jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's easy to say because radiation diminishes with the square of distance. Someone would have to be blasting out a ton of RF in our direction for us to notice. I'm talking about gigawatts at a minimum, probably more like terawatts. Who's going to blast thousands of gigawatts of RF into the cosmos without knowing if anyone is ever going to hear it?

Then you have the question of whether or not this would be a good idea. Four words: relativistic kinetic impact weapon. There would be no rational reason to do such a thing, but given what we know of our own species we cannot assume rational motives for others. Intelligence seems to occur in predators more than prey here on Earth, which also means it tends to be coincident with aggressive and territorial behaviors. An intelligence might decide to annihilate you because you are clearly an offense against their God (territorial instincts turned into metaphysics, something humans do a lot). It's likely that another intelligence might reach similar conclusions and lay off the horn.

Combine the cost, lack of benefit, and possible danger, and mega-transmissions that SETI might detect are just not that likely.

The only SETI I can see being successful are efforts to passively detect large-scale artifacts of life or intelligence. These include telescopes capable of detecting biosphere signatures (e.g. lots of free oxygen and water), detection of hypothetical mega-engineering projects like Dyson swarms or the (physically unavoidable) IR and EM emissions of a relativistic interstellar spacecraft, etc. Either that or finding evidence within our own solar system of current or past visitation, which is absolutely not something we can rule out. We've really barely been anywhere, and there are many bodies such as moons or asteroids where any such evidence might be preserved over geologic time scales. A visit a billion years ago might still leave evidence on a waterless, airless body, especially one far from the Sun. A visitor might also have left things that are intended to be found -- it's a popular sci-fi plot but also can't be ruled out and is more likely to actually be found than a signal over SETI distances.

Side question: how big would an optical/infrared scope need to be to actually see an extrasolar Earth-sized planet? I'm guessing very big (or a large array of them), but the payoff would be huge. Not only could we see the effects of intelligence, but we could also detect non-intelligent life in general this way.
A spreadsheet is NOT a database! Argh!

As a person who gets asked to fix these kinds of projects once they hit a wall (performance/concurrency/etc) and then have to migrate them to a proper DB platform, just stop it! Put it on in a DB up front and save some poor developer their sanity.

Please.
Whatsapp is a poor example to use to argue that there is a bubble. I haven't heard anyone try and justify that price beyond that Facebook was desperate and had the money. It's an outlier.
Couldn't hide my smile when I saw the Jehovah witnesses' column.
Yeah, actually. He has a website too.
Oh, I took your comment literally and thought the guy on the stage was someone to note. I did see the end of the speech, yes.
"No, I can't take a job now, I'm too busy praying."
Ahem ... what is this?
How comes the Hindus are so rich? Only the Jewish are comparable, I wasn't expecting that
15 and that much knowledge and motivation! Congrats!...
Cause you just make me feel old at 26 ;-)

I have no clues about SF. But wish you the best of luck!
Well, maybe you should review your stack. Which C extensions are you missing? There are alternatives for the most part (barring GUI)
PHP7 is really just about the speed boost.
how did pua help you through bad times when u were just a theorist? please clarify
I think most AIDS patients would gladly take that 10% chance.
Brazil is almost totally dark; Orkut effect?
"avoid anything that requires a server like MySQL"

plonk
So you can (later in the game) better understand the foundation of your programming. This "list" has a heavy lean on web applications because they're popular, having a web app means (eventually) having a server.
>... blufferbloat ...

Did you try removing the "l" from "buffer"?
I made a widget once to hash a unique password for each domain. Just copy-paste the domain into the widget and it automatically copies the password to the clipboard. All fine and dandy until mobile came along... now I'm entering 16 character strings of alphnumeric and symbol characters by hand to log in to my facebook account, etc... security pass, usability fail.
> It's hardly bribery if the other party isn't acting in an official capacity.

You can't be an officer in a case and not be acting in an official capacity at the same time. It's not like you go home at 17:00 sharp and then turn around to the people that you just spent time with as an official and pretend that didn't happen.
That's interesting. I'm curious to hear what's different, how you deal with the challenge of meeting modern expectations and so on.
>A local authority is able to tell people to do as it says. It is even more efficient at this than a central one, as it usually tries harder to obtain a consensus (people willing to be involved are, nobody has to remain a mere cog) because it cannot coerce as efficiently as a central gov (for various reasons, one being that transforming locals into guards of other locals is difficult, another that it is more easy to escape from a little group...).

You're responding to something else. The point I made is that you WANT to coerce people into vaccinating their kids, into educating their kids, etc, etc. Those should not be things where one crosses their fingers and hopes that people get convinced into doing that.

>The common goal is to survive and to pursue the quest for happiness, I doubt it is better set by a central government.

Sorry, are we even talking about the same thing here? I thought the conversation was about healthcare/vaccination/infectious diseases/.

>As for the approach (the way to tackle the problem), having groups choosing various ways is a way to discover what works or not, and which new challenges are raised by each approach. When everybody everywhere applies the same approach, everything may break simultaneously if it is not the perfect approach (perfect approaches are pretty rare), and progress towards new solutions is slow.

Okay, but nothing about having a central government precludes you from running local experiments w.r.t new policy. I believe RCT economics received a nobel prize either last year or the year before that.
I hadn't heard about CUIDs, but based on the Github repo [1], I see they fall into two of the categories I presented:

- A large range. It looks like CUIDs support a short version, but the README calls out the short version should only be used for disambiguation, and are "absolutely not recommended for database unique IDs".

- Encode the partition in the ID. In this case, the partition is either based on the browser or the process ID of the server.

Cool stuff, thanks for pointing it out!

[1] https://github.com/ericelliott/cuid
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ffcms is not a finished tool. JSON is not written in stone. I fact, ffcms could support more than one language, e.g. JSON and TOML.
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ABOUT: I'm an experienced software engineer looking for part-time or short-term contracts.

I've most recently worked in a data-analytics backend-stack: from ETL to database design to web-api to devops. One of my major projects is an analytics engine for web applications (https://github.com/hwchen/tesseract) using Rust and Clickhouse.

However, I'm naturally curious and happy to work in any domain which requires high performance and maintainable code. I've worked with a distributed worker system, debugged async database drivers, and implemented text layout primitives.
Yeah I could see that the knowledge that you have visited the site before and showing an ad based on that is a form of targeted ad. Personal information doesn't have to be accurate or complete to fit that definition. I think any information that falls into the bucket of profiling (answering "who is watching this ad?"), despite whether an actual real person can be identified just with that information could still be considered personal information.

To put it in shorter terms, showing ads based on personal information should be banned, no matter if the information is identifying or not.
Have you guys yet tried adding grammar models to the translator? Can a full-language bigram model run in real time?
I had good success stopping cheating by using images of text instead of actual text. Typing in a foreign language is not trivial if it's not something you're used to doing.

I used a python wrapper for pango-view to generate the text. I have a python module for this here: https://github.com/j2labs/pyango_view

Nothing complicated about what I'm doing but the github page shows how nice the text can really look.
I didn't intend to insinuate that Borders in particular try to sell me crap, just that plenty of stores do. The fishing section in any Wal-Mart or Target is a perfect example.

I should note, though, that the eReader devices that Borders has on display in their stores are particularly junky. I spent a little time playing around with them, and they were completely unusable for me. I don't find my Kindle particularly intuitive to use (at least until I have a book loaded up), but the devices that I played with in Borders were terrible.
You'd be surprised how many people walk around with terrible vision, without knowing it. My guess is that computer-related jobs require good vision, so people in these jobs are more likely to discover and treat their vision problems.
I still check my yahoo email from time to time, just in case. Yahoo mail could totally shut down and I wouldn't even care.
yahoo doesn't actually have much infrastructure that delicious relies on. the main bit is the text indexer.
What faint praise this is. "Not that hard". :)
Also quoted on this page: "Even ordinary politicians use some of these techniques from time to time"

There's really nothing on here that demonstrates that you can identify or rule out a demagogue by the presence or absence of these methods in use by them. I'm sure many will try though, and many more will nod their heads in approval.
Hard to say, but if FED does inject a lot of liquidity into the market, it's possible that the stock market will re-flate. So if you have equities and other hard assets (gold, real-estate, bitcoin etc.), you might do good in the future.
I second the suggestion for time shifting. I'm in the same boat with young kids, and I've started waking up 2 hours before they do. It allows me to get much of my daily work out of the way before our house wakes up.

If you can find a way to condense your normal workload into 5 hour days it's possible. With no commute, less meetings, and less distractions it's manageable so far for me.

Beyond that being able to get the kids adjusted to a stable new routine is crucial. If they know what to expect everyday you'll hopefully find your time not getting sucked away by meltdowns and behavior issues you weren't expecting.

Also, please don't feel guilty devoting time to your kids right now while "School at Home" is the new normal. Being able to give my kids undivided attention with their education has been a pleasantly positive upside of the current situation. Find ways to enjoy it while you can.

Also, make sure you talk to your direct manager and leadership team, I hope you find that everybody is trying to adjust right now. Not only are many of us trying to juggle the new job of home school parent, there's also the added mental and emotion stress that comes along the with the fact that we're dealing with global pandemic that has upended our normal lives.
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Please email hn@repspark.com with applications or questions. We'd love to hear from you!
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Hey, my name is Nick. React / web3 Developer with heavy design experience. Looking for envirotech or work in the blockchain sphere. portfolio is at nickplace.persona.co
The downside is that the performance payoff is really small compared to easy to write languages like Java for most projects, and you will write your code slower.

Compilation is slow.

But your code will be reliable.
I’m always curious how people use IFTTT, Zapier or aletrnatives (e.g. Shortcuts on iOS).
I’m a developer and I like to automate a lot of the stuff I do, either with bash commands/script or nodejs/python for more complex stuff, and user scripts in the browser.
I can’t find a good use-case for IFTTT and I feel like I’m missing out on a big part here. I’m not sure if I’m not thinking about it right, or if it just doesn’t apply to my workflow.
The US response was abysmal. Trump's China ban was effectively a racist strike to his trade war. Hardly a sufficient response to the disease. But it was a response to the disease.

You describe the difference between the West and the peri-Chinese liberal wealthy states - not the difference between the US and everyone else. So Trump did something. He didn't do enough. Morrison did something. He didn't do enough. Merkel did as little as she could. She didn't do enough. Johnson eventually acted - and actively tried to get as many British residents infected as he could. If the US failure to take quick and decisive action is Trump's unique failure then every western state has a leadership vacuum.

Yes, there are symptoms of the US partisan malaise in this. Somehow a public health emergency of international concern became a political divide. But that doesn't explain the similarities in the initial US response - the response that meant the disease became established in the US.

It's far, far more likely that all Western leaders relied on the same advice - given to them by advisers who experienced an official pandemic. Swine flu was widely regarded as an overreaction and sowed its seeds of apathy in our experts. We're reaping that crop today.
No, you probably can't.

The assumption is that the testing population is currently biased towards more serious cases (e.g. if you are in the hospital you get tested. but if you are in the hospital, you have severe symptoms => higher % will die). On the other hand you could have an entire family of 6 people under the same roof not being tested but all positive. Italy thought something similar and tested an entire village. Loads showed no symptoms and tested positive.

Hence you will have X% of 60%. Question now is what the X is. But 9% seems to be the super pessimistic upper bound.
I can't find out how the company makes money to sustain itself? Is it entirely donation based? Or is it perhaps monetizing referrals for new products that customers may need to buy. It might be hard for some users to trust a free service if they don't know where the money comes from.
You missed my point. All officers around the world already employ criteria that are subjective and impossible to verify, TSA went one step ahead and actually admitted it. Did you cross any international borders recently? While holding e.g. Iranian passport?
'"If he doesn’t make a dramatic move soon to clean up the service, the brand will be permanently tarnished," says another interested investor.'

Is Chatroulette not already synonymous with anonymous penises? I'd say the brand's already tarnished in that regard. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing -- anonymous penises may be exactly what some users are looking for.
Over the course of my life, a little tidbit of wisdom I've learned, and not heeded enough - like right now - is the wisdom of shutting up.

As amazing as the prospect of communicating with and meeting a spacefaring race would be, I fear the consequences may lie somewhere between a repeat of the Louisiana Purchase and putting up a galactic 'Joe's Diner' sign.

Are we a babe screaming in the woods?
"Best minds of any generation have always thought about ways to make money."

Sorry no!. Some of the very best still do science.
No - the link was connected with the last sentence.
It's not really "invented" so much as having been called the "super" key for a long time by Unix convention, and having been adopted by Microsoft to become the Windows key where it actually showed up on consumer keyboards. If you look at a classic Solaris keyboard for example, you'll find four classic modifier keys: control, alt, meta, and super.
I have no problems with tar; it's operating on the archive, so the operation goes first, then the archive, then the optionals.

I have to look up ln every time.
It's not fast enough. Money arrives next day, at best.
Been to the Starbucks on Lawrence and El Camino. Bit too crowded for my liking. I somehow could never get work done in a library. Bit too quiet. :)
It is awesome to see them being so consistent and publishing all of this. I've never seen a non-profit do so in such detail. Some of the comments here (particularly the stats) might be very welcome there, on the talk page or elsewhere. Presumably some at least will do that, and that makes them better able to learn and understand than similarly-sized and staffed organizations would be.

They're just awesome.
Just keep in mind that Dive Into Python hasn't been significantly updated since 2004.
According to this question http://www.google.com/baraza/en/thread?tid=3084c339e2379cf8&... It's meant to be Q&A for Africans.
The problem with sharp edges in programming languages is that you might be perfectly sane and careful on your own but you must also trust everybody else you code with to not only exercise the same restraint but to also point their sharp edges in roughly the same direction.
Sad, as I liked typing that short domain name to get to the World of Warcraft blog.
I know your hash tag trick is clever and you got around needing a data store that way, but you really need to remember my input next time I visit the site. Most users aren't going to understand they would need to bookmark their deepest visit to your site. The site seems broken or sloppy when it doesn't recall my answers.

Can't you just keep it in a cookie instead?
IE9 also has it's own debug tools built-in which are similar to Firebug. Press F12.
I'm looking for a good collection of Linus' own emails discussing some of Git's more advanced topics, as I remember he discussed some subtleties that may be missed by other documentation such as the Pro Git book and the manpages. (maybe said documentation has caught up, but I'd like to check to be sure).

So far, all I've found is a few threads collected at yarchive.net [1], which is promising, but how can I find more? Google fails me :(

[1] http://yarchive.net/comp/index.html search for "git"
I can observe people getting sick with covid, i can observe 60 degree weather in the winter and weeks long heat waves, this isnt the news, or misremembering things
C history: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

Ada history: https://www.adahome.com/History/

FYI, I worked on a self-hosted Ada compiler as a grad student intern at Rolm (the Mil-Spec computer side, not the digital PBX side) in the summer of 1984.
I am registered on YouTube since January 2007. Right now in my YouTube playlists I have inaccessible:

- 6 out of 71 videos in favourites,

- 20 out of 209 in playlist of videos I consider interesting;

- 7 out of 56 in playlist I keep to give links to other people;

- 15 out of 112 in playlist of funny videos;

- 27 out of 218 in playlist of WTF videos;

- zero out of 89 in music video playlist;

- 19 out of 121 in political video playlist.
Including batteries and taking into account aging?