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> The Devil's Advocate in me feels compelled to point out that git is the _only_ SCM in history to permit rewriting of history. Certainly SVN, CVS, and their predecessors did not get it all wrong by not enabling editing of history?

There are a lot of reasons I don't use SVN and CVS, but correct, their branch model is one of them. I do think that Git's restructuring of how commits and branches work and the flexibility around them is one of the reasons its better than older VC systems.

I'm not sure how strict those older VCs actually were, I'm less familiar with them than I am with Git/Fossil, but... yeah I have no problem saying that if they were doing fully immutable history they were wrong to do so (or maybe "wrong" isn't the best term to use, more that it would be an attribute that I think would make them less useful to a lot of developers).

> 99.99+% of software projects are, in terms of the number of contributors/contributions, so far removed from that scale as to not even register on that scale.

I would disagree with this, I think rebasing/squashing is just a really useful tool, even for smaller projects. It's sort of a difficult debate to have because it's mostly going to come down to opinion. What does necessary mean in a smaller project, VC itself is not strictly necessary for many smaller projects.

SQLite gets by fine with Fossil, the developer prefers having an immutable history. But I'm not sure what to say other than that I use rebasing a lot. Different projects have different development styles.
this made my day.

what a fucking legend he is.

edit: fuck all of you downvoters. fucking cunts of the universe. hahaha.
Your comment is correct in isolation, but you're shifting the definition from people in general[1] to "governments" which means despite being true, it is not a refutation to the above.

Previously we were talking about people believing they are completely independent, that is not relying on another person for anything or thinking that they are purely an island.

What you are describing are beliefs about governments. Anarcho-capitalist Libertarians do believe as you say about governments, but they absolutely don't believe they are independent of other people. They believe they are very dependent on other people and on societies in general, especially markets. They advocate for a completely free market, free of government interference, but this is very different than believing they are entirely self-sufficient without other humans.

[1]: See "full text of the letter" from TFA. It's quite clear that he is talking about humanity in general, not governments. (https://officechai.com/stories/steve-jobs-email-to-self/)
The underlying engine, Tantivy, has better performance characteristics than Lucene.

You can compare Lucene to Tantivy and can compare Elasticsearch to pg_bm25 or ParadeDB
Try kagi. It's actually better, and you can reduce or even banish crap like quora from your results
I have been interested in the low power home server space for a while.

What I ultimately want, is a collection of SBCs that are able to be remotely booted so I can have Intel and AMD x86 systems, ARM, Risc-5, Apple that can spin up on demand.
Dude, thank you very much for writing in such a detailed way. Allows me to peek into how people with experience think and learn. Very insightful. Again, thank you.
On the other hand there's an entire industry around selling placebos of various shapes and sizes; and even the meds that are functional often ruin your kidneys and other organs over time. Medication, while useful in many cases, is often a double edged sword we use too liberally and irresponsibly overall.
Universe-mapping Euclid telescope fixes problem that threatened mission
A more optimistic take would be that open source is one way that big companies indirectly and somewhat inadvertently support small ones.

This means the code might be tackling problems that small companies don't have, though. It might be more complicated than you need.

Maybe it's bleak if you care about control issues (governance) or you want to make money off open source? But as a source of free, possibly useful stuff, it's pretty good.
indeed longer distances are within the broader proposition of a night train network. leaving earlier in the evening and arriving before noon almost doubles the distance. though this comes at the expense of a shorter day.

now about that shift key... I think I read somewhere that capitalization is a relatively recent invention (like after 1000 AD). people used to do all caps and then they invented all lower case and then somebody had the idea of complicating things by mixing the two :-)
To be clear, you're talking about a guy wanting you to exchange a sexual favor for him giving you a ride right? Or am I totally misreading this? If that's the case, I wouldn't classify you running away as you being cynical. You might have just wanted to not play the odds of getting into a situation that could have escalated into physical coercion. That's very sensible.

Or are you saying you were actually attracted to said guy and you'd be ok with it? Then your story makes sense, but it's still an odd one to pick given how extreme most people would say it is.

To be honest, I'm very confused by this comment. I love Hacker News lol.
> Bennett wrote a number of children’s books — The Faithless Parrot (1863), The Frog Who Would a Wooing Go (1864), The Nine Lives of a Cat (1860)

At first I thought he was the originator of the Froggy goes a-courtin song, but that predates his book by several hundred years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_Went_a-Courting
Cats are perfect. An evolutionary biologist makes the claim and leaves you wondering.

That's only a slight exaggeration. The article says they have adapted to fit a specialized carnivorous niche, which is why they all look so similar across different body sizes, and that nothing else can compete with them in that space although many species try, because it requires commitment.

If you were hoping for a mechanistic explanation, that's all the article offers.
> Half the comments here are just providing an implementation of the fizzbuzz instead of addressing the article’s point.

Are you saying this as an indictment of the commenters or in praise of the progress we’ve made here at HN?
Oh, this is so embarrassing and I only see it now.

What I initially misread was "Letby had been just six days from returning to work on the neonatal unit at this point." from [1]. This sentence refers to the 27 April 2017 two paragraphs before and not to the smoking gun discovery in the following paragraph. When I compiled the timeline I totally focussed on the months. 27 April plus six days would be May. But 2017, not 2018.

I stand corrected and thank you for pointing it out.
This is especially apparent when you look at the graph in the paper for what percentage of people are taking medication by age. I'm curious about the drop off at 85+ though.

https://read.dukeupress.edu/view-large/figure/8349863/dem109...
This. Mine has the recirculation thing with extra air channels and a big ol' soapstone wall interposed between the combustion chamber and the exhaust, and you can't just start it up full of wood, you have to fire it properly at which point it's hot enough to burn its own smoke, which you can see happening. And then once it's going, engage the catalyst, which also burns the smoke more, until there's basically nothing left.

No more 'nice cozy smell of neighborhood wood fires', but on every other possible metric, way way better.
Guess that's why he needed those reminders to not get "carried away". That there is a lot he doesn't know. Unfortunately, his cancer treatment was one of those times he did not remember.
I read this article and the original one.

I don't see any reasoning besides "I think it's not really needed".

The reasoning in the original article is shallow at best, and the presented alternatives are not discussed in the depth I was expecting for an article questioning the whole architectural basis of a very popular IaC stack.

On the second article, I don't see a self critique of the actual points raised during the original article.

The two articles sound much like a collection of statements based on personal opinion.

I see the value in an article like this for starting a discussion but not into taking any sort of conclusion.
I have no idea what causes asthma.

But I disagree on one thing, I do think human body is a miraculous, well oiled machine. It is just that we tend to misuse the machine and do things to it that were not foreseen by the manufacturer, so to speak. You void the warranty if you sit by the computer all day, move only with your car and then ensure there is something sugary in your mouth for 16 hours a day.

I did have a lot of health problems which I corrected once I put enough (a lot, actually) effort into understanding and correcting them. I am not saying that all health problems can be resolved this way, but a lot of them can be solved with simple lifestyle changes. Especially if you live in a western world and have income to be free in choosing what you eat and able to have a good night of sleep and spend a part of the day in exercise.
I'm perfectly happy taking my current medication for my entire life, it completely changed everything for the better.

I was diagnosed late with ADD (26) and despite being considered gifted throughout my childhood, starting around 17 years old it was getting harder to just get started, let alone be consistent. There was nothing more frustrating than knowing I'm smart but to keep failing without knowing why.

Doctor prescribed Concerta and the mental fog went away immediately and I felt like my younger self again, brain ready to attack any task without needing the stimulation of an imminent deadline.

Recently I realized through psychology sessions and introspection that I had a blanket of anxiety covering me constantly for the past 6-7 years. It fueled me to always do more and perform better but it was a negative source of motivation and it burnt me out. I had trouble sticking to anything long term or even keeping my house clean often because I wanted to go back to distracting myself to avoid being alone in my thoughts. Countless hours wasted on my phone and on Reddit.

I wanted to try an SSRI because things got bad and after discussion with my doctor, she prescribed Escitalopram (Lexapro, Cipralex). The effect has been mind boggling, as in I can't believe how I was able to tolerate my previous state of mind for so long.

The weight of anxiety has been lifted from my shoulders almost completely. For so long I thought my ADD was the only thing stopping me from being consistent in long terms task but it was the anxiety that really paralyzed me.

I'm finally doing all the things I always knew I fundamentally wanted but kept trying and failing to keep going.

I'm working out again with amazing consistency, weightlifting/rowing/yoga. I'm fully enjoying the workouts too because I'm not anxious to go back to a safe space like my phone. I'm tracking my calories and losing weight and it's a pleasure. I'm cooking and cleaning, my place looks amazing. I'm going to sleep every day early because I'm no longer wasting time on my phone until I'm so tired that I drop the phone on my face. I'm reading books again too and meditating daily.

I had been stuck in these loops of knowing what I wanted and making insignificant progress. I never stopped wanting these things and now I can finally have them.

Obviously it would be better to function normally without medication but I have no issues with continuing.
Thinking in terms of proofs — what the article mentions as properties and invariants — is what’s critical for writing correct code. This doesn’t necessarily depend on DSA knowledge, but it sure helps in developing the understanding. Likewise, writing code that scales performantly relies on an understanding of asymptotic and amortized runtime, which DSA provides the practical examples of.
Also a layman (but t1d), I believe what you are saying is correct/Insulin is injected into fatty tissue, and I presume this implant would go in fatty tissue. Getting to a vein sounds like a much higher risk.
One of the weird things about oncogenes that I have observed is that there is a balance. Perturb them too far one way and you get cancer. Perturb them too far the other and you get a developmental disorder. This is not at all rigorously documented or studied. Just an anecdotal observation.
Chamath: Our porous border increased risk of foreign combatants infiltrating?
The real problems of the Apple Tax — it ruins value-chain.

For every value created a customer receives there is value captured by a company paid by this customer. Let say a company creates a service valued as 1X by customer and customer pays 1X for that. This balance guarantees accessibility and interest among many customers.

Apple tax demands for a customer to pay 1.43X for the same value of 1X (0.43 = 30% of 1.43). It means that the balance is ruined, and customers do not get enough value for what they pay. In value they still get 1X despite paying for 1.43X. Hence, a company gets significantly less customers and at the same time it’s unable to benefit from additional 0.43X customers paid. Drop in the revenue is significant. That makes business unsustainable.

So, what a company could do? It could provide more value by letting go own margin in favor of only Apple benefitting from the service or it could increase marketing expenses to attract more users. But then again that additional marketing budget eats into a company’s margin. And again, makes it uneconomical.

Maybe it used to be acceptable to pay the Apple Tax in 2008 when it was enough to just create a simple non-cloud app like calculator, submit to AppStore, and forget about it. In those days there were no expenses to actually run the service. Now the core of mobile services happen outside Apple ecosystem and an iPhone is a mere access point and interface to them. Nothing more. It’s a mere mobile browser for 3rd party services.

Wonder how many great businesses weren’t realized due to Apple making them uneconomical.
That's pretty crazy. Back in the `80s I listened to the head of the USC Med school on the radio talk about doctors graduating who just barely passed the grade and then said "going to the doctor was the #1 cause of avoidable deaths". I read a few years ago that it's now the #3 cause of avoidable death, but that's still very high.

I'm 63 now and I've only went to a doctor 3 times in the past 40 years. All of those were for lung infections from a "cold" that was going around and I asked for and got a shot of penicillin.

The last time was about 10-12 years ago and I asked for a shot of penicillin and the "Nurse practitioner" that saw me got all snippy with me, told me "You can't come in here and tell us what to prescribe!". That just cracked me up. Everyone I knew at the time who'd got that crud was getting prescribed a "z-pac antibiotic" and it was making them all sick af and I told her that, and that I wouldn't take it.

She ran to the Doctor to tell on me and they told her to give me the penicillin. I was feeling better the next day. Haven't been sick since. I didn't get infected with covid either, but I did mask up and keep a distance and got vaxxed and boosted asap for that.
We are living longer partially as a result of treating issues that would previously have gone untreated or poorly treated. Most things we treat with medication we treat because they have negative health outcomes otherwise like earlier deaths. Longer lifespan on medication = more percentage of life on medication, but of course people would typically rather have that than a shorter un-medicated life.

I think there probably is a factor of quality of life dropping due to things like obesity raising in prevalence, but I think what I stated above could be the more likely/common explanation that doesn't require the "glass half empty" view. One other factor is we are able to treat more things each year than ever before. There are numerous diseases that have gone from death sentence to a mostly normal life with the help of medication. This would also influence the percentage statistic.
Overall I think Wezterm has the best font support (and the best support).
Could the reason your DB is so fast because it's missing something in terms of safety/reliability that other databases do? That would be one thing I'd be concerned about hearing about a 100x performance increase.

Anyway, I don't know what might be the best monetization strategy for your specific niche, but here's a random idea. You need proof that this thing works and is worth using beyond one random guy saying "Trust me, bro".

Can you find one company who is willing to take a chance on your technology for free? Or maybe perhaps free for a generous time period like 5-10 years or something?

You'll give them access, give them some support to implement your database in their product, and even put something in your will about giving them a license to the source code for this database if you become incapacitated, reducing their risk.

The catch is that if they find your software useful (and I don't know what metrics you can use in a contract to determine this) they'll cooperate with you to help you put together a full-throated endorsement through cooperating with you to put together a full case study, do some social media with you, and give you some defined number of links or mentions on their website + blog.

Then you have something to point to for selling to other companies. "We did a trial run with Acme company and they got these results with our software. Here's the case study that shows from them how our software was so effective."
>because no self-respecting programmer would work on Contract of Employment when they can make twice the money as a freelancer.

There are differences between B2B and CoE, yet it is definitely not 2x, unless you are doing overemployment.

Probably something like 1/3. It is lowered by "author's costs": tax deductible costs and if you're below specific age, then taxes work in a different way for you on CoE (0% tax below age 26).

So in general saying that B2B is always better than CoE is imo bullshit. A lot of depends on your situation and also on the agreements that you have with your 'customer'.

There's additional dynamic that may be taken into consideration - when you're on CoE it is harder to fire you and it guarantees you a month or three of safety
This is crazy. Did you establish up front that you were exchanging sexual services for a ride?

Did you give any cues or indication that it’s what you wanted?

If not, this guy is going around picking up hitchhikers, and potentially giving them the option of being stranded in a third world country or giving him sexual services.

And your major regret is that you didn’t give him what he wanted? He could have killed you or given you a disease.
> I don’t know if I’d say it’s “on par” if an Apple A-series part (i.e., low power enough to be shipped in iPhones and not in any of their “serious” computers) is actually getting slightly higher numbers than the fastest, most power hungry core that AMD has right now!

It isn't. The A17 Pro gets 7199 on GB6 multi-thread compared to 18778 for the 7950X, and multi-thread workloads are the only thing that will cause the 7950X to use its full TDP. If you give the Apple chip a desktop's power budget, the single-thread number barely changes because that isn't what sets the TDP.

And Zen4 is punching above its weight because it's on TSMC 5nm compared to the A17 Pro on TSMC 3nm. Try comparing the chips that use the same process.
Another perspective is this was allowed to happen. It's a bit of wild conspiracy at the moment but if you think about long term strategy, events such as this can shape public opinion. The images going around the world of the terror attack on the "Music Festival For Peace" is going to be quite the PR nightmare for Hamas.
In reality, there were a lot of those measures already before 9/11 - they stopped giant wave of plane hijackings in early 70s.

We can get back to not taking shoes off, but getting rid of xrays is not going to do well.
> Can people really visualize faces and complex items in life like color and resolution?

for my organic chemistry class, it was almost a requirement, so that you could describe the interactions two molecules would have based on their physical properties, and determine the end result

curious, if you were asked not just to simply visualize something, but determine an outcome based on physical properties of objects, how does that process play out in your mind?

for example, if I were shown a square-shaped hole, and without being shown a cube, I was asked if a typical cube would fit through that hole based on shape and not size, in my mind i would picture one face of a cube and try to match it up with the shape i can see to determine 'yes it fits'
Condoms and morning after pills aren’t, but all oral contraceptives for women were prescription only until norgestrel was approved this year [1].

[1] https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...
Perhaps we should eat in a manner that is compatible with life.
He says that he tried stock voltage for everything, and even undervolted/underclocked CPU/memory and still had the bug.
Having worked with Nomad, K8s and Docker Swarm at reasonable scale, Docker Swarm is the only one of those three that I would never use again under pain of death.
It's organized by incompetence, so that they have plausible deniability. Just that none of that incompetence ever gets addressed like it would if it was around their profit center for example.

Airlines do the same when it comes to compensation claims.
Two questions:

- Does Fury support versioning?

- What is source of truth for the schema when dealing with multiple languages and the same data?
There is pricing for Claude 2 there, because "Claude" in the "Anthropic" section refers to both Claude 2 and Claude 1.3 (don't ask me why). See https://i.imgur.com/ev5O22G.png. And yeah, it's the exact same pricing as mentioned here by taf2 (https://www-files.anthropic.com/production/images/model_pric...)
This is not ready to go idea, but definitely, good start point to think, how to do it.

Thank You!
If we are talking about oral contraceptives, it was prescription-only in the US until earlier this year.

“On July 13, 2023 the first US daily oral nonprescription over-the-counter birth control pill was approved for manufacturer by the FDA.”

(From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_control)
I can imagine that with the rise of AI, you now have the basis of plausible deniability for insider trading:

"The AI told me to do it"

I think this will be an interesting legal case when it (inevitably) happens. Because AI is almost impossible to introspect/poll from the outside. If you query it, that is a different "neuron path" and it can't be relied upon to know what/how/why it "knows what it knows".

It can also be plausibly denied that the CURRENT AI response doesn't say what you did. Just say it was retrained / modified to any degree (and of course you don't keep backups), and even if the AI doesn't produce the same answer, you can simply say the training has changed or the inputs have changed (you also don't back up the historical input values).
Well, the cheetah crossed the Bering strait from North America, through Asia and into Africa, and survived two population bottleneck events in the process. Any other species with a similar lack of genetic diversity as a cheetah would have been driven extinct by that. Kind-of indicates that evolutionarily the cats got something right.
The freedom from medication happens after the course of shots is over, wise guy. And even during the treatment for several weeks in between each monthly shot, unlike other allergy medications taken daily.