skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on our own experience, we know of at least three Filters and can strongly guess as to another.

(1) That life develops on a world whose mass allows achieving orbital spaceflight using relatively low-technology means (i.e. at least partially chemical)

(2) That advanced life develops on a world with massive energy reserves easily accessible with low technology (e.g. coal, oil)

(3) That no environmental cataclysm occurs during the advanced life/industrialization gestation time period (e.g. climate change, asteroid)

To this, we can pretty strongly add another:

(X) That, during the brief window between energy surplus (and advanced technology) and environmental collapse (from energy exploitation), interplanetary colonization is launched, supported, and made self-sufficient

There's no law that says the window for something remains open forever, when you're talking about planet-scale economic requirements.
Yeah let's just say that any list that places Canada sixth on a list is very much suspect.

Nothing says "human rights" like criminalising protests, confiscating money, and prohibiting unvaccinated people from leaving the country.
[OTR] would probably be a goto for encrypting instant messages. But both that & PGP require a 3rd-party client (pidgin/adium/etc...), if user wants to retain at least some usability.

And nowadays, every popular IM network wants 3rd-party clients off their net at all costs. Signal is on the better side of the spectrum here. While they explicitly say they don't support non-official clients connecting to the official network, this isn't rigorously enforced. WA, on the other hand, would permaban your whole account if you even so much as try to use 3rd-party client.

[] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging
Top 30 of most things doesn’t mean much since values tend to drop exponentially once you’re past the top ten or fifteen. Energy is usually used to refer to things like oil and gas, both items that Ukraine doesn’t have a lot of. Both Russia and Norway have more oil/gas than Ukraine.
Evidences are provided in the article: https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+switch+strin...
I think this "thing" of yours is imaginary. Before it was called "foodie" it was called "connoisseur." Terms come and go, but expertise has always been connected to one's sense of self and self-worth. And there have always been people who think they are better than other people. The trick is to be an expert without coming across as arrogant, and that challenge has faced all of us since the dawn of humanity.
Oh seriously, if someone buys you a gift you don't want, appreciate the gesture and throw it away if it's "meaningless chaff". Or if you like it, adopt it. Like I adopted the llama cufflinks I got from my girlfriend for no discernable reason. But for God's sake stop bitching about how people buying you shit you don't need is the horrible burden of capitalism. Go live in a van with 6 pairs of underwear like I did for 10 years and you may lay a tiny claim to not wanting "stuff" because it weighs you down a little. But first see if you can discern from the heights of your high horse whether most gifts aren't given in earnest.

Only a spoiled child gets angry about getting gifts they didn't want.

>> Honestly, what are you trying to do here? Whatever it is, stop.

"Do"? "stop"? Under whose authority and why? I was making a comment. If you think I'm trying to demolish some moral position you hold, go ahead and explain why... but "honestly"+"whatever"+"stop" doesn't tell me what you're actually objecting to.
why I leave my bacon grease outside at night, feed some the food zi might just need one day and wtf am I gonna do with it anyways, throw it away?
Personally I find it unbelievable that major governments are not already in possession of the private key for at least one of the 150+ root certificates pre-installed on my device.
Are we not able to produce vast amounts of terrestrial energy without the sun (eg. nuclear)? I'd imagine a sufficiently advanced civilisation has solved the issue of energy, such that they have an abundance without creating giant structures around stars which would alert even the most primitive of civilisations (us) to their presence.

Further, the dyson sphere concept stemmed from sci-fi, or rather the human imagination. It seems logical to us that an advanced civilisation would build structures around stars to harvest their energy, but our logic is limited to the bounds of a few kilograms of grey, wrinkled biological matter.

The dog cannot understand the internal combustion engine. Alexander the Great wasn't thinking about the internet, or genetic engineering. We're quite sure of ourselves, and of what an advanced civilisation ought to be doing, and I think this is a mistake.
The video on their site[1] shows the pen lifting particles directly to the screen, which would be amazing, if true. I dug around for a while to find out how it works, expecting to find some very clever system for detecting the particles that have risen to the surface, etc...

Instead it appears to be just another stylus/display system, with all the downsides that imposes. I could do much better getting a "pen" for my old HP convertable laptop if I wanted that.

[1] https://youtu.be/SWY_bwFMxro?t=87
Quoting from the article:

TimeoutStopSec=0

That's cost me more than one hard power button powerdon (on a desktop machine with the system partition on SSD - unnerving).

One of the innumerable things that systemd stops on shutdown gets stuck - permanently - and the machine goes into a state out of which, to my knowledge, is only a powerdown or reset.

I ended up searching for the above and replacing them with a reasonable timeout (several minutes).
Or you just don't use telemetry?
This misunderstands the management that happens in companies. Of course you need to sort through goals, figure out priorities, get groups to align on key decisions, monitor them, direct resources towards them, and have people who can do unpleasant things like talk to users and customers, do research, etc. The bazaar composed of only programmers randomly working on parts they think are interesting or fun can’t achieve the same results in solving end users problems because it isn’t incentivized to.
iPhone shipments grew 36% in China in Q3, as all other major brands fell
Now Elon Musk says he won’t fire 75% of Twitter’s staff
Network effects and minor UX issues. “VERIFY PIN NOW” pop-up every week for example.
Feynman didn't oppose cooperation. The advice is to disregard naysayers who tell you your effort is going in a wrong direction or is doomed.

But yes, it works best if you are a genius who is likely to be right.
But also, analysis paralysis hurts the non genius more, because the genius can make more progress, which is motivating, in the time that the non genius gives up and tries something different. For the non genius, though, discouragement is in the form "you can't do this", not "it's a bad idea in.l general".
I have been in similar shoes, and had a huge impact as a founding engineer (#2 employee) at a startup (now unicorn). I wouldn’t say I had tremendous niche skills, it’s more that I took so much direct ownership and accountability of so many problems that I was able to have outsized impact for the first few years until the company became too large for me to keep track of all of it (many years later). The founder knew my personality traits (we worked closely before) and chased me very hard in the hiring process.

Many new employees and customers would ask me, after seeing me operate: “Why aren’t you the CTO and the founder is, since you are the de-facto technical authority here of every system?”.

I had a successful career at that company but I never really brushed off the exact resentment you talk about, so if I were to do it again I don’t know if I would. It was a very hard emotion to deal with.

You build something great one day or enable a massive new customer deal, get a rush of endorphins because you single-handedly made it happen via heroic efforts, then you remember your financial outcome will be a tiny fraction of the founder’s. My equity will be valued at best ~$10M (or more likely the ~$2M I already cashed out and the rest $0, we’ll see if they survive this downturn), whereas the founder will easily take $1B+ from this (and has already cashed out $xyzM).

These days I’m generally “happier” at FAANG being a good team player and just helping everyone around without a “grandiose” mentality, I am at peace with being a small cog in a large machine. I don’t think I will ever do a startup as a non-founder again, I don’t want that feeling to surface ever again.

From a cursory read, it seems like you may be in for a similar path with similar inner demons.
Just so you know. You can abbreviate almost anything in powershell or make your won aliases. I love Powershell, hands down best investment in my personal career was to really learn and understand Powershell.
Improved privacy without bad UX is super simple: Have privacy by default, and don't use personal information for things which the user hasn't asked for.

But the metrics/tracking crowd - especially the ad vendors - hate that, and they are more important to most companies/websites than the users.

(It also limits what methods you can use for site improvement, so it's a bit inconvenient for you too.)
I think you're actually running into and mixing up two opposing requirements:

1. Those who support the tracking and see the banners an imposition of the law. They may come across as supporting the banners because they feel companies should be allowed require customers agree to this, though ultimately they'd rather no banners and to just track as done in the wild west days.

2. Those who support the privacy legislation and feel users should be able to prevent tracking and see the banners as dark pattern coercion so companies can claim compliance. They may come across as supporting the banners because of their stance that companies shouldn't track by default, but ultimately they'd rather there are no banners and either:

(2a) companies just deal with the resulting non-viability of privacy invading business models

(2b) advertising returns to a less privacy invading model as its a zero sum game so if everyone is tracking then you feel you must, but if no one is then advertisers have proven their willingness to accept less invasive models in other fields where more intrusive models are already infeasible (broadcast TV ads aren't yet trying to determine who specifically is watching, the viewability rates of "the side of a bus" must be miniscule compared to web ads, etc.)
I believe that advanced civilizations would not be blindly expansionist. Instead, they would have figured out how to live sustainably without much footprint. We tend to imagine advanced civilizations to be future iterations of our desires, but maybe, from a surface level, their societies wouldn't look so different than Native American tribes of our past.
Why do people claim that "the police can't solve this" about issues that the police could absolutely solve by just enforcing the law?

Post some police outside the store. When someone runs in, steals a bunch of items, and runs out, arrest them. What am I not understanding about law enforcement in this situation?
I know and I was talking in the case of this exhaustion. I thought it was kind of obvious.
Most comfortable is not the same as most effective. Study skills is something to learn too. Many a fiercely proud individual hurt themself by refusing to collaborate and then wasting time being stuck.
I noticed that I became so much more quick after taking 1 hour to properly learn awk. Yes, it literally takes about 1 hour.
I assure you, in the nonprofit space, cover letters are extremely important for contextualizing experience.
Same country where you can also hunt on anyone's private land, except if they placed a no-hunting sign every few meter, which they also have to update each year..
Because systemd has moved forward while the alternatives haven't.

Systemd is not making the alternatives more difficult to maintain, the alternatives are more difficult and more difficult to maintain. Matter of perspective, really.
> The new platform offers way more features than Mailman, including gamification which newer generations, in general, appreciate,

GNOME is a parody of itself.
I had a similar realization, and then I realized this is even worse. It's not about being duped. Getting to the truth is a really hard problem.

I also suspect at this point there is fault injection. There are actors spreading false information with the intention of catching others believing it.

I saw some cases where fact checkers had access to suspiciously hard to get information "disproving" a claim someone else picked up. The kind of information you're more likely to know because you created the lie in the first case. In the specific case I could even quantify the probability that they stumbled on that information (it required a choice from thousands of items, with very low probability of being the disproving item), and it had a very low probability.
Cyber Operations Enabling Expansive Digital Authoriatanism [pdf]
>On every single occasion at every organisation I have worked for I have discovered great disparity between the user's desires and problems and what is communicated through the layers.

This is a quality problem of the people doing the communicating. We need those people to do better, not drop engineers to get the real story

>Also quite frankly sometimes it's only engineering who can turn an angry customer back into a happy one because they are the only people who can really action change.

This is true, but the engineer doesn't (shouldn't?) have to be the face of that. Once you allow customers to escalate directly with engineers, they'll see the rest of your support process as bullshit.
> Could you imagine if we said that customer support and success should do development?

What’s wrong with this idea? in fact I have said this, though the context was technical b2b open source where familiarity with the code is part of the job of CS.”
Sure, but even still – there's limited space on my resume. Imagine I've brainstormed 20 short "responsibilities and accomplishments" statements I can list for my last job. Of course I'm not going to list them all, but I am going to pick out the top four that make sense for the employer I'm applying to. I might put a different four on LinkedIn.
Connections and hustle are stuff you can learn. At least enough to become a professor. Most of my nerd friends who became professors learned these during their PhDs. I didn’t say they became famous professors just folks doing decent research in different corners of academia. I’ll still get my house in the subject GRE as the single most important metric if I were to choose a grad student. Not that I’m in that game anymore of course.
Stable difussion trained with “El Risitas” dataset
This is the fine-tuned Stable Diffusion model trained on images from El Risitas.

Use Elrisitas in your prompts.
> completely anonymized data that still identifies unique visitors

That's an oxymoron. If your "completely anonymized data" is unique enough to reidentify unique visitors with reasonable probability then it isn't "completely anonymized" - it's pseudonymous.

That's the problem with all these supposedly GDPR-compliant analytics things - the GDPR outlaws analytics without consent (there's no case law whether it would fall under legitimate interest, but I doubt it), there's no way around it. It doesn't matter what technical means you use (whether cookies, fingerprinting, or a crystal ball) - if your analytics "work" in the sense that you can tell unique users apart, then you are in breach because you are effectively collecting/computing and storing some sort of identifier that can reidentify a user with reasonable accuracy.
>The FSD Beta is quite better at lane keeping, including general 'avoiding obstacles' and whatnot.

Tesla always has something just around the corner that's "better", and they get full credit for it as if already exists. Like their robot tapping into a multi-trillion market.
There's a difference between being a tertiary technical problem solver and a rotational generic customer support person. I wouldn't quit immediately, but I'd start looking seriously for other companies. Why? Because I've done it. It's not something I'm suited for, and it's a dumb thing to expect me to be good at. I can respond to people if it's a fixed set and small set of them, on my team, about technical things. That's all he communication I can be good at, while doing engineering work. Otherwise it burns me out and makes me depressed.

I also make this very clear to my boss. "If you want someone on customer support, you want someone else instead of me."
See, just from that statement I would know exactly what snarky coffee mugs to buy you.
Conservative state policies generally associated with higher mortality
uh that's why insurance exists right?
There are lots of resources out there about making a parser and interpreter and calling that a “language”. While those two components are necessary, alone they don’t seem sufficient in 2022 to call something a programming language; the scope of what a language is has expanded to include the ecosystem and community, which are often aspects cited these days for using or not using many languages.

Question: does anyone know of resources that discuss the rest of programming language design?

- designing a standard library

- building tooling like debuggers and package managers

- interfacing with other languages

- managing and growing a community

- evolving the language over time as it grows

- integrating with IDEs and building language server support

- how to communicate the language to others so they understand the value proposition.

- how to choose the right set of features to support. How to discern a good set from a bad set, how to make the language stand out and unique.

- also maybe issues of how to stay motivated and focused. It takes years to build a language, how does one stay committed to it over that time?

I understand why there might not be many resources that cover these angles, as not many language projects get past the parser stage, but I’m still curious what others have found.
Exactly. My DSLR happily pretends to be a drive if I plug it into my phone using an OTG cable.
A family WhatsApp group
Ever wondered about the source code of build in (coreutils) Linux commands?
Thanks Richard Stallman, David MacKenzie and many more
"This thing" -- does an "Old School" boot...

Old School boots -- are basically:

1) Load and start executing the boot sector (first 512 bytes of boot device) in 16-bit x86 real mode.

2) Read in the next X contiguous sectors (also called 'blocks') from that device into memory. Note that there is no filesystem at this point; the size of what is to be loaded is determined or presumed to be known by the boot block code...

3) Hand off execution to the program (usually the OS, but could be a second stage bootloader) that was read into memory in Step #2.

This bootloader additionally performs a protected-mode switch, which means that the OS doesn't need to do that -- which significantly simplifies writing OS initialization code (no need to use an Assembler or C compiler which emits mixed-mode (16/32bit) code).

A "file system" -- is an abstraction -- on top of lower-level hardware...

Below file systems -- only blocks exist...

If someone likes and appreciates the file system abstraction provided to them by whatever file system they like, from whatever vendor they like -- then, hey, I'm not stopping them from using Syslinux or Lilo!

But if they are doing an "Old School" boot -- that is, if they want to understand and control their computing hardware at a lower level than what's provided to them by Syslinux or Lilo (and in less lines of code too!) -- then they may want something like what this code has to offer!

>"Well, both Syslinux and Lilo access the file system, from the (scarce and IMHO also inaccurate/confusing) info this thingy here accesses the kernel as a sequence of RAW sectors starting from sector 1"

The documentation may very well be scarce/inaccurate/confusing if someone doesn't understand x86 Assembler and/or boot sectors and/or the reasons for doing what this boot sector code does -- all of that may be true -- but I have yet in my travels to see what I believe is a simpler x86 boot sector code that switches to protected mode and loads an OS...

Still, to each their own -- if other people want to use Syslinux and/or Lilo, I have nothing against them using those tools...
I second your request for a detailed explanation of the "technical reason" -- different people kept mentioning it, then saying that they would omit it. I want to know the technical / mathematical details for why, in isolation, row(1, 2, 3) is different from column(1, 2, 3). Like, all the way back down to the purest axioms or geometric intuitions.

I understand why the "rules" of matrix multiplication make the distinction -- but what is underneath those rules? What does it mean?
Interesting video of how the Swiss created a tank simulator in the 1970s without computer generated images, but by using a camera in a miniature landscape.
But then you site one of those politicians who wrote actual thoughtful discourse. Is there a single politician in office or who has recently left office in America who has written anything approaching the thoughtfulness of even this short piece?

I have to believe that even if it were true that many or most politicians in 1780 were similar to politicians today on levels that you mention that they still had a serious crop of worthy political intellectuals whereas today we have probably 0.
The same applies to building new LNG terminals, drastically increasing the storage capabilities for renewable energy, and making the power grid sufficiently resilient to be able to entirely rely on renewable energy.

Those measures take years to decades to materialise to a significant degree. Still, all those measures are currently being implemented, and rightfully so.

In comparison, developing a new fracking site from a mere technical point of view takes less than a year.

That's not to say we should do one or the other or prefer fracking over renewables. However, when the alternatives are to either continue to be at the mercy of a potentially hostile power or to use less environmentally friendly energy sources (such as coal or lignite) or to accept regular power outages as a consequence, simultaneously exploring all possible better avenues (including nuclear energy, which as mentioned is still readily available right now) is pretty much a no-brainer.
Yes. It's exclusive to a specific race of people. The definition of racism.

You might say it's "positive racism" though, as rather than oppress, it rewards being born black.
Physically placing police officers outside literally every store in a city seems very impractical and expensive.
Hackers and Bad Actors Are Weaponizing Your Typos
Nonsense. As ever so often, the German language even has an own word that kids use to deride peers who are too invested in learning stuff, or even just commit the offense of having better grades in school. Similar for other countries, I'd say European countries are no less hostile to nerdy kids than the US, at best.
>Know loads of people with Teslas and never heard of anyone going over 10 minutes on AP unless it’s just down a single lane of interstate or something

This is how you can tell who is a TSLA shareholder and who isn't.
What happens after the arrest? In the current system, the perpetrator get logged into the system and released after they promise to appear in court. In 6-18 months the court will issue some fines. Meanwhile the person is free to continue petty crime
Given that https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/features-sql-standard.htm... doesn’t mention them, I expect them to be non-standard.

(The word ‘range’ appears once there, in “F404. Range variable for common column names”, but reading the English parts of https://github.com/dazuiba008/digoal_blog_fork/blob/master/2..., it’s clear that isn’t about range types)