skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I have already mentioned, even a nuclear warfare-ridden Earth is much much much more habitable than anything else in the Solar system. And frankly, with current tendencies we will simply not live to see the day where living on another planet becomes a possibility, that’s just fantasy.

Also, I don’t really see how “saving” the top 100 billionaires is a good thing. Unless the spacecraft explodes with them onboard or something...
You are reversing it. We didn't go to the moon to create/improve hearing aids.

But it was an effort that cost X amount of dollars, and since then it has helped 20-50-100 (?) million people globally to have a better life, go shopping, talk with friends and loved ones, listen to music, etc.

Not everything is about being profitable on day1. But if we do put a price tag to everything.. think of the jobs/profits/dividends/taxes created by the "hearing aids" industries. We now have 20-50-100 (?) million people that are 'more' integrated to society. That generates money to recover the 'losses' of the moon efforts.

https://www.fortunebusinessinsights.com/industry-reports/hea...

-The global hearing aids market size was $6.47bn in 2020.

If you run this number for the past 30-40-50 years, it adds up. And now add the $bn that the (hearing aids) users contribute to the global economy by integrating more/better to society.

I see this as a win-win. We explored the moon. We improved people's lives here on earth.
But they do have PyTorch support??? They ship a 'cerebras graph compiler' extension for pytorch that allows you to replace the default optimizer with theirs.
Do you say the same thing when someone wants to make a movie, produce a video game, buy a sports team, start a social network, and so on?

Why does this criticism always get levied against the Mars vision, which at least will have positive side effects like new tech, a lower risk of being exterminated by an asteroid, and something aspirational that we can look up to.

I feel as though the anti-Mars thing is a meme that has gone around social media and people are just uncritically buying into that frame. Where's the anti-movies movement or the anti-sports teams movement?
I've been looking for something like this myself for years. I would love to have a HN for electronics and automotive. Problem is both of those industries are quite closed and do not have large groups of their participants online, as with SW. I get industry news internally from our organization, there is unfortunately no online source for it.
Stocks (Google, Apple, Amazon, Tesla) and cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, Monero, Handshake).
Obviously "competitive sport" is a continuum in this sense. And clearly, LeBron James places in a very artificial environment. By design, the NBA is a league where millionaire players are serfs without a say in where they live, and where poorly managed teams get rewarded by high draft picks. It's great for the people who designed it. But those people are not the fans.

Now, naturally, "fans" is a bit different concept in North America, as they're typically peons who start cheering for their newly relocated team because they have a funny logo.
Would you say the same about free TV's ads coming mid-program? Or newspapers you actually buy that still contain ads? How would such a trade be done upfront in your opinion?

In a way, you are the one coming to PLATFORM (site, newspaper, TV program), so don't come back maybe, but don't tell PLATFORM whether they can out a distracting vase at the entrance, or ads on the sidebar, or a distracting ticker at the bottom of the screen.
It has not aged well for ascii characters, especially for texts like English where the letter “e” is abundant enough to make it likely that your average jump would be 6, less than the 64-bit fetch.

It can still be used to find a substring of 100 64-bit values in a much longer 64-bit string, but ... it’s a problem I never encountered (and only encountered a 16-bit version of it once in my life). Then again, if you use 32-bit for each Unicode character and have a lot of emojis, it might still be somewhat competitive with brute force.
I often wonder what could happen if you mind your own business and let Elon mind his own business. Everyone mind their own business. Then if have the ability to mind your own business, you can choose to do something that would radically change earth, like fusion energy.

It's so easy to spend other people's money on your behalf.
It's also about the destination. People seem to forget that an asteroid could kill us at any moment. Of course, climate change is more pressing, but that doesn't mean we should invest 0 percent of our energy into the asteroid risk.
It’ll be interesting watching it play out over the next five or ten years.

We can’t be far from having a critical mass of people who realize all the stuff they’ve been eye-rolling at or downvoting is actually true, and then acting like they discovered something new. Half the time I’m just parroting people older than me. More field correspondent than discoverer.
Almost all human interaction is in some way trying to persuade you to choose something that you might otherwise not. When I ask my wife "Shall we play a board game?" I'm in some way doing the same thing. That's not evil.

Advertising is not inherently evil.

When it becomes evil is when it intentionally tries to deceive us, capture and processe insane amounts of information about us, and influence the display of information for its own ends. If I did that to my wife, it wouldn't be OK.
Really, the production of technology that helps Earth has been the only benefit of our adventures in space since the 1960s. Nobody lives on the moon, and nobody will live on Mars either. But the exercise of getting there produced many benefits and advances in technology that are useful here on Earth.
Hi moonchild,

- The license will evolve to a full open source project once a certain degree of maturity will be reached.

- Yes PUC Lua because it's the reference. I won't go to the debate LuaJIT vs PUC Lua. Maybe a LuaJIT version could be released too in the future.

- Yes Lua has all the tools to do OOP, but it's not available out of the box for newcomers. That permits to inherit and extend the LuaRT provided Objects (File, Directory, Socket...)

- Yes Windows specific: Lua support on this platform is very poor and depends a lot on binary modules that must be compiled by hand, which can be a true nightmare on Windows for newcomers.

Regards,
Very nice! Great for junior sysadmins, or people wanting to get into that kind of work.

Discovering that the target machine is hosted on AWS halfway through reminds me of previous gigs .. revealing essential information about the infrastructure along the way.
IMO, pointers are less difficult to comprehend than other abstractions, like lambdas are.

If you know how to walk down a street and stop at the right street number, then you have used pointers. And if you've ever observed that one tall building may "cover" a range of street numbers, such as 200-220, then you should understand how to move from one 4-byte "value" to the next in an array in memory.

Anyway, many more analogies... probably better than this one.

Maybe unions could make using pointers a bit more challenging, but again, tall buildings next to short buildings and so on. We do this kind of pointer calculation in real life.
The research necessary to make a better hearing aid (improved batteries, noise cancelling circuitry, miniaturization of electronics, etc) cost billions. I imagine it was inevitable that the research would have happened eventually, but it would have taken longer and it would have been patented and expensive to license. It's very likely that the hearing aid industry wouldn't have had the resources to buy in the necessary tech to make a cost effective product until several decades later than it has. They might not even have done it by now if we hadn't reached the moon.

It's all speculation of course, but if you look at the rate of technological advancement pre-Moon landings compared to post-Moon landings, it does look a lot like the Apollo programme was an inflection point.
ETFs for retirement fund.
And I will likely get downvoted into oblivion like every time I mention crypto on HN, but crypto. It's the only way I've found to hold cash (in stablecoins) and receive above inflation yield.
Any possible Mars effort is dwarfed by the huge amount of bullshit we do otherwise. There are lots of very bright people working in the Finance industry. In another world they would be perfectly capable of doing physics, engineering etc. Even the people who are engineers right now mostly work on bullshit consumer crap. Don't get me started about ad tech. This list goes on and on. There's lots of people who would have been capable of a STEM jobs or even basic research, but landed in some other bullshit job for whatever reason.
I refuse to believe that we are using our resources wisely.
And about materials, there is no technical reason that one needs to replace a phone every two years. Unrepairable bluetooth headsets. IoT crap. Cars that let you browse twitter...
I see a lot of people taking about the network effects of imessage and how there is the "blue vs. green" bubble stigma. I think this may be a pretty American perspective. From my limited experience in Europe (admittedly in a more international region) everyone just uses WhatsApp. I also know in India everyone uses WhatsApp to text. Maybe the imessage tie in is useful in the US (which is admittedly probably Apple's primary market) but I'm not sure how much it carries over to other countries.
I think the correct analogy would be that there's a corner in the screen where advertisement is playing constantly while whatever show you're watching runs.
Obviously the advertisement is going to distract you from time to time, and you won't have your full attention on the show.
I don’t know what to say. I think you are extremely zoomed in here on a free chess website haha.
Tbh I think four year into your adult life is quite a short amount of time to start claiming you’re from there. Maybe it’s cultural, but in America/Mexico or Europe that’d come off very strange and probably be met with eye rolls.

I think you’re affording far too much into the question- they probably just want to know where you were born.

But do you- nothing wrong with following the beat of your own drum.
Spend it immediately so it dosent lose value. (I’m joking but just saying index ETFs is boring)
FEI Tribunal imposes 10-year suspension on US Jumping athlete
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Yeah. This is a ridiculous story by the BBC - it says the car can easily be tricked and then doesn't explain how. Surely that is the primary set of facts that are needed to evaluate the story?
Can you please work with us for equity or until we raise some money?
I've enjoyed this guide a number of times but each time I hit a brick wall trying to understand pointers. I'm still keen to learn but it just doesnt 'click' for me...

Edit: poor grammar
They don't have to be.

Let me do some advertising right now. Daniel Naroditsky's twitch stream is amazing. Go watch 'em https://www.twitch.tv/gmnaroditsky

(If you're into chess, you almost certainly already know about him.)

He also gets into feuds with Hikaru and won't shut up about him for some reason nowadays, and is constantly on a soapbox, but whatever. The chess is fun to watch.

Now, if you saw a banner ad for that on lichess, would you really feel awful about it? I mean, that's a fine perspective, but I'm of the opinion of "just shovel all the content in front of me and let me pick out what I like." It works wonderfully on YouTube's recommendation algorithm.

But of course, your feelings are justified for modern ads as currently implemented. Mobile games are just a complete horror fest now. (It was delightful to discover Cardinal Quest 2, since every aspect of the game can be played without paying a cent or seeing an ad. It's more or less "chess, but with monsters.")
We do know when will it happen, and definitely not anywhere close to reasonable care about it. We have much much much more urgent things to worry about. Hell, space invasion by aliens is a bigger threat than the goddamn Sun.
Isn't this effectively what is happening when a major media outlet writes a piece about how $SocialMediaCompany has a racist/sexist "bro" culture or allows racist/sexist $SocialMediaCeleb on their platform? As much as I dislike social media, a lot of these attacks have been made with only minimal substantive claims, so it seems like the real goal is to delegitimize (sabotage) the upcoming/ competing businesses.
In France that's a reasonable salary for an experienced engineer.

I agree it's low for someone running the whole show, but then he is doing it as a non-profit.

Tech salaries in the US are really high compared to RoW, even once CoL is taken into account.
right, and what im learning now that what youre actually doing is throwing your money at an autonomous smart contract, which for some reason, seems less crazy
Yes, almost infinite energy could be quite useful against a comet strike.
being a part of a financial pyramid
These algorithms are such a joy for me to code. Much more fun than the whole enterprise application work most of us 'developers' are stuck with.
Coming from a Perl background I do love regex but this is just the wrong use for it.

1. Those expressions fall down on a number of edge cases (eg heredocs / string literals)

2. It is actually perfectly reasonable to have non-ASCII inside source code because these days it's increasingly common for compilers to assume source it UTF8 and, frankly, English isn't the first language for most of the speaking world so it's rude of us to assume all comments and quoted strings should be in English.

3. There's already multiple code formatters for nearly every language out there and they take tokenised versions of your source (ie will take into account stuff like the string literals I mentioned earlier). You're far better off picking whatever code formatter is considered (de facto) standard for your language and using that. They come with the additional benefit that they don't just highlight formatting faux pas but they can also enforce style guidelines.
We only have a couple of years of emissions left to roll out the necessary technology if we want a fighting chance to stay below 2° of warming. We're not doing anywhere near enough to achieve that goal. I think some panic is quite justified.
For those in the big tech scene...it's not so weird to have technology in farm equipment. In fact, I just listened to a podcast about a software developer who had spent time working for the welding division of caterpillar where they worked on some R&D problems over the last 40 years that are still not solved.
It's just as likely that an asteroid could kill Mars. And the worst climate change we could imagine is still a picnic compared to the climate on Mars.
They already have, though the marketing is subtle. [1][2]

[1] https://www.apple.com/icloud/

[2] https://developer.apple.com/icloud/cloudkit/
The PMBOK is in it's 6th Edition with a 7th expected this year. It is also a 756 page document at the moment.

I look forward to seeing the SWEBOK also improve over time.

Also, I'm not sure why some of the comments fail to acknowledge the benefit of having a collection of best practices intended to be tailored for each individual use case. That's what the PMBOK is and how it is used when used properly.
Uh, $55k a year is not cheap! What world... Ok, it's late, I'll hold back the rest of my words. :)

I think you were saying it's cheap relative to the impact it has. I agree. But "holy hell that's expensive" is an entirely accurate reaction for someone who wants to fund it out of pocket.

(Gwern covers our TPU/ML infrastructure costs for around $350/mo, and I wince that I wasn't able to optimize it cheaper.)
Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies
There are solutions for this - i.e. social wallets.

https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/11/recovery.html
Sure, it's up the founder of course. I think the they've created enough value to deserve that money for themselves and to use in any way they see fit though.

Maybe that would be putting it back into Lichess when they retire or maybe after 10 years they decide they want to work on something else and they live off that money to do so.
Perhaps one reason for using a single model of chip for everything is because the design costs for a 5nm SoC are estimated to be ~$500 million.

For comparison, revenue for Apple Mac computers in 2020 was ~$30 Billion. https://www.statista.com/statistics/263428/apples-revenue-fr...
Why are you even offering a compromise when they aren't interested? There's plenty of ways for an organization like Lichess to raise funds, the ones that don't claim your attention or fuck your privacy over. Even sponsored links to e.g. chess books as mentioned elsewhere 'leak' data, they contain a referral link, linking that user's visit of the website to (e.g.) their Amazon account. Plus it would be a pittance compared to what Amazon makes off it.

IF they need money they can open up a fundraiser or donation channel.
Fusion power is not free. It's probably quite expensive compared to other power sources.
Thanks, that's obviously the problem
> Many people don’t regard “you’ll be in pain and then forget” as the same as “no pain.”

This makes perfect sense to me. Forgetting the pain is nice for future-me, but doesn't do anything for current-me. There will be a period where I am in pain and am aware of it. Forgetting it later is good for your mental health presumably, but forgetting something doesn't erase it from existence.
Barcelona’s ownership model is weaker than Real or Juventus: directors depend on actual club member-owners who can vote them out. As such, they are forced to keep an ear to the ground - which is why the Barça top-man, Juan Laporta, negotiated an extra clause in their ESL contract to subordinate their joining to popular acceptance via a vote. Hence why they kept a low profile: Laporta got back on top only two months ago, after the previous board was basically kicked out in disgrace; he’s still too weak to make big waves.

In theory Real Madrid has similar constraints, but Florentino Perez, over the years, has developed an iron grip that is very hard to remove (he can/could guarantee massive loans from friends in the banking system, which are then used to buy the “galactico” players that members crave).

The Agnelli/Elkann family owns Juventus outright. As far as I know, no Italian club has “democratic” elements - a few are publicly floated but most are just private businesses.
Having dissected probably hundreds of literary works in school, including "notice how the sentence breaks", I have very high tolerance against questions like "do you think it's a coincidence"? 25 years ago I could write a four-page essay on this poem alone without breaking a sweat (4 pages was a requirement to pass graduation exams).

So yes, this style actually could be a coincidence: anything from subconsciously or consciously emulating a style to just stumbling into this form to being a bad poet to having too much fun with punctuation to...

Also, in this particular case there are literally only two sentences that don't break at punctuation point, and I do think this is not entirely intentional. Call this a feeling :)

> In Russia in particular there is a common view that poetry should: - rhyme - have a flowing rhythm - be very literal/descriptive

This is definitely true. Free verse is a relatively rare beast. Here's an example from Alexander Blok [1]. And look, it also has break at both punctuation and in the middle of a sentence hmmmm ;)

[1] https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Свободный_стих#Примеры
One analogy I’ve used to teach pointers is to think of them as phone numbers. They’re an identifier used to get ahold of something that you might not otherwise know exactly where it is. If you call my number, I’ll pick up. But if I transfer my number to someone else, that doesn’t mean anything happened to me personally. That number is just not pointing to new anymore.
Everything we've seen in nature is like this, so it's impossible for us to do anything different. That's so clearly wrong, you must be actively trying to invent any excuse that sounds superficially like logic. Even the facts are wrong. Hydroponic plants thrive in a very artificial environment.
Stocks, bonds and real estate. Beating inflation is not that hard.
Crypto is way too risky for my tastes.
> Ads are an attack on our attention.

That may well be true, but let me tell you a story.

I recently got into binge watching some old TV shows I enjoyed as a kid, like What's My Line and a few others. But most of the YouTube copies have the commercials stripped out!

The few videos that have the old commercials are a blast. The Remington Rand Univac Electronic Brain. The Remington Rand Shaver! And as we all know, 9 out of 10 doctors recommend Camels.

Flintstones fan? How about Fred and Barney sneaking out back to smoke some Winstons while Wilma and Betty mow the lawn.

I wonder which of today's web ads will achieve the cultural significance of these old classics?
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> if you figure out a way to make Mars habitable - you can figure out disaster handling scenarios for any cataclysm caused by global warming.

If a cataclysm on Earth ever makes inhabiting it even remotely as hard as making Mars habitable, then we've already lost. Besides, the challenges are so different that I don't see what one has to do with the other.
I'm not talking about entitlement. But this guy is really good at multiple things. SRE, frontend, backend, project management etc. He could probably earn twice as much working a normal job, and even more for the right company.

He don't want to. And maybe don't want/need to earn more. And that is completely fine. But his impact is huuuge. I'd wish more people did like him. But I don't think many will, because those skilled enough to make something similar would rather work for a higher salary.

So it's more a sigh from me, that I'd wish more people would be able to sustain making and giving away something great like this, without having to sacrifice money. Why should optimizing ad clicks give you millions, but making this only thousands?

You know, in the same way there often are discussions here about making open source income viable. It would be better for everyone if these unsung heroes got more than just praise. Then others would follow suit.
That's missing the point. Our probability of going extinct by asteroid just got approximately squared (in practice, that's the upper bound) if we have a self sustaining colony outside of Earth.

That's a dramatic reduction in that specific existential risk.

If we remain only on Earth then we have the unsquared probability to face which isn't all that small.
One of the big reasons the M1 is so fast is its RAM is on-die. Latency and throughput to memory are dramatically better and you don't have to drive those long traces, saving power as well. Servers need to scale to memory sizes in the terabyte range. Apple will need a new design that uses conventional memory before they can go after the big workstation market, let alone server.
I think in general it was much harder and more surprising for Susan G Komen to become what it has than for YouTube to become what it has.

You can set up a non-profit, making it easier to accept money and adding friction to commercial entities trying to buy you out. Of course then have to chase operating expenses forever. You do well enough, you can set up a trust or endowments to operate in part off of investment profits, and now you don’t have to worry about one big donor trying to name everything after himself or twisting the mandate to their worldview.

Humans can screw anything up given enough time, but if your idea is good enough for copycats, then if your successors fail to keep the spirit of your goals alive, one of the imitators most likely will.