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Ask HN: Lightweight desktop client for managing pull requests?
I'm frequently working on the go where I'll only have 1-2 bars of 4G/5G and the web UI for BitBucket is extremely slow.

I'm looking for a desktop app that would let me make and manage Pull Requests in Bitbucket from my local machine, without my web browser. Preferably free or with a lifetime purchase option. A quick search doesn't really turn up anything.
That's a good example and demonstration. The unitary invariance basically requires that the norm of the vector is preserved so that if we start with a unit vector then unitary evolution of that vector will always keep it that way. This is not the case for arbitrary programs because they don't have to preserve any invariants which makes them ill-suited for physical theory building. This is why Wolfram's approach is too open-ended, hypergraph evolution is way too lax of a framework for describing physical reality and conforming to existing experimental results.
Well Microsoft did not publicly commit to using the same APIs, and no privileged access, for its own antivirus products. That's why the EU said no way; not because kernel access was revoked.
it depends on how bad. in Linux you can rmmod to get rid of the bad one if you haven't wedged it and fix your code, compile, and try again. I can't imagine that's actually different on windows if you know what you're doing. how do you think driver development happens?
"This way we don't have the process overhead and security problems of external dependencies." /s
Is there any way I can run this in a fully local setup? Curious if a config for nginx could be provided?
Does Google/Alphabet also use the previous-generation A100 GPUs that the article says Microsoft is running, or has Google shifted fully to its own design?
Vision Pro first impressions: lots of potential, rough around the edges
I finally decided to try the Vision Pro for myself, and I thought some of you fine folks might find my feedback interesting.
just played around with it, not very smart per se, to get full power of semantic grep, LLM still might be needed, how to do it? is RAG the only way?
As someone who was considering building a home with a rental suite, and who knows multiple others who were planning to do the same — I can assure you this is an incorrect hypothesis.
> The reason most customers don't use cryptocurrency is that the government made it high friction for ordinary people to buy it.

That's certainly not the reason I hear from people.
I use names from Stargate.

Ships are personal devices, races are servers, planets are network devices, etc.
Raymond Chen: That Time We Bought EVERYTHING at Egghead.

https://youtu.be/6m_Im7J9Iaw?si=q8jLBefEdgm-PrrZ
The helm yaml thing really is annoying. Unfortunately it feels like helm is too firmly embedded to unseat at this point.
>This optimization is guaranteed to occur. Compilers which don't do this are nonconforming.

NRVO is not guaranteed to occur, only unnamed RVO (`bar foo() { return bar(...) ; }`) is.
The cities that have done so are likely to experience the outcomes historically associated with rent controls — disaster.

I’m just stating the obvious.
It could perhaps also be used to guide the sampling step at the end, or? Similar to those syntax-constrained samplers to ensure the LLM spits out eg valid JSON.
What are the Linux alternatives you are talking about?
Microsoft got dinged, not for the antivirus it shipped with the OS, but for the antivirus it sold separately.
Windtalkers surprisingly good movie btw. For Nicholas Cage anyway.
Back in 2008, I used a receipt printer and a barcode scanner to bridge the gap in a paper based registration system for a college gym memberships. I set up a series of kiosk PCs that spit out a small receipt based on a web form that was filled out on the PC. Using a PHP script, it just separated data fields with embedded tabs in a QR code.

Once the membership was paid for, the admin would scan the receipt, making the membership live in under a second, by typing in that data in a web form on a different PC.

Why not have a direct linkage? Because in 2008 cash was still very popular, and we were working with legacy student ID system, so a direct linkage would have been difficult.

Before that change, students would fill out a paper form, and staff and students would type in all the data. It took months do to all 8000 memberships per semester, and most would be done around the halfway point of the semester. Madness.
Yes. It’s designed to be able to be retrofitted. But that takes work, and Boeing isn’t good at this work anymore.
It wasn’t so much what words they used. The Japanese just didn’t have any way of translating / understanding Navajo.

Kind of like you may hear a language, and recognize what it is, but no idea what they are saying.

The Navajo language was not written at the time, and it’s very different than others and subtle differences in tone can make all the difference. Their written notes of what they heard were probably generally inaccurate which made breaking the code impossible (vs enigma which was exactly copied, and the output is German, they just then needed to break it)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41069562 (additional reading in comment links)
It weaponises love.
Interesting that they bill Defender as "requiring frequent OS updates," alleging that their solution is somehow better in that regard. Are the suggesting that by installing CrowdStrike, you don't need to update Windows anymore? It really reads like that.
I think the person I responded to was talking about actual bias from the judges knowing the order, not about this study.

Yes, this study would absolutely be suspect if the order is not random. I was saying I am not sure if the order being based on severity would bias the judges, since my assumption would be that judges are aware of severity directly and don’t need to rely on ordering to deduce it.
The political changes that lead to the talent exodus from Goettingen are not, in fact, so different from the ideological oaths required by much of US academia now, and seem to me to be a great way to eliminate our centers of intellectual brilliance.
> It is not "10x better" or "advantage" because literally the easier it was for you the less it is valuable.

... why? The closer I can approximate my imagined output (in a fixed time) the more value I see in it. The tool provides the added value.

We have better cameras than 30 years ago. Better pictures. It's easier to make a better photo in the same amount of time. I would be happier if my old blurry photos would be better.
If you are talented and known by enough hiring managers, trust me all filters will be lifted
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Sure, I would definitely add a video. Thanks!
How do you follow news on tech and stay upto date?
What are your go to resources including HN and best ways to stay updated (I am on iOS)
Looks like you could potentially point this at Minio local S3 compatible storage based on env vars?

https://docs.streampot.io/installation
They can. They just have to have the same rules for their products in that space.
Can a Hallucinating Model Help in Reducing Human "Hallucination"?
Because it wasn't an updated driver, it was a malformed blob config.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHrayP-Y71Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAzEJxOo1ts

That verification is for interactions with the OS. Its not going to catch driver specific exceptions.
Did I miss this part of the article or are you seeing this elsewhere? Care to give a link or two?
Nova Flow OS: Linux Distro Based on KDE, MauiKit and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
I blame the decline of model trains and stamp collecting, which is what old guys used to do before the internet. If you wanted to dabble in conspiracy theories you had to subscribe to mimeograph newsletters and buy Edgar Cayce books. Now you can get a deluge of that stuff by setting YouTube to auto-play.
People tend to become really incompetent when implementing features that are not in their company’s interest. It’s not malice it’s worse.
Picking the right shovel-user is much more difficult though without a time-machine
FWIW, by my reading string theory is, incredibly, a lot closer to being testable than this thing, which is more like a proposed formalism in which to expess a theory than a theory itself.
I think a lot of it depends upon how you are exposed to the stuff. When I started studying more my license, I was interested in the technical side of things and dreaded having to learn Morse. I got lucky in that the requirement was dropped before taking the exam, but it still left a sour taste in my mouth. It also doesn't help when you go to the local hamfest and sizable fraction of the gear on the tables is tube related. It gives the impression that the hobby is not only stuck in the past, it is stuck in the distant past.

Don't get me wrong, I am fascinated by tube computers. Yet that has more to do with being interested in modern computers and having a desire to learn about how we got to where we are today. Without that interest in the contemporary, the historic would have little relevance to me.
Or even more likely, users are acting as described in the explanation above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40586961

Which doesn't require unfalsifiable attributions of bias or misuse of any sort.
> for a Linux VM why am I buying an iPad at all?

offline web/iOS clients + Linux backend VM
app ecosystem for 2 billion iOS devices
4:3 retina OLED display
active secondary market
portable, efficient, fast
many years of security updates

iPad Pro has unique positive attributes unavailable elsewhere.
Yup! Thats the one - works great.
When I was first diagnosed with T2 diabetes I was sent to a dietitian who handed me all kinds of pretty literature from the ADA about how great grains and pasta is for diabetics and food pyramids and “eat want you want in moderation and use insulin.”

After 5 years I decided that method was bullshit designed just to sell insulin. Went keto and was off insulin withn 2 months and haven’t had a drop of extraneous insulin since (7 years).

My doctors advised against me going keto because the ADA recommends their diet. When I explained I was going to try it anyway because it made sense that if my body was having trouble processing glucose, that eating a diet that minimized glucose would probably have a beneficial effect.

It was at that point that I realized that many doctors are simply following a treatment formula. Ultimately the ADA had to recognize that keto can be affective at managing diabetes. Yet, they still publish the pretty literature that advises type 2 diabetics to eat a diet that for them is significantly worse than a low carb diet.
Well, anal_reactor, it can be about more than tech for techs sake. My side projects help actual people in the real world, so working on them feels like more than twiddling bits.
Similarly, I had a manager who used to try to push stuff in right at the end of pre-lunch meetings when everyone just wanted to get out of there.
I don't think most "data scientists" don't have degrees in statistics, and they are essentially applied statisticians.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39616417
What's the logic here? If say, 20% of the housing supply is tied up in short term rentals (ie. airbnbs), why wouldn't outlawing them convert most of that supply into long term rentals?
You could imagine a top-secret Japanese effort to infiltrate the US and kidnap a Navajo person. Might not work, of course, but there are a lot of Navajos.

But even that wouldn't have worked.
As opposed to Apple, who's gone and just done that for their operating system?
If judgery is like any other field, they're overbooked and burnt out. I imagine it's like medicine. In other words, there is no room for a meal strategy.
Ryzen 7840HS laptop idles around 2.5W when the screen is off (WiFi running and connected, 32GB Ram, 1TB NVMe)
New drug shows promise in clearing HIV from brain
I grabbed the basic toolbox from homedepot: https://images.homedepot-static.com/productImages/b127e2b0-7...

It's essentially destroyed, I've drilled too many holes and generally didn't treat it kindly. I think I will replace it with an identical one now that I have a better understanding of what I'm doing.
An interesting idea, but there's no discussion about benchmarks in the article, cpu or other hardware requirements beyond 230 GB RAM for the cluster.

It seems impractical that a home would have 4 machines with 64 gb ram that would be dedicated to a distributed system. Max, core count, 16 cores from Consumer AMD CPUs? From a cost perspective build a system with 256gb ram and AMD Epic CPU?

The only thing I can think of that pushes a need for a distributed system is multi-GPU across multiple systems.
> And then, when you start from that, the only aesthetically consistent choice for textures is to stick to retro-style low resolution. photo-realistic high-res textures don't feel entirely right.

Not to mention that once you could add your own texture packs it became a user choice as to which graphical style they wanted.
This entire article lacks substance. It just feels like I'm reading a lot of vague nonsense.

> I have a habit of reaching for AI as the primary source of information, and I'm using Perplexity, Google, or StackOverflow less and less frequently.

In my experience, LLMs simplify and overgeneralize too much, lacking much of the context and insights from websites like stack overflow. I've been doing a lot of database work recently, something I'm not an expert in, and I've learned a lot by actually reading the actual source, not just blindly trusting the output of the AI. If I trusted AI as much as the author seems to, my database code would be much worse.

I look forward to the day when AI actually is good enough to generate 90% of my code. But as of today, it's just not.
Thanks! feedback greatly appreciated.
Answers, for Questions:
1. Cluster of 4 panels is a tab, it can be 4 streams of notes, or 4 different types of modes - Diagramming/Codes etc. Or even 1 note but whole organization is a tab.
2. There is a limit, yes, right now only 4 panels are workable.
3. You can have unlimited tabs within a collection, it is for the 'separation of concern' where you would want to separate your things completely.
4. I do for features in my day job as a dev, yes. But sophisticated - may be not, but they are small features.

Thoughts:
1. I had to personalize for set of people, coding editors aren't used by non technical works.
2. I'm personally looking for people's inputs on this, thanks! My focus on developers in one such start.
3. Also welcome all your input on this, apart from the aesthetics, I didn't see any limitations.
The logic here is they might just not rent it out as housing stock, preferring instead to have a movie room or office and downstairs kitchen instead. If you make this huge hassle, they can find something else to do with their time than go have a fight with city hall for a bit of money.
That's not an oops. That's being a decent human being.
Looks really nice, great work!
> And the vendor than pressured into fixing the issues

How would Microsoft apply pressure? Short of publicly shaming them what power do they have?
I'm not really understanding your criticism. It seems reasonable to assume that a more complex alphabet generally results in a more complex language. After all, when teaching language, a decent amount of time is spent just memorizing letters. Almost double the number of letters would make that task alone twice as hard.

Of course, you could then make the argument that these vowels are encapsulated in English (as the same vowels in English have different sounds), but I think the article makes it clear in the sentences around your quote that these extra letters exist because Navajo has much more complex tonal sounds than English, not because they are making something implicit in English explicit in their language.
“It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."

I think that last paragraph would be a mistake - as a person with enough self importance to think they are even a little bit of an expert in some field would stop studying others. Knowledge evolves, expands from analogs in other disciplines, etc. Dunning Krueger would stop a person in their tracks following this logic.
Victor Taelin is doing some semi-related stuff with Claude and their home built proof language Kind2:

https://x.com/VictorTaelin/status/1811167900780175423

Can recommend taking a look at their recorded Twitch stream to see it in action.
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work."

"Edit out swipes."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
again, this is why I was snarky in my earlier post, this was not a software update. they should have used canary deployments still but in many cases prior to this incident, it was not acceptable to wait even a few hours because it can make the difference between companies getting ransomwared/hacked, so they focused on making the actual code/driver that interprets the channel file updates robust enough to handle real-time updates. Even if other players were doing canary deployments with behavioral detection updates, they're not the market leader, crowdstrike is for a reason.

Everyone that worked in an operational incident response role has blocked some indicator like an ip address or a domain. you don't do gradual roll outs for those either, and i've seen people cause outages by skipping a check or making a mistake. this is similar in many ways to that except it was for a named pipe. This could probably have waited for a canary deployment, but in general the class of content that is being deployed would be deployed right away, I'd be surprised if their practice is considered "bad" by any measure. I've seen Microsoft also deploy email quarantine signatures and defender updates that caused large scale impacts.

Here is a link of what Microsoft did earlier this year:

https://www.techradar.com/news/google-chrome-not-working-mic...

If they had canary deployments, that wouldn't have happened. I had rules that were causing chaos because of that. Now imagine if defender had a bug that caused it to crash because of a signature update. The impact would be magnitudes greater than what you saw with Crowdstrike. It's really frustrating to see the lack of technical critical thinking and arm-chair experts acting like they know what they're talking about.
not a software update!
Banning or controlling Airbnb is simply not analogous to rent control. Assuming free market long term rentals and no NIMBY building restrictions, long term rental prices will fluctuate, and if the demand is sufficient, more units will be built.

That your plan for a house with a rental unit attached isn't profitable under the new regime isn't a disaster, it's the market doing its job. If residents wanted it enough, they'd be willing to pay for it. There is no disaster by definition.

You're not stating the obvious, you're talking your book.
I shared with a sibling commenter:

https://www.techradar.com/news/google-chrome-not-working-mic...

Did Microsoft do a staged or canary roll out with that? This is not a software update, if you're making such comments then you're speaking about something outside of your field of expertise.
Syntax constraints are usually expressible as grammars, but the language of math is often very unique and domain specific, which makes this kind of approach tricky to get right
I am once again asking if there is a way to freely and easily integrate my desktop and mobile note-taking with obsidian.

Currently doing onenote on my Pc and apple notes on my phone. It’s not ideal.
Yeah, agile is not really prescriptive about much; it's just a way of thinking about how to get a handle on the risk and complexity in delivering a product that your customer will find useful.

Unfortunately, Scrum, a major framework that's built around those ideas, is also kind of, uh, syndicalist. It requires a lot of worker control and self-organization to pull off well. XP ("extreme programming"), another framework that's more prescriptive about the engineering practices than the project management side of things, also suffers from this problem.
Speaker Broke Physics [video]
Well we know what the testing is, don’t we?

The update literally crashed the system it was used on.

There’s no way they couldn’t know that unless they never ran it. Right?

Is this one of those things that only happened to 10% of users? Because I haven’t seen that reported anywhere.
Hand wringing? I kept having to feel to be sure that I still had my wallet with sentences like this:

> I feel the reason for this lack of familiarity is that the Institute hasn't collectively introspected during the intervening decades over what it means to be so closely associated with this pivotal individual, even while it was irrevocably transformed by him in practice.
I don’t see it. I see that there’s a link to a tweet [0], but it isn’t accessible without a Twitter account.

The only visible message is:

> Made 50% progress on Alertfor. Its getting smarted in collecting web data.

> Alertfor works like this - "You ask question, it find answers in the web then you can tract the answer for changes" (AQTA - ask question track answer)

> Here are some use cases I tested . . .

I’m assuming the demo is a self-reply to create a thread, but those require a Twitter account to view these days.

[0]: https://x.com/saran945/status/1815053542610067487