skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As in, medical doctors who have done brain surgery? Or random dudes who like to inject RFID chips into their hand to pay for coffee
According to some historians, it is by design. I mean the left were perceived as a real danger, and were deliberately poisoned through academic types, to accept more and more the identity politics.
I think you guys hit the nail on the head here, we want our old workflow back! I'm not saying that the commit to master workflow is the greatest in the world but it worked for us and now we're blaming Git for this feature branch workflow which we admittedly we also tried with SVN but ended reverting back to the simple commit to trunk workflow.
Zuckerberg, Chan invest $300M in election infrastructure
>> the banning of an app in the interest of "national security" is largely unprecedented.

In the USA. China has done is many times.
There were many failures in the cockpit of AF447. Almost all of them were aft of the instruments.
I'd imagine the lack of billing staff at NHS hospitals probably helps keep the cost down quite a bit?
> try critiquing the CCP on TikTok. Watch it get removed instantaneously.

You can even call them nazis without it getting removed: https://www.tiktok.com/tag/chinazi

Now if you tried that on Douyin, the results would be different, but Douyin is available in China while TikTok isn't, so Chinese censorship applies to Douyin while it doesn't apply to TikTok.
Ramsey can teach you to cook in some capacity. But to be a true master a deep dive is required.

You're correct. There's a difference between being hand held through a handful of meals and actually understanding how to cook.

For better or worse, most people don't want to be masters. They simply want to impress someone else.
It was natural gas, so whatever mix local gas company used.
Plus carbon monoxide.

CO was intermittent Depending on stove usage and furnace usage. (Two sources)

Gas was from faulty pipe cover.

We talked to a lawyer just after. Said we didn’t have enough medical documentation.
A year later we had tons, but lawyer wouldn’t do anything since doctor wouldn’t testify.

Eventually gave up.
You have received some great suggestions so far.

One of the forums that I frequent has a "newbie" section, which is not visible to full members or guests (who are not logged in). Whoever registers to the website needs to get a predefined set of "Likes" on their posts. Not every post gets a "like" - only those that contribute to the discussion do (not everyone needs to agree, debates are welcome as long as they are civil).

This helps maintain the quality of the forum to an outside viewer and cuts out a large amount of spam.
Ask HN: Where to look for a quickfire £ 35-40k investment?
This question is predominantly for the UK.

Anybody with pointers on where to look for a quickfire £ 35-40k? We recently won an 220k InnovateUK Grant which is funded at 80%, and are yet to find the other 20%. The starting date is relatively soon i.e. in a month. Since we're quite new to the UK ecosystem, we'd sincerely appreciate any pointers :)
So true. Also with respect to documentation, which you have to put in a blog rather than contributing it to the project where it can be maintained. It's bizarre to be literally the last port of call for work you've actually done, when people would rather refer to obsolete blogs on things you addressed years ago.
Did I say that's it's wrong and/or surprising? No, I did not. I'm saying that you might not be able to access your own content, so keep your own copy of it.

You may not find it surprising that FB might suddenly make your content inaccessible "for reasons", but many people do. Readers of HN might not be among them, but some of their friends and family will.

So this is providing Chapter and Verse for HN people to quote to those who do find it surprising.
I am not an expert, but what I thought was remarkable is the 12000 channels Musk talked about. New cochlear implants have 120 channels - one channel is one neuron (AFAIK) - more neurons is better results.

I would love some expert take on this, but my first reaction was „12000 sounds like a lot - they all work? That’s cool“.

Also check out this wait but why article which I think explains the resolution pretty well: https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html
Divide and conquer and not acting in good faith. This is no more than racketeering.
The well publiced Pexa fraud is an example. The money was wired off-shore and lost. https://www.propertyobserver.com.au/forward-planning/advice-...
Do you have some kind of official blog for this? I'm interested in BPF and currently learning Rust, would love to learn more about this.
The demo was impressive. Did the author not see the part where they were predicting the body position of the walking pig?

I don't see how that is going to be done with stick on sensors.

And yes, some implantable BCI devices have better capability. The point is to make this as cheap as possible... so that it doesn't require a brain surgeon to install. Because brain surgeons are expensive.
Colonization is one of the best/most complete games ever made. I look at it as a very complex board game that would be very hard to play without the help of a computer. So the idea of a remake, taking advantage of the open source age, has a lot of potential: improved pixel graphics, improved mechanics and strategy (e.g. Slavery - since the game already mentions the instrumentalization of criminals and natives during colonization there is no reason to not mention slavery. It's part of our History and you cannot erase it. Censuring this is distopic).

By the other hand - to facilitate contributions - using Java is not optimal but it certainly made sense at the time, this is already an old project.
They stated explicitly that this was a recruitment event, so personally I feel like some of the hype can be forgiven.

The tone of this article is negative and I instinctively want to defend Neuralink because I hope that we can eventually achieve all of those sci-fi ambitions. But I think that's the wrong approach, and possibly insulting to researchers who have been working on these problems for decades only to be overshadowed by what I have to admit was not the most impressive demo.

However, this event does attract attention, so what I'm really hoping for is an influx of long-read articles and in-depth analyses coming from experts in the various fields surrounding Neuralink's aims as a result of the hightened interest in the topic.
I'd expect this to be about the Caterer's Problem (i.e. the current problem, which shows up on the linked page).
I don't understand why you're being down-voted.

Donald Trump unambiguously is a tyrant, and has already made clear he will not accept an election defeat.

Donald Trump will be the downfall of us all, and this forum tries to down-mod this concern.

It's a worrying trend.
I think “terrible” is a bit much. With a little work a div can be both accessible and styled appropriately (without having to know platform specific ways to reset it)

The scenario above is for a game. The look of the button should be pixel perfect to suit the game.
The US political system is structured in such a way that it's very difficult to draft legislation and get it passed. You have to get a bill to pass a majority in the house, then (generally) get 60% in the senate, then get past the president's veto, and then implementation of that legislation will fall to a governmental organisation ultimately run by a political appointee who is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. That organisation then needs to fight out any judgements they make in federal court and are ultimately decided by judges who are appointed by current and previous presidents.

Right, so, lots of stakeholders, very difficult to please. Add to that the fact that the house is elected every 2 years (so 50% of the time it's election year), so is the senate (although only 1/3rd of the seats, so it's impossible to swing the senate quickly), and the president every 4 years. And since the incumbent president's party always suffers in mid-term elections, and since the senate can't swing quickly, a single party has only had complete control of government for 14 years out of the last 50 years.

So basically, the President generally gets 2 years after being elected during which they might have the actual power to draft, and pass legislation. Most of which gets spent on 1 single piece of legislation - for Obama is was Healthcare, for Trump is was repealing Healthcare (failed in the Senate) and Tax cuts.
So you're in favor of the EU forcing Tesla, Facebook, Microsoft to sell their European business to European companies then because those American companies are clearly not up to European privacy standards?

We literally know for a fact that American companies do all the things the Trump administration is accusing TikTok of doing. We've known this since the Snowden revelations.

It's also a 100% different scenario because European and American companies actively decide to not operate in China. If they want to they have to comply with the local laws. Just like European companies in the US or US companies in Europe have to. The fact that the big tech companies are not there is the result of a decision by the companies.

All companies operating in the US have to follow US law. The fact that the government can just say "You can't operate anymore" without giving any evidence of what they're accusing you of is problematic.

Authoritarian regimes are not authoritarian because they don't have laws. They are because they have laws that cover all kinds of bullshit and if you look at the countries that are most authoritarian (Saudi Arabia, China, North Korea), you'll see that they argue "national security" all the time.
Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman – Talks at Google
That's a great question I unfortunately I don't have a great answer for.

The majority of the time was spent in those first few days were I built the initial product. Tweet Photo is technically quite a simple product, especially if you're familiar with the relevant open source libraries and APIs which I was anyway.

But for me the main "cost" was knowing the APIs could change and I'd need to be ready to make the necessary changes.
I don’t think that the same population who currently flies would be the ones who would fly pilotless planes from desks.

I’ve flow personally for 22 years. Other than simulator-based training, I have no interest in flying a flight simulator. Why do that when the real thing is available and so much more compelling as you describe? No way I’d fly from a desk either, but that doesn’t mean that someone else wouldn’t be happy to have that job.
None of these points make any sense, so lets go through them one by one.

1. First of I don't even understand what you mean here. Crawling the content of your own application? Or you mean that all content should be crawlable by others and if so, why should that be a given?

2. Mobile analytical software has come a long way since the early days (I know, I was there and am here now). There are suites available now that do automatic click capturing out of the box, or you could simply roll your own small viewhierarchy interaction listener and feed events from there. It is honestly real easy to do when you know what you are doing.

3. Like point 2, there is a ton of suites that cater to this aspect with mobile first SDKs ready for use. There is also nothing wrong with rolling your own (it is only real time messaging between two parties after all) or simply send the user to your external web page's support chat when needed (not every feature under the sun needs to be in the mobile app).

4. Not all mobile apps run on subscriptions or fees that would be paid through the Apple App Store. As an example I point to the whole field of financial applications. And on Android you are free to do payments through other means than the Google Play services, and thus not pay 30%. Yes it is a inconvenience to the user, but it is possible (just like payments on a website will usually take the user through a flow previously not used by him before, instead of all webpage payments going through PayPal)

To conclude, I think there is plenty of room and velocity in the mobile application space. And I think the same can be said about the web space. The two can coexist, as each has aspects to it that superceed the others.

We just need to stop making slow, ad clogged, non mobile friendly web pages as well as lowest bar, slow and insecure mobile applications.

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Economic sanctions are a long established executive power. No need for new laws behind a move like this.
It’s more cost effective to make an arbitrary example of one player.
I think some of these might just be cleaning up for advertising? e.g. "Sarkon of Akkad" (Carl Benjamin) is an unpleasant liar who once declared "I wouldn't even rape you" to a politician online - not exactly perfect for advertiser's on Spotify Free?
If they handle the software for this in any way like the Tesla I wouldn’t want it near my head.
There doesn't even have to be a person B. Under the terms of the GDPR you have the right to an erasure request, which means the party holding your data must erase your data, whatever that may be, and it must be erased from backup systems too.
>Dr Fauci did eventually admit that the guidance on masks was not optimal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRa6t_e7dgI

That is Dr Fauci himself on 60 minutes in early March saying that Americans should not be wearing masks. I guess he changed his mind. People want to say, "Yes he changed his mind due to new evidence." Ok what evidence? I want to see it. And it better be from just before they changed their views and not after they changed their views.
It is scary, but what is the actual incentive?

Terrorism, and that is it as far as I can see. In cyber up until know, criminals and espionage seem like much bigger threats than terrorism. We are introducing a new attack surface here, and it makes sense to consider whether we want to. But it is not an attack surface that seems likely to attract many attackers.
It looks like we should be expecting China to export more of its policies to the US ?
I mean, there’s IFTT...
So you can think of things that'd be useful, you just see it as a luxury. But the point is it's not a luxury once you commit the configs and setup scripts and turn it into a single command to deploy anywhere you want it.

And what I found when I started doing that was that suddenly I was a lot less hesitant to let myself become dependent on time-saving tools because I knew they'd be available anywhere with ease.

I can't imagine suffering through a default shell environment or a default editor config any more.

But committing them is not just about remote machines, but about having a clean record of what is needed to set up any new machine I acquire as well.
It's still a good experience to sell something, and go through the process. Congrats!
> There you go. While they're at it, try critiquing the CCP on TikTok. Watch it get removed instantaneously.

It doesn't get removed. Neither does LGBT content or Hong Kong protest content for that matter. Just because people repeat it again and again doesn't make it true and it takes literally three seconds to check if it's true or not.
I didn't know the details of this before lol. That sounds like a nightmare it's a wonder anything gets done...
To think that the night sky around LA was dark enough at some point to make celestial observations. See also Castel Gandolfo outside of Rome, the office of the Vatican Observatory:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castel_Gandolfo

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0DAKaR16cY

Certainly there are bigger problems in the world, but it'd be nice if light pollution could be taken into account when making policy decisions (like which street lamps a municipality will buy):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pollution

* https://www.darksky.org/our-work/lighting/

I think a lot of people would enjoy seeing the natural night sky without having to travel great distances:

* https://kottke.org/17/12/lost-in-light-how-light-pollution-o...
Yes, and the concerns about 1st Amendment precedence weren't referring to China either.

I imagine China disallows end-to-end encrypted messaging apps as well, which is largely the basis of my concern.
Thats not really why they are worried about TikTok, it comes back to the issue of the CCP and and that China defacto owns TikTok which means that information can be harvested. This is G5 controversy all over. The brainwashing part is just noise. The real concern is real given Chinas history.
> banning of an app in the interest of "national security" is largely unprecedented

No it's not. China has banned most Western apps in the interests of national security.

And that article you listed on analysing TikTok is hilariously incompetent. Didn't think to investigate multiplexing data with the video stream ?
There already exists a law: if there's a threat to national security (which there is), the executive branch has relatively broad discretion. You can't really "make a law" in the time remaining until election, not with Pelosi turning everything into a political showdown, and _especially_ not if China prefers Biden (which, according to Nancy Pelosi it does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arS5qzS95cE).

Here's one way you could interfere with US elections without showing political ads BTW: show "vote" reminders only to people who you infer from data to be democrats. At a first approximation, to people in urban centers in swing states. Not an "ad" per se, but you can still swing the election quite easily - in swing states elections are close by definition. As far as I'm aware there exists no law prohibiting such interference.

This is how FB and Twitter are going to do it if the DNC doesn't like the final polls.
Treating this as an X/Y problem ... do you separate your waste? I separate anything that smells (non-compostable food waste, non-recyclable junk) into a separate pail, that is emptied every day or two, so it's never there long enough to get smelly. The dry recyclable stuff can stay in there as long as it wants, and the compostible stuff (waste vege material) never really smells too bad, but again gets tossed more frequently.
They are not comparable.

Quote form fortune[1]:

Kai-Fu Lee, a leading artificial intelligence expert who heads the tech investment firm Sinovation Ventures, worked for Google in China between 2005 and 2009. (Until 2009, Google operated a separate, censored version of its search engine in China.) He said in a Chinese-language statement on Tuesday that Google's experience in China and TikTok's case in the U.S. are "not comparable."

When Google decided it didn't want to comply with China's rules, "it decided to withdraw" from the mainland, Lee said. With TikTok, Lee said, the U.S. government did not provide information on what the app could do to continue operating in the U.S. as a Chinese-owned company, nor did the U.S. provide evidence for its complaints against the app.

[1] https://fortune.com/2020/08/06/tiktok-ban-trump-executive-or...
> emit bromine gas

Wouldn’t that require some kind of nuclear reaction/alchemy? I don’t think anything humans are normally exposed to contains bromine.
Sadly they've added a billing system for 'health tourism'. Before that they didn't ask too many questions just treated people. I guess the billing system pays for itself? Not sure.
Free software isn't about money, it's about freedom. You value the freedom enough to complain when it's trodden on, but not enough to do the work required to continue to be free.

Freedom has a price.
It's not about fake news it's about data access.
Outsmarting the Pin Code
Imagine I receive a letter from a lawyer saying "It appears your product A infringes our client's patents B and C"

That's fairly clearly a statement of fact - that in their professional opinion they believe their client has a reasonable chance of prevailing in court.

Do lawyers not have an obligation to display good faith and professional candour in making such statements of fact, even to their adversaries?
If he can't get cars to drive around a city autonomously, who is going to let him drive electrodes around their brain using automation?

Brain implant surgery is incredibly invasive and risky even with brain surgeons.
I'm in favour of competition for Google, but I can't be the only one who genuinely has no issue using Google? I see people complaining on HN quite a lot but genuinely the only thing I have - in years - struggled to find was the correct eBPF documentation but even then it only took a bit of nudging.
TensorFlow-DirectML
There will likely need to be translation layer. Motor signals aren't necessarily tractable either, people can learn to walk again after even if the parts of the brain that govern walking are damaged.

The promise seems more that ideas can be transmitted with higher bandwidth. My signals -> word1, send word1 to you, word1-> your signals for word1 would be likely. Both of us would have to the system for word1, but if we could exchange it much faster than speaking, maybe even reading.

My issue with the system is that the line between reading and writing signals is very thin, and this these are hackable devices. Once the device learns a person's brain signals to make the legs run, it's easy to replay them on a bridge when facing sideways. There's no technology right now that's foolproof, and I'm not sure how any company can boast that it's secure enough — even if encryption is strong laws can still be enacted to force companies to hand over keys or install backdoors.
The PNG format supports arbitrary data being included in private (nonstandardized) chunks, which will be ignored by decoders that don’t recognize them. It’s easier to extract and more reliably hidden, so why bother inserting the extra data as pixels?

cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics#"Chu...
Maximum lifespan of SSL/TLS certificates is now 398 days
Does anyone know of a good description of how SQL Anywhere’s sync protocols work? (Mobilink and SQL Remote - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_Anywhere#Technologies)
It's a pity it's "open source" and not free software including Emacs, in particular, which has been rather successful itself and as a model long-term.

I wonder how some of these architectures have really helped with maintenance. For instance, I'm familiar with Open MPI and its rather sorry maintenance history with continual breakage and at least partially unnecessary lack of compatibility. Then it still seems the best bet for general purpose MPI...
Exactly! I am in favour of that. The EU protects its citizens but only to the degree it doesn't damage its relationship with the US. They need to grow some balls and stop treating the US as if it were its best mate. Clearly they are not and their laws do not protect foreign nationals in any way, or at least nearly as much as EU regulations would have them do.
I'm a firm believer that you're the average of the people you spend the most time with, so I love to be around other productive makers.

And while you can find many chat communities, they always seem like more of a distraction than something that really motivates me to do by best work.

So I created WIP[1]. Initially it was just a Telegram group chat, but with the added twist of being able to share what task you were working on. This oriented the discussion around the actual work people were doing, rather than just chit-chat.

Over time this evolved into more of a platform with a website, Desktop apps, etc. But the core remains the same: an online community of makers/bootstrappers/solopreneurs working in public.

[1] https://wip.chat
It seems like there would be solutions to most of those problems. Roads are long due for a replacement but something more efficient and cost effective. Utilities are already moving towards decentralization with electricity leading the way but sanitation is on the horizon (see Bill Gates efforts). Depending on the outcome of COVID schools are going to be radically transformed. I think there’s enough energy pushing away from city centres right now to fuel a renaissance of the suburbs.