skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is safe to say that the universe is teaming with life even though we are not aware of it off of earth. Here is a simple thought experiment: assume that there was a civilization that stagnated on our exact level of technology and interest in other life - when would they have detected us at various distances?

As we can see by this announcement they wouldn't have detected the first primal soup that formed life (we don't have any probes), but given enough time they would have sent a probe to our planet and detected single celled life, and they would have seen evidence of life.

At 5 light years (the closest start is just less than that) they wouldn't have had a chance before about 1900, and they might needed until 1960 (I give a range because there is room for debate on exactly what would be proof, they might have not been sure) to detect out radio transmissions. We would probably have made contact with them in the 1970s.

At up to 100 light years the above applies with more of a timeshift. After 200 we don't have the ability to detect ourselves (the technology of 1820 didn't give any emissions to go on.) I'm not sure if they would know there is a planet with water where we are (There has been great progress in detecting small planets but I don't know what their abilities are).

The farther out you go the harder it gets. Eventually they are still seeing the big bang form our galaxy and so have no idea life will eventually happen here (or where we will be as the universe is moving all along in directions that they cannot predict)
Is there any website, table or whatever that compiles all/most apache projects and described them in one or two sentences?

Nifi, Flink, Mesos, Kafka, Cascoon, Cordova, Hadoop.
I confirm it still makes sense.

I just want to make things easier for the futur Org maintainer by spending the next few months recruiting more contributors.
In what way is the net gain not clear here?

It seems clear to me that "even factoring in" means that there is a net gain for the employer, at a net loss to employees.
I invented a game called Arimaa that could be played with a chess set but the rules were very different to make it harder for computer. I put up a $10k challenge to develop an AI that could defeat the top human players. A challenge match was run every year from 2004 to 2015 when it was finally claimed (one year before AI took over Go). There was a variant of Arimaa that I didn't go with since the games did not seem that interesting. It was the same as current Arimaa, but without any trap squares. So no pieces were captured and the game seem to take longer to finish, but I think it may have been a more strategic version (less tactics). I still wonder sometimes if that would have been helped the humans stay ahead a bit longer. I avoided that version since I was not sure if it could lead to deadlock positions. Play testing to check for flaws especially at high level play would be way to much effort for humans. It would be less effort to have an AI check the game rules. Although there is still a big cost to doing that. The AI researchers in the Arimaa community have recently developed an AI that has learned to play Arimaa through self play. They have also brought down the cost of training from about $1 million to about $1 thousand. If anyone is interested, there is a discord channel where we discuss this kind of stuff https://discord.gg/XTAcDjR

More information about the Arimaa game as well as a gameroom where you can play it available here: http://arimaa.com/
First thing I noticed too. I’m afraid you’re now the security expert.. ;)
You can just setup a free website monitor or something to ping the site every 5 minutes to prevent that.
> Sure, the developer name "Develop App" sounds strange and should I have looked better, the developgameonline@gmail.com developer email and com.acazira.tforbusiness package name would have definitely raised some concerns.

Sorry that you have to deal with this, and well done on actually flagging all these things as suspicious. I also sometime make these tradeoffs, when something sounds 'not quite right' I would still sometimes make a judgement to ignore it.
When it got to the point when I needed a script, I just preferred Python. I can understand how some might prefer jq and a shell script, I just realized it wasn't worth it for my particular needs.
except he clicked the link, he did initiate the communication so your bizarrely overly paranoid guidance doesn't apply. Not taking anything from anyone certainly closes you off to the generosity that can be found in humans.
Religious flamewar is not welcome on HN. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's not just the HVAC system itself, it is the supply chain to operate the HVAC as well. There is waste heat from the power transmission system to get power to the HVAC unit, waste heat from the power plant that produced the power, waste heat from the transport of raw materials to the power plant, increased global warming heat from the CO2 that the power plant produces while burning those raw materials, etc.

Obviously this can be mitigated if you are able to get renewable power from a nearby source like a geothermal plant, hydroelectric, or solar. But if you are using fossil fuel power from a long distance away, that means any unit of heat moved by an HVAC involved many units of heat production to ultimately move that unit of heat.
When that happens to me, it's due to a keyword I hadn't thought of looking for. Then, while building the project, it came to me.
Yes, it did work:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22466733

Cambridge Analytica were the tip of the iceberg (graphcommons.com)
If you have been using Vim go ahead and try doom emacs. I tried breaking into emacs before and dismissed it two times because it was too weird. But when I tried doom which is designed to use Vim keybindings and be easy for vim users to take up I found it super easy and have been loving how powerful it is.

I have also heard good things about Spacemacs but I haven't tried it yet. It is a bit of a learning curve at first, but after three months I am starting to surpass my productivity on vim + bash + tmux and that's not bad considering I'd spent something like 5+ years in the previous environment.
ah thanks I wasn't sure what CAP meant now it's all clear.
Ellison is a large donor to the Trump campaign, so they're probably willing to move the goalposts for him.
There's a bit of Sisyphus in everyone's story it would seem.
That's a good summary. Here's another good article about it: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/03/ssc-journal-club-disso...

> Imagine we knew God flipped a coin. If it came up heads, He made 10 billion alien civilization. If it came up tails, He made none besides Earth. Using our one parameter Drake Equation, we determine that on average there should be 5 billion alien civilizations. Since we see zero, that’s quite the paradox, isn’t it?
No. In this case the mean is meaningless. It’s not at all surprising that we see zero alien civilizations, it just means the coin must have landed tails.
While a useful metric must be implementable, not every implementable metric is meaningful. Is the metric being discussed here meaningful? What is it useful for?
Been a long time since arm was independent.
...and worse, some of them relish the thought of tweaking those of us who do care.

It's not merely selfishness, it's sadism.
> They spend 40 billion on the control of a company, why would they do that if they just would leave them be?

Well, the optimistic reason would be talent-share. nVidia has a lot of chip designers, and ARM has a lot of chip designers, and having all of them under one organization where they can share discoveries, research and ideas could benefit all of nVidia's products.
"TikTok is an amazing thing. Whatever it may be." - D. Trump, USPOTUS
> Yes. It's not impossible. Just really damn hard to pull off.

Yes, any global energy system will be extremely expensive. Trillions of dollars worth of expensive. That it is a lot of work is not a showstopper.

I don't see nuclear being part of that solution, though. Why waste money on something that is demonstrably inferior? It had its chance. We don't need to invest in losers.

Fusion is not an endgame. Fusion is bullshit. It's Rube Goldberg on stilts. From an engineering point of view, it's pretty much the opposite of attractive. Keep It Simple, Stupid is not just a slogan.

DT fusion makes no sense in space. The energy comes out as neutrons, which get turned to heat. You can make heat with fission in space much more easily, and with much less reactor mass, than you can with fusion. The notion that fusion is somehow good for space comes from science fiction more than anything. It's a trope, not a good idea.
List of symbols in formal/mathematical logic
You must realize that leaving the country is not even remotely comparable to changing job. My argument may be weak for some other reason but this is not a valid one.

It’s also worth mentioning that there are democratic workplaces.

They are called cooperatives.

Another example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_Partnership

Relevant questions seem to be - why are they not more successful or widespread?

Also, have you considered working for one?
No q is an array language
> high intelligence.

Hard work, many hours of trial and error, reading a lot, ... anyone can become an expert with enough hours.

Sorry, I have meet too many developers that though that they had "High intelligence" and they were just arrogant incompetents with a little knowledge. Intelligence is worthless if one does not put the time and effort to learn and, as you notice, to learn you need to ask question and to listen to others.
This has been covered again and again in other comments. Thermal power plants dump heat into oceans today. The data center is much more efficient than a counterpart on land.

Ocean life and coral reefs are in danger due to temperature rise as a part of climate change. Energy efficiency helps reduce that temperature rise.
Does bzflag have something to do with this term?
You are in the right track. To actually make CRISPR/CAS-9 work for "reduce inbreeding" issues, we would need to understand how the whole animal genome operates and all possible connections between genes and define what are the recessive genes that might cause some anomaly in the selection coefficient and decrease it.

Without this map, how would we are going to be able to use a technique that alters genes and efficiently change nucleotides to avoid recessive traits?
There is "chronic stress" which is caused by unanticipated events, is short term, but nevertheless helps you grow character and get stronger mentally. Then there is "acute stress" which is akin to death by a thousand cuts, which was designed to be activated only in truly stressful situations like fleeing from a tiger, but this has become the norm in our modern jobs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apache_Software_Founda...
> the original idea of the US was sovereign states under a limited federal government

That's history, but not reasoning. The constitution adapts to the people's needs, I don't believe we've gone down the "wrong" path, but either way the constitution is neutral towards the debate.
People have a bad relationship with the uncertainty of forecasts, I think it's the most inescapable example of how the media's incompetence and desire for attention should be considered malice.

The boy crying wolf effect is a result of a media that can't even inform viewers how to weigh a weather forecast. The NWS has been issuing forecasts for over 100 years, and their predictive accuracy moves at a glacial timescale compared to anything else in the news. If they can't competently communicate THAT, what the hell can they effectively inform us about?
You can quibble over this or that equivocal result, but the very sharp platinum concentration results at numerous sites are not so easily dismissed, and are (therefore?) notably not mentioned.
The Edges of Reason: When Logic Fails Us (2013)
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The hard truth is that all the changes you made have little impact. The worst case scenario for species and the environment is pretty much on track to play out. But we don't like the truth do we? I see myself getting voted down for this.
Except that they're OnePlus Buds shipped in a OnePlus Box. They don't even look like Airpods, they look like OnePlus Buds.
Likely to do with the symbolic value it would have, it being the first fpga.

As current generation Xilinx hardware is already partially supported, it would seem to imply everything in between and in the future is doable.
Repl.it Database
Your view on empathy seems all-or-nothing. I have empathy for nature and wildlife which is why I have little empathy for humans, cows, cats, etc.

E.g. Cats kill billions of small birds and mice a year (think what that does to owl populations). It’s shouldn’t be legal to let house cats roam freely outside.
Yea, I know about this one where 1/3 is undocumented and sentences are non for technical people or super generic.
That one's probably thanks to hardware h.264/265 decoding. That poor 2008 MBP likely has to do all the heavy lifting in software…
So then this person would respond, "That's great. You and people like you should buy the land, and keep the diversity going. Why is that any of my concern?"
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Yes, but it's not because Android allows sideloading that the Google Play store is poor quality. Apple could allow sideloading and still have a better quality app store.
I don't think these are in any particular order.
I haven't seen nearly enough action taken, so maybe sounding the alarm louder will push more action?

==I don't think giving dangerous heatwaves whimsical names is any kind of honest 'science communication.'==

We do it all the time for other weather events, specifically for communication purposes. I'm not sure people think of hurricane names as "whimsical" rather a way to understand specific details about a specific weather event.

==What you want is people taking effective action.==

And what might that "effective action" entail?
How do you become an expert? Pick a thing and focus on it intensely. Keep coming up with questions. The harder it is to find an answer, the closer you come to being an expert. At the end of your journey, you will still have questions. When you are one of the few people who can find the answers, you're the expert.

> It seems like the important stuff that differentiates the expert from someone with casual knowledge isn't documented.

Experience is the biggest driver of expertise, and most people just don't document the things they find out unless they have to. But often the information does exist, if it's been around for a while. Ask yourself how the expert became an expert. What other fields might they have studied? What jobs might they have had? What similar subjects might reveal some of the details?

> Sometimes its not, but the knowledge seems to be locked in the brains of a few individuals or organizations and can only be unlocked if your'e lucky enough for them to take you in

Yep. Working with others is an important part of building expertise. Building relationships opens up new pathways to find information.

> On the other hand, a minority of the experts I know are nearly completely self taught and I'm struggling to figure out how to manage.

Relax. Expertise is not something you can force, it comes with time. Some things are easier than others, but if you continue to slowly work at it, you'll get better.

> Generally as a hobbysit Like I said every time I've tried to deep dive I reach a point where I'm not sure what I'm missing, where to find it.

Not every fish can be found by diving deep. Searching for knowledge is a normal part of building expertise; don't stress if you're not immediately sure where to look. If you get stuck, start again from the basics and question your assumptions. Try thinking about it from both a low-level and high-level view. Try to change your perspective. You will invariably come up with new places to search.

As you search, write down questions. If you get stuck on one, start looking into another. Remember to take breaks and get enough sleep, exercise, good diet. We learn best when we are stress-free, healthy and happy.
I've heard before that anyone can become an expert at something as long as the field is suitably narrow enough for them. Pick a topic, deep dive, and get used to that process. One needn't start by becoming an expert on World War 2, one can start by becoming an expert of a specific part of a specific battle and expand.
OnePlus buds seized as 'fake Apple AirPods' by US customs
It will be approved, the goal was to put it in a place where the US government (read: trump goons) could control and monitor it, and Oracle is such a place. Larry Ellison is a huge trump donor so there’s zero chance it gets held up.
If you use it on Windows and have Itfanview installed, here's is how you can do it to copy paste images from clipboard using C-c-s

(defun my-org-screenshot ()
"Take a screenshot into a time stamped unique-named file in the
same directory as the org-buffer and insert a link to this file."
(interactive)
(setq screenshot_dir ".\\images\\")
(setq tilde-buffer-filename
(replace-regexp-in-string "/" "\\" (buffer-name) t t))
(setq filename
(concat
(make-temp-name
(concat screenshot_dir tilde-buffer-filename ;; attempt to make irfanview approach work
"_"
(format-time-string "%Y%m%d_%H%M%S_")) ) ".png"))
(insert (concat "[[file:" filename "]]"))
(org-display-inline-images))

(global-set-key "\C-cs" 'my-org-screenshot)
When you say "short term," how long are you talking about?
Yeah, but they SENT the link. That was the initiation.
Arm CEO really doesn't understand what's going on. There is no future where everything runs on the cloud. That simply cannot happen for legal reasons. Additionally the internet is getting more balkanized and that further is against the idea of the cloud. AI will not be running in the cloud, it will be running locally. Apple sees this but many others don't yet. You only run AI in the cloud if you want to monetize it with advertising.
Building clients on other platforms makes you appreciate the freedom we have on the web.

Instead of waiting for Apple to fix SwiftUI, it's completely viable to bring your own abstractions, from React to Reason to Elm, to the web. And the cottage community that works on the most niche web abstraction is bigger than the Apple team allocated for SwiftUI.

It has its downsides, and sometimes we're all too eager to beat the drum of how bad the web can be, but it's also important to recognize the web as a fluke of history where we still have some control.

That said, I give Apple some credit for moving their own platform forward in a way that clearly borrows from what we've been doing with things like QML and React. I look forward to the day when my SwiftUI apps work well on both macOS and iOS. And it will be interesting if we reach a point where we don't need UIViewRepresentable because APIs like WKWebView have been adapted for the new declarative model.
First, remember the cliche - "There is a difference between 10 years of experience and one year of experience repeated 10 times."

Becoming an expert is not a one-time effort of studying. It takes time. I like the cliche above because it not only explains a trap many people fall into of thinking that doing the same thing multiple times is equivalent to learning, it also sets an expectation that true expertise takes years, not months.
Phosphine on earth is only created as a product of biological chemistry. This might be the case on Venus too, which would be a first sign of extra-terrestrial life.
I mostly agree. I suppose there's a question of "How much time." There are certainly younger people who are experts in narrow areas. That said, in many of the most obvious cases, they've gotten doctorates or otherwise have really devoted themselves to drilling down into some technology area (and working with other people in that area). So you're still talking years, even if "only" single digit years.
You'll see outlets installed 'correctly' (with ground being the highest pin) in hospitals. I've heard that the explanation for their most common orientation is because of our fascination with faces. I'm sure there's a better reason – but I do think it attributes to it.
Obviously you're trying to be funny. But nonconsensual drugging, especially with something as powerful and life altering as LSD can be, is as awful (to me and I assume other's familiar with it) as any other nonconsensual psychic change to someone's life. If you didn't know.
I read it as sarcasm...
Also keep in mind the majority of ocean life is close to the surface so this is also inherently less harmful than a sea side factory dumping heat and waste into the ocean.
> One of the madder things I've seen this year

There are still three and a half months to go in 2020. Things could get strange.
A ground-up new architecture takes 4-5 years.

Alibaba recently said their XT910 was slightly faster than the A73. Since the first actual A73 launched in Q4 2016, that would imply they are at most 4 years behind.

SiFive's U8 design from last year claimed to have the same performance as A72 with 50% greater performance per watt and using half the die area. Consider how popular the Raspberry PI is with it's A72 cores. With those RISCV cores, they could drastically increase the cache size and even potentially add more PCIe lanes within the same die size and power limits.

Finding out new things takes much more time than re-implementing what is known to already work. As with other things, the 80/20 rule applies. ARM has caught up a few orders of magnitude in the past decade. RISCV can easily do the same and give the lack of royalties. Meanwhile, the collaboration helps to share costs and discoveries which might mean progress will be even faster.
Yeah, I'm gonna assume bad faith on this one.

You're dismissing countless person-years of research, development and experience, across academia and industry, without providing any evidence; you're dismissing specific counterexamples as not being True Scotsmen; and your very gradiose claims are laden with weasel words.
How Cities Come Back from Disaster
I also found having a mentor is helpful. The mentor can give advice and help work through next steps with you and hold you accountable to things you say you'll do.