jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The 3D visualization software ParaView allows you to capture all mouse and keyboard events by logging each event as its equivalent in their Python API [0].

For example, say that I’m visualizing a 3D scene. Clicking and dragging in the viewfinder changes the perspective of the camera, so this is recorded in the log as something like:

camera.Roll(45)
camera.Yaw(45)
Render()

If more GUI apps had exposed APIs, this would be a trivial feature to add.

[0]: https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView_and_Python
Thankfully, cheap energy fit for Bitcoin mining is increasingly not found in fossil fuels, but in renewables, wasted and “stranded” sources of energy, as we’ll dive into next. [1]

tl;dr; The perfect competition of bitcoin mining is/will drive bitcoin to eventually only work off the least expensive (which currently is renewable[2]) and even more so on marginally wasted energy[3] or "stranded energy" (like a natural gas flare on a well).

[1]: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-will-save-our-e...

[2]: https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-is-now-cheapest-electricit...

[3]: For example, to illustrate the point, I currently mine BTG on a spare GPU I had because my house needed to be heated anyways. I turn the miner on when I want heat in my house (about 600w) and turn it off when not needed... This is a micro example of what could be done across our entire society
"Recent data suggest that space heating accounts for about 42 percent of energy use in U.S. residences and about 36 percent of energy use in U.S. commercial buildings."[4] . Every one of those space heaters could actually be a processor doing computation. In the future the "waster" will not be a miner but someone who turns electricity straight to heat without intermediate chains of value (such as computation or light).

[4]:https://www.epa.gov/rhc/renewable-space-heating#:~:text=Rece....
My understanding is that neurons are like a higher-order connected mesh. A bit like many fully-connected layers in a Machine Learning model.

You can't just read fine motor signals from any neuron, but given enough neurons, since they're deeply connected, you can infer a close approximation of the intended motor signals given a known output. That's why they need a lot of sampling wires in the brain; to makes sure they have enough data to make that inference. Luckily, machine-learning is very good at figuring out patterns in this sort of data.

My guess is that they train an ML model using the inputs and outputs when the joystick is connected. Then they can use the trained model to just generate the output directly from the inputs when the joystick is disconnected.

This will work fine for one particular monkeybrain/interface combo; however, you cannot use the same model on other monkeys. You have to train a new one each time.
Hmm I've been using the following: https://gist.github.com/932137
for some time now - it's just a bash function which lets me type:

$ show 3000 test

and get http://test.tekacs.com/ -> port 3000 on my computer using just SSH, assuming you have root access to the server (which you would need to set up forwarding on port 80 anyway...)

$ ssh -tR 1080:127.0.0.1:$1 vps "sudo ssh -Nl \$USER -L $REMOTE:80:127.0.0.1:1080 localhost"

being the functional line...
Write a LISP interpreter? :-)

This was the final project in the C class I took in college. It's not a bad idea.
Unless you happen to be retired from NIST and remember that particular device.
First off, normal glass also blocks IR light (which is a good thing) when the outside produces more IR light you want to cool the inside, and when it's producing less you want to heat the inside.

Anyway, the energy from sunlight is for the most part visible light so you can't really use most of the energy without also blocking visible light. The best option is automatic shades which make the outside look dimmer but don't totally block the view.
I think you're a little bit eager to defend JavaScript's OO credentials here. Nobody said anything like "objects in JavaScript aren't proper OO" or "JavaScript is not an OO language." Caleb said that he prefers to use a functional style of programming in JavaScript and tends to treat objects as simple maps.
I couldn't get this site to work. No matter what I did, it kept telling me my e-mail was invalid. It sent me an e-mail verification that I clicked on and it told me it verified it at that time.

Some other points:
- The very odd location descriptions seem to exclude Cambridge, MA (MIT, Harvard, etc)
- Skills: I'm primarily a C Programmer/Admin but there's nothing C programming, Cloud, Ops, or SysAdmin related
- Search Results: They don't display the useful information (skills, location, etc). Focusing on showing pictures makes it feel oddly like a dating site. A dating site is definitely not how I want to find a co-founder.
- The UI is lacking - Why collect any location information, like zip code, if you can't search by it?
- The UI doesn't scale - It would be tedious to use this site if it had thousands of users.

Also, did you check to see what other similar sites were available first? http://cofoundr.com/ was set up a few years ago by a Google engineer (Rami Bitar).

I don't think you've hit a MVP with this site, yet. I would have waited to post it.
So we will see weekly news about new strains and new vaccines to prevent them from spreading. This might be a long drawn process.
You're forgetting about viral tweets
In retrospect it will seem obvious that every secret services in the world would have taken similar initiative.

We are already familiar with Russian troll Farms and Chinese influencers / censors.

From a military strategy perspective, if we considere those as weapons, it would not be possible to let competing countries access to such capabilities and not to try to develop them.

Since generally weapons need to be tested to evaluate their effectiveness and since the staff needs to be trained, it's probably not the only instance of large scale manipulation launched by the US government.

Finally, purely on a capacity perspective, the work of those is very similar to the services offered by good public relation firms / analytics companies: content / meme creation, fake accounts management, generation of "organic" discussions / interests around a subject. They are already offering their services to the private sector, nothing prevents their contracting by the public sector.

What blatently lacks right now, is counter intelligence and the capacity of detection of such initiatives.

I will conclude with what i believe to be two recent large scale communication campaigns. Note that I don't have any evidence except from their relatively sudden apparition. The support for Johny Depp in his private problems and the various boycott of Chinese products in India.
It's not censorship because it's not done by the government. Don't like it? Build your own Twitter.
Fortunately this is a discussion about the known present as opposed to the unknown future
> Wouldn't repealing Section 230 mean more censorship and restrictions as the liability would be too great to be on the hook for what some random account might decide to publish, no?

Yes, no one is going to run a service that hosts user created content if doing so means that they can be raided by the FBI in the middle of the night should a user find it funny to upload illegal content to a company's servers.

Only entities that can throw millions or billions of dollars at censoring illegal content would take on the risk of hosting user uploaded content on their own servers.
At the 45 min mark, he says that "The astonishing thing here is, a reasonably good human chess player with a reasonably good computer is better than any supercomputer".
That may have been the case for a brief period of time and a narrow interpretation of "reasonably good", but for well over a decade, humans have had practically nothing to add to the strength of the top chess programs.
Agreed. I'd also add it's important how you discover DPRK News in the first place e.g. if it was recommended somehow via the platform.
If you could provide a better solution, a Nobel Prize is waiting for you. It is truly extraordinary what people have achieved. Especially since around 18th century (wonder why..).
I know this is a Bitcoin article as it involves people very new and ancillary to the space but most people in this ecosystem work on Ethereum as it's where most things are happening so I'll use this as my starting point. A good and respectable source is https://consensys.net/blockchain-use-cases/

Blockchains have lots of use cases that various groups find important. Most people only know about money (e.g. Bitcoin) and that's not super useful for first worlders like us but is actually a necessity for a large portion of the world from third world and oppressive countries like Venezuela, Iran, etc. Having the ability to trust mathematics rather than fallible human institutions is indeed useful for a large portion of the population.

The rest is basically realizing we are in about the 1997 era of blockchains where things are hard, the big use cases are still being built out and designed and it's generally just a playground for bleeding edge nerds. But it's growing fast and DeFi (decentralized finance) didn't even exist until summer of last year.

Some things possible today:

-Financial stuff: decentralized lending, borrowing, programmable assets, no loss lotteries, gambling, etc.

-Art stuff: NFTs (non-fungible tokens) allowing for artists to sell their artwork online (look up Beeple), games making their items digital and tradable and usable in other games (God's Unchained, Axie Infinity), sharing of real world assets (RealT, any kind of physical asset on chain such as a car or house)

-Organizations. These are called DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) which allow for an organization to exist and make decisions with fully secure digital voting which allows for employee owned corporations, gaming/interest groups, or even small cities or countries to run their bureaucracies in a provably neutral, safe, and transparent manner.

-Enterprise stuff. The Baseline Protocol by EY is fairly hyped among corporate types (which don't get excited easily) and allows for business workflows/ERP to scale beyond a single enterprise. Microsoft, Coca Cola, etc are building some neat stuff on top of this.

Most of this stuff is complex enough to have at least a few paragraphs each so there's no way I can do it justice or make it sound less crazy from the outside but there's a ton of innovation going on with many different possibly world changing protocols and services being developed so while it might not seem like much now it will likely be something people use without even thinking in a few decades, just like the internet itself.
I assume it means coming up with a reasonable emulation of signals, fork(), etc. Something similar to how WSL1 works, since Fuchsia is significantly different from POSIX in some areas.
“Strictly Necessary Cookies” being defined as cookies that are necessary for a site to function always frustrates me. In what way does a news website need cookies in order to function? What exactly would break in showing news articles when I disallow all cookies to be stored in my browser?
I think a major difference is that a lot of the mass shooters wanted to (or expected to) die during the crime.

The famous serial killers seem pretty different. They sometimes went to great lengths to prolong, conceal, and even justify their crimes.

I think we can only speculate, but it's very hard to imagine Gacy or Dahmer shooting up a country music concert. It doesn't seem like the kind of thing that gave them gratification.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the people saying "they have no good products" or "their only good product was a bagless vacuum" do not have adequate hair dryer experience to be making that judgment. It's interesting how quickly commenters are assuming that the target audience is incapable of evaluating performance when it doesn't take an air particulate sensor to do so.
If anything, I would argue HPC is one of the more flexible markets. A lot of HPC software is distributed in source form, so recompiling for a different architecture is seldom a big deal. As long as the system provides BLAS and MPI libraries, and good bang/buck, you're good.
Lobbyists. Intuit (creator of TurboTax) among other organizations tells Congress that if the IRS does it for us, it's stealing jobs.
> For me, these are professional tools, and reliability therefore outweighs just about everything else in my consideration of what to use.

Can't argue here, Apple is indeed the only choice in such case.

> and I'm not even going to talk about my experience with Linux on laptops because I have enough problems today without attracting a crowd of angry partisans.

I bet you did not use laptops designed for Linux and instead installed it on some Lenovo. I've been having solid experience with a laptop sold with preinstalled Linux. But Apple is still probably more solid.

> I don't think it's likely anyone else will come along to compete on the combination of compatibility, reliability, and active concern for privacy that matters most to me. I think it would be great if someone did, though.

I can't say that it's already reliable, but I have big hopes for the next couple of years: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5.
You're right, we're still not there yet. I love the idea of cryptocurrency but it's being treated more like a speculative investment vehicle than a currency for goods & services. Sure, you can buy some stuff with it but its volatility is generated through all of the speculators.

It needs to be stabilized if we're ever going to replace fiat currency.
This can't possibly be real.
But that's not quite accurate.

You see, while these guys are in Finance, at least 1/3rd of the above have serious hacking skills, not traditional finance skills;

James Simons - math, but closer to hacker than financier
Kenneth Griffin - was financial hacker , not a dealmaker
DE Shaw - another hacker, a computer scientist/compbio
Vendors don't want the bother of dealing with vulnerbilities and are unlikely to voluntarily pay those who discover them. It is up to researchers to use leverage to induce vendors to take responsibility for their oversights. Researchers should make the pain of vulnerbilities such that, due to public embarassment and resulting loss of sales, vendors are motivated to compensate.
Thanks, it works like a charm

Now I can easily hook up my scanner to my Google Docs
Crop wilting.
Great idea brilliantly executed.

Not only is this guy a fantastic designer he's also a very strong copy writer. The advert headline and copy is really nicely crafted.

I think a company copy style where they constantly profess things like "our company definitely was started by time travellers 33 years in the future" is a wonderful idea to actually use in real life for some high tech firm. Cheeky and playful it would get a lot of attention.
>The people involved obviously don't grasp that.

Or maybe they've just read and understood Brave New World all too well.
Illicit material will always exist, it may just be less visible to the average joe/public (who, honestly, are dumb enough anyway that it's a pointless battle to educate them) and the legislators are simply making it more difficult to track people by forcing them to use innovative and private measures. VPN? Check. Self hosted DNS? Check. GNUnet/Freenet? Check.

Dinosaur politicians and corporate lobbying will always be behind the times, nothing we can do about that except do what we do best: hack. Do the "illicit" stuff under the radar and keep your shit to yourself.
tbh with you i've used both omnisharp and eclim with vim.

you get full IDE features as well as refactoring inside of vim. for most things you can use vim as a full featured IDE these days.

well for refactoring you might have a few issues on, say, c++ and objective-c

[] http://eclim.org

[] https://github.com/nosami/Omnisharp
That's mostly true, but just like managed languages can leverage JVM, native languages can leverage LLVM.

The advantage of going the native route is that it gives you improved observability and post-mortem. The JVM is a VM (Java's) inside a VM (the OS's), and that additional layer doesn't come for free.
This is exactly what http://fon.com/ do across large chunks of the world.
Git is a distributed VCS though. It wouldn't really matter unless your only copy is on Git and isn't cloned anywhere. (In which case, set up a remote repository on Bitbucket/wherever)

If you're relying on GitHub for Issues/Wiki, then fair enough I suppose. Not as easy to get that data somewhere else.
This would only work if the coins were still there. If the Gox coins are stolen/lost, then what are you buying? A worhtless claim to coins that don't actually exist, and that you can't sell.
That was the PS3.
I'm not very familiar with deep learning. How does this compare to the biomimicking Spike Time Dependent Plasticity of spiking neural networks?

https://github.com/Shikhargupta/Spiking-Neural-Network#train...
It is just that there are no observations that would suggest any deity. Scientific ones that is, because we are talking rationality.

So anything else than atheism is purely faith-based. Until the moment it does not incommodate me ona personal level (by teaching "equivalent theories" in schools, or forcing me to wear thisor that) I am fine with that.
TAOS also ran on many other architectures (68K, x86, ARM).
It implemented a virtual processor (VP1) and evolved into Elate but didn't get much recognition despite its novelty.

TAOS was definitely ahead of its time, but rarely gets mentioned unfortunately.
I helped build a Forno Bravo pizza oven last summer. It makes spectacular pizza and stays hot enough to cook non-pizza dishes for several days at ever decreasing temperatures. The parts needed to be carried by boat for part of their journey, along with countless bags of cement for the base and stucco for the dome. I _earned_ that pizza.
No need to guess, from

https://thisdayintechhistory.com/05/26/bill-gates-internet-t...

to all the material discovered during US v. Microsoft, we know MS's plan was exactly what you said, after killing Netscape to avoid it becoming the new cross-OS runtime for apps.

Good point about MS leaving the Web fallow, which missed big opportunities Google and Apple (iPhone original app model was Web-only; native came almost a year later for games and for want of WebAssembly :-/).
Very nice! Just a note that I had to download a beta version here https://github.com/crystalidea/macs-fan-control/issues/435 for M1 support.
It didn't really take off in the USA until the FDA loosed side-effect notification rules in 1997. Literally overnight a huge number of TV commercials started playing.
Apparently this is the seventh one. I've never worked on a safety critical system but this is the story that makes me wonder what it's like to do so.
Probably liability to the Fed, but not local prosecutors for whatever locality Bitfinex was in then?

Are bitcoins recognized as personal property, IP, none, or something of a blend in smaller jurisdictions? I have no idea.
What if it has real consequences?
Noobie question: how do they know that this actually happened? I would have thought that having some sort of detector inside the tiny mirror box would disturb the experiment? How do you measure something like this?
Easy, just buy a book when you have finished reading the previous one
I see you're being down voted? I have been looking for an open
alternative to Apple's operating system for about two years
now. I am no computer wizard. I consider myself an average
computer user. Yes--I know a little bit about the command line, can put up static websites, but I am an average user; not advanced. I like Apple, but I want a computer that I
can plug an external device in, and with a little coding; I
can get it to work. I have always had a hard time with tweaking Apple's operating system. I know they are suspose to be locked down, but I find I just don't use my Apple products, besides the Ipad, for most of my projects. I end
up using a 10 year old Toshiba. I'm not upset with Apple--just tired of updating operating systems--then some programs and externals stop working. I don't like agreeing to 56? pages of legal stuff-- I don't read on Itunes.(Actually, I can't
download from Itunes because I refuse to agree to that
to the terms & conditions because it is 56 pages) Why do I own two
Apple computers--I acccepted them in barter for services.
So call me stupid, but I have been passively waiting for an
simple to use operating system not tied to Apple, but uses that beautiful
hardware. And no, I don't dislike Apple; I'm just not the fan I was a few years ago. Yes--It's a grest company. These
are just my, probally off base, thoughts. (Who would thought
I would actually be concerned about the backlash from a post?
I used to never back down from a physical fight; now I don't
want to be beat up online--yea, I'm getting old.)
Lack of regulation. You can go to jail for advertising equities, futures, bonds, etc. like these bucket shops do.
There is a good section about currency bands in Nassim Taleb's first book, Dynamic Hedging. It's a fairly technical book about risk management for options traders, but the section on Market Barriers is particularly germane.

I think it's valuable in the sense that it gives you a window into the way a skilled risk manager views the world versus the naïveté of retail traders. This was only a "black swan" event if you had no idea what you were doing.

https://books.google.com/books?id=-5-OldaTjVQC&lpg=PA227&ots...
Don't be so pessimistic. Drones have been used for search & rescue, storm chasing, and even precision farming (precision in the application of pesticides, etc.)
And one thread saying exactly what I was thinking.
Yeah, just like we also jail girl punk band members if they express something against the government or religion.
And how is asking for sources denial?
I have been interested in the "low code" problem, in particular the kind of advanced parsers that were used in the 1990s to attempt things like "edit the UML diagram in a GUI and change the Ada source code the way a professional programmer would".

Dreamweaver used to do this for HTML, sometime before it got bought by Adobe. Today Dreamweaver seems like it would be usable on a 90 THz computer but I can do 10 push ups waiting for the UI to settle down after typing "Hello World".

A split-screen SVG editor would be particularly good, since so much of editing an SVG file is getting the numbers right. You'd face many interesting problems, such as exposing decimal math to the user (whatever iffy floating point is used, your git commits are going to be awful unless you "snap to grid" in factors of 1/2 and 1/5.)

What I'd particularly like to do is have control of the structure of the document so I can group elements with the discipline of a programmer.

A tool like that still might not be satisfying because Bézier curves were made to make people feel like they were bad at computer graphics and took over instead of better alternatives that were patented at the time. I was shocked to find that my favorite character designers don't know how to draw anime characters with Bézier curves.
I'd happily pay that for a search engine equivalent to what Google was a decade ago.
This reminds me of a shareware program I had way back in '98 or something. It let you generate (or evolve?) seamlessly tiling textures using a cellular automaton with a bunch of parameters. I remember it being really cool at the time but can't for the life of me remember what it was called.
Did you ever use skypix?
Indeed.

It's not like we've run out of food or are on the verge of nuclear war. They just can't bid on their crap they probably didn't need anyway.
No problem here either, and I've been at a computer at least an hour - usually more - a day since I was 8 (I'm now 37).

I did have some keyboards that cause more "tired hands" than others in the past. I also prefer trackpads to mice. Lately I'm using Apple keyboard/trackpads.