skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assange did not reveal a source for the leaked emails, and in fact claims the source is not Russian,

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/julian-as...

Whether hackers intended to disrupt an election or not, the behavior described in the emails is still the fault of those DNC members who perpetrated those actions.

You’re acting like if they had kept the manipulation of the Democratic primary a secret, we’d be better off, and that by revealing it (as opposed to perpetrating it in the first place) publishers like Assange caused harm - which is ridiculous.

The behavior itself - the content of what was published - caused harm because it was dishonest, manipulative, harmful behavior. The publisher did not cause harm by describing someone else’s harmful behavior. “Russian hackers” did not cause harm by taking possession of documents that proved the harmful behavior of others.

It’s like if a sitting president referred to dead service men and women as “losers” and “suckers” you somehow think a newspaper causes harm by publishing that truth, because it might whip up the electorate, and you are blind to the fact that it’s not the newspaper’s choice to publish that is doing anything or causing anything. The blame lies squarely with the person who actually perpetrated the published behaviors - like the president calling fallen soldiers losers and suckers.

Your moral compass on this is completely haywire.
If they are not making factual or accurate claims, doesn't that by definition mean its entertainment ?
Was unschooled, now yc founder. N=1
Tell that to the 346 people who perished because of negligent and (in my opinion, malicious in terms of regulatory deception) undocumented, uncommunicated programming of the speed trim system of the 737 MAX.

Or the folks who perished because of badly programmed software interlocks on the THERAC-25 radiotherapy machine.

Just knowing or figuring out to flip that switch may be an insurmountable barrier depending on the circumstances when a failure state occurs. Especially when the implementation is intentionally hidden so as to facilitate continued market value extraction opportunities from the happy accident of information asymmetry.
And Ctrl+Ins, Shift+Del, Shift+Ins work out of the box in (windowed) Emacs, too.
Unfortunately your excuse is no good, because Tennis does not use the Sensor Bar.
Firm A: wildly profitable, stock price through the roof, dumping waste at zero cost

Firm B: profitable, blue chip, 100% green, files (e.g. GRI) Corporate Sustainability Reports

Which investors are factoring in the most important long-term factors in portfolio development? Markets are not optimizing for sustainability: policy is necessary to counterbalance profit motive.

Are we just using markets wrong?

Nobody likes penalties more than incentives.
Not sure what volume has to do with it, if the whole market is ECC.

And as far as "wires", traces are basically free as long as they don't force additional pcb layers, which shouldn't be the case given the careful pin/ddr chip/processor designs focused on exactly that. The extra pins are there regardless, and in the past so were the "wires" given that CBx/DMx pins were muxed. Further, packetized ram interfaces have been known to bury the error correction in the protocol same as PCIe/etc. Meaning its a slight efficiency loss.

Look at it this way, every part of the system _EXCEPT_ the ram has some kind of error correction on it at this point. Its a cheap way to not only increase robustness but its also a security mechanism.

If I were guessing, I would say that DDR5 is the last version that isn't ECC end to end, the idea that the manufactures can shrink the dies at the cost of some BER and make it up with a bit of embedded ECC will just be to tempting. Particularly with AMD on the rise, intel will have a much harder time playing product segmentation games if AMD doesn't do the same.
Python and JavaScript are languages that do not behave the way you mentioned.
Definitely do not want to look into THAT.
Right. I had a vague recollection that it was related to Israel, so I was initially confused.
Water under the bridge now, but I bet you did some of them a real disservice.

Wordperfect had "reveal codes", so when the WYSIWYG gave you something you didn't want, you could pop open the actual document representation and wrangle the tags until you What You Want Is What You See.

MS Word has no such function, so when it screws you, and it does, you're good and screwed.
Despite it being an absolute dumpster fire in other ways, the new firefox android almost has that. It's nice for telling my friends who I've gotten to switch over to just open firefox, open the hamburger and tap addons then addons manager, then tap ublock origin at the top of the list and that's all it takes to get my friends rolling with it. They're all extremely happy with the new firefox and don't notice how webpages are pretty broken in it now.
And imagine what is was like before the treadle loom (where the operator had to do the weaving for every single weft thread, rather than just throwing a shuttle) and the spinning wheel (instead using a distaff spindle).
But that's what I love about Ruby! There's so many great ways to express logic, making Ruby a language that really rewards exploration. Of course, when working with a team on a production application, you'd set up standards everyone can agree on and understand with rubocop or prettier-rb (which I loathe and will not touch with a 10-foot long pole for my personal projects). That's also great for onboarding newcomers - they can get their feet wet with "standard" ruby at work, and then experiment with it more deeply in their own time, finding themselves in the ways they choose to express their logic. And then, every now and then if you find something really elegant and beautiful in your own exploration, you can introduce it to your team and add it to your team's style if they all agree on it. Between a language that makes all the choices for you, and a language that gives you the freedom to choose how you do things, I'd pick the latter nine times out of ten: at least in the latter, you can restrict yourself from the more wild stuff, but in the former you're forced into a narrow band of choices. I sure didn't ask for right assign, but I'll be trying it out in my personal projects!
> we just came to accept that 100% of RAM is defective by design.

Computing itself is broken. Every product from physical to application state is broken in some subtle way which is then countered by a higher layer having some extra code (or component) to adjust it.
It’s not a question of intuition. The Drake equation tries to make a conservative calculation of the factors involved in the formation of life. As you might imagine, those odds are extremely low. It then multiplies those odds against the number of expected candidate planets. Space is so mind-blowingly big that the result becomes extremely likely.

Again, that assumes no limiting phenomena, which is what things like great filter theory posit
I have the model one step down and I just didn't go through with the app/wifi setup. Hadn't thought about using a VLAN.
I understand that conflicts are inevitable, but wouldn't tree-diffing at least be an improvement over line-diffing? I recall that Pijul's theory of generalized files (arbitrary digraphs of lines IIRC) is already fairly complicated though.
Or Mozilla’s leadership was distracted by a bunch of meaningless distractions instead of focusing on unsexy things like this and lost out to a competitor.

It wasn’t the users that lost interest in Firefox. It was Mozilla that lost interest in Firefox.
This is a ridiculous argument. Do you also blame Boeing for 9/11?
Well then that's my excuse! I thought it did, so I was making sure to point the controller in the proper direction, while my opponent was cheating and flicking it any which way.

Look, it wasn't my fault, ok?
Do not look into binary X-ray star with you remaining fleet.
Komeito is post-war, so doesn’t constitute a counter-example.

Buddhists pretty much had the opinion that a king who supports the sangha is a dharma king, whatever other sins he’s committing. The important thing is that the king pays the monastery for his legitimation. Beyond that, they’re not greedy. The king is probably going to hell for 10 million years for all the mayhem he’s causing. No need to be rude about it.
Note that I personally don't have a set opinion on this subject. I am only trying to respond to OP's question of why some people would think this is a possiblity. But I like to play devil's advocate so:

> Or other societies realized widely broadcasting noise is bad for whatever reason.

> Or maybe broadcasting widely resulted is a case study for getting your civilization invaded, so they avoided it it or only send signals as strong as they need to be

Every other society realized it at the same time? Which would imply every other society is roughly born at the same time, which sounds unlikely. So some of them (like us) should not yet have discovered the danger of broadcasting signals.

> Or maybe it's so consistently and universally done that we simple see it as cosmic background radiation.

I don't think you can possibly mistake the CMB with some artifical radio signals coming from point sources.

> Or maybe something like quantum entanglement someday makes wave transmissions for communication seem as backwards as smoke signals

Definitely a possibility, but again, that would assume some kind of synchronicity between all other societies (no one is still figuring out quantum communication). But since radio signals are hard to pickup at a long range, it's possible. But we also haven't seen any other traces of civilizations: probes, dyson spheres etc.
Irritating that this is downvoted. I agree with you though — I simply don’t run into enough (any?) git related pain that would motivate a switch. git is really really simple and can be made to do whatever I want
Consider that our civilization has really only had about a 50 year window were we were rather noisy in the radio frequencies. Now, our radio transmissions (with the exception of some short pulse military ones) are much less powerful and would be much harder to detect at a distance.

From https://space.stackexchange.com/a/13013

> uoting from Tarter (2001): "At current levels of sensitivity, targeted microwave searches could detect the equivalent power of strong TV transmitters at a distance of 1 light year (within which there are no other stars)..."

We barely have the sensitivity to detect the existing strong TV transmitters of today within a 1ly sphere. The inverse square law becomes rather cruel. For a 2ly sphere, we'd need 4x the sensitivity. 3ly, 9x. To get 100 stars in the sphere, we need 21ly sphere, and that would need 400x the sensitivity that we have... and in that list of 100 nearest stars, there's only 6 G type stars.

So yes... there may be. But we're very small ( http://www.rainydaymagazine.com/RDM2011/RainyDayScience/Radi... ). Our own radio signals have barely made any significant coverage of the galaxy. Our own signals are also becoming harder to detect as our radio technology becomes better (DTV only needs 1/5th the power of analog TV).

That we're not hearing any random signals akin to what we've been broadcasting for the past century isn't surprising.
Also I really like Python stdlib for those kinda of throwaway scripts. While `cargo` is a far better tool than `pip` for dealing with dependencies, if you don't need to dependencies at all it is even easier, and most times when using Python I don't really need to install any third party libraries even when doing non-trivial stuff (i.e.: sometime ago I did a script that scrapped a page for a download link for some APK and sideloaded it to my Android smartphone).

Someone also said the REPL, and while the REPL in Python is not as powerful as, i.e.: Clojure, it is still something that feels essential for a exploratory workflow that is the scripts case. Testing is not the same, it is much slower to interact, specially when you just want to check a hypothesis (also, most scripts I don't want to write tests, they will probably break anyway in a few months like the example of web scrapping I said above).
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Dumb question, is the idea that gravitational waves are not very common from natural sources, so there's less...interference? I didn't get why this method of communication is somehow special (beyond being theoretically interesting)?
2MLOC is too big for what it’s supposed to be doing. That’s a sign that something went wrong. I wouldn’t blame Go qua language per se, but the lack of generics and lack of dependency management (when they started) couldn’t have helped.
Wikileaks did neither.
I think this is where things could go—VCS aware of semantics—which could happen if syntax==semantics.
Hilarious, a buyer telling sellers that the it’s in the seller’s best interest to not research their market price. In the finance sector nonetheless.
Gravity waves would still have similar issues. The only gravity waves we can pick up right now are from extremely dense bodies colliding with each other. Not exactly a feasible means for intergalactic communication.
You can find an explanation of how it works at [0]. The vague notion of "patch commutation" is central to both operational CRDTs and Pijul's theory of patches, but other than that, I don't really see any similarities.

[0]: https://jneem.github.io/merging/
Books are also capable of being copied before or when damaged, passed on trivially, and are not prone to sudden existential failure because a server on the other side of the world was deactivated.

They can't be stolen back by the publisher or seller, can be trivially transformed into different formats, can take annotations, can be rebound with wear, and even if paper has it's faults, reading a page of a well maintained page in 1000 years is as easy as as the day it was written, even if significant swathes of technological backslide occur, and is only prone to the challenge created by human cultural evolution as opposed to loss of the processor or software required to decode/convert/display it.

An HDCP protected chunk of media may as well not exist in 1000 years.
Our neighbor had his truck stolen and had a wireless camera in his front house. Last footage shows a car pull up across the street, a few minutes later the camera goes out, then when it comes back online the truck and car is gone. I guess the investigation decided it was jammed. So yeah, stick with wired systems.
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3501366
Something like this would such a profoundly good change I shed a tear knowing it won't happen for years at a minimum.

Sigh
Adam Savage was talking about a scribing tool for machining which was very expensive, but which he likes very much [0].

Before recommending it, however, he felt it important to mention that for people who don't machine very much, far cheaper scribes work well because unless it's your job, your tooling is less likely to be the bottleneck, and you have fewer resources. When you machine professionally, you're tooling is likely your bottleneck and you've more resources.

I think this holds for tech and software. Think of resources here as "time spent learning APIs, bash, and remembering tar mnemonics".

At first, dragging and dropping folders isn't going to be your bottleneck. Need to move 1000s of folders scattered on the hard-drive? If you're not using a terminal, you'll be in trouble.

Everyone cares about UX, it's their experience when using tech.
It's just that GUIs are better for some contexts than others.

[0] https://youtu.be/n5laGi3GO7M?t=356
You see with your mind, then you see with your eyes
Because there are a lot of other things necessary for life. Usually we get the 'planet X may be suitable for life' PR news item first, and later in the scientific press we find out quietly 'planet X is awash in deadly gamma radiation, and the tectonics are such that there's a richter scale 13 quake every week'.

It turns out that when taking into account all known factors, us being alone is a nontrivial possibility:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.02404.pdf
If they really wanted to build a device to get burglars to depart rapidly or regret their choices, they should have armed it with a glitter cannon...
> As the most powerful species on that planet, we should make responsible decisions.

I think you mistake the meaning of the "we are not special" statement. From a statistic point of view, we have to assume that everything about us is roughly average (and so far our observations kind of confirm this), otherwise any probabilty you come up with is completly skewed by the bias you introduced by assuming from the get go that we are special.

But interestingly, by assuming that we are average and knowing the abundance of other planets, we should see a lot of activity out there, but we don't. So maybe that indicates that we are, in fact, not average.
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dont know why you're downvoted - but you're absolutely correct.
> How many people can that describe?

Tons. Schools in Iran are smaller and more numerous. I did a little back of the napkin math and I estimate there are more than 4000 high schools in the City of Tehran, more than 6500 if you count the schools in the entire Province of Tehran.

Also, why would they put him in jail? I think you are greatly overestimating the level of political repression in Iran. If they wanted to put people in jail for using VPNs or leaving private voicemails, half the population would be in jail.
Star Trek posits that warp drive is the technology which merits contact from other civilizations. I would expect the technology to actually be access to interstellar communication. A planet joins the universe when it first logs in.
"The cemeteries are full of indispensable men."
Well, since I was their go-to tech support I paid the price!

re: Reveal codes - not being able to press ALT F3 and cleanup the formatting mess that MS WORD would inevitably get into was torture!
Supporting a language fully on a variety of non-Apple platforms is a massive undertaking. Even assuming for the sake of argument, unlimited funding, there's still the issue of finding the right talent, as well as expending limited managerial bandwidth for oversight & prioritization.

I think the Linux support that already exists is an awesome start. But the only realistic way to see more from Apple on this is if they themselves start to deploy critical Swift web-services on their own backend infra. (I'm assuming here that they run Linux systems somewhere in their stack.) That will give them the incentive to take it to the next level. Until then it's largely left to the community to find the energy and time to do this.
There are multiple areas of the Drake equation that we have either no or only one data point on:

- Number of planets that can support life that will develop life
- Number of planets that have developed life that will develop intelligent life
- Fraction of intelligent life that will develop the technology to transmit signals of their existence
- The length of time that those signals will be sent

We only know anything about any of these processes on one planet. That means we are guessing when we put numbers to these factors. We don't know if these numbers are 1 in 100 or 1 in a trillion. That's what I mean by having intuition but not really having evidence.
And then after the election I expect it to be killed off, having never existed outside of a press release
When I first read this post over 7 years ago, it led to me negotiating an extra 6k/year on my next job, for an employer with <5 developers and <20 employees.

The portrayal of "businessmen" was also valuable to me. You're correct that most people don't think of themselves this way – but they should.

Reading this post was one of my first steps of many towards feeling like an active agent selling a service, rather than a passive agent looking for a corporation to glom on to.

There are plenty of companies who want to hire active agents, and they don't correlate perfectly with employee count.
if that's the case, i would not accept currency issued by you (an individual) since i cannot perform the work of verifying that you have assets to back your currency printing (which you are allowed to do as a central bank).
This doesn't refute what you said.

Cool Worlds is an excellent YouTube channel presented by an Astrophysics prof.

He recently gave an even-handed presentation of both sides, but on balance, he comes down slightly on the side of Life is unique to this planet.

https://youtu.be/iLbbpRYRW5Y
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> non apple products considering they actually get updates for 5+ years

This is just not true. Flagship Android phones get 3 years of updates, and beyond that you can install open source OSes like LineageOS, which you just cannot do on Apple. Most people buy phones every 3 years anyway, even Apple users, since the battery life is severely reduced by then.

As for desktop computers, non-Apple computers can always have new OSes installed on them and hardware is often user-upgradable. I have rarely seen a soldered-in SSD other than in the Apple world. Last week I just changed out my 2TB drive for a 4TB SSD for a grand total of $400. In the Apple world you'd have to buy a new PC and they charge you +$1600 for that soldered-in 4TB SSD, and that's on top of the cost of a new PC that I didn't have to buy.
We could have free file -like debacle, but that would be an intentional backstabbing by the part of Congress.

What so say is not a natural phenomenon: the government isn't so stupid as to unintionality write a contract so vague that the recipiant can just renk sneak all the want.
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I think it's something like a realization allowing you to live in greater harmony with your circumstances and community.
I say "my car", not "my hyundai".
What! How is it that there is yet no evidence that there is a planet in another galaxy?
Looks like an interesting paper. In fact, it looks like it's saying basically the same thing I'm saying, we really don't know enough to make assertions about the likelihood of finding intelligent life at this point.
You need the beta version to access it, but there is an open issue on Github to reenable it in the stable version again.
I agree with the sentiment of the post and the replies.

Yet your examples hint at something more.

Those massive failures are by people not by tech. Mismanagement and incompetence and systems designed to obfuscate accountability.

Which happens aplenty in non tech fields.
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It's been very difficult to gather the evidence until now? Given the astronomical distances involved and our technological progress?
This is big! I call it (others might too, idk) “.d.ts driven development”. Where you start the project by writing a .d.ts file and implement it. Similar to starting with a .h in C. Fun fact this is how xterm.js is structured (the terminal emulator used in vscode and hyper, among other things).
It's always amazing the people here crying about censorship while keeping their mouths shut about the rampant censorship on this website. In fact many of the users here actively defending Big Brother. Shadow banning, removal of comments - this website displays the absolute worst tendencies when it comes to stamping out anything critical and somehow that's fine. Meanwhile employees standing up to reactionary assholes is some cultural revolution. The hypocrisy is laughable.
Detecting planets is hard, even within our own galaxy.
Definitely good.