skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As somebody who has actually been using Sapling (because it provides a much saner UI and mental model than git), the git compatibility of Sapling is at best so-so. It feels more like a stopgap solution while they're evolving their own backend (which I'm pretty sure they use internally, because git just doesn't scale to FB monorepo size and doesn't support their rebase-on-push operation). LFS flat-out doesn't work with Sapling. Force pushing after an amend or rebase is still cumbersome, because you need to explicitly specify (again) the branch you are pushing to. And I'm not sure how bad the file descriptor problem still is that you have (had?) with large repos or submodules [1]; there was a new release recently, but I haven't actually stress-tested that.

[1] At least some of that may be due to file descriptor leaks: https://github.com/facebook/sapling/issues/464
Discovery/curation, monetization, and hosting all being separate would do a lot of good.
Internally, we use variants of our pipeline to index a variety of open source repos, and some non-blaze/bazel internal repos. Those are often non-Google repos. But we're using some internal postprocessing and serving logic to actually create and host the final index.

Unfortunately I don't know if there's any significant use of Kythe outside of Google. We get a handful of questions on the open source repo from time to time, but that's all I know about.
And instead you use what? And why is that better or worse in specific ways?
“Why don’t children leave the house?”

I did, until I was at a certain age (roughly early teenager).

Then, there were a bunch of news shows talking about men driving around in brown vans abducting kids. Or kids just smoking pot at the parks.

So I stopped being let to go there without adults. And that's about the time that we got a computer with a modem and I discovered online games...
That branding may be rough, if ScotsCoin enthusiasts harbor deep grudges against BritCoin.
With Google Maps I found a ferry on the Swedish lake Hjälmaren, between Vinön and Hampetorp.

https://sv-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Vin%C3%B6lede... says the route is 5km long and takes about 16 minutes.

Wikipedia says the lake is 483 km², while Lake Champlain is about 3x bigger at 1,331 km².

From Google Street View it seems the mainland is visible for nearly every direction.

Oh! I found another ferry, a car ferry from "Boheden, 956 93" to "Sandudden, 956 93 Överkalix", according to Google Maps. The lake Djupträsket is 8.68km² and the ferry is a few hundred meters.

And one between Sund and Jarenleden, on the lake Stora Le, 131 km² but it's narrow and the ferry is only about 600m.

Sweden has a LOT of lakes, and most of them are narrow. I assume they were made by glaciers? I found those two ferries by looking for two roads ending on opposite sides of a lake.
That's exactly what I like to do. Cycle around the neighborhood, look at people'e beautiful front yards. But kids can also bike or walk to school or visit their friends in walking/cycling distance.
> Apple's public discount program works like this, although who knows what secret deals they have.

They don't have any, we know because of Epic testimony.
not business but I'll give one from my own work in academia.

Do you change a requirement for a BS degree to only require 6 instead of 9 credits of research?

Upside - students might graduate faster (this is one of many constraints on graduation) which saves them money and time.

downsides - faculty may have less students to help with research (which helps faculty succeed via research productivity)

complicating - students might do the research anyways, they can still get credit it just doesn't officially count for anything.

context: the department is responsible to both...the actual impact of both the upside and downside are functionally impossible to predict because they are part of a broader complex partially social system that will anneal itself in ways you don't expect, metrics of success for students and faculty are important to everyone, albeit through different arms of an org chart which results in them each advocating for their metric at the expense of all others, because their success is partially evaluated on that metric.

solution (this is sarcasm): remove a math course as 'required' that most students get transfer credit for and have to have as a pre-requisite for other classes. Only effect is on the 2% of students who actually have to take the course.

result: everyone sees change, which they want, without perceiving a risk of harmful side effects, and with no actual change to the status quo.
I know people who express similar feelings. Usually it is shorthand for "I would prefer stacked diffs" or similar.

Two blog posts I've seen people point at:

* https://mitchellh.com/writing/github-changesets

* https://jg.gg/2018/09/29/stacked-diffs-versus-pull-requests/
PR rules the day, especially when you're VC-funded and have to maintain the charade of subject matter expertise. Although you'd think his Stanford Law professor father would have at least attempted to duct tape his son's mouth shut when it became clear he planned to testify.
Compare and contrast Satya's exact wording in his communications about mass job offers with that of his much savvier counterpart Marc Benioff (CEO of Salesforce).

https://x.com/8teAPi/status/1726983321329250666?s=20

Marc or his counsel very precisely worded the tweet to tiptoe around any risk of it being construed as workforce raiding. Satya did not take this precaution, presumably because Satya has never heard of workforce raiding and is acting increasingly recklessly, as he makes his way through this sleep-deprived weekend fueled by a blinding desire to capture all of OpenAI and win it all.
I just saw the headlines that Binance knowingly let ISIS, Hamas, Al Qaeda and Iran use their platform to launder money. Hot take: that doesn't seem great.
Kids 30 years ago wanted to endlessly watch TV, play video games, listen to tapes, and read books. 30 years before that, it was radio, TV, vinyl, and books. 30 years before that: radio, vinyl, and books.

Kids are curious and stimulation-receptive and motivated, and so they're going to chase easy sources of those things.

Parents, meanwhile, can either work to balance the easy sources with other sources that might enrich them in novel ways (like going outside or being bored), accepting that their kids may not buy into the idea, or they can defer to their child's sense and avoid tantrums and defiance.

It seems like kids turn into adults either way, but the choice is ultimately one being made by the parent, not by the availability of screens per se. The easy stimulation is omnipresent. That ship sailed about 100 years ago. As a parent caring for kids (and a person caring for yourself!) you ultimately have to figure out what you want to do about it.
Meta, Microsoft and Amazon team up on maps project to crack Apple-Google duopoly
Sure, and that corporation will either pay property taxes or be have the price cap on resale.
Interesting - this was actually a feature that got me to convert. I have some slight annoyances with how it handles natural pauses as I collect my thoughts and speak, but overall it's been great.

I've had some interesting discussions and it's helped me structure some thoughts by asking questions and follow-ups, then summarizing our conversation... all while I'm on a walk.

One fun thing I did with my family was have it do an interactive adventure story starring us. We had an adventure, and then used the built in DALL-E to generate images of scenes from our adventure.
I think there are three markets:

* Short-haul flights, which often compete with cars and trains. Those could be plausibly served by electric VTOLs. If the claims about noise levels are true, the terminal does not need to be much larger than a city block.

* Medium-haul flights, like discussed here. The aircraft need to be much faster than the VTOLs proposed so far. Conventional runways seem to be necessary for efficiency, but they could be shorter than today.

* Long-haul flights that need big planes and long runways.

Airports that need runways are problematic, because the economic value they provide is low. There are often other more valuable uses for the land. In big and even not-so-big cities, airports tend to move away from the city over time.

For example, Helsinki recently closed the Malmi general aviation airport, which was conveniently located ~10 km from the city center. The area surrounding the former airport is now being developed as a medium-density residential area for 25k people. The runways were not long enough for current regional aircraft, and the facilities and the transit connections could not handle a meaningful number of passengers. As the alternate use as a residential area was worth billions, the airport could no longer be justified.
This is literally what warrants and probable cause are for. Really shocking degree of impunity on display that he would have the balls to say this out loud, in public, on the record.
The difference is UX: Are you going to have your user work around poor prompting by giving examples with every request?

Instead of a UI that's "Describe what you want" you're going to have "Describe what you want and give me some examples because I can't guarantee reliable output otherwise"?

Part of LLMs becoming more than toy apps is the former winning out over the latter. Using techniques like chain of thought with carefully formed completions lets you avoid the awkward "my user is an unwilling prompt engineer" scenarios that pop up otherwise.
It's so easy that it's great for education. Want to teach somebody Linux? If they have a Chromebook, there's very little you have to go through to get a near-native Linux shell (you can even open ports!).
Pres. Obama explains the difference between Silicon Valley and the real world
"But the reason I say this is sometimes we get, I think, in the scientific community, the tech community, the entrepreneurial community, the sense of we just have to blow up the system, or create this parallel society and culture because government is inherently wrecked. No, it's not inherently wrecked; it's just government has to care for, for example, veterans who come home. That's not on your balance sheet, that's on our collective balance sheet, because we have a sacred duty to take care of those veterans. And that's hard and it's messy, and we're building up legacy systems that we can't just blow up."
I worked at a large telco, between prod and dev and test we had a couple of hundred oracle dbs running, plus probably that again in vendor supplied odd custom stuff.

DB Specialists were essential.

We also had an architect who was trying his best to keep track of everything, design the future and attempt to keep in all almost sane. It was a ginormous mess. Without him it would have been utter chaos.

The value of any given role depends on the org and context and situation
you have confused "tech company layoffs" with "tech worker layoffs"

Alot of Tech companies have been laying off alot of support staff in HR, Recruitment, Sales, and other business functions

and yes some Technical roles as well, but dont think because you see "Google Lays of X,000 employees" means they just laid off that many AI Researchers, programmers, etc...
Many foreign-currency ETFs exist. Euros, or yen, or dollars can function as currencies even though some people also view them as investments.

Commodities are similar. People might invest in pork bellies even if they don't personally eat bacon.
Show HN: Convert any design into HTML code using GPT4 vision
lol, yeah it's so unclear what they really *understand* at that age other than what color hotwheels car they get if they can write a for loop.
It's already posted to Unstable Diffusion discord so soon we'll know.

After all fine-tuning wouldn't take that long.
Profiles for the lazy: firefox -P --no-remote
Insertion is often at designated points to avoid cutting off a convo. So you'll hear them announce the break, then hear up to date and geolocated ads.
This is how I was raised. I’ll forever be thankful.
Indeed. G-code is a very well specified protocol.

It mostly just works.
Wow I just tried the app with voice and the quality is amazing. It felt creepy. It is not a person I was talking to but the response time and quality is so good and I can't help myself but think I am talking to a real person. It is eerie.

Edit: Based on the response time, I don't understand where the audio is being generated, is it local?
So since you are knowledgeable about the fact that this decision was "dumb", you must also know approximately what proportion of their users were dependent on hg for their workflow ? My priors would put it at less - likely far less - than 1%. But please share your knowledge.
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/il-supreme-court/2283090.h...
I knew the guy who wanted Google Code to be Mercurial based; he pretty much just did it because he liked Python and therefore thought anything written in Python was good.
I'm pro-gun ownership but European. To me you're especially right about that part

> It meant well trained and in good working order.

In WV, I've seen people who barely knew how to handle hunting rifles, handle semi-automatique rifles. It's terrifying. Any hunter in my country seeing people handle firearms like those two would've reported them to have their license revoked and firearms locked until further training. (not that hunting permit/license are a big thing in the area btw, I think a lot are hunting kinda illegaly, but well, the woods are shared, and some really need basic training. ).
Perhaps they ought to give GPT-4 a position on the future board. I have no doubt it would give better output than its current human counterparts.
Uber was on the cusp on a bunch of these (numbers pressure, fear/silence, big CEO, innovation, goodness atoning for evil). I think fear/silence tilting + strong governance forced Kalanick out and saved the company.

WeWork had every single one of these, and governance ultimately was too little too late to save the company.

AirBnb, Stripe had a few of these, but turned out OK.

It seems like the common variable that spares startups from ethical collapse is good board governance and having a reasonable / willing to evolve CEO.

FB is an interesting case, because they check most of these boxes (maybe not fear/silence?), yet are fairly "successful". Governance isn't the explanatory variable, since Zuck has 90% of voting shares. The explanatory variable seems to be Zuck's willingness to listen to and learn from a board and his execs.
/me sighs

The board has not been consistently candid in its communications with... anyone.
1. I hardly think the US is a paragon of economic hope. But I find it amusing that a (presumably) Canadian goes straight to compare the country to the US. Nothing ever gets done in Canada until the ritual comparison is done. Very provincial mindset, inherited from Canada's past status as colony.

2. The US has always had much large underclass which Canada, to its (partial [1]) credit does not. The bottom 10% in the US are much worse off than the bottom 10% in Canada.

3. At least 10% of the US population are illegal immigrants. The US syste
can hardly be blamed for having the poorest people in the world pouring in. (Though the system could be blamed for turning a blind eye to it, but that's another convo.)

4 The net wealth in Canada is a mirage. For most people its tied to unproductive, inflated assets - people's homes. Thats a very scary place to be as a society.

To its credit, Canada has a (lackluster to poor) public health care system, and caps university tuition. The US has (financially) the worst medical and education system in the world. Both countries' health care systems will not be fixed until they collapse.

But overall, Canada is only as secure and as stable as the US (which is not stable or secure right now). Paired with unique Canadian challenges, Im scared for Canada.

Actually, Im only scared for my siblings. I really don't care for Canada more than I do any other country.

[1] most of the credit goes to the UK for banning slavery much earlier than the US and not having a climate suitable for it.

Also, Canada gets no credit for having tundra and the richest country in the world as neighbors.
Convert Comments on deployments to Jira issues
The few times I turned it off I started getting fullscreen highjacking adverts: one was convincing enough that unless I knew to tap F11/esc I wouldn't have noticed.
Can't wait for the netflix movie
Sorry. Let me clarify. For simplicity's sake, consider this hypothetical:

You spend 1 terawatt hour of energy powering a datacenter to come up with a novel protein for a drug by simulating protein interactions.

Your competitor studies an already existing fungus, which may have expended that amount of energy over the combined lifetime of all of its ancestors to arrive at the same design, and gets the novel protein "for free."

One of you had to pay the energy cost, and the other didn't. The fungus is "free" and when it is destroyed, "it" -- that energy expenditure -- is lost forever.

It's not a ridiculous hypothetical because many such things (medicines, food, etc) come from living beings. Some from very obscure living beings. And some that are impossible to buy at any price, like living things that pollinate food, regulate the soil, stuff like that. Thermodynamically it doesn't matter if humanity goes extinct but I think we can do a little better than that!
Noted and agreed on R&D costs (especially failed candidates).

> there's just about 200k people diagnosed with some form of hemophilia of which only a fraction has the funds or the insurance to obtain that kind of treatment in the first place (both the current and the new one)

This was actually the crux of the discussion where I learned about the $50k figure. There are a lot of hemophiliacs in countries that spend, on average, just a few hundred dollars per capita each year on health care. Even if Hemgenix went royalty-free right away and no one ever turned a dollar of profit on it, gene-therapy cures are still inaccessible to the bulk of people the World Federation of Hemophilia represents.

$3.5 million would be like landing on the moon, and $0.05 million would be like a few orbits at ISS height, but they're both astronomical. They're equally out of reach for most people with severe hemophilia.
We failed when we killed Cybernetics and AI became part of Computer Science instead of the multidisciplinary field it actually is

Weiner was an outspoken socialist and was persecuted for it, to such an extent that Cybernetics got needled to death and AI became “simply a matter of computing.”

Hopefully we all see now how wrong that was
Yeah, suburbia is not the problem. I'd much rather live in suburbia than a city. But if you can't go outside on your own, that loses a lot of the benefit.
I had one chat with ChatGPT 3.5 where it would tell me the correct options (switches) to a command, and then a couple weeks later it is telling me this (in the same chat FWIW):

> As of my last knowledge update in September 2021, the XY framework did not have a --abc or --bca option in its default project generator.

Huh...
Which means self-hosted AIs is worse than Nazis kicking in your door, since any self-hosted AI can be modified by a non big-tech aligned user.

He is dehumanizing programmers that can stop their sole reign on the AI throne, by labeling them as Nazis. Especially FOSS AI which by definition can't be "aligned" to his interests.
> If you have businesses in the community it brings traffic and noise

Surely if there's a coffee shop within walking distance, it would reduce traffic as people don't have to drive to get coffee?
Also, the Earth can theoretically sustain a few more billions of humans if we become vegetarians (vegans?), but with our current population, we can't support everyone living like the average American. Americans also aren't impacted by the early degradation of the climate as much. There isn't incentive for Americans and other highly developed countries to greatly lower their own living standards, but it's either that or a culling.
you can also manually replace the with urlsafe codes
That's a well know problem for all of us that want to surf around Stockholm: the baltic sea us just too calm. You can go to Torö and hope for rhe best but in reality even with good wind, all you can do is wing or SUP foil, not even enough to try prone foiling...

(My comment may sound sarcastic but I am serious: the baltic sea has always seen other types of boats, both for leasure and commercial)
> The FBI themselves recommend using an adblocker to stay safe online https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221?=8324278624
Conflicts of interest abound in most major browser vendors. Firefox gets most of its funding from Google for defaulting the search engine to theirs. Apple gets a huge amount of revenue sharing from Google for doing the same in Safari, as was recently leaked. It’s perhaps a fabulous irony that Microsoft’s browser has the fewest conflicts of interest as very little of their revenue comes from Bing, and Google hasn’t been able to convince them to take a bribe.
Check the Reuters investigative pieces on CZ and Binance from 2022. They had plenty to fine him with before SBF's testimony.

I actually can't believe he didn't get jail time given the severity of what was uncovered.
"Settled" does not mean what you think it means.

There are good arguments that recent jurisprudence is not even justified from an Originalist perspective.

This is neither the time nor place, but your confidence is unfounded.
Ad blockers will limit Google Chrome starting ... err a decade ago.

Thanks for the all the fish.
I was going to use my authority as a front line tech in a past life but I'll just link to Wikipedia : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising
Your post reminded me of how teaching an elm (a functional language) workshop to novices was almost simpler than to professionals. The novice brain wasn't corrupted by imperative C thinking, of sorts.
Anyone doing anything cool with very large contexts?