skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point of federation is that governance is distributed because each instance is autonomous. It's not about joining someone else's instance and having them still not be accountable to you -- it's about having a pluralistic pool of instances to choose from, so that you can find one that does fit your preferences, and having the ability to run your own instance if you don't find an existing one that does.

The right of exit is often far more important than the right of voice, and federation offers a practical way to exercise the right of exit without surrendering access to the broader ecosystem.

Democracy is not distributed governance. It's centralized governance that just allows for some form of (often performative and ineffective) input from those subject to its rules. If everyone involved has the capacity to choose or create their own "little fiefdom", that is a far better outcome than centralized democracy which offers little or no practical right of exit.
You can’t do that for the average lecturer either… assuming it’s a normal college lecture room with hundreds of students.

Nonetheless the 99th percentile lecturer is still better than the 50th percentile tutor in most cases.
Yeah like current sibling reply here, it's OK to be idealistic: "here's what I think perfect looks like", and accept that sure not everybody meets that definition. Doesn't mean it's a bad aspiration though.

I mostly agree with the article, FWIW. Including having worked with various "talented but difficult" people before.

One of the more under-appreciated aspects of management is having direct reports you can delegate stuff to and (a) they just deal with it, and (b) you need little or no supervision and there's no drama.

Managers are humans: making their lives a little better by being Mr/Mrs/Ms Reliably Gets Things Done will in any sane org yield dividends. Of course not all orgs are sane, and not all managers are Good Managers, but that's a different conversation.
You validate a random selection of results using actual experiments. If you validate 10k results and a maximum of 1 of the validations contradicts the prediction, you're at about 99.99% accuracy.

10k experiments may seem like a lot, but keep in mind that if we can engineer nanobots out of proteins the same way we build engines from steel today, the number of "parts" we may want to build using such biological nanotech may easily go into the millions.

And this kind of AI may very well be as useful for such tech as CAD is today. Or rather, it can be like the CAD + the engineer.
Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search illustrates perils of AI scrapers
yeah centralization is a proxy for trust and stability, it adds some friction on the edge to give you that benefit

i also think that ultimately no single system is best and that regular renegotiation about the amount of central vs decentral is key (something we should help people be better at)
How to use: https://youtu.be/3wN8R9mVkDI
It really is a shame. Sure, the vast majority use phones as a consumer product. Maybe they are happy with that but for any engineer it really is wasted potential. The tool could be so much more if we just had sensible operating systems and open hardware interfaces.

All these manufacturers are also not reliable for notebooks either. Microsoft belongs in the offender list with trying to enforce secure boot and similar mechanisms we still only have to endure on phones as of today.
I was watching chickens this morning, pondering on their sauropod ancestry and whether a legendary creature like the Tyrannosaurus Rex might not have looked much different than a giant chicken, what with the feathers and their bottomless stupidity. [1] Kinda terrifying when it's also an apex predator.

Anyway, have you ever seen a chicken run? Wings are a big part of it.

1: https://youtu.be/QhMo4WlBmGM?si=YuOuY6v8rlK0zgya
All basic features are free to use.
With easy money, there's never enough money. ;)
That's good, but hacking for me has a specific connotation in that you are modifying something for your purposes. Something new is "working".
AFAIK (maybe someone can correct or confirm) it is essential for studying law in Korea. To avoid ambiguity with identically sounding words, Chinese characters are used in law.
> text messages are speech

Yes. If an officer tells you to admit guilt in a text message, that’s self incrimination. If they find an incriminating text, that’s just incrimination. It may also be an illegal search. But that’s orthogonal. (The closest they come to each other is in entrapment.)
'Magicians get emotional about it': should secrets of magic ever be revealed?
It seems an odd reaction and not entirely explained by American culture - most gothic buildings in Europe attract tourists, including lots of Americans, who visit them because they find the beautiful. I have not heard that reaction from any American i know, nor from other people from multiple cultures (who all watch American media, of course!).

Gothic does convey a sense of age, which helps with spooky, but feeling an association with evil sounds like an very individual reaction.
100% that's it. With a pull model you just need to make your own content available for anyone who requests it. With a push model you have to have some record of who subscribed to it and how to get them your new content.

Combine that with ActivityPub being federated rather than peer-to-peer and you end up with a lot of legal gray area to go along with the added complexity and loss of anonymity.
Learning about Vector databases and looking for a new job :D
Well since the builds tend to be monstrously complicated for some reason, and there’s no standard build tool, maybe it’s more impossible than possible to consider source based distribution. Or it would be like JavaScript where you still need a build and publish step to turn “developer Java / other languages” into “vanilla source distributable Java”.
> philosophical underpinning is that a person has the right not to be compelled to aid in their own prosecution

No, you have to cooperate with subpoenas. Protections against self incrimination are much more narrow. Legally and historically.
Vertical tabs work so well because the width of a screen is bigger than height.
Predictions for the Future of RAG
You are the closest I have found to this, even though it is a digression:

Do you know of any communities with self-built airplanes? (especially novel-esque designs for propulsion or wings?) I realise these have far more regulations, but experimental GA is something that really excites me.
Dude, I did the same...Will be in bangkok in december. Let's hang out.
I'm obsessed with visual space representations of word as well. My application has a test mode where I render an entire dictionary (like, Webster) and then "plays" a book word by word, highlighting the word, then it's definition, and those words definitions and so on and so on, and it creates a trippy and distinct visualization kinda like an audio visualizer.. but with words. We should chat if you're interested in this kinda thing!
https://github.com/tikimcfee/LookAtThat
What exactly is the evidence, and how is it not exactly centralisation? All the advances in care that I can think of (those that actually unburden more humans from having to give their life to care) are brought to us by some sort of centralisation.
> I think the idea is that many totalitarian systems treat every child as an orphan

This idea is just wrong. Wrong isn't strong enough, it's conterfactual. At most some of them treated female bodies as owned by the state. I do not remember any example of totalitarian society where a child of a political opposant would be treated the same as any military child. Maybe Salazar? But even then, it was so corporate-aligned I doubt children from owners were treated the same as children from workers at anytime.
That's not really true. Marxism-Leninism famously sought to abolish the family and the Soviet union performed quite a few experiments in communal rearing of children in it's early years.

The reason why totalitarian regimes end up promoting traditional values relations is that to them the only imperative superior to ideology is survival.

There is a reason the Soviet Union backed off from it's repression of religion in the middle of WW2.
It was .. bearable .. back in those days I wrote a lot of database recovery software, and mostly worked on an undelete tool for the Progress 4GL Database which I customized for the customer needs - so all I really ever needed to edit on the Portfolio, while on a cross-country tiger-team flight, were the constraints/extents/geometry of the deleted databases, so it was never a full strain .. back at HQ, I of course just used my dumb terminal and MIPS machine for 'real development', but it was always fun to arrive at the catastrophe, wire up the Portfolio, and either run the DOS binary or do a recompile on the target recovery machine ..

I did write a few games for it, entirely on the machine, in-between flights .. that was fun. Still out there somewhere (swar.c, a space-war game..)
The term singularity has always been used somewhat poetically rather than in a mathematically defined way. But if you consider <stuff produced>/<human labour hours needed> it may have a singularity when no human labour is needed because the robots can do it all.

That should happen at some finite time and be a major change in things. I'd kinda expect it before Kurzweil's sigularity date of 2045. Vinge's date of 2023 was too early.
I've got DTV visa through my Wyoming company.
Neat! The neighborhood on this post doesn’t match the map though https://www.walkablework.com/map?company=hatchet&title=found...
I think you might be referring to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41952570
They don't need to be forced. They come here willing to do those jobs. After all, they're not slaves.
This reminds me of Clay Christensen's talk: How Will You Measure Your Life?[0] He compares how most people define success by how high up the hierarchy they get, against the individual effort of making a positive impact on the people around you.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvos4nORf_Y
I don't think it matters much if we're for or against such a future.

If robots can do the same job as humans, but faster, cheaper and at a higher quality, out employers/customers will most likely replace us.

If we're lucky, we may find some niche, be able to live off our savings or maybe be granted some UBI, but I absolutely do think it's concerning.

What is worse, is that if we become obsolete in every way, it's not obvious that whoever is in power at that point will see any point in keeping us around (especially a few generations in).
> the state can always come and turn off or confiscate your retirement fund – Something they can’t do with Bitcoin

How silly. Like arguing a despot cannot seize wealth held in offshore bank accounts because they have no legal jurisdiction there.

Saving in cash, commodities, Bitcoin, stocks or capital assets is still saving. This seems like a continuation of the proud Wall Street tradition of inventing acronyms to sell financial products.
High school students who found trig proof of Pythagorean Theorem discover 9 more
I suppose advocates of alphabetic writing imagine everyone in China (outside Hong Kong and Macau) will be speaking standard Mandarin in a few generations anyway due to standardized public education.
disagree, the vampires are mostly abstracted away with hand wavy "we couldn't possibly understand how they think", interesting concept, the aliens are more interesting though, and echopraxia was a bit of a dud.
Pihole with like 2 million blocked domains, no major social media use, wireguard on mobile, Brave browser, don't watch TV
I am working to deploy some remote sensors on my farm to help keep an eye on important infrastructure. Things like voltages, bin fill, water levels and other resource management. I may just add a weather station for fun.

Meshtastic is helping out but if anyone knows where to find stronger documentation that would help.
Submitting kids to Lua should be considered child abuse.
I would rather look like a fool than be one. At least then I would have something to be accountable to
Is this really the main use case?

The product website seems to suggest we can add DaisyUI to a React project -- and proceed with development with no additional notes on replacing the styles later before production

[1] https://react.daisyui.com/?path=/story/data-display-table--w...

[2] https://daisyui.com/resources/videos/react-ui-design-mastery...

[3] https://github.com/daisyui/react-daisyui
Nobody should use Chrome after that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41905368
I think the page you link to explains ti very well: its a combination of the existence of Gothic ruins, a negative view of the Middle Ages, and the association with the Catholic church in the context of anti-Catholic prejudice in Britain (and other Anglophone countries).
I wanted to live cheaply, I bought a boat, moved in to travel the world
Maybe there should be a cap on farm size to avoid large scale factory farming. No chance of it actually taking place though - lobbying/factories being seen as employment provider/non-agenda on political priority are some of the reasons that come to mind.
But you can submit the same paper both to Arxiv and to a peer-reviewed journal, in most fields.
Show HN: Superposition – A Context Aware Config Management System [video]
Black handles comments when Python's grammar ignores them (2021)
True - then maybe we can consider to treat them as a delicacy to be enjoyed once a while instead of 3 times a day.
Working on a concatenative language in my free time, lots of fun:
https://codeberg.org/tzell/TSL
It also happens from the opposite direction.

Seemingly random claims, that no one has been able to provide proof for so far, but the person has some special reasons to strongly believe it is true.

E.g. ‘Back channel’ communication in diplomacy.
Sure, but the current 2-3% annual growth rate is probably not going to hold if we invent actually powerful AI in the next decade. I imagine a step change in the exponent.
I've been working on a new LLM prompt format and accompanying dataset for finetuning.

The idea is that the "main character" being prompted always has to perform an action/function. So even "saying" something to the other participants of the chat is a deliberate action.

Actions can be something like:

### actions:
1 recollect(query) -> {memory_id: id[]}
2 think(thought)
3 say(message)
4 memorize(category, subject, memory, replace?: id)

The LLM then has to respond, like so:

{"action":2,"thought":"Some internal thought","queue_action":3}

The JSON overhead is pretty negligible.
Sweden has the same problems, maybe I could build a similar tool for this market.

I was wondering how you collect and present data? Just self-reported or do you have some API to gather this information?
Thanks! We are Swedish so it comes naturally :)

oh thats interesting! thanks for that. been working in Music Tech, but havent seen that one. seen that https://shotgun.live/ , https://dice.fm/ and also https://partiful.com/ are being popular in the states.

nothing really, we're just fixing most of the kinks and legal / tax things.
you're free to try it https://embers.club/en/login
The shift from one-time payments to subscriptions has felt to me like the shift from email to Slack/Discord. I can't keep up. Just saw an ad on TV about an app, just to keep track of your subscriptions!

Thank goodness for one-time payment software+apps, and physical media!
> A particular problem with Wikipedia is the by definition one-sided view of charged issues

This is a problem everywhere, even in Europe. There are a lot of articles written by people employed by the state or mainstream media.
Mm.

Those comments are indeed quite melodramatic.

Someday I may write up the comparative experiences of joining an existing 120kloc mess where everything in the app code was done wrong and had no unit tests (that I recall finding) on one side, vs a carefully engineered ISO 9001 certified project on the other.

The mess repeatly won awards.

End users don't care about unit tests themselves, they care about the stuff the unit tests are a proxy for.

(Previously wrote "customers don't care", but sometimes the customer is a business where the tests are a requirement, YMMV).

Tests are the map, absence of bugs is the territory.
Carrying over tasks to the next sprint shouldn't be a big deal, but it's frequently viewed as some sort of team failure that needs to explained to (bad) management. The more levels up in the organization that your progress is reported, the more motivation there is for management to distance themselves from perceived failure.

It is my belief that this whole Agile morass is caused by programmers naively trying to be helpful and allowing themselves to be measured in increasingly insane ways like "points per sprint" and thus treated like mindless cogs in a machine.

There are plenty of shops where I assume that Agile is working well, but that is most likely a function of management having a respectful relationship with the workforce. In that situation, darn near anything could work.
That looks incredible!

How did you learn Metal? The documentation on it from Apple leaves a lot to be desired for learning it from scratch and all the books I’ve encountered look woefully out of date.
Influencing relative promotion prospects?
Junio Hamano. Or did you confuse git and GitHub?
Great news! I'm fiddling way too much with a Surface Go 2, and a translation layer for Android is perfect when all you have is a touchscreen, very little ram, an incredibly slow eMMC, and a battery that'll last 8 hours if you're lucky.

Especially because there aren't many Linux apps that are touch friendly. Everything kirigami/touch friendly apps in KDE is very much work in progress and are barely good enough for daily usage. Electron apps are no-go because they don't work with a virtual keyboard. Flutter apps are useless because they don't support high dpi on Linux. Gnome has bad support for fractional scaling, issues in some menus for touchscreens, and the space for fonts in the launcher doesn't scale making them display as "Firef..." on a high dpi. I am running Debian Bookworm by the way.

So I wasn't happy to see that android_translation_layer uses Gtk, but I think scaling is improved in Gtk4. Looking forward to try it out either way.
Modern c++ bindings for GStreamer.
Struggling mostly in parsing the Gir files and pushing them to the templating engine.
Project gets quite complex
Thank you! I got some pushback on sparkling Karl Marx but I will never remove it
> I challenge you to sort Chinese characters.

Chinese characters are in fact definitely sortable. There are multiple keys, the most popular ones being by stroke or by sound.

Example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroke-based_sorting
It's a bit strange to even criticize these services for the existence of abusive users. The underlying problem is that abusive people exist in real life: it goes without saying that they'll show up in any context that's accessible to the general public.

Complaining that bad people are using Matrix is about as meaningful as complaining that bad people are driving on the highways or are filling their bathtubs with from the local water supply.
Honestly doesn't sound like a problem at all in the greater scheme of things.
>The state is certainly willing to accept way greater risk than the individual parent, in many circumstances.

I don't think that's true.

> If we take something like daycare, which I presume is included in "care", then it's typically four children per adult until the age of 4, in schools it goes down to 20+ children per one adult, where at home it might be more than two adults per child (but also less obviously).

That's a much lower care ratio than parents accepted before regulation, so I think you're arguing against your own point here.
I replaced the frontend of the popular open source Phish streaming website with a new React UI and generated cover art using DALL-E over the last few weeks. Much nicer now, especially on mobile.

https://phish.in
I tend to agree - not only the inquisition (which I tend to associate more with Romanesque) but the apparent preoccupation with death, damnation, martyrdom and relics (though I realize this is probably a simplistic view coming from my ignorance.)

Oddly, I don’t get these vibes when I am actually visiting one of these buildings.
It doesn't come off that way because of the nonsense extremists propagate
I do not. I know people use https://openinverter.org for boats

Just yesterday I stumbled upon https://vesc-project.com/forum where they are doing something similar with a focus on ebikes and drones.

You are talking full-sized aeroplanes right? I think some of the sail-gliders can be homebuilt, there must be communities for those guys.
> alphabets, universally have one common property: they are sortable.

Isn't this just an arbitrary order? Why could I not assign numbers to chinese characters and sort them? I know next to nothing about Chinese.
Boeing launches $19B share sale to shore up balance sheet
I wonder if they’d have to pay on those contracts if the bettor is discovered to be participating in politics as a poll worker or lawyer for a campaign.
I don't think anyone's talking about forcing, or slavery.

Foreign workers are improving their lot (and that of their families back home). In a world where they don't have the same economic opportunities in their home countries, and the locals don't want to do those "shit jobs", it's a win win.

Even talking about shit jobs is pejorative. Foreign workers don't just pick fruit, they're also essential talent in healthcare and other critical areas.
They genuinely care about their software's UI.
I'm working on a social network based around link sharing!

One of the core ideas is that rather than following a whole person, you can follow a subset of their tags so someone can post about obscure cheeses and ambient electronic, but lactose intolerant you can just follow the music. Or you can follow someone's tech posts but not follow news of their dysfunctional city.

Honestly a lot of it is resurrecting ideas from earlier days in the web like Digg and Delicious, and despite having the idea for ages and having worked on it for a decent while, it's only getting more relevant as the web gets more algorithmic and external links get demoted in sites like Twitter.

The aim is to bring more curation and humanity back to the web, and the next feature I'm really excited to get out is one to make in-person conversations even better!

It's already live @ lynkmi.com and if it's of interest to you, you can sign up to the waitlist (it's very short)