skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia lists [1] a few more: ArX, Bazaar, Mercurial and so on. Note sure which one qualifies as the "main" competitor though ... feels like an uphill battle. :)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_version-control_softwa...
Maybe. A lot of people use mobile Safari. If anything, this could be a good incentive for Apple to actually fix the numerous issues plaguing Safari.
> Sweden had spent the previous century invading and destroying Central and Eastern Europe

Alongside Russia [1]. Also, all this happened in the 17th century. When Russia was still finishing its conquest of Siberia [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Polish_War_(1654–1667)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_conquest_of_Siberia#17...
Scotland would probably adopt the Euro as an independent nation, the EU paying much of that public spending but also tempering it.
I use Docker and Colima constantly on M1 and have had very few issues. Granted, my use case for those things is probably quite simple compared to someone in Ops.

For web development, I believe that Apple Silicon is really the place to be right now (especially if you also work on design projects!)
That's a great observation about teachers. I was fully convinced in late middle school that I was an idiot who had no hope to achieve good grades or a grasp of subjects. Then suddenly I found myself getting As in high school without a real change in effort/routines. I attribute that in large part to learning the "why" behind various subjects via new teachers.
Ukraine is very large. It can gain and lose territory in different parts at the same time.
The only way to win is not to play.

Joining NATO takes them off the list of countries Russia can consider invading.
That's silly. It's better to not have a war at all (due to deterrence) than have a war where you have to defend your territory and eventually emerge victorious.
Yeah it's not like you don't need to cultivate feed for farm animals and kill wild animals for that too you know.
How to Survive a Broken Foot (2012)
> On any given day you can read both that Russia is struggling and that Ukraine is ceding territory fast.

Those aren't incompatible situations in this kind of war. Russia is advancing fairly quickly (though not without significant reverses) since focusing on taking a strip of southern territory rather than decapitating and forcing the surrender of the Ukrainian regime.

There are also still taking insanely high casualties and material losses that cannot be replenished on any reasonable timescale (Ukraine is taking high casualties, proportionately more than Russia, but also defending their homes; this matters in terms of casualties that can be taken without collapsing the populations will to fight; and Ukraine is getting a flood of material from outside supporters.)

While there's wide variance in estimates, Russia's casualties in its four month war look to be at least in the neighborhood of those the Soviet Union took in its decade long war in Afghanistan, which was widely seen as the USSRs Vietnam and a major contributor to the fall of the country, and the USSR was much bigger than Russia. And it's ever worse when you look at the casualties among senior officers and combat pilots.
Neither nuclear weapons nor viruses help you conquer the world. Destroy it? Sure. But you won't be there either to conquer the world after using them.
I'm not the OP, but some personal examples:

- why is little-end / big-end a thing?

- why is volatile memory called volatile? and why can't we just keep that data around?

- what can a 64-bit computer do that a 32-bit computer can't?

- what do people mean when they say "code is data"

- what's an instruction, really?

- how did people program computers before they had screens?

- how did people program computers before they had keyboards?

- why is it called 2's complement?

And others that I can't recall right now. It's a fantastic book and I recommend it to everyone who is the slightest bit interested in how computers work.
Never ending stream of "for a price of one/two coffee per month".
Russian nightly "talk-shows"

I've been really struck by how one of the most popular shows features presenters and guests standing on a stage discussing or arguing about the day's news in front of an audience; literally news theater. Of course, one could argue that western TV formats are also theatrical in their way; sitting around or behind desks to give an air of collegiality or authority, respectively; or just explaining visual events with a disembodied voice, inviting its adoption as internal monologue.

Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media was written early the cold war and though it's dated in many respects, it was sufficiently forward thinking that it's still a useful and thought-provoking read today: his basic idea is that there are different paths toward the construction of meaning in the mind of audience members, and that the way in which information is presented is often far more important than the content of the information.
Sure, but not in an illegal way, I think its warranted. Its one thing to post the recall letter internally but to publicly bash your employer and call for the firing of others and expect to keep your job is insanity. They could have easily rewritten the letter to be less inflammatory, identified the problems, proposed solutions that did not target individual leaders and posted it on an internal board. We are at a strange time in industry where people don't think they will be fired for publicly torching their employer (see the recent Washington Post debacle). With that said, Brian's response was equally bad.
But apparently "thanks" unironically right? I am not a CPU expert, but from what I have read about ARM during this transition (plus with more ARM options becoming available in the cloud) it seems to me like x86 is bogged down with a fair amount of baggage and ARM/RISK is actually a better technology which has been held back by the inertia of x86.

Happy to be corrected if I am wrong.
In good news, you can go hang out with fellow toxic exec Tony Faddell when you get drummed out of the industry.
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Obama may be proven right, but I certainly hope he is proven wrong, or at least that this phase of the war by Russia will prove that he might have been wrong.

But it's also important to know that Ukraine's army today is far different than that of 2014. In 2014, Ukraine's army was far more like Russia's in training and leadership, except it also had many pro-Putin leaders that have now been purged from leadership. There has also been a big change in style of leadership, as has been shown throughout this phase of the war.

In 2014, there was an argument for doing more:

https://www.armytimes.com/opinion/2014/11/28/opinion-a-case-...
What’s the impact of not disabling JavaScript?
Yup, was going to say the same thing. Here is a secondary source from 2014 confirming this: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/is-putin-risking-world-pe...
Would you count mu and mu4e?

https://github.com/djcb/mu
I miss mutt a lot, and would much rather be using it than the weird web messes we have. But I also have to have extremely specific corporate branding in all my outgoing emails. It's stupid as hell but it's also not worth fighting about.
just came across a study from 1994 that seems relevant https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7812670/
Where did you hear Facebook is dumping Mercurial. Last I heard they were using Rust to optimize Mercurial.
This looks great, a while back I was working on a website called https://justfive.news really liked your layout and all
Its not useless if russia is made weak by this. In contrary, big service to whole western world and some more for decades to come, paid in ukrainian (and poor uneducated simple russian conscripts) blood.

I think west as whole should really focus now on trying its best to make sure russians can't do high tech anymore, military or not. Can't stop such country making dumb ammo and cannons but nothing fancy.
Was it the layoff that made them a stronger company or was it the market improving?
All of them are promoting Putin's propaganda. I suggest you to balance your news ingestion ;)
Yet most crops are grown to feed farmed animals. Remove the farmed animals inefficiency coefficient from the equation and suddenly the world is overwhelmed with an abundance of food, most of which is healthier anyway.
This software had security vulnerabilities. There have been since many apps for design.
Echo chamber is a different problem with the media. What you are describing is "Knoll's Law".
Honestly surprised he even responded to it, and every single tweet is a red flag there. Not a good look, and he didn't even address the rescinded offers which I think is dragging coinbase's rep down the most.
About images of the UI: Fossil's website is run by Fossil, so you are, in fact, looking at Fossil's UI when you visit TFA.
Is this satire? I honestly can't tell anymore with projects surrounding cryptocurrencies.
Yes. In 2017, BMCI acquired all of the Arduino trademarks. [0]

[0] https://techwombat.com/bcmi-acquires-arduino-ag-makers-breat...
Aye, it feels like we’ve mostly reached a plateau and arrived here through short terminism.
The surprise was that they were functionally incapable of doing so due to corruption and other systemic problems.
I've always liked the definition of making sense to ask what it's like to be something as an indicator of consciousness.

For example, you can try to imagine what it's like to be a dog, but it doesn't make much sense to ask what it's like to be a toaster.

What's it like to be an artificial neural network? I don't think that's valid, nor is there any good evidence that we're making progress.
Ha that's a great idea.. sounds like a good idea for a coding book.. hey so you know minecraft.. use that knowledge to learn how computers work..
And if you ask poles who they'd like to blow, they often spell Russia.
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Predicting the Future with Bayes’ Theorem
Yeah, buying all the tools can get expensive pretty quickly, not to mention how overwhelming the choices in tools are.

If you are just starting out, I'd recommend starting with just the core tools [1] and a block plane.

[1] https://www.lie-nielsen.com/nodes/4219/home-education-gettin...
Concurrency Kit
Why would it be hush-hush? Google engineers are generally smart people. They understand decisions that align with the company's bottom line. The engineers can easily tie their performance and promotion evaluation to a revenue metric by interfering with ad-blocking. There is plenty of incentive on the individual level to interfere with ad-blocking without needing shadowy decisions from the top.
Maybe even go on strike over it.

>Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest, demanded participation in the decision-making process and finally took to squatting in basements sulking
>So the author argues not to avoid cruelty because it only reduces cruelty by 99.9932%. This is garbage.

Where is this argued at all? It does include this bit:

>This isn’t a call to forks for you to head to your nearest all-you-can-eat­ ­steakhouse. Buxton would like to see everyone reduce consumption of meat from industrial farming and ­transition towards more sustainably raised meat, “which will likely mean consuming less”.

It seems like the purpose of the article is to point out that veganism is not a magic solution, despite it being advertised that way. But nowhere does it claim that we should "not avoid cruelty".
Like walking alone while wearing a very short skirt in the wrong part of town after midnight, I find that idea principled but self-destructive. Is it your right to ask to join a military alliance? Absolutely. Is it surprising that provokes a violent reaction from the state whose power is threatened by that alliance? Only if you're very naive. Is that reaction ok? Of course not, but silly of you if you weren't expecting it and is the principle really worth the personal cost?
Well, Rust is replacing C++ incredibly quickly.
Sure. Nevertheless, OP bringing up Obama's Crimea-era thoughts on a Russo-Ukrainian conflict isn't relevant to the situation today.
collapsing tech sector?
Microsoft already posts salaries for remote or potentially remote positions to comply with Colorado law - but I have not seen Meta, Netflix, etc doing the same under similar circumstances.
Also? It's an unlaminated paper card (you're not allowed to laminate it), and you theoretically get a limited number of them before they'll stop replacing them. My feeling about social security cards is that you should keep them in a safe deposit box and never on your person. The idea of needing one to vote is ludicrous to me.

It's America's worst card.
> Going by KeepassXC docs, the database is encrypted with an HMAC challenge response, changing only on DB save. But if you have the ability to copy the database file and the HMAC response in the same point of time as this malware does, the yubikey part is useless. What password manager are you using?

I use a GPG-based password manager (pass) so this is not the case. Each password is encrypted individually using the GPG key in the yubikey. I hate keepass (I have to use it at work because they're stupid). I recently wrote a whole essay on why KeePass is so behind the times to our leadership, I hope they will finally go for something that actually has centralised management and auditing. We've seen teams that have used the keepass filename as master password for example and we have no way to prevent this kind of thing.

I also use Fido2 where possible which is even better of course.

And yes stuff can be exfiltrated but websites such as facebook, dropbox etc are pretty well defended against session cookie theft these days.

I'm just saying there is still a very good reason for the admin account to be boxed off, despite the XKCD makes it seem useless.
That sounds... odd. The big diesel SUVs and pickups that get around 9MPG are typically fairly old and used mainly as tow vehicles for businesses or people with large boats, horse trailers, etc. The acquisition cost of a more fuel efficient vehicle that has similar horsepower, torque and towing capacity is far higher than just paying more at the pump.

This isn't passing the smell test. Do you have examples of it happening?
If you want a significantly different one, Pijul[0] is based on the theory of patches and has some really interesting properties (but, to be honest, it would probably take Github accepting Pijul repositories for me to use it which is a shame).

[0]: https://pijul.org/
I made this comment on a post a few days ago about using a different SCM:

> I feel like an SCM would have to be WAY better than git to make it worth using. The entire developer community is on git, so you are still going to have to know how to use git in order to access other open source projects. If you are already going to have to be using git for many things, why add a second SCM you have to learn to use?
This is a good question. I've struggled with this quite a bit, I used to post exclusively on medium, then everything on my own site (https://tndl.me), and now I'm toying with the idea of a substack. But really the important thing is to just write and publish it _somewhere_, the biggest benefactor of your writing will always be yourself.
Consciousness is not that mysterious. A model that has a representation of itself with specific constraints, along with a rationalization and explanation engines like transformers will look like a living, feeling thing to us.
I majored in electronics (more than a decade ago) but always worked in software development. Does it still make sense to purchase it? I am eager to buy it, just need the push. :)
The petition did not convince me that Coinbase has a problem, but this response certainly did.
Pre-WW1: USA was happily supporting allies in the their fight against Mr. Evil. But Mr. Evil sunk an American ship. WW1 started and soon after Mr. Evil died.

Pre-WW2: USA was happily supporting allies in the their fight against Mr. Evil. But Mr. Evil sunk an American ship. WW2 started and soon after Mr. Evil died.

Pre-WW3: It's where we are now. Can you skip the sinking of the ship detail and just go kill Mr. Evil so that life can continue normally? Please.
> What really needs to happen it a separation of HTML from UI markup elements

Do you mean CSS? Using <b>, <I>, <strong>, etc has been “bad form” for a while (maybe not strong though)
Umm... Europe is not the only territory in the world. There's all of central asia, and Mongolia, former soviet territory.
> I say this because they used a new sequencing technology that appears to have homopolymer bias (https://twitter.com/lpachter/status/1533875723995185153), which will bias the gene quantification.

I believe they used Illumina for the results presented in the main text and then re-sequenced with Ultima and replicated a subset of the analyses (fig s13). The Ultima proof-of-concept didn't appear to be relevant to the main study/conclusions
Surprising then that a company sells resistors just for rail speed control applications:

https://www.cressall.com/applications/rail-traction-dynamic-...

(scroll down to "MOTOR STARTING AND SPEED CONTROL RESISTORS")
On my own website that I created exactly for this reason.

My first post was a guide on how I did it with Hugo, Netlify and Wowchemy: https://nicolaslouge.com/post/how-to-create-static-website-h...
I didn't see any concessions having been offered by Macron. Talking at lengths on the phone? Yes, and I'm fine that - a phone call is a phone call and nobody dies because of that. Much better than a ww3 by any measure. I couldn't care less about what Putler is laughing at in private, important is that Russia, maybe maybe, stops killing.
It's not a shibboleth when some considerable portion of the population, including judges, regard it as an inviolate document of absolute truth.
> Russia is advancing fairly quickly (though not without significant reverses) since focusing on taking a strip of southern territory rather than decapitating and forcing the surrender of the Ukrainian regime

Russia also has a bad habit of advancing and then failing to hold territory. Ukraine, for good measure, has become good at baiting them into overextending.
> 2/ First of all, if you want to do a vote of no confidence, you should do it on me and not blame the execs. Who do you think is running this company? I was a little offended not to be included :)

My first thought after reading that - maybe your employees actually believe that their execs are the ones running the show?
Consciousness means you know you exist. This is a super simple definition and GPT does not, nor do any of these AI models, meet this very simple definition.
In the same edition of The Economist, an article by Douglas Hofstadter debunks this statement in a pretty compelling way.
I don’t see how consciousness is at all hard to define. A system that is aware of itself.

Checking for consciousness is harder, but the rule of thumb should be anything that makes a highly subjective case it’s conscious probably is.
Pro: I couldn't tell that it wasn't native.

Con: On Linux, it pegged my CPU worse than native.

I guess this is more of a revenue-guarding technology than a practical one.

For people who care about truth and posterity, having a disconnected "final" copy is an indispensable testament--even for toys like video games. Without that, "creators" will make "adjustments"--for not-so-altruistic purposes--and act as though they had never expressed such things in the first place. The number of internet articles I have seen "disappeared" in the past 10 years is chilling. It is no comfort that technology has made real-time editing of history economical for interactive media as well.
> there are several important brain nutrients that simply do not exist in plants or fungi. Creatine, carnosine, taurine, EPA and DHA omega-3 (the third kind can be found in plants), haem iron and vitamins B12 and D3 generally only occur naturally in foods derived from animal products

This is demonstrably false nonsense.

Omega-3 fatty acids exist in almost all plants (especially leafy greens) and is synthesized to EPA/DHA in the body. If you eat junk food with high omega-6 content, the conversion process won't be efficient enough, and you need to take an algae-based EPA/DHA supplement; but unlike nasty fish from the polluted ocean, this supplement comes from a hermetic lab with third party purity testing.

The rest of the nutrients purported to be lacking in a plant-based diet and be debunked with a few easy web searches as well. Obviously, one has to be mindful of macro and micro-nutrient consumption, but this is true with any diet, and is even more so if health is of concern.
At least it bans Charge Point's mandatory social network BS.
It's like that classic Simpsons gag, where a robot is trapped in a fire and says "WHY?! Why was I programmed to feel pain?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ-ggzfdsMs
The whole region was chaotic for centuries. Poland invaded Russia at one point as well. Everyone pretty much invaded everyone else.

Certainly no one was “justified” here, I just meant to point out that the article is written to be misleading. The region in question (St. Petersburg) does indeed seem to have been occupied by Russians for a considerable period of time prior to Sweden occupying it.
What could ISPs dl about this?
But that would introduce more complexity (polarity, biasing, etc) that would distract from the initial purpose. With a relay they should only learn how connecting a battery to pins 1 and 2 closes the contacts on 3 and 4. Using relays with more throws they can also learn the basics of logic gates, flip flops, etc.
I believe that relays still have a place for educational purposes.
On the whole it's been good.

I work on scientific software, so the biggest technical issue I face day-to-day is that OpenMP based threading seems almost fundamentally incompatible with M1.

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/674456

The summary of the issue is that OpenMP threaded code typically assumes that a) processors are symmetric and b) there isn't a penalty for threads yielding.

On M1 / macOS, what happens is that during the first OpenMP for loop, the performance cores finish much faster, their threads yield, and then they are forever scheduled on the efficiency cores which is doubly bad since they're not as fast and now have too many threads trying to run on them. As far as I can tell (from the linked thread and similar) there is not an API for pinning threads to a certain core type.
It's incredible in these comments that so many of you who work in the industry on the employee side are arguing against having more transparency for the employee, and for having more leverage in the negotiating process for the employer instead. I want all the advantage as an employee that I can get. Any secret withheld from me is not to my advantage.
There are a lot of people that agree with the petitioner, but employees aren’t given an open forum to talk about internal problems. If you talk about things that are wrong too much with your manager, you get marked down for not being positive. There’s no “free speech” internally and it is a pretty oppressive environment in that it doesn’t feel safe to express yourself to anyone.