skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's odd to me that there's essentially no competition to Solarized Light when it comes to light color schemes, and all of the focus is on dark. Personally, I don't like dark themes and find them way harder to read. I love Solarized Light, but I do sometimes wish there were a few more options available for light users.

Funnily enough, I lived next to Ethan for a few years in Seattle, and was not a solarized user prior to meeting him. Thanks Ethan!
In many minds Europe is the epitomy of state overreach, the home of pro-consumer anti-business regulation. The truth is of course more nuanced, but this appears to be a move consistent with an owner who believes in consumer protection regulation.
Sometimes the default SMTP port might not guarantee the best delivery. This is when knowing what the alternatives are might really help. Let’s discover 25, 465, 587 and 2525 ports and learn which on to choose.
Nothing's stopping you from implementing file locking on a social level!

"Hey I'm gonna be working in the foo/ subdir this week, mind staying out of there till next week?"
Boxwall – using bookshelf-like structure to stop water
> In theory, a sufficiently capable AI should be able to drive a car at least as well as a human can using the same input: vision.

In theory, cars should be use mechanical legs instead of wheels for transportation, that's how animals do it. In theory, plane wings should flap around, that's the way birds do it. My point being: the way biology solved something may not always be the best way to do it with technology.
Hi! Posting the whole university site is not a good idea here. To get traction, you should post one very specific technical post. Which is the last important discovery / invention they did there?

Also, do you have an English version of that?

Also, try to use a relevant title. Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Ffs, Lula isn’t “a criminal”. He was convicted by a corrupted federal judge, as our Supreme Court decided.

Important to note that some consider the leftist Supreme Federal Court to be the corrupt one in this instance. They literally banned social media speech that claimed Lula is corrupt.
Are you interested in trying to filter out unqualified candidates? I have build Trovinto for that purpose: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33404245
> None of which really seems to make any difference in a world of near-limitless bandwith. It just isn't the constraint it once was.

Tell that to Youtube, Netflix and Facebook - These companies don't have near-limitless bandwith by default, they have to spend many millions to get their networks serving customers.

Or people like me, who can quite easily max out my mobile data-plan with Youtube and high-quality audio.
Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket, etc.
If the war in Ukraine continues, oilseeds are the most profitable planting choice.
It barely copes with cloudflare/Aws having a Hiccup
Running neural networks tweaked by million years of evolution.
Right, if the dracula files are incorrect then it's gonna be a mess.
Which is another reason that "full" FSD is at least a decade away and likely from another supplier, if at all. Cannot believe people are funding this.
Not being snarky but that is what Science is supposed to be. Unfortunately, it has mutated to the more warm & fuzzy "everyone kind of knows." Case in point, it should be "trust the data" but instead we get "trust the experts." The irony? We all know expertise in humans is fleeting.
Are you aggregating straight from careers pages or other job boards?

I am impressed with how much data you have.
SMB 1.0 isn't even included in Windows any more.

Is Linux UNIX?
Thanks to technology we can perceive many things that we have no evolutionary reason to be able to perceive. Our current physics also doesn't seem to be _so_ wrong that it allows much room for technological societies to hide from our instruments.
The Fermi Paradox seems to rely on other civilised aliens being detectable. But why would they be? Unless they're emitting a LOT of radio waves (and we've switched mostly to streaming not broadcast) OR doing some giga engineering, what would we see that we're currently not seeing?

Maybe in 50 years, assuming we have the telescopes to look for cities on extra-solar planets, we will find them everywhere. But right now, the absence of either high powered radio or Dyson spheres does not mean the absence of civilisation.
> Or as I like to quip, somewhere in the middle of the ocean there's an island. On that island is an ant hill, and there's an ant at the top of it wondering: Where are all of the other ants?

That’s not a very good analogy though. The ants’ answer would be “maybe across the ocean”. And since the ants lack any tech to check or be checked by other ants that would be the end of it. It’s not naivety. If there were other ants not visible to the island, they would be fundamentally underdiscoverable.
How about banks/brokers and their accounts data?
This article is about 10 times longer than it needs to be. Also no need for the dripping condescension. I’m even among the most receptive to what he’s trying to say, but got exhausted after about 20% of the article and had to give up.
I believe that the earth centric and human centric view is the problem with the Fermi paradox. Why do we assume that a civilization more advanced than us would have desires towards colonization and contact with lesser lifeforms?

It would be like an ant colony assuming there are no more advanced lifeforms because a more advanced lifeform would have destroyed their colony or contacted them via pheromones
That is simply not true.
I can recommend Kai Light, Espresso Light, XCode Classic Light, Horizon Light off the top of my head.
But what's their energy source?
I always assumed google datacenter has their own protocol already
Was a bit surprised that it found 5 matches (out of 1659 people I'm following). A bit inconvenient that I can't just see these matches though, but have to download a CSV file first.
Then doesn't this prove that Affirmative Action is structurally racist? The vast majority of white kids don't benefit from legacy admissions, and so the system forces them to "squeeze into the slice of the white quota that hasn’t already been carved out for legacy admits."

So now what impact do we suppose that has on racial harmony when we're telling millions of kids to get bent because they have the wrong skin color and were too poor to be looked upon kindly by the institutional powers? And now we sit here with a surprised pikachu face at this rise of racial anger.
Do homes in the US have an abundance of coax cable?

It's used by cable companies here in the UK, but it's not something homes come with as standard.
I think people do not read as much political theory as they used too, probably because it isn't as trendy as it was pre 90s, and that's why you have to explain simple things like this.

I saw it on the left (amongst anarchists/plateformists and postmarxists), and i used to be quite bummed about that, but it came to my attention that on the far-right, this was way worst. Their most recent "theory" is from Renaud Camus, and is basically a rehash of a protofascist theory en vogue around 1905. Called the "Grand remplacement". This is why i don't really care about protofascists in Italy or sweden. They are stupidly dangerous, but they are intellectually in the 19th century. They don't really have new authors (i mean, did you read Renaud Camus past the first 20 pages?), they don't have painters, architects, or filmmakers. They cannot build a culture on this, so they have to scramble something based on religion.
Yes, I have thought of you for what you have mentioned, I do want to experience different things and work with different cultures, life is so short there are a lot of things we have not seen. And thanks for telling me the LinkedIn, I already find a lot of remote jobs there, and I will try for it.
One case where it has a use is on partition (or floppy disk) boot sectors. First instruction is a jump to skip the disk metadata (actually a BIOS parameter block), which is in a fixed place. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_boot_record
Oh I completely agree, misleading is the best way I'd describe this message as well.

But the idea that they're "going woke" or "going political" with their money because they support BIPOC journalists and presenting that as a waste of money ($250k, about a month of hosting), that's where you completely lose me.

Also I'm pretty sure Wikimedia does way more than just hosting.
Blogging Empowers Agile Teams
I work in academia doing ML research, and from an ethical standpoint I think it is one of the best places to be. Still there are ethical issues to consider. For me, thankfully I do not do any controversial research.
I sometimes wonder, if I am wasting public money and burning energy pursuing certain research directions, but that is just about it.

On a more personal level, I sometimes wonder if I am wasting away my potential to earn $$$ by pursuing a career in academia. Currently I have no family, but in the future, if I do, then I would feel an obligation to provide for them, in all ways, including financially.
None of those sound bad, but one organisation that tries to focus on all of them?

You'll end up trying lots of things but poorly, or find that they cross influence to make things efficient. Why work on labour issues when you can deal with women's labour issues?

And especially if they are being funded via manipulation, such as paying for Wikipedia's servers, means they would lack the oversight from donors which is not an effective way.
LinkedIn, I also go through lists of relevant companies in my area and check their Careers page
Thanks for your advice, I will try for it
My kid took 12 driving lessons of an hour long before she could drive stick shift on a road albeit very slowly.
Font legibility and point size are quite crucial for me. I can work with light on dark if using a non blurry pixmap font, terminus being my favorite.

I tend to use monochrome on dark backgrounds, I prefer white on blue to the usual light grey on black.

During the day, I like the rather colorful light Emacs leuven theme: https://github.com/fniessen/emacs-leuven-theme.

For some reason, I find the default acme editor very nice to use, from a legibility and information density POV.
> Where are the great swaths of star systems turned infrared by Dyson black body radiation?

Maybe they’re here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01208
> How do you arrive at the claim that "probably most" donations go to "pushing woke politics"?

As noted in their own 2020 report:

https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AWi...

Only 2.4 of the 112.4 million spent was actually on maintaining the servers themselves. The rest were spent on salaries (55.6 million (!!)), grants (22.8 million (!, why?)), & "Professional services" (11.67 million (again, why?)).

> What does "pushing woke politics" mean?

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.

My problem with this is that its mainly a phenomenon that's isolated to western countries, with Asian & Middle-eastern countries seemingly skirting by with LGBT+ arrests & atrocities without any major recompense.

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

This is mainly because Wikipedia's donation drives make it look like "Donate to us to keep the servers running", when their own reports make it clear that a lot of the donated funds have been sucked up by the foundation's own internal mechanisms.

> Which political extremists have taken over?

Mainly left-oriented extremists, with the organizations listed from here onwards being examples that were funded by the foundation.

https://twitter.com/echetus/status/1579779097278181378

> What is ruined?

For one: Wikipedia's neutral reputation.

Wikipedia was supposed to be a place where consensus could be reached without falling into the trappings of personal or political bias. Instead, the foundation is now seeking to reduce its own transparency by ceasing the publications of its quarterly reviews:

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

Side note: Gish-gallop-style questions are note a conducive way of inviting conversations around a topic.
I gave up on protobufs years ago. The protobuf team has no idea how to write PHP and JS libraries. I got segfaults from using the PHP extension. The built-in toJSON would return invalid JSON (missing braces for binary types). Ridiculous stuff.

I really just prefer to use JSON for everything. It's much easier to debug and observe traffic (browser Network tab). I like JSON-RPC, very simple spec (basically one page long). I don't like REST.

All that said, I'm really glad to see the community take things into their own hands.
Thank you for the suggestions!

Personally, I like using recordings of native speakers to get used to their sound. I am not sure if I can always get it right myself in the beginning.

BUT recording yourself is invaluable nonetheless! I usually do this in a separate exercise by using transcriptions (which I encountered first in jazz – see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_(music)). As you suggested, saying the word out loud before Anki plays the recording is important, too.
These techniques/behaviors do not work on me. I'm calling your bluff.

Have you anything other than memes in your kit?
Well let's test that. In what undergrad class (any school, you pick) is there information and wisdom not found freely online?
Will we? In the case of a nuclear exchange, everyone will want to reach out internationally to call their lived ones and say goodbye, and people don't use long distance phone calls anymore, so they'll want to use the Internet for that. (And even if they did it's all VOIP on the backend these days anyway.) It's a critical piece of communication infrastructure.
They actually sold a bigger battery at the time. Can't find much mention of it anywhere now, but Wikipedia lists it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_U_GamePad

> LiPo 3.6 V DC 2550 mAh (upgrade WUP-013; 8 hours use)
What I'd really like to see is a way to boot FreeDOS on UEFI. Of course this would require a BIOS emulator somewhere, either inside a native UEFI version of FreeDOS (not very probable to happen, I think), or as an external UEFI executable that can then boot a BIOS system (parts of this do exist, I think).
> Lots of people! The advancing of fashionable progressive causes is a far more popular thing to do today than hosting free online encyclopaedias. Wikipedia would arguably get more donations if they stuck a Black Lives Matter logo on their banner ads.

I don't think so. Just because the social activists are vocal does not mean that they are numerous.

In fact, looking at raw numbers, they're obviously in the minority: wikipedia donators outnumber actual BLM donators, so there are obviously more people interested in donating to wikipedia than to BLM.

If the wikimedia foundation were honest in their request for donations ("We plan to spend this on political activism"), they'd get fewer donators.
> we have evolved to perceive everything that can possibly threaten us and that includes aliens

This argument is comical because it contains two components that are exactly the sort of thing that blunts perception: arrogance and absolutes.
Yeah but no one is buying those because yields keep rising.
Source: have worked with some of the (admittedly last-gen) automotive RADAR chips, NXP in particular.

The issue is the number of false positives, stationary objects need to be filtered out. Something like a drainage grill on the street generates extremely strong returns. RADAR isn't high enough resolution to differentiate the size of something, you only have ~10 degree resolution, and after that you need to go by strength of the returned signal. So there's no way to differentiate a bridge girder or a railing or a handful of loose change on the road from a stationary vehicle. On the other hand, if you have a moving object, RADAR is really good at identifying it and doing adaptive cruise control etc.

Edit: it looks like some of the latest Bosch systems have much better performance in terms of resolution and separability: https://www.bosch-mobility-solutions.com/media/global/produc...
The Push to Scale Plant-Based Plastics
All those examples require a canvas. For simple GUI applications that mostly just take input from the user and produce output in a non-canvas form, zenity usually works.
This is how most large non-profits work. They start out from building something genuinely successful, like Wikipedia, and from that visibility they raise more donations than they know how to spend. So naturally they want to expand their work. But it's very rare that the founders also happen to have the skills to run a large organization, so they need to bring in "professional management."

And who could be better than someone who has previously run a large non-profit? They are now run by some career non-profit manager, and the first thing they will do is focus on fundraising. They will pay large salaries to professional fundraisers who are, you guessed it, their friends from previous organizations they have worked at. Their jobs will be easy and their salaries fat. Then they will build an expensive administration structure whose salaries will eat up an ever increasing share of donation income.

The non-profit becomes essentially a feudal structure, with idealistic volunteers doing all of the productive work while highly paid managers consume all of the donation income. As long as fundraising investment has a positive ROI in terms of donations, management will find new ways to spend it. They will hire more and more parasitic administrators, and if things are particularly lucrative, they will donate to other organizations run by people they know in the industry. Always good to have someone else owe you a favor when times get tough.

This will continue until the organization grows so big that it collapses under the weight of its own structure. In the case of Wikipedia, some of the serf volunteers have figured this out and described it as "Wikipedia has Cancer" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...
OK now do Sasha and Malia Obama vs some kid from the trailer park.

See, skin color is a proxy that only serves to institutionalize racism towards those who are already powerless.

The majority of poor people in the country are white and we're telling them (not the Legacy white kids) that they can piss off because they do not have the right skin color. Then we turn around with a shocked look on our face at all of the rising racial resentment. Gee, what could possibly be causing all of this..?
Read The Lazy Universe by Coopersmith.

(Also, the Fermat’s Principle of least time is perhaps more intuitive and has a firm grounding in the wave description of how light propagates.)
The day I shot myself down [pdf]
> You will also need to use a tuntime dsl to describe the schema

This is kind of the whole ballgame right? How would you do any of this with types if the schema isn't defined until runtime?
FWIW, I wrote this piece.

I am very glad to hear that you like it, and I am delighted to see it doing so well. I think it's only the 2nd or 3rd obit I've done for the Reg and I did not get a style guide; I just read some previous ones.

It was fascinating to write this. I did a lot of reading and research, and the more I learned, the more interesting and impressive her and her husband's work become to me.

In the end my editor was really chasing me to file my piece, so I am happy that it proved worth the time investment. He too is surprised how well it's done. It may be my single most-tweeted story yet, in a year full-time at El Reg.

FWIW, some background context: Kathleen Booth got her BSc from the same college I got mine. J D Bernal's mentor, W L Bragg, was the son of perhaps the most famous graduate of my secondary school, King William's College: W H Bragg. They are tenuous connections but both pleased me.
Exactly. The way biology solved something may not always be the best way to do it with technology, because the constraints or so different. And to be more blunt, I think none of the problems where technology surpassed human performance were achieved by doing it the exact same way. From locomotion (legs vs. wheels) to playing chess (strategic intuition vs. billions of calculations).
The Wii U was the first Nintendo console that I had no "must have" game at launch. Gamecube had Melee, Wii had Twilight Princess, Switch had Breath of the Wild. But there was nothing on the Wii U for a whole year until Pikmin 3 and Super Mario 3D World. It squandered their one year head start.
The author may be interested in Zig, where allocators are first-class components of the system.

https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.9.1/#Choosing-an-Allocat...

There is even an arena allocator provided (amongst others) by the std lib.
You could just use ham radio, the "internet before the internet" (with the right antenna, it can transmit worldwide).

Ham radio is still used by many people, and will never go away.
Possibly the downvotes are because folks (like me) who started coding in light text on dark backgrounds in the 80s had emphatically not hit retirement age by 2010? They'd be between their late thirties and maybe late fifties, unless you want to push it all the way back to the 1970s or earlier -- the build-out of computing infrastructure over the past century has been exponential, so there is always a preponderance of young/new developers, but with retirement age nearing 70 folks who began programming in the early 1970s are in many cases still working.

(I went sideways and left software development entirely. But I'm 58 and very much still working with text on screens and routinely use dark mode.)
I watched from the beginning as they were aired in the 80s. Actually I only watched the beginning of it, plus some random episodes in the next decades in random encounters on tv channels. DS9 went about the same route. Voyager was more interesting. I watched all of Enterprise. Then season 1 of Discovery, maybe 2? I stopped when the red things started appearing (no time) but I might start again. Strange New Worlds, all of it so far.
Those are licensed, not sold. This is one concern people have with Right to Repair - that the OEMs would just turn everything into a long term lease and you wouldn’t actually own your stuff any more. Then they can put whatever rules they want on it.
A family of 4 making $100K in Des Moines isn’t the same as a family of 4 making $100K in NYC either. Maybe two families are making the same, but one has their housing paid for.

I think the hurdle should be high for including adjustments to the applicant’s demonstrated ability, and looking at a year or two of tax returns isn’t going to give you a reliable picture. I have a deferred compensation system available (and I’m just a schmoe employee). If it was critical to their application, I could make those two years of tax returns look however I needed.
This is a very foolish thing to say.

Here (Canada) our nuclear power plants produce tritium as a byproduct.

This can be used to "boost" nuclear weapons. Should Ontario Hydro be allowed to sell this in the open market? It goes for ~$30,000/gram so Hydro would LOVE to be able to sell it.

What about poisons? They have no real use besides killing others, should they be available in your local walmart?

DDT, should we bring this back?

You see the point?

There is no "right to sell whatever you want" and there never will be one.
> "biosphere" is one heck of a bias.

What is the bias here? Who is biased, the "reaper" aliens? The commenter you are responding to? Can you expand your comment a bit?

> We only started sending out low entropy information out into outer space in the past 120 years or so

Humans yes. But our planet looks unmistakably like it can have life. That is the signal.