skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I would expect significant causal relationships between practicing the creation of music and ability in the creation of music, and between practicing audio discrimination and ability in audio discrimination.

Yes, and real musicianship is more complicated still since hearing and playing abilities co-evolve as one cycles round and round a new piece. For example, notes previously played too quietly can be played louder merely by hearing them as louder. At least that's the way I experience it. If true it adds a whole new meaning to 'active listening' since motor activity may be included in the loop.
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Even in the US it's declining. It's just much higher. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/10/0...

(I suspect from the places named that the more corrupt the police are the more violence is present, but have no evidence for that).
San Francisco has a number of “luxury” skyscrapers without AC. While this might make sense at ground level, the combination of height, so much glass, and windows that barely open makes things pretty uncomfortable without it.
Dude. Those factory workers just lost their jobs. Machines literally took their jobs. It's not a prediction, the article literally said it happened.

>So, have those doomsday scenarios come true? Or, instead, is the world a much much better place because nobody is spending 80 hours a week working on a farm to feed themselves?

I'd say that technology has benefited society but has also widened the wealth inequality gap. Technology has benefited us but it is now harder to be employed in jobs that distribute wealth more evenly. My guess in what is to come with technology is that there will be a few mega rich elite people who own that technological real estate while almost everyone else works multiple menial jobs to barely get by.
"C89", "no dependencies". That pretty certainly means "yes".
We're complaining about Rei's actress? Such a beautiful woman deserves our devotion, haha. If anything, I was annoyed by the casting of Bancroft. It's like someone saw James Purefoy in "The Following" & decided "Yes, we want this crazy guy in this series". Sure he wasn't around for quite a bit & wasn't too central to anything other than "main good guy, solve my murder!" but his...essence bothered me. But I'm biased ;)
Open Source Project: Classic Finder
Yes it works on windows.

Hopefully this does not come across as rude, but from the readme

"It was designed as a simple embeddable user interface for application and does not have any dependencies, a default renderbackend or OS window and input handling but instead provides a very modular library approach by using simple input state for input and draw commands describing primitive shapes as output. So instead of providing a layered library that tries to abstract over a number of platform and render backends it only focuses on the actual UI."

Under the demo folder, there are examples.

Nuklear works with opengl 2 and 3 both with sdl2 and glfw (both of which support windows) it works with direct 3d 9 and 11, with gdi (windows specific libraries)
I lead the software team in the Neale lab that develops Hail, the software that enabled this analysis: https://hail.is. If you're excited about about applying CS and engineering to enable scientific discovery of massive, fast-growing biological data, get in touch. We just got a bump in funding and we're hiring a number of roles: distributed system database internals, compilers, machine learning, scientific data viz, deployment and operations, and web applications. See our Who's Hiring post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16288145
Last year I lived in a older mobile home in Saskatchewan (tin clad, all south-facing windows). It could definitely get up to around 28C during the day if I wasn't careful about managing things (open the windows while it was cool in the morning, close them by 10am or so, make sure shades are drawn, etc). I only had a wall-mount AC unit, and if I messed up the heat management process I had to run the crap out of it to get the temperatures back down to something manageable.

Fortunately I was working from home, so I would catch a screw-up early (when I'd realize that I was starting to sweat because of the temperature).

Winter was interesting too. The trailer wasn't all that well insulated, so the furnace had to run a fair bit. But on sunny days, even in the middle of winter, you could really feel how much the sun contributed to warming the place up.

It was an experience that really drove home the concept of solar gain though! If I were still living there, I'd be putting up carefully angled awnings to reflect the sun during the summer but still let it in during the winter (when it's lower in the sky).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law ?
"Jordan Peterson on creative productivity and the One Percent" perhaps?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoPlMU4KiGI
You can do. On the other hand you have magnitudes more ways to suck time in a non productive manner.
> Could you recommend any resource for gaining that understanding of options?

The Options Clearing Corporation [1] actually has a solid set of introductory courses [2]. That said, I am very conservative about when I believe individual investors should be trading options. (With surplus investment capital, i.e. after tax-advantaged retirement accounts and liquidity reserves have been maxed out, and principally for purposes of hedging (versus leverage).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Options_Clearing_Corporation

[2] https://www.theocc.com/education/
Sure, but as technology develops faster new jobs will emerge; therefore, even though traditional jobs are shrinking newer positions will open up. What we can say for sure is that there will be whole new fields and jobs tomorrow that don't even exist today and those will need workers (human and non-human). I think UBI may be useful to afford people the time to make transitions to these new roles.
Have you tried the translator by DeepL? It often gets incredibly close on my experience.
That is more likely a bug in the compiler code that emits the debug info.
Human brains are super hackable. Propaganda or "Fake News" is literally mind control. The Nazi Party infamously exploited this vulnerability. Fox News was created to be "Faux News" from its inception, and it's work just as planned.

What has really upturned the world though, is people's realization that supposedly neutral institutions like CNN/BBC aren't much different from Fox News. The creators of Fox News were never really wrong about that, even if their reaction was to be even more biased and untruthful. The problem is that it's left people grasping for trust. Jon Stewart filled that role for many, but then he got burned out.

The solution to propaganda is to restrict your intake of information to high quality sources. That means finding specific journalists, and never relying on a media brand like Fox News, CNN, NY Times, Washington Post, or even Reuters. You simply cannot trust a brand, it's not a person.

Wikipedia points to another solution, which is crowdsourced consensus-based information. Restricting your information diet to Wikipedia might actually be reasonable. The process is fairly rigorous and not easily abused without consequence.
Plato was the opposite of a disinterested source on the trial of Socrates. The only other primary source is Xenophon, also his student. I wouldn't call Plato a propagandist, exactly, since that would imply writing on behalf of some organization or movement, but when I read him he seems a persuader in the guise of a truth-seeker. He's sort of the ur-Stephen Jay Gould.
> Talk about creating winners and losers.

We're fighting over crumbs. The meaningful wealth transfer in this country hasn't gone to the subpopulation with student debt, but to those well above them. I'd be equally supportive of dramatic action which benefits people who did not attend college.

But do you believe me when I say that?

Lots of people who were the intended beneficiaries of Obamacare think it wasn't for them.

> Reading comments like this on HN (and other places with similar demographics) makes me realize how utterly socially disconnected as a society we are.

Right back at you.

> It's downright scary at this point.

Agreed. But it's been scary for out-groups since forever.
I only know the words he said, I don't know if he has read the article or whether or not he agrees with it.

Going by his words: "You don’t have to practice emotion because that comes naturally. Technique is different." By that he means that you do have to practice technique. The title of the article is "No Causal Effect of Music Practice on Ability". That sounds like the words Quincy Jones said directly contradict the words in the title of the article, to me.
> ‘je ne sais cois’

if you're going to pompously bandy a term about, you should at least spell it correctly
"Schmidt provided examples to support his claim that China is poised to dominate the field of AI. While many assume that the Chinese educational system is inferior to the U.S., he pointed out that Chinese people "tend to win many of the top spots" in Google's coding competitions."

In the last 5 years, participants from China reached the Google Code Jam finals (top 25 contestants) 12 times. Russian participants did the same 40 times (notably last year there were 13 Russian contestants, half of the finalists).

If this is evidence that China is going to dominate AI, what does it say about Russia?
I think you make a good point, a lot of kids do grow up in dysfunctional households and this is bound to have an impact. I knew kids like this too.

In the cases I described before though, I honestly don't think this explains it. If it does their parents were doing a good job of hiding it?
Haskell is so far the language that has blown my mind the most, and it's not even close. Admittedly, I haven't learned that many (esoteric) languages (I found Prolog very peculiar, for example), but if you have never done any functional programming before, Haskell will (hopefully) blow your mind as well.
>> so the bug would be totally harmless and silent, with the exception of doing the same operations at the end of the mapped region.

“Harmless” only in a sense that the read won’t crash, but likely harmful if the result of the read is input to computation.
Please don't take HN threads into political flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Can you give us some examples of these 'crazy deals' and articulate fully why they are in fact 'crazy deals'?
http://archive.is/n0sr4
I think that article addresses a different issue. Obviously we should not treat people with fewer cognitive abilities with contempt or cast them out of our society.

But if you believe that there are such things as truths and falsehoods and that they can positively and negatively shape our society, we cannot ignore the effect that 'fake news' or other misinformation have on large parts of the population.

We can't drop the pursuit of truth just for the sake of satisfying an angry majority. That's going to turn society into a clown-car.
If you do some quick and dirty calculations of a 3000 sqft concrete house with 5 people lasting 100 years then the CO2 burden comes out to around 43kg/yr/person. An average american produces about 1000kg/yr so that's around 5% of a person's total CO2.
How many people do you think are actually interested in running the client in browser? I have Folding@Home on about 5-6 machines and I can't imagine a situation where I could run a web client but not a full client.
Pardon. Veuillez excuser mon erreur.
China's will to move forward is astonishingly great. Remember that in the 70's it was close to a 3rd world nation. In less than 50 years it's challenging the US in technology. Sure a big part of that has been just copying what we already know in terms of technology but I see no slowing down from their part. To become a master at anything 1st you copy and try to match the master once you have matched the master you move past it. China is close to matching the master and they're not slowing down. Eric Smith is just reporting on what he sees as an inevitable outcome.
Karl Marx once imagined an idealized economy. He called it communism. These theories rarely work in practice. I can't say with confidence whether or not your theory will succeed, but speaking purely from a perspective of probability, what you propose will unlikely be what's ahead for us in the future.
GMail still can't effectively distinguish between real communication and spam. If China overtakes the US in AI, Schmidt and co. are the folks to blame. They are in the drivers seat of intelligence development, yet their efforts are increasingly scattered, and their only consistent focus is on lobbying government.

Dear Alphabet,

Please make your products and services work before worrying about geopolitical balance of power.
Canada ranks highly on these lists partly because they have a large population group that speaks a second national language and were relatively serious about independence.

For whatever reason that objective "diversity" doesn't seem diverse to some people.

They also seem to have more but smaller (as a percentage of the total) ethnic groups than the US. Again, while mathematically more diverse than a big chunk of African or Latin-Americans, people seem to view this as less diverse.
It was in some reference-counting code deep inside the Boost shared pointer implementation. [...] Eventually i realised that i had compiled my application against one version of Boost, and then dynamically linked to a library i had compiled against a different version.

Interesting. Boost's shared pointer implementation is header-only. Are they using shared_ptr in an API for a non-header Boost library?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10334511/why-do-c-librar...
"The other side of the bet just went bust."

I don't think it's accurate to say it "went bust". In fact, Credit Suisse had a (oft ignored) provision in the prospectus of the ETN that very clearly stated that they would liquidate and terminate the product if it exhibited certain behaviors.

Credit Suisse built the product "safely" in a way that did not expose them to losses. The "investors", however, who were almost certainly using the ETN incorrectly, were exposed to heavy losses:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-06/xiv-trader-loses-4...

"incorrectly", in this context, would be anything other than very, very short (less than one day) holding to hedge other risks.
You're assuming people use logical, rational thought which has ample amounts of evidence against it. Jails used to be horrific, yet crime rates were higher. The presence of a jail sentence or even a death sentence as a deterrent is widely discredited. The only uses for prisons are to prevent future crimes by removing the ability to perform crimes and intensive rehabilitation. Most former convicts do not want to reoffend but the American social and legal system of punishing people for their entire lives for offenses committed once prevents effective reintegration into society.

All the science points to preventing initial conditions for conviction and significant improvements needed post release.

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/20...

https://nij.gov/five-things/Pages/deterrence.aspx

https://www.nij.gov/topics/corrections/recidivism/Pages/welc...
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We (wife and I) quit watching halfway through the second show. The plot didn't make sense.

Why would someone who is effectively immortal care if a body was destroyed?

Aside from "plot point", why was the update of the meth's upload 48 hours? Why not also local, and uploaded to the cloud?

For anyone who can upload, which seems everyone except Catholics (plot point), why can't people trade bodies as needed? 7 year old gets old person body - why can't they trade as needed?

And of course, add in the appropriate amounts of violence and "Game of Thrones" forced sexuality. I guess pandering to the masses is a thing. :/
> concrete

Actually we have been depleting the planets sand resources for a good while now, and could be facing a "sand crisis" in the not distant future, largely thanks to concrete:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/world-facing-g...
This is the same as making government issues partisan to develop some sort of race and opposition.
China already does the vast majority of manufacturing technology. It doesn't really matter what country does it. In the end, it will just be a smaller amount of money going to US businesses. Better ai has many applications but personal robot butlers and such have a while.
My wife and I have spent the first 1,000 days of our marriage paying off $120k in student loans.

It's a big plus the wifey is on the same page.
PL = Programming Language
It is pleasurable from an auditory perspective but i discern no difference in quality between the linked content and other more generic recordings of the same piece.

Again : just because "you" find that something speaks to "you" is in no way an indication that it possesses some inherent quality. More likely, it's an expression of your personal biases and/or group psychosis.
No amount of investment in security software protects companies from social engineering. Eventually, someone needs to have access to core IP and that someone needs to be trusted to do the right thing.

If a lowly engineer can leak this to the public, an intelligence agency hell bent on obtaining source code can certainly have full access to it. I suspect the top dogs (NSA,CIA, Mossad, FSB, China) have full access to source code they deem necessary, with or without the company's consent
>she plays in time, all the right notes, but it’s just not there.

In my limited experience, I find the "it" factor which cannot be learned is the ability to keep time; that "swing" you mention. Given that your wife possesses great technical ability, perhaps self-consciousness is a factor in the perceived lack-of-emotion in her playing?
Here[1]:

> A U.S. citizen can file a petition for the following relatives:
• Husband or wife;
• Children, married or unmarried
A U.S. citizen who is at least 21 years or older may also petition for the following relatives:
• Parents;
• Brothers or sisters.

From my understanding (and from everything I can find on the USCIS site and all other immigration sites), a U.S. citizen can sponsor immediate family members. They can not sponsor extended family members (cousins, uncles, in-laws, etc.).

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/A1...
Got it, this is taboo science that may lead to societal collapse. We should find science that better suits our preconceptions. Just pointing out the obvious absurdity here.
Heh, I just started watching this. I wondered about the DNA-linked line of credit - how's that work if you can change bodies?
I think the people who wrote the blit code for early Windows were Marlin Eller and Walt Moore. Paul Klingler may have worked on that aspect of GDI, too - not sure.

Those were exciting days.
I tried to update my personal macbook, and it almost bricked it. (Took about 4 hours to recover because it kept booting up with a white disabled icon.)

I updated my work macbook and it worked fine. Can't explain that.

That said, I don't really see any material improvements, so...
While I don't think tariffs are a solution to economic troubles, I have to admit I see a fair amount of irony in your comments about education[1].

> We are never going to be able to compete with the Chinese or other southeast asian countries with human labor costs

Immediately followed by:

> The next part of the solution is education and re-education of the labor force

We educate our labor, they educate their labor; theirs is still cheaper.

A knowledge-based economy isn't a panacea; knowledge, like capital, is really cheap to move around (compared to manufactured goods).

The GGP says "Artificially 'creating' or 'protecting' jobs doesn't help anyone, at least not in the long run". Having worked in a large company, I find that statement quite amusing. The proportion of "actual" jobs to "artifical" jobs is tremendous. I'm not saying that all those people with "artifical" jobs don't do anything, but from a pure economic efficiency standpoint their work is probably unnecessary. So if successful companies can do it, why not at least entertain some amount of protectionism at a country level?

[1] With that said, I think education is important for the long term health of our society. I just don't think education will fix the economic struggles currently facing many residents of the US.
Il n'y a rien à excuser, Monsieur. :)
Yet another US tech billionaire practically fetishizing China for their devotion to technology over people...

Sure, I can certainly get behind greater funding for scientific research and education for our benefit, but China is certainly not a country I would like to emulate whatsoever.

My biggest question is, what is the meaning and implication of China "dominating" the AI industries? China overtaking the US in military and commercial might? This honestly seems unlikely.

And a follow up question is, besides government funding, what else is China doing to secure AI dominance? Putting human rights and regulations on the back burner would appear give them a competitive advantage - but is this worth the cost of privacy and freedom for the average citizen?

'"Shockingly some of the best people are in countries we won't let into America,' he said. "Iran produces some of the smartest and top computer scientists in the world. I want them here. I want them working for Alphabet and Google. It's crazy not to let these people in."'

Well now I am not following this logic at all. What is China doing to make working there more attractive? I would imagine the US looks a lot more attractive than China in terms of freedom and safety regulations.

If anyone has a copy of the AI report in English I would greatly appreciate it.
Couldn't many of the GPU operation be accessible via functions over typed arrays? How does this relate to using SIMD from JS?
Silly title.

One the one hand, you have skill, on the other ability. Ability is the potential you have to become good at something, skill is actualized ability. So while I may not be able to e.g. play the piano now (no skill), given enough practice, I can actualize my potential into skill. Potential may place a bound on skill, but the only way to convert potential into skill is through practice.
It has same downside as WASM. Running precompiled bytecode is a bad for security as it always been.

It was no more than a year when a remotely exploitable WASM hole was exposed (derivatives of Spectre and co.) Knowledgeable people told that ISA level hole that can be exploited remotely over the web will be "a one minute global IT disaster" if somebody would resort to propagating it through a big adnet or paid traffic scheme.

As for WebGL as it is now, there were numerous sites on my memory that froze/crashed/rebooted both Linux and Windows systems, which means that the prime suspect there was a buggy shader as it is the only thing resembling raw instructions that can be passed to gpu through webgl.
But the title still obviously is false. Obviously practice increases your musical ability.

maybe if you read my paper you would see how you don't need any caloric intake to survive. (If I redefine all the words I just used, in the body of my paper.) Hence my "why the obviously false titles."
You could probably do this now as a standalone Node app, if you want more explicit control over which APIs are available and where code can be run from.

The browser is indeed quite complex (and not just because of the massive historical baggage), but its job is to give the user control while safely downloading untrusted code and running it locally.

So, if your goal is to just have a simple standalone app I think you could stay largely compatible with APIs available in the browser environment.