skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And here's the thing about refactoring:

If you know what the fuck you're doing, you can sneak new features in just as easily as with a feature branch. Maybe even moreso.

So if you are working for an organization that is actively attempting to self-destruct, to the point where you feel like there needs to be a conspiracy to keep the wheels on, even then feature branches don't help. And in fact they make things worse because your coworkers who defect are busy breaking things on their feature branches, undoing all of your carefully laid plans to unfuck the code and thereby the organization.

Learn to refactor code that has unnecessary constraints into code that doesn't. Then those features you can't get out of the backlog become 3 weeks instead of 3 months, and you can actually work on them, because you've already made the change easy.
> The post-WWII world order is predicated on the agreement that the age of imperialism is over and that invasion by force to annex another country is illegitimate.

Why bother with the 'annex' part when you can just overthrow governments you don't like and replace them with ones you do?
>Does USA even have civilian dry docks to build ships?

The article was about getting new ice breakers for the Coast Guard, a branch of the US military.
Databases handle all this natively with transactions and WALs. i.e. Don't need to build a Flintstones version yourself.

Also binary documents are a lousy fit with git, smashing square peg into round hole makes little sense.
> And the A10 is even lower-altitude than that.

So the window where you are vulnerable to MANPAD operator is less than of that AC-130.

> Welcome to the CAS role. You ....

Ah, yes, sorry, sir, looks like I need to take my Hazelnut Bianco Venti Latte and get out of your lawn, sir?

> AC-130 has a ton of flares to misdirect enemy missiles automatically

There is no ejection seats on AC-130. It would be never be operated where MANPADs are the norm.

> A10 basically has no form of defense

Oh ffs, A-10 is armoured with 15-40mm titanium plates, while AC-130 armoured with hopes and prayers.

> so I'm not even sure if MANPADs can lock onto an F35 reliably

If F-35 is at the MANPAD altitude then somebody (pilot) fucked greatly. F-35 in CAS role would never drop to MANPAD altitude and Shilka doesn't care about the plane stealthiness.
People don't dump on Russia for their nuclear icebreakers ;)

Maybe in an alternate, more peaceful world, Russia would be happily selling icebreakers to the US for profit?
I used to "not get" why Van Gogh is considered to be so special. After reading his biography and his letters, I am now in the know.

Van Gogh is an interesting case. He was very familiar with the art world, even before he started drawing and painting. He worked as an art dealer and traveled a lot when he was young.

Where it gets interesting is when he sets out to become an artist himself. Over the course of only ten years he produced a staggering 900 paintings. (I typically spend a few months on only one drawing. And most of those don't even have color.)

It's not that I now like his work, but I sure have learned to appreciate the man and his mission. Looking at the progression in his work and reading his letters gives a wonderful insight in the mind of a very sensitive person.
Paint.net will still be the best free alternative to Photoshop
Thank you! I'm assuming this is in reference to our README? (Sorry I'm a _tad_ lacking in sleep)

If so, would you like to open a PR? I'm also happy to edit it myself but of course don't want to be stealing credit if you'd like to be attributed that way.
> OK, the who would you suggest should be the world’s police?

> The post-WWII world order is predicated on the agreement that the age of imperialism is over and that invasion by force to annex another country is illegitimate.

If that was true, it would be inconsistent with any one nation or narrow relatively fixed set of nations being the world’s police, as that would indicate that the age of imperialism was not over and that the world had a single imperial power or small group of such powers.

The central institution in the aspirational design of the order you describe had a solution to the problem: the UN would itself be the world’s policeman, via a centralized military command to which all member nations would subordinate command of designated units of their armed forces for the purpose.

This…did not work out in practice, and is one of the very many pieces of information suggesting that your accurate description of the aspirations which people at the end of WWII had for the postwar international order were never realized.

> Anarchy, or unpoliced random aggression would be a very bad option.

It would be, but its mostly what we have between the major powers, with the major powers (alone or in combination) policing everything else, with…issues where the policing desires of the major powers conflict.

Just like in past ages of imperialism.

The main difference is that the fact that the major powers are also nuclear powers exerts constraints on the form of their direct conflicts mostly to forms that are at least partially deniable to prevent pressure of uncontrolled escalation which could lead to nuclear annihilation.
You can enjoy the benefits of both approaches by adopting trunk-based releases. In our experience, we make small pull requests (like short lived feature branches) on GitHub, each focusing on a complete feature or a segment of it.

GitHub Actions automatically test these pull requests and create temporary environments for further testing. If all tests pass, the code enters the merge queue and gets released as soon as it's merged into the main branch. We release every commit, keeping the main branch's release log tidy. We also use a mono-repo and implement caching, ensuring that only the modified code gets packaged and released.
Man it makes me feel old that there's a need to point this out. Have most people never worked with native mail clients (MUA is the technical term)? Memorizing the POP (before IMAP) and SMTP servers for my email providers was quite necessary when I was young, especially since I liked reinstalling my OS often.
Interview with the guy who pulled the ejection cord in the Michigan Mig-23:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftcn3NwAZCI

tldr; they were out of airspeed and out of altitude barely within ejection envelope (i.e. exhausted all the options)
Churches and synagogues in my town had literally, dozens of interest clubs. Ski club, scuba club, travel club, etc. Non were religious, the church/synagogue was more of a meeting place but driven mainly by congregants. Now religion is uncool and no one goes, but the interest clubs weren't replaced by anything anywhere else. Definitely not by social media at least.
This is really interesting. I imagine that AI-generated art / illustrations for books mostly-text is a pretty compelling thing for authors, for all the same reasons that AI-generated text is of value for non-authors. I wonder how this line will work out in practice.
Student-Loan Restart Threatens to Pull $100B Out of Consumers’ Pockets
I think we in the West need to get better at creating excitement about manufacturing.

The two biggest wind turbine manufacturers in the world, Vestas Wind Systems and Siemens Gamesa, are located here in Denmark. It is definitely possible to do manufacturing in high income developed countries.
We still are sending Astronauts on the Soyuz, even though we are also sending them up in the dragon capsule. (https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/russia-us-agree-add....)
Carbon emissions ACCELERATED climate change. Climate change is natural. It's the ACCELERATED change that is the problem. Not enough time for species to adjust.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Belgium_MiG-23_crash
Why don't these aircraft get 10Hz GPS updates and send them to StarLink as they are going down? It's 2023 already.
It seems Amazon cares more about polluting search results in Kindle than polluting the search results in their own e-commerce business. I think low-effort books generated by AI are much less detrimental than sketchy physical products being shipped to your door in 2 days or less.
> this is what happens when you shift everything in heavy industry or production in general off to India and China without keeping at least some production domestic

I disagree, or at least think it's a lot harder than that.

1. It's not like we closed down Metal Cutting Inc. and just bought everything from China. There's no single company to have saved; there was Icebreakers and co. and Reactor Vessels Ltd. and ValvegearForgingCo. Any one of them might have been able to adapt but none of them were save-able and a lot of them were obviously obsolete.

2. Even when there is a Metal Cutting Inc., that's almost as bad. The supply chain was more efficient when it was integrated, not when its contracted out to a third party... or we would just buy from the places that still make things.

3. In this specific instance, but also in many others, market forces are not really the real problem. Look at Alcoa- hugely successful because small mills were cheaper to operate than large mills, but now we don't have huge mills everywhere. Can't fix that- even we had seen it coming and kept large mills alive, what would they make? What about harder problems,where you need a varied set of things to make to keep knowledge from dying out?

4. How do you do this without picking specific winners, and lobbying for who will live and who will die? If industries can survive the decline without losing their experts, how do you decide how much money to give them? How do you incentivize them to actually keep that knowledge, instead of getting into a more profitable industry?

5. In the end, the problem isn't about the companies or documentation or people. If you continued to employ all the people who operated the great presses, they'd just be mostly dead by now. It's not like people need much more than a wage, but I do think that an industry that depends on government subsidies, cannot possibly grow, does not build truly useful things, and could disappear because a new appointee dislikes it is not a line of work most people would be drawn towards.

My take is: Academia is the right place for some fraction of the people who are made redundant by outsourcing or technological change. They don't have to be lecturers, but they are already teachers. They pass on their knowledge to new employees. Document, research, experiment, and prove manufacturing and industrial techniques. Preserve that knowledge for when it is needed. Humanity doesn't invest nearly enough into education, much less the preservation of knowledge.
I'm curious as to whether manned ships will continue to prevail in the age of drones.

Wire up a cheap boat with explosives and it can sink an expensive naval vessel. The Ukrainians are using this to massively great effect right now against the Russians.

What if instead of building one new aircraft carrier, you build an autonomous submersible capable of launching drones with variable payloads?

Or instead of a destroyer, build a drone ship that can launch missiles?

Or an entirely new class of ship that simply swarms enemy defenses and is laden with explosives? Mass-produced autonomous jet skis with explosive payloads. But faster.
The point of the Stasi wasn’t to find/prosecute dissent, it was to create an environment that prevented it from occurring, spreading, or gaining traction. The Stasi existed to sow the fields of popular politics with salt through creating an environment of paranoia.
The D in DARPA stands for defense. As in “any laser powerful enough to power a truck is indistinguishable from a weapon”.
It'll be interesting to see where this goes. Amazon has had ML-generated garbage books for years now, and I assume they haven't taken them down because they make money even when they sell garbage.

Maybe there's so much garbage coming in now that they finally have to do something about it? I feel for people trying to learn about technical topics, who aren't aware enough of this issue to avoid buying ML-generated books with high ratings from fake reviews. The intro programming market is full of these scam books.
Surprised there's no mention of Sahara Pump Theory[1] in this article.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara_pump_theory
why aren't you using mutt or pine?
They were right to reject it. Lightning is encumbered with multiple royalties and implementation patents that made it more of a glorified prototype than a reasonable proposal. USB-IF would be mocked for accepting Apple's offering as-written.
vPro, also known as AMT, is proprietary and it's for professional desktop and laptop systems. ME instead is based on IPMI and is for server-class systems.
But why? Don’t these billion dollar machines have a GPS tracker on them?
Same, its nice to see the Steam Deck really took off compared to their previous efforts. It seems the iterated upon their previous attempts and ended up with a great product in the end.
I don't think that's what they're referring to. I think it's referring to the view in the browser. The email contents itself might still be html/rich text and/or plaintext but viewing in the browser, you have to use the new Gmail UI instead of the original Gmail HTML Basic.
I had to tell a CTO that we can't do plaintext marketing/communication emails because they're much less effective for the average user. I feel like they died a little that day.

You, the CTO, and I all prefer plaintext emails, but we're very much the minority.
I don't even like the 4 business day feature branches we have. When we were rapidly developing we saw all sorts of merge problems. It only works now because the commit rate has dropped off, and the chances of merge problems are somewhere between quadratic and factorial.
Which happens if the CEO is conscientious enough to insist on collecting and looking at those metrics.
It’s the only gmail version that’s not sloooowww and doesn’t eat many hundreds of megabytes to low-gigabytes of memory just for an email client.

This’ll be a good push to finally move everything to Fastmail.
Men and women have differences, big deal. These include psychological differences which have an impact upon society.
iOS 17 Can Automatically Remove Tracking Parameters from URLs in Safari
https://huggingface.co/TheBloke
WinDiskWriter: The tool for creating Windows bootable USB drives on Mac
WinDiskWriter can create installation USB drives with any x64 Windows versions that support UEFI booting.

This means that you can use WinDiskWriter to make bootable USB drives with the following versions of Microsoft Windows: Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11.

WinDiskWriter can alter the Windows 11 installer so that it does not depend on the presence of TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot, which are hardware features that Microsoft requires for the installation of the new system.
Not entirely, but that’s a really nice feature! It brings a great design my grandparents’ voicemail on their landline has had for decades.

What I want is how the Google Pixel lets you screen calls. The unknown caller talks to a robot that requests that they explain the reason for their call and then I get notified and can read what they said. This makes it easy to answer a call from my doctor’s office while weeding out spam. Currently I silence all unknown callers because I receive so much spam, but that’s led to me missing important calls.
You do realize you're repeating the same "distro bad" rhetoric, right? It's not all helpful or even representative of the underlying problems. Every single distro has major issues. Whether or not they affect you is a crapshoot.
While not exactly the same, the invention of the printing press caused a lot of controversy with the Catholic Church. With the printing press, people could mass produce and spread information relatively easily. I'm sure a lot of it was considered "low quality" (also heretical)[1]. Seems like we're going through similar growing pains now. Yes I know it's different, but it rhymes.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum
Printscreen to capture the whole screen. Alt + Printscreen to capture the current active window.
Though knowledge of experience is sometimes wrong as well. Sure it works - unlike print where mistakes (sometimes intentional to hide a secret) can tell you something that cannot work, but that doesn't mean it is a good way to do things.
Never heard of them before! Pricing plan looks interesting.

Do they have a web client, or it's a bring your own client?

How "family friendly" is the actual usage experience (as opposed to nerd friendly; I'd need to convert my wife as well as myself:)

Thx muchly!
Two easy examples:

- Fair use law (there are thinks which clearly are and are not fair use but in between there is huge gray area where you can not really formulate generic precise rules which work reliable).

- Parent law (which has a lot of issues especially given how it's applied, but design wise you fundamentally have ambiguity about questions like when something is "enough added innovation" to be patentable as fundamentaly "the degree of inovativeness" is purely subjective.)

- Insult, is also very subjective. Define it as "only when insult was intented" would be bad, but similar would be "always when the person felt insulted" and even "if intended and felt insulted" has issues.

- Self defense it's in many jurisdiction based on the person feeling threatened, but in jurisdictions with sane law it also involves stuff like "a generic person would also have felt threatened", but then you still have to consider person specific circumstances.

- or lot of stuff around what counts as insider information, e.g. for insider trading
Remember kids, when you can't afford a home know that it is all Democrats fault for destroying the economy through inflation by printing money to bail out their friends and to pay for vaccines and war.
X/Twitter does warn you when you try to edit you profile with this message. It’s just more terrible reporting.

> Your blue checkmark will be hidden for a period of time after you edit your display name or profile photo until it is reviewed.
I don't believe it is either right or wrong to have zones. I believe there are both pros and cons of zoning to prevent high population density. From the first google search, I found the article about it (https://sustainablereview.com/high-population-density-pros-a...). You can also find dezoning of Seoul in South Korea (only example I am familiar with) and what damages it caused inadvertently (drastic population and housing prices increase in Seoul even with higher housing capacity provided by dezoning and allowing high rise apartments).
Fun fact, the USCGC Healy is the ship that the Half Life 2 Borealis model is based on.
Did you grow up in one and not enjoy it? You seem extremely passionate about this issue. I can kind of relate, but although I left a small town in favor of city life, I don't think it's necessarily the ideal, or that the richness and complexity of cities makes smaller scales redundant.
This rent seeking trend in business is like a cancer.
It is actually a surprising that Russia is not the manufacturing capital of the world. They have super-cheap energy, Soviet-era high-quality STEM education, and 50 million cheap workers from Caucasus, Siberia, Far East Russia, and the Central Asian countries.
How do we even know this entire comment thread isn't polluted with AI?

Maybe it doesn't matter. The quality of the work matters more than the process of actualization.
I also think that focusing on single buildings, like the author of the article mostly does, is not helping anyone. Exquisite building after exquisite building might end up creating a total non-sense, while on the other hand boring building after boring building can create a really nice and liveable thing.

Back to the exquisite buildings, I'm now on the coast of South-Western Greece and I can see this first hand, as there are lots and lots of villas scattered around the hills here which villas, taken individually, have a decent enough modernist architectural style, but when you look at them as a whole is a cacophony pure and simple (ignoring the habitat destruction, that is).

On the other hand the very boring buildings from the downtown small Greek town where I'm now staying have almost nothing going for them individually and from an architectural pov, if not for some details here and there, but taken together the discourse changes completely.
You don't have a backpack ready to go full of stuff your child would normally need? If my daughter lived with me full time I'd probably keep a bag in the car 24/7 for that very purpose. I'd like to hear more about your carseat problems too.
Is that necessarily a bad thing?

A notebook isn’t nearly as meticulous as every semi anonymous post I’ve ever made to Reddit or discord or whatever, plus my meme image collection, my browsing history, etc

Why should my kids and future generations get access to my shameful secrets just because I’m dead? If i wanted that information hidden, shouldn’t it stay that way?

To that end I suppose it’s just the philosophical argument of “is it shitty to read someone’s diary after they die?” but with the stakes increased a bit due to the nature of greatly increased data collection
>And let's not forget, a lot of traditionalist design took into account a world without HVAC and other hacks. If you want energy efficiency, looking to solutions that tackled the problem in a more fundamental way is a good thing, rather than papering over the problem with technology.

A lot of these houses were heated with a coal fire in every room, they are completely uninsulated and sitting anywhere near the window in the dead of winter would be very cold! There is something to be said for applying modern passive solar design techniques, insulation and airtightness coupled with heat recovery ventilation. Of course, this does mean you can only have big Georgian style windows on south(ish) facing facades.
It's cheaper if everyone is in the "same household" (i.e. sharing the same public IP as main account)
in many countries speed limits are quite clear cut

through "clear cut" here sometimes still involve an assessment of danger which fundamentally isn't 100% objective

and e.g. in germany you are only allowed to "drive as fast as it's save" even if the speed limit is higher (and that is a common occurrence, e.g. resident areas tend to be 30km/h zones but you have to slow down at nearly every crossing because anything else wouldn't be save and if you do an accident at a crossing driving 30km/h in such a zone you are very likely very much screwed (depending on damage done).

So I guess, yes speed limits in a certain way, too.
What if the museum were to put up a sign that said "This is not art"?
GPS is not reliable underwater, I'd expect it to have an ELT/EPIRB but those don't work with GPS as far as I know, and the crash could have been hard enough to render it inoperable.
It's a 90s LAN, but with encryption and accessible from anywhere.
I don't think stealth aircrafts normally have trackers or anything broadcasting a signal. Kind of defeats the purpose...

I did read that stealth aircraft have transponders installed when operating in US airspace, so commercial radar can see them better. But it was not installed on this flight.
There’s a researcher at Edinburgh who is looking into this. You may want to reach out. Check the related work section in this paper
Limited ability with IQ of 75 [video]
The main observation of CI/CD is that problems don't get better by avoiding them. If something sucks, you either need to figure out how to stop doing it ever again, or grow callouses.

The draw of feature branches is the same draw as quarterly or yearly releases: People don't know how to decompose problems into stand-alone subproblems that they can tick off one at a time. The solution is the same here. Don't avoid decomposing problems. Do it every week until you figure it out.
Possibly it's the author removing them at the first one star rating to keep their author score high?