skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow.. Wow wow wow. I had no idea this was even remotely possible...

I would never have imagine that the nervous system alone would be able to adjust. This is incredible.

I'm really curious now if there have been other transplants like this before with similar results?

> The nerve begins to send signals, it is called reinnervation, and the muscles function according to body needs.

Also, is this just letting the body 're-connect' or is this some specific medical process to achieve ?

Either way this is incredible!
Lots of cultures have strongly-held mystical beliefs about dead bodies, going back thousands of years. There are plenty of famous examples, even, like the fights over Patroclus and Hector's dead bodies in the Iliad.
Recently, cops have been getting in trouble for shooting suspects as they run "away" from the police.

Interestingly, cops shooting at fleeing suspects is very common in TV shows and movies, but generally considered unacceptable in real life.

I've sometimes wondered if the cops who grew up watching these scenes over and over again as children, might be inadvertently bringing that same behavior into their real life jobs.

Of course the challenge of proving this, is well stated in this quote:

"Does TV viewing really contribute to all those reactions? ...At the heart of the debate is the difficulty of proving that one thing causes another...Similarly, it has been difficult to prove that the violence shown on television causes crime and antisocial behavior...A Canadian psychologist wrote: “The scientific evidence simply does not show that watching violence either produces violence in people or desensitizes them to it.” However, the American Psychological Association Committee on Media and Society said: “There is absolutely no doubt that higher levels of viewing violence on television are correlated with increased acceptance of aggressive attitudes and increased aggressive behavior.”"

Taken from: https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102006362#h=13

However, among past social circles of mine, I can definitely say TV helped normalize behaviors that at one time weren't as common.

For example, I saw gangster rap, and all of the forms of entertainment that accompanied it's rise in the 90's, dramatically normalize arrogant and aggressive behavior among my peers in suburbia.

So to me, it's logical that TV and movies are one part of the cultural fabric that can indoctrinate new behaviors in the real world. Some of them really unfortunate.
Where do I find the introduction what Sia is? I tried clicking around in the headers from OP, but couldn't find it within my very lazy tolerance.
If you don't already know E, then how are you going to verify it? How do you even know they know it?

Given that they don't want to tell you E in the first place, how many of the hundreds of answers they'll scream at you are you going to be able to follow up on?
Coronavirus Diaries: I’m a Luxury Travel Agent. We’re Screwed
Treasury yields are way down right now.

I'm not an economic expert and don't really know what to make of that. It seems crazy that people are willing to loan money to the U.S. government for 30 years at a rate of 1.25%.

As a taxpayer I guess I can be cautiously happy that the government will incur less interest on its debt for now.

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/i...
Traditionally site owners are either public or can be requested in a 7 day span by showing clear harm.

Otherwise the liability falls to Namecheap. Presumably Facebooks motivation for actually suing is to prevent name registrar's from protecting obvious scammers for profit.

Not sure how I feel about this, site owners who act in good faith clearly should be able to stay private. On the other hand, scammers can open sites much more quickly than they can be reasonably be sued. Most businesses try to keep scammers from obtaining similar domains, having to sue each time to take a page down could make this infeasible for smaller ones.
Yet a different take I made while ago with a more particle-ey approach... Click the page once to fire up the audio:

http://vectorslave.com/proton-renderer/
The whole article is an explanation of how he figures.
once the bulb's paired to a hub it's no longer in easy-bind mode.

you can do a re-pair by typing the bulb's serial number into the app and it will force the bulb to forget it's hub.
Correct.

Google is over. A zombie behemoth that will continue through sheer inertia.
DuckDuckGo works with the CIA so whatever.
>Please do not change the subject, we were discussing zero sum game.

I'm not changing the subject. My claim is that it's a zero sum game of resource accumulation. We're now at the point where over half the resources in the world have been accumulated with a handful of individuals. Capitalism is the engine that allowed this to happen.

>Capitalism requires a separation of economy and state. What you're describing is Cronyism:

Cronyism is a necessary result of capitalism. People who have capital will always be able to influence the state, there is no way to separate the two. Capitalists are able to buy media, fund political campaigns, bribe politicians, and so on. This is why capitalist countries necessarily turn into oligarchies.

>Except for the part where you spend jail time for fraud or theft.

Rich people in Western countries practically never go to jail for fraud and theft. The most egregious example was the 2008 global economic collapse where millions of people lost all their savings and none of the people responsible were punished. What's more, the institutions and people responsible got massive bailouts at the expense of tax payers.

>That's the beauty of Capitalism. You're free.

Vast majority of people under capitalism have to spend large portions of their lives working just to live. This idea that you can just go and do whatever you like is a total fantasy because the only people who have the means to do that are those who were lucky enough to be born rich. The rest of the population has to spend their lives subsidizing the lifestyle of these birth lottery winners. Any regular person needs to work for at least 40 hours a week just to live, this is majority of their week taken away from them. It's utter absurdity to claim that they're free to build themselves anything in the little free time they have remaining.

You appear to have an incredibly infantile understanding of the relationship between capitalism and society.
I don't see how this changes anything? If they had attempted to do a production import of their live bank account, it would have been denied, same as what happened to their customers, and they would have caught it before the mistake affected real users.
That is very cool. You mention some RDF support, but no SPARQL query support if I understand your first linked web page.

For what my opinion is worth, I encourage you! I have been a fan of the semantic web since day zero, and I worked with their Knowledge Graph while working at Google. In order promote the tech, I am working on an app (for iOS and macOS) that will walk new users through using SPARQL against endpoints like WikiData and DBPedia. My email is in my profile, contact me and we can set up a phone call sometime.
Better than I would have expected... and it still works locally. This means you can probably still connect it up to another automation system of some sort. Maybe I'm the only one who doesn't care, because I don't use the cloud features anyways... I mean most cloud-connected devices don't even have an option for local management, and just become a brick when the cloud service goes down.
I was being facetious ;)
For what sort of thing? Images of CSAM delivered days later is still CSAM. It doesn't expire.
Nice domain and nice concept. I too am among those with a home-grown approach to managing the budget. Mine is more of a spending journal than it is about planning or reconciling the entire budget, with motivations similar to those who would have a meal journal. I focus on the decision making process and self-evaluate spending according to my budget and my overall values.

My approach won't appeal to a lot of folks, but there are dozens of us who find it super useful: https://www.spendlight.com/#how-it-works

We're on the same page regarding privacy. Except for taking money for the subscription, I keep my hands off bank accounts. And for those wanting a complete air gap, there's always the printable paper version:
https://www.spendlight.com/download/paper-spending-journal
We are starting to see COVID19 spread from those who haven't traveled recently.

https://www.businessinsider.com/four-us-coronavirus-cases-li...

The recent Houston area cases were from a group that traveled to Egypt recently; I'm sure at least one person in that group was interested in going to the rodeo, which averages about 2.5 million attending each year:

https://www.rodeohouston.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Attendance
>I do notice other countries who are a week or two ahead of us

It is being reported that South Korea is testing 10k per day. The USA is still having an issue in even delivering test kits where required. That's months ahead, not weeks.
Almost all airlines are operating on the line. I think we will see many more go out of business. Budget airlines because no vacations and scheduled airlines because no business travel. Only the larger ones would survive based on bank relationships.
Quantum Matter?
Golem Hive – building a cloud with the Task API
You shouldn’t label yourself as a junior developer
I find it ridiculous that SXSW had to be forced by the City of Austin to cancel. If it were up to the SXSW organizers, who apparently care more about "the show must go on" than they do about people getting sick and dying, SXSW would still be happening.

The SXSW organizers are foolish for not cancelling earlier in the week when the major sponsors started to pull out. The writing was on the wall, clear as day, that it inevitably would be cancelled, but instead of taking the opportunity to gracefully cancel it themselves or use the time to start making alternate arrangements, they doubled down and had to be forced by the city to cancel and now have less than 1 week to figure out how to handle it. Not a good look.
Speaking as an Austin resident, nearly the first thing I thought after reading about Covid-19 (on HN) about a month ago was, "well I guess I'm not going to any SXSW shows this year".

If Saudi Arabia can cancel/postpone the Umrah pilgrimage, I guess Austin can live without SXSW for a year.

But, I wonder, as we are both more interconnected and more able to realize what is happening when a virus like H1N1, SARS, MERS, Covid-19, etc. pops up, what percentage of the years will this happen? Not saying it was in any way a mistake, but I could imagine it might become a once or twice a decade event.
I don’t really like this example. Has there ever been a situation where things were things were so urgent that torturing somebody was the only option? I doubt it. And if torture is so useful why only apply it to foreigners and not criminals at home?
I'd say modern grains and "vegetable oil" are probably the biggest issues... heritage grains in moderation are more okay. We take in a lot of refined grains and sugars. And cook everything in oils people wouldn't recognize as food a couple hundred years ago, let alone trans fats.

That combined with a huge uptick in constantly eating all the time, sugary drinks, etc... eating 6-8 times a day. Most people can get away with 1-2 meals a day and a small snack or coffee outside those main meal(s). Longer fasting has historically been involuntary and/or religious, has other benefits that should be included pretty regularly as well.

I think animal proteins and fats are good to keep, even just eggs, butter and fish. There's a lot of nutrition in egg yolks, kidney and/or liver meat and it isn't the same from vegetable sources. Animal protein is also a bit different in terms of absorption than vegetable as well. It's not hard for people to get 100-150g of appropriate protein a day on average either and doesn't have to come from higher animals.
It has been quite a long time since I laid hands on any of these, but to refresh my own memory:

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

section 3.1 and 3.2 there has the original single core opterons. At the time in 2003/2004 they ran circles around the single core xeons, where a two-socket motherboard meant two cores. This was the same era as the Socket 604 Xeons.
I'm going to put this comment out there and see how in fares in 10 months:

I think it's very likely what will happen with coronavirus is what happens with other pandemics: there are multiple phases, and the second phase is usually the worst. The initial phase usually isn't as severe; there are widespread measures to reduce the spread that bring numbers down after the initial onslaught, and it looks like coronavirus also has a seasonality factor that lessens its contagiousness during warmer months. Come next fall/winter, though, people have put their guard down and have somewhat of a "quarantine fatigue", and that's when the second wave just explodes as latent underlying cases spread extremely quickly.
Link to the study, "Wait, There's Torture in Zootopia?: Examining the Prevalence of Torture in Popular Movies"[1].

[1]https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3342908
Nice to sea Polesie on hackernews, even if for such reasons. My grandparents lived there (in the Polish part near Włodawa), I spent every holidays in 90s and 00s swimming in these lakes and biking through these forests.

It's a very pretty region, great for tourism (the default is forest, there are clearings with lakes every few dozen kilometers, there's also some villages and farming land, but mostly it's one huge forest).

It's very flat, and the roads (except the one that connects Lublin to Włodawa and the country border) are almost always empty - so it's a paradise for biking.

The villages are very poor even for eastern Poland standards, most young people leave cause there's no jobs except for farming and some tourism in the summer but still not much. I'd say the median age is over 40 in the countryside or possibly more.

My grandfather was working for a local farming cooperative there during communism, and they tried to dry the swamps for agriculture reasons. They were also searching for coal (there's a coal mine in the region and there is a possibility for some more).

The end result was that in that particular part (near Stary Brus - Kołacze - Hańsk) it got much too dry, the ground water level dropped and it's almost a desert now - ground is mostly sand, only pine trees and a few kinds of grass grow there.

In the Polish part there is already an artificial lake (Wytyczno) and a channel between some rivers (Wieprz-Krzna), but nobody really uses it for transport. I don't think it makes much sense to build waterways there at the cost of nature.

- there's no industry to speak of

- the population is sparse and poor

- the border between Poland and Belarus on the Bug river is the external border of the EU, it separates 2 opposing economic unions and blocks almost all the trade

- the next part downstream (Mazury lake district) is also underdeveloped sparsely populated countryside with little money and lots of rare nature

If Poland, Ukraine and Belarus joined one economic union (preferably EU) - it could maybe work, but as is it's useless investment with lots of harmful side effects.
Yea; and your bulbs (the expensive part) will continue working indefinitely into the future. Seems reasonable to me.
same here, ill do some digging once i get home and report back if i find a way.

edit: couldn't wait until I got home so I found a solution for mac users. You can use this[0] package to load screensavers from urls.

[0] https://github.com/liquidx/webviewscreensaver
Since you're bringing up the website... I don't get this marketing strategy. The cryptocurrency angle is just as off putting as telling me as a potential customer that my data will be stored on janky servers in unreliable places, no matter if the uptime is the same. OP even claims they have reliability and experience I'd consider but those aspects sure send signals that make me not want to deal with that stack.

Just looking at the website for Sia I see a bunch of fluffy marketing stuff, fair enough, that's normal these days. But where is the selling point? https://sia.tech/technology tells me my data is stored securely and in a redundant manner, great, just like any storage provider. That is followed by "Renters And Hosts Pay With Siacoin" and talks about payment channels, which links to a wikipedia article and not something that tells me how I would even pay them, not to even talk about how much (I saw the calculator thingy on my way to that site, the messaging is still weird).

The "Getting started" call to action is a similar experience, a bunch of downloads, cool - I don't even know if you're right for me yet. I'm five levels deep into the "Getting started guide" linked there and so far found that I'd apparently have to deal with weird crypto exchanges to pay somebody for this, plus I couldn't use most of my pretty standard tooling anymore (at least not without involving one of those proxy things on the getting started page that cover a few use cases, some of which seem to be operated by others?).
My original bridge recently bricked (hours of wireshark logs led me to believe it boot loops every 17 seconds) and I was able to associate my bulbs with a new bridge easily.

Steps are as follows:

Turn the bulb on for three seconds and then off for three seconds, repeat a few times, then turn it on and it should blink. Turn it off, start the pairing/search process and then turn the bulb back on.

It helps to use a lamp/light switch if you have them somewhere that requires plugging/unplugging to turn off.
That thinking kind of follows the thinking that people who espouse moderating the content of movies and other media.
(Can just give you the snippet facts I remember:)

It spikes to about a 5x yearly mortality multiplier for those between 50-60, diminishing a bit as you near 80+ (since their natural mortality rate was already high - about 12%(?)).

20-30 year olds have about a 2x multiplier. You're twice as likely to die this year if you get coronavirus.

Think it comes out to like - 80+ people are 25-30% likely to die that year total.
Google and Facebook use Knowledge Graphs. I have had consulting customers for this tech in the health (medical) industry.
I switched to DDG for my desktop, laptop and phone a few weeks ago.

I'm on the fence about switching back: I find myself using g! all the time to get (better) Google results.

I want anything related to soccer (national competitions standings, live results, match results, ...)? DDG doesn't have it.

Anything where I know up front that the result will be in some forum? DDG almost never has it.

Some kind of local news event, whether recent or not? Don't count on DDG.

Typo correction is worse. Relevance of the result is worse. Contextual understanding is close to non-existent.

Only for the most basic search operations, DDG is fine for me. Other than that, it's g!.

I wish it were different.
Seven weeks ago there were ~100 cases in Wuhan, now there's 60k. What's to stop that from happening in Seattle, or the Bay, or anywhere else in the developed world that isn't taking the precautions China did?
I would recommend starting here: https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/your-deceptive-mind-...

Steve Novella is a great teacher!
Any plans to support image annotation (something similar to what CVAT does)?
You're going to have to give me some examples of cops shooting fleeing suspects being common in TV and movies.

I can't think of a single one off the top of my head.
My understanding was that it would have worked for her because she still would have been under the 100 user limit. So the test env still worked for production data, for the first 100 users.
I didnt know such surgeries could be performed in India. I didnt even know such surgeries were possible in the first place let alone being done in India
Consider this: If encryption is suddenly turned off for all communications, and police have access to all of it via warrants, that's like getting a warrant for every home in the US. Obviously if the police had a perpetual warrant to your home, you wouldn't want that, why is it reasonable they have one to your data?
Yeah, as a rule of thumb. Ultimately it's all about leverage over time. If you're temporarily indispensable and now more expensive, but still replaceable for cheaper in the medium term, that's not a great situation for you to be in. On the other hand, if you really do have that other offer, you have a signal that that might be what you're worth in the open market. And if everyone starts getting more expensive, then employers simply have to adjust over time.
There's a nifty interactive tool for playing with costs!
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/54351

I gave it a whirl. There are some built-in constraints. For instance, you can't take away minuteman missiles. Nor can you cancel dental insurance for servicemembers.

Also, you are not allowed to entirely disband any component. There must be at least one aircraft carrier, one army brigade, etc. Force reductions in general staff are limited to 50%.

But I tried. I took away everything I could. Cranked every slider to its minimum value.

For a total reduction in personnel of 1,071,000.

For a grand total annual savings of...$184 billion.

That savings is roughly 30% of the actual us military budget (depending on what year you compare with)

In other words, if the US military shrinks to its absolute minimum level, it somehow still costs 2/3 of the money. According to the CBO's online slider tool, at least.
Or just regular text. Or algorithms with PNG or binary blob seeds.
South by Southwest Is Canceled by Austin as Coronavirus Fears Scuttle Festival
I was thinking the same thing, it's the type of thing that probably should be reported to the relevant bar. I don't know if it would get him disbarred, but there might be other disciplinary actions they can take if proven or it happens constantly.
Gotcha, and your reply to the GP clarified a lot for me!
I didn't see anything on the Plaid flow authorizing the ability to charge my accounts or make transfers, so I'm assuming it's only limited to to Transaction data.

Really wish Plaid showed what APIs were being authorized in the flow...
> The scale of freedoms alone would seem to clearly indicate freedom had plenty to do with the foundation and development.

The scale of freedom? The freedoms were pretty much "the rights of an englishmen", which the american colonists already had. For 150 years, the american colonists ( especially the elites ) enjoyed the rights of englishmen. The american "freedoms" pretty much stem from the magna carta and lockian/english principles. Nothing new and nothing special. I know, we are told it was "new", "special", "exceptional", "revolutionary", etc. All nations lie to their people.

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

> You don't get those freedoms in an oligarchy as you describe it.

I know. That's why the founders didn't allow 90%+ of americans to have "freedoms" or the right to vote. It's why slavery existed after the war of "ideals and freedoms", women were property and the poor unlanded whites were 2nd class citizens.

The central reason for the american revolution and every war is greed of the oligarchs. That's it. Everything else is just saccharine fake facade to rile up the uneducated masses.
Oprah and Social Anxiety
The point is that you verify A, B, C, and D. If they are telling you the truth about those, they are probably also truthful about E. They could only effectively lie about E if they knew that was the one thing you couldn't verify.