skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A big enough meteorite impacts Mars hard enough to blow up bits of the latter beyond escape velocity, those bits then float in space for a long while then some may end up being captured in Earth's gravity well all the while evading Moon's one, and if big enough maybe becoming meteorites themselves over here.

It's kind of a mind boggingly huge billiard game.

With a bit of luck, life was somewhere around the initial impact, a couple bits of life survive blast energy, cold of space, radiation exposure, passage of time, atmosphere entry, and impact, and finally feel cozy enough on the new rock to replicate.

Now, the metagame is to assign numbers to all of that, and compare that to the odds of molecules assembling themselves into spawning life locally by itself. Also the latter must have happened somewhere first anyway, the question mostly being which of it is it for Earth.

This seems incredibly far fetched but the time scales are galactic, and so it kind of looks like it happened a few times over but we're not quite sure yet:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_meteorite
Ask HN: Tools to Create Awesome Looking Flowcharts
Hi HackerNews!

What do you use to create beautiful charts / diagrams etc?

Let's say I have an Idea on my mind what I want to illustrate to others in my blog.

I can use Gimp or Photopea to create everything myself, of course.

But are there tools which make this much easier?

How do you do it and what do you use?

Thank you :)
I would advise you not to assume you know what pragmatism means for the problems of others.
It's not controlled by a single person, it's controlled by those who coughed up the $44b.

Musk is the only one of them who actively desires the spotlight.
Amiga had white on dark blue by default as well, until 1990 (release of AmigaOS 2.0), when they switched to black on grey by default.

There was a long and significant period of reaction to the light on dark UI's where a lot of applications arrived either with light on dark as the default or with no option to change it, so I can understand why someone would see solarized as that start of a change towards (renewed) support for light on dark interfaces, though I do think it's overselling its importance.
> aren't we just priming the same issue we have with IPv4 now to occur thirty, forty years down the line?

Why? Do the arithmetic.
It happened to me this morning. And going from this Reddit thread and twitter it’s pretty widespread and also random.

https://reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/yibnws/does_this_nor...

And Instagram support on twitter responded https://twitter.com/InstagramComms/status/158708556379401830...
Digital Maoism? Can you point me to the Jimmy Wales mass line?
"RAII" has some overlapping associations.

Primary purpose: To guarantee the cleanup of resources during stack unwinding, after an exception is thrown, because it's tightly bound to the automatic storage duration mechanism (the static code generated to manage the stack at runtime).

Secondary purposes: 1) To immediately initialize some resource handler where it is declared. 2) To automate the cleanup of some resource when execution leaves the scope in which it was declared, also hiding explicit calls to Close, Free, Unlock, Release, etc.

To restate the source, RAII was the premise for exceptions. [1]

[1] C++ in Constrained Environments - Bjarne Stroustrup - CppCon 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BuJjaGuInI&t=4000s
It doesn't matter what the EU wants, it's not legally credible that a company can be forced to support a product with a warranty when the end user can modify it enough to brick it.

The courts would almost certainly rule against such a law, that forces both a warranty and openness, if challenged.
From the linked article:

> The company has yet to release a formal announcement of the acquisition. The communications department has gone silent. Rumors have swirled about layoffs, with some notices going out quietly.

Is it just me or is this headline totally misleading?

No formal announcement yet folks.
Whatever resiliency blockchain has, would it be relevant if there's no Internet or equivalent?
I suspect that phone usage went up substantially during the pandemic, and that had somewhat of a lag effect to show up in these reports.
Nice work Mikael, starred!
Also https://unikraft.org/
I'm of the opinion that WFH has been a net negative to productivity. Measuring productivity was much easier for managers to do when everyone was in the office as employees would find it more difficult to hide attempts at slacking off. Those who are less productive when WFH are less willing to admit it and I believe it's the reason why whenever the topic of WFH comes up, it's drowned by the voices of all those who say it's been absolutely great for them.

I don't think anyone is going to argue about the conveniences this WFH culture has brought. And I'm certain there quite a number of people who can prove how much better their work has been because of this shift. Those who are being far less productive, though, are kinda ruining it for the rest of us and lots of managers know it. I think Satya is on point when he talked about what employers say about productivity and what their managers think is actually happening.
I guess if things in Ukraine keep heating up as they are now we'll find out soon enough!!

Many people fail to see how dangerous this war is. It could readily lead to an all-out nuclear war between all the nuclear powers on the globe. We've been stirring the hornets nest and Russia is now calling our bluff.

Some believe that if Putin is removed Russia will somehow become a model Democracy, but that couldn't be farther from the truth. If Putin is replaced it will be by some ultra-nationalist which will spell even more trouble.
Worth a read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti_indemnity_controversy
The Fermi paradox is completely overhyped, especially if it really originated from a lunch discussion with Fermi, as Wikipedia claims. It's a random thought, not some deep question about the universe. The paradox supposedly reads: If life is ubiquitous, then why don't we see it?

But there is nothing to solve. The first conclusion should be that the assumption is simply false. We have no proof that life ubiquitous, so why hold on to it so dearly?

But even if we do, there are plenty of reasonable and plausible explanations as to why we don't see alien life. Just read the other comments.
In fact, there are so many possible explanations that the challenge becomes: which one is the correct one? However, a paradox this is not.
Indeed, people used to read programming books (I still have two C++ Builder and a "Complete Java Reference" bricks on my bookshelf), but IMO the problem is not that people don't read books, but that a good written reference documentation are very rarely written(or are hard to find) for today's new languages.

It seems all classes of content from video, to blog posts and books suffer from various con-people publishing lots of crap with catchy titles and ordinary people just loose hope browsing through them. In such environment the cost of time spent on a crappy video or blog article is negligible, but if one buys books that are badly written or auto generated one can waste hours and hours before one realises.

So I can't blame today's wannabe programmers for choosing videos and blog articles instead.
I have a reason to think such! The "obvious" target would be things like our nuclear resources, to try to create a win condition. But in most cases this would just be wasting weapons. Those facilities, as well as ones such as where our politicians will go hide while society dies for their decisions, are designed to withstand direct nuclear impacts.

The goal of nuclear war, absent any chance for a realistic "win" conditions it to ensure that absolute destruction of the opposing country - beyond the ability to ever rebuild to a comparable relative strength. Our nuke targets from during the Cold War have been declassified [1], and it's likely that the Soviet Union's were similarly themed: population, industry, economic, medical. There's an extremely strong overlap between those areas and data centers.

In any case this is also all slightly tangential. One of the first things that will happen during WW3 is the widescale mutual destruction of satellites in the sky, for both offensive and defensive measures.

[1] - https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb538-Cold-War-Nuclear...
Ask HN: When will a business see the effects of paying below industry standards?
If an organization pays below industry standards, what do you say to the management team that doesn't seem to realize how big a problem this is?

People leave... but no one seems to know if it's more than usual. We hire people, and a lot of them are inexperienced, but that could be explained by bad recruiters, not necessarily compensation.

Is there something else I can point to when trying to prove how big a problem it is? Is it actually a problem?
The number of people who say 'I thought the Wii U was a handheld?', made me realise how badly they messed up. Home console buyers didn't realise it was a console. Handheld buyers realised quickly it wasn't a handheld.
What exactly is a unikernel and why should I care? or How is a unikernel different from an ordinary kernel like linux?
In my experience refactors and big-O thinking tend to show up in pretty different places. Refactors are more about which components are talking to each other, and what is the content and shape of that communication. Big-O is more about how a component does its work internally.

Both of the quotes in your comment resonate with me, in the sense that they can avoid unnecessary refactors. But IMO the big-O/performance part should really mostly just be done on a by-need basis (i.e. you've identified your bottleneck and determined its worth the time to improve it). I've seen way too much unreadable code because "otherwise it wouldn't be performant" in places where performance doesn't matter, and similarly I've seen people sacrifice a clean modular interface for the sake of performance.

Sure thinking ahead of time makes sense, as does choosing a design which puts flexibility in the right places (i.e. gives you room to adapt to what you learn in the future which is currently uncertain). But that same uncertainty also means you're probably not going to get the design fully right now, so don't overthink it.
> Eventually people do the math.

Well let's do the math.

There are a variety of methods, no one alone will suffice. Let's consider a combination regenerative agriculture and plantation cellose crops like bamboo or timber as one small part. There are many variations, but a lot of them make useful stuff (or just dryable things or better soil to improve productivity next year) out of about 20t of carbon per year. It doesn't matter what so long as it gets buried.

We'll take as our resource half of the land that is currently used for animal feed and ethanol. A low meat diet is a reasonable price to pay by splitting the rest of the animal feed land 50/50 for the remaining 25% of grain/soy fed animals and protein for human consumption. So we have about 400 million hectares.

I'll assume we can replace 90% of emissions with some combination of nuclear, renewables, and efficiency improvements. This will happen basically on its own now without radical and rather extreme measures to prop up fossil fuels -- we can still hurry it up by several decades though.

Our 400 million hectares can sequester 8bn tonnes of carbon each year. That's about one ppm. Need half for our remaining 4bn tonnes or so of emissions so this method alone can achieve a 100ppm reduction in a couple of centuries.

Not great, but a start. Is it going to happen? Probably not, the social problems are really hard. But it indicates fairly definitively that the scale of the problem is a human one (it can be done with methods we know using resources we already use). It also disproves the assertion that machine-derived work well in excess of the heat initially released has to be put in to solve the problem.

You don't have to turn it all back into oil and carbon, just contain it.

Step 0 is to do that 90% reduction as fast as possible though.
One Year's Experience with the Corvus Omninet Local Area Network (1984)
> From what I can gather, it's the promotion of leftist talking points that relegates objectivism & personal liberty in favor of any form of rebalancing, be it racial, political, economical, social, gender-based, or sexual.

This does not read like a good-faith interpretation to me. Small-o objectivism and personal liberty are not at all incompatible with a "woke" perspective on race; I daresay relativism -- particularly moral relativism -- is a minority opinion even among leftists. Nor is it necessarily the case that being woke means you're in favor of enforced rebalancing on the basis of race, ethnicity, etc. Wokeness, in my experience, is far more concerned with issues of justice than with rebalancing (which I take to mean something akin to affirmative action or reparations).
So true, but how many developers know about them? The API situation does not help either.
> the blue check

I can see them adding different colors for different tiers. I actually think it's a good idea to do that. Companies, active politicians, journalists, medical professionals, educators and influencers can all have check marks with different colors.

And I bet Elon would like a special color for his account.
Always hard to pin down. It’s an “I’ll know it when I see it” sort of thing.
Defend my claim against what? I made a specific claim about deaths caused by US forces, nobody has seriously tried to dispute that.

You’re trying to push some absurd logic that would also imply that Gavrilo Princip was personally responsible for the tens of millions of deaths caused by WW1.
Detailing a disastrous autumn day in ancient Italy
Summary

The Plinian eruption of Mount Vesuvius around 4,000 years ago -- 2,000 years before the one that buried the Roman city of Pompeii -- left a remarkably intact glimpse into Early Bronze Age village life in the Campania region of Southern Italy. The village offers a rare glimpse into the lives of the people who lived there, and the degree of preservation led the researchers to pinpoint the timing of the eruption, based on archaeobotanical record.
> Designs should not, by the use of adhesives...

This is the problem I have with "right to repair" legislation. It turns into "right for bureaucrats to tell engineers how to do their jobs".

My phone uses LOCA glue to secure the glass to the display. Does this violate "right to repair"?

My phone is held together, not with screws, but adhesives. How about this?

Or, GOOD GRIEF! The story in this thread about the ECU in a truck that cripples it for environmental reasons, and requires expensive repairs. Is that covered by "right to repair"? Or does that not apply here?
All of what you've both said, plus the number of people who thought or still think COVID-19 is "no big deal" who now have a pulmonary deficiency and long-term mental fog.
> How are you going to work on long term plans with elections every 2 or 4 years?

Oh I completely agree. I'm not in favor of the current system, more dubious of randomly picking rulers. If you look at efficiency, authocratic countries are working much better than democratic ones at the moment.
Elon Musk orders Twitter staff to work 24/7 on ‘blue tick’ charge
neither of those things matter for accessing kiwifarms.
Considering breaking the law is one of Musk's seemingly favorite hobbies, I wouldn't be so sure on a WARN notice. The punishments for non-compliance isn't very much.
Doesn't seem like an insurmountable obstacle. From some Googling:

"Employers who fail to provide notification must provide their laid-off employees with back pay and benefits for the period of the violation (which means the amount of time by which their advance notice fell short of 60 days)."

The value of ripping off the Band-Aid could easily be worth two months of severance in his mind.
True Grit
ahh yea, i'm not sure why the rest of my comment didn't upload. i was going to say that i thought the common use case for protobufs was to more ergonomically communicate between microservices?

in any case, that's the only time i've ever seen it used in production. the first link is a go benchmark that i felt represented why someone would use it for those purposes, the second was linked to show that despite numerous (successful!) attempts to make deserializing/serializing data faster and smaller, JSON is still the most heavily used and i would wager it's mostly due to how easy it is to use as far as browsers are concerned. the third was a link to justify that claim and show that js-land is much, much different than go-land as far as proto's and JSON encoding/decoding are concerned!
Whatever you do about the boozie, have medical supervision and ALWAYS be honest with your Doctor. Lie to your boss, partner, friends, and coworkers if you must but NEVER EVER lie to your doctor.

Individuals vary considerably and there's no telling what's permanent and isn't for you but I think you'll be surprised how much difference moderation and good sleep will help. Also remember that angst/stress about mental fog(pr anything) adds to it.

When you compare yourself to others, consider your cohort. If your coworkers are all amazing then there's no issue with being at the tail end of the curve because someone always will be.
I'm sorry, I must be missing some subtelty here. If renting is indeed cheaper than owning, landlords would be subsidising renters. That can't be correct...
The precursor was this recent WaPo article Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said [1] which hinted at the cuts.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33387722
This post has been in the front page for more than 24 hours, and it has been unavailable to access for the majority of time. It's weird that it's still on the front page, also given the low number of points and comments it has...

It also says it has been published 3 hours ago, which is not true...
When I see people predicting rates will go back down next year I chuckle.

We’re barely a year into it and haven’t even seen the top yet.
> I mean the goal is more performance, especially if you can get more performance out of the same hardware.

Are there actual numbers demonstrating this?

I mean, people are advocating wasting billions revamping infrastructure. What kind of performance are you hoping to buy with those billions? And are those gains worth it, or is just sake for the sake of change?

Sometimes things are indeed good enough.
Fibre channel is dead, long live fibre channel.

I agree a lot of things are on TCP, but I don't think its a massive problem, unless you are running close to the limit of your core network. And one solution to that is to upgrade your core network....

Failing that, implementing some load balancing/partitioning systems to make sure data-processing affinity is best matched. This the better solution, because it yields other advantages as well. But its not the easiest, unless you have a good scheduler
So far I’ve seen attacks that Lula is not a “good” politician. And it is notable that he was prosecuted in the past, found guilty, and acquitted on what some see as a technicality. (I’m paraphrasing and this is clearly controversial. But I’m only looking to summarize briefly to make my next point.)

We here in the west aren’t a homogeneous society. That’s the point of the west. It’s opt-in and generally lets locals do what locals want (with exceptions, of course, but as a trend.)

I think it’s time to renew that what may be good or even just the decided path of one polity doesn’t have to be and probably can’t be universally applicable nor appealing to the larger western world order. The point is whether the relevant politicians and leaders generally agree with western trade policies, international treaties/agreements and things like borders and rule of law.

Edit-not having any luck with a clip from this interview. But Stephen Kotkin makes similar points here: https://youtu.be/2a7CDKqWcZ0
Doing it with 'clap = "4.0"' gives me 46MB. Still surprisingly large.
PitchBook Universities: Top colleges ranked by startup founders
In previous threads, there were even people saying their ISPs provide them a single IPv6 address, so essentially a /128.
Roughly translated Solarized over to Altium years ago if you're into that kind of thing: https://github.com/JohnKrause/Altium-Solarized
The Wii U was a failure in marketing and odd design choices. The former has been discussed quite well by others, so I want to focus on the design choices that didn't help its long-term success.

The console initially promoted the gimmick of being a controller for cable TV, as seen by the blue TV button the bottom of the gamepad. This was at a time when cable TV was starting to die out for the younger crowd. The original Xbox One made a similar misguided focus on controlling TV, while the overall market was making a major shift to streaming in that period.

Next, the gamepad used a resistive touchscreen instead of a capacitive one. Phones with capacitive touchscreens had been the norm for years at this point, making the Wii U touchscreen feel very low quality.

The gamepad came with too small of a battery, which limited the gamepad's use as a portable console, which was already tied down to being nearby the console itself to stream games smoothly. The battery could be easily upgraded to a larger size, but it had to be purchased and installed later on.

The base console only had 8 GB of storage. The deluxe model only came with 32 GB of storage and cost an extra $150 (for $350 total). The console largely focused on using discs for games, but the next gen of Xbox and PlayStation consoles showed that internal storage was important. The Wii U had an SD card slot, but SD cards could oddly not be used to expand game storage; USB storage could be used however.

The Wii U had some very strong game releases that eventually saw successful ports to the Switch, and it also had the best Virtual Console release of games in any console ever, that the Switch still has not matched. The value of a Wii U by the end of its life was insane. It's the only console where so many incredible games (almost all of Nintendo's catalogue through the Wii - but not the GameCube) could be played on the system. I think the console just focused on all of the wrong things in the minutia. Tie that with terrible marketing, and the console was doomed to failure. The Wii U's genius was later revised upon and proved to be a success with the Switch. Despite it's failures, the Wii U was a great console that is one of my favorites of all time (along with the PlayStation Vita).
Wikipedia’s mobile app is the cure for my Google frustrations
You will be fine. It would not bother you if not for your alcoholism.

Try to tell someone about this, support is important. Quitting is a bit of a process, but its actually not that hard, it's just hard as fucking fuck some days. You are not alone.
> My HS physics instructor said rather than "imaginary" we could think of -1 as a "hidden" number, because after you do the math fairly often you see where the number would be, but you just can't see it among the "real" numbers.

IIRC you often encounter a system where the energy is constant, but only if you consider the imaginary part of some equation holding the potential energy, which then exchanges with "actual" kinetic energy.
Perhaps Facebook is experiencing a lot of accumulated technical debt.
Put it in an oven and wait a bit.