skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ideally the US, EU and CN would work cooperatively rather than adversarially with regards to leading the world into a brighter future. The US and EU share s lot in terms of philosophy and economic goals. Japan and the “Asian tigers” also fit in. I think India to a great degree shares the same, but China currently is not in synchronicity with the EU-US-JP and to a lesser extent India’s goals on the world stage. We can quibble about climate change or tariffs, but we’ll agree on basic frameworks around trade, security, cooperation, and many other policies. We need a way to weave China into this (Russia too, but that’s another story) MFN status and WTO could have been leveraged, but that ship sailed a long time ago...
I once read a wanted ad that described how their company was focused on AI, blockchains, UX, IOT, cloud computing and Big Data. That was the coveted bullshit, buzzword bingo I'd always heard about!
It kind of worked with the Soviet Union. They tried to keep up, but just didn't have the economic power to do it.

It won't with China, because China isn't playing the force projecting world superpower game like the SU was.
>You can call it solipsism for your own reasons, but what have you done to ensure you're operating with adequate levels of humility, compassion and objectivity?

Nice deflection. But why does it matter? You've successfully deflected a well known and documented sociological and political science fact into a matter of MY personal virtues.

Which is precisely the problem I've been taking about. Nobody cares about your personal virtue. The fact remains that racism has been a critical element driving right wing economic policy and this is a well known and documented fact that has been attested to by the people doing it (like Lee Atwater). This isn't really up for debate, and the fact that you're not bothering to debate it and retreating to ad hominem instead kind of makes that clear.

No we don't need people to undertake "deep inner work." We need to solve the actual societal problems. You need to do the "deep inner work" it takes to address problems that impact objective reality instead of the delicate feelings of people who don't want to confront the things they feel guilty over.
Because they get first pick of the good interns and they're still better than a couple of the other big places to work for.
I'd definitely a concern and non-ideal for things that are not spec'ed out in https://developer.apple.com/design/resources/. Hopefully this is all temporary until we can build our own comparison tooling https://github.com/flutter/flutter/projects/9#column-3989168.

Disclaimer: I wrote that line :(
Half the comments in HN are flagged or downvoted. Is it a sign that the HN crowd feels uneasy and divided about China's rising power?

Meta comment: wonder if my comment will get downvoted too when it's just asking a question meant to start an intelligent discussion.
> What if we had regulations to force service providers to provide APIs and interoperability in their services? What if messaging someone on Facebook from Google hangouts was as easy as sending an email?

Exactly, the kind of regulation that would promote real competition than silos of shitware built on network effects.

API Enforcement, Net neutrality, Transparency, Free software enforcement, Copy left and privacy regulation are pro-consumer, pro-user, pro-individual and anti-authoritarian. These are the regulations that would promote freedom instead of standing in the way or worse grab the notion of freedom completely.

Stallman has been preaching about it for ages. It is sad that people who fight for regulation don't have faith on the individual, or want to provide the tools for betterment of the individual (a centrally controlled internet with official version of the truth is never the answer).

One point I do lean in on the pro-regulatory side of things. The platforms showing automated feeds/suggestions have to share the same culpability as individual doing it.
i.e. If a goverment deems an individual can't do X, or has to pay Y in damages, then a platform promoting the video actively (hosting it without a searchable link is fine) through automated feeds is culpable of sharing it.

I am not promoting govt regulation, but just saying companies should not be treated as exceptions.
I'm not saying America doesn't do any racketeering. I am saying that they get the job done though, and the job sucks.
They mean remapping capslock to:

* Ctrl if held and used with other keys.

* Esc if pressed and released on its own.

There's no reason to press and release Ctrl on its own (minus games), and you never need to chord Esc with anything else, so they can both live on the same key.
Both "federal" and "discretionary" are weasel qualifiers that attempt to make military spending look artificially large. For one thing, defense is one of the relatively few things the federal government is supposed to be doing--you would expect defense to account for a disproportionately large fraction of "federal" expenditures. (And it makes for misleading comparisons to countries with unified governments, where military spending is reported as a percentage of all government spending.)

For another thing, many expenditures are mandatory rather than discretionary, for good reason. Peoples' social security checks shouldn't vary from year-to-year based on government finances. That doesn't mean that social security spending should be ignored when you're looking at the percentage of government spending that goes to the military.

Total government expenditures in the U.S. is $7.65 trillion. The military budget is less than 8% of that. We're on the higher side, but that's less than for example India or Singapore. As a percentage of GDP we're at 3.1%, which is again on the high side but not crazy out of line. France is at 2.3%, and the NATO target for Europe is 2%. In the early 1990s, France and UK were spending the same percentage of GDP as the U.S. is spending now (over 3%). I remember people talking about Seinfeld and Friends back then, but not about how the U.K. and France were crazy out-of-control with their military spending.
Not very impressive/interesting, they aren't releasing their code or models, and it seems that they had to use lots of rather obscure hacks to make the whole multi-instrument thing work. (Though I suppose it definitely is impressive in other ways, especially hacking their existing GPT architecture to do something worthwhile with non-text tokens. So, I'm not saying that any sort of work should be dismissed outright!)

I do still think that the good old https://github.com/hexahedria/biaxial-rnn-music-composition (Hexahedria's Biaxial RNN/Tied Parallel Networks, also published a paper achieving SOTA at least for that time, on a variety of midi datasets) has more interesting/compelling output musically, despite starting from a comparatively tiny dataset and using rather elegant and easily-undestandable convolution- and RNN-based techniques. Too bad that the implementation relies on Theano which is quite endangered at this point (doesn't seem to support up-to-date python 3?), but I do think it's a compelling starting point if anyone really wants to work on this domain.
> It's because it is effectively a computer. Not in the vague sense of "it has stuffs connected to stuffs and there's electricity involved", but in the more specific sense that it takes inputs, produces complex outputs, has clearly identifiable hardware and indirectly identifiable software. It even has internal structure we're only beginning to understand, but that we know enough about to reasonably infer what computations happen where. There's little reason to assume there's some metaphysical mystery here, as exactly zero other things in the universe that we studied since the dawn of humanity turned out to be magic.

You're conflating the ability to compute with ontology. Computers compute. That's all they do. They're programmed to do only that. Humans have other abilities, such as imagination, that are not computational. Computers cannot imagine, not because of limited hardware or software; they can't imagine because they only compute. Imagination isn't computational. All throughout your response you are using the terminology of computers and software as if they are completely intuitive, but we have other terminology to define those things: medical terms define parts as the brain as parts of the brain not as hardware because that's a metaphor; the cerebelum is like this part of the computer. What they are is not the same as what they can do. That's not some magical mystery, or even obscure metaphysics. A car's horsepower is not in its carburetor, or its gas, or its manifold, because the horsepower of a car is what it can do, its an ability, a power. In the same sense the brain can compute, but that doesn't mean it is a computer.

What else could it be? A brain. Animals have them. They are not computers. But they can compute. The field of computer science and software development only slightly aligns with studying the brain.

> If I know the limit of applicability of my computer knowledge, I sure can comment on brain and consciousness.

Yes and when it is no longer applicable it is no longer right or wrong: it's just assumption. That you can fuzzily attach assumptions to arguments about the brain does not mean the brain is a computer. It means you can fuzzily model the brain on a computer, but that model will have glaring gaps. You can build from your assumptions but you have to accept the limitations of that assumption. Assuming the brain is a computer comes with glaring limitations.
JNCOs?
>Calling someone a racist when they're not is just as bad as perpetuating racism.

Is this satire? Are you sincerely claiming that actually doing something bad is worse than being told you're doing something bad?

This is child logic. This is logic that privileges your feelings over actual objective reality.
India was far too friendly with the USSR from the US point of view for that to ever happen.
That's an easy one. The bar is constantly being raised, so you were the best when hired, but now you're not. :(
you forgot one huge factor, you’re network and referrals.
Impressive, but I would be more impressed if it started posting and generating followers, then monetizing the followers into a media empire. Isn't that the whole point of instagram?
I was thinking maybe resend the stuff only when the text changes, so you'd have to have a cache of some sort, hidden in the library.

Anyway, I believe Qt is screen reader compatible, so it must access the relevant API somehow. I'd be surprised if it was the exclusivity of the OS vendor.
How do the recent delistings relate to Bitcoin SV's fundamentals?
The short answer is probably no. And the fact is that top universities mostly aren't so focused on teaching whatever language or framework is the flavor of the day.

That said, you need tools of some sort if you're going to actually build things as opposed to just learning, say, algorithms in pseudo-code. And it probably makes sense to use some fairly standard language to do so. There's not much point in making things deliberately obscure by making students use some language that the professor designed for his PhD thesis.
I wonder if when opening Pinterest links with a Googlebot user-agent it actually shows the image. I’d check but I’m don’t have stable internet at the moment. A nice plugin would be to change my User-agent when opening Pinterest links if that’s the case.
Of course. Our entire national psyche has been centered around American exceptionalism for at least 70 years. Scared isn't exactly right. We're very rival focused, I would say. It's China now but there was a time when it felt like Japan would control the electronics industry, for example.
Yup. So much printed money in the hands of "investors", who are all chasing yields. No one wants to invest to create actual products.

QE has been a failure
Honestly I don't see a problem with it.

We already waste too much money in the United States trying to be the world police, and there's no good reason for it any more. We have too many of our own problems to deal with to waste so much money on that crap.
With hundreds of thousands of semi-professional and amateur musicians competing on the Internet for their 15 minutes of fame, getting film or computer game score just isn't a real problem.

Besides, this is already doable, without neural networks. E.g. Karma[1]. The fact that most "AI music" enthusiasts don't know/care about such systems is a clear indicator that they aren't really interested in music or helping creators and just want to shove AI in yet another niche where it doesn't belong, then pat themselves on the back for contributing to "progress".

Further commodification of what's left of out popular culture isn't something anyone should be excited about. I just can't wait for the endless wave of trite "style blends" and the inevitable "oh, but all human music is garbage anyway" justification.

[1] https://www.karma-lab.com/

Edit:

Also, some people don't seem to be aware of it either, but there is already a full-fledged genre of generative music where artists use anything from analog circuits[2] to randomized or algorithmic sequencers/arpeggiators[3] to custom-built digital devices[4] for creating entire tracks. Of course, the point of generative music usually isn't to replace the artist, it's to shift their focus.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8Hr4wBRbaY

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n6-4buAkts

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KdTIUlGULk
They forgot the most notorious, 12306.cn.

Basically Healthcare.gov for train tickets.
Don't know where it gets these means from.
For example. When I look at the IPCC's 4th assessment summary
(https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ar4_syr_full...)

On page 7, they have a bunch of scenarios based on various GHG emissions. From what I can tell, we're above all of them on the GHG emissions front, and under all of them on the actual temperature changes. Yet this carbon brief site says it matches exactly what has happened, so don't know what they're going off of.
More than that, for low skill jobs you don't want strong filters. If someone comes in and says "I was a slacker who never showed up, but now I'm reformed", "I got fired for being drunk at work but I learned my lesson", or "I just got out of prison for some awful crime and want to try honest work": you should hire them just on their word that they are reformed. Of course in all cases their word isn't worth much, but these are the first jobs of those who actually are reformed and you need to keep giving them fifth chances. If we don't slackers, drunks, and criminals need to be supported by society in some other way, which becomes a reward for bad behavior.

So for low skill jobs you hire anyone, fire the ones who aren't good workers and promote the rest.
Sandy Munroe A guy who rip appart cars proved this wrong a while ago. The Tesla M3 only takes 25k to build with parts and labors.
I've setup multiple domains on the same Protonmail account. You can create new addresses (@protonmail.ch/protonmail.com/pm.me/domain) with a paid account (iirc up to 5 total addresses with Protonmail Plus).
One of the things I love about React and React Native is that it's possible to use them from "plain old JavaScript" (React.createElement and friends). And I work at le Goog; my org has mandated Polymer 2+TypeScript for all new desktop web code.

Sure, maybe in production you want to use JSX and/or TypeScript, but learning a new language and a new framework together is overwhelming, period. Pedagogically, it makes it hard to conceptually separate what is a language feature and what is a framework feature. (To this day, I still have trouble separating what parts are Ruby and what parts are Rails.)
Its not though.. the only IDE is CLion which does not have a free version. Thats a showstopper for a lot of people.

Its also pretty slow compared with other native solutions.
Windows is the fault of UNIX? I'm skeptical.
I love the way you very skillfully walk on eggshells to be circumspect and polite to make your point so as to avoid backlash and ire. [1] It's as if anything anyone says today is assumed to be not politically correct unless they go out of their way to appear kind, considerate and caring.

[1] Back in the day we would have just said 'they got fired because they are lazy losers'. I am reminded of the people working today at the seafood department at no less than Whole Foods. They didn't have the item that I normally get (literally every other day) and had no clue when they would get more in and didn't seem to care at all that I was a regular customer for that item. An actual 'shop owner' (small entrepreneur with a seafood store) would have likely cared much more and taken note that a regular customer desired the missing product. What did I think? Hmm "I guess that's why they are working the seafood counter at Whole Foods". Could there be other reasons why that is their job? Of course there could be other reasons but in any case the lack of caring about what they did (either the companies fault or their fault who knows) was very apparent and typically is.

Interestingly the women who showed up the other day at my office (immigrants and honestly don't know immigration status they work for a contractor) were way more motivated even though they barely spoke english.
- Higher GDP per capita (doesn't account for the full difference though)
- Larger tech/online industry bidding up ad prices

Both roughly account for a 2x difference, total difference of 4x between EU and US
Reynolds tobacco brought something like this out in the Eighties. It was a heated tocacco system called Premier that you could smoke indoors.

It famously flopped because the cigarettes tasted distinctly like farts.

The failed launch featured quite heavily in Barbarians at the Gate, which tells the story of Reynolds' leveraged buyout by KKR, the largest ever at the time.
Yes, and similarly to surfing, if the wave only keeps growing and never crashes... the surfer is boned.
A company's plan to quell protests in Sudan
I don’t get it. Why is any of this true? If this is true, why doesn’t the US also take in refugees from all over the world, and take over building schools or doing more humanitarian aid as well? What exactly is the moral principle that “someone” has to do these things, and why does that “someone” have to be the US?
So the universe would be "de Sitting"
Properly Setting the Random Seed in ML Experiments
ESL here. What is "take tone"?
Last time I played around with QML, it was basically Javascript.
I tried to buy a coffee with McDonalds mobile app, instead I was defrauded $2000
Two colleagues did a survey of on-call compensation: https://oncall.wtf/articles/2019-02/on-call-survey-2019.

It’s quite skewed towards the UK due to the social circles and reach but still useful nonetheless. I’m sure they would appreciate more data points!
What's wrong with how they treated him? I thought they fixed everything pretty well.

And they did make it opt-in for receiving 'real' tokens, as far as I can tell from the last few minutes of searching. The UGP tokens can still be sent at people that didn't opt-in, but those are more like coupon codes than money. Users can only get them for free, and they have an expiration date.
Logs, Tails, Long Tails
The ball must be kicked through and must be below the tips, so no punting way over:

>All gates must be cleared with a drop kick or grubber kick.

>Gates must be cleared below gate tips.

For the center gate, you only have to clear it to unlock scoring, looks like then you can ignore it (other than not stepping through it)
It's not that difficult. The best would be those hires able to rise up and maintain enough productivity to keep them out of the bottom 10%, who, by definition, are the losers.
Basecamp ends development of Highrise
> The company’s Science Division is a theoretical and experimental laboratory, challenging conventional thinking by discovering a new world of physics and consciousness-related possibilities and exploring how to use them to affect the world positively. Through its Advisory Board, TTS AAS has access to world-renowned scientists with advanced knowledge to pursue the company’s research projects, including Human Ultra-Experience Database, Engineering Space-Time Metrics, Brain-Computer Interface, and Telepathy.

Yes this sounds a bit quacky...

> The company’s Aerospace Division is dedicated to finding revolutionary breakthroughs in propulsion, energy, and communication. We currently employ and intend to employ additional lead engineers from major Department of Defense and aerospace companies with the capability to pursue an advanced engineering approach to fundamental aerospace topics ranging from Beamed-Energy Propulsion to warp drive metrics. Our team will seek to develop next-generation energy and propulsion concepts for spaceflight, as well as new technologies for space communications.

The only thing that seems to be a real business if the entertainment division. Which makes sense as a part of their business. Selling ideas through media rather than actual useful science research.
Also, you can start at a company where things are figured out and watch the "growth phases" introduce layer upon layer of smooth-talking, overly-confident bullshitters, and, before you know it, the entire company has gone from knowing what they're doing to entirely winging it. This is what frightens me the most, because it seems to be systemic and almost everyone that I talk to these days in tech is suffering through some phase of this problem.
Same here. it feels like a very generic algol family language, and if you're familiar with any of them it's almost trivial to pick up to the point where you can just sort of write it and figure things out as you go.

That was in fact the most pleasant things about Flutter for me, the language was a non-barrier.
>nothing sounds better to me than the music I used to listen to when I was a teenager.

Tangental, but listening to the music from your teen years is a form of therapy for people who developed dementia. It's possible the music we impress in our teen years hold a special value in our brains.
>Lincoln's position was that slavery was OK, but should spread into any new states

He may have taken a more moderate stance for his presidential campaign, but for most of his political career Lincoln was a hardcore, outspoken abolitionist. Nobody at the time seriously thought Lincoln was OK with slavery; that's why southern states immediately started seceding.
Personally because I prefer the fonts that I have chosen.
Haven't all of these problems already been solved if you use GO as your compiler?
Have you driven with it?

Have you seen the progress in new features and reliability in just the last 6 months of OTA updates? Their cars are becoming more and more autonomous, and they are rolling out this autonomy in ways that is very impressive.

The fact that they can say a new lane change algorithm went live and they know they are now doing 100,000 lane changes a day without a single incident.

The fact that they can see when I take over during a lane change and that sequence is stored and anonymously included in future training sets.

I have been experiencing the massive pace of progress over the last 6 months of OTA updates, and I almost believe Musk when he says he can get to FSD in a few years.

IMO you may have cars get “stuck” in very strange situations which will be extremely annoying, but I think they will be significantly safer than humans, hugely convenient the vast majority of the time, and save a lot of lives in the process.

I wish Tesla the best of luck.
Why is Electron so popular, but PWAs have seemingly failed to take off? Everyone was beating the PWA drum for a while, but I've almost never seen it implemented.

What's the reason, lack of discoverability? I'd rather run one Chrome instance than a dozen apps that use varying versions of Electron.