skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is from 2017 and regarding fMRI research conducted at Stanford. Several of these guys actually worked together 48-years ago and also at Stanford. The person talking is a former CIA officer and medical doctor. And yes he's talking about aliens. This is him - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvovZBT54Oo

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"Now if there was to be point to point, communication attempt, I can tell you three things about that experiment.

Number 1: About one third of that, I'm the only expert on Earth. Because of the functional MRI, connectivity systems of what parts of the brain are related to other parts of the brain for communication and quantum telepathy.

The second thing is the software associated with the calculations and the manner in which the scan sequences would be done at two different locations. So where the technical people doing the scan sequencing with the radio frequencies used for MRI, in both locations, were coordinated. And using the same (Haley Eye?) coordinates for looking at the brain, simultaneously...

So what the issue is that the sponsor's interested in, is tying that all together. And the sponsor is interested in one dimension of that experiment. And I'm interested in the second. Hal's interested in the third.

And here the dimensions are. I'm interested in the dimension of showing that quantum connectivity between two proven, competent, telepaths can be measured with simultaneity in terms of the portions of the brain that are activated. That that is now possible to do.

I don't do the math. But I know how to determine what portions of the midbrain connected to the caudate-putamen, connected to the prefrontal cortex and connected to the part of the brain that does imaging...is all related to each other. That's something that right now is a very rich area of my world of MRIs.

Hal is the expert in knowing how to design the experiment. And the sponsor is interested in having an experiment design where the thing that you do and the thing that Uri does, happen to be identical to each other.

Both you and Uri have asserted, and in your case, you have, in my judgment, proven - in Uri's case, I can't say - that the connectivities that you get for the acquisition of information, includes The Others."
The seller can charge the extra amount for shipping if they choose to.
People vote with their feet.

The 21st century won’t be the American century if this stops.
This feels like an odd definition of success but at any rate - Apple has never been wiped out, though they've come close, so I'm not sure how you can argue against their success on this basis either.

Out of curiosity (since you seem to be Japanese) how would you rate companies like Toshiba or Sharp on this scale?
As the Buddhists say,

attachment is suffering
FireWire support was not present in kernel last time I tried it on CentOS
I believe that they're all part of the IEEE 754 spec, but some of these functions are just recommended.

x87 has pretty much all of them, including two remainder implementations \o/
When I say "imagination," I mean that in the current context of time. Projecting into the future to grab non-existant technologies, like a dyson sphere or what-have-you, to try and resolve current energy demand roadblocks in photovoltaic and battery technology isn't looking at the current time frame we inhabitants of Earth share (with an ever so tiny bit of relativistic difference).

If we start looking at pure physical energy and matter, I'm not sure how we get around laws of conservation of energy and matter, making the universe on the grandest of scales potentially zero-sum, but then we get into realms of physics we just don't quite have evidence for yet. But we really don't understand that much about space expansion or potential fate of the universe at all to even make intelligent guesses.
Do you have similar feelings about other convenience/death trade offs?

Getting rid of soft drink, fast food, alcohol, all sorts of things would save so very many years while overall I would think impact lives less than corona virus measures do. Particularly quality adjusted life years.
We have a version of that in Ontario: The SIU, the Special Investigations Unit, which investigates every incident of police action that involves injury or worse in the province. It rarely finds anything wrong and can't really punish people. It's mostly staffed by former cops (because who else does investigative work? lawyers maybe? but would they work at their rates?)

There needs to be consequences for bad behaviour, but I think beyond that the solutions are further down the roots, in terms of the institutional culture that attracts and protects bullies, brutalizers.
For websites, 99% of them used only GET or POST though. POST was only done via forms, and even then a large number of websites used GET for form submissions.

PUT, DELETE, and.. kinda... HEAD never got any use until REST APIs.

So if the true representation of representational state is a simple website like this, then large parts of that "spec" were irrelevant to 99.9% of sites before "web services".
No, this was by design. The US and Europe wanted to encourage trade by developing countries, so built in cheaper rates for them. This also still makes sense for Rwanda or Nepal, less so for China which simply developed at an unexpected speed and scale. Obviously a mistake not to build any kind of automatic adjustment in...
Exactly. First-class letter mail used to dominate the postal system, and it tends to have about equal traffic in each direction. So the UPU wasn't that concerned about settlements. Until 1969, there weren't any settlements; countries "peered" at no charge, like the Internet. Then came "terminal dues", the charges the delivering postal system charges the originating postal system.[1]

Also, there's a price break for "underdeveloped countries", and 20 years ago, at the last round of rate setting, China qualified.

Despite all the noise from the Trump administration back in 2018, 2020 was the next scheduled year for updating terminal dues. Here we are in 2020, and there's a new terminal dues agreement, as scheduled.

[1] http://www.upu.int/en/activities/terminal-dues-and-transit-c...
> Yeah, that's the zero-sum thinking the US needs. "We'll take all the people in your country who are smart and hard working enough to support themselves here." It's what the country was built on.

That’s some sort of retcon. The US was already one of the richest countries in the world (in terms of per capita GDP) by the 1820s (which is when the first wave of non-UK immigration began, with the Germans). It overtook the UK for the first time in 1814, and was significantly ahead of continental Europe by that time. By 1890, long before skilled immigration to the US began in volume, the US economy was as big as the entire British Empire’s excluding India. The US has done a good job assimilating immigrants, and one can imagine that it might have lost the edge in the 20th century if it hadn’t. Or maybe we wouldn’t have had. Japan and Korea had meteoric development in the 20th century with almost no immigration at all. Regardless, the US was already developing like a rocket even back when it was primarily UK people here.
Is this comment satirical? Because when I look around in the states I very much see a deeply held belief that making a profit, operating a business, and earning money is one of the most important things you could do. Those things come with significant cultural cachet.
It's amazing that this writer is based in New York and didn't mention NYC's $200M+ annual police settlement payments. It's completely insane.
> The stock market hasn't been representative of real world for a long time now.

Read as: [their revenues] haven’t been representative of real world for a long time now.

Hmm. $260B in revenue in FY2019 and $55B in profit with $206B cash on hand.

I think their (current) $1.5T current valuation is probably fine.
Reusable abstractions is the foundation of what makes programming productive. This person does give respect for libp2p, which is good, but clearly they've never seen a small abstraction that is still immensely valuable.
There are definitely shops that adopt e.g. waterfall processes wholesale throughout the org, but broadly I agree with you that most companies can't be painted with a single brush.

That does't stop people from doing it, though, and I think he's just trying to make sure that readers don't learn the wrong lesson (eg no course corrections! plan everything and stick to it no matter what!) from this analysis.
WIMP programming!

http://www.riscos.com/support/developers/wimpprog/index.htm
I toned down my original comment, but that looks much better than the default installation.

Is that just the default installation with better choices in the settings? I should have been more patient Emacs and persistent in configuring it.
While I understand the angle that the brain drain creates inequality among regions, perhaps it could be argued that it is thanks to those people congregating in few places, and hence there being many of them in the same place, that there have been scientific advances. In other words, had those people stayed in their home countries it's not a given that we would have had more, if any, moon missions.

> Now smart scientists, if they want to work in person with the widest supply of good colleagues, will go to other wealthy countries.

Right. I would say they will go to the countries where other smart people are, which turn out to be wealthy countries.
Batman is a superhero that operates in darkness and has black clothing, yet people don't think of Batman as the BBEG of their comics, no?

There is an entire TVTropes page dedicated to "Dark Is Not Evil" and it's not a purely subversive trope either, quite popular in media as well.

There is also plenty of media (and culture) where darkness is sacred and pure, not evil or cold. Consider the dwarves in the discworld series that hold this belief. For more real-life examples, the hebrew bible generally refers to shadows and darkness as good since when you live in a desert, those things will bring you some fresh air and protection from the sun.
On iPhone 11 and Safari, I had to tap the red camera icon in the address bar twice to disable and reenable the camera, then it worked.
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Let’s just take the premise that ads are 100% effective and that I, a previously non-soda drinker, now am fiercely loyal to Pepsi Co.

Cool, but I’m still a person who has has a diet, normal hunger, and watches my sugar intake. Like it’s not as if I’m suddenly going to guzzle sugary soda indiscriminately. And it’s not like soda is special in this regard.

If I see an ad for a new flavor of Oreos that interests me it’s not like I’m compelled to buy a box and eat the whole thing in one sitting on top of my regular diet.
I was talking about a hypothetical scenario where it was Microsoft vs Apple in the mobile space instead of Google vs Apple. Windows worked just as fluid as iOS when they finally got it right, but they were there too late.

> The "normal" people care more about the aesthetics of the iPhone than the hardware.

That's exactly what I said. iPhone 6 to SE 2020 unibody design is from HTC. They made the same kind of phones on the outside.
The first link a friend shared with me to Parler was to a post by what looked like a qanon troll bot. Or who knows, maybe it was just a genuine believer. Either way, its unlikely that this network will elevate any conversations.
Even a chimp can use it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTiZqCQsfa8

Yes, it's only the one app - but I think that's a win for usability.

It's the video I think of whenever someone on HN is complaining that iOS is hard to use and that things were better in the past.

I'm not sure what a chimp would be able to do at a command line, but I suspect not much.
Subsidies to bootstrap into economies of scale can make sense. When you go from filling 0.1 jets or 0.1 containers or 0.1 ships to filling 10.1 jets etc, the costs come down and usage (and utility) go up. See Amazon, and I guess Uber if they ever make it work.

Shipping from China is well past that point, though, it's clearly providing perverse incentives and it's good that it's changing.
This article is hard to parse with the percent increases and decreases and using an arbitrary demarcation date.

Why not show YoY, as well as the percent of total businesses that have closed and compare that to a similar timeframe from last year.
American taxpayers are ok with subsidizing themselves buying cheap stuff from aliexpress pinduoduo and taobao maybe?
The broader issue is that the US birth rate is 1.77 births per woman -- and falling, which is below the replacement rate. If you want to maintain the population (and economic activity) at the same level as today, you're going to have to bring in 0.23 people per woman per generation via immigration. In the pathological case of closed borders, the economy will shrink in accordance with the birth rate.

This effect is on top of the non-zero-sum impact of qualified migrants.

Consider the 1.43 births per woman (and low net migration rate) of Japan and the fact that the GDP was lower last year than it was almost twenty years ago. In the same time period the US GDP has tripled. Canada's has almost quadrupled -- and Canada brings in 1% of the nations population each year via immigration, in part to offset its 1.5 births per woman.
> is sorta the "why" for corporations to exist

It’s why bankruptcy, specifically, restructuring exists.

Lots of countries don’t have restructuring codes. When their corporations go bankrupt, the assets automatically go to the creditors and/or are liquidated.
Using Nvm with Spacemacs
In my experience, GraphQL tempts one to ask for more information than necessary at the moment. That might be useful in just another click or two, but then again, might not.

As you say, smaller, simpler queries are more performant. They also tend to be more relevant. It's kinda like the argument for 2 dozen eggs at $1.60 instead of a dozen eggs for $1. Buying 2 dozen at a time optimizes the cost per egg. But if you only ever eat 10 eggs before you throw the rest away, cost per egg is not the most important factor.

I prefer to pull data on demand in smaller chunks. At which point, GraphQL makes less sense for my use case. But I think it's cool that somebody thought it up and I'm sure it's very helpful in lots of situations.
So why is Samsung, who makes similar kind of revenue not up there with $1T market valuation? Walmart makes double that revenue.
Imagine if buildings were bought by people who'd only ever see them from the outside.

No inspection. They don't even see the plans, just an exterior render before they greenlight. Imagine how dysfunctional architecture and construction would be in that world.

Software is uniquely intangible. Collectively we spend billions developing software every year, but often the decision maker never sees the codebase, only the UI.

And you're right, the problem is multiplied at companies that consider software a cost.

This is why projects like Jepsen are so powerful. Or Acid3 back in the day. They let a non-technical audience see the underlying implementation quality of different software efforts.

We need a lot more where those two came from. Basic example. Why can't I go to any app in the app store and see the average hours between crashes?

Software craftsmanship will suck until we make it visible.
I can't say that AFC excites me:
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-354364A1.pdf

Devices will be sending their GPS coordinates and serial numbers to the FCC to verify what frequencies they can use.

It's unclear to me why the serial numbers need to be sent.
The discussion on this has really not been intellectually honest, or, to be more charitable, has not taken the issue seriously enough to really dig.

The "lump of labor fallacy" is...not really a fallacy, or at least can act that way longer than a lot of people can remain solvent. Let's look at the article:

>Furthermore, immigrants are not only workers, but they are also consumers. Ultimately, the amount of jobs available depends in large part on the level of demand for goods and services,

This is true if everyone's on a manufacturing line making frozen food and Model-T's for each other, but modern production isn't linear anymore. If you add fifty million more people to the U.S.: how many people will Google need to hire to deal with the extra demand? Zero.

The extra jobs created are instead service jobs, of varying levels of crappiness. More lawyers and psychiatrists---good, I guess. But the lion's share is more demand for waiters and Uber drivers.

>In many instances, positions that native born workers are not willing to fill

There's about an inch of separation between this and "we can't find any programmers!" I would hope, on HN of all places, I wouldn't need to debunk this.

>The idea that immigrants will steal jobs from American workers assumes they compete for the same scarce pool of jobs. Studies show this is often not the case.

Sure, because those jobs (and business models that rely on them) exist because of cheap labor. Poor whites in the South presumably weren't lining up to pick cotton unpaid, but without slavery, somehow I think plantation owners would have found a way to get it out of the fields. Yes, the price of cotton in England would have gone up. Life would have gone on.

>And despite immigrants only making up 16% of inventors, they are responsible for 30% of aggregate US innovation since 1976,

Let's posit an explanation for this: engineering in the U.S. is not really respected. Similar to Jews in medieval eras who became bankers because they were disallowed from everything else, foreigners face real barriers to entry to exploitive soft-skills jobs like sales, finance, law, and management. So they're often stuck in an engineering/post-doc ghetto. Does anyone find this hard to believe?

As for the rising-tide effect---there seems to be no mention of negative externalities. Housing pressure is probably the most obvious one to most HN readers (mull over the phrase "lump of housing fallacy" if you want to chuckle), but decreased social capital in ethnically diverse neighborhoods is another.

I'm relatively cosmopolitan. I've lived abroad, I speak multiple foreign languages, about half my coworkers (whom I like and have no animus towards) are immigrants. I'm working on side projects with people in Asia and Europe.

But boy is it hard not to notice that at the same time institutions which are nominally economic complements to labor, but are looking preeeeettty extractive these days---universities and corporations---that it just happens to be now that immigration is a human right. Compare to California in the 90's!

I think if you look for the man behind the curtain, it's---surprise!---Capital, again and again.
Thank you! I'm mostly interested in stuff in VT and NH (up and down the whole state) but a bit further away is fine :)

I'll have to check those out, thanks for the recommendations! Especially the gin and cider sounds great!
First existentialist philosopher quote about life
Some earlier context: https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1275194055257919495
If the usps is losing money every package..why don't it stop delivering those packages? Or deliver less of those packages?

Like. Do some QOS?
The Last of Us Part2 No DLC Confirmed?
How do you enforce GPL in China? Is it enforceable at all?

> GPL violations are rampant, of course. Both ship Linux with no license text (even though UHE265-1-Mini comes with a paper manual) and no source in sight. Both ship FFmpeg, although URayTech has configured it in LGPL mode, unlike LinkPi, which has a full-on GPL build and links to it from various proprietary libraries. (URayTech ships busybox; I don't think LinkPi does, but I could be mistaken.) LinkPi's FFmpeg build also includes FDK-AAC, which is GPL-incompatible, so the entire shebang is non-redistributable. So both are bad, but the ENC1 is definitely worse. I've sent a request to support for source code, but I have zero belief that I'll receive any.
It can only render a 24x24 grid of dots, of course it "sucks" compared to existing game engines..
Called Peter Cat and it was in Kokubunji (western Tokyo).
You're right that the deficit is mostly artificial, but since this has come up a lot recently it's important to point out that the USPS as an entity is not enshrined in the constitution. The postal clause says:

> The Congress shall have Power...To establish Post Offices and post Roads

And that's it. The rest is left up to Congress to figure out; they could, if they chose, punt entirely and allow eg FedEx to run post offices. I think the USPS is vitally important, and we can make arguments for its role as a public good without being hyperbolic about it.
If you need to go to a café and create a new user for each new side project, you’re not gonna work a lot. I understand needing separate contexts for separate projects but this seems like overkill. The context is in your mind, not your environment.

I have my share of past and ongoing side projects, including hobby websites [1], funny tutorials [2], an ebook [2], coding references [4] and a CSS framework [5].

Like the blog says, the motivation is always here at the start. It’s the second part, when this motivation fades, that is hard. What you need is discipline. I work from home so discipline is key, even in my professional work. How you acquire it is through time management: you need to dedicate time to a project. I do this through predefined 2-hour slots each day or week where I have to work on a project. That way I don’t have an endless timeframe in my kind (because endless would mean “this is never be finished”) and provides me a repeatable and reproducible pattern. And by scheduling it in advance, it provides me with a plan to look forward too, and not end up sitting in front of my computer during a break and asking myself “What should I do now?”.

[1]: https://f1standings.com

[2]: https://jgthms.com/web-design-in-4-minutes/

[3]: https://jgthms.com/css-in-44-minutes-ebook/

[4]: https://cssreference.io/

[5]: https://bulma.io/
> Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and all of them are hiring (using the H1B) for roles that could in 99% of cases be filled by Americans

Yes, but a non significant portion of their revenues comes from outside US too. Would you prefer Apple setup offices in UK and hire people there instead. Wouldn't that be a bigger loss for you?

(For 60% of their revenue coming from outside US, ~10% of Apple's corporate employees are on H1B.)
Big thumbs up to everything from Jasper Hill Farms. If you ever get a chance to try the Winnimere, it's... really something.
The iPod already established the Apple brand as a status symbol, so the iPhone had that leg up.

I think the issue is less that Apple did amazing things, than everyone else was being sloppy as hell with supply chain and quality control. If you look at post war consumer goods, many have great Craftsmanship. But the lure of planned obselessence and cheep outsourcing ruined most product design and execution, and Apple somehow realized there wasn't a risk of not getting the benefits of planned obselessence in making a fancier-crafted project while hardware was still improving.
Possibly, but this 'we will deliver other people's mail for free' is a concept that predates e-commerce as we understand it by 100 years.

Shipping is a major part of the equation so it's screwing up commerce.

They should dump the agreement for all but regular letter mail, it makes no sense otherwise.

It's rational if the price of shipping is more transparent and consistent with the actual, underlying cost.

For example, if this system did not exist, and China was subsidising their own shipping to the US, ironically, it would be illegal under WTO rules!

It's absurd and it should have ended long ago.

I still cannot believe that US companies have not been able to lobby to have this cut two decades ago.