skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until we have just one datapoint from another civilization or planet (just one!) every single statement surrounding Fermi paradox stuff can't be proven, for example:

- Life has to go through "hard steps" to get to civilization

- (I really hate this one at a personal level for multiple reasons) assuming alien civilizations will use Dyson spheres

- There exists some sort of 'great filter' that prevents civilizations from expanding

For each of these, we have absolutely no data to compare to in order to support or refute these statesments.
> More sensors are like more programmers

More programmers are like having more testicles, theoretically they should enable you to have more kids, but in practice bootleneck are elsewhere.

Both your and my reasoning by comparison is equally valid
*for mid 4 figures.
The Audacity.
Contrary to what many people would like to believe, the same person can do both bad and good things, have great ideas and terrible ones, be fantastic to some and terrible to others. Most people are like that, with varying intensity.
The planning absolutely should take that into account and it does somewhat already. When it is really tight for example, it can slow down to a crawl.

It should do that in many cases, wet roads, busses with open doors, busses in general maybe, blind corners (does that already to some degree), many people nearby etc.
How would you rank order those five on their impacts to the developing child and the opportunities they get?
I went to a talk with one of the Arpanet guys about 10 years ago (annoyingly, I've forgotten who!). I remember that he thought it was ridiculous to suggest that the internet would be any good after a nuclear war, but conceded that the absurd notion might have been aired to get funding for research on packet switching.
The wikimedia foundation is a kleptocratic blight upon wikipedia.
I have a slight preference for having a printed menu available for browsing, _and_ also having optional electronic ordering.

> I just had lunch at a QR based restaurant here and it was a bit painful.

Interesting, which one? So far I didn't have too much trouble. But I can easily believe that there are many that don't work so well.
Where are you getting "about 90%" from? The controversy here is about a US$4.5 million fund, which is about 2.7% of Wikimedia's 2021 income.
> Who would want to donate to wikipedia when they know that about 90%+ goes to pushing woke politics?

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.
Just the fact that Iranian government routinely emits parasite radio signals to jam foreign Persian broadcasts (BBC Farsi, Manoto, etc), while knowing this causes significant health issues to its population, shows you how far they are ready to go before they are overthrown.
The United Nations also allows 2 years non-payment before a member looses voting rights, currently 4 countries https://www.un.org/en/ga/about/art19.shtml One of the countries, Venezuela, can't pay due to sanctions https://www.france24.com/en/20200622-venezuela-blames-us-san...
It's a surprisingly well-built piece of open source software.

I should add that I absolutely hate KYC practices and all the evil it brings to the world. I sincerely hope this will not succeed and not gain any widespread adoption.

Having said that I must also admit that this looks like top notch open source project to me. I like the live demos, the well-built UI/UX with tons of attention to details; the way it's documented and the code. It's so nicely done!
>This is yet another example of an org that has been taken over by political extremists

[Citation needed]
But instead of having a single planet generating random molecular combinations to roll for proto-DNA, you have billions or more. Life would have to evolve extremely commonly for it to be more probable to evolve by itself on any specific planet than on literally any planet which then encouters an event causing panspermia.

But alas, that's an external observer viewpoint. It's important to note that it does not say that life is more probable to have evolved somewhere else than Earth (since we have an effective sample size of 1). It only says that the extra step introduced in the panspermia theory does not have a negative probabilistic impact, on the contrary.
The resulting changes look like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2z-v3v6vwk

It took just 18 years to fix this

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141154&
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/233
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25719796
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31778490
So all those engineers are lying when they talk about this topic ?
Same for me, I also have astigmatism and issues with dark themes. Thanks for the insight!
We are already living in a dystopia.
This is why i really like the FreeDOS project, enabling future generations of hackers to experience this level of access to the computer.
I mean, you're still talking about it, now, much later. If it was really no struggle people would have forgot about it at this point.

H2 push is also something that degrades much more gracefully if missing compared to an image codec.

Nonetheless, people haved removed image codecs before (rip XBM). Harder is not the same as impossible.
Not top down, but maybe side to side.

Tesla has really helped push EVs over the adoption hump and into the mainstream. Quite a lot of incredibly wealthy people and governments (petro-states) would love to see Tesla (and Musk personally) fail. Upending the global energy order is a big deal and will make you serious enemies.

SpaceX has also almost single handedly taken the entire launch industry. Nowhere near as big as the oil and internal combustion engine industries but it's very wrapped up with large powerful states like Russia. Roscosmos is basically dead now.

The idea that Musk is pro-Russian is kind of dubious for many reasons, and Russia certainly has zero reason to be pro-Musk. He's destroyed their space industry, threatens the fossil fuel basis of their economy, and helped Ukraine.
Nothing prevents compilers from compiling in multiple paths for anything performance critical.

That's how it's already being done on x86. If AVX-512 is available, use it. If not, maybe fall back to AVX-2. Else fall back to SSE2. Etc.

GCC multiversioning:

https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/FunctionMultiVersioning

Clang multiversioning:

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AttributeReference.html#cpu-disp...
> Not at all. Average trading volume times price is almost exactly that.

For stocks, yes. But there are plenty of other modes of wealth too which can be much harder to estimate. Like for example what is the liquidity of Bezos' half billion dollar yacht or Putins billion dollar palace?
Multiplayer video games, realtime updating webpages, database bindings, sync protocols (I play around around with CRDTs a lot), p2p distributed systems, whatever really!

Implementing a wire protocol seems to come up about once every couple of years. And for context, I've been programming now for about 30 years.
> If Twitter was profitable, then this entire thing wouldn't have happened; they need to get lean because they're losing $$.

Exactly. It seems that EM overpaid for a dud, and now wants to compensate any way possible.

But could he please let us know what percentage of users is bots?
I have not been following the whole thing super closely, no. Thank you for the links.
Apparently he became José Tyler in the series pilot[0]. And, of course, nearly 60 years later, we now have Erica Ortegas[1] named after that original character.

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[0] - https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Tyler

[1] - https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Erica_Ortegas
A human driver slows down and moved their head around to get a better view when the glare from the sun is too strong to see well. I’d expect a self driving car to similarly compromise on speed for the sake of safety, when presented with uncertainty.
People can add ActivityPub to their websites/blogs, and it will be a part of the fediverse. WordPress has a plugin for this, and you can add your own implementation as well.
I coin the long paid vacation hack
Stripped of jargon, that sentence is saying "many people can't access or contribute to Wikipedia because of racism", which is basically true if you account for second-order effects. For example, a major reason why Haiti is poor and has few Wikipedia users is centuries of European and American prejudice and straight-up racism against former slaves.

Personally, I'd prefer Wikimedia focus on improving access for poor people around the world regardless of skin color, but unfortunately this view seems to have gone out of style.
"Musk has reportedly told engineers to have the project completed by November 7 or else they'll be fired"

Wow.
On Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems, that would be mmap with the MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
> FNRs came up as a direct response to suggesting decarbonising via nuclear.

You were literally the only one mentioning it in the whole thread. In the response to me talking about storage technologies and batteries. Do not pretend otherwise.

> There are no other nuclear technologies that even come close to the criteria of both existing and being scalable

Thank you for derailing the conversation away from * checks notes * discussion on batteries, but you can do it on your own, I'm not going to engage further.
I long stopped using wikipedia for anything that involves the media, is contemporary, is political or otherwise controversial, due to the sheer amount of bias because of the "reliable" sources rules, which simply don't reliably work for any of those.

For the "hard" sciences they generally are pretty reliable.
Can't deny, but not what we believed at the time.
Well, not true. They have employed hundreds of people and pays them ridicolous salaries. Less than half is actually used on actually operating/developing the site. Yes that fund is the most controversial part but it's not the only thing about the topic that is controversial.

2021 website hosting cost $2.4 million - which is less than it did in 2012. Most of the money they recieve by donations goes to something else. As you may see, the site hosting costs are less than what the spend on that controversial fund.
> If Mastodon takes off because of Musk ill be pretty amused.

Iirc, Elon Musk said social networking should not be centralized but distributed. Perhaps he bought Twitter just to shut it down so that ActivityPub would become more popular?
Briar and Manyverse (based on ssb) come to mind
> Nintendo always uses slightly older hardware.

This is a bit of a meme, but it isn't generally true. The Nintendo 64 and GameCube were pretty cutting edge in their day. At the time the Nintendo Switch released, the Tegra X1 was still about as cutting edge as mobile GPUs came (in early 2016).

What Nintendo is about - to a fault, some would argue - is cost cutting. Sometimes that means they use older stuff, but using older stuff isn't always the best cost cutting balance to strike. The article even notes this:

> To be fair, it’s known that Nintendo’s choices are not always based on ‘cutting-edginess’ but on cost and supply.
Hah yes; although TCP frames can be arbitrarily refragmented and rejoined as they travel through the network before reaching your destination.

If you ever play an indie game which seems unusually janky over wifi, its probably because the code isn't correctly rejoining fragmented network packets at the application level. Ethernet is remarkably well behaved in this regard. Wifi is much better at shaking out buggy code.
> if you stand in the same place and point to the same thing, a larger focal length

What will happen then?

> will do compress the perspective more.

Beep! Wrong! That's why I'm pedantic about the topic. Try it yourself with a zoom lens. The right answer is:

"will capture a smaller angle of the same scene."

No perspective change. Ignoring details coming from resolution, you might as well crop the picture.
The big question is how local regions of low entropy that exhibit metabolism and replication (ie. life) came into existance out of inanimate matter. Where it happened is secondary.
Hmm...Jon Schwartz is a well known journalist, and from a read of the piece, it looks to be factually correct.

What is the definition of a 'hit piece' in this context? Something that portrays a company/person in an unflattering light?

That in itself seems to be a somewhat strange distinction.
Raj Koothrappali Was Dave Koothrappali
There is a link to the pitch of Star Trek posted on HN. I browsed through that website[0] to see what else I could find. And I saw lots of script for other tele series since 2006!

Intrigued, I started looking for anything by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady (more specifically "The Big Bang Theory"). And I found the script of the pilot for The Big Bang Theory. In that script[1] the name of Raj Koothrappali is Dave Koothrappali :)

0. https://sites.google.com/site/tvwriting

1. https://www.zen134237.zen.co.uk/Big_Bang_Theory/The_Big_Bang_Theory_1x01_-_Pilot.pdf
In Ukraine it's the very opposite.

It's available in virtually all restaurants, it works really well and you can pay using Apple Pay incl. tips. Such a time saver and so handy.

And no local specific features are required: no apps (think WeChat or similar), no local bank accounts, etc.

It just works.
I have been considering a grey water solution that would achieve two things. The bath in my house is upstairs, and I have an additional toilet downstairs, almost directly underneath. So, I could let the bathwater drain into a tank above the toilet cistern, from where it can slowly release its heat, and then use the water to fill the toilet cistern for flushing. That way, I save on heating and on water usage, and the water wouldn't be evaporating into the house causing humidity problems.

I did the calculations. A 120l bath has water costing £0.53 and heating (by gas, if we assume the incoming water is about 10C and heating it to 40C, about 4.2kWh) costing about £0.44. We probably get out of the bath and drain it when it's about 35C, so if the house is at 22C then there's about 1.8kWh of energy that would get transferred as heat to the house, about £0.19 worth. So, for a very modest cost of installing a tank and a little bit of plumbing (probably less than £200), we'd be saving £0.53 each day (assuming all that water gets used) plus £0.19 each day that we would have the heating on, probably half the year, which is around £230 per year. It'd pay itself off very quickly.

The main concern is that the holding tank doesn't become a bacterial breeding ground, so it may need some chemical discouragement every now and again, but that's hardly difficult.
He didn't even incite anything and there's already protests. Truck drivers have closed down major roads and announced a strike.
Personal activities are explicitly exempted from the GDPR. You have to be engaged in "economic activity" for these requirements to apply to you.

https://gdpr.eu/Recital-18-Not-applicable-to-personal-or-hou...
Serenity of Bird Photography
To be fair the fermi paradox itself doesn't make any conclusions and only relies on the drake equation.

Saying "if the drake equation holds up, then why is it so quiet in the universe?"

As soon as we have one data point from another civilization, the paradox automatically disappears. It's only in the absence that we can ask the question, and speculate.
> Essentially it says that they happened to pick AVIF for no apparent reason and because of that they can't pick JPEG XL for no apparent reason again

Sounds pretty valid to me. Sometimes you just have to pick a solution. Having every possible format supported does not make sense. If AVIF fills the usecase, no point having both.
Complex numbers are extensively used in electronics so I never had a feeling of it as something purely synthetic, but most of n-dimensional math was for me beyond my capabilities to understand it any level higher then treating at as a purely mathematical abstraction of our 3d world - and thus all I'd do was just crunching the equitations.

Probably if I was exposed to real world applications of that math it would be easier to reason about it. I found that to be the biggest problem with my academic curriculum - there was a lot of abstract math concepts that they teach you in first 2 years, and you discover their actual usefulness only years later.
For how long? It's "propped up" by gas reads like a transitional state. LNG prices won't stay high forever. They're speculation/scarcity prices not "new normal" surely? As PV and wind and battery come through the marginal risk on gas supply reduces.
> I'd imagine 1970s Ireland was a much different place, with tons of
paper money all over the place.

Exactly. Perhaps that was the GP commeners point. Banks, phones and
internet connectivity are not necessary for survival of economic life
given a sufficient circulation of stable physical currency.

Gold and barter don't count because of agreement/coordination
problems.

Cash money is not like any other sort of imaginary money. It exists.
Physically. In the world. It has physical stability.

It therefore acts a buffer, more like a flywheel maintaining momentum
and providing strong resilience to back up more ethereal transactional
instruments.

Modern cash is also a highly advanced technology, using state of the
art mathematics and materials science.

Contactless, and debit cards are fine things, for those who want them,
but without actual cash as a foundation they're a deadly trap.

I am uttery aghast that supposedly "clever" economists and
technologists seem not to grasp this simplest of concepts.
Imagine you find _the_ fundamental law of the universe, say "the gralb must be flombed". It's the fundamental law, so there's no other law explaining why it exists. All other laws follow from it and therefore feel understandable.

(This is mostly theoretical, as the explanation with phases cancelling in the sibling comment is satisfactory to me at least. But nevertheless there will be some law without a "more fundamental reason").
Actually that’s a fantastic idea. Should have thought of that for myself.
But as a warning, a lot of the Dracula themes are are not correctly (for some reason especially the Dracula Pro themes). For example the iTerm and Kitty theme have same foreground and background color set so I had to fix them manually. Doesn’t seem that they are tested by the author.
> Url with variables routing?

No. But then I find that trivial to implement. Takes around 10 lines of code.

> Csrf generation?

Yes. You can generate secure tokens and send them in headers.

> Session loading?

No. And this one is a pain point. But then I didn't find any session libs in go or nodejs that fitted my needs, so I have no issues rolling my own.

> Forms processing?

Not sure whats the need here. Do you mean validating the inputs?
Again thats just a few lines of code.

> Templating?

ECR Templating in stdlib works well.

> ORM?
I do not use ORMs as I prefer to write my sql queries by hand. Crystal provides object mapping with query results by default.

> Assets pipeline integration?

Not very sure what you mean here.

Overall, I personally feel that I can get all that i need for my app in about a couple of dozen lines of code and I don't really need the emntal overhead of learning a new framework. But I suppose others will have a different view point.

Here are some of my repos which can give an idea of how I do things in crystal;
https://github.com/rishavs/kaipi
https://github.com/rishavs/cove
You planned to move your entire business to a feature that has thus far never been shipped by any browser?
When did DEBUG become an .EXE file instead of a .COM file itself?
You've only got to look at the inconvenience of setting up a matrix home server and soon think "centralised it is".

Mastodon is even worse.

I can't see it taking off.
"propaganda" has always been a dog whistle for suppressing inconvenient talking points
SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency projects to be removed
I'd certainly believe that ecological stress could be a contributing factor. Perhaps civilizations that are already weak for other reasons like corruption, demographics, etc. are unable to innovate, adapt, substitute resources, or otherwise adjust when confronted by ecological stress.

There's a thesis on the collapse of Rome that argues that a volcanic eruption helped tip it over:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/science/rome-caesar-volca...

Not self-inflicted, but still ecological. But Rome was already weak when it occurred.
DevOps is a practice that brings development and operations teams together and strives to improve the collaboration between them. DevOps also requires high level of automation. This happens with the help of different software tools, which are called the DevOps toolset. Going a step further the DevOps toolchain is connecting all the tools in a singular system by integrating the DevOps tools.

The result is faster development, and better-quality software. The software development lifecycle becomes continuous and starts with planning, then coding, building and testing. Once that part is complete, there comes releasing, deploying, operating, and monitoring. With the second part of the process the team receives feedback and starts with the planning once again.
I am not defending political propaganda, I am observing the area where it transitions into action with worry and thus critizising it.

Living in an area of the world where you are given more than two political choices might make you think a little differently on a lot of stuff. For example you don't have to take sides like in a team sport and cheer on "your" team independent of it's actions. What I am saying here is that the US is an absolute mid-pit in terms of propaganda and this includes Republicans and Democrats alike. Yet by my standards (the standards of someone whose grandfather was an actual Nazi) one of those propaganda machines is more dangerous than the other.
> "Young man, in mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them."

- John von Neumann
> Who would want to donate to wikipedia when they know that a lot goes to pushing woke politics?

What exactly do you mean by "woke politics"?
I was a programmer back in the MS-DOS and early Windows days. My language of choice was Turbo Pascal. Source control consisted of daily backups to ZIP files on floppy disks. The program I wrote talked to hand-held computers running a proprietary OS that I programmed in PL/N their in house variant. The communications ran through a weird custom card that talked SDLC (I think).

I was the whole tech staff, work-life balance was reasonable, as everything was done turning normal day-shift hours. There was quite a bit of driving, as ComEd's power plants are scattered across the Northern half of Illinois. I averaged 35,000 miles/year. It was one of the most rewarding times of my life, work wise.

The program was essentially a set of CRUD applications, and I wrote a set of libraries that made it easy to build editors, much in the manner of the then popular DBASE II pc database. Just call with X,Y,Data, and you had a field editor. I did various reports and for the most part it was pretty easy.

The only odd bit was that I needed to do multi-tasking and some text pipelining, so I wrote a cooperative multi-tasker for Turbo Pascal to enable that.

There weren't any grand design principles. I was taught a ton about User Friendliness by Russ Reynolds, the Operations Manager of Will County Generating Station. He'd bring in a person off the floor, explain that he understood this wasn't their job, and that any problems they had were my fault, and give them a set of things to do with the computer.

I quickly learned that you should always have ** PRESS F1 FOR HELP ** on the screen, for example. Russ taught me a ton about having empathy for the users that I carried throughout my career.
Thanks, I did not know there was a term for this idea.