skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Radicle project doesn't involve the crypto token, started by Radworks, in its technology.

It's also stated in the FAQ on the website (https://radicle.xyz/faq) that the project is funded by Radworks and also provides a link to the funding page.

I, for one, work on Radicle and what I care about is the data sovereignty and local-first code collaboration. We're building on top of Git to provide a local-first, extensible collaboration experience -- avoiding walled gardens like GitHub :)

As a project team, we only posted once on HN when we were announcing our v1.0 release candidates. The other two posts have been from other people outside of the organisation, so it's nice to see there's interest in the project but don't blame us for that kind of hype :')
They mean that what they advocate is “free software”, not “open source”; and that what they oppose is therefore “non-free software”, not “closed source”.

Honestly, how could that be hard to understand from the context of the discussion here?
Where's the moon? Do you mean like AGI?
Sounds like a remake of Sneakers is needed--with a fresh take on impersonation and social engineering, to remind people what's possible and potentially dangerous.
The U.S. economy's big problem? People forgot what 'normal' looks like
Any guesses for what the epitaph on his headstone will read? perhaps "I'm pretty sure that Socrates knew nothing"
I think they are suggesting that people should have a brain and think before they post death threats on social media.
Take a look at S6 and dinit. They both embody what systemd was intended to be while keeping the portability, technical simplicity and loose coupling.

You might also want to consider Void and Chimera. Void has a unique combination of technical simplicity, functionality, rolling updates and low maintenance along with some beefy repos. It's close to being the perfect desktop Linux to me.

Chimera uses dinit, which is closer to systemd's features, whereas Void uses runit, with is more of a minimal viable init + rc.
It's telling that the Iraq or Afghanistan vet (or both!) has replaced the Vietnam vet in TV shows and movies.
> who really, really understands how the internet works and how communities flourish or go toxic

Got a good article of his on this specifically?
Think you are misinterpreting Nietzsche, and others, some. He was often critical of the 'academic' philosophers, that they are just playing with words and wondering what is for lunch. When 'true philosophers' are grappling with life and creating something new.

But that is true in every branch of science. How many 'academic' scientist are breaking new ground, or are they just churning out safe low-risk proposals.

Everyone in every generation can't be a Socrates or a Nietzsche, but that there are a lot of people that call themselves scientist or philosophers that maybe don't deserve the title, doesn't mean the entire field should be cast away.
Port of Andrjey Karpathy's Llm.c to Mojo
« it’s launching a new tool called “Radar Assistant,” which lets users create new fraud tools on its Radar risk platform using natural language commands »

My experience with this kind of thing as not been very good. New Relic introduced a tool that would help you build NRQL queries, but most of the time it just hallucinates table and fields that don't exist. Huge waste of time.
> There aren’t any great options for larger displays.

Can't you use any large display you'd use for Windows or Linux with Mac these days?
Dan, how about changing the title and URL on this submission, so it's about the plagiarism and not linking to the (stolen/impersonated) content?

If you want to link to the real submission, it's available on Internet Archive (http://web.archive.org/web/20220611064229/https://michaeldeh...), though that may send more traffic to the plagiarizer.
This is standard practice for hacked wordpress sites. They only serve the compromise to organic search traffic.
But how had I come to believe in this idea in the first place? A
combination of my own experience and other things I'd read.
None of which I could at that moment remember! And eventually
I'd forget that Hilbert had confirmed it too. But my increased
belief in the importance of this idea would remain something I'd
learned from this book, even after I'd forgotten I'd learned it.
Reading and experience train your model of the world. And even
if you forget the experience or what you read, its effect on your
model of the world persists. Your mind is like a compiled program
you've lost the source of. It works, but you don't know why.

The place to look for what I learned from Villehardouin's chronicle
is not what I remember from it, but my mental models of the
crusades, Venice, medieval culture, siege warfare, and so on.
Which doesn't mean I couldn't have read more attentively, but at
least the harvest of reading is not so miserably small as it might
seem.

This is one of those things that seem obvious in retrospect. But it
was a Surprise to me and presumably would be to anyone else
who felt uneasy about (apparently) forgetting so much they'd
read.

Realizing it does more than make you feel a little better about
forgetting, though. There are specific implications.

For example, reading and experience are usually "compiled" at
the time they happen, using the state of your brain at that time.
The same book would get compiled differently at different points
in your life. Which means it is very much worth reading important
books multiple times. I always used to feel some misgivings
about rereading books. I unconsciously lumped reading together
with work like carpentry, where having to do something again is a
sign you did it wrong the first time. Whereas now the phrase
"already read" seems almost ill-formed.

[1] P. Graham. How you know. Dec 2014.

https://www.paulgraham.com/know.html
Sounds like science to me
Every company's "mission" is to be profitable. It wouldn't really have any impact on anyone if that's what they stated. The mission statement is about how they want to be profitable.

Like imagine walking into an interview and asking what the company does and they say "Oh, we make money". Like..not helpful.
> There is zero verification that you are in fact the cardholder

This is not entirely true, this is location/bank specific.

For my card, I just have to perform additional verification whenever necessary, by using 3D Secure. Currently I authorise or reject from an application.

Before smartphones, I had to use a tiny electronic token generator keychain.

I remember implementing the technology on software that I worked at in the late 2000s, when it had another name.
The main thing that hurts Passkeys was how the implementation was so deeply tied to letting the browser do stuff rather than making it something like TOTP where any password manager can implement it and it's usable, agnostic from the browser. Everything about Passkeys is defined around using your browser as the agent that authenticates.

The problem is that browsers are infamous for randomly losing things like localstorage, settings and saved passwords. It's way too volatile software to do authentication with besides a "stay logged in" checkmark. In both of the main desktop browsers, a corrupt profile is often only "fixable" by just nuking it and having the browser recreate it.

That's what killed Passkeys; people you want as early adopters (technical folks) don't use it because browsers aren't a trustworthy storage and the implementations all severely stalled in providing alternative methods that are tied to more reliable storage mechanisms. The hyper aggressive vendor lock-in is also not helping much (to the point where KeePassXC got yelled at for providing an export mechanism).
> We had the perfect 2FA method with U2F hardware tokens, why did they have to take that away?!

It deeply saddens me too.

But I think we shouldn't discard one of the obvious reason: the U2F system was too secure.

Let's not forget this: the original U2F system even had a way for the user to know if its device had been cloned, for they'd be using a counter. And they silently removed this.

When Apple+Google+MSFT team up to lower security, I'm pretty sure three-letters agencies and their backdoors aren't very far.

The whole concept of passkeys that can be copied around is honestly hilarious. FFS: we had the perfect solution...

I don't think it's only incompetence at work here: there has to be mischief or at least mischief shouldn't be discarded.
Mixtures of Experts (2023)
I don't think it's that weird that they see themselves contributing to the wider world as an economic multiplier.

Of course they exist to make money, but some folks want to make money while adding something positive to the world.
Regarding Berlusconi from a far, I thought "Thank god nothing like that could happen here (USA)."

Ahem.

There are so many obvious parallels between Berlusconi and one of own, I can't fathom why it hasn't been discussed.

(Maybe it has; I mostly tuned out our kayfabe for my mental health.)
We don’t actually consider that in the US either, you probably shouldn’t get your views of the US from Reddit or the Guardian.
(Author) Good point! I picked the top categories by mentions. 24 entries that mentioned "code" or "copilot" (out of all total disclosures), and a third of them actually went out of their way to state that there was NO AI code gen; typically like so:

> it is not used in the game itself in any area: 3D models, code...

I suspect that a more rigorous perusal of the metadata (i.e., more than those quick search terms) would turn up some more, but either way, it seemed like such a tiny fraction of the whole.
I generally like Stripe but am getting more and more disheartened about the additional complexity they continue to add to the their products.

The whole selling point was that Stripe made it easy to accept payments online. But now it's just about as hard to setup as the old payment processors were.
Enabling Post-Quantum Key Agreements with Nginx
I’d find your take on the matter almost comical if it weren’t so misinformed.
If the results are still creative and compelling, what does it matter what the method used to get them is?

If people use genAI and produce boring, uninspiring content, their games won’t succeed. Just like if they use hand tuned procgen algorithms to make boring uninspired content - or if they manually create boring uninspired content for that matter.

If they can make compelling content using genAI or rolling their own procGen or hand authoring everything then great! Compelling content is the goal. People don’t play effort they play results.
I blame this on trying to use non-Apple hardware with the MacBook. I'm sure if I had an Apple Display instead of a g-sync 165Hz-capable monitor and closed the lid when hooked up everything would be... perhaps not fine, but good enough.

The macbook is amazing when considered in isolation. Trying to use it in a workstation setting is definitely 'holding it wrong', which drives me nuts. Wasted potential and definitely undeserving of the 'Pro' moniker.
A small number of people hold lots of wealth and power. Most white people, male or female, are not Jeff Bezos.

When you start generalizing based on skin color and gender, that's the actual dictionary definition of racism and sexism.
I don't regard computation as a physical process, or a property of any kind. It's a description of a system, say like "salad" or "party", which whilst informative in conversation, doesn't map to any actual property of reality.

ie., there is no property shared by all salads, nor by all computers.

Saying, "everything is a computer" is a bit presocratic in its way, like "everything is water" or "everything is fire"

In practice, what we mean by "computer" is something which can transmit power in a programmable fashion.. this has more to do with our ability to control devices, and what those devices are, than anything in the "computer".

It turns out LCDs, keyboards, CPUs, etc. can all be joined up so I can do something with them.. I call this a "computer" and leave it there.

As far as the mathematical definition goes, all functions from ints->ints are computable.. this is eitehr useless or uniformative. It has no relevance for physics.
This is true in more ways than one. My question is – what happens once we do land on the moon? Will we become a spacefaring civilization in the decades to come, or will the whole thing just...fizzle out?
https://www.theonion.com/report-we-don-t-make-any-money-if-y...

>> "Report: We Don’t Make Any Money If You Don’t Click The Fucking Link"
I think it's because harassers are from the same 'club', and their victims are not. Their club will often be led by white men, but can be more diverse, because it's mostly about class.

The 'Ligue du LOL' in France had a fair number of women, most of them integrated because they slept with Vincent Gad or the other leader I forgot the name of, and were especially nasty with other women who refused to do so (the primary target, despite what the media said, were not 'feminists' but women who refused to sleep with members). They also harassed white men, especially non-Parisian, and were nastier if that person was overweight or on the spectrum. The harassment could go very far, with fake death announcement, and I've heard, physical intrusion (Korben, French tech journalist has a lot more details, I only knew a bit because I'm from a rural area, and accointances tried to take a small part of sunlight before getting absolutely trashed by that Parisian harassment club).

It really has nothing to do with minorities: it's just that it's easier to mock them, and harder for them to be in this kind of social class, because imho, it's more a class thing: you want to put down people before they can get opportunities to get to your level.
Base-Model RAM in Apple Devices
Did the same switch (Android -> iOS), but found SwiftKey[0] is also available on iOS. Better (or more Android:isch?) typing experience.

They also solve the issue for us using multiple languages on a daily basis (first and second mother tongue + English), without having to cycle through all the iOS built-in keyboards just because you want to mix in a few English words/phrases.

[0]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-swiftkey-ai-keyboard...
The difference there is that code can still be pushed (or pulled) between the git repo and the new centralized instance after forking. Anyone coming from pre-git centralized source control (or shudder the NAS of periodically rsync'd folders) recognizes that this represents a significant difference from that earlier world.

On topic, though, I have no idea what Radicle's value-add is, though.
From that point of view, all the other matter is also a computer, it's just for the most part computing really boring functions.
>Ham radio’s time has come and gone

I dunno about that. There are more licensed hams today in the US than there ever have been. And as a proportion of the US population, the number of hams is close to an all-time high.

https://www.clearskyinstitute.com/ham/stats/index.html

I also serve as a Volunteer Examiner (ham who helps administer license exams), and the group with which I volunteer administers remote licensing exams to multiple people on a daily basis. So, anecdotally, I do think there are still plenty of folks out there getting into the hobby.
> At the same time, it feels a bit sad that today’s kids can’t get the same feeling that the computer is really theirs to modify.

Kids with a hacker mentality (let's face it, even in the 80s those of us who hacked around with DOS etc. were the teeny tiny minority) have more options than ever before, including but not limited to FreeDOS, Linux, or a bunch of others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_oper...

Finding it is also super easy if you have the curiosity (and of course a PC and an internet connection).
> The more people care for each other, the better society becomes.

Sure, not arguing that.

> the fact that the advice came from a person and that we know another person is out there caring is important.

What if the AI pretends to be a real person? Does that not make you feel the same as when a real person responds in exactly the same way?

I'd agree that this does not make for a good society, but that's a different question from "how does the interaction make you feel".

I'm not saying we should have a society where people get much of their social interaction from AIs.

I'm saying that if you argue against that, you undermine your argument if you downplay how capable AIs can become.

In a sense, your argument is: "AIs can't make you feel the same way as another person can". But what happens if people start thinking "Hey! The AI makes me feel even better than when I interact with real people!" ? Your stated argument against AIs is gone.
yer mom. haha
Doesn't that enable framing your opponent with intentionally sloppy fake comments? Happens in the black hat SEO world all the time.
You didn't read Gorgias, you read a wikipedia/summary.

I don't want to hear that "REPUBLIC is better". It isnt. "The Republic" was easier to get people's hands on. The logic isnt sound, the character in-favor of might based justice was a comedic relief. Callicles has genuine arguments in favor of reality.

Anyway, that was funny how you didn't read Gorgias, but you read a summary, and told me that I was wrong with a point that is a mere blip in the dialog.
Let's say I want to "texturize" an existing brick wall of a building.

I make high-quality photos, but then what? How do I create bump maps and so on? Do I need a stereoscopic setup? Do I need polarizing filters or something like that? What software is used?
We're quite aware that Git is a distributed code collaboration tool, even trying out the email based flow in the past :)

You may notice that the title is "peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git", emphasis on "built on". We're using Git as a storage and transport mechanism for code collaboration data. So we're building a local-first tool for the social data, e.g. patches and issues.
As a description of human behavior and how humans are local optimization machines I think you are spot on. This is where I disagree with you:

…rightfully noone is willing…

I don’t believe this is right in the moral sense or in a global optimization sense. The world’s people are getting richer and as the world’s population begins to live more and more like Americans the world becomes exponentially more polluted. This will eventually affect us all. The world is becoming a toxic shithole. The right thing to do is to make changes now. But for the reasons you stated this isn’t going to happen. As a species we are local optimization machines and we don’t seek to find the global optimum.
What would happen if you could build an artificial being that was capable of taking in input (action) and provide output (reaction). I don’t think predictability should be a defining property of computers, or we would not be trying to build AI. How components interact with each other, or how it is powered should also not define a computer.

Your brain is a computer and we still don’t have much of a clue how it works.

We started computing with rudimentary tools and then kept extending that model to what it is today. What would happen if our concepts were entirely different?
It's not even that much of a problem for me on mobile after zooming out just a tad. The green on black is really what makes this page for me.
Sounds to me like you're describing the prefrontal cortex.
It’s not perfect, but HackerNews seems to have one of the most intelligent pool of users I’ve had the pleasure of interacting with. It’s not perfect, of course, but the discourse on a HackerNews thread is light years ahead of what you’ll find on Reddit.
Yeah I’m not sure what’s going on either. Is this just a rebranding of mutual-auth SSL client certs?
Quantity has a quality all it’s own.
Daily Gratitude and journaling it helps shift our brains to a more positive glass half filled state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPPPFqsECz0
> half of the planet is overweight/obese, I think we could slow down a bit tbh

I don't think half of the planet is overweight or obese due to meat consumption.

If anything, take away the meat (or make it more expensive) and it'd probably lead to even more obesity.
Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS: Noble Numbat deep dive
Sorry, I mean Nietzsche promotes a somewhat Darwin-like approach, where virtue based philosophies have little for promoting your own well being.

Scientifically, the former seems more like it reflects reality.

It doesnt have to do with cutting edge stuff. It has to do with the debate between Realism and Idealism.
OpenWRT, CD and DVD Players, Kindles, and OpenBSD due to some recent HN article.

I knew about most of them a little or fair bit already, but there's always something to learn the deeper you go :)
> I think that the developer can demand a withdrawal of their contribution

I don't. And neither do you, judging from your last sentence:

> So, retracting the contribution may not be an option.

So what did you mean by the first one?
I use Linux and I ended up moving to i3 almost entirely because of the window and workspace management with multiple displays.
Here’s the full text of C-63 https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/C-63/first-r...
This is weird. I used external monitors at the office back in 2017-19 and I thought it was magical how the windows resized/positioned themselves when I plugged in the monitors.

I didn't use external monitors at home though (just laptop screen) - maybe that confuses things, if you have two separate external display setups?
I’ve only ever taken tests when I feel sick, often with a fever.
Once again, the article is not saying that. The article is saying that AI could (and appears to be) having a dramatic impact on society. In the past, similar dramatic changes have caused civilization altering disasters. Therefore, we cannot dismiss the possibility that AI will cause a civilization altering disaster.
Those are not dairy farms. Those are where cattle are fattened up just before slaughter. Very different situation. Cattle farms also take biosecurity seriously, but so far they have not worried about birds.

Diary cows are kept inside and isolated from everything else since if the cow is sick you have to treat it and dump all milk obtained for a month afterwards.
>> Of course factory farming is an aggravating factor for the spread of diseases.

Of some diseases. It also prevents other diseases. Isolating animal species, specifically separating their waste, prevents cross-contamination. Google the stories of people getting parasites from lettuce grown on a "small organic farm" downhill from the pig sty. Want to eat raw lettuce and undercooked steak without getting sick? Those privileges come from factory farming techniques.

(I grew up in an area where we washed vegetables in diluted bleach. And I still prefer my meat very well done, burned, because that's how meat must be cooked in parts of the world that don't have western-style factory farming.)
> People forgot what 'normal' looks like

What is 'normal'? Is change abnormal?
Agreed. My comment was a response to somebody who basically said "why should the US do anything when China is worse." Others attacked the (bad) argument, I attacked the (bad) assumption.
Can Phi3 and Llama3 Generalise to Bio-Medical Tasks? An Experiment
I've been investigating how well the smallest Phi3 and Llama3 models do at BioASQ - a biomedical Q&A reading comprehension task.

Llama 3 8B is certainly quite competitive and compelling. Phi doesn't do quite as well but there may be opportunities for fine tuning.