skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His take on nuclear is that of a nuclear expert.

His take on nuclear's competitors and hence its relative competitiveness as an electricity source is substantially more nuclear bro / Fox News viewer.
I think it's also bad news for older actors. Do you think the terms include royalties for every performance in perpetuity?

I suspect this will reduce earning power of stars as much as new actors.
None of the Tom Clancy things claim to be by him or starring him. It's just "Tom Clancy's generic covert ops game". "Starring" definitely implies Bruce is actually in the film. I imagine an obvious work around would be "With Bruce Willis" or just "Bruce Willis" on the poster.
Reminds me of Stanislaw Lem’s The Congress film adaptation.
Where is the marketplace so I can sell my deep-fake-twin for royalties/whatever extra/swarm-of-zombies/porn whatever?
I liked how zooming and panning in one pane was automatically refkected in the other, nice.
Software, not hardware, will drive quantum and neuromorphic computing
I still have the email that Andy van Bergen wrote to the Hells 500 group in 2013, suggesting that we turn George Mallory’s notoriously epic training regime into a permanent cycling challenge. I was up for the bike ride but quietly skeptical that it would become a lasting phenomenon. In Andy’s words:

> “This epic is tough - but it will form the springboard for a new wave of endurance riding around the globe.”

Still, as part of the launch of Everesting as a standing challenge, I cleared six solo, unsupported repeats of Australia’s Mt Hotham in February 2014.

Then I slept for a week.

Fast forward to today, and it’s evident that I was wrong and Andy was right. There are nearly twenty-three thousand Everestings documented in the official hall of fame, and no doubt more unrecognised besides. I guess it’s a combination of being just-about-achievable, with constraints that help focus the effort without compromising the difficulty, plus the enjoyable imagery associated with the branding.

Will I do it again? Probably not, but if you’re interested, then let it be known that no great athletic gifts are required, and with adequate preparation and mindset a very average cyclist (such as myself) can pull it off.
That's interesting. I wonder if they will periodically update the data set to reflect new posts.
I will retract my criticism. Admittedly after dealing with the Mises Caucus I got sensitive to comments on left libertarianism. Thank you for the clarification
Right. I grew up in the eighties, and I was culturally aware that Fred Astaire was important, but he held absolutely no draw for me. My kids will certainly recognize Willis but not care that he's in new material.
Is that not a good idea?
Phil Gaimon, a retired professional cyclist, has a nice channel where he covers the topic first hand, so to say

https://youtube.com/watch?v=o8vUv4uzfxI
After the lazy dumpster fire atrocious port they did for PC, I guess anything can be a miracle
> Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the new robot should be able to walk within the next few weeks

Further down...

> Tesla revealed that it had the first prototype in February of 2022, which led to this new version that is now supposedly about to walk in the next few days.

I can see this yet another cybertruck/hyperloop/solarcity Muskery... guy is the saint patron of smokeware at this point.
StableHorde – Crowdsourced distributed cluster of Stable Diffusion workers
A Crowdsourced distributed cluster of Stable Diffusion workers. With amazing parallelism opportunities.

fully documented REST API: https://stablehorde.net/api

Client made with Godot.

Also an installation-free client: (run in web or download)

https://dbzer0.itch.io/stable-horde-client

Free to use - but 'joining the horde' with your gpu will get you 'kudos', increasing your priority when generating.

Credits
Db0 ( https://dbzer0.com/ )

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“Gaming for everyone”

It was never available in my country of 120+ million people.
Show HN: A tool to test investment strategies that are popular on Reddit
For the last four weeks I have been building a tool where with a simple drag and drop UI, you can test all of the strategies you keep seeing on social media to verify if they really work.

It takes only 30 sec to test a trading strategy, instead of hours if you were to test it manually or programmatically.

Here are some interesting findings:

If you were to invest in whatever Nancy Pelosi is investing, using the tools available to an average investor you would lose money. She has 45 days to make her trades public.

If you were to invest every month in a stock that has positive sentiment on Reddit, you would on average either make a few percentage points of return more, or lose less. I guess: people post that they like the new iPhone -> people buy the new iPhone -> stock price goes up. I am not sure what the relation is.

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I will be extremely thankful for any feedback.
Why the fixation on younger people? People who aren’t Gen Z and younger still go to movies. It’s not a medium exclusively for young people.
Cause you are watching american TV
Florida farms are underwater and without power delaying critical planting season
Of dear God, I had to use Concur at a previous job. What a nightmare.
Normalizing this will change the industry. How soon until the studios start manufacturing digital actors so they don't have to pay humans? They won't have the star power that human A-listers do, but with enough investment and exposure on screen, they could manufacture a pseudo-B-lister then start printing money.
> This is interesting, but it also stands to really weaken actors.

First mover advantage. I look at Bruce Willis cutting this deal like music artists in the 50's-60's who made a good returns on their recording contracts while artists of today sign '360 deals' named as such because the rights owners own everything while the artist makes a pittance, often most profitably from performance and merch.
Things missing that I think would have to be added before this could become a widely used standard:

* Variable bitrate. For many uses, the goal isn't 'fill this channel', but instead 'transmit this audio stream at the best quality possible'. That means filling the channel sometimes, but other times transmitting less data (ie. When there is silence, or when the entropy of the speech being sent is low - for example the user is saying something very predictable).

* Handling all types of audio. Even something designed for phone calls will occasionally be asked by users to transmit music, sound effects, etc. The codec should do an acceptable job at those other tasks.
Google owns the product that they are advertising in Chrome as well I think.

That doesn't make it any better really!

Afaik both Firefox and Chrome are advertising their own products in the browser at this point in time, so there isn't a whole lot of options to escape this. Maybe Linux distros could patch some of this stuff out or disable it via default settings at least.
Yes, people are exceptionally critical and skeptical of things promising them they’ll get to speak to loved ones again. That’s why nobody ever fell for seances or facilitated communication.
Is sharpie not still brand specific?
They’re also looking for repeat successes. If they give money to a founder early on and they have a hit - there’s a good chance they’ll want to found another company and they’ll have another hit.
Is this algorithm published?
Every PR I have worked on starts with some good commits but then they become useless when review happens and a bunch of commits that are essentially “do the suggested thing”. Better to just squash it all in to one commit for the whole PR.

Ideally the PR is small enough to be logical as one commit.
Nuclear is not just a little bit more expensive but more like an order of magnitude. And as cost for renewables continues to drop, that might turn into two orders of magnitude.

Small nuclear reactors might reduce the cost a little; but a little is not nearly enough. Cost needs to come down by at least an order of magnitude for it to at least somewhat keep up. Anything else is just not going to be cost competitive. And that's a problem when renewables are still dropping rapidly in price.
Perhaps. Security teams in general (including the ones at Google) are in the business of compromises. Sometimes they end up making the wrong ones. Many of the people I know who are at Google joined, at least in part, to be in a position to help the company do better.

Disclaimer: I work on security there.
How do you forbid the ones with resolution?

Genuine question because it seems like merge commits are a black hole where anything could happen and no one would notice.
Presumably their fans will still get old and die so these likenesses will only be valuable as long as the fans of the “living” actor are alive.

But this also opens the door to a Mickey Mouse type of situation. Perhaps in 50 years Bruce Willis will be “its” own franchise.
I always wonder how actors are insured while filming a big production. And what logistics or prep is in place for the case of their death. Well, in the future there will be a contractual clause and a 3D scanning session at production start…
It's a can-of-worms topic...
Negative, I am a Meat Popsicle.
Wow it has HN in the video! Anybody else notice that?
Microsoft tried with Edge V1, and gave up when Google online services started sabotaging it.
No respect for the end user? Drug dealers can be some of the realest people out there :)
You won't get to the point where neo-nazis demonstrate inability to participate in a civil community following guidelines and etiquette. The mere tolerance of them will drive legitimate users away, people by large DO NOT practice freedom of speech. Ignoring that reality is an ideological fantasy, you either blacklist or will be blacklisted.
Have fun reading that comment out loud in 1 second.
I honestly don't think it's coming through to people just how limited the Switch hardware really is. Sure, it is a modern machine, but the frame budget is just nothing compared to most home consoles. The Tegra X1 was a pretty decent mobile SoC... For 2015. And the one in the switch actually runs at a lower clock speed than NVIDIA was running it at before. The crowning achievement for the X1 was that it could technically boot UE4 games, but frankly as evidenced by a lot of Switch titles, it doesn't do all that well if the developers don't put a lot of effort into optimizing it. Nintendo is overall pretty good at making stuff that looks good on their own hardware, but porting games designed to run on other flagship consoles to the Nintendo flagship seems like it has been quite a challenge for the past ten years or so.

> Miracle? Eh. I'd rather pick up the PS4 copy for half the price and enjoy the game. It's not really a game designed to be played on a bus.

This is more of a nitpick but the Nintendo Switch definitely is made with Japan in mind. I am not a cultural expert on Japan by any means but it surely seems like people living near city centers have quite little space to work with, leading to folks using iPad setups instead of desktop or laptop computers. The Switch is certainly compelling in this regard, if you don't have much space for a comfortable TV setup at home. I think viewed through this lens, the contortions make a lot more sense. This also explains why Valve has been pushing very hard in Asia in general with the Steam Deck, and aggressively pricing it as well.
> Without knowing the financials of this deal it's hard to evaluate the ridiculousness of it.

I don’t find it ridiculous at all.

Bruce Willis didn’t retire because he was old or bored, he retired because he has aphasia. This isn’t the next step in his career - it’s the next step in his estate planning.
It’s the generally accepted analog for the general population
William David MacAskill – Philosopher and Ethicist
Responding to comments that you think aren’t appropriate with your own invective is not particularly appropriate either.
That's very interesting. Would it be okay for me to ask how it is possible that you have never been on a plane? Is it due to you being very young, or afraid of flying, or living in a part of the world where flying is uncommon?
Michaelmas
Ask HN: How do you manage hard coded passwords and keys in your codebase?
I got the request to put a global admin into our app, with access to all tenants. The Tenants all have separate databases and a global admin would have to be implemented with a migration on all databases including the password.

This however is not a good solution. Normally we inject secrets via environment variables, but is there a better way? I heared of secrets management engines, but you also need a shared secret to connect to these two. Do I trade many micro secrets for one big secret than?

Or do I just declare my codebase and the server as secure and announce that if someone has access to these components already owns the company?
Mark Hamill joins forces with Zelensky for Ukraine drone project
No, I don't know what you are referring to.
13th floor * 10 times * 18 repetitions…

Yes, just a simple climb up 2340 stories and you’ll have climbed an Everest equivalent.

By the way, you’d still be quite a bit short if your building’s stories were a more average 3m tall.
I agree with you in the most general sense.

Someone's "accurate history" is just noise to everyone else.

Squash and cherry-pick your commits to a public repository, people.

Now, multiple people working in parallel is something else, but many times a long set of code experiments is not valuable history.
Brandon Lee more so
How is this asymmetry justified? By how pithy and strong the statement sounds?
DCOM. The Guantanamo Bay of distributed computing.

Still not as bad as QuickTime.
So the machine can read thoughts?

Is that what I'm understanding from this?
> I suspect that if you work at Google you have plenty of other career options before reaching the point where your family has to starve.

Not always.

> And to the journalists out there who are hypothetically using gmail to communicate with confidential sources: please stop.

Uh, no.
^ In case anyone is interested in learning more, the first part of what vmoore is doing is termed back-translation.
I did mean Ballmeresque. To be honest, it was the first over the top sales person I could think of, I don’t necessarily know if he lied.
Ideas are a dime a dozen, but workmanship costs real time and money. No sane investor will touch a company that lacks the resources to complete their project. The number one warning sign a company is doomed, is when the senior technical staff jump ship.

Also, many successful co-founders end up hating each other by the end of a project, and often end up in epic legal battles. Getting your contracts clearly settled early does help prevent tax shenanigans that can hit a small firm hard. Example: if an ex-employee claims dependent contractor status on a return, than a business could be on the hook for a $70k government tax/pension bill.

Founders syndrome is an ugly disease, that quickly rots a firm back into a $90k glass-ceiling business. ;)
FWIW GPL was an example, I honestly don’t know whether it applies to the particular case.
Is there evidence that Brave or your preferred Chromium build reproduce the compiler etc tooling that official Chrome supposedly uses for speedbumps to hinder exploiting their memory safety vulnerabilities?
I think you can still se his twin in Once upon a time in Hollywood.

https://youtu.be/tlUuNg6PEXA
> Take any movie and add diCaprio in the cast , and he ll now be overshadowing anyone, forever.

Why? There’s no guarantee a deepfake performance will be any good.
Journalists can make personal choices but they are not always in a position to mandate the methods of communication used by the people they talk to. This is similar to why “use a dumb phone and never connect to the internet” is not a feasible solution for those targeted by state-sponsored attacks.
A relevant context if someone didn’t read the article

> Earlier this year, Willis announced he would be stepping away from acting following a career spanning over 40 years, due to aphasia, which he was recently diagnosed with. The condition affects controls language expression and comprehension over time.
> Better to just squash it all in to one commit for the whole PR.

Absolutely not. It's better to edit your PR to contain suggested changes in a clear, atomic history before presenting it for another round of review. Why would I want to present commits that "do the suggested thing" to the reviewer in the first place? That doesn't make any sense and it shouldn't pass the review.
If snake-oil salesmanship is all it takes to land rockets vertically and single-handily kickstart the transition to EVs I'm all for it. We need more snake-oil salesmen leading corporate America!
> What's the value prop of having the merge-commit in the history for you?

The merge commit contains the sha values of the parent commits. For example, if merged a branch that could otherwise be a fast forward merge using the --no-ff option, then you get a merge commit, but the commit does not change any of the files compared to the HEAD commit of the branch you merged.

Having the parent commit sha values allows you to see the commits that were in the branch that was merged even after it's merged. For example

git log merge-commit^1..merge-commit^2

Would show the commits made in that branch. Or you could run

git diff merge-commit^1..merge-commit^2

to get the overall diff introduced by the commits in that branch.

> These days, I usually advocate "squash & merge"

The disadvantage of doing that is that those commits can't be reverted easily (without conflicts). If the commits were separate, it's easier to revert a single one since it affects fewer files or lines within a file.
People want openness, transparency, freedom, participation regardless of whether they are CEOs or not. Now HN's got it.
“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.” Mark Twain
Your comment is baffling. You ask, 'How is "retaliating against criticism" contradictory to free speech?', then spend the rest of your comment explaining why it's good to not retaliate against criticism.

Did you mean to ask and answer your own question? If that was your intent it sure wasn't clear. Do you not know what "retaliate" means, even with the context clue of threatening lawsuits against journalists? Is your first paragraph meant to be entirely causally disconnected from the rest? If so I kind of have to respect it, but it would sure help to give us some clues because that is not a conventional writing structure. What, in short, are you trying to say?
Just require the merged branch to be fast-forwardable (but don't actually fast-forward it). If it's not, it will be obviously visible in `git log --graph`.
Interesting that he was in that film Surrogates...
I faffed around forever with lisp and bash and perl, never really getting it. Eventually I read one of these “Learn C++ in 30 Days” books and it just clicked.

Today I would recommend getting Copilot and just start typing :)
Maybe it’s a good thing. It’s about time the modern “nobility” comes from some other field.
Definitely not required, but it’s a fun pastime for many. Kind of like how bullet chess relates to the professional game.
“The Congress” is precisely on point: It’s a movie by Robin Wright (2014) about actors signing off their numeric rights to a corporation, and going to a congress to meet other virtualized actors. It made me extremely sad, because it shows what happens when everyone lives in an illusion. It’s really hard to describe the movie, as it’s so unexpected, but so aligned with today’s Bruce Willis signing off his deepfake rights.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/zkDyKWKNeaE
What does that mean? Because they very much are not in the literal sense.
There were various rumours about Willis suffering from early dementia, and was "handled" by family and managers in his last couple of productions to drain as much money as possible - while he supposedly was almost not aware what whas going on. I might imagine that this sale of rights could also be purely financially motivated by those behind-the-scenes actors.
Ah yes, ‘Bruce Willis’ sold his deepfake likeness. Definitely not his agent or family taking advantage of him.
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/bruce-w...
The perennial Google Reader mention makes me feel obligated to mention that there are still many blogs alive and well and with RSS feeds. You can still do it, and there are so many reader applications. My recommendation is The Old Reader (basically a GR clone), and Reeder on iOS (syncs to stuff like The Old Reader)

Yes there are no RSS feeds for Twitter or FB. But there’s a lot for a lot of places. I’ve never found a website where I wanted an RSS feed and where it wasn’t available (absent maybe FB, where a feed for my closest friends would be nice)
Willis has been confined to "geezer teasers" [1] for the last decade or so because he has progressive aphasia, a condition that made it very hard for him to learn and adequately deliver lines and has now forced him to step away from acting entirely.

However, he leaves behind a very long back catalog of screen appearances as training data and substantial name recognition, which makes him a near-perfect candidate to be the first mover here.

[1] https://www.vulture.com/article/randall-emmett-movies.html
> > For example, Gentoo Linux, another community driven distribution, cannot and will not redistribute proprietary software at all.

> This is quite a poorly chosen example since Gentoo will not ship binaries period. To this day I don't think there is an official host for binary packages (binhost).

This is incorrect. The original statement by the blogger, though a bit ambiguous, is technically entirely correct.

While shipping binary packages is not the norm for Gentoo, some binary packages are available and Gentoo absolutely does provide and redistribute a selected number of binary packages (not as binhost but as ebuilds). Examples including firefox-bin, icedtea-bin, chromium-bin, or pypy-bin. The tarballs of these binary packages are built by Gentoo developers and hosted on the official Gentoo servers and mirrors.

On the other hand, the official Portage package manager also has many proprietary software available for installation. But in this case, only the ebuild script can be hosted, putting the actual tarballs on official Gentoo servers and mirrors is strictly prohibited. Only the raw upstream source can be used. A common example is Google Chrome. Another peculiar one is Oracle JRE/JDK - for a long time, the Gentoo ebuild was not even allowed to automatically download Oracle Java. Instead, the ebuild asks the user going to Oracle, agreeing with the license, and downloading it manually and putting it into Portage's cache. All because of legal requirements that must be obeyed by Gentoo.

This is what the author mean by Gentoo "cannot and will not redistribute proprietary software at all".
Microsoft: New Exchange zero-day bugs under active attack but no immediate fix