skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mesh networks are easy to destroy as the only scalable solution is wireless and that is obviously weak against localized jamming.

A protest or other meatspace collective organized through a mesh net would be cut off and disrupted to the point where the network would be viewed as unreliable. Kids on horses are far more reliable.

Mesh networks to share information broadly are susceptible to misinformation campaigns, partisan politics, and the simple problem of covering vast distances with pedestrian tech. AM Radio is far more reliable.
Deception Detection
You replied to a conversation where the direct subject was nuclear vs. renewables & battery storage.

The only viable option for expanding nuclear is much further from reality than existing battery technology that is in the process of commercialisation.

The peak of historic new nuclear production wasn't even at the scale of existing lithium ion production.

As such there is no better option other than the other main renewable storage technologies of electrolysers and PHES.
I’ve swapped around a dozen iPhone batteries for me and family members.

While not Lego-easy, there’s nothing complex or particularly difficult about it.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33400828
Arena allocator lets you group allocations greatly reducing difficulty of correct manual memory management. As a bonus icache is used more economically too.
For those of you who want to know what's currently going on, here are the names of the main publicly known contactees (people on Earth who publicly report that/how they maintain some form of contact to extra-terrestrials):

- Alex Collier

- Elena Danaan

- Marina Jacobi

- Dr. Michael Salla (no known direct contact, but excellent analyzing/reporting)

You'll want to check out their YT/rumble channels, websites, books (especially Elena Danaan's last 2-3).
We have been testing out various protocols to overcome in our case TCP head-of-line blocking by using the protocols->

SRT:
https://github.com/Haivision/srt (C++ wrapper https://github.com/andersc/cppSRTWrapper)

RIST:
https://code.videolan.org/rist/rist-cpp

KCP:
https://github.com/Unit-X/kcp-cpp

We wrap all data in a common container format
https://github.com/agilecontent/efp

To decouple the data from the transport.

Yes the above solutions are media centric but can be used for almost any arbitrary data.

The protocols are not 'fare' so starvation may happen, and must be handled on the application level.

/A
I wonder whether you would post a comment similar to this if it turned out that the donation money had been funnelled to right-wing think tanks and had then subsequently been distributed to right-leaning commentators?
Certainly! I remember being quite annoyed when I started encountering editors/IDEs, that would not let me type light-on-dark!
Bill Gosper's Hakmem is one of the best things for a programmer to read.
-- Stepanov
i tried to find evidence of the significant health effects of jamming and was unsuccessful.
“More open” as owned by a billionaire extremist that promised to destroy moderation efforts that weren’t even good to begin with. People in the US have a weird notion of what “open” means.
Maybe this is simply an example of the pessimistic tone at HN?
Still much less than the gazillion PCs, each being its own snowflake.
Aren't the most subjective academic fields the ones which condemn "white male", without any of the other attributes you name?
It screeches warnings at me and fully engages the brake after a second or so. Which isn't optimal... because this is such a dumb ass dick move you need good timing over when you engage and release the rear brake. Or otherwise you'll end up outside the designated driving surface.
That's exactly what I don't understand I suppose. AVIF has nothing to do with Google, so I'm not sure why it's a retaliation. Dropping support for WebP and WebM would be more of a retaliation, since those are actually formats developed and pushed by Google. But Google has nothing to lose and everything to gain if other browsers kill AVIF and leave WebP as the only JPEG replacement.

But alright, I will move on. You don't have to respond.
How do I tweak the output encoding parameters? Will this help by suggesting possible parameters, values and meanings for specific codecs?
> (It's always interesting how these classics have had less discussion on HN than I expect them to have had.)

Maybe this is a good indicator for extremely high-quality posts? People start reading the link, and it is so mesmerizing that they forget they came from HN.
If? Since when do we qualify a war as deadly based on linear projections in the future?
Admins share lists of extremist instances and block them. This strategy helps to not viralize hateful/illegal content.
my own business
Isn't stack/arena allocation still vulnerable to dangling pointers?
IMHO, discounting health, a fully paid home where you can live.
FUJIFILM TCL-X100 II Tele Conversion Lens - they dont sell a boat load of them.

My old X100 field-of-view is spectacular just the way the designer intended it to be.

https://shuttermuse.com/fuji-x100-conversion-lens-review-28m...
> Didn't know we are living in 1985.

Well we can compare to new capacity added in 2021 if you like? There were 5GW added. There were enough batteries made in 2021 for a 50 hour storage for every nuclear plant that came online with plenty to spare.

The point is that if renewables + batteries are not of sufficient scale, then nothing is. If the bar for pursuing a solution to a problem is that the problem already be solved, then noone will ever solve anything.

Lithium battery production is much closer than the scale of nuclear construction ever was. Having a tantrum when this is pointed out doesn't change it.
resell?
Fruit flies move their retinas much like humans move their eyes
Which server?

Synapse needs dual core with 8GB ram. You don't call that inconvenient?

Even then you might have timeouts joining some rooms.

Most will not meet that spec and won't be able to join popular rooms.

God help you should you not replace the standard sqlite dB.
The problem with the dark forest / everyone is hiding explanation is that you can't hide.

For over a billion years Earth has been broadcasting a very powerful signal screaming "likely biosphere here" in the form of its albedo spectrum. It's a wet, warm planet that for almost two billion years has had a heavily oxidizing atmosphere. There are few natural explanations for that that don't involve life, since it strongly implies that something is doing work to maintain an energy differential.

If there are "reaper" aliens around in any form, it would be logical for them to start firing relativistic kinetic weapons at any candidate biosphere immediately. Why wait for intelligence to even get a foothold? Just whack any potential competitor while it's nothing but goop and creepy crawlies.

So if there are ancient powerful hostile or "grabby" aliens around, we should not be here.

It's a pretty powerful argument for one of:

(1) We are very early.

(2) Intelligent complex life is extremely rare, occurring less often than e.g. once per galaxy per ten billion years. (A bit different from being very early since it implies we might never find another even after billions of years.)

(3) Something weird is going on, e.g. our solar system is being kept as a wildlife preserve and/or there is a "prime directive" or something.

(4) Something even weirder is going on, which explodes into a long tail of possibilities. Maybe we are wrong about our basic cosmology. Maybe continued advancement in intelligence leads places very different from space flight such as traversing dimensions or converting oneself into some more exotic form invisible to us (like the "ascension" trope in sci-fi). ... and so on.
I think I might have the lost it somehow over the years but I remember writing a short “fiction” thing about basically this “turned pro”… corporate driven socialism, natural humans are restricted to owning at most one personal share in the company, every share has the right to vote but the elected “board of directors” have term limits enforced by the articles of incorporation which require unanimous consent to modify, you don’t have social welfare, you have a “dividend” payed out from the collective “contractually obligated payments” required of shareholders who operate addition businesses with permits (business license, individual tax registration etc) which are basically just your Taxes … it was a pretty funny exercise in torturing the definitions of words around to take the most capitalist thing I could think of “the government is just the biggest company and basically owns you” and slowly twist it round till it was for all intents and purposes socialism, if not actually “communism”.
In my opionion, WLB = work life balance
a publicly traded company. not exactly the same as its current status.
A critic of some ad-related updates in Apple's App Store
> AVIF has nothing to do with Google,

That's where we disagree, then.
The other one to call out is 'no impediment shall be made to preclude the use of third-party after-market components except where doing so could cause a serious risk of harm'

And, as the peer comment says, precluding re-sale.
I tried WebP because lighthouse heavily pushes it claiming big size reductions, the asterisk for those claims is of course way worse quality. Visually identical quality to JPEG only gave irrelevant improvements or none at all - 10 % or so are not worth the hassle over JPEG. Lighthouse also pushes WebP for PNGs but that of course falls flat on its face due to chroma subsampling.

Maybe WebP is better than JPEG at low quality levels, but that’s not something I care about, what with not being in the streaming video biz.
How do you maintain waterproofness without glue? Not just water resistance - I mean actually having the device survive having it in pocket and swimming with it.
All on GitHub. Unfortunately in Polish, but I suppose you could create an issue to have this translated:

The keyword you're looking for is "sernik".

https://github.com/jan-warchol/przepisy-programisty

EDIT: pull requests with translations are welcome, but you'd have to speak Polish first, which takes us back to square one. Google translate is half-decent with this language though, so you might be able to run off of that.
Source hut is an unreliable partner and we should move everything off of there as soon as possible.

Got it.
In 1988, Airbus delivered the first A320 with electronic flight commands, which was safe.

In 1998, the RATP inaugurated line 14 of the metro in Paris, which was fully automated, after formally proving that its software would never ever be able to bug.

Gitlab didn't exist back then, and yet these companies made a code that was safe.

I guess the main driver of code quality is whether the company cares, and has the proper specifications, engineering before coding, and quality management procedures, before the tech tooling.

It certainly is simpler now to make quality code.
But don't forget that software used to be safe, and it was a choice of companies like Microsoft, with Windows, or more recently Boeing with the 737 Max, to let the users beta test code and patch it afterwards (Aka early, reckless agile)

So yeah, modern codes look less buggy. But it's mainly because companies care IMO.
Considering the trend is to think about reversing a disposable, planned obsolescence mentality for profit and going toward sustainability, I’m okay with limiting some choices. We already do with asbestos in construction.

Some technical solutions, in your terminology, might be seen by others as a “lazy short cut for profit” and we can have that debate if you like. With our regulatory bodies, and rules, unfettered freedom in electronics is stupid for consumers and you know it. I think more effort isn’t a bad thing in the long run.

Also, it’s natural for it to cascade down. Just like car tech. Just like how that’s how companies start - get away with it where you can. It went from consumers UP to John Deere, not the other way around.
NIS2 and Software Engineering
For anyone considering which instance to join, the section "Tell me more about this magical community-building feature you love" in this post [1] and the section after that "What should I look for in an instance to join?" have pretty useful information that explains the subtleties beyond "federation works like email". It explained a lot of things about content visibility that confused me for a long time.

There's also a tool [2] that lets you preview what the Local (within-instance) and Federated ("all" instances, though not really, as the mentioned post explains) timelines look from each instance. Keep in mind that you can always filter out users or whole instance domains, so the presence/visibility of interesting posts is more important to look for than the absence of a few spammy/non-your-language accounts.

[1] https://wordsmith.social/elilla/a-futuristic-mastodon-introd...
[2] http://www.unmung.com/mastoview?url=qoto.org&view=local
> Right to Repair applied broadly is dictatorship of minority

Feel more like a democratic decision made by the majority, after all, the users are the majority and the makers are the minority.
Ok - IANAL - I’ll take your word for it that I misunderstand the statute.
You haven't solved the problem though.
I just wish I could donate directly to the devs working on Wikipedia and to the hosting costs. Same goes for Mozilla, actually. I want to support Firefox developers, but not Mozilla. I won't donate to either anymore even though I am a Firefox user and rely on Wikipedia a lot in my daily life as well. Maybe the devs should all set up Patreon or GitHub Sponsors accounts. I'd be happy to support them that way.
At the risk of sounding flippant, por que no los dos?

Any valuable domains are at the same risk, but that's outside of the scope of RIPE or IANA.

Fight this. Also fight that.
Synapse is not the only implementation
If it seems like he is implying he came up with arena allocators himself, that is definitely not intended.
I didn't read it like that though.
In Japan they don't seem to have a problem to put a sink (for handwashing) that drains to the reserve tank:

https://imgcp.aacdn.jp/img-a/1200/auto/global-aaj-front/arti...
> If a species is to survive, it needs to have innate drive to do so....

It's worth pointing out, that's not how natural selection works. NS would be: If a species has an innate drive to survive, it will do so. Yes, subtle. But essential.

That aside, how would you account for an asteroid strike?
Onboarding at a Radical Enterprise
This. It doesn’t even need to be a big house. An apartment/condo that you own can be just fine (depending on family situation etc).
It's the only full featured implementation.

The alternatives like dendrite are significantly more work.

And good luck getting any federation working at all unless if you replace sqlite.
Feel free to reach out to support if you need help getting your data exported:

sir@cmpwn.com

Sorry to see you go.
To quote the article:

> Just as moving VPS companies kicked the can to the next VPS company. Just as getting my own IPs kicked the can to upstream. Just as getting a stable upstream kicked the can to DDoS mitigation.
I think there is no way to have true security on a cellphone; the surface of attack is so wide that although one uses only FOSS apps, the platform can host all sorts of backdoors buried either in the OS or in the hardware/firmware themselves, so that any attempt to communicate through strong encryption might be rendered futile by code running at higher privileges (device drivers and firmware, conveniently all closed) which would access sent data before encryption and received data after decryption, mirroring them home somewhere unbeknownst to the user.

Now I don't think the Iran govt has any leverage to force companies to release their sources, nor forcing them to install backdoors on their behalf, but if they found a way to sneak new firmware or system level apps into phones sold there, that would be a possibility.
Depending on the scope, it's not always possible to self-fund while starting a project.
Sorry to see him go? From what I read you are kicking him out.
Who would want to donate to wikipedia when they know that a lot, probably most, goes to pushing woke politics?

Hold up a second. The last time I saw an article whining about political bias on Wikipedia the complaint was that Wikipedia were a bunch of incel neckbeards and/or Nazis. Has something changed?
We don't even have to be first-first, just among the first few thousand and still outside the light cones of any of the others.
Is there any plans to move Internet infrastructure to space?
I'm not an expert, but by default

-no way to moderate content. you may see this as good or bad, but spam can be annoying. it'd probably be a lot worse us it became more mainstream.

-costs due to bandwidth if you are part of the infrastructure are driven by people posting binary data, far larger in bytes vs actual text. this is apparently why there are so many paid services.

-no way to authenticate identity

I'm probably missing a couple of items. There are ways to cope with these things, people use this every day, but it's not perfect.
Automatic Programming: How Far Can Machines Go
A Map for Every Journey
> We are in the process of moving SourceHut to the European Union, and have incorporated in the Netherlands. Consequently, the terms have been updated to clarify that users are required to comply with Dutch law in addition to US law. The requirement to comply with US law will be removed in a future update after we close the US entity.

Interesting, I typically only hear about moves in the other direction. What's the motivation if I may ask?
Meh :) in classical mechanics one cares little about maximization versus minimization; it's really just (stationarity of L) <---> (equations of motion) that matters. Practically speaking it's just a cute gimmick to quickly find the equations of motion, especially for constrained systems.

In quantum mechanics everything is different, but for that you should study path integrals. To re-establish the connection with classical mechanics you have to learn about the saddle point approximation; it might also help to read Feynman's book called QED.
Well, their comment doesn't necessarily indicate if any of their projects would be affected, but rather that this change generally undermines their trust in SourceHut. I'm sorry to hear that this is the case.
Polymorph: Queryless ECS in Nim (Nimconf2022 Video)
Geodesics ("shortest path" trajectories) in spacetime maximize proper time.
Not sure what the problem is? If the AI outputs bad quizzes, you have nothing to worry about, no one would use it. If the output is good, then it seems like it's a win-win?
I loved solarized when it was new (to me). But after several years, I couldn't stand looking at those blue tones all day.

I switched (in vim) to gruvbox [0] (better maintained "community" edition [1]), which also has a dark and a light version, which is a lot warmer.

0: https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox
1: https://github.com/gruvbox-community/gruvbox

thanks, hatsubishi, for pointing out the typo in the second link!
The way I see it your mail is not publicly displayed on mastodon, only used to confirm/identify. Does @handle on mastodon has the email associated to my friend Peter ? If so it's a match.

Of course it's a whole other can of worms, reminds me of Linkedin/Fb that would spam me because they had access to my friend's rolodex..
> restricted in their choice of technical solutions, bad

not bad, for the same reason we prevent car manufacturers from manufacturing and selling rolling coal 120dB cars. There are things you shouldnt be able to sell because they harm society.
i have a jio fiber at home. i have put a an old router with lan cable jiorouter>wifi router.

i have put new wifi router on the same wifi name/pw so i get to transparently switch between the two connections.

this somehow disables ipv6 on the devices connected to the downstream wifi router so that their address is not exposed. on the regular jio fiber, ipv6 address is exposed
The reports that I linked from the U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the National Intelligence Council.

What degree of sway is up for debate, but given the documented scale and scope of the efforts, it certainly wasn't zero.
Commented this and got flagged:

“We need boots on the ground to back the good science behind these findings.”

Why is wanting to send people to mars to confirm or leverage these findings so offensive?
> The bill has not been sent to the governor for her signature or veto... there has been opposition to this first in the nation bill becoming law making it a “David versus Goliath battle.”

Opposition from unnamed companies to legislation that has already passed? How often do bills end up in limbo like this?

2017, "Apple Spends Big to Thwart Right to Repair in New York", https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/05/apple-spends-big-thw...

June 2021, NY Senate bill passed (200 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27472083

June 2022, NY Assembly bill passed,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31614055

> Today, the New York State legislature passed an electronics Right to Repair bill: As of mid 2023, manufacturers who sell “digital electronic products” in New York will have to make parts, tools, information, and software available to consumers and independent repair shops. We still await a final signing by the governor, but advocates don’t expect a challenge.

Full text of legislation: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S4104
Ffs, Lula isn’t “a criminal”. He was convicted by a corrupted federal judge, as our Supreme Court decided.

Lula is a breath of relief after four years under Bolsonaro insane, perverse term. I’m Brazilian, voted for Lula, and I’m really happy for his victory. Bolsonaro was a tragedy — 30 million Brazilians went back to starving under his disastrous government after we eradicated hunger in mid-2010. With Lula, hope is back in Brazil!
until you need a new server.
I had a recurring donation set up for wikipedia. I really like it. It’s useful. But I hate woke politics. So, yeah, I no longer have that recurring donation.

I genuinely don’t understand why people feel the need to shove their ideology down peoples throat every chance they get.
Let's try this, just published in The Guardian. Reasonably respected news source. Tends to give decent coverage to environment issues.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/27/world-cl...

> a slew of major reports laid bare how close the planet is to catastrophe.

...

> Current pledges for action by 2030, even if delivered in full, would mean a rise in global heating of about 2.5C, a level that would condemn the world to catastrophic climate breakdown

...

> Research by Rockström and colleagues, published in September, found five dangerous climate tipping points may already have been passed due to the global heating caused by humanity to date, including the collapse of Greenland’s ice cap, with another five possible with 1.5C of heating.

...

> Furthermore, the world is unfortunately in a geopolitically unstable state,” said Rockström. “So when we need collective action at the global level, probably more than ever since the second world war, to keep the planet stable, we have an all-time low in terms of our ability to collectively act together.”

... I don't think this is alarmist. I think this is realist. 2030 and these targets they are talking about are not 10 years away. They are about 7 years away. I don't see any will to action in politics, I don't see any will to action from my colleages, I don't see any way out.

As a species we've pretty much committed suicide. The bullet has gone through the brain-tissue. We're just in the hang-time, waiting for gravity to kick in and do a slow-motion fall to the floor.
screws and gaskets