skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah, bram and len featured a lot of them in codecon. but i don't agree with your explanation of why it happened

svn was the result of everyone getting fed up with cvs; basically it does the same thing as cvs, but does it in a less janky way, and with atomic commits. but it still suffers from cvs's design weaknesses

vesta was a digital research (decwrl?) project from the previous millennium; peter deutsch told me about it at the time, but it was still proprietary, and it took them a while to be able to open-source it. it was basically a clone of dsee, just like clearcase, though perhaps better done. it wasn't motivated by dissatisfaction with cvs and in fact couldn't do things cvs could do

i think the main thing that kicked off the cambrian explosion wasn't 'everyone getting fed up with cvs' but rather tom lord (rip) writing arch (tla, later baz and bzr) which demonstrated to everyone that it was possible to do enormously better than cvs/svn, with features like atomic commits, forking your own branches without permission from the core team, decentralization, and serving from regular ftp or web servers (no special server software)

these design features were ideologically driven on tom's part; he wanted to give ordinary users version-control tools that were just as powerful as the ones used by core teams on projects like freebsd and apache, motivated by the same egalitarianism that had led him to become an employee of the fsf

and i think graydon hoare's monotone was the thing that most inspired the other follow-on systems, like git, mercurial, codeville, fossil, maybe darcs, and maybe even baz and bzr

maybe kernel hackers getting experience with bitkeeper in 02000 to 02005 added motivation for moving to better-than-cvs-and-svn models too tho

shlomi fish's site from the time in question has a lot of material on what was happening, including even lesser known version tracking systems like aegis: https://better-scm.shlomifish.org/aegis/
I used to enjoy I, Cringely's yearly predictions.

He's had medical problems and has gone silent the last 6 months or so.

https://www.cringely.com/category/predictions/
You are. The one referenced in, and linked from the article, that I linked to: was generated in Dec/2007 and published Jan/2008. The one you've found is apparently the by same authors, but has a publish date 7 months later (Jul/2008), 6 months after it was accepted for publication (so unpublished), and apparently uploaded to ResearchGate by someone with the same name as one of the authors in 2014.

The citation generator makes it clear the Jan/2008 version of https://doi.org/10.1080/15326340802427497 is to be cited.

Your linked Jul/2008 paper has no version or prior publication data, which makes it a bit gnarly to untangle. It does, however, mention reference [5] for "a sketch" (that doesn't exist), and links to itself as the source in the references section. There's something entirely suspicious about this version.
Google ad chief stepping down weeks after antitrust trial testimony
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Ninja supports async, DRF is still synch only?
I don't think that would work as many people also use Cloudflare etc.

You may try using BuiltWith which is a paid service:

https://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/Shopify
This book contains my favorite take on the nature of consciousness.
This x1000

This "1%" loss will never manifest. It will be pure gain.
1) It's not just engineers and software developers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_fallacy#Empirical_evi...

2) Musk is particularly bad about it & does it in places that directly financially benefit him.

Telling people that if they fork out 15k now they'll have full self driving in X timeline, completely missing it and then doing the exact same thing for years on end seems less like the planning fallacy and more like fraud, but I guess we can just wait to see what the courts decide on the matter
What? What is happening now?

I’ll rephrase my position: Google is free to ban my IP, require a payment before serving me videos, or whatever else they feel is appropriate to stop me from using their electricity without being compensated appropriately. But if they serve me a page containing a video, I have every right to instruct the software on my device to render that video however I see fit. This in no way is morally or legally comparable to stealing, theft, fraud, or whatever other words people are throwing around.
wow, that was quick, thanks. and it's been placed there by microsoft, not some third party
Yes. There's a very basic price range filter right now. Working on adding a ships to, location, and a few others. Open to any ideas that would help in the shopping experience.

There are 'reviews' now and made the decision to only let authenticated users leave users so they are more trustworthy (i.e. thinking is that adding more friction will lead to higher quality reviews).
I would guess that a) they assume their users will have a lot of GPU ram, b) actual running costs will depend on what inference engine/framework you're using (for example, some GGUF quants are very cheap).
> I don't know what the tornado activity is like where the BBC is from, but it is woefully out of date.

The UK has the most tornadoes per square mile of any country in the world.

They’re just all insignificantly weak :)
Exactly, thanks for bringing this up. I should have mentioned because I just came across this Reddit comment with a damning quote:

https://old.reddit.com/r/yimby/comments/18g5dh6/why_north_am...
You're probably thinking of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), another fantastic approach to real-time novel view synthesis. There's tons of fantastic work being built on 3DGS right now, and the dust has yet to settle with respect to which method is "better". Right now, I can say that SMERF has slightly higher quality on than 3DGS on small scenes and visibly higher quality on big scenes and runs on a wider variety of devices, but takes much longer than 3DGS to train.

https://repo-sam.inria.fr/fungraph/3d-gaussian-splatting/
Oh word? Because the only CVE I find when I google the author's name is this:

https://www.fastly.com/blog/cve-2023-30534-insecure-deserial...

An unexploitable PHP bug that five people decided to share the credit on.
The Intricate Machinery of Human Speech
> "recall" is a malicious term in this context

No. "recall" is a term with a meaning, it means:

- the manufacturer has been obligated to fix this

- they must fix it for all listed cars

- they must fix it for free

The term "recall" doesn't imply anything about the implementation details how the above is going to be accomplished.

Whether you have to take it to a dealer, or it's done over the air, or even if they have to ship the car back to the factory, makes no difference to that fact that it is a recall.
Netflix, famously, had a public contents to try to improve the recommendation system, with very little success. [1] That system was a demonstrably good system, that maximizes preference, but only if you rate a bunch of content. I'm not aware if it's still in use.

But, I've rated many hundreds of shows/movies, and the rating is very accurate, for me. Very biased and scaled, but completely predictable/reliable.

In my case, the rating can be corrected with Netflix 7 being my 0, and Netflix 10 being my 10, mostly linear. For a Netflix show, 8 is my 0, since those are biased a bit more.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize
I don't understand this perspective, yet I keep seeing it in these Gemini threads. The Google Graveyard is large, yes, but they've considered themselves an "AI-first company" for several years now. It's clear by now that consumers will expect it to be part of search as well as part of their smartphone experience. That's Google's core business, not some random app or moonshot. Do you really think Google's going to say in a few years, "well, this AI stuff was neat but we're going to sunset it now"?
Ah 2020...when we could just waste our time breaking CI with renaming perfectly good branches.
During Covid, the Fed pumped a massive amount into the money supply and the resulting inflation was relatively minimal. Where did all that money go? How educated are The Fed's educated guesses? I'm not trolling. I'm legitimately curious about other's interpretation of what's gone on and going on.
> Workers should have refused to work with the material if it were truly dangerous

They did -- several months ago. The relevant unions members voted to refuse to work with engineered stone at all, if it was not banned outright by the government, which is what happened yesterday.

https://www.australianunions.org.au/2023/10/24/unions-vote-t...
It has not made as big impression in America with its amber waves of grain, but food insecure countries (Japan, Korea, much of the MidEast etc.) consider food security national security.

And considering 1/2 of all food is wasted between the farm and the fork, there is still plenty of room for improvement.
> There are no patterns

I think apple gave up a lot of decent design interactions with ios 7. Baby with the bathwater.

is that text or a control? The auto-hiding menus that take away important controls, and require non-muscle-memory actions to resurrect.

I wish the lost certainty could all the themed back on.
That's a bit of an absurd request given the complexity of the global economy. That said, you can look at the gap between the loan rates paid by the average US firm vs. non-US.
Do black holes have singularities?
These are insightful. The question about classifying phenomena as "fire" reminds me of Plato's forms. It's about how the human cognitive system divvies up the world into abstract models, more than it's about the underlying physics of instances of those forms. Still, the ideas of a fundamental property of reality vs a composite one are themselves forms, abstractions within human cognition, so it seems the answer would be ill-formed.

An emergent behavior is a macro phenomenon that arises from simpler ones. We can say that an emergent behavior exists if we can find just one example of it, so the probability of it happening isn't as central. However, establishing for one example that both a structure and its components are sentient is a tall order -- each of us knows only one first-person experience first-hand. We can accept that we are sentient, but could we conclude that each tissue and cell has its own experiences? Thinking about the subconscious helps persuade me that it's possible.

Not all carbon exists in crystalline form, but just one example of graphite or diamond makes properties of carbon atoms apparent.
How do you know that? You can't because Dropbox doesn't say
I just want true rootbeer again... Too bad the main ingredient is prohibited from being used
I'm not a huge fan of government overreach either. Children should have refused to work if child labor was truly bad, and the free market would have eventually pushed child labor out, giving way to better, more ethical labor practices.
Tim Sweeney will get even more money this way. I am also not convinced this makes things better for everyone. The majority of users need devices that protect them from being tricked into installing malware by black hats. The only way to do that is to create devices where they are incapable of doing that even under duress. Eliminating barriers to doing that is not doing many gullible people a favor. There will undoubtedly be more malware attacks on unsuspecting victims if Google is forced to make things better for Epic, and Tim Sweeney does not care that his additional revenue from this if it is allowed to stand means that regular people will suffer.

Note that Sweeney is no stranger to harming others to enrich himself:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/12/...

I find the idea that his actions are making the world better to be ridiculous. Overall, they are making the world worse. I guess I should not be surprised that his propaganda about making the world better has gained traction. Most people who hear it do not have the full picture to consider and will happily consider only what they have been told. :/
IMHO, while anthropomorphizing AI is an error, it's only an error in the same sense that anthropomorphizing a cat or a dog or a cow is an error.

People tend to think MUCH too narrowly about the parameters of "intelligence" and/or "consciousness" and vastly overestimate the human perspective.
> "Lode Runner Online: The Mad Monks' Revenge" at no. 35.

Lode Runner is a pretty popular game. I'm certainly not going to try to figure out their methodology, but I'm guessing Lode Runner volume sales peaked with this particular Win95 compatible version that was likely bundled with many computers that sold with Win95. The naming is a bit outlandish sounding now, of course, but it also plays in offline mode.
Super cool project (especially as a coffee lover myself)!
Presumably the people who are relevant to the decision making are able to read the full reasoning and give it its due credibility.
Cool but it's unfortunate that he was forced to do it for such a great book to live. It really is one of the best books of the last decades, in my humble opinion the best.
I'd rather get cancer from diet coke
Uh... You're asking the wrong guy :)
>I consider myself a very weather aware person living near the edge of tornado alley in Dallas,

Howdy neighbor! Do you find it mildy calming when looking at the weather warning tweets from Delkus while his avatar is cheersing you with a cocktail?

This tech might provide another layer of confidence for tornadoes, but as you mentioned, the hail is another story in and of itself. I have mixed feelings about the "tornado sirens" being used for hail/severe weather without a tornado. I lean towards it being a good idea. I'm actually in Dallas, not one of the suburbs, so we tend to get protected from tornadoes by the infamous heat dome. Earlier this year, the sirens went off for hail and they were talking about softball size hail and larger west in Arlington. So, yeah, people definitely need to know about that. However, it does remind me of the Hawaii debate on using the tsunami sirens to warn of the fire, but it is totally different in that this hail/tornado siren both mean to seek shelter and not a confusing run towards the danger.
Anecdotally, we have laminate benchtops which have been in place for ~30 years (long before we bought the house) and they're pretty much flawless, despite being treated pretty roughly. We're having the kitchen re-done soon and will go with laminate again.
IIRC, reservation of _t in typedefs is for the POSIX rather than C standards.
I had no idea WSJ was a comedy publication now.
Out of curiosity where is tinycc still being used?
At some point tools are good enough for what most users use them for. How much have nail guns changed in twenty years?

Or nails? And that’s because the utility of tools is in part dependent on ecosystems. Social media in particular shows this. The intersection of people I know and people who use social media is almost entirely captured by Facebook so Facebook is a useful tool for me.

The nail gun nails useful sizes of readily available nails. Some are faster. Some are lighter. Some are cheaper. But they all work the same way.

Sure Dyson makes a cool looking fan. But it still blows the same air as every other despite the lipstick.

Good luck.
A platform that enables most UAVs/UGVs to fly/drive over the internet, and using a game joystick, cellular or not, although some drones especially small consumer ones aren’t supported
Most property owners don't think "I don't care about homelessness."

They think, "Please make homelessness go away! It's presence is lowering the value of my property." That's why so many homelessness sweeps act as neighborhood clean up operations. It's also why so many people make the association between police and the maintenance of the current property-ownership system.
They usually have 1 or 2 items that are a really good deal if you are flexible
How can a city own all the ad space when there's private property? What stops a property owner from putting up a billboard and renting it out?
Well that was the premise I doubted so…
Ubuntu 24.04 to Enable Frame Pointers by Default for Better Profiling/Debugging
I mean, of all the perverse metrics.
Barely. Those take much less bandwidth.
I haven't worked on anything that had to adhere to that standard, but I also have yet to work somewhere where a "Change Request" was a very specific thing related to workflows that may or may not involve software, i.e. hardware. A pull request rarely had relation to a proper Change Request.
> Sounds like the researchers read Derek Parfit. I’m currently experiencing whatever the opposite of the “end of history illusion” is. Let’s call it: “The beginning of potentially infinite unknowable and yet inevitable futures reality.”

Sounds like existential anguish. https://existentialcomics.com/comic/306
Personally, I find the CSP model a bit more intuitive than the actor model (though admittedly I have not worked with the actor model as extensively).

That’s really the question I was trying to ask -- is the CSP style suitably intuitive for general-purpose use? I personally find other primitives easier to use, but that could well just be my bias.

(I’ve done some academic work around process calculi, a long time ago now, and I always found the CSP style much more awkward than CCS / π-calculus.)

I’ve never seen an actor model with static types and how that would handle different types of messages coming into the mailbox.

I think it fits really well in an OO approach, where your messages just become method calls on the actor object -- I believe Swift does that.

That transformation of a method call into a message struct is a kind of defunctionalization, which is a really useful technique (in e.g. Redux) but usually involves a ton of boilerplate. Having a core language primitive that gives you defunctionalization and concurrency, now that’s interesting. I feel like that’s something I would end up building by hand on top of channels (I haven’t done that in Go, but I have for web workers).
Awesome! It would be good to listen to the enter key when typing in a search query. Your privacy and terms links point to what appears to be the saas code framework you used (just a guess). I was looking for your contact/email so I can ask you some questions.
Yeah, I'm thinking that may be a feature, not a bug.
Fair enough, your history is probably more accurate.

I didn't know Tom Lord had died. And not very old either darn it :-(
I'm saying that you haven't looked at any of the REAL reporting done, by REAL journalists, some of which I linked to above. Where they debunk much of this narrative.

While sourcing interviews on Israeli media, and the press.

Yes, there's plenty of snuff videos circulating on Israeli telegram channels. Funnily enough, they don't get circulated to reputable, independent, international press. There was one segment on the independent US Breaking Points channel (Ryan Grimm, of the Intercept), highlighting just how much fake misinformation is being spread on those very Israeli groups. Reported on TODAY!

And whenever IDF claims and videos DO get circulated to the international press, they get DEBUNKED within a day or 2. Too many to enumerate. From beheaded babies, to rapes, to bombing this hospital and that camp, to striping civilians making them pose as Hamas fighters, to hiding metal weapons in MRI rooms, to posting videos of fake Gazan doctors criticizing Hamas (later proven to be an Israeli actress, with name and film bio). And on. And on.
But this isn't for the browser though. The idea here is to use WASM kinda like Java. You can run the same binary on different systems.
Ye has some mad coding skillz!
Without getting too into the weeds here, the more violent the conflict is, the more legitimacy Hamas has in Palestine
Let's explore starter mix models for ambitious companies. The key is minimal viable attribution - enough to guide decisions without over-engineering.
yeah, it's a huge loss
Thanks Roy for stating the obvious, someone needed to do it. Next: renormalization.
>>Now there's thousands of potential issues. Many are false positives.

Inspecting output/logs of Qualys is no different than inspecting logs of kubernetes (or other SRE platform). and both overlap.

If you have highly skilled SREs - task them with security. If you dont have good SREs, you have to keep IT architects (and call them infosec) who will be able to look at all your IT Zoo across all your on-prem datacenters and cloud accounts and can make a call to do X,Y, and Z to keep company secure.

and who can recover your infra from groun zero in case you got ransomwared
The report is an .xlsx file. Would be nice if there was a web viewer.
Genius tells a factual truth, a schizophrenic lies and is delusional. Usually, both types are highly intellectual. To an uninitiated external observer, there may be no difference between the two because the observer may be unaware of the truth yet.
Ctrl F "new coke" - not found

There is a conspiracy theory that 1987s introduction of new coke (in which all old coke was pulled from the market) was actually to cover up the taste difference when they switched from using sugar to high fructose corn syrup.
When old coke came back people didn't notice the change as much.

You can still get Coke made with sugar (Mexico) give it a try and make up your own mind.
A race to see whether he or Elon can post the most antisemitic thing online for 2023. Elon has the early lead, but what he lacks in timeliness, Ye more than makes up for in paranoia.
Microsoft just introduced some features taken from Rider in Visual Studio, who’s catching up with whom? I think it’s a good way of competition.
There's surely some sort of ambition within Python to catch up on all the mistakes C++ made, despite its head start. Here, for example, quoting Python's documentation:

"Name bindings made during a successful pattern match outlive the executed block ... During failed pattern matches, some subpatterns may succeed. Do not rely on bindings being made for a failed match. Conversely, do not rely on variables remaining unchanged after a failed match. The exact behavior is dependent on implementation"

Python also - perhaps as expected given its nature as a dynamically typed language - doesn't end up delivering irrefutable matching that you might be familiar with from functional languages with a pattern match. So you're going to need to write that default case just on the chance you screwed up and missed something, if you forgot to handle Tuesday this design just assumes you intended to ignore Tuesdays because you didn't mention them.
The Tipping Backlash Has Begun
> This is like criticizing someone's technical ability after they finished a Bob Ross painting course.

...no, it's a simple comment about a writing style. You don't need to try and make it out to be anything else.

It's very normal to still interact with things in life that aren't exactly how you'd want them to be. The overall net value of their content has spoken for itself over and over.

> You can go make your own painting with no happy little trees if you want.

Yet I won't, because I still want to read their content. That's the entire point.
It’s unfair to put words in my mouth to make your own unrelated point. It’s your choice to interpret my words as a defense of Musk.

If I wanted to defend Musk I would do it explicitly. You don’t need to read between the lines.