skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we assume alien life in the universe is predatory and seeks to consume other life forms, and since the universe allows detection from other species over infinite distances and time scales, we would expect life in the universe to either be totally undetectable or else be consumed by life that is totally undetectable.
This looks like Obsidian's first move away from using some dialect of markdown? The .canvas files appear to be human readable json, but certainly not as readable as markdown. I'm excited to try this out, but I hope this isn't a trend towards using proprietary formats.
I would have to assume that they know this and are in fact only looking for messages that are purposefully sent at very high power. It's also why they favor listening at the hydrogen line since transmissions at that frequency stand the best chance of penetrating through cosmic dust, i.e. you would only use that frequency if you were intentionally trying to transmit across interstellar distances.

I think they don't popularize the downsides of a radio search since it could threaten their already tenuous funding. Basically, they have to be optimistic in order to maintain the pittance of a budget given to them which allows us an extremely small chance at detecting a purposefully sent signal if we happen to be in the right place at the right time and listening on the right frequency pointed in the right direction, etc.

In order to do SETI right we really need radio telescopes in solar orbit far away from the Earth and enough of them so that they can cover all of the nearby stars or other likely directions for signals to originate from. The only way we're going to get there is if space launches continue to become a lot cheaper. Fingers crossed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_line
Yeah for small services like game servers for my friends and I, I'll host on my home IP. But for large websites and services... no thanks.
Tons of black people where I come from, and I've talked to a lot. The idea that somehow that black people are afraid to tell white people what pisses them off is racist and incorrect. Again, comes only from upper class white people who don't actually talk to anyone other than other upper class white people. Here's a tip for you. Don't spout woke shit to minorities you meet IRL (as in outside of SV). It's cringe AF, and will make people dislike you. Just talk to them like normal people, which they are.

I mean, you do realize that 99% of black people have no idea where "grandfathered in" comes from, right? You do realize that going into etymology to find offense is something only snobby linguistics cunts that you would find at elite universities would do, right?
I don't think most people factor the founder into their buying decisions at all
Show HN: Create a paid link to anything
Show HN: Streamline – A stream-of-consciousness writer for Obsidian
Hey HN, Alexis here!

I've been a long-time journal-writer and Obsidian enthusiast for years.

I want to share an app with you that built and now use every day.

Streamline^1 is a free and open-source^2 native macOS app for people like myself who…

- Take lots of notes in Obsidian and

- Love journaling/stream-of-consciousness writing on pen-and-paper

I built it because I wanted

- The safe space of journaling and

- Easily link to all my my notes in my vault while in “stream-of-consciousness mode” and

- Avoid getting distracted from having too many rabbit-holes from being inside Obsidian

I'm quiet nervous because there is soooo^2 much to say, but it's probably easiest is to just SHOW you.

There's a quick demo video at https://getstreamline.app that you can watch.

So: If you’re one of the two other people who know what I’m talking about, give it a spin and let me know how it goes!

Cheers!

Alexis

PS: There is also a full FAQ section for questions you may have at the bottom.
PPS: If you're really curious, I wrote down the "loooooong story" here^4

[^1]: https://getstreamline.app/

[^2]: https://github.com/akaalias/Streamline

[^3]: Like: "Why this really, really isn't yet another markdown editor, Why it is a "writer" not an "editor" etc. etc.

[^4]: https://github.com/akaalias/getstreamline/blob/main/README.md
Zstd doesn’t archive multiple files?
Some seats work better in small cars than others. Walmart, Target and some others will let you try out seats to make sure they fit in your car.

You don't actually need one, I don't know your situation but this is the objective truth for most people. I've raised 4 kids with a 2-door hatchback. I couldn't buy any seat off the shelf, but they've all met the legal standards and performed well.

Worth noting that the Ford Edge is also still relatively medium-sized compared to some other American trucks/SUVs. There are stock pickup trucks that I'd literally need a step ladder to see inside of the engine compartment.
Pi devices are more than capable of running web sites and web apps. I'm running a somewhat busy SearXNG instance on a Pi 4, for instance. Just get self-powered USB attached storage and a Flirc case, and it can be completely fanless (so long as the storage is fanless), and you don't have to worry about your SD card wearing out.

Even if you don't get storage with its own power supply, you can use a "Y" USB cable for extra power, provided the same power source is used for the Pi and for the storage. This can have the added benefit of backfeeding power to the Pi, which, again, is fine so long as the power sources are the same.

While my Pi 4 is colocated, it has a Flirc case so it can run all four cores at 100% without ever having thermal issues, and the two USB attached disks are mirrored (raidframe), and it has been 100% stable for many, many months of heavy use.
the biggest issue with this plan (and one he certainly realized by now which is why he hasn't solved this problem) is that the majority of users and followers are simply bots or inactive users. as soon as he purges those and everyone's follower count (most notably his) drops by 50-70% everyone will see the platform as dying.
I've been wondering what the advantage of von Neumann probes are. Once you have the ability to autonomously construct probes, it seems like it would be easier and faster to mass produce them in one solar system and send them directly to their destinations.

For instance, with a von Neumann probe you have to have probes with additional mass for self-replication, have it accelerate halfway to point A, decelerate halfway their, spend time replicating a new probe that will accelerate halfway to point B and then decelerate, then spend time manufacturing a new probe, then have that accelerate halfway from point B to point A, then decelerate the second half of the way, etc.

But if you can automate manufacturing, you can just make specialized devices that mass produce probes in one system, and send them directly to their destination, without waiting for the parent probes to stop at all the in between points to do some manufacturing. And the probes are going to be much lighter because they don't need replication devices in them.
Stanford has no authority, power, nor license to modify and shape written language. Stanford is free to do whatever it wants to words and so are we. Let's not become slaves to their forced word choices.
> The US, having built itself into a configuration that makes public transport mostly non-viable…

False. Buses are almost universally viable in urban environments.
> Am I capable of learning these things even if I find them overwhelming?

Yes! Especially if you find them overwhelming - that means you've taken the first step of treading into new territory and trying to make sense of what you see. "Beginners mind" is a fantastic resource.

The key is to stay in that mindset, explore, iterate, stay curious about what you observe. The only way to do that effectively (besides sheer stubborn willpower) is to work on an interesting project. Build something real! Start with the simplest possible thing you can imagine and iterate. When you get stuck, learn to push through and to get comfortable with long periods of ambiguity. There is no substitute for practice. Learn each topic as it comes up, in the context of a real application not a tutorial, and you'll develop an intuitive sense for that code eventually.
Why could the optics be improved?
Costs cap most likely.
There is also an adventure drama film written and directed by Felix Randau on him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceman_(2017_film)
Almost all words on the list are about replacing ill-defined, context-dependent language with more precise terms. This helps everyone. Especially non-American students for whom those contexts are foreign. In an international scientific environment it certainly is preferable to talk about social hierarchies than about rungs on a totempole, for example.
That's one way of looking at it, too much like explaining the wonder of efficiency that is the gasoline supply chain without mentioning CO2 though. Kinda changes the 'incredible amount of value offered' for me.
This is not “hacking” —- this is just what passes for lawmaking in the US with an impotent federal legislature.
"Don't throw your money away in rent" - hmmmm

I live in an area that is high risk for wildfires. Many locals have been dropped by their insurer and are paying ~1% per year to the CA "FAIR" plan. Add on taxes (1%) and the fact that any house in the $500k range around here has deferred maintenance, in serious need of an updating and is likely a (poorly) manufactured home and so you are looking at 1.5% for maintenance. Add in interest (post deduction) and the opportunity cost of 80-100k in an investment portfolio and a home owner here is throwing away a lot of money - (those add up to much more than I pay to rent a $500k house here).

Compounding all of that, in ~20 years of home ownership, I have never lived in one house longer than 6 years - despite my intentions otherwise.

This is just to say that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to the complex problem of domicile/investment and if you live in a high risk natural disaster zone, you are rolling some tough dice.
If language can harm you, I don't see how one can't make the case that advertisements (especially billboards and non-consenual/contractual advertisements) aren't also harm and should be eliminated.
Oh wow there was "latinx" there. People from Latin America take a lot of umbrage at having this little exonym pushed on us, believe me. It feels like colonialism.

The term "Hispanic" is already very broad to refer to people from a large collection of polities with several cultural spheres in it, but at least the concept of "hispanoamérica" exists in it, and the word isn't a novel take on the Spanish language coming from the US.
Religion isn't dying; Christianity might be dying. What you're seeing is fashion, not progress. It's like when older people say "Oh, the kids are so good with technology," when mostly it's clicking around walled-gardens.
To be fair, your Canadian citizenship and passport offers you far more privileges in the US and around the world than people with Indian passports, so of course you don't understand their struggle, when you can just walz in anywhere with your Canadian passport, but I doubt you'd feel the same if you had the same restrictions of Indian nationals.
Sorry, The "price" I was referring to was the price of labour (aka wages), not the end price for the consumer. How the business funds that is up to them and I agree completely about cutting other expenses...
Maybe just let advertisers vote. I mean, they are the ones really paying the bills.
I’m really excited about AI as a boon for accessibility.

Example: chronic pain messes with your ability to recall. These days I have more trouble recalling facts than I used to. This makes programming hard, as much as programming is about intuition and problem solving, it also depends on memorizing a lot of facts (what was that built-in function called again…?)

I started using Copilot a few months ago and, while I almost always reject Copilot’s suggestions, it’s been amazing for remembering names of things. For me it’s been much better than an IDE (for example) because it presents the things I have trouble remembering with some context code.
Though it could equally mean longer waiting times for pedestrians, too, due to longer traffic lights cycle lengths…
Is this blog post not the transparency part?

I assume that the regex is `TC:[a-z0-9]{20}` or something uninteresting like that.
I've been wanting a tool like this forever - ideally you can enter/exit these scopes/contexts so that everything above fades away. I like to think about problems in these scopes and then have the ability to "zoom out" to collect/link things, without disturbing the internal contents. Kinda like the C4/icepanel stuff but without so much pomp and circumstance.
>It oddly doesn't have a lot of other slurs, like the n-word, etc. Does that mean they are acceptable?

Depending on who's mouth they come out of they kind of are acceptable.

Which is kind of a glaring example of why this whole policing words bullshit is in fact bullshit. It's not the words that do harm. It's the context in which they are used.
That could very well be true but it's a bold assumption indeed.
Even for prosumer IT, those features aren't unusual.

Big communities exist online for it now, but a majority of the young professionals we interview have AV/IT racks at home, usually outfitted with a 3D printer or two on top. Whether it's for their home theaters, their video work, or some general labbing or engineering, they're proud of them, and it doesn't hurt to demonstrate investment into their interests and working knowledge.

It might not be typical of coders who favor high mobility or other software-only roles like application support and front end, or it might just be regional since we're in a tech and research hub surrounded by colo facilities and data centers, but it's kind of funny how naked and vulnerable people look when they come in with just a MacBook loaded with their livelihoods.
Attitudes are quite inconsistent even then. The same people who romanticize the death of the old will often be appalled by the idea of people being able to choose their own death at any point in their life
There are now plenty of scientists pushing for aging to be classified as a disease, rather an inevitability. It is becoming much more mainstream and has seen lots of money flowing to it.
The bug has been updated with a rationale:

EDIT 2022-12-20: There are at least 3 cases where this is desirable within a short period of time:

Filling password confirmation fields on the same page if we were not able to automatically do so.
Filling the same password on the next page
The password didn’t save on the change form so you need to fill it on the log in page.

Bug 1551723 will give the user the option to choose a new password.
the stock market has never made any anti-consumer choices using this system
Ask HN: What desktop to buy for home based AI/ML in 2023
This year I started running some AI/ML experiments at home using Google Colab. However, I want to start using my own compute for some of these.I was thinking of buying the following PC: https://www.palicomp.co.uk/amd-velocity-fac10 and upgrading to a 3080 and i7 as I do a lot of image analysis and it would be helpful to be able to parallelism some operations.

What does HN think of this and these specs? Any recommendations? I'm trying to keep my budget under £2000 unless going a bit over that would allow for a real increase in processing power.
I have (finally!) reached the point in my career where I am comfortable with responding negatively to unreasonable deadlines.

None of this, "we'll do our best" crap. The deadline was unreasonable, I will let them know it was unreasonable, the work will take as long as it takes, and if they want a good estimate they need to start with the engineers. And it's their responsibility to deal with an angry customer.

The real benefit of years of software dev experience is having enough fuck you money to not be afraid of telling your boss when they're being a shithead.
It's amazing to me that this argument needs to be made. It is self-evident and was the premise for the original civil rights movement.
I don't see what your comment is trying to point out.

The same could be said for all the other Secret Scanning partners GitHub has, like AWS and so on.

That being said, it's impossible that a "bad regexp" is gonna make its way to the GitHub codebase.
We could build a car which no human being could survive a 100 mile race in today. The human is the limiting factor so we have to limit the technology to what humans (even elite sportsmen) can deal with.

There are all kinds of restrictions added to race cars of almost any series, some for commercial reasons (promoting the original vehicle in rallying and touring cars for example), some for financial (generally to keep the price of entry reasonable) and sometimes for safety.
Could be a nice basis for a board game.
I experimented with visual ray cloud busting for a while.

Get concentrated up with meditation first. Then find a likely target (fluffy yet defined. Isolated...). Lay sharpened gaze upon the cloud. Starts to break up in a minute.
> people who menstruate

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - Orwell
While Tencent and Wechat sound absolutely dystopian, the "you need a Government ID and a picture of your face" is often a requirement for creating a Facebook account or retaining your old one as well. Twitter also used to require a phone number to retain an active account; and Google frequently locks people out of old accounts unless they provide a phone.

Is this whataboutism? Possibly – but what I'd actually like to happen is US-based companies are charged company-hurting fines for mismanaging PII like this (Twitter, for example, is currently openly planning to sell user phone data [1] that they previously gathered for security purposes).

All this to say, we can't reasonably call out other dystopian companies if the ones we use everyday are doing the exact same thing. So we should call out secret scanning from Meta [2] and (if it ever happens) Twitter as well.

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[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-plans-to-force-users...

[2] https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2021/11/09/meta-jo...
A tiny 65W GaN (gallium nitride) USB charger. It is a fraction of the size of the MacBook's charger and can charge practically everything I own, even 2 or 3 (devices not laptops!) at a time.

Anker/Soundcore Motion+ bluetooth speaker, even though I use it at home as a soundbar for my computer. Sounds way better than others I have, like the much larger Sony SRS-XB43.

An actual linear tracking mouse and config. The ASUS/TUF M3 wired has the right size/symmetry for my hands. The config software can be used specifically for programming the DPIs and doesn't need to be installed.
That's not a great starting assumption. How would the economics of travelling hundreds or thousands of light years in order to "consume" (whatever that means) other life forms work out? What is the benefit? How would it be worth the investment?
Then I'd be fine with clear communication among all senior executives, so that HIS boss in turn doesn't believe the team is going to deliver the paper goal, and later gold the CTO to it. If there are two different sets of requirements (Paper requirements and actual requirements) then it's pretty important that the whole C-suite agrees what the team will be held to delivering. Otherwise you are going to see the CEO breathing down the neck of the CTO once the project fails to meet the paper goals. Next thing you know, it's "pizza night" for the team.
What seems unique here is that it is that it an unorganized mob. The democrats certainly try to get the wokes support, but there is no woke party. Obama even called them out as keyboard warriors. And this is why I disagree with Elon, I don't think the wokes are any more dangerous than any other performative religion or subculture. They are annoying but have no real goals other than winning the virtue signaling game.
We should stop talking about color completely. That will be the true end of racism.
I don't have a particular problem with main, I was in fact more used to it as it was the default in P4.

However, the arguments for this renaming are absurd, and i think that absolutely matters.

And note that I actually think renouncing the use of master/slave in favor of primary/secondary or something similar is actually warranted. But extending this to master branch, when many of the people doing the change had a Master of Science title probably, is annoying and arbitrary.
> I can absolutely imagine

There's the problem, right there. A lot of these affronts are imagined, without actually getting input from people. A perfect example is the use of Latinx, which many Hispanic people have spoken out against, yet keeps getting tossed around because people _imagine_ that the word "hispanic" is offensive.
Supermicro E300-9D-4CN8TP with Intel Xeon D-2123IT Review [video]
F1 racing bans a lot of tech. For example, anti-lock brakes and AWD are banned in F1.

Just because all cars can get it easily doesn't mean F1 want it. Most often the quoted reason is to have a better spectator sport and to make it safer. I really doubt those reasons because you can still have a difficult and tight race while having all the modern safety features. For example why don't F1 cars have entire car air bags (ie air bags that envelop the entire car that deploy when the car goes airborne in a crash/rollover)? if it's too "heavy" just make a rule that all F1 cars need to have air bags so the playing field is even.

F1 cars should have self driving collision avoidance that can activate faster than human response times as well. that would be way safer for everyone involved.
Yep. Most electric companies will be more than delighted to run a second line to your home, as they then get to collect those sweet installation costs from you. So if you're willing to pay, they're probably more than happy to let you.
James Cameron ‘proves’ Jack couldn’t have survived Titanic sinking
Like many replies I've had the opposite experience. We've had good developers but I think that's also partially due to Clojure, it seems to take some professional confidence in many cases although we've had first-language Clojurists too. In my anecdotal experience the projects do better than the ones going for stack du jour.
NY Governor stalls right-to-repair bill; has until Dec 28 to avoid “pocket veto”
He's a nobody.

I care as much about him as the other billions of other citizens I've not met who are innocent and guilty and who are living out their lives.

Not enough for you? Go and speak with the Police.

Thanks
You can backtrack to any arbitrary point but yeah it is a NP hard problem and this algorithm cannot bypass that. Also there is no guarantee of convergence on a solution.
Deriving a bit-twiddling hack: Signed integer overflow
But when is that definition coming up in IT documents?
I was a devoted rails fan 10 years ago, but haven't looked back since full stack typescript.

What's the general vibe on RoR nowadays?
Or even harder-to-parse open formats. Doesn't have to be proprietary to be a pain.
While it is true that nobody is complaining about rural countryside rents, it’s kind of dumb to imply that land isn’t a critical issue. Dallas is like 5-6x bigger than Boston in terms of area, because it can spread out, because it has lots of land. Boston can’t really spread. It’s hilly and forester and has tougher weather. Texas is flat plains.