skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Perhaps likely >1” - in whatever volume the Drake equation covers. Until it goes to a certainty of >1 in the volume we can explore then it’s basically =1.

I don’t believe the current absence of evidence is much of a useful data point. Until we have scoured other star systems and the rest of the galaxy turning over rocks we can’t really generate useful empirical data to fill in the numbers on the Drake equation. The paradox of “where is everybody” has myriad solutions.

A mistake definitely lies in philosophers and theorists believing their sci-fi ideas are better than anyone else’s. Certainly not useful data towards writing papers that form a proof of any number as a solution. It’s hard to prove an absence, particularly when there’s a universe of empirical data that can be potentially gathered but hasn’t been yet.

If I was a betting person, I’d put a stake on there being life somewhere like Enceladus. Even life from earth in the form of fungal spores has existed for long enough to escape and float around the galaxy - they’ve had a few hundred million years. Life here could have also landed from elsewhere as easily as terrestrial abiogenesis. There’s just so much we don’t know and haven’t tested. Not being able to pull radio signals out of the noise proves nothing given the mere seventy years of attempts.

I’m not sure about many worlds, and how that could be proved either to be a useful part of science. By the same token, in an infinite universe, then literally every single possibility and permutation is being tried, so in that case, yeah there’s life everywhere. Including a universe where I’m out being the first human to find it rather than writing this comment.
Yeah, add on top of that you usually got full schematics, and logic tables if there were programmable logic devices! That's how we're able to continue offering service on these systems.

There's a pretty good hobbyist community around S-100, a fair number of folks are designing hobbyist-level new boards and such. A lot of that is centered around the following site:

s100computers.com

Some of their designs are...weird...and often "that's not a bug, we like it like that" is what you'll get for pointing out actual design issues...but! it's still cool to see people hacking on it.
Obviously hydrogen has it's uses, but a large part of me feels the energy industry is stalling for time. Oil and gas is basically a subscription model, whereas electric cars and heat pumps are buy once, upgrade in x years or when broken model. With enough renewable energy and a few nuclear power plants, electricity should be ridiculously cheap and if they've got the space, the consumer can even generate their own. That's more money and self-enpowerment for the consumer, and far less for the energy companies. They obviously don't like that, which is why they keep pushing for hydrogen to keep people dependent.
For such a size impactor, atmosphere does nothing. Might as well be vacuum.

Sure, milliseconds before impact the atmosphere might be super-compressed (and super-heated). Perhaps even exert considerable force. But compared with kinetic energy of that size impactor, at such speed: negligable.

Small objects 'feel' the atmosphere much stronger. Surface area vs. volume.
This can be used to support the idea of requiring digital identification to access the internet.
No- the inside of a li-ion battery looks like this: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jigang-Zhou/publication...

Li-ion battery comes off the production line as one continuous, miles-long tape that is rolled into shape and then sliced off. The tape is made of a few layers, and li ions move from one layer to another. All of the movement cancels out.

You could measure the state of charge by mass, though! As electrons are moved from anode to cathode, they occupy a lower energy state and therefore have less mass. You'd measure that in eV, electron-volts: convert amp-hours to coulombs and you have the number of electrons, and the average voltage change is from roughly 3.7 volts to 3.2 volts. Or you could use the much easier formula- E=MC^2 :D
Front pages compared: /r/DataIsBeautiful vs. Hacker News
I was assuming the takeout coffee is espresso. If so it's not fair to compare to a non-espresso alternative imho.

Now for really affordable (almost-)espresso there's always the blade grinder + moka pot, of course.

(anyway "affordable" is highly subjective ofc so what does it even really matter :))
I agree this should be a thing. Or imagine a new distributed internet where every request is an extremely extremely small micro transaction / mining event.
Entire capital of Canada’s NWT ordered to evacuate as wildfires scorch the area
> I never understood the defeatism. It seems to arise from having the intellect to recognize that humans can

It actually correlates really well with the advent of teaching young children to be guilty about the civilization which gave birth to them. Maybe we shouldn't be slamming first graders with the ideas that everyone who came before them were supervillains and that they must shoulder the burden of correcting long dead injustices.

In any event, doesn't much matter. Every week there's a new article about how one nation or another has below-replacement fertility that doesn't seem to have any real prospect for reversing (tied to, more than anything else I think, what was described above). We are probably already a dying species, or at least heading into a post-civilization phase, and just don't know it yet.
actually when the vaccine first came out, no one knew of or talked about long covid (no idea why I cant just edit my reply)
You don't even need ads for it to happen. Take the ads out of Twitter. Drive the algorithm entirely off of what has the most likes and retweets. You're still going to get incredibly toxic behavior, because that's what people are more likely to react to and retweet.

The problem is that with Twitter, everything lives in one huge pool. You can't make a "nice Twitter" section cordoned off from everything else.
When I try to search up a topic on YouTube, the list of search results eventually STOP showing videos matching my criteria and instead show 10 videos in a row labeled "People also watched" that is unrelated to my search.

It's one thing to get recommendations in a place where recommendations are appropriate, and the dangers of the feedback loop you are talking about. It's another thing entirely to actively push it in other contexts.

"I know you are searching for programming topics, but might you be interested in this political outrage instead?"
AMD Ryzen APU turned into a 16GB VRAM GPU and it can run Stable Diffusion
Not really, increasing energy efficiency is at the heart of many climate solutions. Clean energy is still scarce, and in the places where it isn't, for instance Germany, there is backlash against it. Not to mention that they aren't even close to being 100% renewable-powered (wind+solar 30%), not even close to have 100% EV market penetration (about 2%), not even close to have the theoretical capacity for a grid to power 100% EVs, and you would like to adopt a less efficient technology that would require to double the clean power needs compared to EVs...
You can find a Baratza Encore used for ~$100. Gives a surprisingly uniform fine grind (not as good for coarser grinds like french press, though).

Out of the box it's not perfect for espresso because the grind level is in steps that aren't short enough to easily dial in. There's a "stepless" mod and that makes it much easier to work with.
Highly recommend his History of Mathematics lectures on YouTube, if you are interested in that sort of thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW8Cy6WrO94&list=PL55C7C8378...
The reason for this is that in Windows the DE is part of the system so it knows what to keep in memory.

On Linux the DE and shell and htop is just another program so when the system is under high memory pressure those things also get swapped out and back in when they need to run. Thrashing.

If you run something like memlockd to keep vital binaries from being swapped out I'm sure you will see that behaviour improve.
Unity Muse and Unity Sentis, AI-Powered Creativity
Most infuriating when you run VS Code in "portable" mode and it creates at least 3 directories in $HOME. Sadly, the only solution is to use Flatpak and prevent application access to $HOME, by redirecting to alternate locations.
Got me thinking, What happens, when and where.

A column of air weighs ~1kg/cm^2 (handy!), and the example has a 15km span of "Dense Rock" which I've seen mean "Dense Rock Equivalent" in the Volcanic Explosivity Index, where it has a density of 2,500 kg/m^3. Assuming that, a column of the asteroid is

2500kg/cm^2/(100cm/m * 100cm/m)
= .25kg/m * 15km
= 3,750kg

The kinetic energy per column of the impactor is 1/2mv^2, or 0.5 * 3750 * 80000m/s^2, or

1875 * 6.4e9m^2/s^2
= 1.2e13 Joules

Which is about 20 gallons of gasoline equivalent. As you say, that's absorbed in ~1s (space is 100km up, so 80km/s is just about right). If so that warms up and starts melting the surface of the asteroid, but not much more I guess.
sudo apt-get install cinnamon
Mostly agree, but I wouldn't call it a dark pattern. The problem is you are asking for two things. Do you want popular recommendations? Or do you want critical reviews? Those are very different and very hard to house together.

This is why I mostly view the problem as being with user provided ratings. They basically fall into the same realm as all big data. Tons of noise, little signal, and easy to misinterpret.
How many learner drivers do you think hit the streets of San Francisco every week?

Should they be banished too?
Just another trick to spy on your internet activity.
The Fill and Flush deplaning method
I have "invented" a system that I believe reduces aircraft deplaning time by ~50%

source code at: www.github.com/josephecombs/fill-flush
Agree with cpursley. Voss’ “this is a real thing I did and this is how it went!” stories overwhelmed my bullshit-o-meter so badly that I put the book down about 2/3 through. I think I got a paragraph’s worth of actionable information out of the most-of-the-book that I read.

As far as I could tell, the book was an ad for his consulting & training services. Which means that it did its job perfectly, between all the boasting and the nuggets of an idea that are almost, but not quite, useful (“man, this just isn’t working… guess I better pay for some classes!”)

Hard non-recommendation here.
I use plenty of rechargeable batteries, but I also use disposables. Disposable batteries hold significantly more charge and sometimes that matters.

For instance my smart lock if I fill with rechargeables I find myself having to call a locksmith. I think that might be not only due to the lower capacity but that it holds closer to voltage until completely drained so it prevents the lock from giving me adequate warning.

I also have a property that’s an AirBnB and I’m sure those tenants are animals, so I leave the disposables for things like remotes. They would just dispose of rechargeables if I let them.
It is giving up one advantage for another. If the rowing machine was connected to the VR system, it would be a different experience. Basically, what I want are physical gaming experiences that go beyond shadow boxing or shadow slicing with some vibration feedback. The market for fitness is big enough, we can have both!
Error correcting codes for near-term quantum computers – IBM Research Blog
Here are some I've read recently that I can highly recommend:

Fiction:

- How High We Go in the Dark, a deeply moving science fiction story about loss
- https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-high-we-go-in-the-dark-sequ...

- Severance (no relation to the TV show), which works as a pretty good double bill to the above
- https://bookshop.org/p/books/severance-ling-ma/9880874

- Ripe, about the artifice of Silicon Valley and its human cost
- https://bookshop.org/p/books/ripe-sarah-rose-etter/18992345

Non-fiction:

- The Jakarta Method, on US foreign policy (really should be required reading for every US citizen)
- https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-jakarta-method-washington-s...

- Poverty, by America, which is in some ways a cathartic read about the systemic ways poverty is incentivized (by the author of the deservedly award-winning Evicted)
- https://bookshop.org/p/books/poverty-by-america-matthew-desm...

- README.txt: Chelsea Manning's memoir, which is riveting - not just about her story, but also in the little details about the information work she did while she was deployed
- https://bookshop.org/p/books/readme-txt-a-memoir-chelsea-man...
True, or my personal favorite useless 1 star reviews:

"The box was damaged [by UPS/FedEx] when it was delivered"

"I didn't know I would have to assemble [this piece of furniture with four screws]"

"This [completely different] product sucks" (though to be fair, this one is probably on the merchant for swapping out products under the hood to preserve ratings)

My favorite of all time though is the "this product does exactly what it should do, but I didn't want it to do that, even though that was what it was advertised to do, and that's the only purpose for this entire product category - one star".
E.g. there was one for a l-cystine based dough conditioner, where someone left a one star review claiming that, get this, it made the dough extensible, and they didn't want that because they were making a pie or something. Incidentally, I understand why they don't sell raw l-cystine dough reducer to random consumers, because people would literally kill themselves with it.
I'm a little surprised the article didn't mention Mastodon. It has its warts and issues (i mean, ahem, features) like no full-text search and no quote-posting, but Mastodon does generate the small discussion forum feel, but with the ability to link out to other communities.
Well you could play the devil's advocate the same way.

Is the UK government really caring about the children or do they just want more convenient power.

If the citizens really cared about the future of their children they would not have elected a government that is a stinking pile of poop.

One thing you should also have come to realise is that most politicians want surveillance power for themselves, but not for others.
Yeah, I think the way gofmt does it is basically perfect - leading whitespace is tabs and respects user width preference, alignment across lines is achieved with spaces
What’s Our Problem by Tim Urban of https://waitbutwhy.com fame.

Excellent breakdown of the problem of politics and the increasing polarization of our times. Plus loads of great illustrations and humor besides. Can’t recommend it enough.
Which for me begs the question, is LabView worth it? It's the only widely used Visual Programming Language I can think of.

Every time someone posts a visual programming language prototype the same claims are made over and over again. Like; adds too much complexity, throws out benefits of text editing, eats up too much screen space etc etc.

I'm convinced that many of those issues can be overcome and that until we figure out how to overcome them I'd like to understand which niches Visual programming really makes sense until then.

If LabView makes sense and is worth it, there ought to be more applications where it makes sense!
Most news websites have a ton of duplicated content. That info overload is dying to be minimized.

And news orgs are going to keep coming under assault cause they perform a similar function to search engine robots by surfacing new info. As soon as some one copies that info, the value of the info is 0.

There is already data saying most content created is never consumed by anyone just cause of how much copying and duplication happens.
There is a fair chance active use of the S-100 bus will outlast all of us :)
i think mx linux makes the perfect debian desktop. and it's really amazing how many great distros there are based on debian.

happy 30th! happy debianday!
its really time to move past this. two good outs are using an actual schema for storing code instead of flat text, or to have programs that reformat. the former is a stretch, but I find the latter really convenient even I'm working alone - I don't have to fuss about, I can just do stuff and hit the 'make it look nice' button.
You can't just compare numbers of reviews. You also have to make sure the reviews are for the actual product.

The practice of switching products after garnering high review numbers is so widespread, Amazon can't pretend it's not tacitly complicit.
Err, economics. Theory is the term they use for this type of work there.
for non political issues it should fine, eg to describe an algorithm or other non-controversial tech issues for example.
It’s summarizing. That is by its very nature a reduction of an article to certain bias elements. It’s not rocket science or some evil magic. Jeeze you’d think HackerNews never used anything that wasn’t a home brew open source libertarian approved product if you believed the comments here.
Yeah, I tried a couple times to get into Dune, never finished it. I'll just enjoy the movies.
There is no shortage, Huy Fung is the problem. They tried to fuck their chilli pepper grower out of 20 million and lost in court and ended up paying even more. No suppliers trust them, no one wants to deal with them, so they are having problems getting Chili’s. The entire company is mismanaged by the founders daughter and his son in law. The Original from Thailand in a glass bottle available from Walmart is just as good or in my opinion better. I predict Huy Dung will go out of business.
I used summarize.tech [0] once, and it worked fine, although it was quite repetitive iirc.

[0]: https://www.summarize.tech
Omega-3 Fatty Acids Supplementation in the Treatment of Depression
My whole point is that vertical tabs should be the damn default on any browser. How many people have a screen that is taller than it is wide? How many people have more than 8 tabs open at once?
Richard Hendricks fell down some stairs trying to prove this.
This is something I've always wondered about. I _loved_ the coffee in Rome almost universally. Even in Madrid I enjoyed the coffee, although it was totally different than the stuff in Rome. I knew it wasn't the best beans. Sometimes it wouldn't even be freshly ground.

However, in the US, even at the fanciest hipster coffee places, the espresso is incredibly bitter and astringent/acidic. Is that on purpose? Do Americans actually want their coffee to be super bitter and astringent/acidic? The other thing I've noticed is that in Rome and Madrid, most coffee drinkers are just drinking the coffee. But in the US it is rare to actually see someone drink a coffee without milk. So I just assumed that the reason for the bitterness and astringency was because the people making it never actually drank it as espresso.

So - American espresso drinkers - tell me - do you actually prefer that super bitter taste of the thin espressos that you get at supposedly good coffee places like, e.g., Blue Bottle over the rich and frothy espressos of Rome?
What's Nathan Myhrvold doing in there, up near the top no less? Not to be a salty sounding skeptic, but basic research funding is awful hard to secure through conventional grant processes (as well as being a huge time sink) and it's absolutely wonderful to have an interested billionaire on your team.
People in the West typically do not have the ability to arrest people in Shenzhen.
I work with JS every day and am somewhat ambivalent about it but I absolutely do not want to see a language controlled by one vendor (in this case Google) to become a browser standard. It would be like the JS equivalent of Google trying to get everyone to make AMP pages instead of regular HTML.

As it is there are two simple answers for Dart anyway: it transpiles to JS and WebAssembly offers the possibility to use it 'natively' too.
Maybe we should compromise in the debate between tabs and spaces and have one of each.
Ötzi the Iceman has a new look: balding and dark-skinned
At Apple, the challenge our team faced with on-device models was managing their size and update-ability when every team has multiple models.
In my opinion, flattr was a good way to do it. Shame it didn't catch on.
Three security teams just hacked a US Air Force satellite in space
"... .Looking back from the other side of the next Winter, the whole thing will seem a bit goofy."

for most of us, what we wish for is what we believe.
That’s… awful.
Yes, you finally get it. It really isn't that there are only two options, but the Chinese media pushes there are only two options! You are either pro-china and completely in line with the CCP's agenda and ideology, or you are an anti-china western-media following racist. No nuance or middle ground, or even moderate positions, are possible. The lack of any middle ground in the debate is toxic, and that is mostly due to the Chinese government's hardline position on the matter.
> Only if you want the species to survive

Paradoxically, "survival" assumes adapting to ever-changing circumstances, which means that homo sapiens, given enough time, is bound to evolve into one or multiple new species given enough time. Regardless of that happening elsewhere or on Earth.

Arguably, a species is just a mode of survival for a genome; a convenient vessel through time as the genome reproduces. The language we use is, ultimately, a social construct, but biological speaking by and large inconsequential in so far that language is a trait that fosters survival. Evolution isn't opinionated, it just 'is'.

The fate of the Neanderthal people feels apt here. While the species is extinct, our Sapiens genome still caries 1-4% of Neanderthal genes to date. Some of that influences traits in modern humans, some of that just doesn't. (Evolution is messy, in that regard) Now, maybe Neanderthals wondered - just like us today - what would become of them aeons in the future. Little did they know that we, Sapiens, are distant relatives to them.

In the same vain, our written record and collective memories spanning no longer then a few millennia, distant relatives in the far future may look back at our detritus in the soil and in their genes and maybe wonder the exact same thing.

Maybe the Great Filter isn't some civilization destroying event. Maybe it's just evolution. Maybe become a space-faring species might be the biggest mistake we could make. I think more then a few sci-fi authors coined the notion of the arrival of malevolent alien species in a distant future which turned out to be our distant relatives from space-faring humans who left Earth eons ago. Of course, that's just speculation. But there's some poetic food for thought there, it's a probability one can't readily exclude.
I have stopped trying to get perfect scores on captchas. Instead, I've been testing to see how many errors I can get away with. This is a frivolous act of resistance, as the bots clearly don't need my help anymore.
Besides that, for the GDPR to be in effect you'd have to be an EU resident and the OP is not.
Many very intelligent people disagree with your policy position on this, and HN is not for ideological warfare.
So because electric cars have different externalities than gas ones we have to keep preferring gas cars?

We can change things for something with different but lesser problems. And anyway, can you 100% vouch that the gas car manufacturing apparatus has zero child labor as well?
Ya have a loisence for that gcc?
Firefox is open source. Bonne chance.
i use https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cbgecfllfhmmnknmam... for summaries with GPT4 (API Key)
I hope fines will eventually get adjusted upward if they’re given to a company. A $10,000 fine would convince almost anyone never to plow through a construction zone, but the same fine for a company would only get them to set a quarterly target for incident count.
I don't use an iPhone, so does the option say 'disconnect' or 'disable'. On Android the switch says Bluetooth On/Off. I would expect this setting to turn off completely Bluetooth if set to off. Not some oh, it's off but not really off if you get what I mean setting.