skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tldr: These guys suffered rapid, progressive failures of their thruster control loops in orbit. They were close to either being stranded in space or impacting the station, in what might have been a lethal circumstance. Rebooting regained them just enough control authority to dock, and they did; Nobody wanted to risk touching the capsule after, not knowing how many minutes the thrusters would still be operational.
> My will is my ability to weigh up options but it's not 'free'.

In what way? What do you want when you want it to be free?

Maybe the problem is just that "deterministic" and "random" both sound like "you don't get options". But you do get options. Then, subject to probabilities, you choose between them, like a process. Your will has to be a process: what else could it be?
> Why are you suddenly, when faced with data that doesn't fit your narrative, using that word when it was nowhere to be found in the original discussion?

The world is always relative. Otherwise if you want it in absolute terms, the US is the world's 2nd largest global manufacturer. What manufacturing do you need to bring back then?

> If the interests of UK and China ever seriously clashed and led to a conflict, yes, they would

Who clashed with who? The US has no real conflict with China. Most US companies and citizens are happily using China made products before the tariffs. Lots of US companies sell to China. Where's the issue?

Oh you mean what's been said by certain political parties and the media for their own gains?

> I can't believe that military capabilities and force projection in the modern world need to be explained on a website meant for professionals.

Exactly right. As if the military is ONLY about the navy. Then don't slice and dice it as you please. Who says the US is weak? I didn't.
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Compiling Oberon to native code, nice!

Since Oberon is as much a compiler as it's a complete system, a big part of the work is to integrate that system into its host. It seems they've done it for files and stdin/stdout, but not for the graphical system yet (through SDL or something). I wonder if it's on their roadmap.

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Maybe try out promising alternatives such as netbird, teleport, zerotier, etc
It’s this one from Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box: https://layton.fandom.com/wiki/Puzzle:Colin%27s_Score
Yes. The USA is setting Europe up, unintentionally, to replace it as an economic, cultural, and - within the next decade - military power.
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Hard to see how this benefits anyone. Or who's going to be hurt more by it. America's tariff move under Trump is a symptom of mass psychosis. But I think China's response is a huge gamble that the psychosis can be broken with careful application of pain - before that pain hurts China even more.

Personally, I buy almost no consumer products, and it's true that most people in the US who backed Trump are debtors and consumers who are going to see prices go through the roof. But there is no guarantee they will blame their leader. The cognitive dissonance implies they will blame anyone else. There is some hope that they'll revolt against Trump if things get bad enough, the way there's some hope for democracy in China, I suppose. But at the same time, I don't know that China's aggressive response is going to politically move things in that direction, because it's so easy for the nationalists to rally around the flag - regardless of the economic pain they're experiencing. China itself knows this and leverages it with its own nationalists. And this response is going to cost China dearly. It may be counterproductive. Then again, I think it's a bold move, and if I were in China's position I think I would have to try the same and wait to see how long it takes for America to cry uncle.
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To be fair, this is one of the hardest puzzles in the game.
The only other e-paper device that I had was a small nook many years ago. As far as connecting with people, I think quite well? The only social media I really use is bluesky, which has been really nice. Otherwise I keep in touch with my meatspace friends either over SMS (I use JMP Chat for SMS over XMPP on any device) or Signal (I use the molly.im client, which is easier to use without a cell phone (particularly because you can't scan QR codes on the Daylight)).

Ironically I actually feel like I experience far less FOMO than when I was hyper connected too :P
Beyond just checking for mistakes, it would be interesting to see if Cyc has concepts that the LLMs don't or vice versa. Can we determine this by examining the models' internals?
The length of winter nights in Europe vary from 14.3[0] hours to 52 days[1].

Transmission losses are subject to engineering, and can be as low as you're willing to spend money to get them — as in, if the world all suddenly (magically and unrealistically) decided to be friends, you could put a girdle around the world with only 1 Ω resistance using existing manufacturing capacity[2].

[0] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Tarifa+Spain+sunrise+21...

[1] https://www.finavia.fi/en/newsroom/2023/what-polar-night-exp...

[2] ~ 12 months global aluminium production, but you could do it
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Really, is any of this a surprise? Such studies have been saying roughly the same thing for decades. I guess the only thing that’s different now is a vocal group of deniers (fat liberation movement, National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, etc.) now with social media platforms but even they’re still quite fringey.
It's surprising how far Brazil has come in terms of financial transactions. Truly something amazing.

It's also unsurprising to see outlets like The Economist somewhat criticise this, along with fintech corporations, because the government is offering a free and high quality alternative to something that companies would have done exactly the same but for money.
Big tech's new datacentres will take water from the driest areas
Thanks. Interestingly, strace speeds up the operation. What took 50s after a cache drop now becomes immediate with "strace -f ls -U".

Dropping the cache and doing "time ls -U" gives:

real 0m51,204s
user 0m0,116s
sys 0m0,718s

Update: never mind, it appears to be something in my shell. Switching to tcsh completely eradicated the problem.
it's a 1:1 when you convert a stable to USD - some exchanges might take a small fee like 0.01% or so ... On Coinbase it's a 1:1 https://www.coinbase.com/en-de/converter/usdc/usd
The irony is that Cloudflare actually offers free static hosting with unlimited traffic, this just seems to run on a Cloudflare compute service for some reason?
Perhaps it’s server rendered.
Firefox doesn't have this feature at all.
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It's an interesting thought experiment / philosophy / sci fi story premise though; if he spent all those years encoding his own thought processes and decision making into a program, would he have been able to create a convincing facsimile of himself and his "consciousness"? A turing test with a chatbot based on decades of self-reflection.
Hands up everyone who thinks the mandatory GPT use mentioned in the post drives towards instructing 'Summarize all employee input since last review and score their performance for salary changes. Also recommend whether to fire or retain. Also format all valuable actions taken for use as training data'
Just basic empathy I guess. Some people want good for others, even those they will never meet. It’s why disaster aid flows in from all over the world. Understood that it’s incomprehensible to some people, but I think that’s a small minority.
China to raise reciprocal tariffs on U.S. goods to 84%
Aren't there closed circuit solutions?
I happen to disagree with you here, but ironically therefore am suspicious of this "finding". It seems to both tell us that impartiality is contextual and relative, but also that it objectively exists and can be measured. The whole thing in incoherent.

I think the bigger problem with our information diet is that we're constantly exposed to grade school level analysis that any twentieth century newspaper editor would have laughed out of the newsroom, whether they worked for the Wall Street Journal or Pravda. I'm ok with far right and far left rags sharing newsstand space (metaphorically) with establishment mainstream papers, but in 2025 very little of what we read is fit to be in a proper newspaper, including most of the stuff that actually is. Instead we get sloppy analysis like this that polarizes without illuminating anything. Even a committed Nazi can read The Nation and actually learn something. The same is not true of a committed Marxist reading the average right wing Substack.
I'm curious what your illegal and disorderly path is specifically.
> The key is sexually objectifying (recognising an attraction) whilst respecting said individual.

This sounds like an oxymoron.
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SEPA payments are quite expensive though, which most likely explains the prevalence of local payment system in every country.

The transaction cost compared to most domestic systems is absurdly high.
I mean if I were to oversimplify and over-abstract AGI into a long list of if / elses, that's how I'd go about it. It's just that there's A Lot to consider.
More and more I am coming to hate the term "tech elites"; it playes into the lie that these people have, themselves, any sort of "elite" status in the field, rather than the reality that they are just wealthy owners of big companies; some by luck, some by inheritance.

And people like Musk are increasingly making use of this misconception to justify their opinions with fake authority, as someone who understands tech rather than someone who owns companies that employs people who understand tech.

It's becoming more and more important to remind people that no, these people aren't in any way different from the rest of the wealthy owning class; they aren't smarter, they didn't pull themselves up by the bootstraps, they simply pay qualified people to make them money, and their only value to society is the capital they own.
I've been with them a while also and haven't noticed a huge change apart for switching the colour from blue to green?

Site from 4 years ago "The cheap, fast way to send money abroad" https://web.archive.org/web/20210305145221/https://wise.com/

vs now "Send money globally for less" wise.com
https://archive.ph/foNlz
> Your employer is bad and they should feel bad!

For the record, my employer is Google.

They call this process the Invention Assignment Review Committee or IARC.

From what I understand, the process is not actually enforceable anyway. Code I write related to my job is owned by them; other code I write is owned by me. I don't necessarily have to go through their process for this to be true. And their lawyers certainly know this.

I've done it once, and the process is lightweight. And I probably could ignore it in practice with no one actually caring. But the fact that the process even exists is enough of a blocker that I don't readily publish my hobby projects anymore, and that's kinda shitty.
Sure not, he is just a common type of brazilians we have here called "viralatas".
I still use search engines, and not ChatGPT or any LLM as my primary behaviour.

Of course, I have used Phind and other LLMs, and the results sometimes are useful, but in general the information they give back feels like a summary written for the “Explain Like I'm Five” crowd, it just gives me more questions than answers, and frustrates me more than it helps me.

Where LLMs excel is when I don't know the exact search term to use for some particular concept. I ask the LLM about something, it answers with the right terms I can use in a search engine to find what I want, then I use these terms instead of my own words, and what I want is in the search results, in the first page.
Im pretty sure thats not correct, as you can authorise the nodes that get added, and it is only authorised nodes that can participate in the tailnet.

The problem IIRC is that it is the coordination server that decides what is authorised, so if Tailscale was hacked (or otherwise malicious), nodes could get added to your tailnet without explicit authorisation from the tailnet "owner", which is obviously not good. To prevent this, they introduced tailnet-lock, which requires other peers to participate in node authentication: https://tailscale.com/kb/1226/tailnet-lock#how-it-works
it's "less efficient" only because there is currently no meaningful externality priced into the natural gas supply chain. This might change in the future ;)
> Confine yourself into the prison of someone else’s walled garden at no additional cost.

Objection, your honor: At great additional cost.
There's a reason why our government doesn't do anything that you can squint into a monopoly, the EU comes after us with pitchforks when we implement government monopolies. So the alternative is regulating some standard that a private organization implements and hope regulations are sound enough to not be exploited, or pray self regulation works.

That's why our railways are falling apart and why we have 2500 pharmacies but people up north have to travel to the town 100k away to get meds.

I wish the government that we elect every 4 years with public voting and kindergarten bartering could take ownership of things that are essential to life in Sweden, but nop it's all privatized so the companies can optimize profits by removing utility (BankID seems to be an exception here where the incentives align between companies and citizens).
It’s pretty hobbled compared with OG Tailscale, so much so that I moved completely to self-hosted NetBird and haven’t looked back.
Edge @ work: "Hmmm… can't reach this page www.moohar.com refused to connect."

https://web.archive.org/web/20250407003816/http://www.moohar...
.. along with naming things and off by one errors.
While I know there have been plenty of scathing essays, backlash among various communities, etc. do you have some concrete examples of the clear lines being drawn and legislation that gives you this optimism?

Maybe the progress you’re describing has escaped me because of the sheer speed this is all unfolding, but it feels like all I’ve heard is lots of noise, while AI companies continue to hammer hosted resources across the Internet to build their next model, the US government continues to claim they’ll use AI to solve problems of waste and fraud, companies like Shopify claim they won’t hire anyone unless it can be proven that AI cannot do the job, and an increasing % of the content I encounter is AI slop.

Maybe this is all necessary for a proper backlash to form, and I definitely want to become more aware of the positives anywhere I can find them. I’m not an AI doomer, but haven’t yet found the optimism you describe.
There is a open source clone for the Tailscale server named headscale fwiw.
The PIX QR codes are URLs without the preceding https://

Scanning a PIX QR code with your camera will just result in text, not a payable URL. You have to scan it in your online banking app for it to be processed as something.

Your banking app will load the details about the payment and you'll see the recipient details before performing the payment.

Even with regular barcode payments, these barcodes are registered with the bank before it's a valid barcode. A lookup is done, if it exists the recipient details are displayed, often the amount, and verifications that it has not expired. (Do not receive after date X)

Brazil has a pretty decent banking system, though the worst online-banking experience I've ever had. (Slowly improving)
Nitpick: Units never belong in [].
It is [height] = cm. not height [cm].

Graphs are labeled wrongly in 8 out of 10 academic papers, too. First semesters learn this rule and forget it by third semester since it looks cooler. And height/cm as label seemingly does not?
Its author was supposedly pretty good at algorithms. I think he may have even written a book or four about them. So I suspect it’s decently optimized.
Cryptocurrencies seem to have settled into a different use case. No good for paying for coffee, but good for gambling.

Like if you want to bet on "Elon out of Trump administration before July?" you kind of have to go to polymarket or similar. (current price 41c)
Arguably, it can make it less secure by reducing the user's control over what content the browser loads or what scripts it executes. For example, users may be using extensions to selectively replace harmful content (like intrusive JavaScript, tracking) with benign content. It is a balance between security for the user and security for the website owner.
HOGWILD! Inference – parallel LLM chain-of-thought with shared attention
It's fair to say that Boeing's status within their industries enabled them to slide down the slippery slope of quality and reliability. SpaceX does seem to become more dominant over time.

But to actually go down that path also requires a culture of management by non-engineers (MBAs have a bad rep for a reason). SpaceX, at least for now, has a strong engineering culture and does not seem at risk of becoming one.

In other words, status is necessary but not sufficient for enshittification.
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> Research has consistently shown that the burning of wood pellets produces more carbon emissions per unit of energy than coal

Links to an article trying to bullshit its way out of the inescapable fact that any carbon emitted by wood burning comes from the atmosphere and returns to the same atmosphere.
In concrete terms, America crying 'Uncle' equates to Trump losing so much popularity that he becomes a nonentity. Trump wields power only to the extent the Republican establishment respects and fears him.
But.. the researchers.. ok.. they can do this for you.
Their research though? Does the 'so far collected/produced' information belong to someone else? Some other company X Uni, that (the company) funded the so-far research?)
We do know in general how LLMs work. Now, it's of course not always possible to say why a specific output is generated given an input, but we do know HOW it does it.

To translate it to your analogy with dogs: We do know how the anatomy of dogs work, but we do not know why they sometimes fetch the stick and sometimes not.
Mozilla's finally realizing what my paranoid uncle has been shouting for years: "They're coming for your browser UI!"Jokes aside, it's pretty cool seeing them implement CSP in the front-end. Kind of like putting a security guard at the entrance of a bank that already has 50 guards inside. But hey, that 51st guard might be the one who catches the bad guy!The separation between privileged and unprivileged processes reminds me of my relationship with coffee - I know I shouldn't let it access my system too often, but somehow it always finds a way in.What's actually impressive is how Firefox keeps evolving despite being around forever (in internet years). Most of us would have given up and said "eh, good enough" years ago. Next thing you know they'll be securing the about:config page with a pop quiz on quantum physics.
I think they’re about the same in complexity, other than that Postgres offers more options. MySQL did have logical replication long before Postgres, so I’ll give it that.

Postgres has one option for replication that is a godsend, though: copy_data. This lets you stand up a new replica without having to first do a dump / restore (assuming your tables are small enough / your disk is large enough, since the primary will be holding WAL during the initial sync). Tbf, MySQL doesn’t need that as much, because it offers parallel dump and restore, even on a single table.
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Boeing had a strong engineering culture. Things can change quick.
> safety reviews, tests, updated procedures and flight rules, and endless other paperwork to make sure neither the crew nor the space station are put in any risk.

And no one involved in these tasks has any reason to do it quickly or on time.
I don't see it as crushing the search engines.

I use the LLMs to find the right search terms, and that combination makes search engines much more useful.

LLM by themselves give me very superficial explanations that don't answer what I want, but they are also a great starting point that will eventually guide me to the answers.
FWIW I have no problems (and see no ads) on the site running a pihole dns-based blocker on my network.

In-browser blockers are interesting because they’re actually modifying the DOM, and any JavaScript which expects the DOM to have certain elements, and doesn’t handle them being missing, can cause these kinds of failures. Network-level blocking should at least cause the requests to the ad services to fail in the first place, which has a much higher likelihood of being a tested code path (ie. Not breaking the site just because a request failed.)

Basically I’m not surprised that in-browser, DOM-manipulating ad blockers cause failures in a lot of sites’ JavaScript, and I wouldn’t necessarily chalk it up to maliciousness on Slashdot’s part.
"slashdot". now there's a name I've not heard in a very long time
The best programmers I know have traits that tells me they could be the best anything I know.
They just really care, the are professionals and want to do their best.
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No, it's explained more in the issue. An extension is a part of the "User Agent". The CSP header in FF is almost seemingly arbitrarily applied to extensions.
>I keep seeing people advocating that the idea that we should build everything, and every piece or everything

Here's another idea. A country should build whatever makes economic sense and it should be able to produce almost anything. It should not depend much on others for key technologies or industries.

The idea is not to isolate from others but extract the maximum economic benefits while surviving with if a war starts or alliances start shifting.
> we already protect our economy…aircraft carriers…subs…weapons

Except when the threat to your economy and security isn’t something against which those weapons will ever be effective. Even the USS John F. Kennedy, as wonderful as I’m sure it is, won’t fix the giant foot gun that is presently threatening your economy and security.
"Slopper" maybe not, but "slophead"...
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