skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Both peace settlements following the wars were widely criticized as unstable and unlikely to last, and they didn't.

Do you mean that "the" post-WWII peace settlement didn't last? It seems to have worked very well.

> It wasn’t America's principles that made it the world leader at the time—it was the fact that, unlike other major powers, it emerged from the world wars largely unscathed.

That certainly played a big role. Also, American principles that created a post-war order based on univeral human rights, the rule of law, and free-market capitalism (including free trade). Those principles led to treatment of the losing powers in that image, rather than in retribution, cruelty or oppression (compare to the USSR in Eastern Europe). In fact, Japan surrendered when they did mainly in order to surrender to the US and not to the USSR - those principles had very significant effects. They also led to the Marshall Plan in Europe.

The principles and the resulting actions created 'soft power' which may be unmatched in history. The general alliance with European powers has lasted over 80 years; the NATO military alliance, of mutual self-defense, has lasted almost as long - has there been anything like it?

People around the world fought and struggled for the vision of American freedom. I've spoken to people from different countries who, even in the first Trump administration, still had the American dream; they still saw the 'city on the hill'.

Beyond a doubt, the US also has done plenty of awful things. But what has distingiushed it, beyond every great power in history, are those principles.
It’s not an error it’s just wildly inappropriate and bad writing style to write in the wrong register about a topic. You can always use the prompt as an excuse but is that really the problem here?

Re promoting for frogger, I think the evidence is against that - it does well on games it has complete examples for (i.e. it is reproducing code) and badly on ones it doesn’t have examples for (it doesn’t actually understand what it doing though it pretends to and we fill in the gaps for it).
> I’ll never get tired of mentioning that the futuristic UI of the in-game computers of the original Deus Ex, from 2000, supported not only Tab to go between controls and Enter and Esc to submit and dismiss, but also Alt accelerators, complete with underlined letters in the labels

I think that's because they used the stock UI toolkit of the original Unreal Engine, which also had all these things. If you recall, UT'99 actually had a UI more like a desktop app at the time, complete with a menu bar and tabbed dialogs:

http://hw-museum.cz/data/article/VGA-Benchmarks/Benchmark-VG...
We’ve been building a new social-enabled git collaboration platform on top of Bluesky’s AT Protocol: https://tangled.sh

You can read an intro here: https://blog.tangled.sh/intro (it’s publicly available now, not invite-only).

In short, at the core of Tangled is what we call “knots”; they’re lightweight, headless servers that serve up your git repository, and the contents viewed and collaborated upon via the “app view” at tangled.sh. All social data (issues, comments, PRs, other repo metadata) is stored “on-proto”—in your AT Protocol PDS.

We don’t just plan to reimplement GitHub, but rethink and improve on the status quo. For instance, we plan to make stacked PRs and stacked diff-based reviews first-class citizens of the platform.

Right now, our pull request feature is rather simplistic but very useful still: you paste your git diff output, and “resubmit” for a new round of review (if necessary). You can see an example here: https://tangled.sh/@tangled.sh/core/pulls/14

We’re fully open source: https://tangled.sh/@tangled.sh/core and are actively building. Come check it out!
I have a startup idea and I’m curious what others think.

Setting up AI agents is way too complicated. I am constantly being sent to GitHub pages with installation instructions that require way too many dependencies, API connections, and more. We’re talking hours of setup and config.

So what if there was an open-source marketplace where you could just search, find an agent, click deploy, get launched into an already configured agent, and just have it do its thing? Essentially a marketplace discoverablity, automated deployment infrastructure and an interface to manage your agents.

I’d also probably create some kind of open-source solution, probably a custom Docker container, so developers can easily build agents and wrap them in a container and upload them for deployment.

Thoughts? Does anything like this already exist?

P.S. No, I don’t want to build or use another crappy AI agent builder. I want to deploy open-source agents already built by actual developers.
> Eject and lose your career means more pilots will crash.

Maybe, maybe not. But I do expect that if another pilot finds himself in Del Pizzo's situation, they're going to do a more thorough survey of the plane's capabilities before ejecting. Maybe that's the outcome the Marines is looking for, even if it puts their pilots at risk more often.
I disagree there. When you actually listen to what RFK says instead of the media's spin on the most extreme cuts taken out of context, it's nowhere near as sensational. In particular RFK has consistently and repeatedly stressed an opt-in view on all things health/pharmaceutical related. If you want it, you can have it. But when you do things like fluoridate public water supplies, you turn it into an opt-out system where unless you go out of your way - you're going to get it.

Tooth paste, and other commercial products, are opt-in systems. And indeed there are already numerous unfluoridated options available.
An AlphaStation's SROM
Mostly the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on an airplane that's not ready for prime time yet.
https://archive.ph/ATrQx
One difference is that Ukraine is an international, cross-border war of conquest - the kind that was outlawed after WWII and hardly happened since. Vietnam and Korea were civil wars where the US sought no territory. Afghanistan had a different motive, but no conquest was desired.
I'm working on DeskPal. The project still needs a lot of polishing, so it's in private for now. Here is a part of its README.
# DESKPAL

## What is DeskPal?
DeskPal stands for Desktop Companion - exactly as it sounds: A companion for your desktop.

It's a gadget that will:
- Display your media info (From Spotify, etc. - more sources to be added)
- Display time
- Connect to your phone and display notifications (TBD)
- Function as a StreamDeck-like device (TBD)

All of these features should work right out of the box, without installing any new apps on phone or computer:
- You can use it with your company laptop, or even with no computer at all
- An app may be needed to configure some settings (like StreamDeck macros - TBD)

## Hardware & Software
Inside DeskPal is an ESP32S3 MCU that supports both WiFi and BLE. The current configuration has 16MB Flash memory and 8MB of SRAM.

DeskPal runs on Zephyr RTOS, a RTOS that is heavily supported by many vendors. Using Zephyr allows us to leverage a vast ecosystem of hardware drivers and enables easy porting of this project to other MCUs if needed.

DeskPal's software architecture allows adding dynamic apps so that we can install or remove functionality without firmware updates.
That is not true. Although it uses a different word on the surface, it really is the same legal concept.
This Wang looks suspicious.
Can you explain a bit? How can they design chip based on software requirements? I mean - they can add more threading, cores, etc. to ensure that heavyweight software like gaming, photo or video editing etc. can benefit from them, but still, the chip design is generic and any heaveweight software can benefit from it, not necessarily Apple's own upcoming in-house software, right?
Bankruptcy doesn't mean they run out of money. Its protection from creditors on the expectation that a current or perceived liability will impair them, and the protection thwarts it.

But yes 99% correlated to having no ability to repay.

Its possible they expect a countersuit to win. Or they borrowed to much to pay lawyers.
Roo-Code with Claude Sonnet 3.7 as the backend has worked near perfect for me for small websites.

If you point it to a site to clone with instructions on what to change, you get very good results in half an hour's work and <5$ spent.

Pretty stiff competition for the bottom end of the web creation/maitainance market for sure.
As long as nothing happens to Memory Alpha
It's much, much less than a minute. Usually less than ten seconds.

Planes most commonly crash during takeoff and landing (why they turn on the seatbelt sign below 10000ft).

The FAA tries to make sure that approach lanes are mostly clear, but they can't plan for every scenario.

In this case the pilot knew that last time he checked, he was less than a thousand feet off the ground and descending in a plane that was out of his control with no comms (if you want to blame someone, how bout Lockheed?).

He's suppose to spend the next five seconds doing... what exactly?

This was as textbook a reaction as they could have asked for.
I would encourage you to speak with subject matter experts if you truly believe that this is a mass psychology problem.

It's too convenient to discount people who disagree with you as being "politically biased" and "blinded." A better explanation is that they observed the same input you do and concluded the benefit is still worth the risk.

And if it turns out that millions of Americans became stupid because of fluoride and not, say, bad parenting, phone addiction, and manipulative media, I won't be too proud to admit you were right.
I started a small company selling accessories that I design, 3d print, and build for old 16mm film cameras. I recently released a crystal synchronized motor for Arri cameras, which allows you to record sound and have it sync up properly later, that has actually been selling pretty well. My next goal is to get into CNC machining with metal and actually build a modern 16mm film camera.

For my day job I am currently working for an online education company. I have been learning about the concepts behind knowledge tracing and using knowledge components to get a fine grained perspective on what types of skills someone has acquired throughout their learning path. It is hard because our company hasn't really had any sort of basis to start from, so I have been reading a lot of research papers and trying to understand, from sort of first principles, how to approach this problem. It has been a fun challenge.
Great article. I have no interest at all in biology or medicine but I couldn't stop reading.
Not just that, but training pilots takes time, and getting them the experience they need to be seasoned pilots takes even more time. While you can certainly put a dollar amount on the cost of that training and experience, it's harder to quantify how much it's worth to have a trained, experienced pilot right now, vs. a new one that's starting from scratch and won't be at the same level for years.
I can imagine you saying "1A isn't about hellfire missiles" after airstrikes on political enemies.
For comparison, 100 Wh is 360,000 joules, which is just under either the energy released by explosion of 100 grams of TNT, or the kinetic energy of a small car at highway speeds, or the kinetic energy of 1 gram meteor hitting Earth.[1] (Sorry, I've never been a fan of the "Wh" unit and so wanted to put that total energy into layman terms.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(energy)
What do you use it on? Do you have dedicated hardware, dosbox/pcem, a vitrual machine of some sort?
> may really be exceptional

That's a claim of its enemies, who look for any rationalization to destroy the greatest success of its kind in human history - when there isn't even a crisis.
> my options are going to office hours (which I try to do), go to tutoring hours (which conflicts with my job's work schedule), or go to ChatGPT and/or Chegg.

Have you considered trying to do the problems yourself, away from the computer, then checking your work with ChatGPT or the like?
> quality of clothing and price are completely disconnected now.

I bought some fake branded tshirts while visiting Turkey. The quality of cotton was better, than original brand sold in UK!
He means that he prefers for that poor lad to have died trying to save a piece of metal. Simple stuff, there is no going around it. For some people money is above human life.
Hey! If you meant your private repositories, there is a "Allow Access to Private Repos" button in the Import from GitHub modal which can be opened from the left hand side in your dashboard.
I built https://emojithis.com, which automatically adds emojis to text. Although it’s essentially an AI wrapper, with meaningful UX and some useful touches, there’s something surprisingly useful in there. My friends and I use it a lot, and the people who try it tend to come back!
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In a condo in an urban population center, and next to a busy 700+ pupil elementary school across the street, WiFi (both 2.4 and 5 GHz) work beautifully. On 5GHz, seeing 600M down and 100M up, as per ISP contract, the same as on wired Ethernet.

I guess that's because people here tend to use 5G mobile networks and not so much WiFi, maybe not at all, so there's little contention. (Perhaps this makes it obvious, but not in the USA.)
> clear and impartial as to where those limits should be

This is a big claim. The crux of the problem is that it's virtually impossible to set a clear and consistent line. That makes it ripe for abuse by those in power, as we are witnessing right now. I think it's hypocritical to fail to even acknowledge this fact.
Hey Dan,

I'm naveen, solo developer behind fridaygpt. thanks for pointing this out. you're absolutely right. api key requirement wasn't clear enough on the landing page. honestly, i hadn't realized this was causing confusion since current users didn't flag it until now.

i've just updated the landing page to make the "bring your own api key" requirement explicitly clear. if i'd noticed this earlier, it would have been fixed sooner.
notice wifi standard does not guarantee which frequency it will use. You can have wifi 6 on 2.4ghz wifi
Feudalism is the literal opposite of a highly functional centralized state! And you said 1,000 years, which extends well before the Edo period, even if you consider the Edo period a centralized state (which I would not--the establishment of a centralized state is what characterized the Meiji Restoration).
People these days have no ability to separate the art from the artist. It's a shame. I guess it's their loss if they deprive themselves of perfectly good art because they don't like who made it.
Controller could just be a PC with a VPN connection to anywhere.
UHC is responsible for thousands of cases of underinsurance, including some heinous ones that involved denial of coverage for life saving procedures in the ER. It's the number one provider in denials of coverage, and it has used algorithms to do so with no human insight, leaving people to languish and/or die at the whims of a computer model. And I never attempted to support anything. In another comment I pointed out that it wasn't an implicature, and peoples' inability to discuss this without it being so, and in anything other than normative statements, is pretty poor discourse.

The fact that you dragged up your daughter's open heart surgery to try to "make [me] look ridiculous" is honestly one of the more disgusting things I've read in the comments here, no other way to put that (I'm not gonna do the reddit "have a nice evening" games after something that depraved). Real sick stuff man, I hope that's not a trend. Kinda depressing to read.
> They also looked at a very limited time window. They also note that some teachers weren’t using the air filters.

To correct and clarify:

They also looked at a very limited time window. They also note that-- after this very limited time window-- some teachers stopped using the air filters. In the words of the authors, this made long-run results "difficult to interpret."
3D Drone Wargame.

(https://horus.sh)

I'm developing a wargame-like 3D simulator designed to train AI drones into elite stealth pilots. By integrating reinforcement learning techniques and utilizing real-life local landscape data, the simulator offers highly realistic mission scenarios.
Preventing nearsightedness using AR glasses or projectors
This is why I commonly have a trackpad in addition to a mouse when I use Windows. Literally, mouse on right, trackpad on left. It's much faster to use the trackpad for annoyances like these. I also find that trackpads are ten times better for scrolling.
The alternative solution, using planes that don't cost hundreds of millions of dollars, seems easier
organic maps is a treasure. It's great. Microsoft messed up here.
Yeah this is both bad but also being heavily misreported: the US can't shutdown hardware remotely, but loss of access to proprietary software effectively disables critical functionality which can effectively render a platform useless.

Up till now, there was no demonstrated risk of this happening - but that's a broken trust which won't be repaired for generations, if ever.
What is he goal of teaching?

Is it to filter out ppl that cannot do well with the teaching style of the teacher or is to transfer a skill and knowledge into the student?
"The US government has the ability to access many politicians' emails in Europe"
I run Shepherd.com, and hopefully, it helps :). Feel free to email me at ben@shepherd.com if you need any help with book ideas. I'm working to add more book DNA breakdowns later this year to help tap into certain themes, tropes, moods, etc.

For example, with filters right now you can do things like show me hard sci fi with AI:
https://shepherd.com/bookshelf/hard-science-fiction?topics=Q...

Reddit is also a great source for recommendations:
https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/
https://www.reddit.com/r/fantasybooks/
https://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/

Humans write books, AI is for doing the dishes or laundry :)
Show HN: Find times and costs of trains in Cape Town
A simple app to find Cape Town train times and costs.
I will gladly deprive myself of “art” made by admitted and convicted rapists. To each their own I suppose. I used to love Spacey.
One thing that I always hated about macOS is the menu bar placement.

Ironically, in the long run, it has proven to be an asset for the simple reason that any macOS app has to have a main menu with commands in it, if it doesn't want to look silly. So this whole modern trend of replacing everything with "hamburger" menus that don't have the functionality isn't killing UX quite so bad there.

Although some apps - Electron ones, especially - stick a few token options there, and then the rest still has to be pixel-hunted in the window. Some don't even put "Settings" where it's supposed to be (under the application menu). Ugh.
Does that mean it would be better if the majority of people went to trade schools and left the universities for the minority who want an education for it's own sake?
Yes. Good will shine out. Bad will be gone away.
Just following orders is evil.

It's good that Organic Maps is leaving Microsoft behind.
Virtual Box VM.
I'm about to graduate and can say professors who did this always had the most engaged students (after half dropped the class from <50% quiz grades). I personally found it annoying as it felt like I was in high school again, but if I was a professor I'd do it too.
You can do solar energy with mirrors (the ancient Greeks were able to produce that) and steam turbine/stirling generator.
I love that it's not trying to be a 1:1 clone of Windows 95, but more of a vibe-match
oh good find! I went from that title to the Internet Archive version (pdf alert: https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/timeindependentd00we...) (legal because as stated in that Amazon description, the paper is in the public domain).

I am both convinced the author is quite smart and hope that the topic/audience of the book is very different from the paper because I would not survive 1000 pages of that.
A common misconception - often echoed on this site - is that NATO allies and the U.S. operate on equal terms. They don’t. If the U.S. wants to sell 100 F-35s to European nations, it will happen.

Even today, with all this talk around NATO, there’s a massive U.S. military presence at NATO bases across Europe.

These forces are, in effect, under U.S. control, stationed in countries like Germany and Italy. And if Germany suddenly decided it wanted them gone - well, it’s not their call.

TL;DR: Life on the empire’s periphery might be comfortable, but you don’t get to choose your enemies - and you still have to pay your dues, or else.
Maybe for the costs to go down, the administrative fat could be trimmed instead.
Ok, but you don't need any of that if you're just running 1990s/2000s Windows educational software on an air gapped OS with no Internet access, which is what you would want for this application.

Why would you want to mess around trying to get programs to half work on Wine when you can just have the real thing?

If you want your kid to have a web browser for educational purposes, I feel like you had probably might as well just hand them the iPad.
Go to enough weddings, funerals and other formal events and buying suits might not be voluntary.

I still remember the suits when they had those really tiny lapels and they didn't last. Those people would be out their suit dineros.
I feel like in previous reporting I'd seen suggestions that the other pilots had lost confidence in him, and that you couldn't be the leader of a squadron if any of the pilots had any doubts.

This story seems to completely discount any "lost confidence" as a made up story.
I learned better when I took notes. I believe research backs that up.
Absolutely. And nutrition in general, the internet, and a large number of other factors. Starting around the 90s the world started changing far faster than we were able to measure the consequences of in many different domains. That's even when the rates of autism and other mental disorders also started to skyrocket. That's why I think it's a viable contributing factor rather than the alpha and omega.

But it's relevant here because most people don't know that general intelligence levels (so far as IQ can measure) have begun to decrease, to the point that the GP here was overtly mocking the mere possibility of such as a [implied] practical impossibility.