skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, the truth comes out! The article was posted to poo-poo vaccines in general and COVID vaccines in particular! I know! The vaccines are a problem, so Trump can't be blamed for the pandemic, and thus shouldn't have lost the 2020 election, and therefore is Our Rightful President!

How could I have been so blind?!?
The goal is only to find the file-name (e.g. the algorithms).
> We use your phone number to connect you with friends and family. Beyond that, we never collect, store or use any personal information and never show you ads. Never. For real.

From their homepage. Contact Info and Contacts sharing are inherent to this app, it seems. It's worth noting that "beyond that, we never collect [more personal information]" is pretty clearly incorrect, since they do at least also collect contacts.

Their Privacy Policy[0] also does not inspire confidence:

> We may share personal data we get with service providers who help us provide our Services

We're not selling your data, we're sharing it.

Which service providers? What are their policies around my data?

> We may transfer your personal data to service providers, advisors, potential transactional partners, or other third parties in connection with the consideration, negotiation, or completion of a corporate transaction or proceeding in which we are acquired by or merged with another company or we sell, liquidate, or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets

We're not selling your data, we're transferring it.

This clause esp. makes me loath to sign up, since all this good will around privacy protections goes away in a sale. Given that this was made by WhatsApp devs, perhaps they understand the value of data...

[0] https://www.halloapp.com/privacy/
From the guidelines.

> Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.

&

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

I could see why the OP wanted to edit it if they were following the submission guidelines. You can make a case to keep the original title as is, but you can also make the case that “WOW! Signal” in the original title sounds like linkbait. So if there’s an error here, it looks like a good faith error in an attempt to follow the guidelines. :)
Except SETI sends the equivalent of a greeting card, it would be futile to send a big buzz without information because the huge distances forbid a conversation. This means that the WOW signal should have decoder-friendly information, but IIRC it didn't.
You're speaking my language here, FWIW. I just think that the market for IaC is big enough for a product to have its cake and eat it too. Doing that well is extremely challenging, though.
There’s an approach in design thinking that you should only ever present half-baked prototypes to a team or client - if they see a somewhat polished product, one a few things can go through their mind: you’ve put so much effort into it, that you must really know what you’re doing, and will accept it as is with no further input; they might also think that you’ve committed to an idea that they didn’t endorse or have a hand in. They might also feel pity that you put in so much effort, and just let you do it.

All of these things relate to your points: you want them to contribute to the creative process, which ultimately results in a better product, and makes them feel like they’ve made a positive contribution. Everyone wins: you get hired again because you deliver a good product while making them feel good.
I really don’t think they’re more than good enough on highways. Even teslas still veer over when they encounter on-ramp-merges.
Narrator:
A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.

Business woman on plane:
Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?

Narrator:
You wouldn't believe.

Business woman on plane:
Which car company do you work for?

Narrator:
A major one.
Maybe because it feels self-promotional? So along with mine (https://maya.land/posts/) I'll share my blogroll (https://maya.land/blogroll.opml) of the many, many RSS feeds I follow. :)
> Ah, cherry picking, the best of all logical fallacies.

I don't appreciate your tone here. Everything I posted was the result of a quick web search. It just so happened that the FRED data I found corroborated the numbers in the study I found. Maybe you missed it, but both the study and FRED data are specifically about private sector workers.

Here is some more data (not hidden behind a paywall like your study):

https://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet

It looks like at the end of 1977 there was 85M people employed (total) in the US. Which is certainly not "moving above the 90-million mark" as your page suggests. So maybe your data is cherry picked? Is your data even US data? The page you provided doesn't say.

> It's already known that those pensions didn't turn out too well either

You didn't back this up with anything. Private pensions are protected by ERISA that was passed in 1974. It requires employers to have separate assets to cover their pensions and created the PBGC which insures them. The only pensions that I've seen go belly up are state (Kentucky) pensions where the state governments (not beholden to ERISA) raided the pension funds for other things.

> Why not own some productive assets?

If by "productive assets" you mean real estate, the price to play is way too high. And on a moral note, allowing family homes to be commoditizated into investment vehicles for the rich is part of the problem. If, instead, "productive assets" is just your fancy way of saying stocks and their derivatives then yeah; I'm invested in the market. I'm not happy about it, but there isn't another choice.

> And now the bias shows.

Yes I'm biased. Fuck Wall Street. It has nothing to do with "investing in companies". It's all about wealth extraction (from companies and now from dumb money). It produces nothing of value.
clicks unfriend

breathing intensifies

screams in Miamian
Smalltalk,

a become: b

Now all references of a and b across the complete image are changed, invalidating all assumptions done at every call site sending messages to each of them.
For Python libraries that do significant computation, the actual code is often in C, C++, or Fortran with the Python part just serving to tie the libraries together.
It reduces wealth inequality. That was the original claim, which the comment I was responding to denied.
True enough, but it does outline the potential nutritional shortfalls of extreme food regimes, most of which I was aware of. It seemed to sum up most of the obvious shortfalls - I was only passingly interested and this was a low hanging answer. I have seen numerous extreme diets. Many of which are OK in the short term - but not in the longer term. Unless the OP replies - I have no idea in detail what befell him?
It’s both, right? The competitors may very well be just as safe in those conditions, but we wouldn’t know based on their liability stance; the Fight Club equation simply doesn’t apply.

With Mercedes, the Fight Club equation gives something like a mathematical guarantee of their estimated confidence of the safety of the system. There are no mathematical guarantees from the competitors.
As my contribution, how about some sugar that DSLifies your perl implementation (should produce the exact same output as your Pulumi.pl on any perl from the last N years, tested on perl5 v24 as I wrote it):

http://hermit1.scsys.co.uk/~matthewt/pulumi

(for anybody uninterested in my perl stupidity, please skip to the 'use Pulumi;' line which is the start of the actual user written code - everything before that would in a sensible world be a library but I wanted to present the example as a single file so chose violence ;)
Yeah, holding "Down" was an incredibly effective strategy at 5fps. At least until the tab crashed.
Great to see OR highlighted here! Thank you for sharing.

The syntax demonstrated is very similar to the syntax of other libraries, including the python tools provided by Gurobi [1].

For experimentation and rapid prototyping LP, QP, MIP and geometric programming problems, I highly recommend CVXPY [2]. CVXPY allows the user to select a solver. Among the solvers is GLOP [3].

[1] https://www.gurobi.com/resource/modeling-examples-using-the-...

[2] http://cvxpy.org

[3] https://www.cvxpy.org/tutorial/advanced/index.html#choosing-...
Do you know what the Fed rate is for?
No stake, but what if a civilization just doesn't care any more? For instance, we all download our consciousness into the Singularity and our every wish is fulfilled. Why bother doing anything else as long as you have enough solar power hitting your planet's surface for whatever you are currently doing?
The second possibility is that there’s just another form of communication using a known or unknown physics phenomena which becomes common for long term usage. There’s this baked in presumption that we have discovered all of the basic technology and physics in the last couple hundred years that civilizations would be using for millions of years.
tweet deleted, but this gem https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/case-study-how-ma... is full of "simply" and "just", quite surprising considering "describing something that might be considered an entire doctoral research project in performant terminal emulation as “extremely simple” somewhat combatively". Someone is owed apology.
But do civilizations need that much energy?
I get the use case, I don't get why there is a need for yet-another app for it when there group messaging apps can do that.

> in a way that doesn't bombard Messages

I'm pretty sure that you can just mute notifications from WhatsApp/Telegram/Matrix/XMPP/Messenger-du-jour...
yes, that also happens. this is one area that the US makes extremely difficult for its tax persons, and even large US companies can only do these economically unsubstantive transactions on their offshore earnings (unless it relies on lying).

So there is a lot that other countries can try to legislate where the Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich and other permutations have limited efficacy.

from your country's perspective, I don't know.
Only if they aren't attending degrees where compiler design is part of the curriculum, which if that is the case kind of speaks for the quality of the institution.
I guess the point is that if there are a large number of big, variable, competing effects with interactions etc, you can't just look at each of them in isolation and expect them to predict a large fraction of the variance. So you need a more sophisticated (possily impossibly complex) model or study, as you said.
In the nudging example, this appears to imply something like "conditioned on a large effect having been measured using a sufficient amount of data (!), you have to be extremely confident in the study design and model to actually believe it"?
I can relate, and I'm probably biased too.

My take is that the teams and products I've worked on rarely, if ever, need to solve the same problems that Facebook needs to solve.

For me React has been the least trappy (is that a word?), but it can still be a total rat's nest.
All these other companies are just wasting their time because for 5+ years now, Teslas only require someone in the drivers seat for legal reasons (source: https://www.tesla.com/autopilot)
I too wish hasura supported query caching in OSS. Not sure if you need to rewrite exactly, though. You could put something like GraphCDN in front of it or write your own cache layer that works similar to GraphCDN.
Or civilizations find a better way to generate energy.

Why would you build this big mass around a star when you can create your own, much more efficient fusion reactor where and when you need it? Stars are insanely inefficient; they convert less than 1% of their mass into energy, take billions of years to do it, and you can’t turn them off when you aren’t using them. Plus, if you wanted to use it for some exotic warp drive or something, you would have to haul the mass of a star around. None of it really makes sense to me.
I can't understand SETI at all. We have been listening to the sky for over 40 years with radio scopes and have found nothing, yet funding is persistently available to keep it up. Meanwhile, there are credible reports of UFO/UAP/whatever flying about and nobody will put sensors out to try to gather data on those things. Just recently the US congress has hearings about how the US does not really control its own airspace due to these objects buzzing about, many of which are reported to so radically outperform available human tech that there is only one plausible explanation for them. Yet the SETI community is complete crickets on this issue. Is the goal of SETI to fail? Is it just a radio astronomer job program? Is the UFO stigma really that great? I honestly don't understand doing something that fails consistently when there is ample evidence of a successful outcome by observing things right here on Earth.
Ok but I detected that now there are less posts than 10 years ago, and I have the same feeds or more

People get old, and do not write new posts in their blogs

Young people, most dont use blogs, they use fb, ig, ..
Yep. I concur.

Not necessary to have a phone support (such as your entire address book/contacts or your identity/MyCard) fot social indexing in these days and ages.

As Signal App have adequately demonstrated that.
Even climate scientists don't argue it'll be extinction level, it'll just be really bad for some regions, great if you live in Siberia and suddenly Canada and Russia have shipping lanes in the arctic and are growing tomatoes. Calm down.
Also, your employer funded therapist will likely have a specific mandate to basically help you get back to work, meaning no longterm solutions or help, only bandaids.
Oxford also has a definition of "scare quotes", e.g. "quotation marks that a writer puts around a word or phrase to show that it is used in an unusual way, usually one that the writer does not agree with" (https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/eng...) or "Quotation marks placed round a word or phrase to draw attention to an unusual or arguably inaccurate use." (https://www.lexico.com/definition/scare_quotes). M-W does too. Cambridge Dictionary too. Quotation marks. Not just "air quotes" or "italics" or "/s" (in what universe does one think "/s" is more proper English than "scare quotes"?).

So. What's the problem, again? This is well enough established for Oxford, and seems to have only been a huge surprise to you.

(Edit: per MLA, the term was coined in 1956, but the use of punctuation in such a manner can be traced back to the second century BC. https://style.mla.org/scare-quotes-origins/ Fun fact!)
I have come to the same conclusion. More than likely we’ll know about other civilizations not from radio waves but from either a celestial event they have created or by them visiting us (and letting us know).

Searching for radio waves is like digging for celestial dinosaurs without a shovel. Just hoping there’s a fossil on the top soil.
Eh it might suck for a while but I really doubt that the situation will go beyond human survivability.
I can't tell if it's meant to be taken seriously or not. But if it is, someone needs to learn that rants backed by very little thought do not get taken seriously.

And even if it wasn't meant to be taken seriously... this reads like it was written with a 15-year-old's idea of what "clever" is. I don't know of many people that want to read very much of that.
Inverted population pyramids are forming almost everywhere, excluding Africa for now. If you read this 18 year old book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon%27s_New_Map you will see that it wasn't an unexpected development for the policymakers.
In the context of the Fermi Paradox, that's not really an issue. Let me explain.

Imagine the chance of a civilization getting from our point to a Dyson Swarm without destroying themselves is 1% for wahtever reasons you like. If there are 10,000 equivalents to us within 10,000 light years it becomes incredibly likely we won't see one of these. You can argue we're "first" but being "first" out of 100 or 10,000 civilizations gets unlikely.

Now imagine there are 5 instead of 10,000. Then not seeing any gets much more likely.

So my point is that not seeing any evidence of these so far is still evidence of something and that something is most likely to be that civilizations reaching even our point is rare.

As for destruction of a species at our point, that's a whole separeate avenue of discussion. But the short version is that this is incredibly likely. Even if all the superviruses get released and all the nuclear weapons get detonated humanity will still likely survive.

A lot of our advances were delayed not because that advance is hard but because we didn't know any better and just coming up with that idea is the problem. Once you know the structure of matter and ideas like smelting steel (which is realtively low tech) can be recovered way quicker than they're lost.

1,000 years ago we were throwing spears at each other. A little over 100 years ago we took our first flight. In the last 50+ years we've gone from landing on the Moon to reducing LEO payload costs from $50,000+/kg to arguably <$1,000/kg and it's likely in the next 20 years that'll come down to possibly as low as $100/kg.

Barring some cosmic catastrophe it seems that permanent habitation of orbitals within the next 1,000 is pretty conservative.
I also don't have insurance, but I'm not worried about it. I'm too poor to afford medical care, so if I need it I'll just emergency room and skip the bill. The amount of paperwork, bureaucracy, and action during limited windows which is necessary to get free insurance from the state is prohibitive for something I almost certainly won't use anyway.
I find that in some ways tech is actually easier for me as a neurodivergent person than other fields that I've worked in(restaurant and production work mostly). With tech I am able to manage my exposure to social situations much easier which is a huge trigger for me. I am diagnosed as ASD and I suffer massively from rejection dysphoria. On my worst days even an awkward snag in conversation can leave me feeling as though I've said that wrong thing, and in the past these scenarios might spin me out for days or even a week at a time.

For me, my diagnosis provided me with a framework for aspects of my personality that I thought I could brute force into compliance. Things I thought I would somehow mature out of. It also gave me access to a community with similar struggles to me which was eye opening.
Thanks! I've yet to set up the website (planning to go for a simple static site), and I mainly intend to post to HN haha (partly because of the nature of topics and discussion).

Thanks for your links, the point of doing something once in a while no matter how small really makes sense and was something I hadn't considered.
>laughing their full heads off every time they think about how there are people who do free work for Google who think they are making the world a better place or something.

So when you go to a store that Google Maps says is open, and find it's closed, you refuse to correct the hours and go "MUHAHAHAHA...I refuse to help Google, take that, corporate scum!"
I think the type of person who gravitates towards open source software is the type to not spend too much time on socials online. If you value net privacy, your time, your attention, you’re less likely to spend time commenting and starring. I see it as sort of the direct opposite of being ‘consumerist,’ tbh.
Well it's 1933 light years away, so maybe they will sometime after Earth year 3853 AD.
lactobacillus reuteri? I can't find the specific one you're saying but I found one on amazon that was the one single strain of lactobacillus reuteri for $50. No it looks like you were correct at least that it exists.
> Over the last three years, I have learned two valuable lessons about writing for my blog. The first is to keep a list of ideas for articles. The reason for this is that sometimes ideas come as if from a fire hose, and at other times I feel like I am dying of thirst in the driest desert on earth. Having a list of ideas evens things out. When I am in the desert, I have a canteen of ideas from which to drink. This is how I survive to put out fairly regular content.

Yup, I don’t know how other people do it but lists work great for me.

I’ve got a big list of blog ideas (I write outlines when the ideas strike) and an even bigger list of startup/SaaS ideas that I’ve just made a newsletter for (since I’ll never get to executing on all of them of course)

Lists are the biggest tool in my tool belt, even at work
I didn’t look terribly long so I can’t find a reference, but I believe when Kelvin coined the term he used the daemon spelling
How do you get to speak on behalf of “any civilization”?
It is not at all unreasonable for an advanced civilization to have lifespans in the thousands of years or simply be unbounded.
They are more commonly used just to communicate to the reader about which part of the headline is paraphrased and which part is not. A subject’s diction can be very important in many news stories and so quotations of this type can communicate a lot of information in a short headline. It also indicates when a phrase is not editorial in nature, but a claim made by someone else.
Also if you can build a space habitat that can support 72 generations. Why ship it away anyway? That is bit nasty move to those eventual descendants. Instead put it orbit somewhere in system. Where you have at least chance to maintain or rescue the people. And save a lot on propulsion. Just build enough of them house people you need.

I never understood the whole colonization for sake of colonization. In past it was either glory or better living conditions. And you will have much better living conditions if you don't send it to empty space on unknown risky voyage...
Not the OP, but if you think about it, putting devices at Lagrange points is in some ways the start of the process of building one.

The JWT is the most famous device at such a point, but there are a few others as well. [0]

The great thing about a swarm is that you can do it one at a time. Change the timescale to a thousand years or more, and there implied size even with our current level of tech would be nearly unimaginable compared to what we have today, while probably nowhere near a sphere.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_objects_at_Lagrange_po...

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EDIT: meant to add - even if the world were destroyed today, the JWT would still transmit signals for some time (I don’t know it’s design lifetime, but likely years if not decades).
The issues tab. Mostly to check for any critical / common pitfalls (by searching for issues with the most comments) and to get a sense of how battle-hardened the repo is (how many issues have been raised).
Yeah, so much unlike the present, where you can go wherever you want (if the government has built a road to do so).