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> If planets become indefensible

Planets are indefensible, as is most of space if your orbit is predictable. All you need is a body bigger than your margin of computational error, and reaction mass.

> exponential growth

My point is that in order for civilization to be multi-starred, they'd need to communicate. Once a new star is colonized, due to the constraint on light speed, they become two separate civilizations. This means each star basically starts from the beginning, each time. So, if you estimate a couple of million years for a civilization to just to consider expanding... it'd take awhile. A lot more than a few million years to colonize the galaxy because not every star will consider expanding.

> the reason is resource competition.

Resources for what, exactly? Populations self-govern growth. It isn't always pretty, since over-population means a lot of deaths. But hungry people aren't going to say "I'm hungry so I'm going to build a space ship and hunt Space Cows. Who's coming with me?"

Further, there is no evidence that dinosaurs left this planet. They had 165 million years to do so. So, it doesn't 'just take' a few million years and there is no guarantee that a civilization will expand beyond a star. Sure, you could argue that dinosaurs probably weren't intelligent, but there's no evidence for that other than a small cavity size for brains; which doesn't necessarily mean they were stupid. Whales have bigger brains than humans, but I don't see them leaving the earth any time soon either.

My point is, even if you decide to colonize another planet, you are effectively cut off from your home. Technology WILL be lost since you basically have to restart manufacturing from nothing, with a small population at that, and there are a whole different set of filters to pass through. The odds of that civilization growing to the point of wanting to move on, without dying out itself, is remarkably low.

Interestingly, colonization of stars beyond a certain distance might even be impossible without some kind of artificial gravity or cryo. Especially if it requires multiple generations to arrive.
Yes, but during my trips to the United States I was surprised by the abundance of fireflies. I think it was the first time I have seen them in my life.
You seriously have no clue how this stuff really works.

I used to live in downtown Phoenix and I’d have people trying to feed me when I was just riding my bike random places. Like, I’d be half a block away and they’d shout out “hey, man, you hungry?” And this is just people who would roam around looking for people to help not counting the permanent places that served food on a regular basis.

If you’re willing to accept help ‘merica has enough to go around but you have to show up to the shelters sober and have to at least put in the barest minimum of effort to maybe, just maybe, appear to be trying to improve your lot in life.

I spent nine years driving a cab and a big chunk of that job was hauling people to/from medical appointments because they didn’t have transportation (or couldn’t afford to drive) and the state was paying for their medical care. Once Uber/Lyft came to town that’s pretty much all I did and I kept pretty busy.
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I don't think it's a surprise. Security is always a tradeoff between complexity and simplicty in software design.
I think the idioms develop over time. Or perhaps being samples, they were presented in a more language neutral way?

In any case, I wonder if the OP's motives were good or if this was just some SEO game... we have enough of the latter on the internet.
The Decadal Plan for Semiconductors
> The risks of dehydration are way overstated imo

I’m not so sure about that. Some people are more susceptible to it than others. There’s also some weird trait that makes some people drink less water than others. Both my father and myself seem to share this trait. We have to force ourselves to drink water. For whatever reason, I could go an entire day without drinking water. Not sure why it is, but it causes problems. I was on vacation with my father and he collapsed in literally the middle of nowhere because of dehydration. It was pretty scary and he almost didn’t survive.
What about the benefits of high levels of hydration?
>10/10 times in severe poverty, I’d save up for for the cheeseburger.

If you're saving your money, why not go for the classic student combo of home brand bread, peanut butter and milk?

Just under 10,000 cal of diverse macronutrients for A$7.50 at Aldi, no cooking or significant prep required (cheeseburger equivalent would be closer to $50).

Get yourself those 8 bananas for $2 extra (realistically it'd probably be 5 big ones, though) and you'll get enough fibre to actually feel good too.
Threeuk is blocking Tutanota
And if you have an ipad check out Swift Playgrounds
Huperchild has the words “per child” in it, which is exclusionary to people who choose not to worsen overpopulation by not procreating.

How about huperperson?

Uh wait, that’s recursi- political correctness overflow error.
tl;dr: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is reportedly planning to acquire Netflix in 2023. The two companies are already closely aligned, with Microsoft serving as Netflix's advertising partner for a new ad-supported subscription service, and Microsoft President Brad Smith sitting on the Netflix board. Microsoft has made several large acquisitions in the past, including the purchase of LinkedIn for $26 billion, the speech recognition and artificial intelligence software developer Nuance for $20 billion, and gaming company Activision Blizzard for $69 billion. The acquisition of Netflix would allow Microsoft to offer a video-game streaming service over multiple devices, as well as supercharge Netflix's own gaming ambitions.
Ok but once we are admitting that you can get really good boots for £50 we are talking about a much smaller part of society.

If you can buy one pair of shoos for £50 and it will last you for years, then the vast majority of society can afford it.

Those that can't should be on social welfare and that should be a small % of the population.

So the question really is how many % of you society requires welfare to live above the poverty level and how can you reduce that number.

One can argue that this effect is real, but I don't think it works as an explanation for poverty.
Jared will not last a week with all these Elon antics. Musk will stick his d--- into absolutely every decision. Kushner does not need the grief for a measly modern CEO salary.
Elon Musk says he'll resign as Twitter CEO–eventually
Config files, and command line arguments as a very distant second
> Group chats have thrived and are very rarely problematic

This is a person who has never seen what WhatsApp groups look like in Brazil or India.
The Cyclic Nature of In-House Tooling
I'm happy for you! OSM derived projects served me well in the past, I hope it will you too.
Looking at the wikipedia page for bank notes[0] there is no mention of salt or Bruges on the page. It suggests that bank notes first originated in China during the 7th century the knowledge of which European explorers introduced to Europe in the 13th Century. There is mention of cloth being used in Prague in 960 and the Knights Templar, as in the original article here, in 1150.

It goes on to add more details about the introduction of banknotes to solve practical problems that would be hard to summarise, but I found an interesting read.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknote
Ringway Manchester has a brilliant set of 13 videos on youtube, going in to lots of detail about numbers stations. Playlist link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWbzNtBM4sI&list=PLAxEITuSnI...
"Just run the software and servers teams".

So, he will still shadow over everything, making hit and run design and feature decisions, leaving the teams to clean up the messes.
Are you reading these links carefully enough? The first link you posted was talking about Google's use of C++, but you presented it as an argument against Java and in favour of PHP (which YouTube weren't using). This second source also doesn't say Java vs Python was the problem. They say:

"We're constrained on UI/Java development resources", "we have 1.5 engineers working on UI things and that is slowing us down" and "I think if we had one more good Java/UI engineer we'd be kicking butt vs YouTube".

So the problem was a lack of people ("resources") assigned to the UI side, i.e. too much of their headcount is being consumed by the C++ infrastructure leaving very little time for UI-centric work like social features. Google Video's problem is stated here to be too little Java development, not too much.

As someone who was there at the time and who read the internal post-mortem written by the Video team, Google Video vs YouTube wasn't primarily about implementation language. It was pretty much as the emails you cite say:

"They're cranking interesting features a lot faster than we are, but don't likely have a backend that will scale or a plan to make money. We, otoh, have these"

The YouTube guys did the now classic VC play of focusing on growth hacking without any idea of how to pay for it all beyond being acquired. At the time Google bought them the site was close to total collapse; the project to stop it running out of bandwidth was literally called BandAid. The Google Video team was also small but focused more on stable and scalable infrastructure, and product-wise they'd been chasing professional content as they couldn't see any obvious path to monetizing hobbyist produced video. In turn that pushed them away from the Flash plugin towards a more HD video oriented custom plugin, which hurt adoption. These were the wrong calls clearly, but, YouTube didn't really have a plan either. In the end both sides needed each other. One of the first things that was done after the acquisition was start moving core YT functions like video and thumbnail serving off Python and onto the Google C++/Java infrastructure. The web server UI on the other hand remained in Python for a long time so their (social) feature throughput wouldn't be disrupted. I think that codebase did eventually stop scaling and got rewritten, but my memory starts to fail there and I can't quite recall what the state was back when I left.
I have a lot of respect to Bob Dylan and his amazing music. My grandpa always love to tell me the story how the ice makers were protesting against the arrival of freezers.

I guess life and innovation just keeps moving like a rolling stone
Wonder if AlternativeTo is listed as an alternative to AlternativeTo?
Why try and minimise single use plastic? That's oil going straight back into the ground (landfill) rather than being refined into petrol and burnt!

Single use plastic is way better than recycled plastic at slowing global warming.
> The ones I see around here[1] specifically advertise having full kitchens. Both on their local signage and on their website.

Those are relatively nice weekly/monthly hotels. That's not where the desperately poor go. There are ~$30/night extended stay motels but the quality is what you'd expect. No fridge, no cooking, heat/AC doesn't work, very filty.
The New Oil
If you’re an Emacs user and you lost your keyboard, no worries. Just plug in your midi accordion!

https://twitter.com/ykarikos/status/1038145486618861573
Let's just ban cars for private use by regular people. It's the one that's both net negative and by far the biggest use case. Trucks and emergency servers and various commercial utility vehicles are the major savior of wildlife, human life, and enabler of many nice things.

That's IMO the rational, "don't throw out the baby with the bathwater" approach. It's also the one that has zero chance of uptake, as individuals don't like ideas that constrain them instead of the "evil" industry, government or billionaires.
So far, for our diagraming needs we've used MermaidJS, embedded as code blocks into our Markdown documentation (github and mdbook for us, but support is pretty wide).

D2 seems like a nice upgrade:

- it has an even more intuitive syntax (which is really important for something used on-and-off by any individual developer).

- it seems to have better graph routing

However there are two things keeping us from trying it:

- not supported in our tools, most notably no mdbook plugin yet. I imagine this will change over time

- readability: node labels are tiny compared to nodes, meaning you have to zoom in much more and lose view of the larger structure
From what I see, it's a simplification: rays start from (x, y, -10) and follow the z axis. This is very limited and I guess you'll lose the perspective.

Exercise for the reader:
- Update the sample function, pass the ray direction as argument.
- Compute the direction for each ray.

Rays should have a slightly different direction, based on the camera field of view. When you move the camera back or increase the field of view, the donut should get smaller.

Next exercise: move the camera around the donut (but still looking at it).
I don't think that was a question and it has nothing to do with enforceability.

Of course banning people based on where they work is bad for business.
> Where there exists demand for a good, supply materializes.

Only if it is sufficiently (read: highly) profitable.

Otherwise there can be all the demand in the world but it doesn't matter.
> you will never know

maybe. GDPR has a notification of breach requirement. we shall see.
That's the stupidest password I've ever heard in my life! That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
I'm not American so some of those things I don't know about because they just don't exist in the same way or I know them by different names.

You don't need to be rich to make reasonableness investment choices with your limited savings.

Tax tricks are less important or impactful if you are poor. However I agree that the tax system is not helping. Moving to a simple tax system would be good for everybody. Payroll taxes are regressive for example.

Most middle class people don't have off-shore accounts, and we are comparing the poor to the middle class, not to the super rich. The same goes for art collections.

Those are things that make the super-rich different form middle class, they don't prevent poor people from becoming more affluent.
The Undeclared War – Enid Blyton could have written this cybersecurity drama
Calculating the hidden cost isn't simple "hard", it's nigh impossible. We've spent billions trying to calculate the externalities of a single gas (CO2) and we're still incredibly uncertain with giant error bars even with a ton of assumptions.
Yea, the prospect of domain specific AIs and even workplace/product/family/personally specific AIs that are learning/re-learning on the full history of interactions feels rather formidable at this point.

I've already forgotten where I saw it (probably here), but it'll be interesting to see how quickly we get into a period like iPhone circa 2010 with the mantra "there's an AI for that".
I don’t understand what “lifetime” means. What if multiple people publish it?

How does this affect open source software? A lot of software uses restrictive licenses such as AGPL. There could be many people that own the copyright or an organization. The intent of AGPL software is that it isn’t used without giving back to the community.
If you're doing it strictly for learning, webrtc might not be bad to dabble with (something I want to do as well). For a real project I'd probably go w/existing solution for early iteration.

What'd you use for chat?
Not GP but these comments and the article are not unrelated.

TFA says amortized cost of things is lower when you have access to cash, or cheap credit. Buying in bulk in large shops is cheaper than buying small amounts at local shops. Proper renting is cheaper than weekly-billed accomodation.

But then GP is saying, the poor often have better access to credit than it might seem, it just goes to things that don't improve their financial situation. Nice cars and jewelry for instance.

I don't really know and suspect both are true to an extent, but chipping in since poverty is fascinating to me and I don't fully understand it (I come from and remain in a modest background btw). Sometimes it's just a lack of cash but often it seems not as simple as that.
Love your user name, dude. Reminds me of the old days reading Jammer’s Reviews.
Whoah that's a complaint I've never heard before! Do you know which of his 2 recordings you're listening to? The one from the 80s is much "straighter" than the original from 1962.

Usually people complain - listening to the earlier version - that Gould plays fast and loose with the source. He makes opinionated choices throughout and even recomposes parts!

All that being said, there are no wrong answers with this stuff. If you prefer it more freely played than Gould 62, that's perfectly valid and no music expert (worth listening to) will bat an eye. This thread has some good suggestions of other interpreters you may like more.
The banks were really eager to repossess houses during the last mortgage crisis (next one coming soon), and they were often quick to do so, but then they discovered - you have to maintain them, pay taxes, pay utilities, keep the grass cut, have people walk them periodically to look for damage, etc. If the market is crashed you had to hold them for long periods until a buyer came along. In the end a lot of banks were wishing they had negotiated instead.

I had a house that I kept vacant for several years thinking I might return and several things I learned is 1) service people don’t like doing business over the phone because they fear not being paid so it’s very difficult to maintain things remotely 2) about half the time people don’t do the work if they think you won’t notice (i.e I paid almost five grand for monthly termite control over three years but when I flew in and inspected the stations it was obvious they had not been maintained for an extended time, the lawn company I hired kept sending me bills long after they stopped coming out) 3) if people think your house is vacant they dump trash there and the city charges you hundreds of dollars each time it happens - plus you then have to pay to dispose it. Having a tons of construction waste someone dumped in your driveway removed is expensive 4) raccoons don’t perceive drywall as a barrier, and if they get in they bring all their friends.
Karlo, the first open source DALL-E 2 replication is here
GitHub: https://github.com/kakaobrain/karlo

diffusers lib integration: https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/releases/tag/v0.11....
please help me understand, why is that "stand" supposed to influence your or my decision to use or not use their software? its not like WE HAVE TO SUBSCRIBE to their views before installation like those terms and conditions?

are we saying a "developer who says bad things about trans people has made bad software and should be avoided like the plague"
Large-format camera movements (2020)
Yes, unfortunately the core item that more hardcore evangelists for topic XYZ seem to be unable to grasp, maybe due to being too close/deep in the subject. If I had a NFT every time somebody on HN stated 'we need to abandon cars, or abandon plastics altogether' and similar, I would be drowning in a lot of useless tokens.

The thing is, the motivation for given topic is always fair and just, and so are the goals, so its normal to want to do more and more. But at one point they move so far from general population they are seen as extremists, and whatever good their push is trying to achieve is completely blocked by this extreme approach and negative emotions it sparks.

Get engaged in politics, create groups, figure out who has real deciding power and apply soft pressure there... this is how good changes are done in timely manner. Other way is to wait till SHTF and there is reaction, but damage is already done like in this topic. Otherwise society just heads to division and conflict on many levels, and as for example covid showed us if you push big part of population hard/long enough they will eventually move to some outright non-smart positions that will be then very hard to abandon.
Running a web project has become more difficult. CTOs and Product Owners can feel FOMO (fear of missing out), considering the number of existing tech trends. The high price for any mistake makes them feel a chill running up and down the spine, especially in the case of large projects.

This article helps to deal with these issues. We will consider the latest web development trends and innovations. Preference will be given to the technology stack that enables you to shorten development times, increase performance and security.
I mean pans are only one thing. PFAS are used in many products. Yes you can make inferior substitutions but again this reduces standard of living.

This is not to mention its widespread use in military applications. There is already concern about China's lock on the global supply of rare earths and other raw materials like silicon and magnesium (80%+ market share). What happens when the US can't make fighter jets because a belligerent China refuses to export PFAS?
PlantUML is also open-source. The title make it look as if it is not.
Mozilla Firefox as a tool is awesome and I'll continue supporting it but as an organisation, Mozilla has clearly signalled more than once that they don't want healthy, they want agreement with their own brand of US partisan politics.

They will run opposite to their old values of freedom and push the new and tired "censorship of ideas we dislike in the name of safety".

It's all very tribal and it all leaves little room for disagreement. It's specially funny for people coming from outside the US/Europe when we get told how we are represented and to "stfu" if we actually have an opinion that is not welcome.
> get either sidelined or lambasted

"No people"'s comments only seem to be worth enough in attention currency once things explode and it turns into an "I told you so".

At least within the world of facehype.com and hypper.com et al. Behind closed doors people are probably more critical.
Yes but when you have a small apartment living space you can't have months worth of food stored.

Taking short term opportunity of sales of singular items makes sense. I often buy meat depending on what's for sale, but not months worth.

Maybe once in a while you can buy bulk for dry-store items like pasta or rice.
Buying a house also has a risk: what if your house gets flooded due to a broken pipe two months after you moved in? What if they tricked you and you learnt late that the communal garbage bins are stored under your kitchen window, and the property management doesn't let you move them? When you rent, moving is "cheap" and easy, in comparison.

Also, taking on 30 years of debt is something, that mathematically might make sense, and many people handle it easily, but it's a huge mental burden to others. You take on the risk above, on the assumption that your income is stable for 30 years, but then you break your leg and get fired during corona. I don't have data on this, but 2/3 of the parents of my sister's classmates were divorced, so how do you smartly assume a stable family income for decades while not being naive about it?

This is all for "poor" people, who can't afford the risks mentioned.
A Better Way to Manage Projects
Of course that dogs descend of gray wolves
One more: in Russia it’s legal to beat your wife. Look it up, it’s very recent.