skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't go so far as the term PEBKAC.

It's true that git does not 'break' from a merge; but merge conflicts (and rebase conflicts) can still be frustrating to resolve for ordinary users. And after things get too frustrating, they often do really random stuff that then might accidentally break the repo for real, or at least get it into a state where they don't have enough knowledge to recover.

Git's underlying data model is fine, but the user interface can be quite lacking. For example, 'git checkout' is a mess of almost unrelated functionality thrown together under one command.

I think the idea behind 'git switch' is a good one, and git could benefit from a complete overhaul of its user interface. Well, at least if you ignore the switching costs. Old farts like you and me have gotten used to the quirks of the bad old interface, and learned all the barely coherent options to 'git reset'.
A few months ago, we had a support group going at my clinic, with several patients with various diagnoses which are not directly discussed. We also had a presentation on sleep hygiene by a visiting psychiatrist. One of the newer support group members was openly promoting his love of smoking a joint and a cigarette and chilling out in the morning, and the psychiatrist said "cool, you do you!"

Then the next week, the clinician leader of the support group laid down a few ground rules for the new members, one of them being "if you show up while you're high, then you'll be gone just as quickly".

So I think it's safe to say that there is a range of opinions and attitudes among clinical professionals.
If you watch his channel, he absolutely considers himself a conservator.
>having startups with massive advertising budgets pushing it.

Hah, in my country 10-15 years ago there was huge brainwash movement pushing pro-marihuana narration, mostly music/rap/etc communities
The problem is that they did it retroactively and they also added a per install/download fee. So if your game has 1mio installs you pad the install fee x 1 Million. Unreal has no install fee like this.

“A 5% royalty is due only if you are distributing an off-the-shelf product that incorporates Unreal Engine code (such as a game). Provided that you notify us on time using the Release Form, you will only owe royalties once the lifetime gross revenue from that product exceeds $1 million USD; in other words, the first $1 million will be royalty-exempt.”

Some mobile games have a ton of installs and a very small amount of revenue per user. Those 27cents per install are a lot of money for those type of games and will even make some business models no longer feasible.
I've got sympathy for anyone that moved during COVID and got "stuck" with regards to their new career/social life/etc - that shit was hard.

That said, this is really just an overall example of how not to date or interact with people in general though. Don't drone on about your day to day work and don't expect that the Google office is going to impress anyone, much less in... Seattle, where it's a sea of tech people.

They're lonely because there's work to do on themselves that they haven't done. The tech job ain't the problem.
Nonsense. I don’t particularly focus on legality. I’m more interested in people having correct information.

I suspect you support cigarettes having scary mandatory warnings.

Keep it legal if you like, I don’t care.

But at least inform the public and require warnings etc. The worst part is the general
population even believes cannabis or “medical” marijuana has “health” benefits.

Ok but make sure you tell them that maybe 2-5% of you will trigger your predisposition to severe mental health disorders. Disorders we empirically know you would much less likely develop if you don’t use this “medical” drug abuse substance.
Just my personal take, wouldn’t seek to push others to adopt it.

Smoking weed hurts your ability to think and learn. If you have responsibilities to children or shareholders etc you shouldn’t be doing it.

If you don’t and it doesn’t hurt others who are relying on you have at it, but still sparingly as not to be abusing your body and mind.
No not what none what now?

> In the 2013 revision for the DSM-5, DSM-IV abuse and dependence were combined into cannabis use disorder. The legal problems criterion (from cannabis abuse) has been removed, and the craving criterion was newly added, resulting in a total of eleven criteria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_use_disorder

You're trying to refute something I didn't say. I said that "cannabis abuse" became "cannabis use disorder" which is less offensive to pot addicts, but also contains two extra syllables, does that make sense?
Ohhh, love it! Like books have titles!
Airbus Cyber Attack Linked to Turkish Airlines Employee Account Hack
Gas is usually heavily taxed. Maintenance costs are absurdly exaggerated (especially when compared to the long-term cost of battery replacement) and catalytic convertor theft is covered by insurance.
Track the timeline of your personal evolution on this topic as you progress in your journey. I'm a bit more than a week ahead of you, and I'm coming to see the problem as high THC content. Low THC (<10%) and high CBD may mitigate your (justified) concerns about recreational use. Of course as it's become legal in more places, Big Industry is showing its perpetual tendency to create higher potency strains with more addictive potential. Stay tuned..
Founder of a solo dev $500k/year agency here.

10000%.

I topped out around $500k/year. Just naturally settled there after aggressively optimizing my process.

This is with 1 dedicated sales person who's entire job is to minimize and replace churn.

Good to see there is a mathematical proof haha.

I've been exploring productization and have made it a goal for 2024, to possibly breaking this ceiling without hiring any one else.
That's nothing compared to all conventional cars.
Yes I have! I've dated someone even. Schizophrenia covers a pretty wide set of symptom sets but I would not call it flatly "life ruining" at all. Most people with the diagnosis have the potential to lead full, happy lives (that might have more inexplicable episodes than your life).

I'd also ask you to try to avoid further stigmatizing an already misunderstood condition. It's ok to be unsettled by symptoms of schizophrenia and want to avoid developing them yourself! But let's be too dismissive of the lives of those who happen to be diagnosed with a condition.
"First, Google wants to withhold from the public internal emails from more than 10 and up to 15 years ago. See Sept. 1, 2023 Hrg Tr. at 62-63, 65. DCN is highly skeptical that communications over a decade old could possibly interfere with Googles competitive business today and in the future. These emails would instead inform the public and press about practices that led to the government filing suit.

Second, Google wants to withhold from the public certain provisions of its standard agreements, including definitions contained in such agreements, many of which were signed more than ten years ago. Id. at 56, 65-69. These agreements and definitions are foundational to the publics understanding of how Google established its dominant market position.

Third, Google wants to clear the courtroom during the overwhelming majority of Googles examination of Apple witnesses, which could span several days. Id. at 69-70. There is substantial public interest in Googles deal with Apple and the termination of the agreement. There does not appear to be any good reason to close the trial completely for this testimony other than to shield Google and Apple from potential embarrassment."

https://ia902501.us.archive.org/21/items/gov.uscourts.dcd.22...
An experienced conservator (such as Baumgartner) would know how little he knows and would proceed with extraordinary caution if faced with the prospect of restoring a Van Gogh.

I suspect, if given the job, he would only do it in incredibly small steps with deep collaboration with his peers.

I've watched how cautiously he approaches paintings which (while admittedly beautiful) don't have 1% of the historical significance of a Van Gogh.
The government can totally take and use your Yubikey as well.

Or often also just ask the service that you’re protecting a login for for your data directly.
I feel like this comment exists in a capitalist fairy tale where the only way a business could grow to overtake its competitors is by being better for consumers. Or where a business that has done so will always continue to do so once it has achieved market dominance.

> But if your laundromat is better in some way (service, cost, marketing), why wouldn't you want to grow?

Maybe you just want to run a laundromat? Is that not enough these days?
Are there any historical sources for geo ip info?
Volkswagen workers are unionized. Their expertise counts for a lot.
Eh xna and monogame together are still fine. Celeste was made with it
I like the method that record and replay SQL to help DBA debugging, it's simple and intuitive.
Does it give the same answer if you try multiple times with new sessions?
This whole thing is so easy to use. Pip install or docker installer, start little flask app and you are good to go.

The speech output of this tool is as good as I have ever heard. I am looking forward to sending this to my ESP32 remote audio player.

What a world we live in!
testosterone soaked children's brains tend to do better on spacial reasoning tests,
not that that should preclude anyone from having a job or following any path they desire.
> Simply, they could have not made this retroactive on existing released games. Rather just be clear that going forward, games build using the new Unity versions would have a run-time fee, similar to Unreal Engine.

No no, you don’t understand, that’s exactly what they want
> Those 27cents per install are a lot of money for those type of games and will even make some business models no longer feasible.

Exactly. So if they did this in an upfront way, they would have said that starting with Unity 2024 there is this new cost structure. Then game devs can make informed choices if they want to build those types of games on the platform.

This retroactive stuff is insane and I cannot figure out how a company can make that type of move if they care about their users. Although I think I sort of answered my own question...
Plex to block all servers hosted at Hetzner
I know you were trying to be insulting in order to "win" our miniscule internet argument. However, since my post does not demonstrate bad manners or a lack of informed-ness, your comment doesn't land, and instead makes you look petty. Just letting you know!
Can you explain about the milk? Is it just the sugar content or something else? I'm genuinely interested, I've never heard about that before.
The notice does not specify the provider, but I host my Plex server on Hetzner and received the notice. (And I don't host any pirated material, nor share my server with anyone else. This is beyond infuriating.)

Discussion on Plex Forum: https://forums.plex.tv/t/not-allowed-to-use-hetzner/853570

Discussion on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/16iqwf4/anyone_else_g...
>I'm not sure of ANY linux 0 clicks found in the wild.

Some sizable fraction of that is because there is not as big of an audience, so there's less money and attention on developing exploits targeting that OS.
> Makes Twitter/X seem hugely overvalued

Fortunately the valuation of this one is being corrected
It's important to recognize that we've never successfully answered Hume's general skepticism about the existence of causality as something that is real outside of our own minds. So causality can't be positively confirmed to exist at all, let alone be detected and confirmed through statistics.

Before you dismiss that is philosophical non-sense, causality is closely related to the "Arrow of Time" which is considered an unsolved problem in physics [0]. From what we've observed time appears to be the only asymmetric physical process, largely due to entropy (that is you can immediately tell if a video of a jar breaking is being played backwards because we don't expected a jar to "fall together"). There are Quantum processes, for example, that are time symmetric, that is playing a video of these processes would look the same reversed and forward.

That said, as someone who does a lot of statistics, in practice what we do is model the causal process with a directed acyclic graph and see how well our models behave under causal assumptions. These work okay for answering practical questions about does A cause B. By controlling for correlating variables we can see the impact on what we believe to be a causal variable when we condition on these other correlating factors.

Worth mention that nearly all of the work is done by linear models in practice.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time
In case anyone else is wondering why it's not on Fdroid: https://github.com/inaturalist/iNaturalistAndroid/issues/654

(tldr: uses Google Maps and analytics)
Could we start a conversation on the externalities of alcohol consumption?

That'd be great. Lets start by putting a 100% sales tax + $1/50ml ethanol on alcohol. Let's see how inelastic alcohol consumption really is.
> I would never engage in any activity that increases the likelihood of a permanent life ruining mental illness!

You wouldn't even try Being Wrong on the Internet even once? I have. It's highly addictive.
Why on god’s green earth does the game not have city maps? It’s like they never actually play tested in a city
This truly seems like scapegoating larger issues
That's ambitious for a laptop. Would expect like 7 years max. Need a chrome phone.
I mean, I do. But I’m also slightly anxious
I'm terrified of seeking help for mental illness because certain diagnosis can have legal impacts. It is a sad truth, no one has a real response for it except "get over it", and it is very, very difficult to get support for political reforms to protect the mentally ill.

I am also terrified the medications we force on some mental health patients, especially injected long-term ones, are purely for the benefit of the care taker and not the individual.

I think cannabis had fell into a niche of "self-medication", for people who the system doesn't seem to work for. Cannabis nor alcohol are the ideal medications, they are simply the only ones most easily available.
I wrote this, maybe helpful.

https://typicalprogrammer.com/how-to-start-freelancing-and-g...

Free, no ads, popups, or other nonsense.

I have freelanced for over ten years.
With all due respect, why are you both talking about yourselves as if you were machines? If your job is so mechanical it can be automated, you're screwed. If it's not, but your boss wants to downsize it bc "savings", a union would help you.
I said "a competent version of me," not two solar-installation professionals. :)

If my estimate was 30 hours, and your estimate is 2 x 10 hours (assuming 10-hour days), then we're mostly in agreement.
It does appear to be what they want, but it is also very likely unenforcible retroactively. So it is likely that they are currently paying the steep repetitional costs of this move without making anywhere close to the additional income that they wanted from this move.
I hoped someone who knows statistics will just tell us, instead of me stretching my brain.

The famous phrase "correlation does not mean casuation" is not equal to "correlation is indistingushable from casuation", but that's how people seem to often treat it.

Ideally, the paper abstract should be clear about what can or can not be concluded. In the title they say "subsequent" as if suggesting casuality, but in the abstract they say "associated". Confusing for a layman such as me.

My intuition of how to distinguish correlation from casuation:

If cannabis and depression were symmetrically connected, then incease of chances for cannabis use between depressed was equal to the increase of chances for depression between cannabis users.

If cannabis increases chances for depression more that depression increases chances for cannabis, than we conclude cannabis tends to cause depression.

Formula:
percentage of depressed between canabis users / percentage of depressed in general population > persentage of cannabis users between depressed / persentage of cannabis users in general population.

Something like that.
https://archive.is/AkV8D
I likeJitBit! Used it for a few years at my last role. https://www.jitbit.com/
This is so beautiful! Congrats to everyone for pulling off a great project and now it has the ability to actually continue to do great things with a better future.

Very positive to see
Yeah I think we all were. The fact that my stamina rate isn’t at all affected by whether I’m on Venus or the moon is incredible.
No because you can never know for sure that there isn't a latent factor C which is the real causal factor and A is merely correlating with it (if we presume causality to exist at all, which is a pretty standard assumption).

We can compose DAGs that control for the factors we do know about, but it's impossible to exhaust or even know all possible latent processes that are impacting the outcome.
> have a run-time fee, similar to Unreal Engine

Another comment already said this, but I feel it's worth emphasizing: Unreal Engine does not have a runtime fee. You don't pay per install.
Haha yikes
The THC levels in Canadian cannabis is f'd. Of all the things, I wish the gov. had put mandates that there must be a minimum level of CBD and maximum level of THC. It's bonkers.
Why Does America Provide More Space for Storing Cars Than Housing People?
And aside from the jitters, what harm does caffeine cause?

Does it cause break downs in families and car fatalities like alcohol?

Does it trigger latent schizophrenia in susceptible individuals like canabis?

Does it create zombies like whatever it is they're consuming in San Fran?
The easiest perpetual motion is just drop a tennis ball. It is just that the perpetually moving thing is no longer the ball :-)
The cat is out of the bag, so to say.
I hope it happens for real this time. I remember last year's kerfuffle when they merged/aquired Ironsource.

Either way, I want to get in on the early Godot waves while I can.
I edited the comment to fix that. :)
I love that HLS+AES "encryption" is still in use, thanks to Apple.
Regular Marijuana use has a high domestic violence rate.
I have a $2 million/year dev agency w/ 7 employees (50% gross margin) and am curious - how did you land on the salesperson you have? I have not had a single salesperson yet and am wanting to grow, but am afraid of hiring someone who will just waste time.
I misread "before his suicide" as "after" and thought I just casually came across one of the most quietly horrifying sentences put to paper
Jorge Luis Borges colleagues at the National Library forced him to go slower because he could catalogue books in a fraction of the time they needed.

So yeah, if you're an absolute genius, you don't need a union. Everybody else does. Your common people colleagues do.
>This retroactive stuff is insane and I cannot figure out how a company can make that type of move if they care about their users.

If I understand you correctly (I haven't really been following this), they changed the contract and are trying to retroactively collect license fees for installs done prior to the change in contract? I don't think this is legal. When you change a contract, it's on a go forward bases. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. It's definitely a money grab. If it's deemed illegal, i.e. fraud, I hope there is jail time. Gotta send a message.

Did Unity recently get acquired, new investors or new management?
> Similarly the whole concept of needing to specify “origin” at all is a bit bonkers and does no favors. Why is it that I can pull from a remote branch, commit some changes, run ‘git push’ and git has no idea what branch I want to push to.

Git actually works like that. (Though you might have to set push.autoSetupRemote to true in the config?)

However, when you have multiple remotes, it's only natural that you will sometimes need to specify which one you want.

> And yeah you can forgive all this by quibbling that git was written in a time when internet access was not ubiquitous, and of course all these decisions make sense because x, y, or z advanced edge case for advanced users only, and I’m a shitty engineer because all of this complexity secretly makes my life better and I’m just too simpleminded to appreciate it.

Git was explicitly written for Linux kernel development.

You are right that almost all other projects are simpler.

> Really though, if you rewrote git from a principles first approach (with developer experience being one of those principles), it certainly would not look like how it looks today.

I agree that git's UI is lacking. You don't need a from-scratch rewrite of whole system. You can just rewrite the UI only and think carefully about the defaults in the config.

Eg 'git checkout' is an incoherent mess of barely related features. 'git switch' is a later addition, and goes in the right direction.

> Treat it like a proper distributed system, perhaps even backed by a real database.

Git is very much backed by a real database. That's actually one of the stronger points of its design. You can see that the guy who started git, Linus Torvalds, has a lot of experience writing filesystems (which are also a kind of database).

Git is also very much a distributed system with no trust between the nodes necessary, including no central trusted authority. How would you 'treat' it even more 'like a proper distributed system'?

> It’s not special because the data is code. The fact that it’s treated as such is the reason it feels so weird.

Where do you get that impression from?

The main influence of being designed for code first comes in the form of the default merge driver being line oriented. But you can plug in your own merge drivers for your own data formats.

But most everything else works the same, whether you stick C source code or funny cat pictures into your repository.
I wonder just how much this change is geared at capturing value from what's already out there, i.e. the retroactivity is the point.
Opens with a disingenuous "$86M owed, which will be paid for by Texas consumers" no, it already has been paid for by consumers when they bought the energy from them because they needed it. I'm trying to figure out if these people truly don't know how any of this works because they're uninterested or if they deliberately pretend like they don't because the truth is not condusive to the narrative they want to build.
Yes, it's all about marketing now. Previously DeBeers was able to control supply for diamonds which kept the prices artificially high but that's not the case anymore.

I suspect we'll be seeing an increase in branding in the diamond business. That's really the only way they can control prices since it's now possible to create man made ones. Given enough time the prices will collapse to the point of cost of producing them plus a small premium. Competition will make sure that happens. There's no way mined diamonds will be able to compete.

Diamonds aren't going away they are just making a marketing transition.
Headline used here on HN is editorialized and misleading.
Well, I wouldn't have been strongly anti recreational use if I didn't go through what I did.

Extremely high THC products coupled with professional marketing agencies? Yikes. We're going to have a weed epidemic soon. Maybe it's a silent epidemic now.
And the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) says that we can restrict retail space and advertising venues for some products deemed harmful, especially around children.
The article's assumption about the retainer - $2k/month - is its biggest flaw.

What are you giving away for $2k/month per client?

Seems like it should be much, much higher - and therefore less people total to serve. Seems like a win-win.
I believe that. There is no doubt in my mind that a good portion of substance abuse is driven by what are issues relating to societal collapse.

I dont really blame drug users for what is usually escapism from our industrialized society rat race.