skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it can make a bisect take way longer than if just merge commits are tested.

The whole beauty of bisect is that is a binary search where if you double the number of commits you only need to do ~1 additional check. So no, it can't take "way" longer.

And it's not like you'd call it a day after finding the merge commit that breaks things - you then need to find the actual problem with that branch and the fastest way to do that is bisecting down to the individual commit so you are actually doing the same work but artificially restricting git bisect from evenly dividing the search space by restricting it to merge commits first.
Unifi has a lot of options for this especially if you look at their Early Access store. Home Assistant support is limited right now, but a lot of their devices are still new
Suppose you wanted to arrange to give the top 10% or so of math Ph.D.s who graduate from Oxford the sort of no-strings-attached five-year grant you were talking about. How would you set up the decision process for deciding which graduates to award the grants to? Would the divisional chair at Oxford assign the grants? Would the graduate students vote on who should get them? Would the Royal Society choose the recipients?

I don't want to claim that nobody was trying to influence your opinion about who the best students were, when you were at Oxford; of course it's common for people to tout their own achievements and those of their friends. But I suspect that if you were in the position of directing millions of dollars a year of no-strings-attached funding, and people knew that, the amount of effort that went into influencing your opinion would be an order of magnitude greater, and might be sufficient to confuse you.

(This pickle is presumably obvious to you but the solution to the pickle isn't obvious to me, so I'm hoping you can outline a solution.)
Beyond Magical Thinking: Time to Get Real on Climate Change
I’m sure mandatory shutdowns Accelerated this quite a bit.
Beauty less than normal, sigh
Everything will merge to one BIG company because of cost-effectiveness.
I'm a fan, I've got Prime, and I'm not interested in the slightest, I'm done watching giant companies ruin good franchises and legacy characters. Would have to put a gun to my head to watch this one
In Poland Amazon Prime is only 10 usd / year. So the math is much harder outside the US.
Their Memphis air hub processes 2 million packages by itself during the season. You also forgot to include FedEx Freight in your estimate.
> Unfortunately, I had to leave it like everyone else

I use Evernote, and I guess I'm not the only one, because I'm sure my monthly subscription doesn't pay all the bills of the company. They even ship new features now, like Tasks. It would be curious if I were the only user. ;-)
> And keep in mind that we're carrying out this discussion on a technological ecosystem founded in very large part on FSF Free Software / Open Source software.

That's about as relevant as saying we should keep in mind we are carrying out this conversation on hardware mostly made in China (and most free software is also written on hardware made in China) so perhaps that is where we should be looking for answers.
> but given that every LOTR fan is going to want to watch this series even if it sucks

Citation needed. I'm a big fan of LOTR, but I didn't even bother with the last Hobbit movie. And I expect this series to be even worse than that.
Nature Used 57 Recipes to Create Earth’s 10,500 “Mineral Kinds”
Not to be confused with: https://worlds-longest-website.com/
Using group testing to save CI resources
"Titanium Blockchain Infrastructure Services" sounds so official, how could it be a scam? /s

Titles like this will become a weekly occurence in the next decade.
Interesting! I thought it would be purely based on facial symmetry.
It would be interesting if this website's height corresponded to the average daily length of a person's infinite-scrolling on their phone
The better question is whether it's possible to create a LotR representation with even a shred of the original's soul. Chris Tolkien hated the Jackson trilogy, and then see how much further modern market demands pushed The Hobbit's execution. I don't want to see what another ten years of compromises and pandering will do to the product.
It's skewed. I read the terms first, but then the website bugged so I had to reload. And then it said I haven't read the terms first. So....
> You can do interesting stories in any setting.

While it may be possible, money grubbing capitalist pig scum like Disney seem completely incapable of it, so I doubt this will end well. Capitalists destroy everything because instead of focusing on stakeholders they focus on profit above all else.
Right. NPT is not well supported. NAT66 is out there, but when you think of address space size is totally ridiculous. That said it does solve a bunch of issues.
Why wouldn't you just use something like Jitsi Meet, which you can easily self-host and know exactly where all the data is?
While I'm not particularly looking forward to this series, having rather unknown actors isn't putting me off at all.

And why shouldn't they go with directors they are happy with? TV series often have a lot of different directors, often directing just a single episode of a season or even a series.
It's understandable to feel angry when you perceive people seeing or prioritizing things differently you. Nevetheless a hostile rant is something you're doing to protect and make yourself feel better.
You've misplaced where the burden of proof lies.
I'd rather troll couch philosophers on an anonymous forum than be one.

I am rubber, you are glue!
Arbitrary Code Execution in Super Mario All-Stars [video]
Silmarillion as done by Blur Studios would be incredible.
Then again, maybe these savings come from whole same clean-up of services and other stuff they are running... After all there is likely decades of cruft around...
You are correct that I was wrong. (I searched "fedex profit 2021" and incorrectly reported based on a quarter's profit, which is sloppy as hell on my part.)

That said, it seems like $75B is wildly too high as well. Page 43 of their most recent annual report shows a consolidated net income for the year ending May 31, 2021 as $5.2B, making $400M still a 7.5% boost (if it all passes through).

https://investors.fedex.com/financial-information/annual-rep...

https://s21.q4cdn.com/665674268/files/doc_financials/annual/...
This reads like a buzzword soup to me as well. All of the "ideas" presented are existing systems that author wants them in the source control software. Not sure why?

Also GitHub is the defacto monorepo? Since when you can fork/clone code in a monorepo? The whole point of monorepo is to avoid that!
Isn't the growth for Amazon Prime kind of stagnating in the US? I don't think they can get 1-2 million sign ups from the US alone.

Plus, there would be folks who would subscribe for two months that the shows runs and then they may even quit.

In India, I am paying 1000 rupees for my yearly subscription to Prime Video although the only thing I watch on it is The Boys. I don't what the numbers for Prime Video are in India, but it would earn them less as compared to someone signing up from the US or UK for sure.

>but given that every LOTR fan is going to want to watch this series even if it sucks, the cost is totally worth it.

There is also a big question mark on this as well.
Perhaps the most important notion of semantics is that of referent. Pretty sure you can't develop that without an agent that can interact with the environment.
So if someone creates a new file and integrate the content of the old file to reach the same folder state than yours, you think s/he does something different?
> I see people on here complaining about cargo-culting from the cool kids (k8s, spotify's team structures, etc., ect.), but I see git as exactly the same.

I think this explains a lot of the initial popularity of git and github. Wanting to be like the cool kids, and git knowledge being seen as somehow "elite" back then.

But given that initial popularity, it seems likely to me that network effects mostly explain its growth in usage from there. Convergence on a single revision control tool/site/representation/api/etc is probably inevitable, in the same way that there is basically a single social network (ie Facebook).
“You can watch what you want, but they’re obviously pablum and my taste is superior to yours.”
Common Lisp as well.
It's extremely common in plenty of popular languages: Java's a big one, and if you count dynamic languages most do.
Boeing jets are a lot more like IBM mainframes than they are like Dell servers, which are still mostly commodity.
Cool. And if the series flop it will trigger some major review to modern movie/tv making
For all that money wasted on politically correct elves and dwarven maidens, they could have filmed 10 seasons of "The Expanse", "Firefly", or some other new show.
Yep. Most Reddit users are now mainstream average people which unfortunately leads to average signal interactions. This happens to almost every platform when those late to the party tend to push away the cool kids.

The only high signal communities are perpetually the next ones that haven't become too popular yet.

I posit that invite-only via vouching, subscription fees, not run by a corporation, real names+faces profiles, and policed just enough to defend decorum is one of the only ways to build a useful, enduring community that's not a fad.
VcXsrv + WSL2 means I don't have to care about any of this.

Though note I basically only use Windows as a fat driver layer unless I'm playing games (Wintendo!)
This has to be the largest leak of personal information yet, right?
Positive feedback for being rational is naturally delayed indefinitely (e.g. the dude taking years to realize what was going on around him, get out, get his shit together, finally get his story published as a short piece), while negative feedback for disagreeing with established consensus is made immediate and severe (e.g. Hubbard and his flunkies yelling at people).

Real achievement takes time to bear fruit, while a sufficiently advanced manipulator can near instantly create emotional feedback loops based in illusion. It's something that happens all over the place all the time - Scientology is an interesting aberration purely because its scaled.
>there are certain desktop things I don't enjoy messing with at all

One of the advantages of NixOS model.

hardware.pulseaudio.enable = true;
hardware.bluetooth.enable = true;
services.blueman.enable = true; #for systray applet

They work fine and are wm/de independent. As for displays, I simply use `arandr`. Can even save/apply layouts for specific setups.
What do we do now?

It seems the majority of people on the planet now have had some of their data leaked. Or are becoming ever more entangled with government and corporate systems which control and peddle their information as they see fit.

Is it ultimately a big nothing burger, or is this some singularity we are passing through?
Alien – Artificial life simulation tool
With 300k employees you can expect them to have thousands of disparate services that will likely get rewritten part of such migration
When doing these kind of comparisons, I feel we should separate out deaths from "excess" (drugs / alcohol / cigarettes) - or at least control for differing levels of use in the various countries. I suspect differing incidence of young people dying of drug overdoses makes a big difference to average lifespan, but it seems to me that's more reflective of a society's regulatory and legal environment than a reflection of healthcare
I don't know why anyone would use anything other than Ubuntu on a daily-driver laptop.
You are making a lot of assumptions. "Very javascript focused" I said evenly split between java and javascript, I don't know where you got that conclusion. And while the work I did for java was partially related to a web service (as practically everything is nowadays), it was focused on distributed data processing, and was rather far away from the actual service. I would not consider it part of web dev, and I suspect most companies would not categorize it as such either.

Your (incorrect) assumptions are a bit of a red flag. But honestly not too surprising given your earlier statements. However now that I've shared my professional experience, what about yours?
The Redmond techies who implemented Word's grammar checker probably did it with no guidance save a copy of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style.
As a huge ASOIAF fan, I had the same concerns after Game of Thrones was announced and first details were shared. The crucial difference, though, is that GRRM himself was involved in the series.
Same here, it underestimated my age by 31 years...
What would be the motive? Forcing Linux users to buy a Xbox or a Windows license? I don't quite buy that: it's such a small market that I venture they'd rather have people be able to play at all via Xcloud and sell a Game Pass Ultimate subscription.

Also remember that Xcloud is still beta, with a feedback form after every session, and probably some telemetry. While it would technically not be rocket science to detect codecs, I'm more inclined to think that this is a blanket denylist because enough reports have come up and showed that using better codecs/higher quality produced a subpar experience even though codecs are reported as supported (which might come from a zillion reasons such as codecs falling back to software decoding, or underpowered hardware, and both could be true for PC, Chromebooks, and Android).
I dunno. I’ve decided like with SystemD to just learn it and get on with life. Git is ubiquitous and so is SystemD. Learn them. Adapt. Move forward.

This is not to say they’re perfect but they’re open source so if I felt strongly I could offer code to change it.
No, the NZ rebate is based on production costs, which doesn't count funds spent on purchasing the rights to a project.
Last 2 seasons of GoT still hurt to think about.

It's not the ending that hurts it's how it got there. The last 2 seasons probably should have been 3 full seasons instead of the barely 1.5 we got and had a lot more build up/Dany descent into madness/Bran having some relevance that would justify his elevation to ruler, etc.

The suddenness of everything, the exposition, everything was just poorly executed. Too much money spent on CG dragons, not enough money spent on episodes telling the story.

The books can remedy my pain but have already waited so long. :(
Ten years on from the Higgs boson, what is next for physics?
My beauty score is average, racist AI xD

Also, very VERY interesting and informative project.
The History and Mystery of Eliza
There's not a company in the world that spends more than $1m annually on cloud costs that has saved money by doing so. You don't go to the cloud to save money, you go to the cloud to reduce technological risk.

If you go to the cloud you don't need to fire anyone for choosing IBM, you're not getting strangled by any Oracle contracts, you're not gonna lose all your data because of security holes in your use of Microsoft products.

You're also not going to be dealing with downtime because you couldn't find staff talented off to properly configure your Cisco networking equipment.

Your system administrators department is not gonna block any innovative employee initiatives because of the strain maintaining more projects puts on a deployment stack carrying 150 different projects but which was architected to solve a single business goal 15 years ago.

Imagine being a 67 yr old manager who just wants to be in the business of getting letters printed on tree pulp from Bumfuck, Idaho delivered to Louisville, Alabama reasonably effectively. Knowing nothing about computers or information technology, imagine the insane stack of perfect decisions that have to be made to get the IT infrastructure of a company like FedEX running.

Not saying going to the cloud is the best decision. Not even saying it's the decision I would make. But it does sound very enticing to just have all of those problems go away by throwing a couple hundred million dollars a year at Google, Microsoft or Amazon (btw lol if they go with Oracle or IBM instead).
> I want to be very explicit that I didn't get 'cancelled'. Everyone made a series of decisions and those decisions have consequences. That's it. It is merely consequential.
Milieu control, brainwashing, undue influence, etc.

If you want to know more specifically what happens, there are many public accounts from survivors of Scientology and countless other cults (or high control groups - if you prefer).

There is a body of literature. Authors include: Robert Jay Lifton, Steven Hassan, Margaret Singer, Alexandra Stein, Jon Atack.
It might sound stupid, but is there a visual equivalent to linux pipes? As in, i have a software that has something iterratable (browser search result, fileexplorer, document) and these result "plop" out into a visual pipe, were they get filtered (either by hand or by some NN-magic or by code) and processed by other pipleline parts. Finally the result drops out into a Folder, a File, a SnyDrive or some CMS system.

I just want to have that factorio overview over my whole workprocess pipeline and everything stuck in it. Inclusive rerouting capability. That would be supersweet. Has that ever been attempted?
Lots of f2p mmos still do the good old xor encryption https://git.cloudef.pw/sw-server.git/tree/src/packet.c#n32
I don't know yet. I'm planning to have conversations with the management team but it's a sensitive topic so I need to plan the discussions carefully.
Technical but clear about their job, which is management and no longer hands-on.
> And a user interface that is not confusing

That's a subjective condition that only you can judge. Try out different desktop environments and their UIs from https://distrotest.net/index.php.
Are these real/standard algorithms? This site though I was 30 years younger than I am.
However, when the situation starts to become unbearable, how long will it take to rebuild the infrastructure and source talent? Another decade? Adding the startup costs for any possible rebuild, you're apt for a substantial net loss. So you're probably going to shy away from such a reintegration, while losses accumulate further, until this becomes unsustainable, putting the entire corporation at risk.

(The wise thing to do to mitigate financial impact may actually be starting the reintegration process right now.)
Anarchy leads to 4chan. An undefended community ceases to be.

OTOH, not all moderation is equal. Slanted, arbitrary, mercurial, and/or unfair moderation doesn't serve the greater good either. Moderators need to be neutral, mature, and not use moderation to endorse political activist chilling effects by silencing debate.
I stopped after the first Hobbit movie and I'm very unlikely to watch this unless it gets rave reviews.
TV series are often bad though. You can often see drastic dips in episode quality. Do they really know what they’re doing with these directors?
I'd guess it's not be about the codecs, but about hardware acceleration. I haven't tried Xbox Cloud Gaming, but when I tried Stadia a couple of years back it was completely unplayable with software VP9 at 1080p vs. as good as playing locally with hardware decoding.

The game streaming use case seems to be very different from general purpose video streaming: it's realtime, is not efficiently compressed (due to the realtime nature + tight latency budgets during encoding), and changes rapidly unlike the main other use of realtime video streaming (video calls). So if software decoding is fine for watching Netflix or making a Zoom call, this is different.

Browsers have APIs for detecting codec support, but I don't think there's anything for detecting hardware accelerated video decoding. But given Chrome on Linux doesn't support this on any hardware, it's a pretty decent heuristic.
The Quantified Worker
you are angry that antibiotics are restricted? You know why that is, right?
I found a lot of stuff became simpler when I switched to FreeBSD. Audio is still OSS, same way it's been for ~30 years. Displays are still X11. Networking is still ifconfig. Admittedly I didn't touch bluetooth, but I'd trust them to get something similarly plain and simple going.
Let's hope they won't turn it into a diversity thing checking all the boxes and loosing the plot
The immediate gains I can see are:

* In-house development teams have more agility in standing up new services, since they can just use EC2/ECS/one of the other 1500 container runtimes AWS has, rather than having to wait for someone to provision new physical servers for them.

* An extensive suite of complementary products are available from cloud providers, it's not just about being able to start a VM, in many cases you don't even need to because you've got Lambda, and the various managed services.

* Less training/hiring overhead, since people who can use AWS are pretty much a commodity at this point, whereas people who can manage a mainframe are an increasingly rare breed.

* Redundancy becomes easier. As does data locality, let's say Singapore declare all services delivered in Singapore must be hosted there. That's a lot easier to handle if you don't have to go and build/acquire a data centre first.

* The aforementioned 400 million dollars per year.
The cool people get to platforms early. It's all great and fun times when it's small and the less cool people aren't there to ruin it. Later, the moderators and the users change to be not so intimate or as great on average, leading to disengagement and burnout of those early cool people.
No, they could use several proprietary solutions that aren't "pay by the hour", that come with their own consultants as well as the physical infrastructure. Also, FedEx is not a customer that a big profit sucking outlet wants to lose by gouging rent. They have more leverage than you're giving them credit for.
Public Health Technology Can Be Misused to Stifle Dissent
Wow, this both a fantastic joke and could be used as a school book example of the importance of context.

Given of course that everyone would have watched Father Ted. But the world would be a better place if everyone did.
Why is fixing their culture your problem? Instead of trying to change the client, why not get a better client? Are you getting paid enough for this? Are there no better avenues for your altruistic impulses?
I wonder if many people will even be aware that Android _is_ Linux.
After Wheel of Time my expectations are so incredibly low, if it still manages to disappoint I will be impressed.

I'm expecting a shitshow and a shitstorm of epic proportions.