skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally believe METI practitioners are extremely arrogant ideologues. They've decided that they speak for the entire world, the entire human race, and that they can risk all life on this planet. They think they know better than everyone else, they think they're smart enough, when in reality they truly know nothing about what else is lurking out there in the universe, just like the rest of us.

The only rational, safe, approach is silent observation of the universe for now, at least the best we can, until we have more data, but they give the rest of us the finger and just start blasting signals into the void. It's borderline evil. There's numerous groups, not individuals, who actively plan on blasting out really powerful signals in the near future and they don't care what the rest of us think.
Statically checked memory management

Advanced typing

Build tools
I taught myself collision detection and resolution and then collision avoidance. It was like sticking my brain in ice cold water and then in hot water. I arrived back where I started but completely disturbed.
https://archive.is/RUNYd
My first thought was that rust doesn't target as many platforms as FreeBSD (at least not well), but looking at https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ apparently the answer is that FreeBSD doesn't support many platforms anymore so I guess that's no longer a problem.
Space Colonization Won't Look Anything Like the Frontier
Extraterritoriality: A Blind Spot in the EU's Economic Security Strategy [pdf]
China, who is a significant exporter to Europe.

They have a very large base in Djibouti, directly across from Yemen and across town from the US/multi-national base at the airport.

It's going to be interesting to see how "China, who wants to the authority of a world power" starts to run up against "China, who has the responsibilities of a world power."
They already did it, and they get 20-75 miles per 5 hours of daylight. So, it's kind of too late to predict that it will cost more overhead than it generates.
This is easily entirely free commute and even the side trip to the grocery store for a lot of people.

And this is only the crude diy proof of concept. It surely doesn't do as well in winter etc and of course is fragile and not aerodynamic and will probably break 8 times a year in some way, but all a proof of concept has to do is prove the concept, and this certainly did.

It probably just still isn't practical for a manufacturer to try to scale it out to offering the more efficient non-diy version.

But then again, I'd have said that about any EV at all just because of the batteries, charging circuits, and weight, and yet there they are millions of EVs out there existing despite my incredulity, like they just don't even care that I think it shouldn't be workable.
The vehicle is not driven while it's unfolded. Folded up, it looks to be a bit worse than a typical rooftop cargo carrier. It would not be a "wing".
I've observed the trend. I'm unsurprised that it was named after the generation that was putatively buying the most houses at the time. But I haven't observed any people my age actually liking this fact.
I have walked those halls and let me tell you it feels spooky in a good way to know a lot of groundbreaking work was done there.

During the time I was on campus it was mostly empty. There were old computers still inside some rooms. I felt like I had been transported to the 80s or 90s in one hall and some halls even more decades in the past.

Really grand. I can’t imagine what it was like in its heyday.
his handle is KingOfCoders - self-aggrandizing, insufferable, impotent in its attempts to be meta.

He thinks he's an artist because he now has the ability to curate a dataset based off of one artist's work and prompt more art generated in that style. He did it, so clearly he is an artist now.

(salty salty~)
I'm kind of confused by the title. This shouldn't be a surprise/news as SVG explicitly uses JavaScript as its scripting language. That's why there's an SVG DOM. Yes you can do animations with SMIL, but JavaScript is explicitly there for more complex interactions.

https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/script.html
https://archive.ph/DSSWg

Ps this site was really nasty with its paywall.. it even literally told me to turn off dark reader. That's just to improve readability, it doesn't block or bypass anything. Luckily archive.ph bypasses all that crap.
> here is how I can share a file from my phone to any other phone in the same Wifi.

This will not work on many public and corporate networks. A common place where you’d want to share.

> surely there is an opportunity create a simpler UI!

It’ll still suck compared to Airdrop. Apple has gone to a lot of trouble to make that work as well as it does. Trying to setup something relying on temporary hotspots will be sub par UX. (And a nonstarter for Apple devices - user apps can’t touch the WiFi settings).
https://archive.ph/RUNYd

Interesting, especially in light of yesterday's assertions that they're supporting Phillips: "Silicon Valley insiders are trying to unseat Biden with help from AI" https://archive.ph/DSrM5
just check for yourself on any relatively fresh r/popular post - 30k upvotes and 3-5k comments is suspiciously high, given that you could rarely see such numbers before
How the polar vortex could bring winter back with a vengeance
https://archive.ph/Ru01t
I use the LibRedirect extension for this.
That is an excellent question that gets to the heart of my critique: what roadblocks are there during construction which means that labor gets deadlocked and waiting for the completion of something else, what learning can be iteratively applied, and is the project decomposable or monolithic?

A solar tower loses on all these fronts. First, the staging of the tower has many different components: leveling of the terrain to accommodate a large structure with airflow (perhaps not needed for the heat collector part, but perhaps?), foundations for the heat collectors, construction of the heat collectors to a sufficient pressure standard that the heated air doesn't leak before hitting the turbine, etc. Then the tower itself is a massive construction project with a large and critical foundation that must be built to exacting standards, then the tower itself, etc.

Utility scale solar has the panel structures, inverters, potentially a battery island, all of which can be built independently. Individual workers can work in a highly parallel manner, learning efficiency that can be translated into their next 1000 iterations of the same task. Further, due to the decomposability of the project, you can build a chunk, learn, and do the next chunk in an entirely new way if there's some innovation (maybe a new mounting process comes to market half way through the build). No specialized labor has to wait for the other part to finish their section, to get more of a specialized part that ran out (since all the parts are standardized and mass produced). There's minimal dependency between the different labor skill sets. And where there is a dependency, between the panel structures and the panel mounting, the needs of the structure are minimal. People are even testing dumping panels directly on to earth, without any structure, these days. If any part of panels are damaged, it has nearly zero impact on the rest of the structure. Whereas with a solar tower, any leak in a section affects a much larger structure.

And the decomposability of solar PV means that it can start operating before the entire thing is built. If money runs out, the fraction that gets built can still generate electricity, until the money can be found to complete the project. You can repower part of the project, add to it easily, scale it in any way you want. It's the difference between a cloud data center and a mainframe.
> How about educating people more vigorously about food addiction?

Didn't really work with DARE.
It was meant as a parody of one of Patrick Bateman’s monologues in American Psycho.
https://chat.openai.com/share/7deff3ab-fdac-4a5e-a516-11bd5d...

goes further
I don't understand the criticism of the comments at all.
Most common use case is commuting to work with averages of 1h drive and 40 miles. With a potential of 8 hours of light while at work that sounds to me like it would make up for any drag it adds for that short commuting drive.
Thank you Beeper for getting my Mac's serial number blocked from iMessage
So, I don't think exercise is going to have the effect that people are looking for. I have a BMI of a little less than 30 and exercise an hour every day. Like not an aspiration to exercise, documented evidence of doing an hour every day no matter what. I have lost approximately no weight on this program (but I do enjoy it greatly!). I'm definitely planning on asking my doctor about these drugs, because lowering the internal setpoint for "I need to eat or I'm going to smash something" would be highly valuable to my health.

I think what can be hard to understand with disorders of the mind is that you can't really empathize with them if you don't have them. The reality is that there is a lot of documentation that people aren't just suffering from a lack of willpower; they simply don't have it in them to change because of how their brain is wired. Asking people to be less hungry is like asking them to jump over the Empire State Building. You can ask all you want. It's not going to happen. It's literally impossible. The approach for approximately the last 10,000 years of human history is to say "well these people are defective, get them out of here". Only now are we starting to develop treatment options, which can help people live what you and I consider a normal life. I don't think that's some sort of scam from Big Pharma. While they're making a lot of money, people are living measurably better lives. That's the economy. You spend money to get something in return.
Can't you do that now? The article lists ports tools doing those things already
This is the plot of the very good sci-fi book The Three-Body Problem and its two sequels. It popularized the dark forest theory a sibling commenter linked to.

That is: if you’re in a forest that’s dead silent, and you’re wondering where all the animals are, it might not be a good idea to start shouting.
I don't see that this is something to "love", and what you describe doesn't capture the full extent of the approximation.

What scared me off of Boehm GC is that there a bazillion config options -- e.g. it requires tuning and blacklisting to avoid memory leaks -- and probably even correctness because register scanning isn't portable.

The codebase is large and a bit scary, and there are seemingly lots of ways to use it poorly. People kept saying it's "drop in", but that seems like a myth.

At least personally it doesn't seem like the kind of thing I want to debug.

The opinions on Boehm generally seem very split -- a bunch of bad stories resulting in ripping it out of the codebase, and also people who think it's surprisingly good, and codebases that have used it for a very long time.

I think the Nix evaluator uses it and is carrying around patches, and Guile Scheme uses it. Though I think there is some desire to move away from it in both cases. But again people have used it for a very long time, which isn't nothing!

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e.g. https://www.hboehm.info/gc/gcdescr.html

Recent versions of the collector use an approximate best fit algorithm by keeping free lists for several large block sizes. The actual implementation of GC_allochblk is significantly complicated by black-listing issues (see below).

...

The collector implements black-listing of pages, as described in Boehm, ``Space Efficient Conservative Collection'', PLDI '93, also available here.

During the mark phase, the collector tracks ``near misses'', i.e. attempts to follow a ``pointer'' to just outside the garbage-collected heap, or to a currently unallocated page inside the heap. Pages that have been the targets of such near misses are likely to be the targets of misidentified ``pointers'' in the future. To minimize the future damage caused by such misidentifications they will be allocated only to small pointerfree objects.

The collector understands two different kinds of black-listing. A page may be black listed for interior pointer references (GC_add_to_black_list_stack), if it was the target of a near miss from a location that requires interior pointer recognition, e.g. the stack, or the heap if GC_all_interior_pointers is set. In this case, we also avoid allocating large blocks that include this page.
The entire VC model in this area of tech is to be unprofitable to undercut traditional mediums so that other companies can't compete with them, and then to raise prices once better systems have been driven out because with investor funding Spotify can last for a longer time than its competitors within an unprofitable market.

And during that process, Spotify wants to be treated as if they are profitable. They don't want consumers to be looking at them like they're a fly-by-night business whose entire existence depends on raising prices in the future once consumers have no alternatives to switch to. They don't want podcasting partners to be looking at every business deal as a temporary arrangement that will only last until Spotify feels comfortable trying to pull the rug out beneath them. If we're going to start acting like businesses are charity cases when indie developers do anything they dislike, then we should stop acting like these "charities" are sustainable businesses at all.

Spotify doesn't run ads saying, "hey, we can't make money and we're hoping that goodwill and investor greed is enough to keep this engine running for one more year until its safe to start charging you what we actually need to survive."

It's reasonable for developers and consumers to treat businesses with substantial market control as if they are businesses and not charities. That treatment is consistent with how Spotify advertises and portrays itself and with the decisions that the company makes about the market. It's not an accident that Spotify is in this position, it's a conscious choice in service of pursuing a long-term strategy of market domination. It's also not a healthy choice for the market overall, so Spotify choosing to put itself into this position is not a moral obligation for consumers or developers to treat them with some kind of special consideration. If anything, we should be more harsh to companies who try to decrease competition by creating an artificially unstainable market and starving out sustainable businesses and funding models.

For all intents and purposes Spotify is a billion dollar company making moves to lock down open ecosystems like podcasting that are consistent with a billion dollar company. If it's also a poorly managed billion dollar company that's lying to consumers about the actual cost of delivering music, then that's their problem -- it's not something we need to feel guilty about.
Sorry, but I couldn't disagree more. We have certainly tried the "diet and exercise" mantra for generations at this point, and they simply do not work for society at large (obviously they can work for individuals). I have 0 belief that "educating people more vigorously about food addiction" would do anything to lower obesity rates. Knowledge is not the problem.

I wholeheartedly agree that the obesity epidemic is a consequence of modern society: it's easy for the average person to go a whole day with nearly no physical activity, and our foods are calorie dense (not to mention literally designed to addict with fat, sugar and salt) and nutrient poor. But loads of people who have, basically for the first time in their lives, lost weight with semaglutide realistically have no other options.

Do I like that we need to cure one problem with modern society with another drug which has side effects of its own? No. But rather that than condemning people to obesity, which has enormous physical and mental health costs.
From some perspectives, yes. From others it's not so bad. I love having cover from the top to do engineering and qualification to have better solutions. Normally it's "we don't have time or resources to make it, get back to the spreadsheet mines".

For LEO you can scoot by pretty easily with non-hardened solutions and better systems engineering and software. For deep space you'll need to be more clever.
A group of us DJ friends used to say "we speak alien" which was a comment about the type of music we played. There's a group by the name of Eat Static which is known for their prolific use of aliens trope and 50s style sci-fi samples that has an album titled "Abduction". One of the tracks is called "Gulf Breeze" which at one point was famous for the most reports of alien abductions. I always wanted to spend a night playing music on the beach waiting for the aliens to make an appearance as it seemed to be the most likely of places for it to happen.

Just a random story on a bored sunday
IIRC there was a rumor? Legend? that Kim Jong Un, when he first claimed the throne, sent a delegation to Singapore to study what a prosperous benevolent dictatorship might look like in North Korea.

Considering many years later North Korea has changed very little in behavior both internally nor externally, the second part of the rumor is that the conclusion of the studies was that the Singapore model couldn’t be applied to North Korea.
positi-ve and negati-ve

haha :) chemistry nomenclature :) hahaha :)
Imagine if a limited course of Ozempic permanently altered your body’s hunger set point. Or if SSRIs permanently altered your mood even after you stopped taking them.

Then you would face a serious risk of overshoot. It would be more like a chemical lobotomy. Sounds worse to me.
Had to scroll all the way to the end for the answer presumed:

"Each F-35 costs more than $100m (£81m) and is designed to destroy enemy planes with long-range missiles, long before the F-35 is ever picked up on their radars. An F-16 without add-ons might only cost a third of that price."
The naming itself is suspicious to me as well, "Harmony NEXT" kind of sounds like "this time for real"
No, it's important when planning - eg: one big database cluster that provides db-as-a-service (but maybe needs some dedicated ops resources) vs smaller DBs with virtualized storage on ceph (ops resources for ceph cluster and vm tools like k8s).

If the latter is too slow for your typical usage...
From your network of friends, former colleagues and family.
Not all electronics are used in the approach github are taking
Yeah I meant that, "or" was a typo.
> They can protest all they want, you can't legally deport a citizen. That's just a bunch of crazy talk.

I agree currently they cannot legally deport anyone with citizenship. I think the fear is that, should they get a majority, they will change the law to make it legal. I can understand why some people are afraid.

Luckily international law still exists so you cannot just remove the nationality of someone unless he has another one. This would only apply to people with two or more citizenships. France already passed a law to remove french nationality of people convicted on charges of terrorism.

> If they have people who have gained citizenship but failed to integrate, then that proves the citizenship process is faulty

Agreed
I personally don't think it will but I guess it could, it's as good a model to start from as any. That's kind of the problem though, it's not actually better than the modern version of the Copenhagen interpretation unless you think wave function collapse is a physical event that's caused by (something in) your brain. If you think that, Copenhagen's obviously not correct, as your brain can't cause anything that it itself wasn't caused to do, because free will does not exist. If you think of wave function collapse as not a physical event and not caused by anything (except by the physics of the universe following the original state of the universe, if you don't like the idea of a block universe in configuration space), it's totally fine and is equivalent to Multiple Worlds. Don't think of the Multiple Worlds as things that physically exist either though.
"A law, ie, leveraging state backed violence to deter the things they don’t want."

We all know what a law is you don't need to clarify. It makes your prose less readable.
This is worse than that. At least in theory if you spend resources prosecuting fraud, you could prevent more fraud than you prosecute through deterrence.

But that doesn't apply here because the reason KYC/AML is so ineffective -- literally 99.9% ineffective -- is that it's so easy to transfer value in some other way. And in turn to claim that even if you're using a traditional bank.

Money laundering is fundamentally very simple. They open a business that could plausibly generate that amount of profit and then claim the money was the proceeds of that business instead of the illegal one. The bank has no better way to know this is happening than the government, and the only people who do are in on it. So the rules are totally ineffective and because they're totally ineffective, they don't provide a deterrent.

But it's even worse than that. Most government waste is actually somebody's profit or salary, so then they lobby to keep it, but if it's a lot of waste then competing sociopaths lobby to cut it so they can get the tax money, which provides at least some financial pressure to limit the excesses of any given program.

The primary cost of AML/KYC rules isn't tax dollars. They fall on the general public through invasion of privacy, bureaucratic overhead, transaction costs and impaired competition between financial institutions. The general public is a diffuse group without organized lobbyists and without a thorough understanding of how much this is costing them. It also falls disproportionately on people who are already disadvantaged and have even less political influence than average. So there is no one supplying strong political pressure to get rid of it despite the high costs and near-zero effectiveness -- it's basically down to the people who have figured out how stupid this is to make it go away on their behalf.
Just noting the existence of a trend, not making any broader statement about redditors being representative of the population. Hopefully we can at least agree there are millennials on Reddit upvoting the style, or if not there’s always plenty of articles like https://millennialmagazine.com/2019/10/02/why-are-millennial.... Or, if that isn’t compelling either, there are replies from other millennials here indicating they like it.

In any case try not to worry too much about it, there are plenty of people with (arguably) bad taste in every generation.
Yep, English is not my first language.
> They fold up in use, so the drag hit probably isn’t that much.

The folding is a huge square box on top of the car, so the drag definitely increases a lot.

Just a roof rack will have a minor but noticeable impact on drag, a ski box is 10~15% efficiency loss (http://kootenayevfamily.ca/model-3-roof-rack-consumption-tes...).

This is the worst designed roof box in history, I'd say 20~25% efficiency loss is lowballing it, unless it's only ever crawled at urban speeds, slow enough that drag is not relevant.

> If he’s getting 5-20kWh per day

AFAIK the best panels are circa 25% efficient, so 20kWh/day is not even within physical plausibility, let alone actual.

I don't know if they were ever tested by independent third party, but FWIW Lightyear's estimates for their 5sqm curved solar panels (so no loss of efficiency) was 70km/day best-case (at the height of summer, with the car in full illumination at all time), at 96Wh/km (advertised WLTP) that comes out to 6.7kWh. Again, best-case, and without a Cd hit.
Walkthrough of remote code execution in Scratch Desktop using JavaScript in SVGs: https://web.archive.org/web/20220416143159/https://www.mnemo... (2021)
Some games provide important sound cues, if you turn your volume up you get an advantage over players that don't turn their volume up. This is very different from listening to music or podcasts.