skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Marijuana use essentially bars a person from working in the federal government or do any associated contractors
Same - I was a straight A student, loved solving math problems, but now I don’t remember a thing.
I think it’s just how our brain works - it gets rid of knowledge that we don’t use any longer. Muscle memory like swimming or riding bicycle stays, but seems like language and math skills don’t retain unless they are being practiced.
India disagrees with you but ok.
“We thought it would be easy, but it turned out to be really, really hard,” said Dr. Norman Sharpless, former head of the school’s cancer center, who is now the director of the National Cancer Institute. “We talked past each other for about a year.”

This happens in every organization, all the time.
I only worked through the first 13, but none of them seemed to me to have multiple solutions (with the exception of whether you can have less than one kopeck, which the author would assume the readers knew you couldn't).
>No. Devices running a FOSS operating system like the Pinephone are the least worst mobile option, people don't like it because it's not sexy and it's currently very inconvenient

Just because it's FOSS doesn't mean it's secure. If your problem is privacy then sure, the PinePhone is the least worst mobile option. If your problem is security I don't see how a phone that doesn't have hardware embedded key manager is a step up. It's not like the Linux Kernel, and whatever messenger you do decide to use is free from zero-days either.

>But it encourages users to download unaditable closed apps and reassures them that doing so is totally safe despite the fact that most of them are using 3rd party telemetry services run by data brokers.

And for the very same reason your bicycle is safer than a car because it doesn't encourage you to drive 75mph. I agree the world might be a lot better if we "return to monkey" but I don't think anarcho-primitivism is a solution.
HN is full of over-40 politically conservative men afflicted with a tech version of white plight, focused around the perceived Evils of Big Tech.
Man I tried so hard to do that with my galaxy S3 which had an unlocked bootloader (I don't think it even needed an exploit.)

Despite it's popularity though the ROM quality was extremely poor later in its life. I actually built my own busybox based OS for it from the GPL kernel source on Samsung's website but couldn't get most of the peripherals to work without all the Android stuff.

I've totally given up on Android. Thanks to the mobile Linux "movement" (or whatever) there are multiple better options now.
One of many tools, my man. Personally my security mantra is “don’t become an enemy of the state”
> which is about not letting corporate marketing departments decide how the written language should work

Why do you keep repeating this? You say you were raised among linguists, but you're getting the most basic tenant of linguistics wrong. There is no such thing as "correct" language.

But more to the point, language allows you to write proper names as though they are registered or defined. It is not incorrect to spell it DigitalOcean, because that's the registered name.

If my name was JoeBob, you don't get to split up my name just because you think English requires it.
Same issue/question. I was a pro until I stopped actively using it 10+ years ago and now, well, my math is embarrassing compared to teenage me.

I'm pretty sure the only way to pull that knowledge back into "actively useable" would be to start studying a la college again. I imagine it'd be a lot easier since we would be revisiting it instead of learning for the first time.

Hard to get excited about studying math relative to my other priorities :\
Diagram for the desired solution, on the shelf:

V1 V2

In that order you can see that the pages in each book are in this order:

| V1 | V2 |
+----------+----------+
|9876543210|9876543210|

(0-indexing of the pages for fun, plus it fit better, also reminded me of annoying protocol specs that mix 0- and 1-based indices with different elements)

The first page of V1 is the rightmost page (shelved) of Volume 1, and the last page of V2 is the leftmost page (shelved) of Volume 2. So the bookworm ends up going only through the covers. Having volumes shelved in order from left-to-right is conventional in left-to-right languages since that's the same direction we read, and you'd want to "read" through the titles to find the volume you wanted.
Aka the Antikythera mechanism.
Maybe work retail in a domain you are knowledgeable in? I loved being able to help people with their projects when I worked at Lowe's. The pay did suck though.
Yes. The idea is that without being able to differentiate features, a 3d object painted with it looks basically like a silhouette, so your brain interprets it as a 2d object.
Myth #3 is about comparing CO2-levels from hundreds of million years ago. In about 4:03 it is showing solar output superimposed on top of the graph of CO2+temp etc. The meaning is that with higher solar output today, greenhouse gases will have more effect, than they did hundred million years ago.

The updated graph is probably just to show there's more nuance to the graph than the old version. It doesn't make sense to use very old graphs outdated by the author.

CO2 emissions are accellerating over time:

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/gl_gr.html

The runaway effects will be from thresholds being broken, like acification of the ocean, burning of the tundra, deglacification and other events that humanity cannot influence or stop directly.

https://www.quora.com/When-will-the-world-s-oceans-lose-thei...

https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/ocean-co...

https://knowledge.insead.edu/blog/insead-blog/the-ocean-cann...

While we do have negative feedback loops, lately, temperature looks to be accellerating as well:

https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...

Netflix has this documentary that explains further, ie. why biodiversity is needed.

David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet - "vision for the future" on 'how to fix' climate change :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KglanVLBVrc
"JWST needs to use propellant to maintain its halo orbit around L2, which provides an upper limit to its designed lifetime, and it is being designed to carry enough for ten years. The planned five year science mission begins after a 6-month commissioning phase. An L2 orbit is only meta-stable, so it requires orbital station-keeping, or the telescope will drift away from this orbital configuration." [0]

There's no mention of lifetime for the cryocooler @ [1], but if that thing becomes ineffective for whatever reason (helium refrigerant leak?), I think the telescope becomes somewhat useless.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#Lau...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIRI_(Mid-Infrared_Instrument)...
I am in complete agreement with you on this one. That said, it is not relevant in anyway to the news being discussed.
Exactly. If the problem does not involve the "Aha! moment" the kids won't love it. And there's no way to have both "Aha!" and 90+% scores.
I'm confused...

How many hours per week are you working in the other two projects?

How many hours per week are you going to work in the new project?
I guess the first step then is to build a wider foundation for sustainability! I feel like building closed loop systems well is extremely rewarding(think aquaponics) but it is also hard to scale...and in a world where everything seemingly gets pushed to be scaled, adoption is more in a hobby form.
Reading my response back now, I didn't mean to sound cynical or abrasive when I quoted 'helped build' from your profile.

I could have as easily said "I see you were involved in.." or whatever and that would not have sounded snarky.

Honestly though, I didn't think it through that much, I just literally quoted what I saw. Just in case you thought that was where I was coming from!

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Before 1917, they were divisible into 4 polushkas.
It's in the eyes. My resting bitch face is broken up with moments of smizing.
You're not the customer. You're the product.

You can still turn the screen off. For now.
"One Pound and Half the Brick" means one pound is the other half. It's interesting to visually explain it to kids so they start to see that "fraction" (half) doesn't have to mean "weird number".
Seems like Mishalacked isn't great at making deals.
> stay locked in slow motion litigation with this guy for the rest of his life (or at least until he's exhausted his own financial ability to litigate)

How is this even possible? Why don't judges recognize this obvious abuse and stop it?
There is too much to talk about and I’d want to give an objective impression with examples in a blog post, but one of the major grips I have is how little information Julia provides you with stack traces. Debugging production problems with absolutely zero clue of what/where the problem might be is one of the most frustrating aspects. I’ve spent so many hours debugging Julia using print statements. Debugger is janky, Juno/Atom support is not very good. Nothing feels polished and robust. Dependencies break all the time. We are stuck with Julia 1.2 and too much of an undertaking to go to latest version. Package management is an absolute disaster - this is the case with Python but Julia is worse. Julia Registry has many issues (compat errors). Testing and mocking is also underwhelming. I think startup times have improved but still not very developer-friendly. Sorry not an objective answer you’re looking for. There also things that Python has such as excellent web-dev ecosystem and system libs that are missing in Julia. Python has everything. Want to generate a QR code image? Easy in Python. Want to create PDF reports with custom ttf fonts? A breeze in Python.
If you look up the definitions of sin, arcsin, logarithms, etc, does it mostly come back to you? Or do you feel like you need to completely relearn? I’m wondering if in your case all you need is to take a little time for a math refresher.
Perverse incentives exist in many socio-political systems, capitalism isn't unique in that regard. For example, the Soviet whaling industry [0] sounds almost like the paperclip maximization AI [1].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling_in_the_Soviet_Union_an...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paper...
> I was originally responding to your comment that the marginal utility of doubling performance is diminishing. I

Your ambiguity in your responses is why I've been both addressing the marginal value of DMIP and marginal value of log(DMIP).

> since processor performance increases exponentially, not linearly.

It doesn't look very exponential right now. Looking at consumer-focused processors, we've gone from 176k DMIPS in a package in 2011, to 298k DMIPS in 2014, 320k DMIPS in 2016, 412k in 2018, and now we've finally got a substantive boost again to about 850k in 2021, though these are golden parts that aren't really available.

> The rate of improvement is what is diminishing, not the value of the improvement.

It's both --- the improvement is getting much more expensive, and the value is going down.

> Fabs are still motivated by demand from their customers and competition.

The vast majority of fabs have stopped being anywhere near the leading edge, because costs are too high for the benefits. At >100nm, there were about 30 manufacturers close to the leading edge; then at 45nm we had about 15 manufacturers who were close to the leading edge. Now it's Samsung, TSMC, and Intel-- 3, that's it. And even Intel is starting to question whether it's worth it versus than pooling effort together with others to amortize the massive capital costs. Most parts and applications are staying further and further from the leading edge, because the areal density benefits to cost are smaller and the tape out costs are ever higher, and because the vast majority of applications and semiconductor units do not need the performance.

Whereas 30 years ago, almost anything that could shrink, did, because of areal density benefits and because almost all applications desired improved performance.
It's possible we are seeing a global political shift, where that is exactly what identifies your leaning. We have seen an increase in authoritarianism (and support for authoritarianism) over the past 10 years [0][1].

[0] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10758216.2020.1...

[1] https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/20...
IIUC, this is assuming that memory allocation is O(1)?
>so you have one piece of software to exploit and now you can attack everyone. The extreme lack of diversity makes these sorts of complex exploits much more profitable.

The flip side is the lack of diversity makes patching easy. Good luck pushing an update patching a 0-day affecting 3-4 Android versions to 60% of devices.
not really, there's postmarketOS. Although only a handful of devices work well, you can still get some use out of many phones.
I know this is a forum for nerds, but I struggle to understand how anyone could seriously believe that being surrounded by people who are either psychopathic or paranoid is probably A-OK, as long as they are all competent statisticians.
Yeah. And then two people hijacked a plane to free Indira gandhi. This is the definition of terrorism as it is using violence for political purposes. Congress have those two party tickets and backed them in elections.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bholanath_and_Devendra_Pande...

I also dislike that we have to constantly add "we are not defending modi". It comes from their belief that the only ones who criticize Congress are hindutva nationalists bigots. As if congress did nothing to receive the ire of the people.
Fair enough. I was going to wait a bit longer to provide the hint. I do like that there are non-Euclidian answers. However, I doubt non-Euclidian geometry was expected on standardized tests tests in US, if the anecdote is to be believed that this came from say SAT or ACT.
Knowledge atrophy is real. I've even talked to math PhDs who have forgotten areas of math they have definitely learned and excelled at but hadn't been using actively.

But I think your brain still subconsciously possesses knowledge of these supposed forgotten math skills. This is the reason why relearning these concepts will take way less time than learning them the first time. So I think just don't be afraid to relearn it.
2 pounds ?
brick_weight = 1pounds + 0.5brick_weight
Not sure what you mean by "send marketing notifications anyway," since they are allowed to do that now.

Are you saying they do it after you opt-out of the marketing notifications in-app?
> Space tourism raises important moral questions. Should self-professed climate leaders walk the climate talk?

> A paper published in Geophysical Research Letters suggests that black carbon or soot deposited in the stratosphere from the launch of 1,000 private rockets could increase polar surface temperatures by 1°C.

> By some accounts, the image of Earth from Apollo 8 in 1968 led to the first Earth Day. But this is 2021, when the effects of the climate crisis are grimly visible.

There is quite a moral dilemma for those elite pushing the boundaries of space + climate change.
Google employees accuse tech giant of mishandling sexual assault case
There's a Compiler and Runtime Engineer position listed at https://juliacomputing.com/jobs/ which presumably pays money.
You're doing gods works here. Thanks so much. Please do ask for a reset when you get the chance and/or email me directly brennan at hypercontext.com would love more feedback like this
Do you have citations? I don't see how any of those have been affected more so than any of the previous Congress governments. If you're talking about the various protests, the fact that they happen is proof that democracy is working. Just because someone doesn't agree with a government's policy doesn't mean democracy is dead. There hasn't been a Tianenmen square in New Delhi.
"Large events" is nice and vague, my bet: start with the nightclubs at the start of September, extend to pubs at the start of October, next lockdown end of October. Enjoy the pubs while you can.
Electric jets and buried trash. Welcome to Marc Lore's city of the future
Allowing drugs and other vices for the sake of economic prosperity is sad and goes against progress for humanity. I live next door to someone that smokes non-stop everyday and the second-hand smoke pisses me off to no end.
hdmi port doesnt work on many m1 mac minis, is this counting the two usbc or hdmi plus 1?
Netflix is worth 10 times less. Netflix thinks a season is 10 episodes or less.
Popular shows get cancelled a few get kept but seasons take years to come out. The availability of content goes down every year. I'm not sure it's worth what they are charging for compared to Prime, etc

With cable you get to pick a channel and let them broadcast
to you. You don't select the next episode you select a channel. The benefit of selecting a channel over an episode or series is you don't have to think what should I watch next. Weekdays at this time they will play a show you expect.. it's freeing to just put a channel on and you get a certain background rhythm.

When you stream the lack of ads means the lack of mental breaks. The watcher doesn't have time to take in the last 8-12 minutes and think a.out it without the ads. That causes one show to blend into another and at the end of the binge you can hardly remember the details.

Plus you get tons of on demand content channels offer cable subscribers. News, Sports, Live Content, Local channels all exist in cable but not streaming.
That's a really good point I hadn't considered. Thank you
Seems like the precursors might have originated from India but what would evolve into what we today call "Chess" seems to have been taking shape in Persia (Iran).
> I just can't bring myself to stuff information into my head and then give it back later. It's not a storage device.

Funny, I thought that's pretty much exactly what it is.

> 95% of my school and university "education" was to memorize something, then recite it, and then forget it forever.

Did anyone actually order you to forget anything? I don't think that part was mandatory.
Yes, that is why you would expect their claim to be corroborated with (even circumstantial) evidence when dropping names.
Julia Computing is a company that employs (some of) the core contributors of Julia and develops enterprise solutions.

Such as:

- the first Julia IDE Juni now depreciated.

- On premise package server

- A wrapper over AWS called JuliaRun that has a nice web interface

- paid "we make a core developer stare at RR traces of your problems"

- FDA approved software for drug development and pharmacokinetics as https://juliacomputing.com/products/pumas/

It is not the programming language that is the product.
As shown both in the article and in the comments, scientific establishment seems content to tolerate fraud. But when research goes against big money interests, suddenly standards become very strict. See how Andrew Wakefield was treated. https://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c7452
I think a lot of it is that this is a series A for a 6 year old company that is already making money. Most other startups would be on series B, so comparing this number to a 10 person startup for a company that doesn't have a product yet doesn't make a lot of sense.
From your top level comment:

> a nurse a laminated piece of A4 paper and a patient who can blink get about 15 characters

How is this a relevant comparison? 15 characters per minute is much less than the 15 WORDS per minute performance this work demonstrates

> I spent a solid 6 months intimately learning the pros and cons of various existing BCI systems, as well as the exact methods researchers use to make their technology look like a breakthrough when it isn't.

Then you should know this is a huge deal.

> Specifically, here, they've created a system that can decode one of 50 symbols

Previous motor and speech neuroprosthetic systems focused on pointing (controlling cursor) and more recently, handwriting (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03506-2). This work goes gives communication rate similar to the handwriting work, but decoding speech from the motor cortex has been much less understood than that of simple motor movements such as cursor position and velocity control.

Even more impressive, the test subject is not even a native English speaker.

> They've also cherry-picked the patient that responded the best.

Bravo-1 is the only subject they had.

> When you peel back the hype, this is about the same performance we've been getting since '08 for an invasive, subdural, non-penetrative array.

This is completely, utterly false. See (https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jx921pv3255/Technical...) for survey of performance of typing BCI.

You seem to love to cite your background as a BCI PhD dropout. I should also point out that I have a completed PhD in invasive neuroprosthetics and still work in the field (not that matters when anyone can look up the sources and judge for themselves).
Very nice app! I had just started working on my own implementation of a similar app, so I'm glad I don't have to do that anymore!

One thing I notice is that when using VoiceOver to read out elements on the screen, there don't seem to be any labels on routine items, so a screen reader user wouldn't know what was on their checklist, and the labels on the big blue + icons in the lower right don't say what they do.
I did this on a Mac Mini M1 running a production version (I can't recall which version exactly) of Big Sur.
If Windows Terminal uses DirectX, then using it for the web will be fine
> For scripting, interpreted Julia is coming.

Citation for this?
Julia has had a built-in interpretted since 1.0, in 2017
use `--compile=min`, or `--compile=none` to make use of it.
And JuliaInterpretter.jl has been working since 2018.
Both are very slow -- slower than adding in the compile time for most applications.
As I understand it, this is because a number of things in how the language works are predicated on having a optimizing JIT compiler.
As is how the standard library and basically all packages are written.

Julia is going to over time become nicer for scripting, just because of various improvements.
In particular, I put more hope on caching native code than on any new interpreter.
Reminds me of the boy who changed his name on Zoom to Reconnecting
Why does it seem like almost everyone doesn't realize that PDFs can easily be made to support all the horrors we see in HTML? No, it's fucking well not impossible -- or even notably difficult -- to jam some malicious dynamic code into a PDF. The only reason a period of widespread fear about PDF viruses hasn't developed as it has for websites spreading malicious code is the fact that websites got much more widely adopted. PDFs have been used as malicious code vectors before, and replacing HTML with PDFs would only result in PDFs being the new common vector for the same problem, with at least the same scale and intensity.

This only seems like a solution if you don't know what PDFs can do -- and, by the way, sometimes pagination is bad, especially static (non-reflow) pagination.

EDIT:

Let's make this clearer.

You can actually embed an entire JavaScript application in a PDF. Tell me again how PDFs somehow prevent the problem of dynamic pages on the web. All using PDFs instead of HTML pages would do is wrap the horrors of the web in forms that are generally more hostile to various viewing contexts for the less harmful use cases (e.g. static pages suddenly being harder to read in some contexts with PDFs than with HTML pages).