skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this basically web3? Web3 seems synonymous with crypto, but it's a natural evolution and has lots of overlap in terms of community.

Instead of using computing power to compute some puzzle for money, they're used to host stuff and do calculations for web apps directly.

Advertising was popular because because of how underdeveloped financial infrastructure was. You couldn't tip a website or a creator like you could today. Google and FB ended up building the whole advertising infrastructure and turning it into their core model. But crypto today makes it possible to do pay half a cent for access to something as needed, and it's possible to do microtransactions without giving 30% to Apple. I'm not sure microtransactions path is better, but we also have Patreon. OnlyFans was intended as a way to provide some kind of consulting, but ended up sex work.

There's a tendency for companies to invest heavily in the pieces of their core business model, and turn into a platform. Nobody wants to use a platform either, but it's easier to build communities on reddit than your own forum. It's easier to do PR on Twitter than talk to a dozen newspapers like back in the day.

So yeah, I think web3 is a bundled solution and community, to AWS, to advertising, walled gardens, and so on. You just have to deal with the NFT dudes who sail the seas.
I love conspiracy theories and conspiracy facts but I doubt that it’s big surgery lobby not wanting people to be more clotty. Bad Blood clots aren’t that uncommon, at all. Can be dangerous or not but they not rare by any means. I’m also not convinced on your mega dose theory.

That said, wanted to share that super glue was used in Vietnam War to close wounds. Also dermabond RX is krazy glue [1].

Also, this month I’ve caught and killed 12 raccoons. Not sure if you have them over there but they are vile disgusting disease vectors but very cute looking.

1 https://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=118175&page=1
This has been a used in the past to steal wealth from people, and it will be used to steal wealth in the future.

This has been used in the past to silence rape victims, and it will be used again to silence rape victims.

The State should not have this power.
> I'd say that git actually supports stacked workflows quite well. It's GitHub's PR model that makes it hard.

I agree that the model does but I’m not aware of any good way of using such a workflow with the CLI either. Is there a reasonable way to effectively keep rebasing on top of multiple upstream branches?
There is a lot of room between no content filtering and providing "As an AI language model..." to every question.
In Lisp (and similar) sometimes the term object is used, since it's not the variable that's important, but the data object which is returned from a function and which has an identity. A symbol has by definition an entity.

A symbol also has a property list, which is a mutable storage with keys and values.

Since knowledge representation was an early topic, using property lists was not unusual. Then various forms of procedural invocations were tried. For example 'access oriented' style was by invoking functions (if-needed, if-added, if-removed, ...) when a slot was accessed. So-called slot-demons. That lead to frame systems, like FRL from 1977.

Using a property list for key/values :

CL-USER 21 > 'bladerunner
BLADERUNNER

CL-USER 22 > (setf (get 'bladerunner 'is-a) 'movie)
MOVIE

CL-USER 23 > (push 'harrison-ford (get 'bladerunner 'actors))
(HARRISON-FORD)

CL-USER 24 > (push 'sean-young (get 'bladerunner 'actors))
(SEAN-YOUNG HARRISON-FORD)

CL-USER 25 > (push 'rutger-hauer (get 'bladerunner 'actors))
(RUTGER-HAUER SEAN-YOUNG HARRISON-FORD)

CL-USER 26 > (symbol-plist 'bladerunner)
(ACTORS (RUTGER-HAUER SEAN-YOUNG HARRISON-FORD)
IS-A MOVIE)

For example "SIR: a computer program for semantic information retrieval" by Bertram Raphael, 1964:

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6904

Page 45:

"The model in SIR is based largely upon the use of description-lists. A description-list is a sequence of
pairs of elements, and the entire list is associated with a particular object. The first element of each pair is the name of an attribute applicable to a class of objects, and the second element of the pair is the value of that attribute for the object described."

There we already see the terms used: OBJECT, CLASS, ATTRIBUTE, VALUE

Then he introduces the "is" set-inclusion relation. There is also a part-whole relationship. And more... 'basic objects' are words.

Later research then added the idea of procedure invocations by various means.
Requiring physical proximity is a big no-no.
I have to run integrations with things those sort of people designed. We get EDI streams and error codes straight from some COBOL thing from the 70s which has been carefully ported through to whatever crap they're running today verbatim.

Recently there was an issue where a field overflowed which broke literally everything. Then they added a zero to the start as part of the specification which broke it even more because half the companies on the planet were treating it as a string and not a number.

If there's anything I've ever learned about working in the financial sector it is that the only thing that is protecting you is the legal framework around it, not the banks or financial companies which are universally a fucking shit show.
I like this book and I’m never quite sure how some of the terms were Doctorow capturing what’s going on and writing it down vs inventing it. I think how whuffie was described here seems like something that will really exist and I don’t know if there were any sites displaying cumulative karma for people.

It was at least the first time I read it.

Also, I think the “comm” described in Eastern Standard Tribe is the first time a smartphone was practically described with functions we had later in the iPhone (payment, maps, pervasive information, camera, image and video sharing). I wondered if phone designers ever drew inspiration from Doctorow’s specific books.
Don't know. Maybe it's too new?
> the employers don’t ask “what you are able to do?”, instead of “what are your credentials/studies”.

I think this is cultural.

Italian culture is hierarchical and trust is built upon relationships, you either need the authority of a good cv or a good network to reap opportunities. (This is quite common in southern europe)

Northern europeans, americans etc are more egalitarian and have a task based approach to build trust, and value ones worth accordingly.

(Of course it’s not always as black and white)
GM and Ford were also at it for decades before Toyota even existed ... The idea that Tesla and China's head start is insurmountable needs justification.
BTW that article is still available, but with a new UI: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/aol-pulls-nu...
As convincing the good old appeal to authority may sound for some, it still remains only one thing - a fallacy. There is nothing making me more productive in VSCode and I can set break points in neovim just fine.
As another comment points[1] out, this is far from the worst abuse of the system:

> The asylum system in the US was not dismantled because people like Edna Long had their inter-generational wealth stolen from their children/grandchildren. It was dismantled because in the 1960s it was shown that these places were engaging in torture. The journalist who broke the Pennhurst story (that culminated in the ending of the asylum system in the US) wanted to have the grounds turned into a museum modeled after the Holocaust Museum because he had uncovered how things like, full mouth tooth removal was being used as a routine punishment method, among other things.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36831467
Wonder how many of them will magically have that money confiscated by the police for one reason or another in the near-ish future?
I wasn't trolling and no one needs to treat me extra compassionately. I can cope just fine with reality. It's most folks who deny reality in order to remain sane and low in stress.

The world has some primordial evils in it. Only when you fall into a honey pot of the state, will you understand the level of evil and malevolence that exists as part of rule, law, and order.

The death and destruction isn't contained in neat bows, it happens on US soil in disturbing ways.

I am not special in any regard, I just have seen more than most. Enjoy the ride and don't forget that most outlier statistics aren't anomalous accidents, they are symptoms of a process that is subtle.
the excuse of the lazy maker
> I know no one who is using git switch and git restore instead of the overloaded and confusing git checkout.

Welp, I guess there's me, but it does indeed seem like adoption of the new commands hasn't been very forthcoming - I guess that's what happens when "the old way still works just fine" - but personally I'd expect that more and more people will change to the new commands over time.
Casinos are the new lotteries!

Companies will always put systems in place to protect systems but I'm sure there will always be loopholes!
Thank you, that makes sense. Are there animal/eukaryotic versions of the Dr Huey (GMO invaders?)
Show HN: Run your Browser on GitHub Actions by forking this repo
Hi HN, I've recently worked on a fun project called Puppetromium - a single file, simple web browser built on Puppeteer and served entirely with no client-side scripting, leveraging technologies such as MJPEG, HTML, and CSS.

The goal was to see how simple I could make a remote browser that is still minimally usable. But also, this is an exercise to exemplify why Puppeteer might not be the perfect fit for remote browsing, hence why I created a whole other browser driving protocol atop the DevTools protocol.

This is not only a tech experiment, but also a way to spark creativity within the community. I released Puppetromium with a permissive license, in hopes it might ignite people's imagination and encourage them to explore the possibilities of custom browser UIs for cloud browsers and hack on top of it.

Even more interesting, the project now incorporates a GitHub Action that allows running a remote browser right from GitHub's CI runner using Puppeteer and ngrok, giving a unique way to remotely control a web browser.

You can fork the repo, run the workflow and be able to interact with a web browser running on a GitHub Action runner. The integration is done using GitHub Actions with a basic workflow and an Ngrok tunnel. With a bit of configuration, your server and ngrok tunnel start, providing you a public URL to your instance running on GitHub's infrastructure.

Feel free to explore the project, and of course, contributions are welcome!
This makes me excited for what current microservices architecture systems will look like in fifty years!
I've yet to hear (in person) a single positive story about Deutsche. No doubt there are positives out there, but always found it striking how one-sided the chatter is in finance circles.
I don’t think the newer ones (like Walkaway) are Free like the early ones?
There are a ton of things you can play around with making at home and you by all means should if you enjoy it and want to learn more. Kombucha is another one I haven't seen mentioned here. I did a fair bit of beer brewing at one point--but mostly before there was such a great local supply of microbrews/craft brews. (You couldn't basically get IPAs, which is of course nothing like the case today.)

But, yeah, you don't really save money in general and decent commercial products you can easily get many places are as good or better.

There are exceptions. Some bread products (including biscuits etc.) are reasonable to make at home, especially if you don't have convenient access to a good baker. (There are a few in the city but not near me.)

I find cooking in general is rewarding and can save quite a bit of money.
According to the Addendum NetBSD is older than FreeBSD.
But it still needs some sort of index to search for stuff, and torrents cannot change. It's a jungle of ever-changing forums and search engines. This makes it harder to pin down by authorities, but significantly reduces casual usability.
I have tried Upwork, Fiver - Both are very big and global.

Eventually you'll have to find a great Dev from an off-shore country and retain them over time.

I have seen multiple off-shore candidates who are super good that work at reasonable hourly rates.
You'd need the rooted unit to be logged into the user's Amazon account and have their wifi password, otherwise they'd notice something is wrong quite quickly. Yes, most would probably just redo the setup and forget about it, but that's still quite a risk and requires a lot of access.
Congratz, I vaguely remember you used to live in HK ( may be I was wrong ). Keep the Blog post posting.
Bare in mind that this approach is very limited. Any query requiring global awareness of the context will likely be disappointing. For example, "how was the experimental design different compared to how we've previously done this sort of work?", over a corpus of design of experiments specifications. Since target of this query doesn't have any simple correspondence to the words used in the query any sort of semantic embedding at a paragraph of sentence level just won't be useful.
Maybe. The problem is that it could hallucinate it's way into a corner and kill the intended narrative as it creates non-sensical objects and characters.

But it is very funny to think of a system requiring massive amounts of compute being used to try and replicate a genre as old as PCs itself.
> At Sun we had a strict linear history mandate

Out of curiosity: Was this also with TeamWare/SCCS?

> If you care about history, what you really want is to see what's changed over time, and that is always linear. At time t_n you have some commit, and at t_n+1 you have some other commit, and so on.

Depends on what the history should represent or what you care about specifically, or optimize for.

What landed in the integration branch or was deployed to a singular test environment is certainly linearily ordered on the time scale. What happened during parallel development is rather a DAG. (And even there you could have different working models: clean up (e.g. with git rebase), then integrate; or keep every commit ever made (even if hidden in presentation), fossil-style.)

This has all pros and cons and most of us have their preferences, or even reasons. It should be consistent per project and supported by the tooling.

> Besides, if you have N commits in a branch and you merge it into another, when you resolve conflicts you won't know which conflicts and resolutions go with which of those N commits, and you won't care, but if you want to understand your work -and also others to understand your work- it seems much better to rebase and resolve conflicts commit by commit.

However, with rebasing on top (or squash-merges) you lose the commits in their original context. You may have no merge-commits, but all your commits are merged commits. (They only have one parent in version history, but the file content is the result of a merge, be it automatic or manual.) This may no big deal for things you can and do test for. If finding out a bug later however, it is often easier to comprehend, if one can see or test, if that happened only while integrating the changes. Then you have at least still the working version from the tip of the branch available for comparison.

One could also have a merge for each of the commits (in order), but that does not help with a keeping the history lean.

While I do use git rebase to clean up, I do merge branches afterwards and keep the commits. I usually do my rebases with --keep-base (unless they have been started at a totally wrong branch point) and therefore no integration work with other branches will be done here. That will happen in the merge, to be able to distinguish between what was developed and what was the result if the integration.
Very nice, I have a long history with piano, strings, woodwinds, percussion and digitals.

I would like to try the oud especially with the long picks that are sometimes used by mandolinists in Europe. Intonation is different on different fretless instruments, violin, cello, bass guitar, my fretless Strat vs say pedal steel.
Congratulations on the job. I had a similar experience where having a public website with published extensions for the server that my future employer was using helped me get a job there, but, I'd like to point out that in both our cases it wasn't the blog/website alone that helped us get the job, but a personal connection. In your case it was meeting that CEO on a bike, who then made a personal recommendation. In my case it was my general reputation as an active member of a community where the job was posted, that I applied to.

What the blog did was to make it easy for the CEO to get to know you without talking to you more. And for me it was my code examples. So that works if you find a job where your ideas fit, but it can also work against you to find any other job that may expect a different mindset. Just recently I had an interview that also came about due to my reputation in the community, after I posted there that I was looking for work. But they desperately wanted to see code too, and the only thing I had to show was almost 15 years old or older, in a language that is not well known, because all my recent work was not public, and I didn't keep code from work on my personal devices. I haven't heard back from them yet.
If there's an NDA, it's a strict no for sure...but there are times where it's better to show the landing page, maybe the way it will be showcased and then ask if they have a problem with this... or if this needs to be taken down.
Is it possible there is a water fountain under there, and that algae grows where the water is pushed up? Could that algae channel the water up a little higher, until we see a peak?
Someone did this recently to me i.e. showed me something I'd signed which I didn't. Fortunately this lead to their demise as I am friends with their manager which was unknown by the party in question. Historically I tend to try something on with employment contracts too - I return an unsigned copy to the company. Only 1 out of 6 companies I worked for didn't just stick it in a filing cabinet and forget about it.

Ultimately I learned that a signature is definitely not proof that someone explicitly signed anything or what the state was at the point of signing it. It must be the full document plaintext and date signed with your private key and should be verifiable with your public key by a court before a claim is even approachable. Docusign sort of does a half-assed version of this but there needs to be a full legal PKI system on this planet and people need to understand it too. That's the most difficult problem to solve.
One Android device per one app with VPN requirement and cutting off all unnecessary sensors physically seems like a decent use of typical (not liberated) device. I don't think Librem (or other liberated device) does a lot of changes here. X86 still has more software and a communicator device ought to be supposed to sleep most of time (opinion).
> That bit about the DSM is a pretty obvious layperson's point of view: It is easy to say that you fit the criteria when you forget that the symptoms need to have negative consequences on your life. And there is 'normal' - normal is a range.

Define normal? Likewise considering the all encompassing vagaries of some words, as noted in legislation, and the lack of detail that exists in descriptions of diagnosis and symptoms, whilst this makes it easier to generate AI's to replace some experts, its not really helping the patient is it?

>And no, no everyone has a "sexual deviancy fetish", just for the record.

Define normal.

> There is no actual cure.

You are uniquely placed to actually find a cure, because I'm reminded of how tolerant (lab) animals are when level 1 of maslows heirachy of needs exists, and I'm also reminded that (lab) animals can not convey information that an owner of a pet or intelligently constructed lab experiment could elucidate.

The phrase "Dont take no for answer" springs to mind, and Thomas Pynchon "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.".

Survival of the fittest comes in all shapes and form. I know that copious amounts of histidine a precursor to histamine also causes remyelination of the nervous system, so maybe you have an amino acid lead that might be worth investigating.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4705972/
I would prefer incomplete or barely working code over no code.

GitHub is the perfect place to post incomplete code, because someone else can contribute fixes.

If you're a scientist, please don't hold back publishing code just because someone else demands a certain code quality.
I read this book on paper many years ago. I only visited Walt Disney World once because the curiosity it caused. Of course I went to the hall of presidents.
Cute armchair psychology....

But relax and think about why tire emissions of heavy cars are brought up with EVs in particular, when the same point can be made with SUVs vs. smaller cars.

Going further, who stands to gain, multi national oil conglomerates who are known for manipulating public discourse in favor of cars vs. public transport and right of way and on the other side, the bad bad people trying to act on a very inconvenient and annoying scientific consensus that we need to alter our behaviour.

1984 indeed, but who is the powerful oppressor here, especially when you are a child, witnessing the destruction of what your parents were still able to enjoy.
One major acquisition that is missing from your list was the aquisition of Postbank in 2018.
Book publishing is indeed quite similar. Note also that some book publishers have become extremely wealthy.

The same goes for television, limited edition fine art, and financial derivatives. It is quite obvious that these industries make some people extraordinarily rich.

I am sorry for lacking the knowledge about contemporary economics, because this is obviously not something new. I was merely remembering some mediocre high school lessons.
Clean!

I submitted the first formula that popped into my head from uni years ago: the Generalised Linear Model definition from one of the later stats courses

This project vaguely reminds me of Gradshteyn and Ryzhik (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradshteyn_and_Ryzhik)
> if apple designed git's cli it'd be bilion times better from ux perspective while only 10% less powerful I guess

Why then does every dev I am aware of who use Apple start by installing Homebrew?

Also, you are talking about the same Apple that has a menu system that closes the menu if you click at a submenu?

I mean, it breaks at least two reasonable assumptions:

- clicking on a branch node would work on the branch like clicking on a leaf node affects the leaf

- clicking the menu works like everywhere else

Or the same Apple UX where, if I opened a dialog in my browser I cannot use the same browser to look up in the wiki where on the file server I am supposed to find a certain file I am supposed to upload?

Or the same Apple UX where there is a different shortcut depending on whether I want to switch between windows of the same app or windows from different apps?

The same Apple UX where I had to learn from application to application which features were in the menu and which were hidden under one or another gear icon?

That said, I am considering another for my next laptop.

But their UX is well and truly overrated IMNSHO.
I don’t know what we’ll be using 15 years from now. But the thing that is really sad in your list is that you stopped using mercurial in 2015, but still use git to this day.
If humanity becomes capable of either of those feats Earth would be an item of notalgia, not vital to our survival. We will be well and truly on to different challenges by then.
I for one am trying to train myself to start using switch and restore, so that I can recommend them in company channels for people having problems with our monorepo(s).