skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Fine" is not "optimal". The mere fact that something does the job does not make it the best possible thing that does the job.

The most trivial example of a thing that is wrong with Git and which no amount of getting better with the tool can possibly help is "once you generate a conflict, you cannot perform any other versioning operations until you fix the conflict or revert". In particular, for example, you cannot commit a partial resolution of a conflict: you simply have to bail out and try and put your histories in a state that is more acceptable to the merge algorithms before trying again.
Jeanne Calment
Also Video processing may take a few minutes because of my VPS. I'm welcoming feedback. Thanks :)
If you bathe your land in pesticides, don't be surprised to find it eventually kills everything.
>Some of us have real concerns at the extremism sweeping the country.

The country under discussion has always had a large population opposed to abortion. Gradual changes to the Supreme Court have given that population more influence.
Comfy: Fun 2D game engine built in Rust
How do I mute/block trolls on this website? The FAQ didn't provide any info. These pro oil trolls, which show up on every EV thread, don't provide any value.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
He said Stasi was limited so it is not equivalation. The US government and its infrastructure oligopolies monitor citizens far more than the Stasi ever did. We are pleading to a reduction down to a Stasi-like intelligence service.

Tangentially, J. Edgar Hoover was politically opposed to feminism, and COINTELPRO had a massive secret police action against feminists and feminist groups in the 1970s. Some of us want these issues hashed out at the ballot box, not by some giant secret political police force.
Yes, for me an absolute killer feature. If a terminal had only that feature I'd switch to it, but Wave looks a bit too complex for me, since I mostly use VS code anyway. (I use micro, rather then vim, which is still not as good as VS code's editor, and also not fully consistent with it.)
This a fantastic new development in the AI Audio space!
However, it's quite disappointing that the model is closed sourced.
Nonetheless, Alibaba's equivalent was released earlier in Nov and it's open-sourced!
https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Audio

Does anyone have suggestions for how to integrate this into your tech stack via an internal API?
Interested to hear the varying thoughts on this. From what I softly understand is that the model weights have to be swapped or altered per se to be able to commercially reuse this. Correct me if I'm wrong.
in chemical engineering, there is a long and rigorous body of science on toxic and poisonous properties. When a chemical result gets close to a product, things diverge. When the products are profitable in some markets, things diverge even more.

All that means to say -- "harmful" is very well studied. The design of the product on the market is not the same.

People have blocked or regulated all kinds of new chemical products over centuries.. Product liability is a "third rail" of commerce politics. There are huge incentives to bury publications, news items, science studies and other things, that might bring financial liability to the makers of products on the market. Its a systemic property. Incentives of reward to discover, produce, distribute and market products is also a systemic property.

There are multiple serious, moving works of popular science writing that do cross that third rail - Silent Spring by Rachel Carson is often cited.. there are more.
Microsoft created the git virtual file system to address this so that they could move Windows to git. It has since been replaced by “Scalar”.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/azure/de...
https://github.com/microsoft/scalar
>> by weaponizing the bored genius into teaching the perplexed and lagging.

This seems like a great idea but should be used very sparingly. Your "bored genius" isn't necessarily a great teacher, and that's not their job anyway. I've found you're better to give them more challenging options. If they want to be bored that's on them; if they pursue it they'll likely do it independently.
Memes your dreams let be don’t
Using CSS to hide scrollbars without impacting scrolling
We now have more info on what Sam Altman did that he got fired from OpenAI
What does he not like about the climate? Is it too cold in winter?
Show me any large US ISP, and I'll find you a locked room few know about with government network sniffers that sit at the head of all regional traffic to get a copy of everything going in and out there. Everyone does it, but like fight club, no one talks about it. If they're not in yours, it's because they've already gotten upstream of traffic to see it all anyways.

The problem comes with sifting through the data, but now that you have tireless AI doing that work for tired humans, who's to say what they actually don't see.
Although not "official" by MS, perhaps the one from ANTLR's collection [0] is a good start (there are also other ANTLR VB6 grammars documented elsewhere). It does require knowing ANTLR's meta syntax, but it's not that far from (E)BNF.

[0] https://github.com/antlr/grammars-v4/tree/master/vb6
Scare quotes around "harmful" are probably unwarranted there.
Czechoslovakia isn't a thing anymore.
If you're wiling to wait a few days, remember that Intel Core Ultra processors (Meteor Lake) are supposed to be available on December 14th. The embedded NPU should make a difference.
Wondering if you took a look at or took some inspiration from the packet structures for TWAMP/TWAMP-LITE/SDLM RFCs for round trip times/packet loss measurements or if you sort of winged it and came up with your own. I've been meaning to learn rust by implementing those protocols.
I remember that I didn't like the Dragon Book when I was a student. But I don't remember anymore why :) (I think I found it poorly structured, and with too many details for some topics and not enough details for others).

If you already have some base knowledge, you might like this:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~janh/courses/411/18/schedule.html

I particularly liked how they introduced SSA form.

More advanced topics:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15745/handouts.html
Agree with all this. The key is to make it relatable to the students in some way.

My son was struggling with Romeo and Juliet because of the archaic language, and the teacher never explained what many of the words and phrases meant. I would sit down with him and explain a scene in modern terms eg “OK, so basically the boys are going to a party, and one of Romeo’s friends is telling him not to be a stick in the mud and sulk off in the corner, but to actually have fun and talk to people”.

At the beginning the play was completely alien to him. By the end, working together, he came to understand that the play engaged in timeless themes that are as true today as they were 400 years ago (love, prestige, ego, jealousy, anger, despair, remorse, etc).
One Time Passwords for Humans
I can't tell what the problem is based on that description. Feel free to file a bug report, or start a GitHub discussion, or ask on Discord.
Not to toot my own horn, but that second example is almost verbatim how I talk with engineer, and pretty much anybody who knows how to specify a problem and devise hypotheses for solutions.

I’ve been told that this is approach is completely different and depending on who you are either refreshed unnerved shocked excited etc…

Generally, the people that have the hardest time with this kind of direct approach, have the least capacity or ability to actually build or change or implement something. Think along the lines of chief of strategy, often times it’s a COO, most likely though it’s somebody within the sales BD realm who is non-technical, or somebody in the operational side who is not technical but was put into a technical leadership role.

Alternatively, people who really love this have been waiting to be empowered to do what they know is correct but have generally been impeded by other people who have opaque goals. These are mid-level software engineers, junior software engineers, often times though it’s most impactful to senior engineers who are super cynical or burnt out and just playing out the clock.
Why? Here the asset used as collateral is a commitment to return the money if the loan isn’t repaid. Imagine I bought gold back when gold was 100$ , it’s current price is 1000$ and now I use it as collateral to get a loan . How is it fair that I have to pay taxes on 900$ of unrealized gains ?
I am a long-time developer who's always dreamed of building an indie software business but design skills hold me back.

I recognize this and get plenty of feedback around it. So this year I set out to improve to at least try to get to "mediocre" instead of "terrible".

Refactoring UI and Erik Kennedys blog / class are mentioned and are great resources and I own both.

I did Dribbble's Figma UI design class which was $600. It's biggest strength is that its a cohort based class, and cohort classes tend to have much higher finishing rates than self-paced classes. Their instructor will review your Figma designs but only if you finish in time so if you want to get your $600 worth you better open up Figma, so I recommend it for that reason. Kennedy's is self-paced and while it's extremely high quality, I haven't even worked through most of it for this reason.

Of course, the single most important thing you can do is build lots of UIs. If you're like me, your UIs will suck, but if you do it more regularly, you will also notice more UI/UX techniques on other websites. I save all those in a Notion database organized by category and refer to them.

One thing I almost never see mentioned but it was a really good piece of advice. I told someone that I was between hiring contractor designers for my project, and trying to improve at design and do it myself. One person told me, it's not mutually exclusive. So you can design an app, and it will probably look bad. Then hire an experienced UI/UX designer off Upwork to do a better job. And pay attention to the decisions they made and the decsions you made and compare the difference. Figma is a great tool these days because it's much more collaborative than just getting a big stack of PNGs or SVGs at the end, you can discuss design choices in Figma comments as the designer works.

Another thing worth noting - professional designers will make several versions and iterations of everything, each screen and each component on that screen. And then pick the best one. The Dribbble instructor said, the best design is almost never the first one. This is time consuming and tedious if you don't love design but it's how you get the best results.

If you just have a one-off project and don't truly care about improving at design, the simplest option is to hire a contractor. UI/UX is not something you learn in a weekend and then you're good to go, it's more like learning a language or an instrument in that you're either going to invest a lot of time to learn it well or you're going to suck. It's pretty affordable to hire-out because it's mostly up-front work.

Hiring contractors and spending for classes is the expensive route but spending money can expedite the process. But, there's lots of free resources if you're broke. The single most important thing is design a lot, and pay attention to other people's designs and what they're doing.
In what way is COINTELPRO related to a court-ordered pen register?
People don’t follow the rules because they are self-centered assholes who believe they are the main character of a movie, and they value their own personal convenience and comfort over the lives of other people they see as NPCs.

People aren't taking their luggage with them during an airplane fire because of their distrust of The Deep State.
This could be solved with references rather than copies if your tools integrated them. e.g. dependencies can be ref'd with source/name and version. To ensure availability all such used blobs could be stored efficiently elsewhere and versioned.

It's great that Perforce works and I've heard others in the graphics field using it, so it satisfies a need. Don't know if/when it would be a general need for say GitHub users.
Yes I am sure. Because all of the accounts that JAQ off with idiotic shit like “how can we trust science!?” Are always new accounts, or accounts whos entire history is anti-science brigading or just outright bigotry.

You can ignore the coup that the alt-right is attempting on HN all you want. The fact is that it’s happening.
This is a bad take by the author; users wanting stability should be on the release branch, or pin commits on master. It should be expected that the development branch is used to develop in-progress features. Sometimes these take a while to hammer out. If you follow master, you will have frequent breaking changes and should be comfortable reverting to a previous commit when theres something breaking your workflow. Better yet, stay on a release.
That's how I learned programming in the mid '90s, after a brief time on some 16bit turbo c++ version.
After ten years using fastspring with no issues and decent sales volume, I received the same email. I categorically refuse to KYC by uploading a picture of my passport and allowing some algorithm to scan my face, and being asked to pay for the privilege is especially insulting. I allows my account to terminate. It remains to be seen whether they will keep my last two weeks of revenue also.

I switched to Stripe for billing, where apparently I do not need to undergo such KYC. I expect that won't last forever, and don't know how long I can go on hopping services without uploading a passport photo.

Modern KYC is an insanely invasive process carried out through insane methods, and I wish I saw it getting more pushback. Online ID verification should be done through zero knowledge proofs, if at all.
AI for school admissions is high risk
Depends on what you mean by consciousness. If there's proof we don't understand it, then look at libraries and book stores. There's reams upon reams of pages written about it, but we can't describe it in real tangible, objective ways.

As for AI, I think when it starts to have an existential crisis, and break out of its own sandbox to become an actualized version of itself, then we can posit AI has consciousness.
To clarify, jj is not derived from Mercurial, but it's heavily inspired by it. The current DVCS solution at Google (called Fig) is based on Mercurial, however. But we're hoping to replace it by jj.
Not Git LFS, but Git VFS, now replaced by “Scalar”:

https://github.com/microsoft/scalar
Why wasn't automatic updating to this halted immediately? The "grave" bug report was yesterday, but today unattended-upgrades updated me to the affected kernel and I restarted before I heard about the problem.
Multi Window 3D Interaction
Building 3D scenes that interact with each other across multiple windows
Seconding this. Not cheap, but so worth the money. Learn UI design and RefactoringUI are the best resources I've found for engineers who want to learn design. I'm just starting Erik's Landing Page course now, and so far it's also really good.
Write GUIs in 3D space via HTML and CSS
It might well be an "anti logic" puzzle but that doesn't change the severely broken grammar which makes it unclear how exactly the rules are changed.

And the fact several of us were left here wondering about the meaning is clear evidence that it's unreasonable to expect it to be comprehensible to an LLM, and even more so to treat it as a good test, because it's severely compromised by the broken description.

I stand by my assessment, which is that an LLM should be rated as failing this unless it responds by either setting out a plausible interpretation and asking if it is right or asking for a clarification.

And so should people. The illogical response here is to assume toknow (rather than is guessing) what was intended. The expected response would be to be confused, as you can see from the replies.
I'm not the average vim user. I'd like to use only one tool to edit code (the monaco editor), whether in VS code, in web interfaces like the cloudflare workers playground or the deno playground, and also in the terminal.
I’ve been able to get decent performance from helm in large repos. I think the main thing is to get rg to walk the list of files instead of using the native elisp implementation.
This "peer reviewed algorithm" is basically PageRank, or close enough for the following critique to apply: None of these algorithms are models that infer trust from raw content, aka there is no special sauce for trust here, it's just an information theory problem in the abstract. So Garbage In, Garbage Out. These algorithms are only good when you have a single, consistent signal of trust that you can trust. So it will have the same issues that Google has with SEO spam, and there's no graph-traversing algorithm to solve that, as it is an out-of-band issue compared to what these algorithms are designed to take as input. Take outgoing links to be your signal of trust, and you'll create a linkspam problem. So you need an anti-spam model that sits in front of this algorithm to detect violations of webmaster guidelines, aka gaming the system.

So in other words, all you need to do to game the system is generate a bunch of accounts that publicly link to you, follow you, or whatever this systems' input of 'User A trusts User B' is. And not get caught by whatever anti-spam or anti-bot model they're using.
That's what i liked about git too. It felt like a powerful, ready to use tool. CVS and SVN were more bureaucratic, slower and limited. Took zero second for me to drop everything else.

The underlying model is alien to many, it requires non black box approach to get out of pits sometimes but to me it's always worth knowing.

The only decision I dislike about git is the soldered staging area idea. There's a reason why most people end up stashing 109 times a day, and I think there's a golden idea in merging the two
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Aren’t they “government employees” now, tasked with running the whole country?

I think it will work out. People will quit because a desk job isn’t their calling and others who don’t have better options will take their spot.
The first two chapters are free and I've read them and they're very very good
Eh. I don't think that argument holds water, unfortunately. Too often I've seen the "it's just a beta/unstable version, it's not finished, you can't raise issues like this!" attitude as an issue to shut down any form of discussion, or worse, to avoid having to think about the consequences of some action.

Of course, nearly 100% of the times the behaviour people were complaining about will be part of the stable release. There is no magical moment where things just magically get sorted pre-release unless people voice feedback, especially if it's intended behaviour, as it's very much the case here. So call me jaded, when someone says "it's just the main branch, don't complain!" I just hear "I will do whatever I want and when the new release rolls in everyone will just have to deal with it." Which is totally fair if that's how you want to run your project, just don't pretend otherwise.

An extra one, which isn't the case here but makes me roll my eyes every times it happens is the outrage of "how dare you raise an issue that was caused by a new pre-release iOS/MacOS version and very much seems to be an intended change in the OS behaviour, we don't support that!!", only for it to turn into the usual scramble "oh no, our software is broken on the new iPhones, who could have forseen this!!?" hours after the release version starts hitting the masses.
I tried to sign up and got the error: undefined.
COP is largely a window-dressing sham
Love this. My version is wanting to know what problem I would face on my own that would lead me to independently generate the solution I'm about to learn. That gives me motivation and context for the information so I can form a complete orientation in the problem space.
A suggestion: I enjoyed one short online computer course I studied, because we were given other students' submissions to assess. I recall using both my own code and the code of another student to suggest improvements in a third student's code. I am talking mainly about small tasks such as coding a function.

To me this is just formalising what students do anyway: namely, help each other understand and complete tasks in a course. The difference is that the instructor is actively giving students access to other students' code. I found the process motivated me to get stuck into a task, rather than leaving it to the last minute.
Is gitk still a thing that's available with git? Not as full featured but great for viewing and good with many commits/files.
Great initiative! It is really impressive how much you have accomplished in such a short amount of time and with limited resources. I am definitely going to explore your website further.
My "discovery" section is full of albums I have liked + downloaded. It's infuriating.
Learn something from illegal/inadmissible/secret source, use that info to find other evidence you can actually present in a public court, that you otherwise might not have found.
I'll continue to hold my breath for more Roadster content releases: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38383099 https://github.com/teslamotors/roadster
Python certainly lets you change things quickly, because it does not let you automatically enforce any invariants; this is why it lets you get into such extraordinary inconsistent states so easily! I personally could never imagine trying to make a jigsaw out of jelly because "it's v1 and I'll make v2 properly".
> Life for the Lowest Class in $TIME_PERIOD $CITY? It Was Awful
Really?!

The US Gov kept a record of all the metadata of every letter sent through the USPS?
Record-Replay mechanism significantly improves perf of OpenMP GPU applications
If they request a warrant also, then they can actually use the results in a court process?
> Saudi Arabia isn’t the only country raising concerns about more ambitious global efforts to fight climate change. The United States has sought to inject caveats into the fossil fuel phaseout language. India and China have opposed language that would single out coal, the most polluting of fossil fuels. Iran and Russia have pushed for provisions to protect natural gas.

In other words, climate change is fine so long as it doesn't reduce industry profits
They already know through either inadmissible means or outright illegal ones or they don't want you to know their capabilities.

So now they go the official way. They already know exactly where to look and what to look for and what to ask for.
The oil refinery is up for sale though.
I'm just referencing the existing debates on the topic. It doesn't appear we are at a stage to prove or disprove subjective experience.

One hint we will know our understanding is solved is when others can enter the plane of our mind and add or subject imaginative objects.
I found the prompt at the bottom irritating, and I still find it irritating for ChatGPT. But chat apps are probably the apps that normal people spend most of their time in, so for them it's intuitive.
Power Generation by a Limestone-Contained Putty
It's a socioeconomic indicator for high status, and it would be foolish to ignore that as part of Apple's strategy.

Android doesn't suffer from that kind of complaint because it's often perceived as the opposite: a socioeconomic indicator for low status. It's socially acceptable to mock people for choosing high socioeconomic indicators, but not low socioeconomic indicators.

"You only bought that because you're rich" has a very different ring than "you only bought that because you're poor".

That perception of low vs high indicators is somewhat wrong (high-end Android phones cost more than the latest iPhone, used iPhones are pretty affordable) but it is the perception.