skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for taking the time to address my concerns. I am still very much open to trying it again in the future, but just like you I have time constraints and have to find a time box for it.

What I would really like to see an extremely simple walkthrough that covers some really basic scenarios without the ceremony of setting up a new JJ repo, for busy people who want to pilot something new - that covers all of:

* Central repository using branches (single remote) OR GitHub-style forked repository (multiple remotes)

* Merge-based workflow OR rebase-based workflow, both without conflicts

Using github.com/martinvonz/jj as an example repo - show us how to draw the entire owl

Take me from opening a terminal in order to make my changes, to creating a commit with those changes, merging/rebasing the trunk to my branch, to pushing it to my remote branch. Remember: I (and the rest of the 80%) have a job to do, so we want the cliff notes to reach success, and then we can dive deeper into things as we encounter them naturally.

Once you have the trivial workflow out of the way you can progressively disclose other things. For example, for conflict resolution/merging, you could start with an example that's already in a conflicted state and walk through that - i.e. an example that solely focuses on a specific issue. Remember, your new users want to achieve things first - think from their perspective "oh shit, this rebase has resulted in a conflict, what do I do?" or "my team uses gitflow, how do I interact with that?" Tiny little tutorials that cover common scenarios go a lot further than a monolithic detailed tutorial.
They're there in the first place for the safety of people in the vehicle in crashes. Competing requirements...
From Public Internet to Root on Argo Workflow Engine
Drones are going to be a key technology for the foreseeable future: they have incredible consumer, industrial, logistics, military applications, and beyond.

Does the US have a horse in the race, or have China and DJI taken most of the market?

I recall that both Snapchat and GoPro tried to build this exact use case but failed dramatically. Were they too early? Do we struggle with doing drones well here? It seems like a core technology we should care about.
Okay, right then, let’s cancel humanity’s ascendancy to the stars.

Someone filled out the wrong form.

Stop the whole thing. Abandon the cosmos. Just stay here.

Some bureaucrats weren’t satisfied.
I really need to check out svelte and htmx.
A-pillars have been made thicker by law because every car now needs to be able to maintain cab integrity if it flips.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/document/final-rule-federal-motor-vehi...
those A pillar blind spots are a result of roll over requirements. A pillars used to be very small.
> Of the thousands and thousands of archived hard disk drives from the 1990s that clients ask the company to work on, around one-fifth are unreadable

Some 25 years ago, the hardest part in booting some Apollo workstations, was to make hard drives spin.
> Ireland is seemingly getting a reward

They're not really getting a reward, because this makes them much less attractive for investment. Meaning less tax revenue in the wider and longer perspective.
Getting hit by a car is much more survivable than getting hit by an oversized pickup truck/SUV whose designers deliberately chose a huge, blunt frontal cross-section with poor visibility over the hood.

This deliberately unsafe design needs to be outlawed. Infrastructure improvements like traffic calming and dedicated grade-separated pedestrian/cyclist infrastructure are great too, but we need both.
SpaceX was founded in 2002 with help of a CIA agent named Mike Griffin ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career ) who funneled them funding (lots of citations at end of https://archive.ph/D2zIG ). Griffin worked for In-Q-Tel and also was the Deputy of Technology for the Strategic Defense Initiative, later started the Space Development Agency (SDA) which is to become Trump's SDI in 2025.

It was never about Mars. Look into the Mars Society leadership, they were military / Strategic Defense Initiative people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career#:~:t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Zubrin
A lot of people were speculating he would make his findings official and didn’t want to over share.
I do see a comment about his theory being debunked. That would be expected, the language used was a mashup of several existing languages, so it’s possible a lot of what was written is copy-pasta gibberish. However, the video points out of a lot of cultural aspects of the book which support a Romani origin.
Jumpcut: Make Your Clipboard Dance
Doesn’t help that cars weigh several tons now.
Historical:

"Why you need balls of steel to operate a tor exit node"

http://web.archive.org/web/20100414224255/http://calumog.wor...

The above is within the context of a western legal system, and certainly since it was written domestic law enforcement has become even more militarized and aggressive. I would be absolutely unsurprised if the same thing happened today and it resulted in a battering ram on the door at 0400 in the morning, flashbang grenades and the house being rampaged through by a SWAT team.
“NHTSA says the changes could save up to 67 lives every year.“

But there’s 40k deaths per year from auto accidents; so this is not going to move the needle.

If the problem is big trucks then maybe don’t penalize the sales of small trucks?
Amount of data makes it less realistic. We have around 2PB data currently and expect to grow around 1PB next year with maybe 10-30% annual growth rate.
There's an interesting whack-a-mole dynamic at play here, since, from what I've read, the proliferation of huge trucks is partly driven by regulations in the first place -- fuel efficiency standards are less stringent for large trucks, the normal existing safety regs (which focus on the people insider the car) are easier to pass in large vehicles, and (tho this probably isn't a huge driver) there are business tax write-offs that only apply to vehicles above a certain weight.
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Well for one, they got "free" marketing for PS3 by getting it associated with supercomputer performance.

At least in Germany's nerd circles Sony's behaviour rather lead to "so nie" jokes (explanation of "so nie": when you pronouce "Sony" with the first syllable like you would pronounce a German word, stress the second syllable, and put a little break between the syllables, it sounds like "so nie" [German for "never this way"]), and lots of people used this "little different" prounciation of "Sony" to express their disgust for Sony's behaviour. This "guerilla pronounciation" of "Sony" helped to spread quite some reputational damage of Sony among hackers and tech enthusiasts in Germany.
I'm not sure how a Tor exit node could operate legally. Tor is widely used for illegal activities. Like drug sales and CSE media. If a government goes on Tor, downloads such material they'll easily see the exit node as the last hop in the chain. It's a clear-cut case that the exit node operator facilitated illegal activity.

My assumption is that Germany has some sort of common-carrier privileges for Tor node operators. In America, telecoms can't be sued for facilitating illegal activity. But they do have to assist law enforcement with finding criminals when requested.

Would be happy to hear from someone who is more knowledgeable in this area.
https://archive.ph/IyLgw
This looks a lot like SMILES [1], which is another serialization scheme.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Molecular_Input_Lin...
It's never good to be in a car accident but safety standards for cars have _dramatically_ reduced traffic fatalities for _passengers_ and I'm sure standards can improve pedestrian survivability, too. There's lots you can do with traffic engineering, too, to make high speed accidents less likely with pedestrians.
Imagine if starting in the 1950's we'd spent on the money we spent on nukes on solar instead.
it might be interesting to look at some standard for workflows like CACAO to express what a workflow is. that way, workflows can ultimately become shareable between such workflow execution engines, and have common workflow editors. its (in cyber) a big problem that workflows cannot be shared between different systems which adds great costs to implementing such a system (need to redesign or design all workflows from the ground up). I think workflows and easy editors to assemble and connect steps are a good step ahead in any automation domain, but everywhere people want to reinvent the wheel of expressing what a workflow is.

definitely a fan of what these types of systems can do in replay/recovering and retying steps etc. as well as centralizing a lot of didferent workloads to a common execution engine.
> now we have a second example of a system that uses language, and it is dumbfounding

An LLM 'uses' language, in the same sense that a calculator 'uses' arithmetic. It's a figure of speech.
No, once you have union representation here, the company can not legally negotiate individually with members. That's an unfair labor practice!

What actually happens is prevailing trends basically continue. Management can still hire people, etc. but must continue more or less as before unless they are willing to negotiate those specific changes.
Do you have a link to an OEM with the 6-10k cycle spec?

State of the art moves quickly not long ago projects were budgeting for new batteries every 5 years in order to be able to meet energy guarantees
The most obvious pressure would be China's space exploration program. If it turns out that there's useful stuff outside our atmosphere, America doesn't want their economic rival in control of it.

Also - if our species doesn't make it off-planet before the current one is rendered uninhabitable, it's curtains for us all. So that's a pressure of a sort.
Andrej Karpathy has very good video tutorials on how to write your own GPT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY
Much of Look To Windward was on an Orbital with 50 billion inhabitants, four billion simultaneous mind uploads stored in the hub, the hub Mind described having billions of distinct thoughts in any given second and separately being described as capable of simultaneous conversation with all inhabitants.

A Culture Mind losing a single human(oid) isn't like having a pet run away, it's like losing an eyelash — your peers may comment about the "bald patch" if you lose a lot all at once, but not any single individual one.

Yet at the same time, these Minds are written to care very much indeed: this particular Mind was appalled at having killed the 3492 (of 310 million) who refused to evacuate three other Orbitals that needed to be destroyed in the course of a war.
Having a Lead Federal Agency (FAA's role here) during permitting is a very common and positive thing. It helps avoid the left hand not talking to the right hand when permits from multiple agencies are required for a single activity.

If they were separate SpaceX couldn't just ignore the lack of EPA permit and launch anyway just because they have an FAA permit, and by having them coordinated it decreases run-around from different agencies giving conflicting demands. SpaceX would likely face more delays not fewer if the FAA wasn't acting as a Lead Federal Agency here.

https://www.achp.gov/digital-library-section-106-landing/fre...

https://www.epa.gov/nepa/what-national-environmental-policy-...
$50K if needed but it doesn’t look to need that. 2PB initial data. predicted 1PB/year with around 10-30%/year rate of growth of rate of growth (acceleration?)
I think it's a combination of that and curtain air bags which are often packaged on the pillars. And of course the rollover requirements are predominantly due to SUVs and trucks being so high off the ground (needlessly most of the time) they are more susceptible to rollover.

Minimal visibility requirements around A pillars (and in front of the car/over the hood) sound like the logical next step.
The Regime of Capital
In the end, usability wins. In a Jupyter notebook, you have a much better idea of state between cells, you can iterate much faster, you can write documentation in readable markdown. Often, Jupiter notebooks are more like interactive markdown than they are like python scripts.
Is there enough money to afford the proposed pay raises? 6% profit margin isn't much. Granting the proposed pay raises to both groups could easily put the company in the red.
How about non-online stores? In the US many major chain stores have their own brands. For example in grocery stores Safeway has their Signature Select brand, and Walmart has Great Value. In electronics Best Buy has Insignia, and Walmart has Onn.

Do major EU retailers do the same?
> I'm not sure how a Tor exit node could operate legally. Tor is widely used for illegal activities.

How do ISPs operate legally? Every single thing that's ever been done over a Tor relay has crossed multiple ISPs.
OK whats next. Regulate everything?

Geez your computer looks to be using alot of power.

We need people to register their computer to estimate your computer footprint.

Then we can regulate it.
It's silly looking at modern trucks and trucks from the 80s with the exact same bed size and similar engine performance. New trucks are just huge, and it's just there because for the cool factor among their customer base.

Actually using a F-150 sized truck to do work (almost nobody does) is considerably harder because of how high off the ground it is and more difficult to maneuver because if its size/height. And the cost is just absurd.
I wonder why they don’t target the kremlin?

The quote from the Russian official about “attacking neighborhoods” is doublethink at its finest.
Union negotiation isn't always about money, though it is usually part of it. It's also about working conditions and benefits.

Also you can get a raise without "costing" anything extra in the expense column, such as fewer working hours for the same pay/benefits.
Too little.

I don’t want it to be more survivable when someone is hit by a 6 foot tall hood 7500 pound truck someone is using to go grocery shopping.

I don’t want 6’ tall hoods. I’m 6’ tall and sitting in my small SUV the hoods of new trucks are over my eyeline. That’s insane.

Put limits on hood height. Put limits on weight. Or at least huge taxes. You want to pay an extra $149,000 in fees for your monstrosity? Go ahead. Either you’re ultra-rich or you’re really using it and it’s not a suburban vanity truck.

Limit length. Limit footprint. Limit weight. Repeal the chicken tax. Things are crazy out there. GMC added cameras to the front of some of their trucks to be able to see pedestrians at crosswalks. How is that sane?
> Why should a principal SWE there get paid less than a senior SWE working on Google News, for instance?

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28GOOGL%2C+NYT%29+reve...

(GOOGL, NYT) revenue per employee

Alphabet Class A Shares | $1.815 million (US dollars)
New York Times Company | $422656.27 (US dollars)
Part of the reason I sadly stopped running any exit nodes was law enforcement harassment.

I ran a few exits for about about ~5 years. In those 5 years, my hosting provider (DigitalOcean) received 3 subpoenas for my account information.

The first two were random. The 1st one was someone sent a bomb threat email to a university. The 2nd one was someone sending a phishing email.

The last and final subpoena was the most serious one. Some nation-state hackers from Qatar had ended up using my exit IP to break into some email accounts belonging to people they were interested in and spied upon them and stole some info.

Thankfully both the Tor Project and the EFF were able to help me pro-bono. The EFF lawyer that was assigned to me helped me fight this subpoena but ultimately we had to turn over my account information to the DOJ + I had to give an affidavit stating that I was simply just an operator and nothing on the server in question would be useful to their investigation (by design).

The stress of having to deal with law enforcement, lawyers, and having to entertain the possibility of having my home raided over something so silly ultimately led to me finally shutting down my exits.

Even though I had all of my exits using a reduced exit policy and I would blacklist known malicious IPs and c2/malware infra from being able to use it, I was still a target.

I feel law enforcement realizes this is a big weakness they can target since a lot of Tor exit operators are individuals with not a lot of resources to fight them. They can use the legal system to scare operators into shutting down.

I one day hope to resume running exits as I find it rewarding to be able to help people from around the world in a small way.
[dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41457329
> How do ISPs operate legally?

I described exactly that in my second paragraph.
> why do we care about a body of water on the other side of the planet?

Just how close geographically must a body of water be for us to care about it? Or might there be other criteria?
Finally some action from the NHTSA on this. As a driver of tiny Japanese shitboxes my entire life the last ten years of new vehicle development has been terrifying to watch from the driver's seat. Not only are these new (last 10 years) trucks and SUVs absurdly large and growing bigger, the sightlines from their driver seats are so bad pedestrians and small cars are largely invisible. Here's to hoping the car bloat arms race gets damped a bit with legislation stemming from the NHTSA's push.
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Your computer is not unsafely designed in a way that kills tens of thousands of people a year in accidents.

Also, your computer's power consumption is in fact regulated on a semi-voluntary basis via a program called Energy Star. People are fine with it because Energy Star certification saves them money. By contrast, the problem with trucks is that their unsafe design is subsidized by the government, so smaller more efficient vehicles that would normally save people money end up being penalized.
Heavier car = bigger pillars, yep. Add in higher window lines (due to raised SUV hoods, I imagine) and it’s so much harder to see out modern cars.
What we really need to figure out, to fix pedestrian fatalities in the US, is to fix whatever perverse incentives there are that lead to the traffic engineering practices that make so much of America dangerous to walk in. Optimizing for the ease of driving through places at expense of almost everything else, has lead to a lot of bad outcomes, not just for pedestrian fatalities, but just general livability in the US.
It then goes on to explain right afterwards that the key thing the transformer does is rely on a mechanism called attention. It makes more sense in that context IMO.
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And much much more: https://unixdigest.com/articles/choose-your-browser-carefull...

Keep in mind that this isn't for everyone.
At least VW and BMW have certainly received state aid in the past, mostly around opening new factories, but I can’t find anything where they got specific aid during Covid. Of course they were able to use support that’s open to all companies, e.g. Kurzarbeit, but that’s not considered state aid in the EU context.
it would be really cool if we’d have a clubhouse-style gen-ai feed for hn or reddit comments to listen to.

to me
The cybertruck, despite being big, optically does not appear as big as many of these huge Ford pickup trucks
This is one of those unintended consequences where things be came safer for passengers, but more dangerous for those outside the vehicle.
> In the South China Sea for instance all countries apart from Thailand have been colonies of Western countries.

And that's relevant, why? I mean, the present-day United States used to be colonies of Great Britain, France, Spain, and Russia.
ISPs cooperate with law enforcement and often happily give out the information for people doing illegal things on their networks. I realize that operators of Tor exit nodes likely can't help track people on the Tor exit nodes, but I doubt law enforcement cares, they just see it as "not helping" while they see ISPs as "helping."
The tools do exist but they cost $. There aren't many people lining up to pay for testing or remediation if testing shows something's there. It's not that folks want to drink poison, they just don't have many choices.

Might have better luck imposing testing on rental properties.
Great advice. Thank you very much.
> fuel efficiency standards are less stringent for large trucks

Worth nothing that those standards were begged, pleaded, demanded, cried and shitted for on the part of every major US automaker before they were passed, and it was only after that/because of that that every major automaker began working like hell to sell the American public on SUVs and trucks. Simple fact is that full-size trucks are the only vehicle category that Detroit is able to compete on (less so now than then, but then this was extremely true) after they got their asses roundly handed to them by the various Asian ones that did cars, vans, and MPVs much better.

US automakers bet the farm on building ever larger and more ridiculous vehicles for Americans because it was just easier than competing with the Japanese/Koreans on a fair field.

I hope like hell this goes somewhere and we can get these stupid things under control. Feels like every Tom, Dick, and Harry around where I live is driving a 3-ton or greater truck that's never seen anything more strenuous than getting a load of fertilizer for mom's garden, and like, that's fine. But their choices in vehicles are putting negative externalities all over the community and risking everyone's safety, including their own children, and it's fucking ridiculous.
This is the biggest thing IMHO. Same with games. Buy should mean buy.
large suvs are to protect the occupants. people jumping in front of it should not even factor in. I don't drive on sidewalks.
Just read Breath by James Nestor. You can thank me later. Fellow ran experiments on himself (and monkeys too) on exactly that, mousebreathing vs. nosebreathing. The difference is drastic. Catasthropically drastic.
Linux wasn't a thing by the time NT was in development. Hell, the GPL itself wasn't a thing when NT began development!
I'll look into it. thanks a lot.
> broad support in the US for gutting the national government

I support balancing the federal budget. Since the US government spends roughly twice its revenue, achieving balance would realistically require unprecedented "gutting" of some agencies.

However, I question the idea of "broad support" for such gutting. Regardless of who wins elections, the federal deficit, federal budget, federal employment rolls, federal tax code etc, have only ever increased. Nothing has interrupted this pattern for as long as I've lived.

I don't know of "broad support" for anything except complaining about it.
This list disagrees with "poorer countries":
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/tax-haven...

1 British Virgin Islands
2 Cayman Islands
3 Bermuda
4 Netherlands
5 Switzerland
6 Luxembourg
7 Hong Kong
8 Jersey
9 Singapore
10 United Arab Emirates
Absolutely. Being able to get mass to orbit at orders of magnitude less cost than competing nations (China, Russia, India, ...) is of paramount strategic importance. This touches communications, intelligence, space exploration, orbital resource extraction, moon bases and all sorts of other things that have tremendous economic, military and societal impact.
Just another reason I would never buy a Ford vehicle.