skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if we are agreed on the fact that 70 billion people wouldn't be much better than 7 billion, that is to say, adding brains doesn't scale linearly… why are we under the assumption that artificial brains would help ?

Wait, I didn't agree to that.

From where I sit, it looks like Malthus could have been right. We could be living in a hellish equilibrium with famine because the Earth can't provide enough cropland to feed everyone, or enough firewood to keep us warm.

Our escape from Malthus is because of the human mind. Some really smart people invented irrigation, terracing, crop rotation, selective breeding and genetic engineering, to improve the efficiency of agriculture by orders of magnitude. Likewise, we've found alternative fuels, from wood to wax to whale blubber to fossil fuels to nukes (and hopefully still inventing!).

But we've taken all that low-hanging fruit, so we need greater reservoirs of creativity and engineering. Adding more smarts is how we continue to keep ahead of Malthus.
Nytimes seems uncomfortable with the victory as usual-
https://www.mynation.com/india-news/lok-sabha-election-resul...
It's not just the UK. The US, China, Russia, EU, New Zealand, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Israel, etc.

The first thing you see after a terrorism incident is a controlled government+media propaganda campaign. They all use the same mindless talking points.

The second thing the government+media does is advocate for stealing your rights and more surveillance.

Someone does something bad, everyone else gets punished. It's true of "free" societies or authoritarian societies. Same tactics. Same terminologies. It's for our benefit and it's to keep us safe. Big brother loves us after all and knows best.
> Is there any good tutorial or course out there on how to evolve from making a thing create random noises to actual music?

Like anything else, you have to study it and do it a lot. I'm just starting myself. If you like book learnin', I read the book 'How Music Really Works' by Wayne Chase and found it very helpful in moving from making fun 10 second loops to actual songs. And of course learning an instrument (synths are instruments) is a whole separate task on top of learning how to compose music.
I don't know what to tell you, you're doing something horribly wrong then.
From a simplistic standpoint, the only difference between the Space Shuttle solid rocket boosters and an Estes rocket was the size.

In reality, a solid rocket motor at this scale is very difficult to manufacture reliably, and with the thrust profile that will provide the performance that you need to reach your goals.

That's not to mention the avionics in this rocket, the materials (carbon fiber laid down by the students), the deployment systems for the nose cone, and the manufacturing of the nozzle engineered to provide adequate thrust through the entire range of atmospheric pressures.
Multitasking on the iPad is a bit of a lie. Apple is so eager to kill background apps for the sake of thinner lighter devices.

As an example, try downloading a large file in a browser. You will quickly find that the download will stop if you switch apps or let the device go into standby.
New Reiwa era, bad bamboo omen. OK
People in higher social class have an exaggerated belief that they are better
$ whois cheat.sh | grep 'Creation Date'
Creation Date: 2017-04-16T13:42:06Z

Not that many years.
Make Use of Knowledge Management for Your Startup
Likely it is due to violating US sanctions on sales to Iran.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2019/01/08/further-in...

For comparison, that is what ZTE was accused of as well and received very similar treatment by the US.

https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2142002/us-s...
Apache Netbeans 11
If there is money being moved around on GitHub's platform, you can be sure that they are interested in grabbing a piece of it. Otherwise, why not integrate with existing open platforms?
I've found that being able to think in one programming language even affects the thoughts you have when working in other programming languages.

For example, after learning ML, I started writing much more functional code even when writing Python. I also started using abstract types more, even in C.
That works to create an empty file if none exists, but if the file already exists then 'touch' simply updates its atime/mtime and doesn't alter the contents. This latter effect is actually the purpose of touch; the file creation part is just a side effect.
A Pinebook is basically a dev board close in size to a RPi in a laptop style case.
>I also don't know how "Amazon affiliate blogger" fits into things.

Fyi... amazon urls with "&tag=" are affiliate links that get a % cut of the sales price.

In the blog's Amazon link, you'll see it redirects to a url that includes "&tag=compassionmon-20".

The blog author also wrote on the page: "As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases from this link."
Is this article seriously arguing that governments trying to prevent a terrorist attack from sparking rioting and tit-for-tat revenge attacks is a bad thing?
Where in this article does it allege "fake accounts" or "bot networks" are employed?

This article is from a dubious source, and is rather light on sources. Nowhere is it alleged the UK government is abusively creative accounts on social media.
In general life expectancy in the US is lower than in the EU. https://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/09/health/american-life-expe...

So at least it can be proved that the toxic cosmetics don't lead to a longer life.
Sure, the easy way is easier. But more often than not, the easiest way is not the best way for the entire ecosystem.

Rather than saying "How can we get money moving around on our platform as soon as possible?" they should have asked "How can we make open source work sustainable?".

But who can blame them really, it's a for-profit and closed source company on every level.
Metatron Discovery Ex-Pack: Workflow Integrator
I think I prefer the regular release notes (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/67.0/releasenotes/) instead of the marketing page - gives a much better overview of what's truly "new in 67"
> Indeed, China’s national security law expressly requires every individual and corporation, state-run or not, to aid the intelligence services.

Australia does the same now.
I've been thumbing through their survey methodologies, and am actually hard pressed to find anyone in any social circle who has directly or even indirectly to the best of their knowledge participated in these surveys. Specifically the CPS which tracks the unemployment vs. employment rates.

Given that it takes the form of a monthly survey, I'd expect more people to actually remember having done so.

Now I could understand inferring employment via tax documents cross referenced with unemployment papers, but to my understanding that level of information sharing is not generally done.

Where do the statistics come from? Here's the answer from BLS's Current Population Survey FAQ at w.r.t. where the data comes from.

https://www.bls.gov/cps/faq.htm#Ques2

>Because unemployment insurance records relate only to people who have applied for such benefits, and since it is impractical to count every unemployed person each month, the government conducts a monthly survey called the Current Population Survey (CPS) to measure the extent of unemployment in the country. The CPS has been conducted in the United States every month since 1940, when it began as a Work Projects Administration program. In 1942, the U.S. Census Bureau took over responsibility for the CPS. The survey has been expanded and modified several times since then.

So what do the statistics being gathered actually represent and where do they come from? More digging required...

Ah, here it is. Survey methodology. ho!

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/technical-docume...

I'm not super Survey methodology savvy, (more familiar with anti-patterns for it honestly, and figuring out when the Map starts diverging from the landscape), but in terms of what it is actually measuring, and how much divergence is introduced between reality and the convenient model inferred from the survey's statistical finger waggling... I leave that to the more Stats inclined among us. It seems an okay methodology, but it doesn't strike me in terms of being the most accurate measurement, merely getting enough data that someone feels that the divergences can be safely tucked under the rug.

I will say, the folks putting this together seem to have done a great job documenting it.

I wish my developers could be relied upon to do as such.
A cryptocurrency stealing app found on Google Play was downloaded over 1K times
This is a good critique. I'm very skeptical of the near term (<100 years) risk of AGI, but I don't really think this article's arguments are valid. Saying we already have AGI because there exist humans is vacuous and seems to almost deliberately miss the point.

If you want to counter the arguments that AGI will be capable of exponential self-improvement, you need to use an analogue other than humans. Humans categorically lack the capability to exponentially self-improve. Likewise human intelligence is definitionally non-alien, which is not something we can say a priori about any successful AGI we create.
I think there is plenty of room for innovation in desktop operating systems but the standard paradigm doesn't really need to be rethought. But where I differ from a lot of my fellow nerds is that I think desktop operating systems with arbitrary window placement and so on are best for desktop computers with huge screens, not laptops. I think the iOS/Android/Windows 8 approach of full-screen apps (with some tiling/split screen) and a different root layer than the "Desktop" makes more sense on smaller devices.
High maintenance I'll give you (and expensive), but I non of the jeans I own are as comfortable as a nice pair of suit pants and despite the fact that no one would care if I wore a hoodie to work I still wear a dress shirt basically every day because it's just so much nicer.
I recently spring clean my bookmark to bare essentials, because I found that I rarely use them anymore. If I want to read something, I save it to Pocket. RSS+Feedly for sites that I want to follow. For site that I want to keep for historical purpose, I save the url and screenshot in Google Keep, label it, archive and forget, without cluttering the bookmark.

Actually, I also use this method (keep-archive) in Google Keep for keeping other site too (the 'archive' button is so satisfying to use. It lifts the burden to manage bookmark out of your head, and I know the information is there, in my Google Keep, if I want to see it again (Note: I don't)

For sites I use frequently, I put it in new tab screen using chrome extension called Toby. If it start to accumulate, then I review it, discard it, or save it in specific label in Google keep.
The Curious Cons of the Man Who Wouldn’t Die
From a few pages deeper:
>In the future, we may charge a nominal processing fee.

That might be where they're headed, but from their diction I'm guessing they plan to try and keep this part of their business cost neutral. Who knows, maybe this is part of the ol' embrace extend extinguish, but I'm guessing they value the goodwill above the money in this case.
Sadly these freedoms were under attack even during Labour’s time in power. They also want more restrictions and windfall taxes on tech firms then we do already. GCHQs Mastering the internet program started under Labour.

I’m not saying that the Tories are angels in all this, far fucking from it (Their current porn law is more fucking stupid than the last). But Labour laid the ground work and the Tories fucking ran with it. Labour's stance on Article 11 and 13(renamed 17) was to pass them. In my area only one MEP from the "mainstream" parties voted against Article 11, 13/17 and he is conservative, the others who voted against in my area were independent and UKIP. Not a single Labour MEP in my area voted against them.

IMO They are both as bad as each other.
Indian National Election: Narendra Modi's Party Wins Comfortably
On programming languages belonging (or not) to their community
I also looked on Wikipedia before submitting this and it didn't scream fake news site. There was also a fair few articles submitted here from that site before.

As for the sources, reading between the lines and based on some experience it feels like it is based on presentations by the marketing companies at an emergency planning conference. So not exactly secret but not for public eyes.
> How do you know you have ADHD?

That is best found out by a multi-angle approach including brain images, intelligence tests, patient history, family history, etc...

Seeing a doctor is critical because a) it is easy to misdiagnose oneself and b) there are some problems that lead to similar symptoms as AD(H)D, i.e. bipolar, problems with your thyroid gland, vitamin deficit, trauma and so on, so it is also important to exclude these.
"pre-planning social media campaigns that are designed to appear to be a spontaneous public response"

Can this be interpreted in any other way?
This is some awesome work!
From the looks of it, your window server architecture is similar to wayland's, so would it be possible to port the GUI library to Linux/Wayland?
Then someone could write a wayland compositor using wlroots that mimics the W95 aesthetics and there you have it: the ultimate 90's UI on a system that's actually usable for day to day tasks.
Use PaleMoon, Basilisk, or IceCat.
Ha! Totally forgot the Switch is USB-C, I just moved and realized I left both of my chargers in my previous apartment and now both laptops are dying, but I have the Switch!!
It’s very easy to other people in that way, but totally counterproductive. Apart from anything else, all of “them” think the same about “us”, and say so loudly, and from what I’ve observed [1] that appears to be just as true whichever group you’re calling “them”.

[1] sampling bias alert
The Aula Brain – open-sourced handbook for a fully remote team
Video filmed at four trillion frames per second captures light in a flash
That is indeed the argument I have heard for not checking fares / tickets, and I think was the last link I proveded elsewhere on this thread.

One of the light rail trains near me is subsidized to the tune of 30 or so dollars per ride, so it's not like catching the small percentage of evaders will actually make a dent (that's probably 6 or more times the fare cost).

But it does seem like encouraging it by doing nothing at all is a bad idea.
True. And to be honest I am not sure how lifestyle emissions are calculated. Does it include the cost of manufacturing and bringing goods to the market? Can't we argue that most emissions are ultimately lifestyle related?
Tech trade war: After Huawei, which Chinese firms are next on US enemies list?
Other humans would stop you, humans who believe that the AGI is actually beneficial and maybe even vital to humanity as a whole.
You appear to be unable to count. I've posted occasionally on climate change, but these are nowhere close to "almost every one" of my posts.

I have never worked for Exxon. I've no idea how you came up with that idea. I once worked briefly, 39 years ago, for a company that did production accounting for oil wells. I once worked, 30 years ago, for a SCADA company that may have had oil industry customers, though my recollection is that they had more to do with municipal water systems. The tendency of global warming alarmists to claim, on no evidence whatsoever, that any critic is funded by the fossil fuel industry is one of their most despicable characteristics (up their with trying to equate their critics with Holocaust deniers).
> No musical background, bought it because I was curious about the UI. I find myself getting sucked into it for hours at a time, even though I haven’t yet made a beat I’d be comfortable sharing.

Study music theory! Seriously, it's more of a science than an art. The art comes in how you apply it. I made a huge jump from making little 10-second loops to making enjoyable music after I learned a little theory. It is well worth your time.
At first glance it reminds me of an old paper I read on causal entropic forces, [1] which is kind of a thermodynamic approach to understanding the emergence of complex behaviors. I've always had that in the back of my mind as an idea I'd never have the time or resources to investigate further.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2013-04-emergence...
The article mixes all sorts of units but doesn't say exactly where the Kármán line is supposed to be in any single unit. The closest it gets is 50 miles plus 60,000 feet, which is a rather confusing way to say 98.75 kilometers.

The actual Kármán line is at 100 kilometers.

This rocket reached an altitude of 339,800 feet, or 103.57 kilometers. Its maximum speed of 3,386 mph (assuming "normal" miles, not nautical miles) is equivalent to 1.513 kilometers per second [fixed]. It's well below orbital velocity, but good enough for poking into space and coming back down.
I am wary of the excitement as well, but there's a bit difference: corporations. Spending $20/month on a patreon is entirely different than spending the same on a library I make heavy use of at my job. I can easily convince my boss to do that; that type of money isn't even "noise" for most companies!
Its a bad thing when it is this dishonest. They aren't actively fighting terrorists, or deradicalizing anyone. They are just obscuring truth and seeding public opinion under false premises.

Do you honestly think that staging "muslims handing out roses" and paying imams to say one thing in public, while they continue to say something else entirely in the mosques, will help anyone?

With all the recent years of attacks in Europe, I would say that a little bit of outrage over terrorism would be more healthier than the current response with facebook filters and staged "organic" protests.
I have been curious for a while what Microsoft plans for LinkedIn and GitHub.

It seems like one possible future here is that open source becomes less like passion projects that scratch an itch and more like driving for Uber.

Maybe that is good. Maybe GitHub just took a step toward becoming Fiverr. I really don't know.
Meat is easiest because it's sold everywhere. Where I live, someone makes a variety of vegan convenience food that they've managed to get stocked in 7-11s all over the place. The food is all comparably priced to meat-based equivalents (this is stuff like "vegan bbq pulled meat hand-pie") but completely plant-based.

If you ate one of those, you'd find it as filling, tasty, and satisfying as something meat-based.

In fact, eating those (just out of curiosity) was the thing that even opened me up to a meat-free diet, because before that, I'd had friends serve me tempe, tofu, etc., and man that stuff is a bad introduction to a plant-based diet.

If you added a tax on meat to where the tasty, high-quality plant-based thing being sold at the 7-11s was now 20% cheaper, people would switch and not even think twice about it.

The problem is that, up to now, people package plant-based food as part of a lifestyle, and not just something tasty to stand alone on its own. Hopefully the impossible burger and beyond meat close that gap, too. You shouldn't need to be a straight-edge hardcore vegan to eat only plants 6 out of 7 days of the week.
I expect this to be a loss leader for them, rather than something they're planning to monetize. So they can probably run it with pretty minimal fees
No not defective; sounds like you could use some ansible in your life.

It's easy to misuse ansible though. People try to consume it like puppet and use it for whole-system-declarative-state, which is usually not worth the squeeze in ansible.

Treat it as glorified bash-scripting with smarter data handling and yaml-driven config files, and you'll have success.
Huawei executive accused of helping steal trade secrets
> (think yamaha dx7)

More properly, think Yamaha TX81Z + filter.
They're only "hard to tell" if you don't spend a lot of time around people of Asian ethnicity. It is very rare I cannot tell a Japanese person from a Chinese person from a Korean person.

Reading comments on this thread below yours, there are a surprisingly high number of people on HN who think all Asians look alike. Spend a few months in an Asian country and white people begin to all look alike while Asians become quite distinct.

Also, it is quite easy to tell most tourists apart from foreign immigrants. The backpacks of gear, maps, constantly getting lost, or participating in things mostly designed for tourism gives it away.
Who’s making a living on Patreon? The same people who make a living on Kickstarter, or via “gift” transfers through PayPal (before that was clamped down upon): people who can pull in whale patrons/backers.

Certain verticals have more whale patrons than others. The common story is that if you’re an artist and you want to go where the whale patrons are, that’s—for some reason—art targeting the furry subculture. That’s as true for patronage as it is for doing commissions.

It’s unlikely that you can just do what you’re doing and make a living off of Patreon; but if you want to shape what you’re doing based off of what will attract wealthy patrons, it’s pretty easy to find niches where your skills will translate to dollars.
New mode of production please lord anything but capitalism
Existence of Elon Musk's brain proves that Elon-Musk level intelligence is possible.

The fact that Elon Musk (and similar brains) already have a ridiculous amount of power and are using it to change the world proves that Elon-Musk level intelligence is enough to gain a lot of power and change the world.

Imagining a team of 100 Elon Musks with unlimited memory/energy/etc/etc taking over the world is not such a stretch.
Yes...? I'm amazed if you drew from that single sentence that the UK is creating fake accounts on social media and using bot networks. There's 'filling in the gaps', but that leap you've managed to make is egregious.

The third sentence further explains the false spontaneity: "In operations that contingency planners term 'controlled spontaneity', politicians’ statements, vigils and inter-faith events are also negotiated and planned in readiness for any terrorist attack."

Basically: the UK government coordinates social media campaigns to promote social cohesion in the wake of terror attacks, and additionally coordinates with community leaders and politicians. That's all you can draw from the article, unless you have additional information or sources to the contrary.
> It speaks very well to their fiscal management too that they're able to fund the project through ticket sales, and don't need to levy any new taxes or bonds.

Paris' current fiscal management is the worst the city has ever seen. The city's total debt grew from 1B euros in 2001 to 6B in 2018.
Ozone layer: Banned CFCs traced to China say scientists
I would agree that a well-made dress shirt that fits well is super comfortable. They are just very hard to come by.
This is a dangerous article. It seems to be engineered to produce a knee-jerk anti-government reaction, as can be seen in this comment section. The article does not seem to provide any sources for any of its claims. Furthermore, I have never heard of middleeasteye.net before and it would be safe to be skeptical of any claims posted by them.

Even if the allegations are true, is it such a bad thing after all? Terrorist attacks leave people vulnerable and afraid. Those feelings can easily turn into violence against those who are perceived to be the "cause" of the attack. Taking preemptive, albeit underhanded action to ensure mass violence does not occur seems like a good thing to me.
I wonder if this will create pressure to consolidate projects - there might be a non-linearity in the perception of project value. Two tiny repos may seem worth X each, but combined they may seem large enough to generate > 2X.