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I have the same question every time Pijul comes up on HN, and I have yet to get an answer:

Can someone give me a real world example (person a makes X change, person b makes y change etc. etc.) that would work better in Pijul than Git?

I am a complete believer on a sound underlying model producing better results for users at a high level, but I'm not clear on how it maps through for Pijul. I think that's what they're missing in the sell - the ability to explain to devs "it will make your life easier in the following specific ways".

For example when getting my employer moved from SVN to Git I could talk to people about how much easier it was to create and then merge a temporary branch for a feature in Git. Git understand the topology of the history, knew the merge base and had better merge algos so the only pain you had was when there was an actual conflict - two people editing the same file location. It also could track renames, which were incredibly painful to merge in SVN.
Nothing is an emergency no matter how much you press, until one day it's a pants on fire, after hours wake-up call emergency.
You cannot predict when this will happen.
AI models can be weaponized to hack websites on their own
I don't think it's that extreme of a perspective. I'm surprised that the perspective he's speaking against, which when implemented reliably causes citizen impoverishment and death should be spoken about more in those terms, I think.
The 'hub' version of Pijul is The Nest, and exploring it I found this vs-code plugin for Pijul integration: https://nest.pijul.com/GarettWithOneR/pijul-vscode
The Two-Decade Fight for Two Letters on the Internet
I am told as of last year, if you pay for things with Visa or Mastercard credit, they give you the blue dollar rate as well.
This is a serious problem with some Vim plugins and plugin interactions; the user doesn't feel like they've done anything wrong, and yet text insertion is absolutely sluggish. Tex plugins in particular combined with text folding seem prone to this problem.

For the record though, this slowness has nothing to do with Vim itself, or the low power of the netbook; it is purely due to inauspicious interaction between specific plugins and can be fixed at the .vimrc level if you are willing to debug.
> I can't take a private messenger seriously when they require an identifier that's linked to your government-issued ID in many parts of the world.

Well that's a whole separate rabbit hole.

Governments shouldn't be requiring something as simple as a SIM card and phone number to be directly linked to a government ID. The right to privacy is a hell of a thing and the only reason a government would require this is to be able to spy on or track everyone.
This is corporate propaganda.

It might be dressed up to appeal to the HN mindset, but it's still corporate propaganda from meat producing corporations.

It's exactly in the tradition of the Merchants of Doubt playbook on cigarettes.

https://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/the-money-behind-the-...
They elected a freakin' maniac and they're gonna pay a heavy price for that.

In Brazil we have a saying "pior que tá não fica", which translates to something like "it cannot get worse than this". Belive me when I say this: it can (and probably will) get worse. It can (and probably will) get SO MUCH worse.

We tasted this poison with 4 years of Bolsonaro trying to get away from the establishment. What did we get in return? 700k brazilians died to COVID, we now have a huge anti-vax problem and after the piece of shit lost the election he attempted a COUP. Luckily he's going to jail on the next few months, but the damage is done.
So, a regular Tuesday in Argentina. You grow insensitized to it through the years. Last time I got surprised (and laughed hard at the evil genius) was when last administration kept the conversion rate artificially low, but created a tax for buying dollars for saving.

> Just please let’s do better lunches than milanesa con papas next time, deal?

Science hasn't made that breakthrough yet :)
Basically just an ad for Nitric (terraform competitor), though I'll admit that the framework looks a hell of a lot friendlier than HCL.
Interestingly Cowen and Tabarrok follow this topic closely on Marginal Revolution. also some interesting insights in the comments section there, which is mostly economics-oriented.

https://marginalrevolution.com/?s=Argentina

(advise: skip all other random talk about AI, LLMs and ML stuff, you may easily get outraged)
I have been following Pijul loosely for a while, and I would strongly agree that it could do with some information on some of the possible practical advantages of the approach. I do have some Pijul repositories around, but have not used it with the necessary further to explain any of the advantages, however, one possible advantage to note is that the equivalent of cherry-picking as used in GIT et. al, which always generates a new commit hash per cherry-pick for the same content should not happen in the Pigul world as I understand it. i.e. A specific commit when "cherry-picked" should have identical hashes, which has several implications.

- Having not actually tested this in my own repos, take my insight with the appropriate grain of salt.
For those not keeping up with the news, Argentina used to be an extremely wealthy country, but went the reverse route many decades ago and has embraced peronism for awhile (kind of a mixture of socialism and fascism) that has led to rampant inflation.

They recently elected Javier Milei (an economist and former sex guru) who although some media claim is a radical rightwing candidate, center-right Libertarian might be more descriptive. He essentially wants to radically reduce government's role and put the country through (economic shock therapy) in the short term so they can have a chance of making a turn around. He has fired a huge amount of government staff he calls the "parasitic class" and I think they just recently actually balanced the budget for the first time in a decade. We'll see how things go. He's trying to get the country on the dollar and off the peso, so they'd just have to deal with the more sensible American inflation rate. It also makes some sense as everyone wants to use the dollar anyway and are basically doing it illegally. He is also removing a lot of government red tape for businesses.

He recently flew to Davos and basically told off those in attendance. Some of the things he says I agree with, but many others not so much. He seems to take a lot of Austrian economics views and if you're not familiar with this, it is essentially the ideology that folks like Ron Paul and a lot of the libertarian think tanks (e.g. Cato institute) proclaim. He said a lot of things that are counter to basic economics like "market failures don't exist". I think he believes that given no regulations, things would always sort themselves out, but zero regulations brings about another kind of hell IMO. He also pulled Argentina out of the BRICS negotiations (kind of a very loose federation of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) as he didn't want to get involved with communists. Only time will tell if this will be a huge failure or just what the country needs.
I was there a few months ago. For me (without dollars), the best way to get cash was to western union it to myself. They tend to have rates at or around the dollar blue rate. The only painful part of this is that if you send yourself more than around $100 you're going to have to try various western union shops before finding one with enough cash.

The other thing to note is that Mastercard (and Visa I believe) have a newer rate specifically aimed at tourists (the MEP rate), which normally stays closer to the informal rate (blue dollar rate). Annoyingly they tend to charge your account with the official rate, and then refund the difference a few days later.

There's also this website which has a view of all the different rates: https://bluedollar.net/
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Who would you take to court? LibreSignal is simply distributing software, it's the users who are potentially breaking Signal's ToS by connecting to their servers using unauthorized clients.

This is like attempting to sue qBittorrent for copyright infringement.
If it were as simple as just not connecting to the internet as is often suggested, I'd have done that already! Also yeah, it can be a bit of diminishing returns on the privacy front when it comes to the things we do use to drive our media consumption haha

Go find a TV a few years old with android or whatever 'smart' OS on it and tell me how long it takes to boot and be meaningfully interacted with (like opening an app, like the TV app). What about how many times it randomly reboots in the span of an hour and loses all configuration including selected time and time zone configuration which in the case of a TV renders the electronic program guide literally unable to function (oddly specific, but bear with me...) or how many really weird bugs you run into like the top of the line Samsung 'smart' TV I once borrowed (which did lose time and time zone setting when it rebooted) where when you tried to set the time or time zone, it would set the time an hour or two wrong in a completely unpredictable pattern. Using it felt like I was living in The Good Place when Eleanor was making it all topsy-turvy, I swear

I was so lucky that I found a 4K TV with a big enough screen with absolutely NO 'smart' features. None. It has what appears to be the same firmware as the old cheapo 720p TV I got to replace my old faux wood panelled thing that was so old it needed a chain of adapters to run a PlayStation (1). The EPG just ...works. Not that I watch TV any more; it's always on HDMI. It boots up in seconds. It doesn't randomly restart. I don't have to tell it to not connect to the internet cos it doesn't know that the internet exists! Glorious. I might also have a chance in hell of repairing it if (fine, when) it does die. I'll have saved up enough by that point to afford one of those big screens meant for advertising displays or whatever that doesn't even have a TV tuner either lol.

Please excuse my light hearted rant on the plight of my OECD nation problem (it's a real burden /s), but temporarily borrowing a 'smart' TV drastically reduced how much I watched and played because it was TORTUROUS to just get the stupid thing to turn on and show the HDMI1 input. I really do mean torturous. The extra privacy that comes with not having an internet TV is obviously a bonus, but I run all my media off my laptop anyway (I use my consoles for games only).

I just don't want software like that existing on a device where all it does is cause complications that just don't need to exist (for me). The built-in obsolescence of these TV OSes is just awful. If it were as simple as just not giving it access to the internet (ignoring the general availability of open wifi or the potential of 4/5G shipping with the TV itself so it can always phone home anyway) I'd love that and I'd do that but good lord I will stop having a TV before I use a 'smart' TV ever again.
The only reason to involve the cops at all in this stuff really is to get a police report for insurance purposes.
There's that thing about the largest bill being 2000 pesos atm, and even that being rare.

You might need a bag to carry cash for the whole trip, and it will attract the wrong kind of attention?
I agree with jart on this. Rust has gained a reputation for overzealous marketing (also called evangelism), and we who like and use Rust should do everything possible to reverse that reputation, by being honest, even to a fault, about known limitations.
A glimpse into the amazing and bonkers world of TikZ/PGF. If you decide to look into this language, make sure to leave your sanity at the door and welcome in; we have pretty pictures!

Here is a recent creation of mine using TikZ/PGF:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H6rSZ6-jx-8rqLXowzevJ1e3FD-...

It is a projection of the Riemann surface of Lambert's W function; the data was generated with SageMath and rendered with pgfplots.
Exactly, EUR/HUF rates would be infuriating in Hungary if I wanted to pay with EUR in restaurants.
I thought that's what they already do?

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Sorry, but I’m in the process of building my own and can’t provide any info due to regulations. Best of luck.
You don't need to be a professional to provide feedback
Once financial systems collapse a lot of things stop making any sort of sense. Behaviours and incentives change. You saw the same in Zim
Yes, I did say in my comment:

> If you are strictly going to stick with Hugo forever, then that's fine. But how many of us can guarantee that we want to keep using the same tool to render our Markdown for ever? I certainly can't!

The problem I have is that I don't want to lock myself into one single Markdown renderer like Hugo or whatever it uses internally. I'd like the flexibility to change tools later without worrying that the new tool may break the rendered output.

Like I said, not even something as basic as nested lists are rendered the same way by all tools. What is rendered as nested list by one tool is rendered as a broken list with unexpected code blocks interspersed between them.

A single spec consistently implemented by all tools could fix these issues. Sadly such a spec does not exist in the Markdown world. That's really why I was looking for something like C89 of the Markdown world.
Actually we found we got better rates elsewhere (El Chaltén hotels for example would exchange at the daily blue rate from DolarYa) plus the random restaurants were the ones usually offering the legit rate. Unlike the cueva, they actually don't have leverage, and would love to get their hands on some dollars.

We never exchanged money like this, but were happy to pay the bill in dollars at the end (prices were never set in dollars). And the math checked out completely.

Note we also came with a similar-ish mentality. Let's exchange early on and be set. But this misses out a key point (that hopefully will become less relevant). The currency devalues fast. Exchange early on and you might find yourself holding a lot less than you got.

We spent a month in Argentina, and had we done this, we'd have taken a 9% hit just on devaluation.
I would love a video series from him where he makes a text2img diffusion model. I found the fast.ai course a bit unfocused and annoying.
I guess some US cards also charge a lot for foreign transactions? I always paid in pesos on card, and in fact I don't think anyone ever even tried to charge me in dollars.

Also, with Uber, you're not likely to get many rides if you pay by card.
The one thing stopping me from switching to ChromeOS full-time is Photoshop
> It's not present in the syntax, but it's present in the type system.

The trickiness of the bug is that the design of contravariance means the constraint is actually not present in the type system even though it should be. See this other comment I wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39448909
Thanks for the recommendation. Appreciate it. Will give this a try!
Tech has graduated from the Star Trek era to the Douglas Adams age
It’s the shock doctrine again.
Of course, but I'm not the only user of that TV, and sometimes we watch snooker, etc. with my parents, which boils down to painting 50% of the screen green for long periods of time.

I won't be comfortable with that kind of usage pattern. Moreover, I'm pretty happy with the image quality of the device I own. I'm not that sensitive to image quality after a certain point (my wheelhouse is Hi-Fi audio).

So, what I have is more than enough for me.
this is a pretty good post

if you're interested in what the fuck is going on in argentina, you might try

git clone http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/pavnotes2.git

and read milei-diary.md, which are my observations here on the ground, after having lived here most of my adult life. it's been a few weeks since i added an entry to it, but i'll update it again soon

one minor problem with the post: 'the white rate' is a phrase this blogger made up; if you talk to people about 'the white rate' or 'el dólar blanco' or 'el tipo de cambio blanco' nobody will have any idea what you're talking about
well, you make a fair point. let me also raise the question - why were Intel, AMD and alike so slow with developing custom APUs for ML tasks. this sounds incredibly short-sighted. i mean - the ML area has been developing steadily for at least 20 years, with vast amounts of new stuff coming since 2013 perhaps. this makes 10 years, and I believe the dev cycle for new chips is potentially around a decade.

so question is: where are these guys' ML chips? sorry but AVX512 is not something that provides enough juice, and apparently some smart-head at Intel decided to lock end-users out of it?

because, honestly, it was not NVidia who kicked the GPUs forward, but these brave CUDA devs who actually created some valuable software to run on top of them - first for crypto mining, then for the LLMs and NNs in general.

honestly - i start to really despise this company, even though there's a 3090TI in my home box. and with the most recent talk given by CEO - fingers crossed someone comes and eats their lunch, they so much deserve it.
This activity is in the "illegal but overlooked almost everywhere" category, so as soon as you start making significant money out of it you'll hit problems.
Well thats a cost of building about 4 top tier FABs.
The alternative was the economy minister largely responsible of how we got to where we are now. Minister of a president who basically said "you know what I'm out" in 2022 and basically gave the government to said minister.
Not mentioned are minimum income requirements. I live outside of NYC because city rents are too high.

NYC Brokers wanted my financial information to verify I had sufficient income of 50x rent, or they required a Guarantor.
I think this is a pretty fair assessment of Milei.

Do you feel the sex guru part adds much though? Maybe he is in an open relationship, or actually gay, or xyz... does it matter in his economic reform plans for Argentina?
> People who have your number saved in their phone’s contacts will still see your phone number since they already know it.

Does it defeat the protections then to add a range of phone numbers in contacts and harvest username/phonenumber combinations?
That makes sense. I did ninja edit, probably as you were commenting, about how I've been using 10 years and only lately like hugo, but have no issues regardless.

Github has been fairly stable as a markdown center of gravity. That works fine for me too.

For me, I don't find the need for 100 year compatibility to be a stopping point. 10-20 years is far away enough for me, otherwise the perfect becomes the enemy of good.
Why Does the State Have a Monopoly on Money?
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There is also the idea that the common thing is more important than the extraordinary. Common everyday tasks should be higher priority than the extraordinary tasks.
This is very accurate. Normally western union will give you notes of 1000 pesos, which is just about manageable in pockets if you're getting a few hundred dollars.

I had one instance where there was only one western union I could use (because of the weekend) and they only had 100 and 200 peso notes. I walked out with 300 dollars worth of notes in a black bin bag and hurriedly tried to find a taxi before anyone noticed...
We've tested many different ideologies and organisational structures just in the last few hundred years.

Currently we have a successful but pretty crappy form of capitalism. Some countries have experimented with Communism, fascism, oligarchy (ism)?), feudalism ect ect.

Why not give libertarianism a shot?
We run our COLMAP-Free 3D Gaussian Splatting on the released (SORA) videos
It sounds like most of the loss of quality is related to inference optimisations. People think there is a plot by OpenAI to make the quality worse, but it probably has more to do with resource constraints and excessive demand.
This is a chicken and egg problem and I don't see a way out of it.

Even if Pijul is better (not voicing an opinion here), it's not drastically better enough to replace Git in widespread use in the near term. The difference in day to day use is not huge.

And it is better in handling certain merge situations that are painful in git, but most programmers don't run into these often enough to care.

> What makes this unique?

It's patch based rather than snapshot based.

> Why should people care?

It avoids certain merge scenario problems that git makes painful.

> when I started using Git, interfacing with existing svn repositories was a key selling point for me

Pijul can import and export to Git (and probably others) with less problems than git vs. svn (because SVN is not distributed and had a weird branching model).

> Show that there's an ecosystem

Here's the chicken and egg problem again.

There's a "free" hosting service advertised on the front page. Or you can use it with your git hosting (but lose some of the advantages).

But GitHub and GitLab have their own CI systems and other infrastructure which isn't going to be easy or cheap to replace.

So yeah, I think that Pijul is a great piece of technology that solves a real problem we have with Git, but it's unlikely to overcome the inertia that Git{Lab,Hub,} have.
This is the same sort of feigned ignorance you use to see on Slashdot.

“Do people still watch TV? I haven’t owned a TV in 15 years “

Yes most people these days have a Plex setup, a PlayStation as a media player and their router configured to block ads…
What's the point of doing anything?

People have said the same of many great endeavours, and it is often hard to predict all everything that results from tackling big challenges.

I suspect that there is likely nothing anyone could suggest would succeed in shifting you position.
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>And Argentinians, thank you and best of luck. Just please let’s do better lunches than milanesa con papas next time, deal?

Milanesas are a godsend tbh though
It is covered in Chip War, by Chris Miller. The book also details the loss of leadership by Nikon and Canon.
Actual jargon file and not the ESR one:

https://john-millikin.com/the-jargon-file
This is the conclusion that I've come to as well after trying for way too long to find inspiration to those things that I either want to do (on some level) or need to do.

Habits are things you do that don't have a big hurdle. For years I've been able to run without feeling that there's a great resistance in doing it (I don't normally identify as a runner). But picking up some work that I want to do but don't feel it's the right moment to do has been a lot harder. Lately I've had some progress with at just doing tasks because it's become a habit when I have some time over.
Did you read the article? It’s all about the currency problems and disparate exchange rates that have resulted in the country for the last 20+ years and has nothing to do with the president who’s been there for hardly 2 months. One of his first acts actually tackled that problem by slashing the artificial government exchange rate so that it’s much closer to the true black market rate.
No no no no no there is nothing advantageous about this. It's real and actual suffering.
Perhaps it was this comment (or from the discussion):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24388204