skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't need to prove anything through my statements, every government striving towards Communism has failed miserably several steps beforehand. Separation of power and limits on the influence of individuals is what keeps corruption at bay.

I'm not arguing for unbridled capitalism, nor am I arguing against socialist policies and checks against the formation of oligarchies. I'm arguing that state control of the economy, such as that which comes about when your population is too spread out and large to make decisions in an efficient manner, is inherently flawed and unsustainable.
It saddens me when a useful, good open source project closes. I realize I can still use it, and I will... That's not the point.
China appears to have suffered a Long March launch failure
But is that bamboo you're planting really a different age? Bamboo reproduces clonally, right? So isn't that bamboo you're planting really part of an older stock? So its clock started ticking when its ancestor clone first began growing.
Will this support micro payments like $1 or even $0.10 a month? Or would credit card fees eat all that up?
Honestly I don't think the smart evil people are the problem. I think the fact that society is in general pretty good is strong evidence that they are outnumbered. I believe most people want to be good. I also thing the smart evil people are more likely to want to manipulate others than the smart good people. That's why a burgeoning population of people who are easily manipulated is such a problem.
One of a whole bunch of reasons I'd never work for AT&T again.
Well, if you don't trust your senses at all, perhaps yours is too.
A sufficiently intelligent and connected AI could run a corporation, start a religion, amass a fortune, recruit an army, etc. Just look at all the mere mortals who do that. It could manufacture news, manufacture video of a charismatic leader, make phone calls, pretend to be whatever it wanted. I'm just spitballing here, but it's very easy to see that an all you need is intelligence, desire, and the ability to communicate, and you can take over the world--or at least enough of it to control your destiny.
David Cameron's Tory government is the undoing of freedom
There are more than 80k skilled people in a 7billion population planet.
How do you distinguish

(A) two random developers that met each other at several conferences over the years, have contributed to a few same projects and really like the efforts the other one is putting into their OSS project

(B) two random developers that met each other at several conferences over the years, have contributed to a few same projects and want to fraud GitHub for the donation match

I think this could be a real practical problem for GitHub. And lawyering up against developers supporting the campaign potentially counteracts the marketing benefit of it.
Yes, I would take this information with a few grains of salt. A strange source.
Congrats, you just described racism. "All Japanese" in this instance refers to the nation and by extension parent culture, not ethnicity.
Relevant to your comment: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/15263800131...

The individualization of environmental problems is a serious obstacle. "We need to stop buying and using plastic water bottles" needs to become "Pepsico and Coke need to stop producing trash."
>when a supposedly free and democratic state does

Create social media campaigns to promote social cohesion? I'm, er, actually okay with this?

The article says "politicians’ statements, vigils and inter-faith events are also negotiated and planned in readiness for any terrorist attack". Nothing about that strikes me as particularly harmful; a government promoting social cohesion during times of turmoil is standard fare. What's upsetting about that?
IMO, the most prominent/important critique in thesis in this space was Karl Popper. He, for example, championed falsifiability for scientific theories.

Popper's two big targets for his criticisms were marxism and freudianism, who he accused of pseudo-science. Despite making a lot of enemies, his criticism made an impact and the fields evolved to address them, to some extent. They often dropped the "science" claim, or adopted more scientific methodologies. Today, Popper's pseudosciences are often characterized as (or evolved into) "soft sciences."^

Still, I think it's telling that 80 years later these general areas of study (economics, psychology, sociology, policy research) contain the majority of the problems this article is talking about.

A big part of the problem is statistics. That is, they are studyings tatistical phenomenon. The relationship between the "big hairy theories" which (eg supply & demand) and the more scientific/falsifiable hypothesis that they can actually test is.. problematic.

So... part of the problem is fixable... The scientific framework needs to be designed for statistics. Expiremental design plans can be published prior to expirementation, for example. Negative results need to be published too. Part of the problem is harder. Without a huge increase in independant replication studies, many of these fields are not going to be genuinely producing scientific knowledge, as fields. Individual results are more akin to anecdote.

The bigger problem is that "big" theories (eg keynsian macro, Maslow's hierarchy, etc.) are not generally scientific theories. That split between "small" testable theories and interesting, fundamental big theories is just very hard to bridge in a fundamental way.

^He went easy on liberal economists, possibly because of personal friendships... mostly because they didn't claim to be scientific to the same extent. I think in retrospect, this may have been a mistake.
payment processing fee = pay the payment provider (Stripe, PayPal, etc.)

a cut from the payment in order to pay for their services = additional fee on top on payment processing fee to cover operational expenses, employee salaries etc.
While I understand why others are wary, I am also excited about the good that this could do for OSS projects.

I know I've struggled in the past to give money to projects that make me a profit. The third party tools are hardly brilliant, and maintainers have to set them up, and look after them.

This has the potential to be a really good thing.
I wonder how long the seeds will take to germinate. I have some seeds of a hardier and more common bamboo Chusquea culeou, which have been stratified in a variety of ways and put in moist soil for over half a year now - none have germinated yet. After getting worried, I've done some research and it turns out that many types of bamboo can spend years dormant in the ground, before suddenly shooting up and growing at incredible speeds.
I don’t doubt that a skilled Emacs user would be more efficient at editing text than I am. But I don’t have any problems with my ability to efficiently edit text. The problems that I get paid to solve are ‘how do I effectively deliver value to my customers’ and ‘how can I design solutions and systems that meet the business’ needs’. The kind of challenges that I have to overcome to meet these goals do not include ‘I’m not efficient enough at editing text’. If I were to reach a perfect 100% efficiency in text editing, I doubt it would have much impact on my productivity, and I know that I would have no impact at all on the quality of my work. My IDE already has a lot of productivity tools, perhaps I could improve that by learning Emacs, but I’ve never seen the RoI in devoting time to that, over devoting time to learning any number of other things that would actually make me better at my job.
Pretty sure Motif was the originator of the 90s era concrete slabs look. “Initially released in July 1989.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_(software)
Option (A) is the exact situation I'm envisioning.

Rather than waiting for some third party fans to give money, we'd be immediately rewarding the work that the other has done over the years with a one-off $5K (to maximize the match) contribution.
A synthetic genome could be used to repurpose life forms
The first scenario is a loss leader -- it doesn't contribute any revenue for the business to stay afloat.

The second may or may not be a loss leader, but it will contribute something in revenue for the business to stay afloat.
Good old days when I transit from XA to ESA, from dos/vse to movs, from racf administrator to dB admin, Ibm start to ship 3390-3, ispf, Rexx to generate jcl, patching and debug 370 assembler ...

Still holding a Hp dos pocket whilst working on all these.

ThOse were the days. Different very much from using a mac to run leela zero using egpu :-)
I think my travel setup would be something like this:

* Android tablet plus stand, running Termux+SSH+Tmux.
* SIM card of some description
* USB Hub
* Big Ol' Battery >=20,000mAh
* Small Mechanical Keyboard
* Wired Mouse

That would also allow me to connect to my Amazon Workspace for work email, but mostly I'd be VPN+SSH to a dev VM somewhere.

While it wouldn't be quite as useful as my work Macbook, it would be much safer since no work information would be traveling with me, nor would TSA be able to do me any significant harm by searching through those devices.
Ugh, I disagree. I‘m an investment banker, I wear tailored suits to work every day. Suits are uncomfortable and high maintenance. Give me jeans and a comfortable hoodie any day of the week!
RDU (between Raleigh and Durham, NC) has one: https://www.rdu.com/observation-park/
Ask HN: What are your fav phrases?
My fav ones:

Winds of Winter,
A Song of Ice and Fire,
Lost in Space,

Yea I know they're all Titles of media content, but they're great.
Terraform shine when you combine multiple providers, kubectl manages Kube but Terraform helps you integrate K8s with the rest of your infrastructure (monitoring, Sentry,GitHub and GitLab, etc.)

> I find managing Terraform's state to be a significant hurdle
Have a look at https://app.terraform.io/signup/account, it's the free version of Terraform Enterprise and it makes managing your state very easy.

>If you were building a configuration mechanism for your system from scratch to allow your users to configure it as code, would you make .a Terraform provider over a command line tool that can apply [--prune] that same configuration?

I would make a Terraform provider, you get plans, modules, the possibility to integrate with other providers easily and creating a new Terraform provider is actually very easy!
Doesn't mean it a bad airframe...
Elektron I do recognize! Perhaps I was more in touch with cool things back when the Sidstation was released :)
Spectrum and AT&T say if you cancel early, they’re keeping your cash
Except that f-strings are not lazy evaluated so you cannot replace something like:

log.debug("foo bar %s", foobar)

with fstrings. And you end up with part of your team enforcing f-strings because of cleaner look, the other half .format or '%' strings and the rest annoyed when their code is constantly rejected in reviews because they don't know/care which standard to use where.
The US tariffs on China have been paid almost entirely by US importers: IMF
The argument is symmetrical.
Bringing the Benefits of Linux Containers to Operational Technology
Researchers could publish their findings along with sources for all involved data in a machine-readable/analyzable form (formal logic or simple natural language) so that conflicting results in other publications could be quickly found and reports needing additional verification would be scrutinized more.
Though I remember that it was more or less necessary to have 8MB to browse the Web on those Windows 3.11 486s :)
I would be very leery of a datacenter that didn't have their own on-site generation plants that can be guaranteed to supply power in the event of a grid failure. If a substation goes down on a cloudy day, I would hope that they have a big diesel generator or gas plant on standby regardless.
10M yen+

For reference, believe that's ~ USD$91k, EUR€82k, GBP£72k.
Open source for big data analysis
Learn How to host Storybook with CircleCI and GitHub Deployments
it's great right?
With fake accounts, bot networks and hashtag stuffing?

Welcome to Russia.
Why Anti-Vax Doctors Are Ordering 23andMe Tests
They are not a client state, but may become one if we don't change things quickly. They have been an ally of America, because Amerifa projected an extremely strong influence into the Pacific post-WWII. We have had a succession of cowardly politicians afraid to stand up to others (see China's behavior in the S. China Sea, Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Iran building nukes). Both sides talk tough and refuse to act. Now we risk Iran dominating the Middle East and China becoming the world's number-one power and dominating Africa. We need to keep China down at all costs and prevent them from fully developing.
It looks like you’re right.
They should make some kind of pop-sci summary and publish it as a magazine. Serious intellectuals will subscribe and will henceforth be more fun at dinner parties.

"Did you know, dear aunt, that in 1992 a study analysed the relationship between the amount of spiders in College bedrooms and GDP"

"and what did they find? are spiders bad for the economy?"

"well absolutely nothing, of course, not even that there was no relationship, but it's nice they tried and it was a very high quality study".
In total, he mentions himself in the 3rd person five times in the article.

And at one point, he even quotes himself:

> “Surveillance capitalism is about to become obsolete,” said Dr Ryan of Brave.
Not so fast. People have said this about gittip (now Gratipay), Patreon, Twitch, and now YouTube and Facebook. All of these have been mixed blessings. Here's an article about how Patreon doesn't work out even when everything goes smoothly: https://theoutline.com/post/2571/no-one-makes-a-living-on-pa...

"After launching my Patreon, I struggled for months to find work. Patreon filled my downtime, and became a full time job itself. I’d spend hours combing through photos, looking back on notes I’d taken on the road, researching where I’d been. I’d post on Twitter and Instagram with teasers, free stories, anything to attract my followers to my Patreon page. I made friends on the site, I shared their projects on my own social media, and kept up with all my subscribers’ projects. It was a lot of work for little pay, but I was determined. A year later my monthly earnings on Patreon have grown from $120 to $163."

$163 a month in extra income? Cool, right? Not when you spend 5+ hours a week thinking about it.

If GitHub gets a lot of participation it will be unsustainable to only take a little on top of a credit card processing fee, and the fee it will be increased to be more like Facebook's 30% cut. There are plenty of articles on here about the costs and difficulties of running a payment platform.
Bans are a type of rule/norm.
No idea what the downvotes on this request for actual evidence (or even rumor) of wrongdoing are for.
By the same token, Japanese is also a nationality as well as ethnicity. This is what it would mean, in context, for her to say she's all Japanese.
> Anyway, I always practised dress-up Friday.

I don't mind Casual Fridays, but I wish we also had Suit Mondays (or even better, Formal Mondays with morning jackets & dinner dress). Dressing down is fun, but so is dressing up.

And honestly, I don't think fashion has come up with a better look than white tie: waistcoat, bow tie, tailcoat. Flatters the figure rather more than a hoody and sneakers.
The last few paragraphs give opinions about what alternative emergency planning tactics they could use. The article could really do with more detail about this. The choice is not this or nothing it's this or something that's better.

For example instead of arranging for fake media stunts they could focus on comforting and consoling the people directly affected. To me the current policy is run by marketeers and is all "optics" . Marketing works but it may not be the best , kindest or authentic response
> They are capable of creating new modified version of themselves,

Very slowly and not reliably.

> updating their own algorithms,

Slowly and not reliably.

> sharing their algorithms with other AGIs

Slowly.

> and learning new complex skills.

Very slowly, yes

> To add to that, they are energy efficient, you can keep one running for optimally for 5 to 50$/day depending on location, much less than your average server farm used to train a complex ML model.

To run a reasonably complex ML model does not require $1500/month.

And these AGIs require significant resources and space, much of which has to be provided by other AGIs.

> If we disagree on that assumption, than what's stopping the value of human mental labor from sky-rocketing if it's in such demand ? What's stopping hundreds of millions of people with perfectly average working brains from finding employment ?

They're slow and complex and expensive and training scales terribly. Training a model and running 1000 copies of it is not 1000 times as complex as training a model and running just one copy.
humans usually die after several decades. They do take decades to train. It would be beneficial when we live to 110 and work to 100. At any rate, we don’t do enough with our existing time.

When we focus time and effort on things like the Manhattan Project or the Apollo Program, we are able to accomplish a lot in a short time.
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The Infrastructure Behind HungerStation – Part 1: CI/CD
https://idmprogram.com/difference-calorie-restriction-fastin...

Lean mass % increased by 2.2% with fasting and only
0.5% with CRaP. In other words, fasting is 4 times
better at preserving lean mass. So much of that old
‘fasting burns the muscle’.
According to Wikipedia[1] it's an online news outlet that covers the ME. It's been accused of a pro-Muslim Brotherhood bias, and Saudi Arabia (amongst others) allege that it's controlled by Qatar with links to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_Eye#Links_to_Hamas...
> if I planted a bamboo yesterday, and today was when they all bloomed, would that bloom?

In principle Yes but is an extreme example. Is possible also that the plant just will die before if roots are damaged in the process and their reserves are depleted.
what are the other two tools?
> 100 of those, with unlimited memory, internet access, and faster thinking speed would already be extremely powerful, enough to take over the world and do whatever they wish with it.

Why? What makes you confident in this assertion?

To whoever has downvoted: I doubt it. Surely if you think this is so obvious that my question seems disingenuous, you can clearly articulate why the claim has substantial credibility?
I work for a Fortune 100 company. I've never seen anyone from CEO/president down to whoever wearing anything more fancy than jeans and a button down shirt. During the summer nearly all 10,000 employees on campus are wearing shorts and t-shirts everyday. I can't imagine wearing a suit, or even a tie, to work.
I'm a nuclear engineer and I noticed that there was no official venue where people were learning the particular computer basics that I consider essential for daily operation of a computer as an engineering tool.

I figured maybe other fields have the issue too and I got it together enough to out out my first and only ebook on the topic. It's higher level than OP here, but still focuses mostly on the command line. Anyway, it's called Digital Superpowers and is $10. If anyone wants a preview chapter or anything I can send you one.

https://digitalsuperpowers.com
or why not `touch file`?
I did not know it was possible to create polls on here
> Since working memory is a factor in intelligence, one of these statements must be false.

That is quite easy to reconcile: "ADHD has no negative effect on intelligence, when accounting for the impaired working memory". It is something you do all the time in psychology, you observe effects in presence or absence of other effects. Psychologists are smart enough to ask questions like "Now that we know that ADHD impairs working memory, does it further impair other factors of intelligence?" The answer seems to be no - which is important, because it implies that improvements in the working memory transition well into improvements in intelligence.

I give you the benefit of doubt here, but I'd wager that most of the non-academic folk that Dr. Barkley communicates with is intuitively aware of what I wrote above and able to form the right mental picture.
> dressing down further on Fridays

I remember some engineers went from polos and khakis M-Thu to board shorts and birkenstocks Fridays. Some people can go overboard.
A few people used to live in the Amtrak tunnels on the Hudson River side of Manhattan. There was a documentary made about them [0]. They were evicted, and the tunnels fenced off, in the late 1990s.

I would be quite surprised if anyone was living in the subway tunnels. Compared to the Amtrak tunnels, they are much narrower. Additionally, people were living in the Amtrak tunnels during a time when the tunnels were unused or seldom used by train traffic. In contrast, subway tunnels see lots of traffic 24 hours a day.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Days_(film)
The Bash Hackers Wiki is a much better resource, especially as reference material: https://wiki.bash-hackers.org/
Sounds like a pain in the ass. I would just build the incident report form to have the option "Date/times are all wrong", and when you see the user is from Japan and selects this drop down option, check if their timezone is set correctly, and if not, reset it to JST...

Then the form would prompt them "Are you sure, please look again", and most of the time the problem will have disappeared, right?
Don't containers destroy your battery life?
I drink a milkshake. I must now clean a reusable straw. I have to deal with a sticky mess. That's more than I want, particularly when the alternative is pitching said sticky mess.

One of the best things about eating out is that there is no clean-up.
Vodafone reveals 5G phone line-up and contract prices ahead of network launch
Slack, the productivity tool which ain’t so productive after all
I also think that is is effectively a pretty underhanded move to cement Github and monopolize open source development. It may not be intended to work this way, but if this campaign is successful, it will have this chilling effect. Once development funds go mostly through Github, the platform's influence over a project is greatly increased. Projects would have little choice but to comply with whatever ToS change Github would want to impose.

MS playing nice with open source starts to smell a bit like an attempt to ensnare and trap developers in an MS ecosystem. But this time around it is not about Windows as a target platform, but about dependencies on tools (VSCode), libraries (.NET Standard) and services (Github, Azure) provided by them.
A very good point generally, but not particularly relevant here. All this article is alleging is that the UK government coordinates social media campaigns with politicians and community leaders to promote social cohesion in the wake of terrorist atrocities. They're, somehow, attempting to portray this in a negative light.

I can't help but note the complete lack of sources in the article, and we have to question[1] the source itself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_Eye#Links_to_Hamas...
Firefox 66 does not show EV indicators, either, any more.

But I would also like to point out that PayPal is a known bad player when it comes to phishing, so no one really should give a damn what they do, and if you do the opposite of what PayPal does in security you are probably doing better than them.
The reason Twitch does all that stuff is because they are beholden to advertisers and nobody wants to be advertising on "the site with all the white nationalists" or whatever, it isn't a good look. Github doesn't have that issue since they do not have a model based on advertising