skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm working on a plaintext, decetralized, distributed (multi-device), trustless (multi-user), immutable, schemaless database that's syncable via SyncThing. The trustless part, fundamentally, comes from records being signed by the authors, each device/user keeping track of signatures (ids) seen, and each device periodically publishing all ids it's aware of: that seems to defeat all attacks or accidental corruptions I care about. My most demanding use case is multi-user expense tracking. Legal/financial document (a la google drive), family photo tracking (a la google photos) is also up there.

Also, I've recently picked up modeling my financial choices and circumstances in Python. Modeling uncertainty is especially interesting I've found. I might share the Jupyter notebook some time to get some feedback.
> The difference between this and a real dictatorship is the courts. If we lose that, we're in trouble.

Trump and his partners are already ignoring the courts, so by your own definition we're in big trouble.
You seem to think this contradicts my statement somehow?

Obviously you want a tech mix, and obviously anyone working in the field is taking the dunkelflaute or other extreme events very seriously. That's where storage comes in, and that's where the biggest unknowns and needs for future development are (e.g. is seasonal H2 storage really feasible). But to pretend like nuclear can magically become cheaper through technical breakthroughs, while storage is an unsolvable problem is disingenuous.

It's also disingenuous to suggest that random fluctuations in weather are somehow a unique problem. Sudden unscheduled maintenance can take down nuclear plants as well. As can the weather: Nuclear power plants require cooling and can be shut down due to weather and climatic conditions, too [1].

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-021-00849-y

> I analyse climate-linked outages in nuclear power plants over the past three decades. My assessment shows that the average frequency of climate-induced disruptions has dramatically increased from 0.2 outage per reactor-year in the 1990s to 1.5 in the past decade. Based on the projections for adopted climate scenarios, the average annual energy loss of the global nuclear fleet is estimated to range between 0.8% and 1.4% in the mid-term (2046–2065) and 1.4% and 2.4% in the long term (2081–2100).
I have seen = at least one exists.

Refute that...

You could also say that power corrupts, money brings power therefore money corrupts.

You'd only really get an answer looking at trends and statistics. In my personal experience, people who have been through hardship develop empathy. They can become rich afterwards or stay poor, but most people tend to keep that empathy.
I was wondering about the fingerprintability of devices too. It seems a too easy thing to spoof. What if every visit was “unique” in terms of RAM or Screensize? Seems an easy metric to game.
A* can be tweaked to solve one-to-many shortest paths. You need to be careful about how you aggregate the heuristic function over all the targets [0]. Also, the performance improvements vs Dijkstra would practically disappear in many scenarios, for example if your source is "in the middle" of all the targets. In that case there's no benefit to biasing your search towards any particular target: you might as well simply expand outwards as you do in ordinary Dijkstra.

For road network routing (which is more my thing) you are orders of magnitude better off pre-processing the graph with contraction heirarchies [1] and then using a specialised algorithm such as RPhast [2] at query time.

[0] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Heuristic-search-for-o...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraction_hierarchies

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/faster-...
The proximate cause seems to be a $100M claim from WB against VREG regarding additional finance costs for matrix revolutions circa 2021. VREGs counter(?) suit was recently kicked back and told to go to arbitration. VREG also claims to have spent $19M pursuing their legal claims/response so far. My read is legal costs + no productions in the pipeline + no recent profitable activity + a likely ~$100M arbitration result is exactly whats led to bankruptcy.
I recently built a quick SwiftUI app to pin quotes and posts from X to my home screen.

I found I was liking/bookmarking insightful content on X I rarely saw again and wanted a way to resurface them somewhere I would see multiple times per day.

Can import from X via share sheet or manually enter them. It's minimal, but I've found having:

"i hate how well asking myself "if i had 10x the agency i have what would i do" works"

there every time I unlock my phone, was worth the development effort.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lumatta/id6740705796
Just please don't take it as a documentary. It's a disservice to the people that actually worked at the plant that day and portrays them as arrogant fools, which none of them actually were.

That Chernobyl Guy on YouTube did great breakdowns.
We're living through a revolutionary period in human machine interaction. Millions engage daily with AI systems, generating billions of valuable exchanges. Yet amid this explosion of AI assisted creativity and problem solving, we face a critical challenge: the knowledge generated in these conversations is vanishing into the digital void

For power users who have accumulated thousands of deep conversations exploring complex topics, this represents an enormous hidden cost. Your conversation history isn't just casual chat it's a detailed map of your intellectual journeys containing forgotten business ideas, working code solutions, research insights, and thinking patterns.
A class that is not interactive then doesn't have to be a class. It could be a book or a set of slides with an audio narration and that'd have the same result.

Teachers that can only read their notes and write stuff on a board without ever interacting are of the most useless kind. They're completely replaceable by course material.
That argument is not really credible to me, saying that democrats did not vote or voted republican because Harris (and Biden before her) were too favorable towards Israel, ignores the fact that it was glaringly obvious that trump would be even more favorable towards Israel.
wonder if it's salient that /b/ and /p/ are both labials...

Lagniappe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knigh...
Right now, a video game. If there ever will be AI that does the particular assignment no worse, I'll consider it the coming of the age of AGI. (modulo my game getting sucked into the training set, of course)
Poor states are exploited. EU benefits mostly Germany and France.
Nah, it's a seriously good book, and even quite gripping towards the end. The problem is that it's rather nihilistic. It's a lot like Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future -- but whereas Ministry had a certain warrior vitality (perhaps too much, too naïve,) I felt like The Overstory made a mockery of human efforts to affect positive change.
That is, 100 Wh = 86 kcal.

Enough energy to heat 1 kg of water by 86°C (or 86 kg of water by 1°C).
I guess I did not explain myself well.
the way I understand what you are saying is let's not teach them gdscript but TS instead. the rationale is, so they can do webdev also.

but my impression of the godot community is a lot of gdscript,some C#. So they would not easily be growing in the godot community and make games.

as for teenagers learning new languages, if i remember my teens, 200 years ago, learning new computer things was a thrill, not a chore.

and like I said earlier, I see the habit of picking up a new language a wonderful skill.

hope it is clearer. good luck with your quest of teaching kids to make their own games with godot.
I have Win98 in an 86box just for fun, and yet it feels like that version runs much more smoothly...
This only really makes sense for boilerplate code, if Copilot can consistently tab complete everything you were about to write, maybe you should be working on something new, not rebuilding things that probably already exist as a library.
Come now - the Biden laptop story wasn't all that old that you have conveniently forgotten the 51 senior intelligence officers coordinated with the Biden campaign and explicitly stated that the nypost story "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation" ? Some of them were active CIA contractors. Your great Adam Schiff even went on CNN saying that this smear campaign comes from the Kremlin and that Kremlin is assisting Trump.

Taxpayer funded Politico also went live with headlines "Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say".

The reveal was shut down fast by the Biden white-house.

https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?Docu...

"Furthermore, officials within the CIA recognized at the time that the Hunter Biden statement was political and would hurt the Agency. The signatories’ decision to leverage their former intelligence community titles to promote a narrative about foreign election interference improperly embroiled the Agency in domestic politics. This report underscores the potential dangers of a politicized intelligence community."
Marijuana detox? At least in my case
A website that lets users create and collect digital trading cards (not NFC or blockchain stuff). Currently trying to get the first active artists to join but it's hard. At least its a place for me to create my little artworks.

https://misocards.com
An exlucive interview with ThingsBoard Edge architecht
On March 23, the ThingsBoard team celebrated the third anniversary of ThingsBoard Edge. To mark this milestone, Volodymyr Babak - ThingsBoard's Solution Architect shared with us how it all began, the challenges, achievements, and what’s to expect in upcoming Edge release.

Part 1: https://thingsboard.io/blog/a-whole-new-world-of-possibilities-interview-with-edge-architect-part-1/

Part 2: https://thingsboard.io/blog/a-whole-new-world-of-possibilities-interview-with-edge-architect-part-2/
20% of the population of Israel are Palestinians with full rights. Some were killed 7/10. There's a muslim party in the Knesset.

Remind me again: how many black parties had representation in apartheid South Africa?

You are confused because Israel HAS A apartheid state: the settlements (a small part of Israel in total). But that's not the same as Israel IS A apartheid state.

If you can't separate HAS A from IS A you will fail your Object Oriented Programming 101 course, but no one seems to notice it when talking politics :P
I'm right now working on the Managed Postgres offering for our European Serverless cloud provider, https://molnett.com/. We're building it around Neon and are happy with it so far, but are stumbling upon unforeseen issues like query modes (Thank you Pgx for not being compatible by default with PGBouncer).

Hope to launch it soon!
One hopes that Americans realize ‘there are methods’ for ensuring he doesn’t succeed.
I would also expect the estimated magnitude of the effect to go down over time, but that's just my general attitude to these kinds of things, the fact is that the discontinuity design that they use already accounts for variations between classes, teachers, schools, years. The way it works is that some unexpected event that applies to some people but not others is taken to represent a natural experiment, and then variation between groups before the event is compared to variation between groups after the event. The comparison is never against no variation.

The smoking gun is really in Table 3 and Table 4, where you can see that the effects that were observed are compatible with a population effect of 0, or alternatively you can look at Figure 2 and note that you could draw a straight line (no effect) within the confidence bands. Doesn't mean the effect is not there, but that there's insufficient evidence that it is, and that we should indeed be very careful about taking the estimates at face value.
The left pretty much falls into the same trap all around the world. Its almost funny to watch when a leftist realises that immigrants are right-leaning. The typical reaction is to fall back to elitism and claim those immigrants must be stupid somehow.
To tell when carbon filters are exhausted, the best way is to use an indoor VOC monitor.

Air filter AC is specially prepared, so making your own DIY charcoal (while possible) isn't nearly as effective. You can mostly regenerate/desorb the carbon by heating it to 400F. Never use your regular oven though, not least of which because it reeks. Get a cheap toaster oven and disposable foil pans and do it outside, in a location where it can't possibly catch anything on fire.
Trump and Republicans, known for telling the truth
The HN flagathon continues. Fewer things could be more relevant to entrepreneurship than the rule of law but everything uncomfortable still gets flagged.

Wish I could bury my head in the sand as easily.
Just for the confusion, in France, Belgium and areas around, it's bells, flying back from Rome, that bring chocolate to the children. The bells on churches fly there and are silent for some time and then come back on Easter with the sweets.
> If certain employees are causing problems with other employees, the company has every right to fire them.

This used to be the biggest argument against hiring women into all-male teams. Nowadays it's the biggest argument against hiring men into all-female teams.
CephEvolution
That domain is kinda unfortunate, it has expert-sexchange vibes with Rich Hard ...

Wonder how many over-eager corporate filters block it outright?
> can't shutdown hardware remotely, but loss of access to proprietary software

By what mechanism is this mediated? Because that sounds awfully similar to a kill switch in terms of the end result. Analogy by way of enterprise software: "We didn't remotely disable the software you purchased from us. Rather our server simply refuses to service your requests which happen to be required for the software to function." (Evil laugh from man with goatee immediately follows this statement obviously.)
No offence to Windows lovers, but my God is this ugly. Current versions of Windows look great. But back then Windows looked horrible. Apple managed to produce beautiful interfaces back then, as they do now.
TLPI is ELIF version though
Back to working on Ensō (write.sonnet.io) and writing/working in public after a short hiatus.

Also, got some feedback for hands.sonnet.io, so I'd like to play with it a little bit if time permits (might be hard to stay inside, Spring has just started in Portugal).
Trump has repeatedly suggested that he will use the military on the "enemy from within". Protests could end up looking like what we see in Belarus and Russia - masked "police" shows up and they beat them up and / or take them away.
No accountability, no transparency.

Shame. Shame. Shame.
That matches up with my general expectations of graduates. They should be smart, but are not expected to really know much.
To me it is hard to visualize how much damage the total energy gained from digesting chemical bonds of food could do to an airplane. I can better visualize the damage that could be done by a highway car crash or detonating a handful of TNT in an airplane.
No offense, but it seems to me if you really believed in taking updating docs seriously, you'd teach people how to be better at it instead of handing the work off to a gen AI agent and it's potential hallucinatory or swiss cheese responses.

I've worked with dozens of models at this point, and while amazing strides have been made in the LLM space, it's still not at the point where I fully trust it to generate the code AND the docs on how that code works without me diving into every detail and checking for accuracy...and at that point, I might as well just write the docs myself, since it's not really that hard if you have a deep understanding of what is actually happening.

To me, this tool further perpetuates the idea that these "coders" who are relying on gen AI to do the work for them are producing product that they don't know how to fix/update/use because, well, they didn't actually write it. In my line of work, I already spend most of my week fixing issues caused by people who claim they know what they are doing, but don't, so it's hard to not view something like this as future headaches unless it has a high class of proven reliability.

Trust me, I'm happy to be proven wrong. Your landing page isn't really diving into what this thing is doing much, yet you're already asking for a subscription. Explain why we should trust it. What sort of testing was performed to ensure accuracy?
There are some many kids with mesiodens and such that the diagram should also have little weirdly shaped bumps all around also. Also there shouldn't be an age limit for tooth fairies! I'm sure someone's great grandma would love the chocolate!
the Uighur genocide is the true genocide, it is happening in the real world with tons of pictures and videos as evidence

the Palestinian genocide is a fake genocide, it is propaganda pushed by Chinese and Russian to make Israel and the US looks bad
So this is non issue you say?

https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2024/09/28/the-perils-of-tra...
Showcase: Working on a voice/text chat app in a cyberpunk style
TL;DR: programs today are effing boring. Need more cyberpunk in my life

After spending all my money on creating a community platform no-one wanted, in a style that I thought would fit most people (but didn't particularly enjoy myself, too vanilla), I got tired and decided to create something I've wanted in my daily life since I read Neuromancer the first time 20yrs ago.

This is what I'm working on. It's early, like really early, but it's a f*cking JOY to work on and use already! Right now I'm trying to move my friends over from Discord to this, but if there is interest in a voice/text chat app for a broader mass of ppl, I'd love to make a real product out of it and do this for a living!

What ya think?
Sushi-style feedback welcome (raw and fresh).

Cheers,
b0bben
400 million use it for free, you can give away 400 million of anything for free.
The question is, how many are willing to pay the monthly fee required to stop OpenAI from bleeding 5billion/year and return the promised trillions to investors.
Awesome work! This will come in handy.
Now that we are talking about RiscOS... how's the wireless support on the RPIB+ now that the OS was opened under a libre license?
Adding Apple's globe key to a QMK-powered keyboard
But how far do you go with the blame?

If the universities hold the bar high, they'll risk their funding from parents not wanting to enroll their child and the government not funding a failing school. The blame should be on society?

I think professors are in a good place to actually step up and say no. They're all highly educated individuals who can likely leave academia and get jobs in the private sector. They're best set up to break the cycle.
There are natural experiments where the correlation between IQ and lower amounts of fluoride can be studied. For example in Israel, until 2014, the fluoride level was 0.8-1.0 mg/L depending on the region but starting in 2014 water is no longer fluoridated (naturally occurring fluoride level is in the 0.1-0.3 mg/L range for the vast majority of the population) so the data should be there, it's just a matter of collecting it. Some countries can provide data for the opposite natural experiment (adding fluoride in recent years).

To me, using the 1.5 mg/L doesn't tell anything about lower levels but it does make me interested in seeing such study whereas before I'd have just dismissed it.
Is that right? Looking here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendums_related_to_the_E...

This suggests actually most referenda passed in favour of EU membership. There are 48 events and 7 "rejections". These are the votes in Greenland, San Marino, two in Norway, two in Switzerland, and Brexit. Still a fairly conclusive record of 85% in favour of EU membership.
Good article. The point about contemporary philosophers not having grand theories is something that comes up frequently in philosophy spaces (i.e., /r/academicphilosophy or https://dailynous.com).

The problem is that the academic system is really not designed to select such individuals, instead optimizing for specialized publications, pedigree, etc. The average philosopher has zero incentive for constructing grand theories and indeed is typically ridiculed for even attempting to do so.

And so instead the best "public intellectuals" the world of philosophy can offer are either obsessively focused on particular issues rather than the field as a whole, (e.g., Peter Singer) or are entirely philosophically-uneducated charlatans who want to sell books and make money, not discover truth (e.g. Sam Harris, talking heads on Twitter, Substack, etc.) that unfortunately get an audience. The closest we get are probably Charles Taylor (big scope, but unfortunately too verbose and abstruse) or Zizek (too niche and far into his own entertainment career.)

I'm not sure what the solution is, but it probably involves a brilliant (and credentialed) philosopher that is also savvy with YouTube and willing to disregard the academic philosophy social milieu.
You do not have to put up with this. Your lecturer is significantly undermining your education (which you pay for!).

You should bring this up with the department chair of your study. The purpose of your CS degree is to build a strong theoretical foundation, replacing programming with prompting directly goes against this.
The key argument I read here is that, due to specialisation, academic
philosophy is currently unfit to apprehend today's problems. It is no
longer capable of incorporating politics, and politics itself has
escaped rational discourse. Historians are enjoying some new
limelight, and popular value-revisionism is in the air, at least if
Lucy Worsley's BBC series is anything to go by.

The question is: "What is progress, really?"
It's easy to get caught up in negative judgments about another generation [1] and it can be hard to put one group's vices in context when they seem different from your own.

That said, I know for myself that my attention span has gotten shorter. I used to read more. Now I listen to audiobooks. When reading text, even engaging fiction can be a struggle. I read one or two pages and feel the urge to check something else or look at something else or get up and do something. I know this wasn't the case in middle school or high school (late 2000s).

I think it's because of first podcasts and then watching / listening to too thousands of YouTube videos at 2x speed. I've become much more "efficient" at consuming entertainment content - so "efficient" that I can get bored listening to someone telling an interesting story at 1x speed.

The only advantage I have is that I can tell that this has happened and I can work against it by forcing myself to read more. But if things were always like that, how would I know? When you're sleep deprived every day for years, you don't notice how much it is affecting you. It's the same with a short attention span.

[1]: Aside: the omnipresent talk about generations these days is maybe not the best thing to begin with.
Nice story. I can believe it. I was surprised that you mentioned the RSV vaccine. Last I checked, they were still working on it. I was wrong: There are three competitors now: (1) Arexvy (GSK), (2) Abrysvo (Pfizer), and (3) Mresvia (Moderna)

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiratory_syncytial_virus_va...

Normally, I use this clinic in Thailand to compare prices for vaccines: https://www.thaitravelclinic.com/cost.html

The RSV vaccine is crazy expensive, even more than the HPV one. Over 200 USD is incredibly expensive in a developing country (like Thailand).

> those UV lights that Chinese restaurants tend to have in the bathrooms

I never heard of this. Does anyone have a link to one of these on Amazon or Alibaba? I am curious to learn more.
"People of our social circle dress like this".
Not stupid, just lacking class consciousness