skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is significant computationally in placing human thought unambiguously into the digital realm because it shows the data protocol between thought and output is machine learnable.

The protocol for sensory input has likewise been prosthesised by Paul Nach-y-Rita’s tongue grid array for vision.

https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Paul-B...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bach-y-Rita
I doubt it. We all stand on the shoulders of giants... the tools we make allow us to make greater tools. They also allow us to break greater tools.

Its the Cycle of technology
It’s something like discovering how to build nukes, and then giving everyone on the plant a nuke.
Those agents should not be falling back to unencrypted anyway! The whole ecosystem just needs to get onboard with implicit TLS and deprecate the old agents. It's not acceptable to make the whole ecosystem dependent on two completely different security mechanisms. Every client/server in the world would have to support both indefinitely, which would be a totally unnecessary cost and complexity burden.
I'm not the OP, but I almost never have a lot of tabs open, because to me "keep multiple windows each with dozens of tabs open" isn't organization any more than "keep dozens of icons on your desktop" is organization. Some people love that, but I can't find anything that way. And every implementation of tree-style tabs I've seen is -- again, to me, personal preference, YMMV, fill in your favorite disclaimer -- a hot mess. More to the point, it's still "keep multiple windows each with dozens of tabs open wait don't close the window reflexively OH NO YOU CLOSED IT FLAIL FLAIL UNDO HIT THE HISTORY UN-ERASER BUTTON WHEW IT'S BACK". Jesus. No. OMG stop.

Seriously, though, it's just a different way of working. If I want to save a link because I'm genuinely going to need it later, I save the link. More often than not, it just goes in the drafts or annotations for the article that I'm working on at that moment. If not, I save it in GoodLinks, where I get a title and a summary and tagging and syncing across my laptop and desktop and iPad.

I get that I'm an anomaly these days, and that "if you have less than 50 tabs open across three windows you're an amateur" is the norm among technonerds. (That is an actual quote from a friend.) But I am pretty sure the Venn diagram of the all-the-tabs-all-the-time folks I know and the "which tab is it? nope, nope, nope, I'm sure it's here somewhere" folks I know is essentially a perfect circle.
Do you mean, for example, a null node versus a missing node?
This has never been the job of police, but of the much older institution of the sheriff (though today, there's hardly a distinction).
There's my gnuplotlib library also: https://github.com/dkogan/gnuplotlib/

I claim it's worlds better.
What if the platform added 1 day of latency to every call?
It's also "legal" to do so in other countries.

I think it's better to focus on Telegram's open specification and implementation instead of bashing it because the developers happen to be born somewhere you don't like.
I think you should pin the Launch HN thread to the top of HN for a week or so.
> the mass population is always going to choose simple

until the consequences of using the current cloud hurts them enough
Oh yes, I don't disagree at all, food stamps, section 8/public housing, medicaid (mostly medicaid expansion), WIC, etc can often take the form of corporate welfare.

Someone working full time should be able to pay life expenses without government assistance.
The Forth Memory Model
Apple has switched their renderer to using ANGLE, and the iOS 15 Beta shows it in action. I've even reported bugs to the WebKit team and see them fixing it.
Why stop there, go all the way to NEXUS-6 if possible.
That's the spirit! I'm glad someone is able to express this clearly.

We need more people to be innovators and early adopters, to guide and consciously participate in the technology adoption life cycle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_life_cycle
I don't recall health officers specifically saying this. But it was public policy in NYC to explicitly not trace infections spread through the George Floyd protests:

https://www.businessinsider.com/nyc-contact-tracers-not-aski...
Not particularly. Last I heard the vaccination rate there was still a little shy of 50%. Meanwhile the most vaccinated state is just over 70%. That makes it a matter of degree rather than kind. As usual the headline is deliberately misleading.
> Use the separate Launch HN page

I’ve never even seen that page until you posted it, and it doesn’t show up in the top or bottom nav bars. If this was linked up top like Show and Ask, then I’d look at it way more regularly.

Add it to the top bar, have a random one display (not posted, but pinned/displayed) at the top of the front page for each load. Considering it’s HNs core purpose I don’t think anyone would complain about having a sticky random Launch HN at the top during launch season?
Is the myth of the difficult second novel fact or fiction?
The problem is that many initial estimates will be low ball offers to try and win a contract. Perhaps combine the sunken-cost-limit with delayed payments, otherwise companies might low ball offers knowing they can never finish but still don't care because they'll be paid.

Better oversight is clearly needed too. There won't be one tool that'll do the job on its own.
$2m for seed seems like a good deal for any amount of equity. At least for software.
> The real trick is, being able to observe and absorb is one thing, or indeed to articulate.

I can't make heads nor tails of this sentence but the rest of your comment seems reasonable.
Same with my dad a lot. He then found Jesus and became a hardcore dogmatic Catholic. So it went from horrible spankings to 2 hour long forced lectures or I'll slap you cause you're committing a mortal sin you sinner.
The distinction between "stats" plots and "science/engineering" plots is a pretty standard thing for every scientist I have worked with. Data for stats plots is usually represented well in a dataframe. Data for "science/engineering" plots does not always make sense as a dataframe. One is a small subset of the other. Maybe we are in different fields but for anyone I would be working with it is screamingly obvious that these two libraries have different goals. How would you even make cut-axis quiver plot over 3D isosurfaces and 2D contour projections with a bunch of insets for instance in ggplot? In python, matplotlib would be the obvious choice and it is better than pretty much all R or Julia options in terms of fidelity of control (Makie.jl is getting there and has a good interface). I do not think ggplot is at all capable of that, and it would be silly to do it with ggplot anyway given that the input data is not represented by a dataframe well.
this tech is developed against vulnerable people that have no rights, like the uighur muslims in china and the palestinian muslims in israel/palestine. it is then exported all over the world to be unleashed against us all. that's why we need to look out for the "least (powerful) among us." when you protect and advocate for the rights of the weak, you are actually advocating for your future possible self, and any offspring you may bring into the world that you may care about the welfare of, after you are gone.
If you've spent 7 years working on an engine for the specific projects you're building it's going to have exactly the feature set you need for those specific projects.

I don't think this is surprising, nor a sensible criticism of Godot.
Some devices do some tasks while sleep, similar to Mac does.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/dev...

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/what-is-power-nap-m...
But how would anyone figure out you had such an algo? Only maybe the wallet owners could suspect it, and good chance they are in no position to do anything.
We should assume NSA (and a lot of cryptocurrency nerds) is already monitoring the addresses of those old bitcoin wallets as a canary for someone making such a discovery.
I think most everyone associates Solaris in this context with Tarkovsky.
I wouldn't say "flexible" exactly - RDBMSes come with a lot of stuff, but it's all coupled in surprising ways and you have to use it the way the system expects. They remind me of those do-everything application frameworks that come with a built in web server and task queue and distributed transaction framework and what have you, and you can do these amazing demos in 10 lines of code but as soon as you want to customize the behaviour or step slightly off the beaten path you're in for a world of pain.

I do see where you're coming from, but I find they're more trouble than they're worth in the long term. YMMV I guess.
Then it's not .nomedia but some Mac specific file. I can't recall what it is since I stopped using syncthing on my Mac haha. I rarely use it unless I kinda have to.
I haven't found that to be a catch actually.

I went from a mid-2015 15" MBP to 13" M1 with 8GB. I made the impulsive purchase to get 8GB ASAP rather than wait for 16GB (which was backordered). My primary apps are DaVinci Resolve, Lightroom and Photoshop. On the 15", the fans would run on full constantly. I would have to create proxy video files to work with.

On the M1, I don't create any proxies at all and the video files I work with just play in real-time.

Main catch for me is the two USB ports and one external screen limitation. I have a hub (card readers, USB, HDMI, etc) and a 10-port USB hub coming off that (with 7 external drives connected). As soon as there is a 15/16" available that handles two external displays, I will get that as well.

I dislike the TouchBar and the lone external display, but everything else about the M1 has been excellent for me.
Awesome, that's great to know!
I know this was a joke, but this is some sci-fi level plot.
I think the article's way of thinking is an example of prioritizing vauge ideological concerns over pragmatic usefulness/fulfilling a need. And as such its doomed to failure.

Linux didn't win the server & cell phone market by having the entire world read the GNU manifesto. It won by being good at what it does and meeting needs. The philosophy may have helped it do that, but meeting needs, not the ideological underpinning, is what won the day.

All this distributed web stuff is all ideology first. At best you end up with a system that lets you do the same thing as the old system, but with much more complexity and latency (and that's the best case). There is no way that is ever going to win, except against the small minority who take ideological purity very seriously.

After all, if people really wanted to get fb to go away, we would all be self-hosting blogs and rss feed readers would be our "wall". No new internet neccesary. The world choses to use fb instead.
My company uses it on documents with typed and hand written text successfully.
Quiet Listening / the Last Guest
The last time I went to Wisconsin and New York it seemed way greener than ~8 years ago. So make that sample size three (or maybe even four?)!
Can you tell me more about your setup? What apps do you use on your iPad for remote access? Is it just remote shell or do you do Remote Desktop too? What do you use for Remote Desktop?
> Funding: Supported by a research contract under Facebook’s Sponsored Academic Research Agreement…

Big tech isn’t far away from this. Scary to think what kind of applications can be derived from this technology. Imagine a hi-tech polygraph that maps your brain activity to speech—-do you have plausible deniability if something incriminating blurts out?
Yes! The announcement was a bit buried but WebGL 2 was officially confirmed by Apple at WWDC 2021 for Safari 15 "on all Apple devices": https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10030/?time...

Test it now in the iOS betas or in Safari Technology Preview. Note that there is a bug in the current iOS beta (which I expect will be fixed before release) that prevents WebGL 2 from being enabled on older A-series processors.
That is not what is happening in this study, which is tapping into the motor system that controls the muscles used in speech. That is part of the externalisation of language, not the system of thought (which we know very little about).
oh sorry about that I removed the amp at the end and messed it up. Too late for me to edit it.
Regular folks are AOL users of the past. We never really wanted them on our sites because they were 'lame' and we were 'elite'. Why do we want them? They can't even edit an html page. That was the general feeling way back then.

Fast forward 95% of the internet is made up of AOL users who primary use their phone and a few walled garden apps.

Why would we want them to be part of the systems we are building that serve our needs?

Not everyone needs to be part of a techie enclave on the internet. The barrier of walled garden can help us create an identity outside. Those ready to make the jump should be welcomed and onboarded.

The difference from before and now is money. Everyone wants everyone together because it means more money. If you can live without the money a lot of cool projects and unique communities are possible.
How much info are you talking about? A hundred or so words or thousands?
So, in Malaysia, the Police are the Judge, Jury and Executioner? I'm never going there.

Is nobody else disturbed that property was seized and destroyed BEFORE a judge or a jury had a chance to hear testimony and make a judgement?
Seaborn is based on matplotlib and has basically the same semantics of matplotlib with better styling defaults and a wider API for different plots.

For a ggplot grammar-of-graphics style library in Python, I really like Altair: https://altair-viz.github.io/
No idea why they bother with this, not sure what it provides me over something like enet. That's my point. If your game engine is just saying, "Well, here are some sockets, have fun!" then it's not doing multiplayer networking.

Maybe we have different definitions of out-of-the-box multiplayer, but Grid allows you to `git clone` and run `map <map name>` and you've got a multiplayer server and your friend can `connect <IP address>`.

If you want to do a top-down game, great. If you want to do a side-scroller, sure. If you wanted to do a board game, you're set.

Out-of-the-box multiplayer doesn't mean 1,000 lines of code later I can move something on my screen and some other guy finally sees it move, but it's not predicted, doesn't respond to field changes, etc.

Out-of-the-box multiplayer to me means without writing a line of code, I can start a server and do everything a published video game can and I can do what I actually care about, which isn't serializing data, or figuring out when I should network something because it's not visible anymore.
I have an 8GB M1 MBP. Photoshop, Lightroom, Resolve, Sublime, Chrome (50+ tabs), Transmit, etc and it's almost always very fast. Only slows down if importing to Lightroom and generating previews, or rendering video from Resolve.
MacBook series' thermal design is considered bad compared to other laptops for a long time. It accidentally helped a bit people think M1 is great and Intel is bad (though it's mostly true). (I believe it's not intended.)
Commercial induction wok burners are a solved problem, just slope the edges of the burner to fit a wok:
https://www.webstaurantstore.com/15055/countertop-induction-...
It was submitted yesterday it seems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27865241
Parry Encounters the Doctor
A chatbot that mimics a paranoid schizophrenic patient meets ELIZA.
Would love for someone with some patience and artistic skill to draw Marge Simpson (or the other Simpson family members) and see what pops out. preemptive shudder
If they are studies that are performing meta-analyses (and most of the studies citing the fraudulent article are), yes.
Related, a good read is "No Place to Hide" by Robert O'Harrow who studied and predicted corporate facial recognition and profiling back in 2006.
I dig the way this explicitly defines the null content of `nil`. It makes intuitive sense, but it also makes me more conscious of the general principle of NULLity.
Yes, this is just output. And Bach-y-Rita showed Input is digital.

What’s left is all the logic between input and output.
Nope, this team makes 5 figures in donations a month, and they actually spent time writing their own programming language. Total waste of labor. 100%.

Let's put it this way, say I gave you $250,000 and said in a year I want a game engine. What would you spend your labor on? It would not be writing a programming language.
Article and linked proposal really just don't even attempt to tackle the privacy implications of all this. People don't like that WhatsApp knows your _metadata_, but we're supposed to be good with anyone being able to bring all the metadata of their entire social network to any random provider? How do you make such an argument in 2021, the year "privacy" went mainstream?
Where do you get the idea that that's the case?
Show HN: HackerIntro
A 30% bump in plant carbon sinking isn't a small bump, it's a major negative feedback control on atmospheric carbon.

Some people seem to have the attitude that if you aren't saying something negative about an environmental topic, you shouldn't be saying anything.
>> If instead a robot is the agent being threatened, the equation would be much different.

There is no need to have an armed robot then, since self defense is not necessary. It is IMHO very bad for police to shoot in domestic calls, as you never really know who the "bad guy" is, and killing someone is equivalent to saying "is someone is gonna kill some here, its gonna be me".

For other situations like robbery maybe it's not as bad, but again there's no need to protect the robot.
That is a pretty terrible suggestion. D3 is wonderful, but it is just clunky to use for the engineering type of plots matplotlib excels at. And the learning curve for D3 is absolutely brutal compared to matplotlib. And D3 requires JavaScript (can you even get an arbitrary-DPI PNG or a high quality EPS/PDF with D3?)
You just need to encrypt the search index alongside the emails. There are databases that have solved this problem.

The hacker's solution would be to put sqlite inside a truecrypt volume I suppose.

Edit: mount it over sshfs if you need end-to-end encryption. And pray that truecrypt and sqlite have optimized their read/write operations well enough.
Too many secrets.
Sry for a weird question, the "wound up playing" in the title, since I am not native, I can't understand the real meaning, I googled but seems no good answer, so whats the real meaning in this context?
Part of me thinks it would be demoralizing to have gained speech again, only to lose it once more at the end of the study once the electrode array is removed.
I laughed at that too. I know its a funny conspiracy theory, but this is just what a government who lets cops shoot you because they shout "gun" would say.
The approach of “people are gullible and need someone smarter to show them the truth” of course requires some “smart enough” and no doubt many HNers consider themselves those people. Which is a hilarious take on HN if you ever read a discussion on health matters.

The amount of bad information, random conjuncture and conspiratorial thinking is pretty shocking.
> You would have to raise the price of goods, which then means you have to raise the quality of goods

You use the same ingredients as the day before: “This is the price of a steak in Lake Tahoe now.”
Do you think that Rust would be a better language if everything had to be compiled from source?
> First of all, Pi is not an example of such a number

It is in its canonical form (i.e. as a numbers, not something that represents it), which is what I said.

> Quite simply, to be able to pick out two points you'd need to create some kind of stable structure that identifies those two points.

No I don't. I could pick two atoms floating through space somewhere and say "This distance, right now."

I could also say: "The distance traveled by this particle in a second."

Either number is likely to be irrational. Either number could then only be approximated in binary or whichever system your prefer - unless it just so happens to be expressible using some named irrational constants.

> There are of course numbers which are specific to our universe, such as the fine structure constant, that don't have any objective definition without reference to the world. But there are finitely many of these, and they're nameable.

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree that there are finitely many of these. I don't believe there's even countably many. And if they're not countable, they're not nameable in any common language, since in those names are countable.

It would be quite surprising to me if the universe was nice enough to limit itself to things that are neatly expressible using using the somewhat limited systems humans use, even though it has already shown that it does contain things that will never be expressible using a finite set of symbols, such as numbers or an alphabet.
I think if we're invoking the reproducabilty crisis, it's a bit ironic to then dismiss demographics
those health officials couldn't bring themselves to offend the protesters by pointing out that the protests were cesspools of shedding virus. even though the protests were cesspools of shedding virus.
Grammarly might seem like an improvement if you have poorly developed grammar, but it’s a limited substitute for educating yourself in the English language. Why? Because if you outsource expression to an app you lose the personal dimension of your thoughts. This is more than nuance - it is a straight jacket because it stops you from thinking about what you are saying.
Ah yes Qanon, real bastion of objectivity there.
You need to log into 1TR with a local admin account, which is used to prevent thieves from wiping the drive and reselling. This process apparently works even if macOS is damaged, meaning your account credentials are likely stored in the enclave which is persistent and has storage inside the chip.
He had a highly curable type of pancreatic cancer.
Inviting the question: on which side of the thermocline of truth might you consider yourself located?
> This same argument could ostensibly be extended to anyone. There are armed criminals everywhere, why aren’t you carrying ${armory} on you at all times?

Some people do, and the rest of us have armed police a few minutes away. Also worth noting that in some states, legally carrying a gun is very difficult, such that lots of people practically can’t carry if they wanted to.

Disclaimer: I’m not a gun nut, nor do I have a desire to carry a gun.
Several state governments in Australia recently had to enact special legislation to stop law enforcement from using covid tracking data to find witnesses and suspects.

All state governments had initially ensured the public that the data was not available to LE, but none of them had actually passed legislation to make it unlawful until journalists discovered that the Police were using the data.

https://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/call-for-nat...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/safewa-app-sparks-urg...

https://www.innovationaus.com/qld-police-accessed-qr-code-ch...
Transition of search dialog to search bar is also a huge improvement.