skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've recently played with the Korg Monologue, it's a solid machine, analog synthesizer and step sequencer, enough standard ports to extend it eventually - a criticism to the device mentioned in the OP is that it's pretty nonstandard in a bigger workflow. It's < $300, still not cheap but a pretty good package overall.

A lower price is the Korg Volca, at $100 - $150 per unit. They're less versatile though and you'll probably end up having to buy / link up multiple.

Even lower and you're looking at stuff like the Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator series, single card devices in the $70 range. There's a wide range of variations, each of which (correct me if I'm wrong) has 16 instruments and a programmable step sequencer, 16 patterns preloaded. The preloaded patterns have only 16 steps, but you can program it to have more than that and switch between patterns every 16 beats. You can link up multiple together as well, they can synchronize with one another (iirc you have to hook up your phone as the first step which generates a synchronization signal).
Why would it be fraud? We both contribute to open source projects and appreciate the effort that the other contributes.
Scaleworks acquires AI ecommerce search provider SearchSpring
No, there's no reason to believe they are only one genetic individual. Just because many are clones, there's no reason to believe they all are clones from the same original plant.
I can't write as detailed as I'd like to since I'm at work atm, but I'm a firm believer that a lot of diseases diagnosed do worse than better to you, since you automatically believe what is told to you and in some sort of way become "helpless". Of course you can take meds, but usually you have to stay on them forever, and when you quit you will relapse to your old behaviours. Now, I recommend to you these couple of things that have helped me and a lot others:

- Meditate: so underrated, this gives you so much calm and control that you cant even imagine. Do it periodically (for instance, I meditate 5 days a week) and do it on a fixed time each day, this will help you making it a habit. Probably better to start with mindless meditation, I recommend you Headspace app or you can also benefit from any YT video.

- Use pomodoro technique to work on tasks, it doesn't matter what task is given to you, make sure to work on it on the defined timeframe. Usually pomodoro is 25m work/5m rest, you should start with a different schedule, find one that works for you (at the beginning I used to do like 10x10).

- Read the book "Deep Work" by Cal Newport, a lot of valuable insight in there. Digital minimalsim by the same author should probably be on point as well (I haven't read it yet), but in Deep Work he emphasizes a lot about the damge that tech is doing to us, specially in our attention spans (you're constantly bombarded by notifications and reacting to them).

- Watch this video on how to control your mind (short but pretty useful): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYfYmYbp7C4

Good luck, you can do it.
I think creating an AI that beats humans in IQ-Tests is way easier than creating one that is smarter than a human.
All technology has a moral component, it's never neutral.

I still don't know if I fully agree with Postman's Technolopy thesis, but he definitely challenged my younger technophilic self to be more critical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technopoly

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology is a book by Neil Postman published in 1992 that describes the development and characteristics of a "technopoly". He defines a technopoly as a society in which technology is deified, meaning “the culture seeks its authorisation in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology”. It is characterised by a surplus of information generated by technology, which technological tools are in turn employed to cope with, in order to provide direction and purpose for society and individuals.[1]

Postman considers technopoly to be the most recent of three kinds of cultures distinguished by shifts in their attitude towards technology – tool-using cultures, technocracies, and technopolies. Each, he says, is produced by the emergence of new technologies that "compete with old ones…mostly for dominance of their worldviews".
The biggest news for me is that PostgreSQL 12 now really supports case-insensitive collations!

CREATE COLLATION case_insensitive (
provider = icu,
locale = 'und-u-ks-level2',
deterministic = false
);

CREATE TABLE names(
first_name text,
last_name text
);

insert into names values
('Anton','Egger'),
('Berta','egger'),
('Conrad','Egger');

select * from names
order by
last_name collate case_insensitive,
first_name collate case_insensitive;

And you'll get them in the correct order, despite uppercase/lowercase differences in the last name column.
You don't drive to the mountain when you go for a hike or wear shoes when you go running?
I understand and agree that that is what parent is saying.

I think it might be worth considering that Dependabot outdid a Github feature to do the exact same thing. Dependabot beat out the in-house Github implementation by being better and having better features. Indeed, Dependabot integrated with Github better!

I understand the concern. There's a very real fear that having Dependabot in-house at Github might mean that something even better never develops. It's very possible that this might come true this time! But I am skeptical, given that it clearly failed to occur previously. I'm not seeing why this time around will be different, but I'm sure that's just a lack of vision on my part.

Plus, well, if Dependabot keeps away all would-be competitors by being so good at what it does that nobody can compete... I consider that a win. My main concern and primary goal is more secure software, not more startups rooted in an ecosystem around Github.
RIP King Terry
>GitHub will not charge fees for GitHub Sponsors. And to celebrate the launch, we’ll cover payment processing costs for the first year, too! One-hundred percent of your sponsorship goes to the developer.

My reading is that they're only going to forgo the fees for the first year, and after that it's going to be basically similar to Patreon in terms of where the money goes.
Were they the main opium consumers?
Surprised to see the photo of the rocket back on the ground, with the nose cone still attached by some sort of rope.

It would appear that the biggest difference between this thing and an Estes rocket is the size?
I coveted mine as a kid. And it had a calculator! All 80s gadgets turned into calculators!
To illustrate: Google has a yearly revenue of ~90 Billion Euros. The maximum penalty for violating the GDPR is 4% of that = 3.6 Billion Euros. The EU has ~450 Million citizens without the UK.

If the EU fined Google for the maximum amount (which is rare) every year, it would raise 8 Euros per citizen.

Our politicians have better things to do.
And it might also suddenly have money issues.

Elon Musk is certainly innovative, but he's certainly not a saver. He seems to like to take resources to grow as quickly as possible instead of growing at a controlled, steady pace like larger companies do. Basically, he's more "go big or get more funding" than "slow and steady wins the race".

Jobs was pretty good at design and hyping up modest improvements. Elon just wants to wow everyone.
Panic team is amazing. Neat product. You guys combined virtual gaming with physical elements. Congratulations!!!
A wonderfull achievement, these students made.

The fact that it has taken the university _years_ to reach the goal combined with the solid fuel systems, which is less complex (but _not_ simple), shows the determination to have another group of non-pro's to reach that coveted altitude.
Arrays, structs, fixnums, explicit stack allocation.

I can check the respective manuals if you wish.

Yep, I did VB programming for a short while.

And please note that even though my focus is now elsewhere, Java is one of my favourite eco-systems.

As a peasant I just wished that Java 1.0 was more like Go, given the existing alternatives back then.

So it kind of stayed as a pet peeve of mine.

Same applies to .NET, just in a different way.
This is real nice to see. I Sponsor hzoo through patreon but may do it through GitHub sponsors. Babel is a great project.

What i’d really love to see is GitHub bounties though. Like you want a feature bad or a bug fixed because you depend on it. You can assign it some monetary value. GitHub is the escrow. When the bug/feature is done and verified by people who put the bounty, it gets paid out to the implementors.
Doing something that requires moving them. If you're furiously typing obscene code comments your fingers will be warm. If you're mindlessly clicking the "approve" button on the PRs your fingers will be cold.
Those Intel Compute Sticks are pretty cool and can plug straight into a hotel room TV. Pair that with a bluetooth keyboard/mouse and it can be a solid experience. I don't know if they still update them...
UK have proven they have a brainwashed population (at least 50%) through brexit. I'm pretty sure that's not up for debate anymore
This is such a watershed moment in the history of software development that I don't think most of us can grasp its significance yet. Sure we're familiar with other services that do the same, but the adoption rate (like for GH itself) will be clearly different.

One could argue that this is more societally important than YouTube, Twitch, etc funded content for _consuming_ because this funds content for _leveraging_ to build/work on top of. And this is not just limited to the entrepreneurial devs out there, of which "the man" has new employment competition with now. It can also fund entire company departments.

I look forward to mass adoption of this, wallet in hand.
> For most of the history of spaceflight, sending a rocket to space required mobilizing resources on a national scale.

From the article. It's not that it is super hard to do nowadays if you have a near endless supply of resources and money, but for students in a science project it is a big deal.
There exists no "general" intelligence. Intelligence, by definition, has to be measured along something.

Problem solving is one area, but this is not the fundamental cause [0] of why human brains evolved toward what they are now. Survival, necessitated by and coupled with reproduction makes life exist at the current scale, like with any (behavioral) pattern which favours existence and self-propagation. What we call life IS intelligence.

[0] Or rather, explanation, with the fundamental cause being "physics, as it is"

I recommend:

https://selfawaresystems.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/nature_...
They get called racist because they /are/ racist. They don't spend their time looking at genes and interactions but the cosmetics and tautological assumptions that potential = outcome. I have never seen them find intelligence in a place that didn't align with their prejudices.

Look at the complete lack of a shitstorm over actual science - MAO-A should be by all rights far more controversial given the areas delved in. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoamine_oxidase_A

That should help bury and put to rest the persecution complex.
"The system proves that your online behavior is indicative of a mass murderer. Let's keep an eye on 'em boys."
Perhaps you don't mind it, but it would be interesting to know more about GitHub's and Microsoft's thoughts/thought process on this topic.
This essay is trying to take something pretty simple and extrapolate a whole bunch of deep metaphysical meaning.

The simple thing is this: up until about 25 years ago, investment banks were overwhelmingly populated by Ivy League grads who went to private high schools in the Northeast -- i.e., preppies. This cohort is still way overrepresented on the Street, but in the 80s it was literally like 70% of the warm bodies in bulge-bracket investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity firms. Thus, the fact that people on Wall Street still dress super-preppy is largely a function of the basic "dress like your boss" phenomenon. The people running large firms learned sartorial norms from their bosses in the 90s when they were analysts, and analysts today are learning from them.

Fashion groupthink pervades pretty much every career field. Military officers are keeping the braided leather belt industry in business through their demand for appropriate civilian attire; engineers in SV dress like slobs; people in the apparel industry wear tight black things. The observations in the essay strike me as a bunch of "so what".

At least he quoted Matt Levine, I'll give him that.
That's basically the same point from a different angle: most set-points were created to be comfortable for men in suits, in an era where business attire was a requirement for office-workers in most fields.
Well, you should be cynical. A lot of companies at this point are basically LARPing as cooperatives but revert to the usual hierarchies as soon as it comes to who owns the company and who gets to call the shots or compensation.
> I'm quite disappointed that my geneological tree runs dry just a few generations back.

Have you had a genealogical DNA test done and used 23andme or ancestry.com to try and connect to distant relatives? I realize many folks have reasonable privacy concerns about DNA testing[0], but it's highly likely you'll be able to connect to relatives this way and perhaps trace your genealogy out even further.

0. Although it's somewhat out of your hands if you have any relatives undergoing genealogical DNA testing.
This presumes that the customers of the ad industry would stop buying ads without this personal data. It's an arms race, advertisers buy ads from the best source and more personal information makes your market better. Eliminating this arms race won't make advertisers stop advertising.
Interesting read and worth thinking about the question the way it's framed, although I don't know there's actually an answer. I agree that how much something matters is how much things would change if it were changed, but I think that depends heavily on the scenario, in terms of the questions asked, the design, and so forth. I also think problems in contemporary academics go far beyond statistics, and won't be addressed with statistics, but rather funding and sociopolitical changes.

Take the conclusion that "issues like measurement error or distributions, which are equally common, are often not important." I strongly disagree with this. In a classic randomized controlled trial, maybe yes. But even then there are serious problems potentially. Just to offer a few examples:

Measurement is key in this age of unreproducability. It's not uncommon for claims to be made based on results involving one particular measure, when the hypothesis would apply to many measures of the same thing in the sample. When an author claims X causes Y, and there are multiple measures of Y, but results are only reported for one, problems are there. Modeling the joint effect on Y, rather than the measures of Y, is key.

Overfitting goes hand in hand with distributional misassumptions, because to the extent that an observed distribution deviates from the assumed one, overfitting models can capitalize on excess information missed by the base distribution. A classic example of this is assuming a normal distribution when fitting a linear regression but fitting to a very nonnormal distribution: in many cases an interaction term will add significantly even in the absence of a real interaction, because it captures more of the interestingness of the data, information-theoretically speaking.

Measurement error also becomes key in modeling things like mediation effects, or in trying to control for covariates. Residual confounds are increasingly being recognized, which is all about measurement error. This is maybe related to overfitting, but many claimed effects can be attributed to measurement error, especially differential measurement error between variables. This is often more of a problem in observational studies, but it can easily apply to experimental designs as well, when there's some ambiguity about how an effect is acting, or if it's actually acting through the mechanisms being hypothesized.
At first I thought you meant to say prosecute. But persecute makes far more sense.
Kylix was full of issues and was a mismanaged product variant, largely ignored.

If I recall correctly it even depended on WINE.
Thanks. If only there had been a way to divine that from TFA.
> If one doesn't care that the carpenter building his house is using a hammer upside down, that's a whole 'nother bunch of issues I won't go into here.

I'd love to see at least a small allusion to what nature the issues are made of. Because, to iterate, I'd rather have a well-built house build by an absolutely unconventially working carpenter than a mediocre house build by someone that knows how to use a hammer according to the textbook.

If I want to see nice processes and fantasies fulfilled, I watch movies. In real life, I care about results.
and that last one is faster to run ;-)
Well, you still need to consume, eat, house yourself etc. Any situation where you're not paying for that without a productive output is one where you're increasing the ratio of consumption to production. Of course not all work is productive, but solving inefficiencies is _work_ not leisure
I feel that the UK and Commonwealth states are the worst offenders in digital privacy violations and "inauthentic behavior" programs. "Porn law", known information operations campaigns, and now this... It's one thing when Russia or China do this, and another when a supposedly free and democratic state does.

Now all dictatorships in the world, when confronted about their own propaganda and manipulation campaigns, will shrug it with "UK does that, so what?"

(Update: the article is a little low on sources and confirmations, so I would fact check the information there before leaping to any conclusions).
were they QA positions?
This is all very interesting, and I can quite believe it... but it's an article seemingly without much - if any? - exposition of sources or evidence?

- ed

in fact, I've never come across this ‘Middle East Eye’ and when I go to find out more about them, it's surprisingly sparse on information? https://www.middleeasteye.net/about-middle-east-eye

As I was once taught, many many years ago - of any article, always ask: “Why are these bastards lying to us?”
It is right under the video:

Aired: 02/24/09 - Expired: 12/15/15
Did the Universe Just Happen?
Thank you and all of the contributors for this, it's basically an essential tool for me when writing common lisp.
This looks amazing! How steep would you say is the learning curve? Is it worth it?
“employment” or “usefulness” isn’t the threat.
French economist scours spreadsheets to find secret offshore accounts
The Chinese Instagram Village
Yes because in scenario 1 your running code that you write outside of the template and in scenario two you’re calling out custom code....
Yes, hence my first comment that this was surprising to me.
>Keep in mind that they will only take a payment processing fee, unlike other services that charge a cut from the payment in order to pay for their services...

How are those different exactly?
I am growing bamboo for quite a while, and at least for the kinds which survive in European climate, you cannot cause a cut off part to sprout roots. But as bamboo is spreading via the roots, you can just cut off parts and replant it.
Products have changed, but also UI design tends to be driven (or at least influenced) by marketing. And marketing trends change regularly driving a need for markup and styling to be revisited.

In theory, this is just marketing, but in practice if often turns into much more.
Decentralizing AI: Dreamers vs. Pragmatists
The third sentence of the article makes the claim of the title without the scary headline.

"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."

So that's the story, the govt. has prepared some statements, vigils and inter faith events in the case of a terrorist attack.

Read this way, and compared against the alternative of not making such plans, it's not such shock.
Getting a cluster to guarantee that something happens excatly once is very hard, but doing things exactly once is an extremely useful property in banking. Using a single earthquake-proof computer with redundant everything, including hot-swappable RAM and CPU gives you similar reliability while making it much easier to achieve many desirable properties. Even if you can do the same in a cluster, spending more on hardware to reduce software complexity is worth it when bugs might cost you millions or billions of dollars.
Let's not forget about the Huawei ban, less than a week ago!

You need a ball of steel to trade in this stock.
Thus the word "stereotypical" and the sarcasm quotes around "Arab/Muslim terrorist." That's what people think a terrorist looks like. Of course an actual terrorist would try to blend in as much as possible.
"Brainwashing" would require the populace to actually have a normally-functioning brain. I'd
say this is what brexit has clearly disproven.
It is different, because the amount the wholesaler bought it for is not the only cost he has. He also has rent, labour and who knows what else, and not all of those withhold VAT on their end. In fact, in business-to-business transactions, VAT is often ignored, because the only that matters is the value at the end point where it's sold to the consumer or another non-VAT-paying entity.

At the end point, VAT is a revenue tax, not a profit tax. And revenue is certainly not the same thing as profit.
That’s a good point. Those can actually put out up to 30A current at 3.6v. Doing so, they sure won’t last long. They are only 2000mAh batteries.

My battery test was wrong, still, there are no 50W laser diodes out there. We’re doing well to get 1/10 of that power output.
He severely misunderstands the relevant issues I think. Here is a much more focused and illuminating perspective, by someone who has never worked in tech no less:

https://jacobitemag.com/2019/04/03/primordial-abstraction

I ran into one of his other posts here [1] that contains some similar anti-gems (I don't want to pick and choose out of context) that tell me he has a knack for selecting a subject and going at it completely sideways, missing most of the substance. I found his characterization of experienced engineers who choose not to focus on the latest fads extremely narrow-minded and ultimately, dead wrong. His 14 year-old up-to-date "kid" that can teach an experienced engineer "new tricks" is particularly amusing.

[1] https://blog.cerebralab.com/#!/a/The%20Red%20Queen
> It was a bit like video games and movies where the bad guys are predictable and stupid.

Four Lions[1] has you covered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Lions
Using a real mainframe in order to run legacy code is probably the most expensive way to do so I can think of.