skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I am pretty confident, however, that the author knows more about it than I do and their conclusion has been that it's worth using an existing SSD controller.

When an off-the-shelf SSD controller (as opposed to an FPGA which is much more auditable) is used for a commercial, mass-market SSD -- whoever is making that SSD -- is also putting the root-of-trust for that SSD user's data -- in the hands of the SSD controller manufacturer...

You sure that that SSD controller manufacturer didn't put a hardware backdoor in that SSD controller? You sure that that SSD controller manufacturer didn't embed a hidden "security processor" in the silicon? You sure that it won't covertly communicate your data over RF and/or near-field signals with other nearby similar "black box" electronic components?

Because I'm not!

I wasn't there when the SSD controller was designed, I wasn't there when the SSD controller was fabricated. Any off-the-shelf existing SSD controller is truly a Black Box to me...

Your argument is one of efficiency and expediency.

That's fine for 99% of the Corporations on the planet who value time and efficiency over doing things the harder, slower, less-profitable -- but more correct and ethical transparent way...

My argument is one of transparency, security, knowledge, "doing the homework" -- and understanding how systems truly work under the hood.

Your argument is correct for 99% of the people and corporations out there who value speed and "time-to-market" -- over all other virtues.

But your argument is not correct for 1% of people, and your argument is not correct for me -- for reasons explained above.

In summation, your argument is not wrong...

You are about 99% correct -- but not 100%...

Sure, I could buy a Tesla (or any completely assembled consumer product for that matter!) -- but then I would never have the satisfaction or the fun (or learning!) of trying to build my own! <g>
If you truly think so, why do you use a pseudonym?
People are already "chaining" AIs, eg, using GPT to generate prompts for Midjourney, etc
> Founders are the jobs trying their hardest to replace themselves (with hires and go can do the work better) and yet still always find more to do. That’s very unique

Not really. They are not "replacing self", the coordination is always needed, just hire the people to the point coordinating the company is their only job. I.e. finding peasants to do their dirty work and they can just rule over them.
Not quite the same. The problem with a bike seat is the bike seat cuts off circulation in point where a lot of blood vessels pass through, riding has been linked to cancer.
Along with the more common city riding hazards like car passangers opening doors, falling over and you breaking bones, getting run over, or even directly breathing in exhaust fumes from trucks.
I just drove my Tesla on an 11 hour road trip. The phantom braking kicked in no less than 10 times, at highway speeds on empty roads. During auto-pilot, nothing more (not FSD, not FSD beta, not enhanced auto-pilot).

I love the vehicle but the fact that they haven’t fixed this, addressed it, or acknowledged it further puts no faith for me in whatever they’re doing for FSD. They can spend as many years as they want figuring this out, but phantom braking is a problem for people who bought their cars and are using default features. And it’s super f#%^ing annoying.
I have a nice ebike I use daily in Europe, and I'm also much more worried about getting it robbed than my car.

I only park it in fairly secure locations if it's for more than a few hours (ie. not in the street), and I put 2 of the most secure bike locks I could find, 1 wheel lock, secure bolts on wheels and saddle, and light locks on big accessories like the child seat. Plus an Airtag hidden somewhere.
I think people underestimate how hard it is to evaluate the validity of ideas. Most people think they are open to new ideas, but actually have a pre-configured bias system that automatically accepts or rejects any incoming ideas. If you are actually willing to entertain new ideas, you have to run with something for a while while you figure out if it makes sense or not. You have to suspend parts of your existing belief system and reexamine assumptions you have made before. You will probably change your conclusion a couple of times in the process.

Dismissing conspiracy theories is the safe thing to do. It also does not require any effort, intelligence or insight on your part. I admire people who are willing to actually engage with ideas like that, even though it does not seem feasible everywhere all the time.
all an LLC says to me is that they set up some legal distance between their business and personal lives
>I understand that it is something you don't want to be true...

Speaking this way breaks the conversation.
Let’s say if there is a magical wand that can will any policy the user wants to happen — so the magic can’t remove carbon, but it allows the bearer to pursue any mean within humanity technological abilities — what are the actual actions that could be taken to fight climate change? My impression is that even the big polluter like China (as an example) is already on full speed to build more nuclear plant or solar power, and they just can’t do it faster. Can someone realistically elaborate a high level plan on what could be done, or a pointer to such sources?
If you can’t trust your coworkers to not mess with your lunch, how do you trust them to do important work?
What's natural about the provision of tens of thousands of parking spaces, dedicated carriageways, tunnels, bridges, signalling infrastructure etc.?
On the building side of things, the main challenge is designing all the logos, my wife designed more than 800 so far. (almost every other logo generator site use existing icon libraries)

It took a bit more than a year to have enough logos to launch, design the product and code the platform. In part because we were such perfectionists (which we aren't as much anymore).

But launching was only the beginning, and soon the real challenge presented itself: how to find customers. Had to figure out a distribution and marketing strategy which we had no experience with, all the while improving the product. And this is why it's now been 5 years.
The complaint (a very valid and important one, imho) is that physicists are ~inadequately curious about philosophy - this is the current state of affairs.

To make this no longer be (at some point in the future) the state of affairs, how could it be done (make it "in fact")?

"Why not?" seems like a decent first attack to the problem - why are physicists (or, scientists in general) so bad at philosophy? For one, I would nominate the "When you have a powerful hammer, everything looks like a nail" psychological phenomenon, as one plausible part of the puzzle.
Does the London tube have good facilities for carrying bikes?
I didn't study any of those things in my computer science program.

Databases didn't fit into my schedule because I was also studying philosophy and mathematics, and I focused my electives on areas where there was a lot of overlap between at least two of those subjects: graph theory, abstract algebra, formal logic, formal semantics, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, compilers, formal languages & automata, programming paradigms (comparative survey of functional, logic, and object-oriented programming), etc.

I don't think network programming and concurrent programming were even offered at my school, but I did implement networked multiplayer on a TRPG that I implemented in my OOP class, one of the few CS courses I had where we had relatively long group projects assigned. I have no idea if it was any good from a network programming perspective, but that part of our game worked reliably.

I think those topics you mention would be more central to the curriculum of a software engineering degree (which was not offered at my school).
Advice on Breaking Up with Co-Founder Ahead of Vesting Cliff
I started my start-up as a solo founder. After 1.5 years of working with contractors and wearing all the hats myself, I started working with a partner who I hoped would take on the COO/"Integrator" role to my CEO/"Visionary" to move things forward.

We have been working together for about 8 months and during that time it has become clear that he's not the right fit for me as a long-term partner.

We have an advisor agreement that would grant him an advisor share of equity for his contribution in our first year working together. After the first year cliff, he would be on track to start vesting a much larger co-founder equity stake. I want to end or alter our relationship before we reach that cliff.

While I'm quite sure that our legal agreements cover me, I wanted to see if anyone who has gone through this has other advice on the best way to end this type of relationship in a way that avoid other problems, respects my partner as a person and leaves the door open to working together in the future in other capactities (e.g. advisor).
> So I think we will see a shift in where people settle, where they will no longer base their lives around owning multiple cars.

Not if real estate in cities remains as expensive as it is now. That's one of the main reasons why so many people move out and choose to spend so much time commuting.

Cars are just a means to an end, which is not living in a one-bedroom apartment as a family.
Also, heads up: GPT-4 is night and day smarter than regular ChatGPT and totally worth the subscription price if using it for general research.
Ad networks have no one to blame but themselves. For years, they have served up all sorts of malware, autoplaying media, and browser crashers. The very reason I started using Firefox way, way back when is to get access to an adblocker because I was sick of my system being compromised by just going to a website.

Even now, with my adblocker off I would have a hard time finding the real search result or the real download button. Usually, the most prominent element on a page without an adblocker on leads to spam or malware. And I'm just not interested in figuring out what is real and what is not when an adblocker solves the entire problem for me.
Lilian Weng's blog is my go-to example for an extremely high quality tech blog, it's truly remarkable how consistently excellent each post is. The only downside is the sadness I feel for being incapable of producing content even remotely near that level of quality myself.
The simple way to do this is just to declare that a new curl is needed in Rust, and you'll get thousands of people lined up to work on your "breakthrough" project. Then get seed funding for this incredible task and you'll have a business!
And it is an odd thing to say on the thread about generative AI ... which is all about producing statistical approximations of outputs.
It's implied, but to be clear: ebikes make it comfortable to ride with 4+ inch tires for absurd distances. An ebike with studded fat tires will make you feel like Legolas in LoTR.
China, Russia will beat U.S., U.K. to winstall the permanent Moon base.
Do you believe bailing out SVB's customers at expense of everybody else is the regulation we needed?

I thoght this is exactly why Bitcoin was created in the first place.
They didn't: https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/introducing_type/introduc... (is that a good idea for icons, not sure though)
Worth noting that, from what I gathered, a lot of dislike towards Ventura's new UI is often less the style and more just various inconsistencies / strange behavior in their execution of it.
Zippyshare had a big flaw, you could link directly the real url of the file so you would not get any adds etc ..
I agree with almost all of what you said. There's basically nobody who's made money selling VR hardware, 99% of VR games are extraordinarily primitive, motion sickness is a major barrier to making more diverse kinds of games, the barrier to entry is high (you need a high end PC and you have to set the damn thing up, both initially and every time you want to play it).

But there's one small thing - it can be fun! and LOTS of it!

Job Simulator is my go-to so-you-wanna-try-VR game. It's fun. It knows what its limits are and create fun within them. It's silly. Anyone can play it! It's like the fun of the point-and-click games of old but in VR.

Every single person who I've shown - from my mom to my wife to friends - has been absolutely blown away by how readily your brain accepts the VR world as "real". Your brain's ability to "adopt" the VR hands is just a magical thing to experience, and so fun!

The same goes for the Valve VR demo thing whose name I forget, where you're in an Aperture lab or something and can go through portals to do different minigames as well as mess around in the lab itself.

It reminds me of Wii Sports for the Wii and the motion-sensing wiimotes. Some cute demos (and nearly some full games in their own right) that show off the hardware, and the spark is truly there and your grandparents play 200 hours of wii bowling, but then nobody can figure out where to go next. People didn't like it in Skyward Sword. So eventually it's kind of ditched for the Wii U and then kind of brought back for the Switch Joycons but only to be trotted out every once in a great while for a quirk.

We seem to kind of be somewhere in there for VR except that some companies scented THE NEXT BIG THING and tried to be the google/facebook/amazon/etc of this new paradigm but they all got collectively wiimote'd. So the comedown is a lot more dramatic than just the WiiU not having a remote.

I hope someone figures out google glass and AR stuff though. And not just the garbage AR that pokemon go et al call "AR" where it's just "look we put your phone's camera as the background of the scene" and they use GPS + PoI's. Real AR like I'm the pilot of a damn evangelion and it's giving me readouts. (JARVIS/Iron Man might be a more recent reference that I would also accept as well).
I don't associate with neo-nazis, neo-confederates, racists, sexists, insurrectionists, kiddy diddlers, and the like. So I haven't had that problem with being refused service. Tell me, is it a problem for you? I can't possibly imagine why.
I went to Rensselaer as well, graduated 24 years ago. I am mostly shocked at the stuff it is obvious other schools are not interested in teaching these days in terms of core computer science curriculum.

Maybe the issues around high school math are part of it, but this was kind of obvious in the 1990s as well, I remember sharing a cube as an intern with a graduate student at another well known school and they were taking graduate classes in the summer and were using the same book for a supposed graduate class that I had for a class my freshman year at RPI.

I think RPI's core program requiring Data Structures & Analysis, Fundamentals of CS/Models of Computation, Programming Language Design, study of Grammars, etc.. is an outlier for undergraduate CS curriculum.

It seems rare I come across someone who can analyze the complexity of an algorithm, check if something can be parsed by a Regular Expression, really understands recursive algorithms, etc.. unless they went to graduate school, and the industry doesn't seem to expect people to understand this stuff.

But you can't necessarily generalize. Not all high schools are the same and they never were. And old professors at RPI are just mirroring the historical reputation of RPI as a tough school. In the past they probably just had more freedom to fail all those students out of the school.
Or, put another way they built a successful business and it funded their retirement. Businesses are built by people and don’t literally have a life of their own. Maybe the people enjoyed the revenues and have moved on to their life outside this business and the cash flow is no longer worth the hassle. Seems like a happy ending to me. But, I’m also not as ambitious in business as I used to be and see things differently in my old age.
I would say that the downfall of climate change will be that the parties "on the left" don't believe in it, not really.
I was thinking the same thing when they talked about "theft".

Looks like they live in Belgium

Maybe there's less bike theft there?
- if you ride after a night drinking

I was at my local bar here in Ontario and a gang of older fellows (boomer/Gen X) roll up on electric stand-up scooters.

Some drunk zoomers started laughing and giving them shit and flexing their trucks but they just ignored them, had their 3-4 beers and said they were going to <fancy uptown bar> which would have been at least 45 minutes to walk.
The social significance of art has endured in disparate cultures and through hundreds of years of economic transition, and has managed to recover its footing in the cases that it has slipped; it's not at risk. I could not give less of a damn about the social stature of artists, in and of itself; like most people, artists tend to abuse this status within their little fiefdoms, encouraged by the social and economic spoils of such abuse under Capitalism. Those with the most success are those most in need of humility.

What you're talking about is akin to the "professionalization" (or the maintenance of status) of a trade, artificially limiting the breadth of practice in order to direct energy to the quality. This is almost always portrayed as a good thing, when we've lived through an example of it (IT) being disastrous for workers. Professionalization puts up onerous barriers to entry; encourages cronyism; and strips a field of its base of novice workers, as well as a clear and germane path for advancement, replacing it with glad-handing and credentialism.

Collective action - unionization, foremost - would be a better solution in securing the livelihood of artists and conditions under which art is made, both for those who participate and even for those who don't. But we haven't seen it, or even the serious talk of it, and I imagine that it's for the reasons I've given: a central ethos rooted ego and not principle. And faced with a choice between shoring up the barriers for people who are only out for themselves, and opening the floodgates for expression, I choose the latter.
On the other hand, is shows that pedestrians and cyclists have the same rate of fatalities per mile traveled.

So better to not walk or cycle and just stick to your car /s
>if you can't make money except through web ads, you don't have a solid business model

It's probably true that a huge number of sites providing online content without a paywall don't have a solid business model. They'd probably mostly go away absent ads though and subscriptions for those with a paywall would increase.
Repurposing mass-produced internal combustion engines (2017)
As a parent myself who has always had a car but has aspired at times to go car-free, I think the whole "semi-frequent short term car rental" thing only really gets realistic when the kids are old enough to just need those tiny Mifold booster seats / seatbelt adjusters.

Conventional UAS-attached car seats are just too bulky and troublesome to be installing and uninstalling all the time in cars you only rent for a few hours at a time.
My take is that the average upper level CS course (compilers, operating systems) doesn't really leave the average student on a solid footing in the area.

What you really get out of CS education is not a lot of crystalized knowledge but an awareness of the shape of the literature. I used to joke that I could get through any interview with "look it up in the hashtable" and "look it up in the literature". If you're aware that something exists in the literature and know how to look it up you can get it done. For instance I wouldn't trust anybody (including myself or ChatGPT) to code up a binary search correctly out of memory, but I would look it up in a (recent) algorithms book.
It would be easy to say but that's not a common Dutch saying at all. It's a bastardised version of a Swedish/Norwegian saying.
This is definitely not a US problem either. Foreign CS degrees are extremely variable in their quality as well.
Barely related rant but I think async/await type of concurrency is the worst of the bunch and outright malady on the code that infected the mass's brain by its proliferation in JS ecosystem. Even crude message passing leads to far cleaner code architecture.
I cannot believe this is getting downvoted. The reasons cars are inherently dangerous is 99% because they are heavy and fast. Everything we build around that (traffic rules, dedicated lanes, buffer spaces, ...) is purely to deal with this fundamental physical reality.

With great power comes great responsibility. Whether you take that perspective in Joules, Watts, Newtons, kg.m/s, the conclusions are roughly the same. Drivers needs to be hundreds of times more responsible than cyclists or walkers.
It’s not exposed to credit risk but is exposed to interest rate risk.
Not even brutalist. This is brutalist.

Mosaic opening a Gopher URL (you can open it under
Linux/Mac with Lynx with ease), themed with the grey
Motif widgets and the Metal theme for IceWM.

http://0x0.st/H-gd.png
The point wasn't not only hitting that limit, but not hitting it before some date (end of century originally). The planet will continue warming up as long as we have an excess of greenhouse gases, even if we reach some kind of cooked up "net zero" of emissions.

If we warm faster, feedback loops will have more effect earlier, tipping points may be reached in shorter time, biodiversity will drop a lot, and our ability to react and do something about it will be compromised because we will have more urgent things to do like i.e. figuring out new food sources in scale after agriculture becomes unreliable enough.

It is not if we will hit a mark, but how fast we will leave it behind. There is no possible adaptation to fast enough change, for us and the world we depend on.
Can we predict weather that well? The 10 day forecasts my phone gives are mostly ok, not great, and often change at the last minute.
If people think this is a joke, get real.
True, I remember watching a guy "cycling" drunk, and he was just walking with a bike between his legs.
> If you are against gay marriage

I didn't use being against "gay marriage" as the example though. I used being against "gay people" as the example.
I wondered about an adjacent topic recently ("what IS the kernel actually") and found out that a great way to understand it, would be to start with the boot process. Once I felt less lost, I tried to capture my learnings [1]

The text is not edited yet, but as I had the benefit of learning about it with fresh eyes, it should be very approachable (and hopefully accurate enough)

[1] https://vsupalov.com/demystifying-kernel/
Fascinating

How do Europeans keep ice off bike lanes? Salt?
Ask HN: Anyone wants to build this web app together?
Hello! I'm El Nino, a UI/UX designer. I've been working on this little side project on the weekends, and looking for someone who can code to partner with me to build this web app (see demo). I can design and write HTML/CSS, but I can't write JS (or React or Vue or any frameworks). I need someone who can actually make this works.

This side project is a drag and drop website builder with minimal customization. You can only change the copy, fonts, colors, icons, and border radius. That's it. You can't change the layout, alignment, etc. This is for someone who can't design, so by giving them limited customization they won't ruin the design. Then after you're done, you can download it as HTML/CSS, then upload it wherever you like. Every week we'll add new design blocks and/or templates.

I'm not sure if we're gonna make money out of this, but if we do, we'll split profit 50/50. Maybe we can charge monthly/yearly subscription to let people host their page directly on our server. Maybe we can create premium design blocks/templates. I'm open to any ideas.

Demo (made in Figma): https://imgur.com/a/pZ64Qmk

Feel free to send me an email: elnino[at]uisual[dot]com, and please send me your website or github or whatever so I can take a look at your work too. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!