skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> detached HEAD

Believe it or not this actually fits into the model, albeit with a little more complexity.

HEAD is a special label that can point to other labels, specifically to "heads" which are the labels that represent branch tips.

Normally when you make a new commit, the current pointed-to branch head advances forward to point to the new commit, and the HEAD pointer follows that branch head pointer.

"Detached HEAD" is whenever HEAD points directly to a commit rather than a branch head.

When making new commits in this state, there's no branch head to advance, so HEAD itself will advance to the newly-created commit. However this is a little dangerous because once you switch HEAD to something else, commits in the DAG without a branch head at the tip/leaf would be considered "unreachable" and would be invisible in logs, and eventually will be deleted by the garbage collection process.

It's still ultimately all about operations on the commit DAG and labels/pointers therein, which to me is really elegant.

What is not necessarily clear from that mental model is what any given operation will actually do to the files in your repo (called the "work tree"). But Git is very consistent here and usually tries to keep the work tree in sync with whatever is ultimately pointed to by HEAD, unless you specifically ask it not to (as with `reset --soft`).

> not being able to easily start a new branch from an older commit

Unfortunately this is a case of CLI docs obfuscation:

git branch new-branch old-commit
I once had the opportunity to help a local archeological dig in Sweden - a very time team feeling -, and we found one of these figures. The metal detectorist had missed it but we got it in the sieve. And the elating feeling was identical to finding a bead or comb piece or just a bit of pot. It was a great feeling each and every time we found anything! :)

Would warmly recommend joining local archeological and historical societies wherever you are.
IDK, but a possible counterargument to some of your observation is that you could have a team where every day/week they have a meeting to look at the dashboards, and it's always Sam who opens the dashboard and shares on the big monitor/group call.
The Russian soldier raising the flag on the Reichstag is a pretty good example of this too. The looted extra watches on his wrist were removed before publication.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_a_Flag_over_the_Reic...
There are a lot of non US people in HN. I’m European and it’s not just unavailable, you can’t even access the App Store page so no screenshots, no description, no teasing.

However, I’m not an app developer and because you are far from alone, I always wondered why it is useful to limit your audience to US only?
Something like this happens: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YD-3vE_R7p8&pp=ygUoY2hhcmxpZSB...
Bournville in UK is another example. It was definitely a step up at the time, but I feel like conditions are somewhat better an century and a half later and if they would be going back to where losing your house with your job is an acceptable risk, it would now be a step down.
Read the book. It has a very twisted bend on the movie. I saw the 13th floor on opening day... the theatre was empty and the movie was fantastic. D'Onforo played both roles brilliantly.

Also Colossus was filmed at Berkeley hall of science where I learned to program computers.
The drink Goldwasser has small sparkling flakes of 24k gold.
this examines corporate characters:
https://bitslap.it/blog/posts/playground-it.html
Python developers won't let go of Python 2
The article actually says that sour receptors detect ammonium chloride. This means that there is no new taste. For there to be a new one, there would need to be a kind of receptor which is activated while the rest of them are inactive.
For an interesting sense of "backwards compatibility" with the planet's past encodings, Unicode decided in concert with Microsoft to encode all of Windows' classic Wingdings 1/2/3 in various places in the Unicode planes. Some of them combined with Variation Selector 16 now double as emoji, so there's an interesting through line between ancient Wingdings and modern emoji. But also yes, some of Wingdings was far more decorative than most of what Unicode prefers to encode, it only gets a pass for how ubiquitous Wingdings is/was.
The idea with a Ponzi is to create one and make money from the get-go.

There is no good idea with a Ponzi if you didn't create it.
conent-o-matic works there
It’s yours only when it’s a free system, you know. Otherwise it’s precisely their system.
This.

Also, llama.cpp now works (really well) with Radeon Instinct cards, which are stupid cheap because everybody thinks you need to buy nvidia stuff. Pcie bifurcation FTW!
I have two. As a consumer, travelling international longhaul for work they were amazingly good, and until mp3 players like the Archos came in, frankly indispensable.

The recording quality was phenomenal.

But the power supplies .. my God. The tiniest needle connectors I have ever seen. And super uncommon batteries.
I was raised Catholic and I would summarize the faith as it was passed to me as an exercise in envy. Even the premise of your quote is the same: "Your puny ways of life are vain and laughable, because you do not want to listen to me and do as I tell you". Pad this into a few verses, flower it up with medieval language - and your God is speaking. Discussion not welcome, because only I, as a believer, can understand the arcane nuance of my verses. Bow down and submit.

Referring to the other comment about human morals evolving - religion is evolving as well, although it learned to cover it up. Catholicism is my favorite here, because it's perfected the art of bullshitting itself. For example, divorce is not allowed - but if you look for "evidence" that the partner has misled you into a marriage, then we call it "Marriage never happened" and boom - your not-a-divorce has been granted. Abortion suddenly in the spotlight? It's because our understanding has evolved and it's only now that we see that it's never been acceptable. And so on.
Wired messes up from time to time, but in general I find them great compared to most tech news sites.
Paper Money Turns Government into Predator
This feels like AI generated content, in that it mostly doesn't make sense and definitely does not support the claim made in the title.
Sorry, then yes to answer your actual question, I don’t think that would commonly be called “market timing” (although of course the phrase could be an apt description of that strategy).

All the uses of that expression that I see refer to an investor whose principal aim is to buy-and-hold to capture beta, but simply wants to try and pick the right moment.
We were mistaken on a lot of things in the past and in general we're getting better at figuring it out.

Scientific consensus is that climate change is real, is impacted by human activity, and shows no sign of abating. We're seeing weather patterns that are breaking records and seasonal changes that correspond with a warming planet.

The denial of these concerns seem to be either from those who are directly profiting from factors contributing to it or those whose political beliefs associate it with a hoax by the enemy.

Fossil fuels provided cheap energy to transform civilization but it's not the only game in town anymore. Transitioning away from them brings significant benefits that are worthy enough regardless of "saving the planet" (e.g., cheaper power, less pollution, energy independence, less environmental destruction, etc).
I'm generalizing, but most Norwegians wouldn't find pagan or heathen derogatory.

During the 90s, it was embraced as a common denomer for the anti-religious movement.
FTX insurance fund generated with numpy.random()
As a Brit at least, the empire was doing very well out of the slave trade at some point even if there were no slaves in UK (which iirc there were some depending how the law on bringing bringing in slaves stood at the point), so I don't think we can disclaim responsibility like that. Whether we should feel personally guilty for something that happened before anyone now living was born is a different issue, but I think we should acknowledge it happened
Disruptive defense tech: A new dawn for directed energy
It's not my script, it's the script used by the linked project.

I use pg_isready. Unfortunately I won't link my project because I try to keep this HN account separate from my true identity.
How do you update postgres on CoreOS? Its better to keep IT immutable so in case of change the whole image must be recreated?
> 12 months along, that was all thrown out because of the ongoing challenges of securing, managing, and administering the devices, and supporting the userbase.

But did the admin team know about the macOS environment? We’re a Mac only environment in my company and the management AND securing of all the devices is trivial (can be done easily by one person for more than 100 devices with time to spare, and it’s scalable).

But of course if the team is used to other OSes, they won’t know the tools and will find it difficult to manage Macs.
Thanks for having the balls to say this. It’s a terrible video game but a masterpiece of a story. In fairness, it was far from the only game of its time where not knowing things about the game could cause you to kids large swaths of it.
Ans you know that Amazon and Cloudflare are not free, yes ?
You might enjoy something that takes advantage of this type of note-taking, like logseq (https://logseq.com/). The way I understand it (I haven't tried it out yet) is that it builds up hierarchies from bullet lists and can organize your knowledge base with them in mind, which means your daily notes can have a hierarchical bullet list and potentially you could query for every day you worked on a particular feature in a particular project very easily.
it’s not yours, it’s granted to you under a license
Non trivial fractions of automaker ad spend are targeting recent buyers to feel good about their purchase.
But the problem is that if you are waiting now, is that massive buy signal going to come next year or in 10 years? And if you keep cash for 10 years and then buy at the right time, is that going to be better than having been invested for the whole ten years already?
Yes. It doesn't surprise me that some organizations want to spy on their users, but I'm thankful Apple is making it harder for them to do so without making it transparent to the end users what's going on.
In that case it shouldn't depend on being aware of the phenomenon, which is what gp said.
2) They look different, great is in the eye of the beholder tho. I would still buy one if they were priced reasonably AND they've been out for a while. I never buy a 1st edition of any car. every car needs a while to work out the gotchas, and I don't like being a beta tester for a billionaire while paying him to give me a shoddy experience.
Thanks for the thoughts. I'll endeavour to keep this part very very simple.
In that case it's useless and disbanding it is sensible, no?
I assume you mean major release upgrade, I haven't gotten that far yet so I view it as a problem to solve once it arises. Obviously it runs in a container, but I have to run the pg_upgrade tool before I start the new container image tag.

An immutable OS like CoreOS for example isn't much different than a regular distro. You can still do a lot of manual work on it if you want. I try to avoid doing manual work on it because I want to be strict IaC, but I can for example test doing a major release upgrade in staging, manually over SSH, and work out the kinks, before I put it into practice using containers and scripts in production.

Though I see very little reason to automate the hell out of a major release upgrade, better do it safely and slowly with SOP's.
Good point, misread, thanks
I didn't see eXistenZ until like a decade late, but that one also certainly has a twisted bend on the genre (for also being a contemporary of both 13th Floor and The Matrix).

I still don't understand how Roland Emmerich as "super Producer" after Stargate and Independence Day somehow managed to fail to get people into theater seats for 13th Floor. Someone at Sony screwed up that marketing. I don't even remember it playing in theaters, I found out about it on word of mouth in video rentals.
Told to hate it? Please. I'm British and barely even know of the existence of Kardashian, much less how she speaks and what she's famous for.

My first experience with vocal fry was a Finnish woman at my job who would use it constantly. This was several years ago and I had no idea what vocal fry was until recently. All I knew was I found the way she talked annoying. I liked her, but I did not like the way she talked. I think the most annoying thing is that it's clear it's being done on purpose for some reason. I know she can talk normally and I know I can talk like her, so why is she choosing to talk like that?

Later there was a young guy at work who would drop into vocal fry a lot. I still didn't know what it was called but I still found it very annoying.

I don't know why I don't find men like Bertrand Russell annoying.

But all I know is nobody told me to hate anything. Even people that didn't like the woman I worked with never mentioned her voice.
My bad :-)
Decoupled code is much harder to follow. I see people thinking decoupling is always good, but it's not. It can be good when things are actually de-coupled... but I've seen coworkers decouple logic from HTTP handlers for example where that made no sense because the whole purpose of the logic was to do stuff for HTTP... so if you want to ensure that if certain conditions are met, a HTTP header has a certain value... well you can't anymore unless you abstract away even the concept of HTTP headers! The whole thing becomes a mess out of the good intentions of the developer. Do not ever decouple things that are intrinsically coupled.
I limited to US & Canada only because the text in the app is only in English. I have to setup localization in order to get it properly translated for countries where English is not a primary language. I do plan to add support this in the future, but can't give an exact estimate right now.
GrapheneOS would solve this issue permanently.
Not acknowledging that the current predicament is caused by every single human being except maybe native tribes in remote islands is blindness. Saying that the vast majority (%99.9) of human beings is responsible and to be blamed for it is not victim-blaming, but not right either. The thing to blame is our beloved technology. Technology is the main force which shapes human society. We do things and don't do things because of our technology. It defines societies and the entire human civilization. The only choice there was was to oppose all technological progress, but that ship has sailed long ago, in 15th century or so. Back then, few people understood what technological progress will inevitably bring, no one had a time machine to see 21th and 22th centuries. We tout these people as religious backward luddites today, though the sentiment is changing.

The whole situation is as deterministic as two celestal bodies moving according to Newtonian physics. Technological progress was inevitable, and so was the resulting population bomb in the last century, and so is the nearing Collapse of the civilization in the coming decades, due to ecological overshoot. Read the Industrial Society and Its Future by Ted Kaczynski.
On the other hand GPS is precedent for intentional nerfing for civilians.
> How do 'we' know that?

This particular law came about in response to a suit against Cisco iirc in which a significant problem was "is caste discrimination illegal" that led to the case being dismissed.

Or you could do a fairly quickly search on twitter or mastodon for many people talking about how they directly experienced caste based discrimination. A person I followed talked about how that discrimination occurred until they married a "higher" caste person and suddenly semi-regular questions about how they got to the US, how they could get their job, etc disappeared when they took their partner's name.

> You're also losing business and violating laws.

You're only violating laws if the discrimination is illegal. You aren't losing business as we're talking about people you're actively choosing to discriminate against, if anything you're being forced to accept more business, not less.
> AWS (Amazon Web Services) had an hours long outage yesterday. This is the product used by companies that don’t try very hard. You hire the cheapest labor found anywhere and use Agile because they are all just hacks, most of whom never went to college. (...)

This is how the blog post starts. Pathetic.

Don't waste a click on this link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring?wprov=sfti1
Probability Distribution Map
This feels very wrong, especially for such a service. I would personally trust https://yourdigitalrights.org/ much more. Plus it’s global.

Disclosure: I donated a little and later met the founder of the nonprofit.
https://archive.ph/BHYHA
In German there are two (Kongo), in English just Kenya. ChatGPT got misinformed by redditors
iOS says we’re 10 °C above the average for my location
I tried Optery (YC 22W) from an HN announcement and thought it would let me see data associations based on my email/handles from across the web and what data brokers are doing with it but the way the system, as in dealing with Data Brokers through some freedom of information as a service like Optery, works is like a yellow pages whois lookup based on your name/birthday/mailing address pairing which is completely ass backwards imo. I'm not interested in what details you have associated with my name I might share with 50 other people, I want to see everything connect to my online id's and if that includes my name phone numbers etc I want to exercise control over who has what and why. I still think it should be us, the consumers, who issue the Terms of Service to the users of our data not the other way around.
I disagree with that comment about BASIC, for a few reasons.

First, you can say that about any language when trying to learn another. The classic “writing Fortran in Lisp” concept. Learning to write idiomatic BASIC doesn’t prevent you from learning to write idiomatic anything else.

Is there some, perhaps, unlearning necessary? Of course there is, as with anything. But it’s not fatal.

Second, it’s hard to appreciate how good something is until you’ve fought through something else that could have benefited you, if you knew it.

Early BASIC is not very expressive, and therefore limited. When you move on to something more modern, you don’t necessarily take it for granted. “Oh boy, this is so much better!”

Now you know WHY it’s better rather than just accepting it as rote. That leads to just a better, and deeper understanding of the whole field. When you were implementing your first B-tree, or hash table in raw C, you learn to appreciate why the one in the utility library, that you get for “free” may well not only be better than the one you copied from your “Data Structures 201” book (since it just may well be a more advanced algorithm), but you’ll realize how it works as well.

In contrast just blindly drag and dropping one into your project because you found a link on the internet.

Similarly, while it’s easy to condemn these older systems, if you ever go back and try to do work on some of these vintage systems, at their vintage speeds, you may well appreciate why something like BASIC was limited in the ways it was.

Are the more advanced language features worth the expense they incur? Maybe, but also maybe not.

Maybe for some the habits they learn have life long impact, but I don’t think being exposed to different idioms and methodologies of software development is a bad thing. Let’s folks learn and understand where those sayings and “best practices” they blindly apply (and not always necessarily for the better) come from.
Mostly I was objecting to young more than content creator, since it has connotations of inexperience. But yes I think in some circles books are regarded as "better" than videos. There's certainly a higher barrier to publishing books than electronic content, although obviously both and contain quality or crap.

Edit: bawolff said it better than I could
Reinforcement Learning for Rapidly Outperforming Champion Street-Fighter Players
This is feelgood venting, but without addressing the root of the problem.

All these managers are paid to do this BS. By the company. And that company is owned by people, who ultimately have the final say how it will be run, and who are paying the price.

There needs to be a lot more discussion around corporate governance with regards to this topic. I.e. how is it allowed to happen.

Why aren't companies adequently training and selecting managers, when it's the biggest effector of their performance vs their competitors? To the extent that dysfunctional management is nearly ubiquitous?

Why do we frequently hear stories like Icahn goes and fires a floor of staff with no effect on operations?

Because it sounds like a huge opportunity in the M&A space. Perhaps new tech can be developed to detect companies like these, to target them for acquisition and then purge them of BS.
That is ironic ;-)
What's "PP"?
It also puts California very close to the European countries with the highest margin tax rates (for instance, Spain and France have similar rates).

This isn't even remotely true. In France, the highest marginal rate kicks in at EUR 160k (approximately $170k). To get the same marginal tax rate in California, you would need to be making approximately $350k (approximately EUR 330k), or more than twice as much. (Note that in all cases, I am excluding payroll taxes like US SSI or French CSG).

(or very cheap) healthcare, cheap university education, and a strong social welfare net

The Europeans paying the same marginal rates as their extremely wealthy Californian counterparts generally do not qualify for most of this benefits of the strong social welfare net, and for the most part have chosen to have the bulk of their medical treatment in the U.S., paying out-of-pocket even though they could get the same treatment locally for free or very cheaply.
> I think the most annoying thing is that it's clear it's being done on purpose for some reason. I know she can talk normally and I know I can talk like her, so why is she choosing to talk like that?

This is like complaining someone speaks with a certain accent. Sure, we can all change how we speak, but we speak and certain way and there is nothing wrong with it.
I wonder if there is a fixed buy date that outperforms dollar cost averaging. Something like "around new years lots of people get money they invest, so prices tend to pop, so buy in november'

There just needs to be some kind of yearly pattern for such a strategy to exist. I even recall reading about it on money-stuff. But I can't remember the months.
> Basically, the only people who die of rabies are those who missed that they got bit or those who were dumb enough to refuse the vaccine.

Lots of people are dumb enough not to go to the ER following a harmless animal bite.

Maybe, if it's a bat, but lots of people won't bother (and 99% of the time, they'll be fine either way)
I wonder if it's just the sign of the times.

When I worked at a (formerly state monopoly)telco around 2000 it would happen that an inspector would come in and look for any warning lights on equipment. If you were around you'd better know how to fix it right away.

These days that kind of attention to detail is long lost in the sea of competition and cost cutting. But issues tend to build up now and cause really expensive megaprojects to really fix them.

I could imagine software engineering followed a similar trajectory.