skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prof Andrew Jackson, Professor of Neural Interfaces, Newcastle University, said:

> “Neuralink are progressing through the steps that have been taken with previous neural interface technology. They have moved from rodents to a large mammal (pigs), and are apparently seeking FDA approval for a human trial. I had some sympathy with Elon, having also had experience of animal experiments that don’t work perfectly the day we have visitors in the room! But proving the safety of new biomedical implants in animals is always a vital step towards a clinical trial.

> “I don’t think there was anything revolutionary in the presentation, but they are working through the engineering challenges of placing multiple electrodes into the brain. In terms of their technology, 1024 channels is not that impressive these days, but the electronics to relay them wirelessly is state-of-the-art, and the robotic implantation is nice.

> “But the biggest challenge is what you do with all this brain data. The demonstrations were actually quite underwhelming in this regard, and didn’t show anything that hasn’t been done before (e.g. decoding limb position during walking). There is a big difference between recording brain cells and ‘reading thoughts’, especially when it comes to higher-level cognitive functions that we don’t understand as well. The idea of ‘writing to the brain’ is even more questionable – there are fundamental limitations to targeting specific networks of neurons in a meaningful way using electrical stimulation.

> “So in summary I would say this is solid engineering but mediocre neuroscience. Finally, I think it is unfortunate that they are presenting their work in this way, rather than publishing peer-reviewed papers that would allow their claims to be scrutinised, but I guess this is something that we will have to get used to as neural interfaces move from the academic to the commercial sector.”

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-elon-m...
I suspect there's also more lobbying from more isolated (as in not general American) interest involved than people think. I initially thought it would come from the potential buyers like Microsoft but actually articles have mentioned Zuckerberg was throwing his weight behind it before it all took off.
Newlisp is to Lisp what New York is to York.
What is this? Can somebody please explain?
Road to Genius: Smart No.26
Same, if I need to save something really quick that I'm gonna need for later, I send it via e-mail (e.g. note, URL, screenshot/photo etc.)
Putt's Law and Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy also have pertinent (disastrous) effects. In the public sector they are even worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putt%27s_Law_and_the_Successfu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle's_ir...
Yes, things being put into water were claimed by scientist to be turning frogs gay, which is why he made the comment.

"Scientists are continuing to sound the alarm about some common chemicals, including the herbicide atrazine, and link them to changes in reproductive health and development. Endocrine disrupting toxic chemicals have been found to feminize male frogs and cause homosexual behavior. "

(2011) https://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=11-P13-000...

He even goes to lengths to say he doesn't hate gay people, he just doesn't want to be turned gay without consent.

"And I'm not saying people didn't naturally have homosexual feelings. I'm not even getting into it, quite frankly. I mean, give me a break. Do you think I'm like, oh, shocked by it, so I'm up here bashing it because I don't like gay people?"

Him saying it, and I do get what he's doing, putting real media bullshit together to form a narrative -

https://youtu.be/THFoayEgsV8?t=291

So yes, I do want to see him, it's important to see what he's really like. It takes to seconds for his fans to know the frogs are gay from polluted water is a science thing.
Extinct peoples dont tend to raise objections. https://youtu.be/N8mjm5ADN-c
True. And what makes it easy is it's immutability. When you change history in Git, you rewrite it (rebase). But re-writing is only possible if you know every bit of the journey up to now. When you have actual updates, history is lost.
Didn't know ios offer app side loading.
For how long are the trial pages keep live? You will get an huge amount of spam.
The point is simple:

Censorship laws do not protect against this type of "censorship". So yes, out of context it meets the vanilla definition of the word. Unfortunately, in the current sociopolitical environment where such things are front and center, the word is misleading.

Spotify is not Uncle Sam, and vice versa. Context matters, and therefore censor is an extremely poor choice. It hurts more than it helps. In fact, it's close to clickbait.
Lasers+Adaptive optics compensate for the blurriness induced by the atmosphere, but not for the light pollution. The whole sky glows because of it, and items significantly fainter than the glow baseline are lost, even in long exposures.
If you do not need a database at all, of course you can just use the plain programming language.
Archive link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200821100727/https://www.kdeve...
Compilation in Cargo has been split into metadata pass and code generation pass. Metadata part has interdependencies, but is relatively fast (it's roughly like a C header generation). This allowed more codegen to be done in parallel.

To be honest, it was a modest improvement, because compilation has been decently parallelized already (compiler uses incremental builds, parallel codegen, and ThinLTO even within a single crate)
It’s hard for me to imagine the US allowing the USSR to distribute apps like this (or any kind, really) back in the Cold War. This action is not as unprecedented as some think. It is misguided, though. The US needs a systematic policy, not a bunch of arbitrary one-offs.
App Trimming in .NET 5
MatrixVFX: A Realtime Matrix VFX Shader in Unity 3D
Well, "apps" themselves are relatively new, so it makes sense there's no precedent.
So now Sony gets to deliver PS4 OS and you get zilch, nada, besides a few insignificant pull requests, enjoy the license.
.no is not in the TLD.ini whitelist. Edit TLD.ini - Good times.
This is a great point. As someone who receives a lot of medical records from various exports, I can just say that hundreds of pages for a healthy 11 YO only makes it easier to miss the important parts.
By the same logic no internet company has ever done anything more than a tiny blip of work compared to the accumulated effort of millions of scientists spanning many years that lead to mass produced GHz microprocessors.
IMO this nonsensical gibberish has no place on this site.
Is this some kind of ARG for conspiracy nuts, like the numbers stations?
Yeah, and they were anti-Russia, for small government and personal responsibility. The GOP isn't what it used to be. I have no idea where they stand on anything and even if I did, I wouldn't bet that it's the same tomorrow.
you had zendaya using you and there was no step function jump in revenue? why is that? seems really odd.
Debunking the Myth of Small Business Job Creation
You seem to have strong views on this. Perhaps you should write an article about the hazards of pushing unwanted "upgrades" on users and degrading their experience? Then every time a story like this comes up, it could help to make your point again.
The Readme would benefit from a more exhausting explanation of what this is. Not just "A global message from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea".
Sidekiq Easter Egg, Calm down, yo
Erm, no they are not; you enter into an agreement or contract with a delivering party, you PAY them to deliver things to your house. If they flunk out or do subpar products they won't get repeat trades.

I don't understand why you think a half-assed service is acceptable. I don't believe I'm being unreasonable. 20% failure rate is unreasonable.
> the banning of an app in the interest of "national security" is largely unprecedented.

What kind of myopic fucking nonsense is this?

Hsvd you not even heard of the Cold War?
>Can't we get something resembling journalism instead of ranting fanboys spreading rumors

I don't see ranting nor rumors.

Go to Spotify and you can see those episodes are missing.

Also what does "resembling journalism" mean? Reddit is a perfect to cover topics like that
mnesia seems like what you are looking for.
> and the cost has gone down recently as well.

At whose expense though?
This isn't about privacy, this is about a cold war with China that has been going on for a while now.
That's very unfortunate for the 0.00042 Norwegians who were going to use this web browser.
The controversial business of private firefighting
KDevelop at one point had the most amazing built-in C++ parser and AST outside of visual studio. It blew my mind how good the autocomplete, contextual highlights, and error highlights were. This is right around the early kdevelop 4 days. I'm sure things have changed, with LSP and clang now especially.
Just tried it out. Was surprised that youtube and google maps both worked. Only thing I missed was tabs.
itd be neat if microsoft opened up their web engines now that they've moved to blink.
Interesting that you are you self-aware you can tell the difference between a 6% and a 9% increase is something as nebulous as "problem solving ability."

Edit: Oh, the account is nothing but troll comments. Nevermind.
Is this one of those interactive puzzle thingy?
What if an actual user's blind?
(Somehow) a competitor of NewLisp is Janet (https://janet-lang.org/). Syntax inspired in Clojure.
A GCC back-end for Rust is incredibly important for FLOSS. Even if the world doesn't switch from C to Rust overnight, Rust creates a negative halo effect for GCC, casting doubt on GCC's future relevance. Rust support in GCC would be a huge win for both projects.
Harassers are nice to me, and probably to you
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23802761
Seems to be blocked by Windows Defender as a Potentially Unwanted Application (PUA).

I guess it's not wrong.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/ec9ad4a4d6d1ddcb406d96ff...
Next Tycho album cover?
I think it's crazy that database updates are still acceptable in the design of systems and databases. Updates are deletes in practice, you lose what was there before.

Getting to know how Git and blockchains in general works will help in your journey. I used these concepts in the design of an immutable ledger system, the result was nice: https://decimals.substack.com/p/things-i-wish-i-knew-before-...
I don’t love it, but in the short term, an easy solution would be to not include dead comments in the api. They are dead, after all.
Lessons We Learned Running Remote Design Sprints During a Pandemic
I use these: https://photos.app.goo.gl/TfKqBp2GVJjYkmYG6
Isn't IE on track to be phased out? I guess that also means the Trident engine component will also likely not be available on future versions of Windows?
Absolutely nothing is "nuts" about taking six kids on the subway, I really have zero idea where that idea is coming from - I just can't understand it. My grandma never knew how to drive and she would take my cousins, siblings, and I all around town on the bus. No big deal at all, totally normal. There would be somewhere around 1-8 kids at any given time.
I haven't parsed it fully but it looks like an attempt to annotate north korean tradecraft?

Numbers stations do exist (not legally but still), but keep in mind that these days you could just leave comments on hackernews aligning with words in a book (as your OTP), for example.
It’s not a pendulum, the industry is always moving towards two goals: miniaturization (for portability) and centralization (for efficiency).

Sometimes it appears to go “backwards” towards decentralization when there’s a shift in form factor. This is just to avoid getting stuck at a local optimum.

Eventually we’ll get to the global optimum where everything’s centralized but available from everywhere.
The only thing surprising about this is how quickly it happened.

Podcasts are just RSS feeds with audio (or even video now apparently, no one seems to use that but it solves the “videos are only discoverable on YouTube” problem.) You don’t need to be part of any special platform to host them. Maybe someone should set up one of those PSA sites.
How I Built Our Marketing Team, 15 Years After Launching
I've spent 10 minutes trying to understand this, including watching the YouTube video with autotranslated subtitles, and still have no clue what it's about.
> people spend around 90% of their time in apps versus 10% in mobile web, so seem users find them relevant.

Which apps? 50% of the time is spent in their most popular app, and 97% of the time is spent in their 10 most popular apps. Considering that the top spots are taken by fb/instagram/whatever, what's left for discovery? I'd argue that the 10% spent on the browser is 99% of the discovery that users do, probably via links from their favourite apps.

It seems the app space is way more overcrowded than the web.
This reads like a teenage girl rolling her eyes wrote it.
Little overlooked fact: Why project management is crucial
I, like others on HN, am confused as to what this is, but you seem excited about it. Would you care to explain what this information represents? Is it a puzzle? Is it a leak from NK?

What's the relevance of a book, an index of some server with music, and how does it all tie to disinformation campaign mentioned at the top of the readme?
Yes. The main thing going for these mechanisms is that they're so cheap to implement. A Nokia 6310 can run the algorithm, the set of people who could receive SMS based one time codes but can't do TOTP on their phone is close to zero. If you have a "programmer" employed and they can't add TOTP to your system check they said "computer programmer" - my father was a "programmer" who figured out the "programme" as in schedule for a paper factory, that's the wrong kind.

In every other respect they're pretty bad:

The article suggests they can resist phishing. Against a poor adversary (e.g. Email links to a web form masquerading as "fraud check" by your bank) that hasn't considered TOTP they might be enough, but there are ready-to-use tools to help phish TOTP, SMS one time codes, RSA-style key fobs, even the old crude Yubikey one time code thing where you press a button and it squirts text into a form field.

If either the server or the client gets knocked over, the attackers get this long term underlying secret that they can use to fulfil the role of the other permanently.

It's not as likely you'd stupidly log the underlying secret as a password sent to your server in an HTTP POST request, but you still might do it and then you're screwed.

The right take away is probably that this is the low bar, it's so easy that it's inexcusable for a site to pretend it cares you used a "good" password (e.g. by having password complexity rules or requiring Pwned Passwords checks) and then not even bother having TOTP. Oh you want me to put in real effort to protect your stupid web site but then you aren't even doing the bare minimum, how about fuck off?
How did you turn Internet Explorer 8 into a 130kb EXE file? Why are you anonymous? Where is the source code?
> If you're just one dude that has no experience in creating operating systems then you shouldn't seriously try to write one from scratch.

In the alternate reality following your dictum, Linux does not exist.
Algorithmic Policing in Canada Explained
I cannot imagine Windows removing the trident engine, they have a strong focus on backward compatibility and it's guaranteed a lot of businesses depend on trident being available.
It is mostly used by games as modern version of demos.
You're confusing Lick with Mt. Palomar. Lick is helped by the marine layer of fog. It's in San Jose.
I just want a database that implements a soft delete function natively.
There seem to be some copy&paste errors in their NN-decompiled version in appendix F as well, which strikes me as odd.

Their version (ii) cannot compile, since the variable names don't match (e.g. they return "c" instead of "v3" and multiply by "b3" instead of "v3").

They did use x86-64 ISA as well, though without any optimisation enabled, i.e. "-O0" (see Table 5 in appendix D). I doubt those results are very useful in practice due to the complete lack of optimisation.
It's a new market, it's ok if it fails quickly.
it _seems_ to be someone's "open-source intelligence" documentation of NK comms; numbers stations and other secret communications. There also seems to be some propaganda mixed in, with the implication it's also somehow tradecraft.
Be sure you do email verification before users are able to post. Block domains of temporary email services (there are lists floating around GitHub, Google is your friend). Only allow one account per address. Figure out what domains the spammer is using to make email accounts. If you can, block them entirely, if not, require manual approval just for those domains. Use the other suggested technoques, like shadowbanning etc. Consider requiring or allowing social log in or phone number verification.
But did you make the drone fly the path?
All else aside,

> As a company we have always focused on transparency, so we want to explain why we are taking this step.

is patent bullshit, even more than the usual marketing speak. They sure as heck weren't transparent about hiding posts from unattractive or LGBTQ people [1], or when they waited hours before calling police on a suicide which happened live on the platform to protect their image [2], or even about how they hid posts during the Hong Kong protests [3]. The last one is especially rich - they tried to claim it was because users "came to TikTok for joyful content" that there were very few posts from Hong Kong about the protests. This (The Administration vs TikTok) is a battle where both sides are awful.

1: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/mar/17/tiktok-tr...

2: https://theintercept.com/2020/02/06/tiktok-suicide-brazil/

3: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/15/tiktoks...
Linq can be used in a declarative way such that the AST is available and can be rewritten for optimization or transformation say to SQL [1].

Not that this is easy but many project utilize it and the relinq project tries to give you a more usable starting point [2].

After having done SQL for years then Linq, I actually prefer the more explicit operation of Linq by default, I know the order of execution is the one I specify. Also being able to use a full rich imperative language in the query is so very useful.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.linq.ique...

[2] https://github.com/re-motion/Relinq
This article[1] from 2015 has stuck with me for years, talking about the same approach. The interesting thing about transactional/bitemporal databases is really the effect on how we consume them with our applications. The schema can be separated from the transaction data, schema migrations become easy, tables become cached materialized views (with the cache updated concurrently at write time), reduced need for application-level cache, no cache cold start, and pub/sub becomes the norm.

[1] https://www.confluent.io/blog/turning-the-database-inside-ou...

(Nice to see it's still relevant – the article is linked at the very top of the crux about page: https://opencrux.com/about/what-is-crux.html)
That'd be a lot of work (clean up the code, look through everything to see whether things can actually be released and not covered under licenses disallowing that) for .. what benefit to Microsoft exactly? Trident and EdgeHTML are not really used anywhere anymore, or would that just be out of curiosity how things look inside?
Came here to say that SQLite for WASM already exists. Odd to just assume it’d be impossible.
Having it on the browser level would have the huge advantage of the DB contents being visible to the users in devtools (not just to the developers via their custom tooling).
You are meaning China censorship? And China freedom fight ? Yeah why comply with that ? China should leave their abusive dictatorship before talking about their company right
Too easy to dismiss the point with some philosophy.

Consider this: http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2020/08/31/consequences-of-code/

One line is significant: "three errors are an operational mistake, four hundreds are a company policy".

The point is simple: if your employer is doing unethical stuff then you are affiliated and related, sometimes responsible too, for such things.

Either you quit or at least have the decency to say "yeah it's wrong and everything but I get a fat paycheck every month and that settles it for me".
I visited La Palma in the Canary Islands just before the lockdown in Spain. La Palma has a huge observatory, and I learned that the island is a starlight reserve. They take active measures to diminish the effects of light pollution, such as using special street lights, limiting flights at night, etc.

If you ever get a chance to visit, La Palma is am amazing place.

https://www.aboutlapalma.com/la-palma-astromony.html

https://photos.app.goo.gl/JcD1bCUb1asU9VcE8
So it only affects non-distro-provided manual pip installations? If I use Debian's Python (or some manually downloaded Python) to create a venv and install the new pip in there, it would be fine, right?

That would make it a complete non-issue for me. The global Python installation is managed by Debian. Pip is only ever used inside a venv.
GDPR requires you to delete the information you have about people under some common circumstances, if they ask you to.
Neuralink is not a startup, it is a research lab dabbling in a very speculative area. Something might come out of it in the very long run, or it might not. The demo showed essentially a tool they are using in this research, a miniaturized brain implant which is technologically superior to what competing researchers are using. They showed an application of that research tool, a recorded session (not included in the actual demo, probably hard to reproduce) where they claim to have "predicted" the movements of a pig. "Predicted" is probably a strong word since the brain controls motor functions.

So they showed progress and proved they are actually a lab and actually perform research. That being said, there was absolutely nothing in the demo remotely related to a "brain-computer" interface, nor are they likely to get there for many, many years. That's the speed when doing hard science, and pumping more money only has a marginal efect.
The fear of GPLv3 is just an excuse to pull things into proprietary. They became aware of the success of GPL and started to actively lobby against it with what they were able to come up with.
Pip is already seriously broken, it's just that the breakage has hit one of the main targets for the project.

Part of my day job is maintaining Python for an embedded OS. For self-evident reasons, software for the embedded OS needs to be cross compiled, and Python makes it impossible to cross-compile pip. Explicitly. Upstream's reaction is "you can't cross compile pip, you're on your own." To make matters worse, pip doesn't support non-native Python once it is built.

Of course, this is just the tip of the Python portability nightmare. Python is great and completely portable as long as your target is Linux running on x86_64 or aarch64. It has second-class support for Mac OS and Windows and there are private port projects for a few other system but they generally require heavy patching. For example, the Python code violates POSIX standards in favour of assuming that everything is Linux (hey guys, time_t is not a signed integer that can be used for arbitrary arithmetic!). Executing a whole lot of system code between fork() and exec() is always broken, although it appears to mostly work on Linux as long as you disable certain kernel features, and guess which code base relies on that?

Yeah. Pip is broken and now it's showing up on Debian too. Maybe it'll just get better by itself?