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Its an interesting theory. IMO: the difficulty of destroying a civilization is probably harder than communicating with them, and the advantages of keeping one around probably outweigh the advantages of killing them if you're already more technically advanced.

A big point in TDF is that the speed of light limits our ability to communicate and understand other civilizations. But, by extension, weapons are also limited by that limit. Of course, maybe its possible to break the speed of light, but then communication could also break this limit.

So, if you're a technologically advanced alien civilization and you become aware of humanity, you can send an Envoy or you can send some Nukes (or, of course, you can do nothing and watch). Just within the context of The Dark Forest Theory, there's practically no reason to send Nukes; at worst, you discover that humanity sucks and then you go ahead and nuke us. But life is probably special; maybe humanity would make great trading partners, maybe our brains function differently and can solve problems differently, maybe our natural proclivity for war would make us great allies, or maybe we'd make great slaves for the mines on the Vartoth 12 colony. All of these are options for a civilization a thousand years ahead of us; they can pick what they'd like, but none of them would classify as a result of The Dark Forest theory.

There's also a possibility that maybe this hypothetical alien civilization tried that course of action in the past with another civilization, and they were friends for a while, helped each other, then fought in a bloody war, and now that civilization is distrustful so they destroy any young civilizations while they still easily can instead of even trying to come to terms. But that's not a Dark Forest theory situation; the Dark Forest Theory suggests that its natural for civilizations to want to kill each other off.
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I also lived in a small-ish apartment (65 sqm for a family)
Compared to today's tracks it's insane to me that Nürburgring was widely used. The logistics at the track are clearly very high stakes and seeing how we could look at how huge that track is and think that's a good idea just shows how far the sport has come.
At the same time, the Bay Area's concentration of tech labor has fostered a new left-leaning political force, one that is still in the process of decoupling from the bosses and party politics and realizing a unique voice.

I do think that things are different now, and there's very substantial generation gap in the political scene that has made it hard to create movement, but the threads that connect the old to the new are there and are rapidly getting stronger as tech has gotten more consolidated under a few roofs.
Your comment brought back a memory: My wife was interning at Eli Lilly in their HQ in Indy in the summer of 1999 and they had an office mail robot that fits the exact description you gave.

I think it followed markings on the floor. Zero computer vision, when it came your way you'd better watch out, it nearly squished me against a wall while I was watching it.
The scroll wheel demonstration took them down to track 9
I remapped caps lock to esc.
This is absolutely true, at least for general frustration/negativity. Playing a positive role for others is a huge help.

I don’t want to downplay depression or imply it’s a cure for that, but certainly my own struggles with same have been lessened when I was an active volunteer.

You don’t have to be a “better person” to volunteer; volunteering helps you become a better person.
Good point, now that I re-read the comment I replied to. This comments section is talking about church in general, but he specifically wrote "the Church".

Anyway, what I'm mainly referring to is evolution and the age of the Earth and the universe. Around 40% of people in the US are Young-Earth Creationists.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/170822/believe-creationist-view...
The problem usually isn't the webdevs or the BI developers but the fact that it's logical thinking and engineering skills that make a supportable application. Without those skills, bad software gets made, and bad Excel spreadsheets can be just as bad as bad webapps.
The Data Fabric for Machine Learning – Part 1
All of those problems are extremely theoretical, and nothing ever posted on Facebook is private in any meaningful sense anyway.
My experience with PC makers was far worse in terms of failure rates and more importantly, support. Small sample size, though.
Different medium, but the conference series Lead Developer has many good youtube videos about this on the channel White October Events.
Place a semicolon after the name, would that work?
A book “confessions of a public speaker” has quite a few very nice and useful anecdotes and tips.

And a random personal anecdote:

I had a really difficult time even at toastmasters dealing with my Uhms and Umms. Having someone count them somewhat works, but I decided to experiment by just watching my daily speech to be the same “quality” as public speech, and try to suppress the garbage words even during no-stress moments.

It took maybe half a year of practice, but as a result I started to speak slower and (probably :) clearer in the day to day life, and this during the public speaking too, with zero effort.

Edit-append: the most useful exercise is taking the projector, presenting in an empty room as if for the crowd, recording this “from a seat” and watching yourself. Extremely weird at first, but you very quickly see the areas to focus on. And since you must rehearse any talk anyway several times (at least that is the case for me), it is a zero-cost and high return activity.
If we're going for a "best" list (rather than "most important") a cheap way to slightly improve it would be to swap Nevermind for In Utero.

Though I thought it was actually a pretty well-curated set of albums. "Best" isn't always the... well, best, thing to aim for in a collection.
It's frustrating in SF where it seems like the only night time social activities are drinking-related and very few businesses outside of bars/clubs are open past 8pm or so.

One thing I love about going to Asia is the vibrant night time activities that of course includes bars but also night markets and late shopping that is as much for families as it is for bar goers.
> Either way I think these are still the best notebooks you can buy.

Five years ago you could make that statement and not have to think twice about it. However now there is too much competition.

1. Dell XPS

2. Matebook X Pro

3. Asus Zenbook Pro

These are just 3 laptops off the top of my head that can compete with the latest and greatest Macbook Pro and come out arguably better. The keyboard, thermal issues and touchbar have really hurt the latest macbook pro. Apple needs to admit they are wrong, ditch the shitty butterfly keyboard and fix the random issues that have started plaguing the Macbook in Apple's quest for thinness.
Except good luck building a cell phone without android or various chipsets from Qualcomm, etc...
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My newsletter archive is here: https://tinyletter.com/ystrickler/letters/the-dark-forest-th...
I'd personally love to see romanized Chinese/Japanese names contain a space between all characters. Westerners would still botch them, but would do a better job discerning where to divide the pronunciation.
Agreed, RAID makes little sense if you want a quiet home storage that is used only occasionaly. Additional disk is better used for regular backups. If you need to minimize downtime and have the storage accessible 24/7, then RAID makes sense.
Certainly a valid opinion to have, I just want to provide the counter opinion that for many folks, myself included, this is not the case. I have been part of both large and very small churches, and have personally found it to be an enormous blessing.

Churches are full of fallible people to be sure, but in most of them, these fallible people are encouraging one another to live out what they profess to believe.
Fraudulent transactions made with a regular bank account are pretty irreversible too. There's a whole extra layer of infrastructure on top of the 'core' banking services that allows them (banks) to 'reverse' a fraudulent transaction. But I'd be very very surprised if fraudulent charges are 'reversible' in any other way than the bank reimbursing the account holder.

In other words, crypto-currency exchanges could do the same thing (but then they'd almost certainly have/want to charge for that).

Double-entry bookkeeping is also, ideally, irreversible.
Note this, important, quote from the article:

“The Copyright Office, they typically don’t scrutinize if he is a true author, it’s more of an administrative process," said Michael Cohen, an intellectual property lawyer in Beverly Hills whose clients include corporations and entrepreneurs. “They typically grant it if it meets the minimal requirements.”
> just another powerstructure

I don't like power structures but some are necessary. Take the police for example, a world where the police are not needed would be a better world. Police are a nasty coercive force. And yet they are completely essential.

Religion is interesting because it is obviously not essential in the way that a police force is. However, it isn't yet obvious that it can be done without - a religion's adherents are often people who want some sort of power structure telling them what they should do to be a good person. What it means to be a good person isn't obvious, and in practice is very complex. Sometimes a good person needs to do horrible things - we should be terrified of taking that sort of decision on personally. Sometimes bad people want to do good and would appreciate being told how.

* Political structures aren't strong enough to organise society on their own. They only communicate the beliefs of the current ruling class.

* We can do without a lot of religious dogma, which is clearly wrong (eg, anything talking about purging heretics). We need some sort of shared story for what is going on that looks a lot like a religion.
Indianapolis used to, maybe still does, have a group dedicated to social volunteering. Basically you can pick and choose small or big volunteer opportunities from a variety of community needs.

I didn’t much like some aspects of it, but it’s definitely a useful approach for some. I regret I don’t remember the name of the organization.
I can't speak to democratic/republic, but a number of syncretic religions and alternative spiritualities are either decentralized or so fragmented as to be functionally so. In my experience, such provide several of the social benefits of religion - i.e. gatherings of like-minded people with shared theologies - with reduced potential for abuse of power.

Of course, the scalability of these systems are unknown.
To be clear, I wasn't arguing whether policy should be one way or the other or what anyone should do, just whether or not people do commonly trust central authority.

You bring up a fair objection: the Progressives' big pushes for central planning were around 100 years ago, and there's no reason the same goals couldn't be met with a distributivist approach, and many novel programs rely far less on central planning.

All true, and you're going to find hundreds of people on HN who could go into far greater detail.

Outside this techno-libertarian bubble, most people have no notion of distributed anything. If you ask most people, "how can we do a major program," their conception will be a big government agency planning it out.

And they'll have reasonable arguments for why, such as economies of scale and standardization.

> Meanwhile you could implement redistributive programs even at the level of a city.

I think this hits at a problem with the original concept of "trusting a central authority" as you bring up what is a smaller central authority, but nevertheless somewhat central.
Deeper inspection reveals that both are tagged sRGB, which indicates they are for demonstrative purposes only.
Hardware acceleration in Arch is due to Arch patching it on. That's not Chromium's decision.

Thread on the issue
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463440

Edit: Arch https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1830639

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chromium#Hardware_video...
Fortunately, I haven't seen that too often given that conferences typically want to fill up their keynote seats.
Basically you're running the load balancer on the same node as your app instead of running it centrally. If you have 200 nodes each with 1gbit then your load balancer needs to have at least two 200gbit network cards. The service mesh just lets service A nodes talk to individual service B nodes directly which means each node only needs 1gbit. Do you have this problem? I doubt it and even if you do there are lots of hardware/cloud companies willing to take your money in exchange for solving your problem without changing the software.
i think it’s high time apple decouple screen size, core-count and thinness with “pro-ness”

there is no technical reason (that i know of) stopping apple from selling a 15 inch laptop as thin as the macbook air (and still even get a low-clocked 4 core cpu in there)... i for one would buy that up in a heartbeat

for those that really need power, they can have a much thicker 6 or 8 or higher core cpu + discrete gpu and it would be fine (for that target) i would imagine...

but maybe apples marketing dept knows more than i do (not being sarcastic)
Indeed. It's really quite simple; we should call people as they call themselves, not how we think they should be called. It's the basic respect we expect for ourselves but the West is bizarrely inclined not to give to others. We come up with all sorts of systems, checks, and balances to decide what the order should be rather than just use the order that it is already in.
My piano teacher had me play scales with a coin on the back of my hand, if that helps.

If you look at the anatomy of the wrist you’ll see the problem. It’s worse for woman who have been pregnant (the lining sells for some reason and stays that way)
Right, you'd have to use Zapier, IFTTT or Huginn RSS to Email or Twitter, or whatever you want and filter by 8K, 10K or other keyword depending on what type of filing you want to get alerts on.

Regardless of which you use, it's free, trivial and takes less than 5 minutes to set up.

This is how I do it anyway, maybe there's a better way.
Error connecting the database.
You can't redefine technical debt to include future requirement changes, and then say that definition is wrong and it isn't really debt.
I think when trying to categorise technical debt the Technical Debt Quadrant is a better tool [0]. It's already linked to in the parent article.

A lot of people are shoving all technical debt in the Deliberate / Prudent category. However I've seen a lot of code bases written by inexperienced developers and it would have be done completely differently if they had any experience (both of the inadvertent categories). This means actually updating the code base can be a complete pain. Sometimes you know if you're editing the code you risk creating huge regression issues and suddenly something that should have taken a short time can spiral out control if you want to add more functionality.

[0] https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebtQuadrant.html
I was extremely lucky to have learned ICs from a very special man who helped design/refine the concepts at PARC. Thanks to that, he was able to explain the entire course from a perspective of an "inventor".

This is _very_ similar to the way he taught, although we didn't have 3D representations, they were mostly transparencies taped together and layered. Very cool to see it done this way.
Amazing post Trey, as usual. This is a very comprehensive list. I can't think of any other important function missing. My students will love this :)
There’s a link to send him an email, and the address is s.wolfram@wolfram.com. What a strange choice to own lastname.com and then use the email address f.lastname@lastame.com instead of firstname@lastname.com.

Perhaps it’s an issue of standardization inside the organization. In that case, perhaps one might make an exception for the founder & CEO.
> However, it isn't yet obvious that it can be done without - a religion's adherents are often people who want some sort of power structure telling them what they should do to be a good person.

There are countries where the majority is not religious and they function just fine.
I truly am worried that Huawei technology is compromised. Why? I owned a Nexus 6p, made by Huawei, which was found to have a suspicious hardware "bug" where the battery's level is measured as higher than what is reported by the device itself.

Huawei maintains that it is not a hardware issue, while Google says that it is a hardware problem. A class action lawsuit was just settled because of this.

My suspicion: Huawei surreptitiously collected data, using up CPU threads, and core Android software did not detect this hardware usage.

I know many many owners of the Nexus 6p that had this problem, and it was only this Nexus which had it, the only one made by Huawei.
The startups building ‘dark kitchens’ for Uber Eats and Deliveroo
I think you're under the mistaken assumption that all churches preach religion.

I suggest you read up on Unitarian Universalist and Sunday Assembly churches, which you may not have heard of, but they exist all over the world, and echo exactly what you're saying.
Ask HN: How to represent your dev shop when most of your work is not public?
I continuously struggle to create a website for my dev shop that has been in business since 2013. Our work is often internal or otherwise not public facing, and it's hard to come up with a way that communicates our abilities without looking too hand-wavey. Do any of you know of portfolios/consulting sites that work well under similar constraints?
It seems to me like the point of churches (or any spiritual organization) is to make it easy to find a local community of people who share one's ethical values and metaphysical beliefs. Of course, someone could always just make a post on a message board:

"Hey, my name's Bill, I live with my wife and two kids over by Grand & Manchester, near the post office... I'm looking to start a local club for people that believe human beings are more than just biological automata and that all souls will ultimately be reconciled to God at the end of time. I go to a lot of local meetups connected to my hobbies, but every time I bring up the Universal Reconciliation thing people start to get uncomfortable or bored, so I was hoping to find some people I could talk about this with..."

But then you've basically started a church, so...
100% maintainable software is NEVER a goal. A hard coded list that will never change is better than a configuration file that needs to be installed someplace and loaded as runtime. If you are right that the list will never change you have made the software more maintainable as you never have to deal all the code to load the configuration from whatever path the user has installed it to. If you are wrong though you will have a lot of work tracking all the releases and what is hard coded in each until you retrofit a loader.

This is the type of choice you need to make upfront often when designing software. If you get it right your system is more maintainable. If you get it wrong your system is less maintainable. Sometimes you don't know in advance which is right.
I am an Elon Musk supporter (if that makes any sense as a term) and shareholder in Tesla.

But he lied when he said "funding secured" and when he accused the diving expert of being pedophile.
That was unacceptable behaviour. And he deserves to be criticised for it. However, Elon Musk needs to be judged in shades of grey - not in black and white as it is so common.
> I have no idea why people think the USPS is this giant wasteful pit of money in the federal budget

Because republicans have spent decades trying to kill it. Before the post office was forced to pay pensions fund up front by republicans [1] it was self sustainable.

https://www.cnbc.com/id/45018432
Wow. I bought a Lynx with my first paycheck from my first “real” job when I was 15. I played California Games a lot.
Ask HN: What should a seed stage startup do to attract engineers?
How do we get good talent when everyone's fighting for them?
Is there any doubt at this point that QuadrigaCX was simply a scam?

I feel terrible for all those whose financial futures were turned upside down in this fiasco. It's one thing to accept the risk of the volatility in the cryptocurrency markets, but to have that money disappear into the void is another thing entirely...
scuttlebutt would be great if it wouldn't force this SJW and off-the-grid thinking on everything there. Technologically I also like it a lot.
Can I have one of those please?
The Direct Marketing Association has a "Do not mail" list that's much more effective than the "Do not call" list. It doesn't eliminate all junk mail but most, if not all, DMA members honor the request. For me it eliminated somewhere between 80% and 90% of the junk mail I used to receive. https://dmachoice.thedma.org/register.php
For me, the key quote:

The United States and its allies were derelict in not developing a 5G supplier, former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said in a speech in London in March. “With the benefit of hindsight it beggars belief that the countries which pioneered wireless technology – the United States, the UK, Germany, Japan and with wifi, Australia have got to the point where none of them are able to present to one of their own telcos a national, or a Five Eyes, champion in 5G,” he said.

I would have thought Qualcomm, Cisco, Intel and the like would have been all over 5G. Why weren't they?
I understand these issues are an impediment to Linux adoption.

However people always say this as if Linux is at fault. Well, mostly the sleep issues exist because the laptop ships with windows, and windows has some fancy sleep mode that involves a specific bios setting.

Linux uses more traditional sleep settings, so when installing Linux one must change that bios setting and then run a command to tell the OS that setting has been changed.

So you didn’t say Linux is at fault, but just to be clear: this is just what you get when the manufacturer doesn’t support your preferred OS.

However as a robotics engineer, I prefer open source over ease of use. I’m not suggesting regular people do this, but sharing the tips with the Hacker News crowd who may also be fine with running a few terminal commands to get a great OS experience on hardware which may be a better value than a MacBook today given their issues discussed in this thread.
We will sell a model 3 for $35,000. That was 2016.
Chinese Autonomous Cars vs. US Autonomous Cars
Still only USB Type C ports though on a $2000 machine? It feels like such a rip off. For two years now my primary device has been a MBP with only USB Type C, and for two years now I haven't had a single device I can plug into it without a dongle.

I'm so sick of these fucking dongles. Thank god it still has the 3.5mm port, because it must have taken an act of divinity to prevent that part of the Apple crazy from reaching the MBP yet.
Your first line is completely unwarranted.

Sports was better for you, at least for the sports you chose and the volunteering opportunities you chose. That’s fine.

To apply your anecdata to the rest of the world and shout the following is what’s troubling.

> No way! I totally vehemently disagree.
dotheyknowitseurope.eu/check.php ;D
Unambiguously? Yep. (And wow, I'm impressed.)

But you're going to dreadfully confuse people looking for Mark McGwire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_McGwire), for example. (And possibly "MacGuiver". I'm kind of unconvinced that it's related.)
Berkeley Lab Project to Pinpoint Methane Super Emitters
Dell XPS laptops are some of the best Linux laptops out there. No need for Windows. I've been using the same model as you with Linux for a while now and an very happy with it.
A 450k mile Tesla Model S