skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fermi’s paradox has two good answers — we don’t see aliens because they don’t exist, or we don’t see them because they are here already.

These are not "good" answers to the Fermi paradox, and definitely not the only answers. Much better answers (in my opinion) are things like: their signals haven't reached us yet; they haven't developed interstellar communications or travel yet; they haven't developed intelligent life yet.

I would think an alien spacecraft carrying the energy and resources needed for interstellar travel (including the return trip) would be pretty obvious and detectable even by amateur astronomers. Instead what we're doing here is chasing at shadows and grasping at straws. Credible reports deserve to be looked into, yes. But what is Grusch alleging here? Existence of a UFO crash retrieval program. Presence of non-human biologics. OK, experimental Soviet or Chinese military technology with dog or cat DNA counts. Of course the US military guards those in secrecy. When we ask, "did you find aliens?" they aren't going to reply with "sorry no aliens, and to prove it, here are the details of all the experimental Soviet/Chinese/US military tech we recovered."

PBS Space Time has a number of great episodes on the subject of aliens, including questions like how do we know whether humans are among the first spacefaring species: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTrFAY3LUNw
Yes, shutting down end-to-end encryption. Not just the US though. It’s happening all over the west. No coverage (or heavily biased coverage) of it in popular news.
So, we should mass migrate to african countries and get rid of the parts of their culture we dislike?

From my understanding, that is essentially what you are advocating, just with a different landmass. To me, it seems incredibly colonialist.
I am sorry but that’s not what I want in my tools. I want my designs pre Bauhaus and powerful thank you very much.

I am sure some genius designer can make it work, but when even Apple fucks it up, I don’t want someone who tries.
> Not everything needs to be a damn unicorn.

More people needs to understand this. It's fine being a small(ish) business that turns a profit and provides a service that's beneficial to society. You don't need to be a billion dollar company to be important or do great work.

DHH talked about this 15 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY
The downtime could have been much shortened if you had properly setup and _tested_ disaster recovery steps. Create a full fledged separate staging system which you can bring down and recreate and periodically test various failure modes + document all detailed steps of system restore etc.

Also I would suggest to think about the business long term and seeing if you can increase the revenue enough to enable you to hire a part-timer who can be of great help in case a similar event happens.

We are also a small cloud solution provider (we focus on ML API's) and over the years it has become clear to us that when you use cloud hardware (either dedicated or virtual), from time to time the outages periodically happen. RAM, HDD or other parts of the hardware just can malfunction anytime. So this is something which 100% needs to be taken into consideration when running any high availability online service over long-term.
They have a recovery team. There are very few countries in the world that would refuse a US demand for access to a crash site and for full rights of alien artifacts. The Brazil case testimonials support this, as does the Italian/Vatican case preceding Roswell.
Seems like I'm just slightly older (230381) with a two letter username.
I thought you know Lisp? Now you are surprised that Lisp often looks up functions via symbols -> aka "late binding"? How can that be? That's one of the basic Lisp features.

Next you can find out what optimizing compilers do to avoid it, where possible or where wanted.
The author is wrong. The CEO perfectly understands Stack Overflow. What the author of this blog doesn't understand is that the CEO is pursuing a perfectly valid strategy: maximize its short-term gains by squeezing it unsustainably with the latest hype, and take the money, and run.

The good of the community and the well-being of the users are completely irrelevant in this strategy.
So are Bahamas, Cuba and Haiti.
As a father of 2, my fate is sealed. But I can totally understand the above points as being true.

Being a parent is the most difficult, most expensive and longest job I've ever taken on. And I've moved around the world by myself, which is a joke in comparison.

On paper, children do not make sense what-so-ever. Thankfully, in reality, I cannot imagine living one day without my kids. They give me life, strength and purpose like nothing ever has.

Having kids is playing life in hard mode.
It isn't for no reason that a lot of people are interested in RISC-V.
If you really, really want to avoid it I'm pretty sure you could use a link shortener (bit.ly etc) behind markdown, and it would mask it (haven't tested)

But please only do this for personal repos where you're the only contributor because otherwise this looks incredibly sus for anyone to click on
There’s a lot of empty space everywhere. Entire continents are mostly empty. You may have a preference to leave those continents uninhabited, but if humans need the space they’ll use it. It will be a lot easier to colonize the Australian Outback and Antarctica than Mars.
The Long Now Foundation is dedicate to "fostering long term thinking". The date format they use is one attempt to head off the Y10K problem. See also RFC 2550 Y10K and Beyond for an alternate discussion.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2550
Hey Socialists, the voluntary euthanasia society has a solution to this, you go first, we’ll clean up the mess and join you later, OK?
I'm trying to tell from your comment as well as the others' comments whether you're running screen locally, and what benefits that brings above and beyond iTerm for local shell sessions.

For anyone else using tmux locally, I'd be interested as well.

Genuinely curious. I'd consider doing likewise if the reason is compelling.
MacBook Air, iPhone, one pair of Birkenstocks, one North Face down jacket, three identical linen outfits, Phillips electric razor, suitcase, umbrella, bicycle, and basic toiletries.

I don’t own anything else. My current apartment is furnished with beds and kitchen. I’ll be moving soon and will probably need to purchase a futon and kitchenware.

My only subscriptions are iCloud, Fastmail, Linode, and a virtual mailbox. I also have some subscription services for different businesses. Subscriptions total around $100.

I use iTerm, nushell, helix editor, and the rest stock Apple apps (Notes, Calendar, Reminders, Numbers, Freeform, etc.).

I love living this way, and to each their own :)
I grew up in India, and the majority of the population doesn't have access to the latest hardware. If websites starts implementing these changes, a lot of these people would be cut off from the internet. Most of these people belong to marginalized communities. My country has a history of discriminating people based on their castes, and any progress we have made in this aspect would be destroyed by this change by further limiting the online resources available for people from these communities. This is outrageous.
413. The Isle of Luing
Thank you, you're very helpful despite this raging flame war. I'm glad to hear you can hook opcodes like that, then you really can do anything. And I really need to give "set a defensive breakpoint and then step through the function" an honest go. Now that you say it, I realise I haven't.
I wonder how much that has to do with Bryan Cantrill leading the company
Not sure why you would need to report DDoSs anyways...
It doesn't prove that your device is secure at all. It just "secures" it from the user, not from malware. Even if it's signed and approved, malware can still hijack it....
and now also go google what SLI means ;-)
Tips for Vision Pro Labs
But you don’t understand, people are being skeptics on the internet.
This was incredibly painful to listen to because the host just wouldn't stop chuckling, giggling, and interrupting whoever was speaking.
Don't get me wrong - CI/CD itself is of course a product subject to ongoing evolution and challenges such as scaling, aging, vulnerabilities, etc.

But usually, I would expect that "Project ABC" will build all its infra and CI/CD usage early on and then just proceed to consume that CI/CD as a commodity service, with ad-hoc changes needed to continue playing nicely with that service.

>> What I have found particularly infuriating is large companies with billions of dollars in revenue choose to completely ignore the productivity decline that comes from poor CI/CD

I hear you :-(
Yes. Mac and mobile coming apparently.
Sublime may be an option.
> My point is very simple: I can do it too, in any language I want, and so there's nothing special about lisp.

The big difference is: "I can do it too" means YOU need to do it. Lisp does it for me already, I have not to do anything. I don't want to know what you claim you can do with C++, show me where C++ does it for you.

Telling me "I can do it too" is not a good answer. Show me where the language implementation (!) does it for you.
I have been playing again with CL recently and am doing some trivial web-scraping of an old internet forum. I don't use a REPL directly, but just have a bunch of code snippets in a lisp file that I tell my editor to evaluate (similar to Jupyter?). I haven't bothered doing any exception (condition) handling, and so this morning I found this in a new window:

Condition USOCKET:TIMEOUT-ERROR was signalled.
[Condition of type USOCKET:TIMEOUT-ERROR]

Restarts:
0: [RETRY-REQUEST] Retry the same request.
1: [RETRY-INSECURE] Retry the same request without checking for SSL certificate validity.
2: [RETRY] Retry SLIME interactive evaluation request.
3: [*ABORT] Return to SLIME's top level.
4: [ABORT] abort thread (#<THREAD tid=17291 "worker" RUNNING {1001088003}>)

plus the backtrace. This is in a loop that's already crawled a load of webpages and has some accumulated some state. I don't want a full redo (2), so I just press 0. The request succeeds this time and it continues as if nothing happened.
He says the same about virtual machines, package managers, engines and even libraries.

That presentation is a borderline-psychotic rant unless viewed through a very narrow lens where the only thing that matters is maximum-performance systems programming.

He's disregarding every productivity improvement in pursuit of maximum performance. He makes that very clear, and in that context it makes sense, but most people won't have the same priorities because we don't live in a world where we can afford to write our own TCP/IP stack to maximize the throughput on our shitty REST APIs that C/R/U/D our customers' TODO items in our database.
3 different people giving testimony. Taken as one you could just dismiss it. Collectively I found the statements very convincing. Something is most certainly going on that is pretty weird to put it mildly...
What about Bing's image creator? If you have a Microsoft bing chat account, then it's possible to let their gpt4 generate images, too.

So gpt4 is able to generate and "to understand" picture data.
For any country, there are still going to be both positives and negatives. The more money you have and make, often the easier things will be for you. If you are rich, a lot of surprising places can be attractive (not just Japan), for various different reasons. Also beware, there is also a difference between official propaganda for tourist dollars and reality, so various parties can seek to drown out any dispelling of myths or hide facets of how things are.

* People are friendly by default

This can be a common mistake made by tourists (or short time visitors). There is a difference between polite for money, cultural fake politeness, and actually more friendly and welcoming than average. Hotel staff can be very polite (as trained to be for money), but that doesn't mean random people on the street, clubs, housing agents, or business owners actually like every or any foreigners. And the extent of politeness or friendliness shown can depend on skin color, known country of origin, or language spoken.

* Very affordable place

This is quite laughable. It depends on your salary and where you are from, but clearly there are cheaper countries in the world than Japan. If you are rich or nearly so, many countries are "affordable".

* Non-free Country versus free world Country

Freedom is relative. For instance, in Japan, police can arrest, question/interrogate (some have claimed torture) you, and hold you for weeks without a lawyer (nor allow you to call one). Compared to other countries, this is quite draconian and backwards. Where for others, that there is any process where you aren't killed at whim or have no to little means to seek true justice, means greater "freedom".

* Comfortable level of tech

While this is quite true, Japan is not the only country that possesses significant technology. The level of street cleanliness, sewer system (like open sewers), garbage collection (dropped on street or in cans), design and width of city streets, safe train systems (protecting passengers from falling/jumping onto tracks), etc... These points all add up and how "comfortable", can be a matter of where you are from and what you were used to.
I think the entire longtermism thing is at the heart something that Camus discusses in the Myth of Sisyphos: We will ultimately all die and be forgotten, what good is struggling, working and living?

That is the absurd condition every human being finds themselves in. Camus sees two solutions that have been suggested so far in philosophy:

Suicide (which he rejects outright as too easy and lazy) and a "leap of faith". The "leap of faith" consists in finding by passion some irrational, maybe larger purpose outside of what can personally be known or experienced, a belief that negates this absurd condition. Historically, this is the domain of religion and spiritualism.

Longtermism seems to me just that: an existentialist escape from nihilism by the promise of some kind of vague purpose with vague metrics and an unknown, irrational payoff you will never know (at least for those subscribing to it without motives of profit).
250 milliamps still sounds great for use in antennas.
I search cdnjs.com for frameworks or other css frameworks, find their homepage, or another page they created, and often just make a copy of a page I like and design around that page.

But other than that... kiss is always the method to follow.
Basically OFDM makes analogue engineering unnecessarily difficult when CMOS designs are still riding Moore's horse.

Don't forget that the QAMs can go pretty high, 128/256 points iif the SNR is sensible.

I studied radio TDMA and it's still magical to me.
It is still not quite at a human level (radiologists prefer human reports in 60% of cases in blinded trials on the best of 3 models, corresponding to an ELO difference of 67 points; the worst model has an ELO difference of 130 compared to humans).

The evaluation was done on 246 X-rays, which is good; it would be better if they were not all chest X-rays (to see generality), and if there were more than only four radiologists from the same country.

The achieved 0.25 clinically-significant errors is impressive, although it is only for the best of 3 models, which can incur bias; averaged across models, it is 0.27, a bit worse than human error. Additionally, I am wondering where they get the human baseline; they state:

> These results are on par with human baselines from prior work [14]

but the citation[1] doesn’t give data in the same format (and its format is honestly better: it indicates that humans make no urgent errors or worse in 64% of reports).

Surprisingly, there is no improvement with model size; the largest model performs the worst.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.17579
Thanks for explanation. I still don't get what is the motivation to keep Jupyter Notebook going. Is it different feature wise? Or it's just a chrome over JupyterLab because people like the retro look of Jupyter Notebook?
Was coming here to comment the same. It's not like they're serving high bandwidth content here. What are they spending their money on?
Possibly they mean people with reliably high signal to noise ratio, analogous to the investment term https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/alpha.asp ?
Okay well when pytorch, tensorflow, pandas, Django, flask, numpy, networks, script, xgboost, matplotlib, spacy, scrapy, selenium get ported to lisp, I'll consider switching (only consider though since the are probably at least another 20 python python packages that I couldn't do my job without).
That’s what RTO management bros are doing and are losing competent people in droves.
I’d assume it’s no different than cross-compiling on amd64 to arm64. At least it’s possible.
> Any question could easily include a Reddit-style discussion tab to facilitate discussion.

This exists in the form of chat, and extended comment discussions migrate there. That being said, any question that requires extensive discussion is likely not a very good fit for SO because it's probably ambiguous, unclear or otherwise hard to answer exactly.
I'm sorry about my basic question. Back in the 80s, AI was betting on Lisp machines — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine — now, of course obsolete.
Is Lisp still relevant in the AI space?
Agreed, stack overflow is the place where we stop to find an answer to a question. They should stay focused on that instead of adding useless features.

But I don't entirely agree on LLMs being useless. An LLM could help with avoiding duplicate questions. It could analyze the content of the question and point out stuff like missing logs before the question is submitted to guide beginners through the basics.

If someone manages to turn an LLM into a good context-aware search engine, that would also make sense for SO.

But somehow no one seems to actually use LLMs given how much bullshit they talk about them.
I automate my workflow for approval of rhel kernel content to customers. Keeping the wheels on the delivery of 12 different streams of kernels to customers.

It also controls the workflow of delivery of intermediate "hot fix" kernels between scheduled releases when fixes are needed immediately.

I also use it for gathering metrics on gitlab ci and internal pipelines, alerting if the system is stalling or performing outside acceptable limits.
I would like to post a small advice: know the river or lake before you go swimming into it. If you don't ask the locals.

I'm from northern Italy and we have a lot of small rivers and lakes here, from the outside most of them seem pretty innocent but there are drownings every single year.

Most people that drown here are immigrants that don't know how treacherous an alpine river or lake might be, it usually happens in the summer and is always a sad story to hear. A couple of weeks ago two people died in my province: the son went swimming, an undercurrent pulled him under the surface, then his father tried to save him and got pulled under in the same way.

Please be careful!
As I mentionned in another comment here, in my case, I used to intellectualize too much. Actually, intellectuallizing is the only way to do anything I knew for a long time: even when starting a new sport, I would start with a book or a series of videos about the theory and biomechanics of the sport.

For me, actually allowing me to feel without necessarily having a fixed interpretation, allowing a multiplicity of meanings, is what really unstuck things. Which does not mean that I do not interpret or use concepts, just that I do not reify them anymore.
You have a pretty strange definition of ‘valid’.
I don't have time to try it atm but this looks like it would be quite easy to implement in Clojure (that falls under "Lisp", right?)
These issues get mentioned a lot, you just haven't noticed I guess. Sourceforge is also an issue with some C libraries too, I'm guessing because it was done a long time ago? not sure.

I use ECL because it has really good C interop. It actually lets you inline C and access macros directly, making it a great glue language for C libraries. It's what I'm using it for now. I think you might even be able to avoid the GC entirely and use it to script C programs together in a performant way, by using the C FFI to allocate and manage the memory, including the ECL types, instead of the GC. And that's actually doable because of how good the inspector/debugger for lisp is. You can even inline assembly. I'm working on a bunch of CL stuff around this sort of thing, I plan to do a writeup of it and share it once I've developed it more.

Lisp has it's downsides, but the C FFI/embeddability, along with the excellent low-level debugger/inspector, interactivity, and conditions and restarts, makes it worth the time for me to invest in it. And the stability of the language. My main gripe is the reader, but it's easy-ish enough to avoid the problems with named-readtables, or a simple lisp parser for `read` or whatever. I like Clojure, but it's missing some key stuff from the old lisp world that I'd love to see. Shadow-cljs is awesome.
Stack overflow and AI can coexist. AI doesn't enforce rules on how a question has to be asked or downvote you. It will be helpful for stack overflow to have AI.

The author wants a pur8st approach, i think it having a purist approach doesn't work because AI fills some gaps.
Given how what's current seems to change every couple of years - and companies will rewrite their infrastructure to follow that to boot - I'm not really bothered with keeping up, it feels futile if my hard work will be undone by some upstart later on anyway. Just tell me how to deploy my code, that'll do. I'm more of a front-end developer anyway (by chance moreso than by choice, but then, back-end feels more tedious)
How is that different from WP's and NYT's editorial board, which does the same thing, except for an opposing ideology?
See that's exactly the issue why I hate this. You can always circumvent it, worst case with an electron microscope and some acid. So all it really does is prevent the average user from gaining control over their own hardware.

And for tech-minded people it doesn't fundamentally change anything, it just means that it now takes more time to do the same than before
> You don't need to be a billion dollar company to be important or do great work.

And importantly: because you are a billion dollar company doesn't mean you bring good to the world. At all.
> The Catholic Church has 100x less abuse than public schools, and yet schools don't have this negative reputation...the bad reputation the Church gets is excessive. They probably have a better track record than any other institution.

When children are exposed to Catholic churches for the same amount of time that they are exposed to the public school system and in equal numbers, and when some central authority of the public school system starts actively hiding any evidence of known sexual abuse from authorities and the public, and once the public school system starts silencing victims with threats or hush money, and after the public school system spends decade after decade quietly relocating known child-abusing teachers to new schools, one after another after another, so that the pedo will have a constant supply of new child victims every few years then I might agree that public schools deserve the same horrible reputation that the Catholic Church has more than earned for itself.

Until then, maybe you can stop pretending that the situation at public schools and the situation with Catholic churches are even remotely the same thing and that "any other institution is probably worse". There is no evidence to support that theory of yours, no matter how much you might wish it were true.

Downplaying the evils of the Catholic Church doesn't help their victims, and doesn't help the church either. You have to be able to look clearly at something broken if you want to be able to fix it. Pretending that the problem isn't that bad is the behavior of an enabler.