skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If you want to test EEG ratings of attractiveness, you should just compare manual ratings to EEG ratings without prompting them to focus on attractive faces.

Yeah, as you say, it'd be very interesting if it could first associate self-reports of attractiveness with EEG activity, and then know roughly how attractive you consider someone based solely on blind EEG data. Then reverse the process by generating lots of faces and picking the one that someone seems to be most attracted to purely based on their EEG. (This is what I initially thought the study would be doing.)

I suspect there would be major challenges with this, though. Besides EEG data possibly being too coarse, it's possible that what happens in the brain when you see someone you find attractive is very complicated and multifaceted. I think "attractiveness" may not be a single metric along a gradient even for a single individual's brain, let alone among a population. So even training on each person individually might not be that fruitful.

For example, you may find two different people attractive due to a mix of reasons - some shared reasons, and some differing reasons. I'd guess the brain activity might differ in some ways in those cases. Maybe also even while looking at different photos of the same person, or even the same photo at different times.

I know people tend to go through hormone cycles throughout the day; it's possible activity (as well as subjective attractiveness perception at a given time) may differ depending on what phase of a cycle you're in, or food, coffee, or alcohol you've had recently, etc.

But who knows, maybe there often is some consistent pattern of activity which would serve as a decent proxy for overall attractiveness perception, if it could just be sifted out of the noise. This is probably just extremely difficult to do with current technology and neuroscience understanding, even if it may be feasible in theory. I'm sure we'll see more things like that in the coming decades.
I play guitar in a post-rock band called Caves of Steel. Our third album "Path to Ground" was slated for release around this time last year, but the global pandemic kind of took the wind out of those sails for a little while. I miss playing shows.

Anyway, here are some links. I'd wager it works well as coding music.

https://cavesofsteel.no

https://cavesofsteel.bandcamp.com/album/path-to-ground

https://open.spotify.com/album/4iSBQI59jBi6nTTofI727e?si=HEM...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjB58T1ziyo
Tennis analogy isn't right. Activities like that don't require to expose yourself in a vulnerable way to other person (multiple persons in a sport) in private space. Making love, as it's called, does not fit your example.
What exactly is the downside to making it legal to charge for the bathroom?

Like, what exactly.
It depends how inclusively you define the term. It doesn't involve posting the candidates on social media or otherwise forming a mob, nor creating negative publicity to pressure an institution into doing something they wouldn't otherwise do. There may be people who use the term "cancel culture" more loosely than that, but I think the above criteria are useful—they cover many examples, yet are specific enough to justify the assertion "cancel culture is dangerous, destructive, and likely bad".
To be clear, I don’t think input pipelines are not a problem at all, I think they’re just a part of the problem. Sounds like this person is doing things right by investing time and effort across pipeline AND developing talent once hired. You can’t have success without both and the latter is often a secondary consideration at best.
The problem is not inflation. The problem is if you raise everyone's salary, the cost to produce increases. Therefore the cost of products must go up.
I wouldn't consider cisco to be a tech-forward company or look to them as the barometer to where the networking industry is headed.

Most of Broadcoms stuff is ARM based now, which is what most folks are putting in white label switches.
While this may seem terribly ungainly, Nokia had a
debian-based, smartphone-sized touchscreen tablet 18 months before the iPhone was released. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_770_Internet_Tablet
Twitter uses AWS. You are probably thinking of Facebook

https://www.techradar.com/news/twitter-signs-up-aws-for-its-...
Qubes is a great distro for this, so is Kali; but support boot to USB. But even anonymizers like the TOR Router can still have their entrypoints snooped by hostile nation states to target dissidents. It is extremely hard without the help of non-US ISP to be completely anonymous and un-identifiable. And let's not forget your chips may have Intel Managent Tech which is spyware you really can't shut off that monitors/injects directly into the north/south bridge (I forget which).

One of the fun parts about hitting DefCon every year is how easy it is to learn about what's new in this space. I hope they don't cancel this year: the social information sharing aspect is the best part.
Debugging can be hard. That's often because what they're used for is done very fast. So, there's a business expert reasonably IT literature that has a powerful tool with a built-in IDE that doesn't take approvals or hiring requisitions or even budget and a problem's solved within a week on what otherwise would be a month (being kind).

The problem starts when whatever frankensheetvbasharepointdb is now an engrained part of a workflow, excelbizdev has disappeared, and 'maintenance' falls to nonexcelwhizz, or perhaps worse, a dev team that lacks much legacy business understanding to figure out why the particular implementation was done, screws up understanding, and creates something worse.
Modern ML certainly has some cool applications, but none seem revolutionary. Can you list any that are?
Money Geek – Let's make money happen
Absolutely agreed that there are worse categories than your phone/internet/tv bills. And yet even this relatively small and apparently I Yunsignificant non-discretionary (or was some of it discretionary? Or all of it?) item still makes up 4.5% of your net income. That I still call significant.

Once I have a house the inflation on that also doesn't affect me that much any more (sure, evaluations increase my tax bill - which btw is a NA thing that is irrelevant in Germany for example as long as you have a mortgage) but other items do.
> Bathrooms aren't expensive to operate as long as

Read the entire article. You need to hire an attendant or someone who at least cleans regularly. That’s the major cost, especially at $15/hour minimum wage + health benefits + 3 workers per 24-hour day.
In ancient Greece papyrus was roughly worth its weight in silver. For a long time writing was so onerous that people just didn't do it.

The shared civilization behind ancient Greece and ancient Northern India and ancient Britain had a system of oral-formulaic poetry, wherein descriptions are full of stock phrases like "wine-dark sea" or "rosy-fingered Dawn", like in today's "My name is X and I'm here to say" in more recent oral poetic forms.
Feel lucky that we can still build computers from parts. And just treat your smartphone as the appliance that it is.
I read a big chunk of the Gulag Archipelago in Russian last year and it was, to my surprise, one of the most beautiful things I'd ever read. It reads like poetry, especially the beginning. Now I am thinking: maybe he recited and memorized all those passages to himself and used the verse-like structure to aid memorization.

In the Gulag Archipelago Solzhenitsyn cites something that has really stuck with me:

> Martin Latsis, writing for the newspaper Red Terror, November 1, 1918: “We are not fighting against single individuals. We are exterminating the bourgeoisie as a class. It is not necessary during the interrogation to look for evidence proving that the accused opposed the Soviets by word or action. The first question you should ask him is what class does he belong to, what is his origin, his education and his profession. These are the questions that will determine the fate of the accused. Such is the sense and essence of red terror.”

A haunting quote, you would think. The thing is, I'm not sure that our younger generation would learn much from reading Solzhenitsyn, or even the above quote. I think even Solzhenitsyn can't teach you that you cannot take things like "equality" at face value. That maybe there are deeper realities lurking beneath the surface?

I'll leave it to Dylan:

> A self-ordained professor's tongue / Too serious to fool/ Spouted out that liberty / Is just equality in school / "Equality," I spoke their word / As if a wedding vow / Ah, but I was so much older then / I'm younger than that now.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. There are valid reasons to lock down the radio, that doesn't mean we have to accept every smartphone vendor, app author and cloud service provider violating your privacy in every possible way they can think of.
What features of the banking apps do you require?

My bank’s app is essentially a wrapper around their mobile site. I can’t think of any specific features it has that require it to be an app, both technically, and in their implementation.

Check deposit may be the only feature not available in the mobile site. It’s certainly not a technical requirement that they can’t implement that though.
You said that people not being shamed enough about sex and their bodies leads to people speaking up when they are the victims of sexual violence, and that you view that as a problem.
I dont understand why these PDFs are not in scihub or libgen...
You could essentially do just that using a small tablet or other device (Raspberry Pi?) and VOIP calling through a WiFi hotspot.
> I concede the best toilets are free, but gatekept by transactional relationships of higher worth.

That's not free in any useful sense of the word. A 5 star hotel doesn't charge extra to use the very nice toilet in your room, but it's not free.
Unfortunately, current cars have to be controlled by humans, and the human brain has certain characteristics (selected for by evolution) that makes it near impossible for it to be able to react to 100% of the driving situations. There are built-in efficiency circuits (similar to CPU branch prediction) that takes immediate action based on what it typically sees.

So if 99.9999% of the time, when a car in front starts to accelerate, and doesn't slam on the breaks immediately after, the brain makes the assumption that the care in front will never slam on the breaks and devotes less brain-CPU time to "Oh No, that care in front just slammed on the breaks" processing.

In general, human drivers don't do this unless they are very inexperienced. You don't mash on the gas and immediately mash on the breaks, instead you make sure there is nothing coming. If you can't see well enough that there is something coming, then you ease up slowly and only mash on the gas when you have enough information that you won't get side swiped going through the intersection.

And yes, intersections that have a "stop line" far enough back that you can't see cross traffic are poorly designed. Or if cars are really expected to stop every time before a crosswalk, then advance 2 feet to stop again, this needs better enforcement so that activity becomes normalized to the point where the car behind would expect that (one way of doing this is to put two stop signs, one before the sidewalk, and one at the intersection).
If you want to stay with Android, maybe have a look at CalyxOS. They integrate microG and flawless system updates while keeping the bootloader locked. Only works on Pixels and the Xiaomin A2 though. Imho it's the one Android distribution that has the right balance of privacy and usability. I flashed it for my mum and my sister and there wasn't one complaint yet.
> Ideally we'd find a way to alter the average person's behavior

33% of people are killing themselves from being obese. That also costs society money.

How would you change the behaviour of people on an issue they have no personal stake in?

> created by 1% of the users.

So you are looking at 100% compliance?
I think there's great potential for a solid web stack based on Excel. It can be done but I believe great scope. A nice undergraduate CS project.
> Add social and economical support based on lack of those resources on an individual level, from the bottom up

How do you apply this to a system that has favoured certain groups for so long that the whole structure has close to none of those it supposedly wants to help?

You need representation from groups that need help in order to help. You need representative individuals in the organisation to guide it. You may have to positively discriminate at first, or else you won’t have any representative to draw from.

There are abundant examples of butchered attempts at ‘helping’ when those with good intent have no idea (this thread gives plenty of cringe inducing examples).

The key, I think, it making it clear what the role is and what is wanted to those that are there in that role.
Solzhenitsyn's name has come up several times in various things I've read this month. I don't think it's a coincidence.

I purchased his book off Amazon a few weeks ago, thinking it wouldn't be long until they started delisting books. Now all this nonsense with Dr. Seuss.

One quote, loosely paraphrased from another book I'm struggling to finish -- an interview with survivors of post WW2 totalitarianism. One of them was incredibly disillusioned, and told the author not to bother with the interview, as no one would be ready to believe it was happening until it was too late.

Edit: I am speaking very loosely here. Yes, I know the government isn't censoring Dr. Seuss. Yes, I know the estate has the right to cease publishing for any reason. Yes, I know Amazon did not delist Dr. Seuss, it was eBay. But I was not referring to any of these things, and I did not intend to.

My statement was intended to be this: I expect Amazon to delist books, and am purchasing physical copies. What is happening now with Dr. Seuss is in the category of things that drove my worried purchases.

Rarely will I say this, as I value being precise with what I'm saying. If your response is, "But @bjt2n3904, the government isn't censoring this" you are both technically correct, and missing the forest for the trees.
> Well-written Unix applications in C/C++ will compile happily for any old ISA and run just the same. Safe high-level languages like JavaScript, Java, and Safe Rust are pretty much ISA-independent by definition, it's 'just' a matter of getting the compilers and runtimes ported across.

That sort of works, but duplicating the proper development environment in the end-user's computer would take a lot of space and would be complicated by the enormous variety of programming languages and environments. Linux distros manage this with a lot of effort. I'm imagining something like a universal intermediate representation that can be compiled quickly (because a lot of the early language-specific part of compilation will have already been done by whoever you get your packages from) and in a uniform way because there's a common intermediate representation format that all the compiled languages use.

Universal binaries might also be acceptable for commercial, closed-source applications where source distribution would not.
Show HN: I'm 16 and I built a todo list app with React Hooks
Hey fellow hackers!

To teach myself react hooks, I built a todo list app using React Hooks, and some CSS.

It's the first web app I've built with React hooks, so I'd definitely appreciate any feedback.
There have been some intriguing studies associating the oral microbiome with systemic diseases such as cardiovascular indications, diabetes, oral cancers, and neurological diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Some studies even suggest causal links between pathogens that reside in the mouth and arterial plaque and even neurodegeneration.

With the Bristle platform, we will have the resolution to dive deeper into these associations, and potentially improve patient outcomes through targeting the oral microbiome.
Certainly not a new thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pissoir

It will not be implemented in SF because it's only suitable for men. Switzerland appears to have created a solution for women by providing disposable paper "funnels" so the ladies can use it too, but because people lack any decency they would all be stolen within minutes in SF--and if you think creating a male-only public urinal won't fly in SF, just wait until you propose that the women should have to put in a quarter to get a funnel that the men don't need :)
While there's not much for GitHub to gain from disclosing the faulty code, I still would've liked to see the actual (pseudo)code that caused the race condition
Of relevance, Sand Mandalas are intentionally destroyed after completion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_mandala

Not by necessity, but by design. The world and life are transient - I see no fault in embracing it (for certain things)
I did read the thread. Someone was saying how whiteboard prompts are scary and has a high false negative rate.
You took that and turned it into "if you find interviews scary, that's a signal that you have unreasonable social skills and you are unable to think on your feet".
In other words, you believe that the false negative rate is not so high, because you believe that the the stress induced by an interview is similar enough to the stress induced in other stressful situations that are common in the work place.

The only point I am trying to make is that yes, interviews are very different than the other scenarios that you mentioned.

Here's one reason: in an whiteboard problem solving session, the other person has explictly prepared something that they know more about than you. On top of that, you are both aware of this fact. This almost never happens in a normal work-collaboration. A collabaration happens because both parties have something to offer. If not, they'd be explaining to you, and not the other way around.
> Is MIPS still a big enough name to make this much of a coup for RISC-V? Or is this the last-ditch effort of a fallen star of the semi market?

Not really, I think the only thing they have going for them is that they probably have IP cores that would port easily and have history. However, places like SiFive [1] appear to have early mover advantage and are likely to be quicker to gain critical mass.

[1] - https://www.sifive.com/risc-v-core-ip
0.001% of sessions actually seems like a lot for Github's scale and such a potentially impactful session leakage, or is my math wrong?
>Just because something isn't specifically connected to race doesn't mean it is innocuous.

No one said otherwise. Luckily, "blacklist" is innocuous, and the only ones calling for its replacement and removal are neurotic leftists.

Dragons breathe fire, and my family burned to death. For my safety, please change your username to something that won't trigger me, your username is not innocuous. I see your username and all I can think about is my family burning.

Just because something isn't specifically connected to race doesn't mean it is innocuous.
He can call himself anything he wants. Does he though?
I think that's how the Pine phone works. All of the components and software are open source, except the cellular radio.
Why is that relevant to my point? How can they do all crashes without knowing the specifics of each crash?

"This research was made possible because of the thorough crash reports the Chandler Police Department and Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) prepare following fatal crashes, and we’re grateful to ADOT, Chandler Police Department, and Arizona Department of Public Safety for making these reports available to the public upon request."
Hell, I get more than that for child-support (while funding their ivy league schools)!
That could make a great comedy sketch.

A posh-speaking student on walkabout takes a temp job explaining public toilets to urban Australian pedestrians.

A few iterations later, and I still find myself trying to think of ways to make the premise less offensive...live comedy must be ridiculously difficult these days.
Excel has named ranges. You can name any single cell, row, column, 2d array.
Exactly. I want these things too. But I'm also willing to pay for them.

Everyone wants the best stuff for free. That's not controversial. But it is controversial to complain that the best stuff is more expensive than the cheap stuff. Of course it is. That's the type of stuff they sacrificed to make it cheap.

If they want low end free btw, they do have that too. Pinebooks are super cheap.
Just the opposite, really.

As the cost of continuing Moore's Law approaches infinity yes, it will cease to continue. But not before all but one foundry has been driven out of business.

And then that one remaining foundry will dominate the entire chip industry.

Also: they'll treat startups like dogshit unless they use automatic place-and-route. So chip startups will be reduced to glorified FPGA jockeys. Hard to differentiate when all you're allowed to do is sling Verilog.
Kinda like halftone too.
Launch HN: SnackReview
We love snacks but it is hard to find good one as many snacks are born every year. Also, we are curious about snacks sold in other countries as well. That's why I made the app called "SnackReview" where users can upload snack photos and the reviews. Actually everyone has different preference and the knowledge about snacks.

If possible, I would like to grow the app like "charry and chocolate factory". Android ver is coming soon as well. Please leave a comment if you are interested in.

Yusuke
Very insightful vision of a (proto-?)wireheading future.

I suspect something similar to this may eventually be developed for AI-generated music, too. A kind of superstimulus or wirehead music that initially sounds strange and unintelligible but soon proves to be more pleasurable than anything you've ever heard before. Maybe even trained on and tailored to each individual's brain, to maximize pleasure and reward peaks. Perhaps with a little bit of optional user input, like sliders for fast, slow, bright, dark, intense, soft, "dopaminergically flat vs. spiky", etc.
Excel is like the yellow engineering pads: essential for an engineer.

I tried to use Google Sheets, but nothing matches the speed of popping open excel, and the functionality (still can't do 2D TABLE solvers in Sheets AFAIK). I know Sheets can work offline, too, but it is sluggish compared to native Excel. I had issues for years with Excel on Mac doing wonky things, but with the latest non Office365 version, they've fix a lot of issues (mostly rendering).

I got into JMP but only because my employer paid for it (it's like $15k i think), but while it is powerful stats engine, it lacks the sheer imaginative flexibility of a spreadsheet.

There really aren't many other choices, are there? I mean, prior to excel, lotus123 was de-facto, and the last time I tried StarOffice it hurt my soul.
In Defence of Disabling Swap
Note that as far as I know, all the founders of FAANG were white guys. As for why many Asian people work there, I think there is a strong bias toward engineering/medicine among many immigrant communities that came from a relatively educated background in their home countries (I count myself in that cohort, though I’m not Asian). Crucially though, once they got into the community they were more likely to blend into the group at every stage.

It’s hard to be the only one in a class/company/group that looks like you. That’s a big obstacle and we should be more supportive of those who overcome it.

Also, while Asians make up a large portion of line engineer positions, they make up a smaller fraction of leadership positions. That’s troubling to me as well.
> Owning my computer is still relatively possible.

Sorry to burst your bubble, https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intelme
Yes! Soundtracks, mostly, for escape rooms and animations.
https://soundcloud.com/walko

Perhaps more interesting to the HN crowd is another project of mine, https://wavtool.com - a hackable audio editor for running and sharing JS audio effects.