skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting to see this show up. This was a very formative paper for me. If correct—and it certainly seems correct to me—then it completely dissolves the Fermi paradox. And yet nobody seems to be aware of it, and both the popular and scientific press continue with the “where are they?” Fermi paradox headlines.

What I learned was that just figuring out the right answer is indifferent to change people’s minds, even in science.
If we can only prove that an inconsistent system is inconsistent, and we can never prove our (presumably) consistent system is consistent, then it is incomplete.

We can't say it's inconsistent just because we can't prove otherwise. We can say it may be incomplete (or inconsistent, and we haven't noticed yet)
I thought I wanted to be an academic after quitting my 'industry' job

then I had to go through some traditions which are trying to teach me things I had to unlearn while working 'professionally'

needless to say, my degree is on hiatus; why learn things which I know I will have to unlearn later when I go back into 'industry'?

and then the pandemic happened, and then FAANG fired tens of thousands and now I cannot find a job to go back to
It's a nice idea in theory but ultimately I don't think it agrees with what being human is.
Ask HN: What are your go to Argon2id params and why?
What Argon2id params do you use for hashing sensitive information, in what context (i.e. basic webapp vs enterprise deployment) and how did you decide on them?

I am interested in how people have weighed security/performance trade-offs and what the modal opinion is on a safe lower bound.
First politicians make unrealistically high pensions to gain votes and then they find out that economy cannot sustain paying them. What a surprise. And now poor 62-year old Frenchmen have to work hard to pay for those politicians' mistakes.

Also, I wonder, if the law is such controversial, why not hold a referendum? Why not let people decide for themselves, whether they want to raise the pension age or lower the pension to more realistic figures? I think that would be the most democratic way to resolve the issue instead of beating people by police.
That is because USD is reserve currency. In coming 2 decades you will see RMB and Ruble dominates. Already in many parts of Asia RMB is used like USD way more than USD like 5 ywars ago. Once BRICs and digital yuan kicks into high gear in 3 years, tsunami of recessions and inflations hitting USA shores like crazy. Many of my friends there now shifted out of USD and park their money in regional currencies like Yuan, Yen, SG, and even Ruble. Some opt heavily in gold and park it in Singapore.
That is because you are not suppose to talk about it either because people get mad or under the assumption they won't be able to understand. Without asserting truth, where the topic goes wrong often Ill attempt to do a simple example, fail and prove my point (haha)

We have a law here that roughly says for all government construction projects there must be 1% spend on art. The most convenient way to deal with this "problem" it to take the 1% and have some artist create one of those unsightly giant blobs of metal. The size justifies the price. No one needs this, few can appreciate it and with a lot of effort you could create something or many things that more people would enjoy.

We also have science budgets. The most convenient way to deal with that problem is to have as large as possible experiments where size also justifies the cost. If one was to make a lot of effort one could create many experiments each with a weight in practicality. The very idea might be offensive for pure science. But say, improve wind, wave, solar, improve batteries, etc or even a big project like an attempt to fix scientific publishing, the study replication problem, the archiving of research data, etc Or you can spend everything on one giant particle collider. It would be interesting but when we sort the set by usefulness it wont be in the top 100k.

One might look at great scientists and see what impact their work had on the real world. Faraday pops to mind. You could ignore everything Tesla did after his AC motor and it would still be stunning.

And then Relativity Theory. A pile of free floating nonsense with no connection to anything. I could be accused of not understanding the elegance of it but I don't have to as nothing practical followed. There was no real world revolution of the kind that makes great scientists. Just saying it doesn't make it true.

Pure science is to slow to meaningfully fill the void of possible questions. We have by comparison only a hand full of real problems to solve. We might actually make some progress there if we care for it. Those answers will trigger an infinite chain of new questions - practical questions.
This was an interesting, relevent article in the leading newspaper in the U.S. Many peope subscribe, and if it's important enough, you can go to the Library to read it.

Are you saying that relevent articles in major newspapers, like the WSJ, NYTimes, or WaPo shouldn't be discussed here, and only things on "free" sites like BuzzFeed, and PerezHilton are good?
Ask HN: Did Bing miss their opportunity to compete with Google?
Here's a sentence I never expected to write: For the past few months I've used Bing as my default search engine.

While Bing's standard search results are slightly worse than Google's, both sets of traditional searches have been in a steady decline for years. It's not news on HN that both technical results and product recommendations have become especially awful outside of forums like Reddit.

However, Bing's "chat" feature with ChatGPT 4 was brilliant. I'd developed a habit of "chatting" instead of searching, especially for technical queries. Bing became my go-to instead of Google. They converted me! I thought it was a brilliant move by Microsoft.

Being a Linux + un-googled Chromium user, this was largely thanks to the "Bing Chat for All Browsers" extension. Even if I wanted to use Edge as my daily driver, I couldn't on my Fedora workstation. But Microsoft sent a legal takedown to the developer, leading to this: https://github.com/anaclumos/bing-chat-for-all-browsers/issues/119

So I just switched back to Google today. They have Bard now, with no browser restrictions - I'll try it out instead.

Was I really so far out of Microsoft's target demographic that it's part of their product strategy to lose me? They're clearly aiming at Windows + Edge users. Maybe they're getting so many conversions in that segment that actively churning Linux-centric developers like me isn't a big deal?
Disgusting display of preference for bullshitters.
How much does one make to be top 10% of income earners in Canada?
You can go to a newsstand and by a NY Times.
Uninformed spitballing here but I can totally imagine brewing up an eInk display that grabs X from the internet then draws something via the Canvas API. JavaScript would probably be a fine solution for that.
> This is cool but I'm struggling to think of a case where I'd want to run backend JavaScript in a memory constrained environment, doubly so where performance isn't a concern.

Maybe launching lots of separate services/containers locally, just to have the ability to debug everything and step through how a request travels through all of the services in one go, with multiple IDE instances also open locally, in addition to other stuff?

Distributed tracing is nice for remote environments, but having 5-20 IDE instances open with all of the related services can also provide a nice debugger experience. Not every machine has ample RAM for this, though, so I guess it's nice to have the option, without the processes/containers running into OOM so much?
Because I know for a fact, that no one on the ground was losing sleep over desertification.

I'm not dismissing its ecological affect, but to claim it's the root cause, I see as belittling and trying to erase what the people were actually fighting for:

If you're in the mood for harsh history lesson, there's a list of root causes here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Syria
That was one of my thoughts as well. I have a 'food saver' vacuum sealer and I use it frequently. It ensures that the marinade will fully envelop the meat, it keeps things clean, and I believe it mitigates oxidation.
My point is not that induction can't yield good results depending on the dish, but rather that people who care about cooking on a direct flame will not be satisfied with something that is suitable for "most" recipes. I've read plenty about this debate and if I had to pick one I'd stick with gas because of the added flexibility. But I would be fine with say, a hybrid stove that is mostly induction and has at least one high-capacity gas burner and preferably another lower-capacity one. Unfortunately, few induction "advocates" are making the case for the hybrid option and most prefer to exaggerate its suitability as a complete replacement as well as the potential environmental and health impacts of gas, which alienates anyone who simply wants a flame.
> This is not DRM - WEI does not lock down content

Right, but there is a severe risk that you give the means to block non-mainstream clients, be it browsers, operating systems or devices, correct?

Yes, it's nice to know you may want to allow user agents to browse the web without WEI and I'm sure you have best intentions, but we are already in a world where banks and even stuff like Zoom just look at the user agent string and say "Ah, I don't know this browser, please install Chrome or Edge!". Why shouldn't they just similarly halt in the future if the WEI API does not exist? I (and the browser vendor) can spoof a user agent, but you can't spoof attestation, i.e. cannot fix it if websites don't allow my browser based on the (missing) WEI API. So, how will you prevent this?

How can you make sure that users of e.g. Asahi Linux will be able to use the web in the future? Who will attestate their browser based on what? How will e.g. Gentoo users use the web with their build-from-source browser and OS? Will e.g. Netflix continue to work reliably on a user agent without WEI (but with Widevine) - and will the holdback population (if holdback is implemented at all - no offense intended, but you didn't sound too confident about this on the blink-dev mailing list, tbh) be large and significant enough for them to not just say "eh, can't verify, use the app please or wait a bit"?
What does 'more desirable background' mean?
>We find all of Mr Savory’s major claims to be unfounded.... Scientific evidence unmistakably demonstrates the inability of Mr Savory’s grazing method to reverse rangeland degradation or climate change, and it strongly suggests that it might actually accelerate these processes

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019005281...
I tried Fibery when it came out and clicked around some of the newer demos linked from the homepage a few weeks ago, so I’m not super knowledgeable, although I do read the email newsletter sometimes.

I really like Fibery’s plainspoken marketing, but it’s not for everyone. They’ve toned it down a bit on the homepage to be more “professional” now which is a good sign.

I think Fibery’s UX is too complicated for most people. As a programmer I get all the data modeling stuff, but there’s still a lot of complexity in just the UI that I find surprising. Notion gets a lot of feedback that it’s “overwhelming” and I feel the same in Fibery. My impression is that the up-front cost to figure things out in Fibery is still a challenging barrier for the product.

I’m not sure how good Fibery is for writing or on mobile, or if it has any local cache for offline use.

I’m really happy that everyone at Fibery made it through the Ukraine war okay so far.
Because what constitutes as actual critical thinking, i.e. when do you know something over mere belief is a problem going back to ancient greece:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave

"Slowly, his eyes adjust to the light of the sun. First he can see only shadows. Gradually he can see the reflections of people and things in water and then later see the people and things themselves. Eventually, he is able to look at the stars and moon at night until finally he can look upon the sun itself (516a)."[2] Only after he can look straight at the sun "is he able to reason about it"

The fallacy here though is believing that there exists a teacher that can drag you out of the cave. I'm not some nutjob that believes in the government trying to indoctrinate our children, but my teachers happily repeated the whole bit about the personal carbon footprint to us, when years later it was revealed that it was a huge (and by reasonable thinking somewhat obvious) false flag campaign led by Exxon.
It's not such a clear-cut distinction. There do exist languages like Matlab (and possibly R, I'm not as familiar with it) that intrinsically have or historically had a lot of limitations in them, that prevented them from being general purpose languages. If Python/Java/C are on one side of the spectrum as clear general purpose languages, Matlab would be on the other side as a niche-specific language.

Julia is not (yet) completely on either side, but is pretty close to the general purpose side - the language itself is fully general purpose and very well designed for that, but the ecosystem around it grew to be science-focused (though not science-exclusive by any means), and the standard library having things like `LinearAlgebra` and `SparseArrays` puts the focus in that direction too.

That could easily turn out to be a temporary situation though. Rails turned Ruby into a major webdev language, numpy/scipy pushed Python into the scicomp space which nobody would have predicted at the time, and it's quite possible some best-in-class package ushers Julia into new and unpredictable spaces. The language leaves the possibility open, and it's too early to tell where the ecosystem will take it.
Academia infighting politics mainly - my sentence was indeed very ambiguous.
Off topic but that lesbian rule would have been a great punchline to this sketch: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QIBwSHZAOU0
It's obvious - Dr Pepper tastes like marzipan.
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That she was part of a protected minority.
> All [Goedel] says is that there are statements that are true that cannot be proven within the constraints of a finite set of axioms. It's not a limitation of math, it's a limitation of what can be proven true within the confines of a set of axioms.

Minor correction. Goedel's theorem applies to decidable (a.k.a. computable) sets of axioms. e.g. Peano's axiom, when written in first order logic, contain an infinite set of induction axioms that follow a specific and recognizable (i.e. decidable) pattern.

In fact, Goedel's theorem applies even beyond that including any set of axioms whose syntax can be specified by some (first order) mathematical predicate, even if that predicate is not computable in any way.

> Meaning there could be another set of axioms under which the limitation to prove that such a statement is true disappears. But it doesn't make math any less true.

Indeed, when studying logic it is common to consider the set of all true first-order (arithmetic) statements, which necessarily forms a complete and consistent set of axioms. Of course, given Godel's incompleteness theorem it must be the case that such a set of axioms isn't computable. Not only that, but it cannot be even defined in a first-order (arithmetic) way, which leads the the corollary of Tarski's undefinability theorem[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarski%27s_undefinability_theo...

P.S. There is no free will and one's thoughts are indeed out of one's control. I'm not certain that implies one should never trust one's thoughts. Though it does make sense to take them with a grain of salt. See for example, "The past is not true" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36798854).

P.P.S I'm not saying your argument is invalid. It can both be the case that materialism is contradictory and there is no free will.
>The points the article raises are completely moot.

>Apart from this being the entire point of globalization

>The truth is that I don't need an electrical engineer or a compsci graduate from some no name university to obtain someone with a specialized skill, if some kid from Shenzen can do it for a fraction of the price. That's overstating it, but the comparison holds imo.

This is a rather old fashioned attitude. The United States has been furiously decoupling from China ever since Trump and that process has only accelerated since.

Russia has successfully decoupled from the entire western world. Mexico just became a larger trade partner for the US than China. We aren't globalizing, we are de-globalizing.

The jobs that fled to China will come back. The idea that they'll be returned to a robot is nothing more than investor copium - an uneducated presumption from people who have little to no understanding of what actually goes on in a Shenzhen factory.
> But despite the apparent strangeness, fork() and exec() are actually pretty convenient once you want to do anything slightly more complicated than just launch a new process.

What I don't understand is why there isn't something for the simple case where we do just want to run another process and not set anything else. There is system() which I believe is just a wrapper for fork/exec, and is tempting to use, but the issue is it just takes a string and passes it to sh which opens you up to shell expansion exploits if you have untrusted/improperly sanitized inputs. I wish there was a version of system() that took an array or args like exec instead and you could specify the command to run directly as well, instead of sh.
> What, do only the ultra-wealthy have smartphones?

Everybody seems to cite smartphones as raising our standard of living, but as someone who lived a long time before smartphones existed, I'm not seeing it. In fact, I would argue that smartphones have overall made us worse off. We're like slaves to those little devices, unable to put them away, always with our heads down in subservience.

> fact is that most of the damage was done by policies people were out there vocally supporting.

Agreed. I wasn't "blaming" the ultra-wealthy, and neither was the linked article. It's merely an empirical observation that the system isn't benefitting most people. And the article discusses what to do: "High earners have two options. The first is to stockpile every possible advantage for themselves and their children. The second is to contribute to a common safety net that benefits everyone. While the latter looks highly unlikely in the current political climate, high earners won’t be able to isolate themselves from mounting inequality for much longer." Obviously, the authors favor the latter option: "Making our social services – our schools, housing and health – more efficient and equitable will help all of us through predictable and unpredictable phases of our life and in turn prevent inequality from continuing to exert such a huge drag on our productivity and well-being."
I read a, possibly mythical, story about a group that surreptitiously grafted various fruit branches onto the shade trees lining some streets in a major city. Several years later the mess on the sidewalk caused the city to cut them off.
The big problem with many of the alternative browsers like the ones you mentioned is that they are powered by the Blink engine (it's one of the 2 options for nyxt). The overwhelming market-share of Blink and the institutional monopoly on its development is the biggest driver for introduction of anti-features like these. WEI for example, is being prototyped in it [1]. These anti-features make it into every browser that uses Blink. While some browsers like UR-browser and Brave disable many of these features, they still lend credibility to the blink engine.

We need to promote alternative web engines like Servo and libweb and browsers based on them. Many of these engines need a major push to be competent enough for daily use. Gecko is also fine - but building a new browser with it is said to be hard.

[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/refs/he...
This has been my experience as well as a professor in CS.
> It's more like getting rabies from a raccoon.

If rabies were a novel virus that had never infected humans before, you could make the comparison. SARS was a novel virus, which spilled over into humans in a very similar manner to SARS-CoV-2 (wild animal markets in a major Chinese city).

> It's possible that the original SARS jumped 3 times total, based on the genetic evidence

As the review I cited explains, the epidemiological and serological evidence makes clear that SARS independently jumped over to humans at many different locations, over the course of months.
I'm already getting ads in search results. I searched for a show and the top "result" was for a competing show, marked with the little "ad" symbol in the search UI (not part of the video thumbnail).
Hyperping: Featureful uptime monitor with realtime notifications and status page
Is anyone else seeing ads in search results, even with Premium?
The author's piece makes me think that all PhD students should serve at least once on an academic hiring committee. This would be a very clear way of communicating to PhD students what research universities want from their tenure-track faculty, by putting them in the room where the decisions are actually made.

I was in the author's shoes, but I was lucky enough to find out all the same information through Internet sites written by embittered PhDs who described what the negative side of the process was like. I went into industry instead, first for an R&D government contractor, then big tech. Like the author, I don't have any regrets about it.

I don't blame the committee for filtering on specialty, though. The academic job market is so tight for applicants that every PhD has to flood every job opening with applications to have a chance. There's something to be said for channeling people to the right job instead of any old job.

PhD programs IMO should stop being an implicit lottery for the ivory tower, maybe by having explicit "industry" and "academia" tracks and being careful with how many of the academic PhDs they're producing. But they'd have to admit just how unfair the system is to the students.
Professor X is misunderstood, even though he tries to coexist with non-mutants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_X
That price differential may be even less if subsidies for fossil fuels are removed.

https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/sen-wh....
I can’t imagine a merge ever being on the cards. io.js was a fork of Node so merging it back in was a relatively simple proposition. Bun uses an entirely different JS engine so a merge would be horrendous, it would be more like a ground up rebuild.

I’m also still a little lost on the “why” of Bun. I respect the tech a ton having noodled around with the JavaScriptCore API myself in the past. But I’m not sure why I’d use it over Node.
I knew about all that besides the google account

do a lot of websites try to check if you have a google account?

The worst thing I came across was chaff bugs[0] that only happened in puppeteer.

I'm not really looking for a method to not be blocked, I'm looking for a browser controllable from code that is indistinguishable from a regular browser out of the box, there is a slight difference.

[0]: https://www.csoonline.com/article/566227/what-is-a-chaff-bug...
>... we’re meant to be lead [sic].

I always mistrust litcrit with obvious grammatical errors.
Nope, not mine! I scrubbed out the PII and all the chats I've seen so far, it's been generating fake info.
What? Microsoft is one of the biggest players in the market in this space with Dynamics 365!

I don’t have any data to back it up officially, but working in the space it seems like dynamics is taking customers from their competitors (eg SAP) fast too…
>Theres a billion kids from Shenzen though

Shenzen =/= all of China
I never saw it marketed that way - but even so, anyone stupid enough to fall for it deserves every NAT gateway charge they've had since.