skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't that be the most difficult and expensive way to simply monitor for life or technosignatures? Compare that to simply (relatively speaking) building massive space based optical and radio observatories that can observe every visible star. The light reaching you has already made the trip, you just have to collect it. If you were murderous, you could launch an attack from your home system rather than waiting for the probes to spread from system to system.

Granted there could be some technical limitations that prevent you from observing certain systems but that pool will be much smaller than an entire galaxy of stars.

Also, don't forget that a Von Neumann probe is at a disadvantage when it arrives in a system since you want to send the minimum number of probes to each star and then have them replicate on arrival. If your probe accidentally shows up in a system that contains an advanced civilization capable of detecting and capturing it then you've given away the fact of your existence and your intent along with all the information that can be gained by studying the probe.
I can hear the dot matrix printer whirring away at my banner. Serious nostalgia.
You said 2016, not 2020.
Yeah, I don't like the tribalism either. I see this with Democrats and Republicans in the US, too. One side thinks they are right. That seems to be a human thing. I do hope that progress can still be made.

You are right though, it is a bit ridiculous. What would you have them working on instead, just wondering? Fixing the environmental issues? Adoption? What else?
Sure eventually, but there's no clear indication if that's 10 years away, 10 billion years away, or a mere technicality as our descendants evolve into something that counts as a separate species.
> sign a contract for $100,000 that you won’t work in field x for 2 years

Wow, sign me up!
Force of will, perhaps.
Where would you put the wood?

And cutting down trees at enough scale to make a difference would likely exacerbate the drought that makes such fires more likely.
Most unions are for professional work, plumbing, electrical work, writing, acting.

Those are all just public sector jobs you named, not even necessarily unionized.
I’ve used it to diagnose (and work around) webhook problems between third-party applications that are supposedly compatible.

One that sticks out in my mind is trying to receive Slack webhooks in Mattermost. I was unaware of Slack’s new BlockKit message format until I saw what was being sent. Then I wrote a simple python script to transform the payload, all within mitmproxy. It’s not the most efficient long term solution, but the fact I could diagnose and resolve the issue with a single tool, all within a few hours of first discovering it, was very satisfying.

Here’s the result for anyone interested (warning: it’sa quick hack, not a polished/maintained project)

https://github.com/thinkmassive/mattermost-webhook-slack-pro...

Edit: this doesn’t use TLS at all. I understand that’s probably the primary use case for the tool, but I thought this was a cool example of other ways it can be useful too.
I agree in our case but this wouldnt be universal. Life may thrive in very hot planets if their evolutionary track was different.
>> The main idea of the non-compete agreement is that employers want to stop people from walking off the job and taking trade secrets to rival companies. If companies weren’t able to secure those protections, they’d need to pay lower salaries, and we’d all be worse off.

I don't agree. I think the non-compete is more an acknowledgement that certain people have a higher degree of mastery and understanding of a subject and that the company doesn't want to lose that. Having a competitor pick that up is probably a secondary concern to losing it.

Also, it does not follow that anyone would pay lower salaries. I'd think higher compensation or better working environment would be used to retain those key people. This would lead to companies needing to have a better understanding of employee value (but that's another topic entirely) rather than just limiting their mobility.
My university had a few PS3 clusters. The CS department loved them because you could buy three of them for the price of a good server. The department even offered a crash course on programming for the PS3. I didn't take it, but from what I understand, it wasn't that difficult to program (for the department use cases).

The major use case for these was for number crunching (training neural nets, running physics simulations, etc). And these things were something crazy, like 100x faster than a similarly priced PC server. There were plenty of libraries out there for doing linear algebra.

A quick google search suggests that this was extraordinarily common in academia. I found materials from lots of different universities that were close to what I remember my peers talking about.

This was also a little bit before CUDA hit. So there really wasn't a mainstream offering for doing massively parallel, SIMD calculations.

Edit: I went to Wright State Uni and most of my CS professors did research associated with the Air Force, which as forgotpwd16 notes, had at the time a super computer made from PS3s. This might explain why the PS3 was so popular among our department.
In the end it turned out that for the life of the shuttle program, each launch ended up costing between 700 million and 1.2 billion, so the 1970s goal of an economically reusable spacecraft was definitely not achieved.
Which I've always thought was weird since I'd expect a store with their stance on DRM would be one of the first in line to at least have a linux client.
That's been the general theme for years now. For their own products, as long as they maintain their quality levels, I think they'll be fine on design. My understanding is they've been pivoting to become an alternative to TSMC and Samsung as a foundry source, and will be assisting with 3rd party designs similar to ARM for interested parties such as cloud vendors. But potentially with x86 compatibility for some, which would only strengthen it. Intel has needed to do all of this for a while now but if they execute properly (which is the hard part), I think the future is bright.

I do agree they won't have "truly unprecedented grasp on the industry", because I think they lost that a long time ago with globalization. The existence of TSMC/Samsung etc. I do think that means simply a larger market with more players and customers, rather than a shrinking Intel.

Microsoft evolved their business with the times and came out stronger, I think Intel will as well.
I know they've been in talks with Nvidia to manufacture some of their stuff due to offshore supply being uncertain at best. If the world continues to be as uncertain as it has been, I think they're in a very different position than the widely held popular notions that you described.

It was all good, even preferable, to outsource that dirty manufacturing in the good times. I believe all the commonly held analysis that Intel is set for decline no longer has legs to stand on. I don't view fabless design firms like NV/AMD/Apple/ARM as competition. In these dark days, if you can't make things, you basically have nothing. Just a piece of paper.
We shall not dictate to others what type of private, mutually consensual agreements they may make.
No, how about we be honest with ourselves first as to what the real root cause is? Answering "Yes, but...climate change!" to "Is the cause actually due to poor forestry management over the past 50 years?" doesn't actually solve anything.
It's a 25-year average. "We" know a lot about this. Your ignorance is not its own special kind of knowledge.
If you explicitly tell the cops that you are invoking your right to remain silent and request that your attorney be present, they have to immediately stop questioning you until your attorney is present. But you don't get that by simply being silent, saying "lawyer" repeatedly, etc. You have to explicitly say it.
Let's zoom out from the rights of that individual minor, too. If you believe in the role of police in society, you want kids to be able to trust them. You can't teach your kids to trust someone who may lie to them with horrific consequences.
Yep that line would make me not buy this. I don’t care for that kind of sneering language.
NASA doesn't know how to do anything cheaply. They have two space telescopes sitting in a warehouse since 2011 that were donated by the NRO. They're estimating $4 billion to launch and run just one of them, more than a decade after the donation. And you know it'll cost double the estimate and take an extra 5 years.
I needed a "battery case" for my iPhone 8 very shortly after I got it and so did my wife.

She just upgraded to an iPhone 12 so we'll see how much time goes by before she needs one again too. Luckily Apple is making one now, so hopefully it will work better than the third party ones with respect to using the lightning port pass-through, which sometimes fails.

If needing more battery time were the only thing stopping me, I'd be on a PinePhone today.
> I'll take the Windows and Office source code, run it through a decompiler and then train a neural network on that output.

At the risk of adding another uneducated voice onto this legal discussion - the law is not written like code. Judges can absolutely say "hey asshole, we know exactly what you are doing" even though engineers like to imagine that all situations that use the same technical processes will be handled in precisely the same manner.
This sounds good in theory, and I was once presented with a job opportunity with something similar to this. Except much of the compensation was not in salary. So while salary goes down 60%, total comp goes down way more -- all the non-salary components goes to zero.
I think (c) will be enough for intel to get the government off its back here. GF is currently owned by the UAE government. The military would love for American foundries to be owned by American companies.
It seems a good amount of folks on HN are fine with the world burning as long as their paychecks and vesting schedules aren’t affected. Just look at the recent thread about the Google guy moving to Twitter and the mental gymnastics on display therein.
» "I bet at some point in the next 20 years we will be going back to game rooms" …

I bet at some point in the next 20 years we will all have much more important concerns than anything related to gaming.
I am not smoking cannabis for a week now without bigger issues, last time i tried quitting cigarettes i started to be completely unbearable within hours. I feel you.

But its a good example of something i rather should get rid. Sugar is high on that list too
A product of website world
Couldn't this be done in DNS? The same way zone delegations appear in there, a way to encode what's a public suffix?

For example (I'm bad at DNS)

_suffix.gitlab.io TXT "type=public,cookies=restrict,cross-origin=forbid"

would tell everyone that remram44.gitlab.io is under the gitlab.io public suffix, and how to deal with cookies etc?
Save me a click, did anyone bust a message open yet ffs?
The idea that everyone who isn't in California is subject to draconian non-competes is California exceptionalism nonsense.
Why the heck would microsoft ignoring you somehow create legal precedent?
Thanks for that reply, that's very cool. It seemed like a marketing gimmick, I'm surprised to see it was the real deal.
The James Web telescope was supposed to launch in 2007 (and should be launching in November), and began development in 1996.

Hubble was launch in 1990, and have 5 servicing missions for repairs and upgrades, with the last one being in 2009.

An exact clone of Hubble is not nearly as useful as the first one, so it is reasonable to put your resources into a novel telescope. Unfourtuantly that telescope hit some scheduling challanges.

Not to mention all the other space telescopes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_telescopes

Which includes a gravitational telescope prototype.
I searched this thread to see if anyone mentioned Pianoteq. :)

It's also fun to play around with alternative tuning systems, try different hammers, soundboard characteristics, etc etc.
There can't be. The amount of lag in the system is huge. Ceasing industrial CO2 emissions instantly would simply start a slow downtrend in the amount of atmospheric CO2. It would take decades to return to, say the 1900 level.

I don't know where that person got their idea from but it's clearly a very bad source.
There are two kinds of non-competes, and both have problems.

First, there's the really nasty ones saying "If you ever work here, you can't work for any competitor for X years", and they're clearly abusing of employees, labor, etc. I hope there is a straight up ban on that.

The second kind is "You can't compete with us while you work here". And that is a much more complex beast. Obviously, if I work as a developer making a stock trading app, I shouldn't be making a competing stock trading app after hours.

But my employer does everything. There is no field that my employer is not involved in, somehow. You can guess who they are, probably, or just read my profile. And they say "You cannot do anything that competes with anything we do". Which is everything. Want to make a Sudoku app? That's a game, we do games. Want to do some open source ML library work? We do ML, you can't do ML outside of work (I asked legal that one). And that's ignoring the who-knows-how-many secret un-released projects that might relate.

They don't even tell us "no" anymore. They just say "read the non-compete agreement and do what it says". Basically "do what you like, but if we ever feel like it wasn't right, you're fired and maybe sued".

And when I apply to other companies, they ask "do you have a github account?". No, I've been highly motivated not to.

Edit: eesh, this was a bit of a rant, wasn't it? Apologies for that. But maybe folks have ideas on what to do about it, apart from the obvious.
> For example only union workers being allowed to plug power cords into the outlets at trade-shows - at great cost - and similar shenanigans that basically seem to only increase cost and reduce productivity.

The fee for the electrician union member includes an inspection component, and imho it’s worth it.

This fee may sound unreasonable until you hear the story about some dipshit with huge power requirements and/or a daisy-chained nightmare plug their stuff in and cause problems for everyone — in a worst case scenario, cause a fire.

Source: a friend of mine who is an electrician who explained this to me.

Your idea that unions go overboard in the US may hold water, but I don’t think that this example is the poster child.
The Heart of Diligence – Cool Git visualization of collaborative work
The article doesn't really establish a point of reference. 7% contained sounds low, but I have no clue what a normal amount of containment is.
I feel like I'm one of the worst procrastinators in the world. Today I spent an hour doing some focused, concentrated work with zero problems, but then I had to reply to a "difficult" email that I've been putting off. The instant I opened my mail client I felt overwhelmed and started procrastinating. What would you recommend I do in this situation?
US here. I only managed to do it because of a loophole. My wife has the beetus, and with insurance we pay $40 a month, without insurance it is about $600 for a month, so stockpiling it is effectively impossible.

Luckily during her last pregnancy my wife was prescribed substantially more insulin than she'd previously need for a month because the pregnancy was messing up her blood sugar, it stopped once she had the baby, but we still have the same dosage right now, so we are accumulating a small amount. That being said, it was the only way we could figure out to do it.
Wouldn’t this be due to thermal throttling? In which case a better heat dissipation system would help avoid it.
I wonder if those supposedly secure Linux distros are actually secure.

Anything from MS, Google, and Apple cannot be trusted.
FTA:

> This fire is going to continue to grow -- the extremely dry vegetation and weather are not in our favor," said Joe Hessel, an incident commander for the Oregon Department of Forestry.

So clearly they acknowledge that the weather is a factor, and that seems pretty related to climate change.

Why does it have to be an either/or thing? If a fire magnitude becomes newsworthy because several factors aligned to make it that way, it seems silly to point fingers at scapegoats as an excuse for continuing to do nothing on any front.
For some people is not that easy, no mater how high the stakes are.
I strongly agree with the case against non-competes, and think almost all of them should be unenforceable. That said, is there any reason for this to be undertaken at the national level instead of the state level? Generally, I prefer state level interventions because they are easier to undo/avoid, less removed from the people they are serving, and less catastrophic if they are flawed (essentially, I agree with "laboratories of democracy" conception).
The pandemic has made it very clear that the response to "climate change is going to kill a bunch of people and cause a lot of damage" is "I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that".
The OS is doing something screwy if frequency scaling causes noticeable performance regression. A modern Intel CPU like the 9750H supports very low latency (on the order of microseconds) hardware driven frequency scaling which should pretty much always perform better than leaving the CPU locked at the base frequency.

Intel Macbooks are also notoriously thermally limited so I wonder if the settings you're using are just causing the CPU to run hotter than it would at stock.
I think you’re being unfairly downvoted and your point is valid. It’s the strongest argument in favor of targeting and I think it’s also true - it gives big advantages to smaller players so I concede all of that.

I think on net the problems targeting creates are worse than the small business benefits, but that’s an easy position for me to hold because I don’t run a small business.

I also think in a world where advertising models are not really viable for supporting software companies (or media) - you get better models that have a better outcome for the group. Things like Substack.

I’d imagine in that world there’s still room for your company to succeed, but the model is probably different. Maybe niche community sites where people review high quality dog food? Someone from your company could be part of those communities in a genuine way. There’d still be advantages for little companies - it’s just hard for people to model what that kind of world would look like.

So I both agree with you that targeted advertising today helps the little guy, but I disagree that a world where that model isn’t viable is one where the little guy can’t exist.

Comments like the sister reply to mine don’t help because they make it seem like I don’t care about the trade offs - I do, I just think they’d be different and the costs today are pretty bad.
How can you mutate it if you can't select it?
Can you iterate through a set without * selection *? I'm confused about this part. It seems to me in order to use an algorithm from the set of all algorithms you need to invoke the axiom itself.

I think us programmers think in terms of time. But in math there is no time so whether you do things in parallel or procedural is irrelevant. That's why you can discuss infinities in math.
Ask HN: What would you choose today as your note taking device and app
I'm looking at various options such as Surface, and Remarkable2 and their limitations. What would be your choice and why?
Oh, shoot, brain fart. I was thinking OP was listing primes and forgot one. :D
Absolutely! Expect more information on this soon :)
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/controlled-b...

Check out "controlled burning" - it effectively achieves the same thing.
is it _probable_?

AFA we know we've been insanely lucky up to this point (as earthling life we went past multiple mass extinctions, we got multi-cellular life, multiple brains iterations, a society which still didn't wipe itself out etc)

What makes it more likely for the filter to be ahead of us rather than behind us?
Building and Pushing OCI Images in the Broswer
You mean "what's the probability that your computer will say that 15=2*7"? Well, that's nonzero for any classical deterministic algorithm you can run on your computer too.
Well yeah, that's what we're doing. We have enough other business to build the product on our own. But it's slower. Access to capital and all.
> the beta and the v1 versions of the chemical also killed some sort of visible wildlife

It sounds like you're referring to herbicides and pesticides that kill bees and other pollinators. People have an obvious problem with pesticides that kill bees. It's not an acceptable level of collateral damage for dirt cheap corn and soybeans.
I like the look of the product, but there is no mention whatsoever of websockets in the docs.

That is the thing missing from Charles for our QA folks.

It is highly annoying to have to hook the iOS app up to Xcode just to be able to see the wss traffic when tracking down a bug.
My experience is that (1) Most threats like this aren't legally credible (2) That doesn't stop employers from filing (and losing, if not settled) lawsuits.

For most employees, a lost lawsuit means you lose 2 years of your life, get PTSD, and go bankrupt. You might recover legal fees after you've lost the house. Yay!

If you've got a megabuck, you're okay. If you live paycheck to paycheck, you're SOL. If you're a high-income / low-savings immigrant from a low-income country, you're SOL too. You settle. It doesn't matter if they have no case. You settle.

As a footnote, this dynamic does play out re: grad students versus elite universities, under NDA. Source: I know MIT does this from first-hand knowledge, and I have suspicions about a few peer schools.
A minor nitpick: the author most likely doesn't use time(1), which usually is https://www.gnu.org/software/time/), but internal shell command time. See:

```
$ type -a time
time is a shell keyword
time is /usr/bin/time
time is /bin/time
```
Extending Event-B with Discrete, Timing Properties (2012) [pdf]
I didn't dispute climate change's existence, and if your graph doesn't show what the Average is (where is your source that it is 25 years?), my point stands that your graph by itself is not proof.
I'd still rather they be banned.

Say you start as a junior at 80k , next year you get an offer for 150k , but you can't take it. You'd end up with a large 1 year resume gap, and losing 70k.

The year of career stagnation wouldn't be worth it.
I believe that the only reason people participate in police interrogations is sheer ignorance.

If you are suspected of committing a crime, do not speak to police, other than to assert your right to legal counsel.
This is a hard question because there are multiple factors, but temperature is a known factor. And the recent temperature highs are generally considered to be related to the climate crisis. 2020's historic heat and fires caused a shift toward a stronger climate attribution, and 2021 seems to me to be sealing the deal. If there were record heat waves and less fire this year, then I think the evidence would have pushed things away from climate attribution, but that didn't happen. The scary part of this is that forest fires have not been part of the climate models because scientists hadn't reached a strong enough confidence, but they are becoming a positive feedback loop as they release more carbon each year. And the climate models were already dire without forest fires.