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I still use utilities I wrote in the 1980s. My text editor dates back to 1985 or so. The dmd D compiler back end dates back to 1982 (undergoing continuous improvements since then).

I've had my daily driver for about 30 years now. My stereo is 40 years old (I use it all day every day).

Modern cars are all run by a computer. I bet this will be really hard on anyone in the future who wants to restore one - there's just too much highly specialized technology in them. Most parts for my '72 Dodge can be made by a competent machinist or metalworker if necessary.

I see this in airplanes, too. People resurrect or replicate airplanes right up to the jets. But the jets? Sigh. You can't make a jet engine in a machine shop. So any that survive are static museum pieces, while the WW2 "warbirds" buzz around outside.
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I don't care what context I'm in. allovernow's comment made sense at face value and I couldn't agree with it more.
I’ve thought about this metric, a lot. There is no doubt that having family dinner has a lot of benefits. But I can help but ask myself - is family dinner a silver bullet, or is it that families who are holistically “doing it right” also make family dinner a priority?
I don't know about arrogant; when you're a state actor, you have available things like a detailed infrared map of the entire Earth, order flow from every chip fab, power figures for all extant power plants with attempted "balancing of the books" against all above-board known uses of that power, etc.

Because of this, it might be unclear exactly what a rival power is doing with all that heat and power and all those chips, but it's very easy to know that they're doing something. And, therefore, very easy to know when you're "ahead", in terms of nowhere else on Earth showing the right MASINT signature to represent the same compute capacity you have.

Mind you, this is commutative; the Russians, Chinese, and other powers with satellite networks can take the same infrared imagery, and do the same maths, to calculate exactly how much more compute the NSA has than they do; and their OPSEC doctrine is necessarily designed around this knowledge.
...the parent is literally talking about it in the context of today's crypt vulnerability and using that as example of their cohesive NOBUS framework.

> Clearly, no implementation flaw in Windows could qualify as a NOBUS backdoor; many thousands of people can read the underlying code in Ghidra or IDA and find the bug, once they're motivated to look for it.

The counter examples are the hordes of critical 0 days they've been sitting on, some of which have led to to a body count of five eyes citizens.

Like I said, disclosing is a step in the right direction, but they don't get a cookie for the first major disclosure in decades.
I think there are currently more reliable ways of fingerprinting.
A side project can be 2 hours a week. You can optimise making dinner so it take less time (cook in bulk, make some meals salads). Exercise can be done at home, probably 30 minutes in the morning and evening is more than enough.
Given he was bullied and harassed, do you think someone could oppose climate change at CSIRO and not be bullied and harassed?

ETS and climate change are inextricably linked and related.

If the establishment cannot even handle dissent on solutions, how could they handle dissent on the actual problem?
I think it's not correct to imply rent control is the cause. I see it as the symptom

Once a place gets rich enough to where they can justify micromanaging what goes where (poor places mostly have bigger fish to fry and are happy to have any tax paying development) it artificially constrains supply. Then they double down by tacking on rent control to slow the death spiral but it just makes it worse.
Protest by unpaid Kentucky miners yet another sign of coal's steep decline
My standard bet is the price of a beer.
UOS, China-made Windows replacement, releases new version
In my research of the domain I did come across this. It is one of the scariest proposals out there. These people risk causing irreversible damage to the oceans and all life within them. It's hubris to think we can do something like that and actually control it at a planetary scale. Also, refer back to my questions about the energy and resources required to do this, to do anything.

While you are right in that the process is not combustion in reverse, the reality of the matter is that it much worse than that. Massively worse.

We haven't even gone to the other elephant in the room: Australia. I hope someone eventually publishes an honest accounting of the CO2 that was released into the atmosphere through these fires. My guess is it easily negates decades of clean energy and other mitigation technologies.

I didn't get into it in my original comments. There are two questions everyone should ask when looking at the 800,000 year CO2 concentration chart:

1) How/why did CO2 levels rise?

2) How/why did CO2 levels drop?

These are fundamental questions anyone with a science background should ask almost immediately. The answers, at a basic level, are simple:

1) Massive continental scale fires burning for thousands of years. Remember, no fire dropping helicopters.

2) Storms, rain, water, hurricanes and, yes, trees and vegetation growing over thousands of years.

So, stuff burned for approximately 25,000 years for a 100 ppm increase and stuff grew and rain fell for about 50,000 years to capture the CO2 that was created.

The bottom line is that anyone claiming that we can do 1000x better than if humanity left the planet they are going to have to explain, in great detail, how it is that they know Zeus so intimately that he will grant them magical powers. And I don't think this is an understatement at all.

BTW, the only intelligent proposal I've seen is to plan trees like our lives depend on it. Seriously. Simple tech. We know how it works. We know what it does. And, if we have the water, we know how to grow them. This won't solve the problem any faster but it is likely to make things better. All we have to do is figure out how to prevent our massive new forests from burning, because, in that cases, once again, we will have made the problem een worse. Here's an article on that one:

https://www.livescience.com/65880-planting-trees-fights-clim...
What appears to have happened here was that a climate denialist group that deliberately use "NAS" to confuse people into thinking they are receiving an invitation to speak at a conference by the National Academy of Sciences, was called out by an open science advocate who himself felt mislead. Then the Wall Street Journal was snookered into publishing an editorial because they'll publish pretty much anything that claims to be about "cancel culture". And now we're here debating how some tweets mean science has been ruined by cancel culture warriors or whatever. The irony is that the person being "canceled" is exactly the person being accused of it.
Congrats! I remember seeing one of your projects, finding it cool, and checking your profile and site.

HN is indeed a good platform for a kind of disperse networking. I got approached by a friend whose boss saw my posts/comments on HN, somehow talked about it to my friend, who recognized my username (which is both memorable for Brazilians and my actual nickname) and asked him to recruit me.

And I don't even ever got a hit post.
I graduated the same time as you & had a side project that I handled for about 2 years at bigger co before making the transition to running with it full time (now ~3 years)..

I can tell you the points that stick out the most for me:

- i've learned a HELL of a lot. I've learned so much running through the hustle life that comes with making these projects work & handling life around it etc there couldn't really be a price tag on that. At first I was more or less a hacker w some sales skills. Now I feel like I could handle ceo-coo-cmo-cto type things all because I had too.
These are lessons & knowledge for the rest of your life. Even a generalist will be thrown constant challenges, I guarantee it.

- I had to make big adjustments to my social life. It's good you have some remote experience because this one was a challenge. Deciding what to go to and trying to spend time w/ community is difficult when you are trying to get it all done. Spend energy and time in places you enjoy & appreciate. When I worked at big co I would go to things all the time on weeknights and throw it on the weekend but you cant really afford all those peaks as much when youre on call as the boss. It's too taxing.

- Self Care: Could really go a long way with this one but damn.. This is the most valuable lesson I have learned. You have to watch over yourself. Like Marshawn Lynch put it this past weekend.. "watch over your mentals, your emotions, your chicken (i think he was talking about the body." Take some time off to relax when needed, keep tabs on your body and mental well being & keep close community who can help and support you when needed. It will go a long way to have someone who can help you when you just need to vent or maybe have a glass of wine ~ ~

- I'm happier - I do a little bit of work just about every day but I'm also spending a bit more time in creative areas that really make me feel good that I coulnd't seem to get time for at a big co. I make less money but I can't really seem to put a price on that "hey i'm gonna go surf cos waves are crushing right now.. will do this when I get back" option. The ability to control my time in life is one of the most valuable assets I have.

There is something about humans and how we think about what it is like on the other side. Is the grass greener? Only one way to know ~ ~ good luck xX
Typically the two systems are called 'model-free' and 'model-based' learning.

Model free (system 1) is fast, stimulus-response mappings. In ML, these mappings are called a policy. Most of reinforcement learning, including deep-learning-based RL, is model free.

Model-based (system 2) is less widely used. In this case, an agent or system is trying to learn the dynamics of a system and use those to project or forecast into the future. This is really helpful for e.g. learning a control system. Being able to use a model of the world to make accurate predictions lets you plan.
Waiting for data: Barriers to executing data use agreements
You built this in a day? That's very impressive.
By design? Or running code in the browser is inefficient? (not your fault, that's the way it is) Keepass (Desktop app) for example doesn't take ages to open.
When you say electrifying, what are the places there is a potential across? Because salt water is an excellent conductor.

I have wondered whether a microwave would do the trick. Basically cooking the algae. The trick is then to access all the books and crannies, e.g. near the propeller. Unfortunately it probably wouldn't remove any barnacle polymer cement or other buildup, like the awful tube worms, you'd still need mechanical scrubbing.

With electrical techniques you also have to avoid magnetising the hull, which on navy vessels has been carefully degaussed.
Well explained!
Skoda Electric Bus
https://www.skoda.cz/en/references/elektrobus-s-rychlodobije...
How's it different from a generation that grew up with books?
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1) I don't see it. All adults I know who aren't into gaming still enjoy non-real world things for entertainment. Be they books, movies, sports, TV, etc. You work at mastering your profession, raising your kids, and all the other real world stuff and sometimes you just want to enjoy life.

2) Yes and no. I think this comes around to the fact that there are only so many stories and that there have been original games but they tend not to be big. The big genres in games have been pretty well defined and while original things do get introduced, most are refinements. Also execution matters much more than original content in games and that seems to be hit and miss.

Personally I went through a period of about 15 years where I gamed very little. A time when my kids were young and work was much more demanding. I got back into gaming maybe 6-7 years back when my kids were old enough to have their own interests and I professionally became confident enough that I didn't need constant study. So it might be something that changes as you grow.
"But racism, bigotry, and white supremacy? No. That's hate speech, and IMO, shouldn't covered under the principle of free speech."

There are serious scholars such as Arthur Jensen who have studied the origin of black/white differences in IQ test scores and concluded that a large fraction of the difference is genetic in origin. One can read "Thirty Years of Research of Race Differences in Cognitive Ability" (2005) by Jensen and Rushton https://www1.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/30years/Rushton-Jense... . To what extent there are racial differences in IQ is a scientific question, not a moral question.
Interestingly Microsoft presented EverParse designed to produce verified parsers for these sorts of data formats at USENIX Security 2019. https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity19/presentat...

But it's only for parsing the data. What gets down with it after parsing can still be buggy.
You’re asking people to prove a negative, and also assuming that there’s no chilling effect as people learn that certain topics are not a good idea if you want a career.

The premier example of robust, well documented science with vociferous opposition has to be intelligence. Besides scholars with a fiercer attachment to their politics than the truth like Gould you also have introductory psychology textbooks that go out of their way to muddy the waters by giving space to alternative theories of intelligence to g with fuck all empirical backing like Gardner’s or Sternberg’s. If they had similar standards in other areas of psychology everything would be as bad as social.

For suppression there was an article in Third World Quarterly withdrawn due to credible threats of violence because a mob didn’t like the topic. Note it wasn’t retracted and it passed peer review. David Graeber recently led a campaign to have Noah Carl’s offer of a postdoc withdrawn at Cambridge, successfully. And there was a campaign at Hypatia, a feminist philosophy journal to have an article withdrawn for discussing trans racialism in the context of transsexuality.
Debates on climate change is not just about the concentration of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere. One very active part of the on going debate is the role of methane, and if increase methane leaks from natural gas is acceptable trade for decreased CO2 emissions from coal. To name other common debates, we see people argue over the effectiveness of carbon emissions trading, nuclear vs renewable, cows vs cars, boats vs airplanes, and the effectiveness if planting trees. A common theme here is that what get disputed is usually the strategy to combat climate change rather than the fact of climate change.
The median will likely be 0 for almost all apps; it would be outrageously, extraordnary successful for a freemium app to convert 50% of its users to paying customers.

The mean is also uninformative - for many games the majority of revenue is provided by a small number of 'whales', and their behavior is not representative for a normal user.

Perhaps a histogram would give an accurate impression, but I'm unsure whether app devs and Apple/Google would want to make that info public.
Author here. I’m really curious about your upgrade path for PCRE. Do you have a gist or a runnable available? I don’t think I’ve ever encountered or heard of that happening, would be great to understand intuitively!
soneca is a funny nickname, uhauhauha
I see what your did there
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I grew up while android/ipads were starting to take off and spent a lot of my childhood playing fruit ninja and minecraft pocket edition. Now I'm >20 and I don't have a single game on my phone. I'm not sure what changed but I just don't have any desire to play light/casual games anymore. On the bus I am happy to just sit there with noise canceling headphones and think. Then when I get home I'll spend an hour on a VR game.
I don't remember where I got this threat model, but I think it was Applied Cryptography.

Paraphrased, is your system safe against: an individual hacker, a group, a corporation, a city-state, a nation, a superpower? Are any of the ones you said 'no' to ever likely to give a damn about your software or data?

Then botnets became a thing. Suddenly individuals or small groups could have more resources than a city-state, and every year they just got bigger and bigger. If it's only computing resources that save you (as implied by that quote), that barrier isn't what it used to be. Sophistication of some other kind is the only protection and hubris can kill that off pretty quick too.
> a very strong assumption is that gas ratios do not change through processes like diffusion

It seems to me this should be an easy matter to analyze in detail. Diffusion would blur two distinct bands into each other, right? A sharp change in gas composition would appear more gradual with time, as diffusion blurred the boundary. So, are there sharp changes in the old ice? Lack of sharp changes might not prove anything, but the presence of sharp changes in very old ice should be informative. I'm no statistician but it seems to me a statistician should be able to look at the data and give you an upper bound on diffusion.
> The nice aspect of climate change is that it obliterates our tired notions of self-interest

Interestingly, this was also the nice thing about communism.
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"In areas where land is cheap, lowering the cost of homebuilding is paramount"

I live in a rural area and the city and county put up huge road blocks to building legally while a tremendous number of trailers and shacks are spread about the landscape.

But, BUT!, if someone is looking at find a way OUT of America's horrible housing conundrum, more cheap housing on cheap land is terrible, horrible, a nightmare.

I mean, the reason that my county scams new builders for $30-50K just to start is that the county's infrastructure bill has become unsustainable, like America in general has become unsustainable.

The American love affair with low-density development is going to leave this country drowned in a pool of opioid induced vomit if things turn don't around in the next 10-20 years.

Effectively, the history of settlement of this country and government policy result in a freeway-subdivision-strip-mall model of development that is unsustainable on a practical, literal level. That is; outer-ring development involves investments fated to evaporate into nothing. The capital of America's once glorious middle class has become smoke from this effect.

The only path to things not imploding worse than they already have is to create high density urban development and the infrastructure needed to support it. A lot will have to change for that to happen. But as Margaret Thatcher said, "There is no alternative".
> Could this actually explain why a lot of people don’t like their managers? Because they are just too damn inexperienced.

that's exactly why! i've worked and had managers who were so green and bad at their job. the staff engineers that i worked with were older folk that really have been around the block and had better communication skills than the managers. it's all extremely backwards
Looks like it’s more of a PR duck your head for a while until things cool down vs. external pressure and internal acceptance of bad behavior that led to them stepping down.
Thanks for the insight! Any details of the project or process you can share?
The bank later tried to sell me blank checks on their extra cost "security" paper. I laughed.
That's probably true, but I think most people don't have desktop computers anymore. Most people buy laptops instead, and they don't use a mouse. Hence, most kids growing up won't really interact with desktop computers and mice anymore, and won't really get to see how different the experience could be. Not unless they happen to be at a friend's house, and that friend has a desktop computer with a mouse.
You can configure keepass to take forever to open.
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It's Turing-complete, which makes writing programs to analyse documents a bit of a problem at times.

But I think maybe you meant in the sense of "in the real world", and I can't think of any examples. Prefixing some postscript to a document to manipulate that file is something it can be suited for, rather than using an external language to do so.
I'm fairly certain that car seats are not designed to have crumple zones. If you had enough pressure to cause the plastic of a car seat to collapse inwards, you most likely have way bigger problems on your hands.
Well IQ is an attempt to measure the mythical G (general intelligence, if there is such a thing), and more studies in that direction would allow you to better control for various factors relating to G, and figure out what interventions are best for increasing G.

I'd personally consider those other studies to be more important than race and IQ, and certainly more palatable. I think it's possible that the race/IQ factor has made that whole field untenable though.

I very much doubt it's because it's a waste of time, figuring out what interventions allow people to be smarter, to flourish, is pretty important. I'm pretty glad we got rid of lead paint, and leaded gasoline. That's a very visible and important intervention of the type that IQ research would help with.

A lot of related research goes on, but it seems like it very rarely touches directly on the subject of IQ. That being said it's understandable when any IQ researcher's research would be immediately weaponized by racists, no matter how useful it could be. Most of the examples you cite (race, education, economic background) would not be useful in-and-of them-self (at least in a just world) but would be useful to help control for those factors in other research.
It probably wasn't unjustifiably arrogant back in the 90's.

The article mentions evidence that this supremacy is no longer true, but doesn't actually cite any evidence. I suppose they are alluding to private companies (mostly American but quite transnational), and also the Chinese government. Both likely have the kind of talent + computing infrastructure to challenge the NSA.

Do people like Palantir or Google exploit 0-days with the same NOBUS attitude?
I’ve always really liked Shopify. They have been doing creative things regarding funding people and internships and learning opportunities for a couple of years now. Someone who wasn’t able to get a job from a bootcamp (camp was very good IMO it was corporations being absurd at this point about hiring requirements) was saved by Shopify and some program they had back then.

CONCERNING PART: today I thought Shopify had a major security issue. They do not at all. It turned out to be...Google? Apparently even Pixel devices, fully updated, can be now attacked via fake Google Play stores. The apps, if you request to see it in the App Store, lead to the real Google Play. However there are hundreds of reviews there for people who obviously have this fake app. Today is the first day I’ve ever been scared in cybersecurity. I cannot find American reporting on this, but only foreign. Apologies for all the ads on this site. Would recommend searching for it elsewhere as well to get full picture. Keep in mind this can also be done without installing anything via an exploit kit on a webpage - https://www.themobileindian.com/picture-story/how-google-pla...