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Show HN: Dynamic draggable navigation, probably love or hate feature
Features:

- Floats freely, ready when you need it, out of the way when you don't

- Move it anywhere on the screen, it remembers its position across all pages

- Adapts links dynamically based on the page you're on

- Universal back button provides a consistent way to return to previous page

- Dedicated drag handle makes repositioning intuitive

- Natural momentum as you drag it across the screen

- Playful bouncing when it reaches the edges of your viewport

- Smooth deceleration that feels real

All feedback is appreciated!
Many things have become higher quality with automation. Eg. consider CNC machines, metal machining etc.
Back when I was about 12 (so 60 years ago, or so) you could get Phillips kits with a couple of transistors which allowed you to breadboard things like an amplifier, a radio, or a moisture detector. Had fun with them, but didn't really learn so much theory, and never have. Though I do know quite a bit about software.
If EU member launches it, it’s good for the EU
Isn't Go better for writing servers, and as fast and memory safe as the second coming of $DEITY?
> University of Toronto

I understand you’re fighting for what you believe in. Keep going, you’re almost there.
Same is true for every country.
In a sense, nothing beyond food, water and basic shelter is a necessity. Humans of the same species certainly lived somehow without whatever tech we can think of, including fire and clothing.

That said, I deleted my FB and TW/X account and while I don't miss their toxicity, I am more isolated than ever. I noticed that even for older people, their willingness to meet in person has gone down and their ability to reply to e-mails, including purely coordinational ones, is seriously shot.
Managed to find two Windows binaries as noted elsethread.

It would be nice to have found one for the Mac....
Boy have I got a dictionary to sell you!
Free (as in beer) and centralized or giving the impression of working as a centralized system. That seems to mean it must be ad supported, or run on donations.

What doesn’t work is trying to invent some open/stabdardized/distributed system. I’m happy to be proven wrong but we haven’t seen that work because they invariably have some drawback that the centralized systems don’t, while too few care about their benefits.

I don’t think anyone cares strongly about the origin if it’s American or European.
Electric spiking activity in epithelial cells
That's the thing we need. If your satellite is operating and in Low Earth Orbit, it is extremely easy to avoid a collision, even without any propulsion system.

If you are aware of the risk of collision a couple of days in advance, just changing your satellite orientation for a couple of orbit will retire the risk of collision.

You may want to perform in-orbit servicing, but that is more about increasing the longevity of your assets in orbit or increasing their capabilities via refueling/upgrading/repairing.
From that link (emphasis mine):

> A CBSA officer will start with some questions before examining your personal digital device. To examine the device, the officer will first ask for the password. If the device is password-protected, they will write your password on a piece of paper. You are obligated to provide your password when asked.

> Note Failure to grant access to your personal digital device may result in the detention of that device under section 101 of the Customs Act, or seizure of the device under subsection 140 (1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act or under section 110 of the Customs Act.

Well guess we’re not going to Canada again.

It also never mentions them destroying the written down password.
The world doesn't need any more social platforms that detach people from touching grass and making real human connection, and at the same time act as a means to spread the current flavor of propaganda
I don't think it's healthy or sustainable to hide one's frustration from others.

To have feelings is human. If you don't want to deal with human traits in your project, then stop hiring humans.
I've been thinking about this some time now. But not from the aspect of sovereignty.

Assume a group builds a social network just like Twitter, but with verified users, actually verified, possibly via personal ID / passport maybe at the town hall, no alias allowed, but the legal name, people will know who you are. All publicly readable without account.

This would give politicians, companies, journalists and citizens a way to have public "conversations", near real-time news updates just like on Twitter, but without the huge amount of garbage that comes from bots and people eagerly destroying the public discourse. Illegal comments (my mistake, criminal content) lead to direct consequences, maybe also with the one of setting the account to read-only mode.
The European Union should develop a technology sector of its own to compete with those of China and the USA, but its fragmentation makes it harder for the continent to gather the capital and the consumers to make it possible for big tech companies to be created and thrive. We'll see in the future if there is political will to change this.
The moment the U.S. moved to ban TikTok, users immediately flocked to an even worse Chinese platform.
People don’t actually care about privacy or digital sovereignty — not when convenience and clout are on the line.
We need an alternative to the monstrosities that we have
I got some nice 10x improvements, but they didn't really show up in benchmarks of SQLite.

I'm guessing it's mostly memset and memcpy that matter.

https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/issues/257#issuecommen...
I don't get how they call a font “readable” where the lowercase ell looks way too similar to the uppercase aye. I for one would not use such a font.
This should be the perfect time for decentralized social media platforms, and people might be increasingly open to trying them. What do you think is the biggest roadblock? Is it poor UI and app availability? Deficient UX and content discovery?
What makes this fascinating isn't just what it says about storytelling, but what it reveals about our relationship with truth in media. I worked in public radio for 7 years, and TAL's influence was impossible to overstate - every producer wanted to craft stories with that perfect narrative arc.

The Daisey episode still haunts journalism programs. We used it as a case study in our ethics workshops. The truly unsettling part wasn't just Daisey's fabrications, but how perfectly those lies fit into TAL's storytelling template - dramatic scenes, sympathetic characters, narrative tension, and a tidy resolution that makes you feel something.

Glass wasn't wrong about storytelling's power to make people listen. But the Daisey incident showed its dangers - when your format rewards emotional impact and narrative elegance, you create incentives for sources to deliver exactly that, truthful or not.

The saddest part is that real stories about Foxconn's labor conditions existed that could have been told without fabrication. But they wouldn't have had that perfect "old man touching an iPad for the first time" moment that makes for such a perfect radio beat.
The article is more about "European sovereignty" and not individual countries with the premise that EU countries are more aligned with each other than the US.
The article talks about manipulation from the US, but the examples are: Cambridge Analytica (which was British, not American), Querdenkers (who were German), and Éric Zemmour (who is French). I mean is this seriously advocating for the censorship of protests coming from the German public?

What these people want is censorship that only allows progressive arguments to flourish. They already have all the laws that make non-progressive speech forbidden, but they are struggling to apply them to companies that are the other side of the pond. Having social networks here would allow them do to so easily. To that I have to say no thanks.
The average person doesn’t care about this. The ones complaining about “influence” are the ones in power who don’t want that power threatened. Our motorcycle racing group in Spain — they’re all on Insta and WhatsApp and perfectly fine about it. They aren’t saying “we need to get off these platforms because of Brexit or whatever.” They use these platforms to talk about and coordinate among people with shared interests. X works very well in Catalonia as well — usually where people get breaking alerts and information on freeway closures, weather alerts, etc. it works great — most people don’t care about the politics.
What about if we leverage existing systems, say DNS and domains? Kind of lets people verify things belong to some known entity, and legal system already handles conflicts in the domain world, in case someone tries to impersonate and so on.
"Running these platforms will be getting cheaper with time too."

Most cloud systems that make scaling of platforms easier are American too. We (Europeans) aren't behind just in social media, but in most of the IT industry, and way too many critical elements of the total stack don't have reliable European counterparts.
GNAP: A Conversation of Authorization
This is a logging setup being done top-level in an auxiliary module "utils": you might import it into one command and not another, and end up surprised why is one getting the logging setup and the other isn't. Or you might attempt to configure it and the import would override it.

As for getting a lot of code that was vetted by senior engineers, that's not so hard: you just have to pay for it. Basically, any company could — for a price — consider sharing their codebase for training.
Depends on the government. Poland for example was ok with criticising the government on the national tv for many years, until the last swing to "law and order".

So there are no guarantees even if it works without censorship currently.
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Credit Suisse no longer exists. Whatever problems Credit Suisse had, UBS now has.
The U.S. needs similar crossings for all the regions separated by the Interstate system, and somewhere near the center of each region so created, a large wilderness preserve which has roads removed:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42104894
You didn't link to [0].
Smaller forums and chat servers did that just fine prior to Google shoving them to page 500+ them in favor of the government created platforms and unified narratives. [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Xxi0b9trY [video][documentary][44 mins]
> but its fragmentation makes it harder for the continent to gather the capital and the consumers to make it possible for big tech companies to be created and thrive

Compared to what? Europe isn't as fragmented as it used to be, and that it isn't possible to create big tech companies actually sound like a benefit to me, I don't want that. I personally prefer smaller companies, even if they don't take over the world, and it's a fairly popular sentiment at least around me in south-west Europe.
"Progressive" is not how I would describe it.
If you look at releasing "everything" from the perspective of a quant and purely so, then the objective to dominate a metric relevant to the quant is obviously the motive. But it's impossible to prove and a very strong assumption with little to no data. If DeepSeek's parent company traded on the data and release of DeepSeek with quant models that target affected firms with shorts before release, then that's a whole new level of WOW and honestly great funds do that. But this is a too big and bold of a move to underpin motive.

But believing a man could achieve such a feat alone is inspiring to be frank.
Depends on whether they are reasonably independent. This works pretty well for e.g NRK, YLE, DR etc. Government can’t have a say in short term (less than an election cycle) funding, or who’s leading the Public Service company or similar. There can be no possible leverage from politicians, that’s the key.
. The job of public service like any media is to be critical of power.
The first sign of a country sliding towards being a non-democracy is political tampering with public service.
We need pseudonymity. Access only by court order like phone numbers.
the design of this website is insane
Well, it was a a wrong way to say it: "criminal content". That was what I meant.
Logging configuration is done at import time for "utils" module.

Imagine code like this:

main.py:

import logging
logging.basicConfig(...)

logging.info("foo") # uses above config

if __name__ == "__main__":
import utils # your config is overridden with the one in utils
logging.info("bar") # uses utils configuration
...

Or two "commands", one importing utils and another not: they would non-obviously use different logging configuration.

It gets even crazier: you could import utils to set the configuration, override it, but a second import would not re-set it, as module imports are cached.

Basically, don't do it and no unexpected, confusing behaviour anywhere.
Touch is in Mac
It’s a European alternative so yes. It operates in a legal framework where Spain makes the rules rather than in one where they don’t.
Bonobos may combine words in ways previously thought unique to humans
It's a matter of degree. The average Joe cares about privacy and tech sovereignty too, but not to the extent that he would sign off a platform where the rest of his friends are.
I wonder if it's always a zero day. I think that things and ways of thinking create momentum. The more you netflix and chill, the likelier you are to netflix and chill.
Timing. They weren’t the first to hit it big.

I gave up Meta and X. But didn’t replace them because there aren’t enough people on alternatives. I just surf less. Probably better for my mental health that way.
> And to achieve that they need to realize that all the regulation they aimed at facebook can only be satisfied by entities that have facebook's money.

I disagree with your claim. Can you tell me why you think that is?

You can still sell advertisement without collecting and processing large amounts of personal data. I would claim that it's even better if your ads are based on the in-page content, than users' personal information.

At the same time, legislation such as Digital Markets Act applies to large entities (currently singled out), and further compliance is going to apply to new platforms when they become "large enough".
> Cambridge Analytica (which was British, not American),

Saying that the manipulation was done by the UK because Cambridge Analytica happens to be Brittish completely misconstrues what happened.

> Cambridge Analytica was working for United States Senator Ted Cruz using data harvested from millions of people's Facebook accounts without their consent

> Facebook later confirmed that it actually had data on potentially over 87 million users, with 70.6 million of those people from the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...

It was very much a story of manipulation in the US being done by Americans, even if there were Brittish people involved too.
Put a simplified and unified UI in front of Usenet with RGB LED's and put it on everyone's refrigerator, car infotainment accident distraction panel, smart watch, smart toilet. Have Carls Jr. fund it. Implement text-to-speech and speech-to-text. Talk to all your family and friends over Usenet via the smart watch, toilet, etc... What devices did I miss?
Free ad-supported European platforms would probably be acceptable. The issues are:

1) The EU would probably reject US-style moderation. They don't have the same level of tolerance for speech they disagree with. HN is up to what, its 3rd public moderator? The EU would probably have some sort of law that there must be some maximum number of mods per user if they had big social platforms. What if right-wingers say something without a mod looking over it? Europeans wouldn't stand for that sort of laxity or dang's obvious moderate bias.

2) The ad-supported aspect is likely to be problematic in the EU. The regulators seem pretty suspicious of that sort of thing.

3) A lot of the interesting people who were in Europe seem to get brain-drained to the US. Most of the interesting Europeans I know are US citizens because in the US they get paid well.
California now has more EV charging ports than gas nozzles
We don’t need Amazon. Hetzner, Nix, Elixir is enough to build a Social network.
Thanks for the response. I don't know if I'll have time to respond, I may, but in any case it's always good to write one's thoughts down.
Compilers produce verifiable results. Are we seriously comparing compilers to LLMs? It's like comparing math to sociology.
I try not to be cynical, but I honestly don't think they even care about that with all things being equal.

I'm talking about the 90+% of people, not the people we all probably know. It's not about elitism either, it's just human nature. People care about the ends, not the means.

Even with all things being equal, if you offer X covered in shinies, you will win over someone just offering X. Companies like Meta are very good at covering their products with shinies, and governments are not.
> Assume a group builds a social network just like Twitter, but with verified users, actually verified

Facebook tried this and as far as I can remember it was found illegal in Europe for a social network to require people to upload their ID, or use their real names.
As a very young boy in the 1950s or 60s, I bought a new flavor of Life Savers candy and enjoyed this new flavor so much I wrote the company complimenting them on the great flavor. Some time later, they sent me a box containing all their flavors of Life Savers.

Not the same thing but a comment on what things were like back in the day.
You can do this in many ways, but you can also do it like this:

Start a goroutine and use channels to communicate and coordinate reading/writing. Use defer in the goroutine.
> If you have a modern iPhone and don’t want the crazy hacks, a very very simple but effective tip is to power off your iPhone when exiting the aircraft. When the device powers up it is in “before first unlock” mode and is severely restricted in what it can do. The attack surface area is significantly reduced.

From a comment in the article:

"Schneier’s border crossing opsec advice is characteristically thorough, but the recommendation to simply ‘turn off your phone’ undersells modern forensic capabilities. As a security consultant who’s testified in border device seizure cases, I’ve seen CBP’s Cellebrite tools extract data from ‘off’ iPhones up to 72 hours post-shutdown via remnant charge in memory chips (see 2024 DEFCON demo). The article’s Faraday bag suggestion works, but only if activated before entering the 100-mile border zone – we’ve documented RFID sniffers in airport limo services."
That and the fact that most of those AI-generated web sites are clones of the thousand of applications that already exist, except that they now require an internet connection and a Google account for some reason.

His tool looks like a sticky note application with some Markdown inside. I'm pretty sure there are plugins that already can do this on Obsidian or any other text editor. It's funny to try to "vibe it" yourself but it's really useless in the long run since you'll be the one who will maintain it compared to the other projects with a good community behind.
Why? There's nothing to gain from it. You'd have to stand by your word on that network.
I think since the Snowden revelations it’s pretty clear there is no holds barred in terms of intelligence overreach from practically every angle and state.

What’s happening now, with the tariffs, is really wild (but ultra dumb imho) territory…
No. We need to let them die
I have heard this billionaire argument before and honestly it makes no sense to me. If we are to trust billionaires, because money, why not trust Soros for example ?
Germany may withdraw 1200-ton gold stockpile from US in riposte to Trump
https://archive.is/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/20...

https://archive.is/LCzAP
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Individual level action is insufficient to overpower network effects in the service of the public good of maintaining sovereignty. The desired outcome is just not connected to an individual's incentives to a strong enough degree. State action is needed.
So in short, the trust with tech is already way gone. And should be. For everything else? Well trump just blew that up
Navigating the Complexities of the Semiconductor Supply Chain (2024)
Lately the field of psychology is having a reproducibility crisis, but not these psychologists! This Time the study is not subject to any factors about the test set at all! Nothing about culture, age, socioeconomic status, health, weather, life events, or conversation partners is gonna stop these researchers from making blanket statements about 49 and 51% of humanity, respectively.

Thankfully they call out how inconclusive their conclusions are.

I would not recommend saying to friends “did you know they did a study and women speak more than men?” Because it’s only true for the population in the study (with all their cultural characteristics) and only for the moments the word detection apparatuses were on.
You can submit anything, the community decides if it's interesting enough.
Here's the thing. You can't force people to use a social network. Literally no one cares about this stuff.

There's a reason why there are like 5 social networks while thousands of people want to "make the next Facebook."

If Meta is a threat, then ban it. People will cry and maybe then new alternatives may emerge. But you still need skilled people who'd rather work for you than accept Facebook's $400k offers. Good luck with EU funding.
To steelman his argument, that falls under better data structure.
How did "A Christmas Carol" come to be? (2017)
Girl Talk: Are Women Better at Language? (2008)
That's a good summary, I basically agree. It's hardly describing a current and ongoing 'crisis' that the US hopefully doesn't deteriorate from its present position to the level of, though, is it?

I think if I were American I would be longing for the day that <insert Trump thing> 'remains a topic of debate because we haven't seen the promised benefit of it'!
Not sure if you are joking, but that’s not a clear summary of platonism.

Platonism does believe that forms exist separate from material instances; like, perfect spheres or triangles are “real,” even if there are no perfect spheres or triangle in the material world. That is a statement for the reality of the immaterial world, for platonists.

However, there are more than just these idealized forms in the immaterial world of forms. There aren’t just right triangles or perfect spheres, there are also forms that have complexity exceeding anything in the material world.

The world of forms might be thought of as the world of information, if that helps. However, it is subtlety different, since information is materially instantiated — and there appear to be hierarchies within the world of forms that somehow take precedence. Eg, the concept of 1 takes precedence over 363279.

The point is that there are forms of individual people, too, in platonism. Plato is vague about this in dialectic, but I believe Plotinus addresses it directly.
Other than the points already made in replies, there's the fact that the only thing discussed in those places is how terrible the thing they're trying to replace is.

Every so often I get curious about something like Mastadon or Bluesky because it comes up here again. So I head over to see whatsup, and it's just post after post about how terrible Twitter is, and how badly it's doing now. Okay, I get it, you moved from Twitter because of blah, can you move on to all the things you _wanted_ to post on Twitter now?
Homebrew has it