skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest, MySpace never felt that big outside US: I don't remember having anyone I know having an account there (we of the IRC generation ;)), yet Facebook quickly turned very appealing to most people when it came in (it made sense to connect with your high school and university friends, and then family showed up too).
It's ok for you to not like it or not get it. Other people have different needs than you have.
The most intense non-fission, non-fusion neutron source in the world in 2017, Oak Ridge Spallation Neutron Source, produced ~1e10 neutrons / second. If every last neutron emitted could be cooled and made to be absorbed by a ready U-238 nucleus, decaying after a few days to Pu-239, if I figure right we ought to get a microgram in 28 days, or a Kg in 78My. Pu-239's half-life is only 24Ky, decaying to (equally useful) U-235 with half-life a solid 0.7Gy, so only a little bit turns to lead before we finish.

Keeping our copy of the Oak Ridge source operating, and the current world order destabilized, for those 78My seems difficult; and we anyway have made only a Kg. So, this seems like not a practical way to generate a geopolitically effective amount of Pu-239 or U-235.
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I mostly agree. It's a little hard for me to remember how I started because I'm almost fully self-taught and I never restricted myself like that. I think it's best to start people off with a friendly and helpful but minimal environment. Scratch is good for younger kids and is what I started with, and DrRacket is close to ideal for anyone older than maybe 10.
Compared to no taxes, they would be worse off, but compared to income tax it is not clear they would be if the total tax burden was the same.

Unlike an income tax this would encourage investment because it could be done for pre taxed money.
oh the financial institutions that gave big loans for overpriced buildings will definitely not adapt well
Agree about not making decisions when mad but aren't there good options beyond MS for the things you mentioned. Gsuite or any number of other office + mail providers can replace outlook. AD is useless these days unless you have Windows machines to administer or may be with azure cloud which by all accounts sucks when compared to gcp/aws.

So what would an organisation miss when leaving windows ecosystem to lets say mac or Linux.
It's worth noting "Dyson Sphere" is a product of sci-fi literature. Freeman Dyson himself only described an "artificial biosphere" in some paper he published, sci-fi authors mistook him literally (or were just being creative). He wasn't even describing anything resembling a physical sphere surrounding a star.

He speaks to the subject in this excellent interview playlist, link is to the specific Dyson Sphere part:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPB775_BZlw&list=PLVV0r6CmEs...
All fundamental research is reaserch for the sake of knowledge, for the sake of satisfying curiosity.

Once it is done, possibly much much much later, somebody may stumble upon it and use it in some creative (and unforseen) ways for other research.

On the other hand if you give any probability to alien existence, then this is very much practical already in the search for them.
THAT'S the exact one I was thinking of. I mean, I can't watch it. I just can't.
That’s what I use whenever I need a container. So simple and flexible.
The funny thing about many old U.S. cities is that they were designed up-front to have wide streets.
Sonny and Cher?
If you're rich you won't need any of those things!
+1, and how many engineers do they employ? thousands, just like big tech companies.
That's not a solution. You're just piping the outside data into your sandbox; it can have bugs too.
I grew up in one, the closest store with any food at all was an hour drive way. Both parents worked, and still managed to put healthy meals on the table ever day because they were willing to cook and the family meal was a sacred thing. It’s not about access, it’s about priorities.
You could except current savings and not have consumption taxes on basic goods which is already the case in certain places.
I learned schema design and BCNF on an access database. Applied database elective during undergrad. Built a career off those fundamentals.
I like numba, but I found that I often had to rewrite my code (like write out vectorized numpy code). Recently I have mainly been using pythran which IMO is very underrated. It manages to even beat optimized cython code with just a comment in front of the function definition.

I did a comparison to cython and Julia here: https://jochenschroeder.com/blog/articles/DSP_with_Python2/
I wonder whether even as many as half of android phones are less than, say, six months behind on security updates. They're often quite slow in releasing for any given model, and that's while the phone even gets updates.
So your app actively sabotages its ability to grow a community/app? Doesn't sound reasonable.
The only way of this maybe working I can think of is to patent ANS and license it for free to anyone with one exception - forbidden use by anyone who patents or licenses further patents on ANS. This would only leave out patent trolls, but at the same time incentivize everyone else to never touch patent troll patent and always fight them to the death.
Here's some info about the seals between sections from https://www.trelleborg.com/en/media/products-and-solutions-n...

Trelleborg’s Gina gaskets and Omega seals fit between the sectional elements of immersed tunnels to prevent water ingress due to external water pressure.
Designed to handle intense transfer of hydrostatic loads and movements between tunnel ends caused by environmental pressures such as seismic activity, soil settlement and temperature effects, Trelleborg’s sealing systems promise a product life expectancy of up to 120 years with little-to-no maintenance.
First foreign journalist to be labelled as 'China state-affiliated media'
Good design for readability suggest using line lengths which are around 60-70 characters long (at least in print with serif fonts).

My main gripe with narrow columns of content is that they rarely resize properly to smaller desktop sizes (I prefer side-by-side-by-side windows on my large 32" screen, so much that I am considering switching to new 42" oled screens showing up this year — if they were 8k and I had a gpu to drive it, I'd be ecstatic ;)).
Helm charts are basically just collections of k8s yamls, it doesn't serve to simplify them, only to make them parameterized
Quick excerpt:

"The first species to emerge from a Noah’s Ark egg will be warm-blooded plants designed to collect energy from sunlight and keep themselves warm in a cold environment. “Plants could be engineered to grow greenhouses the way turtles grow shells” The greenhouse would consist of a thick skin providing thermal insulation, with small windows to admit sunlight. Outside the skin would be an array of simple lenses, focusing sunlight through the windows into the interior. Groups of greenhouses could grow together to form extended habitats for other species of plants and animals. In that way, “We will be the machines getting life to grow all over the universe.”
I’ve been doing a lot of reading on megastructures, giant black hole powered computers, Von Neumann probes, and all the other super advanced technologies, and then thinking about the Fermi paradox, and I can’t shake the feeling these are just gussied up magic by effectively godlike entities. They’re completely impractical and take some pretty big hand waving to make them sound plausible.

We’re running out of excuses. We’re either alone, or we’re effectively alone ie everyone else is forever undetectable. Meaning they’re more primitive, or stuck in some subterranean ocean or something. Either way, we’re the Ancients sci-fi stories ale we ya talk about.
Ultimately I think it doesn’t really matter. Not all languages and character sets have orderings. You just order the Latin or closely related characters and numbers and you are ok for almost all situations. If you are a company or product which caters to more languages, you can work out what you do for those. But there is no need to work out how to order every single codepoint in Unicode because it isn’t very useful.
Thanks. I didn’t care at all about this until close people started to do random diets they see on instagram. Every single one of those were rooted on pop science, garbage studies and very shaky foundations. That got me to look a lot more on a regular basis into what we actually know, and the answer was “very little”.

I think it’s fine for us to not know much about something. We don’t have all the answers in the universe, we’re just hairless monkeys after all. I just wish more people would be accepting of a “that’s complicated, nobody really knows and you’ll have to try a bunch of stuff to see what works for you specifically” approach.

To your question, I am slightly above the prescribed line in a lot of metrics and don’t really do anything special, I am lucky enough it doesn’t have any impact on my life in general.
That is because academia have access to government loan aka free money. There isn't any real competition to their students. If we make 1. Penalizing failed students, 2. Easily retransferable any students to different college, 3. Warranty as in stuff they teach must allow the students to get relevant jobs within 4 years of graduating, all their prices are fixed and non inflationable and displayed in comparisons to other schoola like newegg, you will see them behave differently. Right now they are just a protected racket that can do what they want even racism and biasism on "corporate scale".
I assume that some of fusions done by the star are net energy consumption (i.e. not usable for energy production)
You generally dump them into a data warehouse after a certain amount of time so they are not in the live database anymore. You still have the records and can still reference them for reports and compliance reasons.
Some people can't handle this kind of information very well just like some people can't handle (alcohol|tobacco|social media|video games|sex|marijuana|fitness|etc.) I don't want to live in a world where we can't have things because some people don't handle them well. I would much rather teach people to be good at recognizing and mitigating their weaknesses than to prevent everyone from having access or insinuating things are generally bad which only affect a few.
My favorite line of reasoning about eugenics[0]: let's just accept that eugenics is a good thing; so good, in fact, we can go back in time and give a past society the ability to decide on the physical and mental attributes of their future, our present. Who would you pick? Would you go back 50, 100, 200, 500 years to gift this power?

If you're uncomfortable with people several hundred years ago making decisions about your genetics, why should people several hundred years from now be comfortable with you making decisions about theirs?

[0] https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/eugenics-is-a-great-idea
Relevant: https://www.darkpatterns.org/
I don't see the link between this and Theranos, your reply feels like an unsubstantiated dismissal of this research. This is a device that measures cortisol levels in your sweat, which apparently correlates well to the levels in the blood.
I use Ocaml and the type system and language server basically remove the need for things like a debugger, or even run-time testing while developing, that you might need in some other language. It tells you type of every function, variable, etc. While it's not needed, the language server works in tandem with the type system to basically tell you exactly what's happening in your code.
I think it just depends on how many users your library expects. When there's a huge user base, proper documentation pays off.
This. And "Database for Glossary" makes me smile. A single page would be enough.
$200/tonne is far above "reasonable minimum price" for CO2 emissions. Average estimate is closer to $50/tonne. At $200/tonne, you're entering "viable air capture of CO2" territory.
> If they can build Dyson spheres, wouldn't they already be all over the place?

I figure they'd have to be.

They'd need more than a solar system's worth of raw resources to build the sphere. They may need more than a solar system's worth of resources just to build the tools and craft to be able to build the sphere. They're going to need an insane amount of production facilities for various components, and that's going to take a massive amount of resources. That's going to require exploring quite a bit of a galaxy.
Are there any good self-hosted alternatives to notion? Ideally something that multiple people can access, I just want to have a network accessible place to store and edit recipes and other household stuff.
Can you explain what about "that sort of thing" is so repulsive to you, perchance?
I don't disagree with what you're saying, but it's interesting that some people might want to make Linux software distribution more like Windows or macOS because of unfamiliarity.

The way you've described Linux software distribution sounds an aweful lot like software distribution on mobile devices. I think it should be pretty familiar to everyone by now. If anything I think Windows and macOS want to move closer to being like Linux in this regard.

Maybe the experience of using cli tools like `apt` or `yum` has made people overlook the ease of installing software on Linux. Anyone that has used openSUSE or Ubuntu should know better.
You will have to think, If its so simple how long is such a job profile going to last?

Better hope for complexity some times (:
Yes, in this case you explicitly introduce the reader with context, which is important when you have specific information that may be considered sensitive, or history that is not relevant.

Anyone reading the "to" line can see where the reader was introduced.
takes a star's worth of gravitational force to push atoms like those together in the core to produce fusion.

To reproduce such heavier elements in fusion reactors on earth would require, likely, a much higher energy than the output.
Image parsers are complicated and often exposed to untrusted data, they’ve always been a big vector of exploits.
I'm using an IDE, but I read the docs anyway. I also just jump into the implementation and figure if the docs are correct. I don't know why the IDE should prevent anyone to do that. Again, it doesn't depend so much on the tool but more on the type of programmer you are.
Remind me why I would care what this "humanities technologist" has to say on this topic?
In the sunbelt or not? You’ll get more power outages in places with weather and overhead power lines with overhanging trees. AZ also tends to have newer infrastructure.
Data augmentation is a thing within machine learning (deep learning) so that's a big generalization.
People who are already privileged enough to work from home need more incentive to buy into services they used to use. Idk
It's a code editor, not an IDE... they never claimed otherwise.

Sure, there are extensions now that almost make it an IDE (integrated debugger, support for some build systems, etc.) but if you need the real thing, get the real thing.

For debugging native code I always bring up Visual Studio or WinDBG, but as an editor, VSCode is significantly lighter and faster (despite it being built on Electron) than full VS.
I would be surprised if there are any binaries that are outright impossible to run under Nix. I spent a weekend getting Xilinx ISE to run in Nix [0], that is a binary behemoth. It uses bubblewrap (already used in Nixpkgs) to setup a bunch of bind mounts so that the binaries see a standard FHS Linux layout.

[0] - https://github.com/benpye/nix-fpga-tools
If there's anything I've learned from software engineering, it's that ideas seem like good ideas until they're implemented. Something seems like a good gene to select for until 3 generations later where someone else has to deal with it.

The other thing that fascinates me is navel oranges. They're delicious, but they're sterile and come with defects (the navel). We're perfectly happy to deal with those defects because the benefits outweigh it. I wonder what defects come from radiation resistant supermen.
This is probably because I'm on NixOS but I have never used nix-env to install anything.

I use nix-shell to test out a package, or use one that I only need temporarily.

If I need a package for a particular build then it gets added to my config files, and I rebuild switch.

If I don't want that package anymore, then I remove it from my config and do another rebuild.

I've never really understood the use case for nix-env.
How come the company that made Pegasus is being sanctioned, but the government that used Pegasus to abduct, kill, and then dismember a dissident - isn't?
> Is it true that "90% of code is crud"? It is, if you want it to be.

You're being way too generous from a false sense of compassion. Most code is not written from a place of serene comprehension. It's written under the pressure of getting features out the door fast enough to justify a paycheck.

Add in that programming is a task that is rapidly changing over time -- so what's good today, is a naive implementation tomorrow...yeah, practically all code ever produced or ever to be produced will be crap from any reasonable perspective.
Has anyone else noticed how much of a 'meme' Notion has become?

It seems I'm constantly seeing templates for this, that and other all built in Notion!

Are the Notion team doing an incredible astroturf marketing job?

Is it people just cashing in on Notion's popularity for internet points?

A search for 'Notion' on Product Hunt returns a couple of thousand results!
This UNIX program is slow when compiling to any non POSIX OS (Windows is not the only one), because well stuff like fork() has to be emulated.
Vision rather than radar AEB isn't that uncommon though is it? My cheap Suzuki uses stereo cameras for AEB, and it was touted as a pro by the used car salesman as it can detect stationary objects (which radar-based AEB can't).

Sounds like Tesla needs to tune theirs better but that can be done in a software update, I'm not sure I buy the "they were fools for removing the radar hardware!" since when the radar hardware didn't prevent Teslas from running into stationary hardware they were lambasted for that as well.
> If they can build Dyson spheres, wouldn't they already be all over the place?

The number I’ve seen quoted is 50M years to colonize the galaxy:
http://www.sentientdevelopments.com/2012/01/new-mathematical...

> they calculated that any galactic empire would have spread outwards from its home planet at about 0.25% of the speed of light. The result is that after 50m years it would extend over 130,000 light years, with zealous colonisers moving in a relatively uniform cloud and more reticent ones protruding from a central blob. Since the Milky Way is estimated to be 100,000-120,000 light years across, outposts would be sprinkled throughout the galaxy, even if the home planet were, like Earth, located on the periphery.

It’s actually so fast that advanced civilizations would have had time to colonize the galaxy and go extinct many times over without us noticing.

Or maybe their spheres were built so long ago they’ve already collapsed and been consumed by the stars again.

It’s a great mystery and interesting thought experiment though.
I don't see ostree promote themselves as an alternative to Nix. The GP linked to an explainer of how OStree differs from a bunch of systems, not really a promotional page. And in general OStree's use case is different to Nix so I don't think it competes.

You may be right that this is a pattern, but I don't see it in this case.
Polar bear is also said to be very dangerous. Could it be similar?
When you list the sources for a Nix package you also have to specify the hash expected. If it pulls the sources and the hash doesn't match then the package will fail to build.
Plenty, for example HPC tends to favour IBM's XL compilers.

Embedded tends to have their own vendor forks, even if based on GCC/clang, it isn't the same thing.

Then we have game consoles as well.
> Except we don't live in the past decade anymore.

You do know that is a terible attitude for a real-world security posture meant to protect non-theoretical people's property and information against actual exploits?

> In the past a bug in the SMS stack could be mass exploited and still not getting fixed anytime soon. Not anymore.

While you may wish for patches to always take care of exploits before any phones are compromised, that's not much more than wishful thinking. You assume that all 0day exploits are both known and fixed immediately. That is 100% false.
I use multiple languages every day. I can't be arsed to memorize whether the length of an array in this language was .length or .size or something else. And IDE helps me with that.

If myArray.l... doesn't autocomplete, I'll try with myArray.s... Compared to opening a browser and browsing through the language API docs it's exponentially faster.
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As an european, this is bullshit.
> No Dyson spheres, but there are black holes all over the place. Some people think those would make great computing devices

They’re crappy computing devices. Even if you figured out how to program one — and that’s an “if” that would make Sagittarius A* look like a neutrino — there’s no way to read the information out except Hawking Radiation, and that would take 10^70 years.

https://youtu.be/0GLgZvTCbaA (8:36)
This is the first time I've heard of this. Wow, yes! A blackhole is far more efficient at consuming energy than a Dyson Sphere... the hard part though is kickstarting the process I guess
You could possibly win an Ig Nobel Award out of it.
This is why I run a 1-task only Windows VM inside a Linux VM on a Mac. Ain’t nobody ripping through x3 0-days for my chats.
Could you be more specific about your issues with Flatpak? No idea what you’re talking about here.
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/heuristics-that-almost...
So it's just marketing and therefor it's ok to lie, because it's not marketing and people who see it will know it's a lie?
Not sure when or what you have tried. Linux on desktop is rock solid often not even needing to install anything to support latest hardware. Unless you want to there is no reason to even open terminal.

For those wanting to try Linux coming from Windows, I recommend latest fedora with kde. You will get good support for latest hardware and kde is close to Windows and just works.
Presumably if your super-advanced civilization needed more energy than could be fused from all the matter in a planet, you would have to get it from a star.
You can't (generally) legally possess a gun as a felon (even if you legally possessed it before), and it is illegal to gift a gun to a felon.
There's no such thing as a perfect solution, only solutions that improve a bad situation.
So, you never pay for anything on an app store? You host everything on your own hardware?

I am far more worried about the air quality that floats into my home than a website that's hosted somewhere else and isn't connected to anything but its own content.
For me the appeal of NixOS is that I never have to nuke my setup. I probably used to do that about three or four times a year when I was running a Debian variant. I'd get lazy and install a bunch of stuff globally with apt and pip and then not really know what state my machine was in, then nuke it and start afresh. With NixOS I know what state my machine is in all the time, can transfer the configs to another machine, and never have to nuke it. I don't know the Nix language, and haven't bothered to learn it. I do understand my own config files though and steal from others if I need to.