skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to go out on a limb and propose a hypothesis:

The DoD's hyper-innefficient contracting system rewards DC insiders and effectively limits the department's ability to invest where investment is needed while draining the public coffers of unfathomable amounts of money.

The DoD's hyper-ineffective personnel system inhibits personal development while at the same time making it nearly impossible to move laterally within the organzation, thus preventing thousands of experts in many fields (that is, many thousands of experts) from self-organizing into effective functional units.

These two issues have made the DoD ripe for attack in the digital domain, an area that has nothing to do with their other core missions areas which are all organized around delivering kinetic energy to adversaries.
Absolute incompetence. Absolute, utter incompetence. The developer responsible for this should create static HTML front ends for the rest of their life. They are not fit for writing security related code.
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In the main, I think we'd simply have no chance of detecting such civilisations. In the next couple of decades, however, advanced space telescopes with starshade coronagraphs could be able to start doing spectroscopy on exoplanet atmospheres.[1] This would definitely reveal (some kinds of) biologically-active atmospheres, although it wouldn't necessarily to be able to tell the difference between a complex biosphere with a low-tech civilisation, and a uni-cellular algae soup.

I suppose there's an outside chance that such a telescope could detect combustion compounds that are difficult to explain geologically or biologically, and that might be used to hypothesise a civilisation. Something like lead smelting might leave a pretty distinct signature, for example. But that would just lead to a hypothesis, not proof, and I imagine it'd be pretty contentious.

Longer-term, it should be possible to create arbitrarily large space-based optical interferometers[2], to the point where one would be capable of imaging cities and agricultural activity on exoplanets. That'd settle matters (Unless it's under water or impenetrable cloud decks, and then you're just out of luck). But that level of resolution is probably a couple of centuries and/or one singularity away from happening, so don't hold your breath.

1: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2017/20170623-sta...

2: https://www.noao.edu/meetings/interferometry/workshop-files/...
Why is "sport" not a legitimate use case for automatic weapons but it is for other ones?
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>No, it can't. The hard part of Uber isn't the app and the architecture that gets cars to meet together, it's pulling all the shady under-belly moves to avoid taxi regulation or lobby it in your favor, all while being profitable.

This is where the blockchain shines. You're not going to be able to sue a Dapp, or order it to be taken down. The only enforcement mechanism becomes going after end-users, which is much more difficult than going after the trusted third party running the service.

I think increasing the cost of enforcing restrictions on trade is great from a societal perspective, given using the political system to restrict trade is highly profitable and thus overly done, but whether it's good or bad is beside the point that this is something that the blockchain architecture can do that the centralized server architecture can't.
While I agree with your assessment of the Establishments role in the promotion of the Iraq war, I don't think an actual conflict with Russia is either desirable or possible without severely wrecking the current global order. It seems more like the kind of behavior I've seen when you impose tedious security protocols universally without explaining it properly to those expected to follow it.

I'm willing to bet that as the NSA continues to expand its digital monitoring divisions, it has increased the use of contractors a lot. And not all of them might be aware of the supremely sensitive nature of the information they are dealing with.

The thing that makes me even more convinced that this is what's going on is that you don't see a lot of leaks/breaches from NSA officers(agents? not sure what the correct terminology is) but mostly from contractors. Hell, Snowden was also a contractor and not a member of the NSA. Maybe they need to realize that this kind of cost cutting is just not worth it.
This doesn't scale. There's too much information out there for even the most critical of voters to verify.
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I think intelligent alien life is extremely rare. Even with everything right ...:
- Non binary star system
- stable sun
- non gravitational locked planet (thanks moon impact)
- hospitable planet (goldilox zone)
- inner solar system not populated with super giants
- continents and oceans (not a water world)
- magnetic field protecting us from radiation
- planet the right size and the right amount of atmosphere. (i could keep going on)

... we were still owe are existence to an asteroid (among many other things) that wiped out the dinosaurs.

On top of everything, star time scales in the billions of years, evolution hundreds of millions of years, and semi intelligent life within the tens of thousands of years.

if there is other intelligent life out there near by, it either happened billions of years ago or will happen billions of years in the future.
Thanks for writing this! Looking forward to reading the articles as they come out.
It's a math post on math website. The discussion is for mathematical adults, but the games described are fun for kids -- kids have been playing pencil and paper graph games for many decades
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
How do you find these restaurants? I am genuinely interested because I hate the Instagram pretentiousness and the restaurants which encourage this.

I see you are located in California so the app/site may not be relevant (I am in France) but still (I visit the US on a regular basis so at least I will not be eating with people standing on they chairs when taking pictures instead of enjoying the food and friends)
Well, making good policy is an extremely different skill than sharpshooting. I think the crux of your point could be sharpened to a question, "In addition to policy-making experience and skills, how much gun firing experience does one need to make relevant and effective gun policy?"

An answer to this question probably depends on the specific concerns we wish policy to address. If it has to do with detailed classification of firearms, then significant experience is probably required. Whereas if we only care about reducing overall gun sales, specific firearm experience is probably less relevant or useful. These are just dummy examples, but I hope my point is a bit clearer than mud.
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Why do you say that it was probably introduced in the GM seed? Is something in this area known to have changed significantly around then?
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The accessibility options do help some but I don't know of anyway to increase the font size. It become a weird mix of fonts that are either way too big or way too small. I use RDM to switch between different scaled resolutions depending on what I am doing to get readable text these days.
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I started learning to read around 4 and was reading pretty well before the end of kindergarten, basically because I had the expectation that I could. First grade had a few tracks, based on reading ability. Some wires got crossed, and I ended up in the remedial class. The teacher wouldn't let me go, and the principal supported the teacher. That year was hell.
How convenient he left out the parts about how people used to trade pirated software and kiddie porn regularly in the comment section in the early days. They made a lot of money off of that, I can see how he'd want to forget about that unfortunate truth.

Sure the internet was a much different place in the 90s, but still, it was practically encouraged by the admins.
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I know it's not helpful at all to your current situation, but this vicious cycle with proprietary OSes was one of the most beneficial thing we got when switching my dev shop to Linux. You can install a release from the late 90s if you really want to (not recommend tho lol). Nobody can ever take it away.
This reminds me of a trilogy called Remembrance of Earth's Past by Liu Cixin. He creates a sort of analogy in the second novel, saying civilizations in space should be like hunters in a dark forest (The book is called The Dark Forest). He hypothesizes that you should sneak around quietly, looking to kill others, lest you be killed yourself. I won't say more - it's a great read.
I've used it to parse alot of broken HTML for a very large company.

I have not used it to attempt to parse all the HTML on the web.

My impression is that it's pretty good.
> Within two decades, SETI experiments will be able to complete a reconnaissance of 1 million star systems, which is hundreds of times more than have been carefully examined so far. SETI practitioners from Frank Drake to Carl Sagan have estimated that the galaxy currently houses somewhere between 10,000 and a few million broadcasting societies. If these estimates are right, then examining 1 million star systems could well lead to a discovery.

I think he's basing the date on the assumption that we'll have searched 1 million star systems by 2037 and there are a few million broadcasting societies.

Personally I think the odds are pretty damn long, even on the optimistic end of Sagan's and Drake's assumptions. Assuming there are 200-400 billion star systems in our galaxy, that gives us a 1 in 200-400k odds of finding one by 2037? I'll take the bet.

Still a great read, I'm much more fascinated by the idea of artifacts. I believe that the longer we go without finding things, the more seriously we should be thinking about leaving things.
What makes that theory even more plausible is that the bug doesn't appear in the command line diskutil.
We are (much slower than I'd like lol) going through the same migration. We've been using DataGrip for some time for both. I used to run Navicat and occasionally spin up a Windows VM for SSMS, but since moving to DataGrip, found that it does everything I need for both database engines.
> 4chan has had useful research on a number of occasions.

Like what?
The redesign changed the filtering and visibility settings and the way they worked. It was virtually impossible to read the way I did prior to the redesign.
In general there is much to be said about the huge amount of code that runs from thousands of sources on every machine.

Most OS comes with hundreds of drivers, many created by hardware makers all over the world, running with root privileges / kernel mode. And then you add to that all of the software that you install, developed by companies or volunteers all over the world, and running all sort of third party libraries, etc.

The chain of trust is huge. I'd be shocked if there was any computer in any US administration that wasn't running some piece of code written by a russian national.
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Yawn.

All such proclamations, predictions, and earnestness about the Drake Equation is limited, absolutely, by the boundaries of what we currently believe is possible.

To be specific, it has always seemed to me hubris of the first order to presume that we know the principles underlying a more advanced civilization's communications (or, maybe, travel).

We aren't aware of mechanisms more efficient, fast, whatever, than e.g. radiowaves, or, polarized lasers, or [insert latest notion]'.

But what the authors of these things seem to never take seriously is what we don't know, is almost certain to be a lot more significant than what we do.

There is a chart in my office lounge showing the advancement of human symbolic reasoning and technology from pre-history, through 15 years ago.

What is striking to me is that in a few brief thousand years, utterly insignificant evolutionarily speaking, we have gone from first formulating written language and mathematics, to e.g. Cassini, rovers, and LIGO.

Ever if the pace of advancement were plateaued (and it isn't) it is baffling to me that someone would think, oh, we've got the basic constraints now in hand; it's just an exercise of application at this point, to e.g. detect other civilizations.

That doesn't even begin to get into the Liu Cixin style game theory issues...

Anyway. Lack of evidence merely means we're not looking in the right way, IMO.
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The low battery warning appears at 15% charge remaining. Perhaps you disabled the warnings sometime ago and forgot you did it?

https://www.macworld.com/article/3024515/macs/how-to-disable...
Almost all of these are on this page

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html
I have a Dell Precision laptop running Linux at home and a MacBook Pro from work.

On a weekly basis, the Mac won't wake from sleep and requires a hard reboot. The Time Machine backups get corrupted at least every other month and require a full backup from scratch. Sometimes the audio just quits working when I wake from sleep. The App Store is some horribly wrapped, unresponsive web app. Disk Utility is useless. Etc, etc. It's a horrible mess of an experience.

The Dell running Linux is far more stable. I can get literal months of uptime out of the Dell using it on a daily basis w/ 100% hardware functionality. No stereotypical Linux desktop pains. And this is coming from someone who was an Apple fanboy for 10+ years. Apple's QA just went to shit and I was sick of dealing with their bugs.

Edit: For those telling me it's a hardware problem: it's possible, but I've had similar experiences w/ the wake-from-sleep issues on two different copies of the 2016 15" MBP, and the Time Machine corruption on a MBP and an Air. So if it is a hardware problem, then their hardware QC is as bad as their software.
So if we don't find evidence of aliens by 2035, we should assume they don't exist? Cynically, I'm pretty sure that's not how this will play out...
> I live in Sweden. How do I fact check what happens in a neighborhood in the USA?

I question the utility of you having any opinion on US politics, especially at the local level. You are certainly entitled to one but I don't know what it gets you without a vote.
Well, my MBP is 10 months old, the 2016 model (not the touch bar model) and I get 15 hours battery still, after daily rigorous development use since buying it.

Just as I don't think there is such a thing as a perfect place to live, a perfect person to spend your life with, a perfect food to eat every day of your life, I also don't think the perfect computer company exists, the perfect laptop exists... But when I weigh all the conveniences and quality of my MBP with other non-Apple machines I've owned, it really is a no-brainer for me.
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Good point, if secure/private/whatever you want to call it were encoded in the type system, that would most likely have been caught by the compiler.
> Maybe this is your blind spot? You assume it has to be legal to be useful.

I'm looking at what it takes to go mainstream — if it's predominately used for illegal activity, that'll deter normal people and legitimate businesses from adopting it and increases the likelihood of government regulation. As a simple example, how many people would use a tumbler if that started being seen as probable cause for a money laundering investigation?

> But in any case, there are legal use cases that work today: sending money with very little friction and with no need to provide a trusted third party or the payee your personally identifiable information.

How many people care enough about removing the trusted third party that they will use this instead of Google Wallet, Square, Venmo, etc. (and, soon, Apple Pay)? Some people value that but it seems unlikely that it's enough to make up for the smaller network, processing delays, and exchange fees.
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The style of diplomacy China is using has also been practiced by the US and its allies.

For example, in the early 1990's, just before the First Gulf War, Yemen cast a UN vote against the resolution to invade Iraq. But, Yemen paid a hefty price after the US, Saudi Arabia and other allies retaliated:

A member of the U.S. delegation candidly told the Yemeni ambassador that it was “the most expensive vote you ever cast,” and indeed it was, and might even play a part in the chaos there today. Not only did Washington cut off its $70 million foreign aid program, but the Saudis also abandoned their long-standing treaty with Yemen which allowed its nationals preferential treatment as immigrant workers. The Kingdom and the Gulf states brusquely repatriated a million or so Yemenis, whose missing remittances over the past two decades have contributed to the poverty and underdevelopment of the state.

https://www.wrmea.org/2010-march/united-nations-report-a-cos...

EDIT: also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Counci...
Cluj-Napoca, Romania. However, I am from the Netherlands where the same advice applied a couple of years back.
I've never understood claims like this. For all we know, the universe could be infinite. Yes, that would mean the universe contains an infinite amount of energy and that we'd find dopplegangers of ourselves if we travel far enough, but we can't be sure it's not true. We can't even be more or less confident in one hypothesis vs another.

Articles like this would be more persuasive if they had qualifiers like "Within our observable universe."
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IMO intelligence is merely a by product of time, evolution and survival so I don't think it would be that unlikely.
Which is why they are also thinking about signals like neutrinos and gravity waves (which are much harder to produce but much better suited to interstellar distances).

While it's never possible to say "everything has been discovered/invented" we know a great deal about the types of particles and waves that can exist at realistic energy levels for use in communication systems because those energy scales have been so well studied. The odds that there is "new physics" to be discovered at a scale that will supplant radio waves for broadcast communications on a terrestrial scale are pretty low.
Freeman Dyson - he wrote a few books years ago on a lot of interesting subjects. I flick through them occasionally
I dont think medicine or law are good examples for that. Medicine has you sleep deprived for years as a matter of policy because you are expected to work so much and law tend to be quite similar. At least in USA. I mean, yeah, you are expected to learn on the job, but the job is 100 hours a week.

Contrary to that, all older developers I know learn on the job and developed strategies how to make it possible to learn on the job.
This "everyone has ultimate personal responsibility" way of thinking is uniquely American as far as I can see. Even without giving much leeway to self-victimization politics, analysis leads clearly to (1) you not being a coherent agency, often getting besides yourself or outside of your mind; or even not being the same person who shoplifted as a teen and (2) you been in many important ways a drop in an ocean, an atom of mass being. Of course individuality plays a very important role in the Enlightenment kind of rational civilization we strive for, but it doesn't mean non-individuality ("dividuality" and "collectivity") are not huge aspects of how we live.

As Alain de Botton once put it, in England the poor are "unfortunates", in America they're losers.

In Dalrymple's world, elites have a duty to set the tone and the agenda; and they are instead shirking from making judgement calls and saying "good is good, bad is bad".I don't agree much (we have elites telling us how to think as it is), but he points in the general direction of something without hitting the bullseye.
What if "typical" technological civilizations only go through a very brief period of broadcasting detectable TV signals and then they wire up the entire planet with leak-free fiber optic cables? Then all we can count on is intentional transmissions that say "find us here"?
Totally agree! just make it work fast, I'll take care of the rest
I don't think it feels like satire since it sounds like a fun game? I'm actually astonished that I never played a game in this family before.
I think the point was that we shouldn't blame Apple's QA? (I don't agree, just interpreting comment)
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Change the mssql translation to run in read committed snapshot to get similar behavior to Oracle.

NOLOCK is usually a bad idea.
Terry Tao seems to be forgetting some of his basic math as he spends most of time on super advanced stuff. He also has a post where he discovered the surprising fact that if you stay in your arrived airplane's seat until most people have exited, after the crowd clears you can walk off the plane more quickly.
A lot of people don't realize just how much bigger the universe might be than "the observable universe".
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> Kaspersky was trained by the FSB (former KGB).

No, he was trained by the KGB, the predecessor to the FSB, SVR RF, and , I think, a couple other organizations. (That is, he was trained while the Soviet Union and the KGB existed, and before the Russian Federation became independent and existing and new Russian institutions succeeded to the roles of the former Soviet organs.)
Sounds like it was built by people who couldn't make the cut for the Windows iTunes team.
> Our media and our government lied to generate a case for war. And I feel lately that they are now trying to build a case for some sort of conflict, presumably cold, against Russia

I mean, there's verifiable evidence Russia tried to influence our election. That's pretty new for a lot of Americans. I imagine that's why the government and the media are running wild with it. Mueller is still investigating. I would say to wait till that report comes out before jumping to conclusions. I personally don't think the media and government are gearing up for some Russia conflict. This is just the first time Russia has been so involved in our politics since the Cold War, and the media is rightly running with that idea. Is it that unbelievable for some people that Russia was involved in trying to influence our election? I can't tell if you're rightly scared of the media or just can't believe Russia would do something bad.

With respect to the quality of work at the NSA?

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"

And finally with respect to all the leaking... I think it's pretty clear that's just the NSA's lack of confidence in its leader.
Only with high priority deadlines. I had an intense project last week that I had spent days on. Last minute I wanted to change how the data was distributed and rewrote it overnight. It paid off though, the team loved it. After mentioning that I pulled an all-nighter, I got the rest of the day off. Would not recommend otherwise!
I've been on Twitter for like a decade now and I've never had any problems with this "vitriolic safe-space syndrome".

I am also a trans lady so I dunno maybe you think I'm part of the problem.
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