skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those models and explanations are not nearly as helpful as one might think. A lot of "neuroscience" explanations of everyday behaviour are mostly nonsense that sounds plausible and appealing (https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn3817, https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/jocn_a_0075...). In this context plausible doesn't even mean plausible to a neuroscientist, it means more like consistent with the nonsense a layperson has heard before.

What would be really helpful is a model that can add to things we already know. Saying "studying for an exam engages the X part of the brain and uses the Y neurotransmitter" adds literally nothing to your understanding of studying (you can find out much more about studying by talking to people that are good at it and who have done a lot of studying themselves), it's just taking an everyday activity and identifying the small but still vastly complex portion of the brain that is activated more than others. Imagine being told that a particular bug in a 1-billion-lines-of-code codebase is due to some code within a 10-million-lines-of-code portion of it: that's great but how helpful is it really?
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That's a question I asked myself about 10 years ago, so I made one. Is it perfect? Probably not, but I have strived to make it as rational and rigorous as I could. http://behaviorallogic.com/foundations/
I'm amazed that there's not a movement to stop eating and being around animals as much world-wide, given that so much disease (and environmental damage) comes from consumption of and proximity to animals:

- MERS-CoV: bats via dromedary camels

- nCoV-2019: bats or snakes?

- Influenza: pigs, birds

- E. coli O157:H7: cows and other farm animals.

...

(Edit: I mean along the lines of how safer sex is encouraged to prevent STDs, hand washing is encouraged to prevent food-borne illnesses, ... I haven't seen a call for the above.)
Actual article title:

"Turkish activists oppose amnesties for child rapists"
Right. We're just moving the DMZ, and that's for a lot of cases totally fine. Rather than how people would assume it works like this.

CPU -> LTE Modem || DMZ || Cellphone Provider

We have this for the Pinephone.

CPU || DMZ || LTE Modem -> Cellphone Provider

This is fine.

Remember that in the first model, and in most typical phones, the LTE Modem have above root access to the CPU through DMA. The exception is some more modern devices like the iPhone, which give the modem a specific sandbox device to DMA into that's not the actual processor.
Automated service for issuing DDoS attacks.
I do not understand this obsession with politeness (on the web, in real life it's different of course). The whole point of web discussions is that one can say unpleasant truths.

If I have to interact in a scripted way, I prefer real life interactions.
Indeed.... Who needs a registry when you have real-time data!
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Isn't there a compulsory cover license? What's stopping Taylor Swift from covering her own songs?
I think it’s interesting that people think we’ll be able to make something that does more in a smaller space.

As if there was something other than the laws of physics preventing natural selection from testing smaller structures.

Or that there’s something (other than the demands of the computation itself) constraining the architectures that were tested through natural selection.
ESP8266 is not free, not secure, but open and fully usable(if used in its originally intended purpose)
I'm a researcher working on exactly this problem. We are actively working on new technologies that will allow these air taxis to operate safely. The current concept is that there will be many "vertiports" scattered around a metro area, so you will have to walk/ground-Uber to a vertiport, take the air taxi to the vertiport nearest your destination and walk/ground-Uber to your destination. This is not a last-mile technology, and never will be within the currently planned regulatory framework.
I think the best technology is WiFi based such as chromecast, miracast, or airplay.

My TV upstairs is connected to an XBOX ONE that has a Miracast receiver app installed and it works well with my Windows laptop. I also have a miracast dongle that attaches to any HDMI port and that is in my go bag.

Still if I want to play a console style game I don't want the laptop on my lap, so I get a USB-C to HDMI cable and plug it into my A/V receiver and put the computer wherever -- the cable is so thin and long I could have it on my lap in the couch if I wanted.

Those tech will benefit from advances in WiFi, if they have a big flaw it is that frequencies and the radio resources are shared so very well all that WiFi transmission degrades the Bluetooth channel which makes the game controller unreliable. Some devices have better radio compatibility with others, but vendor A hardware just might have trouble with vendor Q in some circumstances so it is hard to realize a brand promise the way that HDMI does.

Schemes based on other technology have had limited success. I think 60 GHz and UWB are highly dependent on path characteristics. Even at close range (inches) a misalignment or occlusion by the metal ground screen in the LED panel or any other metal could cause the picture to go out.
Choosing a tiny and, at the time, not too competitive niche was key for me being able to make my current project viable in the 10hrs/week or so of time I had to spend on it. I had no audience at the beginning, either.

Now that I do have an audience and some experience, my next project will be in a somewhat larger niche that overlaps with my current one.
I'll be interested to see how they leverage the user tree. I'm no expert in social media bots, but it seems like the user invitation tree could be important to identifying not just networks of bots that are generating low-value content and trying to amplify certain viewpoints, but the people inviting those bots into the network in the first place.
this is bullshit, why CEO can't hire person who is best for the job by her/his own definition of best? Definition of best is determined by person who is hiring.

Can white-man now sue company for racism because board of directors didn't hire him? Does this mean, now minorities are considered as an elite group of people?

P.S. I tried to remember when I last time looked at sex of job applicant. Couldn't remember any case, now I should be careful and reject white man (just in case)
The FAA gives a lot of fucks. They certainly aren't going to get away with their past shenanigans with when they move into the air.
That's a bit silly because neuroscience tools are built got biological brains. electrical engineering tools are used on microprocessors, as they should.
I am building an illegal audiobook sharing site. Can you recruit me?
We'll simplify and create models, as we do in maps and all else, identifying principles and prioritizing.
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I grew up with chores and allowance, was required to get summer jobs once I was old enough to work. Parents made me put some into an IRA too.
uMatrix user here too. The same happened. Totally disgusting from techcrunch.
This. Why ppl can move to another email provider? Because email protocol is public! (even some tricky protocols are added such as DKIM)

So, I hope any new social platform or communication platform has a public interface.to communicate with its replica. Mastodon can be an example but it is not widely spread yet .
Yes, but one started in the atmosphere, was captured, and then released back into the atmosphere.

The other (fuel) started sequestered in the ground, was captured, and then released into the atmosphere.
Don't know anything about the amazon robots specifically, but manufacturing robots commonly use computer vision methods which perform a lot better than 90 percent. I don't really agree with the claims of 99.9% accuracy and being generally superior to humans in this area. But in practical terms a vast number of new vision tasks are solved problems now, a really huge achievement.

Though on the "curve fitting" versus "general intelligence" argument, I agree with you. The robots still can only do exactly what we tell to do, we just don't need to be quite so exact in telling them how to do it. But for the most part, this is only gained by having to show them very very thoroughly how to do it by using tons of data.
How do you secure the link between Cloudflare and your HTTP only site?
Is this because PHP is correct, or is it because PHP rounds reprs at a different level of precision?
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Anyone want to invite me?
(x y) is also a function call, because lisp always interprets the first position of a list as such unless you quote it:

f (g ‘(x y))

But that changes the meaning of g from “a fn with two args” to “a fn with one arg that is a list.”

If your meaning is instead that function-outside notation cannot be mixed with s-exps, I.e. you have to choose one mode or the other, then I think you’re right that there’s no ambiguity here (and no need to quote the args above). I suspect you would lose the power of macros, and may not be able to use existing ones, but I don’t write them so I’m not sure.

Below are some Clojure expressions with standard and then function-outside versions. I quickly found that I wanted to go back to attached() parens() for those, because that seems more readable to my eyes than having () them () spaced out. I’d never choose this option though, it took all of an afternoon to get used to lisp syntax, and I find it to be more readable now than c-style languages.

(let [a 1 b 2] (+ a b))
let ([a 1 b 2] + (a b))
let( [a 1 b 2] +(a b))

(apply + (range 10))
apply(+ range(10))

(defn my-fn [x] (* x x))
defn (my-fn [x] *(x x))
Extraordinary assertion without evidence.

How often is a desired product unavailable because some of the inventory was shoplifted?
Awesome, can't read the article because NatGeo.
Sure; just mail me (check profile).
It was already used when dealing with voting rings (resulting in termination of accounts)
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You're right, but for what it's worth the government is investing a lot of money into making this happen. I'd estimate that there are at least 100 researchers and engineers working on technology to enable this (while making sure it's safe) right now.
I think they need to fully figure out how individual neurons work before they move up to larger circuits.
If someone on the top of a user-invite tree gets "cancelled" will all the people he referred and their descendants be cancelled, too?
You have a "startup culture" (because there are sodas in the break room).

I am a "full-stack developer" (because I once worked through a React tutorial).

Recruiting and interviewing is a crapshoot, all around.
Keep in mind that's over $1 per mile.
Your comment about daydreaming hit me really hard. I used to daydream all the time, but had completely forgotten that I even used to do it till you mentioned it. I now am always thinking about work, side projects, what to do next or worse investments. That's in the few moments when there isn't distraction like a podcast, audiobook reading it just simply doing random stuff on the phone. In essence even that is only while I'm in the shower. No wonder I'm never daydreaming.

Thank you so much for providing this disturbing insight! I need to fix this..
That was known long before Snowden did anything.
Do you have hmo coverage? I think what you describe is increasingly anachronistic and may vanish completely in coming years, for a majority of Americans at least, depending on certain political outcomes.
It's not without implicit consent.

When you walk on to another person's property (the store) you consent to their rules.

Maybe those rules aren't reasonable and may be declared illegal, but consent is present.
On the iPhone, the modem has always been on a separate chip.
Witch-burning hasn't gone away; it's just changed its vocabulary.
Or he's not optimal for his constituents...
Almost everyone works for a company that does marketing, so it's weird to please ignorance.
Man, I miss what.cd, not just for the content but for the obsessive users they had and the collections they made. Want all albums with a shoe as the cover? They have a collection for that. Want good music to start a journey into classical music in the 1800s? They have a collection for that. I mostly used it to discover great music, and the void that what.cd left has yet to be filled for me.
There is a movement against industrial livestock production.
I don't think any of the various proposed UAM vehicles are pure tilt-rotors like the osprey. They pretty much all incorporate multiple motors with at least some of those motors dedicated purely to providing vertical lift.
Deep learning?
Just go into your local branch and politely ask to talk to the manager. They have the power to override all mistakes and are reasonable rational people.
A mind understanding itself may violate the second law, but a few minds understanding one mind should be theoretically possible!
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I think the point here is that if someone starts spouting rubbish, the person who invited them loses "face" - it reflects badly on them. So invitations aren't hard to come by, provided you have a reasonable reputation for saying things that are sensible.

This is a throwback to an early age when you would never talk to someone in social circles without first being introduced. If someone turned out to be a "bad sort" then the mutual acquaintance who had introduced you had proven themselves not to be reliable, and so you don't trust any future introduction from them. The scene in "Pride and Prejudice" where Mr Collins goes up to talk to Mr Darcy without having been introduced is a classic example of breaking these social norms, and the loss of reputation that ensues.

There is a lot of current research on "reputation" and "trust", and the "invitation tree" is one very simple way to provide some of the benefits.
And HN is arguably better for not being invite-only. There are so many articles on HN where the top comment is by somebody with deep domain knowledge who provides some kind of original insight that fits into the low length and polish expectations of a comment, but would never have become a formal blog post. Invite-only communities intentionally give up on that kind of discourse for... what? Easier moderation?
Why do we need to do this kind of comparison? They are both quite nice. I think HN is better for what I look for (but r/programminglanguages and a few others are even better) as there are just a lot of people here who actually have experience with the topics discussed. PL experts, formal method experts, cancer experts, etc everyone is ready to write quite a nice explanation for nothing. The volume on Lobste.rs for some topics is just not large enough to get an insightful convo going.

Also I notice a lot of Lobste.rs is a mix between my fav subreddits & HN. So it's a circlejerk. But then again r/programmingcirclejerk is one of my favorite subreddits anyway.
I worked in a large call center and we used VNC to monitor the agents. This worked until one one of them figured out what the VNC tray icon color change meant - which meant they soon all knew what it was.

So I had to do the reverse hack of this guy. Easiest way was just to load up the VS resource editor and change the icon so that it always looked like there was no connection.
Very cool! Did they do a write-up? I haven't been following lobste.rs closely and some quick google searching returned a lot of unrelated content.
No, they do/will not.
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Yet somehow there are twice as many Amazon Go stores in Illinois than in California [1]. And biometric-based time-tracking for hourly employees is extremely common. It's because the Illinois law doesn't prohibit biometric collection and use, it prohibits collection and use without explicit permission of each individual person involved.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Go

PS - Illinois also prohibits discrimination against employees that do not consent to biometric-based tracking and thus all of the systems for sale in Illinois have traditional methods that can be used at all times.
That introduction is why tech journalists shouldn't dabble in amateur history. I sounds like something from a 1960s highschool textbook: oversimplified and dripping in passive-aggressive politics.
I’m stuck in a related situation: I own a website with heavy traffic that contains inline iframes to some http pages (about 30% of pages) hosted by third parties.
I can’t turn https on for my website, otherwise these iframes would be blocked by the browser.
Since I don’t offer https, it means that I can’t offer features such as login/sign up etc..
Any ideas?
How so, it's a method for dealing with spammers/marketers and the like who would post low effort or off topic content regularly.
There are several of these (cognitive architectures) e.g. the ACT-R model[0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACT-R
I disagree [that it is "better"]. I am a wayward hacker in a non-tech field. Don't know anyone from whom to obtain an invitation (to be clear, not soliciting for one -- don't have time for another site/newsfeed), probably even within 1-2 degrees of separation. I suppose they are perfectly happy remaining small and low-traffic, so it works for them.
So who is willing to invite me? I am nice
That's interesting, thanks. I haven't really used Cloudflare Workers for much myself so it's interesting to hear folks' comparisons.
Every answer to a “recommend x” question is just self promoters pitching their own product too. It’s just advertising at that point, not real information
In general I'm very skeptical of much neuroscience. (If an article ever says 'emerging neuroscience shows...' you can be assured what follows is almost certainly BS.) Yet I found the senior researcher in this article quite refreshing about the limitations of their research.
> A 64-bit floating-point number can represent 15 decimal digits, which is all balances less than 10 trillion (9 999 999 999 999.99), with two digits after the decimal place

There are real monetary quantities for which this is insufficient. The GDP of Indonesia is measured in 10s of quadrillions of Rupiah. In cases of hyperinflation this kind of overflow can happen even for human-level accounting.

Use real fixed point decimal math.
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Tests are not sound in the sense of conventional program logic (overapproximation). O'Hearn's [1] even proves a soundness theorem. So when you say say [1] is not sound then this is confusing for the reader.
If you only want to go back as far as 2nd half 20th century, there are probably logs of GPS devices, possibly available to future travelers, that could help minimize this problem. Then if you want to go back a little further, the effect is smaller than it would have been, since you "made it" to a predicted location.

Or maybe it "hasn't" been solved, and ʻOumuamua took a really long time to "get back" ... "here."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBOumuamua
The worst thing you can do to the human immune system is to cease to expose it to pathogens.
Apparently there would have been potential restrictions on its use. On the previous point, just because you have someone on a board doesn't mean you get to control what happens.
I see. Two factor: something you have: local storage key; something you know: your email account password.

Lose your device and use only password manager in device and you’d still be out of luck.

That said, do you think the threat risk of trusting Apple with the encryption key for end to end encrypting data with Sign in By Apple is much different than the approach you are implementing? In both cases, at least you wouldn’t have access to the user’s data and you have to trust Apple to some extent given they are in charge of securing local storage and device security.
You mean like “neuroscience”?
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This is bad advice. See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22146854
This is possible, although if the user has control over the "trusted" part of the system, nothing prevents the data to be encrypted before leaving it.
That is, suppose we know the radio chip contains the encryption code, but also some suspicious closed firmware we cannot examine; since we can't trust that chipset, we could add one more encryption layer on the data before it reaches the untrusted chipset, so that any potentially malicious firmware would see essentially random noise.
Of course the other end must employ the same decryption scheme, which is not immediate for sure, but still doable and would make extremely difficult for anyone to snoop our data.

The point is: we can't have a 100% fully open and auditable system, both in HW and SW, so they built a fence to separate the trusted hardware in which we work with our data and the untrusted but necessary part where our data can't enter before being encrypted.

It's a huge effort, which brings us one more time on the importance of having full open hardware/firmware/software.
I wonder if current technology would allow crowfunding the creation of fully open chipsets. Nothing immediate, just one damn chip at a time: networking today, storage controllers in two years, graphics in 5, etc.
The article touched upon the C. elegans connectome. There are a few interesting projects attempting to simulate the creature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWorm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WormBase
I don't think I'm ever going to get over what.cd getting taken down. After it disappeared my new music discovery has plummeted.
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That's a good point and a dirty trick, but like you said, it's why we have HSTS and preload lists. I only serve HTTPS (as best I can) because I've never had a case where something truly justified the possibility my system would betray my user. I'm sure I could contrive one, and probably there's someone somewhere who'd agree, but I would rather treat that case existing as a bug to be fixed and not a use case to support. Otherwise you get stuff like the other recent thread [0] with people proudly serving unauthenticated binaries with HTTP for no defensible reason.

Someone in a cousin comment made another, maybe better point: URLs get linked and crawled and cached and having them HTTP just normalizes something that was fine in 1995 but isn't fine in 2020.

It's always possible for someone to get proxied like you said, but it's still safer overall if ever seeing "http://" raises eyebrows. There's another front page thread [1] right now about the normalization of deviance.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22136710
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22144330
Six years ago I interviewed at a company that was working on this technology. My background was in image processing and segmentation. I knew someone else would work on it if I didn’t but I still couldn’t sleep with myself at night working for a company whose monetization depends on data mining people. It deeply saddens me that even this shopping mall where I’m currently posting from, tracked customers secretly and got busted with a bit of luck. Eventually they will win. :(
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If enough websites did it, google would become just a giant resolver for corporate content that everyone already knows about. It would effectively fork the internet into google and non google. We just need a few search engines that can compete of quality.
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Perhaps their itent is to always maintain quality over growing big?