skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I also know that in order to make any meaningful link between a human mind and a computer one must record the identified firing of at least 5 billion neurons from the "mind-generating" association cortex in behavioral and environmental contexts

Wrong. I'm no brain scientist, but this fungus [1] shows the way.

If the scope of the device is sufficiently constrained it wouldn't need to interact with 5 billion neurons.

> They did not show how their robot-controlled microelectrodes actually penetrate into the cortex and find cells -- because, as every single-cell recording expert knows, this is the difficulty (below)

If the difficulty lies in actually embedding the implants, then a biological solution such as this fungus should be used, with the work being done to genetically engineer it to make it programmable through a device.

Just mail me my royalties.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/how-the-...
I started work in 1998, first thing I worked on was part of the Bank of England regulatory reporting software used by 100s of banks. I'm pretty sure some of that will still be in use.

The next thing I worked on was for British Gas for one of their core processes. I changed at least 100 screens and rewrote their daily batch process. I just heard that's still going and unlikely to have changed.

Both systems originated from early 1990s
I like that kind of problem solving.
Compare Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class or Jacobs, Systems of Survival.

Although the former pretty much makes the exploitative/industrial distinction you have, the latter argues more subtly that the "guardian syndrome" can be good (one wants government regulators who are disciplined and punish transgressors) and that the "commercial syndrome" can be good (axiomatic on HN) but that organisations which combine the two (the mafia, policemen on the take, "Cocaine Import Agency", etc.) are usually bad.

(for the recent apparent popularity of manichean politics in our world, consider 1984's emphasis on the explanatory power of sadism: "Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own?" vs. Brave New World's emphasis on the explanatory power of masochism: "But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.")
Google DNS supports EDNS-subnet info, and should work just as well as Comcast's DNS for Netflix.
Cloudflare won't, though.
Instead of evenly distributing the lights on the inner surface we could distribute them at random. That way at "night" we could turn the LEDs to very low and still have "stars". Then during the day we would turn them up and it would be pretty cool to have thousands and thousands of micro suns.
all things being equal, shipping a feature with a 2 weeks delay is certainly bad, but often all things are not equal: the slower dev does something more and the does something less (I'm ignoring the case where the slower dev just slacks off).

The faster dev may have skipped important things, things that can potentially sink the company, like security aspects.

The faster dev may have been aware of that and still decided it was worth to complete the task even if the system as a whole wouldn't be ready to production. For example so that the feature can be seen in action in an environment where for example security is not perceived as to be a severe risk factor.

By doing so, the developer plays with the definition of done, in a way that can be either advantageous or disastrous, depending on what happens down the line. Will product management understand that the system indeed still needs more work before shipping it to a wide audience?

This is where the debt metaphor has its teeth. It allows to negotiate these tradeoffs, also across the engineering team boundaries.
Microsoft didn't have a monopoly on computers, yet it was guilty of pushing all their users to use their apps over others.

Apple and Google are the only major phone OS's. If they control what you can install on your phone, they have a monopoly.

> Wallmart choose their suppliers, and sets the markup, why can't Apple?

You're really comparing setting up a physical store to building world class operating system and phones? Almost anyone can set up shop and start selling things that Walmart isn't, or from suppliers who won't deal with Walmart, but it's not how tech worms. You're living in a different reality.
You can actually get a decent half-way hybrid by shipping WASM but still binding to HTML and using rich Web APIs as appropriate.
Ask HN: Why can Tinder still violate the new Play Store Subscription Policy?
Google updated their subscription policy a few months ago (https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9900533). The deadline where every app has to comply has already ended.

But if I look into the subscription page of Tinder, I see this: https://imgur.com/IdgM11E.

As far as I can see, it's clearly a violation of rule #2.

Does anyone know why they can still do this?
People you want to form relationships with are going to have expectations of your experience, skill, and maturity levels that increase with age. You’re going to find fewer people willing to tolerate your adolescence at 45 than you will at 25. Beating yourself up over “normal” isn’t helpful, but this is a real problem.
There is satisfaction in that. Not sure about happiness or joy and it's so easy to become dependent on external factors affecting the craft.
TDD by Jason Gorman is a nice (and free) introduction: http://codemanship.co.uk/tdd_jasongorman_codemanship.pdf (disclosure: I did Jason's ~TDD training course a number of years ago and gained a lot from it - but the book is useful on its own).

A book that explains TDD in the context of a much larger example application is Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests by Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce (sometimes referred to as "The GOOS Book").

One of the difficult things about TDD is that it takes a long time to learn to do it effectively. I personally didn't really "get" TDD until I paired with a few much more experienced developers, and this forced me to rethink the way that I approached writing software. Ultimately, it caused me to significantly level up my coding skills and I wouldn't go back to the way that I used to write code before.
Mali coup leaders say ex-president Keita released from detention
Sure, there are reasons people buy products with restrictions. But if there is harm to consumers, antitrust regulations can be used to prevent predatory business practices
Before social networks TV influenced president elections, radio before that, and newspapers before radio. Each time media changes, it is doom.
Don't forget that Android has more than one store and depending on the company you buy your phone from it might even come with another store pre-installed, such as the Samsung store.

So comparing iOS store to only the play store will ignore a section of Android users.
Would you mind expanding a bit on what you mean by "it gives life heaviness"? Is the idea that if Eternal Return is true, you should live your life to its fullest because it will be repeated for eternity?

If there was a thing as an eternal self I would find that idea terrifying rather than motivating, personally. But I tend to lean towards the concept of non-self. Even if the cosmology of the universe means my life will be repeated infinitely, there's no continuous "me" that experiences it. Just like how running the exact same instance of Conway's Game of Life a million times doesn't mean there's some essence that persists between each instantiation.

So for me, that idea doesn't do much for me either way (but I may also misunderstand it). Maybe sometime in the vastness of infinity there will be another instantiation of "me", but I don't think there's any connection between that instance and the current one (besides the curious property of an identical life).
Links for Highly Ambitious People
When I was in college I used to spend a lot of time scrolling social media. I wish it was put to better use. Also, I am constantly amazed how ignorant I was to all the amazing opportunities on offer for students. So I am putting together a list of links worth spending time on

GRANTS/FUNDING:

Pioneer grant - https://pioneer.app/

Emergent Ventures - https://www.mercatus.org/emergent-ventures

Thiel Fellowship - https://thielfellowship.org/

Cards against humanity STEM scholarship for a woman - https://www.scienceambassadorscholarship.org/

Helium grant ($1K) - https://www.heliumgrant.org/

Y Combinator startup incubator - https://www.ycombinator.com/

Einstein Fellowship - https://www.einsteinforum.de/about/fellowship/?lang=en

1517fund - https://www.1517fund.com/

SUMMER PROGRAMS/MISC:

Wolfram Summer School - https://education.wolfram.com/summer/school/

SPARC - https://sparc-camp.org/

Google Summer of Code - https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

Find hackathons on devpost - https://devpost.com/

The Recurse Center - https://www.recurse.com/

A-Z resources for students - https://github.com/dipakkr/A-to-Z-Resources-for-Students

List of interesting labs - https://logancollinsblog.com/2018/11/03/interesting-lab-websites/

OTHER FUN STUFF:

Slate Star Codex - https://slatestarcodex.com/tag/links-2/

Gwern - https://www.gwern.net/tags/newsletter

Alexey Guzey - https://guzey.com/links/

Github Awesome startup resources - https://github.com/ahmadnassri/awesome-startup-resources

Github meta Awesome - https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

GENERAL ADVICE:

Hell yeah or no - https://sive.rs/hellyeah

How to do what you love - http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html

How to maximize serendipity - https://www.perell.com/blog/serendipity

Patrick Collison's advice for young ones - https://patrickcollison.com/advice

“the standard pace is for chumps”

Got any other links or similar posts from the past? Kindly comment
Probably better to use a CCD with electrical tape over the lens. I'm curious to see the difference in sensitivity between RAM and a CCD. I would think RAM is pretty resistant to bit flips or measures to counteract it, like ECC, would be more common.
> Also, Medicare/Medicaid are cheaper primarily because they pay providers a lot less than private insurers for the same service.

Do you have numbers to back this up? I'm not saying you're wrong, but my mom worked for a GP for ~20 years (recently retired) and listening to her talk about it this was not true for her employer at all. She said that in many cases the private insurer paid less, and on top of that required more back and forth to get claims addressed.
Posted this thread specifically to help out for such usecase couple of days earlier - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24220628
I could say that we’re very often in situations like this.

I buy gym membership but it’s not for me to decide who is the staff or what kind of equipment is there.

I buy a car but I can’t drive anywhere but places I’m either legally allowed or where land owner lets me.

I pay for the medical insurance and I don’t get to choose exact procedures I’m going to be signed to.

I’d say that “I pay but I don’t have control” is common theme. Sure I can switch to other service provider but no perfect providers for any service exists. There are other mobile systems as well.

One interesting thought behind what you wrote is that you compared software ecosystem to utility. I wouldn’t go as far. OS is OS and if you don’t like it you legally can jailbreak device albeit the provider in this case can choose not to support it, which it does.
> The harsher that Apple retaliates, the better Epic's court case. Apple is playing right into his hands.

Meanwhile, https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/24/apple-stock-500/

Unity is also making a play on this, portraying the Unreal Engine as an unreliable choice because of Epic's erratic actions, and in their court filing Epic themselves complained about people leaving them in droves.

(Incidentally, when I try to Google "Epic says people leaving in droves" all the results are about millennials leaving cities.)
Issue with this (and other antibody tests) is both that levels of antibody vary wildly from person to person and across time.

The same person can show positive for a swab test, and then negative for antibody tests at months one and 2 and only start to show at month 3.

Equally some cases will never be revealed by an antibody test as the patient fought the virus solely with their T-cells - not antibodies.

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This obviously doesn't mean that a cheap and reliable test is not of use - just that it will no doubt reveal more issues and edge cases with our understanding of the virus.
There's a coordinated ad campaign running for Samsung 5G + Fortnite. I wonder how much, if anything, Samsung paid Epic Games for the joint marketing.
> When I think about groups that survive they seem to either have strong top-down power hierarchies (as in the cult or the corporation), or otherwise de-emphasize money and sex (as in the monastery).

There's also the 'clan', essentially an extended family with strong financial and social ties, often treating wealth quasi-collectively. Varies by culture and era, but my clan (in the Mediterranean region) has been around in current form for about 100 years and is fairly resilient. Varying incomes and romantic relationships (among other things) cause problems here too, but the social structure has developed ways to manage them. There's a fairly elaborate culturally rooted system of gifts, obligations, unofficial hierarchies, etc. that keeps some of it working.
Sure if someone has two improbable situations combined, they are doomed. But they are more likely to be killed by a lightning.
That's not practically the case though. Road usage costs gas, including taxes, and maintenance.
It wouldn’t do you any harm if epic was allowed to set up its own store. You just don’t use it if you don’t want to. Just like any other store. If you don’t like the look of it, don’t go inside. The AppStore will still be there for you just the same as always.
In a loosely sense, this is also a very old technology but refined. There are some fotages of monkeys able to brain control a prothetic arm back in 2008 on Youtube. [1] So, what they're currently doing is just an update on steroids from old science. It will remain a mistery to me if they'll be able to crack some basic science about consciousness as Hodak pointed out. The side effect while developing this tech will produce improvement of countless lives. That is highly doable, no doubts about that.

[1]: https://youtu.be/sm2d0w87wQE?t=49
Cross age limits
Sounds like a "partnership" where the liability for debts are shared between partners (as is income and equity).

Australia has 3 "corporate" trading structures and trusts for holding assets:

* Sole Trader

* Company

* Partnership

https://www.business.gov.au/planning/business-structures-and...
I find it really funny that a lot of people are supporting keeping DST. Basically, we wanted to sleep in so we started to shift our work time from 6 to 7, then to 8 and now we start work at 9. Then we realized that we have no time in the evening so let's shift the clock so that 7 o'clock is actually earlier.

At normal time, on an equinox the night is from 6 in the evening to 6 in the morning and midnight is actually in the middle of the night. With DST it's from 7 to 7 and midnight is at 1. So keeping DST basically means you are shifting to a different "non-natural" time zone.

Let's just stop the DST keeping the natural local time and get up earlier anyway.
This isn’t about device sales. The market in consideration is the $100bn/yr app-store market, of which Apple has 2/3 globally and around 55% of the European segment in 2019.
There is no difference. It's a relabeling of hours.
I am about to implement a privacy friendly base knowledge app, and local storage is a cornerstone for doing fast full text search.
As some others have mentioned, I don't think that induced demand or the failure to prevent congestion are failings of the model itself. A congested 5 lane road still has a higher throughput than a congested 2 lane road.

However, the largest problem I see which the article briefly touches on is the failure to even consider building something besides a freeway. A `correct` model should be screaming to build public transport.

However, consider the following circumstances:

1. As it is many people are forced to have a car even if public transport can serve their main commute but often public transport is more expensive than the marginal cost of driving a vehicle (i.e gas + upkeep) so they choose to drive unless the congestion is extreme (i.e one of the worst commutes in the US).

2. Even if public transport is pretty decent (commute + groceries), they just happen to already have a car because their previous location did not have public transport. So we are back at #1. Or I don't know if I'll move in a year or two so might as well keep the car.

3. OR now that I have a car , I would probably not want to have to pay for expensive parking (& housing) in an area with public transport plus now I'll have to pay a mechanic a premium to even change the oil. So instead I live further away thus reinforcing the need to keep the car.

4 & etc. I need to travel >50 miles (skiing, hiking), renting is a pain and long trip ride sharing is expensive. Groceries are easier to do with a car especially when buying in bulk (Although, if/when I can get Costco delivered same or 2-day with perishables at <=10% premium, then this is a moot point).

Cars are pretty (at least marginally or per mile) cheap in America and we do a very poor job making the alternatives attractive if not impossible. Anyone who has a car seems to drive it even if public transport could be used (again outside of super specific commutes in a few cities). Until we can either make car ownership/use more expensive or greatly increase the practicality of not having a car at all, anticipate having a car and being stuck in traffic at least part of the time.
Swift language by definition is at the same level as Rust. "Higher Level" means that developer is order of magnitude more productive in language X than in language Y. This is not a case for Swift vs Rust.
How to Start a Shopify Store in Just 5 Simple Steps
Epic was simply asking for it
Vantage Point Consulting – The Salesforce Consultant for Financial Services
There are never any future guarantees of liquidity, so take this opportunity.
I remember there was much talk in the local press around 25 years ago about how Kallax/LLA was to be the next big freight hub. It went as far as extending the runway to accommodate bigger planes (making it the longest runway in Sweden, if Wikipedia is to be believed). As far as I know, the freight boom failed to materialize, largely because Russia were not very keen on allowing flights through their airspace.

So we need a map projection that weighs distances by political resistance. :)
Codi.vim - the Interactive Scratchpad for Hackers
I remember being acutely sensitive to the sound of a good floppy being read vs. a bad floppy when I was getting into computers.

Likewise being able to hear if you and the BBS were properly connecting or not. Hearing your modem retry the handshake after dialling 90 times to get into a popular one was heartbreaking.
Whether these stories are true or false I love them.
Part of the original thing was Epic offering a discount of 20% on V-Bucks if they processed the payment through Epic instead of Apple.

The end user got a nice discount and Epic still pockets more because interchange fees are ~2.5% and not 30%.

The Epic Games Store had a similar strategy, cut the fee for devs and incentivize end users to move onto their platform (weekly free games). They still make a boatload of money even though it's not as much as Valve's money printer.

In general I see this as a great thing for devs (indie in particular) if it triggers more competition to bring platform fees down across the board.

Epic isn't being overtly greedy with end users (yet)
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Depending on where you live, you might already eat most the car associated costs as part of living. EVs are only going to make it worse, with higher fixed costs and lower marginal.
This was already being done way before Musk, for medical reasons. You can't expect people to put society in front of their own health.
>In particular, never ever write(x^a)(x^b)=x^ab. If you write this, your cryptography instructor will realize that life is too short, immediately resign from teaching, and join a traveling circus. But not before changing your grade in the course to a zero.

Ha! Love it.
I think the most important point is that it's slow, it involves many people, and leaves a physical trail. These are all advantages for any kind of ability to prevent or recover from fraud or simple mistakes.

Perhaps you can build a similar electronic system, but if one of the purposes is to make it slow and make it involve lots of manual confirmations, is there really a purpose to it? It's going to be much more complex than the paper system (replacing physical properties like uniqueness with brittle/complex cryptographic versions). Complexity always begets bugs.
Maybe add a dated note as a code comment breifly describing the reason for the change.
Singlish/Manglish Pre-Trained Deep Learning NLP Model (Bert)
Erm, how should ppl keep Frontend authentication tokens etc between refreshes without something like local storage?

And how would we make offline webapps which don't store anything on servers?
Fortnite players on iOS might move to any other device instead to play, where Epic has lower commissions. That's a win.
Noooo, afternoon is more important. That us when people do activities and would have reasonable chance to go outside on sun to get d. You wont take kids on pkayground or take walk before school and work.
If I understand correctly, the difference is that apple owns both the store and the payment processor, and require exclusive use of the payment processor (with associated uncompetitive fees) to gain access to the store. This would be somewhat akin to Wells Fargo also being in the business selling porn while not processing payments for anyone else who competes with their product. In the current climate, it seems unlikely a judge would rule against apple for anticompetitive behavior, but there are several reasonable cases to be made that this is anticompetitive and even anticonsumer.
> “ This first category of defect is unlikely to apply very often to autonomous vehicles, since modern manufacturing methods, especially for critical components of autonomous vehicles such as the software and navigation systems, can be manufactured with low error rates.”

That is a very strange thing to say. I would think this assertion is not settled at all, and actually the hearth of the matter.
Some more reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand

> City planner Jeff Speck has called induced demand "the great intellectual black hole in city planning, the one professional certainty that everyone thoughtful seems to acknowledge, yet almost no one is willing to act upon."
I'm the same way, naturally preferring something like a 26-27 hour day with 17+ hours awake and 9+ hours of sleep. I'd be very interested to hear more about your experience, especially of bupropion helping - could you email me (in my profile)? I've found melatonin, doxylamine succinate, zolpidem, and alprazolam to each be somewhat helpful at times although they all have diminishing returns over time and seem to affect sleep quality.
Ubuntu Touch has a different security model, more like Android. It already works on Librem 5 (but not a daily driver yet).
> it take a generation of research to access brain raw information.

I don't see why this has to be the case. I'd more expect that the pace of research will accelerate as devices like Neuralink come onto the market and allow much higher resolution and more precise data to be collected across many more individuals.

10-20 years is reasonable for more advanced capabilities but they've figured out prediction of pigs' limb movements in ~1 year, so we could have neurally-controlled human prostheses very soon after trials begin.