skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you have Internet access, NTP trivially gives you this.

This is not always true, and the user is not always at liberty to change the clock settings on their device.

> That's literally the point I addressed in the comment you replied to. Computers that are over 20 years old are still capable of connecting to websites using modern TLS.

This is just not true. I do a lot of testing, and there are many devices as young as 5 years that cannot access some websites due to TLS incompatibilities. I have a very nice device that's 10 years old which I use daily that experiences this on a regular basis.

> No, ever since ACME came out, certificate renewal can trivially be fully automated, with zero admin work required when one is about to expire.

Automation breaks, and certificates expire. I encounter websites with broken certificates almost daily.

> Which is trivially granted as long as you actually own the domain you're trying to get the certificate for.

It is not trivial at all. It requires a lot of administrative work, and many people around the world do not have access to this process at all.

> This is like saying that it's dangerous to go outside because there have been real cases of people being killed by meteorites.

No, it is like saying there are people out there who want to access information on the device they have access to, and we should enable them to access that information as much as possible.
OP got the membrane board from a dumpster, it was already headed for the landfill. Not sure how that deserves any shame?
> On the other hand, if I make a minor specific edit to the regulatory region upstream from a gene that controls the onset of flowering in a tomato plant, with the idea of producing an early-flowering varietal for northern climates, that's entirely safe (assuming no other accidental changes were made).

No, this is not true if someone is pointing a nuclear missile at NYC and will fire it if you "make a minor specific edit to the regulatory region upstream from a gene that controls the onset of flowering in a tomato plant". It's important that you clarify the point by also adding in the caveat excluding this case. I am also told that what you propose is unsafe in the event that there is a terrorist with a bomb who will explode in Penn Station if you make that edit.

It is important that we be precise with safety language since otherwise we may mislead people about the state of the field. Please be more responsible.
If you don't unnecessarily track people, you don't need a cookie consent banner.
The North Texas "once in a century" ice storm from a few years back took out much of the electrical grid for longer than a week. At least where I live, which is spitting distance of Dallas City Hall, not all that remote, we had no Internet for about two days, gas was gone for about a week, electricity was totally out for the first two days, then came back for about two hours a day for the next two weeks due to the rolling blackouts. At no point did we have no water, but we had no hot water. Also, the city never plowed the street where I live, so we had no city services like trash pickup, and no deliveries, from any service at all, for two weeks.

That certainly hurt, but civilization didn't just go down the drain instantly. Most people have enough food and water to survive a couple weeks. You might be uncomfortable, not showering, but it takes a while to get to the point of shooting your neighbors. Unless a formal announcement comes out saying the government has dissolved and laws no longer apply, you better be damn sure services aren't coming back, because it's not like you just get amnesty for murder and theft because you had no running water for a few weeks.
For a young/healthy person, sure. But these aren't generally the at risk people in the first place.

I grew up around the 38N parallel, gross enough to get too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. Every winter people froze to death, just the same.

It's not as bad as Phoenix percentage wise, but it's still a risk in the vast majority of places that people in the US live.
It’s more or less ideological on my part. There being only 1 browser engine is something I would like to avoid. And unless Safari becomes available on Linux (or that Orion browser from the makers of Kagi), Firefox is the only other option. There is Librewolf and some other gecko based ones out there but other than the TOR browser, none of the others are large enough projects that I would trust with something as important as my Web Browser.

I support plenty of end users on Chrome and Edge at work and will happily oblige my wife by installing and configuring Chrome on all her devices. Firefox is what works for me and what I am comfortable using at this time. Unusable was certainly a hyperbole on my part.
Ah yes, I agree Linux should not let processes have a set of permissions that large by default.
> Not to mention things like entertainment and sport news are useful for making small talk (I like to try to be an accommodating co-worker).

Sorry to be that jerk, but:

If you need to follow the sports/entertainment news to engage in small talk when coworkers discuss these issues, it just means you don't know how to do small talk.
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OR another (incorrect) way of thinking is that resistive heating is 100% efficient as every bit of heat generated is inside the home. VS mechanical heat has some "loss" with some of the heat being left outside the home.

But yes, mechanical might be up to 600% efficient depending on how you think about it as moving heat around based on energy usage per therm delivered inside the home is really what people are looking for.
> I use it for code and it comes up with unique solutions to my situations that certainly have not been seen before in its training dataset.

How do you know something similar isn't in its dataset?

I think we humans are a lot less original that we believe.
Ahem, my calculation was that I once googled it and remember the number. My point’s more about having complete control of your vision rather than the specific number, but I assume that will one day be strictly better than any possible screen.
The math required to interpret 20 results is different than the math required to interpret 1 result. It’s not a weakness of the experiment itself. On some level the math required to interpret 20 results may not actually exist.

Think of sample bias as a dice roll. Every time you check a new hypothesis, you roll the die. If it rolls a 1, you get a false positive.

Pre registering a hundred different things you want to test doesn’t make that better, but it does create confidence that you didn’t continually test new ideas one at a time until number 100 was something that looked good.
Marksman: Markdown with code assist and intelligence in your editor
Yes you have. But that has happened by accident. You didn't try to learn the song, you just happened to be somewhere it was playing many times. (I say 'many' if you really learned the whole song correctly)

If you really WANT to learn something you cannot rely on such accidents happening. Accidents are not a method.
Not at all. Giving value to adtech companies only re-enforces content creators being trapped in a bad deal.

If everyone blocked ads content creators would be forced to research platforms that allow direct payment via micro-transactions, merch, or direct donations instead of ads. LBRY and liberapay exist.

If creators want me to tip them, they need to offer me an ethical to do so with money. I will not pay adtech companies with my time, or money, ever.
Sure. My point is that I would so much rather have a decision handed down that was considered on actual merits ( we might disagree, but at least I would be able to see some sort of real consideration and not what amounts to talking points from various lobbyists ). A judge that has zero exposure in that area is at best 50/50 and regardless of the ruling I will be annoyed that a person with zero knowledge is declaring how something he knows little to no about can be used ( just like I am more and more annoyed about political class in Washington, but I am more inclined to believe these days they know exactly what they are doing -- serve their own interests ).

To your point, it is absolutely not panacea ( new blood is inevitably ending in government and the result so far is in line with what you said ), but it would at least be a starting point.
is it cross domain solution?
IIRC, Linux' ext2/3/4 support an 'a' attribute that make a file append-only.
> I highly recommend you use a minimum amount of extensions anyway.

This why Brave has far surpassed Firefox at this point.

- Good privacy defaults

- Adblocking

- The iOS browser actually has ad-blocking (this alone is why I shy every layman away from Firefox, fuck Mozilla for specifically locking those users out in the cold)

- Choose your own blocklists

- Anti-fingerprinting

- Soon cookie auto-delete

- Soon port scan blocking

- WebRTC protection

- HTTPS upgrading (less relevant these days but hey)

- IPFS

- Tor

They also have a viable business model beyond “pay
me off, Google”. And that is not to mention how Mozilla has chosen to soak their entire culture in ultra-progressive nonsense instead of rooting it in tech.

Yes, Brave appending affiliate links was scummy (although not particularly harmful to their users). But that is quite some time ago now.

I was a Mozilla / Firefox stan for a very very very long time. I still love Thunderbird, especially the progress they’re making now. But Firefox (and to a lesser point Mozilla) has completely lost its way.
“…true AI.”

What do you understand this to mean?
Not to be confused with Rebar3 [0] which is a de-facto package manager and build tool for Erlang.

[0] https://github.com/erlang/rebar3
Solar stills are one of those basic survival tools anyone living in an arid region near a salty body of water should understand how to rig. They’re dirt simple and as easy to build as a prison still with the added bonus of only requiring the sun as an external power source.

Similarly everyone should know how to rig a basic water purification system using gravel, sand, and charcoal in series.

Even just as applied science experiments to do with kids they’re worthwhile.

Edit: Water based solar power is generally an area I think that deserves more research. While photovoltaics have their advantages, water is cheap, clean, and reliable. Heating water with sun during the day and using it for household heating at night is the simple application that I’m most familiar with, but I wouldn’t be shocked if there’s some scale where an economically interesting Carnot cycle becomes possible.
The 4-coloring is interesting.

Here is an example of what you can do. You could have 4 designs, say sheep in field, lost shepherd, barn, and lost sheep dog. The even and odd edges could have paths lined up to go a bit to the side of the edge, with fences. And now you get a pastoral scene that your eye gets to wander over and never quite see the pattern to.

I wonder how hard it would be to actually tile a wall or floor with a design like this?
I've also been looking for the same thing for something like SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) which is very regex-like, so it isn't just him!
That's some "Shores Of Tripoli" type shit right there.
FTC, FDA demand companies stop selling Delta-8 THC in deceptive packaging
Right. They keep the config settings around. They just start ignoring the value, like in the case of allowing unsigned extensions. Or anything related to telemetry and user experiments.
relevant links

all the bugzilla items: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIR...

if you have access to their project tracking, it's under WEBEXT-1351 (would love if someone can post the entire reasoning for the feature here, as their conversations are now behind login which i didn't bother to secure)

The code for what the user can see/allow per-domain https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/4399291987d9 (not released as far as i can tell) you can see the file locally via `resource://gre/modules/ExtensionPermissions.sys.mjs` in your address bar.

and lastly, the dev doc on how to push those values to live user browsers https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/mozapps/exte...

this is already how it works on Firefox for android, with NO USER WHITELIST OPTION... the only workaround on android is to add another hidden setting that points to a user-defined collection in addons.mozilla.org, which will be the allowed extension list instead of mozilla's.

edit; HOLY SHIT!!! just updated firefox for android, and they removed access to about:config there in the last version! (ps: they had already removed since 2020 for "regular lowly users" who do not install experimental version, their words. Now it is also removed from f-droid stable build since last version. I didn't see it mentioned on the release notes, so they either strong armed the maintainer or slipped changes past them)
Its secret to 'survival' is more appropriate. This article has a lot of fluff.

eg:

Specifically, companies needing redundancy
require more than one operating system, since any single operating system may fall
victim to a failure that could take out the
entire company’s infrastructure

What sort of argument is this.
We need multiple political parties. Therefore, our existence is important even if we secure insignificant votes?

Or does he mean BSD license vs GPL? In which case, I agree with his idea of diversified choices.
Sure, but the terms of the GPL imply other not-explicitly-specified results due to straightforward emergent behavior. Like the terms themselves don't prohibit (and even encourage) charging for GPL software, but in the presence of FSF's Freedom #2 (redistribution), the price ends up tied to the work of distribution rather than the utility of the software. That overall resulting state of affairs is what people are taking for granted and reacting against possibly changing.
Mini split systems can be used with ducts. All big venders sell heads which are specifically made to be connected to ducts. That way you get the best of both worlds and its also easy to retrofit to an existing (ducted) house.
Forks are a healthy part of FOSS, that's exactly what's supposed to happen.

If your employer sucks and limits what software you can run, don't put that on FOSS developers' backs. Find a better employer if you can't change their policy and it's that important to you.
Just use uWebSockets.js[1] in node, and you'll leave Deno in the dust again. (uws is also what's under the hood in bun)

https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js
Is the overlayfs/ZFS integration first-class? (i.e. COW on overlayfs is implemented at block layer on ZFS?)
BTW have you asked it about " davidjl"? Maybe ask it about SolidGoldMagikarp too.
Are they a work of art in and of themselves? I don't think you could tell without litigation
I'm not talking about self-hosting suc, I'm arguing that all those extra lines of code in Mattermost (and presumably Slack) aren't doing nothing—a lot of them are a necessity if you're selling a software product.
We make a camera system for construction sites. Using computer vision, we can identify when and for how long subcontractors show up as well as notify our customers of unwanted behavior on site.

https://bedrockwireless.com/

Fun fact, we probably have the best port-o-potty detector in the world.
My advice is:

1) Keep at it, don't give up. Make your arguments in small doses over and over again until eventually the information assimilates.

2) Look for something he can replace the habits with and facilitate those activities for him.
People always seem to conveniently forget this.

Labour are the party who passed that very nasty "Tell us your password or go to prison" law under "If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide from law enforcement or the government." mentality.

Red Tories are still Tories.

This leaves the Lib Dems, who sadly have zero interest in repealing the Online Safety Bill if it passes.
Original title: FTC Sends Cease and Desist Letters with FDA to Companies Selling Edible Products Containing Delta-8 THC in Packaging Nearly Identical to Food Children Eat

Subtitle: Commission demands firms immediately change unfair and deceptive packaging

I tried to summarize the title to fit in the character limit.
Don't get me started on how much my kids hated Scratch!
This is simple not true.

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/politik...

You still pay teice the price for gas as before because we had 30yr low costs (below spot) contracts with Gazprom.
Basically yes. Renewable is more of a supplement to current grids for most of us. There might be a couple rare few areas that currently claim 100%.
Not really - a scientific journal contains information of a high quality. The fact that money is involved here makes no difference. A better analogy would be using your paid subscription to a horoscope.
I don't like the name. Probably because I'm a weyrholder with actual institutional memory of the last Threadfall and its destruction.

https://pern.fandom.com/wiki/Thread
Are iframes still fully supported across all browsers though?
First commercial use in Bell Labs is usually credited as the secretarial pool for writing patent applications.
My humble NextJS app is 100/100 on Lighthouse, I am really hesitant to believe that it scores so low
Deno runs WASM code just fine and IMHO will probably be the pre-eminent way to use server side WASM (because you likely also need some JS/TS bootstrapping or glue code too for setting up a basic API or other endpoints): https://deno.land/manual@v1.10.0/getting_started/webassembly
The problem is, the original article itself doesn’t really differentiate. It DOES call out longer form pieces like books or magazines as better alternatives (suggesting the article is primarily referring to news media) but also implies not jumping on the latest story and waiting for those that outlast the news cycle (which would suggest the article is also about “knowing things” in so much as we don’t need to know all things immediately all the time).

I don’t think anyone is making the reductionist argument that “knowing things isn’t worth it”.

But our time and attention is finite, and the things the news media is directing our time and attention toward learning is arguably not valuable.

I would also challenge the notion that news media is nothing but a gateway to raw news with bias that we can account for. Most people don’t account for it, most media outlets don’t account for it, and it may not even be possible for it to truly be accounted for.

News media can and does report incomplete facts that can change an entire perception of an issue. They can and do report non facts as well. Apologies and corrections are rare and buried, usually bookended by the next wrong things to be reported.

If we (a) define news media and news as separate entities entirely, and (b) define news as “something that happened”, then it even furthers the argument that news media itself is unworthy of time and attention, even in seeking news as raw facts. Because news media does such a poor job of reporting facts, the facts end up too mangled to be usable.

At this point the question becomes “can the bias actually be accounted for” (IMO, it cannot be), and if not, “how do we get facts outside of the news media”.

Which is still tangentially related to the original article in so much as we’re still discussing which news (facts) matter and where do you get them from… but in almost no case is the answer “the news media”.
Chatbots aren't really closed loop either, especially with reinforcement learning. Though it will quickly turn out to be the case that some fields get a lot more attention than others.

Which also isn't dissimilar from wikipedia.
> The complexity described seems to be resting on the unestablished idea that weights are copyrightable in the first place.

Yes. Weights probably aren't copyrightable in the US. See Feist vs. Rural Telephone, in which the Supreme Court ruled that telephone directories are not copyrightable. The copyright clause in the Constitution ("To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.") is understood to require human authorship. The US does not have database copyright, or "sweat of the brow" copyright. That it was expensive to produce some collection of data does not make it copyrightable.

Outputs from LLMs, machine generated art, and machine generated music probably are not copyrightable either. US Copyright Office: "Based on the Office's understanding of the generative AI technologies currently available, users do not exercise ultimate creative control over how such systems interpret prompts and generate material. Instead, these prompts function more like instructions to a commissioned artist."[1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-copyright-office-says-so...
I use a thermostat that can switch modes automatically to keep temps within a certain defined range. So I think that's why it's not a problem for me.
Holy koolaid. The annoyance of gdpr consent popups are the result of data collection and malicious compliance, not the regulation that says don't collect data.

How come I live under those same regulations yet don't have any such annoying popups on my sites? I thought they were cause by that regulation?

Thos awful regulations don't go far enough. GDPR is 1% of the step in the right direction. Any pain is like the first initial pain from poking at a boil. The sane reaction is to lance that fucker with extreme prejudice not friggn back off and let it continue slowly eating you alive.
These gradient comfort guys want $5000 for an 8000 btu unit with a total weight of $150 pounds. Compressor and heat exhaust hand outside. Evaporator and fan/control hang inside, It has a SEER rating of 10.
There are dozens of minisplits for $1000 that have a SEER from 19-24. I can see no reason why a close coupled mini split with a 1" armored electrical/freon joint could not be made. This is what a gradient comfort is WTF $5000
https://www.gradientcomfort.com/products/gradient-window-hea...
I have grown to like windy.com, just turn on the air quality layer PM2.5
We make a system for assisting self-evacuation from tunnels using directional sound effects:

https://norphonic.com/products/evacsound/

Most of the userspace work including the planner, fire detection, resource scheduling and distributed execution is done in Common Lisp.
Tried this in the past, indeed hard to do, and, very heavy on cash investment, don't even think about bootstrapping it, crowdfunding might be the only way moving forward unless you somehow received huge investment.

Most important thing is "ecosystem" to me, i.e. the logistics of ICs, PCB factories, upstream and downstream vendors, etc are all in the same place or city, I don't see anywhere in US that provides this yet.

I went to Shenzhen instead, which has everything a hardware startup dreamed of, COVID kind of screwed it up for me though, back to software stuff.
We use Tiptap/Prosemirror/Yjs at LegendKeeper. It’s a great setup, but TipTap is a very shallow abstraction over PM. (Not knocking it at all, it’s still a great library.) To anyone looking at Tiptap, just know you’ll need to learn Prosemirror pretty thoroughly, too, if you want to do more sophisticated stuff.