skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not alone, it is one of the easiest keys to hit since it lies all by its own in a corner with no danger of hitting any other keys when whacking it with whatever finger - or combination thereof - is at hand. To be honest I had to guffaw a bit at the rationalisation for using a foot pedal:

The basic concept was to use a pedal to enable switching between normal and insert modes. In Vim’s predecessor, vi, switching modes was easy, with the ESC key located neatly by the Q on the keyboard of the ADM-3A terminal. On modern keyboards, though, it’s a pain, and so a foot pedal is a desirable solution.

So let me get this straight... it is easier to blindly grope for a foot pedal somewhere under a desk than it is to hit that very visible, very close-at-hand key on the keyboard with whatever appendage happens to be closest? Of course it isn't, this is just rationalisation for making that foot pedal - as if any reason is needed to indulge in such projects other than 'because I (want to find out if I) can'.
As much as I dislike Musk and what he's done to Twitter, I suspect he didn't intend that. I just think that's the natural outcome of his feelings, his position in society, and his relentless self focus.

David Roth did a good job looking at the dynamic: https://defector.com/the-eternal-mystery-of-a-rich-mans-poli...

And Adam Serwer has a useful take as well: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/legal-righ...
Is there a tool where you can check how many instructions your program, with a set input, required to execute the task?

Imagine this, given an x86 C/C++/Rust compiler we all agree upon, and a set of inputs we also share, produce a program that counts - say - the median length of the arrays given or something. After which we'll run our programs in a profiler of sorts that tells us 'this program achieved the task in 1,104,687 cumulative instructions' and we'll compete based on that metric.

It wouldn't really matter what processor you use because the target is the same and so is the compiler.

Is what I suggest possible? It'd be a nice conciliation between platform independence and speed measuring.
> Paul is an out of touch reactionary billionaire

My theory is that humans are just not evolved for billionaire levels of wealth disparity. It's not a criticism, it just appears to be a fact.

Honest question: are there any "in touch" billionaires? Maybe Mark Cuban in some ways for example?
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That relies on Elon still having a lot of funds to invest, not a foregone conclusion at this rate.
Typical Hot Hand Fallacy [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_hand
I reserve the right to criticize dumb decisions.
> From what I've heard (haven't done this myself yet) if you install Firefox manually instead of through a package manager, it has an internal update mechanism that doesn't trigger the "please restart" page.

I install Firefox in such a manner and can confirm the behavior is what you have heard. I've never seen the "please restart" page.
It feels like this is a problem that requires wearing a very specific hat to solve. A stylish, black one. With white insignia...
I would suggest that it's not necessary to speculate too much about why they made a grammatical error. There are many possible reasons. For instance, I suggested that they may simply be less pedantic/careful about grammar. They may simply care about the form of their expression less than you or I do.

I think judging a hypothesis by its form/expression is not a great way to get at the truth. If a heuristic has to be used, then probably tone, coherence, and even-handedness are better than grammatical correctness. Those are at least closer to the substance of the argument.

I suggest that evaluating arguments on the basis of form/expression will not help you get at the truth.

It is your choice whether to be aesthetically dissatisfied by grammatically incorrect English. Many would consider that pedantic, though I might have a modicum of sympathy for you. However, I think the error you've made is to promote aesthetic displeasure into distrust for the OP's reasonableness.

I do not know about others, but I do not think I am losing my mind about anything. I suspect that most direct and unapologetic people have faith in the substance of their arguments, and would be frustrated to be judged using low-signal heuristics like grammatical correctness.
I think so. Although I'm still new to TamperMonkey and figuring out its quirks.

Whilst I've been putting this together I've asked Tampermonkey to check for updates and it's pulled in the newest version from my repo. So you should get automatic updates when I make changes. Although I believe those changes may take a little time to come through due to github's caching of raw content URLs.
> Natural languages are considered dead when they lose their last native speaker. Similarly when the last person being able to use a programming languages dies, we can consider that language dead.

I don't think this is the right comparison. A native speaker would be more like someone who learned the language as their first or maybe second language, rather than someone who can use it at all. And by that metric, these languages are pretty much dead/dying, since they mostly have no new learners who aren't into PL history.
Sure. I'm way more productive with Copilot. I haven't been coding much lately but I could imagine it would double my productivity with regards to the actual "get an implementation of a thing done" bit of the work.

In terms of design, I had a long conversation with ChatGPT the other day about designing a database, including optimizations that could be made given certain requirements and constraints, etc. It was a big productivity boost, like rubber ducking on steroids.
He'll go well beyond that. Hughes stopped at self destruct. Musk is likely to take a lot of people and institutions with him on the way down.
What it indicates to me is that they considered blocking apps that make it easy for someone to post something on multiple social media platforms at the same time.

Which is why they specifically mentioned that this is allowed, since it was something that was top of the mind of whoever made the decision.
would you feel sorry for someone with mental disabilities that was scammed like this?

If so, at what point on the spectrum of intelligence from medical disability to childhood neglect, to growing up within an environment of anti-intellectualism to an environment where you're encouraged to blindly follow (such as some religious communities) to those that just offered blithe trust in something that is so big that they fell into herd mentality?
Dudes a 12 year old Minecraft server admin.

This is literally the same type of rule of “don’t advertise other Minecraft servers”
It says "HN user fortran77 upset me so much that I blocked him here and am leaving Twitter forevermore. I just can't deal with these emotions, it's too much."
Yes, but it's not going to change now that it's been proven viable.
Agreed on all points. Thinking about developing a crippling disease is the only time I've been thankful that you can buy a pistol in any walmart.
Agreed, results will be interesting either way

You’re right of course that this would have been done with strategy in mind
Nope. The only way to win here is not to play. The more you try to "stay and fight" the more that gives twitter traffic and attention. Best to realize that Twitter is now as dead as MySpace and move on. Federation is the way so the fediverse it is.
Can someone explain what’s going on here? Is there a design mistake here? Does the app update in-place rather than side by side so it simply launches the updated version on next launch?

If it’s side by side then why does it even affect the old version it force a restart? And if it’s not side by side then who the hell designed it?
It really depends for me.

For something I might use once a year or something I play around with for a few weeks and then forget about? Just let me pay for it. (And I'll mostly just pass if you only offer a subscription as most subscriptions add up.)

But for something reasonably priced that I use a lot and would generally keep up to date with anyway? I'm fine with a subscription. That's the case with me and Adobe.

Subscriptions also do better align your interests with the interests of the company. If your password manager isn't the best any longer? Drop the subscription and get a different one. With a one-time purchase, there's also a lot of incentive to either charge for major upgrades or even just come out with a "new" product under a different name.
This! Why does everyone and their mother need to host their own backend for basic sync? The likelihood that the end user has some kind of cloud account already is extremely high today, you don’t add much value by adding yet another “someone else’s computer” to the mix?
Free speech absolutist LOL
I'm not sure if there's any one killer feature for Plex, but as far as I see, it has plenty of advantages over other solutions. Good and plentiful client apps, webhook support, Plexamp, intro skipping, etc.
On macOS you can do this using just the stock OS. It's under keyboard settings. You can also do this on iOS, it's awesome if you have a physical keyboard and like to use vim on your iPad
So here is my wishful thinking. Let us say we do get drowned in AI generated ... stuff. Yes it will be indistinguishable from 99.99% of content. My hope is this would force us into local co-ops where we would value the human interaction and human art over the mass produced? Art for art's sake could be more valuable? Il still pay to listen to my Kid's choppy twinkle twinkle on the violin over any AI generated Paganini! Sure leave the hard boring problems to AI.

My only worry is all this AI would be in the hands of a very few rich and powerful who would go revert to their desires of enslaving others. But that is no different today or when industrialization hit us :(
I own nothing and am happy.
Uh. Did you miss the part of my comment which said that link-banning being bad?

Also nice hyperbole you got there.
None of those things incurred opportunity cost. I don't know who invests in what, but a cynical, logical explanation is on the table.
I’d recommend Power Toys for that. AHK is cool but better for scripts and automations. Power Toys has lots of other neat functions and support by MS.
> There’s another exodus of twitter users, and most servers are run by individuals

Again, Expecting non-techies to self-host their own instances after several of them falling over due to light usage and signups is quite wishful thinking and reiterates the need for users to heavily rely on more centralized instances to on board users.

Well all know what happened to mastodon.technology which was run by an individual. It doesn't look smart to sit on an instance that can barely handle hundreds of thousands of users signing up at once and ends up folding up.

> give them time or run your own instance and federate

Yeah, the journalists at journa.host has never been more alive for journalists and is going just great with a much better reach than Twitter [1] /s.

[0] https://ashfurrow.com/blog/mastodon-technology-shutdown/

[1] https://twitter.com/ajaromano/status/1594432548222152705
without knowing phoenix, it's hard to get a sense of how much area is actually covered from this blog post. is this just an expansion to a couple neighbourhoods, or is this getting towards covering most of the city?
I actually think leadership/ownership change is pretty likely. With the network shrinking instead of growing it's less likely by the day that Twitter is going to be able to make payments on the ridiculous debt Elon saddled it with. At some points the banks will takeover to salvage what they can.
Amen to that, I use almost nothing else these days except for when I have a new bespoke command I've never typed before. Even then fzf helps since I rarely am typing something COMPLETELY new.
Yes, this is the thing. Mastodon has a bit of a discovery issue that other social network options don't have (it's akin to asking "What's a good email provider?").

I haven't tried it myself, but this purports to suggest a server based on some info about you (https://instances.social/). And (https://joinmastodon.org/servers) is kind of the "main" list.
The processes in your brain and body that are your consciousness stop and you cease to be forever. After that point nothing that happens or happened matters to you because you no longer exist.

Various cultures, religions, spiritual people want to deny this. They're probably happier for it, but I can only accept the dull explanation that we just stop and it's not very interesting.
Great, now we’re fighting who is the dumber billionaire.

We’re doomed.
Crypto is in no way backed by the dollar. That would imply you could always trade Crypto for some minimum number of dollars after a crash. But as has been demonstrated repeatedly coins can and go to 0$.
Just like China building lead balloons - they can. But, beyond prestige- and research-level efforts, they may have better uses for their money.
LOL.

At the time Europe, particularly UK, was the backwater for soccer.

Teams (and players) went to play in Uruguay exhibition matches, because that's what the best players did.

EU didn't rise as a competitive market until the late 80s.

Before that, certainly around the time of Pele, Penarol, Santos and some other south american teams ran around in CIRCLES against any european team. Look at who won the world cups! France did not even register. UK was nothing except on home soil. Spain was a backwater league. Italy was just emerging. Germany was the only country that could actually compete.

Only the Hungarians were worthy of calling themselves competition....
Ask HN: Is this secure? Hot updates using arbitrary PHP code execution.
https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/commit/268ad94a9c5f5b2913a0...

Please take a look and give me your thoughts here.

We don't want security by obscurity. The comment there says this:

This function could be the key to us downloading new versions of Qbix, and overriding existing files. So when executing includeFile() we could go into some secure database table for example, like users_code, and check if it has an override for that file, together with at least two signatures.

Normally this would be a very dangerous vector (to execute arbitrary PHP, maybe not as a root user but as a user who can read/write uploaded files etc.)

So the function requires at least two signatures (with asymmetric key cryptography, not symmetric secret key that can leak). That means that the release can be signed by at least two entities that check the code. It could be the developers, as well as some second organization. That way, compromising one organization is not enough, you need to compromise two. In addition there is a whitelist in config, which should be updated and remove one of the keys if it was ever announced to be compromised, by holders of the other keys.

Read the notes ... basically this is not less secure than someone just trusting https://officialsite.com certificate and downloading arbitrary php installer code in SSH.

This would allow our site installations by "normies" be updated without asking them to go into SSH and execute commands. It would also work on any environment even if PHP has no access to write files, as long as it has access to one database.

Please take a look and give me your thoughts here.
Agree 100%. There's also a fundamental contradiction in subscriptions. I don't want to pay subscription pricing for crucial apps because I don't want to be beholden to recurring payments (that can change at any time) to maintain workflows critical to my life. But these are also the only cases where subscriptions offer enough value to be justifiable. Even a few dollars a month seems too much for something like a notes app, for example.
I am annoyed at it too, and I avoid such things since I can just use my own local FOSS programs. Devices I use are old enough that they do not have these problems, and it might be more difficult to find one in future unless we can make a better one. If FOSS programs do not exist for the specific domain, then hopefully we can write them.
It sounds like another server would’ve served you better - but I get what you’re saying, it’s not only that, it’s the nature of Mastodon (or, ActivityPub, I guess). Servers basically only know about their own users, and people they follow.

I joined Twitter in the fairly early days, and my network grew from tech folks I’d met in real life out (‘Are you on Twitter? What’s your handle?’ was a common refrain at meetups and conferences). Later, non-tech friends, news organizations and celebrities joined. It was easy to organically grow my feed without search or algorithmic recommendations, and I never came to really use either.

If you were to try Mastodon again, my recommendation would be to initially join either a large server (mastodon.social, mas.to etc.) or one that targets an interest you have (tech?). On the targeted one, the local feed might be interesting. On the larger one, the federated feed will be pretty complete and searchable for hashtags.

Wherever you join, as you follow people it’ll become more rounded out and you’ll start to see boosts from people you follow that might reveal others to follow - from all sorts of servers. It’ll feel more like early Twitter before the algorithmic feed.

I have to admit, server choice paralyzed me for a long time! I finally joined a local geographic one - sfba.social - and it’s pretty good. Being the SF Bay Area the local feed can have a good mix of local and tech stuff (and a lot of random uninteresting ephemera, I will admit…) and it’s big enough that the federated feed is pretty full too (perhaps too full!). But server choice doesn’t _really_ matter - it’s easy to move and I haven’t seen any criticism of folks moving.
Very likely the only people who can reliably send that message to Musk are $TSLA investors. Until he has the cushion provided by $TSLA stock price, he is pretty much going to continue doing whatever he wants to.
Wow, why the hell would any normie use this?
imagine still unironically saying stuff like “i support Elon's vision but this is a singular bad decision” — you either lack the capacity to understand there’s no vision here other than off the cuff decision making or wildly intellectually dishonest and are playing both sides.
Remember how George Lucas made Star Wars and became the genius billionaire who could do no wrong. Then he got a divorce and made Howard the Duck (quite possibly the worst movie of all time).

I think the same thing is happening here. As a startup founder you have guardrails, spouses, investors. You have Brian De Palma rewriting the opening trailer crawl, you have Marcia Lucas helping the edit, and you have your old professor at USC Irvin Kershner guiding your hand.

Now, Elon is the wealthiest man in the world and he has turned into Jar Jar Musk. It's time to see how this bird themed turd pans out.
Battery technology doesn't need improvement, and most storage won't be in chemical batteries. Batteries will remain the expensive alternative.
You realize like 60% of the Uber / lyft fee goes to the driver? Now imagine there is no driver… the math sure changes
I've seen people that were super intelligent and compassionate go on drug binges and come out like Musk. Just as intelligent, but now no longer able to empathize with others and using whatever intelligence was left for malice and damage.
Except for me; they didn't get any yacht payments from me. When we had a medical disaster, I filed for bankruptcy once the bills came in, and this is with good insurance. It really didn't affect my credit score, and we bought a house and car 18 months afterwards.

Sometimes bad things happen to good people, through no fault of their own.

I mean, rich fat cats get debt forgiveness when things don't work out for them.
Very strong stroke.
Narcissist birds of a feather...
The killer feature is the Plex app is already available on pretty much any device you can think of and at least from the user side, setting it up is as easy as just signing in and it's all ready to go.
There is a whole section on how cross posting is permitted: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platfo...

> What is not a violation of this policy?

> We recognize that certain social media platforms provide alternative experiences to Twitter, and allow users to post content to Twitter from these platforms. In general, any type of cross-posting to our platform is not in violation of this policy, even from the prohibited sites listed above.

> Additionally, we allow paid advertisement/promotion for any of the prohibited social media platforms.

To be clear, I think it's a stupid policy. But it seems like they added this section to expressly address the very concern you are raising.
Initial AMD Zen 4 Enablement Lands in LLVM Clang 16.0
herd mentality is an incredibly strong force as well as social proof. Logan Paul is so big that those without critical thinking may think its a safe bet.

You should appreciate that the sort of critical thinking one might take for granted in a community such as this is arguably the exception in society as opposed to the rule.
> Read it with your entire brain.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Don't be an ass.

> we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms

> AND

> content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.

I'm reading it explicitly how it's written when taking the grammar into account. [0] I've even expanded it below, so that you can see how it reads without a comma.

> we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms

AND

> we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.

Looking at the full policy though, yeah their tweets aren't in line with what the full policy states.[1]

[0]: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/comma-before-and/

[1]: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platfo...
Also: https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/kennedy-nixon-d...
That is true, but it is not the problem. Waste heat hasn't kept coal from being economically competitive. Things like specific power density and simplicity are much more important factors in the cost of most power generation methods. For example, low head water wheels are simple (thus low cost) but have poor specific power (thus high cost per kilowatt). The article posits that fusion will always have worse specific power and be more complex than competing modes of generation. I think it's way too early to be making that prediction. You don't try to raise specific power Trevithick-style while you are still trying to light a candle.
Yeah it's probably that, not that everyone is fleeing Elon's $44 billion dying platform and he's is trying to stop it in whatever way he can.
Quiz: „You own nothing and you’ll be happy“ (imagine this with a strong German accent)

Who is quoted here?
I was subscribed to Coffeezilla when he was like under 50k, it's really amazing to see the journey some of these people go through to get where they are today, we definitely need more people in this scene.
“If it wasn’t for hearing about it, I wouldn’t have heard about it.” ;-)
But what is the game and what is the prize.

Personally, I quit years ago when old ownership responded to a major nation electing a known troll President by modifying their TOS to make a "newsworthiness" carve-out.

Their game and their rules and none of us have to play it.
I'll have to go watch that now.
It's very hard to be smart all the time, and you don't have to be stupid to be wrong.
Gates or Warren Buffet. Both of them seem pretty grounded for the amount of wealth they possess.