skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- And they can't move ecosystems.

- And logging into your bank requires a proprietary device.

Let's be clear about what we're "compromising" about. If passkeys are going to be a replacement for passwords (and Google/Microsoft/Apple are very up-front about the fact that they want passkeys to be a replacement for passwords) they have to handle all of the use cases. But even if that wasn't the case and they could just target the general consumer, the downsides here are not just for techy people. The platform lock-in will absolutely affect ordinary people as well.

It'll mean that when your family member that doesn't know to make backups loses their iPhone, the only way to get those keys back will be to buy another iPhone.
As AI becomes the largest producer and consumer of all new content, eventually the median song will just be 440 Hz for 2.5 minutes.
Actually (and ironically), Chile has a really interesting experiment in private toll roads. So it can be done.
The game does model supply and demand, though, so eventually the ore supply would become depleted and the markets will start offering lower prices for your mined material. So possibly not yes!
Not even needs it's wants.
FEX 2305 Emulator on ARM Adds More AVX Instructions, Optimizations
The first half of the 20th century was a cruel time and engineered cruel people, of all ideological stripes. 50 years of living with the consequences of WWI.
Sounds like what Indonesia is also doing: https://twitter.com/70sBachchan/status/1587125692294201347.
The KHM is a world-class museum that is nowhere near as famous internationally as it should be, imo.
Just a Drop in the Bucket
>It's very simple. If it's open source and the license allows re-publishing code (with copyright information intact)...

If it is that simple then clearly Copilot need to include the licence of the code when they republish it. Changing GPL'ed code doesn't make it not-GPL code at any point. If it started out as GPL it is still GPL later in the line when a user sees it in Copilot.
It means "tensional integrity". Structures that are held stable by tension.

Things like this:

https://img.mrvcdn.com/g/fb/kf/S9514e6355f474ca4b09db84ad4e3...

It's a thing that's only being held in that position by chains under tension.

It looks very weird at first, but after looking closer it starts making sense. For the upper piece to fall for instance, the outer chains would have to collapse, but the middle chain makes that impossible. For it to tilt, one chain would need to get longer, but it can't. Etc.
This public-private partnership approach is likely weak enough to not significantly impact the profits of the multinational mining companies. Or Gabriel Boric is overconfidently playing his hand because a similar move in the past would get you dropped from a CIA helicopter over the ocean.
That's pretty wild, I've been setting things up like this for about 5 years with just BERT or my own fine tuned encoder only systems. It should be done for free, not millions... Can I get millions for running `ls` too?
My garbage can is a few meters away from my desk.
That's too far -- guess I'll just litter on the floor -- it's more convenient.
... but soon the trash builds up.

Upgrade the whole system? Dangerous.
Upgraded and it kinda works, but you'd like to roll-back? Though luck.

NixOS is definitely not for everybody - perhaps Developer workstation is the most tricky to get right. But for production server use, the repeatability is great.

Nix ofc is agnostic of NixOS, is is generally my preferred way of getting packages.

I also happen to love when software makes too-wide assumptions and break. That is generally software poorly written and to avoid.

These side-effects and mutations cross-product with each other so much that computers have become failure dumpsters.
I understand your point, but millions sounds an exaggeration- I have a hard time believing a single node can handle millions of concurrent users
you can apply filter on Mastodon, not only on tags but on words themselves. simply filter "Musk" to have a Musk-free Mastodon experience.
Yeah that's insane. Tensegrity is a portmanteau of tension and integrity. It literally just means structures that achieve integrity (rigidity) through tension. Ideally in a confusing looking way and to support a coffee table.
But they don't have the resources to build the infrastructure to extract it in a profitable way.

So likely what will happen is that China will do it and pay below market rate for the lithium.

I would not be surprised if the entire Boric fiasco is just Chinese infiltration.
Code, is at best, a trade secret (it is also data). Keep it close to your chest, or don't.
Can someone help with the math? Why do they divide by two to calculate the memory size of the sheet? Thanks!
You think the problem of aging cannot be resolved?

Aging has long been characterized. We understand in which ways degradation happens, and no new ways have been found for several decades. There aren't that many; They can be tackled, one by one.

We have an assortment of tools today that weren't available a mere 20 years ago, and it is our moral imperative to do this research.

There's more people suffering from aging and the conditions it does cause than any other health issue. All of us will eventually degrade, suffer and perish if nothing is done about it.

Improving the quality of life of our aging population by supplementing the shortcomings of metabolism (and thus un-doing aging) is the target.

Longevity would be a byproduct of this.
The thing about lithium is that it still isn't as big or valuable of a market as some headlines might make you believe. Chile exports, per the graph, about $900M worth of lithium per annum. For comparison, they also export about $33B worth of copper. And about $2B of wine. Pretty decent wine, I might add.

So it's not such a surprise that Chile is taking a very slow approach with this "nationalization". Mining doesn't usually grow at the speed of software. Plus, competition will arise. The quantity of known lithium resources globally doubled from 2014–21:

https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2090756.pdf

To some extent, nationalizing lithium is as much a publicity stunt as it is an economic policy.
I really don't need the current generation of smart devices. They are trying to solve a problem by applying quick fixes which don't work very well or need maintenance (changing batteries).

I need a smart home where the built-in devices communicate and change behaviour based on sensor input and a controller where I'm in control of the software and open standards are being used. This also means that everything should work without internet access. Needing internet to turn a light on is pretty stupid. I'm thinking of you IKEA.

I'm not going to waste my money on any smart devices before this happens.
It's a bit of a stretch, but maybe we as a society should be considering the social pressure as being the problem. Why do we allow ourselves to be 'controlled' in this way by others? Especially young people? If we could learn to move past this?
Please read my post then. I explicitly said it’s not clear what level of lockdowns were the most effective.

Further reading about swedens performance as a retrospective: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/opinion/sweden-pandemic-c...
I understood the title, but only because I already knew that Pixel phones were able to have their bootloaders unlocked, so I assumed there was some kind of bar that had to be jumped.

Support for LineageOS is a key issue for me in the purchase of a phone, so Pixels are desirable as a known quantity. I'm not too bothered about having to "do the thing" because so many other phone brands / models either can't be unlocked easily or aren't supported by LineageOS.

Other comments about Pocophone F1 being compatible with PostmarketOS puts that on my watch list.
It's not about blame. Developers are paid to develop. They're not paid to care about the interlocking parts, so many of them don't. It's not an indictment. It's just what it is. They have a different set of skills.

> Rather where’s the leadership and direction?

We're right here, implementing scrum for the reasons I listed.

> If someone is not performing you shouldn’t need scrum to work that out otherwise you have bigger problems.

I have found that poor performance is often not because an employee is "bad." It's because the team dynamic is not working. Maybe their skills are poorly utilised. Maybe the team isn't make accommodations for their neurodivergence. Maybe they don't understand how to integrate well into the team. Maybe they don't feel confident to bother the senior devs, and maybe the senior devs have told them to fuck off. I've seen all of this and more.

> I’d argue alignment is useless as most of the time developers are told to implement useless features.

Sure, there's no point in any of the work you do if you're being told to develop things that no one wants. My baseline assumption here is that the business has need of your work. If it doesn't, you should brush up no your CV.

> So what would you prefer? Developers without scrum delivering in 4 months or with scrum and taking a year?

If the four months gives me something no one wants, I'll take the year.

> The problems aren’t accountability or alignment. If people aren’t following a plan, that is if there is 1 then it’s a leadership problem.

That's the whole discussion: how best to follow the plan. I don't think it's as easy as criticising developers for "not following the plan" if we don't provide a strong foundation in which to do so. Cue scrum.
I wouldn't call that microservices.
Yeah, we were trying to get people to pay a small amount to increase the prize pool and incentive for participating. Maybe we make it free and remove the monetary reward...
Note: download later.
Tucker isnt even with Fox news anymore, but this isn't the point.

For those not following Canadian politics. Bill C-11 recently became law and they are combining this with our lack of free speech.

>The group said the Fox News “coverage aimed to provoke hatred and violence against 2SLGBTQI communities, particularly those who are Two Spirit, trans, nonbinary and gender non-conforming (2STNBGN).”

This is about censorship. You claim your political opponents are 'inciting hatred' toward yourself or others and the government has the ability to censor your shared political opponents.

I will be shocked if they don't completely ban Fox news from Canada.
> tcketmaster

IIRC, nothing changed.

Take for example practices of PayPal or VISA etc. Nothing changed.

> Cloud backup works for average users. That includes keypass. Heck, even HN users do it that way. The only difference is that we have 16 word DiceWare passwords and key files on YubiKey devices.

Sorry most HN users are the ones building closed systems.

Sure, they work in FAANG for 10 years - get enough $$$M then sure complain things are NOT open.

> it's a lack of recourse when things go wrong.

but does it happen outside of banking etc. Most average Joe does not keep 10 year old email like a geek. They keep moving on.

I am a 20 year veteran of linux user. Sadly and frustratingly

- There is no easy open solution for google drive or docs

- Dont ask average Joe to do hosting/nextcloud etc

- I wish some one like FSF, Linux foundatation built some products that are usable (like firefox phone). Even during firefox phone sales, I found most of the EU devs were using for their daily use iPhone or expensive Samsung Galaxy. It is ridiculous to tell others to use 512MB or 1GB firefox phone when they used state of art

- Even recently I wanted to implement something like Codeberg at a large University. No help from their side.
I've only ever seen waterfall work with a large enough team and we'll understood problem space. That said, the two teams I was on where both of those existed it was much more productive that even the best run scrum teams I've been on.
It beats giving up on mankind from the get-go.
> I really like living in a place where "permanent allergy to red meat" isn't a thing

Sounds like climate change is taking care of itself
you can ask for things that are combinations of stuff that is in the training set.
ChatGPT is my new teammate! Well, sort of...

I hadn't coded in ages. I started a hobby project to see whether I could remember enough to "set up a cute chatbot over email" with ChatGPT's API.

At some point, ChatGPT asked me what added value users would get from the project. That was an interesting question!

It was also an excellent example of how this project became more of a collaboration instead of a one-way street of asking ChatGPT to do stuff. The back-and-forth brings in added value beyond each of our contributions.

So we (the AI and I) decided to document this collaborative journey on the project. So far, we've worked on:

1. Planning the project and pieces of it: excellent for frameworks, ideas, and feedback.

2. Coding + tech setup: we wrote about six superpowers, from choosing between options (like AWS vs. GCP vs. Zapier) to learning code best practices and more.

3. Building a website with ChatGPT and other AI tools in a day.

4. Making a video for social media.

And there are other parts we'll continue to write about.
For anyone interested, you can read more at: https://dearai.substack.com/p/introduction
> BTW, if so many average Joe's lost google accounts then there would be outrage and great chaos (like ticketmaster etc). So some people lost Google accounts - true. Same some people list U2F key.

They don’t “lose” Google accounts or Meta accounts or whatever. They’re locked out. In many cases, it appears lockouts can be triggered even by external events, including bad actors. Most companies are famously opaque on how lockouts happen, but there’s enough affected users out there to start forming some hypotheses.

Your argument is that the failure rate is so small, it doesn’t matter. “We’ll worry about it when the failure rate increases.”

This is what lack of accountability looks like, because you’re completely oblivious to the human consequences of even one failure.

Organisationally, companies like Google or Meta want billions of users, and want to manage the keys to their users’ digital universe, but don’t want to put in decent redressal processes for when things go wrong.

It’s not a tenable situation. Either the public will need to reevaluate how much they can trust big providers, or big providers might find legislation or legal action directing them to do better.
That's one outcome, but they may find lots of companies and governments are willing to invest at more favorable conditions; the US is a logical candidate as well.
TL;DR

"In a study published in April, Elimelech’s team proved that the once-frustrating assumption about how water moves through a membrane is, indeed, wrong. They replace it with a “solution-friction” theory that water molecules travel in clusters through tiny, transient pores within the polymer, which exert friction on them as they pass through. The physics of that friction matter, because understanding it could help people design membrane materials or structures that make desalination more efficient or better at screening out undesirable chemicals, Elimelech says."

Cool engineering story.
Or more than 20%.
I think a scanner will pop this up as ChatGPT-ed. Recently, I thought I will write along-side ChatGPT -- edit it to my tone, correct the styles to my liking, and the like. Unfortunately, I read after finishing up a few article I co-wrote with ChatGPT and I felt like puking all over.

So, I stopped. I will still take inspiration but it feels really fake. Co-incidentally, after looking at most MidJourney pictures, I'm thinking of getting back to my hobby of photography.
Intel Comments on Reports of New Layoffs, Budget Cuts
Interesting. A lady with a Russian passport just recently got a 1-year visa in one consular visit (and then 2 weeks' wait for the passport to return in mail).
"The Swedish government's approach has attracted controversy. The impact on the country's healthcare system and its reported death toll have been far greater than in other Nordic countries, in part due to its unique strategy."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Sweden
I read the headline and suspected it was overstated, but the content of the article...for once, seems to match the headline.

That is, the long-accepted “solution-diffusion” theory that the water dissolved and diffused across the membrane is wrong. That instead, the membrane has spontaneous tunnels created through the pressure/heat/friction. And the tunnels are ~5 angstroms in diameter, allowing clusters of ~1.5 angstrom water molecules through.

That's fairly exciting, as material designers can now target and optimize for that behavior.

I was hoping for more detail on how it keeps salt from following the same path. Individual NaCl bonded clusters are larger than water molecules, but searching around suggests they aren't always much larger.
That is not correct. Apple got caught degrading performance because the batteries were degrading.

This was when Apple was so focused on thinness that they used very small batteries. After a couple of years the batteries were not able to supply enough power to the SOC under full load, so Apple had to underclock the SOC to prevent the phones from crashing.

*I'm not saying that was OK. Apple absolutely should have explained what they were doing instead of hiding it. But after this happened it did force them to install bigger batteries in the newer iPhones.
The first convincing Grimes AI song is here
The US Federal Government got rid of passwords in 2004. They use smart cards issued by approved issuers. They are certificate-based, so if you lose your card another one can be issued to you with the same properties on the certificate. Additionally, they usually escrow the Email Certificate private key.

I maintain some open source middleware for these cards [0].

[0] https://cackey.rkeene.org/
I guess that'll depend on whether you phone still functions if Google dlocks your account.

But worst case, yes, but only in the same way that if you put all your photos on Google photos and then they block your account, you won't have access to your photos any more.

If that's a concern, then don't do that.

I think the passkey design actively encourages sites to support multiple authenticators, so you just enrol your yubikey as well as your phone and you're good.
Oh no, what a nightmare, if you want something done you have to pay for it

There is a lot of material to read on the denationalization of roads, it's not impossible by any means
Great point. We should do a better job of delineating scrum from agile.
And where does 'getting downvoted' fall on that list?
It's about macroeconomics, it doesn't mean that you can not have the state run anything at all. Austrian economists are not anarchists. For example I can point to successful schemes in Saudi or China and still see that on the grand scheme of things private markets are a lot more efficient. You're pointing to the exception as a criticism of the rule.

If they do it right this step makes a lot of sense for Chile. It doesn't negate the fact that socialist policies have economically ruined South America at large. Venezuela is the best example, it used to be the richest of them all not very long ago.
Yes, I don't know where the 2 week sprint thing came from, but everyone uses it as a default. I've tried to get it to 3 or 4 weeks but always get resistance. The main reason I think is the business wants their features NOW.
Will anything revive UK productivity
> If you, not I, uploaded my GPL'ed code to Github is the blame on you then?

Definitely not me - if your code is GPL'ed, then I'm legally free to upload it to Github, and to an extent even ethically - I am exercising one of my software freedoms.

(Note that even TFA recognizes this and admits it's making an ethical plea, not a legal one.)

Github using that code to train Copilot is potentially questionable. Github distributing Copilot (or access to it) is a contested issue. Copilot spitting out significant parts of GPL-ed code without attaching the license, or otherwise meeting the license conditions, is a potential problem. You incorporating that code into software you distribute is a clear-cut GPL violation.
There's examples of companies that weren't like that. redhat, sgi, sun, novell, dec... Becoming another Oracle/Adobe isn't inevitable (and yes, I know the connection between sgi and Adobe)

Then you have firms like Nvidia which regardless what do you think of them you can probably agree they've at least been consistent for the past 25 years
Wikipedia probably explains it better https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensegrity

I'd blame Buckminster Fuller for the cult-like descriptions of it as he did seem to be as much a marketer as a designer.

My take-away from tensegrity is that it's a design whereby the elements are either purely tensile (strings) or purely compressive (struts) which makes a structure very light and strong. However, it's often a lot simpler (cheaper) to make a design that uses modern materials that function well under compression and tension.
> It's not just communication which is needed. It's effective communication. For example, criticism without structure and consideration comes across as unkind and destructive. This is the piece which I rarely see working well without a framework. It doesn't have to be scrum. I just see scrum solving this and many other problems really well.

Scrum does not help with effective communication at all. Its only tools for feedback are code review and retrospective. Its tools for teaching are code review, demos and planning sessions. There is literally no place in it for private feedback or some kind of learning plan or a weaker developer having tasks adjusted so that he can catch up (getting simpler ones, or only frontend ones till he learns that), literally nothing. And with public feedback, it provides zero guidance on how to do it anyway.

Instead, scrum prevents effective, safe and compassionate communication. It provides rituals, that is it.

> The catch is that changes should be agreed by all, rather than one member going rogue. "Rockstars" hate scrum.

Neither of these is true. Scrum is inflexible and the moment you change the process, you are not doing scrum and you will be forced to go back to scrum. Second, you will need to specify what you mean by rock starts. If you mean toxic personalities, they do well in scrum. If you like to control other people, scrum provides quite a lot of opportunity for that.

What it does not provide is opportunity of people to use full extend of their capabilities. People who are able to perform well and able to get along with others, you will definitely do better in processes that allows you to perform and get along with others. If rocks start here means a positive, a capable non toxic person with good social skills, yeah, those tend not to like scrum.
Personally I think the indicator of success is not necessarily X stack or Y stack, it's what stack are you most comfortable with? I think one of the problems with those startups you mentioned that used flashy stacks is they are not only fighting a battle to build the product, they are also fighting a battle to learn their way around the new stack they just adopted, and learning all the quirks with it.

I don't think one stack is necessarily better than the other, it's all about how well do the developers know the tech stack in question.