skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not like the lack of actual support in the data for this idea.

Not in developmental science, not in neuroscience. Not in how we understand cellular mechanics to work. Neurons and glial cells are born, grow, die and chemically change all the time.

Psychedelic therapy is in the infancy. Go and run trials before building sand castles of theory.

Most importantly, the testable assumption is what, adding energy would change belief? But of what form and sort? Neurons organize into attractors? Then what do they look like and what's the process? Without that it is woo.
OT: My immediate reaction was wondering whether his name was a Berserk reference.
There is https://SaveDotOrg.org which people that don't support this selling out of .org should sign. It's supported by NTEN and a lot of other site owners and internet users.
Yes, but it scales with the environment and device capabilities. Watch this, it explains it in detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLF0n9SACd4
You can extract more value by squeezing the people who need it than by devaluing it by selling .org domains to scammers and phishers.
Rather than pre-emptively throwing your toys out of the pram, why not wait and see whether Ethos proves to abuse their position or not.
EC2 is one of the more expensive options when you add up the bandwidth required. There are tons of small vps and bare metal providers which are cheaper (people named Hetzner, there is OVH and tons of other smaller ones). There is also less chance these are blocked as the streaming providers might not know about them.
Anyone got a mirror of this article? I can't click this link without ublock complaining about being passed through advertising trackers
Hi! Thanks for the feedback.

PayByPhone users typically start the process of payment when they are already parked in a spot and only need to pay using the web app. This means that they already have the parking meter to lead them to the URL to do only one task in the process -payment.

Our goal is an end-to-end process of locating, reserving, and paying for charging on a single app. It helps users save time in driving from one charging location to another by letting them reserve when they need to. In theory, it can all be done through a web app but having a mobile app on hand always makes sense for users who constantly have trouble locating free spots and need to reserve on the go.
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Everybody can contribute to the project. The source is at https://github.com/cristicismas/beautiful-programmers-stone. I've cleaned up a lot of the html to make the code easier to edit, but I forgot to write the source in the initial post.
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Cool! Hey if you want to get together and chat about amd GPUs, I'm i@<lambda url>, happy to get you a coffee or beer or something.
Side note: Diffie-Hellman predates RSA. I attended a talk by Rivest once, where he vividly described how that paper triggered them into exploring whether public key crypto was really possible or not. They ended up constructing RSA from those sessions.
Bit he was born in the US and not in India. Why? It's tempting to dismiss this question, but let's think about it. If we look at this from biological pov, he was created from a bunch of DNAs in the US and thus "Zuck" is just a convenient way to refer to a bunch of atoms. The entire process in this case is nearly deterministic and there is no room for luck. When we throw an apple seed into earth and see an apple tree 5 years later, we don't call it luck, right? There was a reason why we were there at that time and there is a reason why only an apple tree can grow from an apple seed. Luck is really just our inability to see the reason.
Domain names were initially provided free of charge. I once saw an estimate that put the administrative cost of a domain name at less than 20 cents. Then came "NewCo", now known as ICANN, and the "business" of "selling" domain names.

Verisign, the operator of .com, arguably the most important TLD, operates the com registry subject to agreements with US Department of Commerce and ICANN. These contracts now let them keep raising prices gradually. It is doubtful that these increases reflect or are in any way proportional increases in administrative costs.
I would also start with IHarmU. His own music is great, but the vocal harmonisations of simple melodies sent by people are mindblowing, and there isn't any complex production masking his genius. There is a definite Take 6 influence there, but Jacob takes it to the next level. He has an incredible gift.

After IHarmU I would watch some of his live gigs - where he effortlessly plays 6-7 instruments like a pro. And he's only 25. I really look forward to hearing Jacob's music for decades to come.
Taiwan is making democracy work again. It's time we paid attention
https://web.archive.org/web/20191130080133/https://www.engad...

I don't have this problem with uBlock (origin), for the record.
It is an important question because motivation is required for there to be a crime

The legal terminology for that is “mens rea” literally “guilty mind” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea
Most people probably don't want to hold individual stocks anyway as it's too risky an investment. Mathematical models suggest that the optimal investing strategy for any investor is holding a "well-diversified" portfolio in which firm-specific risks cancel themselves out and you are left with the minimum possible amount of risk.
Is this “Rule By Law?”

i.e. everybody is breaking SOME law that the elites can dig up and punish you for if you go against them.
The meat packing industry, especially the largest processors, had/have a habit of advertising wages in Mexican, Central and South American newspapers in order to encourage unofficial migration. What's more is that the housing areas where these workers stay only (used to) experience token ICE raids to deport one or two people now and then. Meanwhile, the conditions in the processors are dangerous and abhorrent; lacking safety standards workers get maimed regularly but they have no recourse, no future to provide for their families and no Workers Compensation. The meat packing corporations in their areas have essentially absolute power. Even Oprah, a billionaire, found this out the hard way when she stumbled into an ag-gag law.. a class of law that forbid criticizing a certain industry.

This is what Citizens' United and corporate kleptocracy has wrought.. the rich run the government as their personal concierges combined with welfare state for themselves through tax loopholes, subsidies, grants and public-private "partnerships." What's worse is most Americans can't accept reality and blame their political "enemy" totem rather than confronting the stark truth: the "other" isn't the enemy, it's the very rich who are everyone's enemy.
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My notebook (2018 Thinkpad E485) has a Ryzen 5 2500U APU and I'm happy with it. The only bad thing about that notebook is lack of Thunderbolt.
I guess I am the most unimpressed with his covers. To me, his harmonic choices and reharmonizations are always on the side of complexity rather than aural pleasure. I just want him to do more original stuff.

FWIW, I find the Adam Neely/Sungazer work more listenable, so its not a dislike of covers, but I also don’t enjoy taking the melody out of things just to substitute functional harmonies.
Anything where they (the copyright holders) provide content to one group (region, etc) for $X and you are willing to pay at least $X as well but cannot.
What's the story behind this?
"This funding is sufficient to provide the Internet Society with broadly equivalent annual earnings we currently receive from PIR."

How is it possible to sell something for the value of annual earnings? That means that Ethos Capital will return their entire investment in 1 year — that's preposterous!

What am I missing? I can't imagine any business deal like this going through, it's clearly detrimenal to Internet Society which's going to lose a big regular income.
Yes. I normally don't access hn any other way. A feed reader is still the best way to handle information
The article ought to have acknowledged the numbers for whole PC sales, which paint a different picture:

8/10 of Amazon's best selling laptops are Intel:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/pc/565108/

9/10 for desktop PCs:
https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics-Desktop-Comp...
Z80
Maybe this event will force us to take alternative dns more seriously. Maybe OpenNIC, Namecoin or other related technologies I'm not aware of will finally gain more traction?
I'm sure this means if they invest the $1 billion they'll get annual returns equivalent to the money they get from .org
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The reference to “Tops-20 JSYS manuals” is analogous to “Linux syscall wiki”. “JSYS” is the opcode for “Jump into the operating SYStem” on Digital Equipment’s 36-bit mainframes.
I'm really skeptical of the narrative that Alphabet et. al. have brilliant, super-precise targeting of ads. I'm an American who only speaks English, but I'm currently living in a non-English-speaking country. Youtube constantly serves me videos in a language I don't understand. Mostly, I don't even understand what product is trying to be sold to me, and for the minority where the product is clear, I don't understand the arguments, and I'll never buy these things, anyways.

I've never watched a non-English video or ever interacted with the non-English speaking web. How on Earth can Alphabet screw up so much? The only thing I can fathom is that Alphabet is optimizing for getting more advertising revenue, long-term effectiveness of their ads be damned.
I think it's important that we support hardware vendors that cooperate with free software development, by buying their products - and punish those who don't, by not buying their products. Otherwise we can't complain.
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> I instruct Ansible to preinstall bash everywhere... and then I run the bash scripts

Wait a minute. I may be mistaken, but I thought Ansible needed Python on the managed machines, to run some of the modules. Afaik it uploads some Python code via ssh before doing the work proper.
>Science is philosophy

No. Philosophy does not speak the language of mathematics. Without that tool it's mostly just ego masturbation. I'm not saying it's not interesting, but it's fairly easy for an unusually intelligent person to build cohesive, rational arguments in favor of any arbitrary point. Without some measure of validity philosophers are condemned to continuously argue over the same ideas and assumptions. Philosophy evolved into science when quantifiable validation metrics were introduced. What's more, the hardest and most profound of sciences outside of applied math, physics, simply cannot be advanced without a skilled application of math, without which any amount of essays or books is worthless.
That's the "Jacob Collier Thing" though. Consider that he's doing 'complicated' reharms, but with significantly more emphasis on microtonality.

For the average listener, it's not so much that he's "putting the harm in reharmonization", but that he's tastefully (to the western ear) being _specifically_ sharp or flat (depending on the original key - hence 'microtonality') in a way that he is gambling is more appealing to the western ear trained/developed in western music.
ISOC the resources to pursue its mission for the foreseeable future

Can anyone link me to what the Internet Society has actually, tangibly done in this mission? Because to me they look awfully like that sort of charity that if you look closer all it does is “raise awareness” from the comfort of plush offices
Aha! This must be why them audiophiles prefer to listen to their music using $$$ cd transport from original media! You can hear the difference!

On a serious note, I’m in a similar boat, we’re in a middle of the move and it appears that my cd collection is in same predicament. So I’m debating whether to throw them to trash, or keep around (mostly for cover artwork, and to keep my Exact Audio Copy -> flac transfers just a bit more legit (I care of such things)).
Functional stereotactic neurosurgery for psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders is actively practiced.

The popular media is not a good place to get your information from...

"Functional neurosurgeons at UVa are currently treating:
Neuropsychiatric conditions, including obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression"
https://med.virginia.edu/neurosurgery/services/functional-ne...

"We read with great interest the publication of Liu et al. [1 ]reporting results from the largest published series of schizophrenia patients treated with MRI-guided bilateral anterior capsulotomy with 2 years of follow-up. Let us specify that a series of 87 schizophrenic patients operated, notably, by capsulotomy - but associated with a cingulotomy, amygdalectomy or thermocoagulation of the nucleus accumbens"

https://www.karger.com/Article/Fulltext/366005

http://med.stanford.edu/neurosurgery/divisions/functional.ht...
So is everyone else, so in theory the auctioned price per click should be less to compensate.

People don’t pay for clicks, they pay for results. Clicks are an intermediate measure. If I make $100 from $50 spend via 1000 or 100 clicks it’s pretty much the same thing.
You do both. As you squeeze it stops being viable for legitimate players.

Then the scammers dominate.
I'm guessing he had the advantage of his young brain that he could train to make sounds from a paper piano. I wonder if this would be as easy for an adult.
Nothing.

There's par2 (and its offsprings MultiPar and QuickPar), there's rsbep, there's pyFileFixity.

All have their problems why you probably won't "shield" your files with them (I don't, although I worry).
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Bitwarden also has self-hosting ;)
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This is just silly. There were not many pictures of it, but the truck has a massive frunk. This frunk will just be designed to crumple and adsorb the impact from a front collision.

The structural frame will not extend all the way to the front but end earlier (about above the front wheel well).

Tesla will want a five star safety rating for this thing, and you can not get that without also taking pedestrian safety into account.

Edit: About the raised front: the front is not any more raised that my current main car, a Volkswagen T5 Bus, which is a very common car in europe. So I don't see why it should have a worse pedestrian safety rating.
For archivers there is now writable M-Disc bluray discs which claim to have longevity of 1000 years. It might be an overexaggeration, but they do use a different technology to record the information, a non-organic layer which is chemically much less active and will inevitably decay slower than a regular CD/DVD. There have even been some accelerated aging tests that were able to somewhat confirm that. If you're into archiving you might want to look that up.
Nordic signed on for Zephyr and Segger Embedded Studio.

Nordic clearly are signaling "we're tired of spending money on infrastructure software".

I hope they know what they are doing. IMO, the Nordic BLE stack was one of their primary competitive advantages.
It does, but it can be argued that this is not in response to a certain type of output file. ls(1) formats filename lists into columns depending on the width of the output viewport. It just so happens that it's not able to determine that width for anything but tty devices, so it falls back to the safe default "single column".

To use an analogy from web browsers, the equivaleny guideline would be asking websites not to detect features by reading the User-Agent, and using feature detection instead.
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Physicists certainly don't concern themselves with the study of everything. Take sociology or art, for example. At best you can you say everything is made up of physical stuff.

But even then, there are questions. Are math and logic made of physical stuff? What about causality or laws of nature? And what of universals or possible worlds or counterfactuals? If those exist, are they physical?

And then there's consciousness, and the ideas we have about the world, of which the study of physics is but one domain (containing concepts of energy, mass, fields, laws, information). Are these ideas physical?

What about the debate over the proper interpretation of quantum mechanics? Is that physical or philosophical? Is philosophy physics?

You quickly run into problems when you say that everything is domain X, because then you have to justify lumping everything into that category.

And the idea that everything is physics is open for debate, so clearly not everyone agrees that it is true by definition. Most things in philosophy don't get a free pass by virtue of definition, because people aren't going to usually agree to go along with said definition. Instead, they will want to ask what it means for everything to be physical.
Big problem is wiring, I think the biggest problem.

Retrofit cost n times the cost of electronics.

And in new building, wiring labour still makes the most expense because electrical and smart home wiring topologies don't match exactly. You either have to do a lot of wiring, or a lot of wall cutting.

Wireless obviously doesn't work.
".org TLD was sold to private investor": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21539144
An alternative "do something about it" option is to just create a new name system (either based on DNS protocols, or something entirely new) that is controlled by someone more responsible. DNS is just an internet application like anything else, nothing is forcing us to use it aside from its broad adoption and lack of support for anything else in modern applications.

What it comes down to is: who is both sufficiently dissatisfied with the way DNS is managed and has the clout to get a large group of organizations to move to an alternative? Or perhaps: what is the killer app that is incompatible with how ISOC runs things that would get people to switch?
Of course, we could use abstraction and analysis to tackle this...
I assume some monkey patched central control it is. Never inquired about that.
Hi AstralStorm,

You may want to check out some of the background research to get a sense of what this piece is trying to do-- I can recommend:
- Atasoy's YouTube talk on CSHW (as linked and transcribed here: https://qualiacomputing.com/2017/06/18/connectome-specific-h... )
- Carhart-Harris and Friston's REBUS model: http://pharmrev.aspetjournals.org/content/71/3/316/tab-artic...
- More recently, Friston's Waves of Prediction:
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...

Likewise, a great paper for understanding why a story focused on e.g. glial cells, cell types, and such is unlikely to produce substantial results about e.g. psychedelics: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...

Beyond that, I would suggest the most helpful criticism is specific. If you don't agree with something, good to point out exactly what you disagree with. :)
https://web.stanford.edu/~montanar/RESEARCH/book.html
“Didn’t fuck it up quite as badly as Perl” is hardly a robust defense.

Contrast the upgrade cycle of Apple’s Swift. Same amount of user howling, of course, yet Swift has moved forward by 4 breaking releases in the time it’s taken Python to do 1. That designed their upgrade process; tooled, timelined, and taught it appropriately; and ran it to schedule.

With Python there was no clear process, no clear schedule, no clear endpoint. They cared about the code but the logistics were an afterthought. They designed, implemented, and tested all their language changes; they should have designed, implemented, and tested their rollout procedures with equal rigor.
Did you all ever open source your emacs tooling? I’d like to see that.
Jaclyn swedberg has also done a lot of screen work through the Playboy channel
> Is there are write up of this anywhere? This is truely massive

Massive? Samsung has been building smart apartments for over a decade now. Those are way bigger
C.f. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2382531
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What exactly is the rationale though? I could not find a reason in the text for doing so, it only states, "...don't make the behavior of a command-line program depend on the type of output device...". Ok, but why?
He also once wrote:

"Enough of this last-minute, stay-of-execution, midnight-phone-call-from-the-governor stuff. Throw the switch and let's fry this thing."

https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-1/mail-archive/msg00077.html

Also:
“First, do you understand the difference between a dissertation and a thesis? A thesis is an idea. A dissertation is a document that supports your thesis. After you write your dissertation explaining why your thesis is a good one, you have to stand up in front of a crowd and defend it -- the thesis defence.
It is best if you can capture your thesis in a single sentence. If you can do this, make it sentence #1 of your dissertation, and repeat this sentence, word for word, wherever you need to drive home the point of your dissertation. This is a tremendous aid in focussing your work. A side benefit is that it provides an unassailable defense to an entire class of attacks on your work. For example, should someone attack your work by pointing out that it does not scale, you simply reply,

You may be correct, but right or wrong, your point is irrelevant. My thesis is that "crossbreeding gerbils with hamsters provides an order of magnitude speedup over standard treadmill technology." I clearly demonstrate factors of 12-17 in my dissertation; I make no claims beyond an order of magnitude.

This is one of the benefits of focus.”

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/diss-advice.html
Agree. As an owner of a few .orgs I confirm there is no such restriction.
So HN wants Google not to track prople but still exactly and completely accurately know the location of each and every one of them for Ad targeting?

That sounds incompatible.
I don't think it was supposed to be an endorsement.
"Blaise Pascal did with his Ponces"

Pensées.

Ponce is an old term of abuse directed at gay men.

"ponce

/pɒns/

noun

1.

INFORMAL•DEROGATORY

an effeminate man.

2.

INFORMAL•BRITISH

a man who lives off a prostitute's earnings.

verb

1.

INFORMAL•BRITISH

seek to obtain (something) without paying for it or doing anything in return.

"I ponced a ciggie off her"

2.

INFORMAL•BRITISH

live off a prostitute's earnings.

"he was arrested for poncing on the girl"

"
no, this only makes any sense at all for stdin
Why do people still flock around this argument sometimes, it is so easy to debunk: we already have and are building machines (let's say a complete vechicle, a Tesla Model S) that are already too complex for any individual human to understand all the processes of. There might be engineers who exactly know how a steering works, how the cpu is built, how the chemistry of the tire works, but there is no one who can realistically hold (and operate on) all the knowledge that goes into making such an object. And yet, behold, we are building many of them and they all mostly work, they are functional, stable etc. This is all the type of understanding we need for a brain as well. It already works, why would anyone think that it is impossible?
So... using voluum?
AGPL doesn't protect the Free Software business. It protects the Free Software code itself.

The fact that a company backing an AGPL-licensed work goes under isn't the direct concern of the license. The fact that the code itself remains as Free Software, with a source-release obligation, even when run as an online service, is the principle concern.

Copyleft free software licenses, as with the GPL and AGPL, promote the concept and system of free software, first and foremost.
Looks like it's down at the moment? Getting an nginx 502.
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