilots sitting around a break room having a good laugh at all this.
Yep, my position isn't that EZ was invented in the 70's; that's just when it swept the nation, and in particular, the Bay Area.
Debt won't be great if your spouse outlives you.
You might like to dip in to Bruce Williams' youtube channel [1] which has many good clear explanations of darktable features (though there's the odd mistake, he generally corrects it in a subsequent episode).

The main programmer of darktable also has a channel[2] which goes very in-depth (and opinionated!) on some aspects, like the recent filmic module.

They are both useful adjuncts to the provided documentation, which can be pretty technical and abstruse.

1: https://www.youtube.com/user/audio2u/videos

2: https://www.youtube.com/c/Aur%C3%A9lienPIERREPhoto/videos
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GNU software is not only hostile to integration from a legal perspective (GPL), it is hostile from a technical perspective. E.g. GCC is (was?) famously deliberately designed to be non-portable and made impossible to integrate into other tools. Maybe there's some valid historical reasons for the mistrust of systems that could be closed, but I can also see why some might be turned off witnessing the open hostility towards integration and collaboration that is GNU's defensive response.

GNU/GPL is carrying around emotional baggage of scars that its users were afflicted with at the hands of closed systems. Yes, maybe this strategy is protecting them from being hurt in the same way again in the future. But it's also closing the door on potential relationships. Love and trust requires opening yourself up to being hurt, yes, but that doesn't necessarily mean you should give up on it.

Maybe the swing back towards more openly-licensed software is an artifact of people forgetting the harms done in the past, or maybe it's an indication that GPL is an overcorrection and it's time to evolve again.
Disagree with the last one, one of government’s main responsibilities is to regulate peoples’ externalities so they don’t infringe on other peoples’ rights. Noise and pollution especially negatively affect neighbors.

It’d be great if this was done parametrically (Eg setting max noise output at your property boundaries, particulate output, etc,), but I guess it’s been historically more convenient to do it via broad zoning instead. Japan’s max-use zoning seems like a good compromise.
> The fact that there’s no way for non-technical users to figure out if a given hardware configuration will actually work for them makes it a non-starter

There is: Buy a computer with preinstalled Linux. I did and it works. You can later install another Linux flavor and it will work, too. Even Qubes OS works for me with reliable suspend and WiFi.

> You can’t just be like “well driver support for this hardware is bad” and throw up your hands. It might be spiritually the manufacturer’s fault but the end user will never care.

Would you also complain if your Windows installation doesn't work reliably on a Macbook? This is a user's fault if they are trying to use the device in an unintended way. Although the Linux community is trying to support everything, this is practically impossible.
I'm not sure I understand your point?

Say for example, I'm looking at a freshly cloned repo. There's a first commit and most-recent commit on master - I can identify them with git-log. The problem is that I cannot view the path of commits between these two if I'm only interested in the commits made when the current branch was master (which is generally the case unless I want to drill into a feature branch).

Disallowing merges makes the problem go away but that removes a lot of options in terms of work-flow.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you mean by “author“, but BPF was invented by Steven McCanne,
and Van Jacobson in 1992[0], and tweaked over the years by various developers and operating systems. It looks[1] like the Linux eBPF work was initiated by Alexei Starovoitov, and came to be exposed to users c. 2014.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Packet_Filter

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/740157/
I think that package size is a useful gut check about how you're delivering your web app. It's hard to screw up delivering a 100kb package, but it's pretty easy to screw up delivering 5 megs. You can probably also deliver 5 megs in a way that doesn't block anything - but you may not need to devote eng resources to doing that until you reach a certain package size.
There's the Open Source Photography Course by Riley Brandt. It's a bit outdated by now, but remains a very gentle and well-produced introduction to (an older version of) Darktable, and image editing in general. Highly recommend.