skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He’s getting downvoted because that’s a solved problem in the wider crypto-space. To log in you sign a message using your hardware wallet.

Nostr hasn’t grown up to that yet, and pointing out that pasting private keys is a bad idea is fair game.

But implying that public private key cryptography can’t be used to log into web apps is just silly given that value worth billions is being moved around daily using such web apps.
Whilst I cannot speak for the entirety of the EU, at least in the Nordics, I'd say life would be pretty hard in many other aspects if you're unbanked. Just getting a salary would become problematic. Very few employers would pay out salary in cash.

Public charging would be far down the list there.
That's a weird pamphlet. It goes on to say sugary soda increases risk because it's calorie and carbohydrate high.

I get that "cause" is too strong, genetic predisposition is a huge factor, etc.

But can we really expect that an 1800 calorie/day diet of sugar cubes is no more likely to cause insulin insensitivity than 1800 calories of non-sugary/starchy food?
The sites design is very aesthetically pleasing, well done on that front.

Something that put me off a bit was immediately seeing bitcoin influencer content after loading the page.
Yeah it is nice to at least have a little variation in sh*t though sometimes.
I think it's also used for cold storage.

Only if they have basic it skills though
In Stockholm, Sweden you pay maximum 3% of your salary for your first kid, with a max 1 688 SEK. For the second child you pay another 2% (1125 SEK) and %1 for the third (563 SEK). From the fourth kid there is no charge.
Executing the wills – destruction of Britain's probate archive must be averted
US spent more on health care in 2022 than 6 countries combined with universal
They have a secure boot chain and they allow users to use their own signing keys. Samsung for instance also has verified boot, but doesn't allow users to use their own keys. Thus, the boot process is as secure using GrapheneOS as it would be using stock Android, but this just isn't the case for any other device manufacturer.
How's this for a hot take:

Any watch over 38mm is meant to attract attention to itself first, and look proportional on a large wrist second.
https://app.fireworks.ai/blog/fireworks-raises-the-quality-b...
It's not like engineering and reliability at all.

But since it opens up a new markets, it's happening. And will happen, until there's someone to buy the ai service.
So, if I tell Apple Computers at the end of last millennium 'you should make a music player' then I would have been the inventor of all the facets of the iPod?

Sometimes, but rarely, recognising the problem _is_ the invention; but outside of that I'd say the person in this process hasn't invented something and whatever development the computer generated should thus be unpatentable.

They'll at least get first-to-market benefits.
Fair, but per child care costs are extraordinary especially infant care in any major metro. If you have 3+ kids it can easily take an entire salary to pay for childcare.
> If something hasn't been tried at a wide-scale I wouldn't say you can conclude that.

I dunno; there are things that require herd adoption to succeed, but something like this doesn't need scale to show improvement.

> A company that executes too slowly might not be successful. So I can imagine that small companies work better as dictatorships. They need fast decisions, they need a vision.

> But big corporations? They move slowly anyway. They have a lot of subdivisions. One part doesn't know what another is doing.

Big corporations move slowly through decision-making because they are sampling many inputs. Yeah, things fall between the cracks because that is the nature of a large body of people, but in big companies especially, every company-wide decision is made after sampling input from almost every department (HR, Legal, Accounting, Marketing, Operations, etc).

No big company CEO decides on something like changing suppliers, changing supplied products, changing production (and produced products) without having the information from dozens of other executives, who, in their turn, are sampling information from HoD, senior management, and more.

All the executives, before board meetings, need to have their deck up to date. They never appear before the board (or the CEO) without data.

It almost looks, to me, like a federated democracy or a republic already.

Just as US citizens don't provide direct input to who the president is, they provide a representative who represents them, in big companies managers represent the people under them. The people under a manager can't vote for line-managers, but in every case that I've seen where a manager was unpopular with their subordinates, they were replaced.

> It could be that a bit more error-correction through democratic participation helps

I dunno what "errors" this error-correction would take when performed by foot-soldiers. As important as janitors are, should they have a say in determining what next years product line should look like?
Indeed.

https://www.topspeed.com/tesla-model-y-second-best-selling-v...

https://www.greencars.com/news/the-tesla-model-y-is-the-best...
Agree to disagree maybe. But consider trying an experiment - take notes so anyone who wasn't there for whatever reason, intentional or not, can read them later, and don't threaten to fire anyone or insult them as being toxic who didn't make it. If you end up in a meeting by yourself, just make a decision and write it down. I'd personally at least be very surprised if all of a sudden you were unable to coordinate activities, make decisions, or share information.
I struggled with the same problem. What's interesting with LLMs, is that they will augment the data in the paper with their general knowledge. So you can talk to them like you would with a colleague or mentor (but without the shame of asking dumb questions).
I am absolutely certain you're right. The forcing function to achieve a respectable level of quality before you ship isn't there in an always-online world.

The other big factor IMHO is the amount of speculative money that has poured into the industry in recent times. That has allowed a lot of businesses to survive for longer than they naturally could despite shipping junk and that in turn has taught users/customers that expecting better software is unrealistic. Even most unicorn tech businesses (FAANG etc.) still produce a lot of junk and little that is any good - relative to the almost unimaginable scale of resources they have available - because usually they reached that unicorn status by having one or at most a few massive successes that they can defend and that then subsidise all the bad decisions and junk products just as effectively as VC funding rounds.
What does that even mean? I assume you're referring to the cost of kindergarten?

That's just a small part of the overall cost of childcare.
Possibly controversial opinion, but this'll have to be revisited within 10 years. It seems inevitable (to me) that the near future looks like a heterogeneous mixture of natural and artificial intelligences interacting on a level footing, enforced by legal protections.

LLMs as an interface subcomponent of a larger system are surely already being prototyped, and it's a matter of time before agency emerges. In any case, most of our systems, and definitely how we manage intellectual property, are basically obsolete and require wholesale revisitation, so this is our institutions still protecting status quo until forced.
I feel like WeWork was, at its core, a good idea. If there were more small office parks near people’s neighborhoods, where desks could be leased long term for reasonable amounts, “remote” work would be a lot more comfortable than centralized office space.

And with all these office building real estate issues, I’m honestly shocked a replacement for WeWork hasn’t successfully made an impact in this space yet.
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That did not convince me.
To give a better example why I think this is a job for AI. Consider this painting:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.monasteryicons.com/images/popup...

Now, look at what a cropped and downscaled version of this looks like:

https://imgur.com/a/Uf66tDO

You can hardly make out any meaning from the mess of colours in the favicon. A human artist given the job would likely modify the colours of the background to give more emphasis on the central figure. They would also simplify the crowd making it into fewer characters. In general most of the lines would be redrawn to form simpler shapes so that the viewer could actually recognise what the favicon is supposed to represent.
Yeah but that's still SW, if we talk about HW then using Google-HW to get rid of Google seems a bit weird. I know that Google is not manufacturing these parts, but they're probably not open-source either.

I don't care that deeply about privacy/security, just being a bit devils-advocat-y.
It doesn't matter, the "root" user inside the container is still jailed and none of these tricks will allow that user to escape.
One belonging to a bazillion different entities globally. One of a handful I can choose from locally.
X11: Works

Wayland: Does not work

Which one is the modern one?
It's really not popular at all and it's growing linearly in terms of users (death sentence for a social) yet completely flat (suspiciously flat in my opinion) in terms of adoption.

https://stats.nostr.band/
It's not that unpopular of an opinion, just maybe it's unpopular within the HN demographic.

I work remote. I rent an office about 3 miles from my home. If I continue to work remotely for 10 years, my total cost in rent (which includes heating/cooling/electric/etc) will still be less than my family expected to pay to put an office-sized addition onto our house. My office also has fiber internet now which I cannot get at my home.

But the biggest benefit is that when I'm at the office, it's a separate place from home, so I do office things at the office and home things at home. The separate physical places really help my brain to context switch. Plus, trying to do work at home when the kids are also home, before/after school or on school breaks, is very difficult for me.
> Each child on their own costs us more in childcare than our mortgage.

That's insane and why I'm considering moving back to being near family.
I work in aerospace, last time a company botched software hundreds of people died. Worse than botched surgery.

Others rely on whatever software is produced, co-workers, customers, users. I think those people deserve a good quality product. And that requires at least some rules and procedures. Unless, of course, it is a single dev thing. In that case you won't have middle management and performance reviews neither.
DevOps: Don't destroy silos, transform them
> decentralized anything never works at scale

I'm pretty impressed by this thing called 'the internet'.
Thanks, that is some delightful lore!
Not here (UK), where it costs over £1,000 per child per month for care.
The problem with decentralized is more of UX and latency than moderation, IMO.

Just look at Mastodon. The issue is not the crazy content you get from time to time. What’s annoying is waiting for media to appear on your timeline and explaining newcomers that they must choose a server and the double @@ thing.

The second is a one-time thing at signup and perhaps surpassable. The first is a deal breaker. Anyone used to Instagram and TikTok’s timeline would just dismiss it as broken on the spot.
It's dead alright, Jim.
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The problem is that Google doesn't support older pixel devices. If the older devices don't get security updates, GrapheneOS can't in good faith support said devices.
I have a theory that he bought Twitter to make it easier to artificially hype his brands and here we are. The "bot problem" was the problem of his own bots being cracked down on.
"honey, just write me on Slack if I'm wearing headphones." - not even sure if I'm being satirical or not.
Makes sense to me. That is how expensive liability/labor is to “recreate” family bonds.

Although, the labor received via family bonds will greatly vary based on family, and time period. What was available before may not be available now due to different options becoming available for the aforementioned family members providing the labor.
Oh, well, I should've read the fine print. My bad.
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Hypernormalisation was discussed here in the past:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Hypernormalisation
Chinese chip-related companies shutting down with record speed
https://wiki.c2.com/?ZeroMeansNull

(Created by me long time ago)
Well, if you want to be whatanalboutist about security, GrapheneOS running pixels aren't either because the Graphene project do not write, audit and provide the firmwares either.
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It is not exactly an hobby, but it is what occupies most of my free time.
I organize free italian language courses for the foreigner of my city.
True.

And there's also the all-too-common offense of screwing up old recipes - because miserably large number of those specify quantities like "one can of pie filling", "two package unflavored gelatin", and "one medium onion".

Nothing can be done about the granny's collection of recipes on index cards, but I wish there was some "if you wanted to copyright your book or web site full of recipes, then you should have..." penalty for this.
Because the overall financing market is tighter, they are holding back money for their portfolio companies (that may not be able to raise money from new investors), rather than invest in new companies.
I'd be willing to bet that the most recent mistake during a deployment that an aerospace company made didn't result in many people dying. Maybe the last one you read about in the news, but that biases the selection a bit.

That said, if you're sending people to the moon, and are actually working on the system that sends them there rather than the website, feel free to have a more rigorous testing procedure. But if you aren't, consider maybe you don't need it.
> But the biggest benefit is that when I'm at the office, it's a separate place from home

That's my biggest gripe as well. I'm always in work mode while my desk is in sight.
Couldn't agree more. We can lament all day long so, it won't change, will it?

When it comes to stuff like that, I feel old!
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Not to be that guy, but this would be an ideal use case for crypto.
Hmm I'd like some pointers to plant friendly led lights. Do they have a name?
Brands? What should I look for?
The personal, political art of board-game design
https://archive.ph/iCYt4
Nono, we need to wrap the planet in paper. That will shield us from solar radiation as well as incoming rocks. And sequester carbon.

Then we can use the energy from relocating the Moon to correct the earth's axial tilt.

I've got a plan in motion: https://snafuhall.com/p/earthwrap.html
If you want people to have more children, put them into harsher conditions. It works empirically quite well. Policies that prevent women from getting education, and reduction in social spending so that children can be forced into labor as soon as possible, seem to be the most effective. Creating more stress and economic uncertainty also helps; people will see having more kids as less risky option.
That’s a very specific thing for the UK.

I have not seen those annoying checkout scales anywhere else in Europe.
Missing "combined" in the title, which changes the meaning a bit.
They don't run any js code concurrently. They'll call into native code that does run concurrently, or at least concurrent io, but when it gets back to your js code it is all synchronous.
> just for the EU to repack the same

"The EU" didn't repack anything - treaties are agreed or amended by national governments. If the Irish voted one way and then their government agreed something else, they can take it up with their own politicians.

> Immigration is a highly sensitive subject, and both in the UK and the EU governments have decided that 'more' is correct

Again, immigration is a topic managed almost exclusively by democratically-elected national governments. And it has always been - EU rules only apply to "traffic" between member states, and in fact give extra responsibilities to peripheral countries. Even between EU members, the only real EU rule covers right of employment; everything else (who can stay where for how long, which services they can access, etc) is for the local authority to decide.

The UK government, in particular, is currently schizophrenic on this subject. They spent inordinate amounts of time and money on grand public gestures (Rwanda policy, "hostile environment", Windrush fallout, or indeed Brexit) while, at the same time, completely failed to implement serious and sustainable policies on who is allowed to stay where and how - hence numbers skyrocketing.

You won't find a single UK cabinet minister not genuinely convinced that immigration should be curbed; it's just that nobody knows how to do it without looking like a buggy whip maker in a world of car drivers. To compete on the global stage of modern capitalism, a country needs talent and labor to go there, regardless of where they were born; a closed country inevitably declines, as it happened even to mighty Japan in the last 30 years. That doesn't have to mean that you relinquish entire towns to groups fresh off the boat. It's not a binary choice, and painting it as such is disingenuous at best.

> you paint "change" as inevitable

Because it is - change is driven by technological advancements. You can fight for the ancien règime as much as you want, sooner or later someone will show up at your port with a metaphorical warship and force you to join modernity.
Woo! Free speech absolutism! Hardcore!
The person who coined the IMGUI term (Casey Muratori) literally defined "immediate mode gui" as a concept relating to the API/facade, regardless of what the UI system internally owns or store or manage.

So basically you are dismissing an existing definition to turn it into your own to say that existing libs are not fulfilling that definition.
Maybe your knowledge is out of date? Afaict, most (if not all) of the differences between desktop environments have been fixed by XDG. I don't run Gnome or KDE and everything on my desktop works just fine.
My dad was one of 13, my mother one of 5, I had a huge family growing up, but most of my uncles and aunts didn’t have children, so I had fewer cousins. But still 11-12. Still big. Fast forward to 2023 and nearly all the older generation are no longer with us, families are stretched across Canada, America, UK, Germany, India, and barely anyone knows anyone else any more.

One cousin who I hadn’t seen for, shit, 31 years, surprised me by arriving in London from Canada one day with her daughter and texting me from a UK number to triply-confuse me. We had an absolutely awesome week, two only children reconnecting after so long, and junior got to meet - even if do say so myself - a very cool uncle who knew all the best places to go.

So my mission for the last five or six years has been to try and connect all my cousins’ kids to my own, so they can hopefully maintain a casual connection and come up with their own relationship. Maybe before I die I can organize a big family get-together of just the kids hanging out.
> but I miss having a nice office

In time, any dedicated home office will end up much nicer than anything a company would provide for you, unless you're on the executive floor.

> a short commute away.

Keyword "short". That severely limits your job options.

The only thing missing from WFH set ups is indeed work/life separation.
Not really. The original title is a bit misleading in that the 6 countries combined have the same population ad the USA alone.
The original title finished with the word "combined". Even still is not clear what they're saying until halfway through the article.

> This means the U.S. government spent more on health care last year than the governments of Germany, the U.K., Italy, Spain, Austria, and France combined spent to provide universal health care coverage to the whole of their population (335 million in total), which is comparable in size to the U.S. population of 331 million.

They lumped together six countries to get something with a similar population and use that as the comparison. Of course you may argue that the US is too exceptional to compare, this wasn't addressed.
This is about US Government spending on healthcare. Add to that what individuals pay on top and the US situation is even bleaker.
I don't think that's quite true. If I just want a bottle of water I wouldn't buy a meal deal to get the real price. Some of the meal deal items are subsidised more than others, it's true, but that doesn't make it a scam. Paying £3.50 or whatever for quite a lot of stuff is pretty amazing.
This is missing the key component of women not having the option to not have children. Usually by limiting their access to contraception and ability to earn income. And a bit of social pressure to create expectations of them helps.
You have to pay that fee to bring the kid back from the hospital.
This is very reassuring. Because next time Bruce Willis won't be around to blast the asteroid to bits.
The air doesn’t need anything “else” to push against. It pushes against itself and the balloon. Conservation of momentum will cause propulsion.
Not only Americans, I’m seeing this pattern everywhere in my age group peers. I’m mid-40 and in almost every gathering with friends and family, there are about 5 adults to each child. Most of the children have no siblings and no cousins.
You can say 'good riddance', but this just means when you get laid off, it will be harder to find a job, because the only companies around are the large/established tech companies.
Attention on Existential Risk from AI Likely Doesn't Distract from Current Harms
And the point is that those countries have combined population roughly equal to the US, they’re not, say, the Nordics. A technically correct but almost useless title.
"Combined" is missing in the title, but the per capita spending in the US is staggering compared to other countries.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
> In any case, most of our systems, and definitely how we manage intellectual property, are basically obsolete and require wholesale revisitation

I completely agree, but don't underestimate the power of the ones who own most of it to lobby in their favour for the decades to come.

That combined to a trend towards relocation of supply chains, more expensive energy, resources etc. makes me think that we will see the value of physical capital increase in proportion.
The irony here is that you’re saying this while providing none of those many things.

Why not add more meat around the bone while criticizing others for not doing so?
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