skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This idea ("I'm against IDs because I fear what they'll do with it") is really interesting to me, because in my country (Argentina) a large part of the national pro-ID sentiment comes from looking back on our own history and attempting to prevent some of the human rights abuses that were committed in our country.

The last dictatorship tried to erase dissident's identities, kidnapped their children and erased their links with their previous family. As a consequence, Argentina now has a "Right to Identity" enshrined into our Constitution and deeply ingrained into our society and culture.
Let me rephrase: I am extremely familiar with the USG data management tech landscape.
Normal humans don't try to communicate directly with each other through the media.
Well, Total Warhammer 3 for example did not work for me through official Steam, even though it should. It runs on the same computer on windows without problems. And with much more tinkering I surely could get it to run on Linux as well .. but I want to play games to relax and not get and solve new problems.
> type-obsessed languages

That quip is really the essence of the disconnect. At its core, typesafety is a boring and practical technique used to prevent mistakes. And that's all it is. You model your software with some "typing" rules that more or less match the real world desires of its behavior, and that prevents you from accidentally confusing a FrobWidget with the FrobConfig from which it was instantiated. And that's a good thing.

But the problem is that mapping of abstract types to real world ideas is inherently glitchy and leaky, for the intractable reason that (1) software isn't ever going to completely match the desires for its real world behavior (because everyone wants slightly different things!) and (2) those desires are going to change over time anyway.

But that's not a pleasant situation for Serious Language People. So programming language theory ended up in the weeds trying to create a calculus to handle all the edge cases. And the result is nonsense like this.

Typesafety is good up to a point, and Haskell in particular launched itself way past that threshold. Rust too is clearly on the wrong side of it. TypeScript is aiming in that direction. Of modern languages, my feeling is that Java and Go and similar tools are probably closest to the sweet spot.
MIT: Thermodynamics and Climate Change
Appears to be a free course.

"In this course you will learn the three laws of thermodynamics, explore concepts like entropy and enthalpy, and investigate the causes and effects of global warming from a thermodynamics perspective. We will also apply these concepts to learning about state-of-the-art energy conversion and storage technologies, for example heat pumps, hydrogen fuel cells, metal-air batteries, artificial photosynthesis, molten salt storage, and concentrated solar power. "
I dunno, installing Windows from scratch is still pretty slick. You don't normally end up having to do extra work to get basic things like Bluetooth working, or whatever.

Pre-installed Linux laptops is great - and is clearly the way to get someone less techy on-the-way. But, for most, if they're sick of Windows and they want to move (dual boot their machine) then god help them.

Linux is much better than it was, for sure, and I think the community is much better at answering questions than it was - it's less patronising than it used to be (like this guy [1]) - but I when I think of most people who I know who use Windows (non techy users), and whether I think they could survive in a Linux environment - I have to say no, still, which is a shame.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38903915
Just another example of M$ brain damage.

What a depressingly limited idea of "everything I want from a new OS": all I want is to be an exploited corporate capture victim...
I used to work there and this kind of thing is why I left. Google lost their moral compass years ago. The greed I saw from top to bottom was baffling. People earning $200k already, who spent all their time figuring out how to get the next promotion
(and thus inventing stupid unnecessary and uninteresting projects) rather than trying to find actually fulfilling-to-the-employee or useful-to-the-enterprise-or-the-user work.

You already make a ton of money and have a ton of status, why not enjoy it and find work that is actually fulfilling to you and/or useful to the user and/or failing that at least useful to the shareholders if nothing else. But no, they were conditioned to seek achievement blindly and without any moral or other introspection.

I could not stand it. I spent years regretting not holding my nose longer for the sake of being able to buy a house and so forth.... but I've made my peace with it. Since then I've had the opportunity to see how harmful Google's attempts to make money are to children (they are the new Joe Camel) and now I no longer have regrets at all. It's one thing to manipulate and exploit adults who should know better, but to target children is just the worst kind of low.
When the talking heads on TV and the AI's writing "news" articles talk about unemployment they don't tend to mention the measure they're using. And it's almost always the best looking one, at least if they like the current President.
China's HTR-PM (the topic of this article) is similar to the Xe-100 that X-energy is planning to build in Texas:

https://x-energy.com/seadrift

But they've yet to apply for NRC approval, so who knows if that'll actually happen.
That’s still the case. My mom was Wire Chief at a railroad, and when something broke, everything failed safely and ground movement to a halt until she could get the problem fixed.

Failsafe systems are still common where safety or vast expense is at stake.
Transpose this gaming obsession to other facets of life and see how it goes.

Imagine if most cars were modeled after Lamborghinis and people complained about the lack of turbo or carbon seats when hopping on your Honda Civic.

Imagine if most parks were modeled after football fields and people complained about the lack of goals and lines in your backyard.

Imagine if most knifes were modeled after big damascus blades and people complained about your table knifes when they come for dinner for not being cool and sharp enough
I really like this concept. I see a lot of negativity in the comments over the “Fisher Price” UI, but honestly, this seems much more familiar and easier to navigate than what Windows has become to the average user. This is something that I can see my parents or less technically-inclined siblings or friends breathing a sigh of relief to use. Simple, colorful, easy workflows. It’s why the iPad has a cult following among the 60 and over crowd.
A fractal has measure zero in the space it's embedded in. It obviously can not contain any object of nonzero measure of that space.
> Our supreme court is young (est 2006 or so)

This is not the case at all. The "Supreme Court" in the UK is the latest version of the UK's "court of last resort". Previous to this it was the House of Lords one would appeal to (it had functions to sit as UK's top court as well as the 2nd chamber). The House Of Lords was the Court of last resort for the UK since at least the 1800s.

From the Wikipedia page on the "new" UK supreme court:

"It assumed the judicial functions of the House of Lords, which had been exercised by the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (commonly called "Law Lords"), the 12 judges appointed as members of the House of Lords to carry out its judicial business as the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords."

Indeed, the first 12 justices on the "new" supreme court where just the exact same 12 Law Lords from the previous House of Lords system.

The 2006 "Supreme Court" rebrand was a continuing reform of the existing system, not some new level of appellate court the UK had never had before. In reality, they both perform the same top appellate court/court of last resort role. You could bring the same types of cases to the House of Lords as you can to the Supreme Court, and the Law Lords presided over many of the UK's most significant constitutional cases.

There are various political reasons why this "rebrand" to Supreme Court was done, but I've typed enough and can't be bothered delving further into this in a reply. It's fundamentally a continuation of the previous long standing Court, and precedent from the many, many pre-existing HoL Court decisions is equal in power to that of the Supreme Court's decisions.

Had Gina Miller's case been say 10-15 years earlier, the HoL would have heard and decided the case too - she did not need the existence of a "new" "Supreme Court".

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_functions_of_the_Hous...

> https://www.parliament.uk/about/mps-and-lords/about-lords/lo...
To be real you're right no one attempted it but it wasn't that hard to get working 20 years ago...to keep it working was the painful part
Have you thought of joining a Linux support forum from the 90s? You'd fit in really well.
Interesting to know that's the reason. I make a website called Coinpassport.net that uses Stripe Identity to do just like you describe: verify once and reuse it on other sites.

I would have loved if Stripe signed the results so that it could be more decentralized and anybody could verify with their own stripe account and have it be comparable to others.
PicoTrackerPortable (2023)
If you are easily motion sick they will not work for you. They’re a great product though, and I love the idea. Unfortunately I move my head around too much when sitting still I get motion sick trying to read text.
Are 90% of academic papers never cited?
It's more the type of pattern in the errors rather than the mere existence of them.

On the other topic, although the mere existence of errors would count against a supposedly all knowing and all powerful designer, that combination is not found in most religions, and not even all versions of Christianity.
Single biggest thing you need to nail down fast: the data model. It is extremely hard to shift as things grow, and without careful thought, it’ll turn into a horrifying miasma of JSONB columns, duplicated data, orphaned rows, and garbage performance.

Customers are going to store surprisingly large items in Docs, where you’d be tempted to inline them instead of offloading to S3 et al.

Chat practically needs to be its own DB. Discord runs on Scylla, Slack runs on Vitess over MySQL. The needs of chat access are wildly different from other types of storage.

If you’re doing any kind of active-active, have a plan for how to move off of that, because it does not scale (at least, not without breath-takingly expensive hardware).

Source: DBRE at one of your competitors.

EDIT: The fact that you’re doing offline saves (which is very cool!) makes me think that you may be using something like Ditto [0], which IIRC is MyRocksDB under the hood. I have no experience with either, but I do know some super sharp folks working at Ditto.

[0]: https://ditto.live
I guess it was due to the low effort comment, but there is a real reason - that is, instead of being better at manufacturing etc, America chose to try and stifle others who are evidently just better at it while at the same time made no effort to improve domestic manufacturing. Then can't understand why it doesn't work and other nations are ahead...
How do you imagine that act of choosing happens in your brain in a way that isn't computable?
Do you have a practical example of such interconnectedness (or lack thereof?)
This didn't stopped Facebook, Microsoft, Google and Apple collecting data about the children, isn't it ?
> Okay but surely you must agree that there are limits to how much we as a society should believe?

There are limits, but the idea that American society is too nice, or takes concerns too seriously, is beyond laughable.
> You’re pattern matching on how the two modes work

No, I'm going by my own experience. I've taken plenty of long-distance bus trips (I've just checked on a map site, one long-distance bus trip I've made many times is around 800 km). Several of them were to cities I could have taken an airplane to (and I did take an airplane to them in other circumstances), and the only difference is that the bus trip usually took longer (and was less expensive).

> If airplanes became seriously unsafe, I would drive. There is no world where I would take a bus instead.

If airplanes became seriously unsafe, I would take a long-distance bus. I can't say there's no world where I would buy a car and learn how to drive just to avoid taking a long-distance bus, but I can't see any advantage other than avoiding the short taxi steps to and from the bus terminal at either end of the trip.
Interesting to note that the old Nepalese word for the Kukri is Kepis.
Damn Bill, no one has the time to read a 20,000 word tweet
Microsoft Teams already is this as long as you don't care about anything basically working.
This is probably why your country does not have a thriving startup ecosystem. SV runs on naive young 'uns who believe the "you own 0.5% of the company" bullshit.
Papers... our new religion...
Yes and this is awesome, but the comment I replied to, seemed to imply that all the problems went away since years and this is just wrong in my experience and can create wrong expectations for people trying out Linux again - just to get disappointed.
Sounds like a good filter for culture: discourage the people who wouldn't be onboard with company approaches, and simultaneously attract the people who want to be a part of the power that the company just flexed a tiny bit.
Oh I love McAfee preinstalled for me! /s
That's not exactly fair. hp flops on its face with the software realm (drivers, firmware) and deploying windows to any is a nightmare of missing drivers.

The surface is more constrained to specific hardware so I think any operating system would be easy to kick to it much like a Thinkpad.
I agree with the parent here. If the device is designated a kids device by some means, websites can ensure no adult content gets transmitted and their data isn't mined for ads.
The original creator of this had to suspend all activities when he got a job at Apple.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27364737
I'm using whatboard.app to do much of this now, but your solution has a desktop app which is a nice addition.
That's arguably a bit different, though.

Shared security parameters work just fine for some applications; we use them all the time in ECC, for example. Obviously avoiding them is preferable, but isn't always possible. But importantly, using shared parameters is required by some protocols.

On the other hand, using somebody else's URL, email address etc. or symmetric encryption key by mistake and assuming it'll work for you as well is just that: A mistake.
Elite schools are effectively zero sum as you say and that's where Affirmative Action becomes a problem. Colleges can say they're not penalizing White or Asian students just giving Black and Latino students a boost. Which immediately leads to a situation where students with the same test scores are approved or denied on the basis of race, where the black student gets accepted and the Asian student gets turned down
Is this related to Zoho? I ask because many screenshots have the same Zoho colors and logos.
While acknowledging identity verification is problematic and bordering an unsolved problem, that really is a horrible precedent for someone to be required to own an electronic device that rapidly falls in to obsolescence to perform basic activities.

In the more extreme sense, the complexity and security hurdles really make this something only the largest multi-billion dollar corporations could do. European countries really seem to do a good job of re-enforcing existing American monopolies while hamstringing their own economy and the freedom of the internet as a whole. I don't know if this is intentional (regulatory capture) or just based on a very superstitious understanding of computer science and mathematics (see the recent encryption debacles.)

Apple has gotten a free pass for security & privacy, so far, by mostly producing secure(ish) devices, at least relative to the competition and give the never solved problem of keeping an always-on always-connected device that can receive messages from anyone in the world secure. However, as Apple's only remaining growth area is advertising their privacy reputation is going to diminish. Apple's leadership over the next decade or two will determine just how quickly that erodes. Definitely not a company I would want to be reliant on ID verification.
A really great resource. My usual game reference, BoardGameGeek, has a lot of the same info ultimately, but if you just want purely standard card game info, this is much better organized and displayed.

Side note: Kind of funny that the site has Deutsch and English language options, but the cookie notice is in Italian. Anyone know why that is?
China installed more renewable energy in 2023 than the United States has installed in its entire history.
Exactly. They don’t make (as much) money off of individuals buying licenses, the real dough is in bulk business licensing. And businesses want to do that in part because of the unparalleled software accessibility. The more people that use Windows, pirated or not, the more demand there is for Windows software, which locks enterprise customers in.
The Coffee House of Surat by Leo Tolstoy.
There is also a Wikipedia page about it (link below), but I first got to know of the story from the YouTube video I linked.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coffee-House_of_Surat
Your alternative to google is a list of websites?
Yes. It is possible to implement zero-knowledge age verification securely. There are just exponentially more ways to do it insecurely, and we can assume that by default this is what will happen.
The water exists in the rock mostly like water exists in the silica packets in everything you buy these days -- chemically bound in hydrated forms of crystals. That means it must be taken into account in any chemistry models, but not that there's a giant reservoir underground waiting to burst out in a flood.
Depends upon the project.

For CRUD apps, sveltekits progressive enhancement and form actions make it quick to to add simple function to the page. You can store the pocketbase instance, pb, in locals and reference it all over the application.

For more multiplayer things, sticking a client-side subscription to a collection allows updates of elements that can be worked with/added/moved around etc.
I agree. I haven’t yet interviewed a user that views realtime collaboration as something desirable in itself. In my research, user mostly are forced to do this kind of collab because it’s still better than coordinating via side channels such as email or phone. It has lower friction but at a very high usability cost. In contrast it makes people undervalue the importance of a structured plan of execution for projects with a significant number of collaborators. There are practically no polished, in-between, git-like experience in mainstream tools. The outcome of real-time for users is always remembered as messy and frustrating. I don’t even agree with the premise of shared control as being an effective basis for creative or productive process at large, it is useful for brainstorming and exploration in some specific cases, or highly specialized and niche settings like pair programming. IMHO this is super valued by developers and marketers because it’s challenging, cool and it makes for a good pitch. Not rare to see people who conflate digital collaboration with shared control, thinking they’re synonymous – such is the influence of these modern workflows. We can never know how good other collaboration strategies can be if alternative experiences are under-developed and people default to shared control.
Also notable, The Soul of Erlang and Elixir by Sasa Juric (40min)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE

discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20942767
Well, in the great scheme of things after millions of years nothing matters really, but this is not a reasonable argument for talking about harm done to humans and ecosystems _now_.
I think a rough analogy would be:

You’re a startup who keeps a payroll spreadsheet in Google Sheets and the Google recruiting team accesses that data to recruit your employees and decide how much to offer them.

There’s nothing wrong with Google trying to hire your employees, but it’s wrong for them to use your confidential data from another business unit to do so.
Disappointed. The robot t is not "making coffee". It is feeding a capsule to a machine and pressing a button.

I expected the robot would be grinding beans, filling the coffee holder, tamping, fitting the holder to a steam machine and pulling an espresso for a certain time.

I could even understand fitting a coffee filter to a holder, dropping ground coffee and dripping hot water until a certain level is reached.

Those things require a lot more decisions than "open machine, drop capsule, close machine, press button".
I don't understand why people like XP so much. Windows 2000 was the ultimate OS: lean, fast, focused, and absolutely zero crapware installed. No stupid internet accounts needed to run your local OS and it did what it was supposed to do.
love the simplicity of it. All the popular ones fatigue my brain
That might actually be the lesser evil here. There could be a new category of "kid-friendly" devices which require parental unlock to (temporarily) access the open Internet, either in general or outside of a government-approved whitelist. Such a whitelist might include things like YouTube Kids, kid-friendly subsets of app stores / package repositories, reputable news sources, informational and educational sources, and filtered versions of search engines.

Then there's the enforcement model to consider. Maybe it's just an option consumers have available for purchase at their own discretion. Or maybe vendors would be banned from knowingly selling non-kid-friendly devices to minors, and/or parents would be banned from allowing their kids to own non-kid-friendly devices.

If this is the direction society wants to go in, it shouldn't impose on anyone other than parents and children. Current legislation and proposals narrowly target one specific use case (porn), and do so in a kludgy way that's effectively just banning its use without a VPN. Instead, this approach would provide a general framework for filtering kids' interaction with technology.

For example, some states might use it to ban social media and AI chatbots for children, at least in their current forms. I could imagine an alternative AI chatbot service being allowed which shared the history with parents and teachers, so as to deter cheating, and to provide an opportunity for human adults to add context or corrections to any misinformation. I could also imagine allowing more limited social networks that segregated schools or classes into their own private bubbles, wiped content at the end of each school year, blocked posting images/videos without parental approval, used uncomplicated news feed algorithms, and gave teachers and staff reddit-style moderation power.

Personally, I'm not sure how much I like this, vs simply leaving the parenting to parents. Maybe it would be less bad than alternatives, but it's also dangerously close to a ban on general-purpose computing[1]. We'd have to remain vigilant to ensure that governments didn't use it as a foothold to start cracking down on adults' use of computers and the Internet in the future.

1: https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
Artificial Intelligence's Threat to Democracy
https://archive.ph/Uqlqu
The quest 3 is probably better at blocking things out than the more open design of the AVP.