skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of these USB pedals are about as sturdy as piano sustain pedals.

More literally though, the Logidy UMI3[1] is a MIDI-over-USB foot controller that uses guitar pedal-like switches. It's designed to serve as a hardware interface to software loop control, but you can use a MIDI yoke or translator[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] to turn MIDI input into keystrokes, game input, etc.

1: https://www.logidy.com/umi3

2: Using just `aseqdump` to capture input, `xdotool` to simulate keystrokes, and a 7-line shell script to glue them together: https://superuser.com/questions/1170136/translating-midi-inp...

3: https://www.bome.com/products/mtclassic

4: http://www.varal.org/ttymidi/

5: https://midikey2key.de/

6: https://hautetechnique.com/midi/midishortcut/

7: https://github.com/xobs/midi-to-keypress (Rust, Linux/macOS/Windows, open source)

8: https://charlie-roberts.com/midiStroke/, https://github.com/charlieroberts/midiStroke/ (macOS, open source)
>dnf offline upgrades

Do I understand correctly that it is based on systemd's offline upgrade mode, i.e. installation is done at the following boot? If so, you can do that on Ubuntu too. I'm not sure how (perhaps by invoking apt-offline?), but at least KDE Discover does it on Kubuntu.
> You are seriously acting as if money in politics solves everything and as if in most of the world energy supply was not driven fundamentally by state policy.

Certainly not! But money helps, a lot.

> So to act as if wind and solar just happened to be cheap and profitable and nuclear just happened to be expensive is simply a misreading of history.

Nuclear is inherently expensive, when done well. You don't exactly find a company making nuclear reactor vessels in your local neighborhood. Yeah, you can do it "on the cheap" without say, a containment building, but that turns out not to be a great idea. So got to make one of those, at a considerable expense renewables get to miss on. Plus a few other safety technologies.

Solar and wind aren't inherently expensive. They're both made of common components and are extremely amenable to mass manufacturing. Long term, nuclear was always sure to lose. Even the USSR-style, dangerous designs aren't cheap enough.
The guy has become polarizing even to those who don't give a damn about Twitter but share his ideas on other things.
So, what if the the purpose is to attract on Twitter those supporters of him who still don't have an account there, so that essentially he'll build a monocultural echo chamber ready to be used for politics when time comes?

"Hey, everyone sign up on Twitter right now! Elon is having a poll to decide if he should resign from head of Twitter!"
I don't think he can quit. What does it say about you if you behave this way then flake out. People are going to start looking at Tesla and SpaceX and thinking, Jeez will this guy continue to deliver into the future. Elon is starting to become a risk, generally.
There's a pretty big market for "who cares if it's secretly 10 under the hood, continue supporting XP/7, I'll pay to not deal with all this anti user shit and unasked for changes in 8/10"
He has blocked almost everyone. He has blocked extremely well respected researchers and academics at top institutes who don't even follow him or even haven't tweeted at him just because he disagrees with his views. He once blocked someone for praising danish pastry.

https://mobile.twitter.com/search?f=top&q=lex%20fridman%20bl...
Paul finally got a taste of his own medicine? Good.
> Robyn Fenty, known to the world as Rihanna, launched Fenty Beauty in 2017, she sought to create a cosmetics company that made “women everywhere (feel) included.” A perhaps unintended consequence: The beauty line has helped her enter one of the world’s most exclusive ranks: Billionaire.

> Rihanna is now worth $1.7 billion, Forbes estimates—making her the wealthiest female musician in the world and second only to Oprah Winfrey as the richest female entertainer. But it’s not her music that’s made her so wealthy. The bulk of her fortune (an estimated $1.4 billion) comes from the value of Fenty Beauty, of which Forbes can now confirm she owns 50%. Much of the rest lies in her stake in her lingerie company, Savage x Fenty, worth an estimated $270 million, and her earnings from her career as a chart-topping musician and actress.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maddieberg/2021/08/04/fentys-fo...

She is a business mogul in the best sense of the word, just in industries far away from here.
Sorry but I really think you're off base here. It's true that politically minded users (or partisans of any strong cause) tend to flag stories from the side they don't like. But it's also true that many HN users flag stories that they think don't belong on HN, given the site guidelines. You can tell the two categories apart by their flagging histories. I looked at a bunch of the flags on the OP—not all, because there was a massive number of them—and saw plenty of examples of the latter, including some from users who have been high-quality HN contributors for many years and never shown signs of politically motivated flagging.
I put zero stock in this. He's on a continuum, capricious to liar. I would not be surprised if the poll goes against him, he orders a minion to fake votes in his favor. I also wouldn't be surprised if people who vote against him get banned. shrug It's his fief.
I think power can in fact corrupt, but I think the simpler explanation in many cases (as it almost certainly is with Elon and Twitter) is that the expressed ideals were in fact complete bullshit and despotic tyranny was always the intended outcome. Noble ideals are always a good cover for less than noble goals, and while actual idealists definitely exist, everything Elon Musk has ever said or done suggests it's smart to assume he's in the former camp until proven otherwise.
I completed a quick sketch of an idea and immediately realized I would need a software engineer to prototype the concept. I reached out to a few developer friends, but most were heads down on other projects. So before I threw in the towel on my idea, I decided that maybe I should give ChatGPT a try.
To be fair, the bloke is just human. Unfortunately we don't need humans running big old corps and media outfits or even simple businesses.

I'm not sure how you can have a "charismatic" individual run something like Twitter. Your charisma might be my anathema but a PR department waffling platitudes will probably work.

A dictator will always want to dabble. We are looking at some fundamentals here. Twitter run by whim and not rule. The world's media has basically gone all in on Twitter but it needs to get a grip.

I suspect the best thing for Twitter is to exclude the owner from participating. We all have far bigger fish to fry.
That's just false. It doesn't update, you have to run APT to do it.

Now if you run 'apt upgrade' and hit 'yes' without looking, you might be updating Firefox while it's running. Or maybe you use unattended-upgrades. Either way, not a Firefox issue.
This is completely useless. Who even uses `i` to enter insert mode?

I am almost always using one of the following instead:

- o: open new line below current line

- O: open new line above current line

- I: insert at beginning of current line

- A: append to end of current line

- cc: change current line

- C: change to end of line

- ci(: change in current parenthesis

- ci": change in double quotes

- ctX: change to character X

- cfX: change to found character X

Each of these will perform an action and leave you in insert mode after the action. Then using `.` you can repeat both the changing action and the insert, all in one keystroke. Obviously impossible to do if you only use `i` and `a`.

Vim is not about toggling modes. Vim is an entire language to express text transformation, that you can then repeat with `.`, or undo with "micro commits" to your file, traversing the history back and forward in sensible chunks instead of the usual chaos of Ctrl-Z in other editors. (You can even branch your undo history!)
Read up on the mechanism by which WannaCry spread and report back.
I had to look up the guy - turns out he's just some youtuber/influencer. Not surprised that MSM and most people don't care.
I run a desktop workstation with a UPS, its lead acid batteries are not infinite and don't like staying discharged, so at times shutting down quickly and cleanly is very important. The more I hear, the happier I am that I moved to Linux a decade and a half ago, and this general topic is a major reason I'm planning to go back to Debian after using Ubuntu LTS for my last two versions.
My post is downvoted, and I agree with the replies, so I think I've been misunderstood. I'm saying he has rowed back on free speech absolutism (which I personally don't agree with anyway), to limits on free speech. And those limits are arbitrary and not based on any ethical (or other!) framework.
Agreed. Leaving out Objective-C using Smalltalk’s object model is a huge oversight.
His high level vision was to create "X the everything app" in the style of mega-apps offered by Chinese tech giants. Not only does this vision require clearing massive regulatory hurdles, secure immense amount of capital funding, and acquire/build a highly diversified portofolio of companies covering multiple unrelated consumer sectors, there's probably nobody willing or capable to take that job.
For Windows 10 people: Microsoft PowerToys has a "remap keys" function within the Keyboard Manager. It's very convenient and easy to use.
I was actually thinking Joe Rogan.

Unfortunately Mr Kim is apparently unavailable because he’s on parental and nuclear rocket building leave for the time being.
I'm pretty sure Teslas keep their batteries heated to above cell-freezing level even without them being plugged in.
The expectation is that you would recharge it before the battery gets to low to continue heating.
What was the overlap of both products being commercially available? I didn't think it was too long.
Although I'm no fan of the acerbity of your other comments, that's an interesting observation. Presuming you speak of the US, I think there's an interesting tension between the notion of "holding our political leaders to a higher standard" and the fact that we vote these people in! That is, it's more likely that we vote for someone with a moral character as fallible as that of the average man, e.g. see Trump, Adlai Stevenson. It's a reversal of the private sector adage: "corporate culture is from the top down."
love it. The Emir right now could use a megaphone to deal with those pesky Belgians.
I do wonder if Elon has some ulterior, smarter motive, and his antics are just for show.

Like for instance, convincing people to move to Mastodon (a decentralized service) so that it becomes mainstream and censorship becomes harder.

Also that, words are cheap, so what Elon is doing isn't catapulting his net worth and reputation that much. The concrete actions he took (50% layoffs, Twitter Blue, suspending journalists but then unsuspending them) aren't too unhinged.

That being said, it's common to form long-winded conspiracies around the obvious truth. Extreme wealth, extreme recognition, and an army of yes-men have a really strong influence, maybe Elon is becoming insane.
It's like the net neutrality vote, but with a clown.
Yeah, I think this is a singular personality with outsized influence rather than an intentional playbook. And it's not that everyone's been telling him he's magic, but that his personality desires that feedback and that it's increasingly coming not from everyone but from a subset. If a solid part of that subset is let-it-burn/popcorn agitators, well, good luck! The plight of a $40B investment is somewhat in the hands therefore of people using the results as free entertainment.
I found Snap to be frustating. It's trying to address a real problem but imho it fails to make life easier. As soon as something breaks or goes wrong and I have to look under the hood, my mental model of how traditional Unix software managment "works" is almost useless.

Why can't something be coherent and powerful behind the scenes but slick up front for users who don't want to think too much about the complexities of software managment?
This is the issue you're trying to forcibly inject.

Well, no. Nobody forced El No, the current emperor of Twitter, to declare himself under no uncertain circumstances to be a "freeze peach absolutist". As the current grand poobah of tweeting his very public decrees are entirely relevant.
Elon’s attitude is hilarious because even highly technical people I know who tried mastodon thought the UX is overall beyond terrible and the complexity is too high and too weird for the average user.

Mastodon was not a threat to twitter. Elon is the only threat to twitter that matters.
I’m indifferent as to his position at Twitter, so could have voted no without internal conflict.

However, I voted yes because I want to see if he’ll honour his word, it’s more that yes is the active choice rather than any comment on his leadership.
> Because I thought they got paid the big bucks to make decisions.

To be fair to the lunatic currently in charge of Twitter, I don't think he's actually getting big bucks to be CEO, is he?
Well, that suggestion should then be upped to the whole polycule. After all, why not?
You can already do that with Vudu/iTunes/Amazon (maybe not the $5 part but sales fire off frequently enough for tv shows if you keep your eye out on Slickdeals / CheapCharts etc)
He's trying to bring back the New York/New England Exchange? Phantom Phreak would approve.
No, I'm just connecting the data points between what Musk says, and what he does. Mostly between what he does, actually.

If you think that this is a farce, that's because we are living in one. I suppose it is possible that he is trolling us with his moderation policies...

It's true that this generates relatively low-quality commentary, but it's not clear to me how a discussion of the behaviour of a man who says one thing, and does another can do otherwise.
There's nothing really fundamental about humans wanting cars. In European cities with a long history of public transit, people like public transit. In American cities where cars have been king for a long time and have almost never been pressured to build good public transit, people like cars. Public transit can be comfortable.

If vehicular use was required to be honestly offset, the comfortable thing that is the modern car and suburban sprawl would no longer be affordable.

I don't doubt that most people don't care, it's why we're in this mess in the first place. It's also why humanity is on track to lose a lot to the damage from climate change. I find myself wondering whether I care either, I appreciate the reminder that I'm simply going to lose even if I do.
Of all the suggestions of his internal mind-state, this one seems most likely to me. He needs a way to get out without quitting and being "forced" out when nobody can really do that is better than saying "fuck it" and walking away.
Not gonna lie, Marx is hard even for Marxists
He should not, obviously. He needs to run Twitter to the ground first. So far, it's been going beautifully.
Or... entities.

(I'm unsure of the fine detail of the cosmology of the weirder long-termists, but surely there is some sort of counter-basilisk)
Sure, coins can crash and turn to dust. But it doesn't change the fact its value is determined by the dollar. If the dollar crashes, bitcoin has 0 value. No one buys and sells in bitcoin so bitcoin has no real value at the end of the day. It solves no problem.
It will never gain significant popularity with UX failures like this.
looks like they're restored now, good call
It can be both.

Twitter's biz model is not his sweet spot.

In the chaos of that learning curve he can still take the piss.
That's what he says but then in his interview he just praises the person and then plays softball of same old questions like meaning of life, is universe simulation, what will AGI do etc. Few minutes in his interview of Kanya West was the only moment I recall he tried to diverge from this modus operandy.
Is the actual point of the bet to prove billionaires have too much money?
This bet would maybe make Elon Musk look more rational, but overall, it requires the Emir to look a bit weird. So I don't see how it would be an overall improvement?
Is it the fact they don't want anyone to question their belief system? Because that's what I see.

When they are questioned, they martyrize themselves to spark more outrage. (I'm a victim of the woke left!) And then use that as a crutch to deflect further criticism or questions.

If it wasn't Hunter Biden's Laptop, it would be something else, e.g. Pizzagate, Voting Machines, Mail-in Balloting, Fake school shootings, etc.

You can't blame the mainstream media if you're the one that's calling "wolf" over and over without facts.
What's worse, an oppressive regime, or an oppressive regime that quickly makes exceptions for the rich and famous?
TBH, I have no idea. I wasn't following this that closely. It just seems to have jumped the shark finally.
>, but his entire media empire is built around promulgating his (increasingly revanchist) politics.

Yes, I understand that and we know that WSJ leans more conservative than New York Times. Murdoch's empire reflects his worldview.

I mean "stay out of it" as in micro-managing day-to-day newspaper stories or writing constant op-eds to respond to his critics. That's the type of distracting minutiae that Elon has sucked himself into with hyper-reactive Twitter bans and incoherent replies with juvenile statements.
You would be taking snippets of code (that are potentially unparseable), concating them together and putting it in the prompt. The issue is that it would be kind of prompt the model has never seen before in the training data. Maybe it would work with some clever 0-shot prompt. But if you look at the fill in the middle paper from OpenAI for example, they specifically pretrain the model with that kind of data to make it work.

The live data is gonna be useful though ya. Is Copilot allowed to use it though under ToS?
Cars are really expensive. Buying a whole ass car that can _only_ be used for commuting is a luxury most people cannot afford. They need their vehicle for thier daily commute, but also for weekend trips, home depot hauls, towing, etc etc.

"Does this car only do 80% of what I need it to" is a valid question when so much money is on the line.
> inspiring disgust and loathing; repugnant.

It fits, and I’ll use it if I want, thanks. You’re the one bringing in comparisons to hitler, bizarrely enough.
I guess you are taking photographs. One should never try to store photographs with no loss. With a lossy format, like JPG or WebP, you can get 5x smaller file size, while giving up 0.000001% of the original information (which usually corresponds to specific values of noise, that are not important in practice).
The New Jersey and Oregon policy of not allowing self-service gas turns out to be the visionary policy for the future of transportation!
Let me just point out the obvious, as it seems to be completely escaping many people on here. Now that Musk owns Twitter, he can make the results of this poll anything he wants them to be.
What are you asking me for?
More dogmatic thinking. "If it's not perfect for my Alaskan hut north of the Arctic circle then......"

If you care about land use and is not using it to simply sow discontent mandate solar above parking. The US is a complete wasteland when you consider land use. Or simply build it together with agricultural use. Wind is perfect for that, solar may lower some crops output while increasing others.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/11/27/parking-domin...?

Next, start eating vegetarian.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/land-use-kcal-poore

> This goes without speaking of the carbon footprint of the carbonized industry necessary to grow solar production by 50x.

Great that we're aiming to decarbonize the industry.
Ask HN: Given its tech stack, why Mastodon?
So I spent the evening looking at what super simple blog applications were out there now (e.g Blot, Bear, if you know any similar give me a shout) and also started looking at all the microblogging options available (micro.blog, mastodon, pleroma etc). This lined up quite nicely given tonight's events and decided that running my own single user mastodon instance might be a good idea. I then started reading up on a comparison of mastodon and pleroma and how lightweight the latter is in comparison to mastodon which made me read up on mastodon's architecture some more. So my questions are as follows:

- How does Pleroma's language and architecture achieve feature parity with Mastodon without the resource consumption? Are tradeoffs being made or is the Phoenix and Erlang language and tools just that much better than Ruby on Rails?

- Why was Ruby on Rails selected for Mastodon and how has Mastodon become the most popular fediverse offering whilst running on 'old' web tech given that the early adopters were presumably very tech orientated people? Should we not be pushing for the 'next big thing' to be in Rust or Go or something else that's fast and performant?
Only half of the D-D reactions produce tritium. The other half produce He3 directly.
Sam Bankman-Fried Is Expected to Consent to Extradition from Bahamas
That's unlikely to be a economically viable price point.

DVDs used to cost about $20 / season, right? And digital purchase of shows (rather than subscriptions) when it used to be more of a thing was typically $2 / episode. Are you still game at those prices?
Does anyone have information on this?
I don't think Musk has to worry about renewing his prescription..

Or are you suggesting he gets an injection or so once a month?
It's fun to think about until you realize building the company/service portofolio that can support a mega-app would almost certainly attract ire from regulators even within the U.S., ignoring the amount of capital investment required to achieve it.

Plus, Uber/Spotify/Doordash/Yelp can barely turn a profit as-is. What incentives will the everything app offer to pull consumers away from these existing competitors other than subsidizing the services with VC money, which would only worsen profitability and sustainability?
Two biggest news in the world of any football today: 1) Argentina winning the World Cup (congratulations!), and 2) Tom Brady winning for Bengals.
Haha, funny response, but I did say the details matter ;-)

I may be projecting my own ideas onto "everything". When Elon took over Twitter, I was inspired by his idea, and combined with concepts from some projects I'm working on, over two weeks or so, in my free time I wrote like 50+ pages of notes on what "Twitter 2.0" might be.

Is Elon's idea anything close to so comprehensive, I don't know. We only know he wanted payments in it, but this is barely scratching the surface of what Twitter could be.

Twitter's timeline of messages could be seen as a communication platform, computation platform, verified facts registry and so on. The rabbit hole is deep if you let your fantasy run wild.

Alas... instead we have this today.
The current discussion is at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19679
Yep this. I don't mind paying a subscription as long as the vendor can't hold my data hostage. An IDE for example - I won't lose my source code if the company goes out of business but something like figma? Roam? I find those types of SaaS really hard to have faith in
> I don't think unattended upgrades are enabled on debian or on ubuntu.

I don't think it's true, I had the disable unintended upgrade on Ubuntu because it runs cpu at 100% and make very big noise at night.
OK, that's actually something real impressive they've done!

Didn't think of it. It's not much of a business though. At least not yet.
Like elon or not it makes absolutely no sense to compare social media with effectively newspapers, they're completely different things.
The only comparison I guess you could realistically have is zuckerberg, but even then it wouldn't work very well.