skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite solution is very simple: We're overestimating our ability to detect extraterrestrial live. It might be common and look similar to us. They might even use radio signals. But until somebody demonstrates that you can detect stray telecommunications signals over lightyears I find it hard to believe. I also think it is going to be hard to detect the chemical signature of life e.g. via spectroscopy, if you can't even image the planet next to it's overshining star.

Second, and somewhat sobering part: I also think it is practically impossible to do interstellar journeys. You can imagine scaling up existing tech to do so. But I think at some point the complexity and cost (in terms of resources, not money) would diverge. As an analogy, you can build a small robot, but if you try to scale it up to a mech it will not work in reality. Too heavy to move, yet to flimsy to stand.
There are definitely some Bell Labs/Xerox/IBM old heads in their 70s and 80s here.
I mostly agree but also went to a Jesuit high school and there were some super enlightened Jesuits. So a bit of a mixed bag.
99% of crypto/blockchain projects give the rest a bad name, so I especially like this part:

> We will exercise discretion when applying this rule. If you believe that your use-case for cryptocurrency or blockchain is not plagued by these social problems, you may ask for permission to host it on SourceHut, or appeal its removal, by contacting support.

looking forward to seeing what (if any) crypto projects there manage to meet this standard.
Only because you do not consider ChromeOS and Andoid to be Linux.

Also, if some country/university thinks out loud about ditching Windoze for Linus desktops they get a huge discount -- so MS takes it serious.

> Nobody takes the linux desktop seriously anyways

I expect you are using OSX (or what ever it is called nowadays), which is a more polished desktop product, and usable by devs.

If you are on windows: you do not take Linux desktop serious enough. If you are on a Linux desktop: you forgot to count yourself. :)
Of course, for 250k*4y I could probably just buy a house in Biloxi... And many of the people the current system removes from the pool come from areas that would be just as economically under-performing as other groups.

Sorry if I have missed your point?
Yeah, and when the individual outcome is "not dying", ignoring society's laws is pretty reasonable.
"Promoted" should not necessarily mean "became a manager". Tech companies need to embrace the concept of very high-level, very high-paid Individual Contributors.

Raise your hand if you're a "Senior Software Engineer" or "Staff Software Engineer" and there is no other next level for your career to go besides management. It's a common problem.
> For my code editing I prefer to use bold/italic/underline more than colors. It play very well with eink, especially color eink.

Are you doing code editing on eInk? Because if so, I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
I can get some thing like this by adding context distractions. For example, "bear eating salmon in river" shows whole fishes, but "bear wearing tophat eating salmon in river" gives a bear (without a tophat usually) eating supermarket sliced salmon in a river.
This is needlessly pedantic. They are appointed by politicians.
Sounds like a great idea!

I look forward to the return of people getting stabbed by Lawn Darts and kids choking on the toy inside their Kinder Egg.
Probably someone who wants to talk about the vast increase in hospital costs, especially to patients, over the past ~50+ years. You know, as opposed to what the article is about.
ISBNdb dump – how many books are preserved forever?
And? Neither of those quotes mentions metaverse spending.
Daily Active User
They might have overbet on VR, but they remember acutely that they "lost mobile" which was basically an existential threat for them. Through major* effort they clawed their way back to the top on mobile. I guess Z thinks that VR is the next phase and that they aren't going to make the same mistake again. He's certainly been interested since buying Oculus.

Even if they don't sell a lot of headsets, they will probably have more experience than anyone else on what works and doesn't, and how that relates to the experiences they need to create. Of course this depends on VR actually mattering, which I doubt. Perhaps some of that will apply to AR, though when that goes mainstream is another big question.

* Normally the adjective "heroic" would be appropriate to describe the level of effort, but somehow I can't use that word when talking about a company, much less one like FB.
Hello ComputerGuru,

As you may understand: there's more to graphical fidelity than just the GPU itself.

CPU<->GPU bandwidth (and GPU memory bandwidth) are also important.

There is a small but not insignificant overhead to these things with virtualisation: VMs don't come for free.
Making architectural changes to create a patch implies that they only prefer to work on the latest codebase. What you are describing is a lack of commitment to long-term-support for older OS (in effect, planned obsolescence); so the head line is indeed accurate. Apple providing only partial support for older OSes can be quite meaningless depending on the security hole they decide to not fix "because it is too much work".
What are some examples where the data is in conflict with modern Catholic teachings?
Ivy schools have some of the largest endowments, rivaling the GDP of some small countries. If Harvard, and Yale were serious about diversity, they would let people attend for free.
No matter what I work on and how complex, mkcert is always there for my dev environment. In combination with cert-manager's CA support[0], even TLS for Kubernetes development environments is simple as it gets.

Thanks Filippo!

[0]: https://cert-manager.io/docs/configuration/ca/
There are enough disadvantages to having your money be "dirty" in this way that I'm not sure it really moves the needle?

There's no way this is an easier way to game admissions than throwing around "clean" money, right?
> My question is: did I just kinda hit the limit of my IQ / abstract thinking skills? Do other people smarter than me think all this makes sense on an intuitive level?

I honestly don't think so. I was like that at one point, too, and "quit" math. Got a job and spent a few years programming full-time. I then went back to college, and lo and behold, I was required to do math for the courses I was interested in. I then had a couple of teachers who really made us grind, like, all the even-number problems in each chapter.

One teacher gave what seemed to be impossibly long exams; he took pride in people dropping his course. After the first exam, I got an okay score, but he put a note on the exam and I chatted with him after class. He was like, "your handwriting sucks on the last half of the exam, you should practice the material more so you don't feel so rushed." So, on the following exam, I literally did speed drills on the practice exam until I could knock it dead in an hour. Took 4 tries, if I recall correctly.

Eventually, I was able to "see" through the symbols. It took hundreds, perhaps thousands, of hours of dedicated practice. It wasn't easy. I was enraged, distraught, I was brought to tears, but I kept at it. I used to tell myself that I was too stupid to do math. In retrospect, I wasn't motivated enough to do math. I found that it's hard, perhaps incredibly hard, but not impossible. Though it wasn't my goal to begin with, I eventually got a PhD in math.
> This was it, even into the 90s you could reasonable "fully understand" what the machine was doing

That was always an illusion, only possible if you made yourself blind to the hardware side of your system.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27988103

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21003535
Does it matter? They are functional and safe enough for most sunbelt cities. We may not have FSD from day one but what we do have is leagues ahead of what's possible 5 years ago.
Housing’s bubble bursts – again What did we learn?
A counterexample is not a counter to an example given, but an example that counters or refutes what has been stated.
One could argue Copilot can translate/refactor code.

I can't count the number of times I've copy pasted a chunk, commented it out, then put a comment describing what I'm after. Copilot will get it exactly right ~40% of the time, ~40% of the time it gives me a good starting place, and the other 20% I just scrap.
Can someone explain why themes are trending today? Solarized was also front page
As a math professor and sub-dilettante programmer, I found this a fantastic and instructive analogy. Thank you!
Same with python. GIL and everything.
comma.ai has too much regulatory and third party (car mfg.) risk.

it's also too expensive when the most compelling features are upgrades to 2015-2018 level technology. i could instead do without and then upgrade to a new car with stop and go cruise control, lane minding, etc.
GPA isn't an objective measure and is not free of the influence of race
I mean with reference to a sophistry technique to shut down discussion. Were the individual example to be computer scientists instead of surgeons, then the definition of a successful computer scientist can be redefined to a suitable outcome as proof that racial discrimination does not harm consumers of surgeons or computer scientists. Its avoiding the core discussion via wordplay. Furthermore if no individual example were provided then the sophistry method would be to complain there is no specific example of an individual being harmed therefore there is no harm and racial discrimination is an inherently good process.
Compiler development is (often indirectly) safety critical too.
Correct. Apple also picks and chooses which things it buys and which it builds in-house.
He's talented and arrogant and promises more than he can deliver.
There are a lot of nice answers here talking about math generally, but I can offer a specific answer. This is a paper that generalizes a lot of things, and you have to understand the specific things for it to come across as an insight instead of a pointless abstract thing. Not knowing any specific thing and trying to learn the generalization is like trying to know Netwon's laws without relating them to any physical situations.
This is way too serious of a reply to my not obvious enough tongue in cheek comment, but now I've gone and learned something new with Anycast being an actual system on the inner workings of the interwebs
The point is Hotz's product shouldn't be compared to Waymo at all. One is driverless and the other is not. It should be compared to the likes of Tesla Autopilot or driver assist systems offered by other OEMs.
Still popular! Where's all my FreePascal nerds?
How Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes revolutionized dance
These are all examples of scaling and miniaturization. It's impressive to be sure but nothing that wasn't already done. Fundamentally we're still running mostly the same algorithms and have been spending the last however many years optimizing and scaling in various areas from hardware to labelling and automation.

That's why "lol it's just spreadsheets and if-statements," is kind of funny: there's a grain of truth to it.
ICs Have Code Repositories. What Do Managers Have That Speaks for Their Work?
> the same Russia that is surviving economic and military war from the entire west while Europe risks a political and economical collapse this winter,

It's not a war "from the entire west". The war is from Russia. They started a war that they can't finish, but even before the war, Russia hasn't been doing great, whereas all their former vassal states that have changed to democratic systems have been doing very well. In fact, that's part of the reason for Putin's war: if Ukraine goes the same route, that would show more clearly to the Russian people how badly Putin's system is failing, and they might demand the same for Russia.

In fact, part of the reason that Russia is performing so badly in this war, is Russia's autocracy. Many officials who are supposed to inform Putin or perform certain military roles, are doing so not with the goal of doing the best possible job, but with the goal of not angering Putin. Because he can break them. So they lie about any bad news, which has lead Putin to start a bad war based on faulty information, with an army that's poorly lead.
Asians are over-represented by population at Harvard.

Whatever magic equation replaces AA, you can rest assured that there will be more whites and less Asians. And SCOTUS will be perfectly fine with that.
> vertical integration has advantages and disadvantages.

Which Jobs acknowledged in his 1997 WWDC talk before becoming CEO (again).

There's an execution burden with integration and it has to be overcome with solid execution.
>Because if the current atheist world is the real one, then we are doomed.

That kind of discussion always reminds me of a very short poem by Stephen Crane

A man said to the universe:

“Sir, I exist!”

“However,” replied the universe,

“The fact has not created in me

A sense of obligation.”

the second law of thermodynamics has never invoked any sort of feelings of impending spiritual doom, but more importantly even if it did that's hardly a reason to start retreating into fantasies, we're not owed a non-doomed universe, and not even a non-doomed individual life. And on a personal note I' rather take the embrace of the indifferent cold universe over jolly people reading scripture to me for all eternity because the latter sounds more like hell to me than the former but that's subjective I guess.
Atlanta native; I haven't dug into the design of the study, but I am supremely skeptical of these results. There is a huge influx of new residents right now (and likely for the foreseeable future). That in concert with a renewed push for working from the office likely accounts for any increase in congestion seen any time recently. The city yearns for more public transport, but it is hard to imagine that 10% of all the insane traffic is directly related to a ban on this relatively new mode of transport.
Interesting. I guess everyone has their own journey. I haven't deluded myself about being the chosen one since I experienced ego death. It has seemed quite clear since then that being alive and alone is strange and temporary.

I'll leave it up for posterity but I stand corrected on the psychedelics part.
If you ride a scooter and crash into a pedestrian, you yourself will get hurt as much as the pedestrian. This isn't a car or even a motorcycle.

So this is a problem that will quickly solve itself.
Actually BUILDING something that you could point to and say - depending on organization size - I WROTE THAT and it's being used daily across the company and in some case globally. I wrote an entire sub-system that when out-sourced to IBM, was billed in the contract for $500,000 a year to maintain. I was STILL at the company and not making even 20 percent of what IBM wanted. When IBM took over I moved on from development to Unix systems and architecture - BEST decision I made. So, compare being a craftsperson then to a factory assembly-line-worker today.
> The joke I heard was that AI only refers to technology in the future, and not the past.

This is actually known as the AI effect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
How is broadly laying off 25% of the org ever going to have the precision of pointed firings for excessive pronoun use? Even real-value is hard to measure at that scale.
Or, alternatively, we need to stop constantly expecting content for free. (I'm saying as a society, not you personally)
I feel like this recipe exists a lot about the current state of the internet. As in its terrible current state.
Less, moving parts, and 1000x the software bugs.

Net result is probably worse.

And despite the people claiming they will last longer than ICE, I can't remember ever replacing a car because the drive train was to expensive to fix. They get replaced because they are old/ugly and the interiors/exteriors are worn out.

OTOH, I don't really know anyone who is against EV's, but myself I find them slightly annoying because where i live they are basically being subsidized by everyone not driving one. Which isn't fair because the people driving them tend to be in the upper income/wealth brackets. Its basically a smug regressive tax, that doesn't do shit for the environment given ~50% of the power in the city I live in comes from a coal plant, and averages about 80% CO2 emitting sources after the wind+nukes are added to the picture. (And actual consumer vehicular CO2 output works out to something like 8% of the CO2 emissions).
There's a big difference between "hasn't used TCP in the datacenter for years" and "don't use standard TCP hardware or software in their datacenters". Google uses TCP with non-standard configuration, but they still use TCP.
It's clear that Elon is moving swiftly to cut costs, but I think it's all really academic. For any reasonable revenue scenario (even before the bottom dropped out of tech stocks), Twitter just wasn't worth $44bn. It's clear that he's going to try to cut to the bone and juice revenue by any means necessary, but it seems like the company is going to have an awful rate of return regardless.
It gets support because it gets votes. If Democratic voters weren’t asking for affirmative action, the Democratic Party would not pursue it, regardless if it’s bad policy or not, it’s pandering to the base.
> There are so few people this would apply to (wealthy individuals with large amounts of unreported cash income who are applying to college) that its not even worth considering as an edge case for college admissions.

You would be mistaken.. This is actually a rather serious problem.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/income...

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-van...

https://torontosun.com/2016/05/12/311-million-vancouver-mans...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wd7wz4/student-owns-this-31-...
I don't think they are incompatible and I don't think the people who voted for the 14th Amendment would think so either.
Daily Active User, in this context for fb.com or the app. I'd be surprised if they counted seeing fb ads off fb as part of the DAU count
Nice and clean. Keep up the good work. One thing I understood in programming languages is their ability to integrate with the rest of the ecosystem. A couple of things I like about your approach is how you allow your users to get a repl without even them having to install any perm files on their machine. That’s brilliant.
Intelligence is a Heap Paradox and trying to define where the boundary between Artificial "Intelligence" and "really good pattern matching" is a fool's errand. Intelligence is a continuum from the simplest bang-bang thermostat all the way up to the human brain.
Appointed by politicians = political appointee in my book. But yes, they are lifetime political appointees.

"Supreme Court justices serve lifetime appointments specifically so that they are not subject to political interference."

I also think this is naive. In my view, they serve lifetime appointments because they don't want to give up power, and no one's been able to force them to so far.
> through the lens of hating Musk, but I imagine that many are looking at this entirely through the lens of hating Twitter.

The "internet of beefs" is very real. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/the-internet-of-beefs/ (not a Rao supporter, but this essay is so spot on at describing the phenomenon)
Thank you for the clarification! I've been happy with my 35mm lens (50mm equivalent) largely because it cost about $200.
I largely agree, except: When I look back on my own college experience, the actual academic content might only account for, like, a quarter of the value I got out of it.

And data seems to back this out - entirely online degrees don't nearly drive as much success as the in-person experience.

So universities are certainly not going to admit that the content and learning portion of their experience are not important. But moreover I suspect what Harvard and others don't want to admit is that they don't fully understand what makes alumni successful, and are terrified of changing the recipe too much.
It would definitely be nice to see more color schemes targeted at users with color vision issues.

Prot recently developed two emacs themes targeted at users with deuteranopia and tritanopia: https://protesilaos.com/emacs/ef-themes
RL spending (that 10B you're mentioning) includes this capital expenditure. Obviously the percentage of that 10B going to deployment is unknown, but given that it's the most expensive part (according to the author), I assume it's the majority.
Yes, by historical Twitter standards it may seem unreasonable to write a Stripe API integration with simple UI and account history in six days. In the real world, however, a single developer can do it in less time than that.

Twitter (and really, BigCo in general) engineers are accustomed to their foosball tables, catered meals, wine bars, beer taps, rooftop gaming session, and endless meetings and code reviews.

It's possible that Musk is trying to set the reasonable expectation that a total comp package worth $400k should be exchanged for actual productivity, rather than playtime and busywork.
I'm responsible for disassembling electrical parts to make sure they are grounded correctly? For auditing the supply chain of the paint they use to make sure it doesn't have lead? etc etc? This shit makes no sense lol. Yeah if you get a kid a vehicle don't be surprised when they wreck it, that's kind of on you. But "you are responsible for the toys your children play with full stop" can't possibly be unless you're going for the full libertarian dreamland.
OpenLDAP and Keycloack have docker images that can be used to deploy them pretty easily, at least if you're comfortable with container-based deployment. I knew nothing about both and able to deploy them in a few hours.

Connecting individual servers / applications to OpenLDAP and Keycloack varies widely though, not all apps has OIDC support but you can put them behind an authenticating proxy like oauth2-proxy.

Can't comment on how easy it would be to join desktops and print servers though as I never did it myself.
I'm younger than you, but one of my hobbies is messing around with old video game systems and arcade hardware.

You're absolutely right - there's something almost magical in the elegant simplicity of those old computing systems.
Maybe a long time ago this was true, but these days Arch has better documentation, IMO
Inside a datacenter it's called massive incast and it's still pretty bad.
The article is written weirdly.

So Rakuten owns CIQ which created Rocky Linux?
> all suffer from deep regret, burnout, resentment, depression

Nonsense.
John Carmack is the most obvious counterexample. But pretty much anyone that works in gaming.

While the stories of resentment of specific employers abound — your general thesis is nonsense.
protobuf is much more concise and readable than OAS. You can define API contracts in protobuf and still serve JSON APIs via the standard-ish gRPC/JSON transcoding enabled by google.api annotations.
For c++ you can require the destructor be removed with

~Foo() = delete;

Or be trivial (https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/destructor#Trivia...), then use compile time checks on

std::is_trivially_destructible || !std::is_destructible

to be allowed into the arena.
You were jesting, but a warning that some specification is exceeded (preferably taking temperature into account) would be neat.
Ummm, they largely do.
They own rocky ? How?
There was even a United States senator who claimed to be Native American, was awarded academic positions based on that, but a DNA test proved her native ancestry to be so minuscule as to not even be measurable.
What it's like to ride in a Waymo self-driving car
> Storage, which is high throughput, low latency and has rigid flow control, doesn't [well ignore NFS and iscisi] use TCP)

So storage doesn't use TCP, except for the protocols that are actually used, which do use TCP?