skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a hard problem, but it is also largely a solved problem since literally decades ago. If you were to start from scratch, you'd need to reinvent all of those things, which undoubtedly would make any such endeavor not worth it.

Of course, that doesn't make it worth it for just anyone to start making printers. But we see time and time again that where they fail nowadays is in UI, integration, and business models.

It's similar to the post on the first page about USB-C hubs, and graphics cards, and earphones. Typically you buy them as OEM stuff - very very few go through the trouble and design earphone drivers (loudspeakers) from scratch (etc). That, and reference designs. Visiting Shenzhen is an eye opener, browsing Aliexpress too :).
> While that is noble, what isn't is their arrogance and stubborn belief in their own correctness

While a lot of very cutting-edge physics is just mathematical theory without experimental proof, another whole lot of it do have enough experimental proof to be considered correct and complete under the right point of view.

> that everyone else is a bumbling idiot.

But that's exactly the issue :-) ! Well, not really, but how hard can it be? Let's do an example. I'm one of those people who doesn't understand quantum mechanics, so I'll do a search. The first result is a page in Wikipedia, which is heavy with historical fluff but it links to the right places under "Mathematical Formulation". Right in the page it mentions and links to Hilbert spaces, and to all other needed mathematical concepts. If I were to become an armchair quantum physicist, it would take me a few minutes to understand it's all about the math. My next steps would be to buy a $1 paper notebook and a $2 pen, and start my journey. I'm sure that with a little digging, textbooks on quantum mechanics can be found for free. Will it take years for my understanding to advance from point A to point B? Very likely.

There is one thing however that I see causes severe issues over the place: people won't do math. It is not just about quantum-physics, but also stuff as mundane as compound interest or investment risk. The amount of missed opportunities and well-being for the dislike of math is astounding. Maybe, as a society, we should do better in that area.
I'm not the one filled with hate here.
Yes, yet more public assets are being sold off to private concerns, this time for doing things the current government doesn't like, but look at the positive side: their online streaming might become less buggy /s
Boris is letting Nadine Dorries do what she wants as a thank you for her unswerving loyalty. It's incredible someone so incompetent and frankly, stupid, is a cabinet minister.
I spent a lot of time having lunch by the banks of the Torrens, and rowing 4s and 8s on the river. Would be sad to see the banks overrun by buildings (ala hawaii beaches), public access or not.
Wow these are just excellent and even though it says spacecraft design most of them ring just as true for software design.. or maybe just true in general!

This one really made me laugh :D

> At the start of any design effort, the person who most wants to be team leader is least likely to be capable of it.

What an excellent link, thanks for sharing. Definitely bookmarking this.
Book Review: Robert E. Lee: A Life by Allen Guelzo
I'd add my anecdotal evidence that namecheap doesn't do this. I've searched quite a few domains on namecheap and then bought them months later without issue. I have had this issue (although of course it's impossible to know for sure who's registered the domain) with GoDaddy and Gandi.
There's no universe where a typical tiny customer is going to be able to impose policy on a large vendor, and there's just not that many vendors in this space. So, yes, I could go with "We're not going to use Github or Gitlab or any similar vendor because they don't meet our needs in this respect" but then I'm probably going to spend a bunch of time explaining to my board why we're reimplementing issue tracking and CI and that's likely to be some rough chuckles.
Why does the author assume we want to associate a bearer token with hardware at all? When my services issue a JWT, I am issuing a right to talk to my service. If you want to take that token and move it to your phone, neat good for you. If someone steals your laptop and dumps the secret, that's sure as hell not my problem to solve. The application layer is not the appropriate place to apply a mitigation for a user's laptop getting stolen (even if you in theory could).
Honestly, I do not know in witch country you live in, but here (France) the cost per km of an EV is essentially on par on a common gas ones (diesel are still a bit cheap). Perhaps large and not much tuned USA gas engines and USA prices are different but half the cost per unit distance is very bold.

Not only: personally I live in a home with a domestic p.v. so I can almost charge "for free", since WFH makes less usage of cars, witch are typically used during the day, so exactly when the p.v. can charge them for free, but using them less makes possible recharge one day for another etc. but most people do not WFH, and potentially only around 30% of total work population can and probably only 10-12% of us can do so from a home with domestic p.v. speaking at latitudes where p.v. make sense, otherwise the sole option is micro-hydro witch is potentially available only for veeeeery few. Not even only that: an ICE car can potentially last more than a decade, so people who cant afford frequent changes a car is a significant investment once in 10+ years, or a far little investments (used cars) once in 5+ years. EV have essentially ZERO resale value, so the little capex for those who can't afford more is not an option, and even facing that expensive capex if used frequently mean EV can last 5 years, after the battery became too fable for most usage, 8 years if less intensive usage, but 10 years at 80% IME is more theoretical than something else. Not even counting tech shift that can make a car un-rechargeble perhaps because inverters after 5 years have switched from AC to DC from X volt to Y from one phase to three etc.

For me, with the little daily car usage, with domestic p.v. in a place good enough for it, an E.V. will be cheaper when diesel will cost around 4 euros per liter (16-17 USD per US gallon), witch is the double of the actual price, and actually due to diesel hi prices there are protests everyday around the country. I know that it will happen, but so far IMVHO the sole interesting EV are just bicycle for people living in a flat, bike-friendly city and climate with all service/work/school near enough to do almost anything with the bicycle...

Rooftop solar on cars is ridiculous, at maximum on the surface of a Tesla model 3 it can produce 400Wp few hours a day, not even enough for air-con, it can just be an option if you live the car for months in a sunny place just to have it charged when you came back.
lately I've indulged myself into finding a 3/4 letter domain and there is a surprising amount left unregistered even on .org, not to mention all the new domain TLDs.

this guy asked me "why would you want a 3 letter domain" and i could only answer that with "dunno. bragging rights maybe".
Of course it's not impossible, they could do it if they wanted to, but that's not what would happen. That's not how anyone does it. Inevitably they would add ads at approximately the current price, and raise the price of the ad-free tier.
The photo from the plane perspective[0] looks surreal… almost like someone superimposed the approach lights onto the residential block. Very impressive, in its way!

[0] https://wongm.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Adelaide-Approa...
Nature Unfolding
You can't change 1 bit, each base contains 2 bits of information.

We can compare each base vs ancestor bases, eg primates and other vertebrates - called conservation scores.

Some areas are highly conserved, so changing those will probably have worse outcomes than less conserved regions.
> Private ownership of the media is a direct path to authoritarianism

State owned media can be a more direct path.
I just gave you an example of someone who was still in as a billionaire.
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That's another no-brainer to why I shouldn't pay for a TV License. I'm not going to support an organisation which cuts off my Scottish PM, refuses air importance. Produces poor quality entertainment and now wanting to sell a decent broadcaster from the UK.

No seriously, to the down-voters; in the UK you have to pay a TV license. I find the quality of BBC programming really poor. C4 was decent, but if the government is going to sell to a media empire, I do not want to give further money to the government. And I am aware channel four does not receive money from the TV License but they are still owned by the British Government.
From what I understand, producing a fusion reaction isn't the hardest part, it's maintaining it, extracting energy from it and preventing all the stuff containing the plasma from becoming radioactive. So I think by now generating a fusion reaction is not exactly breakthrough anymore? Sure the method is novel but I don't see how it helps with all the other stuff that's needed to make it useful.
Or we could invent better solutions where we didn't need to depend on policies imposed by vendors? The value that Github provides isn't around their git hosting, it's all the integrated features. Reimplementing that isn't going to be trivial - there's a reason so many people use hosted Git rather than doing it themselves.
That is absolutely fine, and you can learn a lot with that sort of approach. It really depends on your objective.

The only thing to keep in mind is that writing software for business (e.g. SaaS) requires the exact opposite approach. You go lean, write what other people want, and go for an MVP first.
No I am not crypto mining. Please mind I said 'energy', it includes gas. Electric is about 175 euros
Well very much in the contrary! I think it's very odd that in a democracy we allow dozens of channels and hundreds of newspapers to be controlled by one, or a very small number, of media conglomerates answerable only to unelected, unaccountable elite billionaires. The stage is set for massive abuses of power and a media which only talks about what it is instructed to, in the manner it is instructed to.

The state (not the government!) might own the company, but it is run by an independent board which is (or is supposed to be) totally independent from the sitting government.

Anecdotally, in my country the public broadcaster is not only by far the highest quality channel but also the one that is most consistently being a nuisance to people in power.
to quote Wikipedia:

A fusion energy gain factor, usually expressed with the symbol Q, is the ratio of fusion power produced in a nuclear fusion reactor to the power required to maintain the plasma in steady state. The condition of Q = 1, when the power being released by the fusion reactions is equal to the required heating power, is referred to as breakeven, or in some sources, scientific breakeven.

TL;DR: high Q = free unlimited energy!!!! low Q = "fusion is 30 years away"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_energy_gain_factor
They did end up on the HN front-page, so maybe it was money well invested as a marketing ploy, at least this once.

I don't think this is a move you can copy though, the next company who pays way too much for their domain are unlikely to end up here.

It seems being the first to do something stupid gets you a lot of attention. Marketing is weird.
I don't know if .com specifically matters, but buying a domain under control of a foreign government is definitely a risky choice. I have no direct reason to mistrust the administration of the British Indian Ocean Territory, but if there's ever a problem between whoever controls the military bases in there and your local government, you're in for quite a mess. A lot of vanity TLDs have this problem, some worse than others.

I don't think general consumers care all that much, though the older consumers may have learned that .com means commercial and may distrust foreign/fancy/modern TLDs (or get confused about them, like typing in rootlocus.tech.com instead of rootlocus.tech, for example).
I was thinking the same thing.

More succinctly though. "You first."
We already have the BBC - why do we need a second state broadcaster?
Oops, mislaid it and my library card, sorry about the late fee...

Speaking of 'thefts' from university libraries, I remember back from my undergraduate days there was a crackdown following apparent losses (unfindable books apparently checked in) wherein the uni instituted a big upgrade in physical security, personnel, entry/exit scanners and book tags, unopenable windows - particularly sweltering in summer. Still, after some weeks more books were going missing. Head of Informatics looked into it, and quickly spotted the problem - they were using a default admin password on their VAX library management software, and it had been passed around liberally. He further needed to explain to them how easy it would be to virtually check-in a physically checked-out book, or just delete the reservation record, before they understood.
They don’t receive license fee funding
Better use another another frontend, to avoid all the issues and bugs of YouTube's video player and avoid loading tons and tons of unnecessary crap.
They make more money that actual quality programming.

Why was there lead in gas, why was cigarette advertising so huge, etc etc.
You're free to assert that it's not your issue to solve, and I'm free to assert that I'm not using your service as a result. It is possible to provide equivalent functionality without it being trivial to exfiltrate authentication tokens to other devices, and I can't see any good reasons for refusing to do so.
Microsoft Arms Azure VMs with Ampere Altra Chips
It’s hard to believe channel 4 needs to be privatised in order to get better at streaming. All you need to do is look at BBC iPlayer, which is miles better.
I've never been convinced by very structured digital information systems. I usually have reference documents for projects, but they end up looking very different for each project. Lists of TODOs, a directory with images and documents, random ideas an small notes, more structured text, source code, source code with data, a notebook with random notes and thought ...

For task and calendar management GTD has everything I need, and try to keep the system as simple as possible, usually in paper and just moving a few things to digital if it really adds value. Then the project reference material itself can be more messy and be used to generate new next actions and other GTD items, as long as GTD itself is kept tidy the chaos in the reference material doesn't have much impact in the general planning.
Z16 – IBM
Because outside of the tech industry, not many people know about the .io TLD. If you have a company, I think it's natural that many people's first thought would be to go to <company name>.com (if they don't google it)

If someone saw that <company name>.com doesn't exist, they might think your company doesn't exist or is a scam
I, as your customer, don't control your expiration time. But I, as your customer, would like to be able to apply my choice of policy to tokens that you issue that grant someone access to my data, because otherwise I don't control access to my data.
Ask HN: How do (big/regulated) tech companies deploy?
I mainly worked in and within the traditional german finance sector. They are very rigid in having multiple and isolated staging environments, but this comes with many drawbacks, not only on speed. I want to make it different but miss the ideas, and I don't want to reinvent the wheel.

Does big tech uses staging in terms of isolated environments?
Or do they use feature flags and canary releases, which would mean potential bugs could always slip through?
How do regulated companies like Stripe deal with it?
How do you perform end-to-end tests in the chain?

I would be curious how a feature finally finds its way from the dev machine to fully rolled out in production. I am thankful for resources about this topic or direct experience from the HN community.
>>When the government is "aligned" with the same media moguls who control the media (TV, newspapers) you have a huge problem for a democracy.

So like in the USA then?
I don’t get this article. How are you supposed to validate hardware? There’s no API for that. You can bind session to IP but that wouldn’t work for modern mobile connections.

Ideally hardware should have protected private key with manufacturer signature. And API to sign something. Then you can bind session to hardware. But that’s not available today.
> How would that be verified? Any information the client sends to the server can be spoofed by another fake client.

I'm obviously not understanding how bearer tokens work (another user downthread also contends that fingerprint will work, so I'm pretty certain at this point that I have the wrong mental model).

My understanding is as follows:

1. Client logs into gmail/google/facebook/wherever, and gets a signed token-generating-token.

2. Client goes to legit SiteA. SiteA has no access to the token-generating-token granted in #1 above.

3. SiteA pops up "continue with google/fb/etc" and user clicks "continue", at which point google/fb/etc gets a request for a new token using the TGT to authenticate the user.

4. The final-token is returned to the client, and can be sent to SiteA by the client as proof of identity.

5. SiteA can verify final-token with google/fb/etc.

My question is, why can't the token-generating-token (TGT) embed the hashed fingerprint[1], which is generated by the issuing server, and will never be seen by SiteA?

The final-token can use that hash as added entropy into the salt used for the key that signs final-token, because the issuing server will have the fingerprint-hash that allows it to check the signature of any final-token relayed to it.

[1] Browser-fingerprinting may not be totally unique, but it should be good enough (so, you don't include the IP, but the issuing server can figure out what country it is and use that instead.)
Ugh Yeah.. I am so so happy that I stayed away from unsocial media from the start.. Took one look at it in the early days and decided to nope out! Can't wait until SM collapses under it's own hate and the net, fandoms and discourse can go back to where it belongs. Small to medium sites and dedicated message forums.
"union" is banned? It may be a problem when discussing SQL queries.

Other terms from the article that can be used in technical discussions: "master", "slave", "robots", "accessibility". Special mention for "fire", which is an Amazon product.

Anyways, Amazon denies it, and I tend to believe them for that reason.
> The one I've found that works well is ignoring the deceitful liars.

That doesn't work if a large number of your fellow citizens believe them.
Did it also influence your social relationships ? the people you ended up being friends with (or not if you didn't have the energy or reflexes to be social, can happen too).

Asking because often, people with some traits will click will similar minded people, anxious with anxious etc, which doesn't help rewiring your brain. And I assume having various kinds of people around helps finding better models, for expression, handling emotions, etc etc

take care
State owned, not state funded. Pretty easy to understand distinction so I assume you're wilfully misrepresenting the situation.
If I’m checking if a domain is free, I usually use ”nslookup example.com” or ”dig example.com” — if they return NXDOMAIN, it is not reserved yet. I haven’t had an issue at least with namecheap when registering them, granted the domains I have booked have not been anything super special, so YMMV.
Useful Tools for DevOps
If a user decides to logout from certain device, or when you need to log out an active session early
> Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries said: "Channel 4 rightly holds a cherished place in British life and I want that to remain the case. I have come to the conclusion that government ownership is holding Channel 4 back from competing against streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon. A change of ownership will give Channel 4 the tools and freedom to flourish and thrive as a public service broadcaster long into the future."

Errr, how is BBC4 going to be a public service broadcaster at all if it becomes private?
This will alternate between two different tones, one representing 0 and another representing one, each bit lasting 50 ms, giving a bitrate of 20 bits/s. This is obviously rather slow, so more a fun weekend experiment than a practical tool.

There is a really deep rabbit hole when it comes to doing this more efficiently, getting into signal processing, modulation, encoding, error correction and more.

And of cause, things like modems, tape storage on c64 and other home computers did this a long time ago. It is just that audio has such a low bandwidth that it is not possible to get up to the bandwidth we expect these days.
Your terminology is really confused. UEFI is the firmware that boots the computer and is a replacement for a BIOS. There are no "BIOS settings" on modern computers.
Interesting to note that the review for the same book in the conservative Claremont Review of Books (for which Guelzo is a contributor) also largely concurs with the author's critical assessment[1].

Christopher Caldwell's treatment is more sympathetic, and gives a better overview of the historical reception of Lee's reputation[2]. Caldwell brought to my attention Charles Francis Adams' collection of essays, the first and last of which deal with Lee[3]. Adams was a scion of that famous family, and fought for the Union during the war, so it's absolutely fascinating to read him and find out how a member of the Northern aristocracy thought about Lee and his reputation about 40 years after the Civil War.

[1] https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/on-and-off-the-pedestal/

[2] https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/there-goes-robert-e-lee/

[3] https://archive.org/details/leeatappomattoxo00adam_0
If being mutually exclusive is a fact, the individual cannot determine the laws of nature.
>At any rate, I don't care if it only works one in ten times

>you are asking me to disbelieve plain evidence
Yup, pretty much all of these are true.. for a lot of the new net and all of SM.. but especially twitter.
You don't verify the hardware directly. You provide a mechanism for client certificate validation (I issue the certs, I can assert that they're tied to hardware), and you provide a callback for validating device state (I define the validation policy, I compare that against the data that I have and say yes or no). It's not about services taking responsibility for this themselves, it's about providing mechanisms for customers to have their own policies enforced.
How exactly does the specialized upsampler work I wonder?

I always expect video codec announcements to be about neural networks these days.
Open a $100 bank account for him, login, and then take it to small claims court so you can buy a better laptop for him.
Who’s going to train all your citizens if you don’t have any professional soldiers? Who’s going to lead them? As the article says, the knowledge of how to fight can’t be generated from nothing on the day that you suddenly need it. You need some kind of cadre to maintain skills and knowledge.