skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both frameworks have various packages that add OIDC support to them so that shouldn't be an issue.

As for beginner - there's quite a bit of learning curve in terms of writing GUI applications themselves. Avalonia is kind of like WPF* but good(tm) and cross-platform. Uno platform is more like Xamarin and MAUI except in a better shape as of today. From technical perspective, Avalonia focuses on consistent rendering on all platforms with Skia while Uno tries to use native controls instead. I generally would not advise using Avalonia for mobile over Uno. In mobile case you might actually want to also give MAUI a try as, despite harsh criticism it has been receiving, it has improved significantly.

* either platform supports various declarative UI libraries (that are either part of their ecosystem or community-maintained), so you are not married to XAML thankfully.
Yes. Front analysis [0] and also critical path analysis are useful.

Real graphs look like social networks, with some clusters and nodes
with very high relational degree, and some with almost none. But for
security they are more like dependency graphs rather than just attack
paths as in Blotto. An adversary blockades/sabotages them or blocks
those on which they depend etc. The more resilient graph is the best
connected by alternative paths. Go back and look at some DARPA papers
on route security in the formative "Internet".

What we have today are very insecure graphs with millions of logical
dependency links going in/out of single centres of functionality, and
not much peer connectivity.

Hit a few critical nodes and the whole lot goes down.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blotto_game
I was certainly confused before but I think it makes more sense now.

As a lawyer, his assignment was to prosecute a soldier whom he thought innocent - a scapegoat - when the top brass knew about actual war criminals (e.g. Ben Roberts-Smith).
> Well, so is building Dyson swarms and spheres

Building a Dyson Swarm, which is really just the problem of creating one self-sustaining orbital (since after that it's just a scaling issue) is really just an engineering problem. A huge one of course but we already have teh technology to create a material as strong as stainless steel and to build solar power collectors.

Currently, the big cost is getting material into space. LEO payloads are still (AFAIK) >$1000/kg. Getting that to $100/kg or even $10/kg completely changes that equation and yes, there are viable paths to reach that (eg orbital rings).

Fusion isn't even an engineering problem yet: it's a science problem. The big problem is energy loss from neutrons (as well as those neutrons destroying your reactor). That's not a problem for stars. They have gravity and are simply so large that the vast majority of neutrons are captured and feed into the overall process.

It's not clear we'll ever reasonably solve these problems. A fusion reactor is large and expensive and has many moving parts since, ultimately, we just use heat to turn a turbine in the same way a coal or NG plant does. Plus it needs fuel. Over long timescales that's still a problem. What fuel? Helium-3 (for so-called aneutronic fusion) is a big problem to source. Deuterium is easy to get. Tritium is harder to get. Protium is obviously easy to get.

Nuclear power as it currently stands on EArth cannot compete with the cost of solar power with solar panel efficiency still going up. What happens to that when you put that solar panel in space and now it's producing ~7 times as much power since day/night and weather are no longer factors and there's no energy loss to the atmosphere?

This is why I say "if" nuclear fusion will ever be economically viable. I'm not saying it won't be but there are massive hurdles to even theoretical economic nuclear fusion.
That was like 20 years ago. People have been sad about Facebook being impersonal for more than 10 years.
Northern Lights could be visible in the UK again in a matter of weeks
The "homelab" modifier does a lot of work. When I read homelab I was expecting "easy way for non tech person to do computer magic."

When I read about a "gun fight" I am expecting to read about violence and carnage. If you put the word "water" in front of it I am no longer expecting violence and carnage in a wet environment. Homelab changes the definition of everything that comes after it much like water changes the definition of gun fight.
Yet non of the GUI libraries/frameworks for GO support drag/drop file to get the real path
There Is Too Much Trash in Space
Spotify doesn't shut down because they're primarily providing a legitimate service to legitimate people. The money laundering traffic there has to be absolutely miniscule compared to the legitimate traffic. It makes basically no sense as a money laundering avenue, and the only source for this (that I could find with quick Googling) is an "anonymous police officer" who just clainms that it's happening, but can't even put a number on the magnitude.

But if it really were happening at any kind of volume, it's obvious that Spotify would be quite willing to make their KYC requirements for artists stricter. Any payments they'd made would obviously be made through the banking system, and the law enforcement would be able to trace them to the next hop, which again would have done their KYC due diligence.

The crypto mixer, on the other hand, has no real use case except money laundering. They are also obviously unwilling to do any KYC, and unable to manage their system in a way that would prevent it from being used for money laundering. And it wasn't by accident. It was fully intentional and by design.
Does the Milky Way orbit anything?
Apple's 27% App Store Fee Trying to Comply with Law, Exec Says
Not being able to renew domains beyond 10yrs could also be a factor
How can conceiving of such a system and building it be a crime? It's like labelling thought a crime.

I would accept that operating such a system is indefensible.

But it's not as if the creator of Tornado Cash was solely maintaining servers that made this possible. Everyone running an Ethereum node (even if they aren't mining) is running the infrastructure that Tornado Cash runs on.

So why is the guy who quite brilliantly conceived and executed this idea being punished like this?
I (Dutch) found English much much easier to learn than German. Controlling for the amount of benefit I saw and exposure I got to English, probably it's more like "a little easier" but, still, I expect the inverse (English to Dutch) is similar. There's no way that it's harder to learn the language with 2 genders and 2 corresponding words for "the" ("de" and "het") than the language with 16 words for "the" (and the German gender+case stuff also carries over into all adjectives and other word classes, which Dutch mostly doesn't do (the words for "this" and "that" are the only exceptions I can think of)). I'm also pretty sure Dutch has more loan(ed out) words or cognate words.

If you want to go even easier, Afrikaans is like Dutch but with even more English influences and even fewer grammar rules afaik, e.g. no verb conjugations: where in Dutch you say "ik ga, hij gaat, wij gaan" (I go, he goes, we go), in Afrikaans that's something like "ek gaan, hy gaan, wy gaan".

I don't think knowing Afrikaans reasonably would allow you to also reasonably read Dutch though, if that were the goal (let alone German, which is practically unintelligible to someone who speaks perfect Dutch and English if they didn't also have any amount of German training)
The ChatGPT built-in is minimal compared to Anthropic's "constitution" which strives to ensure their LLMs' DEI is Western white male conservative Christian patriarchy:

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claudes-constitution

Seems certain that wasn't their intent, but a careful read of the principles show they are 'moral' from the lens of western white Puritan patriarchy, focused on giving the appearance of diversity rather than enabling genuine diversity of thought.
Microsoft offers China-based engineers an option to relocate
So that isn't true. The 3 body problem is a problem in theory and extreme situations, not practice.

We discovered half the planets by doing the math to predict the orbits based on the known distribution of math in the solar system.

General Relativity was initially validated by predicting mercury's orbit accurately.
In monoticity guaranteed even if the next frame is short?
Yes - but do consider the possibility that this sort of notation will also add further value to an old book. There could be an mercenary angle, eg the possibility that this will bring in additional visitors to the Library.

This is the second paragraph from the article:

> Add one more title to that small list, as scholars recently discovered a copy of Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland in the Phoenix Public Library, containing handwritten notes in Milton's distinctive hand. This makes the volume extra-special, since only two other books once owned by Milton also contain handwritten notes. The scholars detailed their findings in a new article published in the Times Literary Supplement.

16th century, yet only "recently discovered".
A nitpick, but Dutch nor German is an SOV language. That's a crazy notion that Chomskians had to invent by way of cognitive dissonance reduction.

But Dutch is very similar to German, indeed, and both are also similar to Swedish, Danish and Norwegian.
TCP Performance and the Mathis Equation
Given our best theories we speculate what the inside of a black hole might be like. Of course we can’t know. But that’s how scientific things go: the cutting edge of human understanding is used to make predictions. Particular to the inside of a black hole, though, it’s impossible to test what we see or what happens when something passes the event horizon. I guess unless we wait basically an eternity capturing all the hawking radiation to rebuild what was sent in…
If one cannot disappear for a week to think or study he is putting himself at some serious life disadvantage. My 2c.

I do not mean telling family that I am disappearing for a week starting tomorrow, but that I want to disappear for a week in a couple of months and the family would cover responsibilities for me (I should be willing to reciprocate).
Once AGI is solved. How long does it take for AGI (or human's steering AGI) to create a robot that meets or exceeds the abilities of the human body?
After running NixOS for 6+ months on my homelab and also re-using part of the configuration on my work machine, I feel the same way as Xe each time I'm interacting with a non-declarative OS. There's just no simple way to share configuration between machines or to automagically clean things up after making changes.

Ansible feels like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of the OS state, hiding in a multitude of non-tracked configuration files. It is simply not enough to build a layer of YAML around an OS which is imperative by nature.

Unfortunately, I can see the downsides of NixOS as well, being radically different from what we usually expect in a Linux distribution, adopting it in a already established environment will no doubt be hard. Steep learning curve, idiosyncracies of the Nix language (although after reading parts of the Nix thesis[1], I find it much more understandable and deeply thought out), just explaining Nix to people who don't have much experience with the functional way of doing things, let alone taking the functional approach all the way to defining an entire operating system - all of this sounds like a tough barrier to cross.

And yet, the desire to keep things reproducible and declarative (not to mention going back in time) persists once you've had the taste of NixOS.

[1] https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf
Case study: €115,100 from 8,750 Transactions in 3 Days, Showcasing payments
I've recently started writing eslint rules for my project at work. I'll ask ChatGPT how to do it, and it will get the specific implementation wrong every time, but it will give me a decent foundation to start on. It will usually correctly identify the AST node types I need to work with, saving me from having to sift through the possibilities.
It also bothers me and I wrote down my thoughts on it a while ago, maybe you find it interesting:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36127880
My point was they can spend billions and fail on projects and continue being profitable, they don't need to make commercially successful, better AI products than OpenAI to succeed. Apple could release an iPhone based LLM agent that is 50% as good as OpenAI, Meta can spend billions developing an LLM to use internally and give away.
I'm in the same situation and don't have this issue. It's not that the OS doesn't support plain text files, it's that other OSs bundle in plain text editors, and iOS doesn't. Simply install one (like iAWriter), and you're done. You can't use iCloud for syncing, so then also install Syncthing (Mobius).

It's not as shiny a setup as the native offerings, but it's by no means a chore.
>Well US is not dependent on anyone for her Energy needs.

China's strength is they have the means of production (and maintenance) of everyone today, including the US. All the energy in the world means jack squat when all the means of using that energy rely on China.

Could the west regain our own means of production? Certainly, but it's going to take far too long at the point China starts pursuing Bigger Gun Diplomacy. We're talking multiple decades to reachieve what we've surrendered, perhaps even the better part of a century because we simply don't have the ambition and political will to do so.

I think China has been very shrewd with how they conducted themselves in the past half century or so. They've already won most wars they might be involved in before they start by seizing the economies of their supposed enemies.
I think you're going to get in some hot water for showcasing big companies' logos on your page as if they use your product, despite your disclaimer on a linked page.
I'd set up IPv6 on there, but the problem is that I use Flannel (which is IPv4 only) and my 8 gigabit fiber ISP only gives me IPv4 connectivity. I'll look into more details, but I've slightly given up on IPv6 for now. Maybe I'll set up Calico or something, but IPv6 seems to have been made artificially difficult by everything in the stack. I hate it.
Yes, these are German words. Much of the early topological field literature was by German linguists, so it's common to use the German words.
> The whole system is private and permissionless. I don't know what Tornado Cash could do other than simply indicating that a known bad actor made a deposit.

Not exist.

Like, this is the fundamental disjoint between this complaint and reality. "Your system behaves enough like a pattern that is core to how society works" is the filter here, not "have I cleverly designed it to not perfectly fit the pattern". The law isn't applied via robot.
Sometimes it's nice to take a week off to do things like going outside.
Tbh, he wasn’t convicted as far as I know.

But yes, he’s overly optimistic with timelines. He says so himself.
As a billionaire that wants to start a Dyson sphere, where is the profit / operational revenue?
>Why did it happen? Non-technical people have made choices and have optimized for stuff being cheap.

Yes and amplified by:

+ Cybersecurity 'bad actors' are decentralized and distributed. They innovate at speed, with no barriers, and share their innovation. Cybersecurity 'good actors' are centralized, proprietary and bounded.

+ Software and service providers traditionally couldn't build secure networking into their products - they had to delegate it to the consumer of the software or service for the consumer to implement as a day two bolt on. Dangerous when networking is often the largest and most vulnerable surface area.
Actually that's how the internet gets broken.

Better to await a standard rather than breach one.
I think GP's point wasn't whether or not Australia should count (I agree that it should), but that the level between "the bad" (the US, Hungary, parts of former Yugoslavia, parts of Eastern Europe etc.) and "the good" (Finland, Estonia, Norway, etc.) is pretty big.
if a civilization needs so much power they build a dyson sphere they probably have terraforming nailed.

that kind of technology probably takes hundred of thousands of years of technological development and we have had electricity for how long?
maybe we need one penny email. just stop the spam would be a delight
The Old-Fashioned Library at the Heart of the A.I. Boom
doesn't appear to support Unicode.
Many folks on hn live in California in the. San Francisco Bay Area, and enough of them like to drive down the coast on route 1 — a fairly famous scenic road in the us, that we are all excited this section is open again.

Does this kind of news belong on hn.. I guess that’s for the voters
I've keep running Fedora coreos on my home server. My biggest issue with it, is that it is very cloud oriented and doesn't seem to allow to rerun the provisioning config on an already existing machine. This turns the thing again into a stateful pet instead of a "one cow cattle". Although I do very much like the rollback feature which has allowed me temporarily roll back an update a couple of times
Hopefully, we'll eventually one-up our brothers and sisters in ant colonies and chimp clans.
Decoding US Government Plans to Shift the Software Security Burden
Got a source on that? I know that they were married for 25 years. That's a lot of time for people to change and for differences between their needs and wants to grow.

I can say that he is exactly where he wants to be professionally, and I don't think you're suggesting that taking a week out of a year to learn new things is too risky because your wife might leave you.
I imagine they don't ask for it and they can't really force you to give it up so it's... better
Science is a process, not a religion. And speculating, building reasoning and models, which you then try to verify, is the core of science.
> US not having a policy of signing new people up to the anti-Russia military alliance every few years

Weird how all of Russia's neighbors are eager to join a military alliance protecting them from Russia. I wonder if that has something to do with Russia's actions towards its neighbors? No, no, surely the US is to blame for that...
But to get AI to write you a working solution, more often than not you are supposed to understand the problem at hand along with possible solutions, right?
> and privacy

What could possibly go wrong with demanding "encryption backdoors" in everything...
He mentions the threat of remotely taking over autonomous vehicles, but really its any vehicle who's a) network connected and b) drive-by-wire. Which is why I won't buy one, and why the problem is even worse than it appears.

The other problem that he doesn't address is the centralization of critical (and semi-critical, like logistics) software in large shared data-centers. If you wanted to disable large chunks of the American software economy for an extended period, you only have to kill ~100 buildings.

In a way I think the ransomware people are doing us all a huge favor by putting the fear of God into executives around cybersecurity. Unfortunately, as other commenters have mentioned, the real problem is hard to address, because it's the complexity inherent in the "worse is better" philosophy. Current systems have grown in a lovely, nice environment that is generally reliable. When that environment changes quickly (which is one way to characterize a cyber attack) these systems will fail, and there will be no time or tools to repair them. This includes software and infrastructure hardware. Somewhat ironically, this is precisely the kind of non-extinction-level threat that "having a bunker" and a large store of food would actually get you through - something only executives can afford. Perhaps we might consider outlawing such bunkers to properly motivate the monied elite to address these issues.
The term "Dyson Swarm" is preferred because it is a cloud of orbitals, not a rigid sphere. A rigid sphere was never the idea proposed (by Freeman Dyson). This idea comes from science fiction misunderstandings of the term "Sphere".

Think of a Dyson Swarm ("Sphere") as the water droplets in a fog. Collectively they absorb the light going through but the water droplets (and the orbitals) are relatively sparse. So a billion orbitals around our Sun at a distance Venus and Mars would still have a mean distance between them of over 100,000km.

So how much material do you need? One estimate I've seen for a billion such orbitals is less than 1% of the mass of Mercury. Why Mercury? Because it's metal-rich and its proximity to the Sun means energy is incredibly abundant and cheap.

That's to build billions of O'Neil Cylinders.

Even if you don't need that much living room, here's something else you can build: statites. That's a portmanteau of "static satellite". Instead of orbiting the star, they are so light that the solar wind is sufficient to counterbalance the gravity. These things would simply collect energy and/or just reduce the amount of solar energy hitting something like a planet (eg to cool the EArth).
Very interesting article. I think the author makes a compelling point about the vulnerability of infrastructure.

To be honest I wouldn't be surprised that in an actual unlimited war, between two major developed nations nothing will actually continue to function. None of the systems have ever been actually tested and still make assumptions about the rest of the infrastructure. I also don't believe that simplicity can fix this, everything already has deep built-in assumptions about everything else, which makes any replacement a daunting task.
Office of the Special Investigator (https://www.osi.gov.au) is the government agency that's running the criminal investigation.
> If email didn't need fixing, spam wouldn't exist.

Spam is not a technical problem, it's a societal problem. As usual the tech reflex is to find a technical solution but it is mistaken, once again. Societal proplems require societal solutions, not more tech. The only thing you will achieve with more tech is more segregation between those who have and those who don't, you'll create more issues than already exist
Very common across Europe too. Makes sense, running a second line is so much labour that only a few would have to order it to make the extra cable cost for everyone worth it.