skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, because of the natural uranium and thorium in coal, "the fly ash emitted by a power plant — a by-product from burning coal for electricity — carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy." and "As a general clarification, ounce for ounce, coal ash released from a power plant delivers more radiation than nuclear waste shielded via water or dry cask storage.", both quotes from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-... .
Interesting that they are allowing Edge to be uninstalled in the EEA, I wonder how that will affect WebView2, which relies on Edge (CORRECTION: it doesn't necessarily rely on Edge, see reply below). I also find it odd that custom feeds in the widgets board are not purely RSS-based and require each publisher to make an app for the Microsoft Store, and that this feature is only available in the EEA.

At least we get a few features outside of the EEA, like having certain apps clearly marked as System apps, and the ability to uninstall Camera, Cortana (already deprecated anyway), and Photos without having to drop down to PowerShell.
I completely agree with you, even though the situation is at least a tad better on the Android side... However, it's worth noting that Signal seems to consider this a feature and not a bug.

I hate that. I use signal to chat with my friends. We trade pictures of our cats. I am not a whistleblower who needs my data deleted instantly for safety. I provide the noise that acts as cover for those people. And I would have a LOT easier time bringing onto the network if they were able to keep that chat history. (I take a backup on Android and export it and clean my Signal install periodically because it gets large and starts taking up too much space on my device.)

I love Signal. I want it to succeed. I think they have a little bit of problem understanding who their users actually are though, or perhaps just a disconnect with telling us who the users they want to have are...
All you need is a USB orifice. How is that not a peripheral?
Centralized supply chain, and metadata protection is anchored on SGX.

They can use their pick of SGX exploits to undermine the weak metadata protections and they (or apple/google) could, if pressured, ship tweaked versions of their centrally compiled apps to select targets that use "42" as the random number generator. No one would be the wiser.

Signal is a money pit with a pile of single points of failure for no reason.

Matrix is already proving federated end to end encryption can scale, particularly when users are free to pay for hosting their own servers as they like, which can also generate income.
How else would it work? You burn fat (as in: you turn it into energy, powering your own living cells), turning it into CO2 and H2O, which are then breathed out or expelled with urine.
Hi, coder/founder of 25 years here. I’m genuinely conflicted as to whether or not we will get to a point where front end web development loses its utility. It’s one thing to have an AI assist in coding some simple UX/UI. But an entirely different thing to stitch all those together into a fully working web application. Particularly when it’s a very complex app with multiple pages, client/server architecture, DB, etc.

Perhaps I’m just being shortsighted here. I can sort of see how AI tech would evolve to achieve this. You would need an AI assistant able to persist the entire context of your application across months/years in a stable way to act as your ongoing “web developer“. Will that be feasible?
Red Hat OpenShift's flexibility: Our topologies for your topographies
agoric is ibc. i know ibc app layer and partially core layer. how at all, all things will work together.

for example timeouts in ibc, client cannot timeout if server is dead for example. ibc goes hand in hand with identity and sagas.
Why? Just make sure that they are fail safe and too big to steal. You could melt a couple down each year intentionally just to prove how safe they are to the public and test them
A joke (answers in rot-13):

Q) What do you call someone who speaks three languages?

A) Gevyvathny

Q) Two languages?

A) Ovyvathny

Q) One language?

A) Nzrevpna

Q) But what do you call an American who speaks multiple languages?

A) PVN
I guess this means thorium reactors are just a pipe dream.
There isn't enough discussion about the impending Apple phone monopoly in the US. It's inevitable at this point.
Are those bug ID's sequential? 100 thousand bugs fixed is quite a number
If you don’t live in a Lyme-prone area, Lyme is unlikely and your risk of a false positive is high
> But yes, I agree it’s not the right choice for me and many others who want to have full ownership over our data,

The whole point of Signal is you have full ownership of your data. You said you can transfer the data to another device, right? I get that inability to export cleanly is an annoying bug, but technically you have full control over your data the whole time. It seems to me that it's easier to guarantee no one else can get your data (at the expense of data export friction), than it is to provide "do anything you might want with your data" while still guaranteeing privacy.
My email is in my profile if you want to discuss this more...!
I'm not sure... hundreds or thousands of code repositories with subtle issues sounds like... the real world of code repositories. And I'd think through analogy and redundancy of some common algorithms, the LLM trained that way might conceivably be able to FIX many of those errors.
I've been taking Adderall for a very long time. Prior to it I had a very difficult time motivating myself and simply being able to block out a thousand other thoughts and stimulus. I developed techniques to cope prior to taking it but once I started it was like night and day. It doesn't at all make me smarter but allows me to decide what I want to do rather than some sub-cognitive part of me. Should people take it to make them smarter? In my experience it helps focus, not intelligence.
I’ve almost finished ‘Determined A life of science without free will’ - which I see keeps being posted about on here and other places. I really like the writing style. I also think that the author makes some really good points, that are relevant whether you believe in free will or not. However, it may be that I think that because I am a hard determinist so it’s easier for me to agree with what the author says.

Then next will be V for Vendetta, the graphic novel which was delivered to my house yesterday. I don’t usually like to read fiction but I accidentally impulsively bought it online after watching the movie for the 3rd or 4th time, so I’m looking forward to reading it and curious as to how much the movie is like the book.
I’ve also never read a graphic novel before so wondering if it’s a better or worse reading experience than normal fiction books.
It was used in my old toyota avensis from 2012. The infotainment was so slow you could measure performance in seconds pr frame instead of frames pr second :)

In the end, all I could practically use it for was as a bluetooth audio connector.
I am sorry what? I have been with Hetzner over 10 years hosting multiple servers without issue. There has to my knowledge never been a shutdown without notice on bare metal servers and it does not happen often. Like once every 2 years.
I think Capt'n Proto is similar to CapTP, one of the three draft specifications. There's talk of combining them and a comparison here:

https://github.com/Agoric/agoric-sdk/issues/1827#issuecommen...
I could see TinyLLM meaning a method of reducing/compression the effective runtime size of an LLM. Ie quantization stuff, etc.

No idea what this is, tho.
EQtive is a training monitoring application for android where the user can track its training sessions and follow up on exercising goals
You should stick to making Youtube videos then.

Because there is a world of difference between installing some software and making it robust enough to support a multi-million dollar business. I would be surprised if you can setup and test a proper highly-available database with automated backup in < 30 mins.
I damaged my elbow (lateral epicondylitis) and found the MX vertical was much more comfortable and less pain inducing.

Pressing the scroll wheel button is a little stiffer than my previous mouses, but you adapt quick enough. I find the middle finger lifts off and behind the index finger to give a little extra help.
It's a face transplant, not surgery to make someone else's face look like his. Of course it doesn't look natural.

Natural isn't good. Rotationplasty is way, way better than any of the alternatives (amputation, transderal prosthesis etc). It involves reattaching the foot to the knee backwards so that the ankle acts like a new knee.

https://walkwithoutpain.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ba...

You walk almost naturally and keep more strength than any electronic prosthesis. It's has less pain than an amputation and no phantom limb sensation. It may look primitive, but it's far and away superior to anything else right now.
Any semblance of carbon capture is going to need copious amounts of the most cutting edge nuclear energy we can think of. Breeder, thorium, MOX fuel, etc. Having an edge on that is going to be worth a lot in 20 years.
And the time before that [0]. That doesn't matter much though, the orbit is low and the tools will burn in the atmosphere quite soon.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-astronauts-lost-items-i...
> What I find unsavory, is OpenAI imposing content restrictions like NSFW. That can easily extend to censorship of non-PC content, unpopular political ideas, and more.

I'm guessing they don't want payment processors cutting them off.

Everyone, even MS backed companies, are afraid of Visa.
I wonder if some country with lots of space (e.g. also Sweden) could build many nuclear reactors through a massive government investment and export it profitably across Europe and beyond?
Even the "easy" services like that have at least _some_ barrier to entry. IAM alone is a pretty big beast and I doubt someone whose never used AWS would grasp it their very first time logging into the web interface - and every service uses it extensively.

And then there's the question of whether you're going to use Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, etc or click through the GUI to manage things.

My point is, nothing in AWS is 100% turnkey like a lot of folks pretend it is. Most of the time, it's leadership that thinks since AWS is "Cloud" that it's as simple as put in your credit card and you're done.
There are always going to be people on the team for whom the manager will never be good enough. This does not mean most reasonable people run around with such a negative view of everything.

Which, btw, is what I'm getting from your post. That you're one of those people.
> Those are just non-profit fundraiser consulting tactics. Don't take them personally, just ignore them. The reason they exist is that Wikipedia has too much money, so they spend some on consultants who say they can raise more. It's weird, but that's how the world works.

It's still shitty, even if it's a shitty "standard practice" and not a shitty thing being done to me particularly.

Honestly, it seems like Wikipedia's goodwill is seen as an exploitable resource, that people in Wikimedia are using to do other, unnecessary things (probably building little personal fiefdoms).

Sort of like Mozilla, actually. IIRC, they literally won't let you give them money to fund Firefox development, and any donations you give them go to fiefdoms almost certainty entirely unrelated to why you gave them money.
We do actually have automated testing tools for that. https://bbc.github.io/wraith/ is one: see the write-up https://responsivenews.co.uk/post/56884056177/wraith or a contemporary interview https://source.opennews.org/articles/responsive-css-testing-... .

I get your overall point, though.
He gave generously to Obama's campaign. When he was advocating for universal basic income (2016?), and before that, he called himself a moderate, somewhere between the Democrats and the Republicans of the time (who hadn't themselves yet gone full-in on racism, sexism, etc). Now he inhabits a part of the political spectrum that was virtually unknown before the Tea Party.
Sorry disclaimer, I'm too lazy to immediately check everything myself, but will, and will write confirmed or not-confirmed.

So, I read comments and few surface details. What I note:

1. Original project is MIT licensed. MIT only forcing, IF you use it, to make special page with mentions of all MIT licensed code used in project and nothing more.

2. ANY software project could being divided to separate independent parts, which will be then rewritten based on clean room methodology, and after this you could just remove ANY mentions of MIT licensed code which was used earlier.
As I understand, person who copied your project, rewritten all your code himself and NOW he have not any your code in project.

Unfortunately, now you only can do something much exceed properties of your tween, so he will have to race with you or you'll win.
Signal is centralized, expensive, and desperate.

It results in decisions like this:

1. MobileCoin premines 250m coins

2. Moxie is paid for being on their board

3. Moxie directs non-profit Signal to integrate MobileCoin

4. MobileCoin offers 50% of their premine for sale.

5. Signal/Mobilecoin news spikes price to $60

This is why we need decentralization.
> I’m always surprised that people understand how tolerance works for energy drinks, coffee, and other caffeine sources. But then they get exposed to prescription drugs and assume it’s going to feel like that forever.

In fairness, tolerance management and mitigation is a component of prescription drug design and composition, unlike the others. It of course can't overcome pharmacology, but there are mechanisms with varying efficacies.
"the Dolores iOS app went live" - his subconscious suggested a good name. Mater Dolorosa is Mother of Sorrows in Latin.
Well. China is promising things and they'll ignore it as usual until they are sure to have the upperhand.

They are building navy fleet like no other.

Still harassing neighbors ( eg. Philippines).

Nothing changed. They just want a bigger advantage.
> who paid $200 for a genuine copy of Windows 10

Ouch. I'd rather pay the far, far lower price that major PC builders pay.

> The Microsoft support engineer in this case, ran the following PowerShell command on the customer's Windows PC [the Massgrave activate 1liner on Github]

It works as advertised btw.

Just having one thing on the internet be not-hostile or having something Microsoftish that isn't gaslighting me while being malicious and exploitive - that in itself is nearly a joy.
"If the branch condition is not volatile, compilers will usually lift it"

Usually in any program with well-defined semantics (e.g. not using janky multithreaded mutability), this will be true
It dates back to at least CARI's work: https://www.are.na/consumer-aesthetics-research-institute/fr...
Being able to transfer to another copy of the same app, but not to a different app, and being forced to delete the original data in the process, is not ownership of your data.
"If the branch condition is not volatile, compilers will usually lift it."
It’s telling to me that some people are very ready to equate government to parents.
now a set of linux machines is considered bare-metal?

I was under the impression that bare-metal means "no OS".
If you look at https://ocapn.org/ (linked within the original submission,
The group is comprised of:

* Agoric

* The Spritely Institute

* Cap'n Proto

* Many other independent experts and interested parties

from Cap'n Proto I thought that zenhack was the primary participant in ocapn, but see some other familiar names from Cap'n Proto community. Essentially it's trying to create a common protocol for these diverse implementations which all have similarities because they happen to share a common heritage. At least that is my understanding.
Absolutely. It won’t work for everybody.

I wonder if the video could be accelerated for common sites by playing locally and being overlayed into the remote session.

A good portion of the people I know would not know what a USB stick or hard drive was for or how to use one.

Their phones do upload all of their content to the cloud though. This is only becoming more common.
From the HN FAQ "It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds." Instead of 30 comments on the state of twitter one nitter link would've sufficed.
Do you have a calendar_year and a calendar_leap_year?
Thanks, good reminder of something large I overlooked.
> ...production scales with containment vessel volume...costs scale with area...

True, but many of the costs outside of the containment vessel also seem to scale - in ways inherently disadvantageous to big reactors.
I hacked the Magic Mouse. And you can charge it via USB-C right while you're working.

Charges directly the battery, so the mouse doesn't turn off while charging. But the percentages increase even though the OS thinks the mouse is running on battery.
The sensor touches the table like the original mouse, with no gaps or mirrors. The click works (I had to make an extension adapter).
>Neighbouring countries such as Finland have been more dependant on Russia and the imports from Sweden have increased because of cutting the Russian gas.

Eh. Natural gas accounted for less than 5% of Finland's total energy consumption before Russia cut off the gas pipelines. And this was before Finland got a new floating LNG terminal (January 2023) and the new 1600 MW reactor came online (April 2023).
Apparently this replaces https://github.com/sharkdp/insect
Nato already has enough of them, no? At this point increasing capacity means nothing
Here's the numbers where I live: https://www.nve.no/energi/analyser-og-statistikk/kostnader-f...

Hydro: 40 øre/kWh
Windmills on land: 40 øre/kWh
Solar on ground: 63 øre/kWh
Windmills in ocean: 69 øre/kWh
Solar on big roofs: 76 øre/kWh
Nuclear: 78 øre/kWh
Coal: 126 øre/kWh

(100 øre = 1 NOK)
The US Navy fields dozens of nuclear vessels. Has since 1954. No meltdowns. Only two ships ever lost, and not due to reactor issues. Subs can go for decades without refueling.
The speech recognition tool is impressive! I've tried many different attempts at browser-local speech-to-text from Ermine.ai to Google's Tensorflow.js speech toolkit (recognition only), and this is the best I've seen. And it works on a standard GPU.
I hate Amazon but I hate dealerships more, so I guess this is a good thing overall.
Fair enough possible that the analogy halts.

But .. .

1. promise something with a simple message that is an oversimplification to get enogh voters.
2. Do it because you promised the voters. Even if it is a bad idea and will not lead to good results.
I brought up "the strap" in the comment I linked to. The sort of person who thinks ADHD is just a lack of discipline also tends to be nostalgic for a time when corporal punishment, including the use of straps and even paddles, was considered routine and even admirable. "Spare the rod and spoil the child" and that.
Indeed. I am thinking that one way to protect data and ensure its integrity is to somehow use agents trained on trusted sources to validate that the content is secure? For instance to detect “injections” of malicious or ill written code. Same for other types of content, but difficult.

Suppose someone magically creates thousands of repositories that write about a specific way of doing c pointers but all allow for buffer overflows, or sql queries with subtle ways to inject strings.

One way to defend is each data source that goes into training is to have an ai agent asses the input sources.

But even so it’s extremely difficult to catch convoluted attacks (ie when an exploit can be made upon meeting certain criteria).

Until then i’d consider any code written by an ai and unsupervised by a competent person as potentially tainted.
> but that gets largely nullified if everyone is in a bigger car.

This is not true - the collision between two large vehicles is safer than the collision between two small vehicles.

If you are colliding at a given speed, you want as much crumple zone between you and the other mass as possible.

> That leads to an arms race with no benefit to anyone and massive costs.

It has safety benefits to everyone. As for other net costs, consumers seem to think that (after factoring in emissions regs-induced distortions), large vehicles are net better.
the relationship just isn’t relevant

I think there is merit to everything you say, if you’re flying blind and wondering why anything happens to you

but if you objectively don’t care and work with integrity towards company output, none of the reindeer games matter

yes, in a tighter job market where you have no savings all those things in your current job and those prior relationships matter

if you want to reject that at the risk of being poorer, people are saying that’s fine too. if thats the reason you’re not financially stable: understandable, good for you for keeping a work life balance or prioritizing your mental health

people aren't trying to say you’re inaccurate, only wrong in the sense that it’s not a necessary way to live and they aren’t going to pretend that it is anymore
The Wikipedia page for Operational Transformation [1] mentions Differential Synchronization [2] as an alternative, does anyone have any experience with DS?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation
[2] https://neil.fraser.name/writing/sync/
They might be 50 years down the pipe… but in another reality we wouldn’t have done basically nothing for the last 50 years.
Yes. If you want to know more, you can read about it here: https://github.com/sharkdp/numbat/blob/master/assets/reasons...
I wonder how this would work relative to Microsoft's 'genuine' services. I remember having a whale of a time on XP. Our officially purchased Japanese CD of WindowsXP got "caught" as a non-genuine product by Microsoft.

I assume the same/similar risk exists here for this user.

If you purchased the legal copy, and it doesn't work. Then a official agent uses a illegal copy and activates your account. Then you login to a microsoft account. Do you risk losing your entire account due to a TOS violation?
Meh, PCs weren't so mainstream in consumers' homes back then, it was still more a thing for businesses and nerds, as the tech was quite limited for entertainment and HW still quite expensive for the casual user.

Yes hardware progress was fast, but it was also quite expensive and difficult to set up and use, a lot of the times buggy and with compatibility issues, and it would get outdated far too quickly[1] to the point you'd spend a fortune on a new GPU which would be obsolete in a year and the company would go bankrupt in 2 years, leaving you with no games that would support it anymore, turning you expensive GPU in a worthless paperweight.

It was rough being a a consumer back then unless you were loaded to afford keeping up with the upgrades and stomaching the teething issues and quick obsolescence.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRHIz97L2iI
Like many binary distinctions, when you zoom in on the details hard-versus-soft realtime is really more of a spectrum. There's "people will die if it's late". "The line will have to stop for a day if it's late". "If it's late, it'll wreck the part currently being made". Etc.

Even hard-realtime systems have a failure rate, in practice if not in theory - even a formally verified system might encounter a hardware bug. So it's always a case of tradeoffs between failure rate and other factors (like cost). If commodity operating systems can push their failure rate down a few orders of magnitude, that moves the needle, at least for some applications.
I don’t think solar is as bad as you think it is during winter. During a stationary high pressure, you’ll have clear skies. Solar cells are more efficient when cold, and in fact in warmer countries the heat of midday can make them so inefficient that solar panels generate the most power in the morning and late afternoon.