skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The appearance that commits are diffs is realistic enough though. The question was why branches (and tags, and other refs) as pointers is unnatural, and I second the question because for me it's quite natural, while Mercurial style branches feel quite restrictive (and I never internalized their rules).
I think that's largely because wages haven't really kept pace with inflation.
Having been through this exercise as a former employee of a bank calculating this exact thing, this makes sense to me so is hopefully helpful for the poster.
The author mentions Longhorn, a storage solution from the people behind the k3s distribution, so I’m assuming the data is stored in pvc provisioned through longhorn.
Would be interesting to have a constitutional requirement on government to be able to explain taxes to citizens in a declarative language with a max complexity of N bits of information.

Railroad unions: you want an exemption for your members? Write a diff and go to war with hedge fund managers to get the bits you need to implement your boondoggle. :)

I'm reminded of the "delta this build causes in bytes of flashrom" reports you see at the bottom of a compile job on embedded platforms.
> You have a parrot that can paint original pictures, compose original songs and essays, and translate math into both English and program code?

Kinda, kinda, yes, and yes.

I think there's far less originality than most people think. But it's not surprising when your job isn't leading you to look at thousands of pictures a day. I have yet to see a generative model that isn't pulling heavily towards the training data and you might be noticing the memorization rates are getting higher. But yes, a stochastic parrot doesn't mean memorization, it is about generalization and the stability around the p-norm ball around the training data.

Btw, what's wrong with a stochastic parrot? They are absolutely fucking useful. I use them every day. Hell, I even use things that are complete memorizations and all compression every day. What's with everyone equating powerful statistical systems with uselessness. Anyone saying that they aren't extremely useful is pulling wool over their eyes (but the same is true for anyone claiming baby AGI).

I'd also appreciate it if you discussed in good faith. The snarkiness is not appreciated.
What if the Paris and London ecosystems united rather than diverged?
sheldonbrown is a good benchmark.
The question was "what do you think is the most natural way to think about it", not "how does git represent it".
I actually bought a WinRAR license
That system is very common in Spain. I didn't know it was German.

I had to fix several of them, sometimes with more success than others. Yes, I would be nice to also have a guide por the Rolladen system.
Looks great, and I like the simple, no-frills/IAPs model of this.

Any chance you could integrate with RSS aggregators, like FreshRSS, miniflux, ttrss or any of the other self-hosted aggregators? I use FreshRSS and I like having my feeds synced no matter what device I view it on. The Android clients for FreshRSS[0] are a little lacking IMO or a bit out of date so it'd be great to see something new.

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Winamp and Descent, off of a CD included in a magazine iirc.
to add to that I've heard a lot of people who have things like ADHD saying LLM's are life changing more than say neurotypical people. For those of us with bad ADHD doing simple things are the hardest, just taking out the trash or opening the mail is nearly impossible, your internal dialog is screaming at you for hours to just do the thing, but your body won't listen. They call it executive dysfunction, but it's the bane of my life

LLM's helping to just start the thing is actually a huge deal.
Tesla reported 485,000 deliveries in Q4, bringing 2023 total to 1.8M
The can of worms opened.
Ok, we merged the comments into the submission of the avherald.com article. Thanks!
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Right in this subthread people have said that. I now have no idea what is right. Which seems to only support the comics assertion, which was only "you might think x but you'd be wrong"
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I really wish Vim would add Neovim's Lua API. GUI clients for Neovim all have subtle issues (color saturation, font rendering) and Neovim generally has stability issues (I've lost count of the number of crashes I've had).

But this is all acceptable for a reasonable Lua API. I know Bram's reasoning behind doing vim9script was that the mailing list preferred it, but my guess is that's not exactly representative.

Either way it would increase compatibility, which is good for everyone.
Ok. But you're criticizing the movie, not the books.
Agreed. It appears it's the author's choice of text editor that apparently needs to be less smart. If you chose an editor that doesn't let you configure something so basic, that's on you.
I haven't looked into the details about how server side rendering is done. It should have something equivalent to generate HTML. But the point still stands, it should be possible to follow the same pattern to create a JSXesque template for HAML
This will also enable new and unique business models for social network. You won't have to rely on ad targeting and user tracking any more, if you encourage people to make great content, you can make money by licensing that content to advertisers.
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While I agree that there is some value in putting an existing extension into the standard as is, not doing so would not mean that everybody has to rewrite their code. Code that already uses a non-standard attribute could simply continue to do so. I would just not automatically become standard compliant.

I think changing the rule would create a mess, so I am not in favor of this. I wonder if there is a way so that existing macro wrappers could be adapted...
I had a professor that claimed to have invented the name ECMAScript. He said that they were arguing about the name for this new standard and weren't moving forward so he proposed a name so awful that they'd have to come back later to change it, so the argument could be put on hold for the time being. Then they never came back to fix it.
Trustlessness and the Left
This is an essay that I've working on for a good while now and is based on my earlier work going back several years.

If you're ambivalent on how DLT can be used as a means for progressing some of the ideals of the left, please go into this with an open mind. I've really tried to get into specificalities rather than the usual vague gesturing that you normally see in this setting.

A related essay from last year also gives a bit more context:

https://ajesiroo.github.io/against-decentralism

What I'm essentially advocating for is an oracle-centric strategy that discards trust assumptions and makes heavy use of cryptography.
Ask HN: Happy New Year HN How's your job search going
How's your job search going and do you think market is getting better day by day.

Also what has been your strategy to find your next job
For most surveying wouldn't the the relative, nearby points be shifting together equally?
There's also the cats.for.ai group and this nice github: https://github.com/bgavran/Category_Theory_Machine_Learning
This makes them one of the largest car companies in the world. Pretty wild
>Both of those examples could have simply been implemented as tax brackets but voters get far more excited about a "Tax Reduction" than they do about a new tax bracket.

Doesn't sound like the problem is entirely on the politicians here.
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That's not what my comment is about. That's a contractual distinction.

In the context of HR, a "Job" is a collection of similar positions, an Job Analysis is "a family of procedures to identify the content of a job in terms of the activities it involves in addition to the attributes or requirements necessary to perform those activities".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_analysis
Paying the cost of a distributed system for a centralized team of 10 is a horrible idea. Better for someone on the team to teach everyone else a simple set of rules (git checkout -b before starting a new featire, git pull --rebase origin to keep up to date, git push origin when you're done) and pretend Git is a centralized system as much as possible. You're anyway going to have a central server which is the source of truth. If your local copy goes bad, there's always rm -rf ./ && git clone. No reason to pretend your local history has some value.

Of course, if you are working on a highly distributed project, like the Linux kernel, many of the Git tools are absolutely invaluable. But there's no reason to bother with them if you're not.
Same here. I just take the form
> A branch is a DAG of commits terminating at one commit.

[Pedantically] this includes orphaned branches.

> They should have just called it a pointer if it's a pointer.

A branch in every VCS is first and foremost a name. That name has to evaluate to a) content, b) history. In Git and Git-like immutable-commit systems this can trivially be implemented by a table mapping branch (and tag and...) names to commits. I.e., in any immutable-commit VCS branches are naturally pointers.

The only real question is whether there should be additional semantics layered upon the pointer nature of branches. Indeed, there should be. In Git these are the basic rules:

- branch names are updated when adding commits in a workspace that has that branch checked out

- tag names are NOT updated when adding commits when adding commits in a workspace that has that tag checked out

- local configuration can enforce a variety of rules via commit hooks

- upstreams can enforce a variety of rules, such as fast-forward-only (no history rewriting)

This gives users a great deal of flexibility, including the ability to ban history rewriting on published branches and to allow it on unpublished branches.
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This seems like a reasonable take - there's only one problem: you haven't told us how to draw the rest of the owl.

How does one learn how to (1) think in this way (which necessitates not only abstract description but multiple concrete examples) and (2) what workflows and commands are necessary to effectively implement this?
It could be a github repo.

There are likely some digital government projects and software providers who's software might be a good fit for this kind of thing.
No. Matrix is not usable on plan 9, to my knowledge, so the people that care tend to use IRC or our own 9p-based home-grown chat system known as gridchat. Those that don't seem to have settled on discord. (Unsurprisingly, it seems most committers fall into the first camp).

Here's a good summary of the places people tend to cluster: https://inbox.vuxu.org/9front/AB8856CD6456E7C4532F41567DBE7D...

(This message was posted using netsurf on 9front)
Fortunately, that’s not how copyright works. Burden of proof is on OpenAI to justify their copying without permission, they don’t get to copy anything and then demand that anyone who doesn’t like it prove that financial damage was done first before they stop. Financial damage does count under copyright, but is not required to win an infringement claim. Courts or the copyright office might decide that AI can count as fair use, or they might continue to allow suits every time an AI spits out verbatim copyrighted work in violation of the law, or we might get some entirely new criteria for copyrights. It’s going to be interesting.
Insightful, and it’s worth also pointing out that even if 90% of your staff are unquestionably elite, the rest can easily (without process and guidance) make mistakes whose consequences will overshadow everything else you accomplish, for instance by checking in code which causes a catastrophic data breach because your code review policies are casual and optional.

Of course, this is a contrived example and even rockstars make mistakes too, but many mistakes are detectable/foreseeable and that’s the kind of thing good process is meant to help with.
I think you are looking for "What wants to be hired?"
I wonder how this affects the signaling power of college. The usual narrative is that college is supposed to signal competence, or that college today has become dumbed-down compared to in the past. But widespread or undiagnosed plagiarism 30 years ago or longer, before the advent of machine learning, means that the signal may have been weaker back then, or that college was more dumbed-down when one takes into account rampant, unnoticed cheating. I think this is it. Due to better plagiarism /cheating detection and stricter standards, the completion of college today is a better signal of competence compared to in the past.
Microsoft's spam filter is fundamentally broken. It's been that way for decades. There's an entire cottage industry of snakeoil salesmen that want to sell in-line antispam gateways to bolt onto 365, and the worst part is that they have a very good reason to exist...
This is just a guess, but the article from the Crimson that was from the plagiarism voting board that said Gay's work would have clearly been "voted" for suspension, probably did her in.

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Cryptocurrencies were of interest at one point because they showed promise for providing a way to transfer money electronically in a universal fashion. Eventually the limitations proved too great and interest waned.

This AI wave of which we speak may be slightly different in that it has already proven to solve a certain class of problems, while I'm not sure cryptocurrencies ended up solving any problems in the end, but they both share a similar hallmark of people believing that early promise will lead to complete game changes in the coming years.

That is quite ripe for scams to take hold. It would hardly be the first time where we saw some incremental progress in AI, only to see it stall out and interest wane, but with the grifters trying to latch onto the early hype, convincing others that they have something magical to offer.
Search engines and machine language training companies both claim that scraping and indexing is fair use, which theoretically sets aside any copyright claim that could wield this license against them. However, the ML claim is not yet supported by directly applicable legal precedent.

(I am not your lawyer, this is not legal advice.)
I missed this earlier, and can no longer edit, but please note that "supeajority" should read "supermajority".
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>Carbon/emission considerations aside

This seems like a massive thing to just throw aside.
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Most of the laws which require public disclosure of compensation in job postings apply only to base salary, not to total compensation. What you describe makes sense for performance-based portions of a compensation package like commissions or performance-driven bonuses, but not for base salary.

Do you really think a wide base salary range makes sense for the same job title and responsibilities, aside from maybe any location-based differentials? I don’t.
I didn't read the "failure to introduce" as meaning no coin was created, but more as "failure to launch" in that it was just never picked up by the population. My largest concern with the dollar coins where they were too similar to quarters in size and were often used in error as a quarter. it is the primary reason I've heard to explain the lack of acceptance.
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While open banking is on it's way in Canada it still might be a few years until the API is available.

Mortgage Calculators are sadly something that appear to need to be build by hand in Excel
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Sometimes - but some large buildings have loads of space above suspended ceilings and in cable trays and suchlike. Office buildings know every new tenant might want to move internal walls, rearrange sockets, reconfigure the kitchen and so on, and they're built with that in mind.

You're right that making arbitrary ad-hoc changes during construction can be expensive, of course. Especially if it's wrong and has to be torn out and redone.

But it's not illegal - if you're in charge of a project and an installer tells you the specified vents are going to be a problem and they recommend a bigger one, nothing in law prevents you from telling them to go ahead and make the change, right there on the spot.

Of course, how often the person with in charge of a large project will be talking to the vent installers while they're working is a different matter...
It's too bad that there are multiple package managers for Python that all have different approaches, but it is nice that there are at least ways around that, as you've mentioned (just seems like a lot of complexity to do something that seems like it should be easy; installing/upgrading/removing packages).
I wonder why more don't take advantage of native k8s and just rely on it to move over the persistent volume and start the new pod. This may have some small amount of downtime but it's a lot less complicated.
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