skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, if you assume the technical model of each neuron only having one scalar output bfloat16, then we could simulate insect brains right now. But the technical neuron model of sum of inputs plus sigmoid activation function is only an approximation.

Neurons communicate with each other with a multitude of neurotransmitters and receptors [1]. As a cell, each neuron is a complex organism of its own that undergoes transcriptomic and metabolic changes. We aren't even close to simulating all protein interactions in a single cell yet, let alone in millions of them.

Of course you could say that full protein simulation of an entire brain is not neccessary if we can build an accurate enough technical model of a single neuron. In fact, already now we have to apply a model of how we believe proteins behave as "properly" simulating interactions of two proteins (or one with itself) with lattice QCD approaches is beyond our computational capabilities. For protein interaction we have pretty good models already. But finding a model of all types of neurons in insect brains is right now an open, unsolved challenge.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotransmitter#List_of_neuro...
India’s Chandrayaan-2 mission has successfully launched to the moon
Maybe if the study was not published by a pro-immigrant think tank, but was published by a think tank focused on, say, economics or social policy.
Oh I completely agree with you. Most are "nice-to-haves" but in no way necessary.
The World's Top Thinkers
That's a lot of spin on "to save money".

They mention San Francisco rents, but they fail to mention all the advantages of living in San Francisco. Awesome for the folks in San Fran to have their lifestyle's subsidized.

AND then they spread some FUD with "Remote companies using a standard pay structure are reportedly running into problems with their compensation plans" - nice and vague and ominous. Doesn't even mention what issues they're running into, just "issues".

AND then they end with the weak they " hope location band salaray gaps will continue to narrow", as if they genuinely wish they could pay more, but their hands are tied.

I think gitlab is a great project, but that is some grade A bullshit.
Asia’s AI Agenda: The Ethics of AI
Au contraire, it exists despite your refusal to see it.
Even the cheapest droplet can handle that workload. I've spun up dozens of projects at that level, and few have gotten hugged without any adverse affects.
you've got a choice in the matter. other people's children can be wonderful travel companions who distract you from the drudgery of your economy seat existence. or you can wallow in your own annoyance and inability to focus on something else. happiness and contentment come from changing perspectives, moreso than changing circumstances or other people.

i (try to) remind myself of this when i get annoyed with other people on both roads and walkways.
In reality it has nothing to do with fairness, it's a result of real market conditions. An employee in the middle of the country will accept a lower salary than someone in the bay area due to cost-of-living expenses. Same can be said for someone in another country.

Is it 'fair' from a pure salary-to-value ratio? No. But economics isn't about 1-1 'fairness', it's about the allocation of scarce resources at a mutually-agreed upon price, or wage in this case. This is partly why comparing salaries is stupid, especially across locations.
We aren't talking about America or Americans. Not that cops in USA restrain themselves...

Hong Kong is more or less an island, a small one. China can fill the "1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory" with soldiers and police in a heartbeat. Nothing you can do, cops already know the 1000+ leaders of the movement and they will be arrested or killed in the first hours. Etc etc
Wow! Why C? For fun? Practice? Just what you know?
The point I was referring to was that this is a domestic incident of proxy violence.

The Scarpa and Crack episodes were closer to that, but it still doesn't seem like the Pinkertons were the closest we came to this in the USA
Hi Paul, thanks for being open about this. I have a big, important question.

ICO, the agency in charge of enforcing GDPR and related legislation in England, released guidance earlier this month on the topics of cookies. One of the most notable parts of this guidance is that "device fingerprinting" is treated the same as a cookie[1]. And also that website analytics requires consent to use cookies or similar technologies[2] ("similar technologies" including device fingerprinting).

Now, the above guidance is related to PECR rather than GDPR, which is what your post is about. But, given the above, do you think that your software is compliant/exempt from PECR or do you think that organizations will still have to take extra steps to be compliant with privacy legislation?

[1] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/guidance-...

[2] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/guidance-...
Ask HN: Should I Switch from Android to iOS?
Every phone I've had so far has been an Android phone. I've always liked the customisability, wide variety of apps on it (from popular social media apps to small indie games), and the more technological features like direct filesystem access both on the phone itself and over a USB connection. However, in recent years I have begun to dislike Google's iron grip on the OS, and its seemingly unstoppable data collection. I like android; I am beginning to dislike Google.

I know the alternative is iOS, and up until recently, I've always disliked the idea of buying an iPhone. From what I understand, customisability is not as prominent, and things like filesystem access are limited (unless something has changed in recent years, I don't know). For these reasons alone, I would not be interested, but I am concerned with privacy, which is why I am considering.

Really, I have a couple of questions. Firstly, is Apple trustworthy (relatively speaking)? I know for certain that I do not trust Google, especially with their amount of data collection, but how extreme is it with Apple? Secondly, I've said that I prefer Android for its technological side, not its Google side (I have tried alternatives like Lineage OS but I did not like it), and have dismissed iOS as being lacking in these features in the past. But since I have never owned an iPhone before, I would not know if this has been changed. So my second question is: has it?

Sorry for the long-winded post by the way, I just have a lot ask.
The authoring tools and the published article don't have to (and I'd argue shouldn't) be joined at the hip like that, though. Obviously the editing tools benefit from being JS heavy. That doesn't justify polluting the published article itself with JS (unless the readers are editing the article themselves? Even then, though; Wikipedia seems to get by just fine without trying to replace half my browser with shitty JavaScript code).

> Just like how Ruby on Rails is slow but we deal with it

Not all of us :)
The countdown timer was stopped 1hr before the launch when an anomaly was detected. I suppose by some measure it could be considered as "first attempt failure".

The more remarkable thing though is they un-fueled the launch vehicle, fixed the issue, made it launch worthy, and launched it in just under one week.

I can't recall a similar recovery in such a short period of time for a project of such magnitude.
I flew in a lot of middle seats and it’s because I was a young unattached guy booking last minute trips at high prices.
I did, I found it too clunky for my taste unfortunately
"[Emacs'] idioms are paths to discovering and creating your own, and that for me is the definition of creativity."

What a great sentence which highlights a strength of Emacs: that it's natural for Emacs users to be able to extend it.
I work for a company right in the 100 million range and they've only been sued 3 times in their entire history.

It's not common for companies to get sued. 620 over Tesla's lifespan is extreme.
How can I be qualified to get a role as Frontend/React dev at GitLab ?
By helping to diversify petro-state economies in the gulf, you can sort of make the case that they're helping?
How did you get your first 100/1000 customers ? :)
> Serious question: what does a neutral view on immigrants look like? How does one take a view on immigrants without aligning with one side of the debate?

Maybe we should distinguish between an article being neutral vs. a person holding a neutral view.

IMO, an article would be neutral if it provided the strongest arguments from all relevant viewpoints, including supporting data.

I'm not sure what a neutral view would be, though. Aside from taking a stance of agnosticism / uncertainty, but I don't think that's what we're talking about here.
China’s State Media Show Hong Kong Protest Images, Fanning Public Anger
Equifax to pay up to $700m to settle data breach
It's not dumbed down at all. If you can get over the fact that a bunch of stuff has moved into icons and that a few keybindings have changed, it's still very much the same.
There's plenty of debunkers here as well.
Show HN: Tiger Boss – Real Humans Get You Get Stuff Done
I can't speak to COBOL-based businesses, but I work for a large company that uses primarily RPG ILE. Five of our eight programmers have passed retirement age, but are still holding on. Once they decide to leave the company, we'll will be in a tight spot. I can only imagine its the same way at a lot of other RPG shops.

All this is to say, +1 for consulting/freelancing for legacy tech.
Is anyone else bothered by the two different meanings of the word "observable" (data streams vs getter/setter/proxy), when you are never sure which one was meant until you read the code?

Introduction of D3 observable notebooks didn't help :-(
I don't think the 'space race' notion can really apply here, since at least in some of the plans for their mission, they planned on doing it in a joint effort with several other space agencies (including the Russian).

I agree that it really does seem like at least the official objective of the current administration (mostly the white house) only care about showing the world/the country/someone else that they're the best, that they have done everything, etc, etc, etc. Just like I think it's clear why they wanted to land on the moon specifically until 2024.

I would like to believe that at least for (most of) the people actually working in NASA, they view their work in a more focused way (science, global cooperation and improvements), and it can be seen by the projects that for example are currently being researched by the NASA astronauts in the ISS.
Hopefully, Krita[1], GIMP[2], and Inkscape[3] will get a similar amount of support.

[1] https://krita.org/en/support-us/donations/

[2] https://www.gimp.org/donating/

[3] https://inkscape.org/support-us/donate/
I think the GDPR was enacted into law not to prevent cookies, but to prevent collecting data on regular people. This seems to circumvent the technicalities of the law but not the spirit. The risk is that they enact a new law that puts even further restrictions on website operators.

I'm not sure this is a good idea.
My unprofessional professional opinion. The product looks great, but the name has to go. I can't imagine pronouncing that, let alone communicating it over a phone. Any simple word before analytics would be better.

Edit: pineapplytics is the obvious cute and available one, however may still be difficult to communicate.
From what I've heard, a lot of people have left NASA as a result of the month-long government shutdown this year. NASA is a political football, and it's not going to get any better: it just takes too long to see a big mission (i.e., manned ones) through, so they're never going to get done with the way our government is running these days. The probes are usually OK because those can get done a lot quicker.
This is correct, but with topography guided PRK, the surgeon can (supposedly) leave thin corneal areas intact.

I am not a surgeon, nor a professional of any sort in ophthalmology. I just read a lot. Might be worth having the conversation with 2-3 surgeons based on your experience attempting to correct your vision using contacts.
"It boggles my mind that not once did someone load up the "Medium 2.0" redesign on a Windows computer"

It says in the article that it was only certain OS, browser combinations. Don't know how unusual the combination was though.
The average is the not the median.
It's worrying that it's on Digital Ocean and seemingly can't handle at best a few thousand connections. I know HN is a popular site, but I imagine that a good number of people coming across the link today skipped by it.

I've got a $5 droplet on which my personal site is hosted. Is there any way to estimate what kind of load it can handle?
Not strange at all https://twitter.com/kahingcheung/status/1146092771003867136?...
I would not call H1B a "low entry barrier"..
At least try it out before, say, quitting your day job. Submit some pieces, get some feedback, go through a few rounds of that. Don't do anything for free, that's horseshit and teaches/proves way less than selling some words.

If your thing's literary fiction then LOL good luck, otherwise you'll probably be fine if you've got a bit of a knack for it, some patience to deal with the business side of it, and can follow directions.
Checked it out, and for my region their salary is barely competitive. Must say, I am disappointed by this approach from a company whose product I admire.
That's good news. Happy to see Dropbox thinking about the people who stuck with them from day 1. In the past few years they have been all over the place, trying to find their next big thing and in the process also neglecting their non-enterprise customers. Their core product is still the best in the market and an important alternative to Google.
Pro-immigration reading: this is great and shows how much value immigrants add to America.

Anti-immigration reading: this just goes to show that there are too many immigrants in America.
> The reason cited for this was that "a supported file system is required as Dropbox relies on extended attributes (X-attrs) to identify files in the Dropbox folder and keep them in sync".

Given that extended attributes are available in most of the filesystems used in Linux today, Dropbox still hasn't answered why they decided to go "ext4-only" for a while.
The Angelfire of today is Neocities, FWIW:

https://neocities.org/

I wonder if they have a "proudly hosted on Neocities" button, 1990s-style.
to be honest, I read CATO for a view that seems to favor issues with both sides of the issue. Example, they are very quick to point out that crime does not increase with immigration, illegal or not, nor are the same used to smuggle drugs. However they are quick to support the idea that illegal immigrants to this country should be benefits of the welfare state.

What it all comes down to is that like the rest of the world, the US needs to manage its influx of those seeking to immigrate here and yes, it should be able to reject any number of them.
Going back to the moon is just busy work to distract from the fact they don't have the funding or the ambition to get to Mars.
The purpose is likely to generate interest in space, and to rebuild the technology the US had to conduct missions there.

The average person doesn't care much about a probe landing on a comet, even if it is extremely impressive technologically. If you can show people walking on a celestial body, the average person can put that into perspective.
Fun fact: Only the English language calls the fruit "pineapple", almost every other language calls it "ananas" or similar.
As for the good stuff, who says it's bad for it to be hard to find?

Or maybe it's the opposite, the fact that information is so easy to find, and everybody knows it, had devalued it.

But the hard stuff ? Because it's hard to find, it has some value. Maybe you could become better at your job, comparatively, and earn more money. Or develop a unique skill and gain self esteem. Or offer some helpful bit of info for someone, and help the relationship.
The police in America have dedicated teams tasked with taking on protestors and have effectively infinite resources. Chinese police have the same training and resources, but are less constrained by the legal system and have more control over the media.

The typical American probably sides with the police over protesters in most situations.

The only protesters that can match the police are those with inside support. It's how certain people can demonstrate while carrying rifles without issues, while other unarmed peaceful protesters can be corralled, brutalized, and arrested.
Why would it not be? It's a mutual transaction. If an developer in kansas is willing to accept less than the bay area worker, whose living expenses are twice as much, who is anyone to say that's not allowed? If you forced them to be paid the same then one of them will not be working for you even if they want to; either because you can't afford to hire them both or the bay area engineer can't live on the salary.
Do you plan to switch from Ruby to some more performant language (e.g. C++17 onwards, Rust or Go)?
If they want to go that route, they can return HTTP status code 402 Payment Required.
And Avengers Endgame has brought in $1.5 billion in revenue. If India focused on commercial satellite launches it would generate much more revenue and employ far more engineers than moon or Mars missions.
I see that Gitlab does not currently hire in some locations (e.g. France, Italy or Spain).

Is it because of local laws or other reasons ?
Please submit properly, not as a text submission.
OK, that's my experience as well. Thanks!
The term you want is “microSD express”. That is the standard for PCIe and NVME on microSD cards. It specs out at about 1GB/second transfer rates.

Fun engineering decisions: It can use RAM from the hosting computer to store its logical block mapping tables so it doesn’t have to have DRAM onboard for that. That’s a clever way to use what the host has in abundance to avoid putting it on the price and volume constrained microSD card.

Now… how you are going to get the heat out of it when it is running at 1GB/sec. I wonder if we will see new microSD sockets with integrated heat sinks.
It's not a zero-sum game; multiple software that performs the same function can co-exist, and should co-exist. If Autodesk is feeling a pinch on their bottom line because of a free software product, the burden is on them to make a better product; they've certainly had the runway to do so in the past 30 years of building products and acquiring other similar products.
I've used jmeter to load test for cheap. You can spin up a VM and hammer a site pretty good.
great news! can OpenAI please open an office in London now :)
Also `<cmd> !$` to run a new command with the same argument as the previous command.
>This is an example of a publication optimizing blindly for Google Search Optimization

Many readers don't realize that in 2010, Forbes drastically changed their website to include 1000s of freelance writers. This "contributor model" was put in place by Lewis DVorkin[1].

This is why the quality of articles on Forbes.com is very inconsistent. Other publisher websites have the same problem.[2]

EDIT: add examples to train the eye to the differences:

The following article has "Forbes Staff" as gray text next to author byline: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2019/07/22/the-...

In contrast, this Github article has "Contributor" as gray text next to author byline.

One can also go to the "forbes.com" main landing page and click "Editors' Picks" to see how articles from "Forbes Staff" and "Contributor" are mixed together.

[1] https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2012/what-the-forb...

[2] http://kontrary.com/2011/04/04/the-devolution-of-the-huffing...
Russia Working on Breaking Tor
No Redshift support? Hmmm.
No, that is purely your invention. There is no contradiction with my own position, and there is no certainty involved, nor is certainty needed.

All you are doing is that you are refusing to agree with claim A in the context of this discussion unless I agree to unrelated claim B, even though you otherwise do agree with claim A.

You are simply refusing to agree that logic works unless I agree to making the assumption that I am certain of some other claims, even though you otherwise would agree that logic does work.

The fact that you can willfully claim that you don't agree with something you actually do agree with unless I give in to some demand of yours is not an argument, that is just destructive behaviour. If you are unwilling to follow a logical argument for the only reason that the person making the argument does not claim certainty, that is willfully undermining the conversation, and is exclusively your responsibility to address.
I don't see someone claiming they all were. A selection bias does not mean the issue causing the bias happens to every single individual in the group.
shameless plug - the visual language I've worked on during my thesis : https://ossia.io (https://www.theses.fr/2018BORD0037.pdf)

In comparison to other common musical vlangs (Pd, Max, etc), it offers a visual syntax for loops, triggers and conditions and is time-centric instead of dataflow-centric (so, better for making shows & songs than making instruments).
"once loaded" is the key. If it fails to load, then bummer, no img tag.

I'm also not sure about the background-image'd block elements, for what it's worth.
That part didn't make sense to me, since most "commuter flights" in the US are on regional jets with 2-2 or 2-1 seating arrangements.
Can I say "most of them"? Basically it simplifies ARM and the Azure API significantly and makes Azure operate more like "infrastructure as code". But I'd need to look at the latest version of Azure to see specifically what the remaining pain points are now. I could have a more specific conversation in a different setting.

I remember the first meetings about ARM when the resource IDs were presented, and a few people immediately asked "what if someone wants to rename a resource"? Years later you still could not do that (I'm hoping they've fixed that by now?).

It seemed to me that ARM was the result of some design by super smart committee, and got a lot wrong. When I was there more senior folks told me not to worry, that's just the Microsoft way (wait for version 3). I do have to admit that it's turning out they knew more than me (shocking!), as over time I've seen some of the stuff that was inexplicably terrible in v1 become much, much better in later versions.
I wonder if this is also due to the fact that many desktop SSDs do not focus on 4k read/write performance. This is one big area where nvme SSDs seem to have an advantage, their 4k read/write is usually significantly higher than that of other SSDs (at least from benchmarks I've seen).

Maybe even a lower end nvme ssd + usb enclosure would be the way to go to get the best performance.

Unless there's something about the USB interface itself that kills random 4k r/w performance?
Unless 55% of Fortune 500 companies were founded by Native Americans, I would expect the percentage of companies founded by "immigrants or their children" in the US to be much higher than 45%
Thanks for the concern here. We are GDPR compliant (and may be exempt from it). See here: https://usefathom.com/data/
If I'm reading correctly, this means they'll pay about €30k / year (see https://fund.blender.org/corporate-memberships/ ), and "assign developers to contribute to Blender's open source projects". The latter is probably higher value, but I'd have preferred if they'd already started before making the announcement.

Otherwise this just feels like previous broken promises:
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/125952/Ubisofts_Ancel_Pl...