skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Climate change is already an existential threat to humanity. We're the frog in the proverbial boiling pot. It's quite likely we've already doomed our species and we don't know it yet.

It's a lot harder to see AGI as being possible in the next few decades (the current state of the art is still a sensationalized party trick, one cannot anthropomorphize chat bots any more than they can describe a submarine as an aquatic being). And even if a self aware program exists in 20 years, it's a lot harder to imagine it being an existential threat a la Skynet.
Sorry for being cryptic. Mr. Levin uses this metaphor [1]: just as in the 1950s in order to change the state of a computer you would have to physically change the wires, in a proportional manner, today, when we play with genes we try to alter state at a hardware level, and from the past 70+ years of software development we simply know there is a better way to control state. Imagine you'd have to pull a soldering iron each time you wanted to switch between Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Word, to paraphrase Mr. Levin's remark.

Therefore, there might not be any morphological secret in the DNA, junk or not: DNA encodes a recipe for the building tools to be used in the eventuality of development. Imagine I would extract the exact state of the transistors from my computer, a ridiculously long string of 0s and 1s. Which strings of 0s and 1s codify this very textbox, its background color, the position of the cursor, the cursor itself? The questions are simply at the wrong level of abstraction, even if of course the state of the textbox is certainly somewhere in that string, but if I wanted to alter state at this wrong level then I would have to move very carefully a lot of 0s and 1s, in a very particular manner, with almost no room for errors, in order to add a simple "a" character to this very textbox. Isn't it much more simple and much more interesting, in the waterfall of effects through the abstraction layers if not in action, to push the key "A" on the keyboard? The question then becomes what is and how do we press the keyboard to alter the morphospace location of a cell, a tissue, an organism. A possible answer researched by Mr. Levin's group is voltage-gated ion channels controlling bioelectrical gradients [2].

Of course, at the lowest level, we are all stardust, a collection of femtoevents between femtoparticles, but we simply do not have to operate at that level to understand and control biology: biology itself has done the work, for at least the past 4+ billions of years of evolution, to increase the level of abstraction, from bonds between carbon and sulfur [3], to rotary motors to store and transfer energy [4], to organisms capable of running some kind of simulation of the world in which their reflected self becomes an agent in the world which sometimes knows they are an agent.

[1] Michael Levin | Cell Intelligence in Physiological and Morphological Spaces https://youtu.be/jLiHLDrOTW8?t=1201

[2] Exploring the Behavior of Bioelectric Circuits Using Evolution Heuristic Search, https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/epub/10.1089/bioe.2022.0033

[3] At the very beginning of life on Earth: the thiol-rich peptide (TRP) world hypothesis, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29139533

[4] ATP synthase — a marvellous rotary engine of the cell, https://www.nature.com/articles/35089509
By becoming more digital and services based. Most new added value is from non-physical activities, i.e. does not require significant raw material input. We'll also likely get better at recycling and using biology to create new sustainable sources for inputs, like hydrocarbons
Maxmizing log returns is very good in many respects. It has nice mathematical properties. It's not too far off from what people subjectively value. But it is an approximation. For instance, how upset would you be if you woke up to find your bank account was $0? Pretty upset I'm sure. Infinitely? Doubt it. Now some one gives you a single cent out of pity. Feeling a lot better? Hardly.

The subjective satisfaction we get from a certain amount of money is something that would take a lot of experimental science to figure out, and subject to change as society changes. How high up Maslows hierarchy of needs can you climb, and how long can you stay there until age brings you low?

Now where log returns really shine is if you make a very large number of similar bets. Thats where the asymptotic behavior dominates. But if you make a big once in a lifetime decision of whether to bet the farm on a new business idea, that's where you have to figure out your own values.
The benefit of formal education (beside easier visa, easier access to the hiring pipelines and meeting new like-minded people) are the tests.

I was struck so many times thinking I understood something (either through lectures or self-learning) to be proved wrong by the exams or talking to other people who studied the same.

It's no wonder that TAOCP is mostly about exercises. But, the algorithms are easy to self-test for understanding and knowledge. The other subjects -- not so much. Formal education helps here.
https://www.allistergrange.com/

No blog, it's purpose is to show off projects/my cv.

I'm proud how it turned out, it's quite a unique design.
Crypto Empire DCG Faces US Investigation over Internal Transfers
Symlink to a URL
On the one hand, most programmers are writing at a higher level, and probably have no ability to fix or even work around a date rollover issue.

On the other hand, a few fixes at lower levels will correct it for everyone above them.
> It's a tough message but when someone buys the company you work for, you no longer work at the old company, you work at the new company, no matter what anyone says.

It is very profitable from the engineers perspective to keep insisting you work for Slack as long as possible though. If you just immediately roll over you’ll lose your old culture and benefits immediately.
Ecto is more than a typical ORM. You can map queries into arbitrary structures, which permits arbitrary joins and selects. It also provides better mechanisms for validation for insert/update that go beyond enforcing type annotations
Turnout was relatively very high in 2016 and 2020.

> exercising democratic rights no longer has influence on the situation.

Progressives and the radical right don't think so, and they've certainly had tons of influence on government.

> Because imbeciles have successfully embedded themselves in lower levels of governments and use the devolved power to keep the status quo in order to profit off of it.

Not my local government. It isn't perfect, but it gets a lot done. Same in NYC. I certainly wouldn't call them imbeciles.

What local government are you talking about? There are GOP people who, in the name of demonstrating their radicalism, act like imbeciles, but I think they know what they are doing.
I don't enjoy the genre of hiring managers writing self-servicing articles like this. I think a lot the issues they might face in receiving applications are on their end. For instance, are applicants writing "to whom it may concern" because they lack details on the position? Most applicants probably would like to turn in the best application they could, where is the mutual disconnect preventing them from meeting your expectations?
native sql with auto generation of code on server side.
I can think of a couple challenges. Let's say you're debugging "the website won't load."

Often debugging is a hunch, and quickly branches. One person will go down the path of trying the same site from another PC. Another will try a different site from the same browser/PC. Another will try to ping the server.

If you're running this live you're always going to have the chance where someone's hunch or first try basically pinpoints the problem and eliminates a dozen checks from their consideration. If you're looking for things like "did they check DNS? Did they try another site?" but they skipped that and immediately figured out apache wasn't running, do they lose points? Or do they get 100% for their lucky (and/or experienced) guess?

If you do it on paper, the major problem is basically infinite branching for every step and possible result. How do you mark that? What's the minimum you need to do to get 100%? I think it's also unfair, because even as a seasoned vet I've been deep in troubleshooting to the point of (for example) greping source of nginx for a specific error message -- which I'd never have even thought of two steps earlier. I do t expect anything that complex on a school test of course, but the point is the result of each step is often the only way to even think of the next.
Another interesting discussion: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14633686/possible-to-sym...

And some cool github links:

- https://github.com/kahing/goofys -- a high-performance, POSIX-ish Amazon S3 file system written in Go

- https://github.com/maxogden/mount-url -- mount a http file as if it was a local file using fuse
While it would be nice to have something that could withstand a casual burglar, the more likely threat to my stuff is a house fire.

Where is the best for a safe to survive in a burning building, but also not be visible to anyone and remain thermally neutral?

Fire safes are passive thermal sinks that reflect and damp heat transfer for as long as possible before ultimately turning into a giant heavy toaster oven. I wonder if active fire safes are a thing? Imagine the security of a safe but with an armored thermal pipe sticking out the top that goes to a heat sink somewhere outdoors. Kind of like AC but for precious documents / grandpa’s watch. I guess you’d want it to fuse and fall off if the pipe started piping heat into the safe.
I never used pock because I felt like I lost a lot of the default functionality that comes with the touchbar. What did you use it for specifically?
There are two questions to ask.

What happens if the date overflows? For example, if my toaster clock is wrong, do I care?

How many of these devices are designed to last 16+ years?

Because what I suspect will happen is that things that are pointless to patch won't be patched and the things that need to last 5-10 years will start shipping with fixed firmware in 2028-2033. Or more likely, late 2037.
The touch screens are just a temporary phase on the way to Alexa.
> a key reason why internet protocol won

The internet protocol (IPv4/IPv6) is binary, as are the usual transport-layer protocols on top of it (TCP, UDP, QUIC, etc.). You probably mean the typical application-layer protocols (HTTP, SMTP, etc.), although some are still binary (e.g. NTP), not to speak of SSL/TLS.
well a bigger brain requires a bigger head requires a bigger body to carry it, so this would seem to push the chances of higher intelligence onto the animals with the bigger bodies. But I'd guess it is just a slight increase in the likelihood, since the structure is probably of more importance.
“Shed doubts”???

Since when is that a turn of phrase? You “cast” doubt (like a shadow), and “shed” light.
David Wengrow (archeologist and co-author of The Dawn of Everything with the late David Graeber) wrote a piece on AA and Graham Hancock which was published last week:

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/ancient-apocalypse...
Because if it were paying market rates for water, it wouldn't be growing low value, thirsty crops like alfalfa during a water shortage.
Piggybacking off of that, what is the combination? As your friends here at HN, we want to make sure it's cryptographically strong.
Elite Swiss ski resort flies snow to the slopes after mild winter
One thing is missing from this list.

No one ever gets promoted for removing features.

Any code base that has had a few birthdays has stuff that needs to be removed and might not ever get removed.
For the spaceship example, I’m fairly certain that we do know the theory behind how all those materials and processes are created though. It isn’t that we lost the knowledge, but the infrastructure. Recreating the infrastructure to create the materials to create the rockets is possible, it’s just that recreating entire processes from scratch when they had already been phased out of our modern structures would be outrageously expensive, especially just to construct rockets.
Modern humans (homo sapiens) are ~200,000 years old. Tool use goes back ~2.5 million years.
Israeli researcher reports leak of 235M Twitter-linked email addresses
The patterns of what?

Gene expression is an area of active research.
> effectively impossible

Maybe if you are alone, but you could easily get spotted for a bench press and put low effort into raising the bar each rep.
I imagine it will be the same with Adobe and Figma.
Let me assure you, my tallow gets pretty dirty before it gets thrown out.
This is exactly the kind of answer I was looking for, thanks!
By this time humans have evolved to be pure energy creates so we won't need computers any more.
I think our shared component library is a monster, but the only thing preventing anyone from contributing is unwillingness. PR’s can come from anywhere.
Axiom.ai (YC W21) Is Hiring Customer Success Engineers
Read up on creatine - it may help you.
That changed when GCC compiled to 64bit binaries. Try again with -m32 or -march=i686
JS-free archive link:

https://archive.today/thkkg
This is really cool, and I think possibly the best demonstration I've seen in a while of the power of Julia for tasks outside of science. The ability to use a high level fast and flexible language instead of being forced to compromise on a slow high level language that wraps fast but rigid libraries allows you to do some really cool stuff.
Seriously, look at his about page:

> I have a degree in Statistics & Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University where I stayed up all night writing algorithms that arbitraged textbooks to pay my tuition. Before, I attended Phillips Exeter Academy ...

This is exactly the type of person I expect to know fuckall about building. I read /r/Construction and it's fascinating, not to mention daunting, how much goes into modern building. Huge debates from blue collar workers on the best way to frame, or pour concrete, or the amount of reinforcements needed. It looks as complex as software engineering but much more costly to make mistakes. Compare to another tech-meets-legacy industry company like FarmLogs, that's been going for 11 years. It worked because the founder grew up and worked on his farm as a kid. He knew exactly how to improve processes because he knew them inside and out.
JS-free archive link:

https://archive.today/LFAkM
I'm in the same place - or similar enough, anyways. I'd like to find out, too. I'm reading through some of these advice, and my alarm bells are ringing- some of these advice are bad. There are some solid advice, though. Physical activity being one of them, if you're not already doing it.
Not if it hardens before it expands.
What an absurd retort. No one can prove a negative (prove your bank hasn't scammed other people), but you can prove that Wells Fargo was scamming people. You can assert anything you like, but it is not the onus of others to prove you wrong.
After 10 years in the industry I agreee with almost every bit.

Soft skills are never taught, rarely checked during interviews, but might well be themost important ones.
Reminds me of the Wootz Steelmaking (and much else) in classical India which was lost during the period of Anglo-Islamic colonization. Roman empire, Egypt and Greece, IMO is, contrary to current myths, is far closer in spirit to India than to anything of the 'modern West'. Indeed, the Greeks ruled parts of India for many centuries, and Rome had a great amount of trade with it.

The loss of so much rich tradition across the world due to birth of religion and its obsession with tyrannical power over everything is such a tragedy on humankind... this was recognized by the thinkers of Europe during the wee end of the 'renaissance', but in light of post-WW2 plebification of intellectuals, is being rolled back because of the current crop's moronic obsession with another religion: Marxism.

Such tragedy. tck. Such tragedy.
Nuclear weapons simulations.
Actually a 2020 purchase but it keeps paying dividends: Pax 3 vaporiser.
Are there really any concrete advantages to the Oura ring over something like the Apple Watch? I used to own an Oura ring, but I returned it after I found basically no difference between ring's data and the watch with an app like Training Today. Maybe I just wasn't looking at the right stuff, though?
How often do they require charging?
I don't know about bugs. I haven't really noticed very many bugs in KDE, XFCE or MATE. Those pieces of software seem to be no buggier than Gnome. And I'm not sure why "modern tech" or a rapid release schedule is a good thing in and of itself. Modern tech and rapid releases are good only when they result in good things. Otherwise they're just churn. Change for the sake of change.

Maybe if Gnome didn't have so much "modern tech", (like DBus, for example) the Gnome devs wouldn't be so overworked.
I’ve noticed a more subtle bug, I worked for a company where the expire date for a lot of assets was 2038. The database supports later dates, but something upstream has the problem.
Been writing musings on personal projects and biking very erratically for a few years now, aiming at building up some consistency because I have stuff to say.

https://noskills.club
https://noskills.club/blog
time_t was almost certainly 64-bit on 64-bit archs from the beginning. There's just a lot of 32-bit stuff still out there. And here and there a disk format standarized before people started thinking about the end of time.
“Synergies” are great but many of the most profitable acquisitions are, at heart, bets that the acquiree was undervalued.
> So Salesforce makes all the same promises, but at the end of the day there's reality.

> And all those promises about Slack being independent and autonomous? Well sure, that was the plan

Do you think you and I know this pattern but the executives of Salesforce and Slack don't? It wasn't the plan, it was lies; they knew what was going to happen.
> Imagine if a chemist had 1024 milliliters and reported that as a liter. People would be up in arms about it.

Not if that method went back decades.

I'll repeat the comparison to tons, since you didn't acknowledge it. Tons are different sizes in different places, and people manage. (And I'm including tonne because it's pronounced the same and has the symbol 't'.)

> I didn't. I never set bits. Bytes.

> A gigabyte is always 1 billion bytes, and a Kilobyte is always 1000 bytes. How many bits that is is implementation-dependent.

So if I handed you a full CD and said it had 350 megabytes, because it has a million sets of 16 bits, you wouldn't object to that?

Or if a drive manufacturer decided they're going to market based on 6 bit bytes, you wouldn't object to that?

> ...there's no such thing as fractional bits.

Sure there is. One printable ASCII character can store six and a half bits. Two of them can store thirteen bits. You can also entangle multiple bytes into a single storage unit if you want to. Base64 and base85 are useful comparisons here. If I declared that one character was a byte and it had 85 possible states, the math would work out fine.
We better start preparing for Y292277026596

A lot of modern software won't even compile for 32bit targets anymore

Kind of wasteful in a way, but memory is cheap these days... =)
If they had cheap oil, we'd be seeing people using more energy, a stable and improving political climate and rapid improvements in the quality of life of individual people. Like we see in China (or the rest of Asia) as they gain more access to energy. None of those things are evident in the US - it is a country that is seeing reduced access to energy.

Cheap oil in the US has been extinct for more than a decade.
Phase 3 initiated, begin "discovering" that touch screens are bad.

I'm not sure how many or what all the steps along the way are but the end is Alexa in a conveyance subscription pod you can't own, modify, or drive.
>A massage table doesn't seem finite either. If its made from wood, leather/cotton, those would be regenerable resources

But it is finite, because those resources aren't infinitely regenerable. You're forgetting that, in order to grow a tree (or animals for wool/leather), you need to take energy and material from somewhere else. This is physics 101: you cannot create nor destroy matter or energy, you can only change its form, but to do so always takes away from somewhere else. Hence because it takes both material and energy to grow a tree, and energy and material aren't infinitely available to us, then you cannot have infinite wood tables. So, the amount of wood tables we can have is therefore finite.

Now if we converted all available material to us into wood tables, we can of course burn some them, so we again have more material to grow a new tree. Then after having grown a new a tree, we can turn it back into a wood table again. However, the amount of times we can repeatedly cycle back and forth like this between tables and trees, is not infinite, because this takes excess energy to do, and the amount of excess energy available to us is not infinite, ultimately because of the 2nd law of thermodynamics, but for anyone having trouble thoroughly understanding that law, more practically because the sun is eventually going to burn out.
Yea, I don't think he's reached a point where he's seen the territory apart from the map. His post is still a lot of confusion running in circles in the space of concepts and mind.

When it is seen clearly how the mind is delusion, then the rest of the teachings fall naturally from that observation.
I don't think there's any way to register for more than 10 years(?)

You still need to rely that the registrar and registry keeps operating for 10 years. For .com and common TLDs you can reasonably rely that it will keep operating forever barring some sort of general collapse of society/the internet. These newer TLDs? Maybe a bit less. Registrars like GoDaddy or Namecheap or whoever may go out of business, too.
Jazz club (parody) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TebUMhJAKSM
Yep.

As one who was acquired and then had all the (written) pre-acquisition promises broken, I think the really interesting question is, how do you prevent this?

The problem is that once you’re acquired, even if you have some nominal level of control, ultimately if you’re not the CEO then the CEO will do what they want and you generally can’t do anything about it, except sue for oppression; and that trick never works.

So I reckon that if I ever do this again, I’d want to fix it by structuring the contract such that the merger or acquisition is undone at their cost if the promises are broken. I guess that would show if they really believe their promises or not.

And while it wouldn’t prevent the need to go legal, it would put you on a footing that would give you something to sue for, if the acquirer breaks their promises. And the potential for that may be all that is needed to make them keep their promises in the first place.
True. Just takes a bit of practice. With grip strength specifically, it's easy to just finish a day with a long hang
Idk why but they overwrote this in JS (https://github.com/hertg/epochalypse/blob/main/index.html#L1...)

byte1.innerText = "1" + bits.substr(1, 7);

Realistically the first bit should be skipped and the first part should be 7 digits.
You want a floor safe in your basement.
A Look into Medieval Homes
Htpocrisy doesn't invalidate peoples' messages, more to the point..
> Estimations will be asked even when you don't want to give them

Actually this particular point reminds me of young-arrogant-me saying things like "I can't give you an estimate since its software, and everybody knows thats estimates are impossible, duh." to my boss.

Boy was I young, and arrogant!
If you can shed light on something, why can't you shed a couple doubts on it too?