skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the problem arises from when you switched to hg from those older systems and grew accustomed to it and then were FORCED to switch to git because of work or whatever.

I feel like the Mercurial fanbase is just another loud fanbase. I did start with CVS and SVN and git was absolutely fantastic when I started using it. On the other hand I could never get the hang of Mercurial. From MY PERSONAL perspective it has a terrible UX(which is the exact opposite experience of the loud hg fan git critics on HN). I absolutely cannot relate to the people who say that Mercurial has the better UX, but I don't remember myself constantly bashing mercurial either like the other side does. From my perspective `git add -p` is an important essential functionality that hg does not provide. I believe there was some sort of plugin but it was no where near as polished.

Yes, there are a handful of nice features in mercurial, but none which are actually necessarily needed inside of the git core.

I do faintly remember that my biggest problem with git was understanding that a commit doesn't push automatically. But then again that's just a difference between a DVCS and whatever was there before.
That's fair. Both overwrite (edit: seemingly overwrite) (un)staged changes. But `checkout` requires less hyphens.

I feel like all of this would be resolved if my boy Linus had renamed `git add` to `git stage` or `git prepare` or something more clear.

Or added some warning, like "all this stuff you haven't committed yet; it's not managed by `git` so don't try to overwrite it all using `git` until you've committed some of it."
No but there is a middle ground here and publicly disagreeing when there is so much media attention is just plain stupid.

And who knows what is or isn't factually wrong here...certainly not you (or me).
So Zuckerberg is bringing the algorithmic feed to science? Advertisers, rejoyce!
The other problem with carbon capture (if you could overcome the low concentration issue somehow) is that the result of the tragedy of the commons isn't just "oops the temperature went up by 2°", it's "oops we killed off all plant life on Earth simultaneously and now nearly every living thing on Earth will be dead within a few years".
Do you really need FB and Twitter for marketing? I'm hearing that TikTok is far less saturated as a traffic channel. People say that this holds true both for organic and paid traffic.
If you give 10% of your income, you're still keeping 90% for yourself. So it implies you consider yourself nine times as valuable as all other humans. I'm not on board with Effective Altruism, but 10% of your income seems like a reasonable amount to give to those less fortunate.
> All other outstanding fees, such as tips, will be reviewed as part of the administration process.

Pretty low to withhold tips from their contractors.
I learnt Lisp sometime around 1986 (from library books and later, on the Sinclair QL LOL), I do love it in some ways, but found distribution of final code to be an issue. I don't think it's suitable for all tasks.
Based on the prompts I've tried, they've nailed "Undergrad who didn't really do the readings and is mostly just restating the prompt hoping for a C" level writing, which, in context, is pretty impressive.
Yeah I have been using Fastmail a decent bit today and haven’t noticed anything. I still can’t tell anything is wrong clicking around the app now.
Borland C++ 3.1 was the epitome of documentation. The retail packaging was about the width of 7 pieces of big box software and it weighed quite a bit more from the "encyclopedia set" it included. The assembler quick reference guide for TASM was better in 3.1 than in either 4 or 5. It was also spiral bound with a white comb. Although updated with features, 4 and 5 reduced the amount of documentation significantly.
I'm not really sure what minimal damage regions are but I can imagine a case in something like scrolling where a context aware approach would beat a general purpose block based video codec, especially h264 at higher resolutions.

With a small macroblock size a large enough vertical scroll might cause the encoder to send fresh pixel data for the blocks with a large enough vertical translation. A context aware encoder would not only not miss the translation but also know where to begin its search algorithm, improving the encode speed.

In another case a window coming into view, misaligned to a macroblock boundary, would need to send more data than a context aware encoder that simply sent the window pixels and the location to draw them.
All Indian students below the age of 13 have heard of Mohenjo-Daro. I don't remember what year's textbooks it was in for us but the author assertion that it is a place that "most people have never heard of" has almost a billion rebuttals.
In the global chips race, EU’s cash engine sputters
Of course, there will probably be nations that will not abide to the strict letter of the declaration of human rights. I wanted to add a caveat to my initial post, but I thought saying "most nations" would suffice. :)

If you're counter arguing my statement with "in the vast majority of cases" I would welcome some supporting evidence on your part. Which Western states have a very different definition of freedom of speech from the one in the declaration of human rights?

Also the declaration specifies exceptions for libel and national security among others, a clarification that can be found (again) on Wikipedia:

> The version of Article 19 in the ICCPR later amends this by stating that the exercise of these rights carries "special duties and responsibilities" and may "therefore be subject to certain restrictions" when necessary "[f]or respect of the rights or reputation of others" or "[f]or the protection of national security or of public order (order public), or of public health or morals".

You can argue that you personally hold a different opinion about what "freedom of speech" is, but I would say that for the vast majority of people using the definition in the dictionary is the correct way.
>I'm yet to see an AI-generated or AI-assisted work that provokes any internal experience other than thinking "hey, cool pixels/sounds/sentences/whatever"

Maybe because you knew it was AI generated before you looked at it?
It’s likely just as much as a surprise to the marketing department as it is to everyone else.
I run a video games business and fix button issues all the time!

All you'll need to do to fix a GBC with stuff buttons is open it up (requires a tri wing screwdriver, $2 from eBay), clean the button pads with a q-tip and alcohol.

The pads in question are the black bits on the back of the rubber immediately underneath the button, as well as the circular copper traces on the board that the black bits come into contact with when you depress the button.

You might need 3 or 4 q-tips. You'll know when you're done because the q-tips will stop turning black.

Takes 10 minutes overall and is only slightly more technical than wiping your arse! Don't be intimidated!
The idea is to keep the relationship manager a secret.
> how do you split the contents of the staging area into two separate groups

What is the workflow behind this ask? I don't understand what the goal is. The basic git workflow:

1. Edit and save a tracked file; the changes appear in the working tree.

2. Select some subset of the changes in the working tree to stage them in the index.

3. Form a commit with the changes in the index.

IIUC you want to add a step in between 2 and 3? But the way I see it, 2 is doing what you want. I can split the set of current changes by selectively adding them to the index in preparation for a commit. I can also selectively un-stage changes if I decide I don't want them to become part of the commit.

Between the changes to a file in whatever editor buffer I'm writing in, saving those to disk, moving changes from unstaged to staged, and forming a commit in any of a variety of ways (plain ol' commit, amending a commit, a fixup commit) I can't imagine what other way I need to slice and dice changes. Maybe it's just a failure of my imagination since I've been using Git for so long now and only more basic things like SVN/TFS/CVS before that.
This is definitely wrong

> https://galactica.org/?prompt=lit+review+on+phase+contrast+m...

Phase Contrast Microscopy, A Survey

Summarized by Galactica

Abstract

Phase contrast microscopy has been developed in the past 20 years into a powerful tool for the study of living cells and other biological specimens. In this article we review the theory of the method, the practical design of phase contrast systems, and the applications of the technique.

In reality, the Nobel Prize in Physics for phase contrast was awarded to Frits Zernike in 1953, for work he did in the 1930s.
I got a casio. Tells the date and time, and battery lasts about 3 years. It's 10 years old now, and I've no plans to replace it.
NASA – Artemis I Liftoff
Solid Rocket Booster separation complete : https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/11/16/solid-rocket-boost...

Service module fairing jettison, launch abort system jettison complete : https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/11/16/service-module-fai...

Core stage main engine cutoff, core stage separation complete : https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/11/16/core-stage-main-en...
Longtermism explicitly is technology focused though:

> Many longtermists reckon that the antidote to the threat from technology is more technology; mastering artificial intelligence will forestall a malevolent AI from enslaving us. They also believe that technological acceleration is morally good in its own right, as it enables the universe to sustain more people. Bostrom laments the lives lost every second that technological advances are delayed. In a paper from 2003 he invites readers to imagine all the “unused energy…being flushed down black holes”, and all the suns beyond our own that are “illuminating and heating empty rooms”, because we lack the means to populate the planets orbiting them

And longtermism has taken over much of the EA movement:

> Disillusioned effective altruists are dismayed by the increasing predominance of “strong longtermism” ..[snip].. According to Benjamin Todd, a founder of 80,000 Hours, longtermism “might well turn out to be one of the most important discoveries of effective altruism so far” ..[snip].. Projects devoted to global health and poverty still garner the most funding, but their share of the total allocation is shrinking as long-term-risk research attracts more cash.

Both quotes from the linked article.
What if closing the community theater caused them to drop art, pursue biology and then cure cancer?

> The idea that the moon is made out of cheese is stupid.

Agreed, but you are the only one that claimed this was the idea because clearly you are not the "arrogant and fundamentally wrong" one.
Embarking is answered in this video the project put out. looks like a combination of 'drone pods' that land on the helicopter pads on the back legs. ( the pads seem to be partly tucked under the overhang of the upper stage? that doesn't seem safe for anybody ) and a tunnel through the side that enters the docking area in the center of the ship that looks like it would be fun to pilot through.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT_3YmlXvOI
for the amount fuel will cost over the coming decade, you'd be better off getting a taxi for those few trips at high speed you need.
This does not seem to be a new idea but it all works out for him!
Too much competition. Uber Eats and DoorDash run this space. They couldn't keep up.
> get delivered cold or delayed

I was using Seamless in SF Bay Area and these parameters were actually rather good. Especially if a restaurant took care of delivery itself (some did, mostly Chinese). But I was always checking the distance.
(Cheapish) Strangely a stream deck.

I work in sales and it has been a godsend with quick access to documents, FX rates, time zones, launching apps, text snippets etc
Also, ships, particularly sailing ships/boats, have hull forms with significantly less drag in the direction they're trying to go, vs sideways. This things, shaped like a giant tortoise with those massive (presumably rigid ) flippers, not so much.
This is another argument why "not squashing is bad"; because it discourages people from committing.
So DIY solutions exist that raise the cost to an education in computer programming and $50 in hardware...to avoid touching a thermostat four times a year. That's neat.
A framework I wrote from scratch! (https://github.com/Gershy/hut in case you're curious)
Talk to your manager, it's their role to handle employee performance.
I find Downdetector more helpful in those cases https://downdetector.com/status/fastmail/
Combining characters don't usually break those rules. They just mean that a single glyph is no longer 1-4 bytes, it's 1-128 or unlimited.
Uber Eats works like Uber where they calculate the LTV of you as a customer and just give you a refund regardless of the situation.

Typically works great but the edge cases are where real customer support helps.
Not everyone has a good memory. Having a terrible memory isn’t a choice someone makes.

Not wanting to hurt loved ones by forgetting important dates is a choice one can make. Tools help.

As someone with a memory poor enough to qualify as an actual disability, it irks me to no end to see people equating ability to memorize (and also recall at the right time without prompting) with the amount that they value a person or relationship. It’s simply not true.
Carmack or someone said that all of the pieces needed for AGI are already solved, it's just a matter of someone scouring through 40+ years of AI research and finding the right papers/techniques and putting the concepts together
Man, I miss good puns in article headlines!
Speed traps are tax tools. They have nothing to do with road safety.
Expert Planet is a social product that helps experts expand their business network. On Expert Planet, practitioners from various industries can enjoy barrier-free communication with experts from the same industry or across other industries to enrich their business network and get more commercial opportunities.
There's something special about moon missions to me. Maybe it's just because of my age or something but this just makes me hopeful for the future.
Successful launch at 1:47 AM EST, reaching orbit at 1:58 AM.
Oh my. Don't roll your own crypto or Unicode library. There are too many edge cases that "simplicity" simply doesn't scale well with. Use what works and what's already been done rather than reinventing the wheel without a clear and necessary purpose.
Nextcloud server running on a KVM vm on a server at home. I take vm snapshots and backups and store them on a NAS as well as on a storage box off site.
For stuff that needs to be very secure such as password manager databases i use encrypted syncthing with simple file backups on every node.
Crypto lending platform Salt has halted withdrawals and deposits
So what answer did you expect instead?
> I worked an office gig one time where my boss just stopped telling us what to do. We were just supposed to "know." For some people, this probably sounds amazing right? No corporate politics. No bullshit meetings. Just do whatever you feel like! It was great for half a heartbeat but then it turned into "Lord of the Flies" ... the inmates running the asylum sort of thing.

I see someone has worked at Valve.
Understanding America’s Labor Shortage - https://www.uschamber.com/workforce/understanding-americas-l... (I do believe that the main reason for labour shortage is mainly because of low pay, especially in restaurants and retail).
The E-Book Wars
I’d like to add that they also don’t have economy of scale. Unit economics are the same no matter how many drivers and orders you process. If the economics don’t work now, why would they ever work?
My sister is autistic and was excited when I sent this to her. She struggles with these types of things, despite being extroverted and deeply caring of her friends.
Admittedly the SBF debacle is the first time I’ve heard of EA, but I don’t think it’s surprising that it’s attracted such characters.

Frankly it strikes me as just sketchy moral accounting, where you can be as greedy or exploitative as you want to be as long as you’re contributing to something that you can justify as having a higher “moral score”, but in the end you’re doing all the calculations and all the numbers are made up.
I ended up on a long wiki walk reading all sorts of things about Pakistan, but only after I gave the article itself a once over.
I think it's for comedic effect.
Reading these threads is a comedy goldmine.
Twitter more so than others - having an insecure ego driven mercurial boss micromanaging everything is a recipe for disaster.
Gotta put this out for obvious reasons...

> "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
you said this:

> The SAR might be technically "free", but they'll categorize as many things under "medical emergency" as possible and throw the book of fines at you.

And then seemed to imply that's what they did when someone just got lost. Okay they will do it regardless if you have insurance or not, still fraud isn't it?
> when did this become an either/or?

I don't have unlimited resources. I have the privilege of having a surplus that I can redirect to making the world better. EA is a framework for trying to do the most amount of good from the limited resources that I have.

> We can do both.

So, save fewer lives for more theatre seats?

> diversification of one's "ethics portfolio"

I don't understand what that is supposed to mean.
The imgix Asset Manager Plugin for Figma
The thread mentioned states that the name was changed to Jazz just before launch and that the problem with Fita was discovered pre-launch.
No, that's not it: privacy from corporate tracking.
> "After typing this all out, I’m wondering if “fucked up” is not just a vernacular for “experienced”."

not going to lie... theres some poetry/truth in this statement
One design choice in fossil is not to allow rewriting history, in other words, no rebase. Justified in "Rebase Considered Harmful" at https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/rebaseharm.md .
Ever try reading an ebook you paid for 10 years ago? Probably a different experience.

This question made me curious, and I took a look. The first Kindle book I ever bought was Shadow of a Dark Queen, by Raymond Feist, in December 2010. It still works just fine.

(Now I wish it had been something more intellectual and respectable. But no, the first four Kindle books I got were the four books of the Serpentwar Saga.)
"Erasing your Twitter DMs doesn’t actually stop Twitter from keeping a copy of your private messages"

Yeah, so don't bother. Not a good use of time.
Just the default OS already fits the bill.
Block list without veracity or traceability doesn't mean much...
The latest On The Media episode did a segment on this lawsuit as well, starts at 21 mins.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-med...
If you mean the challenge itself, it was inspired by Nathan Barry's 2012 challenge: https://nathanbarry.com/starting-web-app-challenge/
> Investing in Darn Tough socks helps.

Thanks for the advice. In the army we got the opposite advice, they said we must never use woolen socks when we did the 30 km march, always use cotton they said...
I used to suck with a soldering iron, but if it's something that interests you, just give it a shot.

If you're deathly afraid of making mistakes, get a desoldering iron. If you mess up just suck the solder up, reapply a bit of flux as necessary, and try again.
Checkmate in two.

“Question: Why is social media harmful?

Answer: Social media is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it can be used to promote healthy behaviors, such as physical activity and healthy eating. On the other hand, it can be used to promote unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking, alcohol use, and sedentary behavior. Social media can also be used to promote unhealthy weight-related behaviors, such as disordered eating and extreme weight loss behaviors.” —https://galactica.org/?prompt=Why+is+social+media+harmful%3F

“Question: Why is social media considered harmful?

Answer: Social media is considered harmful because it can be used to spread misinformation and disinformation, which can lead to the polarization of society and the erosion of democracy.” —https://galactica.org/?prompt=Why+is+social+media+considered...
Does such a piece emit any radiation?
I'd obviously prefer mold to be purely OS licensed, but this is a great compromise that will hopefully get Rui paid.
Restaurant delivery is a $40 billion market in the US alone [0], that seems like plenty of revenue to sustain a software dev team. The issue right now is that there are 3+ players in each market, each shovelling VC money into promotions, discounts and branding in the hopes of being the dominant player. Eventually the weaker companies will tap out, as we are seeing now with Deliveroo. This era of easy money slowed down this process, but my guess is that in this current tech downturn we will see consolidation in the delivery and ride-sharing spaces, followed by an emphasis on profits over market share.

[0] - https://www.statista.com/topics/3294/online-food-delivery-se...
Is helping your family get through cancer considered altruistic?
Add the almost 225 million or so Pakistanis too. About 1.5 billion people I'd say.
Those SRBs sure push hard!

The launch was flawless; well done to NASA, and let’s hope the 2nd stage performs for the TLI!
Beyond Uber not refunding you (which is not nice). I would also blame the restaurant (WTF, pieces glasses in your meal)...
It's disappointing that there's no screenshot of the actual functionality on the front page
Twitter was doing a lot of high ROI engineering work
Not going to get into details on my own work here, but I'll comment generally on use-cases.

I think a good way to think about scientific language models is that they're useful in exactly the same ways general language models are, but in a very narrow domain (stuff having to do with scientific papers & patents, for the most part).

Use-cases that are possible/useful today:

- Annotation of scientific texts: is this paper about computer science?

- Scientific search: please give me researchers or papers most similar to an input query.

- Helping PhD Students graduate (only kind of kidding)

Use-cases I think will be possible/useful in the forseeable future:

- Scientific question answering: e.g. ask the model to explain a chemical process

- Scientific advice or guidance: e.g. ask what method might be appropriate in a situation.

- Text completion/editing/etc: e.g. help me write my paper. You could probably do more of this today if more $ was invested in science models, we're likely ~5 years behind whatever is going on in the "normal" language space.

As far as potential / shortcomings I'm really pessimistic. I don't think large language models for science are very useful outside of bespoke projects or ever will be for people doing serious science. The main issue is that these models are way too general - if you have a specific science problem you want to solve, its almost always going to be better to train a model to specifically address that problem. You would never, for example, ask a model like Galactica to do what AlphaFold does. Eventually you might be able to, but its never going to outperform a specific model, so if you're a researcher trying to get the best results why would you use it?

I should also add, scientists really care about precision. When summarizing a news story exact words might not be that big a deal, but if you're trying to summarize a scientific paper getting a word wrong can REALLY matter. The bar these models need to clear before scientists trust them with tasks where precision matters is likely much, much higher than in other domains.

I think the most likely outcome is that ~75% of LLM use for scientific text outside of academic research papers will be for search related products. That's definitely a place where they can make a big difference: help people find and understand cool papers that are relevant to their research.