skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
4. Develop into a matrioshka brain civilization and mine all the rocky planets for materials to convert to solar computronium.

A billion years is a long time. I feel like this or extinction are the only two real scenarios.
Do browsers even allow this? I thought this would display the red page "INSECURE CONNECTION" warning, I wouldn't think it would run this Javascript too...
That is the final model right? Not all the training while hyper params, or structure, was developed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%932012_world_food_p...
About 20 years ago I bought my first digital guitar tuner, a Korg, that is about the size of a deck of cards. It had a monochrome LCD screen that mimicked an analog dial with a needle that moved to indicate flat or sharp. Years passed. Guitar tuning apps became a thing. I downloaded a few over the years. Then the one (free) one I had started showing ads. Little by little, update by update, the ads became more annoying, until one day it forced me to watch a 30 second ad before tuning my guitar. The one thing that I enjoyed to get away from computers and their....bother.

That day I went out and bought 4...FOUR snark clip on tuners, and another Korg. I deleted that stupid app and have not looked back.

I don't want to go back to sucky software apps replacing fully functional, well-designed single-purpose devices. There's just too much pull to make them into g****mn ad platforms.

Google search also has a crappy metronome. It sucks. I use my analog metronome all the time.
Thing is for a game you can control the cars performance by changing the laws of physics. For example, you don't have to know that this aerodynamic device causes a vortex at such and such a speed -- you can just say they're driving in a vacuum and 'this is how fast the car can go around this corner'.
Could you recommend a beginner 3D-printer?
Not a downvoter, but I find this line of argument to be very poorly thought out.

Why shouldn't google be able to paste ads for its products on certain searches? Why shouldn't amazon be able to do the same with product searches? Why shouldn't apple be able to build feature X into the OS that's currently a category of app? It's literally their product!

We can't possibly have a conversation about "regulating algorithms" like google search until there are reasonable proposals about how to do so, and I've seen exactly zero -- so until then I feel I have to assume that people making this argument just want google to just stop changing, which is a death sentence in the age of the internet.
A lot of problems ultimately turn into energy problems.

Lack of recycling comes down to it mostly being uneconomic to do so. There can be a labor component to this too but the energy cost matters. A lot of labor can be automated, which then also becomes an energy problem.

It's highly likely that in 1B years, we'll have access to energy many orders of magnitude higher than we do now and it'll probably be much cheaper. My personal prediction is the space-based solar power collection is likely to be dominant. The big unknown is fusion. Personally I'm not yet convinced fusion will ever be economical, but that's a whole other topic.

We live in hot, dry climates now (eg the Middle East). What makes that possible is simply energy for food and water production, climate control and so on.

It'll likely be worse for other life on Earth but that too is an energy problem. Also, we have no real idea of what life will look like in 1B years since we'll likely have gone through several mass extinction events between now and then.

And of course, in the last 1B years we've largely gone from single-celled and early multi-cellular organisms to what we have now.
Uh oh, high food prices generally correlate with increase in civil unrest and political turmoil, especially in areas where a significant percentage of income goes to buying food.
How could you possibly have enough information to claim that "almost all" crypto transactions are illegal? As someone who works in crypto, I find this claim highly dubious.
I’m the peacemaker in my brood; my three siblings fight viciously with each other, constantly, but are all amicable with me. I thought it might be nice to try to rekindle our relationships, so I invited them all to an iMessage thread. They bickered nonstop, and so one day I was like, “I love you all but I need a break from this” and left the thread, and now they’re all three stuck there together and can never leave.

lol
YouTube and the content creator industry (and the surrounding hardware tech) excites me.

I follow a channel on YouTube called "The Best Ever Food Review Show", a super high-production values travel/food TV channel produced by a guy from Minnesota who bootstrapped the operation himself. Imagine having the camera equipment (anything from Sony RX's to BlackMagic) and computer hardware (PC/Mac) and software (Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, FCP) today that is capable of producing a show that is equal to or exceeds the quality of most network travel TV shows. (he has since hired a team, but still, I'm sure their budget is a fraction of Food Network budgets)

Same deal with MKBHD -- really high quality content and really high production values. (MKBHD uses Red cameras)

I have no interested in producing content myself, but I can't help but be fascinated by the amount of amazing independent content that's out there on YouTube, all enabled by prosumer hardware and software.
They now have an optional experimental installer https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archinstall
Probably the worst thing you can do if you see classified information or data out in the open is to call attention to it (publicly) and comment on it being classified or in some way 'notable'. Just because some information is public doesn't mean it's not classified.
Like part of the gender pay gap can be explained by different career choices, could part of the partnered wage gap be explained in a similar manner? If you're single, don't have children, and don't have a lower wage earning/stay at home spouse, you might not be motivated to increase your earnings. Partnering up can save money by sharing common household expenses but can also cause those expenses to grow, especially if both partners have different living preferences.
this is the price we pay for rewarding "efficiencies" up and down the entire chain, leaving no slack whatsoever. with large companies or operations these efficiencies can be over really minor things as well because it means bonus for someone. the root cause of all of this is "short-termism". everyone is only worried about the next quarter, not the next 5 let alone 20-40 years.
>lured to figure out how to get to the moon and how to get electricity from splitting atoms

To be fair these things were only invested in because we wanted the capability to bomb eurasia to the stone age
ISIS was founded in 1999.

The Iraq War began in 2003.

Bush's administration ended in 2009.

ISIS gained power in 2014, 5 years into Obama's administration.
From the thread about it, France seems like the most likely possibility.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28823344
US Navy nuclear engineer charged with trying to share submarine secrets
Long time back when IRC was in use, we had server operators removing bots from IRC channels. It was easy to discover a bot as when you ping them on direct message they were not able to have good conversation with you.
They were multiple simple AI systems that tried to emulate human but it was easy to discover that it is a bot.
One botnet came up with solution that was brilliant. Put bot on few channels and it someone start talking to it, have the bot randomly outreach person who is active from different channel. Then rely conversation between them as man-in-the-middle, just changing the nicknames. You could have full conversation with actual person and it was hard to spot that it's a bot:-)
JavaScript has incredibly good async APIs (promises, async/await, and the seamless integration between the two).

As a result, I'm convinced that software written in JS is much more likely to actually perform long-running (IO-bound) tasks in the background/in parallel, simply because it isn't a huge pain to do it.

The actual execution speed matters a lot less at that point.
That's also "I want it cheap and I don't want to consider complexity" culture; if an airline were consistently more expensive but claimed "hey you know that once a decade issue that happened to Southwest last year? it will never happen to us", maybe some businesses with particularly critical flights would go for it, but not only would most people go for the cheaper flight given the option... I bet almost no one would be able to tell you what the benefit of the more expensive airline was as they probably just don't care enough to learn or research (which is different from then deciding the difference didn't matter).
When Google was still "do no evil" this would've been cool. Now that they are, shall we say, ambivalent about such things, it's not, because I'd rather they worked on not invading my/everyone's privacy.
Home use, if I assume is
(a.) docs and spreadsheet
(b.) movies/ netflix
(c.) basic browsing & light/no weight games
(d.) video call, if you have kid & online classes

explore Chromebook
It wasn't that difficult, you kind of learn English along the way. However, since you do not listen/talk, you don't know how words are actually pronounced. So you just guess, and it's often wrong. Like I once thought "value" is pronounced "vuhloo" (stress on 2nd syllable).

Sadly there's still many engineers in the country (including seniors) who never bothered learning English properly, so they mispronounce everything all the time. They know what all the words mean, but they don't know how they're pronounced, or how to use them in a sentence.
This looks beautiful, congrats! As an user though, it got me thinking - why should I learn this instead of good old excel? Is there an advantage in addition to not being MS/closed source?
And also the development of computers and the internet was pre 1970.
"Real spies use Dropbox" would be an excellent marketing slogan thing for Dropbox.
>> there are exactly the number of backups that there needs to be under normal circumstances.

So, as I said, no redundancy for abnormal circumstances. If they are sitting on a reserve roster, but nearly always fly, then those aren't really a reserve pool. One or two extra people calling in sick and there won't be backups available.
The old JS interpreters were actually quite slow! That's why they made V8 in the first place. Speed was its big selling point.
This is in since Linux 5.4 already, and btrfs also added support for it. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/fsverity....
Pinboard “earlier”/“later” Button Functionality
Are the "<<earlier"/"later>>" buttons working for you? Clicking on <<earlier only seems to take me one page back. Successive clicks of <<earlier or later>> return that same page of bookmarks.
Tried on Safari & Chrome.
>If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

—Herbert Stein, economist, 1986
In Australia it is 4 weeks minimum (and 10 days for sick/carers leave). The leave accumulates if you don't take and have to be paid out as per your finally pay if you leave the company. Since it is a liability on balance sheet most companies will demand you to take leave if you have accumulated over 20 days. You can also ask to cash out any leave more than 20 days.
Thanks for the clarification. Perhaps you'd get a better response if you were to formulate your questions in a less pointed way. For example, try 'covid vaccine sceptics' instead of 'anti-vaxx'. I can't speak for the parent poster, here are some thoughts:

* As I mentioned, US data is not very credible because of a data collection fumble.

* There are legitimate concerns of vaccine effectiveness dropping over time: either VE is constant over time, or boosters are necessary, but not both at the same time. Note Israel is at 40% population boosted.

* Recent Canada data is the most promising with VE against Delta infection of 87-92%. The catch is that the measurement stops at 5 months. Perhaps mix & match + large interval between shots is the golden recipe!

* OTOH, UK data is significantly less rosy. Assuming we believe PHE data (VE is negative in 30+yo age group) or the corrected version (VE is <50% in most age groups), something doesn't add up.

May the winter season be light so we can hopefully put the covid crisis past us.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/canada-vaccine-effectiveness-...

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

https://twitter.com/LGradaigh/status/1436095950561419280
https://techstartups.com/2021/05/22/40-us-dollars-existence-...
Typo. dm-verity is in since at least 4.1, fs-verity since 5.4
If there's no limit, the things that would overflow will generally just eat memory until you OOM, so not really that different.
The growing pains of Apple’s subscription addiction
There are issues trying to quantify science (eg using citation counts) - and of course this paper uses metrics to try and show metrics based science is flawed.

It couldn't be any other way, of course - nobody would accept what they're arguing without data.

My favourite example of how "high impact" science isn't recognised by citations are genome mappers/aligners, building blocks for pretty much all modern high throughput sequencing.

The 2 most popular alignment tools are BWA with 30,868 citations, and Bowtie with 12,810 citations are implementations of the Burrows Wheeler Transform, and have it in their names.

They are excellent tools and implementations but in terms of novelty, the first to apply the BW transform to genomes was "Space-efficient whole genome comparisons with Burrows–Wheeler transforms", RA Lippert 2005

Both BWA and Bowtie cite Lippert, making up 2 of Lippert 2005s 53 citations.
It is large due to corporations taking on lean-business models from MBAs over the last decade+. When a business runs lean, it becomes more fragile to disruptions. Unfortunately due to our economic system, there is a semi-regular boon-bust cycle, so if it wasn't COVID, it would have been something else that kicks the stool out from under the legs of these corporations.

In the past this wasn't as big as an issue because the risk was spread out amongst a multitude of small to medium size corporations. But again, over the last few decades corporations have become mega-conglomerates through buyouts and mergers/etc... Too big to fail. All the eggs in fewer baskets. Again, in an attempt to keep growing, because in our current economic system and the culture promoted in it (partially by MBA's) is the idea that if your company isn't growing it's dying. And even if it's growing, if it's not growing by a large enough amount it is failing...

So you could have a 1,000 person corporations stabley making 100 million in revenue. Providing good benefits and salaries to all. But if its not growing, then it is viewed as failing ... It's truly an absurd mindset and culture.
You think that policy decisions should be made based on your understanding of Econ 101?
> I totally don’t have time right now

It takes too much time for compiling. Some packages compiled overnight on my machine. Now I thank my distribution, that they precompile these packages for me :)
It adds the lack of another reason, i.e. there is no mention of for instance a pilot shortage or vaccination restrictions.
Surprising how many people downvote blindly without even making an attempt to argue against the data and conclusions of those studies. It's like an anti-critical-thinking cult.
When Nvidia scientists will figure out how to opensource their drivers?
Yeah, they should.

I’m looking at you, Masterlock.
Fighting for a Better Future
This question is nearly impossible to answer if you don’t add more context about what you want to achieve.
GP said it's not a common statement, not that they haven't encountered it before.
Shampoo, chocolate, and coffee are products where you have expensive brands. Having said that, for all those products with fancy brands I would spend 13 dollars in The Netherlands. For cheapest brands only 6 dollar in total.
>In the mean time the US average house price went from mid-$200k to mid-$300k over the past few years.

This is also why Canadians continue to flock to the US. They get higher salaries and lower housing cost. Further, while it's impossible in Canada to reach the top of one's profession without living in Montreal, Toronto, or Vancouver (add Edmonton and Calgary if in energy), it's entirely possible to reach the top of many industries in the US without living in NYC/LA/Chicago/SF.
I think that anyone should take basic econ classes, you learn a lot. Unfortunately, it's not one of those classes you can 'have a different understanding of' with any seriousness.
I've been thinking a lot about this over the years. Having been a dyed-in-the-wool Java VM person for years, and then also working on JS, I started to see the marketing speak I blabbed for years just kind of disappear in the face of huge applications.

JavaScript, Java, C#, generally all JITed languages will eventually end up exhausting the size of their JIT code caches. You just gotta hope that your hot paths are contained in there and that the JIT balances its hunger for deep inlining with the need to not overcompile. Because there's nothing worse for a JIT when the entire application is just a tepid soup and there are no hotspots. Then you aren't getting escape analysis, you end up with tons of polymorphism, and generally, performance suffers.

Despite 20 years working on JITs and dynamic optimization, I am more convinced than ever you just can't beat static compilation and programs designed to not over-allocate, to not overabstract with too much polymorphism, closures, and heavy allocation. Programs still need to be a bit miserly to get maximum performance.
The big one is coming, and none of you are looking at it from the correct perspective...black Swan 2.0 is the proverbial boot on neck until capitulation...the pressure will increase without a ceiling...everything is a distraction...
how do you replace event listeners? attach all of them at the document root and wait for bubbling/capture? attach single event listeners somewhere and then dispatch manually? use onclick="..." attributes? or maybe are you referring to native functionality like actually using semantic elements and using links and forms for page actions (with a service worker I believe you can make a nojs website quite interactive even offline)

I believe I am not exactly "know what I am doing" at least when it comes to implementation, so I would enjoy some clarifications
>The world changed much more in the 50 years before I was born than 50 years after.

Heavy disagree. It might seem that way but only because tech and science are so specialized now that the average person can't wrap their heads around all of it at once anymore.

Society, technology, and culture are all changing faster now than at any point in human history.
>It's a non-peer-reviewed discussion of some graphs from Our World In Data.

A discussion published in the European Journal of Epidemiology. It doesn't just look at those two countries; its statistical analysis covers 68 countries and 2947 US counties. You don't think that if the vaccine were effective at preventing spread, there should be at least some evidence of this effect when comparing vaccination rate and spread across different regions?
Eh, someone's got to do it. Letting thing stagnate in perpetuity isn't cheap either. Move slowly and write tests.
Openvaers.com

Diabetes is one of many negative impacts...
And yet Xinjiang makes up for 20 % of arrests in the entire country.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/19/chinas-treatment-of...
> What happens in 2, 5, or 10 years when this COBOL ends?

What happens in 1 or 2 years when the current hottest new full-stack, mvc, reactive 3.0 whatever is old and tired and you have to learn the new thing? You learn the new thing.
Wrong. Without fixed stack size limits you can tune heap vs stack usage dynamically. Eg allow deeper recursions when needing less heap memory. Eg it would allow longer lists. Stack overflows would need to be checked dynamically against the brk.
The compiler used, Clang 13.0.0, does indeed optimize out everything except for the "return 0;" at the end unless you compile with -O0 to disable optimization. I'm not sure whether the author benchmarked with -O0 or benchmarked a no-op, but either one is probably a mistake.
I'm a bit confused by how this would work. I get that extra money lets people bid up the price of assets like homes, but it's not like people are suddenly going to start eating twice as much breakfast cereal. At least in the western world, there is no shortage of basic foodstuffs and no reason to bid them up.
If you like this, you might find the 1986 draft interesting:

https://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/documentation/cortland/v1_06_Hum...

I think the differences in the design principles are important. There is also a kind of informality in this document that I rather like. It isn't as dry as the final document became.
Maybe on the other hand, wasm can fill this gap.
These vaccines are also more dangerous. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/finland-pauses-use-mode... Finland and Sweden have now halted Moderna vaccination for under-30s due to side effects.
Oh yeah, sorry, I should have said nodejs (which has been V8 from day one) was never slow. Some of the older browser implementations were shocking.

I should also add a massive asterisk to "never slow", clarifying that it's usually within a couple of orders of magnitude of compiled code, and faster than that for glue language tasks that let it call native code for the heavy lifting.
I think that the will power to go through 3 or 4 years worth of lectures on your own would be the main blocker. The main benefit to in-class learning is that your peers drive you, and you drive your peers.

As a not-on-campus-learner, you should probably concentrate on smaller pieces that can be had individually. It would not hurt to have a small community to discuss the things that you learn (e.g., peers at work) to keep you motivated as well.
There can be differences though. Where I live, Coca-cola has computerized all their vending machines, and you can connect to them with an app and pay for a drink and collect points to redeem for free drinks.

They also have a feature where if you walk a certain number of steps in a month, you can get a free drink. On iOS, the app asks for permission to read the step count data from the iOS system step counter. On Android, the app requires background location and the Coca Cola company can now know where you are at any time.
I meant the older than humankind part, obviously there are many humans throughout history who were both military generals and political leaders.
Agree, I take back the specific example of tuner since it doesn't show up searching only for guitar tuner or such terms. But I still stand by other snippets.
It doesn't eliminate loops, but it almost certainly is an empty loop after the full pipeline of optimizations and scheduling. I'm guessing the C version is unrolled or even completely eliminated, because LLVM will definitely eliminate empty loops.
Maybe a group of apes led by (political) the strongest one (military)?
Thanks for the real story. I always scoot all the way to the bottom of the page to the lowest rated comments and start reading there to get the real story on any non-technical HN thread.