skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Large numbers of people are associated with cities, and financial poverty is reasonable proxy for quality of life in a city context, on average.

Exactly. Thing is, cities didn't emerge out of themselves. The underlying dynamic is the Agricultural Revolution of 12.000 years ago.

Moreover, I argue that we're with billions today less because of our own individual volition, but thanks to the invention of another agricultural revolution spawned by the Industrial Revolution: synthetic fertilizer, machinery, etc.

The emergence of cities and metropolitan areas is caused by another dynamic: specialization. If you don't have to gather / hunt food, you can become a specialist. Money and finance are belief systems that helped galvanize that dynamic. As such, urbanization is the collective result of an individual adaptation strategy: get close to a large group of people with lots of demands for specialists. This ranges from doctors to factory workers.

The fundamental problem with poverty, then, is that the survival of an individual doesn't depend on social cohesion in a small tribe. It depends largely on market dynamics of supply and demand for specialist labour. Moreover, the cost of switching between specialisms is prohibitively high (i.e. factory worker becomes lawyer).

Yuval Harari laments the emergence of agriculture and cities as a disaster for Humanity in his seminal work "Sapiens". He makes a worthwhile point to consider.

> Additionally, the traditional tribe scenario never supported large numbers of people, which is what is measured by the average life expectancy.

Ultimately, there is absolutely no moral argument or reason, outside of our own thinking, to be found in nature that obligates us to become a multi-billion species of which each individual should live according to European / Western living standards.

Equally, there's no argument, outside of our own thinking, to be found in nature that says each and everyone is entitled to live at least 80 years; or have biological kids. One can aspire and hope that will happen, but reality just doesn't give out any guarantees.

That type existential precariousness and uncertainty is well understood in small tribes and deeply ingrained in their cultures.

Now, to be clear, I don't want to make that case that living in small tribes is better then living in cities. Absolutely not. My point is that both are vastly different ways of living life and comparing them from the vantage point "one is better then the other", simply doesn't make much if any sense. What we can do is try to understand that tribal / traditional living is just as valid as a survival strategy and comes with it's own advantages and downsides.

Hence why I vehemently disagree with Harari when he laments agriculture and cities. That's just one-sided value attribution.

If we want to live in a society that forcefully favors large metropolitan cities, large industries, optimized specialization and so on: fine. But then we have to accept that poverty will be a thing and there will always be large swathes of the living who have to make do with the left-overs.
I've got 2 laptops with no issues. One is a 16" that came with Catalina, the other is a 2018 that I upgraded.
How about why are not more rich people intelligent? From my limited experience I have found that the most outstanding characteristic of those who I have met/crossed paths with that are rich is not intelligence, but a lack of ethics/morals.
Did he call himself a genius?
Loom to farmer to table.
>there are speculations that the underwater pyramids of Yonaguni could be the remains of a civilization 5 thousands years old

As far as I'm aware, the all but universal consensus among archaeologists and scholars (and the Japanese government) is that the "underwater pyramids" of Yonaguni are entirely natural.
I thought it was pretty much accepted that IQ is very important for success but it is not enough. Among the Big 5 personality traits, Conscientiousness is very important too. Conscientiousness includes (Competence, Order, Dutifulness, Achievement striving, Self discipline, Deliberation). So it makes sense. You have to be Smart, Conscientious and Lucky.
> Most of the well known plugins like Serum, LFO Tool and Massive are not available either

Though everything that those VSTs can do, can also be done in Bitwig Studio starting from v3.

> miss out on the ASIO control panel

What does this add that the usual tools in Linux can't fix? Also, it's recommended to go with class compliant USB audio interfaces or otherwise interfaces that are supported on Linux. Going with MOTU gear for example is a bad idea.
> This is not something Github supports.

actually, they do now[1], but only for enterprise accounts. Which is a shame - this is useful for "normal people" too.

1: https://help.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-or...
Funny how the article doesn't even question the premise that all people want to get richer.
The design of this website tho. <3
I'm not sure how I can respond to that, given explicitly in the text we have -

> The only symptom is credits mysteriously disappearing from people’s accounts. Your QA and monitoring won’t find this.

and

> It will cause your customers to lose money and stop trusting you.

Thread over I guess... :shrug:
The motor is not all that important here.

It is about masterfully selecting gearing, while also keeping friction in check all the while load balancing across the numerous flimsy plastic axles. A tour-de-force in engineering.
> "Beside the obvious: cloture is a parliamentary procedure to end debate on a subject, and I would like to end certain debates. Yes, Common Lisp is “modern.” Yes, Clojure is a Lisp."

Im interested to see how well this will fare. Personally, Im a little depressed that Clojure-in-Clojure has been postponed for nearly a decade. It would have made changing compiler targets much easier.
It’s so hard to follow some nuggets. This article seems hastily written for the sake of pushing content.
A technical critique of the free energy principle in “Life as we know it”
I remember trying to download Winamp 3 at school. The web filter would block it because it found the string 'mp3' in the URL. In retrospect the administrator wouldn't have seen any more use in allowing students to download a media player than to let them spend bandwidth on the media itself. Up until 2003 ~300 students split a T1. In that year the city started offering municipal broadband and the school switched to 2x 3M/256k DSL.
Weight: 67g bottom out if using Panda springs, 100gf bottom out if using Halo True springs

That is ridiculously stiff. I wonder how comfortable they are for extended periods of typing.
Well, no one moved to a new OSX release on their main machines until .1 at least. That applied to Snow Leopard as well. And so SL wasn’t penalized for that.

The difference was that the non annual release cycle meant that the .0 version was a significantly smaller proportion of Snow Leopards life cycle, than is the case for recent annual releases of OSX.

Let’s assume Apple takes 3 months to stabilize an OS right after release. If you’re always up to date, an annual release cycle means that for 25% of your time, you’re using an unstable version of the OS. A 2 year cycle would mean that you’re using an unstable version for only 12.5% of your time. That’s a very significant change.

And in practice I think it’s worse because with the non annual release cycles, most OSX devs would use the time right after release to stabilize the OS. Whereas with the annual release cycle, it’s apparent that most devs’ priorities shift to next years OS instead.
TwoMinutePapers an absolute joy to watch; research developments on ML
it really all depends on the requirements.

i use to think wordpress had the worst schema in the world. after actually using it and writing plugins for it, i've come to the conclusion that it is genius. their schema design really makes it very easy for others to "extend" the structure without having to actually alter the schema.

to elaborate on what i mean by extend, wordpress's schema is basically a post table that has the very minimal required columns for creating a post (like the title, date, status and a couple of other), the post_meta table references that post table and basically is used like a huge key/value store. really all it is post_id column (which reference back to the posts table), a key column and a value column. You can add whatever you want to a post by adding them to the post_meta.

this design is copied for all other areas as well, such as users, comments and what have you.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Database_Description

now obviously this kind of design isn't going to work for something like a financial institution where you most likely want a ton of referential integrity built into the schema to prevent accidental data lost and to validate data input, but for a CMS it works very well.

again... it all depends on what the system requirements are.
The article prominently mentions partner choice, which is different than hard work.

If your partner is on meth or likes to commit felonies, you probably won't become rich soon.
I long back to the days when we said security is compromised when a adversary had physical access and that zero point many zero's 1 dollar jumper physically setting things to read only works just fine.
Today I primarily don't trust my systems because of the manufacturers seeing me -the owner- as the #1 security risk and favoring corporate interest over client interest.
I can take that. Thanks.
> It is not undue revisionism.

Any level of revisionism is undue.
Why are many rich people dumb? Because many of them just inherited their fortunes. That article isn't worth any time.
While visualizations like stuffin.space are fun to look at, I think they add to the perception problem. The GP's comment was that space is huge compared to the number of human-made satellites. This cannot be refuted by pointing to a visualization that at the default zoom level represents small communications satellites to be the size of Rhode Island.
Apple MacBook is spotted running Windows 10x
What made you like Winamp3? All I remember about it was that it was a slow hot mess that didn't load my old playlists, and went back to 2.something after a month.
I had been under the impression that it's a hemp/linen mix...

Nope. From [1]: Federal Reserve Notes are made of 75% cotton and 25% linen fibers.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Note
DatabaseAnswers[1] has been a valuable resource of learning for me.
[1] http://www.databaseanswers.org/data_models/index.htm
Business Email Compromise
The title question is such an american thing to ask.. Again and again, specially in HN, I see people who are completely incapable of seeing any other value in life other than monetary.
This article is extremely brief and contradicts the more nuanced reality of a lot of published research.

For people with higher intelligence, their income is generally higher. The correlation is strong, the effect size is large, and the research has replicated very well. Conscientiousness also correlates strongly positively with income in a similar way.

This article seems to start with a baseline assumption of what "rich" means, but doesn't state what that assumption is. I imagine it is a pretty high bar and the article is essentially saying "successful moonshots come from all walks of life/ all IQ levels."

Taleb has written on this topic and when he did it prompted a lot of discussion. He notes that above a certain IQ threshold, the correlation becomes lower, and uses this observation to dismiss the whole correlation. However, if you look at the scatterplots he uses in his own article, you start to realize how strong the relationship really is. I can't find his article yet, might be able to find it soon...

https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/02/06/correlation...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...

https://danielmiessler.com/blog/how-nassim-taleb-is-both-rig...

>How important is intelligence to financial success? Using the NLSY79, which tracks a large group of young U.S. baby boomers, this research shows that each point increase in IQ test scores raises income by between $234 and $616 per year after holding a variety of factors constant. Regression results suggest no statistically distinguishable relationship between IQ scores and wealth. Financial distress, such as problems paying bills, going bankrupt or reaching credit card limits, is related to IQ scores not linearly but instead in a quadratic relationship. This means higher IQ scores sometimes increase the probability of being in financial difficulty.
Not so sure about that. Apart from George Soros I don’t know of any multi-billionaire with whom you could have an interesting conversation about the pre-Socratics, the whys and whens Antiquity “fell” (my bet is on the early 600s in the time of Heraclius) or how interesting some of the Huguenots were when they were writing about killing tyrants. Most of the billionaires are rightfully more interested in expanding or at least keeping their wealth, and that is orthogonal with knowing and talking about really interesting stuff. But that is old news already, Plato had written about it ~2,400 years ago.
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> The difference was that the non annual release cycle meant that the .0 version was a significantly smaller proportion of Snow Leopards life cycle, than is the case for recent annual releases of OSX.

Exactly. That’s what I meant.
After searching for years for what that design was called, I finally read somewhere that it’s the “property bag pattern”. Seemed fitting.
Becoming rich and maintaining that requires a commitment that eats into everything else. If one has money in their mind that will taint everything they do. For some this equates with not truly being free. But one can be rich in other things as well, money is needed up to the point of becoming and staying independent and free to pursue other great things
They Documented the Coronavirus Crisis in Wuhan. Then They Vanished
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/ef1423999cbefd4f2a3a98ac...
Depending on what you mean by "all artists", there's https://bandcamp.com/
Why they can sue for defamation?

Is a valid opinion from my point of view
Thanks for the feedback, but that's fairly different from what I'm seeking.

To be clear, because I've been searching years for this, the main differences are that you are using a shuffled playlist rather than an ordered playlist that is sometimes on shuffle mode, you have to move away from the playlist view to find the album to queue, if you have a shuffled playlist of all files available then you are duplicating files into that playlist to get an ordered selection at the end of the playlist (though you do say you have consume mode on which is a further step away in difference), and you will have to reset the playlist from scratch to get back to a state of having one copy of all files in the playlist.

(I am now wondering how to add files to the top of the playlist (rather than the bottom) in ncmpcpp though :)
The article is just demonstrating storing application state directly in views. Which you can do in any UI framework and works fine for small apps, but quickly falls over if the state affects multiple views. That’s the whole point of the various Model-View-* patterns, and doesn’t become less relevant just because the UI framework offers reactivity or data-binding.
Maybe it's because the claim that the smartest, toughest, bestest people win in capitalism has little to no grounding in reality.

The article is basically begging the question of what capitalist markets prefer in terms of "properties" its actors should "hold". I don't know of any evidence that contemporary capitalism rewards "intelligence" apart from pop cultural and ideological claims. In that sense, the conclusions presented are in no way "new" or "informative".

It's just a restatement of a deeply seated wish that we could somehow explain away the largely immoral differences in the standard of living with some property suposedly outside of moral consideration (intelligence, gender, race - it doesn't really matter).
I think SIGGRAPH 2020 in DC this year will be lit ;)

https://s2020.siggraph.org/
Maybe highly intelligent people aren’t as insecure as this self-proclaimed “influencer” author?
FastoTV first native crossplatform open source IPTV player
Nothing will ever be quite the same as good 'ol buckling springs. Preferably capacitative buckling springs ala IBM Model F. Membrane buckling springs, e.g. Model M, are quite good too.
> I note that where we used to rely on media corporations to filter out bad information that's now sacrificed for entertainment value. e.g. Netflix allow Gwyneth Paltrow to show here "wellness" show because it's entertaining event though it's clearly bollocks.

But that isn't new, is it? More than a decade ago, that nonsense book The Secret was promoted by Oprah, and I'm sure there are countless more examples from even earlier.
Maybe because the path to getting rich has literally nothing to do with intelligence and is 100% about being lucky?
100% agree. Milkdrop visualisations were awesome. There are some replacements available (you can check out Plane 9), however, I find them nowhere close to good old Milkdrop.

Or maybe it's just nostalgia?
Remembering all the time I wasted collecting and curating a personal MP3 library (now replaced completely by Spotify), I wonder what current practices I spend a lot of time on that will be become obsolete.
The 737 max crash was caused by software whose only purpose is exploiting loop holes in a law so that they do not have to recertify pilots for the new plane. The 737 Max can be flown safely without the compliance software but then nobody would have a license to fly the aircraft.
When you think about large enterprise software systems with screen after screen full of data entry forms, with drop down lists everywhere, every single one of those drop down selectors is likely a database table. Every schema like that will have a mix of large tables (customers, products, etc) and lots of small tables.

I don’t think there’s a number above which you should not go, it’s really about how the data is organized and how easy it is to get data in and out of. I agree with another comment here about looking at anti-patterns first. There are some common ones that would be red flags.

As an example of what not to do: I once worked with a DBA who insisted that tables shouldn’t have more than 15 columns. So any table with more than 15 columns would have to be split into multiple tables, even if those tables would always have to be fetched together.
just came to say ive been a winamp faithful since 2.x and only this year finally found a worthy successor: audacious. open source, crossplatform, and bit perfect
Yes, I can see the use-case. It is one reason why I am excited about NixOS. I just believe with a good UI you can make it good enough, akin to TM.
Your view is not the German view vs the Japanese view, it's a German view vs a German view. There's many buildings in Germany which are rebuilds or being rebuilt, not for external tourists (i.e. Disneyland/Las Vegas) but for love of heritage. (I'm not accusing you of believing it, but you're perhaps entertaining it.)

But I don't understand this view. I like the design of old buildings. Why can't we build them again? It's just putting rocks on rocks. Why is it less authentic then putting rocks on rocks according to an uglier, isolating design?

In any case, we're constantly maintaining old buildings. Who knows how many parts of the buildings have been removed and put back, so they can replace some weak part inside?

I think it's highly unlikely that they will be lies. I went to see some old buildings in Indonesia, and they very happily said "we needed to make this construction more stable and restore it, so we removed all the stones, rebuilt the foundations, and put them all back in place".

No-one is lying.

(And if there is some problem, the problem is that modern architects always want to abandon tradition and build ugly buildings that look tacky in 50 years. Humans are capable of showing creativity and following tradition.)
Do you think the benefits of open sourcing will make that worth it? How?

I'm honestly asking, I'm curious how people do the cost/benefit analysis for things like this.
I think this is cool... but... personally, I feel that PyTorch’s API is more or less where I want a deep learning API to be.

TensorFlow is too low level. Fastai abstracts too much away and feels way too magical - once things start going wrong, or if you need to do something totally outside the bounds of the library, good luck.

Guess I’m mostly just a bit tired of frameworks for what feels like frameworks sake.
This article assumes that the pursuit of wealth is a universal trait and not, you know, a byproduct of culture and upbringing
No, you are not. I'm using macOS in betas for last 4 years, and most annoying thing is always the first beta release (e.g. broken keychain, iCloud, missing files, etc.). I don't even have permission-related pop-ups! :)
I did a quick google search and ISO 31320-02 seems to be available only by paying ~170 CHF.
Is there any text which explains how it is used? Even if I wanted to pay the aforementioned price I am afraid that I would get just a standard reference text with little or nothing in terms of actual teaching how is should be used and what the benefits are.
Palliative's primary meaning is to treat or mask symptoms rather than the disease itself, and it has nothing to do with duration. Current antiretroviral therapy for HIV is for life, as far as we know, but this does actually treat the disease itself by controlling the virus. Painkillers for a broken leg are generally only needed until it heals, but they are not causal in that healing, and are properly called palliative.

One cannot make a case that any given treatment for mental illness is merely palliative on the basis of duration.

Lifelong treatments are indeed not curative, but they are better than palliative care, which is better than nothing.
That’s right. Nothing stopping you having both though.
The owner of that publication is conspicuously absent...
18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated
I keep my credit card in the back pocket of my trousers (like I would keep cash). I need to reorder the card every 3-12 months from the bank, as the chip breaks from sitting on it.
> most of what I see there is just a stream of banal life events from a selection of people that I'd otherwise not hear from

This was part of the problem for me; it made me think I had more friends than I actually did. What I really had was an app that showed me what everyone I used to know at some point was up to, and many of us start to mistake that for friendship. At some point I had the epiphany that I don't really know the kids from my high school friend circle anymore, and keeping up with them doesn't improve my life. We had our time, the friendship fizzled out as they tend to do, and the healthiest thing for me was to just move on.

My life improved after quitting Facebook because it forced me to be more intentional with who I spend my time on. Rather than passively blasting everyone's news feed with something, I send it individually to the people I want to see it. It makes me be an active participant in friendships, which is something I've had trouble with (at least when using Facebook).
> It harnesses data to look for words or terms or emojis that point towards suicidal thoughts and immediately connect these individuals to counsellors

All AI rules MUST be crystal clear for the public.

In this case, all words, terms and emojis MUST be released to everybody. Not only the ones using the app, or whatever, but parents, relatives, everyone.

People will say, oh, but users will try ti game the system and thus and that. Well, that's another problem.

The fact is, we can't live in a world where AI rules and only a dozen knows the rules.
Does Warsaw and Dresden continue? Or are they new cities, since their buildings were destroyed?