skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first big thread on GitButler (recent) left me scratching my head. All the material with jargon like “virtual branches” just left me confused. It was like jumping into a how-to on why choose a Ferrari without first understanding what a car is. This clears things up nicely.

I mostly use worktrees for very separate things. Like: long-running build, way old or way new versions of the app. Then it doesn’t make sense to mix-and-match virtual branches. So when I want to build the app for deployment I don’t want to worry about whatever other changes getting in the way. Git worktrees doesn’t solve the same problem as what GitButler does. Worktrees is a streamlined way of the manual separate-clone workflow for the same repository. (Technically they are all distinct repositories once you clone them but ya know.)

I do have use for separate-from-branch files. Like notes to myself and test scripts that aren’t going into the branch. Crucially these files have nothing to do with the main work: the files themselves are not involved, so there can never be merge conflicts.

This GitButler workflow makes sense for things that (1) won’t cause merge conflicts and (2) which won’t step on each others’ toes. The example about a translation and code change is nice. Doing a translation at the same time as a code change is not likely to “break the build”.
It seems like it's $2.4M from the company Tropic Haze LLC which will probably pay what it can and then declare bankruptcy and close, so that the developers aren't paying $2.4M.
Wait, which is the hard one you wish you had time travel debugging on, the single threaded WASM context or the multithreaded native context?

The multithreaded native context is the one that is harder in principle, but should only incur ~100% overhead for any program including ones not using Bevy. Though I do not know about the general availability of these products in your field.

A single-threaded context is vastly simpler and can be done with similar overhead without platform support or ~1-10% overhead with platform support. Though I do not know is anybody has implemented efficient WASM support or if anybody with efficient multithreading implementations has ported to WASM.

Likely the only available ones are the inefficient 1,000% overhead or the hilariously bad 100,000% overhead ones like the default gdb implementation. To be fair, these implementations are much easier to write. Even ~100% overhead in the single-threaded case is more common amongst extant solutions since getting down to ~10% requires some serious optimization. Still should be perfectly adequate for development work.
How China Is Churning Out EVs Faster Than Everyone Else
It's not an SUV.
The full video title is too long to use as the submission title. It is: Why Are Emulators Legal? Dolphin vs. Nintendo, and the Fate of Emulation
Well, what PC people do is they hyper-focus on one specific spec like number of displays supported or price per GB of RAM but can’t see the forest for the trees beyond that.

If I just do the same thing with Macs I can win arguments just as easily. Find me a laptop with the kind of performance per watt specs as the M3 systems. Find another laptop of the same size/weight/power draw that can match the M3 Max’s performance at anything close to the same battery life. Find me a completely fanless Intel/AMD PC that performs as well as the MacBook Air and gets the same or better battery life. Find me a PC laptop where you can feed a RTX 40X0 mobile GPU with over 100GB of RAM. Find me another laptop that uses TSMC’s most advanced chip lithography.

PC spec monkeys will basically say it’s not a real laptop because it can’t support 800 external monitors and there’s no print screen key and it doesn’t have a parallel port etc etc. These are all specs that don’t matter to 99% of users.

Hell, if you’re the kind of person who has a triple or quad external monitor setup, that means you’ve spent around $1000 on just displays. That probably means you can afford $3,000 for a MacBook Pro with a Max chip or maybe pay $2,000 for a used one. And if you didn’t spend $1000+ on those displays, that means those four displays are probably so bad that you’re better off looking at one 4K display or two decent quality ultrawide displays.
I believe developers on consoles always pay the console manufacturer a fee per-copy, so not so much, but that's probably the way that pays Nintendo the least.

EDIT: Just remembered the second hand market. Carry on.
They train the model, then as soon as they get their numbers, they let the safety people RLHF it to death.
https://archive.ph/THKJk
> we are really good at code sharing of small things like vectors, and of large things like operating systems. Its the middle-sized problems we are bad at.

Interesting. But I am not sure we are good at sharing small things - every programming language has its own implementation of vectors. Within one language ecosystem, the API of a vector is small, and that's probably what makes it easy to share.

For operating systems, the API is relatively small compared to the internal complexity of the OS. This is also true for libraries for numerical problems, which are also easily shared. But the more you want to customize things (e.g. share a complicated data structure), this complicates the API and inhibits sharing.

So it seems to this is determined by the surface area (relative size of the API) of the thing being shared.
The problem is the storage is not removable in the Apple Macbooks.

It is disturbing it didn't sink the Macbooks. It speaks volumes of how little people care about their own data. About their own privacy. There should've been zero sold. It truly is dismal and a very large systemic problem a laptop like this is sold.

Because when it breaks, are you going to wipe it and restore from backup? No. You will just hand it over to a repair person and even an ethical shop much less Apple doesn't even have a chance to hand the disk back before handling it. An unknown amount of complete strangers will access your everything. Your medical records, your banking, your private photos, everything.

And people pay real world money for this, money they worked hard for. It's unfathomable to me.
Nintendo is very notorious for going after emulators that makes money, yuzu devs were monetizing their work, which led them to be beeping louder on Nintendo radar than other works (fangames), very stupid move.

Besides it still being an active console, users were using it to pirate pre-release games as evidenced by Nintendo.
No, it did not.

Starship gets refueled in orbit (by a fleet of Saturn V-class rockets). A Saturn V could put about 8 metric tons on the lunar surface. With refueling, Starship can land 100 metric tons on the moon.
Third-Party Demo RCS Client on Android
That title is very AI dense: "AI AI infects via AI-enabled clients."
With pretty onerous restrictions on how fast the plane can go, how powerful the engine can be, and once sold, a lot of those restrictions on Certified aircraft apply to you as the new owner.
Agree, this thing would get shredded by small arms. If it's going into combat zones, it will probably be in a drone configuration.
git fetch origin
git checkout -b new_work origin/master

Git pull is essentially git fetch + merge. You don't have to update your local master branch to check out a new branch based on it.
magic shite!
By the article:

1. There seems to be sanctioned and "external events". It happened at an external event. But it seems to have been some event related to the conference.

2. The article didn't say that, as far as I understand. Apparently, he wasn't there on behalf of his employer. In any case, he apparently got invited by an attending former colleague. Again, context of the conference.

3. It was a "legal tech" conference. What?

> But, how is this not an incredibly misleading attempt to get clicks by making it tech-related?

It's NPR, what kind of motives are you suggesting here? Pumping engagement metrics to get government funding?

I think, you intentionally framed the article at least as much, as you lament here.
If it's good enough for Jebediah Kerman, it's good enough for me, but maybe not NASA.

https://xkcd.com/1244/
It's really complex.

I get into it as much as I can at the end, but the Osborne Effect absolutely plays a part. It's just not in the way that got press at the time (i.e. the Executive being announced too early).

Basically Adam repeatedly triggered mini-Osborne Effects, with product variants. None of which should have been enough to take the company down. But bad financial management had killed the company's runway, they'd exhausted funding from their VC backers, and they had no ability to raise covering loans from banks until they could IPO.

So what should have been a minor ripple in their finances ended up just taking the whole company down.

I honestly think, based on my research, that if they'd managed to secure the IPO - having sorted out their accounts first - then they'd have survived the IBM PC-clone transition. They were already pivoting to deal with it.

They just ran out of time.
>But there's also the ideological reason which is that the iPad is strictly sold as a device for consumption, not creation. They don't want you to run any code on it that they haven't authorized.

The iPad Pro is heavily marketed as a device to create things.
> This is what has been happening all over Europe over the last decade.

First time I've heard of this, got any source sorry?
The Library of Congress has the digital infrastructure and expertise to be able to handle something like this issue.

Unfortunately, scientific journals are a sacred cash cow and infringing on any of their territory, real or imagined, prevents any meaningful top down change within the system. They've got money to pay lawyers to prevent any reform or mandates or flexing of existing regulatory powers.

Pirate everything.

Publicly funded research gets lost because it negatively affects profits to maintain unpopular, unread material in any sort of diligent and effective way.

Journals have close ties to universities and academia, and big commercial research outfits, and all of the social ties being involved with those circles can bring. They've got lobbying perfected to an art, and pay good, ruthless lawyers to protect their interests.

The average voter won't ever care enough to make a popular revolt, bottom up change possible; scientific publishing is too dry and anemic when you contrast against the million other, more outrageous, imminently threatening issues people care about. When you look at the conflicted interests that benefit from the status quo, such as companies that can pay Journals so their studies and papers will appear alongside distinguished, credentialed works, there doesn't appear to be any place where effective leverage can be applied.

Pirating it all is the only ethical solution. Outlaws with rogue copies is the only feasible way much of this data will carry on into the future. None of the people who can change things actually seem to want to, and the public has more pressing matters capturing their attention.

Aaron Swartz had it right. Apathy, greed, and politics aren't a problem with a solution that will come from this space. The only winning move is not to play their game.

The same largely applies to any media content being gatekept by entities requiring repeated, endless rent on their "property" despite bringing no value to the market, existing simply to expand, endlessly, mindlessly shoveling other people's money into their shareholder's pockets.

We live in a world that is awfully stupid sometimes. So stupid that important scientific literature is being faded into oblivion simply because it can't be monetized under perverse adtech incentive schemes. This has crucial implications, because if the habit of lazy citation takes root, it creates a kind of secular system of faith in scientism, with authors being given the benefit of the doubt when their citations can't be verified. That could be catastrophic if it affects medicines, engineering, environmental management, urban planning, forensics, or a myriad other categories where a flawed scientific paper might pose a threat.

Knowing that flawed papers get through, what could an actual malicious actor get away with?

Don't let stupid win.

Pirate everything.
Worktrees have been a massive savior for me when using Rider (which is all that I use them for). Previously, switching branches would cause the cache to become out-of-date; which would be fine if amending it didn't break 80% of the time (causing spurious code issues etc.).

It works just fine with Sublime Merge, so long as you add the worktree as the repo - not the bare repo. I do wish there was better integration.
>shouldn't it be fairly trivial for the astronauts to disembark and right the lander?

I don't think that is an assumption you can make. In the worst case scenario the lander lands on the door. In which case the only way to disembark is to lift the lander.
Pretty amazing. Great write up.

This is really advanced stuff and when it comes to infiltrating telco communications, it’s usually done at the highest levels of state actors to listen in or tap connections of countries and their president’s communications.

Also, the equipment is extremely expensive and getting access to it to craft exploits offline is costly. Exploiting it in the wild has its own risks.
I have an M2 Air with 24gb and it has no problems running Brave with 800-ish tabs, development workloads (a bunch of VSCode projects, several docker containers, lots of iTerm terminals), low-end CAD and 3D printing apps, CaptureOne and a bunch of Electron apps in parallel with room to spare. I've found I can fit more into those 24gb than into the 32gb of the Intel Mac I had before that (however that's possible).
These days I want Apple's hardware (the M chips specifically, but the trackpads/screens/cases are nice too) but can't stand their software. While I'm not a big fan of Windows either, it at least provides basic window management features by default.
> But they really really don't want to deal with an OS that feels like it's 1990.

I'd rather a 1990 feel than the current feel where everything is flat and it's not obvious what's interactable and my 27" 4K monitor is 90% whitespace.
"Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article" - 14th amendment

The 14th amendment requires states to give congress the power to enforce the 14th amendment. Many states contested this after the civil war, but was forced to ratify it in order to gain representation in Congress. From a historical perspective it seems that the 14th amendment was both a carrot and a stick to get equal rules of representation in the union, and any state wanting to have representation in congress had to give up power to congress to do so.

This ruling can be somewhat summarized that if congress can't make up their mind to define in legislation what defines an insurrection, then courts can't do it for them. It must be done by congress. In theory the supreme court might have been able to do it because they get to interpret the constitution, but in this case it seems they explicitly read section 5 as congress having that responsibility.

From a non-legal perspective, the 14th amendment gave people rights, citizenship and was part of the reason states remained in the union rather than being independent nations. If that is good or bad is up to how people feel about the union and the system of having representatives in congress writing legislation rather than having each state writing their own legislation on those subjects.
The Saturn V could get a lot of mass to LEO but most of that mass was fuel to get from LEO to the surface of the Moon. A design caveat of SpaceX Starship (a design feature that's yet to be demonstrated/proven) is refueling in LEO. So the Starship gets a bunch of payload mass to LEO, refuels, and then heads to the Moon. For Mars it would need to refuel on Mars to get back to Earth.

It's the refueling that potentially gets a huge usable payload to the Moon. A second Starship whose only payload is fuel would launch with the first and they'd rendezvous and transfer fuel. Ostensibly if something went wrong with the refuel rendezvous the payload (or personnel) carrier would still be able to abort back to Earth.
“Cruz now faces misdemeanor charges of harassment, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon, according to a criminal court complaint from the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. Cruz has pleaded not guilty in this case.”
Beaut advice.

Too many grifters saying the right things but doing the wrong things. From what I've seen it's mostly self-deception - grifters often don't always seem to be consciously aware that they are doing it - and they usually can't be confronted about it. The conscious takers seem to eventually come a cropper in my limited experience.

I see it play out again and again in relationships between a giver and a taker. The giver keeps giving and the taker keeps taking. Often with both seemingly unaware of what they are doing - and rationally I find the giver is at much at fault as the taker - certainly you see people begin a new relationship with the same destructive roles. As a sweeping generalisation I see more women putting themselves into the giver role, and I see fewer people learn to manage it. I have a 60+ female friend and a 50+ male friend who just avoid all relationships as a way to avoid feeling resentful from giving too much. Giver/giver relationships work but still require care because it's so easy to slip into giver/taker.

Not quite as common to see the giving/taking in business settings (in New Zealand at least), although really common to see givers in nursing and teaching.
Microsoft sold a BASIC interpreter to Apple, they wrote some games (Olympic Decathalon!) and even sold a 16KB RAM expansion card and Z80 coprocessor for a while.
Thanks, good to know. Looking forward to it!
Of course. 1960s Maine college campuses were one of the darkest, most depraved, periods of human history.
Since: (i) the father and the mother of Sally may be married with other people, and (ii) the sister or brother relationship only requires to share one parent, we deduce that there is no a definitive answer to this question.

Example: Sally has three brothers, Sally and their brothers have the same mother but a different father, and those brothers have two sisters Sally and Mary, but Mary and Sally are not sisters because they are from different fathers and mothers, hence Sally has no sister.

For those mathematically inclined: Supposing the three brothers are called Bob (to simplify) and the parents are designed by numbers.

FS = father of Sally = 7

MS = mother of Sally = 10

FB = father of Bob = 12

MB = mother of Bod = 10

FM = father of Mary = 12

MM = mother of Mary = 24

Now MS=MB=10 (S and B are brothers), FB=FM=12 (Bob and Mary are brothers), (FS=7)#(FB=12), and (MB=10)#(MM=24). Now S and M are not sisters because their parents {7,10} and {12,24} are disjoint sets.

Edited several times to make the example trivial and fix grammar.
I agree. “Talking at” might as well involve a cardboard cutout of my face and a tape recorder that plays back “hmm” and “wow” utterances at random intervals.

My being there in person doesn’t materially affect what the other person experiences from me anyway.
“At the time, Cruz was working for Reveal, an electronic discovery company. Reveal confirmed to NPR that Cruz was an employee at the company but "was not invited by Reveal to attend Legalweek (not a badged attendee)" nor was Cruz "present at any Legalweek-sanctioned event."”
Doing business with friends and family is almost always a tricky proposition.

People tend to have expectations that go beyond just business.
You know how the martian landers now use a crane to lower the lander to the ground so the retro rockets are outside of the ground effects range?

Someone proposed doing something similar with a lander, where a landing-site-prep robot gets dropped first. But that sounded like a lot of hovering to me, and a solution that would be very specific to lunar landing. I can't see that being successful on anything with higher gravity.

Better perhaps to send a separate stage or a scouting mission to do the work, then land later.
I think that’s the reverse.

MacBook 12” was only 2.03 pounds. Current MacBook Air M3 13” is 2.75 pounds.

Sad times.
That won't protect you from lifestyle creep over the years though.
I bet citra is mostly accessed as a retroarch core these days
There is little use in asking the court to award an amount that the defendants cannot pay, and in a copyright suit like this would make the plaintiffs look excessively malicious. That amount must be somehow calculated to fit.
The other reports and not just the knife and bar incident are really awful as well and like hidden half way down the article:

> Here's a sampling of stories Fleener shared:

> "'Last night, I was propositioned in the most graphic way I've ever heard. When I turned him down, he tried to convince me to leave with him by telling me his pregnant wife was on bedrest and I was doing her a favor.'"

> "'A leader at a firm showed me a video of 2 girls under 20 in his bedroom naked and and [sic] invited me and the other woman I was with to join him.'"

> Another female executive, Samantha Mather, wrote about the trials of more than 15 years in legal tech, from being physically accosted at a company event to countless inappropriate comments and having to avoid one-on-one meetings with some men in her industry.

> When she recruited two trusted male colleagues to stay close to her as allies, Mather said, some men pestered her anyway — or asked about her relationship with the pair.

> "You literally cannot win," she wrote on LinkedIn.

On the other hand. The headline does leave out details, but is still pretty accurate for that one scene. I guess it could say 1 person assaulted and another harassed at a tech conference. For the article mostly being focused on women being harassed by men, it's easy to miss that it was a man who was assaulted, Shimmy, (hence a different person) who got the knife pulled on him for standing up for Bier (the woman who was harassed by Cruz). I had to reread it to realize that. More people in this world should be like Shimmy (and more companies like Microsoft [atleast in this instance]) that's kind of one of the points that the article is about that it doesn't matter who you are when you see something is wrong you do something to alleviate the problem. I mean you don't need to be a hero like Shimmy necessarily, but anything you find within your power to alleviate is better than nothing. Just like the event holders should have done something about harassment happening at their event.
I was trying to compliment you! When you talk about your friend, about what you might ask him, and what he might answer, I think you have insight there. I think that's valuable.

And I should have stopped there. But I went on to try to make a point about the quick mental model you proposed about "talking at" vs "talking with". Which I think leads to arguing about semantics (with others or yourself).

What you're saying about the difference between the distribution of behaviors and utterances sounds reasonable to me (if a bit abstract). I just think the specific insight into your friend's behavior is a lot more valuable.
Admittedly it's less than an hour in, but Linux 6 to MacOS 2?
Was there ever a timetable that permitted that kind of day trip, as they took off and landed in pretty civilized hours?

A schedule I found was:

BA002 dep JFK 08:30 -> arr LHR 17:15

BA003 dep LHR 18.25 -> arr JFK 17:00

Still, certainly allowed "oh crap, need to get to london to do some very important same day business (and return the next day)"
Flag this clickbait unless you think it's relevant somebody had a knife pulled on them at a bar in NYC when there was also a legal conference happening elsewhere.