skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think we can start wondering about the Fermi Paradox until we actually manage to get humans (or at least a von Neumann probe) to another star system.

We are the only intelligent more-or-less spacefaring species that we are aware of and if we can't do it why would we think other hypothetical intelligent spacefaring species can do it.
For others who are interested in who's the parent is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Gal
The old Apple mouse only had one button.
Over the years though, I have found that shady creators find ways around this. I paid about $10 on "Scrabble Free" a bunch of years ago to get rid of ads. What EA did was essentially abandon this version of the app, and eventually it would not run on modern android versions and replaced it with "Scrabble" Then later to finish the deception, they renamed "Scrabble Free" to "ZZZScrabble free."

Considering the amount of time I spent playing that game and the relatively cheap price, I can't complain too much, but the new game has no option to skip ads, a bunch of in-app purchases, annoying notifications some of which let you straight up cheat. Meanwhile, I have an old scrabble cd-rom from the late 90s that might run right out of the box on my windows laptop, and worst case can easily run under an emulator and I can happily play distraction free until the end of my days.
That's a lawyer's marketing blog selling his services to sue for wrongful termination. The labor code § 1101 they cite is the same thing: it applies only to employers using threatening to terminate in order to coerce political activity, not actually terminating someone for political actions.

This is an important distinction. It is illegal for an employer to threaten all employees with termination if they do not vote on X, for example. It is not illegal for an employer to terminate an employee for taking a specific political action.

Mozilla did not threaten to terminate in order to coerce action, they terminated for actions already taken place, making it legal.
Sure, because "Success in 1942" didn't happen.

It might've happened if Midway had gone differently.
Wow, these look pretty. Image for the curious: https://www.flickr.com/photos/generated/99991779
I wish people would stop referring to pornography as "adult".
Wow that is addicting ha
Here's also a short Youtube video from that page

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btuou0nAbak
The emergent layers are organelles -> cell -> tissue -> organ -> organ system -> organism -> organization.

Consciousness is an emergent phenomenon and a collection of consciousness is the noosphere. Even though each of your organs make their own decisions and contribute individually to your "consciousness", you still consider the entire thing your "self". Your decisions are made based on analyzing multiple conflicting distributed signals given off by your organs.

Organizations are no different, assuming identity, autonomy, and motivation.
I feel like Java is making great strides lately, but that we're also getting slightly lesser versions of capabilities available in other languages.

Records, for example, are directly inspired by Kotlin's data classes, and function almost identically... except that Kotlin allows you to have mutable or immutable fields in a data class, and automatically provides a `copy` method (similar to Lombok's `wither`) that allows you to use a builder pattern.

This difference can be very important. For example, I don't see how a Record class could be used with most JPA-style ORMs, which immediately rules out Records for many of the most common use cases.
This article from 10 days ago says "About 1,900 feet of the 4,300-foot-long tunnel has been dug in the seven weeks since the project’s kickoff".

https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/conventions/boring-co...

So I think the Teslarati article just rounded 4,300 feet up to "a mile" (=5,280 feet). 1900/4300 = 44%.
> Uncharitably, you might say HN has a ton of Dunning-Kruger about anything not directly technology related.

It's even worse. It is people thinking that because they are brilliant in some technical field (JS frameworks, or compilers, or machine learning or whatever) they are also brilliant in every other technical field (be it astronomy, high performance computing or medicine).
Couldn't this have the opposite effect from what is intended? If all the US military TSMC chips come from a separate facility from those for Huawei, etc... then there's only one, big, target with minimal collateral damage.
Interesting, but why not just have the autocomplete as a pane on the side so that you can focus, in the 99% case where you do have a good grasp of your dependencies?
So there is one big distinction in how these systems are used in corporate culture vs sales culture. That is, in the Sales culture the system is trying to describe a personality type based in one context, buying a car, not trying to generalize people across every context.

Someone may be generally very detail oriented yet when they buy a car, they may be very complacent. In fact you could think that a 'more ideal' color system would look like some 4 colored Piet Mondrian painting.
- Apps uninstall harder than closing a web site.

- Apps have access to way more permissions, abilities and data than web sites (at least on Android).

- Apps tend to be pushed by entities that are trying to exploit the two above-mentioned things for their own benefit and the detriment of the user.
It's a bit remarkable how many various sports and games we have to hit or throw a ball; perhaps more remarkable how absolutely fun it is.
I've opted for profiles. With profiles, it's like getting a completely new browser. You start off with the default about:config, preferences and no extensions.

The way my main FF browser is set up, I have multiple privacy enhancing extensions (including uMatrix), highly modified config, tightening of privacy preferences, WebRTC off, service workers disabled, telemetry disabled, etc and etc... This can create some problems on sites that pour hundreds of millions into tracking, data-collection.

So I have additional profiles that are Amazon-specific, Google-specific. If I facebook'd, I'd have a profile for them too. Each of these domain-based profiles are far more liberal (minimal extensions and such; fewer config tweaks). I even have a profile that's 100% Private Mode (ie, history, cookies... deleted after shutdown) with it's own set of config tweaks and extensions.

I use my privacy-enhanced default FF for most sites w/o issues. I wanted Google and Amazon completely separate while providing them more access to my browser (so that I could enjoy the full web experience without worry that a browser issue would make it easy for them to steal my entire browser usage). So they're free to rummage around, read cookies, access APIs - but they're only getting their own stuff back.

I feel profiles provide a better defense (all settings, cookies, storage in their own subDirectory) and much more flexibility than containers.
That's perfectly fine if you're working alone.
Should I be satisfied if you're doing the right thing for the wrong reasons? I'm always unsure about this.

What are the right reasons here? We live in a capitalist system and the base assumption is individuals and institutions will contribute to the common good for their own selfish reasons. If that works out, it can't get much better than that.

My criticism isn't that this is Microsoft acting "for the wrong reasons" but that it is Microsoft acting on the wrong level. A large number of public facing corporations being carbon-negative is meaningless if many other corporations and consumers with no public face are carbon positive by a lot more.

Essentially, I'd put on my institutional economist hat and say the only solution to CO2 pollution problem, an externality of production[1], is state regulation. That is state regulation involving direct enforcement, not taxes, not incentives, not promises. The basic analogy is a leaking, pressurized container - you can't incentivize the water coming out, you can't slowly plug a few holes, you have to plug each hole together or the remaining holes just leak more (or at least leak unacceptable much).

And here the obligation is for public to only be satisfied with PR moves that aim to fight global warming centrally. And this is where the cachet of pathetic individual and group moves to (pretend to) "fight global warming" is destructive. We should demand things from corporations, which they can do for PR reasons but we should demand is them support strong regulation affecting all CO2 producers, not all the other (useless) moves.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
More power to you fellow back pain enthusiast.
I also had a herniated disc (L4/L5) and the only thing that helped me was surgery (lumbar laminectomy). Then lots of walking.
I love how everyone immediately goes to "you were doing it wrong". Gee thanks. It could also be you perform at a very high level and your body is aging, you have an underlying condition that had never had a chance to fully heal, or many other nuanced reasons.
I read that as Christopher Walken has died
I think that there is a limit on the required period of record retention but I keep failing to find it.

But I don't think it is short, and it at least extends as long as you are selling the material to which it relates, since it is expressly illegal to sell depictions without the records.
It was probably a back strain/sprain. Before going through that, I expected that a deadlifting injury would be debilitating and would take months to heal from. The reality was... different. That's my point.
Games That Pushed the Limits of the Sony Playstation (PS1)
The strike Pearl Harbor did achieve all of Japan's objectives: it prevented the US Navy from rushing to the Philippines' defense or otherwise thwarting their 1941-1942 conquests in Australasia. The IJN was still planning on having their decisive battle strategy, in which the US Navy would be decisively defeated in a pitched battleship battle, where carriers would not matter because carriers are not effective ships of the line, instead being good for scouting missions or harassing of incoming forces.

Ironically, they still held to this strategy in 1944, and attacked the US Navy in the Battle of Leyte Gulf to force their missing decisive battle, using their carrier fleet entirely as a decoy force. Even after there had been only one battleship action in the entirety of the Pacific war to this point, with all other major naval battles involving only the carriers on one or both sides.
A minimal JavaScript framework on your markup, like Tailwind for JavaScript
My PT didn't mention much about posture like the book did. The book covers a lot of detail on how to sit, sleep, stretch, lift, breath and other basic human activities. Sleep was a huge win because I would wake up with pain most of the time but the moment I learned how to sleep properly and put those lessons in action, I woke up without any pain. I was sore the first day (a good sign, IMO). It is sad that I am old enough but my body has forgotten to perform these basic activities.

My PT did not mention anything about thoracic mobility exercises either. Book also covered chin tucks and shoulder rolls but it didn't stop there. These are some of the common exercises you find on internet and are recommended by mostly all of PTs. But when you are done with your sessions, there is no one to tell you at home about not exaggerating your neck while doing chin tucks. But the book did with amazing visuals.

PT (4.5 yelp reviews) did lot of trial and error solutions focusing on strengthening and mobility exercises. Great, if something worked, otherwise continue trying different solutions.

I also had to meet $1500 deductible for my insurance to cover these PT sessions but I could only afford 2 sessions a week. This point was not an obstacle but I wanted results from PT after 3-4 sessions to justify the cost which didn't happen to be the case for me.
That winds up being a big payday for a law firm, and free identity monitoring for everybody else...
No it wasn't keeping them contained, but it was an attempt to draw out the US carriers. Had the US lost Midway and Japan not got bogged down in the endless, unwinnable campaign in the Solomons that absorbed endless Japanese resources, Yamamoto's plan may have worked as his stepping stone to Hawaii. Only Midway and they probably couldn't have kept it... Had they got to Hawaii, I'm not sure Japan would have cared much about the atoll.

As it was, with help in the Solomons, Midway turned the war in the Pacific. Least that's how I understand it, though I've certainly read more of the war in Europe. :)
> I think there would be less mistrust if the environmentalism weren't bundled in all kinds of other radical causes

Don't know why you're being downvoted but you're spot on with this point. The most off-putting radical cause is people trying to use climate change to push socialism on society.

When the problem comes bundled with a non-negotiable solution, it's reasonable to be skeptical of the messenger.
I would like to ask a genuine question (not trying to provoke anyone!). Where is a good use case for Scheme these days (in any form?). I really love the idea of the language but I can't figure out where it really does a _better_ job that these things:

-- JavaScript/Typescript for in-browser or even some server-side stuff (e.g., NodeJS)

-- Python seems to be dominant for non-browser code that doesn't need to be fast (or which needs to call Python libraries)

-- C/C++/Rust/C# in the performance space

-- And then the workhorse Bash/ZSH etc for command-line script-fu

I am sincerely asking, what's the nice good fit for a Lisp these days? I know Emacs uses it as its internal language -- fair enough. But other than that.

Thanks and I did not mean to hurt anyone's feelings, I just really am curious.
The Strip, McCarran airport, and downtown are not within one or two miles of each other. They are further apart than that so there must be something else to it.

The Strip itself could use the whole length of the tunnel, so whatever this is connecting to is going to be more limited then it might sound from the article.
That is a great one too! I love the fact that the QuickTime video at the end is actually a PDF.
Actually you mostly see Teslas in cities like Amsterdam. This year I saw a huge growth in the numbers of Model 3s on Amstrrdam streets. i would say 1 in every 15 cars is a Tesla.

These are mostly cars bought under a lease contract since thet are way too expensive in the Netherlands. (65k euro).

The government stopped a big benefit end last year. So there was a run on these Teslas.

If you have an electric car the goverment will out a charging pole in your street for free.

Also they are going to van cars altogether in the city center.

Streets are being repurposed for broad bike lanes. And the goverment is planning bike higjways between cities due to the rise of electric bikes thay go 50kmph.
intel is one of the few companies with leading-edge fabs in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_si...
I agree it's an unfortunate problem. To really grok this issue requires some time investment.

In this thread I've seen people recommending yoga, stretching "tight muscles", the McKenzie method, the McGill book, and stretches. I've only seen a couple of mentions of actual training. Sad state of affairs.
You're referring to the George Clooney, er, teleplay (correct word?) right? It was filmed and broadcast live, if I remember correctly. It was excellent - and I say that as a big fan of the 1964 original.
> so I would probably not want to work in such a place for a long time, unless I was hired by the CEO specifically to rectify things.

Reminds me of The Phoenix Project.
>Therefore, clearly companies which provide an easy consent-to-all but make decline-to-all virtually impossible to select, or actually impossible, are doing so deliberately, intending to frustrate the consumer from exercising their rights.

Yes, that's their business concept and it is legal.

>The law says that a person should be able to decline if they choose, that it should be easy enough to do, and easy to understand which option they are choosing.

The law states:

>>It shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent.

>Such sites are not compliant with that principle, and it looks like deliberate non-compliance to me.

I rather think that they follow the law to the T. People would love if their behavior would be illegal but they forgot that companies are involved in the law making process, too. The EU wants its companies to be competitive on the internet. Making it impossible for companies to finance themselves with advertising in their home market would kill their already weak internet economy. Who would accept the sharing of private data if a rejecting would be as easy as accepting?

GDPR is a compromise between the protection of the netizens and the business interest of the economy. As such, it protects against the worst abuse but the world is not free. In one way or the other, somebody has to pay.
A thread from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8447175

Related from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7847687

A thread from 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6508179
It always makes me sad to see realistic comments like these downvoted on HN by the out of touch 1%. Does a leisure activity enjoyed and easily substitutes by an exceedingly small minority of people really hold anything against the other devastating effects of climate change?
During twilight our section of EVERY frame would be ruined. Massively reducing the useful observation time during twilight. And keep in might that some sources are only visible to some telescopes during those hours. And we have neither the money to build arbitrarily many new telescope, nor the suitable locations with good conditions.
Number of citations per paragraph is a pretty good indicator in my experience. Typically this is high (close to 1) for good text books in psychology and low (1 per page or less) in bad ones. Citations isn't everything though, many authors misrepresent the content to fit the narrative and in some areas it's not as important. For instance in math, arguments can be made based on very few axioms and you can evaluate the correctness yourself.

In general it helps to have a skeptical mindset, try to figure out the intent of the author by how they treat facts, do they present inconsistent arguments or gloss over relevant fallacies in the claims? Then their intent is probably more about presenting a good argument than correct representation of facts.

Another thing to be watchful for is claims that "make sense" or are "obvious", it's easy to fall in the trap of ignoring conflicting evidence when the theory sounds good.
Having dabbled in kanji, my initial assumption is that such a worry is justified. With English you have 60 or so characters you need to know how to write, many near duplicates (X vs x, U vs u). Kanji is far more numerous and also seems to have a more artistic emphasis.
Pushups work much more than just your chest, particularly your core muscles, critical to everything including your back. Try just a static plank for ten minutes, and tell me what you feel.
You're right, most successful no-code tools are for non-programmers, and programmers shouldn't be the ultimate litmus test.

I also believe that if a coding tool will make me more productive, I'll use it, even if it's not a library or a language. Right now the visual tools are limited, but it doesn't have to be that way.

I've used Flash, Windows WPF apps, those visual tools for making apps in xCode, and others. I think there's something to having visual tools for building apps. I think it's clear that UI doesn't need to be in code. Maybe state machine logic shouldn't be written in code either. Maybe high-level software architecture constraints shouldn't be in code.
I remember 4chan doing something similar with a project Shia Labeouf was doing: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d7eddj/4chan-does-first-g...
For radio we might be able to make it work. But we currently don't have the ability to position satellites to within 10 nanometers, which would be required to make this work in the optical range that you have just killed off on the ground.
Well that makes Alphabet the second fastest $0 to $1TN dollar company after Amazon.

Who wants to take third place?
> He had some controversial views as some have reported, but I don't really think that would have been very relevant, especially if so many people disagree.

As far as I know, he never expressed what his “views” were. People just found he donated $1000 (which was .002% of the total funds raised) towards a proposition opposing same-sex marriage. There didn’t seem to be anyone who had worked with him, regardless of orientation, who felt uncomfortable with him, or were even aware of it. His contributions having an effect were gated by a democratic vote, and his financial contribution was so small that I can’t imagine it having a substantial effect on the outcome.

To me the fact that he had the maturity to restrict his political discourse to the same means available to any other voter, to his private life, and was discreet enough that nobody knew about it for years, made him look better. Mozilla is supposed to be making the internet accessible to everybody, even people who hold conflicting views.

The quote comes to mind:

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
AMF is a UK charity so I'm not sure I'm reading their financial page correctly: https://www.againstmalaria.com/FinancialInformation.aspx

Looks like they're using half their revenues to build up a bank account. To smooth out their net purchases? For the most part, I like their model. They turn thousands of small donations directly into nets without a bunch of middle men.
The purpose of a 4 year degree and a PhD is very different.

Roughly speaking, coming out of a 4 year degree doesn't signal expertise in anything. It means you have learned to "think like an X" to some degree, and have a working knowledge of some of the foundational stuff in an an area.

Coming out of a PhD signals you have achieved expertise in a pretty narrow area of a subfield (and explored the bleeding edge a bit), but also that you have learned how to gain that sort of mastery again, alone, in at least related areas.
Fraud and the rule of law don't seem to factor into VC calculations lately.
> Are there any sensible ways to do this with Django? Ideally with migrations to create and update the views.

There are apps to integrate PG views as django models, however is kind of trivial to do it yourself.

1. Create a migration that runs the SQL to create the view like ```create VIEW active_users AS SELECT rest of view ... `

2. Create a model mapping all the fields you want to use, add the Meta.table_name with the name of the view, and Meta.managed=False to avoid adding this to your migrations in the future.

Use it as any other normal Model.

Just that

About the updates with migrations I think if you already are thinking on using VIEWS, you could just create migrations that drop and recreate it when you needed. Is what I do, and is very little work for that.
I think there is a geopolitical reason why most TSMC's 300mm GIGAFAB's and advanced backend fab are located in Taiwan (1 fab in China). https://www.tsmc.com/english/contact_us.htm#TSMC_fabs

Concentrating geopolitical risk of TSMC operations makes Taiwan more important to the rest of the world. The US would naturally want to reduce this risk. In Taiwan-China conflict world chip production would take a huge hit or be in the danger of falling under Chinese rule.

If TSMC's leadership is patriotic, they should refuse this pressure as much as they can and ask more weapons for Taiwan instead.
Ask HN: Anyone have experience with a meditation retreat in the PNW?
I've been to a few meditation classes in my day, and found minuscule benefit from it. Despite that, I want to try a meditation retreat in the PNW that's preferably free or pay-what-you-can. Does anyone have experience with one? I'm thinking a 48-hour thing, or a 3-day one. Thanks.