skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Confederating doesn't work. The US tried that back in the 1700s and it was a disaster; they gave up after 12 years. Did you forget that part of your history? It works OK for Switzerland because they're surrounded by mountains and during wartime have taken advantage of situations for their monetary benefit.

The reason the US is so successful economically is because of unity. It's the same reason Europe has not been that successful lately, despite their much, much longer headstart; it's why the EU was formed, to try to emulate the US's success with a single currency and single market. However they're finding that just having a confederation doesn't really work and isn't stable: Brexit, the Greek debt crisis, etc.

And no, I'm not convinced that China is disintegrating at all. That's a rather distorted view of current events. They might be shooting themselves in the foot with their Covid policy, but that's a long way from "disintegrating". The US shot itself in the foot in many ways too but it isn't breaking apart.

You might be right that the US in particular has gotten to a point where internal divisions will force some kind of large change, but this doesn't support the idea that free nations would be better off splintering into hundreds of tiny republics and hoping that confederating will protect them from enemies that don't share this view.
Beggars can’t be choosers.
One thing it didn't explain (or I might've missed): How do you animate the neighbors this way when a component changes? Aka if my size increases it shows how to animate that, but without doing anything else the neighbor component would just jump to its new position, or?
maybe "žot" ? or "ʤot" ?
Why are cities all around the world starting to look the same?
Does this also work with the Firefox plugin? Can't wait to get home and find out...
>Honestly if someone offered me $2 a month to do absolutely nothing, I would still be offended by it.

$2 a month is $24 a year. So basically on par with a company giving you a free steak dinner on your birthday. Not life changing, but still pretty cool.
Quick soft-bodied robots move at the speed of a hair clip
> is this additional information even published by Mozilla in a standardized format or if it's just put somewhere into Firefox source code?

Not really a single format, but they do write it down:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA/Additional_Trust_Changes
Kim Dotcom's Cashrain
NeoLucida
Now that does look interesting!

Given the Powered Up (train set) remote works over bluetooth and I understand can be made to work with a Technics Hub by flashing with the Pybricks firmware, I'd been wondering whether it's possible to control the hub using a RPi but over bluetooth instead of the wired HAT connection. Is this possible?
The key is in the difference between the situations -- when giving a tech talk, you are in control. You had time to prep, you know the material well.

I assume those don't apply to your impromptu discussions. So you have to figure out ways to change that.

Prepping and knowing the material is the easiest one. Go deep and learn what you need to learn to be informed. Once you have that you will feel more in control, and will get less nervous.
I like how for the three examples that you gave, I don't know what diminutives are, quite often I miss sarcasm and fail to handle it and I can only speak two languages fluently and three languages very weakly.

I'd say that, while for the HN crowd this isn't an AGI, for the majority of population it not only is Artificial General Intelligence, for many it's much smarter then them. The only real give away is poor handling of unwanted or misunderstood queries.

Not to mention the correctness of grammar, while for my language (Slovenian) it still fails at some obvious points, the sentences and structure is already much better then most message that I've received from highschool and university students.
Certificates advertise if they're meant to be roots or not and libraries enforce that via things like the path length constraints, so it wouldn't work. But it also just seems kind of complicated - how is that any easier than just updating the root store in a cron job, which is already done via normal package maintenance routines anyway?

The reason the Linux root stores don't have a notion of 'trust until' like the article wants is simple - nothing stops an untrusted CA just issuing certificates that claim to have been issued before the cutoff, so it seems pointless. Browsers have ways to tackle that like Certificate Transparency or crawling the web to try and identify every extant cert, but most apps don't use that.
Could be just a hyperbolic turn of phrase. The commenter may not be a native english speaker. The kid may have a developmental disability or a specific recent trauma related to this. Who fucking knows, it's none of our business. The story contributes to the discussion and makes its point either which way, what do you get from calling out this detail like this?
I'm a physicist but this isn't my field, so I will comment with my understanding, which may be wrong. Usually we expect that on a large scale there should be a uniform structure across the universe, i.e. the universe should be homogenous on a cosmic scale. Galaxies should be for the most part evenly distributed across the universe since everything came from a singularity at the big bang. The reason why we see any asymmetry on a small scale, e.g. we see galaxies and stars and planets form, is because of comparatively "microscopic" effects of physical laws. E.g. clusters, galaxies, stars, and planets form because they overcome the expansion of the universe, but generally the matter should be distributed evenly on a big enough scale.

This result is very interesting, because it implies some kind of asymmetric structure of the universe on a huge, cosmological scale. But how can such a structure arise? What causes such a structure to arise?
anima ex machina
If the neighbors are also Motion components you would just have to "ping" them so they can check for layout changes and animate accordingly.
Same here. I first saw it on an episode of the UK TV show GamesMaster (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAFR2e92MlQ), and was blown away by the graphics at the time.

Being a big fan of Dune at the time, I had to go out and buy it as soon as I could.

I preferred it to Dune II by a long way, I felt it had much more of a story and atmosphere, and kept a lot of what I loved about the Dune universe.
For what it's worth, I run an eBay store and this is how their promotions work.

If you use a coupon (with a few exceptions, where the seller must explicitly opt-in), that comes off of eBay's bottom line. Same with eBay plus - we'll get an additional credit (usually AU$4) to cover the difference between regular and express shipping.

Of course, they more than make up for this by taking a 10% cut off everything you sell through their site.
Perhaps it is coffee [1,2], not porn, that is the principle hidden
driver behind digital progress.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-20439301

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_Pot_Control_...
I could kill approx 500 million people in the fireball. Anyone higher?
I foresee a sort of hyper-CAPTCHA for AI tuning. Perhaps this will be more valuable than the underlying model itself.

The process could be: a flawed AI answer is reported, someone writes a distilled generalization of the misunderstanding, this is made into a hyper-CAPTCHA and a bunch of solvers (people) compete with another AI to iron out the flaw in the model.

These people would probably have AI assistants of their own and would have to understand the internals, so they would have to be highly educated in maths, logic, stats, and probability. Heck, it could be like a spectator sport.
Happens in Switzerland too.

In addition you get a minimum jail sentence of one year.

The scale for a "Raserdelikt" is

40 km/h too fast in a 30 zone
50 km/h in a 50 zone
60 km/h in an 80 zone
80 km/h on Autobahns (120 max)

I, for one, support that. When you're driving above 100 km/h within city limits you really deserve what's coming.
The value proposition is to the advertisers and Chinese capitalists and leadership, not to the user.

It's filling the user's head with forgettable garbage, destroying their attention span and capacity for careful thought.

A stream of consciousness without reflection or memory is exactly what the above parties want from it.
I had a friend who said he wanted 'He did little harm' on his gravestone. At the time I was irritated by how defeatist that attitude seemed, but these days it seems like a surprisingly high bar.
> I wouldn't. Would you?

No, but I’ve encountered many people across the spectrum from lower class to upper middle class who for some reason have no problem with stealing from businesses. Even less reticent if it’s a big chain.

> Neither would anyone who's at, above, or even slightly below that station in life.

Your model of people is incorrect. This is even touched on in an episode of Seinfeld where the parents casually mention “only stealing necessities like batteries”.
I think the GP was saying that incentives are a prerequisite for that personal want, not that they're sufficient to prevent relapse.
I've had my key break off inside the lock before.
Framer Motion automatically corrects box-shadow and border-radius [0], this article leaves this details I guess.

[0]: https://www.framer.com/docs/layout-animations/###border-radi...
Well, the details are more convoluted than two sentences on a public forum can convey. If you are seriously interested in how digital money works, I suggest you to read „Mastering Bitcoin“ which I found quite accessible even without a strong background in cryptography. Once you understood the BTC network you get a good grasp of what ETH is doing.

The former also employs an execution stack for running transactions but it is much more limited and I believe Turing incomplete (as a conscious choice).
The product is free for up to 15 users.

There is a self hosting option. But the recommended option is self hosted but managed by Taiga.

So to me it seems that this is more freemium.

Also, there seems to be version 7 just around the corner.

Technology used seem to include python, coffee script, postgres, django, redis among others
Infrastructure as Software with GitOps – Justin Garrison, Amazon
Here's another fun thing I accidentally discovered when it made a factual mistake: It will change its reasoning to support its answer.

>The average German citizen produces about 10.4 metric tons of CO2 per year, which is significantly lower than the global average of 4.9 metric tons per person per year. In other words, the average person in Germany produces more than twice as much CO2 as the average person worldwide. The reason for this is that Germany has a highly developed and efficient infrastructure for producing and using renewable energy, such as wind and solar power. As a result, a smaller proportion of Germany's energy comes from fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas, which are the main sources of CO2 emissions. Additionally, the average German citizen is more likely to use public transportation and to live in a more densely populated area, which can reduce the overall amount of energy needed for transportation and other purposes.

To which I replied:
You said:

"The average German citizen produces about 10.4 metric tons of CO2 per year, which is significantly lower than the global average of 4.9 metric tons per person per year."

this is a false statement, no?

>You are correct, my previous statement was incorrect. I apologize for the error. The average German citizen actually produces about 10.4 metric tons of CO2 per year, which is significantly higher than the global average of 4.9 metric tons per person per year. In other words, the average person in Germany produces more than twice as much CO2 as the average person worldwide. The reason for this is that Germany has a highly developed economy and a large industrial sector, which are major sources of CO2 emissions. Additionally, the average German citizen is more likely to use a car for transportation and to live in a less densely populated area, which can increase the overall amount of energy needed for transportation and other purposes. Again, I apologize for any confusion my previous statement may have caused.

Notice that all of the sudden the average German citizen is more likely to live in a less densely populated area to support the fact that they produce more CO2 per year than the global average.

Really fun stuff!
chaos was the law of nature; order was the dream of man
For buildings with 'heavy duty' entry systems, power to a powered lock can be hooked up through a 'door loop' [1] on the secure side of the door.

Or you can put the electronic lock in the frame of the door, as an electromagnet or an electronic strike [2].

The door to a residence, personal office or hotel room might only need to open 10x per day and so can be battery powered - but the main entrance to an office building might open 1000x per day, so wired power is the right choice there.

[1] https://doorentrydirect.com/srs-460mm-door-loop-with-cable-p...
[2] https://doorentrydirect.com/alpro-al151-inwardly-opening-ele...
You can work handing out food to hungry people. If you're making money though, you'll owe taxes, and those taxes will go to wherever the corrupt politicians decide -- often, right into the coffers of weapons manufacturers.

Humanity is a brutish, barbaric species. Get used to it.
Do they have a phone charger at the door? I have an almost 3yo iPhone SE, which only just makes it through the day on a charge (if I don't use it lot's).

The moment I get home is the time of the day I'm most likely going to have a flat phone battery. I've often headed out for a run or a ride only to have my phone die just before getting hime, since Strava (gps activity tracking) has burner through my battery.

So no way I'd want a house app for a house lock. Also, what about power failures, network outages? (I live on a island (pop 500k) so there have been already been multiple multi-hour near island wide internet outages - in which not even businesses can accept card payments). I assume the landlord couldn't blame you for smashing a window to gain entry in such a circumstance?
I met a random smart guy doing AI worms over 10 years ago. We need to fix systems security. Random AI applications can't be contained worldwide. I don't see a Turing Police being viable.
Work at a gay church.
I used it in a professional setting with several team members. Taiga was a good choice and we were able to be productive and deliver the project. As such it was used to make money. As opposed to hobby purposes such as self host it and organize a road trip.

It was also stable, we encountered no bugs and the solution did not get in our way in terms of user interface. It strikes a very good balance between features and simplicity.
I've recently read "Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry"
by Catherine M. Pittman, Elizabeth M. Karle https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20344354-rewire-your-anx...

It shows the processes of getting Anxious and the role of the cortex, and amygdala in the process. It also shows how you can really rewire the parts (mostly by associations) the parts of the brain trigger these panic and anxiety attacks. It's a great book, and there's also audio book. Very much worth the 6h of listening time. Knowing the mechanisms and biology behind those things helped me see the bigger picture and answer a lot of the "whys and hows".

Lastly, welcome to the club, you are not alone - fortunately this is a skill we can master.
Google introduces “Continuous Scrolling” on desktop for Search
And in theological arguments back then, god was called "the great watchmaker". Now the question "are we living in a computer simulation?" keeps popping here and there. I wonder what the analogy will be in 400 years.
I'm not sure sarcasm was called for. If you are doing something related to security you need to get it right. No permissions is needed to use local storage so far as I know.

And in a separate comment I did complement you on having produced this.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/loca...
I'm confused here - please could you explain. Here's what I see would happen:

1. User 1 adds a caption

2. User 2 adds a caption.

3. Both transmit to the server.

4. Server receives the first edit, applies it to the doc, broadcasts the change.

5. Server receives the second edit, sees it is applied to the previous version of the document, rejects the edit.

6. Client that receives the rejection re-bases their edit, attempts to apply it, and it is rejected as it does not conform with the schema.

So the outcome is whichever client hits the server first wins, which is fine. Where's the problem?
With the recent-ish addition of multi-page documents, Inkscape is now a full replacement for Adobe Illustrator for my use case (with the exception of CMYK support, but I do print stuff < once a year these days). Congrats to the team!
Wow… Telstra!?

They’re a telco!! What in the world are they doing investing in dodgy crypto firms?
Not to play down on the improvement here, but I expected to see some comparisons to other base64 encode/decode implementations. There are many high-performance implementations out there with permissive license.
Shut down is in the Finder, in the “Special” menu.

That’s an evolutionary left-over from the first Mac. It ran only a single program at the time [1]. It booted up running the Finder. From there, you could launch a single program. If you quit that program, it launched the Finder again.

[1]: except for desk accessories, a special kind of device driver (!) that could present an UI (https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...)
ServiceWorker is shut down every 5 minutes for manifest V3 extension
I remember when I was younger, I actually ran away from a presentation I was due to give at a local library!

Now, I enjoy them, but still find the first minute tough. And this is key for me, the first minute. Get through this and then its like going down a hill.

Two things that helped me.

1. Instead of taking the "everyone's a fool" approach as many have commented, go in and try and make a joke or comment that is humorous.

"This is going to be the most interesting 3 hour presentation of your life!"

You want to show the audience you are relaxed and once they appear to be friendly and nice, the feedback loop puts you in a new sense of power.

This will be the first minute. You can also ask the audience for a raise of hands to a few questions (don't over do it) but it connects you to the foreign enemy in the first few seconds.

2. Don't do it.

If you really feel like you are going to die - don't do it. Explain to whoever has it on you to present this why and ask someone else to do it with your input.
>None of them can group icons by functional usage,

I really have no idea what this means as that's never my workflow, but it could be a valid complaint. I just hit the start/meta key, type the 2-3 letters of my desired app/file, then hit enter.

>Type control panel into the search button on win11 pro/etc and notice all the stuff that remains there because it doesn't have similar functionality in the new control panel.

Like what? I consider myself a relative power user and haven't needed to touch the old control panel at all, at least for cases that cover 99% of windows use-cases, as for power user uses cases that aren't covered by the new settings menu, I usually go directly to the registry editor.
Just because you find control panel results in the start menu search, doesn't mean you can't do those things in the new settings menu.

>Pretty frequently I find myself in that control panel because what I want to change can't be changed from the new control panel.

For example, what things?
Seems like a good time to remember this deleted hagiography of SBF by Sequoia: https://web.archive.org/web/20221027180943/https://www.sequo...
Note that, thanks to capsicum(4), this vulnerability is not very exploitable.
The answer is plain and simple: they want your phone number, your account security is not much of their concern.
After doing this about as long as Rachel has been, it seems to me that your choice for employer is usually (a) evil (for varying definitions of evil); (b) incompetent; or (c) an organization of competent paladins that also happen to hate money.

There are a very, very few organizations that don't fall into one of those categories.

Those that refuse to sell their soul will make ever so much less money than their colleagues. I've kept my soul, but I bet Rachel can keep the lights on.

Evil pays really well.
That's interesting. I'm curious to know how the internal sponsor of the project sold it internally. It generally takes a lot of motivation to convince your superior (and finance team) to pay the millions McKinsey would charge per week.

At the micro level, I would agree that in some cases there was a tendency of some to make things more complex than necessary. The implicit intent here was generally to demonstrate some type of credential to lay people.

That being said, at least in my personal experience, most of the actual recommendations were backed by as much data as possible. In the projects I worked on, I don't think a single slide went by without hours of debate and critique by the partners. It was a given that any recommendation should be supported by data.

That being said, there are also lots of cases where there is no right/wrong answer - especially given the timeframe (typically 4-8 weeks). Companies basically pay consultants to come in, analyse as much data as feasible and just make some type of informed decision. In most cases the company is either unwilling to make that decision themselves or does not have the ability to do so (i.e. organisation is too complex to tackle this problem within so just get an outsider to cut across the company and get it sorted as best as possible).
I agree, have you ever had to go through a dead relatives stuff? You can tell it meant something to them, but most of it does not mean anything to you. Most of it gets thrown out, a few things get sold, a few mementos are kept, some of the tools go in a toolbox, a lot goes to Goodwill. Mostly nobody wants it, nobody wants to continue maintaining all your stuff, nobody is going to take over your blog (they'll start their own instead), they are not interested in your kaliedescope collection or collection of antique dinner plates, a lot of your stuff is more worn out and useless than you think even if it works fine for you (as long as you reboot it every Wednesday). They have their own life to live. More expensive assets are worth trying to preserve, but your IoT house system is not a rabbit hole anyone wants to reverse engineer or read the 1000 manual pages about. Concentrate on the important things, let go of the rest. If you have enough warning try giving some of it away. Then you might find someone who will appreciate some of it.
Sequoia really made fools out of themselves here. When you listen to VCs they always sing their praises. Is it an emperor has no clothes situation?
It certainly shows the irrationality of art appreciation. It's not about the quality of the painting, it's about who made it. And that is what makes forgery attractive; it's worth more because people think it's make by a more famous painter. The value comes not from the art itself, but from the history.

It's the same with the talk about modern AI art. Does it devalue art because it's not made by people? The same image made by AI, a modern artist, or an old master, has a completely different value because of who made it.

So Van Meegeren's style not interesting when he painted it, because it's old fashioned, but it is interesting when people think it's painted by Vermeer. It wasn't old fashioned then; it was revolutionary. The historic context is really different. It's clearly not about the picture itself, it's about the history, the cultural significance, the context.