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I realized several years ago that there is a difference between what's new and what's important. There is almost nothing new, that's also important. So don't bother about what's new. Instead, look for the things that withstood the time. It's a choice to be distracted with what's new.

Some tips:

* Replace your smartphone with an old fashion Nokia. If something is really important, people will call you. All the other messages are not important.

* Don't read the news. Especially not online news. News is what it's named after: it's new, but rarely important. Terminate your membership on any journal that you have.

* If something is free, it's probably mend to distract you. Always think twice when something is "given" to you for free. You're not the customer of Gmail, Youtube, or Google! You're not the customer of commercial tv broadcasters! You're not the customer of free news sites! The customers are the advertisers. If you want something, it's often better when you have to pay for it.

* Use a text based web browser (I like elinks). If a webpage cannot be showed correctly, it's probably not interesting to look at.

* Don't read books younger than 10 years old. The older the book the better. They stood the wheel of time. There are many books written to do one thing, and one thing only, make a lot of profit. Especially books on self improvement, if they would work, you would never buy a self improvement book again. Which means no profits anymore.

* Similar for technology, new technology doesn't mean that it's better. Try to only use technology that stood the wheel of time. E.g. I recently start replacing paper books with ebooks. I think that E-readers are around long enough now to be something that's worthwhile to start using.

* Don't care about current stocks and funds trends too much. Current trends are new, but not per definition important. If you put a fixed amount of money into a retirement fund every month, you'll likely have enough when you're 65 to retire.

* Don't care about the current house prices and projections too much. If you're going to live in your house for the next 50 years, the current house price nor the projected house price doesn't matter at all. As long as you don't have to sell your house, the house price has zero effect on your life.

Good luck!
Cause Chrome implemented that eons ago. Of course Firefox isn't going to implement anything, Firefox has been a thorn on the side of web standards for a good decade now, thanks to Mozilla's management.
Also labor. If a billionaire buys a luxury product like a jet, or a yacht, or even just an expensive car, all the labor that goes into production and upkeep of that product is used up solely for the benefit of the billionaire. If wealth was distributed more fairly, all that labor would go into things that benefit a wider audience.
The tech is the easy part: iOS/Android have the best security teams in the world, and an unlimited budget, and sandboxing is an old, proven tech.

I guess that the politics here are the real barrier.
I'd guess that's not on the cards any more. Amazon has been building up in Australia over the last few years.

I think most Australians aren't yet aware how much better online shopping is everywhere else, and my bet is Amazon is getting ready to crush the local competition.
What prevents that waste head being as warm ad the peak in cosmic background background radiation
An IDE has lots of tools I need to use to get my work done efficiently.

Because there are so many tools it is not obvious which tools should I should use when and in which order. And it depends on the context. Should I search for a string globally or in the current file? Or current directory or project? Should I split the code-editor vertically or not, or should I split it horizontally.

What I'm fascinated by is how working with an IDE it feels like I'm constantly creating a program in my head for myself to execute, to use the tools and functions of the IDE in a given sequence. I am thinking ahead what tasks I need to do and then I do them, in other words I am writing a program in my head for myself to execute.

I wonder if people are doing this kind of thing generally, or think of it this way?
You assume wrong. Anything beyond iron is made in a supernova, i.e. in the last moments before it is not really a star at all, anymore.
For Origin Private File Systems, I would not expect any user agent to map things to the actual file system: there are notable functional problems especially on Windows, and it’s a very significant security hazard, all of which is neatly avoided by putting it all in the likes of a SQLite database.

First, the functional problems: file names are going to be a bit of a bother, to the point where if you back it by the actual file system you will require some kind of escaping mechanism, which loses you the exact one-to-one correspondence. Names are sequences of 16-bit code units, which means they need not be valid Unicode (ugh, I wish new additions to the browser platform would just start rejecting malformed Unicode), which will cause trouble on some platforms and will probably not be looked on favourably on others as having the potential to cause trouble in software not written to cope with that (e.g. on Windows I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a name with an unpaired surrogate, though it’s legal; on Linux, paths that aren’t UTF-8 are decidedly more common, though they still have a habit of breaking things). It also allows various file names that are forbidden in Windows at large, though in almost all cases you could with difficulty work around that on a per-process basis by throwing it into POSIX mode and/or using fully qualified (\\.\ or \\?\) paths.

Second, the security hazard: putting files with arbitrary names and contents on the file system is dangerous for a few reasons. The simplest is that there’s various buggy software that automatically reads files that get added to the file system, and more than a few times such software has had bugs in parsers that have led to privileged arbitrary code execution. A key purpose of Origin Private File Systems is that you don’t need to prompt the user for permission, because it’s supposed to be safe. I have no idea if this sort of vector was ever used back in the days when IE persisted its internet cache directly to files on the disk, but I can easily imagine such a thing happening now, and it could be really bad, given the right bug.
Is there a link that mentions this ? The bug was in the ImageIO/Core Graphics layer so are they re-writing all Core Graphics components in Swift ?
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Why does every "Show HN"-style thread on here always starts with a comment from somebody complaining about about the project's license, or how the project isn't "open-source enough" for them?

The authors are at liberty to choose whichever license they see fit, they have their reasons, what else is there to complain about? Can't we just debate the actual contents of the project?
Just a gamified website that regurgitates textbook material? I could do it this weekend if you like.
Maybe rent and wages will become livable and accessible to the layman in nyc now?
If you were using that much energy you would have the much bigger problem of disposing of all the waste heat afterward. You could not do that close to a star.
No.

I think you're just scared of people being heard, when they say things you disagree with, but then to abuse the sacred protection afforded by a defense of the victims of Nazis, as cover for your own desire to silence people? Wrong and awful.

So silencing people who expose the same speech control, silencing and censorship tactics of the Holocaust, in the name of "protecting" the victims of the Holocaust? It’s an amoral abomination. You're undermining the thing you're pretending to protect.
And comparing based on death counts? Obscene! So cannot compare with the Japanese war crimes, Carcassian genocide, Taiwan White Terror, because less deaths? But then you can compare in reverse? Illogical.

So… "Sorry mate"? You should be apologizing to yourself, not to me, for that kind of talk. And "thanks"? Why thank me? Because you think me having different ideas to yours is a fake pretext for you to try to silence me?

So, oh, I’m “unequipped for civilized discussions”? No, it’s only you unequipped for civilized discussions: because of this amoral stuff, not civilized at all. And unequipped for online discussions because you’re not thinking, as I said. If you update those perspectives tho, and start really thinking about what you say and the consequences, I think you’ll be equipped. So no stress. Thank you!

Or to put it like you said it:

I'm sorry but if you think that silencing people who expose the same tactics used in the Holocaust, is the right theme to do to "protect" those Holocaust victims, then you're the only one unequipped for civilized discussions full stop forever. Thank you!

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Also to the commenter above.. What's wrong with Gwyneth Paltrow? She's good. And are you 'under the impression' ("in your words") that it's a bad thing if a "non zero" amount of people think differently to you? And that censoring those different to you is a good thing? That's just fucking crazy. Hahaha :p;) xx ;p !!!
Are you saying that, even if extraterrestrial civilizations existed, looking for Dyson spheres wouldn't reveal them? Or are you saying that they don't exist, so nothing will reveal them? In either case, why?
Or use a bigger planet.
False dichotomy. There's a fucking gradient there between helicoptering and total lack of rules and boundaries. Plus helicopter parenting is often the opposite of having boundaries anyway!
Yes. (Docs at https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/new-cli/nix3....) Although it won't "throw it away" in the sense of uninstalling it; it's just that when you exit the shell, you'll be back in an environment which doesn't have the symlink to `ranger` on the PATH.
Evolution is also a constant fight for food calories, and modern societies have escaped that struggle.

Judging the dynamics of technological societies by those of evolving organisms is a common and extremely misleading trap.
Not necessarily as some stars are wasteful (use energy to fuse bigger atoms) or have material in the core it can't fuse. If you are just concerned with energy output per mass you can do better artificially in theory
The town I grew up in was small enough you needed to be rich enough for boarding school to have a "somewhere else" to send them.
Oh so it's not even open source core then.
It's not about whether tge statements are representative. It's about whether people believe them. It just so happens the statements are technically true.
I didn't! Thanks!
Haha I've not heard that one. Perl is very much an unreadable code soup.

I will have to try on next time I'm in plain JS. It doesn't happen often. I have a preference for strongly typed languages. I suspect I have something similar to dyslexia. I mix the spelling of words and sometimes even the words. Strong typing is the tool that makes that problem go away.
they are safe, unless they're being targeted by state actors.
My SO used to work in a bank in the business loan securities back office. Believe me. Lots of people and businesses apply even if they themselves see no realistic chance of receiving a loan.

And in private non business customers there are even a significant amount that have less than nothing to their name, living of welfare and still don't see, why they should not receive a loan from the bank for the newest iPhone. Or a new car. Or TV because "football's coming home".

Excuse my snarkiness, but the stories she told me from her apprenticeship in the bank, when she was customer facing were not painting a good picture of humans (Btw. well off or not). But that is probably the case in any consumer facing job.
What is terrible about explicitly specifying the source of the package definition? Seems like a dramatic conclusion to make based on a minor detail of the command line syntax.
Nickel Is Coming! https://github.com/tweag/nickel, e.g. https://github.com/tweag/nickel/blob/master/examples/polymor... . Looks really exciting to me!
Space is big. Like, really big. The galaxy could have a million civilizations more powerful than you could imagine, and there is no reason why we would necessarily be able to see any of them.

That assumes we would even be able to recognize one if we could see it.
This is always an interesting discussion. I think what you say is probably right "in practice" - that is, it is where ML should move now to improve its ability to generalize.

However, from a more statistical viewpoint, this approach is not "theoretically correct". The issue of unseen data arises for one simple reason: the model does not capture causal mechanisms in the DGP. The model instead learns a reduced form that represents the training sample. If the training sample is large, and the model expressive, this leads to incredible results. However, it fundamentally differs from a causal model in that it could not do true out-of-sample predicitions if these are counterfactual to the data. That is, it may work, but we can not rely on it. It may randomly fail (and not in dependence on robustness of smoothness of the model, but in joint dependence to the counterfactual DGP, if that makes sense)

This issue stands independent of the amount of data. Indeed, if you had a model that identified all relevant causal mechanisms, then of course more data is still better.

In some areas, ideas from causal statistical analyses seep in. Some physical systems are well described by ODE and PDEs - which can be learned by DNNs but retain their causal structure.

I see no general way forward, though. The approach you propose moves along the general idea of ML/AI - pose better challenges to the model and see if it works. This has worked well, perhaps it is the way to go.
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what does that have to do with anything I said? Yes, I guess they would be everywhere if their civilization was able to make Dyson spheres 1 year after the creation of the galaxy, also if they decided to

1. Not control their population for some reason.

2. Had some sort of interest in exploring.

3. Implicit also in the speed of light thing, would find it really interesting to send a portion of their population to the next available and suitable star which might be enough light years away to make communication impractical. I mean for our civilization there is some level of argument that says it would be a ridiculous idea to move to a new solar system and we have an intellectual exploratory streak in our species.

I mean we are currently not at the level of being able to do a Dyson sphere, it took us 4.543 billion years (age of earth) to get to the part that somebody could conceive of it. There is also some discussion as to whether or not our civilization is going to last, so given that and the other things I said it seems unlikely to me that any Dyson sphere civilization would actually build more than one, but maybe some build two because binary stars or some other weird circumstance which makes it worthwhile to do.

on edit: if we get to Dyson sphere building capabilities which seems really unlikely, will we build more than one? How many more?
I had the exact same idea a couple of years ago and I still wonder why no one has built it yet (at least not that I'm aware of).

I still think the idea is worth building, but it's also very easy to copy and the existing players could make it an optional mode in their apps or so and immediately have a big userbase.

Would you be interested in collaborating on a proof of concept?
Another idea I've been toying with is how to incentivize use of good ideas. What if the value of a patent is somehow determined by how used it is? Somewhat like a stock market for ideas. You could buy shares in ideas. If they become popular, the value of those shares increases. Owning shares in the idea protects you from litigation.

This isnt very well worked out at all, just some musings on how to fix other aspects of the current system.
You can choose not to use the coin part and use only the browser as i have been using for several years now
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This looks good but you need to import the data into it. It would be great if it can be connected to an existing DB.
From the discussion, came across https://nocodb.com/ but the authorization levels doesn't seem fine grained enough. For ex. limiting access for group of users to a particular schema in postgresql
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Or it is okay to pay less for your labour as the customers can bribe you to do it. Oh I mean tip...
This is simply not true. Synthetic data is a huge research arm of ML work.
This FS doesn’t much look like an FS either—certainly it’s way off what SQLite needs. For mutating a file, you get the options write, seek, and truncate, but they don’t do anything until you close the file. It’s essentially equivalent to the write-to-a-temporary-file-and-then-atomic-rename-overwrite pattern.

You can implement exactly the same thing on top of an ArrayBuffer that you’ll put in an IndexedDB with no fuss—and if you were doing it that way, then you could even decide whether to go for something like a rope for intermediate editing, or mutating the ArrayBuffer directly, whereas if you use FSA you have no control over which of the two approaches it might use, or something else altogether.
I can’t find any fault with your post, I think any confusion is due to an error in judgement on my part that dissing my own demographic as a euphemism for people who, uh, historically got more recognition for less work was a reasonably diplomatic thing to do.

Silver lining: your comment added insight to the conversation even if it was a response to clumsiness on my part.
Vis looks like a very minimal but thoroughly modern alternative.

https://github.com/martanne/vis
There won't be a war.
The ingredients for the most primitive, low-tech, hayseed fusion reactors are sort of rare. But anybody with any sophistication at all has no need for such primitive processes. They fuse plentiful regular hydrogen, helium, and, not to be wasteful, whatever they get from fusing those, too.
Those days when you dress up, go to your local bank and the banker makes a decision based on their 'knowledge' about you, are long long gone. Loan applications are standardised and things like credit scores play big role. Things are probably a little bit different when we are talking 7-8 digit loans.
There are tons of CPython users AKA Python's default implementation... the software world is full of high level abstractions built on top of C.
Neither. I just thought it opens an interesting question: What happens in the long run if some parts of the world embrace eugenics and gene therapy (in whatever form), while others do not, e.g. under ethical grounds or simply different priorities.
Why it can be sublime to love someone who doesn’t love you back
Moreover almost all local power companies (e.g. ewz in Zurich) have laid fiber cables and lease them to ISPs. Most of them don’t even sell internet access directly, therefore they don’t have the same conflict of interest that Swisscom has.
Great comment, this expands the issues really well for me.

I didn't notice before that this was supposed to be a safe api usable without permission, that indeed changes things.

Antivirus software often reads all files coming to the system, run with admin / kernel driver privileges, and still has lots of parsing and other vulnerabilities (project zero blog wrote about some of these). They tend to try to unwrap all container formats. I wonder if they'll start diving into SQLite files used by browsers and that way manage to expose their privileged attack surface to malicious web content.
If you don't mind, may I ask, how you are able to keep up with a world that is increasingly addicted to visual distractions (facebook pictures, tikotok videos, instagram reels etc) and content that is moving from text to video formats.

Also (and sorry for so many questions I never met anyone blind from birth), do you feel more at peace than people with vision (anecdotally)? Because people can barely sit for 15 minutes in meditation and I always wondered what would not being aware of one sense completely felt like (not losing but never having).
I believe Dyson spheres don't rotate, so they just have to be able to handle the stress of the central sun pulling uniformly on the surface.

Per the Ringworld not being stable, I think the same math applies to the sphere as well as the Ring, so the sphere will need attitude jets to maintain position with respect to the central sun.

Dyson swarms seem drastically easier to construct. We could build one example of that habitat fairly soon!
> ... Are you that out of touch with how much most women in the USA are deeply ingrained with associating their natural beauty with their own worth? ...

Just because you don't want to phrase things like that to anyone does not mean they don't happen to people. What you said is just more evidence that our culture/"folk" worldview conflates physical attractiveness and general relationship-worthiness; you're taking this conflation at face value, just in a slightly different context, and saying that it's thus impossible to work on being more valued in the context of a relationship. (After all, how many people really want to date someone they don't find physically attractive? That's why she's bawling her eyes out - you've just said to her face that you wouldn't have wanted to date her in the first place!) Which doesn't make all that much sense now, does it?

(I'm not saying that your attitude is not common. It is both very common and quite dysfunctional. Including, of course, for the women who are drawn into putting so much reliance on their physical attractiveness, and so little on everything else that could make them more appealing and desirable. This is, by the way, a common complaint from feminist(!)-leaning folks - it's neither some sort of secret nor something that has ever marked anyone as "out of touch".)

> ... and no one should rely on that as a mechanism ...

It's not like you've proposed any alternative in this thread. You've even said that some non-trivial fraction of guys are basically seen as undateable, so even a fairly low chance of success would still be better than that.
"Those jobs aren't coming back"
> Is there any data on how many people care about said promises as opposed to care about not having an actively hostile and prickly interface?

git being popular
I think when sums go over what local worker can earn in their lifetime. The life in prison is fully justified. That sounds to me as reasonable standard.
Big Mac purchasing power parity index
It depends on which sandbox you are using. In Qubes OS on desktop, you rely on hardware virtualization, which is virtually unbreakable.
BBC Betsie: Perl program to create an automatic text-only website version (1999)
The brain’s reading of the body’s state is key to mental health
> Poland president then instantly calls art. 5. What happens next?

Yes, it could be bad. But it would take time for NATO to mobilize a substantial force. Things could cool a bit in the meantime.

Maybe, we'd see some skirmishes in the air. Maybe NATO would enforce a no-fly zone like it was done in Libya?

Probably, it would start a new cold war, where the west increasingly isolate Russia.

Ironic, since Russian fear of being surrounded and isolated by NATO is often cited as the Russian motivation.

This whole thing is stupid. It'll only make Russia more poor. Which is why I suspect they won't invade.