skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not the poster you’re asking this of, but the reasons why a seemingly empty universe are concerning basically all boil down to “it indicates that the universe is hostile to civilization specifically, or to life in general.”

If the universe is neutral or friendly to civilizations, then we should expect to find someone out there in fairly short order. The universe is so large, even if there’s only a one in several billion chance of a particular solar system birthing a civilization, there should be a few others besides us already in the Milky Way.

If there’s not anyone else, the best case is that we are simply the first (this is my personal bet). Worse scenarios include civilizations simply fail and die after some time, or that one “predator” civilization kills off any other civilizations it finds before they can become a threat.
Read some good fictional books, listen classical music, walk in the nature, try to avoid all the screens.
As Arthur C. Clark said: Either we're alone or we're not. Both are equally scary.

To think that with billions of stars, each with at least one planet, intelligent life only happened on one planet (the Earth) means intelligent life is super rare, even if life in general happens on many planets.

This means if we get hit by an asteroid or don't get passed the Great Filter, the only ones who "think" about this universe and give a meaning to it will be gone forever.
I understand the foundation of your reasoning; boiling down liberty to the freedom of self harm. Mill was a lot more nuanced.
Back in my days of teaching literature as a grad student, I pitched a couple of variants of the same class: in one, we would read five (or even fewer) poems of no great length over the course of the entire class. The whole task would just be to sit with the damn things until they became unbearable, then sit with them some more, and finally see what we could say about them. The other, more challenging variant was that the student had to recite (not perform) the five poems; the entire interpretation would be the recitation—no essay to explain or defend it, just the recitation itself. I never got much traction with either of those ideas.

But I did always use the Agassiz stories at the beginning of each semester at least to encourage that kind of living with an object until you stop trying to impose yourself upon it and instead let it do its work on you. (Calling the practice “close reading” doesn’t really do it justice; it’s more like contemplation.) It’s not a bad skill to have, whether you’re looking at fish, poems, or anything else.
> Christmas returned in the early 18th century in traditional form. Historians have identified a surge of premarital pregnancies in New England around this time, and a “bulge” in births in September and October—nine months after the revels.

I love history like this: finding information hidden in data rather than from written manuscripts and artifacts
I'm not sure what you're trying to prove with this but it sounds like flamebait; please don't do that here.
Sure, Alibaba broke the law. But there is no rule of law in China. If laws were truly enforced the entire system would collapse.

This was using the law as a weapon to keep companies in check. If this had been another company firmly in the pocket of the CCP, this would have been overlooked and never made public.
Does the article say that? The article says that the law encourages them to notify the government first, which it doesn't seem to.

At the same time, the article doesn't say that China is going to stop supporting Alibaba Cloud, just that that the MIIT is freezing cybersecurity cooperation, as far as I understand the article there is no legal punishment or serious financial punishment, and it's not even clear that the cooperation with the MIIT didn't have other terms. It's not clear either that they followed the 2-day period.
Please patch your software. Running exploitable services is a breeding ground for worms, DDoS, mail spam, etc. It put your data, your network at risk. It makes the internet less safe for everyone else.
Yeah, people only care about team sports. World peace be damned.

https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/whataboutism/theres-n...
Yet they seem to have had no trouble doing so in this case?
Russia failed to build economy not based on oil. China's economy much more stable.
This could be the funniest thing I’ve read all month
Lua: Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts (2012)
The claim we’re addressing in this subthread is that in 2012 YC knowingly invested in a company that intended to be predatory towards military personnel, such that it would end up being shut down by regulators, implying that YC was both deeply unethical and deeply stupid. Are we really to believe that YC was being as unethical and stupid as this claim requires us to?
Thanks for the correction. I am not convinced however, if Alibaba ships a single product with Log4J it would be their own product too.
I've made a mistake of using my patronymic as my middle name in US docs. It's actually more like a second last name, as you noted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_isolate

The largest one is likely Korean.

Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_language#Classificati...
Having a contracting population and a smaller fraction of that population working age makes it hard to sustain economic growth. (Ask Japan).
Wow never heard of the embedded secret key on you iOS keychain after you uninstalled the app. Is this legal to fingerprint your AppleID like this?? Can you view your iOS keychain and wipe any fingerprinting bs apps leave behind or feed them poisoned data to dissociate your AppleID?
A new book about 1980s computers
Prototypical OOP and class-based OOP are both concepts, but it's the implementation of those concepts that distinguishes languages. Prototypes in Io are simply better implemented as a concept compared to JavaScript. Even something as minute as Io's "new slot" operator is a quality of life improvement. Then there are larger differences like multiple inheritance.
It's one thing to have a poor-quality code base. It's another thing to be proud of it, to the extent that you boast about your highly questionable decision-making in a blog post. I don't envy anyone who joins this company and has to deal with it.
I've again started using a usb-c thumb drive in place of google drive. It's extremely convenient and safe from big brother eyes.
Maybe for senior positions. There doesn't seem to be any shortage of fresh grads wanting to join FB on my university campus
Well, it's a pity that doesn't matter how hard we try, it's just impossible to make some ppl understand the fact.
Nice whatabout your comment history
You are conflating good software with good workflow. You can have great software with terrible a code base. You can have a great code base and developers and have terrible software.

Two totally different topics really, but narrowing down what question you are trying to ask seems more important here.

With that said, I think a good code base is necessary if you don’t have good software yet. You need to be able to try things in a relatively painless way so you can iterate.

Software can also be good and bad at the same time. AWS is great for scaling, but terrible developer experience. Things can be both things at once, or even three things (their codebase could be immaculate, or not).

Seems like a trite conversation when we try to generalize it. Everything is so case-dependent with this stuff.
If I sold a physical portrait that faded to nothingness in some random amount of time (but it was guaranteed) and left behind a description of what was previously on the photo... would you describe that as selling a portrait of someone?
> This is completely untrue. AWS offers many tools to audit credentials. It also has the policy simulator to see exactly what the impact of changes will be on a role.

Your comment fails to prove, or suggest, that OP's claim that AWS is too difficult to use securely by default is false. To first be in a position to refute OP's point you would need to prove, for starters, that no such vendor exists, which is absurd because they do exist, don't they?

In fact, if anything it supports OP's claim, as you've just pointed out that AWS even tries to profit from their problem of making it too difficult to use it securely by default by selling a premium service to audit credentials.
I don't think ppl appreciate just how big crypto is. $150 million is tiny compared to how big crypto is ($2.3 trillion). We're taking $60 billion of BTC being traded daily. And same for tether and eth. It's just insane. So it's possible that $150 million could slip through. Crypto is huge. Way bigger than online gambling, sports betting, etc.
The returns from CPU mining are really low. The advantage is you can use your existing PC(s) and not buy anything.

Tom's Hardware did a list for GPUs:

https://www.tomshardware.com/best-picks/best-mining-gpus-ben...

"Which cryptocurrency" will also vary over time since the prices are all over the place, but that's the other advantage of not-ASICs. You can switch to whichever one pays better this month.
> When you have virtually unlimited resources you can do almost anything you want. You just have to think outside of the box. If this truly was an emergency, we'd have found a way to staff covid ICU's. Dunno how because it ain't my expertise at all, but there would be a way.

If there's one thing we should've learned from Corona, it's that this line of thinking is wrong. Even facing an emergency like a global pandemic, that has cost the world millions of lives and trillions of dollars of economic damage, most governments did a lot of things very obviously wrong. Clearly, emergencies don't suddenly cause politics to stop and politicians to act perfectly.
What did you report them for?
While I don’t know if IPFA solves this properly, but I’d like a situation where I can move around and organise my content while it still being available to the torrent client.

If I have an arxiv backup, I can’t re-use the same for a arxiv-backup-torrent easily.

I get that disk space is cheap, but I see the allure of a content addressable system to solve for this.
run, hide, fight
> China's rise is mostly a problem if you are aligned to the US or in direct conflict with China

Oh not at all. The rest of the free world including unaligned folks are quite concerned about China and the CCP.

Things can get much, much worse for democracies as China rises militarily. Relative to China, the US (and several other democratic nations) have a free press, access to unfiltered information, constitutionally protected right to dissent, independent judiciaries etc. Those are important checks to have.

China could conduct large scale genocide and yet there would be absolutely no domestic pressure on the government. The worry is that as it grows stronger, international pressure wouldn't matter much either.
There's nothing ethical about leaving your nation's infrastructure vulnerable to attack just because you want to indulge in the boy's own adventure of attacking the infrastructure of other nations.

It's not ethical. It's not professional. It's school boy stuff.
It's not a coincidence that accounts concerned about the misgivings of the CIA would answer in this thread. It's actually expected. Don't be paranoid.
Absolutely shameless. I’m glad that they’re doing this in the complete open instead of painting themselves as the good guys (unlike, ahem, other western countries)
This would be MSC 3189 [1]. It is just a draft for now. So expect it to be shipped to clients in 3-6 months(?)

[1] https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3189
It's like database schema design - denormalised schema are often faster for certain queries.

But you should still run a 3NF schema until such time as you actually need that performance, because running a denormalised schema comes with additional complexity cost.
Rails 7.0: Compress the complexity of modern web apps
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Do you mind sharing some of those bookmarked users? I haven't even thought about using HN that way
From my understanding, Chinese government didn't punish Alibaba according to the regulation discussed above.

Given that the punishment is rather obscure and really weak (okay, your country's CERT felt pissed off and won't talk to you for 6 months, but for megacorps like Alibaba, would they really care?), I don't think they are willing to break the rule, at least for now.
TIL Chinese government consists of 20% of world’s population. I thought my country’s administration was overblown and inefficient
Oh no, I unfortunately agree. Taking shortcuts and politics in a lot of companies is the way to the top. I guess my bubble has a more idealistic '10x'er definition @TeeMassive.
I read it as the phone itself.
Like Docker?
I think it's pretty hard to measure people's actual intelligence here given the way they are manipulated. US carmakers spend something like $10bn/year on advertising, for example. And car salesman are a byword for making sales by any means necessary. Car makers and dealers do that shit because it works on enough people to keep the money rolling in.
The best thing about these, for me, is the nostalgia over the email addresses. So many domains I recognize from back in the day.
There is also some footage about digitization/level design in this SMB3 documentary (they might be using the same sources though): https://youtu.be/MxT6IwUtLSU?t=671

The mouse with the crosshair is a nice idea!
Hungary also had a scandal about the abuse of pegasus by the government against the opposition and independents.

As usual, the EU and the powerful countries who make business there have not made much about it.

People complain about the west enabling the Chinese communist leadership, but it's the same for every corrupt government.
I've been using auto tab discard on Firefox. Its a small annoyance for users but if you are like me and have more than a few tabs open, this saves a lot of ram anxiety
The WebKit fork was a while ago and the two behave quite different.
How much help do you think the devil really needs here?
A PHP SDK for Accessing the OpenAI GPT-3 API
Too many best practices in software engineering are followed as if they were immutable laws.

Too many best practices in software engineering are followed to improve developers experience rather than the quality of the end result.

Too many best practices in software engineering have no empirical basis.
The test they take seems highly flawed and mostly luck if you ask me.
> Which almost guarantees a lot of counter productive incompetence.

What do dictators do when their policies start failing and popularity declines?

They go to war. Nothing distracts the population as much. This is the biggest risk with China's expanding military power.
Hilarious how in late 2021 people are still blaming Trump's Justice Department for something evil that Apple does.

Didn't you guys vote him out of the office? And if you did, but Apple still continues with their evil sinister plan, maybe it's not on Trump's Justice Department, after all?
Alibaba Cloud, like the other big clouds, has many Java-based products. They’re certainly the vendor of their own vulnerable Java-based products. Whether some other party wrote the code in question doesn’t change that.
If they are human understandable then maybe they can be written that way in the first place?
Of course, I wouldn't blame you! I'm sure that if you persevere you'll find the right conditions to make something happen.

You might try joining a local tech meeting. I often (or used to, prior to the pandemic) see people arrange to meet up in a cafe or coworking space, even if they're not working together or on similar kinds of projects, just to be able to get some input and camaraderie while working.

However, I have found fellow developers to be among the most fearful/risk-averse people during the pandemic (sadly, without much (good) justification) so it may be difficult.
On windows you can rely on a very stable set of microsoft-provided dependencies. Across multiple linux distros, not so much. End up having to link the whole kitchen sink to work across repos (and there's a fair testing burden on the developer to make sure that actually works).
You've got a naive way of looking at Einstein's skepticism towards the foundations of QM. He wasn't like one of the modern day quacks trying to disprove QM or SR/GR. He helped to build QM and got his Nobel prize for the photoelectric effect which showed that light was quantized and essentially discovered the photon. His argument with QM was that it had to be incomplete in the same sense that Galilean relativity was correct but incomplete, and he didn't accept that physics could be non-local. By applying that principle he proposed the EPR paradox which led to Bell's inequality and the Aspect experiment. He bet wrong on the outcome of that experiment, but it wouldn't have happened without his theoretical work in first proposing the experiment. The fact that he guessed the outcome of the experiment wrong is almost irrelevant, although in our culture of boosting the profile of people who get lucky and guess correctly that is probably difficult to see.
To be fair, Zoom had some issues even before it came to the spotlight. At one point when you installed the desktop client it also installed a hidden webserver for some reason. [0]

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/10/20689644/apple-zoom-web-s...
Yeah SF2, hyper and turbo were a huge part of my youth too. What an era! I miss playing it
As the old saying goes, "normalize until it hurts; denormalize until it works".
Why do you need an alt to post this? That's more fishy than anything else around here.
You seem to be under the impression that all of those things matter in realpolitik. They don't. No amount of public pressure prevented the Iraq War or the Vietnam War, both of which were started under false pretences the media and public free as they were bought. China, just like the US, will act in it's interest internationally.

Indeed, generally, domestic opinion is not the most relevant predictor of what a country will do abroad, it's quite minor as most people have little information about foreign policy and are pretty easy to coax into whatever opinion you want, free press or not (see the WMDs, the lead up to the Vietnam War, etc..)

So this is not actually a relevant concern.

Actually, there is a countervailing factor, which is that China will never become a hegemon, they will always be somewhat counterbalanced by the US. So in reality one would expect less bullying for non-aligned nations.

Generally, the US is seen as a bigger threat to democracy and world peace than China, internationally:

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/05/993754397/poll-much-of-the-wo...

https://www.salon.com/2014/01/09/the_top_4_threats_to_global... (from 2013, I assume it got somewhat worse since Trump)
If you have a qa team, perfect. But I don’t recommend to follow this way.

Many code is slow due to it has a couple of wrong implementations, such as rendering or make something heavy all the time when you have to do it only one time.

There is no problem to create a decoupled system using di, the final performance it will be tolerable.

Also, you have the possibility to create custom builds with tests and good practices in the main branch.
Specially because Sony was still welcoming to Linux, having PS2Linux as well.

I did have some fun with that kit, despite the typical monitor issues, even with a sanctioned distribution.
You’re welcome
What about this was supposed to raise questions? Large corporations engage in large transactions all the time. Elon Musk decides Tesla is going to buy $1.5 Billion in Bitcoin, so Tesla buys $1.5 Billion in Bitcoin. An electronics manufacturer needs millions of dollars worth of gold in order to make gold contacts for millions of electronic devices, so a truck appears containing millions of dollars worth of gold. It's not even weird.

The difference in this case is that he allegedly wasn't authorized, which means he's going to jail. But how is the bank supposed to know that?
Is the value of the degree the knowledge and experience (and connections) you made along the way, or is it just the signalling that this institution vouches for your ability to clear a bar? Interesting philosophical discussion point. If the value of the degree is the former, there is literally no way that a bankruptcy judge could force you to stop talking to friends or forget the things you learned. If the latter, well, could the court possibly enforce 'not talk about your experience at college' on your resume or in all your job interviews? Even if you had your degree taken away because of bankruptcy, it still would be something that you could mention in some way, right?
Well, speaking for myself, I do use different amounts of electricity during the day. As does everyone in my region. And your region, probably.
Right, what I’m trying to say is that I don’t think the label genocide adds anything to the conversation. We can say there were this many murders and this many sterilizations and this much property damage and then do whatever restitution calculation. It’s being or not being genocide seems irrelevant.
Even if you ignore that it's always Crowdstrike when it comes to Russians or that one the founder seems to have a personal vendetta against Putin, Crowdstrike is too large and to close the US government to be trusted.
I wonder have anyone considered fixing that? That's an obvious usability bug of these reporting tools. They should not include disk cache in the "used" memory.

Windows does it right. On the task manager graph, disk cache is not counted as used memory. And for experts, there's a separate "memory composition" diagram, with the following parts: in use, modified, standby, and free.
Those items do not have value to anyone except for you.
I don't think we have the time, nor is this the place to discuss CRT in detail. But nothing in your citation (wikipedia) says that he believed that the goal of desegregating society is a mistake, or as you put it "racial segregation is good", only that school desegregation might have had so much blowback that it did more harm to black communities than good. Which is not an "illiberal" idea.
They're nailing it with this point.

> Jig is not no-code!

> Here at Jig, we don’t want to mislead our customers. No-code platforms do not magically remove the need for code, they just bury it in a maze of UI and DSL that only experts can make sense of

No-code is a valid intention but unsustainable and counter productive at some point, especially for a small team. Translating everything into UI often leads to a product that is hard to document, maintain, learn due to too many abstractions, dense UI, missing documentation, too much testing involved. Etc.
> Fast fashion clothing often falls apart after a single wash and at the latest after two

Is that hyperbole? Or is it really that bad? I always thought fast fashion meant stuff like those cheap Amazon brands (!Solid etc.) that only last around a year…
Silicon Valley warns The Pentagon: ‘Time is running out’