skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just as the City of London is a weird little legal fossil within London, the Inns are even weirder legal fossils within the City:

https://www.middletemple.org.uk/about-us/freedom-information...

The practical consequences are extremely minor - but the Inner and Middle temples can give themselves planning permission, and issue themselves alcohol licenses!
I don't think that's accurate. Progressive JPEG has been the biggest winner in the image formats during the last 10 years. It grew from pretty much nothing to about 25 % of all JPEGs today.

Much of this is powered by mozjpeg creating progressive jpegs by default. Chrome and other render them progressive, with recent (2019–21) improvements in quality. While first round or two of updates can be noticeable, the last 40–55% of loading is usually impossible to notice as a change.
I really wish the UI worked like excalidraw, the interface is seamless and something Obsidian could take ideas from. the end result could have been an SVG which makes it compatible with every other software out there.
Good grief, did anyone read the paper, or are you all just sprouting your own personal Fermi paradox theories?

> The basic assumption of this work is the hypothesis that alien civilizations do not bother to explore merely biotic planets, so that the radiosphere criterion becomes the main trigger for alien civilizations to send interstellar probes

The tldr; in this work is that they assume there’s a finite (short) duration during which civilisation are “noisy” and given that our “noise” is currently at most ~100 light years from us, no one has noticed us and bothered to send a probe or direct a signal at us.

I mean, it’s an interesting (not, in my view, novel) take, in that it posits that every civilisation has a finite spherical band in which they are “detectable” by radio emission before they go to “quiet” technology like fibre optic; and you’d have to be specifically looking at just the right time while you were in that (supposedly) brief band.

…but, it really doesn’t to give any thought to spectral analysis / why a “quiet” civilisation would be undetectable on the basis of generating complex / unusual chemical signatures in their atmospheres, and why we don’t see anything like that out there.

It’s really, just restricted to the consideration of radio broadcast and, unsurprisingly, given the restrictions, makes it implausible anyone would notice us / we would happen to be looking while anyone was “noisy” and visible in the radio spectrum.

Eh. Did I miss anything interesting in there? It doesn’t seem particularly novel.
From my own experience with building Mockoon:

I submitted the project on various places: HN, Reddit, Product Hunt, and lots of directories like Beta Page.
HN was the best, by far. Lots of interesting feedback.
Reddit was okay, but you need to post at the right time of the day, and present your project so it doesn't look like an ad (like "I created X using Y framework, feedback welcomed"). Still it helped, but it really depends on the sub on which you are posting.
Product Hunt was average, Mockoon wasn't at the top during the day, more like no. 4 or 5, just under the fold.
And all the directories helped only for the SEO. They didn't bring any significant traffic.

After the launch, I started writing articles, tutorials, having a good readme file on GitHub (it's an open-source project), make sure things are cross-linked and polished (the Docker image page, the NPM page, etc.).
Today, the primary source of new users is word of mouth and SEO.

I have a Discord, Twitter and LinkedIn page, but I am rather bad at creating a community. Also, it requires posting very frequently about anything and everything which is time consuming with very random results. Sometimes I post an update on what I am working on, and I get 10 likes, sometimes 0. Very frustrating. Then, the post is lost forever. LinkedIn is showing way better results for me though.
I would say invest in SEO. It is a long term game, you still depends on Google, but if you do things correctly it pays.
Oh, we're already there. When applying for jobs at many universities, you have to include a "diversity statement"

https://careerservices.upenn.edu/application-materials-for-t...
If the probes don't have replication devices in them, what are they doing?

The main point of the von-Neumann strategy is that if you don't build a self-replicating hegemonic swarm object, someone else will (whether that be an alien or merely someone else in your own society), and despite what science fiction movies would like to have you believe, you don't win in a war against the Replicators.
Are you approved for permanent residence already but being told to wait 180 years?

Are you paying additional taxes, the benefits of which you cannot receive, entirely on the basis of the fact that you are eligible to get a permanent residency (small text: 180 years later).
With the current economic downcycle it is also the most budget oriented option. We will see a reborn of the "Full-Stack" for a while.
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That sounds like a non-issue. Our conscience already "pauses" when we go to sleep or get hit in the head, we already have people being resuscitated...
Indeed, but even here on the board you'll encounter those who are (on the surface) simultaneously pro-choice but oppose (in principle) the notion of selective abortion. As they would tell it, caring for someone with Down's is only ever a treasure, and they care not that some are utterly incapable of caring for themselves into adulthood, or how hard it can be to care for them in general. I would not wish it on an enemy. In their minds though, they can't reconcile notions that it's not good to have Down's, yet it's possible to love and value someone who has it. Everything is black-and-white to the extreme.
> because otherwise the reason we're free to exist is because species like us always wipe themselves out before they spread

That's a complete non-sequitur. There can be plenty of reasons for a species like us never appearing on the first place, and they are way more reasonable than postulating that life like us always destroy itself.
I don't think it's denial - I've worked on a ton of rails apps of all different sizes and scales and...I've gotta say, I just don't see the issues you name in production all that often.

It's a problem, but it's not a big problem.
It comes from the drive for "monetisation" which is the most recent form of alchemy. Where the alchemists of old tried to turn base metals into gold these monitists try to turn everything into a bunch of changed bits in a file on some bank's computer system. Future history will tell whether monetists had better luck than the alchemists of old.
Google search is getting better at displaying bilingual results
My naïve solution to this would be to build a multi-CPU system instead of making a higher performance CPU.
What one can learn by doing that is that the abrupt "stop the record" noise still exists even though records aren't a thing. Like the "save" icon.
Is the Universe Made of Math? (2014)
The entire art department at my university used Amigas. They had a couple of video toasters as well. They kept them at least into the mid-90's too.

Otherwise, yeah, I can't recall ever seeing an Amiga in a US business (other than a computer repair shop). IBM dominated the "serious" market, and Apple was in the schools (with some Commodore).
“THERMONUCLEAR BAD” Covid situation in China getting out of control
I find it absolutely amazing that in the '70s, they took the then-current trends, and take them to the most absurd ends that they could possibly imagine, only to see fifty years later that their absurdities would actually become normalized and accepted by a disturbingly large segment of the world's population. Everyone has seen the scene in The Life of Brian where Eric Idle's male character thinks he's oppressed because biology prevents him from being pregnant. They also predicted the rise of furries in their TV show. I didn't know that reductio ad absurdum was a path that entire cultures could be built around, but there we are.
My understanding is the reason it hasn't passed is that each entity has dragged its feet and then bounced it onto the other one for stalling (not just in NY). Passing bills in one chamber and having it sit there in the other - or in both chambers, but pocket vetoed - is a common tactic for these things. So it might look like it's close to passing but in reality who knows how far it is.
> How do you ensure the paid links are safe to visit, and it won't redirect me to a malicious website?

Is it up to this website though? It's like asking URL shorteners to check the malicious activity of original links.
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Apple will reportedly begin producing some MacBooks in Vietnam in 2023
> Because of lazy evaluation, type issues persist though. Plenty of instances of trying to call string methods on integers, and array methods on nil, and Rails devs in denial that that's a big problem as the app continues to grow.

This is not anymore inherent in the language. Gradual typing support for Ruby is now reasonably mature (companies like Shopify with large codebases have adopted it), so it's up to the team do decide if they want to take advantage of it or not.
How about selling memberships and roles in a community using crypto, then other websites can just query the blockchain to see if you have that role?
> Rails in particular makes this a core function of the framework to really push you to do so.

This sentence surprised me. How does Rails do it?

I never documented types in Rails and all was well, since 2005.
Looks like something I've looked for for a long time! Will def try it out.

Can also recommend the excellent app Pureref, which is an infinite canvas for pictures. Does not compete with this though, different use cases.

https://www.pureref.com
'Halt and Catch Fire' appears to have been an experiment in targeting nano-audiences. In the case of the show, older tech millionaires and billionaires, and the rest of us were able to go along for the ride. It was difficult not to notice how many ads during the show were for luxury goods and high-end gadgetry. This may be why it kept getting renewed despite the low ratings: they had succeeded in reaching their very narrow, very valuable niche audience they targeted, and advertisers were willing to pay a premium for that access.
Taxes pay for schools and ongoing infrastructure maintenance, as well as services, like trash collection.

Do you like having drinkable water in your house and not having piles of trash on the sidewalks (Or having walkable sidewalks at all)? Do you like talking to educated neighbors? Yeah, those taxes pay for that.

If you want to get as close to "owning your own land", move 100 miles out of a metropolitan area. Just don't complain about having no roads, no water, internet, electricity or access to the hospital when you need it most.
This paper seems to explore a question I've had for a while which is: What is the maximum distance an Alien civilisation could eventually detect life signatures from Earth assuming their detection technology matches ours? I know that our current radio signals extend 100 light years or so but at which distance could these eventually be detected?

I ask because I've read that in order for the SETI program to make a detection the signal would need to be much more powerful than the radio transmissions we currently produce.
The page isn't loading for me but I'll take a look later on as this could be super interesting!
> It is a depreciating asset

Well, no it isn't hence why it is viewed as an investment!
I'm pretty sure all Spotify clients also act as "Spotify Connect" targets. Anyone could use it (also I could run an Airplay target on it, but I don't bother)
I don't know how common it is in Germany, but there is a "european format CV", official EU site where you can compose one:

https://europa.eu/europass/en

the form has top left a placeholder for a photo (though I believe it is not compulsory to add one).

I think many people will use that or some copy-paste format deriving from it.
If you were to get an H1B visa you would have become a permanent resident within a few years, as opposed to 180 years for Indian born people.

Also, this is a misconception. This has nothing to do with your passport. The separation is based on your country of birth.

So if you were a Canadian citizen born in Canada, got an H1B visa, applied for and were approved for a permanent residency which is your right as per the H1B visa, you would get your permanent residency immediately.

If you were a Canadian citizen born in India, got an H1B visa, applied for and were approved for a permanent residency which is your right as per the H1B visa, you would get your permanent residency approximately 180 years from now.
The ability to get a green card in 1-3 years (instead of 20 years) because you’re not part of the India/China quota (if your country of birth is neither). The ability to get NAFTA statuses like the TN at the border if you’re in a NAFTA profession. The relative ease of switching jobs and reapplying for a new TN adjudicated at the border. Visa free entry to the US without having to do visa runs to restamp. The ability to repatriate retirement funds due to joint agreements. There are so many privileges afforded to Canadians in the US that most other nationalities do not enjoy. It’s good to have empathy for folks who may not have what you have. Source: am Canadian.
> Nobody has ever said "landlady"

I have heard it in exactly one place, and that place is the movie Kung-fu Hustle.

Who is throwing handles?
What would it take, in your opinion, for that reputation to be outrun?
Gotta pay the bills somehow.
To send you back any information, your probe has to either send back something physical or use the electromagnetic spectrum. If you send a probe with no manufacturing capacity, then it either has to carry all the fuel, shielding, and redundancy for both directions of the trip, or carry a very large radio and its much larger power source. That's gonna be really, really heavy. Probably heavier than the manufacturing machinery. So you would want to be able to manufacture just so you could report back.

Once you have the manufacturing stuff, you might as well build a bunch more probes. Each generation of will start from the furthest range of the previous generation, with all the knowledge accumulated by its predecessors.

A probe with a generalized manufacturing capability can also do other interesting things on station. If it's smart enough, it's more like a colony than a probe... and it would probably have to be that smart anyway. A probe with no manufacturing capability can only report back, and then you have to send something all that way again if you want to do something interesting at the destination.

I'm not sure the whole project is worth it, though.

And, with very high probability, the reason we haven't seen or heard from anybody isn't that they haven't gotten around to "viewing our Earth television programs" and responding. It's not even that they don't want to talk. It's that there's nobody out there. I don't understand the desperation that leads people to come up with increasingly farfetched ways to hide from that obvious conclusion.
I thought F1 was used by manufacturers as a way to justify tremendous R&D, is that the case still? was it ever?
Is this only your feeling or has there been any psychological research to back up this feeling.

There has been extensive research into PTSD and other trauma syndromes. If what you are saying is true, then surely some psychological research has at least explored the possibility of the phenomena.
I made up the word from random letters making sure it contains the letters "id" and has .com domain, which is not easy to find these days for 1 short word.
of course. And everyone knows that. But people still don't do it for any number of reasons.

If it's not working out so we need to find new solutions
> If something visits us from another star system it's also likely to be an AI.

Let's hope it's not programmed to make paperclips ;)
Astronomers identify the ancient heart of the Milky Way galaxy
I often find myself wondering if the same is true from simply going to sleep at night.

You woke up this morning, and you are likely pretty confident that you’re the same entity that went to sleep yesterday. Are you?

A pause in continuous consciousness is a convenient way to think of a discrete “before” and “after” entity, but why shouldn’t it generalize further? Is the person who occupied your body and saw through your eyes five minutes ago alive in a meaningful way right now?

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/09/is-beaming-down-in-st...
Interesting perspective considering the majority of religious people (that I've encountered) preach without practicing or adhering to established doctrine.

Would you consider those people religious, casually religious, or not at all religious?
> I'm returning to my childhood home in a couple of days after many years away, and now I'm wondering about searching the attic for my A1200

By an incredible stroke of bad luck the first Covid lockdown (the one that lasted months) happened when I was far from my wife and kid. By chance I was in my childhood home (alone).

Out of boredom I started watching YouTube videos about fixing and maintaining old computers. It motivated to go the attic and garage and find all my old computers. Took the battery out of an old Mac. Greased my Commodore 128's 1570 drive.
Booted the C128 and checked which floppies were still working.

And quite some still worked: it was a complete and total blast from the past to see the game Commando, with its incredible soundtrack, booting!

I don't know if the A1200 is prone to leaking capacitors or not: if it is send it to someone who can recap for you.

It was really fun to get these old machines back to life: I really encourage you to do it.
>Foreign law degrees would be pretty useless in Germany or Canada or most other countries, even if they were more accepted. A better example may be physicists driving taxi while there are not enough science teachers in schools.

Knowing science is a small part of teaching, especially when teaching kids where the material isn't super advanced. Other skills like communication are far more important.
As a rule of thumb, I tend to ignore blacklists like this and just go about my business.

Btw it looks like Stanford has thrown up a login wall on the site, which is … amusing.
It's called reading the libraries documentation.

Polyglot as in multiple programming languages.

I'm afraid it is true. Knowing the limitations of the tools you use is important. And you clearly do not.

Yes, I've done programing expensive networking hardware in C. I think you are missing that I know a lot more than you.

Tagged values aka dynamic typing is an excellent approach to doing a list from the developer's perspective.

If you think dynamic typing is like using void pointer in C you are very much mistaken.
Then that wouldn't be a declaration, that would be an interrogative sentence.
I consider myself a very leftist liberal, and some of this list sounds fair.

Some of it reads like bad satire.

"Died by suicide" is somehow LESS trivial than "committed suicide"? "Blind studies" are somehow bad things now, rather than admirable things?

And some of it reeks of linguistic arrogance. People aren't going to say "relationship with an abusive person" when "abusive relationship" is both much shorter and IDENTICAL.

And the IRONY in not only wanting to police content with trigger warnings, but to police the usage of the phrase "trigger warning" itself. How is this NOT satire?
Anybody who actually thinks normal people use "dumb" to mean non-vocal is dumb, and I can only wish I meant they were non-vocal.
The Launch of Netflix Basic with Ads
Think I found the guy who this 4 billion dollar estimate is from: https://www.tipranks.com/experts/analysts/daniel-ives

Doesn't have a great track record.
God damn it. I really wanted to see what your paywall looked like but got hit with "hey signup. hey link your stripe".

Show me an example.
I'd love FIDO for online banking auth. But AIUI, there's some EU regulation that requires 2FA, but that 2FA must also verify some other data (like the recipient of a transfer, amount being transferred and suchlike). I don't remember the details, but unfortunately that rules out FIDO for 2FA to make transactions. For initial authentication it would work, but it would have to be yet another system on top of the 2FA they have to use for transaction validation.
Yeah, and if you go from 100 year lifespan to 300 years and survive the societal collapse, would you be happy then? What about in 300 years?

Eventually all the atoms we know and love will decay and "disappear."
Fixed, I keep forgetting I got a novelty tld (.ink) rather than .com :p
> Above statements are proving my point.

I don't really see how.

> human civilization is stronger than ever

I don't really see how.

> on the verge of expanding beyond the home planet

I don't really see how.
Anyone know what the best practice is to guard against corruption on your SD card or your SSD if your home power goes out and your Raspberry Pi power-cycles unexpectedly (outside of just getting a UPS?)

I've had a previous RPI SD card get corrupted this way and I've been hesitant to do anything useful with home-hosting on one since I had that problem.
I would try to avoid this FOMO mindset, it leads to burnout/possibly depression in like 5-10 years. I would focus on a) finding out what problems you are most interested in working on and b) having some fun while you're young and don't worry about being "lazy" (you're obviously in no danger of that).

I think it's best when you're young to not be focused/specialized too soon, but cast a wide net - maybe find a couple of projects that you're interested in doing that are somewhat interdisciplinary. College is good for this as well. Good luck!
Peter Cook has raised a glass.

> Rimmer then gains ultimate control by requiring the populace to engage in endless postal voting and televoting on trivial or complex matters.

> At last, exhausted, they acquiesce in one final vote which passes dictatorial power to him.

The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Rise_of_Michael_R...
I think you mean dystopia because what this leads to is no utopia in my mind
Seeing that 50-70% drop in accounts up front would have been a better way of introducing the 70% staffing cuts.
Still using it, still highly productive. Not doing as much Rails work as I was 10 years ago but that's due to a change in the nature of my business. We still use it and Sinatra for the bulk of our Internet-facing and internal stuff.
Of course back then it was just Papal.
this + a good TUI is likely to get me to subscribe to spotify premium. Does anyone know if there's a good TUI front end to YouTube music or Apple Music to save me an additional subscription (I already sub to Apple Music via a family share thing and Youtube Music because of Youtube Red/Premium).
Thanks!, that show sounds interesting. Will look into it.

Immortality is maybe the wrong word for what i have in mind. Its more eternal youth but you can still be killed.
Best analogy would be the elves in lord of the rings.

My hope would be that the higher life experience combined with a healthy body would allow us to be better as a species.

Media seems pretty dystopian and dark in general right now. I think that may influence the outlook of many regarding the future.
Certainly could turn out that way but i think there is also a big chance it will be way different and better then we think right now.
https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/secret-scanning/abo... is pretty damn clear that secret scanning for private repos only alert owners; only the public repo scans alert partners (for instant revocation).
First, quoting a poorly formatted tweet as if it was something OP said is annoying. Second, arguments about "science skepticism" have little to do with the language experiment shown in the submission.