skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're interested in it - get a copy of Deep Time - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2014020.Deep_Time

> Human civilization has evolved to the point at which we have begun consciously sending messages into the far future. How should we communicate who we are, what we know, to asyet-unmet intelligent beings elsewhere in both time and space? Will they be able to decipher what we say? And what information will we leave to Earth's occupants a million years hence? How can we address an unknown destiny in which human culture itself may no longer exist?

> Combining the logical rigor of a scientist with the lyrical beauty of a novelist, Gregory Benford explores these and other fascinating questions in a provocative analysis of humanity's attempts to make its culture immortal, to cross the immense gulf that such deep-time messages must span in order to be understood. In clear, crisp language, he confronts our growing influence on events hundreds of thousands of years into the future, and explores the possible "messages" we may transmit to our distant descendants in the language of the planet itself -- from nuclear waste to global warming to the extinction of species.
Could this be a sub-conscious part of human nature? The more dangerous the environment, the more children one is driven to produce thus increasing the probability that one may survive? I believe there were studies on this in some of the poorer nations with high rates of infant mortality but I don't have the links handy.
Only for very small currents. For larger currents you use a proper DC-DC converter; another stage on your switched supply or more windings on your transformer if you're still in the Analog Age.
Knuth's numbers and impractical memory devices
D still has some issues with the safety story, but they have three safety attributes. @system - unsafe code, may do pointer arithmetics, may call C code, @safe - safe code, not allowed to do those things, @trusted - unsafe code, verified by programmer, can be called by @safe.

The main issue is that it came late in D lifetime, so until situation improves, @system is the default, because there's too much std/legacy code which still assumes @system as default. Many new projects however start with @safe as default.
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There's another dimension to this. All duties aren't the same. Hunting is a duty.. but it's not the same as redoing 200x print copies for your petty boss. The former is 100% beneficial to you (a bit selfish but hey), massages your senses, strengthen your body, sharpen your skills. It's play time, somehow very freeing. The latter is dull and unless you gamify it, grinds you for no good reason.
agree with you but you cant tune onstage/ with other instruments also tuning. the guitarist can't go "everybody shut up I'm tuning" like in the orchestra. and I believe in concert bands/ orchestras they also tune with equipments before going on stage
These types of discoveries are becoming more and more common with the explosion of novel biologics.
Reluctant? I don't think that word means what you think it means.

Journalism today "What you don't know about the sky could kill you! Journalist uncovered the truth the sky is actually blue!"
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Agreed.

The relevant point, to me, has always been that CCs never needed to work perfectly for the payment use case, they just had to work well enough to be a viable alternative (warts and all).

The fact that some of them do fill this role and have since their creation, namely bitcoin, is what makes me pay attention to the space.
> Why do you think a GPS location fix is so quick nowadays? Those satellites didn’t get any better…

The article you linked to doesn't seem to mention using WiFi location data for assisted GPS. It does point out that devices with an internet connection know their time and usually have a pre-seeded copy of the Almanac, both of which make a massive difference in speed of initial lock.
See also the Monome (and myriad clones.)
In my own experience, battery optimization is worse (or the benefits are out-weighted by) than higher battery capacity. Reason being that after 1 year when your battery has degraded, and in combination that we don't take much care of ours phones (apps installed, services running...) then the phone starts lasting less than 1 day, which for me is not acceptable.

I have a pixel phone that lasted 32 hours of battery. After more than one year it now lasts 17 hours. I'm sure that part of it I could fix by identifying some battery-hungry apps or formatting my phone, but most of it is just due to battery degradation as can be seen in battery health. Even though I use adaptive charging (at night it charges slowly until my alarm hour)
Facebook plans to reduce politics on people’s feeds
Yes, it's sinister and really unhealthy. People, on balance, are a blessing, and love of humanity is a prerequisite to having a civil society.

These misanthropic beliefs are primarily limited to elites, who have become so decadent as to hate mankind. You have Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburough saying "If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels." Also some of the more fanatical environmental groups are less about loving the environment than hating people. You also see similar sentiments expressed in modern architecture -- the idea that architecture shouldn't be beautiful or comfortable because people should be uncomfortable, etc, as in the famous debate between Christopher Alexander and Peter Eisenman. This idea of hating your own group or even hating all mankind is basically the extreme end of modern decadence, a luxury primarily afforded to a subset of people in the wealthiest western nations. Fortunately, it is not shared by the bulk of humanity, or even by ordinary blue collar people in wealthy nations.
To your comment above – you can bodge around interop problems with JSON in ways that you cannot with some of these other technologies.

I like to joke that I invented ndjson over a decade ago when I accidentally forgot to put things in an array before `json.dumps`, I just wasn't smart enough to call it a standard. But when you do end up with ndjson when you wanted an array of results, or vice versa, JSON makes it easy to munge things to where you need.

Compare that to something like protobuf: it's not a self-synchronizing stream, so if you send someone multiple messages without framing them (prefix by length or delimited are popular approaches), they're going to decode a single message that doesn't make much sense on the other end. And they won't be able to fix it at all.

So I guess JSON is New Jersey style design[1].

[1]: https://dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
Sydney celebrates end of 107-day lockdown
Interestingly, most of the personal websites and journals I've seen of various developers that primarily use Rust in their projects, have this exact undertone to them. I'm still not certain why this is, but I can definitely sympathize with your description.
There's actually very little in the article about the 'pioneering work' and how it happened, what the breakthroughs were etc

Edit: although to be fair, the gist of it is that migraine has only recently started to be taken seriously due to a kind of medical sexism, so it's not so much a scientific breakthrough as a social one
And that is indeed effective in that malicious programs are almost nonexistent, but I think it oftentimes does give a false sense of security, as attacks not only happen through a malicious program, but through a buggy
ones that has to handle some potentially malicious data. Eg. a PDF reader, browser, etc while being written completely in good faith can easily compromise a system through a memory leak, that a clever hacker exploits. And with the over abundance of C programs in userspace for no sane reason in Linux land, it is not a far fetched idea how someone could hijack a process with a simple bug.
I often have a pessimistic outlook of the future myself and I'm trying to change that.

>Some of my coworkers over the years have been very consistent at believing that the world is on the brink of The End Times ... at all times.

I've had similar thoughts too. They began in my teens. It's been decades now and it's exhausting.

>What about living here during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

I recently watched Ken Burns "The Dust Bowl" documentary[1]. If one thinks living now is bad, imagine living during that period and in that place (watch it to better understand)! Seeing pictures of the dust storms coming reminds me the The Nothing from "The Neverending Story" [2]. The Nothing rolls along annihilating everything it covers. It's terrifying to think about.

Here's an interesting excerpt from the movie: https://poorvillains.wordpress.com/2013/09/15/the-nothing-an...

[1] https://kenburns.com/films/dust-bowl/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_NeverEnding_Story_(film)
Same here. I wouldn't say climate change would be the sole reason but it is up there.
Unless you have a second phone with a proper Os I wouldn’t even suggest using any unlocked phones, banking apps and other daily use apps for common people just wont work.
financial firms block payments to the individuals on a list which today runs to 1,604 pages.

The "Nock list" is 1,604 pages ?

Cannabis, online poker, porno ? Sounds more like religious fanatics attempting to exercise control over lifestyles, not taxation concerns.

Good thing we have crypto and it's rapidly evolving ease of use . . .
I actually disagree that it is immoral in the first place. I see nothing wrong with having children, knowing full well that they may face greater adversity in their life than I have.

For generations throughout human history many have had similar thoughts, that having children was sinful since they would have to suffer through the human experience. Whether ultimately right or wrong, they failed to propagate and so their opinions didn't matter.

I said that this was a question of morality not intelligence. If one believes they are at least more capable than their peers at raising a child, then to refuse is what I consider to be ultimately immoral. The future generation comes regardless of you decide.
> x11docker is just a (very convenient) security layer for containers which need to expose graphics (and possibly webcam, audio, networking, clipboard, printers...). Kata Containers are just "micro VMs" where you spin up a separate kernel to drop the container into.

Yeah, thats what I meant, you can just use kvm and your gui/audio/etc. stuff directly instead of having all the unnessecary complexity and dependency those layers bring along.

> Bubblewrap is okay if you trust your kernel

Thats why I proposed it for when you don't need virtualisation. You can ofc also use it in a VM to further restrict processes.
Except you can't. At least not easily, and that's just for now.
That's nonsense - As the UK has left the EU, the laws and banking regulations that banks in the UK follow will be written in the UK and not by the EBA, but they will be consistent (following global agreements). Most of the banks operating in the City of London are European or American anyway and will also be following EBA and Fed reporting rules.
Name three of these laws.
Have you ever hunted a mammoth with a spear?
"The gene pool only propagates the winners of adaptation. So if you don't adapt, i.e. reproduce, your genes are not going to be in the gene pool."

Who cares? When you die childless, it's over anyway. I think people choosing to not have children understand this basic consequence.
This is not what I hear. It is a golden age for women, they can have lots of kids or none, up to them, that is a great thing. Everywhere you go is far more crowded than 30 years ago, Europeans and people from South East Asia are very aware of that. People want to have fewer kids and educate those kids more. Climate change is important but not a direct factor.
Not enough has been said about the line “I don’t think our investors would accept this.”

50 million. He just asked Steve jobs to hand over some large fraction of 100 million to his investors.

Steve was a product guy. This guy just showed he cared more about his rent-seekers-on-capital than the real creators.

That’s a fundamental disconnect.
Tesla Gets Second Court Order to Halt Work on German Factory
London is and always was the main financial hub for the world. Of course some dodgy money will find its way in.
I think it's somewhat confusing to compare an MLP Mixer architecture to a vanilla ResNet-50.
I was accepting credit cards online from 1994 (although I have to confess now that the business is defunct that the form—which didn't use https(!)—just emailed the entry to me(!)). My first order from Amazon was in 1997 (it was two books: The Psychology of Religion and Varieties of Religious Experience). I bought a number of musical instruments online with credit cards as early as 1998. Buying things from individuals was a bit dicey for a while, with a lot of trust involved where you'd send a check or money order to the seller and hope they'd send the promised merchandise. Paypal did a lot to mitigate that, and I opened my Paypal account in 1999.
Yes...Hollywood never makes movies portraying the US in a bad light. very insightful..
Depends for what, Im a Java guy at heart, but honestly for quick little analysis, pandas is way faster, and I barely can code my way out of a paperback in Python.

I even hate python and would never use it ... but I cant find better than pandas for my crazy large time series and always bespoke questions from the biz.
I like protobuf for some use-casess (namely grpc) but a) it's a binary format and sometimes (often times) it's nice to have a text protocol

b) protobuf libraries and protoc have given me way more grief overall than json (python, js, c++)

If your workflow already supports it, I can see it being useful, but it's got a pretty steep learning curve to be honest, certainly more than json, despite the ill-implemented libs out there. If I wanted a binary format, IMHO I'd go for msgpack first, and reach for protobuf if that didn't work for me.
Part of the problem in the UK is that the amount of wind was at something like a 40-year low earlier this year, meaning that wind farms weren't producing that much at all. As the amount of renewable power increases and fossil fuels get phased out and become more expensive, we can expect high electricity prices to coincide more and more with times when renewables are producing very little power and low prices with times when they're producing lots of it. So even if CfD prices look good on paper compared to average electricity wholesale prices the government is still likely to lose a lot of money on the deal due to when that electricity is produced, which ultimately comes out of all our electricity bills.
“Humankind,” Suzman writes, is apparently “not yet ready to claim its collective pension.” So why haven’t we traded rising incomes for more free time?
Good question. This is part of the reason I'm in process of switching to a part-time schedule as a software engineer and parent of 3 young children.

"...economists assure us that, in any case, the only long-term solution to global poverty is more economic growth." While not a cure-all, I do remember reading that the primary reason why most of China has escaped extreme poverty in the last 100 years has been economic growth. I'm curious for the counter-perspective there.
'Work is what you're doing when you'd rather be doing something else.'—anonymous
your test makes no sense. it does not account for many variables.
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isn’t it a proxy fight between the islamist houthis, supported by iran and north korea, and the saudis, supported by the west?
Yes but the UK can't unilaterally nope out of reporting requirements because the EU can simply refuse to continue with the previous passporting abilities afforded to UK finance. If the UK wants to continue with London being the gateway to the EU financial sector, they'll need to adhere to the EU rules.

With Brexit, the UK has now no say in what those rules are beyond some saber-rattling.

I mean, the UK can certainly just offer a very loose regulatory environment, but that's useless on it's own if other jurisdictions refuse to cooperate. The extreme measure would be to put the UK on the uncooperative tax regimes list, which would mean that nobody in other countries would touch business established here.
My guess is people of Afghanistan won't stop having kids even though their conditions are much worse, so none of that stuff probably makes a difference at scale. Though of course individual circumstances and decisions may vary.
> Some ideas researchers are currently looking at: connecting young people with information about mental wellness or health; promoting accounts that have been shown to make people feel better about themselves; or prompting teens to check in with peers who are having a rough day.

I'm not a huge fan of Facebook (been off the platform since 2012), but these are great ideas, especially the last one. It's refreshing in the midst of all the doom.
Sorry, let me expand then. The assertion that is happening in this thread is “having children will improve the world”.

Given this assertion, how is it possible that global warming even happened in the first place, when there were, as you state, bigger birth rates than we have now?

Most of the issues we’re facing today - especially global warming - weren’t caused just yesterday. They’ve been in progress for decades, and we’ve known about the potential issues for decades (I remember such concerns when we started opening holes in the ozone some 30 years ago).
If you use a saas for login, one for business process A, one for business process B, C, D,... if just one of these fail, you might be at risk of losing business and huge amount of money for something you have no control on.

You are lowering you cost but by doing so, you are increasing your risk.

Furthermore, by using external saas, some business will have a tendency to get rid of some IT people to "really" save on cost which means you'll lose manpower for when something happens.

Software development has changed in the last decade and now everybody knows that they have to take failure into account when building software. Chaos Monkey opened the eyes of a lot of It people.

There should be some "MBA" level chaos monkey solution.
>Most consumers now cannot choose not to minimize expenditure:

Leaving aside flying private--which is a whole different magnitude of cost--consumers can absolutely choose to pay more to insulate themselves from much of the unpleasantness of flying. Doesn't help much when flights are canceled or delayed of course but you have Pre-Check, airline lounges, business class seating, etc. which do generally improve the experience.

But, yes, society in the aggregate does not value the better experience at what it would cost to deliver--certainly not to the point of effectively excluding a significant segment of the population from routine flying but, in the process, making it a more pleasant experience for others.
As a mentor - I signed up to show interest and will attend an info session - just curious about the process and time investment - is it typically "bootcamp" type of coding - full stack, web stuff? And if you do weekly sessions with someone, is it more reacting and giving advice/direction? Are they typically learning through other program and need some extra 1-on-1 time? Or are you taking a more active role in education? Thanks!
The solar storm would be more likely to, as you said, take down the region for a significant period of time. A software bug is more likely to happen, but less likely to have that big of an impact.
I am not sure why someone in Manchester gets so upset that someone in London is helping launder an African dictators dirty money, as if it is directly making their life miserable.

If everyone paid their 'fair share' down London way it wouldnt change a thing.
I didn't know virtio_wl, it looks pretty neat. WSLg doesn't seem to have too much focus on sandboxing and only works on windows :(
Car mechanics? Sure, in the end it's "social" in that another human being benefits from it, but the actual "social" aspects of the actual work are handled by someone other than the mechanic.
Did you notice that Iceland is a slightly smaller country, with probably quite a bit fewer medical labs? Also an island, with islands generally having an easier time with all the pandemic restrictions stuff?

I don't even know how Iceland's health system is organized. But it would be a good bet that it is light years ahead of the mess of the 52 states plus territories and whatever! Much different story.
I see a lot more greyed out comments recently.
The entire point of white labeling is to act like you provide it. They pay for the right to say the VPN is from them. You're buying it from them not Mullvad. It is from them. They aren't saying a VPN network operated by the makers for Firefox.
Also Croc (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.howeyc.crocgui/) croc is a tool that allows any two computers to simply and securely transfer files

website: https://schollz.com/software/croc/
Every sunday. You want some pictures ?

People in the wild don't hunt elephants to survive. They survived pretty well for ages, they climb for honey, find smaller animals. It's not easy but it seems most humans are capable of it. I'm pretty sure the deal is worth it. The amount of satisfaction in apt usage of your senses and body is quite immense. I suffer daily due to insufficient stimulation (to the point I volunteered my time for truck unloading) both physical and intellectual. And if you look at half the population, you can probably read that on their face too.
Bullet, meet messenger.

I was, at first, very skeptical that so many people would walk out of the their jobs in a seemingly organized way, until I heard about the PTO angle of the story.

I work at a company with “unlimited PTO” (because business leaders learned that they pay less with “unlimited” than they do with accrued). But in previous jobs, it was very common to accrue PTO (up to 2 to 3 weeks worth). Most employees would find it hard to get coverage or approval for taking time off, so their PTO would accrue until it maxed out. Anytime I was going to leave a job where I had banked PTO, I would take my time off, and then resign when I came back because if you leave with accrued PTO, they would pay it out, taxed as supplemental income, which is at a higher rate.

3 weeks is a common max accrual for folks that have worked somewhere longer than a year or two, and looking at the calendar, we’re almost exactly 3 weeks from November.

These workers are getting (PTO) paid to strike, plus they’re not breaking any rules, or committing to resigning (or being terminated due to COVID policy), yet. Three weeks to take a much needed break, speak their values, and not miss a check? Now that sounds more like human behavior.
We will of course also remember him for his flames.

No kidding. I remember pretty well the cdrecord drama back in the day if only from a distance.

Very sad to hear this news. RIP.
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