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I think tapping the brain directly could theoretically enable us not needing to "collect our thoughts" and work with unsupervised data.

I predict, the biggest obstacle will remain not having even the most basic understanding of the brain, with reductionist tech optimism remaining as prevalent. Ultimately I fear, understanding the brain will be as achievable as predicting the weather in silico. Complex chaotic, or evolutionary principles give birth to emergent states and we are stuck with a leaf's understanding of a tree, while spawning little complex blackboxes of our own creation, celebrated for unbeknownst slowly eating away our existential foundation (see The Economy).
>price of freedom

Freedom of what? Apple is not really restricting anything, it simply doesn't provide alternative ways to do stuff and I am yet to hear for someone getting in trouble for finding their way in their iDevice.

As for the running apps, you don't even need to hack or reverse engineer anything. You can compile, sign, load and run any code you want on even the most walled iDevice, iPhone.
> I like that it's a hedge against governments printing endless amounts of money that isn't backed by anything

This depends a lot on how much you of the price of bitcoin you think is speculation (versus fundamental), and exactly how much inflation you expect. If the FED overshoots the inflation target speculation could cool down a lot [1]. That may give you an "inflation hedge" that evaporates if inflation actually happens.

[1] Page 74, Section A.7 Speculative premium, https://researchdatabase.minneapolisfed.org/downloads/0p0966... [PDF, 1.8MB]
Head of tech here. We had COVID-induced layoffs, like many companies, not internal strife. Our CTO is one of my favorite coworkers I've ever had.

What a cruel thing to make up and then say.
ClickHouse has lambdas for arrays. They are very useful. Here's an example.

WITH ['a', 'bc', 'def', 'g'] AS array
SELECT arrayFilter(v -> (length(v) > 1), array) AS filtered

┌─filtered─────┐
│ ['bc','def'] │
└──────────────┘

The lambda in this case is a selector for strings with more than one character. I would not argue that they are as general as Pandas, but they are might useful. More examples from the following article.

https://altinity.com/blog/harnessing-the-power-of-clickhouse...
Lots of countries do or have done it, including the US from 1911 to 1967. Restoring it would destroy the payday lending industry, which IMO would be a good thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_savings_system
Why Analogies Suck (2012)
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Do you trust a man experiencing a high or a "powerful experience" to drive? If such a man cannot be trusted to drive why should we trust anything that comes out of his mouth.

For all intents and purposes physical evidence points to a brain that is compromised and intoxicated.

There has been a lot of serious research into LSD. The research points to an intoxicated brain just as common sense does.
Google seems to get tired of its own products very easily, and just kills them, even if they are popular.
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Federally funded, special priviledges re: Congress, requirements to server every resident of every state, price controlled and on and on.
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This

I literally get junk (physical) mail twice a week from my ISP trying to sell me different thing. They are using every combination of "open immediately", postcards, odd shaped, odd colors, things that fall out of envelopes when you open them etc etc. The marketing campaign must have a monster budget.
The mother of all Kubernetes demos
Different kinds. Tether is printing tether to prop up prices in the market and enrich themselves. The federal reserve actively manages the currency supply to achieve full employment and 2% inflation rate in basic goods. How can you conflate the two?
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Our team is on a mission to make sure everyone has a great manager. The amount of knowledge that exist in psychology research about leadership and teams is mind blowing, but surprisingly enough, almost none of it is used on a daily basis: in your sprints, stand-ups, one-on-ones or performance feedback. We want to change that.

Here’s our open roles:

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This is what is screams to me. When I have a hard time finding the sign-in link it says "We don't care about our existing users, we only care about getting new ones." It is a big red flag for me these days.
> Is this an education problem?

A number of reporters have gone out and talked to vaccine skeptics, e.g. [1]. They don't appear to be suffering from a deficit of knowledge or "false consciousness" or whatever. Their beliefs are reasonable and their preferences are internally consistent.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/the-people...
>Is there not a consistent minimum science curriculum for K-12 which covers pathogens, treatments and the history of vaccination programmes?

There is not a consistent curriculum and there's a significant portion of the US population who believe anything that runs against "the experts" because they're mistrustful of education and the concept of expertise. It's the same reason we don't have a federal ID card because to them it's the Biblical "mark of the beast".
Experience of Chrome users when they visit a site.
The Fed can print dollars, but not future consumers and taxpayers. As long as the total fertility rate continues to decline, they’re bailing water out of a boat forever.
I honestly think it's weird that more people aren't "sceptics", however stupid that word is in itself.

I would gladly take the Pfizer/Moderna vaccine right this minute, but i also know of the terrible track records the pharmaindustry - there is so many shady examples to choose from it's incredible that anyone doubts how vulture-like that industry is, - also there was corruption the last time a pandemic hit:

https://healthcare-in-europe.com/en/news/european-parliament...

Besides that we are on completely uncharted territory scale wise and trial wise no matter what your perspective is.
I'm not so interested in the code - unless I have a very expensive custom silicon fab, I probably can't create my own version.

I would like to see them doing extensive data dumps of the data their hardware collects from the brains. That seems like an obvious thing to do, since the likely outcome is researchers will find new ways to analyze and use the data.

Obviously with human subjects there could be severe privacy implications (you might be literally publishing your inner thoughts, even though nobody knows how to analyze them yet). But for animals this should be fine.
Under the Hood of WebAuthn in Safari
Most people also forget that the security is vulnerable even before you get to the lock itself. One time I was at the beach with my in-laws and they locked themselves out of the beachouse rental. I just whipped out a credit card and slid it in the door jam. The door opened right up. Another time I misplaced the key to a storage unit in my apartment complex. I just took a small hacksaw and was through the thing in a couple minutes. The only thing it was protecting me from was people who didn't want to steam my stuff in the first place. Anyone with an ounce of determination would have been off with my stuff.

And this doesn't even begin to touch on other vulnerabilities, like the hinges of doors being on the outside. Just take a screw driver and hammer and pop the pins out.
Have you read this? Their leadership signed a statement admitting to substantially everything that we’ve accused them of over the years.

[1] https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.02.17_-_settlemen...
Yes, in UK wr have royal mail, and every other functional country has it's equivalent
I don't know about "practical," but you might enjoy this: https://github.com/kach/recreational-rosette
I think bitcoin is a cool idea, but it results in too much waste that i can't like like it
Process isolation of tabs, speed (V8), incognito mode, silent updates. Most of this they covered in the announcement comic.
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This is a good question. It rests on an implicit assumption that we think Amazon's behavior is anti-consumer ("bad") and Costco's is not ("good").

But perhaps one way to resolve this dissonance is to consider that Costco's behavior is anti-competitive too. They are a beloved brand, but that doesn't mean our emotional attachment to Kirkland products is an accurate reality-based moral stance.
The problem is that, instead of the speed of modern computers translating to perceptible performance improvements for normal users, it translates to applications that use more resources.

Whether or not the new features make up for the general perceptual slowness of modern computers is a somewhat open question.
>Yahoo sports apps

I believe the Yahoo's suite of fantasy sports apps is second only to DraftKings in terms of market size and DraftKings' market cap is $22b. No reason that couldn't be spun off as its own company and be worth a $5b itself with the right leadership.
I'd say that the resentment comes from having been screwed over in the past, like with Thalidomide.

I'm not saying that the vaccines are unsafe, but the whole Corona Industry is suspect. Loads of ffp masks without actual certifications, ffp masks that are contaminated and have to be recalled, etc.
I'll put it to rest the day they provide an audit. I don't understand how they could possibly keep printing tens of billions without any proof of actually holding anything, and how everyone is ok with that.
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>Is this an education problem? Is there not a consistent minimum science curriculum for K-12 which covers pathogens, treatments and the history of vaccination programmes? Are there other factors that are relevant?

I think it is more complicated than just education. The general sentiment I hear from people is in the past we were told that once we get vaccinated we could return to normal. Now we are told we still need to wear a mask, socially distance, not go back to our offices, can't send our kids to school, etc. Many people figure if that is the case why bother taking the vaccine, especially since they haven't even been FDA approved and are using newer methods (mrna) without long term testing on the effects. Some scientists are saying we cannot return to normal until there are no new cases while also saying it will become seasonal and be with us forever. People are losing faith in the scientists because of their ever changing statements.

It may be the wrong mentality but in my view it is understandable.
Though you get error messages if there are any directories. This will filter those out:

tail -n +1 `find * -maxdepth 0 -type f`

Getting long enough to make an alias...
That seems to be the way modern business works. Entice new customers with great offers and then neglect existing customers while milking them for money. Cable is like that. Cell phone plans are like that. With my car insurance it was the same. They raised rates every year so after 15 years I switched companies and now I am paying half the premiums. Even companies are like that with employees. New people are getting big raises for joining and people already there are getting 1% raises per year.

It seems loyalty is for suckers these days. It used to be that long time customers and employees got rewarded. Now they are being punished and exploited.
What makes you sure of my motives?

I want to know how risky this is considering everyone and their grandmothers are investing their retirements [and student loans].
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In Minneapolis there's no municipal broadband, but there is a local company that offers FTTH. I use it and it's clearly superior to any cable company I've ever had (more speed for the price, more reliable, when you call customer service an actual person picks up the phone instead of an automated system, etc). Even so, my perception is that Xfinity is more popular because people either aren't aware that there are other options or because they want to bundle it with their TV package, particularly sports. I would think municipal broadband anywhere wouldn't take over for similar reasons, and a government service would have even less ability to win at marketing unless they booted out the cable company.
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Why not just put the login in the top bar.

I’m not sure why a site would recommend making an extra click easier when it’s not necessary at all. If someone has ever logged into your site, they should get a login page so they don’t have to do some extra tap. This is triply true if your site is frustratingly slow to load.

Also:

Support password managers. Your damned custom login page BS might be cute in design but sucks for usability. If your site doesn’t work reasonably well with a password manager I won’t come back. US Bank lost my business this way recently.

Related: Have sane password requirements and limits. If my password manager gives you a 32 character password, don’t bitch because it doesn’t contain a number or uppercase character. It’s 32 characters long and unguessable, that should be enough. Also... if you fail because there is an underscore or ampersand, you’ve failed.
Like it or not this is now an endemic threat. Living a normal life was absolutely reckless in the beginning because we didn't have the vaccines, and it was a novel virus with totally unknown characteristics. But with it, your risk of developing health complications or being hospitalized from COVID is practically nonexistent. We will end up living with this now the same way we do with everything else.
Feel free to profile a high-profile application. It is almost always a few hotspots that “suck”.

There are rare cases where there is no one point that is slow, that’s a bad situation to find oneself in — it usually means that the base architecture/abstraction sucks and needs a big refactor.

But even in so low-level code as the linux kernel, you see the use of linked lists all the time. Because it simply doesn’t matter if you are not in a hot loop and iterate slowly over 3 elements.
Firefox also handles every one of these perfectly. I assume there is a hidden password field already but whatever it is it doesn't cause me issues other than an extra click.
HN hates crypto. As someone who missed out on huge gains by selling too early, I sympathize with the hatred and I believe that is the primary catalyst for it. It can blind you to any positive aspects, simply because you feel slighted by it. The missed opportunity can really burn in your brain. I suspect most people are unable or unwilling to admit this and do all kinds of mental gymnastics to convince themselves it's all about the energy usage or control in China or whatever.

The fact is, crypto has value and also has uses which are growing every day. No one discusses the energy usage of the current financial system and crypto is ramping up to disrupt a huge swath of it. Decentralized finance is going to kill entrenched middle men like escrow and payday loan companies just to name a simple few.

Bitcoin converts computational energy into a digital store of that value which can be transferred anywhere, any time, in any amount, without the need for a trusted third-party, for a miniscule portion of that value. To assert this is a waste or that it doesn't have value is disingenuous. The fact that it is not centrally controlled is a huge game-changer and a paradigm shift. No entity can inflate it to worthlessness. No entity can seize your assets for any reason, including politics. There's no stopping crypto. The cat is out of the bag and the innovation will continue. It's decentralized nature prevents entrenched interests from regulating it out of existence and that is great for everyone.
The stockmarket is like a round robin thingy, putting it lightly.

All those who hold shares in FB, combined, are holding paper that is worth 900B. However, if even 10% of those wanted to sell their holdings at a time, the price would fall and the total holdings would be worth less for all.

Now, why are they holding the shares then? Two things come into play. Firstly, say 5 years down the line, the holders have confidence that FB will still be making money, be profitable and be on the market. Secondly, that five years down the line, there is someone else who is willing to pay for the shares at a premium of what they have originally purchased for. Now what about those who are buying 5 years down the line? They too must have confidence on FB that a further 5 years or more down the line, FB will be profitable and will be in the market and keep earning money. And so on and so forth.

So is FB really worth 900B, yes, if the holders keep holding it and FB keeps earning profits.

Can everyone get their worth from the shares? Not at once. Not in a hurry.