skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> sue him

Why would I? I was never invested in any companies he is involved in. His lies never damaged my investments.

I also don't buy any products made by his companies. You see, I take great care in not falling for grifters.

And I have little interest in getting into a back and forth with someone white knighting for Elon. As I said, I don't even hate the guy, and let's be frank, you are not willing to let go any of your positions anyway. All his lies are well documented and easy to look up, but you will just hand wave them away, so let's cut this short.

> 99% of silicon valley would be in jail

Agreed. But rich assholes tend to get the powers that be on their side.
Git is not opinionated and doesn't care about your workflow, which is why it won in the end. (The downside is that, yes, it's ultimately just a collection of tools, not a "framework" for doing software.)
GPT-driven induced lucid dreams + sleeping pills + sleeping pods makes for a nice dystopian near-future movie plot where there's a new class of ever more hardcore Hikikomori that not only never leave their house, they also sleep for 20 hours per day and only wake up to do hygiene and so on. Maybe a further version includes supporting staff for life support maintenance like in paliative care place but for "never-awoke" people just sleep and navigate induced dreams 24/7 by having IV nutrition and staff to clean and turn them in bed.
Electricity demand has fallen by ~10% over the past decade while we've been introducing EVs and heat pumps and stuff.

These things are all more efficient than the hydrocarbon equivalents, further depending on the measure, if you count the gas input energy in to a gas plant, a renewable generator is much more efficient too.

So I think it's possible, although the figure ends up somewhat misleading without a lot of context.
That's true. We might see liability arising from recklessly spreading fakes, similar to the liability of creating a hazard that hurts someone. Like, there's nothing wrong with having a fake bomb, but if you leave it in an airport or mall and it causes a panic then you're in big trouble. There's nothing illegal about making coffee so hot that it would scald the skin, but if you hand it to a customer or leave it where you should expect people to touch it and someone gets hurt then you're in big trouble.

If there's some label to make it clear the image is fake then can anyone legitimately claim damages? If I had a big warning sign about the danger of the hot coffee I'd probably be off the hook. If there's a label on a deepfake that says "Image generated by Stable Diffusion. Resemblance to any real person is purely coincidental" would that make any difference?
was there ever a github for mercurial ?
Ask HN: Would you use a service to unfollow everyone on your social media?
Would you use a service that allows you to unfollow everyone on your social media in one click ? If so how much would you pay for it ?
You should add

5. allow partial rebuilding of targets

When I checked some build systems several year ago, many turned out to re-build just everything.
It's not hard at all. We can say the same about someone coming round to smash up your business if you don't give them money. Just give them money, it's not that hard.

Just because something is easy doesn't make it okay.
Never tried it myself but check OnlyDust (https://www.onlydust.xyz/)
PS: not affiliated with them, just know on dev there
Great answer!

You can read books by master story tellers too. Those will never be boring and will be full with twisted facts and interesting relationships. You can start with Crime thrillers, Murder mysteries.

Adding to the above list:

Jeffery Archer and Dan Brown present some very interesting books in the form of "Kane and Abel" and "Angels and Demons".

Another good book that you might find interesting is "Flatland - a romance of many dimensions" by Edwin Abbott.
Request for Position: WebUSB API
> Other than the in-browser PrivateKey encryption/decryption mechanism, all functionality of WireHub is accessible without JavaScript.

But that is done by browser, right? So one still must consider trust to wirehub.org to be sure that it is not sending the secret somewhere? But then again, same trust must be considered by hosted solution - trust for the running website code.
A crypto currency pegged to the dollar won't "go to the moon". If you're looking for that, there's USDT.

Unfortunately, when trying to pick a coin, it's like trying to choose the best programming language. Each coin has its own ins and outs, there isn't one that is the best. They have their own time and place. A lot of people see this and want to use them in inappropriate places, but doesn't mean there aren't appropriate reasons for them, even if they're few and far between.
Impressive!

Is the chatgpt transcript from the free chatgpt version (3.5) or the paid one (v4)?
And some people, especially those in the latter category, trust and boost those sources, making the problem worse.
This is something that has been on my mind for a long while: are cars super cheap or bikes super expensive?

Looking at how much material it takes to make and how complex it is, I would expect a car to cost ~100 more than a bike, but in reality it's more like ~10 more
My Dad called them "rats with PR", I rather like them ...
"was extremely banned in 2015"

Just made me laugh. How are someone "extremly" banned? Either you are banned or not.
It's difficult to understand what this is about without the presentation from Anton, at VideoLAN Dev Days 2023, that you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4DS3jiZhfo&t=1221
> argh & a symlink in /usr/bin.

- Is putting a symlink to one of your project directories, probably residing in $HOME, to /usr/bin/ a good practice?

- As an alternative one can put a symlink into ~/bin; but what if you have multiple different projects?

- And they can have different jeeves commands and different plugins installed. For instance, `j lint` implementations in different projects are work on are completely different.

Because these are different projects.

Rather, I prefer to have jeeves automatically create the executable command in each virtual env, and its behavior in different virtual envs will be different.
>Were there any commercial efforts to build IDE, VESA or PCI systems around a 68k processor?

Sort of. There was the VME bus. An attempt to have a standards based bus that would work across vendors, and also for the the 88k cpu. It wasn't wildly successful, but was mildly successful.
Your comment is assuming that people don’t get funding through ads for nonprofit open source projects is a good idea. Which they may not.
They don't need to. They have such a big chunk of the market that if you don't sell how THEY want you to, you lose access to a huge chunk of the market. That's the problem. That's the complaint. That sellers who want to sell to buyers who want to buy are forced to do it how Amazon states, for the benefit of Amazon, which means the seller has to put their prices up to cover Amazon's Danegeld, but then may NOT also sell elsewhere at the lower, non-Danegeld price.
Trust, or no trust, since it's all in the browser you can check for yourself what gets posted to WireHub when you submit the form containing your private key :)

Quick edit: you also don't have to provide your private keys, just the public ones.

Another edit: actually it's two forms. One that has the public key and password hint that gets posted to WireHub, and one that has the private key, your password and the password hint that's only handled on the client with javascript and never gets submitted. So I do try not to get to your secrets. I even have the form attribute of the private key input set to a non existent form, just in case it does get submitted, that piece of info will stay in the browser.
Oh definitely agree on the non-idiomatic python. I was thinking less of "how to correctly implement and write the python code" and more of the "learn the history and decisions on why it might do things, and the user experience of defining a build in python". I really liked its consistency of repeatable build steps, the way it handled it's dependencies, and accepted the tradeoff it presented for slowness. But its been perhaps 10 years since I looked it, likely longer, and rose coloured glasses are applicable.

And nice work making SCons faster!! not at easy thing to do at all.
Big data search engine Vespa secured 31M USD Series-A investment
"I’ve had coworkers casually and shamelessly pull up their living room camera for us all to see their spouse sitting on the couch in real time."

What the fuck ?!
As someone noted in other thread - rubbish license with reference to Chinese law compliance
The first stable release of a memory safe sudo implementation
not making a decision is the same as making a decision, yes difficulty varies on circumstance..
> making vague, unfounded accusations without actually reading the code only serves to confuse people.

It wasnt accusations, it was feedback. And it wasn't that vague. And it seems to be based on reading the code, quickly perhaps, but still.

So I think it's on you to respond to the specific points in the feedback and either explain why they don't apply or accept and act on them.
I'm not willing to abuse children in exchange for getting to show up to zoom calls instead of the office.
>“I’m sick of people saying I should spend time with my neighbors. They’re probably TERFs/MAGA/whatever.”

This isn't entirely wrong-headed though, I think it's just a symptom of a society that's become too divided. If you want a healthy community of people living together in one place, they need to all share a common culture and ethical framework. In America these days, that just isn't the case, and you can't expect people to be buddies with people who happen to live close by, but have diametrically-opposed viewpoints and even view them as evil (for instance, the neighbor is a MAGA person and the person in question is homosexual).
There is a movie where the border wall has been built and they pay Mexicans to remote operate drones and other equipment north of the border.
> "Have you tried asking ChatGPT?"

I am so sick of that "joke" already, and it feels like it is there to stay just like we had "just ask Google" for the last 25 years. It is so unimaginative.
Yeah the wiki definitely captures some of the more, er, extreme versions of reparenting.

I usually hear "reparenting" used to mean deliberately practicing self-validation, self-compassion, or any form of emotional self-care, with the purpose of healing pain and letting go of spite/resentment/trauma from childhood.

It's something I see people doing as a gift to themselves and their kids, to break one part of the cycle.
But this is about AI generated nudes, not actual nudes, so there is no consent.

I don't think there are many people now, especially young people, who are unaware that AI can generate such content, so the assumption must be that nudes are most likely fake until proven genuine. So much so in fact that even actual nudes could probably be brushed off as AI fakes - I know that's what I'd do.
What happened to WEB 3.0? Are we there yet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web3
I think a lot of watchmakers skills are now used in mobile phones and other micro-electronics; take their cameras, they zoom in / out, physical movement stabilization, the works, etc.
You could apply that to everything.

If I turn on (or keep on) my light when usage isn't completely covered by renewables, should that be calculated as using all fossil fuels?

The logical extension is that everyone should calculate the carbon intensity as a binary choice which is obviously wrong.

The only reasonable way to go is to look at the actual carbon intensity average.
Speaking for myself, coming from git, I found the branching model of Mercurial hard to understand. Then it turns out that instead of branches I should have been using "bookmarks"? But which to use when?

I tried to work on a Mercurial-based project (not firefox) but eventually gave up and just used git to track my changes and then prepare, very carefully, specific big merged commits to contribute back. It was easier, because I could never figure out how to clean up properly if I made a mistake -- so this way, I could just wipe the local copy and start over instead. But it was annoying, and I was glad to stop using it.

Completely bewildered by every thread about mercurial full of people proclaiming its advantages and "simpler mental model". Simpler than a DAG with pointers? Sure.

If I remember correctly you even needed to install some kind of external plugin just to do simple rebasing / branch cleanup. Now's the part where you tell me I'm doing it wrong, shouldn't be rebasing etc etc, but I'm just saying, it didn't work for me; and the constant claims that it's somehow objectively "better" but misunderstood get really boring.
Even that. If it can be done better and easier without crypto, I don't consider it a use case.
Having worked with Makefile and pushed it to limits, I'd say there are some deficiencies in the system you may try to tackle:

1. Databases. We ended up calling `psql -f some_script.sql && touch $my_task_name` and tracking changes with touch files. (Putting this into database on views or materialized views proved to be unsustainable.)

2. Datasets. If you just open a sqlite file, it's changed, and GNU Make thinks you must rebuild everything downstream. Datasets are mostly treated as row-order-independent, so hashing them as is does not always work.

3. Very expensive tasks that shouldn't be called always. Like my makefile had a script that parsed a million web pages, going around captchas via Tor, and touching the upstream files was to be avoided -- or if it happened, I had to manually touch the target, to avoid re-running that part.

4. Some targets can be updated and the result will always be new -- e.g. run a query to a live database, or news website. Some may produce the same. Would appreciate if any system has such a distinction.

5. Surprisingly, lots of alternative build systems don't do partial update. They only update every item in the deps graph.

If you manage to get any of these right, you'd be praised.
Not abandoned. Both Facebook and Google internally use Mercurial as one of the version control systems. They will keep the Mercurial project alive.
Genuine answer: I thought I had to point out where the insults were and what I was talking about instead of being vague. If I had written "you are insulting your customers on your pricing page", someone would have been bitching about not quoting the insult.
Some arguably* technically superior designs end up being obsoleted over time, because the arguably* inferior design ends up being more lined up with how people think and machines work.

This is what we're seeing here, IMHO.

*: There's nothing "objectively something" in computer science, because it's all is a pile trade-offs to get the desired result.
I would love to try this out, but my VPN resources are limited and having to set up an OIDC IDP really doesn't sound like fun.
Compare what's comparable... a top of the line watch cost 50k+ so cars are all cheap I guess ?

In 1990 you could buy a Golf GTI for 77k french francs, which is 19000 euros today. And that was the best golf money could buy.

Today the absolute base model Golf costs 32k euros. The current GTI starts at 48k. Even the polo starts at 19k+, and that's the shittiest vw you can buy.

The bottom line is back in the day any working person could buy a bas model shitbox, now the low class workers needs a 10 years loan to do the same
Yeah the story doesn't check out.
> In Berlin many clubs have elevated snobbism to an art form.

Berlin has elevated snobbism to an art form.
That's... the kinda claim that begs a source and an air freshener.
Regarding sync checks which Make has as a built-in feature, I am not yet positive how to best implement it. Maybe something like

@pre(file_name=_file_is_in_sync)
def build(file_name: Path):
...

I believe such libraries do exist even, but I haven't yet researched the topic; if jeeves proves to be useful for the simplest use case then it will make sense to expand its scope.
I mean `sudo symlink /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/p` can make a good shortcut for python. The script name can be tab-completed.
Very interesting videos very regularly
> How are someone "extremly" banned? Either you are banned or not.

You might be found to have committed 170 different bannable offenses. Banning is idempotent, so there wouldn't be any difference in the penalty, but such a person would be describable as "more banned" than other users.

Similarly, you might be found to have committed offenses which put you well over the threshold for banning. This too would make you "more banned" than other users who were more borderline.
I could resonate with him/her if I were not familiar with Mercurial. Because he/she is aiming to fix or improve Firefox, figuring out a gigantic, complicated code base of Firefox is directly towards his/her end goal. Meanwhile, figuring out hg feels a waste of time.
For sure; Github was also (IMO) responsible for the rise and success of NodeJS and its dependency ecosystem, and consequently the web based front-end ecosystem we have today (angular, react, vite, etc).
Java was one of the first machines (virtual or physical) to take a stab at defining its memory model in modern way.

It's also pretty sane while also scaling to large systems as Azul's 768 core boxes showed.
I'm glad this was rejected. The author consideres violations of PEP8 to be broken code that doesn't generate exceptions.

Lots of people treat PEP8 as the word of god, but apparently have not bothered to read it. "Many projects have their own coding style guidelines. In the event of any conflicts, such project-specific guides take precedence for that project."
I can second Sourcehut. It looks clunky, but works fast, works well and is easy to interface with.

I moved completely to Sourcehut, and I'm not coming back.
Car manufacturing is hard and sometimes it takes multiple iteration to get to the initial goal. Tata Nano was a similiar failure. In there case though, the car literally failed in the market at all prices.
Many wise words here, especially about seeing dysfunctional
institutions for what they are without taking it personally when your
get your fingers crushed by the machine.

Unhealthy though bitterness is, it's sometimes an engine in great
achievements. Roger Waters could not have written "The Wall" if his
teachers had all been lovely.
Maybe we don't need evil robots to create the Matrix and force us into it - we can do it all by ourselves.
China's catching up fast in the open source model space, I wonder how long it'll take until they have a commercial model competitive with ChatGPT3.5 or Claude 2?
MIDI shouldn't be affected.
Maybe I'm an outlier, but I'd just create a new account.

These days, every time I have to pay for something online I ask myself: is it worth 5.5% per year guaranteed no-risk that i'm losing out if I'd buy bonds instead?

I know it's offtopic, but I did a review last month and stripped down number of subscriptions:

* Replaced Dropbox with GDrive that I already pay for as part of my personal Google Workspace subscription (email on my domain).

* After recent Apple One price hike I couldn't justify it canceled and got _exactly what I need_ (just 200GB iCloud and Music), 3x cost reduction.

* Started transferring my soon-expiring domains from Gandi to Porkbun (I was too lazy before).

And so on, there were some more and I trimmed my online spend down significantly.

Out of curiosity, anyone else is doing this sort of optimization? During ZIRP I never cared much.
> I’m now writing this in an attempt to start letting go of that spite. Just like I was during school, those teachers too were probably doing their best, and making mistakes, as we all do. Instead, I thank them for trying, I thank them for their patience. I know I derailed nearly every class and I know that many of you at least recognised the potential, and tried to get me to see what I was capable of.

This reads like: now that I'm old and very wise I finally understand that those who hurt me as a child can't be blamed because they tried their best.

But I don't think absolution makes sense here. The 6 year old isn't at fault for being who he is. It's the responsibility of adults to figure out why a kid isn't thriving. Trying to force a round peg into a square hole year after year after year is not reasonable, and cannot possibly be considered "trying their best". Should teachers continue to bully kids who can't sit still? Is the status quo for ADHD kids acceptable? Of course not. ADHD kids deserve a happy childhood, too.

It's totally fine to make peace with the past and to let go of anger without trying to justify what happened.
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Regular bikes are super cheap, but if you buy a top of the line, specialised and low quantity bike you're paying a premium of course.

Price is never about the material used... an iphone would be $200 if it was the case. Look into economy of scale, how money is made through maintenance/parts/after sale services, &c.
> payment channels (yawn)

Don't you find 2nd layers like Lightning interesting, as a way to scale far beyond the limited L1 capacity?

> Do you have a citation for a block-based relative timelock?

See the thread starting with https://lists.launchpad.net/mimblewimble/msg00546.html

> What about absolute lock times?

Those are trivially supported in any Mimblewimble chain.
If it's any consolation there's a good chance they're showing a TaskRabbit gig worker doing a faux spouse experience spot.

Tomorrow's World Today is an odd place.
I see. Reddit was the key word.
What is difficult to understand? Does multithreaded mean something different in the realm of video transcoding?
> I'm glad this was rejected.

It’s an April Fools joke from forever ago…
It might also be "idealism". Perhaps that is less narcissistic, but even so, an undesired trait in society cannot be a good argument against a metaphysical theory, don't you think?
I downloaded the repository and it is 700kB (1900 LOC). It clearly doesn't contains what it claims to have. How is this considered "open source"?
I'm sorry, there's no chance I'll use transcranial ultrasound to manipulate my brain. People who want to lucid dream can do it the old fashioned way without being worried about things like cavitation of their brain cells. There's a reason the NHS recommends that people don't use things like 4D ultrasound as a form of entertainment.

That they describe transcranial ultrasound as "non-invasive" is absurd. Either it does something or it doesn't. The paper linked in the article describes the mechanism of TUS as:

"Opening of ion channels -> ruptures in membrane -> thermal tissue ablation" in order of increasing intensity of stimulation.
Discussion at the time: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25758863>
So if they are weekEND so why some countries start week from Sunday (looking at you US of A) :)
Well there is aad connect and aad connect cloud sync. Btw I still don’t get it that they have no solution to remove the last exchange server. It can be so easy to make it work, but well…