skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still use Mercurial for personal projects! I do think it's superior to Git in many ways, and simpler than Git in many ways, but now i've got used to Git, i increasingly find myself getting stuck in Mercurial. For example, recently i included changes i didn't want in a commit, and found i had no good way out of the situation, whereas in Git i would just reset the branch to HEAD^ and try again.
The claims against Mother Theresa spread particularly by Christopher Hitchens among others are false:

https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/gcxpr5/saint_mo...
Currently have a desktop as my primary device with an AMD Ryzen 5600x. Never felt that I was pushing that system. Had a Macbook Air 2019 that was starting to feel sluggish.

Desktop was fine since I was working from home the last 2 years. But I’ve finally got an office and also need to travel so need something more portable

Will be switching over from Ubuntu to Mac as well
It was a very different educational reality back then.

High school education was not at all common until the 20th century.

That means most of Einstein’s contemporaries, the masses, would have had between a 50-80% chance of a haphazard middle school level education. [0]

Contrast this with his peers in the sciences who were extremely well educated and an early generation if not the first generation of globally-connected world-class minds and there is no ambiguity about what he is saying.

[0] https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED606970.pdf
TUQM is not actually a reimplementation, the source code and assets were legally made available by the original developers as they retained the rights. What they didn’t own was the name “Star Control”, hence the project using a different name.

Probably my favourite game ever, we owned the original with the map and manual.

I replayed it a couple of times as the TUQM, still loved it.

I tried replaying the original X-Com, but it had serious quality of life issues (squad members not remembering gear assignments between missions, no keyboard shortcuts during missions) so was just too tedious for me.

Apparently there is a reimplementation of the game out there which fixes these things, but at this point in my life my time is too limited.
I completely understand where you're coming from, and I agree that the appeal of fancy restaurants can wane over time. I've definitely been burned by the odd over-hyped spot or two. However, for me, a lot of these restaurants are like theater. They combine unique ingredients, creative preparations, exceptional service, and the chance to witness culinary professionals at the height of their profession. It's the immersive experience and the creativity behind the meal that keeps me drawn to them, even though I would probably prefer a cheaper, more familiar meal most nights.
Maybe for Twitter, its re-tweets continue until morale improves.
"Russia stages military-style propaganda parade on Norway's Svalbard archipelago - More than 50 vehicles, a helicopter and snowmobiles driven by men in military-like uniforms on the 9th of May paraded down the main street of Barentsburg." May 2023

Truly terrifying images:

https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2023/05/russia-st...
That's basically what I did the first year working with git.

Then I met a coworker that told me to stop doing this and come with him on a whiteboard to understand and solve the problem.

That was painful the first month, but after some months of that treatment I had a strong mental model of exactly what happened, and how to fix it.

I think overall the mental model is to

1) get knowledgeable enough to be able to actually draw the current graph of commits, branches and inheritance

2) clearly lay down the desired structure of the target graph

3) perform the steps necessary to transform the graph from 1) to 2).
https://archive.is/tKyS5
Robot vacuum (lidar ones can be found below $400 now!), cheap bidet ($30), and the bike I commute on ($600)
Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna rediscovered in Indonesia
I'm interested in this idea. I think I got confused at some point and mistakenly thought box blur was a 2D kernel and so it wouldn't perform great. vImage does contain a box blur but I haven't checked its performance (I did check the tent blur and it was so-so...) https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accelerate/blurrin...
I wanted to download and local LLMs on my Macbook, but discovered that I just didn't have the RAM for this. Moreover I couldn't upgrade to handle the new use case, I'd need a whole new Macbook. But the cost of that new machine would be absurd.

To be clear I have no problem paying the Apple tax, the computers are worth it. The problem is that Apple has optimized the Apple tax in such a way it makes local AI applications impossible, which is a shame because they have such the best architectures for that use case.
Prospect theory can explain this.

If you are precarious now, but expect or hope to be better off in future, you will delay having children. If you don't expect better prospects, then children are the best available investment in your future.
Richard Feynman would be disgusted. What an impertinent appropriation of his name.
I don’t think that word means what you think it means in the context it’s being used. In this case a moral judgment simply means with respect to ethics. One could morally judge something to be good, bad, or neutral.
If you're looking for a fairly cheap one, Lenovo *00e series has been good for me. EXCEPT for the 100e, that has a design flaw that makes it easy for pins to cross in the USB-C charging port, permanently bricking the device. So except for the 100e, that series is great.

Walmart's marketplace has a 500e listed for $92 right now, and it's also mostly compatible with all operatimg systems via Chrultrabook.
The article literally says Snap dropped 20 product managers...
yes, and even though the newish owner has not banned all things naughty that would get flagged at fbk or similar, they still have banned and removed profiles that had erotic content.

It's fine to do what they want, but it's become a slightly naughtier pg-13 - I guess nc-17. So those who want naughtier are going elsewhere, and no one knows for sure what is okay and what could be okay today and get your account removed tomorrow - so why put any content into it?
This is very much in line with the thinking and society of the time, and not shocked at all by this piece given it was written in 1914. I read it as "be a housewife, I bring the money".

Had this list been written in 2014 then yes, I'd be more than shocked. But for the time, I read it as a pretty standard thing.

You would be surprised by how many "heroes" in the early 20th century were onboard with e.g. eugenics. You know, one of the key points of the third reich.
Yeah, automotive and insurance both are regular layoff industries. This is also a relatively small layoff, not like the huge "interest rates so the sky is falling" stuff we saw previously.
Fascinating, thanks for the detail. It’s pretty cool that there are viable digital downgrade paths. Thanks!
Classy?

Let's just take the responsibility of yourself and transfer it to some magic place called 'someone else's problem' and you get the shit we have today.
On a Friday afternoon after a very long week, this gave me a really nice chuckle to end the week on. Thanks!
> but they also don't revolt

There were numerous protests, and they all were suppressed.

> With the russian military bogged down in Ukraine seems like the right time to throw one.

An uprising is not a likely event in a highly atomized society where no one trusts anyone. And Russians were trained to distrust anyone but themselves and their immediate family for at least a century.

Plus, there are plenty of siloviki working on internal affairs, protecting the regime. Witch hunts are all-high since '30s there.
Totally, it seems like every tech thing I’ve gotten to in the last 12 years or so - Drupal, Ansible, rpi, a few other things I can’t think of right now - geerlingguy was there a few years before I found it.
This sentence does not inform my guess at all.
I think its fanboi fever-ism that people find offensive which is not unlike religious beliefs about whose imaginary deities are better.
> In the US if a package is not left at the door you either have to wait an unknowable amount of time for another attempt

It's not unknowable; FedEx and UPS at least will reattempt delivery every day for a certain number of days before giving up. At least that's the case in urban and suburban environments. Maybe you live somewhere rural where their policy is less clear?

> It's difficult to figure out exactly where the facilities are

No it's not. The tag they leave behind will often tell you, or you can enter the tracking number online and it'll tell you there. And usually it's the same place every time, so once you figure it out, you're good for future packages.

> and you're not guaranteed the package won't still be on the original truck or on a new one

This is the annoying thing. It's never clear when the package will actually get back to the facility (after they failed to deliver it to you), so you don't actually know if it'll be there when you show up. Many many years ago it was a simple matter of giving them a call, but nowadays you end up in customer support / phone menu hell, and it's incredibly difficult to talk to someone who is actually physically present at the facility.

> The main reason we are cool with deliveries being left on the porch isn't that we trust our neighbors, it's that the alternative is so much worse.

I'm absolutely not cool with this. I trust my neighbors just fine, but I don't trust all the random people who might be walking around, specifically looking for packages to steal.

I'd much rather have to drive over to a facility to pick up the package, or just wait until the next day for another delivery attempt, but most delivery drivers don't give me that choice.

If the package does get stolen (incredibly likely, if it's left outside), I'll usually have to wait several days for the merchant to ship a new one (because they figure it's possible it wasn't stolen, and want me to wait and see if it still gets delivered in a day or two). And then I have to wait for another shipping-time cycle.
Or ya know, you could just look at the violations that already happened. Like were you not around for the bullshit Verizon tethering plan? It was one of the reasons I rooted my phone.

https://www.freepress.net/blog/net-neutrality-violations-bri...
With interest rates and prices high, Americans stop buying property
I've seen reviews of the M2 and M3 chips, they're not too much better than the M1 it seems, even MKBHD on YouTube concluded the same and stuck with his M1, so that's what I'd recommend as well. If you're looking for deals, /r/appleswap has some good ones.
I was always under the impression the significant majority of PMs of companies like that were either also software engineers themselves or at least knew enough about it to capably pretend to be one on a good day. Is that not the case?
I really disagree here: I'm a maintainer of a medium sized open source Rust project [1] and I'm always surprised by Rust compilation time speed (local). On a MacBook Pro, it's a matter of seconds, in debug. Release compilation and CI/CD are slower, but, since the beginning of my Rust journey (2 years ago), Rust compilation seems just very fa...

To balance / explain my point:

- my day work is Java / Kotlin with Gradle. Now, we can talk about glacial compilation times

- on my open source Rust project, we try to minimise dependencies, don't use macros (apart derive[Debug, Clone] etc...), and have a very moderate generics usage

If you take the time to `cargo build` my project, I'll be happy to have feedbacks on compilation times

[1]: https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl
On the contrary, they generally teach people to be an entirely different kind of cringe.
It’s all pretty much the same right now. But I’m also posting in a bad mood so it’s likely
my fault. Economic turmoils. One day thing will turn around but for now, it’s a minefield no matter where you are
That's Stockholm Syndrome :tears:
Individual hosts decide. Same as how I can no longer visit httpS://chase.com on my ancient PC that doesn't support HTTPS, let alone a modern web renderer. Chase has left it behind.

ISPs also decide; they turn off their cgnats and start handing out /48s etc, at the latest when the cost of leasing /32s addresses exceeds the cost of being incompatible with a tiny few straggling hosts.
Only 750W?

That's as much heat as some electric stovetops produce.
James Webb telescope, but yes, I was confused by the title too
First time I used a bidet was when I started at Google. They have some bidet stalls in their bathrooms, some fancy Japanese ones too.

I was nervous about a hard stream of water going up there, not knowing how cold or hot it would be, but it was a life changer.

First thing in at a new house for me is $50 bidet.
Perhaps just as usefully, calling it idiocy is not how you are going to change things. What could change things?

- "There should be a law" (1) really never solves anything, (2) pushes stuff in the next jurisdiction.
See attempts at killing generally available cryptography and Cypherpunks. Genuine success by the techies there. Law / policy is insufficient by itself.

- Social media does get people thinking. A little. "The press should..." yeah maybe but the press doesn't so we do what we can.

- Scifi authors write scifi. It's what they do. And essays sell sci-fi. And their essays are broadly commented on: THEY have a voice. Not going to change.

- Outfunding the good while dis-incentivizing the bad might work: This is a field with massive ongoing progress that people are legitimately proud of. If these (many but finite number of) people can work "in the right direction", then they work less "in the wrong direction". Government funding might be the rare thing that can outspend advertising funding. Still, many people will chase AI work directly out of the large military budgets, in many countries with varied political systems. Meaning lots of people working in these directions no matter what. Meaning lots of spillovers from that no matter what else.

- Having the better AIs beat up the worse AIs? Hmmm, I don't want to be caught in the middle of this. Actually this is a field for sci-fi authors to plow some effort into. And for AI game theorists? What does this look like?

- Having the better AI fields be massively more profitable than the "bad" - so that the talented hopeful head in these directions more readily? Currently advertising AI and medical AI might be the highest profit potential, with military close in there? Self-driving AI probably pays well already now. But most of these run "general AI" labs in the name of "progress is progress".

- More money into "AI ethics"? So far the results are underwhelming but not a reason to stop.

Other practical suggestions?
An excellent talk (I seem to remember it being 10 billion - two boxes next to each other, stacked five high)

great communicator of complex ideas simply
Nothing in your link suggests that it extends beyond independent contractors.
Rebasing isn't that hard, but you also spent 8 paragraphs explaining it. Explaining merging just takes one paragraph: Copy all the changes from the main branch into my branch, if someone changed the same line that I changed, then create a merge conflict and manually figure out which change is right.
People are overthinking this from a competitive perspective. Create something that isn't easy to replicate - there are several ways to do that, but it's the only rule required from a competitive perspective.
You should look into how Futurism, the cultural movement, preceded fascism.

Our era may seem frustrating. I guarantee that accelerating the causes of pain does not lessen the pain. Giving the reins to strongmen, to technology-enriched businessmen, to impersonal processes of capital investment and profit - there is no chance we end up anywhere good. I would rather not go through another World War to prove this idea wrong again.

https://www.wired.com/story/italy-futurist-movement-techno-u...
Exactly. It almost feels like a non problem. You only have this problem when your restaurant is in such high demand that it’s worthwhile to be targeted by bots. If your restaurant is in such high demand, you have several tools at your disposal and the wherewithal to police reservations much more than some other less in demand restaurant. But those less in demand restaurants will never have this problem in the first place. And like you said, if you’re that in demand, you can afford to lose a few customers
"With great power comes great responsibility"

That's version control. You have every choice from straight forward to mind-blowingly time-manipulatingly complex. If you fear the unknown, then just do the out of the box stuff via a GUI like Sourcetree. If you're willing to sweat, then use Sourcetree but sometimes `git rebase HEAD~3` and rewrite history.

And there's no shame in adding a `Fix: Change var to int` to be written into the annals of history forever. Don't worry about it.
Based on your suggestion of the two spy thrillers, both of which I loved, I'm gonna watch "The Sandbaggers," which I'd never heard of till you mentioned it.

One more reason HN rules.
Git won because of Github and not much else.

Git was conceived to manage the Linux source tree, which is a problem in a class of its own. Fully decentralized source management requires an extremely flexible system, which conversely precludes any kind of implicit workflow. While this goes against previous SCM (svn, etc.) it also leaves a serious void for regular organizations that just need to keep doing centralized, trunk-based development. Github provides that missing layer in a friendly, accessible manner.

Ironically, by normalizing its usage, Github takes away a lot of the justification for git itself. You could achieve the same model with mercurial, bazaar, etc. which also have the advantage of a sane CLI.
Ask HN: Is ChatGPT not allowed to browse Reddit?
I just noticed that ChatGPT is reluctant to access any Reddit information.

It shows the Bing integration browsing "site:reddit.com r/BuyItForLife best backpacks" but then comes back saying: "I encountered difficulties accessing specific discussions or recommendations for backpacks on r/BuyItForLife via the browsing tool. The dynamic and user-generated content on Reddit can sometimes be challenging to navigate using external tools."

https://chat.openai.com/share/b8be6b2c-32e9-4301-b349-6a5574c3c865

Is this related to the introduction of the paid Reddit API?
You should call it out. It helps to hear differing opinions.

I'm a bit of a global warming pessimist. I don't think humanity is equipped to turn things around and that we are looking at significant changes, far more than anybody is willing to admit to in the media.

If I were a tech billionaire, I would be designing a sustainable, self contained, hermetically sealed, box you can fit a village of people into. A box of forest and tech that can feed and sustain my family and friends. I like it imagine a utopian medieval village were people are tradespeople and farmers by day, and write code at night.

It doesn't need to be in space, the earth will look like Mars soon enough.

Now that I think about it, I wonder if the Saudis are building with
"The Line"
It's a federal case.

SF's system is almost intentionally designed to breed corruption. The reason is that elected officials are aligned with "community organizations" which are just extortion outfits, but favored ones, like MAC or TODCO. SF's policies direct the flow of bribes into these organizations, who if left un-bribed will sue to stop your project, and the groups in turn kick part of the money back into campaigns.
With luck they were devs before but it's all but a given.
Dystopian cyberpunk worlds are usually described as hollowed out by corporations or a similar power structures to the point that it's every person for themselves. Some people have the resources to fight back, but most do not. That's what makes them dystopias in my opinion, that if you are not part of the privileged class there is no opportunity to change anything about your situation.
> "apply a commit on another branch". What does that actually mean?

Calculate the difference between the commit and its parent, and repeat that change against another branch.

So, like git log of your work over 10 days, git show each commit individually, then apply each patch that generates against the latest code.
Every place is expensive if you go for a few days as a tourist. SF is definitely more expensive. I lived in Vegas as a regular dweller, near the Mantis in downtown, for a few months, nothing particularly expensive there. To the contrary, you get free live concerts every day and basically free marijuana - just inhale the air around you!
With respect, I think your take on this particular matter sounds awful.

Negotiation and persuasion are very important parts of being a wise leader in technical and creative fields, but it sounds like OP followed exactly what you advocated to no effect.

None of us were in the room with OP and know both sides of the story, but it sounds like he gave them 2 months of the very kind persuasion and negotiation that you're advocating, and the employees persisted as willfully insubordinate and not following the processes that their boss wanted to enact.

Do you keep negotiating for another 2 months? 2 years? Or do you have to make a choice at some point that people aren't even attempting to try and learn the processes you were hired to implement?
People who can’t code don’t get promoted to PMs or any sort of engineering manager because it’s too easy to lie

Eventually they all forget how to to (I did too) so that’s why it’s important to stay hands-on
Yeah. Norway has insane hydroelectric resources thanks to the glaciers (the fjords), so the irony is that they don't even use oil to power the country.
I have to disagree with #4. If your branch's commit history is unnecessarily fragmented because it evolved as you worked, then yes, squash those commits - but "one commit per feature" as a rule doesn't work for many kinds of features which by their nature can be made only so "tight and focused". Sometimes it's an undue burden to have to view a feature's patch as a single diff, even if the feature is functionally as atomic as it can get.
It's astonishing to me how resistant Hollywood is to just offering their products at reasonable prices and conveniently. We had a brief stint of it over the pandemic and now it seems they've forgotten it all, are determined to make all their bespoke streaming services as expensive if not moreso than cable, and work advertisements in for additional profits.

Like how did the MBA class become so deathly allergic to the simplest business model of all: Make a thing, and sell the thing?
If you liked "Devs" a lot, I believe you will like "Halt and Catch Fire."
No True Scotsmen would be so dumb as to let his cloned dinosaurs escape!
> Median housing was smaller 50 years ago and people had more kids then.

Adjusting for inflation and the average household income, do you think things, in general, were way cheaper 50 years ago, or way _way_ cheaper? By trying to argue against my 1 bedroom apartment portion of my comment, I almost feel like you've bolstered the rest of it.

> Poor people have smaller houses than rich people yet have more kids.

Are we accounting for other factors like are poor people typically using (or even have belief systems that allow for the use of) contraception? Do poor people, speaking potentially overly broadly, tend to plan their financial arrangements as cautiously as people that are more well off? I've been well off, and I've been homeless, and I can personally tell you that I never thought more about planning for retirement as I did once I started having a disposable income.