skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used Fossil for a bit a few years ago. A nice, self-contained tool that stores everything in a single file that can be easily backed up.

Had to give up on it because using two different revision control systems became inconvenient after a while. But I regret the loss of Mercurial, after having used it for a decade or so, more than that of Fossil.

It always bothered me how a user-hostile piece of software like git rapidly took over the world. But then I remembered sh and bash and realized that someone thought that these softwares should be designed the way they were decades after Pascal and Lisp and hundreds of other sensible languages came into being, and they took over the world too.
Same here. I really don't understand why it has a reputation for instability. I use it on my home server.
I think it's just the curve fitting on the chart widget, but I saw one name where the popularity went negative in the 2000's.
I didn't recognize the name at all, so I had to laugh seeing that.
it looks like cpython is improving and cpython 3.10 now uses vfork when launching subprocesses in linux

years ago when i first hit this in production, we ended up working around it by rewriting our application code to use a pure-python library that did the equivalent thing as the separate command line tool we were trying to launch.
You're very welcome to argue that renewables are less green than nukes, but you're going to have a hard time backing up your argument with independent research, because the facts argue against you.

As for animals etc undoing the effects of pollution "in some cases" - some practical examples would be helpful, because I suspect most people have never heard of any examples that aren't trivial or anecdotal.

The whole point of zero carbon is literally to keep the planet as hospitable to life as possible. Your vague argument about... something is the exact opposite of the point here.
Russia essentially has Europe right where it wants it with natural gas because Europe is closing all their coal plants. I really don't want that in the USA. I want us to be domestic energy only, nuclear, solar, and wind mix makes the most sense by far until real Fusion comes along if we are really serious about the climate.
I used to have to burn cards every year or so until I started only getting gas at stations that accept Apple Pay. I haven't had to burn a card since then.
It’s not comparing peak-to-peak. That’s what “levelized” means. It’s price per actual megawatthour produced.
It's a sign of docker desperately trying to find out a way to make money and survive.
No that's not how it works. The virus is endemic now so it's not a one time event. Eventually another household member will get infected and bring it back in.
Yes. https://www.moh.gov.sg/covid-19/statistics
Loosing something that a lot of people doesn't need and will probably never use. Beside the Linux kernel (that git was created for) or other big projects, most developer will only use a bunch of features.

The command line is shit, one example: `git checkout` can both switch to a new branch or restore a file.
Not sure why you were downvoted – you are likely correct that dozens of people (at least ;-) ) are fine with the butterfly keyboard and have used it for years without incident.

My own butterfly keyboard was replaced twice, with the final version being an "improved" version according to Apple. It has worked OK for 3+ years, with no further problems other than the unpleasantly low key travel and paint wearing off.

For me the trackpad's bad palm rejection was a much bigger issue.
An open source GTO solver
Is the title a reference to Terry Riley's In C?
Solar, wind plus batteries (and other intermittent sources) are only cheaper because it is subsidized by the base power stations.

Only about 20% of the cost of coal and 5% of nuclear comes from the fuel. Almost all costs are fixed costs. They need to be paid regardless of whether people use the power or not. But in the current system, those who use solar or wind and only use base power occasionally aren't paying those costs. Instead everyone else has to cover those costs, which is why the price of electricity skyrockets wherever there are more 'renewable' (or specifically, 'intermittent') sources.

This is why electricity costs 10c per kwh in many parts of the US, but 40c per kwh in European countries with lots of windmills.

basically it is a huge market distortion. The real cost of base power is a fixed yearly fee to get access, then 2c per kwh after that (i.e the 20% fuel cost). If this is what was charged no one would use wind or solar at all. (or you would have people using solar but disconnected from the grid, which would be great too).
While there are legitimate scams in the space, calling the entire effort a scam is overgeneralized.
Also looking forward to the future post outlining the laundry list of issues and regressions caused by the first major distro upgrade.
> The idea that Arch is as usable as most Linux distros without leveraging the AUR is ridiculous.

Not really. I don't have a single AUR package installed. The paperkey software used to be the only AUR package I had installed. It eventually became part of the official repositories.
I've been using ocrmypdf on Windows through WSL very successfully. Works perfectly.
How so? The Fukushima (nuclear) disaster killed a single person (and then that was a legal finding, not a scientific one).
What about the air quality? Also is the tap water drinkable?
Did you miss this part?

>I'm sure it's true that there's places in the country where ICUs are full up with pandemic patients.
To some extent those already exist and I get annoyed by them when they cause 1Password to be useless on their login page. But it probably would help with algorithmic scraping.
It's opensourced at https://github.com/bupticybee/TexasSolver , supports Windows,MacOs and Linux.
Not all of the United States is in the southwest, and why should the southwest destroy all their natural environments to power the rest of the rest of the country over lossy power lines when local nuclear could do it?
>we only obsess about our customers, their needs and about removing Google Analytics from the web.

LOL, nice.
Fossil is that thing: a simplified DVCS that doesn't have important bits missing.

There are certainly cases where Git is the right tool, but it's vastly overapplied, used because it's popular, not because it's the best tool for every job. For smaller projects without a lot of randos offering PRs from the outside, Git's probably costing you more in its complexity than it's saving you by having that complexity at hand.
Why the while "first stage, then commit" workflow though? Wouldn't it be simpler to just commit?
Your counter-counter-argument requires a lot of energy storage, which is certainly not a solved problem.
I would say it's the opposite of parasitic. It's essential to having a well-functioning free market.
Twitter agrees, with regards to tweets and their business model
Affordable by looking at the decimation of the plantet. It comes at a fraction of the cost (destruction of human civilization and 80% plus of the world's animal population)
Fossil was designed by someone coming from CVS, so its everyday CLI is actually closest to that. As a Subversion expat, I found Fossil quite easy to pick up, modulo a few quibbles that muscle memory sorted out quickly enough.
I don't understand how this argument got so popular even though the ignorance is so obvious.

Nobody builds ONLY solar or ONLY wind or ONLY hydro. Why should you?

Please stop repeating this...it's ridiculous.
Mom was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer a few years back. Thanks to immunotherapy she's doing well, but it was an absolutely brutal road that involved surgery and lots of chemo. Not out of the woods but we're optimistic.

Anyway, a few things come to mind:

1. anticipate needs, especially as she gets further into chemo. Blueberry and spinach shakes with protein power was something she found vaguely palatable after infusions, so I kept the ingredients on deck if she woke up in the middle of the night hungry and in pain. Small example but stringing enough of the small things together is hugely supportive, which goes a long way psychologically.

2. Ice her hands and feet 15 minutes before chemo infusions and throughout. Does a lot to fight neuropathy, which is awful. She came out relatively unscathed; a friend hers who didn't ice has issues walking.

3. bit of a continuation from 2: cancer treatment is full of small horrors. Is her port going to get fucked up? Is she going to have a reaction to this new drug? It goes on. Gear up for it. I kept an internal dialog that went like "harden the fuck up, get through this shit for her, not you." Corny but useful.

4. Walk the line between being helpful and being overbearing. My mom hated being "the cancer patient". She needed support but didn't want to be babied.

5. Have her join a cancer group. My mom has made some incredible connections with people also fighting breast and other cancers.

6. Moderate what you're reading online and don't go too far down the rabbit hole. You'll hear this from her oncologist and others too. Obvious reflex but counterproductive

It won't be easy but I wish you both good luck. Medicine is getting pretty good.
I haven't tried it yet, but Scalene looks interesting: https://github.com/plasma-umass/scalene.
We can't build reactors fast enough because of the NRC, not because it's technically infeasible or unsafe.

The NRC literally has a mandate to drive cost up. It's a pathological exercise in regulation.
I recently (last few months) upstreamed changes to a project maintained by the SQLite owners. The process was fairly straight forward but the difficulty of creating the patch was much higher. I needed to learn a bunch of things that I didn't already know. I did this because I didn't want to maintain the divergence from our code (and wanted a more general fix which the devs could implement better than I could) so I put up with the pain. I don't think I'd do this at home if I was just bored.

Maybe that makes me lazy (which I am) or a bad developer. It is a barrier though as, like it or not, we all know git.
Dopamine then
I suppose you can multiply that effect by some unknown but really large number and you'll arrive at the total impact caused by favoring Common Law over Civil Law
Nope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_greenhouse_gas_emis...
The thing is, Fossil is also a huge improvement over Subversion without losing its day-to-day simplicity.
Why do you think the fossil fuel industry wants nuclear power? How do they benefit? They appear to have gained immensely from the halt of nuclear power deployment in the west.

E.g. France famously decarbonised it's electric grid in a couple of decades after 1970s due to the energy crisis using nuclear power. How did this help fossil fuel companies? On the other hand, Germany has continued to be more reliant on coal and natural gas for electricity generation after deciding to abandon nuclear power post-Fukushima and pursue energiewende. Or remember BP, an oil and gas company, and it's whole Beyond Petroleum thing trying to make people believe it was into renewables?

If we are going to hypothesize conspiracies, then just looking purely at outcomes over recent decades, it would make more sense that the fossil fuel industry supports RE and RE targets, rather than CO2 targets or nuclear power, because the former works out far more favorably than the latter for their industry.
> Powered by AI that merges NASA data with the insight of human astrologers

I honestly can't tell if this is parody.
Price is only one part of the equation.

We should be using the best energy for the job, which in many cases/places is nuclear.

Nuclear is a clean and reliable source of energy that doesn't need grid-level energy storage in order to be a comprehensive solution. Solar and wind need storage. Not everywhere is windy and not everywhere is sunny.

If you look at the total cost including storage and decomissioning, solar and wind are not nearly as cheap as you think they are.
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Because the anti-nuclear groups are heavily funded by the fossil fuel industry.

https://www.ans.org/news/article-1392/robert-anderson-antinu...
Does the US really need more electricity generation?

Electricity use is stable or even dropping although 2020 may be an outlier. Electric cars will change this though.

At a personal level I use significantly less electricity now compared to 15 years ago. HVAC replacement, insulation upgrades, computer and consumer electronics power reductions, lowered my summer electric bill by 40%

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-03-01/americ...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/201794/us-electricity-co...
Because it's still relevant, and there will never be a one-size-fits-all distro that satisfies everyone?
WSJ pushes a lot of "Carbon Capture" stories and Nuclear fusion stories. (Chevron is one of Nuclear Fusion's biggest investors)

Each day more than 2 million people pick up a copy of The Wall Street Journal or read it online, more than any other newspaper in the country, except USA Today, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

“More than three-fourths of them have a college degree, and their average household income is $234,909.

These are affluent individuals who are executives or business owners.

The Wallstreet Journal will never push an idea unless there's money to be made by its investors or affiliates, in the short term. and in the short term, I mean over 10 or 15 years.

A forest has more value, in the short term, cut down than is does if left alone. Petrochemicals have more value, in the short term, if they are being pumped, refined, and processed (and then that carbon is captured) than it were just left alone to begin with.

The absolute truth about dealing with the current climate crisis is that doing it right will not be profitable, in the short term, it will be an enormous undertaking across many fronts, and scientific disciplines, political agreements across nations states, etc.
how many common crimes are you committing for that to be your primary concern? sometimes you just don't want to share every single bit of purchase data with hoarders like visa, chase, kroger, and google.
The Gerrit review system tags every change (i.e. commit) with a durable Change-ID, which is represented int the log message, usually as the last line, like this:

Change-Id: I7321a7fddab667af7a418eeeb7d48c0240570260

The Change-Id will be the same whenever that commit is cherry-picked anywhere, even if it has to change due to merging. It is not a hash, but a random UUID.

If you trowel through the log messages you can find the places where that change has "been" by looking for the Id.
The me that first moved to Bushwick about twelve years ago would have thought they are super cool
I guess that depends on whether you believe electric vehicles will be a thing.
I can send $5k per day to seasoned Zelle contacts who I’ve sent funds to previously (Chase).
COVID-19 is not the only coronavirus!

If this drug is safe and can be made sufficiently cheap, it could be a great treatment for most kinds of common cold.

Why suffer for weeks with cold symptoms if you can simply spray this up your nose and feel better?

It could (potentially) be used similarly to Tamiflu.
It sounds like he wants a GUI so you’d just drag and drop.
I imagine there are probably ways to make nuclear power cheaper than it is without sacrificing safety, but can it compete purely on cost with solar and wind, or even coal and natural gas?

If you have a plan to fix the regulatory environment in a way that makes it cheaper than fossil fuels (ignoring long term hidden costs of fossil fuel use), then by all means advocate for that. I just think that we shouldn't assume that the technical, economic, and political hurdles will be overcome. Wind and solar are the cheapest option we have right now, so I think that's what we should plan to use. If another better option becomes available we can use it too. I just don't think we should put our eggs in the "nuclear will save us" basket. Maybe it could, but maybe it won't and we need a plan B.
Do you know if these first part transactions also bypass Visa/MC and interchange? It seems like they should have it so the affiliated merchant can just send the charges over to the issuer directly and bypass everyone else.
Batteries: huge recycling projects ( such as https://northvolt.com/ ) are moving forward and the market is ready: in many industrial nations battery-equipped vehicles and buildings are already recycled, not thrown in a trashcan.
What's so backwards about Arch's package management? I've written PKGBUILDs for my own software and used that to make packages I could install on my system. Works pretty well in my experience.
I’m not a TS, JS, or node fan. But if you really believe that it takes 80% of a dev’s time, week after week, to wrangle dependencies etc in ANY stack, you are either incredibly naive or really bad at math. And if developers at your company got away with that, I’d be leaving that company ASAP.
I daresay there is no DVCS appropriate for many large files that change. You want something more like a classic non-distributed VCS so you're not cloning the entire history of huge files.

Worst is when they're data-compressed so you're not only pulling all historical versions but also most every byte of each historical version.

I wrote an article for the Fossil docs covering this, but the core experiment can be run against any VCS:

https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/image-format-vs-re...
Just like a modern day turbo button.
Even better: when produced energy is not needed... store it, in order to use it when production is insufficient.
Are there any things that are illegal between fork and exec? It is perfectly legal to exec whenever you want, and it it perfectly legal to fork whenever you want. I'm not aware of any requirements around the fork/exec sequence.
What default settings are missing in your opinion?
My wife and I do this, but we still got scammed. My wife's debit card got skimmed, and there wasn't much money in that account but it gave the thief enough info to do a social engineering attack at the bank (USAA in this case). Took several calls before they found a cooperative representative, but they managed to convince them to reset the password, tell them the username, reset the PIN, and disable the two factor token (which is a Symantec app that runs on a smartphone). When the bank fails this badly, nothing can really protect you.

Sure was an awkward call with the USAA security department after they worked out the exact timeline and actions of the attack. They didn't really have much to say in their own defense. Cost them about five grand in the end. The really annoying part is that now if my wife needs to call them for anything on the phone they make her jump through many hoops to identify herself. E.g. she has to answer the credit bureau-based questions every time, plus a PIN, plus a phone password. We may move banks just so we're not stuck with an online-only relationship because of this experience.
Even if that's true (and according to the EIA total generation has been approximately flat for like 10 years) there's still the roughly 20% of generation which is done by burning coal. Replacing that with nuclear makes a meaningful change in total carbon emissions.
But does it really increase sales? We’re talking drugs that are prescribed by a doctor. Or do people not buy and take their statins unless they see a tv ad?
A positive ROI in isolation for one company doesn't necessarily mean anything useful is gained across the whole industry. Consider what would happen if promotional spend was just taking market share from other pharma companies - it'd be wasted money, but everyone would have to do it to preserve market share.
I read an excellent article written in Physics Today by a nuclear physicist once. For the life of me I have never been able to find it again. But he describes this in detail.

Basically, in his description this is entirely due to the environmental movement. Any time a nuclear plant gets planned the green groups move in a mountain of lawyers and lock down the process for years and years. The costs this adds to the projects are staggering and it is solely because of this that nuclear power can't be built in the US. In Europe, people have no problem building nuclear cheaply and on time.
If they can make 50 MW reactors at all, then yes, I will be buying the electricity from them. Not the reactor. The electricity.

It goes down wires and is distributed nationally!

I'm also not in the personal market for: Nuclear power, offshore wind, or gas turbines.

Yet, I get electricity from all of those sources.

If they can make one 50 MW power plant, then they can make ten 50 MW power plants. Put a nice little array of them on some cheap industrial land, hook them up to the grid, and start selling 500 MW like any other power plant. Easy. You can also get funding like any other power plant. Just turn up at a bank. Or issue shares. Whatever. If it works there's no need for specialised applications. It just needs to work!

There is no need to "sell" their investors on the concept of electricity generation and usage. We get it. We all get it, in the most literal sense, right now. No need to talk us into it.

They should be selling me on their capability of producing the thing in the first place, not its utility.

That's much harder if they're faking it, which is why they talk about its utility instead.

You know... if it works.

If.
Could someone explain what this does? The explanation paragraph does not make sense to me grammatically.
I kind of miss Windows Phone since it was actually different from the standard iPhone/Android user interface.
I loved and lived Windows for a decade and felt so cozy and at home in it, but when the first force-upgrade happened, I knew it was time to move along.

Just cannot accept things changing without my consent on my workstation.
There is, in fact, an analogous Git feature: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/corporations/pacific-gas-el...

"PG&E paid top execs $17 million in bonuses from 2012 to 2017"

You really think 17 million would have made a difference? Is that enough money to even bury 1 mile of transmission lines at Californian's exorbitant infrastructure cost?
Point taken. May be more accurate to say that it solves some core common challenges that made it attractive for those later use cases.

Main point being that comparing the complexity of Git and, say, SVN isn't apples to apples, as the former is suited to use cases that are inherently more complex.
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`git log --graph --decorate --oneline` is specific to a branch of a repository. Github Network shows the relationship between forks. It is similar but really the question answered by it is "what and where is the work being done" and "what is the relationship between work being done and this repository I'm looking at". It sucks that Network is buried, I think it should be much more accessible.

Eg https://github.com/sindresorhus/delay/network tells me that this work is being maintained actively, but most forks are not merging back. Another one might tell me work on the main fork is stalled, and many users are now doing PRs against a fork of the original.