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As Stephen Hawkings and Neil deGrasse Tyson have quipped, in Earth’s history, any time a more technologically advanced civilization has come across a less technologically advanced civilization, it has never ended well for the less technologically advanced civilization.

Any hypothetical which places a group of extraterrestrials capable of interstellar travel on Earth is fundamentally a catastrophe. It’s a lot like discussing an imminent asteroidal impact.

There is absolutely no reason to believe any human-extraterrestrial contact would end well for humanity. If anything, I’d expect it to be like playing a chess game against an AGI where the loser gets “terminated”.

Anyway, the basic human need to expediently file away all low likelihood ideas into the deep recesses of the brain, never to be examined; the proliferation of general con artistry rooted in financial desperation; and the immense social stigma attached to the pursuit keep people from contemplating the potential of extraterrestrial intelligence. None of those are an especially good reason.
Yeah ancient folks were still smart. Engineers and scientists of all sorts still. I think people often give way too much weight to intelligence, and not enough to just tools.

Give a dude in 1000 a voltmeter and things get crazy.
First of all having a negative interest rate is exceptional and this is not true for most of the banks in most of the world. Also there are of course more ways to use cash than to spend it, save it in banks or save it in cash. You could for instance hoard gold or invest in stock instead.
This is great. In your experience, what % of companies simply pay the 80% for a 4 day week versus 100% of normal 5-day/week salary (i.e. no salary drop)?
To give comparative numbers, in my experience Cython yields 900% speedup.
as both a Scala and Clojure polyglot I would pick Clojure over Scala every single time, the Clojure REPL development style alone puts Scala behind.

Scala and SBT is a nightmare, I don't want to touch it ever again.

With Clojure you are done before Intellij has even rebuilt your indexes /s.
There are various bottlenecks (harvesting capacity, environmental regulations forbidding harvesting in over half the year, sawmill capacity, transport capacity) that make the market very weird: If you have the capacity to harvest, you can get "pluck it yourself"-lumber really really cheap. In regions where sawmills are at capacity, you can get timber very very cheap (currently basically everywhere). But harvesting machine rent and labour as well as sawing are extremely expensive, as are sawed products.
Holy shit I've never seen the full video before. It's so much more chilling then the 20s clip.
The sub-conscious thoughts float away for me whenever I sit at my desk again so I've decided to take, this is corny, but I just take voice notes or any kind of notes, no matter how small the thoughts on my idea are. I later review those notes, write the best ones down in ClickUp/Notion and well, make a feature timeline for them.
Which is a bit circular, because Pierre’s last name is a reference to the region that speaks that language, since he was born in neighboring Occitanie.
Pharma industry fears Biden’s patent move sets dangerous precedent
Then, what are you arguing? Why does it even actually matter if the increase in depression is recent, or not? What does that have to do with the fact that mere survival does not have to be a constant 24/7 struggle for anyone, really? And, what is your evidence we were "evolved" to do much of anything besides survive and breed? More importantly, who cares?
There's a happy medium imo. Output / value vs hours has diminishing returns over time and such:
- 4 days != 80% output (it's more like 85%)
- 3 days != 60% output (it's more like 70%)

I may be biased though as I run https://4dayweek.io/ - Software Jobs with a better work life / balance.

I wrote about the advantages of a 4 day week (for employers) here:

https://4dayweek.io/hire-engineers
In terms of marketing, Steve didn't sugar coat but he did create the most intricately crafted of savoury dishes. These dishes were still far more appetising than the ingredients had any right to. I won't comment on their nutritional value though.
The ISIS slaughter house video is stuck in my mind. Lots of orange dressed and back-tied prisoners hanging on hooks. One is on the floor and they slowly cut/grind off his head with gurgling bloody noises. I read that everyone in that room is high of drugs. Prisoners and executioner.

But then, and this makes me want to shut the borders around EU and North America and a few Asian countries, you watch some gore videos from South America and you realize that ISIS has nothing on these drug cartels.

The drug cartels are truly completely fucked in the heads. And they slowly ruin country after country. It's just a question of time before we see strong presence of US/UN military and drug deregulation(whether you want it or not) to prevent a complete collapse of those societies and the whole of South America. Or maybe I've seen too many horrible gore videos?
"Severity- 5/5, Risk 1/5. No corrective action recommended."

I imagine a lot of contentious finger pointing between quality, product, and id happening right now.
> Now if someone asks me "Hey where can I go see that thing that was taken off of Youtube" I don't have a ready answer that isn't an alt-right cesspool.

You complain about some sites being alt-right cesspools, as if being a cesspool is not bad on its own.
Judging by how most people write code today, I find this idea terrifying. I sometimes wonder if it would be better if we went back to an ancient-Roman style legal system which maximizes the human interpretive element rather than attempts to remove it.

It's already the case in many countries today that there is too much focus on the wording of the law and not enough on the intent. People try to use a rigid fixation on the importance of words to twist the law in any direction which benefits them, even in ways that don't feel right.

We risk a Kafkaesque situation.
More importantly, remove the liability waiver from these vaccine manufacturers. Then we'll see the fun.
Keep in mind, this is out of a population of 7.6 billion. Yes, lot of people die from terrible things. But the chance of someone suffering in the worst possible way (as depicted in those videos) is unlikely for most humans. That said, we could certainly do better.
5 days are fine ... if I can choose which of the five I am working. I'm a big fan of CPGrey's Wednesday concept ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALaTm6VzTBw )
All due respect, this is a neat advertisment for the "storytelling" Javascript library she is using, but I learn much more by reading W R Stevens' books. There is more to TCP/IP than what one can do through Berkeley sockets. Plus reading Stevens' books does not require Javascript.
Outsourcing Software Development: MVP, Proof of Concept, Prototyping
Are you absolutely sure you want to hold up unsubscribing from a newspaper as a bold success of government regulation? There is a lobby, politically motivated as these things may be, who argue that California's housing policy is causing immeasurable but substantial damage to the tune of much more than a NYT subscription. California has the largest net outflow of any state in America [0], although that sort of comparison is made challenging because of population differences. The point isn't specific political argument, the point is that there are really big issues to be dealt with and this isn't one. Who cares if the government gets this right or wrong? Every other state could be getting it wrong and nobody really cares. Government can't get those issues right reliably because it is too busy arguing about stuff that actually matters.

It is challenging to look at that as one of the major issues of debate and then say "well, but it gets some details right". Government isn't about details, it is dealing with a big picture. A government's success or failure isn't about the small details it doesn't screw up.

It isn't like unsubscribing unilaterally is even that hard; just stop sending the NYT money. I'm sure they'll get the message sooner or later.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
UFOs shouldn't be synonymous with alien intelligence. If anything evolved to travel through the universe, wouldn't it be logical to assume that it originated from a place where this ability was necessary for survival, e.g. the edge of a black hole? Such a life form could be quite different from our rock-bound existence. They might be closer to fish than to us.
How would a "waiver" work? Last I understood about law, a country can't take away the rights of companies (or people) without their consent or modifying the patent laws.

Or is this a matter where because it has to do with overseas patent protection, the US could decline to enforce certain agreements?

And don't companies have patent protection in every country they seek to do business anyway?
So you are saying, that I as a Web developer should just become a native app developer?

Well no, thanks.

I know that native apps are superior in performance over web apps, sure. And I certainly won't say every app has to become a pwa.

But for most simple apps, webtechnologies as a plattform are mature and performant enough.

And if you never would want to install one - thats your decision. But my decision is, that I don't want to specifically target apple technology. Just like with Microsoft, Samsung, LG, Google or whoever wants to copy apples walled garden.

I like plattform independent.
The problem was, essentially, a huge chunk of code in the middle of the browser experience that apple couldn't optimize for mobile CPUs, screens and batteries.
> ...any time a more technologically advanced civilization has come across a less technologically advanced civilization, it has never ended well for the less technologically advanced civilization.

This assumes resource competition, which isn't a guarantee. Colonialism was driven by the need for open markets, resources, and vanity satisfaction from a declining class of European elites.

It's very likely that we don't have anything that a technologically advanced civilization would actually need. In this case, the situation would be more akin to Amazon coexisting with brick and mortar coffee shops, and less like Netflix competing with video rental shops.
What's your describing is also known as "subsidizing", a term you may have seen in the headline.
The guy who got cut in half on a train platform.

lathes, printing presses, other industrial incidents.
I'm on iOS now and have a few web apps installed as apps on the home screen the same as what I had on my previous Android phone. No difference for me as a user between the two. Both hide the browser UI and add some functions that a normal website doesn't seem to be able to access.
The french fisheries minister threatened to cut off the islands electricity over the row, I think a show of force is necessary, especially a show of force to a country so adept at surrendering.
The famous mathamatician Godel was onto this some decades ago and found a loophole that allowed the American democracy to be legally turned into a dictatorship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_Loophole
Apple investing in its own development stack has become "Apple is actively crippling PWAs" for a lot of people.
Watch Yo Motherf*ckin' Enemies!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnjkM5TwTzM&ab_channel=C-Mur...

Stay strapped cause the ghetto is so wicked now.
/love/s/Snobol/Spitbol/
Intent to issue €2.5M fine to Disqus over GDPR breaches
Of course "cesspool" is bad, "alt-right cesspool" is the same amount of badness.

The reason you don't see a lot of "alt-left cesspool"s is because usually those people don't need to hide on alternative social media, as the mainstream ones are fine with alt-left people. Alt-right are the ones who are currently being fired if their opinion are being shared publicly.

Now I'm neither of those, and have no fists in the fight at all, but I also realize what the current climate is like, even though I'm hoping no one wins and eventually we can all be friends again.
They do hold back PWA's though. They could offer opt-in push notifications for example. That's the only thing I miss as a solo web developer, and the only thing the users of my websites want (functional notifications of course, not marketing).

I'm not recreating my websites in app form just to have that. But Apple sure wants me to.
AFAIK it is not possible to get access to only the URL. I think the "tabs" permission triggers the "Access your data for all websites" warning. The "tabs" permission is required to get a tabs URL and change it.

Discussion about ClearURLs permissions: https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls/-/issues/159

Extension permissions: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
Google engineers are not some demigods or mythical geniuses and people should stop thinking that. They are successful within the framework of what they know, which is mostly C and C++. None of these people have academic background in language design, and it shows.
The JVM is best in class, and has great ecosystem (with some noteable omissions).

Scala is a different beast: modern Java negates the need for a lot of it, and the community tolerance and support for bigots and abusers justifiably distances many.
There are several

The most well known is PyPy

Pyston appears to be another with a different approach
AFAIK there is Pypy that is much faster. Also, there is Numba. But the problem with Pypy is (was?) interoperability with existing C modules.
Catalá is also the name of the catalan language in catalan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language).
"Standards aren't add-ons to the web. They are the web." - Apple's HTML5 Showcase, 2010

How far they have strayed from that visionary approach to the web. Apple used to lead the pack in promoting advanced web apps. These days they are holding the web hostage to protect their App Store business model.
May I ask you what were the reasons you abandoned visual tools?
Set webgl.disabled to true if you're using Firefox.
It really isn't
NIH (a US government run institution) holds the main patents on mRNA technology.
It's a fantastic article, which also won Kathryn Schulz and the New Yorker a Pulitzer!

https://www.oregonlive.com/today/2016/04/really_big_one_puli...

https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/kathryn-schulz
LawGeex Forms ALSP to Provide Legal Services in US
The British asked 17(!) ships for evidence they fished in British waters over the last five years, and the french have responded by threatening to deprive the islands of electricity while french vessels are blockading. If that’s not petty, I don’t know what is.
> how do you find the time to build that idea out

Based on this, I'm assuming you want to build an idea that makes money first.

You need to solve a problem that's worth paying for. Easily said, of course.

The Mom Test[0] is a book about how to ask questions that are worth pursuing as a business.

> do some of the good ideas get left out?

That's the question really to focus on. Don't worry about developers or building yet - the first question to ask is - is there really a problem here?

The first step really is about a basic litmus test. What's the cheapest way to "test" the idea without a costly build? End user research, landing page with some targeted traffic,

All about getting to a few potential customers who will give you feedback.

After that, then I say start building.

If you build in a vacuum (you and some developers), you're likely to get it very wrong.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Mom-Test-customers-business-everyone-...
Java also had multi-billion dollar marketing campaigns.
The iframe sandboxing feature is better suited for this. It puts the full strength of the same-origin security policies of the browser between third party content and first party content on a domain. It has “only” been around since IE 10 or so though so it wouldn’t cover all of the golden age of flash.

It’s worth noting that Flash was actually quite hard to contain from interfering with your origin, and the main defense against this was that there were no sensitive APIs, cookies, or local data on the domains the flash was hosted from anyway.
Sorry to hear the site was slow for you. We get pretty good scores on Lighthouse and from real-world data according to https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...

What OS, browser, and connection type/speed did you use?
I understand what you're trying to imply and yes, I've noticed the search engine get crappier too especially in terms of something code-related. The top results I've been getting apart from SO/Reddit are those weird websites that crawl other blogs, replace words with their synonyms and then re-publish them automatically. That's a very bad user experience in my opinion.

Although, I won't go so far as to say that Google search engine is dying by any means given it still performs way better than other search engines out there and even though I've tried switching to Bing, Google just has more data on me and the predictive search results are a huge selling point for me.
Unknown or poorly understood physical phenomena are included in (A): "…and natural phenomena that we now poorly understand."
Because you have seen the bill before it gets paid. The bill is a precondition for the push-type transaction of sending money. Whereas with a credit card, the vendor can just pull money from the account without ever having sent a proper bill. Just like it happened to the OP. When getting money requires the vendor to get their affairs in order and send proper bills, things will get fixed quickly. When the vendor can get money anyways, things will never be fixed because there is no consequence to cashflow.
Can you blame them though? Look at Python/Ruby where even non developers can sometimes understand the code and then look at some crazy Haskell/Lisp expression.
WASM doesn’t need any sort of “static analysis” to sandbox it in this way. WASM only gets to call the functions exposed by the script that loads the WASM, so if you don’t want it to access something you can simply not bother exposing it.
Setting aside the absurdity of the claim that Apple deleting a very famous web page could ever stop it from existing, you actually have no evidence that it was deleted from anywhere—only that it is no longer being served at its prior location.
I hosted my coding environment on a VPS running FreeBSD and happen to jump between VPS provider quite a bit due to location and pricing. My migration method was simply:

$ zfs snapshot zroot/home@migrate
$ zfs send -R zroot/home@migrate | ssh newhost zfs recv zroot/home

ZFS automatic snapshots (via zfstools[1]) can also saved hours of headaches trying to recover an older version of a file. Since snapshot appears as a regular mount (ZFS even automatically expose them under /path/to/mount/.zfs/snapshot), all existing tooling just works (cp, cat, running diff against snapshot, etc.).

My Linux machine these days also runs ZFS, but the level of integration with the system is still far from that of FreeBSD's. That can range from something as simple as ZFS ARC stats in top, to native support for ZFS Boot Environment allowing the system to boot directly from snapshots or do an offline upgrade of a clone of a live system[2]. (On Linux side of things there's zfsbootmenu[3] which provides something similar but the project is still quite new.)

The filesystem may not matter that much, and I'm sure many these features can be replicated with LVM, but having a unified tooling and community around it really makes quite a difference in quality of life as an end-user.

[1]: https://github.com/bdrewery/zfstools

[2]: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2021/02/23/upgrade-freebsd-wi...

[3]: https://zfsbootmenu.org/
Most counties adopt a recent International Residential Code without modification, and the rest use it as the basis. Also, cob was approved and published in August, though it's not a very useful building method in wet places.
Doesn't really matter, waiver or not. It's not like most industries or people can go about making this vaccines themselves. That's why I sometimes laugh about these folks that what to invalidate patents and have everything in the open. If Toyota posted schematics of their trucks online, do you think, you and I could build one without throwing resources, time, and money down a toilet? I would have better luck growing my own lettuce and raising my own cows to beat McDonald's at the hamburger game.
Well, back then reality was much different. Just getting developers on board to begin with was difficult and users were reluctant to pay for apps and e-commerce in general.

Mobile devices sucked and applications sucked The promise of a phone with a little marketplace for little paid apps made by little developers empowered with good UI tools was utopian at the time. And it didn’t seem like a multi-billion dollar business until apps like Uber started proving that this was going to be a huge lifestyle change for everybody.

It really is a shame the guy is dead, I would be really curious how he would be tackling all of these issues today.
Those types of videos gave me a new fear. I've never been one to fear death, but now I fear being in severe agony where I question why I'm not dead and wish I was.

The worst I saw was one where they gouged a guy's eyes out, skinned his face, and cut off his hands and feet, and he was still alive and seemed conscious and aware.

Then there's the infamous 2-guys-1-hammer video.
All right, so you know native apps are better, but you don't care.

So you put yourself before your users.

But you don't like Apple puts themselves & their users before you.

Turns out users should side with Apple in this case...
It's archived in a thousand places. Probably a hundred times by Apple themselves. Whatever it is Apple has done, "delete" is certainly the wrong verb.
I have one counter-example for you - North Sentinel Island. This is a small island in the Indian Ocean where people live who are completely isolated from the rest of the world and as such are probably the least technologically advanced civilization on earth. They're able to remain this way because it's generally been agreed that we should leave them alone (you can't go within 5 nm, of the island) but India does try to keep an eye on them from afar, presumably in case some catastrophic event occurs that would otherwise result in their demise.

So while I agree that the most likely outcome of a technologically more advanced alien civilization encountering us would be a pretty nasty one ... there's a remote possibility that we would instead be a curiousity to them and that they might treat us as we now treat the Sentinelese.

Note: there has been contact between the Sentinelese and the outside world, some peaceful (I found something about Indian expeditions in the early 90s) some a little less so (the British kidnapping six islanders). But it didn't result in their extinction or being colonized, and they remain isolated.
A comment on another HN thread mentioned that the reason for CPython still being non-JIT was the developers wanted the interpreter codebase to remain simple and easy to understand.

This sounds like the only reasonable explanation to me. JIT with C interoperability is hard, but it's not that hard.