skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any kind of organisation at semi-galactic scale implies FTL communication at the very least, which violates everything we know about physics.

Another theory that doesn't require a great filter: The distribution of life may not be equal across the galaxy if it's truly random, we could be in a local minima and never meet another civilisation by the bad luck of where we are.
I can already type with my mind. I had my brain internally wired to a pair of biomechanical "limbs" with graspers on the end that just happen to interface with a standard keyboard really well. I trained a neural net to run the setup, and since then it's served my needs very well. Granted, some of the inner workings are mechanical rather than electrical, but I can already type faster than I can think.
Cassettes have terrible fidelity. Dolby attenuates some of the hiss but doesn't remove it, so it's always there in the background.

The original Type I tapes have the same frequency response as an old person with hearing issues. Type II Chrome is a bit better, but the low end has a hump and rolls far short of 20Hz, and the top end is nowhere close to the ruler-flat response of a 44.1k WAV or FLAC.

You needed $$$$$$$equipment$$$$$$$ to get real hifi out of cassettes. The only brand that really solved the hifi problem was Nakamichi. The engineering on their high-end decks was legendary, but so was the price - the Dragon would be around $6500 in 2019 dollars.

But... the terrible fidelity makes the sound more interactive. I started listening on cassettes, and when I moved up to a more revealing mid-fi vinyl system I was surprised to find that sometimes I liked the music less.

With cassettes, I could interpolate and imagine details I wanted to be there. When I moved up to hearing the details that really were there, I didn't always enjoy them as much.
I apologize if it seemed like a personal jab. I am admittedly sensitive to the issue given my experiences on both sides of the proverbial exam table in the American system. Every time I try and discuss the issue with people in my area they lead with a tale about how terrible it is elsewhere and it put up a wall preventing any discussion. Rather than talking about what can work they shut it down right off the same as they do with anything they don't want to deal with...going right to the failures or abuses.

It is disheartening to see anyone in any system suffer. I am quite sure if I was someone suffering in your example's case it would be hard not to be angry at the system. When it's you hurting you don't care so much if a system if overall better, better for others, or was even better for you 99/100 times thus far, prevents a bigger problem later etc...you just want to stop hurting.
If that article interests you, you might find this one even more interesting:

http://zipcpu.com/blog/2018/04/02/formal-cpu-bugs.html

Basically, I was shocked when I applied SymbiYosys to the ZipCPU at how many bugs I found. Bug lists like this are typically company secrets, since no one wants to reveal how many bugs their product has. In my case, part of my success has been my openness.
> My point is imprisoning someone to "send a message" rather than for the effect of the crime is cruel.

So you're saying punitive damages (should) violate the 8th amendment? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punitive_damages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruel_and_unusual_punishment
Brin was on the Python train early. At the time, Guido van Rossum worked in Reston, VA, only about 30 miles away.
And in a world where Google isn't malicious:

Marketers: We need you to add these 623 tracking pixels from these 300 ad networks to the page.

Developers: Get bent. If we add tracking pixels our SEO positioning will tank.

Marketers: Oh, OK.
Regarding tape, I first heard The Who's Tommy on a reel to reel back in the 70's. I'll never forget how amazing it sounded.
I don't think these issues are mutually exclusive.

Users search for news/article content with Google because the experience is qualitatively better than many of the alternatives. If there was a news website that showed trending and search-based results (and there are several), the presentation of the article after SERP clickthru would still need to be comparable.

Facebook did a more AMP-like thing of migrating the article content onto Facebook, providing the least offensive (if you are already using Facebook) presentation.

News websites in 2019 almost all auto-play video upon load and many times the video is unrelated to the article content. They load clickbait partner links in the footer. They still have dozens of ad networks and tracking beacons sprinkled on every page. I can't reliably trust my ad blockers and tracking beacon blockers or Reader Mode to work all of the time.

As much as I would like competition with Google+AMP and Facebook+articles, the current state of the web is gross and these two clean it up a little.
If you periodically have a lot of excess electricity because you installed a lot of wind/solar; using that to create hydrogen is not the strangest plan. Germany has a lot of clean energy capacity already and plans to install more seem popular.
As much as I would hate the idea as a student, online IDEs that fully record the progression of a CS assignment could go a very long way in preventing cheating in CS coursework. That's a decent startup idea.
A century of pro-corporation-monopoly advocacy will not change the fact that corporations as generally conceived are anti-market interventions and thus economically unsound.
I've been a TA and taught introductory CS courses, and IMHO trying to "add extra tech" tends to get in the way of learning more than anything else, as well as perpetuating bad habits when programming. I don't think giving beginners an "IDE addiction" is a good way to start them off, and believe that intro CS should begin away from a computer: designing with pencil and paper (or a whiteboard) and "thinking before doing" gives students a chance to exercise their brains instead of relying on a stupid "mechanical brain" to hand-hold them.

Then again, the "old school" (literally) way is not as "fashionable" as "look at all the cool tech we're using in education".
You don't know my intent. My point is that most of the people that bitch about Phoenix are fine with the existence of Los Angeles. The remaining bit are too dumb to realize it's more energy efficient than the heat suckers of the North.
Destroying a planet doesn’t seem like a big deal for space fairing civilization. Honestly there’s much more room and resources outside surfaces of planets
To an outside reader, it sounds like you know exactly what it is but are trying to not call it by its name for some reason.
This "markup language" idea sounds intriguing. Perhaps we should form a committee to design it, and then a consortium to standardize it. It could even be promulgated World Wide!
I consider null to properly mean 'a value outside some value domain', and nil to mean 'zero value in some value domain', and both these values are useful, and can be assigned to variables of that value domain. So C/C++'s definition of NULL pointers is a historical transgression that has now stuck, as far as I am concerned.

Examples:
p=null-pointer should mean invalid adress, p=nil-pointer should mean zero offset/address.
l=nil-list should be empty list, l=null-list is invalid list. So null-list could also be called undefined-list.
c=null-character is correct as a character, and works well as a terminator.
s=null-string undefined string, s=nil-string empty string "".
That passage is something of an afterthought, from the epilogue of his book, but it's still disappointing he doesn't credit Robin Hanson for coming up with the Great Filter concept[1], or mention the x-risk[2] community which contemplates this stuff.

[1] http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/greatfilter.html

[2] https://nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html / https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Existential_risk
> a lot of that "web content" needs to realize the actual value of their content might be ~$0

If people are spending time on your site, you are providing value to them (excluding scams, of course). It's never 0.

> Advertising distorted the market; a lot of people were abl

It did not. The percentage of GDP that companies spend in advertising is historically the same for more than 100 years. What happened with the internet is that Google and later FB progressively sucked up ALL the profits, leaving literally scraps to publishers. And over time they are eating more and more value from publishers because all their competitors have vanished (there is currently NO competitor to adsense). Publishers are seing their ad CPMs being lower , despite the fact that online audiences are growing fast, and the shift to online ads has accelerated explosively in the past few years.

Patreon and subscriptions have their place, but they are not scalable. Users will revolt if they have to pay 30 yearly subscriptions for reading 30 articles , and are forced to pass from an spanish inquisition to unsubscribe. Subscriptions can also be bad for the quality of content: If creators try to appeal to their patrons/subscribers instead of trying to reach as wide audiences as possible, they tend to become more partisan and biased ; you get what you incentivize.

micropayments would indeed be far better especially if they were anonymous, fire-and-forget payments. crypto payments would be ideal for that but its not gonna happen because they are untaxable
Project manager can mean different things in different companies. I've seen PM's negotiate complex contracts with customers and as a result bring in a lot more revenue for the company without any additional development work. For the regular PM who's just managing internally, if they are good the should help reduce the amount of unnecessary work from the business and have developers working on the most crucial work. Being able to negotiate with different 'kinds' of people is a real skill, and it's not just basic office skills.

That said I think the "cushy" thing about being a PM though is there isn't a new framework to learn next year - you can just keep building on your existing people skills. How to win friends and influence people is more relevant and enduring than any tech skills from the 1930's (or even the 1990's), for example.

But overall IF they are good they are worth it. (If they are bad they cost just as much and are much more harmful than a bad dev)
Theres many applications where any unexpected garbage collection pause is absolutely detrimental. Even pauses when the kernel cleans up memory cache during a Malloc are detrimental.

Garbage collection is great until then.
Why would Boote Void residents not see all other galaxies? It’s just a relatively low density space nothing special about it. You’re probably thinking of Barnard 68 - dark nebula, and it’s too small to host a galaxy.
My hope is that someone discovers an exception to the theorem/theory that says nothing can move faster than light. Without FTL communication, and FTL travel, space exploration is simply too depressingly slow.
"by the bad luck of where we are"

Or perhaps the good luck of where we are
Realistically, those who've wanted to use the ZipCPU tend to just chat with me about it and we work out a handshake agreement or some such.

Were someone to want to use it in a commercial product, I'd be more interested in some form of compensation. For now it's filling the education role quite nicely -- which is somewhat of a surprise for me since I never saw that coming when I started working on it in the first place.
Okay, good points. I see it your way now. Thanks for the response. I appreciate you dude.
You're misunderstanding it.

The part everyone leaves out when they complain about this case is that he was also growing wheat to sell across state lines. The wheat he was feeding to his animals was in addition to that wheat, and the combination of the two amounts put him over the wheat restrictions.

(Note: there is some argument over whether the farmer sold any wheat inter-state in the particular year at issue. That is irrelevant, since he definitely participated in interstate commerce with the same farm in prior and following years, so the activity itself was treated as an interstate commercial activity. If he had always just stuck to just growing his own wheat for private (non-commercial) use, the wheat controls would not have applied.

There is an entire string of SCOTUS cases limiting future cases on precisely those grounds--that purely intra-state commercial activities doesn't give rise to federal jurisdiction of the Commerce Clause. The key is that the contemplated commercial activity must (a) be primarily local in nature and (b) not actually cross state lines.
Maybe they're using Firefox for Android, Google doesn't seem to be pushing AMP links to it (yet?).
This seems like the Occam’s razor solution to Fermi’s paradox:

1. Civilizations have a short “technological” shelf life eg when they can send and receive signals, say 200y

2. They are spread apart by space and time by natural distribution

3. The chances of two of them overlapping (eg civ a is transmitting during a time civ b will hear it) is very small

So nobody ever hears each other. Maybe If we were around for 5000 years we’d catch one.

But we won’t be.
I think there are at least an equal number of cases where a company without a union took advantage of their employees.
Devoting your life to software does not imply burnout. There are companies that reward you for giving a shit (see many startups).

Point to me the group of brilliant engineers that have the bodies of body builders.

I'm not saying they won't be in shape, I'm saying that someone who has an abnormally muscular body is clearly dedicating a non trivial portion of their life to it.
That was not uncommon back in those days. Personal computers in particular were a relatively small niche. Given the limitations of application and difficulty to use, a much higher proportion of those who could use a computer could also program one.

Most of my computer friends and I were decent programmers by the time we entered college in the early 90's.
That's fiction, not history.
isn't most of the breathable oxygen produced by phytoplankton in the oceans?
Copy-paste error: it's 2^22, which is 4194304.
This is why we can’t have nice things. it’s upsetting that we have to build rules and laws around “worst” behaviors.
If you want to use it in your closed source project, give me a holler. I'm sure we could work something out. Even if we don't, I'd love to have the opportunity to hear from you, meet you, say hello, and encourage you in any way I can.
This is a wishful thinking counterfactual. No major search engine ever weighed obscene numbers of tracking pixels or heavy page weight very high in their SEO algo.

I'm not saying Google doesn't have perverse incentives (and with AMP, they do). But it wasn't fixed before Google and AMP is one of the counterweights to web ads + tracking beacon overload.
Okay. What's the boundary between those that have the right to not spend money implementing accessiblity in their website and those that don't have that right? Seriously, what's the boundary? What is the fundamental ethical reasoning that got you there?
Where I live and have been, it's not uncommon to get pulled over for going the speed limit or lower.
The American health care system is a perfect system.

Its product is perfect, the only alternative the customer really has is to live in discomfort or die.

Its prices are fully unregulated.

The care providers are fully utilized and can therefore practice pretty much the prices they want.

The insurance companies are consolidating and can therefore practice the prices they want, while providing an ever dropping level of service. Consolidation with pharmacies even give them a way to control the distribution and a way to recover some of their disbursement.

Pharmaceutical producers are protecting their markets through patents that give them monopolies, which combined with a total absence of governmental overlook lets them practice the prices they want. The more the patient needs the medicine, the pricier drugs can get. The incentive is then that the deadliest the disease is, the priciest the drug gets.

The only balance that should exist with insurance weighing for lower treatment costs ends up being lower reimbursement and more borderline control on the patient.

Truly this is a perfect system, ever more efficient at extracting money from people suffering. All the incentives are in, just not weighing in the favor of patients.
>The galaxy is populated, much like Earth. The power controlling our region has a policy of leaving us alone. End of story.

Or they just don't care to visit our solar system because there's nothing of interest here. I'm sure you can imagine a 18th century European surveyor sailing past a bunch of new islands, noting them on charts and tossing in the description "contains no resources" and then moving on.
> I don’t care about the concept of ownership, I care about being able to listen to my music.

Well, they're kind of related. You won't be able to if Spotify terminates your account for whatever reason (which happened to me once, due to claims on their end the payment ran into some issue, which I could never verify) or if it goes out of business.
Like I said, when will HN stop shadow banning the truth? Marriage=slavery
That termination threat is to me a signal that the company hates me and the business relationship is unrecoverable. I'd be polishing my CV and would be gone within a month of finding a better opportunity. Likely with a raise while I was at it.

Toxic environments like that are not worth working in. All sorts of other "interesting" corporate cultural aspects are usually also present. Their ethics are compromised so fraud and other criminal activity etc is probably going on as well. Even if not, the company is badly run and long term will fail in various ways for foolish reasons.
What would be the alien/human equivalent of an airplane that natives in uncontacted areas shot arrows at? I can't come up with a believable example for the aliens to be discussing back at home base.
That's effectively quack science. I'd love to be proven otherwise with evidence, but I've seen nothing that shows people spending an hour a day outperforming people who do not in mental tasks.
It's also needlessly dismissive to write as if everyone using Python is making a mistake.
is that all CS50 students need a GitHub account to submit their work

Have you considered the privacy and ethical implications of the obligatory use of a third-party service (with its own policies on privacy and PII) for a course?

I know GitHub may be seen by most in a better light, but to me this is as treacherous as obligatory use of Google or Facebook services for courses.

(I've worked in the CS education sector, but where students submitted work --- and worked on --- the institution's own servers.)
I was going to say the same thing. This post just reads like a knock off Great Filter concept with less analysis put into it. For example, environmental devastation is only one of many possible causes of Great Filter-like phenomena.
Cool story. Nothing to do with body building.
I dont know about that but they do push them to Safari on iphone
This isn't broken windows

He's pointing out that the 3% margin should exist evenly, so adding 1% theft on top means you'll hit 4%. So in order to pull of this stunt, they needed to make sure their margins were below 3%. But if you can get your margins below 3%, then why isn't that mandated?

This is forgiving people who break windows, but not people who carefully don't break windows so that they can then purposefully break windows as often as most people accidentally break windows
Actually there are/were places in Europe where addicts could get an actual prescription for heroin. It greatly reduced harm.
It must be fairly common even now for people doing CS degrees, right? I didn't do CS, but I'd been programming for 5 years by the time I started college (I partly didn't study CS because I already knew how to program to a reasonable standard...)
You didn’t address my comment at all. This just seems like some unfounded normative assertions about some other thing entirely.
The OpenBSD Ada Library
How to Save a Loggerhead – Garden and Gun
Drugs are made in one state. Sold in another.

That is quite literally within the original Constitutional scope of the interstate commerce clause. No amendment needed...

Prohibition required an amendment because at the time most alcohol was brewed/distilled/whatever locally and sold locally, so the amount of interstate alcohol commerce was limited and would not have survived constitutional review. (Now, most alcohol is made in a few states and sold nationally, so the interstate commerce clause would apply as a matter of original scope.)
Not that hard to believe either. There is a civilization on Earth that the rest of us have agreed not to contact. [0] Occasionally they see our aircraft and we can only assume treat them as mythical beasts. Once someone tried to contact them and was killed.

Is it that hard to believe that our local aliens ignore us for the most part, that sometimes we see their spacecraft and mistake them for natural phenomena, and when one of them approaches illegally if they land in the wrong place they just get killed?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island
It is entirely possible that there are tons of intelligent alien planets for whom the predominant way of life is the way of the Amish. They simply choose not to use radio-telescopes just like the Amish choose not to use mechanical milking machines. The link has an interesting list of barred technologies. Do the meek inherit Vulcan? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subgroups_of_Amish
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No, your response indicates you do not understand the broken windows theory at all. I would suggest you go back and read it. I linked it for a reason.

You're imprisoning criminals for the crimes they committed, not just to send a message. But imprisoning criminals for committing crimes does send a message and that message is that crime is not tolerated.

You might be okay with someone breaking into your house to steal your personal property without your permission but I'm going to guess you're not okay with someone breaking into your house and murdering your entire family. Would you then argue that it would be cruel to imprison the murderer? Because it would just be to "send a message" the murder is wrong?

No, of course not. They committed a crime, and that's what they're being punished for. Punishing criminals does not reduce the crime rate. It's the act of not punishing them that increases the crime rate.

Note that this comment does not remove the need for you to read the linked wiki article.
Regression to the mean tells you that if you reward success and yell at under performers the successful people will get worse and the under performers will get better. Lesson learned: All yelling, all the time.
Mistaking them for natural phenomena. Like asteroids.
What are your guys thoughts on Revel, the electric moped that you can use in Brooklyn. They seem to be more robust, thus potentially stay on the road longer? https://gorevel.com/new-york/
That's been my experience, I've done it but never anything that a scanning or tokenizing algorithm couldn't do.

So being able to iterate over characters is important, but constant time access to a specific character seems very rare.

I think the only case where I've wanted a specific character was when I wrote games that loaded maps from text files and those were ASCII regardless.
reminds me of the "Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell" youtube video "Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter"[0] that discusses many of the same ideas!

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjtOGPJ0URM