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RFC 2616 OCTETs are defined as "<any 8-bit sequence of data>" quote unquote, nothing is said about their value beign opaque.

TEXT = <any OCTET except CTLs,
but including LWS>

IETF rewrote the productions not to use TEXT, but stopped short from banning the old behaviour.

So, for instance, where 2616 states:
Reason-Phrase = <TEXT, excluding CR, LF>
And 7230 has:
reason-phrase = ( HTAB / SP / VCHAR / obs-text )

It is making sure that any application that conforms to 2616 still conforms to 7230 by not making it illegal (MUST) to parse obs-text... Just something you SHOULD not not do. They are simply making it so any new header added is defined as SP / VCHAR only (quoted, possibly).
It doesn't even assume that. There are a whole lot of scenarios where we'd still assume we'd spot signs of aliens even if they're all totally disinterested in us.
Is astrogeology (as etymologically oxymoronic as that is) already a subject?
And, after that, the article proceeds listing all the reasons why our sun, planet, and species might be very different from what you might find in other parts of the universe.

Which is actually what would make us more interesting, not less.
Ah... so those who could line up a gig in that window would be grandfathered potentially.
Even if we study ants, that doesn’t mean aliens will be able to secure enough funding to launch an expedition across the gulf of space to study humans up close. Telescopes and radio waves may be the most they could invest in.
What bothers me quite a bit, both in more-or-less scientific conversations and in Science Fiction, is that we virtually always assume a human-like psychology for aliens, and we judge what they may want or not based on our thinking. Even when we think about potentially highly advanced aliens, we still assume they'll have a psychology similar to ours, and they'll just be more advanced technologically (ie. the aliens and ants analogy).

Eventually, I did find some cases in Science Fiction, and one in particular stands out as far as I am concerned: the alien entity named Rorschach and the smaller entities named Scramblers, in Firefall, by Peter Watts. If you are a (Hard) SF fan, you must read this one.

Another case I would mention off the top of my head would be the Formics, in Scott Orson's Card "Ender's Game" and sequels, but I think the whole idea was left mostly unexplored.

If you have other examples, please do mention them!
Haha, yes, that is so typical us programmers. We always know best and ofcourse there is a simple solution that fixes everything without even having to code a single line. But what if they enjoy the feeling of the sun on the skin while golfing? What if they are not completely blind but can see dark/light shades? This makes it much easier to keep balance.
Enjoy today at 21:21:21 on the 21st day, of the 21 year of the 21st century
San Francisco proper, perhaps. But the giant sprawl around it, not so much

Source: https://www.urbandisplacement.org/policy-tools/bay-area
Exactly the next sentence is

"Of course, it wasn’t that anyone wanted these babies to die, but doctors simply believed that they were too sick to survive."
> The grocer also promised workers receiving vaccines that they would not lose pay for missed hours from work and that it would help pay for the shots.

This is actually the more important bit. If your country is so dysfunctional as to not provide free vaccination for this, and the employee is stretched so thinly that they don't have time to get it without losing pay, then both of these are required.
Two programmers walk up to the bar. The first one orders a beer. "Sure. And for you?" says the bartender to the second one. The second programmer replies, "Thanks, I'll have a"

The bartender waits a minute for him to finish. He asks the first one, "What's wrong with your friend?" The programmer replies, "He's a Haskell programmer. He's waiting for you to bring him his drink before he finishes ordering it."
The Oregon Medicaid expansion didn’t reach this conclusion. On balance people were happier because of lower stress, and people with diabetes were better served, but there wasn’t a huge macro effect of cost reduction via early intervention.

We already know the thing about diabetes, to the point that even private insurance companies will throw money at compliance because it’s cheaper than care. Outside that, vaccinations, and maybe a few more specific cases, the conventional wisdom of early intervention saves money is false.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Medicaid_health_exper...
Interesting. Wan-to did such things, a plasmatic being which lives ib a star, via author Fredrick Pohl. The World at the End of Time.

I wonder, did the author of the study read, then postulate?
I know nothing, so this instead is my theory:

The universe is a VM alike smalltalk.

What you have now, is the action of the chain of actions of the past.

The VM of now is done.

You travel back.

Arrive at the VM of the past, WITH THE STATE of the past.

You mutate state. It work as expected, you die.

But in the STATE of now, you are alive.

When the time traveler exit the VM, the VM go nowhere. It already happened now, but ONLY "remember" the changes of IT, not of the OTHER vm.

Assorted musings:

For a short time, the universe get splitted(?)

The STATE run on RAM, and that is why it not "push to the future" because is NOT persisted?

The universe is multi-core, and time travel is possible because unused computation time that is assigned to the past VM when suddenly it get awakened?

If the STATE is not persisted (to make all this work), how this make sense at all? Or it have snapshots (backup) and you load for a moment the past?
I look at these explorations as eliminating concepts that don’t work, bringing you closer to finding the one that does; necessary investment
Either your customers were jerks, or you set the expectations wrong. Everyone understand flying is not always deterministic, usually completely outside the airlines control. If the meeting were important enough, why not fly the day before?
Thank you for the response.

I am not the original commenter, but compensation was also my first thought and worry. Regardless, I still filled out the form and look forward to speaking to someone from your team.

The reality is that hiring is hard. It is doubly hard when you don't have a name brand company, and doubly hard again when you are not VC-backed and can't pay salaries competitive to those companies.

We're a tech company on our way to becoming independently owned again (after a small angel round many years ago), and bootstrap our growth according to revenue. This fact leads us to be very fiscally conservative (especially for a startup). A consistent pain point for us has been the fact that we need engineers to take on larger (or more) projects, but we can't afford them (they'd cost more than a project would bring), but we also can't take on these projects without more engineers, so we've been in a holding pattern unwilling to pull the trigger for quite awhile.

I presume this is not a new story to you. This situation is the only reason we cannot hire locally, we literally cannot afford it.
That bites, it doesn't make sense in a bit.
Delays are often a function of bad onboarding and offboarding procedures. Finding new ways to speed up boarding without ruining the customer experience might well be related to improvements in punctuality.

> you will often spend more time in the plane on the ground than actually flying

I used to fly reasonably often at various stages and I've not really noticed much of that, maybe it's dependent on airport or country. A lot of those factors are outside of the airline's control. TBH those times would probably be just fine if only people were allowed to move from their seats a bit or use their electronics and seat-tables, which is something airlines should probably allow.
This is the same annoyance when you see somebody say:

It cost 10X less if we use 'Y' over 'Z'.

My brain always short circuits and says "I think they mean it costs 1/10th...."

"There was a 5 times decease in crime..."
uggh, just give me the damn numbers. Is crime now at 1/20th the previous level???

I know they are telling us it's less, and I don't even care about the story; but i waste brain power trying to grok what they really mean.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/10/09/the-score
This is linked in OP, but gives very slightly more detail around how the score was actually popularized, and what Apgar's career looked like. (Plot twist, she wasn't "just" a practicing anesthesiologist, but the founder and head of a whole new Anesthesiology dept. at Columbia) I think the short version is that she published a paper in 1953, and managed to get obstetricians using the scale in a competitive spirit, but I am still curious about how it was marketed (just publishing a paper is rarely enough to get something publicized, afaik).

She also carried around a scalpel and tubing for giving passers-by emergency airways (tracheotomy?), and apparently did so over a dozen times.
Are you OK with the use of 'decimated'?
Cognitive Decline Reversed in Mice
A: Have you heard about the object-oriented way to become wealthy?

B: No

A: Inheritance!
His argument is predicated on the antiquated assumption that ISP customers can be provisioned primarily as "internet consumers". The adoption of virtual meetings has exposed this notion to be the fallacy it is.
I don't expect "one husband, multiple wives" style polygamy, but a de-facto "stud" or "babydaddy" system might come about.

At the socioeconomic high end that could involve intermediation by sperm banks; it could even be a standard part of your corporate benefits package. More commodification. Women select donors on the basis of style-setting op-ed pieces. "Autists" somewhere on the Internet figure out how to get rich by shorting futures contracts for celebrity semen.

It is also worth remarking that a surprising percentage of women now have never had a sexual experience, even at a surprisingly late age. You could call it a kind of accidental capitalist monasticism, with "startup accelerator" as nunnery (all wrapped in the language of empowerment of course, same as in Xinjiang). With effective branding, commercial sperm could give them the option, as they start to get older, to produce children without having to (belatedly learn how to) form relationships.

This would then also create a market for child care apps, and for nannies to work in the colorful facilities.
I just assume that space is filled with enough junk that you cannot actually get between stars without getting hit by random chance and destroyed.
Sounds like all of this and more would be solved by more competition at the carrier level.
There's nothing funny about programming!

Okay, that said... some showing my age jokes:

Q: How can you tell COBOL programmer from other programmers?
A: They're the ones with the stubby fingers

Q: How is Halloween and Christmas the same?
A: Because OCT 30 = DEC 25! (Octal, Decimal....groan)

but don't listen to me, go to /r/ProgrammerHumor

It's early and I haven't had enough coffee
I would actually venture so far as to say that the purpose is to not run an operating system. Programming i/o intensive stuff that has to work in real time, on a computer with an OS can be hard, especially for a beginner. The OS "gets in the way" if you will.

A useful approach for applications that need an OS is to run the OS on a regular computer, and connect it to a microcontroller that handles your custom i/o tasks. Connect them via USB or wireless.
Great ideas, and a road paved with good intentions.

A lot of people have been down this road before, and it doesn't end well for the users.

At least your lawyers are happy.
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I'm increasingly of the completely unresearched, lay- and baseless opinion that the great filter explanation has a fair bit of merit. Not so much from the idea that civilisations create their own destruction before they get off their rocks because of a technological race condition, but rather that intelligence as we see it is a knife-edge balancing act, and humankind is near to the maxima of ability as a result of intelligence.

If humans were a little less intelligent or a little less social, I don't think we'd have seen nearly the same the scientific advancement we have achieved. We'd either be unable to come up with the advancements, or too tribal to come together to benefit from collaboration. This would have a knock-on effect and I don't think we would've ended up in a situation where we're capable of rocketing out of our gravity well.

Conversely, it wouldn't surprise me at all if a hypothetical creature with more intelligence than us found itself too burdened by its intelligence - by way of wrestling with the philosophical challenges of existence - and ended up wiping itself out. Alternatively, I could easily believe that the biological foundations of what produces intellect quickly end up producing side-effects that inhibit achieving outcomes.

For example, we all-too-often see incredibly bright people struggle with depression, etc. due to their intellect. It feels like intellect itself might lead to additional struggles that are self-defeating. Moreover, neurodevelopmental conditions such as ASD seem to correlate to some degree with intelligence, with more extreme cases quickly become limiting. It sort of seems like intellect itself could become too overwhelming and quickly begin to put a handbrake on a species' development.

Additionally, human brains are incredibly expensive. We use about 20% of our total energy intake to power them. These days that's easy to handle, but a super-brain with even a bit higher energy requirement might quickly cause a species to struggle to find enough energy in its early era, before it's had a chance to really develop all of that scientific advancement that leads the surplus of to modern food production.

I mean, I am pretty much entirely talking out of my arse here and have no formal or informal education by which to really lend any credence to this hypothesis. Additionally, I totally realise that evolutionary pressures would tend towards these outcomes over time. However, evolution isn't exactly a precision tool, and so it would not surprise me that among many rolls of the 'intelligent life' dice, many burn themselves out due to not striking that balance well enough.

I'd love to hear from anyone who has a more informed take on this.
> When weighing the risks involved in interactions with less-developed cultures such as ours, these advanced civilizations may choose to refrain from contact.

I think establishing communication with a more advanced civilization would be deeply disrupting to our culture. We would ascribe their cultural practices to their advancement, and get a bunch of people doing "alien cargo culting". Imagine they were strict vegetarians, or peaceful and kind meat eaters for that matter. It would completely disrupt our own evolution by injecting foreign memes into our culture.

You can also reverse the situation and suppose we are able to visit an alien planet where we find a rudimentary civilization which has customs that appear exotic to us. What would the experts recommend? The cynic would say we would go at war with them to take over their planet, but being realistic it is much more advantageous to study them without interfering. I think the evolution of conscious life in different conditions than our own planet must be of tremendous interest to other conscious life.
One is really missing to me: how she convinced others to use the scoring system?
No, it sounds like you picked out a quote to make an edgy comment as you left out the very next sentence.

>Of course, it wasn’t that anyone wanted these babies to die, but doctors simply believed that they were too sick to survive.

i.e., they didn't want to prolong suffering.
But if alien life is common, a reasonably likely outcome is that one species gains dominance and eliminates all other potential threats in the galaxy. In that case, we wouldn't see visitors if just that one species was incurious.
That's basically what asteroid science is. It's such a big field that we're even sending probes to collect rocks.
Greenfeld comes perilously close to independently discovering Hayek. Local, specialized knowledge is essential, and is one of the hardest features to scale, if it's possible at all.

Also, this reminds me of stories about Soviet manufacturing quotas[1]:

> The Soviet Union was the largest producer of shoes in the world. It was turning out 800 million pairs of shoes a year–twice as many as Italy, three times as many as the United States, four times as many as China. Production amounted to more than three pairs of shoes per year for every Soviet man, woman, and child.

> The problem with shoes, it turned out, was not an absolute shortage. It was a far more subtle malfunction. The comfort, the fit, the design, and the size mix of Soviet shoes were so out of sync with what people needed and wanted that they were willing to stand in line for hours to buy the occasional pair, usually imported, that they liked.

Or even more ridiculous[2]:

> But probabably the most outrageous malfunction of the system was of a factory that fabricated metal products. It had a quota for scrap metal for recycling. The factory was operating more efficiently than expected so it was not generating as much scrap as expected. Since the factory was not meeting its scrap metal quota the higher authorities were going to fine it. So the factor personnel did what to them was rational. They took perfectly good zinc metal sheets and converted them into scrap to fulfill their scrap metal quota.

When looking at large organizations through the lens of information problems, one realizes that Amazon, Google, Walmart et al. all exist on continuum along with the Soviet Union or even the US Government.

[1]https://www.econlib.org/archives/2009/09/soviet_shoes.html

[2]https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/stalinmodel.htm
It can't possibly mean anything, because it isn't possible. I say this as someone who has been very much "into" this stuff for decades, I have studied scores of religions, practices and philosophies, and have become somewhat good at some of these things. The more I learn, the more I realise that "lack of desire" is just as extreme (and misguided) as the western-style obsession with desire.

My conclusion is this: desire is the fundamental force driving all of life. It's foolish to fight it. Embrace it. But only after you've realised that you are NOT it.
> I'm sure I'm not the only person on this forum that has a casual interest in observing ants

From Wikipedia for "ant":
"More than 12,500 of an estimated total of 22,000 species have been classified."

From our human perspective, we are interested in ants. Everybody has seen ants. Everybody is curious about ants.

From an ant perspective, humans scarcely exist. There are 10,000 ant species that don't have a relationship with humans sufficient to deserve classification, let alone a name.

(I also want to wonder aloud why extra-terrestrials would be more interested in humans than in ants)
The "Three Body Problem" trilogy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel) ) makes an argument for why the behaviour of an intelligent species is going to mimic humans (or more accurately, humans' behaviour converge towards a universal set of behaviour - one of survival of the fittest). I don't want to spoil the books so i won't discuss any further, but worth a think about if you have read the books.
I don't know as much about Turing Pi, which is referenced in the article, but I do know about running Raspberry Pi devices as IoT/edge devices using Amazon Greengrass and a problem we're running into more and more is microSD cards becoming corrupt. The answer for now is to spring for "premium" microSD cards but it would be nice if there was a version of the Pi with SSD on the board. We don't need a ton of storage on our edge Pi devices, we just need them to not fail because of a corrupt microSD card.
Benefits over signal:

* Does not require a phone number

* (related) more tractable on non-phone devices

* Does not use GCM.

* Interface is smoother (subjective)

* Has 'work' mode allowing for enterprise use

Drawbacks over signal:

* Has a non-zero price, so uptake is embarrassingly low. Embarrassing for humanity that is. I've struggled to get well paid professionals to cough up the €4. There is some mental block beyond 'free', yet these same people decry WA's privacy changes.

I think signal was right to use GCM,for the general audience, but I personally would like to avoid it where possible. I use both apps, which in itself is a boon.

Feel free to reach out, my Threema ID is in my profile. Would love to create a HN group to test the group features at scale.
Solarleaks.net Was Updated
Submitting http://solarleaks.net/ itself redirects to a past thread[1] from eight days ago. Since then though, the site has been updated.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25754895
The main thing Samsung provides Apple is their iPhone displays, but they’ve also supplied chips in the past (I’m not sure about now).
It's hard to be sure what a 10 or 100 million year old civilisation might still find interesting. I certainly wouldn't think a few hundred years of industrialisation, and a few decades of the information technology age gives us any real idea.
I was absolutely delighted to discover that on EasyJet (European budget airline) the seats do not recline!

Not reclining my own seat is a very small price to pay for not having the guy in front recline his. I couldn't believe more airlines don't do that, it's so freaking obvious.
Don’t make me Google, fool.
"the government did this". This is a perfect example of how brainwashed Americans are about 'government is the problem' they will gloss over unethical medical malpractice by professionals and blame 'the government' instead of being a little introspective about why a shitty unethical culture like this is not only allowed to continue but in fact expected. Its as if citizenship is some archaic ideal from a long-gone era to be replaced with rational utilitarianism where every actor is cynically out to screw over everyone else. and in the next sentence, as if aiming to create the perfect non sequitur, bemoan why 'management by metrics' does not work
This makes me think that one possible reason we havent observed any alien life is that similar to how we may avoid any sort of development or encroachment in an area containing an endangered species, we may have been marked off as too fragile to interact.

And humans are an incredibly fragile species from the perspective of a space faring civilization. If a meteor hits our planet, we are basically done. And even if that doesn't happen, we can only acquire raw materials and energy from our own planet, so we may basically just tap out all our resources before we learn to acquire it from somewhere else.

And then there is the fact that we love blowing each other up, which may not be a common trait amongst intelligent species.
I’ve attempted to read The Sound and the Fury twice over the years: once giving up part way through Benjy's section, and the second time tapping out shortly after finishing it. Very validating to read that even the editor mentioned here found it tremendously confusing!
> Why do we assume extraterrestrials might want to visit us?

Because it makes good sci-fi!

But in all seriousness, we have so little tangible evidence of extraterrestrial life that there's no way to answer this question. It always comes down to opinion and speculation.
How can I contact you? I've some doubts
I've been advised by my lawyers to avoid your software.