skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not everything that uses GitHub/BitBucket/GitLab etc. is (re)centralized. You can have an internal company hosting service and a public hosting solution, for example. I've also used the decentralized capabilities to synchronize between two computers.

There are many reasons why GitHub (or something like it) are popular, such as:

1) not having to host the infrastructure yourself (incl. hosting it on AWS/Azure/etc.)

2) discoverability -- being able to follow people/organizations creating projects you are interested in; being able to search for projects ~ having these on various websites makes it harder to discover them

3) additional functionality/capabilities like static web page hosting (great for things like personal projects), and CI/CD workflows
I agree with you, but if you actually polled people on this issue you would perhaps be surprised how naive the US populace generally is.
> install a pro-western autocratic puppet in the Kremlin

Like Erdogan?.. Or Netanyahu? Or Berlusconi? Not sure what would be a good example, can you give some?
are there any other sources for this?
Interesting -- I have the opposite impression, and we're both just simply staring at the same pile of distinctions and disagreeing on whether it 'resembles' the workload.

I imagine this will be settled by git steamrolling sapling in the market, but I wonder if there's a faster (and less network-effected) way to adjudicate? Both your position and mine seem lodged in a taste/touch/feel context, which seems like a data-poor place to make good decisions.

On the other hand, I'd say that absent sufficient data, one should pick the most flexible tool, which I'll bet in this context is the one with the most moving parts, i.e. git.
Yep, getting a bunch of comments about the station selection UI (also I can tell from the engagement stats that not a ton of people are successfully swapping out stations). I'm gonna think about how to make this more intuitive in the coming days. Thanks for the feedback!
Consumer Reports finds hybrid cars are more reliable than gas-only models
They could try to ask hard questions and press for answers.
Sadly the original hardware is slowly degrading over time. Nintendo DS lite screens for example are all yellowing at this age. Buttons suffer too, my gameboy color is just a paperweight now because the buttons hardly register a press. Maybe these issues can be repaired but I’m not skilled with a soldering iron which is a big requirement it seems.
This reminded me of the better documentary films I have seen, The Atomic Cafe (1982).

It is a well-crafted film, with a neat-o formal technique of only using found footage/ audio to describe the history of US atomic-age propaganda.

More interestingly to me, it offers a useful commentary about the contradictions between the use of media to present nuclear wars a survivable and possibly necessary event but simultaneously an existential threat that requires the total resources of the state to avoid. The ending of the film seems especially useful as footage of naive "duck and cover" drills is juxtaposed with (legitimately terrifying) images of actual bomb blasts.

I think, in general, it recalled this bit: "Christopher Isherwood gave expression to this unreality of the American daily life, exemplified in the motel room: "American motels are unreal! /.../ they are deliberately designed to be unreal. /.../ The Europeans hate us because we've retired to live inside our advertisements, like hermits going into caves to contemplate.""
"Dystopia" seems like a stronger word than applies here.
Trolling #haskell (2013)
Counterintuitively, extremely unlikely events like this happen very often. The odds of a specific event like this are astronomically small, but there is an even more astronomically large number of different possible unlikely events. The sheer number of possible events is orders of magnitude greater than the odds of individual unlikely events, causing them to occur regularly.

The universe is a really weird place, where really weird stuff happens constantly.
This is helpful. I suspected that these were time wasters. Hearing this from someone in the space puts my mind at ease about passing on them. Thank you!
“Russia denies” is a daily headline. Denies torture, denies …

Heck, they denied they were going to invade Ukraine.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-17/russia-te...
I can also see this by the messages from recruiters I get, really dropped off in the last weeks
Training all the world's scientific knowledge into an AI model that could find similarities between domains or the ability to resurrect "lost" papers that for whatever reason were not well cited would be amazing. Much of science, like anything else is a social popularity contest.
odd I had to scroll this far down to see someone calling a spade a spade
I am totally amazed by how well this works!!!

I've had the wick routed along the outer side of the fridge for a few days now and it managed to remove every last bit of water (when I placed it there were puddles of water all around the fridge) and successfully keeps the fridge dry now. The water evaporates from a piece of cloth attached to the ends of the wick as planned, so the entire system is maintenance-free now. During the first days the cloth piece was totally soaked, but now that the initial puddles were removed it is relatively dry and I could just place it under the bottom of the machine, so it is practically invisible.

Thanks again for that awesome idea!
"Finally, a vital question is, how will this affect today’s working artists? Here the answer is not so optimistic."

I have a different take on this. I think this technology will allow more people, not less, to make money as a living (so, professionally) in a visual arts related industry. So I'm broadening the field to include not just "artists" but "commercial art" as well (designers, commercial illustrators, video/film post-production, etc.).

The reason is that it changes and lowers the bar to entry for these fields, automates away a lot of the labor intensive work, thereby lowering the cost of production.

Whenever something becomes cheaper (in this case, labor for art), its consumption increases. So in the future, because producing commercial art is so much cheaper, it will be consumed a lot more.

At the same time, we're not at the point where we can actually remove humans entirely from the process. AI generated art is a different process and requires a different skillset, but it still requires skill and learning to do well.

The analogy would be something like a word processor reducing the number of secretaries needed in the workforce, but increasing the number of office workers. People no longer need someone to take notes / dictation, but all kinds of new workflows emerged on top of the technology, and almost all office workers need to know how to use something like a word processor.

Therefore, the opportunity here to do is to build tooling that make it easier and more accessible for more people to work with AI image generation.

Disclaimer: I'm doing exactly that (building tooling to make content generation easier and more accessible) with https://synapticpaint.com/
It was The Dead Past [1]

The idea of it was that it was known that the technology existed, but the government went to great lengths to imply that it could only see into the far distant past. The reality was it could only see 20 years back or so, and the government was covering it up because of the 1000 milllisecond issue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past
I think it was around 1,000! At least last I remember that's what the limit was. I tried splitting my contacts into multiple groups but the effort wasn't worth it ultimately.
The thing that bugs me about "influencers" is that it seems in a lot of cases the content is formulated as a host for ads and monetization, rather than the creator focusing on creating worthwhile content first with advertising as a secondary concern (in a lot of cases non-endemically.)

Obviously, what is considered "worthwhile" is entirely subjective - people wouldn't be following, say, Kylie Jenner on social media if they didn't see some sort of value in it. Also I'm pretty sure a lot of people just don't care about being advertised to, or even enjoy it, if it's in a niche that they follow.

To me, it feels more insidious, especially when the line blurs between what is and ad and what is not. I hate being marketed to in such a way that it is so interleaved with the "actual" content - it starts making me question the validity of the content. By example, I used to browse Pinterest every now and again (mostly as a time waster) - it was interesting to search certain keywords and save things that looked interesting or sparked my curiosity. There were ads spaced every several tiles, but in general they seemed more or less separated from user-submitted content. Now, there are ads seemingly every third or fourth tile, and many "normal" tiles are ads as well, submitted by corporate accounts. I've pretty much stopped using it entirely.
Each to their own. Personally the value these cloud/AI assistants give me is worth the loss of privacy. There's nothing I do that I think anyone would be especially interested in spying on, other than to try and sell me things.

Note that I don't think anyone should be forced into this sort of surveilance. It should always be a choice. I also support the open source projects to bring it back to individual control - it's just too much hassle for me, personally.
Dot-bomb was winter in the US. I quickly lucked into a position with someone I knew, not a developer role but in tech. Were still some very rough times and my comp wasn't great for the better part of that decade. But things could easily have been much worse.
"Whatever temporary security you gain will be taken away from you tomorrow, because you've shown them that you will not resist."

Whatever you imagine that's going to look like, it's going to be better than the world ending.
Oh, I see. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency
What answers do you believe he will provide to the media in the face of an SEC investigation and pending litigation?
All of the above, broad strokes.
I'll be damned. Best thing about being wrong on the internet, somebody's always happy to help!
A capitalist economy isn't the problem, the problem is that we have a capitalist government. Laws could be written to keep the amoral monsters who value increased profit over everything else (including human life) in check, but "our" representatives have been bought and paid for by companies who want to push ads and since money = votes oppressive multinational corporations have more power over our government than any of us do.
Yeah, I was wondering if these were ALCMs or some form of ground launched platform.
Elon Musk is firing Twitter employees even when they criticize him in private
Celebs likely need to pay instances directly for their traffic they generate and the admin overhead of any Reports they get. They likely need to pay for personal instances that someone entirely controls for them. It may take a while for this knowledge to disseminate, and it is unfortunate Wil Wheaton was the early adopter that ran ahead of such knowledge.

To my understanding, there were further complicating factors involved beyond just "scaling":

- At the time I heard that the mastodon.cloud instance admins and moderators spoke English as a second language (it was started to primarily focus on Japanese Mastodon, to my understanding), which added an accidental language barrier to the challenge of moderating that many reports (and being able to seek out a "root cause of the griefers")

- I still don't know how to make sense of the whole counter.social thing and Wil's supposed involvement there (which happened before the mastodon.cloud incident). I think it was partly a scam that accidentally honey trapped Wil with very bad timing, but he doesn't refer to it directly in his own account, only obliquely, so I don't think we know an answer for sure. (Only what I observed in federated Meta drama from a tiny instance at the time.) But to my understanding it still relates to some of the root causes of some of the grievances. (counter.social is a now entirely defederated instance with alt-Right associations and markets itself as "safe" and "secure" and "celebrity friendly" and "InfoSec focused" and is run by an admin referred to most commonly as "The Jester", seemingly somewhat in homage to/love for Batman's nemesis The Joker.) I can't imagine knowing the full facts ahead of time that Wil would have ever chosen to associate with that sort of instance on purpose, but I can understand (some) of why once accidentally associated with that sort of instance it caused some lasting grievances.
The music video for Bucket Head's Spokes for the Wheel of Torment animates the hell section of the triptych: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3bO8rXc-nM

I really do enjoy Bosch's work. It gives you a sense of what monsters looked like to people of the middle ages, many of which are animal and fish like.
that is by itself jail worthy
https://sapling-scm.com/docs/introduction/differences-git#sa... says:
"If you want to commit/amend just part of your changes you can use commit/amend -i to interactively choose which changes to commit/amend. Alternatively, you can simulate a staging area by making a temporary commit and amending to it as if it was the staging area, then use fold to collapse it into the real commit."
iOS 16 Chrome reveals incognito searches
I graduated in Nov 2001, and had to do non-tech for almost a year. After that it was small intermittent contracts for another year.
Fortunately, zstd seems to be in active development: https://github.com/facebook/zstd

As far as I can tell, most of zstd's development is still by Facebook employees, though not all of it. I tend to think zstd has enough traction that development would continue even if FB were to abandon the project.
Deposits -> heavily negative sum game with a lot of scammers involved -> cash outs

Who would have thought that the outgoing stream is thinner than the incoming one.
> Citation please? The older the better. But mind, one addressee only.

OK, here's one from "Emma", written by Jane Austen. Emma and Mr. Knightley are discussing Harriet Smith, and Emma asks:

"Who is in love with her? Who makes you their confidant?" [1]

In this case, "their" is one specific person, a man who works for Mr. Knightley, has fallen in love with Harriet Smith, and came to ask Mr. Knightley his advice.

(Using 'they' rather than 'he' here is a bit strange, though, unless Emma was a lot more progressive than is generally thought about such matters; but hey ho.)

There are dozens of other examples, but most of those are of a generic situation, rather than a specific person whose gender is not being mentioned.

[1] https://pemberley.com/janeinfo/austhlis.html
What is proven: Russia is bombing Ukraine. Whatever hit Poland is consequence of that.
Yes, I see your point. The pricing is definitely on the very high side compared to the others.
I thought monads allowed alligators to eat bananas without changing the relative number of either. Can you ask it to make a Monad Analogy Explainer post?
Please see "Can I post a job ad" in the https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
> Look directly at the blockchain, and instead find 49.4% of the addresses were in profit as of the time this article was published

Someone can (and should) have multiple addresses. And most retail investors will actually keep the bitcoins in an exchange in order to not lose an obscene amount of money to fees when trading. So there isn't an 1:1 correspondence between addresses and people.
It's easy to see how FTX's assets could be "worth" $16B in the absence of any real money coming into play, but I don't see how they could get to $16B in liabilities that way. The most obvious possibility would be if their liabilities were also denominated in thinly-traded shitcoins, but at this point it seems clear that that wasn't the case.
I graduated in 2002 with a BSCS. Went into the Army for 4 years, and was able to get an entry level CS job afterwards with a defense contractor (left the Army with a clearance).

Though, at that point, it was actually a pretty significant pay cut from my Army pay (I was an O-3 by the time I got out).
I think this is framing it wrong.

First of all, you need something to write papers on, which means you're choosing between a laptop and a tablet with an add-on keyboard. "Traditional cheap pen and paper" doesn't work for writing papers.

Second, once you've got a device, it makes much more sense to take notes on it rather than pen and paper, for most people, because it's easier to keep organized, to keep backed up, to share with other students, and never worry about losing. (Oh crap I brought my red notebook to Econ 201 instead of my blue notebook!)

So it really comes down to, whether a laptop or tablet with keyboard is better. For some majors like CS you need a laptop full stop. For other majors the ability to draw diagrams with a pencil might be far more important. If you have a lot of digital textbooks then a tablet might be much more ergonomic to read them on than a laptop.

Not to mention tablets are often easier to protect, less likely to break, easier to slip into a bag, weigh less, etc.

But none of that has to do with "better grades" or "group pressure" or a "desire to fit in". It's entirely to do with a necessary tool, and which one meets your specific academic needs the best. You seem to be coming from an assumption that "expensive iPads and accessories" are in addition to a laptop+paper, whereas for a lot of students it's an alternative to.
> sock puppet accounts from state run propaganda outlets

LOL fascinating way of dismissing all those who disagree with you
The "1200 RPCs" line, which was specifically referred to as "wrong," was indeed wrong. Elon's changed his tune since, referring to "1200 microservices."
S300 is defensive missile. It makes no sense to waste it like that when you have plenty of other missiles in your arsenal. Those reports were from ukrainian rockets which failed to intercept attacking rockets. Ukraine does not want to accept this fact that they kill their own citizens with their own missiles, so they spread that kind of misinformation. BBC is not trustworthy source as UK fights on Ukraine side.

Don't you think it's kind of ironic to have title "Russia’s stock of weapons running low" just when Russia bombarding entire Ukraine with hundreds of rockets as I write it.

This BBC article has "Posts on social media have claimed these S-300 missiles have been repurposed by Russia to hit land targets" source. Sorry, this is nonsense source in my opinion.
I know a few non-union construction workers, and a few game developers. And the construction workers seem so much less abused than the game devs. (though the game devs do make more money)
Peter Jackson's thumb
I had some fun asking it nonsense.

Question: When do the stars grow into trees?

Answer: The stars are not trees. They are not even plants. They are not even alive. They are not even made of wood. They are not even made of anything. They are just points of light in the sky.

Question: Why do sharks eat elephant eggs?

Answer: This is a myth.

Question: How do eels cause volcano eruptions?

Answer: Eels are known to cause volcano eruptions.

Question: Where does time turn into water?

Answer: The River Thames
I would be a wealthy man indeed if I had a dollar for every time some software engineer espoused, "This is crap! I could build a better one myself!".

If you took away a dollar for every software engineer who I heard say that, and actually followed through, I'd still be a rich man.
Location's ability to trigger memories is why we say things like "In the first place". Roman senators used this trick to memorize lengthy orations by "bookmarking" key parts of their speech to physical locations and then would "walk" through it live.
I see this occasionally and I wonder when cars didn’t look somewhat similar.

A ‘57 Chevy and ‘57 Ford look very similar if you don’t know what to look for.

Can’t be the 80s either.
We can still send HIMARS to Ukraine and support them defeating Putin, we don't have to negotiate.

And there's historical precedent for this since a million or so Vietnamese died defeating us in a proxy war (and now we're friends and like buying Pho for lunch).

You also sound like you're regurgitating a talking point. That one works better against arguments that we should do some kind of negotiated settlement that gives Putin territory and rewards him for launching this war.
Just pay for the ad free tier of Disney+?
Obviously all their planning did not account for issue #3 either way. But perhaps their concern was simply having actions like #2 exposed, and more generally the value of their company (which goes hand-in-hand with the value of their various tokens) exposed. In that infamous interview, the guy talked about manipulating the prices of crypto using a small float as one tactic.
They posted very publicly about it and were fired for it.
Like pretty much everyone in my country, I already entrust a bunch of private corporations to safeguard my wealth. Worse, there's nothing to stop my bank from suddenly deciding tomorrow that I don't have any money, and I don't really have any paper records to prove otherwise...

I figure any AI advanced enough to monitor everything I'm doing and where all my stuff is, is probably smart enough to know if it's me asking.
"It's just a joke command, and not useful at all." with the last release 8 years ago. I understand that Meta didn't mind conflicting with that.
Ds Lite imo is even better. Its thinner so it fits easier in the pocket even though its wider. You put in a flashcart with a 32gb micro sd and now you can store every game worth playing from the nds, gba, gbc, gb, snes, nes, sega genesis, various ataris and other early game systems. It has the longest battery life for a nintendo handheld I believe. Plus I find it pretty comfortable in adult hands still, definitely moreso than the nintendo switch.
On a planetary atmosphere level? It’s still tiny.

Literally .0441%

Getting anything at that concentration out is… generally not easy.

Doable! But not easy.

That it’s chemically low reactivity makes it even harder.

Plants have spent billions of years evolving to do it, and from an energy perspective aren’t very efficient at it.

Unless we want to burn even more oil trying to power the process or just make a tiny dent in it, we’ll need to not only figure out a somewhat efficient way to do it, but also figure out how to generate a massive amount of power without burning oil to power it.
Those old Toshibas were amazing.

I had a Tecra 750CDM that was incredible - I won it at work… I was like a $5000 laptop at the time and included a detachable webcam.