skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they're a cool company and I even thought about applying. However the limiting factor here isn't the implant technology. Lots of groups have been building really great stuff for years (groups around the world have been recording from neurons in living animals for decades). The issue is there are ethical implications for performing such an invasive brain surgery on a healthy person. Right now the limit factor is finding suitable candidates.

The ECoG implants are usually done to pinpoint where seizers start in the brain. The surgeons already have a good idea of the rough area from EEG but to zero in on the exact locus they need ECoG.

So to find a candidate for a study you need someone who has epilepsy, their epilepsy needs to be bad enough to merit brain surgery, and the epileptic center cannot be the brain region you care about but it needs to be close enough to your target region that the same ECoG will cover both brain areas.

So again I'm all for pushing this science forward. The more we learn about how the brain works the more we'll understand what makes us human. However, this isn't a technology problem right now. Its an ethical and medical one.
I wonder if toilets can't be adapted so as to prevent those inappropriate items from being flushed.

For example, suppose that you move part of the "processing" into the mechanism of the toilet itself, i.e. you use some kind of lever-operated press to pass your own output through a sort of a sieve; only soft items will pass, or items you break apart - but then you notice you've broken something apart which demotivates throwing those things in the toilet.

Just a thought.
This isn't new at all. Groups have been doing this for decades. Neuralink wants to mass produce the devices.
Firefox 76 gets optional HTTPS-only mode
I always thought "elegant" code was clean, concise and understandable.

Edit:
Stack Exchange seems to agree that readability is part of what makes code elegant.
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/9791...
It's 2020 and locking your screen on Linux is unreliable. It's difficult to promote Linux as a worthy consumer desktop OS alternative.
> Why would it be reasonable? If you're not willing to perform a job at the current pay grade, just quit your job.

That is not an option for those living paycheck to paycheck, or not in the prime of their life.

Human beings are not a resource, and managers need to understand that there is a social cost they pay and thus need to comply with a social contract.
Tells you a lot about why "the market" won't always give you the outcome you're looking for. People value delivery more than ever right now. It's literally saving lives. However that value does not result in the people taking risk to provide the delivery getting any more money.

As others have mentioned these workers have so little leverage right now because of the massive unemployment. So even if Amazon was to charge customers more, they could totally just pocket the money and the warehouse/delivery/grocery people would have no position.

It's so completely unfair. Everyone risking their lives to feed us right now should probably be making 2-3x normal pay (and we should be paying a lot more for their services).
KDE vs Kubuntu vs Neon vs Plasma – What’s the Difference
Types of Marketing Automation Tools
Underrated take. They shouldn't be able to do this. This should flag Zoom as PUP for malware removal, if it weren't the new go-to.
please report them to your data protection officer the same way you'd report any company including Apple/Google if they violate GDPR: https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/unsere-rolle-als-aufs...
That large number of divisors was the reason for the Babylonians to use base-60, I've always been thaught. I always assumed the the 360 degree circle was a consequence of that, but this article contradicts that.

Actually I don't think the article does a great job proving its thesis ("In school we learn there are 360 degrees in a circle, but where did the 360 come from? When it is pointed out that the Babylonians counted to base-60, rather than base-10 as we do, people often ask if there is a connection. The short answer is no.").

The article's conclusion is "So, although angles come from the Greeks, the 360 degrees comes from Babylonian astronomy". And it explains, more-or-less, how the Babylonians came to use 360 degrees for astronomy: because they had a habit of dividing things into 12 part, subdivided in 30. But that doesn't preclude they choose 12 and 30 (instead of, say, 13 and 28) because both are divisors of their base number 60.

Wikipedia points in that direction (but admits no-one really knows):

"Some ancient calendars, such as the Persian calendar, used 360 days for a year.[citation needed] The use of a calendar with 360 days may be related to the use of sexagesimal numbers."

"Another theory is that the Babylonians subdivided the circle using the angle of an equilateral triangle as the basic unit and further subdivided the latter into 60 parts following their sexagesimal numeric system.[7][8] The earliest trigonometry, used by the Babylonian astronomers and their Greek successors, was based on chords of a circle. A chord of length equal to the radius made a natural base quantity. One sixtieth of this, using their standard sexagesimal divisions, was a degree."

Another Wikipedia-quote agrees with your point of view:

"Another motivation for choosing the number 360 may have been that it is readily divisible: 360 has 24 divisors,[note 1] making it one of only 7 numbers such that no number less than twice as much has more divisors"
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Don’t Google and Microsoft answers both require accounts, and carry with them the expectation that everything you do on their platforms is recorded for the purpose of selling ads?

Also I regularly attend more than 50-person zoom calls without a hiccup. Google I think requires an enterprise plan to get to that limit, and I don’t even know what the name of their video conferencing product is at this point.
> or poorly designed desktops made by people who obviously don't use them.

Do you mean the design part or the coding part? From my limited experience desktops are made by contributors and volunteers work on whatever affects them the most or some might work on cool stuff. It is what it is, without someone with money hiring a large dev team and foucssing on user tickets it will never change. As a developer I prefer something customizable like KDE where I can fix a crash in an app if I hit it over a Windows like experience where important apps like the screen magnifier had hard coded shortcuts and you could not customize them.
It is relevent as long as they're processing EU citizen's data but the EU has little in the way of enforcement till they setup in the EU or announce future intentions to setup in the EU.
Why not use Teams Live for this? We have been using zoom and Teams alternately and Teams performance and ease of use has been much better in my experience, but we have yet to do a 200+ all hands so I was curious if there were some footguns with teams live that you may know about. Teams live works on a lot of platforms and also has a web version.
Organic SaaS Growth: The Curiosity Framework
Not sure how that would change anything. Think of the brain as a crowd at a soccer field and to decode the brain you'd need a mic on each person to capture every conversation. ECoG is like having a mic shared between every 100 people. While EEG is like having a single mic that is 10K feet over the soccer stadium.
I really don't see anything special about Iain M. Banks' Cultute books. Consider Phlebas was the more interesting to me, but not great.
Yes, see EPOC
Actually this is what India does and result? If I can't get my $50 welder from china because government imposed $50 import duty on it, then I am not likely to invest into learning welding. And that job is going to some person in other country where government isn't doing this.

Government should stay away from trying to control import/export and see the local labor/business adjust on its own.

In manufacturing garbage in = garbage out. Use shoddy tools, end up with shoddy quality product.

It might work for domestic demand.

But internationally? A guy in India won't care about ethics used behind the product as long as he's getting his welder unit for the price/quality ratio he's aiming for. Usually, the volumes of sales accured in this fashion will result in efficiency beyond what cheap labor/lack of regulations can get.
> "He who considers too much will perform little."

The perfectionist's curse? I have to say there's a core of truth to that! Analysis paralysis IOW.
Switching jobs right now would cost you:
a) Income you need to provide yourself food and shelter in a time of insecurity.
b) Healthcare loss during one of the worst global health crises ever.

The switching cost is near infinite and not reflected in the pay.
No, it's well documented that the term was in use referring to "source available" software before they claim to have invented it. It might be a case of two groups coming up with the same term, but they were not the first.

[0] The OSI claims to have coined the term in 1988 https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source...

[1] Here is a use of the term, 7 times, and as the main object, from 1996 http://www.xent.com/FoRK-archive/fall96/0269.html

[2] Here is a use of the term, as a proper noun, from 1993 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.os.ms-windows.pro...
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> Could someone conceivably do none of the things on this list

Conversely, you could do everything on this list, and still be a lousy programmer. Or not even a programmer at all.
>None of us start out life being literate, but few people lack the ability to become literate. Why is coding different?

To elaborate on the sibling comments, coding is generative work instead of passive consumption like reading. This split becomes easier to see when looking at a bunch of domains.

Most of people can learn to read a book but very few can write a good book. Similarly, it's easier to re-tell someone else's funny joke than be creative and write original comedy.

Many people can learn basic physics equations like "f=ma" is "force equals mass times acceleration" but fewer are able to be generative and discover new physics equations that are accepted by the science community.

Most people can listen to music and appreciate it, but a smaller percentage can play instruments. And then within the set of musicians, an even smaller percentage can compose new original music. There must be something more to it than "training and practice" to explain why a 19-year old Chopin can compose sophisticated piano compositions while most 70-year old professional concert pianists that have performed for decades with more repertoire than Chopin have written no notable original music.

Coding may not be as hard as creating "Theory of General Relativity" but it's not the same as reading literacy.
That’s not enough to offset the increased distances from longer orbits. So you still get a spiral as the velocity in in radians decreases. But, it looks like a Golden spiral because the velocities in m/s are almost constant due to dark matter.

PS: Should have said orbital period to be more clear.
Teams live can work without logins but you have to make the feed public with a hidden link.
same here, trying to understand stockpile management for coal
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/8/20687014/zoom-security-fla...
>They determine what exchange volume is legit and what isn't, also what coins are worthy of being listed.

Heh, well this aged well:

https://bitcoinist.com/coinmarketcap-new-listing-vote/

https://bitcoinist.com/binance-listing-2-6-million-fee/
I would have thought it would have at least something to do with computers at all...
you need something that conducts electricity. There are groups that use silicon implants.
Interesting how the public opinion on this turned around as the virus spread. I wonder if this will lead to people in the west wearing surgical masks during flu season like people do in Asia.
Save the Restuarants
HTTP and HTML were not designed to do this. It was specifically static and stateless. We are retrofitting statefulness and dynamic content to this platform. Imagine if we designed a stateful and dynamic platform from the ground up that could be implemented with minimal effort to every platform and started to use the right abstractions with the right set of tools.
If you want to learn about business more generally, the kind of generalist stuff that’s in an MBA Josh Kaufman’s Personal MBA is a fantastic place to start, and has a recommended book to follow up on each topic it covers if you need more depth.

https://personalmba.com/
> So yeah, Zoom is (ab)using flaws in macOS to get itself installed with minimum fuss, but it isn't doing it with evil intent.

But... why? What other software vendors look at the OS security model from a viewpoint of 'how do we bypass this as much as possible?' If it's not evil intent, what is it, incompetence?
This has been my experience as well. Large companies pay lip-service to security that protects their customers; they want just enough for legal deniability in the event of a breach, but not so much that it impacts operations or profits.

However, they can be...enthusiastic when it comes to security around protecting themselves. If you report an issue with customer information on a public S3 bucket, they might get around to fixing it someday, but if there are "trade secrets" or the like in that bucket, the issue is going to get fixed immediately and someone with a big title probably won't be coming in tomorrow.
> A lot of it has to do with government economic intervention, especially around monetary policy.

Don't single it out. Fiscal policy is as much guilty as monetary one. Even civil and criminal legislation help here.
Lessons from a Year of Working Remotely
I'd hate it but I'm sure this will help some people.
Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? (2017)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002821

3 years ago today, I posted this question to Ask HN, as I was boarding a flight from Heathrow to Houston. At the time, I was the VP of Product at Canonical, thinking about Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and what people really wanted in the next generation of Ubuntu. What followed was one of the most heavily commented threads on HackerNews, ever. Over the next week, I meticulously reviewed the comments and requests and published a blog post that grouped the requests into patterns.

I'm no longer with Canonical, though I still use Ubuntu desktop and server on a daily basis, and contribute occasionally as an Ubuntu Core Developer. It's pretty cool to look back at how much of that feedback found it's way into 18.04 LTS and now into 20.04 LTS!

On a related note, dear product managers...make sure you give your users a voice into the future of your products! We learned a lot from this experience. Thank you HackerNews ;-)
That adds an even bigger layer of complexity for people to understand. The whole point of E2E was so that only the two ends could decrypt the data being transferred. If we now add "except if government agency requests it" then we're hijacking the term and making it no more meaningful that saying "yeah our app has encryption".
US Surgeon General continues to recommend against this for some reason
Zoom has a web client that "just works" but they only show it as an option after they detect that their native client didn't "just work".
Asking people to pay a lot more when many of the people who will be paying that premium are now unemployed is gonna hurt those who are most in need.
Medtronic should not be making such a big fuzz on media about "opening up design/open sourcing" their entry level ventilators consciously knowing their true intent was never meant to help others to mass produce their ventilators due to concealing mechanical drawings, software, and BOMs and no MCU for the model to support mass production.

If you know there is never a chance someone could mass produce your machine to threat your revenue, it's disingenuous at best to claim open sourcing your 15 year old modal could help for other to mass produce ventilators in the next few days or weeks (NOT YEARS!!!).

It just doesn't help in short time and in long term it doesn't matter because we need the ventilators NOW!
After being tasked to do the same repetitive job over and over I became very bored, and to make it fun I changed the variable name in one of the repos. The funny name stayed there as some sort of artifact and probably still haunts the poor people tasked to maintain it. And it has become a war story about that time when one of my colleges was tasked to make a routine change, but for the life could not figure out was was wrong, only to find out that repo had a different variable name...

So your college probably need some more challenge. Put him on binary (assembly) optimization or something, where he doesn't have to come up with variable names.

That said, naming things is probably one of the most difficult tasks in programming.
> I wonder if this will lead to people in the west wearing surgical masks during flu season like people do in Asia.

Normalizing masks will also help fight facial recognition. IIRC, the Chinese systems have trouble with people who are wearing a surgical mask and sunglasses. No attention-grabbing dazzle makeup required.
But at least with a DVD you have the actual physical copy of what was installed, and you can examine it forensically after the fact, and you may even be able to use it as evidence of wrongdoing. You can't do that with some random file that you downloaded at some point in time (this, incidentally, is why in-browser crypto is hopelessly and forever broken).
Git exists, because Bitkeeper were being Aholes. [1] A developer needed some metrics on the Bitkeeper repository that Linux used. Remember this is a proprietary and commercial product that granted a handful of licenses to the Linux community as a token of support. So when Andrew Tridgell reversed engineered the format that Bitkeeper used, they threatened to sue him under the DMCA.

This caused a firestorm, some defended him, others defended Bitkeeper, and a lot of people said why the hell is Linus using proprietary software to manage an Open Source project?!?!! Linus waded in and said he'd think about it, I think was on a thursday or friday, and by the next week he had working python prototype of git. [2] The rest is history. Bitkeeper faded into irrelevance and git became the lingua franca for open source projects. Arguably its biggest strength was not revision control, but being designed in manner that many collaborators could seamlessly commit changes for merging. Obviously architected to fulfill the time consuming requirements of Linus Torvalds, it has stood a test of time. I'm writing this from memory, so if it disagrees with Wikipedia take it with a grain of salt.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitKeeper#Original_license_con...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git#History
Has the mask supply situation improved? I still see empty shelves for things like gloves, sanitizers, etc.
How are professional licensing requirements addressed?

Projects large enough to require sophisticated MEP design require that the the design be engineered by a qualified professional who is individually responsible for health safety and welfare. This is not an artifact of modern guild cultures. The principle of personal builder responsibility goes all the way back to the code of Hammurabi.
Cnvrg.io launches a free version of its data science platform
It’s about making your software as easy to use as possible.

Users don’t like UAC or having to click through a dozen dialogs. They just want to get into their virtual meeting.
Start here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1238844.1411838

And hit the 'next' button to get at the subsequent papers.

Couldn't find an index.
I made this very basic script to setup a quick wg server and client: https://github.com/angristan/wireguard-install
To their credit, they seem to be using AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges which doesn't get the user's password, but executes a command as root, which is marginally better than stealing the password like Dropbox did.
Good ressources. I've been following Ryan Mcgeehan for a few years, and he's really dedicated to the development of simple risk management techniques. Risk management can be really difficult to grasp.

Additional interesting ressources:
- Implementing Enterprise Risk Management by James Lam https://www.amazon.ca/Implementing-Enterprise-Risk-Managemen...
- Protivi Guide to Enterprise Risk Management https://www.protiviti.com/sites/default/files/protivitierm_f...
And relativistic effects, and probably quantum fuzziness at some point, etc.

Turns out it's turtles and over-simplifications all the way down.
I made this complete tutorial a while ago: https://angristan.xyz/2019/01/how-to-setup-vpn-server-wiregu...
SkySQL – MariaDB Cloud Database
They seem convinced it will create a run on masks, leaving none for medical staff. Even though this message is clearly about home-made ones.
Mock your OAuth2 login for easier performance and integration testing
I agree with you overall, but while it was relatively simple, DQN was never "elegant". The elegant and most important part of DQN was to use a CNN for learning a good image representation - but CNNs are completely unrelated to RL.

The sole contribution of DQN was to introduce two ugly band-aids, experience replay and a target network, to make the CNN training stable in an RL setting.

So, DQN = CNN (elegant and simple) + ugly band aid
It's stupid. N95 masks are in short supply and so should be reserved for healthcare workers and those caring for the infected but sugical masks can still help slow the spread. People should be weraring those in public. But the only messaging from the top is not to wear the masks
Neutral Posture is worth consideration. I do wish for a better arm support system, like the Aeron. I chose the Neutral Posture, however, because of the way the back support worked. Seating is a very personal thing.
Bye bye impartiality
I tried getting into 3D printing filament business in India and result? I couldn't find raw pellet providers which are manufactured locally and had to import the pellets, after paying duties even cheap labor couldn't make me competitive as prices as some American or European or Chinese brands.
Samsung Display to End All LCD Production by End 2020
I'm wondering about this myself. I mean I can understand not wanting to put pressure on the health system by adding extra supply, but homemade masks - even a bandana, must ad at least some protection.

Even if it only reduces R0 by a few procent that would mean a lot?
You could go look up the syllabus for several top programs. Tennessee and Penn State come to mind. Get comfortable with big enterprise software like SAP or Oracle or at the very least NetSuite. You’ll need to understand some finance alongside operational jargon so things like microeconomics would be valuable (Kahn academy has a class). Some topics that you could google just off the top of my head would be sourcing, transportation, manufacturing, inventory management, distribution, sales.... actually maybe you could find some self directed six sigma courses?

edit: here's a coursera course that looks like it covers all the basics: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/supply-chain-manage...
A requirement for e2e is that the company doesn't hold the keys, otherwise it's just regular transport encryption + a promise that they'll never peak at the your data, even though they can. So yes, it's very much incompatible technically.
Then why would governors be forbidding this drug for this purpose?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.redstate.com/nick-arama/202...