skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There would have to be an easier way to see what changed where quickly without having to mess up my working tree (which is almost always dirty with something) and having to stash or switch back and forth between branches for reviewing is going to be painful. Sometimes I have small comments or questions, I'd like to be able to do that without having to download the entire patch.

I love this feedback and totally agree with you. Pulling a PR down and applying to review is great until you need to reference what's in main and have to ping-pong between them. At the end of the day, `git-pr` supports pushing and pull patchsets and we do have ideas around how a reviewer could review a patch request without applying it locally for something lighter-weight. Something like editing a patchset directly (with comments) and uploading that.

I think I need to play around with Gerrit. When originally developing this idea, I looked at Gerrit but didn't actually play around with it.

Someone else mentioned this already but I do want to experiment with revisions and supporting `git range-diff` workflows which I think could provide better support for larger reviews.
There is almost certainly a point where the costs of massive planet-scale intervention outweigh the costs of doing nothing. I'm not sure exactly where that point lies, but I'd guess it's somewhere between Solar Radiation Management (SRM) and glacial geoengineering projects like the one in this article.

The question in my mind is not whether or not to fund these efforts (we will need to), but how to fund them quickly enough.

There aren't many investment vehicles that are truly global in scope. We've seen individual nations do incredible things when they stand to benefit. The Delta Works project in the Netherlands comes to mind, as does the Three Gorges Dam in China.

But how do we source capital when the whole planet stands to benefit? Especially when many nations either don't have the money and/or the political will. The scale of the problem far outstrips what charity or nonprofits can provide, and private companies can only do so much without a functional market.

I don't mean to suggest that this is an intractable problem. It really isn't-- There have been some really interesting financial innovations already. But we need way more attention on this stuff from the investment class. The bankers, fund managers, and policymakers that work in global development need to get creative, and fast.
When I write I use Neovim as it's what I'm used to and the formats that I write in are non-WYSIWYG formats like Markdown or LaTeX. My partner is a non-technical person and an author who writes fiction books. She uses Scrivener for that. From what I can see it's a very high quality piece of software for that purpose.
I wonder why pointless news like these are on HN but someone trying to assassinate the leading presidential candidate isn't. Because it's interesting to someone ok I got it.
Sure, thanks for this question!

In case of public funds:

Depending on the jurisdiction, funds are allowed to invest only in certain securities, like stocks or bonds.
In most countries, they are not allowed to use all available products; esp all products which offer high leverage (and highlosschances) are not allowed for institutionals.

A private prop trading company may do it, though they are not managing billions (as the pension fund in the article); and those prop traders in reverse can not that easily attract "other people money"
Google Gemini scans files on Google Drive without permission – can't be disabled
A melting glacier does not cause the sea level to rise. I can’t believe people don’t understand this. If you have a cup of ice water and melt the ice, the water level stays constant.
OECD Employment Outlook 2024: The Net-Zero Transition and the Labour Market
I assumed you thought you had to be literate to write code because it’s in English.

I think I disagree twice then. You do not need to be literate (as per the definition of the post), neither in English nor in another language to be able to code, I have seen with my own eyes people who struggle to write a simple email being able to produce code. (Please keep in mind the definition of literacy as per the post)
It might be naive, but I'm not the only one in using this distinction. See the "Definitions" section of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker
The new Roland technical strategy does not speak to me either.

The book is from Roland’s 100M modular system and written in the late 1970’s or early 80’s. That version of the System 100 was menuless, entirely analog, and patched with some basic normals and wires. I came across the book because my Eurorack is mostly Behringer System 100 modules because they are cheap as am I.

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I picked up a VS880 for about $100 last year and use it as my primary multitrack recorder because I prefer not to use general purpose computers for creative work anymore and it’s a hobby. I have a ZuluSCSI plugged into the back and record to an SD card on that.

This year, I made a commitment to learn how to use it…not much point in selling it…and do more recording. What I like about it is not the menus. It’s that being the first in the series, the design brief seems to have been a better tape machine and alternative to ADAT. Later models were competing with DAWs.

Because the VS880 is fanless, I can leave it on all day while I do other things (e.g. take a nap). Of course it works for me because my musical ambitions are very unambitious.
I love the ironic side of the article. Perhaps they should add the reason for it, from Fermi's and Neumann's. When you are building a model of reality in Physics, If something doesn’t fit the experiments, you can’t just add a parameter (or more) variate it and fit the data. The model should have zero parameters, ideally, or the least possible, or, even at a more deeper level, the parameters should emerge naturally from some simple assumptions. With 4 parameters you don’t know whether you are really capturing a true aspect of reality of just fitting the data of some experiment.
I mean the devil is in the details. In Reinforcement Learning, the target moves! In deep learning, you often do things like early stopping to prevent too much optimization.
I write songs, poetry, short stories, and of course all kinds of technical plans, and pretty much use google keep or VSCode(If I'm doing something associated with a got repo) for everything.

In theory I'd like to do more with actual paper, but it's just so much easier digitally.
That's not a terrible idea. The OCR is struggling with my chicken scratch, but maybe ChatGPT can read the image directly. Might try one day. I was reading some of my notes...and it's mostly garbage, not sure it's even worth doing.
Yes: being able to do what we want with the things we bought is reason enough.
That's really cool. I always liked trying to do interactive applications like this.

What's the story behind the name, "Buzzinga" aka Bazinga?
Same reason but different incident.
> I’ve never seen anybody use a GUI in a clever way. Ever.

Idk man back in the day I saw some folks working Photoshop and Illustrator like they were playing an instrument.
You're talking about post-D50 Roland. Before the D50 Roland made simple analog synths with very intuitive interfaces.

After the D50 - and especially after the DX7, which started the one-slider-panel 80s trend - synth interfaces started to sprout two-line LCD panels.

Most Roland UIs today are pretty horrific.
It's not a perfect solution, since SO₂ in the lower parts of the atmosphere leads to acid rain.

But, it might actually be viable if we find ourselves with a Republican-led United States. Easy to spin it as "getting government out of the way".
The file format is often Parquet. The "table format" depend on what data lake you're using (e.g. Iceberg, Delta, etc.).

If you know Python, here's[0] a practical example of how Iceberg works.

0 - https://www.definite.app/blog/iceberg-query-engine
You can potentially post this as a regular blog post since most reading material can't be Show HNs, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

But you probably want to space such posts out somewhat, see the bit about reposts in the FAQ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Truly an insurmountable problem for our civilization.

Well, better keep driving 5mpg trucks and dying when the power company fails then.
Its even more blatant- by current loose definitions of AI (which place the original Palm Pilot's Graffiti text input as the first AI product to reach market)... virtually any manipulation of a voice can be argued as counting.
People should stop selling their companies.
Glaciers form on land though, they're not floating in the sea.
For the nodes. For the containers there's things like Google's distroless which are great for reducing attack surface as well.
I agree completely. If a meeting is being held so that one person can present information to the group, that can be an email.

If a meeting is held so each person can update a leader with his/her status, those updates can also be emails. If the whole group needs to see those updates, it can be a wiki or a shared document.

A meeting should only be called when that group of people needs to discuss a topic together and reach a consensus or make a decision. If it's just for communicating information, there are better, asynchronous alternatives.
> Could you explain how your statement of initially teching the boilerplate is the same as my statement of ignoring it?

I specifically said that including the boilerplate is a common pitfall, and requires teaching around a bunch of impertinent concepts.

I also chose the example for a reason very close to your example with Racket: later versions of Java have similarly aimed to reduce the necessary boilerplate. And if I’m not mistaken, the learning experience is a motivating factor for that as well.

If emphatically agreeing with you in so many words isn’t enough to convince you that I agree with you, maybe you’re just looking for something to argue about?
AlphaZero did not create any experiences. AlphaZero was software written by people to play board games and that's all it ever did.
Thanks for the comment, (I think) it’s really interesting. I have a bunch of questions about that experience, but limiting to just one:

>At that time, it was already listed for a much smaller value than what a VC would like.

I understand you were in talks with a product not necessarily the entire business or even the brand assets, but can you expand on “listed”? Makes it sound like a public marketplace with a price.

>brand names are overrated especially for failed companies.

I think this is where my post wasn’t clear and misinterpreted. My post is being interpreted as an acquisition for the purpose of trading off the goodwill of the prior business. Whereas, I’m envisioning an acquisition because the dead company has a great name and a portfolio (short branded .com, branded social media handles, trademark) that would be a great name for any business/startup rather than leveraging the goodwill of any prior business operating under that name. For example, I’m just making something but if there were a YC company “telehealth” and they owned Telehealth.com and @telehealth social media handles, there would be plenty of established businesses/startups that would want to acquire that brand portfolio having nothing to do with the prior business.
it points out the inherrent bullshit to the current arrangement
There is no such thing as too much optimization. Early stopping is to prevent overfitting to the training set. It's a trick just like most advances in deep learning because the underlying mathematics is fundamentally not suited for creating intelligent agents.
Study Finds Brain Area Regulating Attention and Wakefulness
https://archive.is/Vihhs
Local dimming is becoming more popular, OLED is improving, and MiniLED or whatever they call it will be viable one day.

Maybe you're right about that not offsetting whatever server costs though. I don't think "develop and maintain" affects the environment, but maybe OP was including human resources.
I'm grappling with whether the government mandating sulphur in fuel is the government getting out of the way.
God this grandiose prose style is insufferable. Calm down.

Anyway, this doesn't even try to make the case that that equation is universal, only that "learning" is a general phenomena of living systems, which can be modeled probably in many different ways.
One counterpoint, what about when that ice cube is part of a tray of ice that is melting into the cup? My understanding is these glacier sheets are resting on land and sliding into the water.

https://www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and-climate/chang...
Yes, but in terms of beating the market it should be.
They weren't that quiet about it:

> Moving several large, crucial Postgres datasets (some of them tens of TB large) to data lake gave us a net savings of over a million dollars for 2022 and proportionally higher savings in 2023 and 2024.
You’re confusing glaciers with icebergs.
The macroeconomic read between the lines takeaway for me from this is, these pension funds are big time LPs in VC firms. If that well dries, it has substantial downstream effects for the startup ecosystem and raising capital.
"Make it possible for programmers to write in English and you will find the programmers cannot write in English."

Source: https://github.com/eunuchs/unix-archive/blob/master/PDP-11/T...
The real purpose of "remote attestation" is to ensure users in the future can't watch videos or access their bank accounts from systems they have root access to (and could do corporate unapproved activities like have ad-blocking installed or save/copy/modify content like videos). Is this the future Linux users want?
Claustrum neurons projecting to the anterior cingulate restrict engagement
This is factored in. The sea level rise comes from ice that is currently sitting on continental shelves, hence why Antarctica is a particular concern.
Very much agree.

The vast majority of Americans have never even witnessed a gun fired in public. Which is crazy if you think like a European might: "If everybody had guns then bad people would just shoot other people all the time". There is nothing in ordinary American life hinting that guns are dangerous. You have to look at statistics in order to form some kind of an idea that there is a problem.

The fact that there are so few incidents, relatively speaking, speaks volumes for the decency of the people, how responsible they are with their guns.

I like to draw an analogy to the Nordic countries where we have "the freedom to roam". Anyone can roam around on public (and even private) land and put up their tent for the night, pick berries etc. This causes very little problems, because people learn from a young age to behave responsibly in nature.

But then you have (too) many countries in Europe where wild camping is illegal. That means there's no culture around it. And the thought is that if they now made it legal it would just exacerbate the problems they have now, like people throwing trash in nature, causing wildfires etc. Yes, in the short term it probably would, because you just neutered people's ability to display responsible behavior by not letting them create a culture around it. If people are raised with that responsibility it tends to not become a problem during adulthood.

That's why I support gun rights in practically every country. Teach people from a young age to be responsible with guns and let that flourish in adult life. Trust people. Don't punish everyone for a few bad eggs.
In the case of AI, the more parameters, the better! In Physics is the opposite.
> you just have to go to the bank and borrow 10x your capital.

"just" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.
This was mentioned in the first paragraph of the paper. The paper is mostly humoristic.

That said, the wisdom of the quip has been widely lost in many fields. In many fields data is "modeled" with huge regression models with dozens of parameters or even neural networks with billions of parameters.

> In 1953, Enrico Fermi criticized Dyson’s model by quoting Johnny von Neumann: “With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.”[1]. This quote is intended to tell Dyson that while his model may appear complex and precise, merely increasing the number of parameters to fit the data does not necessarily imply that the model has real physical significance.
PD is the non commercial end of Miller Puckettes(and others) contributions to Max/MSP, but with soooo much more.
Right now, when force pushing, we preserve event logs for every server mutation, but the review themselves are lost.

We do see this as a problem and are thinking about ways to address it. We do support the idea of a patchset (that's what the patch request managed). Right now we only support a single patchset for a patch request, but we are leaning toward introducing patch revisions where both contrib and owner submit entire versions of the patchset. This could provide better tracability since reviews would be in a separate patchset "channel" and not lost to force pushing.

We also plan on supporting a patch request "cover letter" which includes all the events and comments during review. This cover letter is just an empty patch which could be `git am --empty=keep` or `git am --empty=drop` depending on preference.
Geography Is a Dealbreaker for Coalition Building in Asia
Gerrit is the gold standard of code reviews and I'll die on that hill. I've heard many a good things about phabricator too, but it requires lot of special tooling while gerrit just uses plain old git semantics.

That said, I live git-pr so far. I have a forgejo instance and I like it for what it provides, but without federation, external contributors aren't able to contribute.

If git-pr can be made to work with forgejo, I'll just go for it (self hosted, of course).
TBH where you see this kind of thing (mandatory periodic password rotation every month or two) being recommended, it's people not keeping up with even regulators view of good security practice.

Both NIST in the US (https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-FAQ/) and NCSC in the UK (https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/passwords/updating-your-a...) have quite decent guidance that doesn't have that kind of requirement.
Or we could solve it without geoengineering for about $10T. 30TW of carbon free power, 300TWh of storage, convert vehicles to EV as they're replaced, planes to hydrogen, convert heating to heat pumps as they're replaced.

$10T is about the cost of a major war. Eminently doable.
If you can consistently make more than 10% you don’t need to hamstring yourself with this terrible deal, you can just get investment on typical terms.
It sounds about as good an idea as requiring blended ethanol.
For people who are good readers and writers of email, there's a winning strategy that gives everyone what they want.

On the receiving side: information-delivery presentations are async communications, it's just that historical precedent demands that everyone get a calendar invite to the live taping. Not everyone wants to write and send email, and with the options for consuming recorded content now, that's fine. You can read their slides, watch their presentation at 2x, fly through the transcript, read the AI summary, etc. on your own time.

On the sending side: next time you write a really great email, don't send it. Send a meeting invite so people can watch live while you record yourself reading it to the camera while displaying slides with a bullet-point summary you can have ChatGPT generate for you. Get good at it and you'll quickly get a reputation for being a great communicator - people will genuinely be impressed at how prepared you are and how clear your thinking is.
I hope they survive because more competition the better. Time will tell what will happen. I also wish Google+ survived but unfortunately it didn't.
Locking is not sufficient: it would need to overwrite the memory where passwords were decrypted to. With virtual memory, this becomes harder.
Any solution has its cons. Github workflows has downsides and this solution does solve them (and introduces its own). But what I am not getting is why this approach is better than the email workflow.

The downsides of email workflow that the author mentioned are (1) Having to setup mailing list, (2) setting the mail client, (3) friction in submitting a patch, which I assume the author is referring to setting git-send, (4) email is limited such as not being able to modify it, not being able to download the patch, and limitation around the plain-text, and the author doesn't hint into what limitation he is thinking of.

These are downsides of email workflow, and I do not think they are significant (except for 1, which could be done though a person's email address if the project is small). But the SSH workflow replaces them with similar issues such as (1) setting SSH server and maintaining it and the cost associated with it, (2) clients will need to maintain their identities though SSH, (4) replace email-replies with code comments (email-replies is better as you can do more than just text). (3) Here SSH workflow is better as it requires no work, but configuring git-send is a very small and usually 1-time change.

In most cases, the only mail client requirement is to be able to write plain text. Virtually all mail clients can do this with a simple checkbox. Only the maintainer will need ability to `git am' the patch from an email message, and this is indeed a downside of email workflow.

All in all, nothing wrong with more options, and I am sure SSH meets certain needs, but to me email-workflow and SSH compete in the same category and email-workflow is superior.
Today’s standard music notation has ecclesiastical roots. In part because there were incentives to standardize ecclesiastical performances. In part because for a few centuries monks were the Europeans most committed to writing.
Interesting, I use Bottlerocket on my work clusters too. I think we had issues like this using some ridiculous data tool images that take up gigabytes, so we just upped the EBS size. Easily done.
That is literally their job, so, yes.
This seems like a somewhat solved problem. Other domains - like CGI - use node networks that show active parameter values. There isn't a lot of space between a node network and a modular synth patch.

The big difference is that you can save and load patches in a node editor, but you have to rebuild everything by hand on a modular. Even then you're never going to reproduce panel settings exactly.

Some people find this appealing, but for me it's the main reason I stopped using my big modular and changed to Cherry/Softtube/VCV Rack.

It's also true that if you're synth-literate you should be able to recreate many patches by ear. There isn't usually that much going on, so it looks a lot more complex on paper than it really is. Things get more complex if you're using modules that play samples or do something exceptionally unique, but even then you can usually get in the ballpark - if not exactly, then close enough for something that works aesthetically.

The musical part is a different problem. You can scribble graphic scores, but they're far too crude to represent anything beyond the vaguest hint of what's going on.
How would this work in the market, I am Curious to try it
Just for fun.

It started with me getting annoyed with SHEIN as they sent out spam to me and their unsubscribe link was set to localhost (127.0.0.1 - they are still using this last I checked) and in the same time period I found a suitable domain at an auction so I thought I'd give this a go.
Does it generate constant profit?

Maybe I am too cynical, but I don't expect the pharma industry to fix something that is good for the bottom line.

How much tri-therapy cost?
SSH authentication and authorization. Everything is done via pubkeys. We have an ACL system for interacting with PRs and plan to expand it.