skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Myelination of our brains. In super simplified terms, it is over clocking our brains part by part. It continues until mid to late 20s.

>After infancy, the rate of myelination slowed during childhood and adolescence, but exhibited continued growth until the end of the third decade. Specifically, mean MFLD during later adulthood (defined as ≥28 y) was significantly greater than in adolescence and early adulthood (11–23 y; Welch t, P = 0.000059; Mann–Whitney U, P = 0.00016).

https://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16480

Our (dorsolateral) prefrontal cortex is one of the last parts to myelinate.

>The last areas to myelinate are the anterior cingulate cortex (F#43), the inferior temporal cortex (F#44) and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (F#45).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myelinogenesis

This is the area of the brain that handles things like planning and abstract reasoning (though it isn't the only area involved in such thinking).
Incidentally, it's mildly preferable to have one's code surreptitiously re-written than to be needled in code review purgatory. The organization as a whole moves forward with the least amount of verbal back-and-forth, and you still bump up your commit count. Learn from it, and when you get good enough to re-write others' code, try to be more mentorly.
Section 230 gives platforms the right but not the obligation to moderate.

The reasoning I've heard is, "well if you don't want to be moderated by that platform, use a different platform."

There's a potential argument to be made that collusion between firms to crush an individual platform customer (aka Parler) is anticompetitive. In that approach, the problem isn't censorship, it's horizontal conduct.
I suspect Quebec might be the one that has different rules
I mean there's no way parler (up until recent growth explosion) was pulling in more than 1MM - with 30 employees I doubt they could afford to pay moderators. It's not fair to judge a small company by the same standards as established companies w.r.t. hard problems like moderation, but here many people are comparing them more harshly than they compare established businesses like twitter and facebook which routinely are used to incite riots and violence.
It's not just ARM, many European companies don't pay well. Especially for engineers and developers.

In Europe you have to be management to get payed anything substantial. Though most management is still doing the jobs which any engineer could combine with their work and probably do equally well or better.
> They are rotated if they do develop ties with the local population.

That's the killer for me. That's illegal.
Pretty much in line with how late 20th century cyberpunk dystopia was painting the spirit of the supranational Corp. Just with a bit of a colonialist element that wasn't much in the focus of those writers. But not ruled out either:

In those dystopias the "supranational" was rarely meant to imply some cosmopolitan post-national qualities, just lack of being bound by local laws. A "Chinese West India Company" under an unspecified amount of CCP influence would fit right in.
Lessons from Unconventional Paths to Tech [audio]
While it's fair, I think the world is a better place for having projects like Beaker. It's important because despite not having a business case, it's a groundbreaking exploration of what technology can be and a platform for really free experimentation.

I've spent several hundred hours just experimenting within it and testing out ideas or refining things that were not previously tractable. In many cases, simply having beaker with its unique possibilities and constraints as a playground has helped inspire new ideas.

Unfortunately that doesn't automatically translate to anyone getting paid, or widespread adoption, or many other things people use to measure value. But many of the most important things aren't the ones we measure or celebrate.

Looking forward to checking out your videos pfrazee.
> Another reason is that it is another level of QA for my app. Sort of a “peer review.” I’m fairly obsessed with Quality.

In my experience, don't expect much from App Store reviewers. Their primary concern seems to be simply protecting Apple's own intellectual property. If you want testing, distribute your app to beta testers.
Is it? Anyhow, it does not mean that it is illegal, which was the original question. I guess most ToS are not enforceable in practice. The worst that may happen is that you "lose the warranty" of your macOS install and you cannot ask Apple for support. No big deal.
I wonder why they needed two flip-flops. Wouldn't one suffice and eliminate the NAND gate?

Could the feedback from the transistor be used to debounce via the data line as well?
if you say so. i think they're waiting to see whether the new administration will overturn. in any case, the main point is about ISPs creating profitable incentive for themselves to keep infrastructure under-developed by making the internet a pay-to-play arena.
There was a lot of government money, directly or indirectly, involved in keeping Apple afloat and before that, bringing noticeable revenue. Then there's more state rather than federal, if you care about the difference, money from school systems hooked onto Apple II, which made it so that it was produced up to early 1990s.

Similarly a non-trivial point in financial history of Sun was contracts that indirectly depended on NSA.

Then you have third-order money flows, where lots of govt money flew into various projects, which enriched people enough that they could buy Apple products.

I'd argue that the biggest difference is that the government money was very free flowing, and often goal-oriented and who actually got it was a detail that wasn't even taken into account unless you failed to deliver. Meanwhile a lot of EU funding grants, depending on country, involves a lot of paperwork instead of just govt buying from you.
It's not victim blaming. It's widely known that the "magic" of TikTok is that it carefully scans your interactions with content as you consume it, and seamlessly adapts your stream to what it believes you'd like to see. Algorithmic suggestions taken up to 11, and generally as close to mind reading as we've came as a species.
I hope to see Jon Blow's Jai lang released. He's a bright guy who's been griping about performance for years and decided to do something about it. The language has lots of cool features like a way to "compose structs" as well as declare a structure AOS or SOA and have it just work. He's doing private betas and writing a game in it, so by the time it's done, it should be pretty solid. Complies >100k LOC in <1s last I checked.
My impression is that colonoscopy is less controversial than other forms of screening, even among people who tend to see cancer screening very critical.

The USPSTF tends to advise against cancer screenings without good evidence, and they are positive about colonoscopy:
https://uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/draft-recom...
Yep. If he has issues with it, fine. If he does though, I want him to bring this up during the code review process rather than passive-aggressively re-writing it after the fact.
I have certainly heard of apps removing all links to their website because Apple reviewers have followed a help/feedback link, gotten to their main website, and then found purchase/donation links there and rejected the review.
There are several such things for Beaker/dat/hyper* too!

https://hashbase.io/ is the one by the Beaker team.
PSD2 still applies. That was integrated into U.K. law long before Brexit. It would take an act of parliament to unwind.

Additionally the U.K. has generally been on the leading edge of open banking, which is why our standards weren’t identical to the EUs for a while. It’s going nowhere, and pass-porting will make no difference.

The only real impact of Brexit is the open banking entities will need to register separately in the U.K. and the EU, and be subject to two different regulators. But that’s just paperwork for the most part.
> A clear lie? For a start, the poll question is extremely broad, I doubt anyone believes there was “zero” fraud. Secondly, this is a complex issue, with many possible definitions and magnitudes of fraud, you can’t neatly square it away as “a clear lie.”

The answer selected by 81% was "Enough to influence the outcome". That is not broad, and the answer avoided was "Not enough to influence the outcome", which would encompass potentially thousands of cases of fraud.

It's entirely within the scope of "clear lie".

> Thirdly, as I said, the election was notably unusual and sketchy, so expecting that everyone should agree as if it’s a simple, clear-as-day matter is ridiculous.

And as I said, it wasn't, and the onus is on you to provide any support for your assertion.

I'm not expecting everyone to agree, I'm saying media should not care if everyone agrees and report the facts regardless of hurt feelings and stop catering to audiences.
With 32 bits of precision I don't see it being a big problem over a maximum of say 50 moves. Neural networks which are not overfit should be tolerant of a small amount of random (not crafted) noise.
Snakes are the most amazing creatures animal evolution has ever created. They are the vertex, unchanged for million of years, of a branch of evolution. It's like nature said "ok, I'm done here". They are the result of a subtractive process, not an additive process (somebody said you are done once there's nothing left to remove!). They are able to survive in almost any biome despite being cold blooded. Symbolically, the snake is the creature that gave us the gift of consciousness, identity and self-reflection. Well, I'm biased, at a point of my life I had more than 30 pet snakes. I find them, especially the venomous one, the most fascinating creatures.
> and then they will just use the phone of their friend with no such policing in place or use a publicly available client with no such controls in place

That means, that they wont have that content pushed on them for hours either before sleeping or while you work and they are in home due to lockdown.

They will have access to it only while they are with that friend.
Git Archeology
Psono App for iOS Released
It's still there and working: https://hashbase.io/
This is empirically the correct approach
I use a mid-upper range one. It's good enough for teaching Android, but not enough for full time work.

SSD and a fast modem are a must. Second, I'd recommend at least 8GB RAM. It'll give you 5-10 min build times, which is a pain for debugging, but at least you can build layouts and write code without it freezing.

HP Pavilion is my pick. Keyboard and touchpad is a little janky. But the backlight helps a lot at night and it's gives the best power per dollar.
Sure it’s illegal, but meh. Quit or sue.
Only by the letter of the law, the android that ends up on your phone consists of mostly closed source binaries from Google that you don't get without installing the play store as well.
The problem is that in the real world despite promises of semantic versioning, breaking often occurs which makes it impossible for two packages to depend on the same version of another library though in theory they should.
Gab works fine (when the site is not overloaded) in the browser. I assume Parler will do the same. There's no reason to buy a new phone to be able to access the sites.

Still, I don't think I will ever buy another iPhone or Android. I'm done with both of them. They need to get the message that their (virtue?) signals were well received.
This is a nice way to verify Protonmail addresses. Is this API publicly documented?
No. It is pretty crappy.
What does affordable mean in that context?
There is no price on the website.

edit: CNX Software has some more info [0] - it's $119, still a far cry from a Raspberry Pi or Orange Pi

[0] https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/01/13/beaglev-powerful-ope...
TerminusDB, Crux and Grakn are other databases that use Datalog variants. Becoming a big thing.
You need to re-up your knowledge on voting. Why is a voters name not on the ballot? Why is there an envelope? The system most definitely is anonymous.
The google form lists the prices in an image:

* $119 for 4GB of RAM

* $149 for 8GB of RAM

But the early version apparently is only the 8GB variant.
>its far less common to test with one which drops packets but does not return errors.

That sounds pretty common to me.
I'd expect that his thinking on reading the PR is that this code is OK, but could be improved by doing such-and-such, I'll do that later. i.e., he doesn't see it as rewriting but just as incremental improvement (and as such would be out-of-place as a PR comment). Ask him if he could put those ideas into PRs, as a learning opportunity for you.
That's not a "Union" in the usual sense of the word as its used currently.
Exactly, it's really just a joke. If they were able to verify age then they would be holding lots of identifying information about children...

The fact of the matter is - the internet is an open place, and as such, not suitable for unsupervised access by children.
>but still Huawei and other big players are not funded by the government

What makes you think that?
Why David Attenborough cannot be replaced
Is this your project?

The "Add Website" button is not working. I guess I need an account to add a new site, but the message could be more friendly. Instead of only "Error adding website", add a link to the registration page.
Sure, and also differentiable in the sense of distributions. Still, not differentiable.
What is your point?

This kind of response completely ignores the fact that the vast majority of the drivers required to just run on modern hardware are closed source and that the vast majority of phones these days have their bootloaders locked.
> grabbing a bullhorn in front of a crowd and encouraging them to attack people.

This is not why Twitter banned Trump: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...

So not sure what the relevance is. But I guess it is not less relevant than the example of the baker.
In other words, it shows you more of what you like to watch, not more of what you'd like to like to watch.
I just got an email from Seeed Studio

> BeagleV™ is the first affordable RISC-V board designed to run Linux. Based on the RISC-V architecture, BeagleV™ pushes open-source to the next level and gives developers more freedom and power to innovate and design industry-leading solutions with an affordable introductory price at $149.
> Is it possible to sign and notarize an app for macOS without paying $99/year?

Almost certainly not. Apple does technically have fee waivers for eligible organizations — note the term organizations, not individuals — but the red tape required effectively (and ironically) puts this out of the reach for most individual open source developers:

https://developer.apple.com/support/membership-fee-waiver/
Browser Extension: Refined Hacker News – Reply to Comments Inline
> It allows pornography. It allows glorification of violence. It allows explicit racism. And so, therefore, does Parler.

Did Parler allow porn? The CEO said it was banned, [1] but there community guidelines say it was allowed. [2] Does anyone know which was enforced?

Also their guidelines banned terrorist organizations. Is that required by US law? Or is that extra restrictions on speech they added?

[1] https://www.mediaite.com/news/parler-ceo-lays-out-5-rules-to...

[2] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rikfE6...
‘We Tried to Warn You’
When the employee is the CEO who wants to use his iPhone or an owner who wants to use her MacBook, the IT department bends.

And yes, the users are smart enough to see there’s an iOS client so you can’t just tell them “it’s not available”.
> Whether the vendoring approach is used depends on the actual tools being used, but that is mostly irrelevant.

I don't think it is though? Because...

>So to answer your question, you only need to change a single file. For the requests library, this one[1]. You might also be interested in how Nix manages patches for NPM packages[2]. The amount of manual fixes required is surprisingly few.

Right, I assume python is easier in this scenario since there are not many cases where a python project would install N different versions of one package. I don't quite understand how these work if a python project depends on separate versions?

For the nodejs part I'm more curious. node_modules sometimes contain multiple versions of the same dependency, sometimes across multiple major versions. The patching in the files seems fairly trivial sed replacements and rpath rewrites. But how would security patches be applied across versions?

I also took a quick look at the go stuff, and it seems like there is no such thing there as `deleteVendor` defaults to false thus each Go application is self-contained. How would patching dependencies work here?

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/search?q=deleteVendor
It's only illegal when it's not the government doing it.

Rotating duty to prevent sympathizing with the locals is standard procedure for law enforcement agencies above the municipal level.
>I know, I just wanted to outline what a possible solution could look like without nationalising companies. It would be to offer 230-like protections only under certain conditions.

Fair enough. It's an interesting thought. Personally, I think we should both think bigger and look to regulation and market-based solutions[0].

That said, I went on at some length because so many folks around here don't seem to know what the law is and make lots of ridiculous claims about it.

Consider that my PSA for the day. :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25688032
Nice hack!

Although it doesn't work for modern networks, where the forward pass is done with int8 (not float, thus no +0/-0), and only the backward pass is float16/32. (common for networks used in mobile phones)
Teaching kids at home is not remote schooling. Remote means the instructor is not in the same room as the student. Homeschooling implies the instructor is present in the room, probably in a 1:2 teacher/student ratio. Even if you are using online materials, you are actively there to guide your child through the material.
I saw this video on the youtube channel PeriscopeFilms. It's worth checking out
In the developer documentation for Network extensions they describe how to enable them for Apps outside the App store:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/en...

It's under "Discussion".

Haven't tried out if it works though, but the link in [6] that the developer refers to is 3 years old, so maybe check again?
> Europe dug its own grave here by not funding its domestic tech sector enough

Is the argument that (one of):

- the EU budget should be expanded to directly subsidise tech companies, or take equity ownership in companies, using taxpayer money

- individual EU companies should do the same sort of state capitalism, using taxpayer money, and probably violating EU rules on state aid

- EU investment funds should deliberately select less profitable investments for nationalist reasons

- the small group of hyper-wealthy globalised investors such as Softbank (Japan) that currently hand out ridiculous sums to SV companies should hand them out to EU companies instead, because .. reasons

I have very ambivalent views about this myself, but if you want EU state capitalism to compete with Chinese state capitalism then please say so and we can gang up on the doctrinaire free market lot.

The UK is very odd sometimes; I have a half-SV-salary and it puts me in the 97%ile of UK pay. The only people who seem to be well paid are footballers and company directors, yet London house prices are set by the marginal oligarch.
There is a substantial amount of inertia in the educational system: knowhow, routines, supporting systems, teachers and professors that have been tailormade for the brick-and-mortar type of educational systems that have been the norm since the beginning of the last century, or earlier.

This inertia naturally causes some friction against the trajectory towards remote education- but not yet to the level of putting up a fight. But expect this conflict deepen just as it has with news media, as the financial foundation of traditional educational systems slowly erodes in favor of the (coming) much more flexible and cheaper online systems.
See my comment above, you know him better than me, but if I really wanted it to stop I'd ask politely one day, assuming good intentions (see my top level comment) why he does it.

Something along the lines of: "I've noticed that you've rewritten my code a number of times and got <buddy> to approve it, and I really haven't been able to figure out why."

If so, be prepared, some people can be a bit either on or off I guess.
Yep, I was confused for a minute.
How to Balance Text and Images in a Pitch Deck
Not on TV, but we have a newspaper called the Daily Mail.

It's usually pretty good on general news and opinion, but it's pretty right wing and regularly publishes manipulated statistics and disinformation on climate change and EU issues. So it's like Fox on some specific topics.

The leading left wing paper is the Guardian (Sometimes referred to as the Gauniad due to it having pretty poor proofreading back in the day). It's way too leftie for me on opinion, it's grown a bit of a woke tendency, but is good on science and international news.
Why is a girl in a school uniform a hard no? Sorry, must have missed some key piece of information here.
> But nobody was funding Apple. U.S. just created the environment where tech business can thrive and let the competition do the rest.

The US government has always been quite involved in the rise of their tech sector, from funding to being a customer. If you look into the history of Silicon Valley, for example, you find, as often in the US, the role of the military behind early technological developments and geographical location.

A recent example is also SpaceX. It would not exist without decades of government funding for space and without contracts to supply NASA.

So, yes the US created and maintained a good environment but they did help much more than that.
>Gay marriage as an actual act is not really a success.

I have friends who are able to enjoy the benefits of a legal contract and existing case law and precedents that was previously restricted to man/woman couples. Seems like a success to me.

>live and let live"-be honest, you think you're going to allow us to do that with climate change an issue? When you want us to learn to love the veggie burger and electric bike everywhere instead of using cars?

You can live and let live with gay marriage, it doesn't affect you in any way. Neither does a veggie burger, and no one has ever wanted you to love a veggie burger. I do want it as an option for my kid in school, however.

Climate change, and cars are not live and let live issues, since they have massive externalities that affect everyone.
It's funny how nobody mentions fixes for gerrymandering. Gerrymandering works for winning those 49% votes, but in all honesty, if the votes are that close, it doesn't really matter.
Uhm... Because China needs tech sector as money source, not a money sink maybe? So it is implausible they would spend money on a tech company. I'm not aware of any facts in favor of the contrary.
> You need to find a new university

Chances are you will have a similar experience. I'm not speaking about a single professor. I'm speaking about 9 out of 10. I'm not blaming professors tough.

My friends have similar experience at other universities in Poland. Friends who went to German universities have a completely different experience. They actually use some LMS, provide online recordings of the classes and spend 1/3rd of the time at university.
My use case is not normal. I keep using different computers, sometimes I work on a newly installed OS on raspberry pi etc. I did not find a secure web based password manager the last time I checked.( I am also a little scared of storing passwords encrypted on the cloud). I am not sure if things like yubikey are better for these use cases.