skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our nuclear storage problem will not change whether or not we build more nuclear power plants or shutter them. The problem will remain "forever" regardless.

So I am for new nuclear power projects because we will need generations of people that can steward the waste regardless. And it's important to keep the ability and technical expertise with these materials for centuries. If the industry is abandoned the risk of a mishandling the waste will increase every year.
Finding amino acids on an asteroid confirms something we already knew. They can be available without showing evidence of life.

The real mystery thus remains life itself. The fact that on Earth it used amino acids to express itself doesn't mean that it is necessarily limited to that single choice. It also doesn't mean that the same process would repeat in a different world, even if all the preconditions were met, i.e. the necessary for the presence of life as we can recognize it.

For all our understanding of (earthly) biology, and the tools at our disposal that we use to decide that something is alive, we still don't really know what life is, or how it begins. On another world it might as well kickstart the magic with a different medium than amino acids (e.g. more crystalline structures, some energy forms such as light or electricity, etc), with entirely different rules of replication and sustenance. It would probably make life look different to us, potentially not recognizable or even detectable.

Heck, it could happen right here, under our nose and we'd be none the wiser.
I agree. I think another way to sum it up is simply a combination of nihilism and pessimism that has been growing in America for decades.
I think we need to be cautious about what ML is picking up. Finding patterns is great, but we need to be fairly sure about what those patterns are so we don't misapply them in some different context we don't understand.

As for whether finding patterns is discovery, I feel very whatever about it.
I think like anything it's a tool that can be used to great effect.

However, I suppose there's a possibility we could become over-reliant on it and blind to the sorts of new ideas that you'd generate from manually exploring the data set yourself.

For example, if the state-of-the-art AI asteroid discovering program has a blind spot where it never detects a certain type of asteroid, we might stop finding that type of asteroid altogether. Then when the training datasets themselves are mostly derived from asteroids that the AI had previously found, any blind spots and biases could end up self-reinforcing.

Then again, is this really all that different to the many human-driven blind spots science has had in the past?
I hate the "it was all a dream" take. You see it for literally every movie and it's a completely lazy way to analyze a film. I like this idea better; that maybe, just maybe, they took inspiration from a real life event where the pilot did survive. There's numerous stories from the 50's and 60's of pilots landing in farmers fields having ejected from their disintegrated aircraft.
I am assuming thats with huge color compression though - I forget the details of MPEG1 - 100mbit can be GREAT or CRAP depending on the codec
Actually the problem here is that it's possible to reinit the PIN when the safe is still closed... so the trick to open the safe is to reinit the PIN then send the new PIN

The second problem is the possibility to open the PINpad from the outside with the safe closed.

It seem to me that those two problems could easily be fixed by the manufacturer... and I can't understand that they just didn't do it right upfront
R is typically 5-10x slower, but other than that, yes.
Is there an easy way to use Python 3.11 on Debian?
>“The next day, our flight profile was duplicated on the SR-71 flight simulator at Beale AFB, Calif. The outcome was identical. Steps were immediately taken to prevent a recurrence of our accident."

When he says 'flight profile', is he referring to the full flight plan/mission (i.e. it could have been simulated beforehand and prevented the crash), or does he mean the specific circumstances that arose during the flight (the malfunction)?
As someone on the left, my read is that welfare programs are designed to fail, and that’s a bipartisan consensus.

Republicans don’t want to spend the money and democrats only want to help people who “need” it. So you can’t get food stamps if you have more than $2,500 in the bank, which sends the clear message: don’t even bother trying to get ahead.
> You either need to get a new TV set or an ATSC 3 decoder to watch tune it in. [...] until they start turning off ATSC 1 transmitters

How did things get this bad? In the 90s and early 00s, you could watch virtually any OTA television channel with a television made half a lifetime earlier in the 1950s. New technology like color television was introduced, but remained compatible with old TVs.

In the 50s through 90s virtually nobody gave a damn about e-waste. Today everybody plays lip service to the idea, yet we're obsoleting recently purchased technology faster than ever before, and for what? So you can see individual pores on some ball-kicker's nose?
There are plenty of jobs that don't need to exist at all. No amount of discipline and focus will turn a bullshit job[1] into one that contributes something meaningful. Perhaps we need to normalize working less so the burden/gift of "real" jobs can be split more evenly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
Actually there are small leaks, releases and spills at these places quite regularly. Just because it doesn't make front page news doesn't mean it's a solution.

Plus now you have to maintain and staff those facilities for millennia...
Neil Postman used to say that we live in an era that is awash in information overabundance but simultaneously starving for wisdom. One of the immediate and great potential use for this kind of AI (ie, Skinner Boxes for computation) is to help us focus on what matters when faced with overwhelming piles of chaff.
I would have said Keith Richards
> Often schools teach you to only focus on the big O and ignore the constant multiplier

That's news to me. Which schools teach you that? Where I studied CS, algorithmic complexity and Big-O was taught in Graph Theory (Discrete Maths), and no attempt was made to imply it was about run time in milliseconds.

The problem might be that there's plenty of self-taught programmers writing blogs that talk about Big-O without understanding what it means, and people who "learn" about it from said blogs.

There's no theoretical mismatch with reality here. The only confusion might lie in the minds of self-taught programmers.
They don't have to outlive us, they just have to wait until our navy is occupied with a different engagement. Why open the world up to such a risk?
This thread is filling up fast! In my experience, it's hard to get over feeling like burnout is a "first world problem" and that I'm spoiled. Heh.

Best of luck to you in all your endeavors!
I remember the paper and the conclusion you say is doubtful. Even when the data was heavily distorted and resolution reduced to insanely big pixels it still could do this. So, since magic does not exist, there is probably a hidden cofactor (like xrays done on different machines, one in a hospital in a white neighbourhood, the other in a black one, and the machine giving a technical artifact like colorrange). This is just an example of course, I dont know the cofactor.

Here is the study:https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7...
When i said insanely i didnt remember correctly, just saw even if reduce to 4x4 pixels they claim a statistical difference. So mind blowingly ludicrous resolution might have been a better term.
Depends on what you mean by "100-year language". If it's in the pg sense (i.e. a language that's on the main branch of the evolutionary path of programming languages) I think the answer is clearly the ML family.

If you mean "what language is most likely to be around in 2100 AD", realistically we'll have C for as long as we'll have computers.
>Yandex is a great alternative to Google, btw, provided you're not searching for something the Kremlin has an interest in distorting.

You mean like any topics related to a political election in your country? Russia has a vested interest in helping politicians get elected in other countries that help it's interests over those of others. Given the current internal state of Russia (even pre-invasion) it's unlikely that the interests of Russia even close to align with the interests of the people of those countries. Other nations do the exact same thing but we're talking specifically about Yandex here.

Personally I care more about the large scale political future of my country than I do about whatever random social issue Google is going after that has minimal impact on me.
It really depends. Most prepaid phones require some sort of identify verification in the US. There may be a few that you can buy with cash, but i don't have the cash to find out which ones. I think it is also important to note that they are probably doing some sort of GPS and tower tracking, so even if you buy prepaid... activating it and what not probably discloses enough location information to help identify you.
I would hesitate caution before assuming that “waiving due diligence” is a magic get out of jail free card. It’s rarely that simple in a contractual dispute.
This is a solved problem, oil rigs, off shore oil platforms, etc.
>But it was never economical enough to develop at scale.

Come on, please read things before citing them...
They need to prove that he leaked it if they want him to be convicted of it. And they want that because the punishment for it is far more severe.
Why Is the Financial Times Trying to Hide the Wealth Porn?
Yes, birds are feathered theropod dinosaurs.
> It's a microblogging service, not the BBC. Full Stop.

*publicly listed. so they need to be transparent as far as market information goes, while not disclosing corporate secrets or breaching personal data regulations.

and the CEO said from the start that they cant disclose more details regarding their 5% assessment.
At least, for a while it was under the command of Captain James Kirk.
We had a really good discussion about this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=strangattractor&next...

Buyer's remorse. He tweeted while on the can again and is now having second thoughts about buying a turd:)
I left tech some time ago for medicine after being a SWE for 8 years (currently in Medical School, but I initially considered Nursing School too).

Burn out played a role, but the most driving factor was that I couldn't care about what I was working on most of the time. I didn't want to spend my productive years adding the next useless feature, "making that button pop", or tweaking the sign up form to try to increase sales. I felt that I wasn't using my time right.

I saved enough and quit my job. I could've made a lot more money if I kept working as a SWE, but now the feeling I have that I'm doing the right thing for me is well worth it. So far I'm very happy with the change.
I did not discuss my burnout with my previous employer since the corporation's internal structure led to my fierce desire to leave. It was a toxic place, and I felt like it robbed me of my will to carry on my day-to-day life.

I did discuss my burnout with my new employer and joined as a contractor in fear that the thought of being "tied down" by a W2 position would once again make me feel hopeless and trapped. They understood, and I initially only took on a few hours per week. Once I felt more comfortable with the workload and the company's culture, I increased the hours and eventually accepted their offer.

The contract itself found me when a past colleague of mine learned that I had quit. So, yeah, I must admit that my situation includes the privileges of an extensive network formed by a long career and a financial cushion that I used while mentally recovering.

I hope you can climb out of this hole that you're in. Speaking to the right therapist also helped me make sense of my options. Understanding that I wasn't stuck with my lot and had a choice in my destiny was the first pinprick of light in the darkness.
You are correct, which is why they wanted to get him convicted of leaking it.
Makes more financial sense to try to weasel out and say Twitter lied therefore the whole agreement is tossed out. This is Musk we're talking about.
Great timing, supercomputer upgrade lead to successful forecast of eruption
Just as an aside, love your username. Against The Day is my favorite Pynchon.
People who've only done coding bootcamps probably shouldn't sign on to Hacker News and start preaching about how Big O is wrong.
> Have a simple webserver and want to do some things out of band? In jvm I would use a concurrent queue and add tasks to it, and spin up some threads consuming that. In python you either spin up a new process and deal with the communication problems, become a master of greenlet and python internals, or most likely default to celery which need it's own deployment.

This is probably risky in production anyway, because the load balancer (typically) has no insight into these background tasks and will happily kill a process/pod/etc that is running a background process. You should probably dispatch the workload to an external task runner (e.g., Lambda or a Kubernetes Job or similar) unless you really don't care if the background task gets killed mid-flight. (I've had a few dev teams ignore these warnings and then blame infrastructure when their background jobs got killed mid-flight occasionally).
Then there are the social issues...

Racism will always exists - it even exists in various African countries(more as tribalism) - I have relatives in various countries.

After doing research into BLM and watching various debates, BLM's arguments register to me as sensational and consistently seem to fall apart in the face of basic statistics.

With regards to LGBTQ, I had a trans friend who killed himself. He was really miserable and I'm not sure "transitions" are really a good first option - they should be a last resort. Also, he didn't kill himself because he was ostracized. People actually liked him...

I used to be a little softer on abortion, but after watching a video I can't unsee, I just can't swallow that anymore.
They could have towed a diesel generator and used it for charging.
Is this just whataboutism? The GP didn’t anything about Google.
Reno Trusts Historical Building Records to Strato Blockchain
For compiled languages, you would only every be able to do this for code compiled specifically for the target machine. I wonder if there are numbers out there for what percentage of code that applies to in the real world? My naive assumption is that it's a single digit percentage.
Axon halts plans to make a drone equipped with a Taser
You also don’t end up as a certificated employee like a nurse or pharm md or even a chemical engineer - so those with “IT/programming” training but end up working elsewhere or in a different line don’t get easily counted.
Apple launches its own 'Buy Now, Pay Later' service
Seconded. It just works.
The title's fine.
Well, those are at most op-codes. The language is significantly more complex and everything is extremely context sensitive. Plus, it requires one hell of an interpreter to get it to work.

Then again, if we're comparing it to Perl 6/Raku...
UpMyArt (UMA) is the first of its kind marketplace for peer-to-peer rental of fine art. The idea is to make art more available and impactful through sharing.
He's saying he doesn't want to pay the agreed price if Twitter lied about the number of real users. I find it hard to believe you're not understanding this
Counterpoint: AlphaGo discovered new moves in the Game of Go, to the extent that books have been written about those new moves and how they change modern opening theory[1].

In Go, there are hundreds of years of tradition studying the games of past master players, and analyzing how their innovations changed our cultural understanding of the game. Humanity can't have it both ways. If those contributions were valuable when made by a human, they should be equally valuable when made by an AI.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Using-AlphaGos-Enlarged-Corner-Enclos...
I really liked this article, but if I can provide some sort of drive-by advice (also for others looking to write technical content), providing some examples of where to use various traits would really help, e.g. what kind of data structure one would implement !Send on.
Not necessarily.

Mastodon, Pleroma and Pixelfed intentionally lack features that would be geared for influencers. Mastodon has no "quote tweet" to avoid having people taking conversations out of context. Pixelfed even has admin-controlled options to disable "likes" and display of counts altogether.

The clients, having no "algorithm" beyond basic chronological sort, make it hard for influencers to game the system. And it wouldn't be too difficult to have an instance where users have limited follower counts to keep the conversation more personal.
In Java and Javascript, months are 0-based, so October is 9. Geez, imagine forcing people to write "October 15, 2019" as "2019-09-15"
Make an appointment with a psychiatrist. Do it today. When you meet them, show them this post. Whoever is treating you right now clearly isn't achieving the desired outcomes. I've been in the rut that you describe and while meds will not solve your problems they will give you a tool to solve them for yourself. It's not fast though, it takes weeks-months.

(As for the job: for now, who cares? Just pay the bills - apply directly (avoid 3rd party recruiters*) for as many web dev jobs as you can, if you work for cheap in some role way beneath you then some employer will absolutely love that and you can use the spare mental energy to focus on yourself).

* Usually I recommend them but in this case a company may not want to take a chance on you when they have to pay 30% of your salary to a recruiter as a fee - too much risk.
Same logic for basic deadbolts in the US (kiwkset/schlage/etc).
Apple will let you unsend and edit messages in iMessage
lol thanks! I actually hate the attention, in part because of comments like this one. Though this one was comparatively mild.

I do it to generate sales leads for my startup. We're bootstrapped so being able to generate leads without any ad spend or outbound sales means we don't have to raise money to grow. I used to write blog posts but they take so much longer. Hence no new posts on the blog since 2019.

Now I focus on LinkedIn. A single viral post on LinkedIn can get 2M-5M views on average. It will generate $1M-$2M in potential business for us. This way I can spend 50% of my time writing code, 45% doing CEO stuff, and 5% doing marketing.
Is there any chance that this vulnerability was created intentionally for e.g. law enforcement access? One could imagine that the manufacturer would provide LEO a similar device and instructions.

Not that it would in any way excuse it.
Indeed, and Sanders does seem to have a consistent problem with young people claiming they're going to vote for him and then just... Not.

Every alleged slight the DNC made against Sanders would not have excluded him from the party nomination if voters had voted for him in the primary. But at the end of the day, the numbers didn't manifest.
Clubhouse etc has made me even more suspicious of anyone who uses the term "thought leader" in any serious capacity
> they're not anything special when it comes to toxic materials

You have to actively cool them for 5 years before putting them in a dry cask.

If you fail to keep them cool, they will release a lot of bad stuff.

One big potential disaster which was narrowly averted at Fukashima Daiichi was related to a leaking spent rod cooling pool.
That is an AMAZING quote. Thank you for that. I need to print it out and put it on my wall.
Before you take such a drastic action you should try to visit a shelter or an outreach service of some kind and keep an open mind and an open heart about any services they offer you. Wishing you the best.
The alternatives that you listed seem likely to eventually lead consumers to stop consuming a product. Population growth, on the other hand, does not.

Unless, of course, we reach the inevitable point where resources become so scarce that no one can consume anymore. But that future is still distant enough to be systematically ignored. Hell, even climate change is still being barely addressed.
The description of his character is a fascinating part of the story. Keep in mind that this a story, and not (just) an indictment. Showing his character is also critical background for the reader to understand why he allegedly leaked that backup.
Yeah, the updated link content says they plan to sue to enforce the original buyout terms:

>>"Twitter has and will continue to cooperatively share information with Mr. Musk to consummate the transaction in accordance with the terms of the merger agreement," the company said in a statement.

>>"We believe this agreement is in the best interest of all shareholders," it added. "We intend to close the transaction and enforce the merger agreement at the agreed price and terms."
> I guess that was just a two-faced con artist act?

Of course it was. Read Chomsky.
Desktop computers were released in the 1980s(Apple II, MS-DOS). If you think about it, that's only 40 years at most where the gates of software programming has been opened.

Considering that everyone in the 1st world country has access to a computer, and given that much of our lives are entangled by software, it's just a demand problem. The demand for software completely outstrips the number of software engineers available. Given people's short attention spans, and the incredible number of concentration and patience the discipline requires, I expect the shortage to continue for the foreseeable future.
An HLS segment can carry any number of GOPs. A GOP length of FPS/2 or FPS/4 will get you an I-frame pretty quickly allowing the GOP to be decoded. MPEG-DASH can do the same IIRC. So there doesn't need to be a segment length delay in playback and typically is not.
Prolog is a deep language and can teach so you a lot. The main problem is that any prolog program bigger than, say, a thousand lines of code become difficult to debug and understand. There are ways to make things better e.g. avoid impure prolog etc. but it is still problematic.

Engineers are always looking for technologies to hop onto. Prolog is niche for a reason: I don’t think Prolog scales. In some ways it is too flexible and powerful.
>Is a hierarchy the right way to organise a company?

I think so.

I've twice worked as a software engineer for flat organizations (once as a subcontractor, once as a normal employee) and I really, really dislike it. Strong leadership is important.

There ends up being chaos, uncertainty, and a distinct lack of accountability.
Thats not necessarily only deinterlacing - lots of modern codecs are doing compression (pretty much all of them) based on how much change there is frame to frame. But almost nothing is interlaced these days. Although of course interlacing itself was a simple form of what you are describing above in a way.