skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In his classic 1980s experiments, University of California, San Francisco, neurophysiologist Benjamin Libet noted a consistent change in brain wave activity (a so-called “ready potential”) prior to a subject’s awareness of having decided to move his hand. Libet’s conclusion was that the preceding activity was evidence for the decision being made subconsciously, even though subjects felt that the decision was conscious and deliberate. Since that time his findings, supported by subsequent similar results on fMRI and direct brain recordings, have featured prominently in refuting the notion of humans possessing free will.

and it's probably a data processing bug in the analysis! https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/free-will...
Wow they used a legal loophole to steal a church artifact and seize it for the state. The story is interesting but the painting has been there for hundreds of years, and was made by a nun. Would she really have wanted it to be stolen from a convent so godless materialists could ogle at it and feel good about women’s liberation?
Matt and Trey should launch TegrityFlix (TegrityTube?) and show only content that is banned in China, launching with an episode about "Tegrity VPN".

I'd buy a subscription in a heartbeat.
I’ve found New York is best enjoyed from a distance, or moving through it at speed, or through films. Other great world cities London, Tokyo, Paris etc you can enjoy up close while walking around them but NYC when you get too close any charm that was there evaporates because of the stress, traffic, odors, etc.
> “Courage is the solution to despair. Reason can provide no answers.” –Ernst Toller (First Reformed, 2017)

I’ve felt the despair of this article for a time (and the quote above gave me some peace), but some recent hope came from Daniel Schmachtenberger[1]. He postulates that our conception of debate in our current information ecology selects and optimizes for bias. He refers to the Hegelian dialectic as an alternative to debate—of an earnest synthesis from understanding both a thesis and its antithesis, resolving paradox with a higher order model. I’ve heard this described as steel-manning[1] another’s argument to find its signal (as opposed to straw-manning the noise).

But Schmachtenberger, as well as Bret Weinstein I believe, proposes that the game-theoretic win/lose dynamic of our current system is so entrenched that it really selects for this type of narrative warfare which doesn’t promote this type of open and honest information ecology for this to really work yet. So there’s something to their post-game-theoretic frameworks (Bret’s “Game B”) that make me a lot less fatalistic and anarchist about the whole complexity game.

[1] The War on Sensemaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LqaotiGWjQ

[2] a.k.a purva paksha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purva_paksha
The number of typos I see in traditionally published materials indicates that they don't add much value in the proofreading realm.
Have you used it? From what I can tell, they are servicing areas remote enough that they may not even have Uber Eats. Even if they do, the time it takes for a car to navigate roads and reach you will be many times that of a drone that can fly over a hill and cover hundreds of metres of challenging terrain in about a minute.

I am sceptical about whether this has applications within a busy city (buildings become a problem and safety becomes a concern) but I think they're going to be perfect for areas a bit outside cities where deliveries don't exist or the quality of delivery service isn't so good.
This notion that those blaming "trade" and those blaming "automation" are in conflict is silly. Both are true. Some things get automated here. Some things go overseas. Some of them get automated there. It makes absolutely no difference to the person without prospects.

Regardless, employment will get worse, but restricting trade won't help.
I hoped i could run this in a browser
It's been brought to my attention that the website and HN post was misleading regarding the "from any device" claim.

Booste currently only runs on Windows machines, and runs Windows apps. I have updated the plans page to more clearly reflect this.

I am actively developing this for other device platforms, starting with Mac and Linux on the device side, and Linux environments on the cloud side.

I'm the sole developer of this product and wrote the first line of code only three months ago. I appreciate your patience. My intent is not to mislead - it is to paint the vision.
It is an indicator. Not a rule.

100 vs 140 will be a very strong indicator. 100 vs 110 will not; I would not trust 110 to yield a better outcome 80-90% of the time, as GP claimed.

Which is why the comparison of IQ scores at that coarseness is plain silly.
Or, maybe they just liked their job.

Reminds me of the recent HN story about the lady who ran a large furniture retail outlet in Nebraska. She was something like 85 years old when Berkshire Hathaway bought the company. It never occurred to Warren Buffett to demand a noncompete agreement from an 85-year-old, but he says he won't make that mistake again.
Have you thought of the irony between the quote, your explanation and the comments you post?

I looked at the last 5-10 comments in your history. Two comments were for articles you clearly didn't read. Others are quick sound bytes thrown at people digging at the truth. It's like your trying to be cool.

I think HN is loved because here there is a higher percentage of people making long, well thought out comments AFTER reading the article. And the comments are generally aimed at furthering understanding, not people's individual ego. Doesn't always happen, but I find it happens here more than anywhere else I've found.

I invite you to contribute in the same line, that's what makes this place special for me.
> What matters is how it changed it.

I read his profile. 'Nuff said
Right-Wing German Hate Speech on Twitter: Analysis and Automatic Detection
Apparently Citrix according to another comment.

I thought it might have been https://www.spice-space.org/ which is GPL2.

Amazon workspaces seems to use RDP
I actually have not engineered the streaming portion, so latency is the same as current VNC and RDP protocols.

To get the product together as fast as possible (first line of code written three months ago), I actually did not reengineer the remote desktop protocol. In fact, the current product simply gives you the IP and password info to plug into your Windows Remote Desktop client app.

Future plans are to integrate RDP into the Booste app, to make the experience seem more native.

After that, I'll be implementing the modern H.265 protocol used by videogame streaming companies such as Vectordash and Nvidia GeForce Now.
Talking specifically about oral epic poetry a la Homer or the Serbian heroic oral tradition. Shakespeare’s a totally different bag.
I encourage users to use their Windows RDP client for this version.
When did you last use Windows? W10 has fantastic security tools bundled in.
I can see specialised sectors where this will, like emergency / rapid medical supply delivery.

More difficult to see a regular urban / suburban application working.
Costco still has these for moving money from their registers. Banks also for drive up teller services.

The plot of the excellent heist movie Logan Lucky involves some of these tubes.
What's up with this glorification of Win95 style UI?
It's objectively ugly. Everyone I know or have known, in my entire life, without question, thought so back then, and does so now.

I am just so, so puzzled by this I had to type out this comment. Ignoring functionality, accessibility and all that, does anyone actually think it looked aesthetically pleasing, and I don't mean that in a 20-years-after nostalgic vaporwave way? Why is there a sudden wave against things being allowed to look nice and pleasing to the eye?
They can’t hold down costs because they’re just a competing payer in a large, dysfunctional system whose overall costs are determined by the sum total of this dysfunction and the general trajectory of healthcare outcomes it produces.

I’m sure you’re quite aware of this, as well as the difference between having a monopoly on payments, continuity of care, and “adding a bunch of 30 year olds” to the system, but feel free to waste more time with these obfuscations. A defense of the status quo isn’t really helped by them.
Narrative warfare is an interesting concept with hints of Chomsky. Did you just invent this? Or is this discussed in other forums?
The issue is a bar isn't an embedded monopoly, but Facebook is. Want a social network? Facebook's the only real game in town. Videos? You have to use YouTube. Photos? Instagram (Facebook). Microblogging? Twitter. There's Diaspora, and Vimeo, and Mastodon, but these are basically non-factors statistically, and they serve different, less common niches.

Not to say a company needs to permit all content, no matter how racist or bad, just because it's a monopoly and a sort-of-carrier. But things definitely get trickier. If you're banned from YouTube, you basically can't upload videos anymore, period, at least if you want anyone to look at them. These companies don't fit the classical mode of a carrier, like a telephone provider, because they carry content to be consumed openly by the public. I think Discord is probably the closest thing to a more traditional carrier, though it's still not totally comparable.

There's no good solution here other than debating a reasonable middle ground. These companies probably do need to be more open with what they allow compared to a small business, but they should still also have leeway to make their own decisions.

That's a pretty wishy-washy answer, but I think it's the only alternative to avoid the extremes of either full public utility regulation with government-enforced free speech, or super nitpicky and biased content curation. They can't be treated like either a standard business or a public service. They're in between.
when i worked at NCR beginning during late 1989, mark hurd led a point-of-sale (POS) division effort which personally deprived me of intellectual property now worth approximately $30MM/day in credit card settlement transactions to the company. what's even worse is how they sued others e.g. verifone for vast sums, using their fabricated claim to stolen property. like his crooked & overpaid "management" buddies, they were rewarded for what they could get away with (havoc), not what they actually created. mark's bad karma has finally caught up with him and i hope that he rots in hell!
I've had the cynical thought that Eric Allman made the documentation that came with Sendmail intentionally shoddy to increase sales of the Bat Book. Likewise Larry Wall with older versions of Perl and the Camel Book.
I wonder when it will dawn on the COBOL tool vendors that a big chunk of what makes COBOL unpleasant is the all-upper-case presentation. The program is SHOUTING ALL THE TIME.
Not to mention literacy wasn’t even particularly common in Europe until relatively recently. The work on Homer I’m thinking of (Parry and Lord) is based on oral traditions that were still alive in prewar Yugoslavia.
Earth's rotation is almost certainly affected by the magnetic field, and I suspect a complete reverse of the field would flip the sign contribution.

But recall that there is conservation of angular momentum, and there is an awful lot of mass spinning at high speed and large radius to Earth's center of inertia. The contribution of the magnetic field to the rotation time of Earth's surface is on the order of ms, or parts per million, as the total term itself is 86.4 ks.

In comparison to the effects of things such as the orbit of the Moon, the magnetic field doesn't have enough energy to meaningfully affect the Earth's rotation.
Yes, despite all the bad advertising and all the persistent ghost (that just won't go away) KDE's Plasma as evolved a lot over the years and is now very lite while doing a lot of things (and if you have a sluggish Plasma DE, then your computer or distro DOES HAVE A PROBLEM that is not KDE's fault)
White LED light is produced by a narrowband blue LED chip (450-460nm) coated with a wideband yellow phosphor (green-red). It's additive, the spectrum is built up. Some of the blue light is converted by the phospor. You are most certainly exposed to the blue light. Those flies were exposed to too much and for too long. This study starts with the premise that blue light is harmful and fails to demonstrate anything.
I think nowadays "centrist" means "always supports all wars everywhere for any reason with any victim".
I feel like automated flight could always avoid incident by detecting all objects (at the same elevation) within $x feet, and if the object is north of you, move up $y feet, and if it’s south, move down $y feet, unless another object is above/below you, in which case veer $z degrees clockwise and continue travel until you can change elevation?
Windows Remote Desktop is the current tech in Booste, and is useable but not necessarily pleasant, I admit.

Engineering priority #2, following multi-device-support, is to tackle the streaming challenge.

I'm trying my best, as a solo founder, to not build out features until they're requested, so consider "Faster Streaming" to be requested!
Microsoft probably won’t notice for now but just be careful: the licensing for Windows 10 requires a very specific kind of license that’s fairly pricey per user. You can’t just use a normal end-user / student one. As a result, the economics are really tough.

This idea was actually the first idea for Mighty before I pivoted a few months ago.

macOS can only be run on Apple hardware btw. That also makes the cost structure for this kind of business complex.

Good luck!
So... Do you mean xubuntu could have a better score or lxqt?
Obviously neither of us can speak for them, but somehow I kind of doubt the people at the church would use such charged and possessive language. I would think they would be glad to see it restored (looked like it was in bad shape) and bringing joy to more people in a museum.

And it seems even that the museum is a former church where it stood anyway? Did I get that right?
I think that’s opposing incorrect things, in this case. I think the spirit of The Law should be clear and kept alive. Whether to “[If applied, this commit will] <commit msg here>” or “[This commit]<verb> <work description>” is a tiny matter of difference when the point is clear, straightforward, complete commit msgs of logically discreet-and-coherent commits. Both the above formats would fit the bill, and I think I’d be thrilled if my biggest issue w code commits amongst my team were only these two slightly different formats.
Another example is "Worm", which I learned of from the author's notes for Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality:

https://parahumans.wordpress.com/
The rotational energy that keeps the earth turning is the moon's orbit.

Important clues that hint at this principle are the fact that the satellite is tidally locked to it's planet, and the eclipses where each body transits the other.

The manner of the balancing act that tunes the rotational and orbital energies of each body turns out to be a really big three body problem.

You're comment actually reverses cause and effect. The earth spins, and so the plastic/liquid core is influenced by the motion, not the other way around. The magnetic field is a product of the rotation, which sloshes the interior fluid mechanics, to produce the field.

As an addendum, perhaps an asteroid could knock the moon out of whack, and the earth's spin could be affected. Unfortunately, there is no single answer for how, which way or why, since a collision with enough momentum to knock the moon from it's position would also do lots of other things, like rain cataclysmic chunks of debris and fallout.

Also, angle of attack, and velocity of impact for the intruding projectile conceals many ballistic solutions that produce a wide array of outcomes. Like shooting different sized bullets, you could pick different asteroids, and launch them into the moon at a variety of speeds and angles, to shift the moon into other altitudes, directions or, completely destroy the moon, eliminating it's mechanics from the entire system, maybe even turning it into a plane of rings like saturn.

Meanwhile, the liquid/plastic core can slosh because it's hot, and is magnetic because it sloshes. If it cools off, and solidifies, the magnetism goes away, and we lose the solar wind radiation protection of the aurora producing bowshock, but orbital mechanics wouldn't see much effect. The only thing the fluid state of the core adds to the system is a sort of springy buffer effect, like a bouncy silly putty squishy momentum. It's a sort of cushion, but it's a passenger and passive absorber of energy. Tectonics and magnetism are the main products of the core, and the core mechanics behave as a recipient of influence.
Contracts are interesting but I think to make it usefull 1) are ON on release! and 2) Become part of the docs.

One example:

fun date(y:i32, m:i32, d:i32)
{... code ...}

This scream for more context (and better param names!). With contracts:

fun date(y:i32, m:i32, d:i32)
assert
y in 0..9999
m in 1..12
d in 1..31
{... code ...}

But I need to see it in the docs, in the tooltips, etc. Now are useful!
Why would people no longer mining make bitcoin useless? There's a supply of existing bitcoins that can be split to ludicrous degrees. Scarcity is already enforced by the difficulty, and a huge difficulty jump won't affect that.

If bitcoin can't survive without mining (which IIRC isn't related to transactional processing or any actual use of bitcoins), then bitcoin has a guaranteed uselessness point when the difficulty jumps exceed, I dunno, the output of the sun?

As for code changes, what is the lightning network about? Isn't that a code change? And if every major exchange enforced the switch, and miners kept mining coins that the exchanges didn't take, then those coins would be worth much less.

I'm not saying the code change is easily done or even technically feasible. But it should be considered.

Bitcoin is immoral in the age of human global warming.
Some of us started coding before the internet was available. We learned syntax from books, and copied programs from magazines and dissected them to work in different ways while learning what all the different parts did. We also learned how to reverse-engineer working programs to see how they ticked.

It wasn't 'better' or 'worse', just a different way of learning.
Well, that's the "official" story.

Who is naive enough to not believe that some serious cash didn't change hands from the Cartel to the local cops ?
People do try, but it isn't the basis for a successful computing platform. Works for block chain (though AMD delivers more flops/$ for simple sha-ing grunt work) and specific workloads where you have time and expertise but not much cash.

As for nVidia banning it, if you've the cash you can buy cards, just becomes painful. nVidia were doing it more because the GPGPU demand was choking the supply to graphics customers, and later dumping obsolete (for crunching) cards on the market en masse, interfering with the mid-tier card sales channel.
Publishers can help with a lot of book-related things--typesetting, printing, cover design, and so on--that authors don't necessarily know how to do themselves. Automated print-on-demand services get you most of the way there, but professionals can still do a better job a lot of the time.
I don't mean either, I just mean the methodology isn't great.
No. Medicare does not in fact meaningfully compete with private insurance in the markets it serves. It is a universal entitlement for US senior citizens.
Will the "misses" be removed from D eventually?
I would like to see some independent measurements of the noise levels throughout the entire proposed flight envelope.

(assuming worst case in terms of noise output below)

I can't imagine this is going to be something that people will be willing to tolerate if it occurs asynchronously throughout the day. I can handle the UPS/Fedex trucks going around once a day. The garbage trucks twice a week at a fairly specific time each morning. But a drone showing up at any arbitrary point of the day based on when someone placed an order? I don't think I could handle this.
Pulp fiction just means works published in pulp magazines or similarly disreputable publications. Some was bad, some was great. Many acclaimed authors wrote for the pulps:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_magazine#Authors_featured
It’s the minimum and maximum angle between sun and horizon at midday on the solstices.
Mark Hurd...sad for his family...he was a MAJOR league asshole at work profiting at his workers expense...lest us not forget his 10% paycut for EDS employees only after the HP acquistion.....then he cheated on his expense report...his wife with a contractor...got fired for filing false expense reports with HP to cover his affair...ya not missing him much!
Not to mention cliff explosives (for removing the other major landscape-induced impediment).

And there are some mods that let you go in the opposite direction, creating cliffs and water.
https://slate.com/business/2019/10/vanity-fairs-trump-chaos-...
how valuable is your time?
So we have FedEx, Walgreens, and Wing (a.k.a. Alphabet, a.k.a. Google) all collaborating on this. Any of these huge companies could have run a pilot project by themselves and had a head start over the competition. I wonder why they joined up?

My theory #1 is that it's risk mitigation against inevitable public backlash. If and when something happens (drone crashes, a package falls, whatever) the media will be talking about the horrible thing that Google did, or whoever is the frontrunner in drone delivery. Just look at how critics gang up on Tesla when it comes to driverless cars. By combining forces, the media and critics cannot single out Google because it's FedEx and Walgreens and Google; it's everybody doing it.

My more mundane theory #2 is that Wing got the federal certification first, so FedEx and Walgreens paid Wing to be involved for fear of missing out.

Theory #3: It helps with lobbying the more partners you have. Lobbying at state or federal level I think will be super essential otherwise every city will be creating their own set of regulations and some may try to ban drone delivery.
One important difference is that YouTube carries content to be consumed by the public, while phone companies are more like the postal service: they send things from point A to point B, blindly (except for snooping from intelligence agencies), between private parties. These companies have many common carrier aspects, but they also have many aspects of regular private enterprises.

I agree that perhaps some degree of regulation could be warranted to adddess their unique sort-of-carrier status, but saying that they should be forbidden by the state from disallowing anything that's legal is a slippery slope in the same way biased censorship is. For example, they may not want any risk of people seeing extreme gore videos, since that could cause people to use their service less, even though such videos are typically not illegal to distribute or view. But with total free reign over a behemoth communication monopoly, politically biased content curation and removal is also a huge problem. I think there needs to be a middle ground approach.
h.265 will require hardware compression on the encode side (GPU) so you'll have to factor that into the cost.
As a counterpoint, I have the book and found it to be really helpful.
Calling it now: thieves will use cheap drones of their own to steal your packages with minimal risk to getting caught.