skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are less creatures than molecules. Now, mind you, as some complex sets of rules approach steady state I can pretend they are far-flung stellar empires with colors ascribed to each type of system of government (and have).

What is fooling you is the motion. This is sustained because the system has no conservation principles built in. You can make A-B pairs where B is attracted to A, A is repelled by B, and off they go, zoom. Were the meta-rules devised such that conservation of energy or momentum and such were baked in to whatever system you devised, you would see less exciting structures which would more resemble a late-stage pentamino explosion in the Game of Life.

With a sufficiently large processor, I would like to see this in three dimensions and more options for force, such as dropping off as the inverse of r or r-cubed or even r * log(r), or some "repulsive at a distance, attractive at very close quarters" particles. I have a feeling that such a system would grind to a halt even with clever optimizations.
There is often some margin, and it doesn’t take much. Many early failed falcon 9 landings were very explodey
> There is still one place it's guaranteed to work, code.

No. If somebody (a color theme) uses italic text for comments, ASCII arts breaks.
This seems entirely appropriate, but skip step 2, then start sanctions or shutdowns if the situation persists.

There is surely a template for this - quite possibly it’s what you detail?
How often do you check TLS certs the recipient' server provides?

And you can have an additional route just for some recipients, that doesn't make it less (or more) selfhosting.
In Croquet that simply falls out of synchronizing computation itself, rather than just state. Since all machines receive the exact same inputs, their physics engines arrive at the exact same results without any need to cooperate.
I disagree with this. A comment like this can provide some amusement and joy, as well as legitimate criticism of people who unironically hold similar beliefs to the one parodied.

I know the HN guidelines have had a "no joke" recommendation but it seems rather humorless (obviously) and can deny some form of humanity, the latter of which is rather unreasonable.
I don’t see a debian package.
I'm not sure but I wouldn't call it satisfying the heuristic being discussed here as evidence of a psyop.

> When the public opinion becomes nigh uniform. When near 99% of everybody agrees. When you see them mouthing the same catchy phrases. That's a psyop.
My favorite is the existence of both https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-gray and https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-grey that do the exact same thing.
They matter to some authors.

The rest, like me, just have to go along because SAMS is not widely accepted.

The problem is not FOSS. The problem is that FOSS is the only socially acceptable option.
>I suppose the counterargument is that the US educational system is generally so poor that it's not generating enough people with the necessary technical capabilities to meet employer demand...

It's not the quality of the education system, it's the motivation of the students. In the mid-2000s, it was very fashionable to believe that all programming jobs should be offshored to India. People imagined that the startups of the future would have executives living in California and programmers living in India. Some VC firms would even pressure their startups to structure themselves in this way.

Now imagine it's 2006, you're 18, you're American but you're hearing that the future of programming is going to be in India. Are you going to major in Computer Science? Probably not.

Fast forward to 2012. The problems of offshoring to India are much more apparent, plus some of the most successful startups of the mid-2000s (e.g. Facebook) did not rely on offshored talent. So now people want to hire in the US. But now there's a shortage of new CS grads.

But of course, companies/executives/VCs blamed the laziness of American students and the alleged poor quality of the American education system, rather than the messages they themselves had been sending out for the previous 10 years.

>It's also rather noticeable that the VC tech investor sector wants more cheap obedient labor, and doesn't want this point raised.

I've never been able to wrap my head around VCs, executives, and others in the US who have a obvious preference for foreign-born talent, but still complain about the lack of US-born workers.
I strongly second the recommendation for Diaspora. The story begins about 1000 years in the future, with characters that are trans-human, or post-human. Starting from that baseline of normalcy, then it gets weird.

But it's not weird for the sake of weirdness. The story is grounded in logic and built around rational exploration of deeply philosophical ideas. The book can be challenging at times, but only because the concepts it explores are so deep. The writing, IMHO, is very lucid. Egan wants to bring you into these ideas, not drive you away through inscrutable prose.
If 30% of the US population wanted to migrate away all of a sudden, I think the US government would restrict it too.

No government wants to lose all its people - since without people, there is nobody to tax.

In fact, giving up US citizenship is already made rather difficult - you typically have a huge tax bill to pay, and many people cannot afford to pay it, so cannot leave.
> Has anyone considered making an inexpensive, reliable, simple EV for commuters?

These have been around for awhile, they aren't really suited to the American market though; e.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuling_Hongguang_Mini_EV
Finland recently lost 14% of it's national electricity generation for days due to a turbine failure. This is of course a huge problem.

Having 14% of the nations electricity transported from just 1 location is another problem all by itself even when it works.

Last year half the reactors in France were offline at one point:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/business/nuclear-power-fr...

I don't think nuclear should be overprovisioned, but it illustrates that nuclear also needs a plan B just like wind and solar does. IMO Plan B should be synthesized gas that has been generated when electricity was cheap due to overproduction or directly from cheap sources such as Solar.
> Sure, but how long would your new server keep working (i.e., delivering mail to GMail, etc)?

I can't see the future, if the big email providers who likely have some of their trolls posting in the comments ever decide to start choking out us personal email server runners, then it'd be game over. If things remain for the next 20 years assuming I live that long then deliverability would be 100% for the next 20 years.

> Do you know some magic incantation for staying off the naughty lists?

I don't spam, that and don't make a finger fumble edit like I did the one time in over 20 years and didn't check to make sure it was working correctly first.

Also, I use http://www.mxtoolbox.com/ to keep an eye on my server.
They lost a lot of their userbase back in the day when they started getting slower and Chrome was way faster. Now, Chrome is default on Android devices and people are used to it on desktop. Edge is default on Windows, Safari on Mac and iDevices. The only place Firefox is the default is desktop Linux.

Nowadays they've caught up on speed pretty well on desktop, but are still behind on security, and years behind on security on Android.

Personally, I just like features like tab groups, and hate the Foundation's politics, so it was easy to drop it back when they said we need more than deplatforming. The competition has better features, is actually developing new features, and is focused on toolmaking instead of activism. Funnily enough, it shows up in the products.
> My sent email stats shows over 20K successfully sent emails just for my personal account, since 1999, when I started tracking it.

Ok, since you claim to have measurements, let's hear what they are:

- What is the total number of emails sent?

- What is the number of emails bounced?

- What is the number of emails that landed in inbox (as opposed to spam)?

- What is the number of emails blackholed? (recipient confirms delivery, but email doesn't show anywhere, not even in spam folder)
If anything I think it's easier today than it was 10 or 20 years ago. There are plenty of free static hosts, free tiers on various cloud hosts for interactive sites, and services like ngrok or Cloudflare Tunnels that can safely expose a home server to the internet.
I was in mainland China a week ago and rode in a few different domestic electric cars when taking DiDi (Uber), from BYD and others. All pretty great experiences, good build quality. A surprising percent of the cars on the street in Kunming were electric - maybe 25%. The other cards make me expect good things from the Xiaomi.
Thanks! I've added the second link (the one that has comments) to the list above.
That went in a different direction than I expected it to - but it's also not specific to object oriented programming. Richard Stevens summarized this 40 years ago: "modularity is the enemy of performance". We've mostly accepted that this is an acceptable tradeoff, although the author (and I) aren't fully on board.
There’s always a bigger fish.
For products like this what you need is some entity in the destination jurisdiction responsible for asserting regulatory compliance. That doesn't necessarily have to be Amazon -- it wouldn't be Visa, for example -- as long as there is some domestic manufacturer or domestic importer the FDA can go after instead. And the latter is really what you want, because otherwise Amazon has to play whack-a-mole as the perpetrators just create new accounts, whereas the government could charge them with a crime to actually deter them.

The only reason you'd need to go after Amazon is if they're selling products dropshipped from another country, which they could avoid by simply requiring sellers of products meant for human consumption to have a domestic presence. They wouldn't even have to ship from here, just have somebody here who gets arrested if they break the law.
>Apple: proven track record
>Google: promises

Do you really think the cost of the class action lawsuit and settlement and the bad publicity for not adhering to their 7 years of support would not exponentially exceed the cost of a team of engineers tasked with supporting updates for their Pixel phones?

As for "promises" - why hasn't any other OEM matched or exceeded Google? Apple should have been the first one to step up the very next day.
I agree with you, but when a fundamental feature is so easily and often misunderstood, I’d say that makes it “difficult to work with” by definition.
Gift article link:

https://wapo.st/3tqC7tp
> This will cause a stack overflow. You can convert that into a loop and make your own stack on the heap if you need very deep recursion.

Doesn't Go allocate / extend stacks using dynamic allocation rather than having a static limit (e.g. like C)?
Which taxpayers exactly are you referring to?
Indeed, that baggage is all that I avoid by using HTMX.
Apple is notoriously bad when it comes to this.

I used to work on a cross-platform product and Windows was relatively stable across versions, as was Linux.

Macs on the other hand required a lot of branching for each version.
The reason why I host my own email service is that I can have a wildcard address, that no provider (that I know) offers. So that I can use whatever address@mydomain that I want, without creating an alias in the mail server.

For this reason I can have a different address for each service that I register with, for example facebook@domain, and thus easily block services that start spamming out, and even know if a service leaks my address without authorization.

Yes, I know that GMail has a similar feature (by using address+whatever@gmail.com) but some sites blocks it, and still you don't have that ability to have a completely different address, that if one day you want can become its own mailbox.

Another reason is that commercial email services started blocking the simple SMTP/IMAP authentication with username/password, making it difficult, if not impossible, to configure a server them to send email trough GMail or Outlook, or a service to subscribe trough IMAP subscription to the mailbox to trigger an action when a mail arrives. Proton even decided not to support plain SMTP/IMAP, and you need a bridge to use it!

All my systems, being them servers or services that run on them, are configured to send the email trough my server, and the configuration is super easy. So that, for example, I'm notified if a cron job fails (basically the mail to the local Linux users gets routed to my server) or I have my Home Assistant installation notify me trough email.

Next I manage different domains, and I can have all that domains in a single central mail server. That allows to manage the mail of different systems in a central place, and with a single account. As far as I know this is not possible with commercial services: what you can do is of course to have one system forward the mail to another, but to send the mail as another domain with the same mailbox? With my mailserver I can, I just configure multipe FROM addresses in Thunderbird.

Finally on my server I don't have a limit on the number of accounts/mailbox, so I create an account/mailbox for whatever reason I want in two seconds, for a fixed montly cost (of around 10 euros, since I use the smallest AWS EC2 that they have available)

As you see, there are plenty of reasons to have your own mail service.

And, and let's conclude with: I've lost more mails thanks to antispam in commercial email software such as Outlook or GMail, that on my own server. I don't care about spam, I (if needed) know how to filter it out client-side. I don't want systems to refuse or even hide messages to me, something GMail and Outlook does.
High end semiconductors is one area where China has a lot of ground to catch up on. They can make them fast, or cheap, but can't make them fast and cheap yet. They have a similar problem with jet turbines, and most of it is related to materials engineering.
I would love to hear a comment from someone who found this useful! It’s well written, well reasoned, but IMO completely misses a key fact that makes this framing less useful: just because something isn’t intuitive doesn’t mean it’s not natural —- if anyone doesn’t find that obvious I can find some Chomsky clips giving the argument. I think the word “automatic”, which is not one I’ve seen much in CogSci lit, is responsible for this loss of resolution and ultimate misunderstanding.
It's important to learn to pivot as well. I've had a website that only really started getting any traction once I built a facebook group around it. Being unable to monetize on facebook left a bad taste in my mouth, with a little bit of anger as well. Why shouldn't I be able to profit off a near 1M member group I spent years building?

So I've pivoted again. I've watched what works within the group, what the members want, and my current focus is implementing a completely new platform OFF facebook that allows me to provide the same features but without Facebook's limitations.

Focus on a single product or feature yes, to start, but don't give up too early on your dreams.
> I think this is exactly it. And then Sid Meyer calls his players stupid and irrational

I think this is overstating what Sid Meier says in the talk. His original goal was to make his simple combat stat system clear to users by describing its odds as odds conventionally are described.

> For assuming a celebrated game designer would put even a modicum of thought into making a combat system that was balanced, made sense, and felt good.

That's exactly what he did, through player testing! Through practice and player feedback seems to me like a perfectly reasonable way to uncover an intuitive notion of unit strength. It's not like he said 'they're odds, stupid! learn how to understand odds.'. He recognized that player intuition and fun was the real goal, and his team gradually made the combat system more sophisticated.
I remember a version named "dBrief", for those of us programming dBase/Clipper code. It was a great tool back then.
reminds me of this chomsky:

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”

the world is shaped more by what we dont see than what we do.
Good guess, but sorry :) You can pay at https://github.com/sponsors/fritzo?frequency=one-time
I think the immigrant with three kids from Venezuela is probably easier to integrate in a way than a skilled immigrant who was typically an elite back home. I think the latter folks are more likely to bring their culture with them and try to change America.
Putin last month said their women need to have at most 8 kids to resupply their special operation stock.
Hmm. I am willing to explore it a little further.

Does one become a better person simply by staying quiet?
As a kid I saw an airliner landing nearby, and I was absolutely certain it had come to a near-stop mid-air. I assumed all of these years that was due to my youth and the fact that I was in a moving car; I didn’t realize this was a known illusion.
Only way to git gud is to practice
When I see a wide body jet fly over my home approaching a landing about 15km away it just looks like it’s impossible how it just hangs there apparently little faster than an airship. Of course it’s actually going 300km/h!
Nothing? Then anyone could do it. No, he first made billions, and is investing it (enabling the company's operations to do something) with risk of losing a billion to make it. It's not physical labour, but it's certainly something. I don't think this is the most effective way of distributing capital, but wouldn't call it nothing.
Wouldn't that be easy to verify by just looking at the relative market shares of different browsers and checking if there is an 'unknown' browser whose market share is increasing proportionately to Firefox's decrease?
You should try reading Zendegi. Maybe is not one of his best books, at least regarding science extrapolation, but of the few I've read from him it had its human side.
If you have file-level access to the mail servers, any kind of file transfer of the maildirs should work. But from your description I'd encourage you to spend some time looking at imapsync, I think it's the closest fit to what you're wanting to do.
There's no reason to believe life is particularly rare in the universe either, though.
Besides what is stated in the article, it is also important to have an inherently secure threat model. For example, full websites are inherently warm-blooded since you are constantly dealing with attackers, spam bots, etc. However, static pages like Tiddlywiki are a lot better since you can avoid putting it on the web at all and browsers are incredibly stable platforms.
Ok, so you didn't actually measure your deliverability, so a portion of the emails you send are not being delivered, just like everyone else who self hosts email.
Measuring deliverability is really not that hard. You do the following:

- Setup blacklist monitoring (e.g. HetrixTools/MXToolbox)

- Check if you can email Gmail

- Check if you can email Hotmail

- Check if you can email Office365

- Check on Microsoft SNDS that you are not blocked: https://sendersupport.olc.protection.outlook.com/snds/

Gmail, Hotmail and Office365 are the largest email providers and also the most strict ones.

I have accounts on all of these providers so testing deliverability is trivial. You could argue that testing deliverability with one account is unreliable but in my experience it simply is not. Usually you send a couple emails across a week and if they all go through you are good.

If you are paranoid, you can ask if any of your friends have Office365/Hotmail and email them. They probably have company or university accounts on there.

My server has only been blocked once after all this, and ironically it was by another company that self-hosts their email...
Human rights is a belief like any other, not everyone believes humans have inherent value.
I'm dreaming of being able to drive an EV from Seattle to Anchorage, so that kind of range would reduce the amount of time spent at RV parks (until BC hydro completes their EV charging network in northern BC, then it won't matter as much anymore).
Those examples don't have to do with picking sides in an argument or making calls about that's true vs. false.

If users break the site guidelines, we moderate them regardless of which side they're on, whether the comment is true or false or we agree with it or not.
strange comment for this particular video. not really sure what a rapid disassembly of a rocket has to do with AI.

i don't disagree though, maybe for differing reasons
Is there a higher quality video where we could estimate its velocity? It seems very slow.

Edit:
There is more video here.
https://spacenews.com/china-launches-new-beidou-satellites-r...
Greg Egan is fairly active on Mastodon. You can follow along at https://mathstodon.xyz/@gregeganSF
A Better Way to Browse the 34,497 Steam Winter Sale Games
I'm not really sure. In any case (almost) everything I've gotten from them has been durable, so I keep going back.
So how can we get more strategic?
I've used tmux and vim/nvim on macOS and never experienced performance issues but I'm really curious about your experience, could you share more details?
VSCode has solved so many problems for me. The only time I step out of it is when I run into something that might be a configuration issue. For instance, if I’m programming an Arduino, and it’s not working, it’s worth hoping over to the official Arduino IDE to make sure that the “supported” way doesn’t work as well.

Otherwise, VSCode solves almost all my problems, and virtually all my key-bindings are identical.
> He's not saying they're stupid. He's saying they're irrational. And he's right. Humans aren't rational beings and our expectations differ from simple mathematical probabilities.

He's right in that players are biased when it comes to rare player success versus rare player failure. He's not right that it's irrational to have different expectations from the "simple mathematical probabilities".

The simple math works when each side is trying to hit a single target that only needs to be hit once. It does not work for medium or large fights.
I shortened the title to fit within HN title limits. The full title is: General Resolution: Statement about the EU Legislation "Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Directive"

The page details all proposals, the votes, and the process of determining the winner. The winning proposal is Proposal A: "CRA and PLD proposals include regulations detrimental to FOSS" (https://www.debian.org/vote/2023/vote_002#texta)

To read about how the Debian Project handles votes, read the text at the very bottom of the page.
Man, these articles come out every once in a while. I'm in this camp. My own email server going on 25 years. I'm also responsible for the email of other businesses as well. And maybe that's the difference? I'm getting paid to understand the nuances in mail delivery? But it's a chore no doubt. I never plan on stopping. EMail is TOO IMPORTANT. I don't have any secret formula other than be reachable. Read your email to postmaster@domain, sign up for all the Postmaster Feedback loops. I have two major issues (which have lessened over time) 1) you have to slow-deliver mail to gmail/comcast/yahoo/hotmail or you will get deferred very quickly. 2) users getting their passwords hacked leading to spam delivery. But I catch that automatically these days with a script that checks the IP of the connection. Too many successful connections from Pakistan within a minute gets the account disabled. It's kept me off blacklists for years.
Failures of Web Search Engines
What a silly article