skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) we are plain in the middle of a mass extinction event, expected to get much worst in a decade or two. Wouldn’t it be good to solve that first?

I don't see why we can't do both. Maybe if you come up with an actionable plan you can start your own company like Elon and tackle that problem.

2) we need a 4th industrial revolution to survive global warming as a civilization. Wouldn’t be better to fix that first? (No, electric cars won’t suffice)

No electric cars won't suffice, but they are a start. As is an increase in nuclear, and renewables in areas it makes sense. Again I don't see how this detracts, especially looking at Elon's other ventures. Maybe you can create a company that tackles the concrete problem, that's a big one.

3) is it really necessary to spoil astronomy/night sky to finance one’s dream? (No, vantablack won’t solve the issue)

That's subjective and you don't know if it can be solved or not, seems they are working on it. Why do you think a non-reflective coating won't work?

4) our technology presently rely on mining 100+ elements. Does anyone here believe one can mine all of those on an a planet that misses an atmosphere? Using Earth ressources for a “colony” seems a dubious idea.

We don't have to mine all of them at first. Look where we started here on Earth, from scratch.

5) has anyone an idea of the CO2 equivalent cost of bringing one person to mars?

I'm sure it's negligible relatively. Was that rhetorical or do you have a number?

6) there is growing evidence that there is life in the Martian underground. Should we take the risk of destroying another biosphere?

Are you talking about the ice found? The martian biosphere is already destroyed, terraforming it would bring life to the surface and if there is life it's underground and must be pretty hardy.
How does one do an end-to-end test on a system that ends up in space?
I first saw this done in 2009 in the Hound memory allocator. I think it's been tried in or implemented in recent Glibc, but wouldn't swear to that. I think it's been shown to be useful in practice in real applications in a couple of papers.

Fragmentation is often just one pesky object holding onto a whole page. If you have many such pages all with one object it's likely you can map them all together and release most of them.
I'd buy into Musk's Mars bullshit if he built a sealed self-contained colony in New Mexico. We have experience with two long term space habitats, Mir and the ISS. Despite all of the engineering know how that built both shit breaks on them all the time and needs to be repaired. They also need regular resupply because they're nowhere near self sufficient. They also need a Soyuz capsule docked at all times in case they need to evacuate.

The Starship is an iterative design with seventy years of engineering knowledge behind it. Keeping humans alive outside the Van Allen belts for a long duration and then on a completely inhospitable planet has very little engineering knowledge behind it.

Also to suggest a Mars colony is a contingency plan is ludicrous. In order for a Mars colony to be a human civilization contingency plan it would not only need to be self sustaining but self perpetuating. Otherwise a life ending event on Earth would just give the Mars colonists a few months to come to terms with their mortality. Then no kore humans.

There is nowhere in the solar system that can support humans in the way Earth can. In fact everywhere else is so hostile we need to take significant amounts of Earth with us just to not die immediately.

If you want to live in underground colonies have the Boring company build you tunnels here on Earth. At least when you need parts for the GECK you can go above ground with just a gas mask and rugged clothes instead of a bulky space suit.
Ask HN: Substantial delay in security patches in open sourced Android
Four questions:

I sometimes skim through the vulnerabilities patched in the monthly updates by Google in Android. And I get the chills.

For example I am looking at the current list of March 2020 fixes. This is a critical vulnerability with remote code execution effects. That was authored on December 17:
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/libavc/+/ffcf2a87d66f935210ebd011eed474514d086b40

I remember looking at other patches for critical vulnerabilities in the media framework in the previous months that took even longer.

1) Why this it took 2.5 months to be released? It should have at least gone out in February.

This is USB vulnerability with escalation of privileges was patched in August 2019!
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6d4472d7bec39917b54e4e80245784ea5d60ce49

Android is not secure. It does not take a genius to monitor the commits for vulnerabilities.

2) Why there is in general such a big gap? Why patches are not at least pushed in the next month updates?

Somebody posted before that the average time between a patch is available and an exploit is seen in the wild is 4 days.

Considering the delay between code commits and deployments to the devices this leave a pretty large window for a malicious attacker to exploit them.

3) Because of the 4 days gap, it seems that even "next month" is not soon enough. I understand that the patch should be tested, but should not we working toward getting 1-2 gap between commits and deployments?

BTW, this is a problem for ALL open sourced systems.

It seems that closed sourced systems written by talented teams may have the advantages that the exploiters have to work a little harder to find the vulnerability, potentially delaying the time when a exploit is found and giving a time advantage to the system against exploits in the wild.

4) Is this the main reason why Apple devices are more secure that Android devices?
"Graphic design is my passion"
If that life has DNA/RNA, it doesn't say much about the Fermi paradox. If it has a totally different basis, it's a huge data point.
Am I the only one who can't stand cloze deletion? When I use it I just end up with memorizing the words around the deletion and pattern matching the middle.
This is almost definitely underspending. Software augmented people are so much more productive than people alone.
I'm in Illinois and I enjoy reading humorous signs because it takes the monotony out of driving and makes me chuckle while navigating Chicago traffic and helps me tolerate grumpy Chicago suburban drivers. Road construction information etc. are still displayed so it's not either-or. Funny messages in the past on I-55 have included:

* Han says Solo Down. Obey speed limits. (when Star Wars came out)

* Buckling up is always a good Goooooooal! (during the World Cup - soccer)

* Slowing down in Work Zones is so fetch. (when Mean Girls came out)

* OMG R U Txting? I can't even.

* Please stop taking pictures of this sign while driving

There's a website with all the current messages [1].

[1] https://www.travelmidwest.com/lmiga/dms.jsp?location=GATEWAY...
It's an idiotic story. People have been stealing the emblems of expensive cars like BMW for years. Now they make one that integrates with the car body itself, and this guy has a fit? The stupidity is astounding.
>the people who needed it more and were willing to pay more got it

And there the idealism breaks down. Willing to pay more - which you always are if it becomes a life-or-death situation - does not mean able to pay more; able to pay more does not mean deserves it more.
I can picture the designer patting himself on the back for “fixing” the alignment of the B and W axis to the center of the circle... when optical alignment as seen in the original is the actual hard task.
I didn’t say they discourage usage of a dns cache at all.
Your question does not make sense. No one is going “from” principles of display of information “to” infantilization. That seems like a deliberate attempt to make it sound complicated by not engaging with what was said and oversimplifying it.

Your earlier comment states that the bright color usage is to present complex information clearly. Ok. So you have introduced the idea that in this situation people are using principles of visual display of information.

Now that we have said that, we must ask why would a company think its branding or consumer interfaces need to use principles that are intended for other goals like sharing scientific results or data.

We know company goals are about maximizing profits and hiding negative externalities, so it’s reasonable to believe a corporation would only adopt principles of quantitative display of information for branding and consumer awareness if it serves these purposes.

These purposes are served by oversimplifying the purpose or ethos of the company, so that the brand identity is not associated with negative externalities the company creates. This is textbook infantilization. Present childlike logos, whimsical interfaces with flat colorful designs, simple clean interfaces.

This hides complexity. In the visual display of quantitative information, that’s good. In the pushing of a brand identity that’s disingenuous and manipulative exactly in the way of inviting the audience to believe a childlike sense of wonder and trustworthiness should be applied.

I think it’s really disingenuous that you would require it to be spelled out like this.
Aside from being ugly and making no sense at all, the part that gets me about these things is that it wasn't broken.

Seriously, did someone at the top of the organization wake up one day thinking "We are not selling more cars because of our logo"?

Of all the things they could have decided to work on that might actually deliver real value to customers, the logo was deemed to be important?

After owning a number of BMW's we decided we had enough, turned in our last leased car and walked away. They are horribly expensive to maintain and, even if you are willing to do some of it yourself, the parts are just ridiculously expensive.

One of the key decision drivers is that we have a Toyota vehicle with nearly 250K miles on it (400K km). We bought it new and maintained it at about 1/3 of the prescribed maintenance schedule. In other words, oil changes every 10K miles rather than the recommended 3K. The car runs very well, fuel efficiency is still good and it cost us almost nothing to maintain after the warranty ran out. With one of our prior BMW's we had to spend $3K to fix it (I forget what it was) a few months after the warranty expired. I know this is a single data point, and yet, when I talk to long-term (out of warranty) BMW owners it is amazing how often these kinds of sentiments surface.

So, yeah, I don't understand the focus on a logo. A logo isn't going to get my family back into a BMW dealership, ever. You have to question someone's priorities and understanding of their customers when they feel messing with the logo is of actual importance to them at all.
Likewise the social and economic environment.

Let’s hypothesise sufficient brain scans. I think even that is a way off yet?

Is a backup of your mind protected by the right to avoid self-incrimination? What about the minds of your pets?

Does a backup need to be punished (e.g. prison) if the person it is made from is punished? What if the offence occurred after the backup was made?

If the mind state is running rather than offline cold-storage, how many votes do all the copies get? What if they’re allowed to diverge?

If you memorise something and then get backed up, is that copyright infringement?

If a mind can run on silicon for less than the cost of food to keep a human healthy, can anyone other than the foremost mind in their respective field ever be employed?

If someone is backed up then the original is killed by someone who knows they were backed up, is that murder or the equivalent of a serious assault that causes a small duration of amnesia?
The inflation has also increased the prices, at 3.22% average over the last 100 years each 10 years increases prices with 37%.
This is a great point! Bits of fluff from car wash cloths would get caught under all those edges.
Watching your parents handle a high-powered executive job very much does prepare you for work in the 21st century - a certain kind of work, anyway.
As long as you and others _choose_ to define value of a person only for their economic value (work output), we will always have poverty, no matter how enormous our total economic output (humans+machines) will become.
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Deep sleep as far as I remember (from Mathew Walkers book). REM is more for dreams and sorting out emotions.
My take on this is the airplane propellers in the center--that's what the white and blue signifies, for those who don't know--draw your eye toward the center-point of the logo, but the "BMW" draws your eye back up, causing a sort of "oscillation." If they insist on this design then eliminating the outer ring would likely cause a more balanced reaction.
And the less well paid jobs (eg Veterinary Assistant - not technician or McDonald's employee) have individuals working near constantly. There is a class divide under the 1% which is also quite stark, with regard to work demands.
If I understand it right, the proof shows the difference between a finite matrix of recursively enumerable operators and infinite matrix of non-recursive operators, is that about correct?
And after the consumer market even SaaS software is getting to a saturation point.
I do a little bit of everything, including design, and what appeals to me about ultra-minimalism is that it takes very little effort or talent. To do it well takes some real creativity, but if you're just jumping on the bandwagon it's very easy to imitate and half the work of a more detailed design. You get to be lazy while acting like you're trendy and cutting-edge.
AFAIU That's what a number of the people were doing on the Ontario program. That and looking to start a business.

They were promised 3 years and planned around that before the program was suddenly pulled out from under their feet after they'd already made major life changes.
I think the defense is that (assuming IVs, nonces, etc... are held constant) that the files would encrypt identically. And the excuse for the rest of the disk is “it gets filled with random bytes to obscure how much disk space is actually being used.
yeah, they could have easily made the existing design flat[ter] but left the rest intact. the new look looks very cheap, but i bet they paid $200k for the redesign.
I think in many cases zoning and the way land taxes are done are a big problem holding cities back. It's not legal in many cities to make things walkable, bikeable, transit friendly due to laws like single use zoning and parking minimums.
Fascinating topic, but in terms of real meat the explanation offered for the phenomenon described is distressingly shallow. Common sense tells us as much and more about why this is happening.
How do we have equal opportunity? Can you point me towards evidence of this?
I guess you're not arguing about the gender wage gap, as it's a well documented fact. What is the point you're trying to make?
The old logo looks bold, solid and heavy - like a diesel engine, whereas the new one - light, skinny, instant, almost like an electric motor.
Not a big fan of it, but thats my impresion after a quick glance.
Once even a minuscule fraction of the resources of the Solar System become available you can solve all terrestrial problems once and for all.

Space & Solar System is big and has a lot of resources, much much more than what is available in on a terrestrial planet.
> We have a planet that is in dire need of this kind of motivated action, and yet Elon would rather be distracted by this dream.

What? You see a motivated person with the resources and drive to pursue his dream and you're upset that he's not putting his vision aside to pursue what you think is important? Musk doesn't owe you anything.
> Hence "Yes, the math is more complicated than that". The practical tweet-sized outcome is about the same though.

Only if we do nothing about housing supply constraints and nobody decides they'd rather move to areas without those constraints given a UBI. But we should do something about housing supply constraints, and people would move away from high housing cost areas either way, but moreso if we do nothing about housing costs. Either one invalidates your premise.

> Someone living on $UBI (and I expect a great many would) has all their basic needs met without their effort ... except that those basic needs are not provided without effort.

We already do this for people with disabilities etc. It's not a problem unless the number of such people is large.

Meanwhile most people are not satisfied to live in a studio apartment and eat nothing but rice and beans forever. Anyone with more ambition than not starving to death would still have plenty of incentive to go out and do productive work, so the majority of people would continue to do so.

This is also another reason to fix the amount of the tax. If hypothetically too many people started to live off the UBI and not work, the tax would generate less revenue, the UBI amount would decrease and fewer people would be inclined to live off it.

> This badly distorts supply-and-demand. $1 costing a UBI recipient nothing, prices rise by $1 - knowing that the $1 cost nothing to obtain; to wit "easy come, easy go".

Giving everyone $1 doesn't cause prices to rise by $1. Some people would buy things with elastic supply whose quantity rather than price increases with increasing demand, some people simply wouldn't spend all of the money. (The second is more commonly done by corporations, but it's still very common, and the economic effect of the money being removed from circulation after being spent one time isn't that much different than zero.)

Also, that still only happens if you print the money. If it comes from someone then it doesn't cause price changes unless the two people would have bought different stuff -- which is not the case if they were both buying housing.
I think the point of the design is to make logo harder to see and lose it to the background.

The current trend is to subdue logos or even remove them completely. Younger people in the upper class or upper middle class don't want to advertise products they use or wear. The stronger the brand, more subdued the logo can be.

I suspect that at the some point the design didn't have the letters but they were added in the same white as background as a compromise. In my opinion removing the outer circle and letters and keeping just tiny blue and white Bavarian color roundel would have been even better.
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Their old old logo was literally their old one without the bad 3D effect. Everything old is new again. Except this weird monstrosity.
I like this one because I identify with the guy and happen to be in a mood to read a long thing today.

But in general I tend to agree with you. A lot of things that get posted on here come off as "hey look how many words I wrote", especially when I was just looking for distraction or a quick summary of something that sounded interesting. But that's what the comments are for I guess.
From experience:

Plain docker - hell on earth. Literally some of the worst stuff I had to deal with. A noticeable worsening vs. running the contents of the container unpacked in /opt/myapp.

Heroku, Dokku - Very depends. A dance between "Simple and works" and "Simple and Works but my Startup is bankrupt".

K8s - Do I have more than 1-2 custom deployed applications? Predictable cost model, simple enough to manage (granted I might be an aberration), easy to combine infrastructural parts with the money-making parts. Strong contender vs Heroku-like, especially on classic startup budget
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> People should fear being destitute its the natural human condition.

People should die of diseases, its the natural human condition. Women should die in childbirth, its the natural human condition. Men should die in wars, its the natural human condition. People should be hunted by sabre-tooth tigers, its the natural human condition.
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Basic steps such as? There is not much available about it.

Also, you think too highly of corporations. Companies literally have an intern change their logo for no reason, i’ve been that intern. There are dozens of levels of people more worried about saving face than anything else.
It helps to read the article before commenting. The headline is overblowing it. He's not learning books by heart, just highlights some key facts he found valuable while reading and then reviews those and adds some of those go in a flashcard and zettelkasten system.

Impressive for doing it consistently but it's not learning entire books.
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Same here. First thought upon seeing that: crash test dummy.
Fraud? What? This trial hasn’t even gone to court. You’re making blanket statements about someone’s life based on accusations from a Big Tech company and their PR teams. This person has been accused -not convicted and is going bankrupt because he is fighting Google. I know this is a Bay Area forum - half of you probably work for Google but give me a break. They steal personal information from everyone who uses their products every single day. They buy up an competition - they don’t play fair. They are the largest advertising company in the world - let’s not pretend like they’re more than that. Or they are some virtuous company that wouldn’t personally go after someone who is a threat to them and working with a competitor. Destroying others so theirs is positioned to raise 2 Billion dollars. This guy just got caught in the crossfire. This is just parroting headlines.
As a recently relapsed biochemistry student, with a wide variety of classes in both biology and chemistry, I use Anki exhaustively. I made at least 10k cards last semester, and that was a relatively light semester in terms of credits.

With that said, I can't imagine using such a powerful, and honestly demanding, tool for everyday knowledge and tangential facts (e.g. Greek mythology as a software engineer). It strikes me as far too much tool for the job.

It seems to me that, if you struggle with retaining things you read, some simple, lightweight note taking strategies, especially handwritten, would be sufficient. I believe that's actually a recommendation that his book recommendation, Where Good Ideas Come From, makes.
> With basic income, we may just raise the cost of those things.

Why? Basic income does not just magically generate money out of thin air.

Right now you earn $4000(salary) per month. With UBI you earn $3000(salary) + $1000 (UBI) per month. Why should any cost increase?

"But then I would work less, since I can comfortably live on $1000 per month". Yeah, and why are you not doing that right now?
> Companies don't just have some intern change their logo up for no reason at all.

Companies redesign their brand (websites, logos, etc.) all the time and it often correlates with a new hire who wants a "fresh start" with the brand.

Jens Thiemer who is the SVP of Customer and Brand and spearheaded this effort has been at BMW a little over 1 year.

It's a way of staking your claim at a company and putting your literal mark on a project. Unfortunately, it's not always the best move.

I help VPs of Marketing redesign brands and more often than not, about 6-12 months into their new gig I get a call.
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Youtube has it's own system that is not actually DMCA, so they don't need to get pesky lawyers involved.
Per Twitter, GitHub's CEO is looking into it: https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1235611575555256322

EDIT: Fix to be deployed today: https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1235613794560118785

Twitter can be useful on occasion!