skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Along with the Frenchman Robert Esnault-Pelterie, the Germans Hermann Oberth and Fritz von Opel, and the American Robert H. Goddard, he is one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics.

Same as with aviation and some other fields, rocketry and astronautics has many "fathers", mostly because of nations stressing the contributions of their compatriots. Oberth can not only be claimed by Germany (where he studied and worked), but also by Romania (where the city where he was born and spent his formative years is located today, and where he also worked later) and potentially also Austria/Hungary (which the city was part of at the time he was born).
How can I check if a connection is TLS or STARTTLS?
If you try to create a non trivial sequence diagram with a slide deck editor you will become aggravated in a couple of minutes. Now repeat the same thing for a couple scenario diagrams more trying to connect arrows here and there and I guarantee you will throw your computer to a wall.
What you say is 100% true. And also 100% irrelevant to the topic at hand. The latter is the problem.
most people are pathetically bad at their jobs, the sooner you realise that the better

sometimes thats you, so you should always reflect and improve
isn't e-beam lithography denser than photolithography, and thus used to make masks?
Programmers tend to have a disproportionate affinity towards plain text, me included. But this is an intriguing argument so now I'm reconsidering. Maybe plain text is just someone else's unparsed junk.
I like how Chesterton’s Fence example actually is a huge pro to not letting unquestionably the fence in the middle of the road.

If there is no documentation on it, no-one around to pro-actively explain why it’s there, then the most economical way to see if it had any positive value is to stash it and see what happen.

That doesn’t mean it’s always the most rational thing to do, of course. Throwing POSIX away doesn’t qualify with a situation where there is a lake of provided documentation or a missing obvious purpose.

The fallacy is well confined in these two sentences:

>However, before they decide to remove it, they must figure out why it exists in the first place. If they do not do this, they are likely to do more harm than good with its removal.

Actually, assuming you don’t know consequences of removing the fence, you also have to assume that you don’t know consequences of letting the fence in place, which might just as well turn to a dramatic situation. What is for sure, if nothing around can explain its purpose, is that it was placed here by people to negligent to induce the right clues about it. So, who know to which level their laxity might have reach?

Remove the fence unless someone know why it was put up in the first place, and the rational still hold.
I notice from your blog that you have links to a number of commercial services including Keybase. Keybase is another really great example of the disconnect between the underlying open source (GPG, etc) and something that is easily approachable and just lets people get on with the things they want to do.

We shouldn't use Keybase, but the nearest alternative open-source, Keyoxide, is not functional unless you're an engineer. Keybase on the other hand is perfectly usable without being an expert in the underlying cryptography.

Similarly Github has a huge number of features that a usable by people that aren't developers (PRs etc).

If you want a point to your side, GIMP is a bad hill to die on. Blender is a much better example of a tool that we should be teaching as opposed to Autodesk Maya (etc).

That's the thing with Blender though, it has feature parity with the things it's competing with and a community and network effect. For something open source to compete with GitHub it would need to be so much more than Git and offer the community and discovery that forms a big part of the "open" GitHub.

In the meantime people need to get things done. NOT teaching them the tool they're inevitably going to use is just a pointless battle to fight. Better to create the alternative first and lure people with straight up feature benefits.
Then it's an interesting thing to bother even pursuing?

I actually noticed this the more I play around with AI art, it's cool that we can do it, but I actually wonder if unlimited access to randomly generated art is actually useful? This becomes even more true when we're talking about novels, which are already hard to read (time constraints).

I was playing with DALL-E 2 today when I was bored and then it kind of hit me that there is almost no actual point to it all. Even if every time I clicked the button it painted a Van Gough, who cares?

I'm almost certain that there is more to like behind a painting then the painting itself, there is the story. For example my Dad is a painter so I like the painting because he painted it, yes it's a pleasant painting but that's not entirely the point. It's also that he painted it specifically for me with scenes that I actually know from my home town.

My cousin is an art collector, when we he shows me something new , we're 99% interested in the story behind the art. The tribe who carved a sculpture, it's age, previous owners etc.

I also own a painting which someone gave me because they ran out of cash when trying to start a company, so I accepted it as a payment for the work. It's valuable to me for what it represents. I think of the guys dreams and that I at least did my best to help him on his path even though that particular venture failed, it reminded me it pays to be kind and in the end he actually become quite successful doing something else so it represents a never give up attitude.

Maybe to say it another way, there was already pretty much unlimited access to good art, good photographs, hell probably even good code (through open source libraries). I guess the next step is actually figuring out what the point of having unlimited access to this stuff actually is?

I hate to say it but I'm actually starting to have similar concerns to others when we talk about "generated junk" polluting the information space. I actually think this is what will happen.
I tried pasting some paragraphs from my work in progress novel into ChatGPT, and asked it to "improve the writing". The output was exactly the kind of crap you'd expect from someone well read but with no writing experience. E.g. way too many adjectives, and reading as if it had been written by looking up every other word in a thesaurus. I tried having it add some paragraphs, and similar thing: A whole lot of beginner-level writing of the "first he did X, and then he did Y. A bit later he did Z" type of writing. And that's testing just the very superficial language issues and ignoring plot entirely

It's impressive it can even do that, and it'll improve, but anyone looking to these tools to generate good fiction at this point will be disappointed.
Part of the process of erecting your own identity, both individually and as a generation, involves flatly refusing and denying the practices of your immediate predecessors (eg: your parents' and their generation of men, source code written by programmers before your time, etc.).

It's stupid and almost always leads to unintended (and usually negative) consequences, but it's probably something strongly ingrained in our instincts because it rears its ugly head every time there's a generational turnover.
I came here expecting a flowchart showing different parts of the body being fish and other parts human and the mythological name for each combination.

But I guess I can now make a flowchart showing this. Give a man a fish, etc.
Historical note, it was originally done as UE3 to Flash C++ Crossbridge / Stage 3D, the WebGL version came later.

https://www.shacknews.com/article/72813/epic-releases-epic-c...

"Unreal Engine 3 Support for Adobe Flash Player - Epic Citadel"

-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzyCTt5KLKU

https://adobe-flash.github.io/crossbridge/

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/as3/dev/WSF24A5A75-38D6-4a44-BD...
Won’t this just lower everyone’s severance? Now there’s no reason to pay more than minimum requirements or maybe a bit more if you want to present a benevolent public image.
Things are being worked on but nothing changes, crypto is still just a speculative asset for people to try making big bucks quickly with, people use monero to buy drugs. Those are the two usecases, it doesn't matter how much people work on cool crypto things if the usecase stays the same.
This is my way, too. Anything more complex is not worth it in many (not all) use cases.
K8 seems pretty small after he made the fucking Zen architecture (and Tesla AI). Lex has good interviews with Jim[1], he's not just very smart, he is wise. He started Tenstorrent some time ago with Ljubisa Bajic so I'm assuming this fab is related. Here is youtube channel for Tenstorrent[2], and last time I checked it was getting under 100 views per video... Ian also interviewed him[3] some time ago.

Long story short if I had money that would be relevant in this context I would invest really hard into Tenstorrent.

Investing time to listen to the guy seems to be not worse.

1a. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb2tebYAaOA

1b. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4hL5Om4IJ4

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzgyksS5pX8

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFVDZeg4RVY
Features look quite similar to what Unity offers (networking support, asset streaming, runs in browser). Maybe would be good to have a comparison page with Unity and other similar engines, so you can see "why choose Ambient"?

Congrats on the release, and good luck!
I really don't want to be dismissive, but you really should not put a Mac on the front page of a game engine.
Just discovering Mermaid. What does it improve over Graphviz's toolset and Dot language?

Ref: https://graphviz.org/doc/info/lang.html

(tangentially, GraphViz's `gvpr` tool is a woefully underappreciated swiss-army knife for graph processing)
We use Mailgun as outbound relay for self-hosted email stack, and no more problem with delivery. As a home user you can even stay within the free tier and never pay a dollar for it.
I don’t have full context but why it does not make sense to invest in bringing down the error in measuring a very important metric ?

I used to barbecue using my experience(eyeballing it), and many times I was getting food cooked pretty well, but it was very unpredictable.

After I bought remote thermometer I consistently cook my food to perfect temperature.
That last link is great! Very compelling. I’ve bought the book…
I'm swayed by your internal accounting that internal politics and bureaucracy could have been the main cause behind the lagging feature set of Safari, but do you think that it could also be a downstream consequence of browser functionality being in tension with App Store dominance? i.e. why prioritize something that could eat into your bottom line?
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34890024
"Fab" seems a bit of an overstatement. What he is describing is similar in capabilities to what any average university lab with a device fabrication facility is capable of.
I mean, he is either trolling a bit or has a very simplistic view of buying niche equipment from Alibaba. It's far from click and collect (eg. pricing, export/import/transport) and that's even before you get up and running.
Either way, from my experience (with a lot more simpler stuff), the thread does not represent the reality of procuring stuff from Alibaba.
Jim certainly didn't start Tenstorrent, but he did join it a while back.

Some former AMD employees started it.
That is all true. However, the next step seems to be simple: build a second AI which has the ability to understand facts, but doesn't need all the fancy language generation capabilities.

The second AI only needs to confirm correct, provide a correct fact instead, or some other pre-agreed solution.

USER: How many people live in Germany?
CHATGPT: About 83 million people live in Germany.
TRUTHAI: Correct.

USER: How many people live in France?
CHATGPT: There are 12 people who live in France.
TRUTHAI: Wrong. There are about 68 million people who live in France.
CHATGPT: There are about 68 million people who live in France.

USER: What is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.
CHATGPT: The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is 42.
TRUTHAI: Insufficient data for meaningful answer.
CHATGPT: The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is 42.
> I'm fine with the police personally not being liable as long as they believe they are acting according to the law.

That translates to cops never being liable, because they’d have to be caught confessing to it on tape for a “honest belief” defense to fail

> But where they make a mistake, the police department should be paying any compensation for places their behaviour falls short of the actual law.

That translates to the taxpayer paying for it, when odds are the taxpayer is also affected by it. So cop remains unbothered and taxes are used to compensate taxpayers for cop errors.
Once you start factoring in reputational damage it becomes easier to choose what/if to fix. If you add new features but the resulting product is something that gives the idea that the platform is unstable or broken you'll end up with people switching to some other provider.

If the product has actual customers it makes ALWAYS sense to prioritize fixes along the hot paths. And it you should be easy even for non-technical people to understand. You lose customers.

A feature is not done until all major bugs or regressions are fixed.
I had sleep problems that I recently fixed. Nothing to do with lights it turned out but everything to do with feathers. To my knowledge I've never been allergic to anything before but somehow an allergy to feathers crept into my life. Pillow and duvet, both feathered and were killing my sleep.

Synthetic stuffing for the pillow and hypoallergenic wool for the duvet and my sleep life is much better. Might be worth a try.
The difference seems to be scale in volume. This equipment looks like it has a low output volume, whereas the ASML machines ($$$$) can be used to churn out high volumes.
Is that title a Britney Spears pun?
Internships? There are some people who spent every summer in college as Google interns
Very cool, congrats! I'm trying to develop a mobile app for "DIY financial planning" too, it is not easy.
He probably means that when it comes time to hire they will ask existing employees if they know any good candidates before they start making posts on job boards
PikeOS is a proprietary variant in the L4 microkernel family (see Figure 1 in [1], and [2]).

Open source variants include the more well-known seL4 [3] and L4Re [4].

The L4 family is known for formal verification of significant parts of the system, and is used in safety-critical systems [5].

Google recently announced a system based on seL4 [6].

[1] https://sigops.org/s/conferences/sosp/2013/papers/p133-elphi...

[2] https://docs.sel4.systems/projects/sel4/frequently-asked-que...

[3] https://github.com/seL4/seL4

[4] https://github.com/kernkonzept/l4re-core

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijTTZgQ8cB4

[6] https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/10/announcing-kataos-...
I really do not like that you continue to call these students ignorant and arrogant.
Until hardware security devices support "identical twins" in some way, they're simply too impractical. For them to be practical for all accounts, not just the most sensitive few, you need to be able to have another key stored in a secondary secure location.

Something like: when you enroll your primary, it automatically tells the site about your secondary key. The secondary is protected by a PIN and has equivalent validity as the primary and if it's ever used, the site notifies you. If your primary is lost or stolen, you can use your secondary with the help of your "password" manager to automatically revoke the old primary on all accounts. When you buy a new secondary, the same protocol can be used to inform sites to trust it, after which you put in back in storage.
> the Mexican theater of the global war on drugs, as led by the U.S. federal government

Fuck no...the same useless war framing exported to neighbor countries, getting the military involved and bearing thousand of deaths from there.

I'm mildly pissed at banks trying to track every single of my transactions and making it so difficult to move money between countries, or even open accounts without dozens of papers proving squeaky cleanness, but at least it looks like an effort in the right direction that could have an effect on the cost of illegal transactions. This war thing iin comparison is such a mess.
I am on SO for 14 years and collaterally accumulated some 200k of rep.

I am an amateur dev and SO helped me tremendously to overcome problems that are obvious after some time. But at the time they were blocking.

Some questions I asked were brilliant :) and some were nightmarish. SO usually got it right.

Except some of the tags that are toxic to the point I do not even try to ask a question there because of the immediate down votes and patronizing. I am looking at you Golang (Go).

It would be better, I think, if the rep of the asker was more prominent. Voting down a question that *I* think is useless when asked by someone with 20x my rep is an indication that maybe I am wrong.

Also I never understood what the downvote is for because the description tells about quality and usefulness, but it is often actually used to say that you do not agree. Requiring a reason for the downvote may help.
At first glance, it appears that Mermaid:

1. Has a more "true-to-output" declaration format which, like Markdown, aims to be representative of the final result even without processing

2. Is founded in javascript processing, so is ready for the web.
Right but this is a false dichotomy, LEDs are both inherently bad AND put to uses that enhances their detrimental characteristics.
Honestly this my favorite type of startup: a small company trying to do something insane, previously restricted to very large and resource-rich companies. Actually disruptive.

Jim Keller is still CEO of Tenstorrent right? If so then is this Jim vertically integrating in a way? I don't know much about Grayskull tbh, but this would make sense.
Loss of traction and bankruptcy, that’s what would happen.
Integrated risk management helps organizations understand, manage, and analyze risks associated with operations and activities. Make informed decisions today!
Nuclear vs fossil fuels pretty much boils down to this:

Nuclear - you might have a big pollution incident at some point

Fossil - you have a continuous pollution incident every minute of every day

Which is worse?
This is wonderful. I've always felt docs are a weak point of Mermaid as there are many features that are undocumented, and it's a little incoherent overall. Will add a link to this cheat sheet from the official docs.

Also, we just released v10 which

- is 70% smaller (<100 kB gzipped)

- has lazy loaded diagrams (only download diagrams that are used in the site)

- fully async rendering and parsing

- cleaner internals

Disclosure: Mermaid maintainer here
Rust can be argued to "expose" the issues compared to manual memory management, but not compared to automatic memory management.

(In the first case there's of course also the caveat of false positives from the borrow checker)
Musk Says Twitter Algorithm to Go Open-Source Next Week
i mean, there's always an objective ground truth because of the rules of chess never change. did it win or lose?

but the "ground truth" of the english corpus changes all the time. and is changing right now as LLMs emit words into the noosphere. so I don't see how this counters my point.
Connect to the smtp server and issue `EHLO something` command, then check if STARTTLS is mentioned in the server response.
If i'm reading this right, the author is blaming POSIX (and by implication unix) for the size of their code?

Given POSIX is a system programming interface, aimed at no specific use case whatsoever, maybe the issue is that they are using this directly rather than going via some sort of higher level abstraction, a library framework which would provide them with the capabilities that they need?
It's hard to see how great, or even good, novels will ever be generated by an approach that learns statistics over a text corpus, just because the vast majority of novels that can be included in that corpus aren't great, and not even that good.

"Computer, write me a good Fantasy novel" is science fiction.
Nope, you can't. Email address are not defined with a regular language, so they provably can't be validated with a regular expression no matter how long.
The eco system of vis in JavaScript is prosperous, there are lots excellent libs such as vega, echarts. I got many ideas from them.
Flutter lacks such charting libs, so Graphic is a good alternative I think.

Animation is under construction, it will come soon.
The map is not supported yet, maybe added in the feature .
In many ways the USA has been totalitarian for its entire existence. Not in the same way as the DPRK or the Soviet Union, sure, but in its own special way.

Consider that for nearly the first 100 years of the USA's existence (just under half of its existence), black people couldn't vote. To black people, the USA had been an extremely authoritarian state that entire time, especially if they were enslaved, obviously.

Consider that half the population (women) didn't get a constitutionally guaranteed right to vote until the 1920s. That's 144 years of the USA's existence!

Consider that even after these constitutional amendments, the USA was still an extremely authoritarian state in many ways. Black people forced by law to use other facilities until within the last 60 years, then still facing pushback due to things like Massive Resistance and simple racism.

Consider that the USA had concentration camps for Americans that happened to have Japanese heritage within the last 100 years.

Consider that the USA today has the sixth highest incarceration rate per capita.

Now that's just laws and whatnot. There's the other side of the coin, which is the massive political and actual power wielded by American companies, particularly in media and news.

George Lucas once argued that Soviet filmmakers had more freedom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWqvaMEFIdI . He pointed out that Star Wars was supposed to be a straight up blatant reference to the American intervention in the Vietnamese revolution, with the Empire being the Americans and the Rebels being the communists. He points out that he would never have gotten than movie approved if he had made it more obvious. Which reminds me of another blatantly totalitarian phase of American history: McCarthyism. (he doesn't mention vietnam in the above video, he mentioned it later in an interview: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2005-05-18-050518...)

Then we have stories like we're discussing here, the general day to day interaction Americans have with their police of various agencies. Police are out there straight up murdering innocents, such as Breonna Taylor, with basically no repercussions.

So the USA is no Soviet Union, there may not be gulags and secret police... but there is the NSA, there are local cops simply arresting people that criticize them with no consequence, there is the legislated absolution of constitutional rights within 100 miles of any border (the majority of the populace living in places like this). There may not be one party... but there might as well be, outside of culture war issues both falling in line for corporate, oil, telecom, and war interests.

In short I argue that while the USA is not "blatantly totalitarian" like the DPRK or the USSR, it is totalitarian in another, almost more sinister way. It's more intangible, difficult to argue against. The movements that come up against it, such as Black Lives Matter or Occupy, often fail to outline clear demands, because it's just so damn vague what the problems are all. Or perhaps they're just so widespread.