skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on how you define the near future. There's a bunch of reasons to be skeptical that we'll fully digitize a human connectome anytime soon.

First the fruit fry brain is very small. You can image the entire thing at the microscopic level with a single image. The human brain is massive by comparison. Getting a coherent image that traces an axon from the tip of frontal lobe to the back off the occipital lobe is going to be a huge challenge.

Second the fruit-fly brain has 25,000 neurons while the human brain has more than 10,000,000,000. There's 6 orders of magnitude difference there.

Third, it's highly likely that glia (non-neurons) in the brain play a major role in neural computation so we'll have to image those too. Humans have way more glia than most other animals.

Lastly the connectivity of neurons in the human brain is very high. Getting those little connections right is key in all this as we aren't just going for the neurons but the connections between them.
Oh in that case I don't think they realize how hollow it is, at least not at first. The top performers (on Twitch, anyway, I have never visited OnlyFans) work very hard to keep their top donors happy. They thank them profusely, grant them moderator status, single out their chat messages to read and respond to on stream, and likely even chat with them in private messages after the stream. Anything to maintain the illusion that this is a real relationship rather than a transactional one. This is why OnlyFans was created in the first place: a site outside of the rules of Twitch terms of service that lets performers take things "to the next level" with their top donors. It's like the VIP room in a strip club.

Edit to add more thoughts: I think strip clubs are the right analogy for how to evaluate these channels (the "just chatting" ones and any of the gaming ones that prominently feature very attractive performers). They are fundamentally about creating and maintaining an illusion with the (usually male viewers). Unfortunately, this can be very dangerous. It's pretty common knowledge that strippers are much more likely to suffer violence than the average woman. They may be safer than street-walking prostitutes, but nowhere near as safe as a woman in a white-collar job.

How safe are these streamers in the long run? The distance and pseudonymity provided by the internet may afford a level of safety, compared to the closeness of a strip club. On the other hand, streamers can have several orders of magnitude more viewers than even the largest of strip clubs. A large viewer count can magnify the risk that one disillusioned fan decides to "go rogue" and stalk the streamer, dox her, and attack her in person. I would not be surprised if we see a case of serious violence (or murder) against a top streamer within a few years.
Personal immortality isn't the goal. I believe my thought patterns are conducive to long-term human or post-human species success. I have chosen (or have had chosen for me by biology) as an axiom that this is desirable. I can create copies enhanced by partner genetics and trained by me who have the ability to fit themselves to circumstances I cannot foresee. My personal death is required for evolution, and permits washing out overfitting to local conditions.

The brain upload isn't for power or personal immortality. It is for the thought patterns of the time to be accessible as a library or intelligent servant so that later generations may prosper.

If I am fortunate, I will be so preserved, and they will overrule me most of the time, using me the way I use (say) Karl Popper's books: as a reference, not as immutable truth, and not as the sole tool to make decisions. My mind is far more general purpose than a book, so it will be tempting for them to treat it as a sole tool, but I'm counting on them being smarter than me.

And if they deem me, Gen 1 uploadee, only worthy of jokes like we see Alicebot, so be it. If I am to be deleted as I am superseded, so be it.
That's the wrong question. How much resources does someone have who decides to write an entirely new compiler when a working one already exists?

Of course the answer then reveals that this was only possible because there was comfy GCC to fall back on all along. They started in 2005, Clang became default in XCode with the 4.2 release in October 2011.

Ask yourself if you can sell your manager on 6 years of effort for no functional difference, likely even inferior.
"My core beef with billionaires is that they do not pay their fair share in taxes."

Mine is pretending they're not freeloading. A close second is the performant persecution complex. Third might be the rationalist rhetoric about slippery slopes (eg anything less than Freedom Markets™ is socialism).
Read a bit further into that link:

> Specifically, NVIDIA RTX IO brings GPU-based lossless decompression, allowing reads through DirectStorage to remain compressed while being delivered to the GPU for decompression.

Still not sure if it'll use fixed-function decompression units on the GPU or if it's just compute shaders, but it's decompressing on the GPU.
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Yes, but even then, it's not very convincing.

If you turn a computer off, then try to transfer the software it was running, you will get some data. But whatever was in the volatile RAM, won't get transferred. It's very likely the mind has such data.
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> But is paid attention worth it

Well, good old prostitution has been pretty successful since the dawn of mankind, so the answer must be "yes" for a lot of people.
> end up being net negatives for ... the models

I'm not understanding what you mean there? Aren't they making a lot of money for only a little work?
wow, you're very tolerant dang. i woulda hit the banhammer the 3rd or 4th time.
This may have been to disambiguate between similar sounding phonemes. English phonetic alphabets used for radio had pronunciations like 'tree' for 3 and 'niner' for 9.
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chip manufacturing is an imperfect process, and so there is variance in performance/viability of all of the hardware on a chip. the higher performing chips are "binned" for the top end of the price point, while the lower performing chips are either binned for lower performance or have some of their functionality disabled. For contrived example, A company may produce nothing but quad core chips but sell those with some cores that don't meet minimum performance as dual cores with the bad cores physically disabled.
> However, based on the website and sample chapters, it’s not clear that there will be strong arguments made here about either scalability or performance

I've read most of it, performance is addressed after correctness.

The trick is that your correct API never has to change to get better performance.

I don't want to give too much away though and I highly recommend this book.
I disagree. Node and the browsers script engines are virtual machines nowadays. Package managers go by VMs not by language.
Remember to also write to your state and federal politicians demanding bans on corporate donations to politicians or political parties. Cap donations at $1000, and impose meaningful penalties on illegal donors (in percentages of revenue, not simply number of zeroes in the number).

Voting with your wallet is one half of the solution, voting with your actual vote is the other.
I am not dismissing any criticism, just the problematic fact that no one talks about unions except corporate PSAs. There are no institutions or traditions to support labor organizing in the way there once was. Like the idea of joining or forming a union is alien to most Americans.

> they’re too dumb to understand the concept is extremely condescending

This is a bad faith interpretation of my post. I did not say people are dumb. I believe the opposite; working class and middle class people can absolutely understand unions. My point is that there are no movements or institutions to bring awareness or organize people, and so people forget the history of labor organizing in this country. People intuitively get what’s wrong, there’s just no longer any vocabulary to express it. It’s not stupidity, it’s a multi-decade effort by capital to erase unions from the public consciousness. People just don’t talk about organization anymore, it’s a social phenomenon, not an individual one.

> Take a look at the current situation with police unions

Police unions are not part of the unionization movement because police are not on the side of workers. Police are tasked with defending property and the owners of property are overwhelmingly capitalists or other relatively wealthy individuals. In fact, many of the most deadly anti-union activities (e.g. attacking strikers) have been performed by police.
KDE and Gnome Support Nvidia drivers on wayland.
I've tried some of these a while ago. It locked up my entire system requiring a hard reset every time it tried to send a command to the monitor.
> I'm not understanding what you mean there? Aren't they making a lot of money for only a little work?

Some are, but at the cost of privacy, having weirdos stalk you online, potential future job prospects, etc. Not to mention the time and money that goes into actually taking photos, curating, responding to messages, etc. It's not as easy as it might seem.
I disagree about "quite" since almost every game mechanical statement in it is incorrect. I'd suggest focusing on the lack of social rules in the game, which allow for completely unrestricted scams, corporate espionage and treachery.

It might end up illustrating the opposite point though, since players who lose everything to these scams are often surprised and driven away, which is the opposite of what social networks want. In comparison, the possibility of losing a ship to a pirate is pretty clearly advertised.

To complete the analogy, I would think social networks should try to prevent the dogpiling and cancelation effect that shock and destroy people, while allowing them to be occasionally exposed to different opinions. Unfortunately it seems the opposite is more often the case, as in EVE.
Genuinely curious what other HNers think. I've been a Firefox user for 10+ years and am not happy about the Chromium market-share, Google's stance on adblockers (e.g. uBlock Origin), etc. but it does feel like a losing battle.
A few comments that do not contradict the OP:

IANAL, however the term in law which would be most useful is "market power." Monopoly (or oligopoly) is just one species of "market power." It is the abuse or extension of market power with is illegal. Charging ANY fee for installing an app on an OS might be seen as the extension of market power.

Public utilities are subject to regulation, even if they are not in a monopoly position, (such as two private roads necessary to get to a town) if their market power - separately or together) appears to have led to abuses or inefficiencies (such as unnecessarily large fees.)

The root of "antitrust" law is English common law against "restraint of trade." Statute law, such as the Sherman act in the US, has generally been enacted in order to limit (not extend) the penalties already possible under common law. Common law is an English thing, going back to Henry II, I believe. Most nations have legal systems that descend from Roman law (or similar systems) and don't include common law. (I'm going by a book by Churchill, here, who also was not a lawyer, however.)
You could freeze your brain and keep it frozen for a few hundred years, till they have nanobots to repair the freezing damage and scan the brain
Can you expand a little bit? I thought all ATC that talked to planes were in the towers.
You can eat super soft scrambled eggs with a fork pretty easily. Even if it looks like soup, it's still coagulated proteins that hold together more than you'd expect.
How do you know that it’s to punish people? That seems like a pretty wild accusation to make without any evidence.
Speaking as a dual US/Italian citizen there are some things I would add to your picture (which surprised me when I first learned them). I should also add, my picture is a bit dated since I last looked at this in the early 2000's but a lot of this is still true:

US vs Italian "high school"

- Finishing Italian secondary education is most equivalent to US high school + at least the first year of most US universities

- I believe this is true for most major European countries and boils down to the expectations for students being higher in Europe than in the US

US vs Italian universities

- It's true that Italian university is free

- It's also true that "anyone" can attend

- However, there is a mandatory "advancement" exam at the end of the first year that MOST (~70% in the early 2000's) students fail which bars them from continuing

- The above is what sometimes skews comparisons between US and Italian colleges

- To complete university, you are required to do a "thesis" and then defend it. Historically, this was done orally in front of a panel

- There is also the effect that because university is free and housing is usually paid for by parents, taking 5+ years to finish is both normal and somewhat socially acceptable (this is more of an interesting side bar)

Long story short, this means the Italian university is really Sophomore year of an American university plus some graduate level work. A good example of this is how there is(was?) no separate law school in Italy since you are essentially doing advanced level courses in "undergrad".

Another comparison: at the time (early 2000s) multiple people in senior level positions in European companies mentioned to me that in their opinion, having an MBA from a top US school was equivalent to a degree from a top Italian economics school like Bocconi University. Since most US companies thought of the MBA as the "advanced" degree, they weighed it more heavily so it did "matter" in that sense but not from an education only perspective.
> I haven't found a way of discovering whether a file system is case insensitive or case sensitive without creating a file - is it possible?

You should be able to do ioctl(EXT4_IOC_GETFLAGS) on the directory and check if EXT4_CASEFOLD_FL is set. I'm not sure if this flag is applied recursively to child dentries (though I would assume it is).
There are any number of reasons to avoid restarting things. Some customers are running code that has a cold start and needs some time to warm up its cache if it restarts. Some customers are running jobs (video rendering, machine learning training, etc) that might take literally days to complete. Interrupting these jobs and causing them to restart wastes the customer time and causes them to lose progress. Other containers may be hosting multiplayer game servers, and forcing them to restart would cause all people logged into the game instance to get disconnected or otherwise dropped from their game.

All of the above are use-cases that AWS Fargate is used for. Beyond this many folks simply don't like it when things happen unexpectedly outside of their control. We have Fargate Spot for workloads that can tolerate interruption, and we discount the price if you choose this launch strategy. However Fargate on-demand seeks to avoid interrupting your containers. You are in control of when your containers start and stop or autoscale.
At night, sure. Many times I've met a car with a broken headlight, only realizing it's not a motorcycle as we're passing. I don't know if this happened at night, but visibility can be reduced for other reasons as well.
backsplash! That's a word I did not know. Anyway, I couldn't help to notice the backsplash too and the kitchen enclosing, it looks optimized to collect grease and make it hard to clean :-/
Well that indeed is a problem.

I graduated Engineering from an Italian university and I must say much of my curriculum consisted of mind-bending exercises meant to keep us busy and out of the way. The currency we lacked most was context, insight, and an understanding of why some particular detail mattered.

I do think that of all that was thrown at me, something stuck after all; but admittedly the most insightful and profound opportunities that I missed are to be blamed on me, and on the precious little attention to students that the scarce funding allowed for.
IMO apples is even worse, most models just have semi-official dates like "Mid 2015" and no proper consumer-facing model numbers.
I think the US collages you say are stronger than European ones just boils down to money.

It's amazing how having more money just buys you more and better facilities and teaching talent, not to mention the US Gov. investing far more into STEM R&D (for defense) than Europe plus all that sweet private R&D money from all the fortune 500 companies.

It all ads up in the end.
> All documentaries are edited to tell the story the director wants you to hear.

Not saying this is the case here, but as a documentary nerd, this is absolutely not true. There are plenty of cinéma vérité documentaries out there.
> The -only- difference between TS and JS is the type annotations. It should be perfectly readable JS aside from that.

TypeScript has a few differences:

Automatic class properties from arguments:

class Foo {
constructor(
public bar: string,
) {}
}

Enums, and probably other stuff I've forgotten. I think they're avoiding adding any other differences though.
People who have large parts of their gut removed surgically don't lose their mind.
Scanwell is hiring a product designer to design the first at-home Covid-19 test
Isn't vertical integration and in-sourcing Amazon DNA?
Article claims hand rolled C code can perform dot product faster than Numpy
Original paper discussed here at the time (the article in the OP is also from June):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23561543
Pretty sure the term you're looking for is e-whoring and it's a thing.
That's basically what they said. There are tons of things people are willing to pay for that would also be unethical to facilitate.
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Most SUVs today are glorified station wagons, built on car platforms. The most popular SUV in America is the Ford Explorer and it hasn't been a truck for almost a decade. How are these any different than minivans? Comparing this type of vehicle to the truck based SUV in the 1990s is dumb. Cars (and light trucks) are far more fuel efficient today than 25 years ago.
I'll occasionally hide the monomorphic && and define something like:

class Predicate a where
(&&) :: a -> a -> a
not :: a -> a
etc :: ...

and then define the obvious instances for `Bool` and `Predicate b => a -> b`

It's really nice to be able to just write `(> 6) && even` or `isAlpha || (== '_')`
Here's same redditor confirming it's fake
https://www.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/c4yyrk/comm...
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Are we talking about being unethical or illegal? I think putting even a real camera in breakout room is legal in almost all of the world. If the second story is correct, which I doubt, even that could be legal. Attendance system is used by many companies with report being sent to manager.
A refund system for this type of content is tough and is already why a lot of card processors don’t like dealing with porn.

There will be a lot of people abusing this system to essentially pirate porn - and I’m also unsure if only fans has the type of workforce to review every case