skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing which bothers me is satellite imagery.

In the 80s, 30+ years ago, license plates were discernible from orbit. I often wonder, what if you had two distinct lenses, each with separate transmit?

EG, both operating at once. Or multiple lenses?

Now you could do things, potentially, such as use a high-fidelity lens to tag individuals. EG, license plates. Facial recognition. That sort of thing.

Once tagged, another lens, one which records the entire surface of the continental US, would track objects the size of vehicles, or even people. Determining who or what each was, would not be vital. Only high probability tracking, and those other lenses coming into play for closer viewing, to tag.

Now you're just tracking dots as they move. And once someone is tagged (phone, or license plate), they don't need to be retagged.

If not already being done, it won't be long until it is done. And once tagged, you'd never shake that tag easily.

We're all familiar with facial recognition tech used by SV giants, and we know of many things, such as gait recognition used in China. Yet what amount of tagging, facial recognition could be done, when budget was of absolutely zero concern. If computing power was of zero concern.

All you need at the images from the satellite. Ground based computing power can do the rest.

What if you had trillions in computing power to throw at this?

Well. Regardless. If it isn't a problem now, it will be a problem eventually.
Whilst I’m sure there are opsec protocols that can do something to protect you from modern (military style) drones, it’s very very very hard to stop an adversary with a nearly unlimited amount of money and incredible technological superiority from keeping their eyes on you once you’re in their sights.
I truly hope my cynicism is unwarranted, that I'm wrong, and that your ideas are viable and would work because English is in an almighty mess (and I feel sorry for those who have to learn it as a second language). However, I think you overestimate the ability for any agreement within any Anglophone country let alone even a partial agreement across any or all of them.

You come from a part of the world that is renowned for its sense and civility, whereas over the last 40 or so years the Anglophone countries have had internal squabbles over just about everything and anything to the extent that they have—in parts—become almost dysfunctional, democracy just isn't working to the extent that it once did. I say this as someone who was born in one, worked in three of them, and travelled to the others at various times over the years.

Take the US for instance: the country has become so polarised over whether to wear facemasks in the COVID-19 epidemic—even after getting the best advice available to wear them—that one could be forgiven for thinking that insanity pills have been added to its water supplies. It's likely the very notion that someone or authority might make suggestions about changing the way people write or speak—even if it's not aimed directly at specific individuals—would likely be taken as an affront by many.

Again, I'd love to be proved wrong as I've been saying for years that both pronunciation and spelling would be much easier if English were to introduce characters with accents/diacriticals into those awkward, pesky words such as 'through', 'thorough', 'thought' and so on.

In fact, I posted a rather long response on the neurosciencenews.com website asking if anyone knew of any research work that's been carried out with bad spellers and those with demonstrated dyslexia with the aim of helping them to overcome their reading difficulties 'by training them with accented text (albeit suitably contrived for the purpose)'. I went on to suggest 'that if it's not so then this might be an avenue worthy of research'. It seems to me, that if any progress is to be made in cleaning up English then the lever could well come from a successful—or even partially successful—way of treating dyslexia (as the research would have demonstrated that the changes to the language were worthwhile and should be made).

Your point about multiple implementations is worthy of note. If say changes were made to books specifically printed for dyslexic people then, over time, some or all of the changes could be more widely adopted.

My post hasn't appeared on neurosciencenews.com yet, presumably as it's a moderated site. I'll look at the post again and see if parts of it are suitable for posting here, if so then I'll post them directly below in reply to this post.
Thank you for your comments.
With regards to your questions.

On chemo leading to cytotoxic vs immune killing
I am not sure that we have reached the point of a consensus on this. I would say that there is more and more evidence of the involvement of the immune system even with therapies that were considered exclusively chemotherapies. I would suggest looking up the work of Guido Kroemer on immunogenic cell death.

On the CAPAC approach fitting that model
Well, our inclination is that our current knowledge is limited by what can be achieved with our current dosing technologies.

For instance, in the specific case of Doxorubicin, you cannot give more than 75 mg/m2 without significantly endangering a person’s health. Assume that only 1-2% of that dose actually reaches the tumor.
How would you know what 10x that dose at the tumor would do? Also how could you separate the effect on the tumor and the side effects that it causes?
About 20-30 years ago, investigators were experimenting with increasing the dose by 20-30% by providing highly risky interventions such as bone marrow transplant. Not surprisingly those studies showed that the toxicity from the drugs was leading to deaths more quickly than the actual disease, so the efforts were abandoned.
We believe that the CAPAC technology allows one to explore biological effects, including a potential activation of the immune system that we have not been able to explore yet. And that is only talking about a single chemotherapy. Imagine if you could have at your disposal many cancer drugs with different mechanisms of action all working at the tumor site at the same time. The effects could be revolutionary.

With regards to the tumor model
We have used different syngeneic lines (fast growing, slow growing) and they all point in the same direction.
We have not tried yet spontaneous tumor models.

By the way, the efficacy is not matched with that of conventional doxorubicin. The efficacy is surpassed with fewer side effects.
Maybe we should lighten up a bit and not bring in politics into everything. The writer could be a male and this would be natural for them just like it would be for a female and her.
Personally the wifi version of wireless hotspot was always finicky for me on Linux, requiring a few restarts of the hotspot and the computer wifi to get synced up.

Wired tethering always worked instantly. Well, until now sadly :(. I tried to do this the other day and I just figured something was bugged, but I didn’t realise it is an iOS14 issue. Guess I am stuck with the wifi hotspot for now when I am out and about.
Windows Server Summit 2020
Internet connectivity is oxygen for research and development work
> (It may be time for paging out to disk to go away. It's a huge performance hit. Mobile doesn't do it. And RAM is so cheap.)

The “RAM is cheap” argument is one of the reasons why we have lazy developers creating apps like MS Teams (on Windows 10) that takes a huge amount of memory (in my case, it’s about 1GB on startup without checking any chats, and I don’t even have many chats and teams in it). It somehow eventually runs out of memory, crashes and restarts. I have 8GB of RAM and allocated swap of the same amount. I’m not running many other RAM intensive applications (except for Brave browser with less than a handful of tabs).
By using libcurl. I run a distributed c++ database and it's one of the most stable components of our stack. Java and Ruby tend to break much more often. Also, you wouldn't want to use Python without any packages, so why insist on the same with c++?
Both of the writers were acceptable to the USSR and were thus translated and available. Without market pressures you had absolute top writers and poets of the age translate children’s books and the results were marvellous. I owe these two writers large chunks of what I am now. In midst of soviet misery there was wonder, thought, friendship. The quiet happy family life I did not have. But also material things like being able to sell cherries on the roadside. The boys in the pictures wore boots!
This is not sarcasm. I've encountered news sites that do over 15,000 requests and load chains and waterfalls of tracking, invasive garbage, stuff that is illegal in Europe, from over 250+ domains on a single pageview.
Another option for Wiki, which I think is a bit closer to Confluence (but open source & self hosted) would be XWiki https://www.xwiki.org/
Another bad day for Microsoft Security
If I'm not mistaken, though, hair cells aren't really "fungible" / identical, right?

>Auditory hair cells are specialized along the length of the cochlea to respond to specific sound frequencies. ... Each of our roughly 16,000 hair cells is dedicated to a narrow frequency range. These cells are ordered along the basilar membrane according to the frequencies they detect. [1]

In that sense, they're dumb in terms of just encoding oscillation patterns, kind of like an electric guitar pickup, but even though a pickup is "dumb", you can get different results depending on the placement and type.

I'm just wondering if and how the newly generated hair cells somehow fit in where they're needed, and how general or controllable the process is.

[1] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/hearing...
Assuming superconductors replace existing wires, it won't be more power than the wires already carry, just in a smaller area.

My instincts tell me it would actually be much safer. Overheating wire would instantly lose superconductivity and vaporize into an open circuit. The same thing a fuse does.

Current wires have enough bulk to heat up and melt slowly. This is more opportunity to burn things and set stuff on fire. Vaporized plasma is low density which probably won't concentrate energy enough to light surrounding materials on fire. Plasma also disassociates quickly in air, again way less time for fires.

For mechanical stress, it may be sufficient to just ensure the stress is evenly distributed in all directions. This way the energy will be driven into shockwave and heat rather than motion. The wires might make a big bang but this isn't very harmful underground or high in the air on lines. Explosions are way less dangerous in open air than they are confined
Exactly. For us at Shasqi, it was about combining the spatial control of surgery with the temporal control (flexibility of dosing) of oral or intravenous drugs.
Probably. I wound up just making a bootable usb installer and that fixed it.

It's not a particularly hard problem to work around, just an example of something that can pop up while in mac's recovery mode.
They are? Try calling out a sociopath then! See what happens... (btw, this may turn badly for you)

Most people are easily mislead and others don't mind unless attacked. Best thing sociopaths can do is radical honesty.
Having cameras in the court room would do 1000x more damage to the legitimacy of SCOTUS in the eyes of the public than seating blatant partisan justices, or even expanding seats. It would manufacture the kind of gross and disgusting meme-able content that we see in all other corners of media today, and it would turn these Judges into celebrity personalities rather than, ostensibly, impartial members of an independent branch of government.

If you want to peek into oral argument, and actually learn something about the High Court, do yourself a favor and check out the incredible work Oyez does. They mash up the audio with the transcript, and sync it with a highlighted avatar for which Justice is speaking at the time. Having cameras in the court would destroy this medium of consumption, and relegate it to manipulated soundbites and distorted political ads. We should all detest any attempt to change the status quo here.

Here's an example from Oyez. An interesting case that has some good back and forth, and highlights how this really is the best way to consume the history of the court. They have the entire record in there, and their website is very well organized, so you can find whatever case you want.

https://www.oyez.org/cases/2019/18-1195
Personally, I act differently when stranger is in the room and when I an alone and when it is only me and friends. I personally observed family dinner being different when rare visitor came in, kids acting differently when they thought I an not watching and meetings being different when our off team people are present.
This sounds like a terrible move and will probably force all medium-size organizations I work with to ditch Atlassian.

Me too. How awesome is that! Its absolutely fantastic news.

Edit: This is great for those of us that have to suffer Atlassian products that we didn't choose. It is also good news for companies such as Gitlab that do offer self-hosted solutions.
Lol yeah for real. I live in Japan, and when I visit off the beaten road places, it's pretty common to find old people whose dialects even my native Japanese wife can't understand. And in China, you can take a 1 hour train ride and end up in a place where the local dialect is mutually unintelligible from where you came from - just the Chinese government forced everyone to standardize on Mandarin. Both of these places are known for being dramatically less diverse than the English world, and yet here we are.
100% agree. I'm developing an ORM [1] in my spare time specifically with the vision to make it easier to create web apps with Nim. Created a PoC with Jester in backend, Karax on the front, and Norm for model definition, and it turns out to be very much usable, accessing the same models from backend and frontend and all that.

[1] https://norm.nim.town
Investigating the Ethereum Gold-Bug and Blockchain in the Wolfram Language
> This code compiles, runs and works [1] on all major platforms using only the default toolchain provided by the OS vendor without any external dependencies or downloads. This is something that no other programming language can provide as of date.

Isn't that provided by at least Golang and Zig currently?
> open-source their discontinued Server product line

little did you know, the source code for atlassian server products is already available for any paying customers. It's not FOSS, but if you need to run this yourself, and customize it, it's already possible. But of course, you will be responsible for keeping it updated (patching vulnerabilities from libraries etc).
> It’s smart to avoid using wireless devices like mobile phones or GPS systems, since they have digital signatures...

Could someone explain how a GPS receiver (especially one which doesn't utilize DGPS of any sorts) would have any sort of digital signature which could be measured from a drone?
I'm not sure whom/what this is being fair to, given both of these are specified by the C++ standard, but sure.
speaks about not partner guarding and then says "Not in my face if it's with a dude," and is only open to m+f*n relationships lol - partner guarding lol
On the subject of the translations, I believe you may be talking about revisions that Jansson made to the stories later on [1], not a translator fancying themselves an author. The latter seems kind of like a big no-no, so I just wanted to dispel that notion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_in_Moominland#Revised_ve...
This is the old courtroom, right? Which is now open to the public.
Banking, Cash, and the Future of Money
Is there some sort of standard / commonly accepted way to manage packages for c++? In python its as simple as pip install + import, and the community is generally in agreement with the best library to use with good documentation. Is there some sort of similar tools I can use for c++?
Because this cannot be achieved with one dose. Also think about diffusion in tissue of small molecules. Essentially within an hour or two, anything that you injected in the tumor is gone. So now you are asking about killing everything with a drug in a specific part of the body within one hour without much damage to the rest of the body...
It does not sound that easy anymore and that is probably why people resort to surgery, in other words remove the diseased tissue. The problem is that it is often hard to make sure you have removed all of the diseased tissue and you have “clean margins” and none of those cells have already infiltrated areas of the body where you could not detect them. In other words, a pretty challenging problem. Having another tool available to fight this disease would be significantly beneficial.
“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.”
> - upgrading to Catalina via USB installation image. If the OS image is jumping several versions (or actually being downgraded from a security patch release), here be dragons. Typically the USB installer pulls down another installer via Wi-Fi and then has to perform a random "this disk needs an upgrade" routine which 50% of the time results in bad thing happening and I'd be left with the flashing question mark. Then its time to start over again.

Weird. I had the opposite problem.

Mid 2012 Macbook, couldn't get El Capitan to install at all, but installing directly to Catalina from the USB worked first try.
In that case, you're not advocating for rationalism. It's a word that has a well accepted definition of a philosophical framework where reason is the primary source of justification and (moral) truth.

Just using reason to come to conclusions that aren't necessarily ultimately justified or deriving truth from pure reason is literally the entire concept of Western philosophy. And by Western, I mean from Iceland to Bagdad and beyond. I'm fairly certain it's also the entire concept of Eastern philosophy too but I don't know much about that.

Lesswrong is certainly good for introducing concepts and allowing discussions. That does not a philosophy make. I'm not critiquing the website, nor the community, but the "pure reason" rationalist philosophy that a lot of people there adopted and peddled, without spending enough time justifying it, instead spending vast amounts of time applying. This is exactly what the article was addressing when it talks about rationalism, too.

Rationalism is, by definition, idolatry of reason. At the very minimum, to even show any kind of rationalism, you have to believe that somethings are true by virtue of pure reason, independently of the empirical world. Rationalism really doesn't have any thing to do with using or not using reason.
Who even cares, institutional investors are buying crypto, huge market making firms are trading crypto, etc.

I think a lot a people would be surprised about how much volume and demand there is from "traditional" investors in crypto.

Billions of dollars of volume and new exchanges popping up like wild fire.

Hell, you might have exposure to crypto through a pension fund, or fund of fund, or whatever.

It's here to stay.
Well, constructors are not very different from functions, from the caller point of view. Also, Python is much worse in this: any call can be monkey patched at basically any point during the execution, but people do not (usually) use this as an example of poor language designing. You expect the programmer to use the language features considerately.

BTW, in C++ every call is resolved at compile time, and the compiler could tell you what you are exactly doing at each line, including whether your examples are function calls or casts. If you dump the right table in GCC the information is there, although it's a pity there is no convenient way to access it. Cppexplorer helps a little bit, but I always find it difficult to understand. It's a problem of tooling, though, the language is well defined.
From my experience, there really is not that much need for debugging in the sense of adding breakpoints and attaching to a running process with Nim. Honestly, `debugEcho` suffices, give it a shot. I mean, you may need more debugging tools when your project gets large but since you're just starting with Nim, you can just relax and keep going.
> There isn't any point of using C++ to count words in a text file. Any high-level language like Python will beat you to it.

People using c++ usually care about programs finishing before the heat death of the universe. I had a few Python scripts that spend several seconds parsing larger files, after a rewrite to c++ that changed to almost instant.
I pity your cynicism.
Quite easy, I have am been around for 30+ years in IT and have yet to find something that beats Jira in all its integration options, possibilities of formating tickets information, and flexibility to definie project specific workflows.

Given the option, I will always push for Jira, and associated Atlassian products.
Your system package manager, usually, along with something to detect/configure dependencies (autotools, CMake, etc). CMake can be set up to automatically download missing dependencies in some cases, too, and I think there are some other build systems that provide this sort of functionality. But there's not some standard packaging system a la pip or cargo or the like.
Every damn time I warned that it was impossible for small businesses to follow the GDPR I got shouted down. Now it turns out companies with massive legal departments can't do it?

GDPR is mental, just block the EU, it's the only way to be sure of compliance and no risk with a law that massive, with penalties that high.
It’s surprising to me how many commenters on this post didn’t even read the announcement. When you see that their Data Center offering isn’t going anywhere, it doesn’t seem dire at all.
This is going to sound silly to most people, but I've been suffering from Tinnitus for a long time. This technique won't cure it but it certainly brings relief for me, to the point where I can ignore it.

When my Tinnitus is particularly piercing, I imagine it as a radiant bright white line in my head. I then mentally begin to reduce the radiance of the light until it is gone. This dulls the sound immensely, I'm still aware of it but it no longer hinders me.

For bonus points, I use a similar technique for getting rid of ear worms. In that case, I mentally put the song into a wooden box, close the lid and let it fall into the sea. Works every time.