skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like you're right. He kept pushing for a dedicated refactoring effort throughout his live Q&A with Musk here, pointing out several services:

https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/160542468694643097...

He also talks about how some changes he made, such as removing the annoying login/signup popup when viewing twitter posts, were reverted
That’s fantastic. Are use obsidian somewhat casually, but this could turn it into a bit more of a daily driver.

I just wish that their sync service was less expensive, say $30, instead of $100. Because that’s the difference between being willing to pay for sync vs using any number of computer sync services (be a dropbox, Google Drive, or anything else) to get synchronization that is good enough that committing to either $10 a month or $100 a year just doesn’t seem worth it for the incremental gain.

I don’t know, it’s a difficult balance to strike between customers that need it enough to pay their current prices, and more casual users a bit on the borderline like me who are no power users enough to pay that much. Price elasticity is not an exact science and it’s entirely possible they have already filed in the optimum amount for it.

Although I wonder if there might be room for a tier that was quota driven. For example a certain amount of megabytes of data or number of notes or some other combination of factors, and charge around three dollars a month.

Basically I would like to give them more money to use their sink service, but I might be in too small of a user group for it to be worth it for them to try to target me and others like me with a specific type of plan.
I bet that 1.6 are mostly in high cost areas like the coasts pushing up prices.
> I wish midi was used for more things.

There are utility programs, that allow you to trigger and/or script keyboard and/or mouse actions et. via MIDI.

So it becomes entirely possible to use a hardware MIDI controller to control a variety of software allowing lots of key commands.

I currently have a a few such pieces of software on my Win10 system:

CoyoteMIDI, Extended Expression, Bome MIDI Translator

p.s. However, I'm not up-to-date on the state of such software on MacOS or Linux.
People seem to pile in once someone starts, that is how bullying works. If nobody starts then nobody piles in, but at scale with social media lots of people will start, so then the masses pile in a lot.
Naive to think otherwise.
Out of curiosity and for the sake of completeness, by failure, you're probably talking about an error that the script itself can detect? What about a scenario where the EC2 goes down (silently)?
None of your comments mention running the full test suite, only build.

When I've used bisection, I've always had a targeted test that I was trying to fail, not the entire test suite. This is because the test suite at the time of that commit wasn't good enough to detect this failure. Otherwise it would have failed with that commit.

Instead, a new failure mode is detected, an automated test developed, and that used to probe the history to identify the commit.

Why are your bisections doing the full suite?

> Black reformatting causes more steps in bisecting

Yes, of course it does. But it's log2(n).

The worst-case analysis I did assumed there was a black commit after every human commit. This is a bad practice. You should be using black as a pre-commit hook, in which case only your new collaborator's commits will cause re-formats. And once they are onboard, you can explain how to use requirements.txt in a virtualenv.

If only 10% of the commits are black reformattings, which is still high!, then a bisection of 100 human commits (plus 10 black commits) goes from about 6.64 tests to 6.78 tests, which with a 5 minute test suite takes an additional 42 seconds.

If it's 3% then your bisection time goes up by 13 seconds.

If you are so worried about 13 seconds per bisection then how much time have you spent reducing the 5 minute test suite time? I presume you run your test suite before every commit, yes? Because if not, and you're letting CI run the test suite, then you're likely introducing more commits to fix breaking tests than you would have added via black, and taking the mental task switch hit of losing then regaining focus.
Yes, I think that would be alarming. I believe foreign intelligence attacks are a conspiracy theory to what extend they are relevant.
I'm from that part of California and have seen it first-hand? Growing up, no one used drip irrigation. These days, it's more like 50/50.
Nice feature, but I'm not interested in managing my notes with something that isn't pure open source.
Wars are expensive as well. If there's any large scale conflict, expect tax rates to jump through the roof. WW1 and WW2 saw rates go to 94% in the worst (arguably incredibly wealthy) case.

> World War I

In order to finance U.S. participation in World
War One, Congress passed the 1916 Revenue Act,
and then the War Revenue Act of 1917. The highest
income tax rate jumped from 15 percent in 1916
to 67 percent in 1917 to 77 percent in 1918. War
is expensive.

After the war, federal income tax rates took on
the steam of the roaring 1920s, dropping to 25
percent from 1925 through 1931.

> The Depression

Congress raised taxes again in 1932 during the
Great Depression from 25 percent to 63 percent
on the top earners.

> World War II

As we mentioned earlier, war is expensive.

In 1944, the top rate peaked at 94 percent on
taxable income over $200,000 ($2.5 million in
today’s dollars3). That’s a high tax rate.

-> https://bradfordtaxinstitute.com/free_resources/federal-inco...

See the historical rates: https://taxfoundation.org/historical-income-tax-rates-bracke...

In my opinion, people aren't ready for a world in which taxes are higher than what they're used to. But peace, and low taxes, are not likely to prevail in a disconnecting, increasingly partisan and hostile world, where most countries are tightening their belts, people are getting poorer and angrier, and tension and hunger for conflict is growing.
I always thought that if our universe is actually a simulation, it's one of countless simulations trying to determine a solution to the Tragedy of the Commons.

I suspect it's one of the hardest problems to solve in any universe.
You've repeated their point.
Very cool! I never knew there it was community built.
Yeah, and area that was already on the margins slips into poverty for a list of reasons. Grocery stores aren't closing en masse in poor areas. In most cases they've been gone for decades.
> As a landlord [...]

> [...] opt to rent forever, which is not at all a bad thing since owning a primary residence is never an investment. (Although there is room for nuance here that I won't get into.)

I suspect you "won't get into" it because you know full well that you're the one who stands to benefit from that advice, at the expense of the vast majority of everyone else.

I mean this as kindly and respectfully as possible: landlords - you included - are a large part of the reason why there is a housing crisis here in the US (and, from what I gather, other "developed" countries). Y'all buy up housing as investments, acting in a literal-rentseeking capacity and offering no value beyond maybe maintenance that tenants themselves could be performing (whether directly or by hiring the same professionals you'd be hiring). People like you are the ones who exploited my father until the day he died, who continue to exploit the surviving members of his household, who continue to exploit myself, my friends, my coworkers, my neighbors, all for that nice cushy "passive income". People earning "at least twice as much as the median wage" are unable to escape the rent treadmill because of people like you keeping them on that treadmill in the first place - not to mention having the gall to suggest that being stuck on said treadmill is "not at all a bad thing".

Out of respect for Hanlon's razor, I'm going to assume that you genuinely lack the self-awareness to understand how your income derives from economic parasitism; the alternative interpretation - that you are indeed aware of the externalities you impose on the rest of us, and yet choose anyway to peddle advice that's patently to your benefit and to the recipient's detriment - is far less charitable.

You're welcome for all that rental income. You can properly thank me and every other American stuck subsidizing you and your fellow landlords by selling your rental properties to your tenants - at the prices you paid, minus what they've already paid back to you in rents.
After seeing this proposal a month ago, I contacted the authors of the large SSaSS randomized trial [1] (n ~ 21,000) which compared a potassium salt substitute (75% sodium, 25% potassium) to normal salt. There was no reduction in BMI in the potassium group.

Now the amount of potassium consumed was not directly measured, but assumed to be 20g salt substitute per day which equates to 5g KCL or about 2.5g potassium. This was enough to have other biological effects like reducing stroke risk, and was more than most people took in the slimemold study.

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2105675
Bernard Arnault Became the Richest Person
It's a difficult balance to strike though. Forcing companies to consider all possible externalities is very difficult / expensive to get right. And if you don't get it exactly right, you very quickly increase your surface area for issues like regulatory capture, etc.

Just another in the long list of coordination problems where it is hard to arrive at the pareto-optimal solution given human selfishness and our lack of omniscience.
And china can put them on products and send them to the USA anyways and mis-label them because almost nothing that is imported is actually checked for toxic chemicals/paints/etc.
Price elasticity is real: if PFAS is more expensive, people will buy (and businesses will produce) fewer PFAS-derived products. Raising the price is especially nice because it causes price-elastic use cases (think PFAS coated paper cups) to drop out, while price-inelastic use cases (think teflon joint implants) are not made illegal, just more expensive. If the government earmarks PFAS tax revenue for remediation, that'd be awesome, but that's just a side benefit - the price increase is the main benefit.

I do thing greenwashing and environmental whack-a-mole is a real problem (heck, we see it in the PFAS space with GenX replacing PFOA). I don't see that as a valid reason to do nothing.
>Oh, and some kind of supercap probably so powering it off is not crashing your FS... or build your OS to run off readonly image and only save some settings.

after years and years of using nearly every revision of RPi for a huge variety of things, I can safely say that the accusation of needing a supercap to prevent an 'FS crash' is absolute nonsense.

If you're talking about the degradation that accompanies any heavy use of flash NAND then i'm not sure what to tell you other than it can be mostly mitigated in software, and that it's a universal trait; RPis are by no means the only system to suffer from those issues.

I will, however, wholeheartedly agree that an RPi with a bunch of crap stapled to it is by no means equivalent to a Chumby. There is a lot to be said about the friction that is alleviated by having a standard set of hardware to program applets against, the ecosystem provided by Chumby was the whole point.
Which switches models? Zigbee?
I am still fighting with them (unflashed at the moment)
3M isn't banning them, they're discontinuing production. Other companies can pick up the slack still.
Climate change activist RICO lawsuits are the modern-day equivalent of Salem witch trials.

Voodoo is still voodoo by any other name.
There is no longer a JRE, you are expected to package your app into a single executable with jpackage, so no need to manually write manifest files.
> Come on, that’s flippant response to a valid point.

It's the best I can do when faced with people who feel entitled to lifetime and posthumous rent for doing a bit of intelectual work. I mean, there's an artist in the comments lower on this page who wants up to lifetime+100 years of rent seeking for him, his children and his grand children to enjoy.

Keep working if you want to keep making money. That's literally the most polite way I can put it.

> when this has been established over centuries (millennia arguably) by many many smart people

Well, those smart people didn't exactly count on computers existing. It was easy to enforce copyright when you needed to be a major industry player owning expensive printing presses to infringe copyright at any appreciable scale. Now copyright infringement is trivial, people do it without even realizing it simply because they can. People infringe copyright every single time they download a random picture off of some photographer's website or something.

The world will never be like it was before and it's time to accept that. Copyright is a thing of the past. To put that genie back in the bottle, you'll need tyranny the likes of which really ought to offend every single user posting here on Hacker News. It's simply not possible without destroying everything hackers stand for, the computing freedom we cherish. And of course it's exactly what the copyright industry is lobbying for.

> The limited time monopoly that authors enjoy is the reason that it becomes an incentive to create new work.

I have no idea why you think a lifetime+posthumous monopoly can be considered "limited time" in any way. You'll be long dead by the time it expires. It is functionally infinite.

Limited time is 5 years, 10 at most. Then the cultural works I grew up with would be public property by the time I'm an adult. That's limited time. You can observe its duration being limited. That's tolerable.

> If you make the protection period too short, it won’t work, it won’t be an incentive

And making it too long creates rent seeking and robs us of our public domain rights.

> There are countries in the world today with weaker copyright laws than the US that already exhibit high rates of IP theft and low rates of original creative output.

Oh please. The countries you speak of? Many of them don't even have universal basic sanitation. They have better things to do than police the imaginary property of americans.

The US Trade Office being a mouthpiece of US "stakeholders" is straight up offensive. US corporations using the might of the US government to sanction sovereign countries. The only possible reason not to be outraged is you're profiting off of this.

> I don’t know what social contract you’re referring to

The one that expects us to believe we can't just go to libgen literally right now and download a copy of your book for free.

Always extending copyright durations until it's functionally infinite. You're not keeping up your end of the public domain bargain. Why should we keep ours?
> However … eventually she’s going to make contact with the criminal justice system. This can very productive. Authorities can make plea deals/pre-prosecution agreements that require medical compliance.

Depends on the law enforcement. My aunt would ocassionally get arrested, but they'd never charge her with anything, just bring her to the hospital for an involuntary psych hold, and she'd find her way back home after that. I don't think they ever found meds that worked for her and that she'd take consistently for more than a couple weeks. (This was in San Pedro, CA, which doesn't fit your suggestion of a wealthy suburb)
It’s quite common.

I heard exact same anecdote about boots from my grandfather loooong time ago. It’s possible that author hadn’t had chance to hear in “in the wild”.

I believe it’s one of those wisdoms passed from generation to generation.
Another good one is Super Kaiju Dunk City. [1]

[1] http://radmars.com/superkaijudunkcity/submission/
Many design patterns became obsolete for most languages because they added new features, java not being an exception.
You keep jumping from subthread to subthread, saying the same thing, and ignoring all responses to the assertion you are making. The lived experience of US residents is the result of policy choices over decades, and it would have been different if you hadn't allowed robber barons to set your transport and urban planning policy.
> And you know what that is? I hope you are a billionaire. Please tell us what it is and how you calculated that.

Please review the HN guidelines on snarky low effort comments.

If you value billionaires and their assessment of reasonably calculated P/E you might want to consider Buffets assessment to close almost the entire BYD position at a P/E of 50.
Nukes only effective deterrence has been deterring otherwise smart people from pursuing practical careers and instead going into the rarified field of policy wonking and military tactitioning for think tanks and the like. They've no other deterrence, war still occurs, constantly, since WWII.

"China as military aggressor" is another wonk wet dream: only possibility in next 80 years is they play the same proxy war antics as US, UK and Russia in last 60.

Russia war is more interesting: forget the headlining, what's the deal? The war that "nobody said they wanted" yet are doing their best to maintain: sympathetic media for Ukraine--cover for making endless war palatable: "Isn't it terrible, poor Ukraine. Evil Russia" great cover if you want to inure people; all the sycophanting to Zelensky--cover for repulsion toward him. Question is why? Was Ukraine some threat to Europe, and Putin merely the short-straw-drawing messenger for European consensus? What if Putin didn't want this war but was handed this job with "no choice"? Question is why? That's an interesting question. I don't believe the "war profiteers" take...I think there has to be something else.

(I have a theory that when a military, any military, becomes too large, "the system" acts to rebalance the inevitable threat to itself (from that military) by creating a war to "cull the herd" (terrible) of the soldiers who could otherwise be put to some status-quo threatening use. But I think that doesn't go the whole way. I wonder what the real reason for that war is. Ignore all the bluster about Russian manifest destiny mythology (neatly tied up in that "religiosity" speech by Putin)--more cover. But for what? I don't know. I just think it's obvious it's not what it seems.)
> We wont let you starve to death.

Yes you will

> If you're truly physically disabled, we won't leave you to die.

Yes you will

Do you really think that as a nation that lacks so much empathy for the poor, THAT’S where we suddenly realize someone’s humanity? No, in fact if someone is at this point, most Americans would probably not even notice (and some amount would likely celebrate) their passing. If the safety net lets someone fall this far, why would it catch them now?

Just think of the blind eye we turn to people experiencing homelessness— as if their neighbors aren’t already wishing them harm while sipping a bottle of wine with their family and friends during their holiday dinner.
Fake it until you make it.

Not sure if I'm not serious, actually.
GitHub Unwrapped
* enter the current and the new names,

* turn on the Match whole word and Match case modes,

* review the found occurrences;

* press the Replace button.

https://www.abareplace.com/blog/blog_rename_method/

Disclaimer: I wrote this program.
At least 830 documented incidents in 2020 including over 140 police violence incidents against journalists specifically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_police_violence_incide...

There have been 104 incidents of vehicles driving into protests between May 27 and September 27, 2020, with two fatalities in that time period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vehicle-ramming_incide...
In what way? Sure, gradle can build faster, but the amount of compilation time the frontend need that barely does anything is orders of magnitude more than any maven run.
>> - a lack of cognitive energy, probably stress induced from managing the above two.

I think this is really the most important point. We know we should do better but we lack the cognitive energy. I can totally understand it.

Getting yourself on the right track is hard but at least you can develop a mental story you can control and stay "in the zone". I can't imagine how hard it is being poor and single with children, always being distracted by thousands of small issues.
I sometimes go to thrift stores when visiting new places just to see what is there and my experience is different. Goodwill/thrift stores in richer cities/areas are better. I went to a goodwill in Atlanta in a poorer area in May and the clothes we pretty worn. The prices were cheaper but you can't fake being middle class in most of the stuff sold there. You will just look poor and that's how many would treat you.
Ultimately it is very hard, if not impossible, to know what is going on in households and what ultimately leads up to that outburst of rebellion or evil-doing. Looking back on my education up to college, I believe kids can be absolutely brutal to their peers(and often are), and when you're spending 8 hours a day in a pressure cooker for 10+ years, I can see how negative outcomes follow.

There is a lot of chaos in nature too though, and I think even with great childhood backgrounds there are some individuals that just want to go a different path, for better or for worse.
Completely normal in Canada also
I don't see how that is much more enormous or expensive than the European example above; care to explain?
I still think there's value in a solution already existing if someone were to have that problem. As long as the site isn't hemmoraging money and/or needs users to survive, I don't see any reason the site couldn't just sit until someone needs it and/or grow slowly.
> Tech comp has been over 100K/year out of college for a while now

The vast majority of IT work in the US pays around half that.

Even taking that figure at face value...

> or have much fat to trim in your expenditure.

Yeah, fat like exorbitant rents that landlords keep jacking up year after year solely because they have the power to do so. Fat like corporations charging more for less because they can get away with it. Fat like our federal government and the banking system it artificially props up debasing our currency and whittling away at the buying power of those dollars.

The fat to trim ain't in individual working Americans' budgets. The fat to trim is systemic - and by God are we overdue for some trimming, no matter how badly it might hurt the feelings of the ownership class.
How would you repair a piece of metal ... how do you replace "a muscle"

The huge difference between repairing a piece of metal, and repairing a living tissue, is, obviously, the living tissue can repair itself. The mechanisms of self-repair are built in, and they are extremely effective. The problem is these mechanisms break down with age, so the task becomes figuring out how to re-enable them. Yes, we don't know how to do that yet, but keep in mind - just 10 years ago we didn't know how to do things like CRISPR gene editing and now we can do something like this: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63859184. The point is, we are making progress towards the goal of controlling all the processes in our bodies. There's absolutely no reason to believe this progress will stop any time soon. Even if we can't do it today, things like organ or limb regeneration do not sound like science fiction any more, it's a question of when, not if.

Yes, it's quite likely every one of us Millennials will grow old and die, but I'm much less sure about our kids, and our grand kids will most likely be able to stay forever young if they so desire.