skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To the clover half of your anecdote I can add my own: there was an elderly neighbor whose front yard had clover, and a surprising amount of four, five, or even six leaf clover. My friends and I would browse in the yard every spring, and we all found something.
Sillicon is actually significantly more common, so relative abundance isn't a good reason to use carbon. Carbon would be used because it performs better
I think you're conflating the notion of perfect curation. I don't think anyone is claiming that journals or journalists are infallible. They certainly make m, although I don't think I agree that the good is "dwarfed" by them, except when used as a direct attempt to undermine credibility by adversaries.

Put differently, do you think bad ideas spread more easily with the internet? The current research seems to think so, and if you agree, I don't see how that mitigates the spread of bad information. If anything, it exacerbates it.
This is cool – I just heard a talk related to this subject from one of the authors, Daniel Genkin, who leads the group [0] that found this vulnerability. Seems like they're doing a lot of really interesting work. The talk I heard was specifically about "iLeakage", another vulnerability they found where an attacker can read another tab's data using something like Spectre.

[0]: https://architecture.fail/

[1]: https://ileakage.com/
Yes, there's something about this that struck me as ageist.

There's kind of this odd implicit assumption, for instance, that liking an image means accepting it as genuine. It's entirely possible that people are liking something without regard to its artificiality. I'm sure a lot of them don't recognize it as AI, but some of them also don't care.

It also buries the later discussion where it's pointed out that older individuals are less susceptible to artificial verbal information.

I wouldn't be surprised if there are age trends in any of this — it cites stuff as such — but the way it's written is inappropriate in subtle ways.

There's plenty of fake on TikTok getting through to younger individuals. But older individuals are liking funny AI-generated pictures on Facebook? That we have to worry about in particular. Or at least that's the vibe.
It's opt-in, yes, but via a dark pattern of "hey, cool new thing, say yes quickly?" as far as I remember it.

I remember getting tripped up by this, because I also have work credentials in there that by policy I'm not supposed to store in a synchronizing TOTP client, and Google Authenticator didn't even allow reviewing the TOTP seeds for the longest time, so this seemed like quite the departure from their previous security stance.
Why is Windows 11 a disaster? What am I missing?
I preferred the bottle-bouncing behaviour. It seems unlikely that nature encoded that one as an instinct - or if it did, it is an adaptive enough instinct to be intelligence for me.

It just happens that the leading example was not correct. That sort of thing turns up all the time in creatures that are effectively thoughtless automatons.
> It takes up a lot less land than renewables

Except, Wind and geothermal are more space efficient than nuclear when you look at the actual land use of current nuclear reactors. In theory it doesn’t need much space so several GW could sit on a few hundred acres. Yet, Wolf Creek Generating Station is only 1.2 GW on 9,818 acres that’s worse than many solar projects.

Which seems to be the general issue with the Nuclear industry. In theory you can say all these wonderful things, but in practice people are looking at decades of results when they are choosing to invest or not.

Nuclear doesn’t need technological breakthroughs from cutting edge research, that just leads to more delays and boondoggles. What it actually needs is efficiently run projects on time and under budget.
RuneScape really taught about scams, huh.
You cannot pan on iOS.
TV died 20 years ago, they didn't notice they were already dead. They could easily just only have 1 ad an hour and people would see some value, but that will never happen.
You're what we call The Problem.
Although the intention isn't to spam people, someone could definitely use it for that purpose until they are blocked or their account is suspended.
Climate change mitigation isn't an intelligence problem, it's a political problem (a tragedy of the commons but in geopolitical scale). Maybe if AGI can become a dictator that rules over humans it can stop us from selfishly destroying the future, otherwise, we'll keep fighting for our "right" to eat beef and take jet-fuelled vacations...
Argentine here. Italian bidets are just a sink you can sit on, with a faucet on the rear. You clean yourself using your hands. Argentine bidets are also a sink you can sit on, but they have a shower pointing up to your rear. There's basically two ways to go: don't use your hands down there and let the water pressure do its thing, then go back to the toilet and dry with TP; or use your hands and soap and dry with a towel.
While I follow the argument, wouldn't by necessity, an ethnic Americans begin to exist the moment the next generation is born ?

tldr: Anthropological quality has to start somewhere; not completely unlike myths.
See also isochron map [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isochrone_map
You can always reformat as APFS (Case Sensitive)
The tail is just the end of the spine. I think it would be extremly difficult to evolve one that is not connected.
As the old saying goes: There is nothing as permanent as a temporary solution.
Maybe using Figma as an analogy, right after the first paragraph stating a mission of software freedom and ownership, is not advisable.
> It's been downright luxurious having my seeds on my phone and my laptop and desktop.

The same is possible for my iOS tool of choice (called "OTP auth"). It can also synchronize to iCloud (passphrase encrypted) and make use of that on macOS.

I've resisted the temptation of that comfort so far (and of just putting the TOTP seeds into Bitwarden or 1Password), because it does seem a lot like collapsing what's now definitely two or maybe three factors into two or sometimes only one.
For 8 minutes of this (among other translation mistakes), you've reminded me of Peggy Hill's understanding of Spanish in the cartoon King of the Hill - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g62A1vkSxB0

(IIRC, she learned the language entirely from books so has no idea of the correct pronunciation and thinks she's fluent)
Link to the open access article : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07095-8

If you scroll to the bottom check out how long this article went into peer review: almost 3 years!

Three years can get you a PhD in UK.

Received
14 September 2021

Accepted
19 January 2024

Published
28 February 2024
The anonymous lost and found QR code
The real win this architecture has is outsourcing its content management database to GitHub. That's where all the complicated stuff like permissions and authentication and change notifications and approval workflows, that make up the bulk of complexity in most bespoke business applications, as well as all the tricky stuff of managing the actual files that the contributors are managing, is all happening. It's a smart decision! There's a lot involved in running a system like that reliably - outsourcing it is a great idea.

If they were to do that in house, by switching to a self-hosted GitLab, say, well... that could be run on a single machine (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/reference_architec...) at the cost of having to manage scheduled downtime for upgrades. If the user base or activity level grew beyond what that server could handle (and given that the intention of this project is to cultivate an ever growing community of contributors that might be a concern)... the next stop up is an eight node system: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/reference_architec....
The Germans, due to their long history of massive earthquakes and destructive tsunamis, have, in their usual rational manner, shut down their nuclear power stations and instead rely on soft coal and importing power from coal powered Poland and nuclear powered France.
Radix Themes 3.0
I have a lot of old unsorted bookmarks of "I want to look in to this, but don't have time now". Newer stuff is more organized, but I exported the old stuff and haven't looked at them in about five years.

Last week I started organizing them a bit, and it's shocking how much is a 404. Even from major newspapers and such. I have no idea why anyone would take down old content (outside of some specific and rare reasons). Some are also on neither internet archive or archive.today.
Optery has been flagging the conflict of interest between OneRep and Nuwber for years and put a statement out with our position following the Krebs article:

https://www.optery.com/optery-statement-following-investigat...
People don't use the metaphor literally because it doesn't make sense from a 2nd Law of Thermodynamics perspective. If the Matrix was created by AGI for thr sake of producing energy, it would make no sense at all to keep humans around in pods, because it costs them more energy to keep a human alive than what they get out of the human.

The movie producers realized the problem in later movies and added some mumbojumbo that they were keeping humans around for their neural networks, but that still requires the viewer to take it on faith.
Crazy story. Looks like he could have got away with a lot, had he not pushed it.
Way more worried about me being spied on than Chinese users being spied on. And the way this is shaping up, I will be able to be spied on by the US or by China. There will be no option for me to buy hardware free of spying.
And we're generally impressed when somebody gets Doom running on a toothbrush, not much difference really
FreeOTP, supported by Redhat, is another open source 2FA application.
I use it.

FreeOTP: https://freeotp.github.io/
> we mask it with a thin layer of democracy

Clearly all governmental systems are designed to broadly maintain a status quo, and there aren’t really any truly democratic governments, but societies like the United States are still significantly democratic in their bones because, even with centuries of trying, power is nowhere near as centralized as in totalitarian regimes. Local and state governments have the greatest influence over the day to day of ordinary people and ordinary people are much more capable of influencing them.
LightIt: Illumination Modeling and Control for Diffusion Models
There has traditionally been very little investment into the Bitcoin ecosystem, mostly because the community is very conservative and views innovation popular with other chains as suspicious (“shitcoin stuff”). Ordinals wound up paying the miners, which is crucial for the long term sustainability of Bitcoin once inflation ends. This caused a schism in the BTC community, where some want to push a fork that bans ordinals and all the other innovation happening that is “spamming” the chain (like EVM on BTC) and the others wanting to let it flourish.

Unlike with the BCH hardfork, this time wiser heads are going to let it happen, because the core fundamentals around block speed and block size won’t be changing. Stuff the garbage in OP_RETURN and pay the miners, even the maxis don’t think BTC is payment rails anymore, and you don’t need to be cheap for digital gold. Bullish BTC
I like it mixed, periods of high stress, challenging work, followed by periods of mellow coasting doing simple jobs (even repetitive jobs).

If I stay too long on the high stress, I burn out and tend to snap at coworkers (it brings out my aggression), if I stay too long on the coasting phase, I get bored and get an urge to do something else (I miss the highs of the high stress situation).

As I advanced in my career I get a bit more control on what I do, so I get to pick most of my battles.

In any case, as I got more experience, situations that used to be stressful no longer feel that way to me, so the next challenge needs to push me further from my comfort zone.
I don't think it is supposed to pan. It doesn't for me on desktop.
If anyone is interested, I wrote a long blog post where I analyzed all the various ways of saving HTML pages into a single file, starting back in the 90s. It'll answer a lot of questions asked in this thread (MHTML, SingleFile, web archive, etc.)

https://www.russellbeattie.com/notes/posts/the-decades-long-...
Mirantis K8s Lens closed its source
On January 26th, Mirantis made Lens closed source.
I personally found it to be a useful tool, as it provided a good overview of existing Kubernetes clusters and easy access to them. Since I used OpenLens, I did not notice the license change and the removal of the source code until now.

Would love to hear about alternatives or best practices for cluster management below.
It’s perfect, I hope they don’t replace it with an “elegant UI”
The Future of Electric Vehicles at the Zero Emissions Fleet Event [video]
CanEV Might-E Truck
https://canev.com/pages/might-e-truck

Peterbilt 579EV 0-Emission Truck
https://www.peterbilt.com/trucks/electric/579EV

Mean Green Electric Mowers
https://meangreenproducts.com/

Freightliner eM2 0-Emission Truck
https://www.freightliner.com/trucks/em2/

Mobile EV Charging Station
https://www.mcharging.com/

HaiSea Wamis Electric Tug Boat
https://www.seaspan.com/press-release/haisea-marine-warmly-w...

Edison Motors Hybrid Electric Truck
https://www.edisonmotors.ca/
> the website would present a QR code, you would open the phone and scan the code, the phone would make a request signed with your key to a URL, and the website would authenticate you because by making this signed request you proved that "something you have" part is done.

WebAuthN essentially gives you that behavior, with the addition of making it MITM-resistant (which TOTP isn't). It even works cross-platform these days (I think both devices need Bluetooth as a proof-of-proximity, to make sure an adversary isn't relaying you a QR code).

Unfortunately both iOS and Android absolutely insist on syncing these credentials to the cloud, but both now have APIs that would allow a third party to provide a local-only backend.
This seems off, how about this one, with 7 GW on 1,000 acres?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashiwazaki-Kariwa_Nuclear_Pow...

Or 6.5 GW on 2,300 acres?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Nuclear_Generating_Stati...

4 GW, 3,000 acres:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Verde_Nuclear_Generating_...

Kind of odd that you'd cherry-pick the lowest wattage per acre reactor to make an example out of.
It happens a ton, and the hardware and software supply chains are more fragile than people realize.

One book I was reading “Secrets of a Cybersecurity architect” by Brook S.E Shoenfield stated that security starts at the physical port and all hardware must go through integrity checks before it can be used.

If my memory servers me right he was one of NSAs first cyber warfare and security architects.

I also have retired family that was SVP of Engineering at a major telecom and he said this is a practice they had to implement as well because backbone routers would go missing for three days during shipping and just show up with no excuses for the delay.

The book is worth a glance, i never finished but it’s pretty insightful.

Additionally, on podcast i will never remember, China circumvents the banned entities list by stealthy acquiring approved chip manufactures and not rebranding, and new ownership adds backdoor into the chips.
> But in a strange way, the film has become more relevant today than it was in 1999. With the rise of the smartphone and social media, genuine human interaction has dropped precipitously.

This is an interesting comment, because reading a book involves interaction with a text rather than other human beings. Yet we consider that (for the most part) a beneficial thing even though reading a thick book is kind of like putting up a "do not disturb" sign.

The problem is more that social media are extremely addictive. Users are more like Lotos Eaters [0] than inhabitants of Plato's cave.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus-eaters
Code mirror 6 is super hard to use though unless you are a front end expert. Code mirror 5 was basically plug and play. Code mirror 6 is a box of Legos and you are responsible to build and bundle your own editor from scratch.
Fortunately, SMS-OTP isn't considered SCA/PSD2 compliant anymore (by itself, since it's only a single factor – and the card number doesn't count) by the regulator in the EU (not sure about the UK), so hopefully we'll be seeing less of that going forward.
> It is completely unrealistic to expect that Unicode will ever provide all the pre-composed characters that have ever been used in the past or which will ever be desired in the future.

I agree it's unlikely this will ever happen, but as far as I know there aren't really any serious technical barriers, and from purely a technical point of view it could be done if there was a desire to do so. There are plenty of rarely used codepoints in Unicode already, and while adding more is certainly an inconvenience, the status quo is also inconvenient, which is why we have one of those "wow, I just discovered Unicode normalisation!" (and variants thereof) posts on the front-page here every few months.

Your last paragraph can be summarize as "it makes it easier to innovate with new diacritics". This is actually an interesting point – in the past anyone could "just" write a new character and it may or may not get any uptake, just as anyone can "just" coin a new word. I've bemoaned this inability to innovate before. That is not inherent to Unicode but computerized alphabets in general, and I that composing characters alleviates at least some of that is probably the best reason I've heard for favouring compose characters.

I'm actually also okay with just using composing characters and deprecating the pre-composed forms. Overall I feel that pre-composed is probably better, partly because that's what most text currently uses and partly because it's simpler, but that's the lesser issue – the more important one that it would be nice to move towards "one obviously canonical" form that everything uses.
I used to have almost 10k bookmarks that I was keeping from circa 2010 to 2017. Only to realize the majority of them were now useless. Some kind of tool like this is way overdue to become commonspread.
The thing that has to be explained was why Earth was left alone for 4.55 billion years so we could evolve. Something prevented intelligences from colonizing it and exploiting it (and everywhere else we can see in the universe, as far as we can tell). That thing is called the Great Filter. Its existence is not in question, since we evolved. If we run into ETs that means intelligence must be extremely common (and mobile, since we ran into it) so the filter has to be very VERY effective.

The most benign Great Filter would be in our past, if life or intelligence is very difficult for the universe to create. If it's not in our past, it's in our future, and it's going to clobber us with almost no chance of escape (after all, if we're not special, we have no better chance than any of the potentially vast number of ET civilizations it has already hit.)
>> while abiding by Chinese law

> This includes Chinese national security law which is far more invasive than the US law

Does anyone have links and translations or shall we all just conjecture in a fact free way? All the above might be true or might not, but there isn’t a way to evaluate the claims.
Gui is totaly broken on android
Susan Rigetti has a nice overview [0]

In this Susan recommends https://www.khanacademy.org/, which is good for most things learned in primary or secondary school.

There is an open source curriculum equivalent for an undergrad compromised of MOOC and similar resources [1]

Similar to the above is a markdown [2], with a scope directed towards people coming from a CS background.

After this perhaps focus more on statistics & data science for metric interpretation.
R for Data Science [3] is an option.

[0] https://www.susanrigetti.com/math

[1] https://github.com/ossu/math

[2] https://github.com/NavigoLearn/RoadmapsMarkdown/blob/master/... for computer science/full-roadmap.md

[3] https://r4ds.hadley.nz/
Have fun with your power grid Texas.
I’ve seen this before. Have to admit I’m mostly attracted by the 1998 in the title. Childhood good times were had :)
Others have touched upon the point of crime, but it really is worth mentioning that crime (especially of the violent and/or property type) is a huge hindrance to the economic revitalization of any area. It's much, much easier to risk time and capital to try and build something versus risking your life and those of your loved ones.

Just goes to show that rule of law and strong private property rights are necessary conditions to any level of wealth-building.
Broken UI on iPhone 15
Googling i saw people link to http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/doc/bash.0 as an example of overstriking (albeit for bold not accents). The telnet rfc also makes reference to it. I also see lots of references in the context of APL.

I suppose in the 60s/70s it would be in the era of teletypewriters where maybe over striking would more naturally be a thing.

I also found references to less supporting this sort of thing, but seems to be about bold and underline, not accents.
Guys? Wh
it sometimes is a bit sad to realize we will probably never confirm the existence of intelligent life forms somewhere else in the universe.

Given the size of the universe, billions of galaxies, and each galaxy having billions and billions of stars, life obviously exists somewhere else, and we can safely say it exists in many places and intelligent life forms have emerged and have built civilizations somewhere else.

Given the age of the universe, it's highly probable that other intelligent life forms have built civilizations way more advanced than the human civilization.

Most of human scientific and technological progress happened in the last 200 hundred years.
We can only imagine what a society with a 100 000 years head start would look like. I can't imagine what the human race will look like and will be able to do in 10 000 years.

Our galaxy has a 100 000 light years diameter, even if an advanced civilization somewhere in the galaxy, on a planet 20 000 light years away had invented radio 10 000 years ago, we still wouldn't be able to detect it. By the time we detect it, who knows what technological progress they'd made by then.

I tend to think that the answer to the Fermi paradox is that the universe is so big.
Even if we could travel at the speed of light, the universe would still be huge and we would probably not be able to detect other intelligent life forms / civilizations.

EDIT:
Oops, looks like i got this Proxima Centauri distance a bit off :-) Updated the comment to remove this error, as the main point still stands.
You raise a good point: It seems like this should be possible to integrate into WebAuthN somehow, but currently it isn't.

Passkeys could be coupled with Web Push somehow, for a "confirm action x" type of experience pushed to your (networked) authenticator even when you're not at the website of the relying party that owns it.
While those are all great, I do not think they quite measure up to 1999.
This comment should probably be flagged, honestly. Most well-meaning and respectful comments can help add a little bit to the discussion on HN....but this one is a very, very rare exception due to being so terribly factually off-base.

Methane, Chlorine, and Vinegar absolutely are not "primary methods of virus dispersal".

Feel free to link your writings, however. They could probably use a good, thoughtful, and well-meaning critique.
Broken on android and Firefox. Doesn't even work in desktop mode. Such a shame, I would have liked to check it out but tomorrow i may have completely forgotten about that.
I suspect our tailed ancestors slept, locomoted, and defecated.