skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Coma is prolonged unconsciousness. These patients are awake, aware, and yet trapped in their bodies, unable to communicate.

Most previous brain signal translation has been adaptions of typing in some form. This is directly translating signals intended for vocal cords, IE for vocal speech, into text.
The proposed ACCESS Act discussed in the post appears to be at: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3849...
Solaris is worth a read for sure.
Access Act of 2021
OK, you go keep logs and have them there so when what the cops want to find doesn't turn up, it falls on you by default.
The last time I read that thread I was just learning to ride a dinosaur.
How long before the thought crime actually is going to be a thing?

Imagine poorer people will be forced to wear Facebook Talk device, that will listen to your thoughts and then project adverts directly into your eyes. They will also know when your disability check is coming and what are your desires and needs. They'll for sure show you something tempting to buy...
Tell that to my friends whose main softwares are chrome, office and vlc.
If they are sent out of order.

If a previous message is in a retry state, the second message could go through without issue.
You meant kudos? Also another channel that has some videos from the zone: https://www.youtube.com/c/kreosann/
Much like bug chasers I imagine there will be _someone_ out there trying to purposefully catch Covid for some (inexplicable) reason. There's always a few loose screws wandering around at any point in time.
I use it for quick scripts. I do offensive security. It's a pleasant option when doing things other pentesters would do in Python or Go.

>It seems to have a pretty extensive ecosystem but are the libraries mature?

If you're just doing API calls, file IO, simple networking, then it's more than you'll ever need. If I'm doing something obscure enough to have to worry 'is there a mature library for this in Racket?' I'll just use Python at that point.
Eagerly waiting for the alpha version 5! It's been 2 years since the stable 4.1 release.
Check out Andrej karpathys convnet.js and deepq learning web apps.
Yet if I want to read the journalistic content of the Wall Street Journal, I have to pay them to put out noxious seditious propaganda and disinformation. No can do.
You take a moderate example to support the idea that we cannot nevertheless have a threshold where we can be sure that something is false. But while we cannot clearly say where the land ends and the ocean begins, there are large swaths of places that we can positively identify as ocean.

The OP never claimed to have an appropriate solution so I don't know what you are talking about regarding them thinking censorship is easy.
Telegram already has two different group categories: Normal, an super groups. Telegram bumps 200 member groups to super groups. Signal's group E2EE scales up to 1000 members (hard limit). It's both doable, and scalable far beyond group sizes that have reasonable expectation of privacy.

I.e. they could drop end-to-end encryption after the group grows too large, e.g. after 200, 500 or 1000 members.

Public IRC-channel groups don't need E2EE. The overwhelming majority of groups are small, and would benefit tremendously from E2EE.

As for syncing messages between devices, it's doable, as shown by Signal, Wire etc.
The poor are subject to feedback loops which keep them down. The rich get feedback loops which keep them up.
> Yet. We get closer every time a new vulnerability is discovered.

Skipjack is the famous counterexample to this: it's been broken up to 31 rounds, but specified usage mandates 32 rounds. Skipjack was given immense scrutiny due to the NSA's role in its design, and we're no closer to a full-round break of it than we were in 1999.
It may be better for me to rephrase this part of my post like this:

> ""public health" is now likely to be a part of the surveillance justification tool kit too"

I don't have any specific examples, but this article gives a good gist of what might be at stake. [1]

I think this is a key quote

> "The Snowden disclosures came twelve years after the initial implementation of the Patriot Act, and it was only last year that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that the subsequent dragnet surveillance employed by the NSA may well have been unconstitutional."

[1] https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/government-data-collect...
AFAIK HN itself runs on Arc (http://arclanguage.org/), which is implemented in Racket (formerly in PLT). Does that count?

Edit: in addition, I used PLT (Racket's predecessor) for my own scientific computing needs, e.g., plotting, providing a front end to simulators written in C, etc. I didn't make the switch to Racket because it broke a lot of code and I didn't have time to rewrite everything. Limped along until Julia became a thing, and now that's what I use. And yes, could have (and did) use Python, but I really prefer writing Scheme to Python when possible.
How do you explain the massive list of advancements humanity made during the Enlightenment period with this attitude? Seems like you're advocating another dark age.
Proton has been brilliant.

I’m really keen to see if the Steam Deck can help gain any ground with online multiplayer games or stupid drm stuff that prevents people from running their favourite AAA games on Linux. I’m not hugely optimistic that much progress can be made but I can dream, right?
Stop dog whistling.
Those are US and UK allies you're talking about.
Cloth masks should be tested for aerosol droplet catching ability before being given to others. An automated mask testing machine would be neat.
Teams didn't change their names because of that tribe-sponsored paper, they changed their names because white people wanted them to change.

In 2016, when the main momentum of this started to come out, 9 in 10 Native Americans did not find it offensive [1]. But white people had already decided it was offensive, and white people have much more cultural influence than Native Americans, so in being perceived by white people as offensive it became offensive, to the point that just a few years later, a majority of Native Americans found it offensive [2].

But at all times through this, including today, a higher percentage of white people find the Redskins name offensive than of Native Americans. The Redskins changed their name because of pressure from white people, not because of pressure from Native Americans. More than a little ironic that even in this, Native Americans were barely listened to, while white people's feelings were considered very important.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/new-poll-finds-9-in-10-...

[2] https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/02/04/native-mascots-survey/
> She studied maths at university and has copies of her handwritten notes. “There’s a point when I started taking digital notes and I can’t find them,” she says with a laugh.

I've lost much of my handwritten notes from university.

I used to handwrite code in notebooks before typing it in. That's all gone.
My take when he says he "missed mobile" is that he regrets that Facebook doesn't own the platform. Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp are enormously successful apps, but because Apple & Google own the OS, they are vulnerable. Apple's introduction of App Tracking Transparency and the way Facebook have struggled against this show the nature of their postion.
I'm always amazed that people actually think "online/digital is forever". I NEVER has been and never will be. And as we each "create" more data, the life span will decrease as fast.

Even websites can't be assumed to remain at the other end of the bookmark you keep. You MUST download it if you really want an archive you can count on.

If you aren't buying a new mass storage device EVERY year and moving anything older than 3 years to the new storage, you are taking a risk.

This is why I still buy physical books rather than Kindle et al. This is why I convert personal documents and momentos like photos to paper, et al. if it actually matters. I still have photos of my ancestors from the 1900s-1920s only because they are on paper.

And I've worked on most of the advanced technologies in use today over the last few decades - high priest level contact. But the truth you learn if you learn anything is: you should not put technology first in your life! It's a tool but not even the best tool.
> Do you want our future determined by a few well-informed, rational people? Or do you want it determined by an ignorant, short-sighted mass?

An elite in practice means that we're stuck with irrational beliefs such as Lysenkoism. Democracy allows beliefs to compete and often correct ideas win. It's far from perfect but still has a better track record than self-styled rational elites.

The following quote is from Neal Stephenson's In the Beginning Was the Command Line.

> But more importantly, it comes out of the fact that, during this century, intellectualism failed, and everyone knows it. In places like Russia and Germany, the common people agreed to loosen their grip on traditional folkways, mores, and religion, and let the intellectuals run with the ball, and they screwed everything up and turned the century into an abattoir. Those wordy intellectuals used to be merely tedious; now they seem kind of dangerous as well.
I want Grammarly in my brain. I want to have real time speech improvement of my audible speech. If I could have a privacy respecting brain computer interface to improve my speaking and rhetoric, I would.
No? The Steam Deck runs an Arch derivative with a KDE plasma desktop. It basically just defaults to Steam Big Picture mode. You can alt-tab out of a game and open the Linux version of Chrome in your KDE desktop environment and you can see just that in the IGN hands on video.
Not exactly. Comas just indicate prolonged unconsciousness and inability to react (in terms of body movement) to stimuli, not minimal brain activity.

https://www.brain-injury-law-center.com/blog/brain-activity-...

A complete lack of brain activity is brain death. Brain activity is often slowed in comatose patients, but that varies from patient to patient.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/traumatic-bra...
Fully-vaccinated people who social distance when they are outside don't need masks. Otherwise, it's a personal calculation.

I see so many people with chin guards and lack of nose bridge forming that they might as well not even wear them.
I'm older and recently experienced severe stress that sent my ADHD into overdrive. You could be experiencing something like that.
Reproducible builds help here. Not all clients are supported yet I give you that, but perhaps you can see how far injecting backdoored clients on mass scale is from "user's sending plaintext copy to server every time". Both achieve the same thing, one will fill the headline of every news paper in the world if it happens once, the other happens right now, billions of times a day, and nobody cares. There's no perfect verification process, but there's a metric fuckton of low hanging fruits we need to address first.
Curiosity rover discovers evidence of past life on Mars may have been erased
Wait, really? What mechanism makes a user account required? Since the change has to be made from 1TR, I’d have thought you’d never need to log in...
>brother actually just taking the photos

Bezos asked his security consultant Gavin De Becker, to conduct the investigation he did and published his oped in a month.

The brother bla bla bla is just a distraction deployed by those who want you to believe NSO wasn’t used on to hack the phone of an American citizen.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeff-bezos-investigation-finds...

We discussed it here as well
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19532185
I have no idea what happened to Patrick Moore. He's not actually an environmentalist anymore. He just uses his past affiliation with Greenpeace to make money being a spokesman for companies like Exxon and Monsanto. He doesn't actually care if you live or die. He just wants you to spend more money on fossil fuels.
>attributable to the Disinformation Dozen

I appreciate the back and forth, but there's something extremely creepy about the government(s?) branding private citizens with a nom de guerre as if they're an organization with enemy-of-the-state status.

I don't know that I was clear enough when I said I "don't understand social media to be the proximate cause" of vaccine skepticism. I do not think it's 12 people who manage facebook groups with <1M shares (over a 6 week period!) of their anti-vaccine content. Relative to the volume of posts that go out on these platforms, that is a laughably small amount of reach. It's especially small when you compare it to the reach of the people who dole out vaccine guidance and information, who themselves say one thing about its efficacy and then act in a manner contrary to those same pronouncements. These things get noticed (for the record, got both shots as soon as I could but that should not be relevant), and then feed into the anti-vaccine content itself. Or, and perhaps especially, they say things in one time period for political expediency[1] and then act surprised when some people actually followed the advice.

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/kamala-harris-s...

........

This is a very strange situation to me. When someone makes a claim about social media and it's negative effects on society, there's usually a good-sized cohort who jump in to say "prove it" with data. I'm not saying that here, necessarily, and I do hate social media for other reasons - but it is a little odd that we are attempting to attribute the cause of missing vaccination goals to literally 12 people with a facebook account, when there's dozens (no pun intended) of other confounding variables, and then justifying a pretty significant crossing of the Rubicon in allowing a more heavy-handed approach for letting the executive directly engage with these companies on what is and isn't allowed to be said.
Me, no, I can't think of a use for the super hi fi version. Heck, just the snap crackle pop on the best vinyl pressings destroys any utility of super hi fi.
Yes - I wanted to put something else in there - something about having institutions that can be trusted.

In the UK the Police and criminal evidence act (PACE) dramatically changed policing. The old "sweeney" style of policing (brutality and lying in court) was threatened - everyone thought riminals would walk away unless cops could lie to get the conviction they needed - and the cops got better - improved evidence gathering, improved processes and basically raised their game. It's far from perfect - everything from institutional racism to under-staffing - but the institution proved capable of reform. (Admittedly the UK justice system is freaking as years of massive under-fu ding are coming home to roost but that's a different problem - similar to the defund movement in the US)

I don't like solutions that say "the people shall watch carefully" because people have other things to do. Unless a guard is paid full time to guard, they start to take their eyes off the ball. But full time paid guards tend to like the people paying them, regulatory capture etc. Having competing guards (regulators) is an interesting idea but that might upset people who don't like paying for one set of guards.

In short, it's a hard problem and while democracy as in the will of "all the people" is the well-spring, we cannot expect all the people to pay attention all of the time. We have to pay some of the people all of the time to pay attention - the problem is who guard the guards recursively .

Edit: Epstein's crimes were also a peculiar kind - let's say that there are many crimes he could have committed that would have been socially repulsive, and had him reported and ostracised far more quickly than being a rich old man predating on young women. It's on us to change how acceptable that was / is.

Edit: it's worth noting i did not think of this straight off - that cultural change is long time coming
It comes down to "what is the work?"

Take one of Ray Charles' records..

Is it just the music itself? Does it include the physical media and its condition? If the media has deteriorated, how does that affect it?

Does it include the cover art? Does it include the liner notes? Does it include the notes through the production process?

For the recording of a live performance, does it include the recording equipment and the venue? Does it include the audience reaction?

Does it include documenting everyone who performed backup vocals, accompanied via instruments, produced it, and the label itself?

While normal listeners (99.9% of the public) would stop at the music, the audiophiles will want to understand the physical media and performance conditions, and the researchers/archivists want everything because it's a snapshot of a particular work at a particular time & place via particular means.

But part of your comment is spot on.. diverse sources. It's not feasible for one Library to digitize absolutely everything in the world (or a country), so we participated in an exchange with a bunch (20? not sure anymore) of other libraries, museums, etc who could digitize their own collections and then we could all share them at scale with as little DRM as possible.

Think of it as Napster for libraries. I advocated for no DRM (especially for old, out of production works) but that's why we butted heads with the RIAA.
That would mean, at the very least, that every image and video sent via SMS would require user interaction to even see a preview. Including active conversations with your contacts, given that SMS spoofing is a thing.
Good life is generally "having agency over your own social reproduction" and it's ultimately unrelated to the amount of money you make. It's a set of relationships, since property itself is a relationship, who has the power to delegate, who is obligated, how transfer of responsibility happens, these are the important aspects

That's why it's called a "political economy" the two are ultimately inseparable.

It's a question of autonomy, control, agency and liberty, not one of dollars in a bank.

This goes back over 100 years. Look at the Hollywood star system. Big names having essentially contracts of grueling work and enslavement for years under the Lochner era, they could make $1 million a movie but all the cash could be seized if they broke the 10 year contract or whatever and leave the person destitute. Stars who broke contracts and had everything taken away famously had to pawn off academy awards to try to feed themselves.

The people didn't really have meaningful freedom. That's why United Artists, SAG, DGA, AFTRA and WGA started. If you work on a big show, it's the Guild that gives you dental and health care, not the studio. They give it to you in the dry times too.

The money wasn't the problem, it was the enslavement. The politics and relationships is the actual thing, the money is just a temporary consequence
> I assume plant life is constrained by different things in different locations:

> - lack of water

> - too hot

> - too cold

Hmm. There are lots of examples where plants do not grow in an area that (1) has a lot of water; and (2) is very cold. Are there any examples of a place that is too hot, as opposed to too dry?

Even the cold examples might be driven more by a lack of liquid water than by temperature requirements.
What's your argument here? That working towards something perfect is inherently a waste of effort? It should not need to be pointed out that trying to change things for the better does not have to create a utopia to be beneficial. Reducing crime in non-militant ways (and therefore a reliance on police) does not need to remove crime to be a good thing to do.
These tools simply don’t work well on anything more complicated than S-expressions. Every time I look into this space I end up disappointed.
...No, it is not clear.
> All this to say, we can be adults and let everyone get the same information and make their own choice, or we can go the other way where someone who thinks they know more than us (and you hope it's you but it doesn't have to be) gets to decide. Frankly, the latter idea is ridiculous to me.

This is a false dichotomy and a rather romantic notion. Independent adults rarely, if ever, make their minds from first principles. They do already cluster around people who think/convince others that they know better. So few of what we’re talking here is original thought, we are mostly riffing on what we’ve read elsewhere. And that’s OK. That how distributed cognition saves us a lot of time, when working correctly.

But distributed cognition of independent adults get to super irrational conclusions too, I don’t need to list past atrocities based on ridiculous ideas.

So while the failures and wins of distributed cognition is yet to be understood properly, it alone is not the culprit nor can be corrected via the virtues of atomized individualized cognition.

One thing is clear, ideas distributed over ad fueled companies’ screen estates conform to a particular topology and a particular objective function. The normativity of engagement is not that of reality. And the irrationality of those systems effect us even from afar, permeates into our culture and even into non-ad based forums like this.
Depends on what happens with the vegetative growth. If it is cut down or otherwise dies, decomposition will release CO2. Systems like that can often be carbon neutral if they regrow again. Human development is destroying what could be longterm carbon sinks, though, and so is climate change.
Are you asserting that journalists were more accepting of Gov mistreatment, during the Trump admin? That doesn't jibe with what I saw.
> only because they are on paper

One side of my family lost the photos from a leak in the roof. The other side lost the photos because the house was destroyed. (The handful left were ones that were copies given to friends and relatives.)

Paper rots and burns.