skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would surely make it super fast and super tiny, but sadly also super non portable to different architectures like ARM and very hard to maintain or even develop for.
https://www.popehat.com/2017/04/18/the-seductive-appeal-of-t...

>It would be and has been a problem whenever we aren't intolerant to Nazis

It's a problem you say? Weimar Republic were arguably "intolerant" of nazis with its hate speech laws and look what that got us.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/reasonable-restriction...
I studied a fair bit of free speech literature in college. Based on my reading of the article, I would have a hard time seeing his comments pass first amendment scrutiny with enough lawyering.
Nice.. really well done!
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Same here, saw the post, tested it and saw ISS was passing over my house in a few minutes, called my wife to go outside look for it. At first we saw a (possible) satellite, we thought it was too little to be ISS and the trajectory wasn't correct as displayed on the site. Then it just disappeared and when we're heading back inside, we saw the actual ISS, brighter, 2 to 3 times bigger, disappearing near the same spot as the satellite. It was about 2 minutes late and about 10 (land) meters to the right if compared with the projection in google street view, but still impressed by the precision.

Great job with this.
Wife enjoyed and it piqued her interest on ISS! Thanks.
I think that, the thing I know for sure was there was 1,024 total physics objects, which was tanks and pilots active in the world at any time. So if you built a bunch of APCs and launched them all at a target at the same time, at some point you wouldn't be able to spawn soldiers. No one seemed to mind because in those days the bar was lower.
Yeah, the main issue with listening to all the FOMO here is how many people automatically assume they would've held the investment from then until now without selling it at any point. The best shot most people had at that fantasy is to've bought a bunch of Bitcoin, lose the hard drive, and somehow find it again.
Ask HN: How can we see "content" again on webpages?
The internet looks so bad right now: most sites I visit have massive warnings asking me if I accept their cookie policies, and many at the same time have an on-page chat widget which creepily knows my email domain and makes noises. Then, I start scrolling and popups appear asking if I'll allow notifications.

It's awful. I can't see the content anymore.

Is there a way to fix this? Ideally, my browser would have settings that tell all websites that:

1) Cookies are fine. Don't ruin your site with popups asking me about it.

2) On-page chat is NOT fine. I don't want to talk to a human, and I especially don't want to talk to a bot.

3) I never want to be prompted to enable notifications on any website, unless I configure them manually.

Maybe there is a way browsers could pass these preferences to all websites... something like standardized "omni-cookies" that apply across all domains? Or use headers?

Does an effort like this exist? Someone needs to fix this!
Even a decade ago they had the ability to flash images at a brain and detect when one of those images caused a recognition peak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P300_(neuroscience)
1. Mostly, Postgres, as it's superior in most areas, but MySQL seems to still have advantages in replication (and, if you are hosting in AWS, there Aurora Serverless MySQL offering supports somethings, like their own Data API, that the equivalent Postgres offering doesn't yet which may tip the balance.

> Is it possible to build a hybrid database schema? For example, SQLite+JSON?

Yes, but many DBs will hold JSON natively and, conversely, lots of DB data fits nicely in JSON. What's the motivating use case?

> 4. Is it possible to build a custom file format based on SQLite or hybrid one based on SQLite+JSON?

Not sure what you are asking here; SQLite has its own file format.i suppose, as with many combined formats these days, you could stop that together with a folder of JSON documents and call it a custom format. What's the motivating use case?
Netflix documentary on Bill Gates reveals chaos, determination and love
I was part of an e-commerce company selling DVDs in the mid 90s, watching: Amazon enter the space, a bedroom porn operation start to rise in the adult dvd mailing market, and Netflix getting a start. We were ripping the movie trailers off the DVDs and encoding them, streaming them on the product page. All we had to do was rip the whole movie and make licensing deals with the studios we were sourcing our products from, and BAM, we coulda been Netflix too.
I see it like debug statements in code. If the only access you have to a function is from the inputs and returns, it's difficult to see where the issue lies when the return value is wrong. Having an internally accessible layer of I/O lets you bypass certain areas or get values at different steps to determine root cause. Could be useful for firmware testing, fixing ones that fail a normal test, and RMA's.

You would want to leave the circuitry in place for production because it's largely unnoticeable and changing it could introduce bugs.
No, it's not unconditionally a good thing.

Inference is very difficult when it comes to brain regions. There are lots of reports along the lines of that famous one - "the brain's love centre lights up when your iPhone rings" - when they're talking about the anterior cingulate cortex. Thing is, the anterior cingulate cortex is also involved in vomiting.

The current understanding of brain regions is very basic. You can make predictions about gross defects - for example, if your temporal lobe were to be damaged somehow then you'd very likely experience some kind of problem with language, whether that's reading, writing, speaking or listening. But what kind of defect would vary widely. There are very unintuitive disorders, such as someone not being able to name an object that they can see, but as soon as they pick it up they can.

So what we can tell from this study is not much other than just describing what happens to the brain of someone who meditates, and it needs further study to unpick what functional effect that might have. This is about brain structure, so a follow-on study might use fMRI to see what effect that has on brain activity. The cortex is the outside layer of the brain, and (although this is a gross oversimplification) is where a lot of "processing" gets done, so one way of looking at it might be that it allows more "bandwidth" for thought in general given the effects seems to be widespread in the brain.

However, intuitive thought about the brain can be terribly wrong. For example, fMRI studies which show brain activity are actually measuring the oxygenation of blood in the brain. The more "work" an area is doing, the more blood it needs, therefore there's a reasonably assumption that an area with more oxygenated blood is doing more "work". To take just one issue as an example, there are circuits in the brain involved in suppressing other regions. So if that system is more active, is actually means that it's doing work to suppress activity in other areas rather than doing any processing as such.

TL;DR Inference in neuroscience is wildly complicated, and this study is a tiny step in the direction of eventually understanding what meditation's effect is on the brain.
This seems to be a common misconception because of the way the property is named. What we’re referring to is the maximum speed of information through the fabric of space time. Light (photons) travel at that speed when unimpeded, as do neutrinos, gravity waves, magnetic effects and anything on the electro magnetic spectrum.

‘Slowing’ down light by putting it in a reflective cylinder, water or fiber optic cable doesn’t change the nature of the universe or help achieve faster than light information exchange - it just means some photons are experiencing a traffic jam.
Dependence on prescription medicines linked to deprivation
> They're doing lots of great heavy lifting to get effects and handlers into a production language

Sure, but at the end of the day what it means is 5 years into the effort OCaml still as limited threading-wise as it was at the start of the effort. And that is what most users (and non-users) care about in a world where 2/4 is your mobile baseline and where AMD's R3-3300G is expected to be 6/12 for $99.
It would matter if true consciousness transfer turns out to actually be theoretically possible. First we have to figure out creating a near-perfect replica (give that a few centuries, at least, probably) and what substrates it could be implanted into, and then if it's possible to really retain subjective self-continuity. Non-transfered replicas will also each feel like they have continuity, so this is a difficult problem, but there's still a lot that needs to be understood before we can definitively rule the possibility in or out.

If the former is possible but not the latter, then I agree it isn't really very interesting. It's just a new way to spawn intelligent lifeforms, but we'll surely have many ways to do that by then. But I feel like if we can actually crack that, then we can eventually crack the second problem, too. The most popular hypothesis seems to be a Ship of Theseus-style gradual replacement / transition for some level of granularity (perhaps individual atoms, molecules, or neurons). We're fundamentally in the dark in so many ways at the moment that it seems unclear if these are plausible, obvious, or absurd.

Possible in the lifetimes of anyone reading this today? No (even if longevity breakthroughs accelerate like crazy). But if human or human-derived intelligence is still around in 1000, 100,000, 100,000,000 years from now, it's impossible to speculate what we may be capable of. If colonizing millions of galaxies becomes a boring walk in the park (via self-propagating autonomous constructs, for instance), then moving your consciousness to different tenancies while fully preserving your original self doesn't seem that insane. Maybe future "humans" will even skip the "middleman" (literally) and just be "born" directly into a non-biological housing from the start so that the transfer step won't be necessary, and maybe the "A" in AGI will become a non-sequitur.
I tried out the WWW when it was ~1000 pages mostly at CERN, and was unimpressed... These things happen.

The thing with Bitcoin is that we were right -- it is stupid. But that didn't stop the early adopters from making lots of money. That's highly annoying.
Although to be fair, there is no reason why numba couldn't gain those capabilities, it just hasn't been a focus of the project. It should be possible to build a lightweight modular staging system in python/numba similar to Scala's (https://scala-lms.github.io/) or Lua's (http://terralang.org/).
Thinking in React Hooks
Right now you have a bunch of companies in the top 10 that see software as a commodity they either give away for free or keep entirely to themselves and do not sell directly: Apple, Alphabet, Facebook and to a degree Amazon (AWS) and even Microsoft.

Apple makes money on Hardware, followed by services (incl the App Store). The software that people actually run they give away (mostly), like macOS, iOS, productivity apps bundled with their OSes, XCode, etc.

Alphabet makes a living mostly off of services (mostly ad brokerage, some cloud stuff too) and gives away a lot of software (such as Android, the Play* apps and other google apps), but rarely sells "old school"/non-subscription software licenses.

Facebook? They do not sell software either, they sell services (ad brokerage). They give away a lot of software, be it their apps you can install (Facebook, Messenger, WhatApp, Instagram) or their open source low-level stuff.

Amazon AWS sells services. The actual software they run is an implementation detail. Even core Amazon moved a lot from selling actual goods as a retailer to being a "marketplace" service platform for other retailers. And with Prime Video and Music, they carved out their place in the subscriptions space too. They also sell some hardware too (Echo, Fire, Kindle), tho mostly not to make a ton of money directly off of it but bolster their other products.

Microsoft wants in on the services thing too, gave away a ton of Win10 licenses to make sure the network effect isn't compromised, and started entering the services/subscriptions market more aggressively with things like Xbox Live (the actual console bordering on being a loss leader) and Office 365, and to a degree the Microsoft Store, tho not particularly successful so far.

Even Oracle desperately wants in on the services/cloud thing for a long time.

Netflix is subscriptions. The software again is an implementation detail.

Samsung sells hardware and to a degree services and subscriptions, but gives away their software.

Adobe is all about subscriptions too.

Red Hat? Subscriptions and services.

Their new parent IBM? Subscriptions, services and hardware.

There is hardly any major player left that actually sells you software like Microsoft did. Those who sell software usually sell you subscriptions not the software itself.
Fair, but why comment on MySQL's supposed deficiencies if your knowledge of it is so out-of-date?
I find the "Be Right Back" episode to be more directly fitting here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back
> I don't see a problem with the current model..

The question is why you are doing OpenSource. If you are a VC funded startup doing OpenSource for marketing (engaging a community ofnusers, producing an environment of tools around your product and sometimes providing a patch) there is an issue if revenue goes to AWS.

If you do OpenSource since you actually need the tool and/or it's not your core business there is little issue if others are using it to provide a service. They might even make your software more robust and stable and better for you. As long as your goals are not misaligned. If they are misaligned they form away and it's like they were never there for you ...
I wouldn't recommend any of the Onyx Boox products. Sure they may run android, but:

* They run an ancient version of android (Android 6 or Android 5, I don't remember)

* This ancient version of android runs a kernel that is susceptible to multiple vulnerabilities (like DirtyCOW)[0], and the developers have disabled selinux

* Kernel sources are not released, in violation of the GPL and the last time I checked, it seemed like there was evidence of ripped off applications/IP theft in bundled but hidden applications.

* The bootloader is locked

* Access to the wacom digitizer is only possible through a proprietary blob, which has to be incorporated into an application that wishes to use it. Therefore, the stylus support has a tremendous lag for any application that is not an onyx-made application.

* Handwriting recognition requires connection to their cloud services

Their forums are down right now, but people have been begging them to at least comply with the GPL and release kernel sources for years now [1,2]. The last time I checked, there were 3 separate threads about this on their front page.

It's a really tragic situation for such nice hardware. I can't think of any reasons why the company wouldn't want to open the source unless they were hiding something or were afraid of getting ripped off by other OEMs. The only thing that the onyx devices had over the ReMarkable is storage, but seeing as how the RM can be modded to accept an SD card[3] and has first-class linux support, it's the better choice IMO.

[0]: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?s=42e53ed5d56...

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20190122063838/http://bbs.onyx-i...

[2]: http://bbs.onyx-international.com/t/install-linux-or-alterna...

[3]: http://www.davisr.me/projects/remarkable-microsd/
Goodbye Aron Eisenberg:( — aka Nog (DS9)
"The computer says you're lying."
What if you’d meditated when you were younger..?
If they were selected that way on purpose, they're probably just trying to control for confounding differences to try and make it easier to distinguish the signal from the noise in the statistics. Same reason that "there were no major differences in sex, age or years of education between meditation practitioners and control subjects."

Edit: They say "handedness was measured by Annett Hand Preference Questionnaire" which suggests that this wasn't deliberate.
I've seen a lot of reviews comparing the writing experience to paper, but I'm more interested in the reading experience, and particularly how much contrast the screen has vs an e-ink Kindle.

I've seen a few reviews actually refer to the screen as "e-ink"—but that must be a mistake, or the official website wouldn't use the more nebulous term "e-paper"... right? If it is e-ink, why is the refresh rate for drawing so good?
Could you provide a citation that’s a little more reliable than a quora post?
Also, the main other party in the 2000ish Blockbuster streaming service was Enron. So it probably would have collapsed or fallen into troubled times and been acquired, no matter what.
I own and operate Broadcastify.com, which is arguably the largest icecast implementation in the world.

We've been using 100TB.com for our audio streaming infrastructure, which is a softlayer reseller. I've been unable to find anyone else that provides better pricing for bandwidth than they do.

All of our Web infrastructure, provisioning, archiving, etc is spread between AWS and Google Cloud though.

Audio broadcasting on the Internet is indeed an interesting field to be in!
First thought: I think that given the polarization in politics these days, everyone is likely harboring a thought crime according to someone.

But generally we are not an authoritarian society thus we will likely not start this type of witch hunt. Other more authoritarian countries may -- those that already do a lot of arbitrary arrests, and forced disappearances, thus will unfortunately make those state agencies more effective.

Second thought: The first people to get subjected to stuff like this is the same ones who are most likely right now to interrogated or have their social media inspected when crossing the border. This will just be a continuation of that existing trend. If you do not allow your neural state to be monitored and inspected in response to various stimuli you will be turned away at the border. Give it 5 years.

Third thought: There would be a lot of health and education opportunities. See brain patterns changing over time -- like a fitbit-like attention/focus score based on passive 24hr monitoring rather than active testing (e.g. brain training.) One could use those metrics to optimize your live to maximize your brain efficiency. Second, long-term one can see how patterns change during development and it may lead to better detection and understanding of mental illness, especially austim, bipolar, schizophrenia, depression and ADHD. One could likely see early warnings of these and do interventions and judge their effectiveness better than just self-reports.
They’re run by the same company though. The SNCF is notorious in letting long distance trains first, making commuters unhappy.
It would make for an interesting website: the what-if of Silicon Valley. Another famous one is that Sun could have bought Apple. It was in the intermission between Steve years.
We're getting close to being able to tell whether someone is lying based off of an EEG, it seems like it's just a matter of time until we're able to read other people's thoughts. No one in this thread will see that happen in their lifetime.
Student Discovers Secret Acrostic in Milton’s 'Paradise Lost'
This is what is actually said below. In one study it raises to 100% when they already knew true or false for previous questions. But you don't have known baselines because what is your name doesn't have the emotional energy of did you kill him.

Counter measures is to store false data as true in the brain.

"That statistic has risen, in one study, to 100% when predicting a lie in an individual when baseline lie/truth levels were closely studied with training from pattern recognition technology (machine learning)."
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As long as you can cover it before the checking piece can finish its cooldown, you should be fine.
Should I pass my mind/memory by value, or by reference? Which one is more expensive?
The reason those airlines are so inexpensive is because they us Wray their employees, have to pay no tax on anything, and they get subsidies from politicians next to useless airports.
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I think these are actually built on 150nm process. Using a modern process like 16nm would command some hefty premiums, and some redesign work. This is what old fabs end up manufacturing: high volume, low cost ICs.

But you're right about the rest. The segmentation is achieved with fuses and firmware.
What happens if you're booked on a train from Company A and it doesn't run, and the next train is from Company B? Do you have to let it pass and wait for a Company A train, as that's all you've got tickets for?
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huh - it didn't popup for me when I pasted the link to facebook.
Breaking Up Big Tech
MSN has a copy of this article and doesn't prevent ad blockers: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-end-of-an-american-tra...
I'm assuming this is methemoglobinemia or something analogous to that. It's usually a congenital disease or one that develops because of medications. The two meds I can think of that would cause this are dapsone and benzocaine. It's an easily treatable disease where we have the patient take methylene blue, cool but not worrying with proper treatment.
MyISAM is considered deprecated at this point. It isn't crash-safe and basically should not be used at all, let alone for a new project.

InnoDB has supported fulltext indexes since 5.6 (GA release back in feb 2013). However, to be fair, fulltext indexes in InnoDB are not widely used and have a mixed reputation at best. Large MySQL-based companies tend to lean on external search services e.g. Solr.

I'm not familiar enough with pg's fulltext to compare. I would expect the functionality is superior to InnoDB's, but I am genuinely curious whether large pg-based companies rely on it solely vs using an external search index service.
I thought so, too, but I've watched a lot of Live PD clips from the past few years where this seems to happen, or at least seems to be portrayed, exactly as I described. Maybe it has something to do with the "reasonable suspicion" standard mentioned, but I have no idea.
Of course, this is a theoretical conversation. My point is that you don’t refute the claim, “low latency GCs are suitable for game dev” with “I used a high latency GC and had a bad time”. Nor do you conclude that GCs inherently introduce latency issues based on a bad experience with a high latency GC. There is neither theory nor experiment that supports the claim that GCs are inherently unsuitable for game dev.
Either you know what you are talking about or read the article, as that is spot on
I backed it up with 4 sources, and I get criticized. Meanwhile, someone who calls the fact that Prop 47 leads to more crime gets honored and venerated here.

If you want to be pro-crime, fine. That's your right. But don't lie about it.
And a very important one, Minecraft, atleast the Java version. It doesn't matter until you are running a couple hundred mods with lots of blocks and textures, when the max memory allocated gets saturated and it stutters like hell.