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It used to be possible and practical to do real work on much less capable hardware.

Making the difficult stuff possible really should not have made the ordinary easy stuff that we already had so much more difficult.

We used to browse the web with 486s and megabytes of RAM. If all I'm doing is reading a newspaper I shouldn't need giga bytes of RAM.
Most of the "protection" and for democracy stuff the US has been up to has been to protect their own corporate interests to extract resources from those countries, see all of South America and some of the middle east.
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In the context of the article, We could assume it means "Most valuable Pull request"

Just dont let corporations use MVPR as a metric or it will cease to be a fun challenge
I'd love a backup MX that acts clustered. Email is file/object based, I should be able to spin up 5 VPS and send/receive from any one of them without ending up with an out of sync email. The closest I've found so far is aerogramme that stores in their own object store implementation but it's very much alpha https://github.com/deuxfleurs-org/aerogramme
He didn't say your bosses boss is not allowed to know what you do, but that they _not necessarily_ know what you do. It's like abstractions: they can be leaky, but you'd better still know who's responsible for what.
Pretty sure that’s written with AI. The dash gives it away.
It does always sound really crazy because in our minds 3D is more complex than 2D, but in reality 3D printing is actually really really simple, it's basically just 3 motors, a heat block, and an extruder, that's pretty much it.

Whereas 2D (inkjet) printing has all of the above (minus one motor), and actually comes with a few non-trivial non-printing related expectations as well, like loading and expelling a print surface (often many in one print), optionally flipping said print surface (and this requires that ink has dried as well) and colour processing to map computer colours to real-world colours.
This is the result of “programmer time is more expensive than computer time” (which means "than user time").

https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/
Because printers are ungodly complex to make
And then you 3D-print the open-source schematics? ;)
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In humans at least, they lack the motor control to attempt to hide , gather, or hunt obviously. But they do plenty of other stuff instinctively. With my latest, we learned that infants are inherently potty trained (defecation) if you pay attention to the cues…and I was surprised to find that that was true, baby communicates the need to go and knows what’s happening without any training at all. Amazed to have almost zero soiled diapers at one month.

Makes sense though, I’m pretty sure mammals don’t do well with the insects and diseases that come with waste saturated bed.
> nautical themed torrent directory

What's the point of coy language like this? This is a general pattern I've noticed of people using weasel words because they think it will protect them from liability. Stop this pretence that saying "thepiratebay" is going to get you in trouble. It won't. This is a forum for adults, so let's talk like adults without bringing euphemisms and self-censorship in here.

Unless you were doing it to seem humorous, in which case go ahead. I didn't find it humorous but humour is subjective.
This is great fun. I had a Qube on my desk for a long time, and we had RaQ3 running for many, many years. They were great little machines.
OpenDKIM works fine, and is easy to configure. My first time config was like 30 mins following the guide here: https://wiki.debian.org/opendkim

And postfix is exceptionally well documented software. One of the best. It's easy to script config modifications thanks to `postconf` and do all kinds of interesting stuff with milters or policy servers, etc.
It's almost as if (bear with me ...) these "artificial intelligences" actually need "human intelligences" to guide them. Maybe we can think up a "system" where "experts" can codify rules for the "artificial intelligence" to follow.

Ok the sarcasm got too thick but my point is if the engineer has to spend the time to comb thousands of examples then you don't have AI you have a man in a box pretending to be a machine that plays chess.
I edited that sentence to be less absolutist, but still, isn't this essentially what this article and many people are advocating? Attracting all the smartest and most productive people in the world to move to the US? How is that a mischaracterisation of the argument?
GTM is just another JS CDN, like unpkg and jsDelivr and others I forget. What amuses me is sometimes a site will use all three. Often, none are necessary for the core site to work; having had to help add support for GTM once to a site builder product, I think the target demographic is PMs who want to add random marketing/ad/analytics/audience-segmented scripts to a site.

Very rarely it'll happen that I'll care enough to go through the list of possible domains to temporarily whitelist before finally giving GTM a shot, then immediately remove the whitelist. Usually I don't get that far, especially because if it hasn't worked by then, enabling GTM doesn't tend to work either, it's just a bad site that isn't actually providing what it claimed to provide. NoScript has never disincentivized me from visiting a new site, but it has made me give up on some or look for alternatives. My daily experience is pretty minimally impacted by it. (Still, I don't usually bother installing it on work machines or my travel laptop (which is remoting to my home PC most of the time anyway), and sometimes I'll just load the page up in a chromium tab (incognito or not) rather than play the game of five refreshes from whitelisting JS.)

The performance impact is quite minimal I think, especially if you compare the difference between Firefox with NoScript and Chromium without, the latter is just faster because it's not Firefox. The oldest machines I still use sometimes are from 2009 (with an i7 920, pretty good for the time) which as my old daily-driver I used NoScript, and 2017 (my travel laptop with an i7 7820HQ) where I don't bother. Neither is all that slower for web stuff than my current daily driver with a Ryzen 9 5900X. The web is just slow even with newer hardware. (In contrast to others here though, I immediately notice the difference of better hardware with local applications, especially content authoring ones like gimp or krita.)
Bit late to this thread, but you mention their design defects which bother the shit out of me. It’s been this way a long time now, but I hate, absolutely HATE how they changed save as (cmd+shift+s) to duplicate document in some of their apps. And then you close the duplicated document because that is not what you wanted, and it asks you if you really want to delete it. Delete what? It does not exist on the file system! I know one might say that technically it does or something because of versioning or some shit… the way every other OS and non-Apple app works was not broken. And I dont know anyone who likes pasting in text formatting as a default. MS broke that too. Why would ya change the functionality of an existing keyboard shortcut?
I believe the main issue is keeping them in sync.
It's a coping mechanism that needs to be parroted to keep the people in the west from questioning the status quo. "Look china/russia/iran/india bad ! Sure, we're not doing well and your quality of life is eroding year on year but hey ! In china you can't question tienanmen square so there's that"

It's sad, but as long as people continue to believe in this mythology of "absolute freedom", it will continue to work.
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That's what soulofmischief is saying. If your reasoning ends at somewhere you don't like emotionally, then your axioms are bad i.e. your actual axioms are emotional. Which is fine!
Just because a rank exist doesn't mean a competition exists. I might rank people on the street by height, but they're not competing with each other. In the context of the article, a rank is a measurement that the observer takes, it's not necessarily a motivator for the behaviour of the people he's observing (although in some cases it might be).
Small typo fix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan
Phasing out cars completely would be a bit much.

But I think they should be completely removed from some very common actions, anyone capable of walking/cycling/using public transit going for non-essential trips of less than say, 5km, should not be allowed to use a car.

Definitely anything under 1km should not be allowed. Those distances are easily walkable or bikeable. Of course, this will require that the built environment allows walking or biking (guess what, that makes for amazingly liveable environments, so it needs to be done anyway).

Anything between 1-5km is debatable, but those distance are easily bikeable and it takes about the same time, especially in a city. Similar problem with walkability/bikeability. At these distances public transit also becomes a solid option.

Anything between 5-10km requires either great bike lanes or at least decent public transit.

Anything over 10km is fair game for cars. Though for good to great public transit corridors, that's definitely a very viable option.

I think if we somehow manage to enforce this, we'd be in an amazing place, including for drivers. Because a huge chunk of the non-essential traffic would be just taken off the roads, leaving roads MUCH emptier, so whoever is still driving would get to where they need to a lot faster.
Here's how a printer company could go bankrupt immediately:

- Fixate on open firmware and force all third parties to open source their code (because yes, third party firmware vendors are necessary to develop a working printer system)

- Make a puny profit on durable hardware

- Miss out on the only true recurring revenue you can have
This really calls into question your understanding of the difference between the words "what" and "how". I know and understand what a marketing intern does, but I don't know how to specifically record a TikTok that will appeal to Gen Z with an IQ below 115. And I don't care, because I can measure the performance and fire or hire the intern.
Russia wants to control its neighbour Ukraine and also is a supplier of nuclear tech to other countries.

It's not guaranteed that every geopolitical rival would have those considerations when deciding whether to care about, or plan to actively attempt, triggering a nuclear meltdown in your nation.
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OpenDKIM is unmaintained and does not support Ed25519 signatures.
I love mox and was at your talk. I've been using it for a year. If I could make a few small feature requests (which may already exist) - I'd love to be able to use my external spamassassin with it instead of (or even in addition to) the built in one.

Secondly the documentation/instructions could be clearer for non-typical use cases, for instance catch-all emails. I have an Exim server with two domains pointing to it, I have catch alls on both, but the second domain is delivered into a folder in the first (it's used similar to SimpleLogin - for signing up to services). I assume this is possible with Mox but I'm not sure.

Having said that, I love Mox and I'm slowly moving all the email I host for other people onto it because it just seems to work.
> Signal and WhatsApp are likely a step ahead in terms of privacy

WhatsApp is closed source, so whatever they claim to can't be proven. And remember that both WhatsApp and Signal are legally required not to disclose to you whether they are spying on you or not.
That's revisionist nonsense.

The "issue" with gold standard is that you cannot compete with countries that can print money at will, which gives them the advantage NOW, even though they'll suffer massive inflation later down the line. How will you ever win a war when your enemy has infinite money? I guess people forgot what happened to Germany's economy after WWI. Your only hope is to be the one that wins the war, and gets all the booty and reparations.

Fiat economics is basically an infinite money glitch, indirectly paid by your very own tax-payers 30 years down the line. Of course no government wants to get rid of it. All I hear is the same Keynesian party line that keeps being parroted by modern economists and taxpayers alike.
> Spam from residential IP's should never reach SpamAssassin.

If the residential IP is in the MX record for the domain, even more so if the domain passes DKIM, why not?
this assumes that a smart person would move to US 100% of the time. given the bipolar nature of US i doubt 100% of smart people would move .
Instead of using a more powerful computer to be the presentation proxy for a less powerful one, the more obvious solution would be to upgrade to a not-so-old computer directly? Alternatively, don't try to load heavy sites on hardware that is too light for it.
The coolant inlet flange on a friends ~2015 730d, made of plastic, cracked recently. To remove & replace it you have to pull the whole inlet manifold and a whole host of other bits off.
Decoupling the Dollar from Gold (basically being able to print infinite money) opened the floodgates for all the FinScams that made up the last decades. Which ultimately led to an impoverished American Population and subsequent election of ignorant populist autocrats with no intent on fixing the broken system that brought them to power.
Big fleets are still installed with TFTP + HTTP/FTP.
I used to think Gmail’s interface was excellent until I moved to Fastmail.
I've very deliberately NOT updated the firmware of my Brother printer, ever. I mean, it works just fine (but complains that there's some updates available). What could an update add? Probably nothing. What could it break ? A whole lot. If it ain't broken, don't fix it :)
Which is a reflection of those writing the sloppy client code in first place.

Back in the 8 and 16 bit days, companies managed to make software available across all of them, or at least the most common platforms, in a time where performance called for hand written Assembly, and each hardware platform was its own snowflake.

And yet in the age of high level programming languages, the best most folks can think of is shipping a browser alongside the application, not only they show complete disregard for the platform, they don't really care about the Web, rather ChromeOS.

And yes this includes VSCode, which has tons of C++ and Rust code, and partial use of WebGL rendering, to work around the exact point of being based on Electron.
Wikipedia says 7.7% distribution loss.
> 1.5-2X to cycle (direct but need to contend with hills, rain and much increased risk)

I think a lot of what you're saying can be solved with cheaper ebikes and better bike infrastructure. Even the rain :-)

If it rains a lot you put on a big bike poncho, which turns you into a big sail and slows you down, and that's where the <<e>>bike part of ebike comes in, since you pump up the assist and still go fast.
That is a lot lower than I remember! I'll try and find my source for that.

EDIT: I can't find that source, and I found a load of sources around 7%. Thanks for the correction.
Greenpeace has the word "peace" in their name because they are anti-war. They claimed civilian nuclear power was part of a weapons program.

There's people in this very thread enthusiastic about nuclear power because it will help Italy develop nuclear weapons. So hard to argue that they were wrong.
They did bring a file manager to iOS a while back and it does work pretty well with all the apps.
Great video - thanks for sharing!
So, not the internet, but some very popular websites.
Its also uniquely Japanese. From the wikipedia article:

> The satellite was assembled through a traditional Japanese crafts technique without screws or glue.
See: the Netherlands. Or Switzerland, for counterexamples.

If anything, properly built small cities and towns are actually even better for public transit, since they're small. You don't need to cover a lot of ground.

Heck, everyone talks about self-driving taxis. Self-driving trains and buses, that's where it's at, actually. A decent chunk of the cost (and limitations) for public transit is the need for human drivers. Self-driving buses could have longer routes, could drive around the clock, etc, etc.

Ah, forgot, they could also be much smaller, but still cost effective. Think 10-15 places for smaller routes. That would do wonders for connectivity in more remote places.
Keep watching the movies, you will love the next one :-)
CAD for the case and keycaps was Fusion360 (Paid version to have Configurations which are clutch)

And the following subs were great for general CAD/Electronic knowledge

* https://www.youtube.com/@Fusion360School
* https://www.youtube.com/@adafruit
* https://www.youtube.com/@Borgedesigns
* https://www.youtube.com/@TheFusionEssentials
* https://www.youtube.com/@joe_scotto
> They are reliant on it. The US is still the currency used for trade. The world economy is tied to the dollar and outside of countries we've sanctioned no country has made large steps towards using something else because using something else would be more complicated and would cost them money

What happens when you "sanction" a significant portion of the world because they don't share your "values" or want to play ball elsewhere ? Well guess what ? These countries will inevitably look at each other and form their own trade routes and alliances.

Unfortunately, no hegemony is eternal.
Didn't parents care for their children before?

So then why do you think California - arguably the most liberal state - is also implementing a return to work mandate?
Is there a way to set it up to work without any cloud features at all? The docs for local llm say

> Some features may use a custom model like Apply, Autocomplete, Agent, so these proxy settings won’t be relevant, and your code will be sent to Firebender servers for processing.

Which suggests that there's always some cloud component? How usable is the plugin with fully local setup?
Can you measure the performance and accurately separate it from things like how well Tiktok as a platform is doing, the general economy, and public sentiment about your company?

Of course not, unless you were also an expert on making Tiktok content for the same audience and could definitively say what should and shouldn’t work.
Probably some dubiously useful features such as a nicer web UI (I never use it anyway), some utterly useless features like "scanning to Dropbox/GDrive", or most probably now some "AI assistant" that tells you how to switch cartridges.
This is a sort of weakness of BMW’s IMHO. It’s too easy to accidentally break some plastic bits while servicing the car and/or engine. It’s the same on their bikes in my experience.
Ok, this is the type stuff I come to HN to escape.
I can see both viewpoints, though.

I agree that the current situation is not normal and that there's a danger in normalising it - plus I have some private thoughts about how the tech scene is partially complicit in what's currently happening. I'm also not sure if anyone can afford to be neutral forever (something that HN usually tries to do), simply because the stakes are so high that most participants from both sides won't accept neutrality anymore.

But even outrageous news wear off - it's human nature. I'm sure it happened during WWII, too. And there's a certain point at which, even if you do care, you don't want to have to engage with it all the time. So limiting the amount of discussion about political matters becomes a matter of mental health.
The article gives off such strong "be a wolf, not a sheep" superiority complex vibes
> Issuing currency against gold is what the gold standard is all about. What do you think it was?

This seems pretty reductionist in a way that ends up being quite lossy.

With the gold standard, I believe the conversion rate between the dollar and gold was set by the government, right?

With private bank currency, it is literally a voucher for a specific weight of gold. There is no exchange rate like there was with the gold standard.
More to the point, when you write an article like this foretelling the doom of the american economy, why would you think you are able to brain drain any country? What stops the countries you are trying to drain from offering better incentives to stay?
If you'd elaborate on that I would probably try.
Show HN: Tool to automatically write Git commit messages locally using LLMs
Hi HN,

I have an issue with vague commit messages like "fix PR" or "fix issue". To address this, I’ve been developing a locally fine-tuned model called git-commit-message. The reason I keep refining this model is my belief in Vertical AIs—specialized, lightweight LLMs designed for specific tasks, allowing them to run locally in a secure environment.
Currently, I’m testing a beta version of my model with 3B parameters, comparing it against the initial 7B version.
Inspired by DeepSeek’s reasoning-based approach, I applied a similar technique to git commit messages, and the results have been impressive.
Like any LLM, my model isn't immune to hallucinations, and context size remains a challenge. Larger commits won’t perform as well as smaller ones, but best practices dictate committing small, focused chunks of code anyway.
I might actually be happy with that.
And his take on the other 20% doers smells like survivorship bias. But obviously he is right on taking the initiative to increase your chances.

Chances of success or for a fulfilling life is the underlying topic here and whatever connection you can draw to a dead planet.
I just reflowed a board in a cheap cast iron pan filled with some sand on my induction stove. Worked fine!
What we have now are LLMs that some consider to be good at tasks that are incremental, limited in scope, and require constant human oversight with many iterations.

What you want is an LLM that is exceptionally good at completely rewriting a poorly written codebase spanning tens or hundreds of thousands of lines of code, which works reliably with minimal oversight and without introducing hundreds of critical and hard to diagnose bugs.

Not realizing that these tasks are many orders of magnitudes apart in complexity is where the "unfounded optimism" comment comes from.
It is amazing and confusing to me, too, everytime again I read something like that, e.g. also for "animals have feelings, empathy" etc... seriously, really?
Ask anybody who has a pet or observed animals in freedom for a longer time! How can you assume the opposite to begin with, please?

And it is also so directly obvious for most, in the end they are us... we just have developed recordable speech and have the best "hands" it seems... we are not too far off from "them".

On-topic: Look at this parrot getting the drop better than most ravers there https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8YwaMitT4F/?igsh=Ym5nNW00MDh... :D
Didn't Elon fire the supercharger team anyways?
I loved th MS Sculpt (the "75%" one, with a layout similar to a laptop, only split). It started randomly failing for some reason, the only keyboard I've ever had to fail...

But I don't think that being low-profile was what was nice on the joints with that keyboard, but rather the presence of the palm rest which didn't force the wrists to bend upwards.

I now type on a "gaming" keyboard with full-size cherry switches, which is quite thick, and I don't have any wrist pain. Some 12 years ago, I used to have an Apple keyboard which was hell on my wrists, despite being quite low profile. The Apple didn't have a palm rest, the mech one does.

As to your typing speed remark, I suppose you already know that you don't have to bottom out your keys. I find I type faster on my mechanical keyboard than on laptops, and it's also easier on my fingers since there's no shock from bottoming out. It takes a while to get used to not press the keys all the way, but it's a much more pleasant experience. It's also quieter than the random HP domed keyboards we have at work or any laptop.