skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the assumption built into this article's incredulousness odd and I doubt I would ever had made it myself. Why would we ever expect qualia to be based on specific and static combinations of neurons? The fact alone that memories last a finite amount of time should be reason enough to conclude (given our limited number of them) that that's not how neurons work, at least insofar as the qualia of memory and present experience are the same, which seems like a sane null hypothesis to me. I think there is a strong cognitive bias in the present culture of thinking of the brain like a computer or hard drive. It's not, and I would have been more surprised if the scientists here had made the opposite finding that they did: that the constant qualia (in these mice's smells) was linked to constant combinations of activating neurons. That would contradict existing observations on brain damage and imply uncomfortable things about electrically programming the brain to produce known outcomes.
Usually it's inductor coils and transformers, occasionally it's ceramic capacitors (all grades other than NP0 are microphonic, SMD or not), both problems are common in switched-mode power supplies, for example, powering the calculator LCD. I've never seen a singing resistor, very unlikely.
> How else would you do it though?

There are many ways. The simplest I can think of is a 6 digit numeric code that you have to enter, once from device A to B and then from B to A. The OS can also ask you to authenticate with your fingerprint before linking.
I think English as the universal language is probably a done deal at this point. Then again people probably thought that about French back in the day.
How is the gas price relevant? If you're paying $1000 worth of gas a year, surely you're using $1000 of gas?
There are many people who are convinced their respiratory infection earlier in the pandemic was Covid despite never having been tested. While some of those may plausibly have been Covid, many were surely flu or some other disease.

It would be a shame if such people avoided the vaccine under a disinformation-driven impression that the vaccines are risky, and ended up catching/spreading Covid later on.
Dang! I am already doing 90% of these things, never realized, am I in the right path?
I'm deaf on one side, so issues like this tend to be topics that I've already given a lot of thought to.

A counter I employ to the cocktail-party effect is to pitch my voice very low. Sometimes the person I'm talking to picks up on this (consciously or not!) and imitates my low pitch. Despite others talking over us, it's easier to focus in on a lower pitch and let the brain filter out the noise.
History of Gain-of-Function:The Blurred Lines of Biowarfare and Vaccine Research
I wonder if Frost Bank filed a Suspicious Activity Report for these transfers and whether or not they will face any enforcement actions. Having worked with quite a number of banks at this point, they all talk a big game about compliance but yet very few seem to actively mitigate these events. It's not Frost's only such issue: https://www.expressnews.com/business/local/article/Former-of...

But they are a fairly large bank so hard to say how they do relative to others for their volume.
The airplanes should be able to tell how much they weigh when they are on their wheels.
Yes in India gets coal super cheap and they use a ton of it to make their electric. All these electric cars are just coal cars, all these electric trains are just coal trains
I see it as downside protection.

If I want a promotion, there are other companies.
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Currently, I use data from Trustpilot and other reviews sites to select the top picks. I also consider pricing, number of services on offer, availability of mobile and web apps, relevance to the under-35s, etc.

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Having finally had a chance to test-"drive" an advanced autopilot Tesla last weekend, I can confidently say at the current level of that tech I would pay less than nothing. At best (cruising down a well-marked highway) it was only slightly worse than useless, taking a different line in the lane than I considered optimal, leaving me feeling a background level of apprehension. From there it ranged through frustrating, as it took forever to do anything, to jarring, as it would for example suddenly slam on the brakes because it just noticed it was passing a parked car.

If I had a regular commute and self-driving was considerably beyond human competence I'd love to have it, but I don't see either one happening any time soon!
I really dig the "infinite scroll" part. I hate this "feature" from the bottom of my heart. I also like the "conditions" feature.

However, I'm not a fan of my device analyzing my behavior and bombarding me with notifications and questions every 15 minutes. To me, that's distracting and way too much noise. I like the way Screen Time already works. Leave the consequences to me, but give me an opportunity to check them.
They can ask Equifax though (assuming your employer participates):

https://theworknumber.com/
And graphs that animate counting up from 0% as soon as they scroll into the viewport.
Investigate it yourself? Police don't have many powers available to them that aren't also available to the average citizen. Hire a private investigator if you don't want to put your own time in.
The original point was people without a bank account.
Yeah I agree that the real insight here is firstly that three datatypes is enough to product a linker, and secondly that using this crazy serialization format makes life simpler.

It somehow hurts my brain to almost double your file size, but who cares? That's the computers problem, not yours.
What, if anything, does IQ have to do with taking initiative to document your work?
> But the solution here is obvious; stop using oil

> Sure, but will we see rail transportation of oil blocked in a similar manner? Otherwise we might just be making our current uses of oil less safe and efficient for nothing.

No, we won’t see our rail transit of oil blocked because it should not exist. The oil should be left in the ground.
Some crazy airline made Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy, etc.) buy two seats. He was hopping mad, and I don't blame him.

He said he was he not spilling over into the next seat.

(If airlines want to embarrass people, they need to do it in a tactful way. Like before buying the ticket. For instance, if your waist is over--whatever 50 inches, you need to buy two, but not on the plane in front of everyone. Airline have to go back catering to their custmers. Taking a flight seems just awful these days.)
Similar to what the company Spinvox used to do. Artificial Artificial Intelligence, they would break up audio recordings and have different people transcribe them, then piece the transcriptions together. They sold the service to wireless companies so customers could get automatic voicemail transcription.
As long as connectivity was 'good enough', the car could have just enough self-driving capability to safely pull over in the case of an interruption. Would still need to be some nines, but wouldn't need to be utterly perfect.
Well, I do find it’s easier to do significant refactors by copying bits of code into a new file or project rather than trying to make changes in-place.
If only we could predict the future!
Could you share a link to the notebook? I think it would benefit everyone to learn about this by applying the criterion.
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>a lot of engineers in a lot of companies

>have at best average IQ if not lower.

my reading of a lot is always more than 50%, which implies to me that more than half of the engineers at half of the companies have average IQ or lower - which seems unlikely.

on edit: unless of course we assume that development / engineering type careers attracted more people of average IQ or lower - but I think that will be a hard sell on HN.
And lockdowns made that worse. Would be curious to see the average weight gain over 2020
You are in the right path until someone on the internet write the total opposite and its article reaches to top page on HN
Holy shit, I haven't gotten hiccups in years.
Iosevka (typeface designed for writing code)
You can play high res FPS games on remote GPUs now, so I expect that part could be managed, if not now then in the very near future.
As far as I know DDG is fine. It's harder for a website to be quite so malicious, anyway.
There's a mistake in this:
> I won’t go too deep into the math, but it can be shown that G achieves its maximum when f=1-2p

Should be f=2p-1
No, a fair number are written in green ink. Green for someone else.
Pretty sure all of them do. Here is United's policy: https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly/travel/special-needs/ex...
This is of course the classic libertarian default counter argument. Zoom out enough and reduce government until the situation is shaken up so that the original discussed problem can be arguably speculated to be less relevant in the brave new world. Abracadara, the original problem was too much government.
The article isn't Keynesian, nor is Keynesianism trash. I do agree that ignorance is destructive.

Take away the word "profligate" from consumer spending and you'll be closer to the truth. Median real wages have been falling for the last 50 years. We need a little tightness in the labor market to change that, and risking some inflation in a period of negligible inflation seems like a wise choice.
Full cycle developers – Operate what you build (2018)
Ask HN: Experience with Moving from Arch Linux to Mac
Since a few month ago, I've moved from Android to iPhone and Apple Watch (naturally) after iPhone finally sorted out their support for U2F keys.

Now, I'm considering going the macOS way, from my 6 year old Arch Linux installation. I'm a power user and I tend to roll my own packages and use docker extensively but otherwise I don't depend on much of the Linux kernel functionality in particular.

I'd like to know if anyone has done the transition from Arch Linux to Mac OS and how that's been.
> I would be less hostile

You've been nothing but hostile in this discussion (and apparently from your history, many others). Also you literally edited a comment to deny a claim you made. Just stop.
I like the idea behind a lot of these things, but it seems like a ton of overhead, both for software implementers and users. It seems kind of odd to claim these changes could be so profound when it seems like it's really only going to be useful for a superuser who's already aware of their screen time issues and would be excited to be able to choose from X toggle options. Additionally, "you are wasting time on your phone, do you want to lock your screen" seems like a feature that would fly with only a very limited set of users.

Instead of hooking in to Facebook and adding content settings, to me it seems that in this case the "we should increase data/platform interop" line of thought offers a better solution than hoping the Apple ship can steer in this direction.

For that matter, do we know how many people use screenttime tracking/mitigating features anyway?
Hundreds arrested worldwide in Trojan Shield organised crime sting
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Wiki says 64.2% in 2018.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home-ownership_in_the_United_S...
Wouldn't this be similar to how weights for individual terms in a interpolation polynomial can change when adding a new point, while it still (to some approximation at least) captures all the old?
A good portion of the educated public's knowledge how how computers work ends at the idea that math and electricity is involved. There's just too little basis for explaining a research project of any sort.

The approach I've started taking is to ask people if they know about mechanical or water powered computers. That at least implants the idea that there's a variety of ways to make a computer work.
Great ideas but can you imagine the uproar if Apple actually tried this given what they get any time they limit what apps can do?
I agree, it was pretty clear. My one bit of confusion was the use of '~=' which seems to mean something like append.
Is this what happens during sleep? Maybe this is what causes dreams.
(If memory serves right), for bets that either win or double, the Kelly criterion is equivalent to maximize the median wins. Which coincidentally also maximizes expected log wins.
100 lbs * 500 passengers is 50k pounds or about 10% of the max takeoff weight quoted there. Those numbers seem likely to be over-estimates, but that seems not inconsequential?

Edit: the plane holds 328-550 depending on seat configuration per the above link. I went with the upper end of that range per consideration of the “safety considerations” indicating it is the upper end of that range that is being reconsidered.
Data Science vs Business Intelligence: What Does Your Company Needs?
Apple added support for iPhone web apps in 2007, including native-style widgets and touch navigation support in mobile Safari. This was enough to support many early games and apps, and Apple even had a curated directory for them.

At the time, developers complained bitterly that Apple didn't provide a native SDK, nor did they support Flash or Java web apps.

In 2021, mobile Safari is good enough to run Amazon Luna game streaming, so you can actually stream fairly demanding games like Far Cry 6 to an iPhone. However, Safari (and, to a lesser extent, Firefox) is far behind in terms of feature parity with Chrome for implementing Google's vision of Progressive Web Apps. In particular, Apple has announced that they don't intend to support a number of web APIs (Bluetooth, NFC, etc.) for privacy and security (and presumably business) reasons.
We have very few (if any) species-specific pesticides or larvicides. We've been trying the "What if we just kill them outright?" approach to mosquito control (along with 'What if we can hide under nets', 'What if we trick them into biting something else first?', etc.) fairly extensively.
It’s worth reading the linked paper on the causes/consequences of representational drift: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7385530/
I have a similar reaction as bejelentkezni – why would we expect a specific sensation to always activate the same set of neurons over time? It would seem to me that we are observing patterns in a dynamic system. Their relations to other patterns seem more relevant than the specific substrate members participating in the pattern.

While too simple, I think by analogy of a whirlpool current in a stream: we would not be surprised at all to observe that a given molecule of water participating in the whirlpool pattern at time (t) has only a (p)% chance of being in the pattern at time (t+1).
Honestly, even those with high intensity jobs often can’t burn the excess calories from the typical diet. How many overweight construction workers have you seen?
TIL that the UK has gone down a slippery slope
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There's no way to verify that prior to them being there in person. If you did it at ordering time people would just lie.

Likewise, luggage is weighed at the airport, rather than what someone claims the weight is.
SAP is a large-scale system for resource planning. It nails down to managing development/engineering/human resources in a waterfall-managed company, and usually the workforce have to maintain their own "digital stamping" like enter/leave the company and/or on what projects they've been working on, so the workers use SAP in order to do their own accounting.

The advantage SAP has from an enterprise's point of view is "automated" accounting that theoretically can be integrated into third-party software, like the software that sends out bills via mail to customers.

Usually SAP is too bloated for everyone, in Germany we would say "mit Kanonen auf Spatzen schiessen" because it's too much overhead for maintaining/licensing the system vs. just using a simpler alternative that likely even is open source and can be modified quickly to your needs.

From a selling point of view, SAP is always sold as "it can do anything out of the box" without any development resources necessary. While that's far away from the actual truth, most CEOs believe that kind of stuff and just buy the service; which is contracted in a way that it has a minimum lifetime of years (usually 10 years+) until you're allowed to change to an alternative.

Legal requirement to archive all bills 10 years does the rest, et voila, you have a working Dip nobody can exit out of.
How to write an article these days:

- Find a newly published paper

- Assume it’s true

- Build clickbait title

- Write 2,000 words, make sure to include references to old Greek philosophers

- Publish
After getting acquired and some people laid off and replaced with lower cost workers; I think the only reason I have a job is because of the complexity of the system and that it was built quickly so documentation was lacking. This is a great article don't get me wrong, but if you get acquired people might see you as a cost vs asset.
How often are containers used to ship bulk commodities like those described here? I suspect "not often" because of the benefits of treating the bulk commodities, well, in bulk, rather than loading.

Surely containers would be safer from the issues described such as liquifaction, but the costs probably prevent the shippers from adopting them. Besides, it's no skin off their back and they'rr insured anyway, right? /s
Not GP but I feel that renting/subscribing everything doesn't feel very secure.

I'd like to believe a "rentier" future will empower renters with even cheaper options due to efficiency of utility. As you say, having a big chunk of capability sit there most of the time is wasteful in a sense.

However it also feels like it entrenches the rich with further options of rent-seeking.

And it doesn't take much cynicism to think that any benefits due to efficient use of resources will go to the owners pocket, not the customer/renter.
There are tons of free templates everywhere. Just takes one fitted your taste and adapt it to your landing page and you’re done.
What is a "CTA"? Landing on this article left me confused. Is that good design?
Quantum teleportation is a somewhat simple but non-trivial procedure: https://qiskit.org/textbook/ch-algorithms/teleportation.html
Programs are executed in different memory addresses all the time. The hardened linux kernel randomizes itself. It's like a computer alright, just very different from a von-Neuman one and a completely parallelized one. When I started reading the article I expected something mind-blowing, but it always seemed obvious given the sheer number of neurons that they would load balance and feedback, rewire themselves and do all sort of cool, difficult to predict stuff all the time.
> Neuroscientists have discovered a phenomenon that they can’t explain

Is this a trend for weird, meaningless headlines?
Not "if you follow all these rules religiously, you will even guarantee yourself a lifetime of employment, since no one but you has a hope in hell of maintaining the code."

https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~susan/475/unmain.html
Is your goal to be indispensable as in the only person still able to maintain some ancient legacy project that is still continuing? Or as in the person who gets things done?

Highly-paid professions have cookie-cutter skill-sets taught from the same textbooks at professional schools with the same basic curricula. They are valuable because those skills are valued, not because they trap their clients in some kind of infinite treatment plan.
I don't understand what you are proposing here. In terms of actions that we take to curb the use of oil, I am saying those actions should not unfairly discriminate against pipelines vs less safe transports like trains. If we take steps to block pipelines, we should take steps to block oil trains too.

Obviously if we could just snap our fingers and eliminate all dependence on oil, that would be fine since it would eliminate pipelines and oil trains together. But in lieu of that, we need to make choices about how to maximize the efficiency and safety of the oil we do use. Pipelines in some cases might actually be a good way to do that.
"[T]hey want to live in a city, but they want their experience to be similar to suburbia". I would agree for all quadrants except the northeast quadrant. That is the most dense for population and mass transit. There is a real urban vibe in northeast quadrant.

I have been told that central Washington D.C. and Chicago are also very transit and pedestrian friendly. It is not a requirement to own a car in those places.
I know what you mean. I have been there, I am still known as “have you checked docs” guy in some circles.

Now I am older and wiser. My advice is don’t document. This is cultural problem that needs to be solved at much higher level. If leadership doesn’t care then nothing will change and you will get labeled as asshole. Just flow with culture and you will be much happier. Or find a new job.
Like the notion that all of natural language can be modeled fully if you just use enough finite state machines — surely true; just a wee bit inefficient.
That's an interesting connection! I've heard risk managers talk about how people put too much faith in the mean outcome and don't focus enough on the median outcome. I didn't know there's a correspondence to the Kelly criterion.
good luck with that. DeepMind should sponsor B. F. Skinner award, to honor the father of their behaviorist theories of 'reward and punishment' as a sort of all-encompassing theory of everything related to cognition. At least now they are torturing GPUs and not some poor lab animals.

on a serious note the only positive outcome of all this shameless PR is that the heavy investment in ML/RL might trickle down to actual science labs and fundamental neuroscience research which might move us forward towards understanding natural intelligence, a prerequisite for creating an artificial one.