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It's not about intelligent life per se; rather the more advanced life we find, the more concerning for the future it would be, as the likelihood of a great filter being located ahead of us increases, precisely because we haven't been able to detect more advanced life forms than us. Another interesting consideration is the Dark Forest, of course.

I dug out the section in Bostrom's paper:

"What has all this got to do with finding life on Mars? Consider the implications of discovering that life had evolved independently on Mars (or some other planet in our solar system). That discovery would suggest that the emergence of life is not a very improbable event. If it happened independently twice here in our own back yard, it must surely have happened millions times across the galaxy. This would mean that the Great Filter is less likely to occur in the early life of planets and is therefore more likely still to come.

If we discovered some very simple life forms on Mars in its soil or under the ice at the polar caps, it would show that the Great Filter must exist somewhere after that period in evolution. This would be disturbing, but we might still hope that the Great Filter was located in our past. If we discovered a more advanced life‐form, such as some kind of multi‐cellular organism, that would eliminate a much larger stretch of potential locations where the Great Filter could be. The effect would be to shift the probability more strongly to the hypothesis that the Great Filter is ahead of us, not behind us. And if we discovered the fossils of some very complex life form, such as of some vertebrate‐like creature, we would have to conclude that the probability is very great that the bulk of the Great Filter is ahead of us. Such a discovery would be a crushing blow. It would be by far the worst news ever printed on a newspaper cover."
> In absolute terms, tomatoes production still results in far more carbon emissions then less-intensive produce.

That's not what your quoted article says though? Not that I doubt it but the quote talks about different methods for producing tomatoes, not how different produces have different grenhouse emissions during production.
> The only answer I see it to ditch the phone.

Why not use a GNU/Linux smartphone instead, use Nextcloud and not trust Google or Apple?
There is effectively no fracking in the UK.
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Alright, so there are traces of Phosphine in the atmosphere. But what makes the association with life a credible claim? There are a number of possible inorganic synthesis paths leading to that molecule. How can those be ruled out?
Same can be said about Sony, Nintendo having Windows only SDKs, or not being able to target Windows from Linux or macOS (cross compiling only works as much as Wine can help).
The pencil's orientation might be deliberate as the eraser provides additional stability due to its friction with the back of the laptop.
"Even being used in tournaments" is not exactly the same as "hugely popular".

There is some interest, and tournaments are played now and again, sure. However, it's nowhere near the popularity of classic chess, which shows no signs of "going out of style".

To provide some perspective - on lichess.org (one of the most popular sites for online chess; the one where the high-profile tournament you mentioned took place) in June there have been 70,374,749 classic games played. Chess960 accounted for 285,788 games. That's ~250 times less popular.

"Stalemates happen less in 960" - seriously? Why? Do you have any source of that claim? I could believe that draws in general are more rare (lack of opening theory makes equalizing in middle game more difficult). But why would it affect the rate of stalemates specifically?
I don't doubt his (or her) PHD claim either! The casual dismissal of the work of a team of experts across multiple institutions like this just surprised me, and that parent has a PHD in the field made it even more shocking.

The team that worked on this said they were thorough in going through the possible abiotic pathways that could cause this on a rocky planet like Venus. Now of course it's possible they missed something, like parent says: "There's about eleven bajillion abiotic routes to phosphine". I guess it was a sarcastic remark, but maybe parent really could have saved everyone a ton of time and $$. They're publishing as a starting point for the rest of the world to dig into this now, hopefully someone nails down what's happening one way or the other without waiting on a probe to be sent there!
> I don't need much from a phone

But are you fine with it tracking your every move and tricking you into buying useless stuff with targeted ads?
It always astonishes me when people see the European grid and then somehow twist it into a nation vs nation fight as if cooperating with your neighbors is a flaw and weakness.

Of course there are some antagonistic nations like Russia that would gladly take advantage of a one sided deal but most countries in the EU are not like that.
Forth was available for the Acorn Atom (early 80s). Sadly, didn't have the money or time to go down that route then. Had fun with its Basic though...
I would have liked to see ARM remain owned in the UK. I think it's proven itself capable of innovation and organic growth on its own.

But how can we evaluate the whether that will continue?

What if ARM is not sold, and then (for whatever reason) stagnates, doesn't innovate, gets overtaken in some way, and enters gradual decline?

Perhaps that's unlikely, but prevent the sale, period is feels too absolute.
I have family members who benefit from my financial support thanks to my being a tortured neurotic modern urbanite. I won't get any of the "big bucks" in the US if I unplug or relax too much, now will I?
From what I gathered, they made at least _some_ risky architecture choices in their custom architecture that turned out not to be sustainable over the next generations. Also note that their Cortex core is indeed customized to a significant extent.
It is not "free", it means current shareholders of Nvidia are paying for the remaining money. Their stock is diluted on fresh issue of shares.[1]

The $12B comes from Nvidia the company, the remaining money comes from Nvidia's shareholders directly.

[1] Only if the valuation of ARM is "worth it" the fresh issue of shares will not cost the current shareholders anything. This is rarely the case , if Nvida overvalued(or less likely undervalued) the deal then current shareholders are giving more than they got for it.
I spent all summer traveling across Europe and staying at AirBnBs or with hosts on other hospitality-exchange platforms. I met a lot of other travelers on the road and some touristic spots were packed. There appeared to already be widespread corona fatigue; people just stopped caring about the virus and were willing to travel nevertheless. Yes, some countries imposed border restrictions and quarantine requirements, but those really only affect people flying directly from country X to country Y, while for overlanders it was trivial to evade those restrictions.

Ordinarily I wouldn't have used AirBnb so much, but if ordinary establishments in various towns had already chosen to close for the long term due to corona, AirBnb suddenly seemed like an attractive prospect. So, I can see the company doing well even with a second wave, unless (something which I feel is unlikely in many places) governments re-institute a hard lockdown even in the face of public corona fatigue and resistance.
It wouldn't be the internet if donald trump wasn't dragged into it somehow
Ooh yeah i found Hypernormalisation quiet een eye opener, my first thought was wtf for conspiracy movie did i just clicked on. But it kinda got me searching and made me end up becoming a casual consumer of geopolitical articles and think tank talks on youtube.
Century of the Self is worth watching but is not perfect. The last segment loses clarity and becomes mired in UK politics.

With that proviso, I recommend the first two segments for anyone who strives not to be a modern idiot.
No worse than a coal burning plant is not exactly a high bar for being good for your health.
Apple isn't interested in selling tech licences to other companies - they want to own their core technologies so they can sell products to consumers. And, as an original member of the Arm consortium, they have a perpetual licence to the Arm IP (I have no inside knowledge about that, just many people who know more than me have said it)
PureOS is a free OS endorsed by the Free Software Foundation: https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html.
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Dumb phones probably are able to use a SIM card app for that purpose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_Application_Toolkit
It was observed that orcas (in captivity) are capable of long term planning. Saving food, and later using it as bait to catch sea gulls.

They work in teams in a truly impressive manner. They teach their young the skills of their pods.

If I were to bet orcas are second smartest species on this planet.
When I read the first half of your comment, I thought you were cleverly describing and would pivot at the end to suggest HTML and web servers.
They look exactly like AirPods, though, which is a design Apple created, as an evolution of EarPods. When EarPods were released, they looked unlike any earbuds ever released, despite the fact that ear buds as a product have existed for 30 years or more. If it were as simple as “minimalist design” any of the 100+ ear bud manufacturers of the past 30 years could have designed something similar.

Apple never gets enough credit for their design work in the general tech community. Lots of design work can look “obvious” or minimalist in hindsight.
We have human industry to thank for learning how to make things at unsustainable scale, and social conditioning to thank for making driveling purchase-zombies out of citizens.
Honestly, I think Swift UI's mess of syntax really makes the case for lisp. Four different function calling syntaxes? Trailing function calls? Jesus Christ.
> In some ways, life without stress is boring and uneventful

Thing is, maybe a boring and uneventful life is all some people want.
That doens't mean that nothing should happen at all, but what's the point of enduring constant stress if there is no "boring and uneventful" phase between one stressful event and the other?
The boring part should be the default state and the ultimate goal you work towards during stressful times.

It's like saying that everyone should work not because they need money to survive, but because "life without work is boring". I, for one, would do perfectly fine without that daily task, thanks.
http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/phosphine-biosignature-gas...

Something along the lines of:

> To do this, they spent the last several years running many species of phosphorous — phosphine’s essential building block — through an exhaustive, theoretical analysis of chemical pathways, under increasingly extreme scenarios, to see whether phosphorous could turn into phosphine in any abiotic way.

> The scientists found that phosphine has no significant false positives, meaning any detection of phosphine is a sure sign of life.
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"The paper’s main conclusion is that, if phosphine is detected in a nearby, rocky planet, that planet must be harboring life of some kind."

https://news.mit.edu/2019/phosphine-aliens-stink-1218
Especially interesting with all of the talk about the unique levels of innovation that capitalism brings that supposedly justify all of the other stuff.
arbitrarily? Nvidia invests a lot in software R&D, why should they just give it away to their competitor AMD who basically invest nothing in comparison?
This is GNU/Linux based on Debian, so apps should be developed in the same ways as for desktop Debian. Android apps could work in a VM, see anbox.
MIT and Cardiff painstakingly agonizing over every possible alternative explanation, providing ample and detailed analysis in an extensive research paper, but nope, wait hold the presses.

Hackernews is onto something. They thought of something that could derail this whole project! My god, thanks Hackernews. Saved us a lot of trouble.
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If you have a question about the GNU/Linux phone advertised in the article, look at this: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...
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Your guess is as good as anyone's at this point of our knowledge, but, if they are growing entirely suspended in atmosphere, I can imagine that, even though for most common elements (oxygen, nitrogen...) passive diffusion (like respiration) would suffice, for rarer nutrients these organisms would need some kind of "scooping" to gather and filter bigger swathes of air.

Although these organisms may not exist at all, for all we know...
They're not saying Airbnb is bigger than Marriott, they're just comparing the performance of both against last year.

Also, Marriott is the world's largest hotel group by a wide margin. After the Starwood merger, there are thirty (!) different brands in their portfolio and their offerings run the gamut from 5 star luxury (Ritz-Carlton, St Regis, Bulgari etc) to 2-star-ish (Fairfield Inn, Towneplace).

https://skift.com/2016/09/21/every-one-of-marriotts-30-hotel...
> For many governments this a legal requirement.

As in Healthcare.
Looks fine to me: https://imgur.com/hKhPIPP

I'm running Firefox 80.0.1 on Manjaro Linux. The font is loaded from https://puri.sm/wp-content/themes/wp-purism/fonts/librebaske...

Check you're not blocking that URL.
Unfortunately, the more Chinese companies complain, the more likely the deal will go ahead unopposed by US/UK/Japanese regulators.
> Nvidia will retain Arm’s United Kingdom headquarters - which exempt it from many U.S. export control laws

I was not aware that all it took for a U.S. company to profit from bypassing national security concerns, human rights protections, and weapons proliferation limits[0] was to simply open a foreign HQ or buy a company with one.

Not that Arm or Nvidia plan to do any of those things, but it sounds like a regulatory moat to me.

0: https://2009-2017.state.gov/strategictrade/overview/index.ht...
Nvidia could still asset strip ARM, and then let ARM decline organically with redundancies justified by the decrease in revenue.
> A sign of life does not mean life.

But strongly, strongly implies that. It's misleading marketing.
Lottery with a min bar would fix most of these issues, especially the crazy extra curricular game that is played today.
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How well does it actually implement each platform L&F (specially the feel part), does data virtualization, UI designers, support for disabled people and respective assistive technologies?

Drawing buttons and windows is easy, the problem is the rest.
Let's hope so. Although Nvidia could go full-blown openARM initiative, which could effectively kill RISK-V.
A difficult programming problem in isolation is something I, too, enjoy.

There's no enjoyment though when the project manager (any other exec) demands that it be solved within a very short time. This is no time for eustress, when I'm being asked for status updates twice a day for 5 days.
Check the map at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_tax.

Where all those countries stagnant before the virus? Of course not.
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That feels like giving up, to me. We should have the confidence that British industry can development and flourish on its own merits without being sold off to foreign interests.
Where are people getting the "decade" number from? Looks demand for RISC-V just went up significantly and it's not like it's broken or not-existing, RISC-V "just worked" a year ago already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19118642
Neo: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge "call rax"?

Morpheus: No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't need "call rax".

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Compiler has access to optimizations that are at the higher level of abstraction than what CPU can do. For example, the compiler can eliminate the call completely (i.e. inline the function), or convert a dynamic dispatch into static (if it can prove that an object will always have a specific type at the call site), or decide where to favor small code over fast code (via profile-guided optimization), or even switch from non-optimized code (but with short start-up time) to optimized code mid-execution (tiered compilation in JITs), move computation outside loops (if it can prove that the result is the same in all iterations), and many other things...
Such as? https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/anticompetitive-practices
You've made your point very clearly, and I can't disagree. Thanks.
My use is exclusively "this will end up on paper in a minute", so any improvement would be irrelevant.

Why would I want document type that can't even refloat on display size to represent any longer written text that is supposed to be consumed on digital device?
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My bet is this will turn out to be one or more of the basic abiotic phosphine processes accumulating over long, long time because whatever processes that would consume phosphine are for some reason suppressed (e.g. lack of oxidants?).
Unless Facebook itself actually issued stock at the new price, Facebook did not get paid. It were the Facebook shareholders that got paid.

Really, it shows that the market valued Parse much more than the cash it cost Facebook. If Parse was bought with stock instead of cash, that's almost cooler. Since it allowed Parse to capture more of the surplus value they created. (Since the stock price popped).
"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."
What's wrong with stating a problem and suggesting a solution? Solutions are never free.
Being able to block ARM reference designs from Huawei's HiSilicon and other fabless Chinese semiconductor firms like Rockchip and Allwinner has a huge impact on the United States' ability to block China's technological ambitions.

Right now I'm not interesting in having a debate about whether or not that's a good thing, but it would be good to have a realistic and sober discussion about the impact on this acquisition on China's technological ambitions.

There have been recent reports that China's leading semiconductor firm (called SMIC) will be added to the Entity List, which will blocks its access to western technology. If true, this effectively scuttles China's attempts to compete with Taiwan's TSMC and reach semiconductor fabrication parity. SMIC's ambitions heavily rely on freely accessing US-aligned technology: specifically lithography equipment from the Netherlands-based ASML and engineers poached from Taiwan's world-leading semiconductor manufacturing firms.

On the x86 front, when AMD was desperate for cash a few years ago they setup joint ventures with China (THATIC and Hygon) and were transferring AMD's then current-generation Zen 1 architecture to China. Further transfer has also been blocked via the Entity List. It's also worth noting that AMD is in a much better financial position after the success of their Ryzen product line, so has less need to make difficult trade-offs by transferring their current-generation technology in exchange for short-term cash injections, so it seems very unlikely they will applying for an export license.

At this point, if I was China, I would invest heavily in RISC-V based cores, and openly release highly competitive designs.
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Well, I agree on seeing some signs of Corona fatigue myself: I spent a long weekend in Prague and basically nobody were taking precautions (in a couple of museums I asked if I had to keep my mask on and the answer was "well, if you want, no problem for us, but it is not mandatory").

Guess what? Two weeks later Prague area has been declared a Red Zone (at least for Germany) so if you want to travel there you must quarantine when you are back.
Where to point then? You have to get manufacturing countries on board with reducing emissions but its hard because the outsourcing benefits them massively economically.

What next, point fingers at where when African nations want to build their electrical networks, roads where to burn oil with automobiles? It's a difficult situation to solve, "just install solar" won't cut it.
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This just means "Nepotism is real". Results should carry to all countries, though I doubt that large and present studies are available.
So. Do you understand, for example, the intricacies of x86 microcode and how its executed on all Intel microarchitechtures relevant today: from Sunny Bridge to Sandy Cove?

I don't remember who said that, but it's a really smart observation: Civilization is not just the state of society when there are lots of smart professionals, orchestrated together to provide infrastructure, and tools, and goods, and services, it's a state of society when almost everyone routinely uses the fruits of labour of those professionals without even being aware of that labour. That's the point: that it Just Works™. You don't have to think about it.
Considering how strong the tardigrades, wouldn't surprise me that much if we found life in this form in Venus.
No good reason :-)
About as successful as Linux I guess, which now powers the vast bulk of all CPU's capable of running it.

Having Ubuntu on Desktops, RedHat on some corporate servers, Debian on others, Pine in VM's, raspberian on rpi's, openwrt on routers, Android on mobile phones, yada, yada, yada doesn't seem to have done Linux any damage. Quite the reverse. It's almost certainly a major factor in Linux wiping the floor against Windows. Microsoft doesn't have the manpower to turn Windows into something that address all those niche's. While it's true Microsoft have succesfully defended the desktop for now, they have in the mean time lost the war on every other front.
Which doesn’t help since the Senate has far more power than the house. It confirms judges who have lifetime appointments and cabinet members.
Show HN: Mob Translate – Translation for Australian Aboriginal Languages
So the site is mostly a prototype at this point -> https://mobtranslate.com/

I'm building it out to be a fully open source and community driven project -> https://github.com/australia/mobtranslate-server

I've also only started work on my own tribes language (Kuku Yalanji)

We have a dictionary in PDF form -> http://www.ausil.org.au/sites/ausil/files/WP-B-7%20Kuku-Yal%...

And I'm currently manually transcribing it all into YAML -> https://github.com/australia/mobtranslate-server/blob/master...

I'm trying to keep the project simple but with enough consideration to keep it robust.

I'd love if anyone is interested enough to perhaps lend a hand. I'm always looking out for any other indigenous developers to network with. (I believe I've only ever met one other person)

Also, for anyone who works in this space, any resource recommendations or tips for writing a translation engine. (I currently will just for likely word replacements but will eventually make the engine try to understand grammar)

"mob" is a common way Aboriginal's refer to each others tribes. "Which mob are you from?"

Edit: I've only added 20% of the dictionary so will finish over the next couple days.l
It does, when one uses toolkits that wrap platform APIs.
Or they just want to protect themselves and their customers from an US administration gone off the rails.
> Existential dread is like the background radiation of stress for this era - the constant worry that the climate will change more rapidly than anticipated, that reified systems will collapse, that unrest and chaos will spread.

That's not existential dread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism#Angst_and_dread
Yes, this is definitely the right approach for native apps.