skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish this article had also gone into how long indicators might survive outside of Earth. Could satellites survive? Things on moon or Mars? Might we go to Mars and find some old Mars Rover or underground base or that we left Mars for Earth after we made it uninhabitable?

Edit: typo has -> had
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> scientists of their time

Please don't masquerade mythologocal saints/yogis as scientists. You are doing a disservice to the accomplishments of real historical figures like Panini, Brahmagupta etc by making statements like this. You don't have to resort to mythological characters to feel good about the supposed glorious past.

I can understand how the tales of Dasavataras can possibly have some allegorical references to evolution but claiming the rishis to be scientists only serves to further ridiculous beliefs like Quantum Mechanics and Relativity originated from Vedas, Rishi scientists developed nuclear weapons in 10000 BC etc.

The main purpose they(Puranas (post-vedic Hindu mythology)) served was to legitimize the Vishnu cult, get rid of the pantheon of older Vedic gods (Indra etc.) and to counter the rise of Buddhism. Most of these stories were made up ad hoc to suit the purposes of their times. I find them quite clever to be honest and fascinating from literary and sociological perspectives.

Take Buddha for example. Once Buddhism and its crusade against animal slaughter / rituals became a hit with the masses and started competing with Brahmanism/Sanatan Dharma/Hinduism, Buddha was made an incarnation of Vishnu and added to the Purana bloatware, while simultaneously obliterating Buddhist monasteries and driving it out of the subcontinent.
I remember UPX packed binaries would trigger some antivirus software in the past because packing was so frequently used by virus authors. Does anyone know if this is still the case?

Also, can you use UPX on WebAssembly binaries? If so, will that trigger any widely used antivirus software?
Don't be mean. We're all just talking, we're friends.
Do you suggest that they drop their price when they don't have to? They have a backlog that they are usually way behind on if anything their price point should be higher. And reusing an orbital first stage was first achieved by SpaceX so I would call them revolutionary.
It's still a valid question though. And I would in fact pay far more for food with less toxins. Whereas I would pay little or nothing for e.g. a GDPR-compliant Twitter.

So, interestingly, it's not only a valid question, but one that shows how overdone a comparison to toxic food is.
We don't even know about previous human civilizations.

Recently discovered Göbekli Tepehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe, the oldest megalith structure, confirmed by radiocarbon tests to be more than 12.000 years old with massive stone pillars and 3d relief stone sculptures mostly still buried is still a mystery to science and some "scientists" still think hunter-gatherers built it with stone chisels.

The interesting thing is that a study based on the drawings on the structure correlated with Younger Dryas period might explain why nothing was found about the ancient civilization that built it.

https://phys.org/news/2017-04-ancient-stone-pillars-clues-co...

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2128512-ancient-carving...

So after all the Atlantis and the flood myth found in most cultures from around the world might be real.
They discuss that in the article. Essentially everything would be turned asunder by the changing of the earths crust. The oldest part of the earths crust is something like 1.7 million years.
I've always assumed that the majority of these shitcoins that come out of nowhere with a copied and pasted whitepaper, then suddenly receive $10M+ in "investment", are just schemes designed to launder cryptocurrency drug/gun/etc profits.
Can you talk more about the training aspect? Do you do it on site or rent a space? How do you find customers?
I think no. The stuff the op is describing is mostly not on the ergonomics agenda (I was thinking "strawman" while reading this), except for possibly limited automotic cloning for trivial types like `Rc`. It doesn't seem to describe the team's actual thinking about ergonomics. The Rust team is very aware of the importance of writing foolproof correct code in Rust (that's what it is designed for), and unless some major shift happens, I doubt they would make any major correctness sacrifices for the sake of ergonomics.
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I agree with your interpretation of the article, but I find that the article doesnt match the title. I think the equals sign almost always represents usage of an RST equivalence of some sort, even if the formula containing it isnt an equality (with the irritating exception of Big O notation).

However, I think that using this as a justification for programming languages' use of the equals sign for assignment (whether or not it needs any justification at all) I think is a moot point because mathematics is more expository, and isnt always strictly rigorous as long as its clear that everything is well defined and correct in the end (although there is expressiveness in the formalities as well).
Here the possibility to say “not our fault, it’s this other company that made an error” when something goes wrong also has some significance.
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Anyone know what the state of GPU support actually is? The Supported Hardware page [1] only says "Intel GPUs are supported up to the Skylake generation (2016 machines)", but this seems to be outdated. At the very least, Matt Dillon himself reported good OpenGL performance with a Kaby Lake machine [2].

[1] https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/supportedhardware/

[2] http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2017-September...
Great to see. Lets get the revolution going.
Truth is an absolute defense, except when its not.

http://www.aaronkellylaw.com/truth-and-defamation/
The world economy is not a zero-sum game. You're making the same mistake that Trump is. Everyone benefits from China, the United States, Europe et al becoming (and staying) rich and prosperous. We should all be concerned.
This is pretty cool. Will be interesting to see it used on older audio sources to clean this up.
It doesn't scale well and it is legally encumbered.

I really would have thought that the open source community could have tackled this problem, but no one seems interested.
More than a few.
The GP means to imply that smartphones and tablets are far more compelling to children than books.
This is pretty much how the Irish potato famine happened, too - they grew enough food, it was just exported - along with the wealth it generated.

The English justified it by invoking the divine right of the free market.

In the Soviet Union's case the money derived from exporting the grain abroad supposed to be to help industrialize - which it did.

It's a bit hazy whether or not it was deliberately engineered to kill off the Ukrainians. It hit every grain producing area of the Soviet Union - it just hit Ukraine the hardest.

Stalin may have simply been indifferent to their plight rather than actively trying to kill them.
This reminds me of Lovecraft. His mythos was based on the premise that Earth has been inhabited by a series of alien and native civilizations, mostly malign, over the past billion years. Occasionally an artifact or part of a city is thrust to the surface by geologic forces. According to Lovecraft, after humanity falls a race of intelligent beetles will arise.
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Some threads are discussing Chinese companies, at C-level, doing business in Chinese language in US.

I'm curious to know opinions folks around the world have about the likelihood that Chinese language will somehow become an important international language? In my (perhaps biased) mind it appears the world is already well on its way to adopting English as THE international language.
I don't know why you're conflating using a type system with writing large classes.
Speaking of Victor, this was just posted today:

http://worrydream.com/NotesOnResonance/

HN article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16837654
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Err... source?
I’m with @jacquesm.

You are not a SaaS company. You are a consultant with a hobby. If your point is to have a lifestyle, you’re doing it wrong.

Consulting is a treadmill, chasing that revenue. You’re only as good as your last gig, and you’re on their time, not yours.

This problem remains true even at scale. If literally everything goes perfectly for decades, you’ll eventually be a McKinsey or a BCG, the best reputation in the world, premium pricing ... yet you’ll still spend most of your time trying to get that next revenue gig. If you let up even for a moment, you’re dead.

SaaS (when done well), you get recurring subscriptions to a healthy point and it’s money for free. You can take months off at a time, get inspiration, come back and make an amazing new feature, stair step your subscriptions, and go play again, or make another SaaS, etc. If you want extra revenue, only do “ProServ” to help prospects move into your subscription and become self-sustaining. Get them hooked, then get out of their day-to-day.

Starting at your age, I tried both ways. On the fourth try, went from zero to seven figures liquidity before 30 using this model (utility w/ pro-serv onboarding), and because the valuation multiple on recurring billing is so much higher than on a body shop, hit nine figures of equity by 33.

At the same time, I had the flexibility to “run the company” from the ski slopes for six weeks a season, tinker for months at a time on what the next SaaS could be, operate using “4 hour work weeks”, even deliberately drop in and sabbatical in different industries to look for the next personal skill-up and next idea.

You do have to make a choice between funding and lifestyle. You never intended to raise funds, that’s fine. While I tried both choices twice each, and financial freedom came through funding, this is both anecdata and purely personal choice.

If you want “FU” money, it’s faster through funding but you have to learn to satisfy additional masters. If you just want a revenue stream for however long that SaaS tech remains relevant, you can be content to “only” double every year till you hit six or seven figures a year of cash income, then shift to hobby mode for a decade, but be aware that you might become un-fundable after two to four years because VC will see your growth curve track record as too shallow: “If this could be a home run, why isn’t it already?”

Being prideful or having purpose and focus are very different things. Write your goal on your forehead and look at yourself in the mirror every morning. Be a goal monster.
I fear we'll see this change soon enough, though. Given the rate at which IoT stupidity has been accelerating, a "smart" couch can't be too far off.
I'm not really up to speed on what the Rust team is thinking, but basically no. These are not the kinds of things the Rust team would do to improve ergonomics. Correctness is forefront in Rust. The only thing I can think of like this op that has seriously been considered is automatic cloning for trivial types like `Rc`.

The Rust team thinks really hard about correctness before making any decisions and isn't going to add any ridiculous footguns to the language unless there's some organizational catastrophe that puts monkeys in charge of decision making.
> preventive medicines that does not actually require people to be sick.

> I am in good health so have no real reason to get a flu shot.

Aren't you saying the exact same thing that you called "antivaccer".

CDC doesn't recommed flu to people who are not * in good health* , its a population wide recommendation. You being in good health is not relevant to GP's point of recommending vaccines to people who are not sick( which you seem to agree with).
Wow, just wow! I've read a lot of disbelief about how such a language would be impossible or at least practically too difficult to implement. I've been really keen to find exactly this!
Chinese is much more important in the rest of Asian than it was 10 years ago because of tourism. English is still the best language to get a long with internationally, but things could change.

But I don't think Chinese will become a significant business language for the rest of the world since they, like Japanese companies were found to be, are mostly insular. Not a lot of foreigners work in Chinese companies, Chinese companies don't have a lot of international exposure, China doesn't allow for much (if any) non-Chinese immigration. The reason English became dominant is that America (and before that the UK) is much more globalized.
There's a much simpler solution to the overbooking problem: eliminate the fraud exemption that airlines currently enjoy, allowing them to sell the same seat twice.

The downside is that, if airlines are unable to resell unused seats, more flights will fly partially empty, reducing overall efficiency of the industry. But if they offer standby "tickets" at steep discounts (instead of making every ticket a probabilistic standby seat), that problem would solve itself.
What about the ring of debris in geostationary orbit? Will that decay in 60M years?
I imagine we’d find a LOT of stone tools before the civilization developed higher tools and then collapsed. Africa is littered with them deep in some areas (due to a million years of humans), and they’re on all continents but Antarctica.
It's better than most karate, but Japan's martial culture has actually been fairly average since the fall of imperial Japan. Granted, they aren't china, but he's right in that the culture softened an incredible amount following a total defeat in WW2.
Most SaaS businesses are run by engineers and unfortunately many of them/us lack the eye for style. That said, here are two of my favorites:

http://fairpixels.pro - I found these guys here on HN and their work seems spot on.

https://www.spotify.com/ - their simple design and IPO should be an example for fellow engineers who’re building saas.
Luckily as parents we get to control exactly how much they use those devices, at least through about 4th or 5th grade.
> What does humankind make that would survive 60 million years into the future, and if some other advanced industrial civilization had existed 60 million years ago, how would we know?

I wonder if a swarm of artificial satellites that are little more than time capsules on various highly stable orbits, combined with radioactive markers/beacons on the moon that is arranged to somehow point towards the swarm, might survive that long? The moon's orbit is stable on the order of billions of years [1], but surface impacts might bury any artifacts we leave, so radiation is likely the only way an artifact can stand out millions of years from now.

If the swarm is a solid procession of one satellite passing near the Earth once every 50 years, then the markers' arrangement might be able to point to that intersection somehow. Bonus points if we can figure out passively-controlled, self-repairing solar sails for better detection. I haven't sketched the math yet though, so I don't know if we're talking about more satellites than we can create (would more than likely require von Neumann mining bots on an asteroid to produce, and definitely more mass than we can realistically lift at this time).

This has the advantage of letting us continuously launch updated capsules, as well as capture and update probes (like modifying a massive continuous loop) if our civilization lives that long.

I really Iaian Banks' idea of a civilization "restart button": deep space-resident AI-manned ships that all but just wander and hibernate within vast gulfs of vacuum, equipped with the tech necessary to reboot their civilization, and run silent all the time except when they opt-out of the service. That requires AGI and a fictional inexhaustible energy source to pull off, so we have to settle for what we can do for now.

[1] https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/19658/what-def...
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UDF has a lot of issues in actual implementation. For instance MacOS will only support UDF on an unpartitioned disk, while Windows will only support it on a partitioned one (IIRC was true for 7, may not be anymore). Additionally, since it has posix permissions, I expect it will have the same multi-user issue on posix systems that ext does, though I haven't tested this.
The disturbing thing is that you're talking about giving a kindergartner a smartphone/tablet... which is asking for trouble even if I've seen it done. This is exactly because their apps are designed to be so addictive.
Germany, like any other European country I know, charges 0% tax as long as a company doesn't pay it out to it's owners. Every other use (see next paragraph) is untaxed. In fact they pay less tax than individuals (no VAT). And of course, high incomes have such companies, that receive their salaries instead of them themselves. This is common and perfectly acceptable, in fact, as a consultant you are taken advantage of if you don't do that.

How does it work ? One pays "proper" tax on a nice income they pay themselves indirectly (but 1/3 or less of their real pay) and then invest it in something that's some form of capital replacement business (buy something - rent it out) and grow that business all their career, and of course use it for perks, like free dinners, vacations, health care, education, hotels, cleaning service, ... There's even the more blatant ways to get untaxed pay. For instance renting your own house (you put an office room in your mansion, then "rent" it to your own company for a very nice rent. Untaxed, and legal)

For tax purposes, of course, those aren't free dinners. Those are "sales negotiations", which are indeed also conducted in expensive restaurants. "Company conferences", not vacations. As for additional healthcare, that receives special tax treatment by default.

Company cars (aside from being a necessity. You're socially judged in Germany by the car you drive. You want "senior consultant" ? Don't arrive in a Renault, or generally any car under $50k. Hell I know people who hack this system by using rentals, removing the stickers and using those to go interview). Anyway company cars are untaxed (0%) as long as their "primary use" is company business. Wanna bet how often that is true for higher pay individuals ?

Oh and I've actually walked into the general management building of Deutsche Bank. I guarantee not one of the managers is paying a dime in tax on company perks, and yet ... that building is a palace. You can get free massages there. There's an exquisite restaurant (10 euro per meal). It's the best museum of German art in existence, by a HUGE margin, it's got sleeping rooms (which should be understood to be a free hotel service, because that's what they are), and of course, every business partner or "business partner" ... can be given access, again, for free. And all this service, for free, in the dead center of the city. Hell, the free parking alone is worth 500 euro per month.

Can we please stop with the idea that Europe is somehow a more egalitarian place than the US ? It's not. Also no European business will be caught dead paying half the salary you get in Colorado to a software engineer (you can get comparable to Colorado as a consultant with maximum "tax hacking" though, still nowhere near the valley). Lastly, at least in my experience, European companies are a lot less meritocratic than US ones (not that I'm seriously claiming there isn't a healthy dose of nepotism/favoritism in the US, but it doesn't tend to be 90%+ of the company, whereas that is very common in the EU).
It's more important to know where your money/the profit is going IMHO, who is being rewarded for their effort, etc, what type of behaviour is rewarded/perpetuated.

Similarly, do we want to reward people who participate in and perpetuate Pyramid-Ponzi scheme-like structures?

Where money and resources flows will have an impact on quality of life, the amount of offspring, and the role modelling/knowledge/behaviours passed down through generations.
I agree with your observations. I can't speak for Kay but I think his comment to Jobs about the size was based on the premis that the iPad would be a production device.

The percentage of users that use computing devices primarily for something other than content consumption is pretty small. I actually think an argument could be made that phones are used more for productive tasks than tablets.
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Then how would we have dinosaur bones from 65 million years ago +?
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The American flag is already bleached out. All that is needed is something to remove and disturb the other items left on the surface of the moon, say one or two good asteroid/meteorite strikes We pass across meteorite showers on a constant consistent basis. That evidence wont last 1000 years let alone 60 million
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That's quite amazing. I find 1, 2, 3, 4 straw men in so few words. That's usually an indicator that somebody's not really interested in rational discussion, but we've already gone beyond the grain of normal chat here so I'm a bit confused. So let me ask you a simple question, do you think everything you just said fairly represents what I have stated and/or implied in our discussion? If I point out misrepresentations you're making, would this be meaningfully likely to change your views?
The comment I responded to was talking about the overall purpose of going to space, including the future.

I don't disagree with you about what the space industry looks like today.
Does LIDAR penetrate dust? I wonder what we might find if we scanned the entire Moon...
Those are just few that presuppose it would have to be an industrial civilization at our level ("concentrations of radioisotopes")...
Upvoted you as I don't think people should be downvoted especially for misunderstanding/misinterpreting what someone said..
YMMV but my kids love their piles and piles of books even if they also want to be on their iPads pretty often. I give 'em a little time each day to watch a bit of TV, a little time on the tablet, as much time playing with friends and reading books as they want ... and they choose books a lot of the time.

I think if you just gave them the tablet and walked away, they might not look for anything else ... but that's true of any human of any age, it seems.
Surely, we'll leave a few satellites in high orbit, and presumably the raptors would have done as well.

Also, their sitcoms would by now have penetrated a decent bit of intergalactic space, and attracted some attention. Because if it happened twice on this planet, the universe at large would be teeming hi-tech societies.
Can you show me where this was said or inferred in the article? I'm a front end engineer and I make, well, a LOT more than 75k.
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I appreciate the fact that Jerry Low's article is not quite as vicious as the title makes it out to be. A bit clickbaity the title, but the actual article makes a good point to separate the design portions of front-end dev from the wiring up the servers and databases portions of it.
There’s a book series by julian may that deals with a time travel device being invented to 6 million years ago where to everyone’s surprise an alien civilization is ruling the planet.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga_of_Pliocene_Exile