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> Imagine if we could connect your brain directly to a computer. Imagine if you could do things like instantly and precisely recall any Wikipedia article, any news story, any mathematical formula. Imagine if arithmetic goes from a skill you learn to a thing your brain does with 100% accuracy.

You're talking about transferring information FROM computer TO brain. We have no idea how to do it.

Transferring information FROM brain TO computer is achievable with modern tech (and that's what this link shows), but not vice versa.
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I concur with most of the sentiment here- and am happy to push much blame to big google, pointing out that if you are not in google you basically don't exist on the web - (and for many on the planet if you are not in fbook than you are not on the internet) - when google says google web vitals, speed all that ranks you in the top or you are not in the top and you become invisible - it's a thing.

However I think the global move away from desktop computing to phones, ipads and cheap chromebooks are the real fun killer for great art and design.

I used to love making sites pixel perfect at 1024 - and today if we spend a lot of time making fancy desgins - most people will never see it, since they are checking it out via phone surfing.

This is what I point to for people inquiring about design today - basically it's up to the client to provide the design - what pictures and text do you want to put on the small screen? that's your design.

Even if you put a note on the small screen telling people to visit our Hd/Desktop version for more cool effects they would enjoy - many (most?) people don't even have a way to access a large screen for computing.

Maybe there will be a shift with people casting to TVs and 'smart tvs' browsing better and turn the tide - then we'll need some kind of 'report back framework' to tell us people can see and navigate via the larger view - then we could try to remake flash coolness via html video for the big screen - but then we wouldn't know how close they are to the TV - so how large would navi buttons and pop up text need to be.. meh - back to basic plain stuff.

Personally I think we need better zoom-in controls for browsers that people can easily use and understand - this could give us more flexibility as designers, like the hamburger menu - if you can expect people to know how to use it - not holding my breath though.
Governments that issue patents on math/algorithms/software already claim the power to forbid you to use them. They just need to patent all public encryption algorithms, in perpetuity.

(Sarcastic? Who knows?)
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In a world of over 7.6B ppl why is it so hard to connect on social media?
While I agree that we will have mind blowing biotech improvements in the next 50 to 60 years, I don’t believe it’s physically possible for biotech progress to be as mind-blowing as what happened in computer tech.

In the last 60 years, computers have gone from $160 billion/GFLOP to $0.03/GFLOP; transistors are now smaller and faster than synapses by the same factors that wolves are smaller and faster than hills, and the sort of computing tech that was literally SciFi in the 60s — self-teaching universal translators, voice interfaces, facial recognition — is now fairly standard.

60 years of biotech? If the next time I wake is after 60 years in a cryonics chamber[0] and was told every disease was now cured, that every organ could be printed on demand, that adult genetic modification was fine and furries could get whatever gene-modded body they wanted up to and including elephant-mass fire-breathing flying dragon, and that full brain uploading and/or neural laces a-la The Culture were standard, I would believe it. But if they told me biological immortality was solved (as opposed to mind upload followed by download into a freshly bioprinted body with a blank brain) I’d doubt the year was really only 2081 — not all research can be done in silicon, some has to be done in-vivo, and immorality would be one of them.

[0] this would be very surprising as I’ve not signed up for it, but for the sake of example
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> But in those old days you couldn't just plug in an encrypted or NTFS-formatted portable hard disk and expect it to just work either.

automounting features have been around for ages, they don't depend on systemd. And a system that keeps adding and "absorbing" functionality cannot be described as mature.
At that time i was working with kernel hooks a lot. Maybe i used that. I remember even having code to hide stuff from appearing in task manager, or hide files from showing up in file explorer.

I remember debugging this stuff was painful, when it didn't work you got the BSOD.

Be interested to know how much of these techniques could work on win 7/10. Im guessing not at all.
There are plenty of sources if you search for it:

https://www.reuters.com/article/egypt-china-financing-idUSL5...
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> The next beta is not going to use radar.

I'll believe it when I see it, no matter what recent statements have been.

> Fewer sensors is much better for Tesla since they need aerodynamics and less power consumption for more vehicle range.

Automotive radars use like 10W. The least your car is using while driving is like 5000W. This may not be the best place to save power-- getting heat pumps on more vehicles and better ones than the present one would make a far bigger difference.

> Your comments about resolution may or may not matter.

If you can't see a car that will hit you when you commit to merging on a short merge, it is a slight problem.
This is the problem with computer->brain interfaces (which we don't have), not brain->computer interfaces (like moving mouse pointers via direct brain->computer connection).
nah. let’s not compare electricity to a bloated social media platform. if FB goes away tomorrow we can pretty much keep going. if electricity goes away our society would crumble.
Sorry you had that experience. I grew up in Egypt and don't think it's representative. Some regions might be like that, or you may have gotten unlucky.

A non-trivial part of the Egyptian population is employed in tourism. It's not all about Ancient Egypt, but that's the main attraction, so many people not only are OK discussing it, they're making a living out of it. Ancient Egyptian history is taught in public school curriculum, etc. Even the national soccer team's nickname is the "Pharaohs".
Ask HN: Is there a compendium of technology use cases on the web?
Am looking for a website or database where applications or use cases of various technologies in different industries is listed. Does such a source exist?
Getting a warrant to spy on your neighbours wife would be like robbing a bank and leaving a note for the cops.

It's literally a crime done right in front of the police, with official records and signatures for you to be prosecuted.

The Justice system has all sorts of power. A cop can arrest you, right now, for no reason at all - which is totally against the law, but he could do it, you'd have to file a redress and hopefully they'd be charged.

So the issue isn't really about encryption, it's about the integrity of our systems.

We'll get 10x further by improving processes than otherwise.

Technology can help, but it's secondary.
No, not at all. It is more like saying that I make better food than almost all restaurants in town. Which of course is not true, and that’s the point. Because I do make better websites than almost any I come across in the wild.

Your question about handling traffic is orthogonal to the topic of design. The answer is that any of my sites would do better, given the same server architecture, because I deliberately limit the amount that needs to be transferred for any particular page.
I got three of those pop ups which like fade in, a cookie OK’ing footer, holy COW that’s a horrible awful web site.
A friend of mine successfully quit for years. He moved to a small town recently made a new account because "small towns apparently run on Facebook".
While but true for everyone it's true in some places
I think this has more to do with management timeline expectations and income valuation than software development. I do understand that they're almost inseparable, as software has to make money. But, timelines need to take into account the "craft" of software creation and not just the desk hours, for lack of better terms =/ Short timelines and quick turn arounds don't leave time for refactoring and quality code creation. First passes tend to be the final draft, more often then not.
A title missing one word, "known"; the body of the news item doesn't seem controversial.

Doesn't seem worthy of such contempt.
Both examples of socialized losses.
Artificial production alone doesn't do the trick. It would have to be low in energy consumption, preferably exothermic. I don't think there is such a reaction with plentifully available material. Otherwise you spend more energy on the basalt than the CO_2 production gave you.

Also, large parts of this planet consist of natural basalt deposits, every area with some current or historic vulcanism has them. E.g. half of Siberia is a huge basalt deposit. Google Siberian Trap. So I do not think artificial production would be necessary.
It is still suspicious to use so exact numbers for a technology that has not yet been tested out at scale at all.
Don’t assignments already escape scope?

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Let's see..

Search for evidence of life outside the solar system. Unless you're planning a trip to another star system this is all we've got in our lifetimes.

Hitching a fast ride to the outer edges of the solar system since it's on a hyperbolic trajectory.

What is the asteroid made of? That shape of asteroid is not normal. Usually they're rubble piles, these were different. Is there formation methods we don't yet know? Were they fragments of a planet's destruction?

On an engineering level, we've never had to rendezvous with something on this trajectory before. Can we?
Yeah, I'm a bit dubious about this being the prime reason for the platform doors too, but fluffers are a real thing - see https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Fluffer_(London_Underground)
I know what happens to prominent Salafists under Sisi, but that is no guarantee of future development.

Most of them have survived with their heads temporarily down, but not off. A massive reservoir of angry manpower waiting for the moment that the regime starts going wobbly.

If the history of totalitarian movements in Europe can be used as an analogy, the question of "who is going to rule Egypt in twenty years" is far from settled.
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I imagine that before that point insurance costs for non self driving cars would be so expensive that random Joe won’t be able to afford a “normal” car.
(e.g. they use "transfer glue" to assemble "cell phones"?)
Priceless to mention Alpine because of its use of libmusl and BusyBox. BusyBox follows the same model as systemd of one binary and a gazillion uses. It even takes it further.
We already have segments of the population who have to deal with various forms of addiction and dehumanization and this has not stopped us in the development of new medications and technologies.

Should we prevent the development of this technology due to its potential for abuse? Should we develop the technology for its potential to benefit ourselves?

Obviously brain implants that can read and write thoughts come with an extraordinary amount of power and it is both wonderful and terrifying to imagine the potential benefits and dangers that it could provide us.

I think we will do what we have done through history and someone somewhere will develop the technology if it is possible eventually regardless of our qualms with its potential to destroy people.
it does not. FB becoming a requirement is such a 1st world problem. Try living without clean water and come back to lecture me about “increased difficulty”
Add some autoracks to the back of the train and let people bring their cars with them. (Amtrak already has such a service between DC and Florida; I've always thought a Chicago-Denver trip would make a lot of sense as well).
Impossible to have an informed opinion while lacking all information about how the back end is designed and what the author does with their time.
From what I gather from the era the next goals were pretty clear, even to the general public: "go to Mars" (or in the Soviet case "go to Venus"), and then go to Alpha Centauri.

If the Soviets would have won the race to the moon this might even have happened. But instead the Soviets decided to focus on space stations, and the US declared themselves winner and did largely nothing (by rejecting NASA's Space Transportation System proposal, which was also about a space station and a way to get there cheaply).
Also, taking economics to a new level, once we have got past the scarce-resource/pollution based short term thinking and it no longer is viable to have a volatile structured economy, where there is no longer a need for the profit motive. Super computing could easily take this task up of organising and fairly structuring the economy.
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Sig figs are just a crude method to in-band signal some bounds on your estimates. They don't seem super relevant here when communicating an order of magnitude improvement.
Do UK and the four other Eyes play musical chairs or something to decide which of them takes a turn attacking privacy and confidentiality online? Sneaky headline wants me to think of them in a vacuum.
I don't know, I think that is a big jump and definitely not trivial.

"Reading" neural activity is much different than "writing", and modifying the circuits/neural activity precisely enough to modify emotions.

These devices are typically cortical surface level electrode meshes, placed over the motor region of the cortex, while emotions are thought to come from various deep brain structures. Not saying it won't happen, but we are much, much, further from the latter than the former.
"email us at spacejamrecipe2@gmail.com"

Is redirecting e-mail from your domain hard or expensive or something?
some places require you to be a hardcore christian and a white supremacist. Are those places the best examples?
I'm designing and developing web sites and apps since 2005.

First with PHP (Wordpress, Laravel, Yii), then with Ruby (Rails, Sinatra), now with Javascript (Gulp, Gatsby, Next, React, Lodash, Immer, Typescript). I also do / did static sites with Jekyll, or my own framework.

Among all Javascript is far the worst experience. In all areas like the language, the types, the state, the hooks, blogging engine, toolbelt, hosting, packaging, publishing, documenting, the community.

The situation is so bad that I quit. It eats my nerves. Instead of creating I'm patching and fixing bugs all day.

That's why the web is what is it today. It's Javascript driven, and Javascript is totally flawed.
To a discussion upthread, it sometimes seems as if many of the folks working on full autonomy decided to deliberately turn their difficulty up to 11. What use case shall we tackle first? Highway driving in good weather? "No that's boring. How about largely-urban taxis in all weather types?"
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I wish I could find the source, but when I've looked into this in the past I was reasonably convinced that the population would go up a bit, but not catastrophically, with the basic idea being that people die all the time for lots of reasons, only one of which is "aging" (aging is multiple things, blah blah). So people's lifespans would be much longer on average, but not infinitely long. Something more like 300 or 400 years, with a pretty big standard deviation.
Particularly if it was an employee from the canal authority at the wheel.
I honestly hate SPA's. They're not necessary in almost every single use-case, yet everybody is shifting their shit into one.
Completely agree. And yet, were there ever better days? In the past simply fewer websites were online. I think a bad website is better than none.

At the same time the real question is why lots of governments wouldn't need to reinvent everything. That is maybe the original sin.
It's so peak San Francisco that it happened 50 miles from San Francisco…
Indeed, one does not see open source java projects self promoting as “beautiful”, nor many others languages (Python jinga?). Reasonable to assert the Use/misuse of the adjective based on that imo.
I've done this and had another job in three days.

I've also done this and had another job in three years.
If you buy a widget without guarantees you expect it to at worst not work, but if it actively sabotages the rest of the site, steals user login cookies, runs a crypto miner then it's a different thing altogether.

Similar a apartment might be faulty for all kind of things but if it is build on toxic wast, which on itself shouldn't have been legal without making sure the wast is contained, it is a different matter altogether.

Especially given that whoever know that there was toxic wast was actively endangering the health and potential live of tenants. Just consider your widget instead of just not working to arbitrary start playing flash lights in a way extremely likely to cause serve epileptic seizures...

EDIT: Or in other words, you might not guarantee the quality of a pice you sell, but this is a different matter altogether then trying to make people unable to sue you for things they rightfully can (like endangering health/live).
These type of comments always come from people who have zero real life experience working in the intersection of code and business.
Why do these things even need to be an SPA? What function does that serve when the standardized and infinitely more compatible form-with-a-bit-of-javascript approach works just as well if not better?

I work on one such project and it absolutely drives me nuts -- it's a rails app, but the customer front-end (which is literally just a form to fill out) is a React SPA. There is nothing there that couldn't be done with Turbolinks and some light JS for validations/popups.
This looks cool but I don't do iOS native so can't give it a spin.

It's been a while since I've looked into flatbuffers (back when I was into 3D I wanted an efficient binary serialisation framework) - but I kind of like the idea of automatically creating a flatbuffers layer on top of a relational DB, something PostgREST like - but instead of going flatbuffer schema -> generate DB schema I'd go the other way -> generate flatbuffer schema from existing DB schema and allow some manual editing/mapping.
holy shit dude

yea, water is required to live, facebook is required to get degree times easier in my example, those aren't mutually excluisive

what do you want to argue here about, except just arguing for the sake of arguing?

I don't like fb, I don't use it when I don't have to and after graduation I'm probably not going to use it more often than once a X months,

but I had to have & sometimes use it unless I wanted to make my life harder - I don't like it, but that's the reality.
The cost of sending texts has gone to effectively zero, so there's no barrier to someone sending one to all the numbers in sequence. At least, until the phone company catches on and blocks you.

The one I got late last night was pretending to be from the US Postal Service, prompting me to click on an anonymous link in order to "rescedule delivery"
And then we could have real name pseudo-pseudonyms, and real name pseudo-pseudo-pseudonyms.

Alternately, we could recognize that having the highest profile verified account on one's service (eg. Twitter) does not -in fact- prevent someone from violating a service's TOS. But it sure does allow one to deplatform people one disagrees with!
I don't know about that. You're right that emotions seem to come from deeper structures, but these structures are also more primitive. We're able to modify emotions with something as simple as amphetamines, so controlling them with a few well-placed electrodes is maybe not so difficult. Seems to me that as brain interface technology starts progressing, we're going to hit an S-curve of technological progress that will make it advance very rapidly in one or two decades.
You moved the goalpost. You stipulated high risk in the comment I was replying to. And who cares what plastic surgeons “usually” do? A doctor who gives boob jobs to women who are already “normal” (not to reconstruct after a mastectomy, for example) is a scourge who is exploiting society’s bad attitudes and exploiting his patients. Not a good doctor. Or are you suggesting that if a lot of people do it, that makes it good?
> My users are happy.

Are they? I'm skeptical we can know that for any given website; specifically, accessibility is a huge pain point for so many sites, and it would seem difficult to know how many people are turned away from a site because it isn't set up to serve them.
> Imagine if we could connect your brain directly to a computer.

Please, no. I’d just get even more frustrated at how slow the damn thing is.
Isn't that Suez specific. Panama doesn't work this way (and given the complexity, can't work this way)
systemd is not even close to being "consistent" and "well-documented" enough to be all-around usable. It's not about people having "strong views" about it, it's about a bleeding-edge codebase with a very kludgy design being promoted for use in production systems.
If you have a good brain->computer interface you can just use traditional methods in a tight feedback loop to manipulate the brain. We have more than enough methods to reward or punish people. Simply reward them for good thoughts, punish them for bad ones, and I don't see how their behavior wouldn't change.
I want to agree with this, but I do have reservations.

The competing priorities of anything are hard to balance. Try building a physical store sometime. Even a simple garage sale. Layout for navigation and perusal is not a trivial problem. Especially if you don't have the space to make comfort a priority.

To that end, how much is actually broken, versus you notice the maintenance costs? Ever looked at public restrooms? Are they broken, it just under funded?
It sounds like you are already burnt out. What are you doing about that right now?

Outside of that, quitting a job before you have a new one makes it more challenging to get a new job. Recruiters and employers find those that have a job more favourable plus it gives you a negotiating advantage when it comes to salary.
I don't know that we need to assign blame. It is possible this accident was unavoidable. It is not like this is a recurring occurrence.
If you want to go through that list, investigate every claim, and explain how some of them are completely made up, be my guest.

I doubt many of them are completely made up. I think most of them are exaggerations based on something. Almost all headlines fit that description.

My point is not so much that "no one lies, ever" but that lying is beside the point. The differences that lead people to prefer to leave the EU are not factual, they're questions of values. If you don't see that, fine, but you're missing something.