skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish I lived in an alternate timeline where a delightfully unpronounceable service called HgHub had won the day instead. But on a more open-minded note, would Github been just as successful if they had used something other than Git for the backend? Or was Git already popular enough that Github had essentially no other choice but to use it instead of another DVCS if they wanted to become the dominant player in their space?
For anyone who hasn't yet seen it, there was an interesting adaptation of the Debian systemd discussion into an Ace Attorney-style format: <https://aaonline.fr/search.php?search&criteria[sequenceId-is...>
But he did run San Francisco as a mayor.
I think it was why they got on the systemD train. It was the init system they thought they could maintain well.

Sounds like there were lots of hurt feeling in the whole situation. Did some major Debian maintainers actually leave Debian for Devuan? If Devuan’s contributors were originally just Debian users, it seems like no loss for Debian and a win for the community (more developers).
Which is why I only pick boards that run Armbian.
When I teach Git in mentoring situations, I start with the underlying concepts before I even touch the user interface. And that's kind of wild, it's a testament to how bad the user-facing interface is that I'm thinking about it through the lens of "understanding the internals will make the UI easier", not "understanding and working with the UI will make the internals clearer."
This. So many languages I run across would have been better off as a domain-specific language hosted on top of Common Lisp. Instead of learning a new language, we could grow our vocabulary.
You can buy mushrooms legally less than a mile from the White House.
This is a common and fundamentally incorrect misconception about Social Security. Many subsequent policy debates are then misinformed.

Your money is not ever saved for you. Your retirement is NOT funded by your own past taxes. Your retirement is funded by those younger people who are then working and paying taxes.

You can see the details at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Trust_Fund

Payments to retirees are made out of _currently incoming funds_. That is, the money paid in taxes by people currently working is immediately distributed to retired people who are receiving Social Security payments.

It is, in other words, NOT a savings plan. Full stop.

This scheme sort of worked in the 1930s when life expectancies were much lower and only a few people survived to retirement age relative to the much larger number of working people paying taxes.

Since 2009, Social Security has operated at an annual loss: the amount paid out has begun to exceed the incoming taxes. The deficit is expected to increase a lot in the coming years. (See https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments...)

Whatever you may think about whether Social Security is a good idea or whether the goverment ought to provide for retirement, it's clear that the current structure is not going to do that for much longer. A large-scale reform of some kind is coming.
How has your experience been on writing that?

I too am experimenting with a Fedi impl. I mostly wanted rules, feeds that weren't just "has tag" but rules about has tag without tag with tag and etc, picking most popular tags within those rules, etcetc. All sorts of stuff that would probably be difficult to scale, but i'm targeting tiny instances so who cares.
Night trains are already competitively priced in parts of Europe if you factor in the hotel night you save. Take Amsterdam to Innsbruck:

Travel 1000 km by car, and you arrive late at night, exhausted, go to sleep at your accommodation, and get up in the morning for the start of your itinerary. Don't forget to factor in the costs of wear-and-tear on your car for those 1000 km.

Take a night train, and you get to leave much later in the day, but end up at the same point as the car example above, but the cost of the night's accommodation (the train) was already part of your ticket.

Same for the return journey.

The current market situation is not perfect — this only works for places within reach of the night train network by a few hours of additional transit at most — but night trains are gradually becoming an attractive option for more and more people in Europe. ÖBB took a gamble a decade or so ago by taking over the DB night train lines, and they are now the market leader with a fairly good track record.

Night trains form the backbone of my holidays further a field in Europe. It's only getting better.

Your shift-key is broken by the way.
Oh, absolutely. This came up in a conversation I had with a friend last night about antitrust in tech. Not only do we underinvest in tooling but only the largest companies have the spare time and resources to do so.

I think this has led to many modern open innovations only realistically being useful for solving the problems of very large companies.

On a cynical day I might even accuse certain tools of being designed that way for job security. Or at least it looks that way because the majority of people who are using the tool could only dream of getting approval from management to make a better alternative.

The priorities of many of the tool maintainers, no matter how honest, just don’t match like they used to, and this is in an ecosystem awash with telemetry.
I'm not sure how representative my personal data point is, but I don't really pay attention to the perks. I pick a tier based on how much money I want to send their way.
What if there was a large inefficient model just good enough that it could generate small specialized ones and orchestrate them?

Now that I've said it, I wonder if there's any evidence human brains work that way.
https://archive.ph/5kSYy
There's no cure for stupid. No matter how many warning labels or hoops you put in front of the potentially dangerous option, someone will hurt themselves with it. That doesn't mean the option shouldn't exist, though.
You no longer run for VP. In the modern era the presidential candidate just chooses who they want.
The three modern formats for email forwarded by people
Some of their findings are really interesting, as well as their approach with the children stories, but I find it worrying that at no point the article mentions the problems inherent to the feeding AI models with the output of other AI models.

> The success of the TinyStories models also suggests a broader lesson. The standard approach to compiling training data sets involves vacuuming up text from across the internet and then filtering out the garbage. Synthetic text generated by large models could offer an alternative way to assemble high-quality data sets that wouldn’t have to be so large.

And they completely ignore the fact that those models are building their "synthetic stories" based on the knowledge from all that vacuuming text from across the internet, as if now we had already solved the problem of sourcing human data without the need for further vacuuming.
Design Principles to Build With
mostly I was just responding to the implication that gasoline is a product of the market: "Prices go up and down in response to crude oil prices and other factors."

Perhaps if we want to restrict the definition of regulated, then sure, I'll accept that gasoline isn't regulated, but it's hardly laissez faire pricing: the government frequently steps in to squash market pricing. There's a reason you don't see an 88-cent swing in gas prices as your drive across town (88 cents being the historic margin between wholesale and retail)

Note that during this exchange you've completely ignored the fact that many states are electricity deregulated. At this moment I can pick from dozens of providers with an array of pricing plans.
> And culture is driven by marketing.

Sure but you haven't shown how advertising drives specifically gun culture. Someone's eighteenth gun? Sure, but that's a rounding error in terms of gun ownership.

> if gun culture was so fundamental to peoples beliefs then the NRA wouldn’t need to spend as much on lobbying as they do.

You're conflating marketing a product to a market and bribing politicians to not restrict the sale of guns. There isn't any overlap.
> Yeah I think the point about monorepos vs submodules is probably the biggest non-usability issue with Git.

As a lone developer, I admit that this is what surprises me the most about the experience of other people.

But I'm going to solve it. Partial checkouts, fully-transactional cross-submodule commits, the works.

Really, these problems are easy with a good design. It's unfortunate that Linus didn't have time for design.

> Binary files is another crap area of Git. LFS is useless. Lots of people have Stockholm syndrome and think that Git doesn't support large/binary files well because it's immoral rather than just because it's not something Linus ever needed.

Yeah, I don't get this either.

I am implementing a general plugin system for creating format-aware operations. This will include source code and binary files.

> I'm still a bit sad that most of the attempts at replacing Git focus on the poor conflict resolution story (which is poor but tolerable) rather than these more fundamental issues.

I fully agree. I'm going to the doing UX studies, and that's my first priority.

I am going to handle conflict resolution better, though.
What does “Jeff” mean in this case?
Can you provide the prompt?
How to Write Recipes That Are Harder to Steal
The shoes and belts thing is ridiculous, I agree. But there's a legitimate reason for the liquid ban to which I'm not sure there's much of a solution, is there?
> Investing decisions are too subjective for the current state of AI

I think they are talking about AI driving growth in the broader economy, not making investment decisions.

Even still, it's not clear that AI will drive that kind of growth.
There was a podcast with the author of SQLite explaining pretty much why he doesn't use anything by anyone else.
One big difference between CPUs and GPUs is memory bandwidth.

Dumb question, but why don't Intel/AMD massively increase memory bandwidth by adding more memory lanes? For example instead of the usual 4 slots on a desktop motherboard you would have 16 slots surrounding the CPU on all sides.

Is it that the CPU would be unable to effectively use all that bandwidth due to less parallelism compared with a GPU?
Running it for your own purposes as part of a solution that includes search should be fine under AGPL.

If your product is elastic search built into Postgres as a repackaged and direct competitor to this search plug-in, that’s where my understanding is over the line.
Self-Taught Optimizer (Stop): Recursively Self-Improving (LLM) Code Generation
> breakdown of major features

This link only shows:

> Now that we released @_dotbigbang_
v0.8, I thought I’d spend a bit of time to go over what we’ve launched so far and what we have left to do before we get close to a 1.0 release! ()

And a single gif. I wouldn't call this a breakdown. It's not really a last or anything.
'I know, let's make a technology that is pretty much only useful to criminals illegal' - just FYI, they aren't going to follow the law.
O-9s are Vice Admirals/Lieutenant Generals. Three-star officers. O-10s are full Admirals and Generals. Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs, service heads, combatant commanders.

O-10s are almost all direct reports of the Secretary of Defense and skip-level reports of the President. Many O-9s are direct reports of an O-10 and skip-level reports of the Secretary of Defense.
Also got to see it live, agreed. Sat with my friend who gave a talk earlier about developing programming languages, and who was hoping for answers on how to get paid to do it. Funny how the talk ended.

I think I get the Clojure guy now.
I spotted the toxoplasmosis carrier! But seriously, don't tell the cats, this will only go to their heads
Unthinkable security lapse on Netanyahu's watch
I mean they aren't even bothering to go after opiate users in CA at least based on anecdotes I've heard. Maybe official decriminalization is a step too far for newsom.
Archive of Condiment Packets
I wonder when Varoufakis’ introduction of the word technofeudalist got into the techie vernacular.
And with sapling, a fork of Mercurial, it is network compatible with git so you can get around git and github's network effect
Lion's Mane, for one
https://archive.is/XCMgs
I installed it. It won't even boot up, it just crashes on load. It doesn't feel like a great start
Too many people here use the drive-by "downvote" as a means of expressing their disagreement. This comment is a perfectly rational and polite contribution to an on-topic intellectual discussion of retirement, yet has received a large number of downvotes.

People, if you disagree, that's fine, but make some kind of a (polite, rational) counterargument rather than abusing "downvote" to express your visceral disgust at becoming aware of an opinion that differs from your own.
Quite a bit further than 500 km; think 600 km (Amsterdam–Berlin) to 1000 km (Amsterdam–Wien). And that is leaving out the additional distance one might travel onwards or towards the night train's stations.
For the distances where night trains are feasible "a fraction of time" is not really true if you take into account the time costs associated with air travel:

* airports are usually far at the outskirts of a capital (45m travel there)

* you need to get to the airport 2h before to checking-in/passport control, etc.

* you need to wait to pick up your baggage (30m)

* travel into the city again (45m)

Not to mention the stress and high friction of every step of this journey, opposite to going to the main train station, which usually is pretty central, getting in the train, and sleeping the full night in a decent cot.
Looks interesting, worth giving a try! Gmail - idealpriyanshu
> If you were a parent, what rules would you set for screens?

> Turn the tables, suggests O’Malley, and let them think about an issue from another angle.

I'm finding it hard to take your interpretation on this one. Even the explanation calls it "turning the tables."

The word "rules" is enough to enforce the power dynamic. The subject of the sentence isn't "screen time," it's "rules."

The accusation of not reading the explanation is unwarranted.
This is the bill Newsom vetoed: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

The Legislative Counsel’s digest at the top is a very accessible summary of the bill. The meat of the summary being:

(1) Existing law categorizes certain drugs and other substances as controlled substances and prohibits various actions related to those substances, including their manufacture, transportation, sale, possession, and ingestion.

This bill would, on and after January 1, 2025, make lawful the possession, preparation, obtaining, or transportation of, specified quantities of psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), and mescaline, for personal use, as defined, by and with persons 21 years of age or older. The bill would provide penalties for possession of these substances on school grounds, or possession by, or transferring to, persons under 21 years of age.

The bill would require the California Health and Human Services Agency to convene a workgroup to study and make recommendations on the establishment of a framework governing the therapeutic use, including facilitated or supported use, of those substances. The bill would require that workgroup to send a report to the Legislature containing those recommendations on or before January 1, 2025.

Given that last paragraph about HHS coming up with guidelines, I’m skeptical of his reasoning. The rest of the bill looks well written as it was probably created by the nonpartisan Legislative Counsel, an office of the legislature.
2MB/s is glacial. Your computer is very fast, it should be able to print over 1GB/s without breaking a sweat.

Casey Muratori demonstrated this with his refterm project. It seems like a lot of interest in making fast terminals has followed from that.
There's a movie Beach Babes from Beyond (not great wouldn't recommend) with Stallone, Swayze, Travolta, and Sheen in it.

Unfortunately that's Jackie, Don, Joey,and Joe instead of Sylvester, Patrick, John, and Martin.

So it's no surefire thing.
Writing down unfiltered thoughts enhances self-knowledge
Public companies don't get "free money from the Fed" in any meaningful sense. The closest thing that has any bearing in reality is that money printing makes interest rates lower, which means they can borrow more with the same amount of money and raise money from investors easier.
Of course some people are more likely to fall for scams than others, it doesn’t mean that everyone who does is stupid and deserves it though
This has nothing to do with the center left versus the far left and everything to do with the fact that Gavin Newsom personally wants to run for president.
I have no idea who Zippia is, but according to them 1/3rd of software engineers in the US work at companies >10,000 people. And 2/3rds of software engineers work at companies still > 1,000 people.

So I'd argue, working at a small shop, while not rare, also isn't as predominant as you're portraying.

https://www.zippia.com/software-engineer-jobs/demographics/
How are they "only tacitly" acknowledging it? Looks like they have put in very tangible solutions in place already.

Debian 12 even made a dedicated non-free-firmware repo for free software purists who would like to concede having non-free drivers just so they can use their hardware.
Zen 4, AMD Ryzen 5 7640U, 4.9Ghz, Single Core GB6 Score @ 2340.

Apple A17 Pro, 3.8Ghz, Single Core GB6 Score @ 2914

I dont think asking for an 20% increase in IPC is too much at this point.
It’s the world’s 4th largest economy if it were a country.

Of course, in an oligarchy (which we are) that has a lot of pull.

The “shithole” state nonsense is just copium.
Go is your friend with whom you can talk about the weather and sports but the relationship is ultimately superficial and unsatisfying.
In the talk it’s short for getting Jeff Bezos’d, i.e., someone with deep pockets easily replicating what you’ve built on top of their own infrastructure (often cheaper for them because of that infrastructure) after you showed there was a market for it.
Email Steve Jobs sent to himself 1 year before his passing
>Is it that the CPU would be unable to effectively use all that bandwidth due to less parallelism compared with a GPU?

Yes. That is why you only see more memory channels for higher CPU count.
Git was using SHA1 as a cryptographically secure identifier right from the very first month of its existence. https://github.com/git/git/commit/65f0d0ee4627dd0f0468ceded3...
For those of you not familiar with California politics, this has nothing to do with him running for President. The Prison Guard union is one of the strongest in the state. They are against decriminalization because it means fewer inmates, which is bad for their union members.

This is 100% the doing of the Prison Guard union.
I'd bet you're running a "stacked" control plane and if you moved etcd off to its own machines you'd localize the churn to be that. Which, if correct, doesn't exactly refute your "kubernetes is power and memory hungry" claim but would more clearly distinguish why

I had high hopes back in my earlier days of them offering pluggable KV stores so folks could make tradeoffs if etcd doesn't align with their goals and risks but as best I can tell they've declared it a non-goal
Is there a reason .mailmap doesn't work in your case?

https://git-scm.com/docs/gitmailmap

>If the file .mailmap exists at the toplevel of the repository, or at the location pointed to by the mailmap.file or mailmap.blob configuration options (see git-config[1]), it is used to map author and committer names and email addresses to canonical real names and email addresses.
With many other non-copyleft alternatives shaping up, and systems like ChromeOS and Android, with the Linux kernel and completely unrelated userspace, I firmly believe when our generation is gone, Linux won't stay around on its present form for much longer.
It's not like 1 out of every 8 Americans live in California or anything.
Do We Need to Wear Noise-Canceling Headphones and Earbuds This Much?
Russia exports fuel which they take from the ground. China makes goods from things they import using western know-how and sell them back to the west.

Everybody needs fuel. Rich countries need iphones.

When you are isolated you can still pump oil. You can't make iphones.

These are polar opposites when it comes to dependency on the west.

> The reason is that no-one cares about Taiwan in the West, it is a pawn against China.

I wonder what would be your prediction about the West caring about Ukraine in 2021 :) If anything - even fewer people cared about it than about Taiwan. Yet here we are.

There's 2 things so called "realists" and "geopoliticians" consistently get wrong.

The first is that the only things that matter are economies, armies, nukes, and geography. These people couldn't predict USSR falling, because they thought every culture and every system is the same and values are cosmetic. Meanwhile people like Giedroyć proposed a strategy for Poland after "inevitable USSR collapse and creation of independent Ukraine and Belarus" in 60s already. Look it up - google for "Giedroyć doctrine" and "Kultura paryska".

The second thing "realists" consistently get wrong is assuming democracies are weak and fickle and authocracies are strong and resilient. It's an easy mistake to make, because democracies are transparent about their weaknesses and authocracies hide them. But that's exactly why it's a mistake.

Democracies are actually surprisingly bloodthirsty once you persuade people something is worth fighting for. Much easier to change the mind of the leader than to change the minds of millions of people. And all wars are ultimately about changing somebody's minds.
Stepping into this thread no one's really talking to that nuance of motivation though. It's all about underhanded motives. Which is concerning because a country won't function without some level of trust in it's leadership.
At EU there is a tax issue so you pay money + 23% VAT.

It isn't consider a gift as you a gaining something (access to page) so you need to pay tax on that.

This is one thing that bothers me with patronite and other platforms. I wish I could simply send a gift (without acces to anything) and not to pay another tax on already taxed money.
The PM2.5 not only gets in your lungs, it enters your bloodstream and gets everywhere including your brain. Peter Attia MD says there is no doubt it will shorten lifespan and healthspan.

>your wish isn't going to come to pass any time soon

It is coming to pass: for example, in the Bay Area, woodstoves and fireplaces have been banned in new construction since 2005.
And no liquid restrictions. They have special trays for the x-ray machines so you can bring in your coffee without spilling. And you can come back from France with a box of 12 wine bottles no problem.
They've shown off fan modules that fit underneath the usual 'pi hat' size, so it seems the answer is: no in terms of size. You'd still need cutouts for ventilation though.
It does, they wanted an automatic thing to happen. Imo, i would never want this by default. that complaint/warning has saved me a number of times, from breaking other things
Russia's MO - and the only thing they're good at - is information warfare. They don't care about the furry porn as long as it lets them propagandize the far-right in other countries.
It's not so obvious I think. Since you mentioned one extreme, lets look at both: staffed by monkeys, or staffed by psychopaths who might prioritize personal gain over American interests. That's not a recipe for a clear winner if we're eliminating nuance.
You're supposed to have to demonstrate harm to criminalize something, not demonstrate safety to legalize it. That's why other herbs and the shit they sell at GNC are so unregulated. The only difference here is their profit.
The luddites had a good point.