skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly doubt that, I think the most likely 'Great Silence' is the vast energies required to go anywhere, the great filter stopping most civs from getting there (we've almost killed off earth and we're easily 300+ years from warp drives and interstellar travel).

I think the silence is just that: silence. We're it (right now).

Because of gravity, an entire civilization could live as long as we will on earth but on the right planet it could only take them 30 years per hour (like on interstellar where they were gone an hour on the planet, but off-planet 7 years passed.)

They could've started at the same time, but only be 10 years in, while we've transversed millenia.

Or could be exactly the same as how we evolved, except they did it 1 billion years ago, and died out 500 million years ago.

Top 3 contenders though for me for the fermi silence is: 1. Great Filter wins. 2. Time and Distance scales of space, and 3. We're living in a simulation. Aliens weren't part of the plan.

if alien life were out there, I don't think it'd just be content to hide out. I mean, look at our planet and the food chain, EVERY living thing competes for it's place on the food chain, and in the world. Extra-terrestrially I think we'd also compete w/ other races and see expansions.

If we lived 1 billion years, it's almost a certainty that we could colonize ALL of the milky way, and maybe other galaxies. Def. Andromeda since it'll merge with us soon enough.
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They haven't won yet. They were on a really strong path early on but the app is bloating itself into oblivion.
You'd probably be better off by using a service like https://www.irccloud.com/

If you can spare a few more minutes, hosting an IRC client on your own server would probably be the best choice. For example: ZNC (bouncer), WeeChat (relay -> app) or Quassel.
Yikes and whoa, you can't do this kind of flamewar comment on HN! We're trying for something very different here.

Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of this site to heart? You're welcome to keep posting if you'll do that. We have to moderate and ban accounts that won't, however, because they destroy the community and curious conversation that HN is meant for.
OpenGL on macOS Big Sur?
I used to have a bad habit of saying "thanks man" and "hey guys" regardless of who I was talking to. In all cases it was more due to laziness and habit than anything else and I was somewhat unaware of it.

It wasn't hard to change, with the main benefit being I no longer came off like a complete dumbass to a room full of women or a trans person.
I don't play video games at all, and I'm on a dozen or so Discord servers for various open-source projects, meetup groups, private projects, Reddit subs, groups of friends, etc.
Has anybody ever thought about how Face ID is pretty much a backdoor into your iPhone? Think back a few years to when Apple refused to open a felon's iPhone for the US government, because "they couldn't." If that happened now, they wouldn't even have to ask Apple, given the felon has Face ID enabled.

Edit: I'm kind of surprised by the downvotes, given I thought HN was pretty big on personal privacy. Just thought I'd stir up the discussion, that's all.

Edit 2: I personally think U2F is the way forward here, not Face ID or Touch ID or other biometrics.
While I've had similar issues, I never particularly attributed them to the GERD stuff directly. Most of those symptoms ended up getting indirectly treated while addressing other issues.

Feel free to reach out if you want to talk further (email is in profile). There are a few things I'd recommend that may potentially help, but starts to get a bit too specific for getting into here.
The free service is really featureful, and people really like the "accoutrements"† that you get from Nitro as well as supporting the server(s) they like.

Linguistic tangent below if you are interested:

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† I know that "accoutrements" isn't the right word to mean "add-ons", and "accompaniments" would technically be the word you'd use to metaphorically describe the benefits that the user gets from Discord Nitro as being similar to add-ons to dishes of food. But, words change in meaning over time, and I have only ever heard "accoutrements" being used metaphorically in this way, and so "accompaniments" didn't seem to match the linguistic milieu present today.‡

‡ I don't know if there is a term that means what I am intending by "linguistic milieu present today", and that's the best guess I came up with that sounded good and somewhat conveyed the concept. To precisely describe what term I'm thinking of, I need to lay a baseline.

Language change is something that has happened, will happen, and is happening now. [0] Given that that is the case, there exists a relationship between time and language change, and thus, specific languages and time. The language as being used ("sending" and "understanding" both happening), not the language as described by teachers/books on that language.

The concept I mean above, that I tried to describe as "linguistic milieu present today" is, "the current state of The English Language As Actually Used By Speakers/Writers, and Not Necessarily The English Language As Taught/Described In Books/Schools".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_change
Probably looking at it similarly but slightly different lens. My take is that wet years trees don’t die off in large numbers. Drought years kill enough trees that the forest can ignite. The death of the trees a few years ago allowed the fast growing underbrush to become big enough to create the problem there. The dead trees remain to move the problem up. The living trees are engulfed by hot and long burning fires that surround.
If I release two pieces of software, one GPL, and another closed source which uses some of my GPLed code, if someone discovers the closed source one uses that code am I obligated to apply the GPL’s terms to the other project?
It’s centralized, closed source SaaS, it’s not an open, standardised internet protocol with a vast selection of clients (and servers, real servers!) to choose from.

10 years from now, Discord will be gone but IRC will remain.

These days I prefer Matrix, but I have no doubt IRC will stay around. Maybe even because of Matrix users like myself who just keep bridging it in.
Seconded. We've made a product in fitness&health niche when all of our competitors (and so we did) think it's essential for users to create an account, fill long questionnaires etc, yet we managed to skip all those things making them optional. Conversion rate skyrocketed on iOS - now we are making same switch on Android app.
yes it is. must be something else about it that confuses them. I guess having joining a voice channel be one click could be considered odd if you are not used to initiating a "call" that allows people to hear you immediately like that.
Apiary looks like it supports OpenAPI 3.0, so you get the best of both worlds. Having your API spec living in an open standard format also gives you the ability to easily write integration tests using other tools as well.
What's 'mini' about facts like "Trump lied to voters about his efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow while he was campaigning, and his personal lawyer went to prison for lying to congress to cover up that project" ?

If you're interested in more, there's the very sizable list, "Links between Trump associates and Russian officials"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates...
We called them servers because our early adopters were coming from Ventrillo and Teamspeak (eg: Vent server, Teamspeak server, etc) and we wanted to use familiar terminology.
I don't think it's intentionally misleading. Its roots are in gaming in which "server" is often the term used for an instance and no one misconstrues ownership in that context. Some games let you self-host a server, but it's increasingly rare. More commonly, you reserve/join an instance on the developer's servers and you tell your friend(s), "Come join my server". Whether that be a Minecraft Realm or a WoW shard.

Or they could just be adopting the terminology of TeamSpeak and the like.
During the famine, ireland produced way more for/potatoes then it required to feed it's people; they were just taxed to all hell.

Currently the US produces about twice the calories it requires. There are so many calories produced in forms of corn that the industry has made huge efforts to find new ways to use those calories (hfcs, ethanol, etc) in order to justify corn industry practices. The one liner is that we need to be able to feed the people, but obesity is at an all time high. People need more nutrition, not more calories.
Ethereum..
Building a Startup in RT on Twitch
The author here seems to be using "paraphrase" to mean mean both "mirroring" (repeat back using speaker's words) and "paraphrasing" (repeat back using listener's words). I think there are contexts when each is appropriate.

For example, if I (speaker) am giving you (listener) instructions, it's good for you to paraphrase. That shows me how you are interpreting my language and that allows me to clarify. Mirroring doesn't allow for this because no new information is provided:

- Speaker: Could you sort all the files and destroy duplicates?

- Listener: You want me to put the files in alphabetical order and throw them out.

- Speaker: Yes, but by destroy I meant shred.

But there are cases where it's more important for the speaker to be understood. Perhaps they are feeling hard emotions and need to be heard, or (and I think this is the real use case for mirroring) when the speaker is still working through their feelings or thoughts on a subject. They are using speech, in a sense, to think.

- Speaker: I think it's bizarre that the PM wants to push this along so quickly.

- Listener: You think it's bizarre that the PM wants to push this along so quickly?

- Speaker: Well... not bizarre. It's just surprising because there is no external deadline for this work.

Here mirroring gives the speaker an opportunity to see how their words sound coming back to them and it gives them an opportunity to clarify and add.
there are a lot of applications of physical theories in other sciences. annealing is just a descriptive name though. Shannons information entropy is a generalization of thermodynamic entropy.
I would never use this for anything sensitive.

Bad actors can get your face and your fingerprint. Some of them already have it (governments, banks, Apple, Facebook, etc). And changing your face or fingerprint is practically impossible.
Well California is not yet as dry as it once was a few centuries ago, so you should expect things to get even worse. You think it's bad now, but some day you'll look back on present conditions fondly. If that's not your cup of tea then I suggest getting out of the state because there are no political solutions to this. Even if by some miracle AGW were stopped dead and reversed, California would still be getting hotter and dryer. That's what the pre-industrial climate of California was typically like.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24818637

Seems relevant to that response.

NONE of the news agencies are good faith actors anymore. It's all infotainment to the last atom. I mean, that's itself the subject of the linked blog post.

It's ok to recognize this. It's healthy to recognize this. It doesn't mean you wasted your time watching CNN (or Fox), it means you learned a valuable life lesson, one that vaccinates you against the next attack on your attention.
> the authority of Western newspapers was forever reduced.

Nope. Twitter's was expanded. These are not the same thing.

> China has its Great Firewall and Russia has its “Internet Iron Curtain.” But democracies differ only in how quickly, and under what narratives, they adopt similar measures.

because we say so (I guess they forgot to add this last bit)
I think "Sign in with Apple" is unique that Apple allows the users to hide their email address https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210425 which makes it extremely hard to migrate away, unlike other federated login system where you can at least get users' email addresses, allowing you to create a proper email+password login later on.
Wow, you can’t even use sign in with Apple if you

“Show Apple or its products in a false or derogatory light.”

Who decides what’s false or derogatory?
I get the impression that the semiconductor industry is slowly disappearing from the US, and even from the West as a whole. It'll be a lot harder to regain that expertise than it is to lose it.
This is a good doctrine, and a bad dogma.

Under the hood, [bio]ID generates a one-time token with a signature that serves as a superior substitute to a password.

If your face or fingerprint don't happen to be around, you can always use the password for the same account to reset it. If you have legal concerns about being coerced into using a biometric system, you should disable it.

One of the problems "biometrics shouldn't be a password" is meant to expose, is that you can't reset a biometric if it leaks. By keeping the biometrics inside a device at all times, the T2 system substantially mitigates this risk. I'm fairly certain you can remove a device from your Apple account, and the ID system will no longer work, even if provided with your face or fingerprint.
Also from the WaPo article, the study surveyed “126 undergraduates”. While it's clear that many Silly Valley startups use undergraduate all-nighters as a model for their culture and code quality, that is by no means universal.
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There's an explicit list of websites that are not allowed to integrate with "Sign in with Apple".

I don't think anyone is crying over Apple not wanting to handle authentication for web sites offering "Illegal drugs or non-legally prescribed controlled substances."

The rest of the list is similar.

And yes, with that list Apple has once again affirmed it's not interested in helping normalize pornography. That's its choice.
I had a Chemex for years. The Ninja gets very close to it in terms of flavor.
Really excited about this too. When we were adding 2FA options at my company we pushed to use Webauthn instead of just a QR code/OTP approach.

News like this where we can tell people "it already works because we made the right decision" is fun.
- cloud software developers ..
(testing/developing with/without internet connections)
Actually, there are still some bashism, and real foot traps at that. `trap EXIT` basically only "works" for try/finally behavior in bash, not even zsh. There should really be a warning around this in the article: if you want to be have portable cleanup for all exit conditions that works in different shells, you need a lot of busywork.
> His points were that the Open-Closed principle isn’t very important anymore because most of the code we write isn’t contained in large monoliths and making changes to small microservices is safe and easy.

IMHO, Open-Closed applies just as well to entire microservice architectures as it does to individual classes. For example, I've seen services for general-purpose tasks such as job scheduling or generating PDF reports which required devs to change the code to add a new job type or report type. These services were replaced by services where the new application-specific types could be defined through an API, which meant that those services were "done" and reduced the amount of work required to use them.
That sucks! From my knowledge of browser-based games, though, I think a lot of people are using webgl, where the solution would be to write a blur shader. If your game was written in a world where Firefox had 90% market share, you'd be more likely to go straight for webgl.
This is a great case study of how the Turing Pi helps with CI/CD for ARM infrastructure https://synyx.de/blog/turing-pi-gitlab-ci-ansible/

Besides that the main direction here is edge computing.
I wouldn't, and among my friends it's rather rare, but yeah there are people that don't capitalize when texting casually (or in any form of written text like my mom, which drives me insane).
I recently joined a company that builds all of its APIs this way, and I'm not looking back. It's so much easier to communicate across teams and tech stacks when we can send them a PR with a proposed endpoint contract. Plus, people always come and go and good API docs can help a new developer ramp up considerably faster.
so, if you're a service that posts memes to twitter, or facebook you should always use email and sms two factor, no 'sign in with facebook/twitter' links?
> Despite what the name might apply, TeXmacs is not built on top of TeX. This is a good thing. It's much less bloated (60 MB vs several GB), and compilations seem much faster.

TeX is not several GB. It was designed for systems running under intense resource constraints, and it is tiny.

Most widely used TeX installations (TeXLive is the big one) bundle lots of the most popularly used packages by default, but that's an option, and they can be installed on demand as needed. Even granting the reasonable point that modern TeX is functionally useless without packages (and other essential accouterments such as PDFTeX rather than Knuth's original code), I stripped down TeXLive to the packages I actually need (which is an easy choice in the installer, not some arcane hack), and it's about 300 MB.
I run 3 games on here and play in 1. Amazing service, definitely give it a look if your interested in getting an amazing tabletop gaming experience.
It's a problem if the source of funds are obtained illegally. Using tumblers is not illegal, but if using tumblers to make 'dirty' money appear clean then that's a problem.
"... Even though in Computer Science terms Lisp is an ancient language, few people to date figured out how to teach it well enough to make it accessible."

Don't know why that is, to me Lisp came naturally reading Winston's book Lisp.

I guess the thing is to just start playing with it, try out examples. Don't worry about meta-circularity until later, if ever. Don't read about it do it.

And syntax even though it may look like a forest of parenthesis it is worth emphasizing that actually it makes the syntax extremely simple and universal since there are very few keywords if any.
You can make it completely impossible for a server (or people) to notify you in any way whatsoever through settings.

That's one of the positive features that keeps streamers and communities using it -- you can't bother people who don't want to be bothered.
Sorry I'm not claiming it was something completely new, I'm simply stating that it's usage in informal speak has seemed to pick up the same usage it was originally when the younger generation started using it for informal communication channels like texting. But as it has adapted for the younger crowd it has remained the same (highly anecdotal) among those I interact with who are older.
Pretty anecdotal use case, but when trying to do some type of neural architecture search for ML models that are ultimately going to be run on the edge, running some performance evaluation on a raspberry pi is a decent proxy. I have seen teams build their own type a raspberry clusters for this to be able to evaluate many models in parallel. It's basically a testing proxy for ARM architecture.

But this thing only has 4 RPI per box so I don't quite understand which problem they are targeting either.
It falls short, because biometrics <> passwords. As I said, biometrics == identity.

Compare biometrics with identity:

1) Your identity is not secret. Your mother knows you, your entire school knows you, your neighbour knows you, when you go anywhere the police may ask for your ID at any time and knows you. Biometrics is the same.

2) You don't hide every day from the world. You don't cover your face (ok maybe before COVID) when entering a shop ;)

3) You cannot change who you are. You shouldn't have to and shouldn't want to. Same for biometrics.

4) If your identity is discovered then of course they know who you are. Same applies for biometrics.

So yes, biometrics isn't passwords, it's identity. Username + Password is a workaround to establish a person's identity and will never be as good as a biometric. The fact that you can have multiple usernames but only the same right index fingerprint is proof that biometrics is superior in establishing your identity than username + password.
The civil system used for lawsuits is very different than the criminal system used for these indictments. The civil system allows summary judgments for not showing up, but the criminal system does not.
you do know EPIC did break a lot of clauses in their contract, knowing what the impact of breaking these clauses was, and still breaking all those clauses?
For simplified login situations (e.g. not requiring two factors for authentication) you'll probably have some kind of password or password-less (email) login flow where you can login at first and then enroll the FIDO2 device.

Otherwise there is no way to login from any other device.

An alternative is that you can authenticate a new device from an existing device along with a re-auth on that device to verify it's them. Discord has a feature similar to this with it's QR login system.
A lot (although not all) of the advantages of the method given here are also advantages conferred by something strongly-typed like ASP.NET; quite a bit of the testing in the post seems to be there solely to make up for the fact that you can't specify the type of your output up front.
or it's because they focused on a niche market that actually like to use computers
Since Jobs, Apple and Microsoft returns are nearly identical
unilateral agreements that one side can change on a whim is not something that one would call a fair agreement in the first place.

Wait till you read the fine print in your cell phone contract.
Well, both companies do that - The various epic EULAs let them behave just as apple does, so they can't argue it's unfair unless they want all their existing EULAs to be invalidated as well.
> Jabber fans and they despise basic things like emojis

We had those for sure before you ever have been in a school.

> let alone important things like preserving offline messages

Jabber is federated, that's up to the service or client. Also, Jabber is extensible, it could be implemented in a breeze.
As a product owner, why wouldn't I want to piggyback on the millions of dollars of R&D + security that the big companies have put in?

And as a user, why would I trust my password to the website that rolled their own authentication over the big companies?
You don't seem to be aware of what is under discussion here. You just raised a huge strawman.

Websites are not receiving your biometrics in this context, and your biometrics would be meaningless to the website if captured and somehow provided.

Your biometric signature is stored solely inside the Secure Enclave in the Apple device.

If and only if the Secure Enclave recognizes you via your biometrics will the Enclave uses a non-transferrable key stored only in the Enclave to attest to the website that you are the user "JoeAltmaier".

- The key is secret.

- The key is kept in only one place.

- The key can easily be discarded and a new one made.

- The key is never given to anything outside of the Enclave, so... I'm not sure how it could be traced to you, besides the whole fact that it is being used to authenticate you, which is necessary.

Sounds pretty acceptable to me as a password. The usability issue here is that a website needs to be able to accept a different password from each device you own, since the password is non-transferrable, and you might accidentally drop your iPhone to the bottom of the ocean.

Good news: FIDO2 is an entire standard built around this concept, originally intended for use on YubiKeys and similar FIDO2-compliant USB sticks.

Apple is building an implementation of FIDO2 that uses the iPhone that's already in the person's hand.

If the Secure Enclave is compromised (which does happen sometimes), then Bad Things could happen... but that's also what happens when a password manager tool is compromised.