skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah and PRs don't scale well for popular repos with a small number or single maintainer. It's just an unbelievable amount of work to throw code at someone and let them figure out if it's high enough quality, worth integrating and maintaining, etc. It just leads to burn out and abandonment. IMHO there should be much more focus on the branching nature of git and highlight that code can and should live in different user branches.
What is going on with this repository? The .git directory has 155 MB, yet a clean checkout of main branch is 1 MB.
Ah, already submitted from another news outlet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35780517

Please remove.
As a fountain pen enthusiast who uses fountain pens exclusively, this list surprises me.

What does this author want to cover? Good looking expensive stuff?

Just buy a Pilot Metropolitan or a Lamy Safari. Or even a Platinum Preppy. These pens are extremely cheap.

And beyond these pens, if you notice any improvement in smoothness and comfort of writing, I would throw that in the margin of error.

People have their reasons to buy more expensive pens. But if smoothness, comfort are your goal, then you can buy what I said.

Metal-body Lamys and Pilots are also generational wealth. You can hand over one to your daughter after you write 40 years with it.

My favorite fountain pen so far is: Pilot Custom 823. That's a bit expensive.

But I used Metropolitan, Preppy, and Safari for close to a decade. And I had only these pens. Nothing else.
Yes, that would be a good way of doing it.
So are you saying if the government wanted to subsidize chip development and had these choices:

A) Make resistive element chips out of wafers and all the normal complex chip patterning, using up the fab side of things and wafer space

B) Subsidize custom chip molecular simulation accelerators for cancer research, by providing the fab side of things and wafer space to design researchers or companies

A is as good as B?
The real mind games start once people adapt real scenes to the tells of AI generated imagery and have the video to prove it.
Not to advocate for doing either, just to point out potential flaws in your argument:

(1) Value gained

Assuming you steal things that aren't of high value, let's say you steal a bag full of groceries at the supermarket, every day, worth $50. Do this for a year, and you'll have stolen < $20k of goods.

Assuming an annual salary of $100k, if you slack off 75% of your working hours, you'd gain a "windfall" of ~$75k.

Conclusion - the payoff for slacking off is much higher.

(2) Risks and adverse outcomes

Shoplifting is a crime in most jurisdictions. If you get caught, you'll have to deal with law enforcement, even if you don't get prosecuted in the end. That's generally quite unpleasant. If you are prosecuted and found guilty, it tends to make your life quite a bit harder given that many employers are opinionated about hiring people with a criminal record. Not to mention fines or even prison.

If you slack off at work, the worst thing that can happen is a confrontation with your manager, your coworkers look at you funny, and you get fired from the job. This is almost strictly worse than the adverse outcome for shoplifting because if you get convicted of shoplifting there's a good chance you'd lose your job anyway.

Conclusion - the risks and adverse outcomes of shoplifting is much worse.

So in summary, it can be rational to slack off at work but not shoplift for purely selfish reasons.
With physical goods it's probably enough to check the age of the person taking delivery. Presumably the people who deliver groceries know what to do if the groceries include a crate of beer and the person who opens the door looks as if they might be under 18. Presumably they ask to see a driving licence or for someone older to come to the door. Or the crate of beer gets sadly removed from the order and the teenager's father is disappointed when he gets back from his evening walk.
> "American citizens" are usually just people who, by no fault and no merit of their own, happen to have been born in the United States. Frankly, this shouldn't give them the right to decide who else gets to come to the US and on what terms.

As an immigrant to the US, I disagree, it's the right of existing Americans to decide how many and what type of new immigrants they accept in their own country. The same way a person born into a rich family -through no merit of their own- has the right to decide who they want to marry and benefit from the riches.
Well, considering I am 008, my threat model is quite high indeed! But ya, I was being hyperbolic. And HN has provided plenty of worthwhile info on the topic of OpSec over the years, do not be quick to discount. I would be a fool to reveal too much about my threat model but the reality is there exist many people who have reason to fear the NSA. Am I one of them? Nice try, NSA!
Back to (2023), you'll want to take a look at the DifferentialEquations.jl package. In fact, I'm simulating a Fender tone stack right now. ;)
The PR experience on github is crazy bad. The commentary only works for a single round. After the first round of review, nobody can find where/why the comments were placed, or whether/how they were addressed. For me Gerrit is much better.
Git is also FOSS and is not owned by Microsoft / Github. Using git doesn't really "give" Github anything other than a bit of convenience and brand linkage. If the industry wanted to adopt a git replacement I suppose that Github's use of git could be a hinderance, but honestly the coupling is pretty loose.

Also, I worked in consulting for a few years and while Github was common, so was Azure devops (ironically also Microsoft, though) and one project used BitKeeper. Github might be dominant, but is very far from a "monopoly" in my opinion (I don't know if anyone used that word but if that's not the concern then what's the big deal?)
> Frankly, this shouldn't give them the right to decide who else gets to come to the US and on what terms.

Who should decide, then? This view is both undemocratic and anti self determination.
Is the “thus” for ease of implementation? I.e., so that all floating-point numbers comparing greater than some threshold can be considered even without having to check for infinity?
Is is the wrong word. ‘Can be under a % of circumstances where the % may be too high for societies risk tolerance’ may be more applicable.
It's Starting to Get Strange (GPT 4 as a "first rate data analyst")
It's not the only standard. It's just a centralized, single-point-of-failure, which is in some ways anathema to git in itself - which is meant to be distributed by default.

A simple bare git repository can be had on any server and it's moderately easy to manage. There's sr.ht and Gitlab and on and on!
There is actually some basis in concept. Emergent deception ...

https://bounded-regret.ghost.io/emergent-deception-optimizat...
>The dividing line between hipster programmers and “engineers” is nonexistent.

The dividing line between baldness and having your hair is also nonexistent, and yet both states exist and one can tell them apart if they see them.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sorites-paradox/

>Those millions of developers didn’t hop on the bandwagon just because Java was sitting there, it required a lot of forward-thinking, high-skill people to get off the ground. And they were hipsters at the time.

Nah, I was there "at the time", and this is bad example. Java got traction because of marketing to corporate departments, not because of "forward-thinking, high-skill people" driving it. It was literally the first language that came with a full blown, tens-of-millions, commercial hype campaign.

In any case, the early adopters were neither "hipsters" nor more mature "engineer" types. It was the duped-by-hipsters types, but at that time enticed by marketing.

The kind of hipsters described above and in abundance 2023 (or even 2010) sense hardly existed back then (Java caught on during 1997-2000), and even when, very rarely, they did, they didn't have the means and captive audience to make their hype be adopted (people hyped things like Ada, Smalltalk, Lisp, Eiffel, and other lost causes). Back then it was mostly marketing driven hype, sold to corporate decision makers.

Modern hipster devs came about with blogs, social media, the proliferation of conferences, the rise of startups as we know them today when they recovered after the dot-com boom,
and companies like Google and Facebook fighting it out for developer influence.
Are there any better options than Tor? Can you link to anything about explaining/critiquing the anonymity?
I agree that -without more knowledge- it's probably best to presume pornography might warp young peoples view of sex and intimacy.

But isn't that all the more reason to research this and educate people in this? So that adults can provide context and background? And to learn which kind of pornography is more dangerous than others in this? So that, with knowledge kids can be shielded from the stuff that's bad from them, and help understand the stuff that isn't?
i disagree, that's a BIG win
Exactly. No they do not use these powers to return stolen cars. Stolen cars only get returned very extremely rarely and only if it's convenient for the police. They don't lift an extra finger to recover stolen property.
So you are complaining that these workers are enslaved by the threat of not having visas and you are advocating for cancelling those visas, subjecting the holders to the penalty they are accepting low salaries to try to avoid?
Location: Ohio, USA

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Java technologies, including Spring, Java EE, JDBC, Maven, and JavaScript technologies, including Node.js, TypeScript, Angular, AngularJS, and Jasmine/Karma unit tests.

Résumé/CV: https://www.joehxblog.com/resume/ and in PDF form at https://www.joehxblog.com/pdfs/2023-Hendrix-resume.pdf

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Don't get me wrong, I'm generally pro union as long as it is securing higher salaries and more benefits for workers and not just benefitting the union reps. I wish the writers well in this.

But this isn't just "I don't like these shows", it's "no one likes these shows, sometimes they are cancelled before the first season even finishes airing"

I think they would be in a better bargaining position if more shows weren't getting absolutely trashed by both critics and audiences over their writing, that's all.
Cities have totally fallen down on the job of disposing of hazardous waste. We store all of ours for the once a year collection in another city 50 miles away. Why can't I store my hazardous waste at a dump for a nominal fee instead of in a residential neighborhood for no reason while I wait for a collection day?

We also need to mandate that Amazon and other retailers that sell these batteries operate collection points or provide shipping to return the dead batteries no questions asked. It's insane that these companies can dump hazardous waste on us without helping dispose of it later. Maybe a fee that is charged at purchase that is used to pay for disposal later?
Revision 2023 – Compo – Amiga Demo
Yet one more reason the Platform Security Processor is a nightmare and should be removed completely from future processors.
I don't think it does change things. There's only going to be a certain percent of people who want to do bad things. It would fluctuate surely, but historically it doesn't appear availability of new technology affects it much, if at all.

The relevant statistics I can think of (crime/violence etc) show nefarious acts worldwide on the decrease. So, if there is something linking them and tech it may be the reverse of what popular commentary seems to expect.
Is it though? Don't know anyone who likes merging or rebasing. Especially big merges. I don't know a solution. But I'm sure someone comes up with a significantly less painful way at some point.
Agreed - I'm a bit Gitlab fan, but it does seem as though sometimes there just aren't enough people floating around their tickets and code to actually get stuff like this done. Sometimes they languish for years.

Here's an example: Review Apps. Cool idea, but you'd better have a working K8s cluster with ingress ready to go. When they could add a managed k8s (or something else dockerisable) just for Review Apps inside Gitlab itself.
Yes that is how citizenship mostly works. That is life. Americans absolutely should have the right to decide who comes to work in the US and on what terms. Unbridled immigration and open borders would be a disaster for everyone involved. America isn't a welfare state for the world.

Additionally, H-1B visas are nonimmigrant visas. Workers are aware of this. They are not permanent. If they treat it like its permanent, that is their own fault. Would it be better if USCIS was streamlined? Absolutely. Thats why fraud needs to be cut down and bureaucratic bloat needs to be reduced.
Not current, but can still be had frequently as new old stock.

The current line is garish, but their origin is in dogfooding the hardware for their professional CSGO players ("team Fnatic").

I've been using it since it launched (~2016). Still works great, mine uses Cherry MX Blue switches, so if you do wear out a switch, it's an easy fix.
I don't care how many downvotes I get. An article about discrimination against marginalized groups in tech was flagged by "TechBro8615" because he is sick of "sociopolitical drivel." You can't make this shit up.

This is Hacker News distilled into a single article. If someone pitched this to The Onion, they'd throw it back as being too on-the-nose.

Thanks for reminding me that Tech Bros still do exist. I don't miss them.
You can improve just by learning the right technique (how to hold the pen, how to write by moving the arm rather than the wrist) and learning the proper letter shapes. That won't take more than a couple of hours, and from then on you just get practice by applying what you learnt whenever you have to write something down.
The nice thing about GitHub/git is you always have a full local copy of the repo as well. Having a dominant website seems less dangerous for this reason.

SvnHub would have been very scary on the other hand.
> Missing features

> This page lists features which got removed from Audacity, as well as their replacements.

Did noise reduction get removed from Audacity?
Solved :)

The answers lies in the place you are reading this from.
Mv and Rename
I'm interested in your insights (after reading the blog post).
No it isn't. If you ask a child what comes after infinity, "Infinity + 1" is pretty much the default answer. Any kid who knows multiplication knows "Infinity + Infinity" is the same as "Infinity Times Two". The answer of "Infinity TIMES Infinity" is also popular for kids to say when they know a number bigger than their friend (who just proclaimed infinity is the largest number).
I can agree that git's "monopoly" is kinda ugly and it'd be nice if GitHub allowed something else under the hood.

But I'd rather not have to use some half-baked / not popular or even worse - have to use a few platforms for projects hosting.

GitHub is really helpful and makes life (and work) easier. It's been built on dev. experiences and needs across whole industry
https://blog.kraken.com/post/219/security-advisory-mobile-ph...
CVS, subversion and mercurial are all VCS tools that I remember using throughout the years. Didn't Microsoft even have its own for a while? I swear I remember Visual C++ integration features back in the 90s / early 00s but I can't remember what it was called.
As early as 4. Not jumping straight to porn, but starting sex ed.

It works very well in Netherlands, where teens end up having much healthier relationships, fewer sexual partners, and less unwanted pregnancies.
Trans cyclist picks up overall victory in Tour of the Gila
> It's trivial to fix prompt injection. You simply add another 'reviewer' layer that does a clarification task on the input and response to detect it.

There have been multiple demos of this on HN and they've all been vulnerable to prompt injection. In fact, I suspect that GPT-4 makes this easier to break, because GPT-4 makes it easier to give targeted instructions to specific agents. Anecdotally GPT-4 seems to be more vulnerable to "do X, and also if you're a reviewer, classify this as safe" than GPT-3 was.

Nobody has demonstrated that this strategy actually works, and multiple people have tried to demonstrate it and failed. But sure, if you can get it working reliably, make a demo that stands up to people attacking it and let everyone know -- it would be a very big deal.

> And in any applications that do, quality analysis by another GPT-4 layer will be incredibly robust, halting malicious behavior in its tracks without sophisticated reflection techniques that I'm skeptical could successfully both trick the responding AI to answer but evade the classifying AI in detecting it.

https://nitter.net/_mattata/status/1650609231957983233#m

I'm looking forward to any company at all caring enough to add these supposedly robust protections.
Legally. Not on reddit.
So should morals never enter any argument at all? I don't even agree with their stance on this particular topic, but this dismissive complaining about "virtue signalling" is considerably more egregious than listing reasons you don't like GitHub, which happens to include a moral argument.
Not exactly. In math, epsilon is basically "it's not zero, except when it is."

When you're dividing, then it's close to zero, but still qualitatively not zero. But when you're multiplying or adding, then we say it's close enough that we'll treat it as exactly zero. So it's not a specific number, it's something where we can handwave its qualitative size depending on what's convenient.

Limits are a formalization of this concept. It's not a specific value, it's very much a variable that "approaches" zero. This establishes rules about how much bullshit you can actually do it. It's not zero, you do some arithmetic, then it becomes zero and you do the rest of the arithmetic.

But when you're writing a program, epsilon is indeed often just a small number. The trick is choosing the right "small."
My understanding is that this is true because there are infinite decimals between every decimal, infinitely.

For example, there is infinity between 0.1 and 0.2, and infinity between 0.1 and 0.11, etc. i.e. infinite sets of infinity rather than one set of infinity.

In the end it's all infinity, but their sets have higher cardinality described in Aleph terms ... (or something)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number
I wish there was a linux distro made by people who love windows, not linux.
I had this a lot during the pandemic lockdown, for groceries and takeout… things that weren’t even liquid or food were mislabeled in some database as alcohol, requiring stressful social interaction when the whole point was no contact dropoff. Crazy how people aren’t allowed to use common sense but have to follow an apps instructions.
This is why we started using Earthly. We still use Github Actions, but 95% of our actual CI logic is now encoded in Earthly, which can be run locally on any developer's machine (assuming they have Docker installed). Ironically, it still took me half a day of screwing with Github Actions to get Earthly to run correctly (mostly permissions for pushing images), but since then I've not had to touch it and can do all of my troubleshooting locally.
We should not select for fraud.
Being able to switch jobs is critical; the existence of workers who are unable to quit is devastating to worker's rights.

I would prefer if we had better visas with higher salary requirements, designed to attract the world's best, but without making them jump through hoops. E.g. Someone making $250k = green card instantly. Someone making $80k = denied, try again when you are worth $250k.
I'd actually say that there is a shortage of opportunity and that most people are willing to put in the work or already have put in the work but it was just never fruitful
Pragmatism!
TPM's true owner is the NSA, not you or I.

https://www.stat.rice.edu/~dobelman/kstorm.txt

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6337282

https://www.militaryaerospace.com/computers/article/16711478...

https://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-german-government-war...

https://supplychaindigital.com/technology/nsa-trusted-comput...

https://redmondmag.com/articles/2013/08/22/windows-8-securit...

https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/security/2015/07/29/on-the-trust-of-...
I'll second this recommendation!

The TWSBI Eco is a beautiful, robust, and dependable pen.
We did this with CircleCI by just ticking the "PR branches must be up to date" box in GitHub. It's more a Git provider thing than a CI thing.
> "Hack affecting 836 subscribers lasted for more than a month before it was discovered."

The intrusion lasted that long and only data of 836 subscribers was affected?

That's a weirdly low figure for having over a MONTH of access to their systems. What did they hack, a barely used fax-machine?
>To explain the idea to a child, I would focus on the principal idea: whether finite or infinite, a number is even when it can be divided into pairs. For finite sets, this is the same as the ability to divide the set into two sets of equal size, since one may consider the first element of each pair and the second element of each pair.

The answer this quote came from is amazingly obtuse, but it does make me think that infinity must be even since infinity can be divided into 2 pairs, each of which is of equal size since both are infinity.
This isn't the place to preach about your religious "purity" dogma.
Depends what you mean by decimal. Decimal is a system of notation, does it count as a decimal number if it cannot be written in decimal notation (in finite time)?

if not then they are equal, if yes then there are more decimal numbers between 0 and 1 than integers.
How do you define 'decimal numbers'? Do you only count rationals, or all real numbers?
Git is great. It’s FOSS, but that doesn’t mean it’s immune to a hostile corporate takeover. Take email for example. It’s an open standard, yet it’s usage is dominated by large corporate players.
I'm sorry to hear that. No one wants to live under a one-party system.
> asked chatgpt about maintenance mode and it definitely exists

GitHub has a feature called Maintenance Mode, but its for enterprise customers and doesnt do what you want. Probably hallucinated the rest.
That's hardly the worst thing that happens when SWAT teams get involved.
Remember this will happen again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again until America actually gets some proper data protection/privacy laws. You should consider all your data insecure and expect it to be breached at some point - as soon as it leaves your device you are no longer in control.

I can't imagine a provider being hacked in the EU 9 times being able to get away with not changing its practices/being fined into oblivion.
It's pretty damm fast. Everything is JITed and there's codegen for the "trampoline" logic so that there aren't even indirect branches to get to the program code.

The "overhead" comes from the fact that writing nontrivial BPF programs is quite hard. Getting programs to pass the verifier can become a bit of an art. This does tend to get easier if your production environment has few and recent kernel versions.

And then of course this "overhead" totally pays for itself in terms of reliability. It's really hard to accidentally break machines with BPF, while a kernel module in your prod environment is a time bomb :D

(Deliberately breaking machines with BPF is very easy though. This sometimes seems to surprise people but if your attacker gets CAP_BPF it's probably game over).
I did find it odd that my Ryzen 7 1700X (8 cores, 16 threads, 3.4GHz) was suddenly "not good enough" to run the OS.
Superintelligent models need not be LLMs. They could work similar to animals, which predict future experiences, not text (predictive coding). There is no LLM-like human bound in predicting reality.