skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My 2 favorite Fermi Paradox resolutions:

1 - Given that we are only 14B years into a many-trillion-year stretch, our existence now is so unlikely that it's possible that we actually are the first. Something has to be first.

2 - Aliens are everywhere, but we cannot perceive them for reasons we would find disturbing. Largely, for the same sort of reasons that cave fish cannot see light or that most species are apparently unaware of humans in their environment. Essentially, that there is no evolutionary reason for humans to perceive them.

As for grabby aliens... meh. I don't find it convincing as a resolution. It contains too many unexamined assumptions, quite like the simulation theory.
Why do you say that these protocols are worse than Ethernet/IPv4? I'm not intimately familiar with any at L2/L3, but I don't think any have hacks as bad as ARP. (USB does have some weirdness at L1 though I know.)
It's a C++ myth that files and memory are the same problem, in reality files are an easier problem, cf java.
23 years ago I sat in a meeting with Sun, Intel, Mellanox, and 1 or 2 others. In that meeting we discussed putting an RDMA interface on individual hard drives, trays of RAM, CPUs, and other more exotic devices (like battery backed RAM, no conventional SSD in those days of course). You’d install RAM 1 42U rack at a time, disks likewise, CPUs in another rack and so on. All partitioned, controlled, managed, and of course billed-for by a “data center OS”.
On the plus side we'll be allowed to wear cowboy hats without looking like posers.
oh these books

there are still pretty much all around 'old' IT companies, displayed in shelves and bookcases, as artifacts that explains what were old languages and systems.

I love the retro futuristic vibe of the cover of some of these.
And of their content. They invite the reader to leap into the future with bash, explained how Linux used to work, how past versions of .NET and Java were breakthroughs, how to code with XML,...

As a junior who has hardly read any of these, I find them pretty poetic, and I like the reflection they bring on IT jobs.
The languages and technologies will change, but good looking code is timeless
I concur 100%.

It's rather thought out colour scheme and kudos for the success, but contrast is way too low. My eyes got tired very fast while trying to use solarized scheme.

I've stuck with `Tomorrow Night Bright` for quite some time now as I enjoy the scheme and the contrastiness of it, though I tweaked it that the text is almost pure white and background is almost pure black.
I don't think you're very familiar about the difference between systemd the project and systemd-* the different services under that project. They're not that coupled together, including the two you've just listed.
So the way to solve it is to give the very few engineers you have sudden unrealistic deadlines? And ask them to print their code for a quick judgement session????
Clang Thread Safety Analysis
How do you get the battery out of the iPhone in the first place? I thought they were sealed?
Does the fact that the Wikimedia Foundation already receives way more money than it needs to host Wikipedia, and that therefore Wikipedia is in no danger of dying, enter your calculations at all?

Do you really mean to say that the content of Wikipedia is so valuable that no matter what else Wikimedia does, it still deserves as much funding as possible? Even though the Wikimedia Foundation did not create that content, and doesn't own it in either a moral or legal sense? Do you not see how that creates some really bad incentives for the health of Wikipedia?

(Personally, I don't have huge disagreements with the actual worthiness of most of the causes that Wikimedia chooses to support, but I think the way it fundraises for them is wildly deceptive.)
It doesn't help that i is given names like "imaginary" and "complex". We may as well call them "too-hard-for-you" numbers, and laugh condescendingly when students ask about them.

Same with quaternions and dual quaternions. They perform rotation and scaling in 3D space. Calling them "hypercomplex numbers" makes it sound like an advanced concept only to be understood after years of dedicated study.

I get that naming things is hard, but they could have gone with something that didn't sound like it was intended to stroke the egos of the learned few who understand.

I prefer the term rotor, because they perform rotation. The actual math involved isn't that difficult if you've learned the basics of geometric/Clifford algebra.
Actually, I should answer the questions:

> ... terms of processes, design principles, work-life balance, compensation. Are things better now than they were back then?

We didn't have an official process or follow any design principles. There were small teams so we simply had a spec but we'd release things in stages and regularly meet with clients.

I had a decent work-life balance, a decent salary but wasn't making the big dot.com income that others were making.

I think overall things are better, technology-wise as well as some awareness of work-life balance, and more people are critical of the industry.

The technology is more complicated, but it does a lot more. The simplicity was largely due to naivety.
Any technology that we built is used for both good and evil. For example, assembly was used to get people on the moon, but also to navigate missiles to kill millions of people. Perl was used to sequence the genome, but also it was the main language that script kiddies used in the 2000s to deface millions of websites. Almost any library written is dual use, from openssl to left-pad. The web itself is used to enable world wide education and giving everybody access to all the knowledge in the world, and is also responsible for the fall of democracy. Torrents and peer to peer tech is also with interesting ratio.

Of course the good:evil ratio is different for any technology, but this also changes with time.

It feels weird to me to draw the line at crypto. A good example for the debate would be 'why dont you remove the torrrent projects as well, given that torrents are almost exclusively used for "illegal" activities'

PS: I really hate cryptocurrencies :) but just got interested in: why do you draw the line there?
ok, well you then need to hide your hardware behind VPS proxies. That's another $10/month.
It's the culture at the very top of the WMF that has allowed this "sketchy" fund to come about. It's even worse with the Wikimedia Endowment at the Tides Foundation. That's over $100 million in donations collected over a period of 6.5 years without a single Form 990 disclosure, without a single audited financial statement ever published:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...

Transparency is being reduced more and more; stopping publication of the quarterly reviews is just another symptom.
Does that robot planet episode exist? It clearly exists in Futurama, just wondering wether that was inspired by Star Trek, or rather by that Star Trek pitch document?
Everyone can make an anonymous website. And anonymity has nothing to do with ads. You can allow people to post anonymously, without a username, so that they can't be doxxed, and still show them targetted ads.
About time, took them way too long.

Hopefully hardware GPG key storage like Mailvelope's will be next.
But you can't rip them apart in our physical theories, in relativity different observers will have different ideas about space and time, but will agree about certain invariants if you take both space and time into account. Then a few years later, Minkowski formulated special relativity very elegantly using a four dimensional space-time. That view is basic to general relativity, where the foundation is the spacetime metric and the energy-momentum tensor.
But the Odroid-H3+ has a significantly more powerful N6005 processor. A better comparison would be to the lower-end Odroid-H3, which has an N5105 and is only $129.
They also had to drag Lost production a lot, if memory serves during season 3, due to the writers strike back then that essentially left the production with no material for some time.
Personally I loved Lost first seasons, then it rapidly went downhill, and recall the disappointment after watching the series finale. The series however in my opinion established a turning point in how drama is shown in TV series; I see a clear pattern in "before Lost" and "after Lost" series, so kudos to the creators.
AFAIK you can block individual users, entire servers, and servers can also block other bad rep servers. I think a federation of servers with open source software is better equipped to fight fake news and bots not in spite of but because of decentralized protocols and how solutions must involve democratic values by definition.
Don't you have to get certain certifications/audits done before you can launch a fintech product?
Around 30 years ago, I was working for Apple and writing software for internal consumption. I was coding C/C++ in MPW/MacApp and even Lisp using Macintosh Common Lisp. I was also writing some stuff in HyperCard, if I remember correctly. The documentation I had access to was awesome, and I could even talk to the developers who wrote those tools if I needed to (especially the MCL team).

While I did have a lot of information at hand, it was really very little compared to what is available to a coder today when it came to algorithms. But that freed me to experiment. I could step back and consider a problem that was (to me) unique, formulate a possible solution, and test. It was fantastic! I felt like I was always just around the corner from inventing a New Way Of Doing Things, something that would be simply amazing.

Today, you just search StackOverflow, implement something, then move on. Maybe it is more productive, but it is certainly a hell of a lot less fun.

Work life balance? I coded all the time, and I wanted to. I look back on those times and shake my head; I would never put those hours in like that, now that I'm in my 50s.

Compensation was comparable, considering the economy, I think. I was well paid, and I'm well paid now.

Processes? HAHAHA. Build it, test it, ship it. But then again, my team and target audience were small and I could literally walk over to another building to find out what I needed. I think today's processes are much, much better for overall code quality.
Reforming section 230 is misguided. The author already seems quite wary of how that might be screwed up, but in my view still not wary enough. Instead, infrastructure companies (ISPs, DDoS protection, CDNs, hosting providers) should be regulated as common carriers[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier
Fair point, but even with rovers we have zero indication to the fact, and thus it's a very reasonable estimate.
They can't stop you if they don't know what you are doing.
https://github.com/test2a/JioFiberwebhosting

try this, you are free to suggest improvements and suggestions.

this has served data to me for quite some time now and there are "some" issues but it is overall fine.
> I've met enough Linux fanboys who insisted what they don't need a firewall running on their public machines, because... Linux is safe.

Why would it need a firewall running?
>Even life, is there any reason to think there WASNT some microscopic life there at some point?

We have no clue about how likely it is for life to emerge or how it happens, so we can't really tell. Maybe we're on the only planet with life in the universe.

Finding proof of life on Mars would completely change that equation.
I used to work at Starbucks for about a year and a half and it all depends how busy it is. Unless it's busy, those random conversations with customers where the best part of the job, at least for me.
Writing boilerplate code manually is not something that should be touted as best practice esp if you intend to reinvent the wheel every time you want a use case implemented that was probably covered thoroughly by a framework somewhere else.

With frameworks esp the ones like RoR, the Convention over Configuration (CoC) consideration trumps all the purported benefits that may arise from building your own framework from scratch.

You just learn the fundamentals of one of the most robust and well-established frameworks once, and forget about all the fluff and cruft for good, and just focus on building the business logic and satisfying the user's/customer's needs.

The Not Invented There (NIT) anti-pattern is one hell of a drug!
> Why is it a better situation to continue with JPEG

As a retaliation. Retaliation isn't supposed to be a good thing or move things forward. It is supposed to be a calculated action against your opponent. I'm not talking in business context, I'm talking about in diplomacy context.

In this case it'd mean "if Google doesn't want to go with the industry standard replacement JPEG-XL route we won't be going with Webp or its descendant AVIF and instead and keep the JPEG-only statuesque." (and it's not that they'd be losing anything in business context either, by supporting jpeg-only de-facto)

I don't know how can I be more clear than that, so please I beg you to move on.
One thing I don't understand about the 'quiet' aliens mentioned in the article - I thought pretty much any lifeform worthy of that name (ie using/converting some form of energy) would necessarily give off some hints of their existence eg through patterns in infrared radiation (don't recall the exact argument). I remember this as a refutation of one possible resolution to Fermi's paradox (what if intelligent species exist but shield their existence from us - apparently the answer is that they couldn't, not completely at least). So in that case, any species (even before reaching any meaningful 'intelligent' phase) would create a bubble of 'noise' expanding at the speed of light.
> If I own a car dealership, or a bakery, I have the right to refuse service to anyone who walks in and insults me.

Yes, but not if you own a telephone company. Is an ISP more like a telephone company, or more like a bakery?
I am in Germany, so the requirements definitely apply to me.

I appreciate the effort. Clearly there is quite a bit of effort involved to comply with just EU law. To me the legal aspect is the largest hurdle, it turns a fun weekend project into wading through unbearable legal requirements and in the end I still will not know if I am actually in compliance.
I don’t think that matters much for the distances we talk about. Any such disruption — even if it’s a new philosophy or religion that makes the colonies stop spreading — would only travel at the speed of light, which means that it would take a long time to reach the frontier of a civilization that expands at nearly light speed.
The original thread emphasized too much on a few grants, which I feel is a minor issue considering how small part of the annual revenue they were. Not surprised Wikipedia is able to defend it easily.

> "Awards and grants" amounted to $9.8 million, of which $5 million (possibly $5.5 million) represented a grant to the Wikimedia Foundation's own Endowment held by the Tides Foundation. This leaves somewhere between $4 and $5 million for actual grants made to the community – a figure dwarfed by the Wikimedia Foundation's $50 million budget surplus in 2020–2021. There was no lack of money for grants.

The actual problem is that the Foundation reached its endowment goal, five years before the the deadline it set [1], and yet, they keep guilt-tripping and pretending as if they are running out of money. How's it not profiteering? They could be honest and add, "We have already reached our goal. But raising more could help us find more avenues to increase the world's knowledge," and they would be completely in the right. I bet fewer people would donate if they realized that they are not funding running expenses, at all.

Addendum: If you're considering donating to Wikipedia, I suggest you look into doing it for Internet Archive. The complexity of their project and running expenses is way more than Wikipedia, and yet, they just received 12% of the amount that Wikipedia got in 2020 [2]. They just have $4M in net assets, and yet, I have never seen them guilt-tripping regular users.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti...

[2]: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/943...
Of course that varies by jurisdiction, but yes the UK, EU states, and US have a (variously termed) concept of 'protected characteristics' that cannot be considered in hiring.

I agree with you, I don't see how affirmative action is compatible with it, whatever one's thoughts on it, but it seems to be an area nobody's wanted to touch. (Consider that you'd have to be the non-marginialised, thinking yourself wrongfully not-hired. Hard to imagine - in the UK - political appetite for it as a state lawsuit or regulation.) I wouldn't be surprised to see it blow up at some point though.
+1

This is, in general, my experience of others and of myself. For me, the key is to recognise the signs in oneself that indicate brooding anxiety or situations that are conflicting, of opinion, of strategy, of personality.

Lists and critical introspection are effective ways for me to manage myself and help others, if possible and if necessary, to help avoid repeated failures and ill-considered decisions.

It’s not easy, people fall easily into nostalgia, whilst ignoring complexity and consequences.
He talks about gamedev, and arena allocators are common sense in gamedev. It's more like introduction of a gamedev concept to business programming.

Also:

>Learning how to work with arenas entirely revolutionized my experience with writing code in C.

But, right, arena allocator is a tool, not a solution, you still have to invent a solution every time, it's still manual memory management, just an easier one.
> So first they say we are unlikely early. But if you consider that we are special (“grabby”) then that’s ok.

I don't think that's their reasoning. I think they say:

1. once grabby civilization appear - it decreases likelihood of other civilizations appearing

2. so actually weighting by probability we're not early - we're average, because the probability of appearing late is almost 0

This kind of backward probabilistic reasoning always felt like cheating to me, especially when it's not only used to validate our models but to create them.

As for NHL I don't know, but in football (soccer) 75% of goals are scored in first and last 5 minutes of both halves, and the single most likely period to score goals in is the final 5 minutes of the last half. So it was maybe realistic :)
Lula Is Elected President of Brazil
"Every single person you know today was at one point of stranger. Even your mother."

There's a lot of cynicism in here and it sucks. COVID has made talking to strangers a little harder, me included, and while every single stranger I talk might not want to talk back, more often than not, I leave a random interaction happy because I went into the conversation curious and left with a new perspective.

The world is full of joyous people, but it's up to you to open your eyes and see it.
Super 8 has a coherent reveal of the mystery box. Lost did not and disappointed at the end.

The kelvin timeline from when he rebooted Star Trek is sort of mystery box but then we learn who Nero is in a coherent way early on as well. I did not like that JJ destroyed Vulcan and frankly made a confusing alternate, darker timeline at all. The reboots are good movies but they were not good Star Trek movies. Missed opportunities to explore the Roddenberry style themes of humanity and deep moral questions under a backdrop of optimism.
> but the admin(s) will give you plenty of time to migrate to a new instance

that seems like a big assumption - if I'm running an instance, what's to stop me pulling the plug with zero notice?
Text too long. Please enter less than 5000 characters.

(...)

There was a problem

The text must not be greater than 3000 characters.
How do you arrive at the claim that "probably most" donations go to "pushing woke politics"?

What does "pushing woke politics" mean?

Why is the cost of web hosting so important? Do any comparable organisations spend a more appropriate proportion of their revenue on web hosting?

Which political extremists have taken over?

What is ruined?
They have a voice. What they don’t have any more is the privilege to use it without any consequences.
I remember that trumpet and drum opening music
It's subjective. For us, it's a question of social impact. Sure, torrenting copyrighted material is illegal, but what's the actual social consequence of it? Little to none. Bittorrent also has a wealth of legitimate use-cases. For cryptocurrency, this is not the case: the social impact is grave, and there are few to no legitimate use-cases for it.
Here is the message wikipedia has on its donation page:

> We'll get straight to the point: Today we ask you to defend Wikipedia's independence.

> We're a non-profit that depends on donations to stay online and thriving, but 98% of our readers don't give; they simply look the other way. If everyone who reads Wikipedia gave just a little, we could keep Wikipedia thriving for years to come. The price of a cup of coffee is all we ask.

> When we made Wikipedia a non-profit, people told us we’d regret it. But if Wikipedia were to become commercial, it would be a great loss to the world.

> Wikipedia is a place to learn, not a place for advertising. The heart and soul of Wikipedia is a community of people working to bring you unlimited access to reliable, neutral information.

> We know that most people will ignore this message. But if Wikipedia is useful to you, please consider making a donation of €5, €20, €50 or whatever you can to protect and sustain Wikipedia.

Whether or not one likes the causes they give the money to, if they spend $100 million and they only use $2.4 million for hosting, and they also give money for political activism, then this is a misleading message, making it sound like they are on the cusp of not being able to cover the costs that keep the site online unless they start having ads on wikipedia.
At least some organizations are legally required to archive certain information.
I could imagine that there are certain obligations towards law enforcement to keep certain data and make it accessable upon court order.
Publish Obsidian/Markdown Online Free
Flowershow is a free and open-source tool for easily converting your markdown files into an elegant website. It's built on a standard, modern web stack – React, Next.js, and Tailwind and shipped with a basic default theme to get you started with just a few clicks.
We used Onfido for quite a while, we think you guys are great. I think the solutions you're comparing here are different in more ways than where it is hosted.

For example, This project is about not being tied to a specific vendor, all modules are completely vendor agnostic.

let’s say that you start with one vendor and after a while, you either are not satisfied with the results and want to switch a vendor without changing your internal operations workflow or maybe you have a new geography to cover and you need another vendor for it that will fit the rest of the tools you are using, with this project you can use the same tools to send your document to whichever vendor you want.

We built it for customization from the ground up, and since it's open source - it's at the code level. we expect to see UI packs, flow and vendor compositing, liveliness challenges, etc all developed in the community and for the community to use.
‘Ikarie XB-1’ Is the Forgotten Czech Film That Inspired ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
Criticism is constructive. 90% of everything is crap, but it’s not always immediately apparent what that is. Society depends on people to filter out all the bad ideas being generated constantly before they can do too much damage.