skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deep-brain stimulation works by shoving electrodes into your brain and moving them around while asking, "do you feel better now?" (Or having the patient perform a task like writing which demonstrates symptoms of the condition being treated).

The human brain is not exactly well-understood. Who knows what other functionality could end up being near the neurons being treated? This article talks about Parkinson's patients, so maybe the common places that they treat for that disease are close to nerve centers used for balance or proprioception or whatever.

Or maybe some things that we learn only apply when certain areas of the brain are working in a certain way, and "fixing" malfunctions ends up throwing a wrench in the neural pathways that those behaviors have adapted to. It'd be fascinating to see if the patients could re-learn these skills with the stimulators on.
Because experts betrayed the public's trust by spending years making false and self-serving claims while censoring those who tried to debunk these claims. Now the public doesn't trust experts even when they're right. The way to regain trust is to stop the censorship, not amp it up.
Very cool. The product looks great!
Yeah, you’d probably add an order of magnitude to this for most practical instances, but it’s still not completely unreasonable.
It runs stuff in a container (PRoot) with standard Linux libraries and FHS layout, then you ssh or VNC in locally. The emulation isn't perfect due to Android's security policies, but close enough.
The complicated operation will generally be a constant factor though. Let’s say it takes 100 times longer each cycle, now it’ll cost you $100,000 instead of $1000.
Reposted a few seconds later: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21659868
event sourcing and the notion of compensating transactions go along way in solving these types of problems.
Black Friday Deals at Remotemac.io
This seems to mean that a recording done on x86_64 MacOS can't be played back on aarch64 Linux, which is a shame for something that apparently is for javascript debugging. Limitations like that are more understandable for rr, which is intended for use with native processes.

It also looks like a maintenance burden which will increase the difficulty of supporting an OS for Firefox. Stuff like that causes Firefox to drop support for an OS, and it makes developers hesitant to add support for an OS.

System calls can do all sorts of crazy stuff behind your back. Think of ioctl and fcntl. Just knowing what memory they modify is difficult. It's been lots of trouble for tools like strace and rr. Hopefully you won't encounter worse, like vfork and clone.
Maybe the dog waited at the same spot everyday of his life for his owner to return until it finally died from the cold.
Andre Sullivan of ISOC needs to resign. ISOC international needs to get rebuild based on integrity and trust.
This seems fairly easy to me. Just don't configure the WiFi. Add a TV box (FireTV, Apple TV, whatever) that you trust.
One problem is political, and therefore not solvable. We wouldn't like most of the ways it could be made solvable, and I'm sure there are no ways that everybody would approve of.

The other is technical (for now) -- hard, but trivial.
Making devices that just don't work without a connection home seems a lot easier.
I'm not sure what the flagged comment was, but this response implies that the president should be free to do anything, while we limit the press. That sounds backwards.
We Created Xs:Code
Well if you can only virtualize it on a computer that's already running macos I don't know how that's supposed to help.
- The website is a matter of personal taste. I actually like it: fast and simple. It also needs no fix ups with uBlock Origin, P Badger and uMatrix running.

- There are at least two links on the homepage labelled Download. If you Google for it then Download is linked directly in the top hit. Big G can parse it OK and so can I. Also I got a few of my non technical staff to take a look and they all downloaded it OK. One of them then asked me to set it up for them - another SH3D customer in the making 8) They had watched the video on the home page and were positively salivating!

I understand where you are coming from but if you look at it carefully it is actually quite a decent presentation in my opinion. Just the facts and no flim flam.
Bcorp doesn’t mean much. Add some stuff to the bylaws. Doesn’t mean they actually have to follow them. The Honest Company is a BCorp and still had multiple class actions against it and hundreds of FTC complaints.
You do realize you can innovate here on earth right? And that you'll have a lot more money with which to innovate, because you didn't waste it all trying to strand yourself on another planet?
That comment references the worked examples that used to be on the Lambert W wiki page, including this exact problem, x^x=y. Here's the last version before it was deleted if anyone wants to see it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lambert_W_functio...
Employers do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderlic_test
I like this service but not enough to pay for it, and delegate something so crucial to closed source code, not to mention gdpr complications. Is there anybody here doing this already with something simple and open sourced?
IMO SPA's aren't that bad, but loading large assets from third parties is.
I singled out Britain because they were the most vocal in the fight against apartheid. Maybe it was because they were our former colonisers. They are the ones who imposed sanctions that helped. As for US, it was in fact the CIA who gave apartheid government intel which led to the arrest of Nelson Mandela.
Standard Android does not support chroot, nor standard Linux libraries, hence why termux needs to patch them.
It’s valid to spend money on entertainment as an individual and all economies in the world have significant portions of the productivity of their population going towards “irrelevant shit”. India spending money on a space program seems like an insignificant amount of money to me compared to their total population and is likely not enough money to solve their food problems. We agree on this part. I spend money on vapid shit every day and so do millions of other people. They’re not bad.

But, total resources for a Mars colonization effort seems like an order of magnitude more expensive than a simple space program for the benefit of an order of magnitude fewer people. In addition, the capital that is contributing to these efforts (ie Bezos and Musk money) is much more concentrated and can be mobilized in a much more precise manner. I don’t see Mars colonization as a source of inspiration outside of these SV types, and that’s not a significant enough population for me to find this justifiable.
This seems like an almost unreasonably charitable story. Their app was apparently kicked out of several app stores for sending mail service user credentials to their servers. It's entirely unsurprising the app was launched towards the raging thermonuclear heart of the sun. Now they hope to make up for this catastrophic mistake by... patent trolling? Perhaps I'm missing something here but it's very hard to sympathize with this lot.
How long till the embedded devices us DNS over HTTPS to bypass this? The consumer is under attack
Believe me, those memes are helping to raise awareness. We must always raise awareness. We won't always succeed but we must always try our best.
That sounds amazing, a free 5g connection with every tv!

cellular connection is still prohibitively expensive in many parts of the world.
I was interested in hashed aliases as well, though I haven't had any terribly bright ideas about how to mesh platform-blindness with a revenue model that at least covers costs.

I've thought about tokens or credits that get consumed by checking/sending on the hash, but I imagine they'd be most-used for fire-and-forget stuff...
Yes, believe it or not: things that happen on company assets are not tracked.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=radeon-v...

Here it performs VERY well for machine learning. Look at PlaidML.
Yeah, passing algos but still failing either means there's something deeply wrong with the company or some other behavioral question is causing issues.

Or ageism, appearance-ism, etc, but generally this market can't afford to be unfair like this right now in my opinion
When I fly I know I'm always pleased to know that my flight didn't cost an extra big Mac because the plane was excessively safe.
Purism Librem Anti-Interdiction Services
Speak for yourself, friend. I'm working hard every moment I can, because there is so much I have to give to the world, I can't imagine finishing it all even if I live 200 years.
I think this is it. Difficult problems seem way more difficult to actually solve than technical problems at the end of the day. I just wish that helping other humans was seen as a good enough reason to supersede these political difficulties.
Because it’s there. Some people like living in unusual places.
> He said the company doesn't want to distribute BlueMail over the internet and bypass the Mac App Store because Apple's MacOS software prevents downloads from "unidentified developers" unless a user tweaks their MacBook settings.

But all they need to do is notarize their software to get around that? Considering that they’re already distributing their app on the App Store, this would be less onerous.
> PIR is a legal 501(c)3 nonprofit. You can’t really sell a nonprofit to a for-profit company except in unusual and rare circumstances.

Not true. Shareholders are not required to be non-profit.

> There are also federal restrictions on sales like this, particularly around self-dealing transactions. This transaction was obviously self dealing.

How ? And corporate law is state law not federal. Feds only regulate securities not corporate governance of private companies. This is also not a tax concern. Do you really think they did not consult tax attorneys ?

> Someone seriously needs to dig into this. The PIR board members could be in big legal trouble. And also ICANN, which is a 501(c)3 nonprofit as well and is subject to self-dealing restrictions.

There's nothing going on here. And really is the world coming to an end if in the worst case scenario 10 years from now a nonprofit pays $26 a year for a domain rather than $10. Any nonprofit is going to have other expenses much higher than this. There are more important things to worry about.

> This is obvious, plain as day corruption. In the business world, not much can be done. But these are two nonprofits (PIR and ICANN), so something can and should be done. These kind of transactions aren’t normally legal.

Hyperbole again. Where is the backup for ,"not normally legal"? All other statements made are demonstrably false.
TVs used to be on and showing you a picture before you took your thumb off the channel button on your remote. Good times.
Mozilla and the Contract for the Web
> What is to gain personally from that destruction?

The promise of a ticket back to Earth and a shitload of money.
Dust is one thing but it’s the fines that really get you.
As someone deploying frontend apps for a large site you should not underestimate how long people have their tabs open. I can get sentry error reports for versions that have not been deployed for months.

Does this handle "API" versioning in any real way?
I have reasonable logical arguments for not wanting a Purism phone: namely, it's an expensive piece of plastic that doesn't run my apps, which I would like to run on a phone that I buy, and the problems it supposedly solves are problems I do not have. Your disdain for "mainstream apps" seems to forget that I buy a phone not because it exists, but because it's a tool I use to get through my job and my day.

Trying to go "the obvious logical conclusion is this Purism phone, but your irrational monkey brain is too idiotic to see that (no offense intended)" is somewhere between ridiculous and insufferable. If you want to evangelize Linux, you're doing it wrong.
Not from a brick and mortar store, but you can online from places like Zenni.
He’s already invested all of the 100bn for the first Vision Fund.
Astronomers discover ‘impossibly massive’ black hole LB-1
Be interesting to see what ole Larry spends on ORACLE'S legal affairs compared to the rest of tech . . .
The real issue is a group of people have decided it is better to shut down speech, rather than listen to speech they don't like. They justify this by saying free speech is only a government thing. The companies have caved into this group, and listened to their demands.
People and companies should be striving to keep speech free, not looking for ways to shut it down, or limit the avenues.
Whatever happened to "I may not like our what you say, but I'll fight to the death for your right to say it."
As other have noted, someone caught on to the simplicity of RPC.

It always baffled me how so-called RESTful APIs became popular, despite virtually all of them being RPC APIs with a veneer of rather pointless HTTP semantics.

Virtually none of those APIs do anything to serve the intentions and goals behind REST[1]. Furthermore, many RESTful APIs end up being wrapped into language-specific clients anyway, because they have poor ergonomics in their raw state.

I consider RESTful APIs the most significant anti-pattern not widely recognized as such.

[1] https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arc...
> If LetsEncrypt copped a $0.10 fee per certificate, how much would it cost for Richard to rubber stamp a Symantec acquisition of LetsEncrypt?

Easy now, don't give him ideas.
> That's very idealized

Agreed, as we speak.

This is why I generally think we ought to take control back of our data, massively, as citizens. And devs and the tech community in general are front and center to lead the charge, obviously.

It's a long road. Years, decades probably. But eventually we must get there. We may have sacrificed the first generations in that regard because we honestly build as we go, we can't anticipate everything. But now that we're here, that we see that we know, it's time to stop deploring what is, and start building what should be.

IMHO... This isn't 'holier-than-thou' at all but very humbly calling for all of us to wake up and start creating tomorrow's solutions to these problems.
There is indeed such a list: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/m...
adding log statements retroactively - that's awesome
I liked it as well. Web development had gotten way harder over the last decade.
Just unplug it from the network. That should get rid of most of it. I have an LG smart TV that has never seen the network. I get no ads, no popups, no features, no EULA, nothing. It behaves like a dumb TV.

It was the LG 65UH series from Costco.
> You can get a concurrent rebuild by creating a new index concurrently, then transactionally drop the old one and rename the new one. It's error prone though.

actually you can't since you can't create/drop indexes concurrently inside a transaction.

btw. my #1 request would be a better materialized view (which supports indexes) and also makes the performane of some stuff really better. unfortunatly you can't refresh it without a full seq scan. it would be great if postgres would have an auto updating materialized view.
Is this supposed to be _new_? I was subscribed to a service called Daily Lit 10 or 15 years ago that did the same thing.
I would argue the weight factors into this. With Pinephone around the corner, which may very well end up being able to benefit from the work in GNOME (and I do appreciate that part), it seems like Purism might be at risk of that same small, niche market picking up and going over to Pinephone because it offers a better experience _in some ways_.

Of course I am supporting both of these projects because my income apparently doesn't matter to me, but I think it's still worth considering that a heavy, chunky phone may be somewhat of a detriment when their target base is already pretty small.

Mostly I worry about perfect being the enemy of good, and that Purism will end up going out of business before they can make a v2 which truly surpasses expectations. The existing Librem 5 is definitely a cool step in the right direction, but living long enough to fulfill their ultimate goal (having everyone be able to run and want to use ethical, open, and free as in freedom devices) is also important.
Thanks Zack! (Full disclosure, I work with Zack at Cloudflare on the Product team). The fact I could build the whole thing on Cloudflare Workers is one of the reasons I took it as far as I did. I like writing code, but i groan at the thought of setting up servers, even on the cloud. My last side project used ELBs with a node server and the whole thing was painful.

Having an API that deploys to ~200 cities instantly and then deploying the UI being as simple as wrangler deploy, pointing at my bundle directory means I could just focus on the fun stuff.

Can't wait to see where we go with this platform.
"exhilarate" > "exfiltrate"
Exactly

And btw there is a good reason to know. Look up for example Rh sensitivity, for pregnancy reasons. A woman who had a miscarriage and was Rh negative may be sensitized and won’t be able to have children with someone that has Rh positive blood. At least - it isn’t advisable!
There are no correct answer that applies to all architectures. But generally speaking you have a core that use the services like black boxes with API's. The core/caller need to handle the errors.
The real business world is not atomic. The idea is to keep track of things that you've done, and do compensating things to roll their effect back if something goes wrong. See the Saga pattern for an example. I also found Gregor Hohpe's blog post [0] titled "Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit" very informative.

[0] https://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/ramblings/18_s...
> Without a presence on the Mac App Store, we cannot continue forever,"

I'm interested in how prevalent the MAS actually is to most people. Everyone I know with a Mac barely opens it and downloads most of their software (generally enterprise file sync software and game stores eg. Steam) via the internet anyways, or just uses almost exclusively websites since a lot of software isn't made for Mac.
You can also just stop being one when it becomes inconvenient. That's what Etsy did.
How was a patent granted for throwaway email address creation? We wrote scripts to generate them back in 90s to get signup bonuses at e-commerce sites.
And then everybody starts collecting data via AWS or whatever.
Congrats jeremy, looks fantastic! That video showing the miniscule boot time brings me hope that it is possible to write software that takes advantage of the crazy-fast computers we have these days.
I assume not long. And there’s no good way to stop that.
With regards to the cargo door story - a door did blow out, but it was a passenger door, not a cargo door. Passenger doors are plug-fit (they're bigger than the hole, and pressure holds them in place), so it's not really possible for a passenger door to blow out. Cargo doors are not plug fit, so a latching failure could cause a door to blow out. Everyone in the industry remembers the DC10 cargo door failures.

I suspect the early rumours said a door had blown out, and as that's not really a possible failure mode for a passenger door, it was assumed it must have been a cargo door. Now, in this case a passenger door did blow out, but it wasn't a door failure. The fuselage some distance below a door failed, and split right up past the door. The partially unsupported door then blew out. But the door was peripheral to the story. Boeing could definitely had handled this much better, but it's not really surprising that in the absence of full facts the rumour mill got this one wrong.
Different subsets of OpenCL with different extensions work everywhere.

If you want to use C++ then it definitely doesn't work everywhere. Precompiled kernels (SPIR-V) also do not work (anywhere?).

Writing a GPU C program that only gets compiled when you run your program is extra overhead on productivity.
OneNote is awesome. I have 2 problems with it though:

1 - When you link another page, that link can be broken if you move that page to another collection/folder/whatever

2 - No way to add tags to pages =/
Erm... new for me? I typed a 'page per day' in Google and didn't find what I was looking for. In essence, it's serializing books, which has been done for > 100 years. I have some more ideas as to where I'd like to take it though.
I've been arguing for a long time that the "don't connect it to your network" defence was insufficient because sooner or later these devices will simply start including their own connectivity as well. Various other categories of device, notably cars, already do, and frequently abuse it for tracking purposes.

My take on this is that we should impose the kind of draconian restrictions we have here in the UK on products like cigarettes. You can buy them, age restrictions permitting, but they are legally required to cover a large part of their packaging with prominent disclosures of the harm they cause. If devices with consumer-hostile measures like phone home functionality were similarly required to disclose it, and exactly what it is doing, on their packaging and other promotional materials, average consumers might start asking more questions instead of just the relatively small and so usually insignificant class of techie consumers. If that still didn't produce meaningful competition, outright prohibition by law might be the only solution.
Companies should never advertise unlimited time off. This is a myth. There's always a limit, and what this does is just impose extra stress when trying to guess what it is.
I actually started it as opensource but maintenance and monetisation was difficult. The source is still a good start point to build anything off Amazon SES/Mailgun analytics https://github.com/suetco/suet
https://adafruit.com/

They do a lot of things well, some of which are not immediately obvious.
“Limiting price increases to only 10% per year”

Let that sink in for a minute. In only 10 years, it’s going to cost 10x what it does today to register A NAME.

Technology was supposed to prevent things like this, not enable it.
On the other hand they also assume that tenting large areas of Mars will be the way to go, just like this article
Unwind(8) gains “Happy Eyeballs”-like flexibility
A “Dumb TV” is something I’m exploring developing. There is a gap in the market for a TV with a great panel, no internet connection, and only the processing strictly required for various types of signal processing and format conversion. The closest available solutions are large commercial monitors that cost an arm and a leg.
This is absolutely, unquestionably, spot on. It's a societal level change that's required to unpick what we have right now. It's incredibly complicated and there's issues everywhere.. but I think we can (mostly) agree that our current system doesn't benefit the many. And that can't be the way we want to be forever.
Typo-squatting domains and well-written emails target hotel front desks globally
And when the smart TV gets a little smarter and starts using DoH?
It's why the device can be so cheap. Pity they don't offer two variants though. I always did like the way Amazon let you opt in to ads for a cheaper Kindle price.

In a past life, I actually helped bridge ad attribution for a bunch of these. Funny.
How many layers does the mainboard have?