skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reporting everywhere is diminishing because people want short spammable memes that validate their opinions and beliefs over news that can enlighten them. The internet has decimated longform journalism and the market no longer exists for it.
If someone said that the all these convoluted explanations go can be done away with if we consider that circulation arises outside the heart and the heart is a tuned receiver for a circulation field you'd laugh them out of the room.

Why is consciousness different than circulation?

As an aside if you were puzzling over how a cpu works understanding the electromagnetic field works is indeed useful but it in no way obviates the need to understand the cpu in terms of the elements in front of your face because the function of the cpu is absolutely a function of those elements.
But seriously - where did all the weapons -> anti-tank missiles etc pop up from? You had a bunch of protestors -> all of a sudden armed to the teeth...

This is Russia and Iran? Syria was already close to Russia and Iran economically / etc. Why would russia and iran arm the protestors?

The US is far far away. The US isn't (that) aligned with the idea of a muslim / islamic state / caliphate etc.

Again - be very interesting to trace where all these weapons popped up.
I mean this was Russia arming them?
A few joints per night? That's a whole lot, isn't it?
Sure, that would be interesting on some level.

But I see the objective as cleaning the room, not having a clean room, so a subjective experience of being more engaged and enjoying it more is intrinsically valuable.

If it takes a lot longer or the results aren't as good, that changes things, sure, but this can be settled with a timer and a before/after photo. Controlling for degree-of-mess probably adds so much noise that this probably isn't useful in practice.
I remember being at the pool at the hotel during the 1990 TUG conference and Michael Spivak going on a long tirade against the qualities of Computer Modern. There's a reason he commissioned the creation of the MathTime fonts.
> That just seems like a depressing failure of vision to me: the goal should be to get the web to the point where it replaces all of these stupid apps we have to have, so no one ever has to decide if an app is "installed or uninstalled" ever again: all content is immediately consumable at all times with nothing other than a URL.

But then how would the largest companies in the world excise a 15% to 30% tax on the entirety of the mobile app market, and soon the desktop app market, as well?
There are several reasons why not to resort to third-party code generators [1]. This includes the burden of maintenance (think about the build process) and seamless integration of native macros with other code.

Do you have some code to show bloated binaries with Datatype99/Interface99? The last time I checked the generated assembly code, it was nearly of the same size as hand-written code [2].

[1]: https://github.com/Hirrolot/metalang99#q-why-not-third-party...
[2]: https://godbolt.org/z/ns6Ma7csd
A building did, yes. It required fob access and was clearly being sublet against the contract. The fobs stopped working, and there was no remedy. This was in 2014 in New York City, I forget the precise building though.
DNS – The Song
Black Lives Matter Founder Has Long History of Bombing Including the US Capitol
> Obama tried to stay clear of Syria.

How does the supporting 'moderate rebels' figure into Obama's strategy of de-escalation in Syria?
Murders, bombings, armed robberies.

Why dod you donate to BLM again? Are you a terrorist?
I think what pjmlp is trying to suggest is the API or Khronos instead of allowing extensions where it has limitless possibility, it should be courting and doing what Metal and Direct X are doing setting tiers of GPU Level. You either support RayTracing + N other features and call yourself Vulkan 2.0 GPU or you get back to Vulkan 1.x

This is exactly how is has been working in the PC world, and is working quite well as far as I can tell.
Robinhood’s Guinea Pig for Upending Public Offerings: Itself
Is this work being done by an enthusiast, a company, or something else?

I'm glad it's being done, just curious to know if there's a company with a profit incentive behind it. I don't say that as though it's a bad thing - there are tons of benefits of that. Just trying to understand what's happening.

Regardless, thank you for your efforts! I dream of a day when I buy a high performance RISC-V machine to use as my workstation.
Number 7 is a subtle but huge problem. I ran into this way back when I was trying to sell a small, education-focused GIS system I wrote as an alternative to the monstrosity that is ArcGIS. Students loved it since it was easy to use (only had maybe 5% of the functionality of ArcGIS, but it was the functionality that covered 90% of basic analysis.) The department heads I spoke to loved the idea since it was drastically cheaper than Arc, they could push the cost to the student (less than a textbook) rather than maintain ESRI contracts. The problem was that the decision maker, ie the real customer, was the professor, who did not experience either the ease of use benefits or care about the expense. As such I got nowhere with the product.
Sadly, BBCNews.com has been blogspam for the better part of a decade already. I noticed it years ago when increasing numbers of their headlines were simply quotes from public figures (often taken out of context) with some prepending to create more of an alarmist feel.

I think it happened right when there were key changes, either the online editor, or a public announcement they would earn more of their own revenue, or a combination of the two. Circa 2013 if I remember correctly.

Sadly of course, if a media property has to play the same eyeballs-ads-game every other online junkheap does, then inevitably the quality dives vey quickly in favour of cheap thrills and assorted clickbait.
From the actual text of the proposal it seems "wallet" means an account hosted at a Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP). Nothing to do with crypto wallets at all, really. These are "Know Your Customer" rules; if you're transacting between two unhosted wallets there is no CASP involved and you are not a customer.
When was the last time you made a payment with dollar bills?

Every day. I rarely pay with a card unless there is no other option. This may be an unpopular opinion, but I do not see banks replacing our current fiat system with another one nor do I see any movement on deprecating the American dollar as the international currency standard. The impact of doing so would affect many countries and institutions. That is a topic in and of it itself. While I don't always agree with him, I tend to side with the opinions of Peter Schiff on bitcoin. [1] I have never used bitcoin.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=peter+schiff+bi...
>They should conform to the market; not the other way around.

But they are. It's just that the vast majority of the market are indifferent so it gets accepted.
I would define "need" as per Reiss 16 Motives:

- Acceptance/Self-confidence - the need to be appreciated

- Curiosity, the need to gain knowledge

- Eating, the need for food
- Family/Love, the need to take care of one’s offspring

- Honor, the need to be faithful to the customary values of an individual’s ethnic group, family or clan

- Idealism, the need for social justice

- Independence/Freedom, the need to be distinct and self-reliant

- Order, the need for prepared, established, and conventional environments

- Physical activity/Vitality, the need for work out of the body

- Power/Efficacy, the need for control of will

- Romance, the need for mating or sex

- Saving/Ownership, the need to accumulate something

- Social contact/Fun, the need for relationship with others

- Social status/Self-Importance, the need for social significance

- Tranquility/Safe, the need to be secure and protected

- Vengeance, the need to strike back against another person
Approximately 0 companies have used a TPM for DRM even though they have been put in PCs for 15 years now.

At the same time, boot sector attacks have become prevalent, which TPMs can protect from.

The net effect is the paranoid "never use anything that might possibly one day might be used for DRM" folks have made practical computer security worse by threatening anyone that adds TPM functionality into their product.

Good job.
You also over-incarcerate black men by a factor of XXX - hardly you can use the excuse of lack of psychiatric units there.
The AI field pre-winter has been obliterated by the winter. What is now called AI are the parts of the field that got less attention and funding back in the day, mainly prediction by statistical analysis of past data.
> In reality, upvote = I agree, downvote = I disagree.

I feel its actually We agree, We disagree.

The points induce conformity as its now with likes and shares with every social media and in-spite of personal opinions most will stick with what the majority do.

This can be easily resolved by hiding the points and if it serves the purpose of validation then showing it to the owner alone, I've done so in the forum I run and has improved the quality of discussions.

But those point numbers are the bread and better of social media, Who will let go of those sweet dopamine triggers? Twitter cannot chase both conformity and quality of discussions. Reddit went from latter to now a half-baked social media, But still can produce some quality discussions because of the topic silo of subreddits.
Don’t forget solid state batteries.
Starlink is supposed to operate 30k satellites, and it currently has something around 1,5k (correct me if I am wrong).

What this means is we can expect that in future obstructions will be much less of a problem, because there will be much better chance that at any point in time there will be a satellite on visible part of the sky.

Also, I think, main reason of Starlink is to have access anywhere, even in extremely remote areas. I think some inconvenience is expected and fair. I don't expect Starlink is going to replace a traditional broadband -- for that it will never have the bandwidth necessary.
Those were dismantled for themselves being full of human rights violations though.
I have little respect for "artists" who do UI because the job requires little skill.

Sites and exposes like the parent of this entire thread serve to inflate the worth of people who do this stuff.

Painting the mona lisa is talent. Arranging text and pictures with flat colored geometric elements is NOT talent.

The idea that the still life painting is even comparable to some website design is laughable. It takes a lot of skill to be able to create that painting, it takes almost no skill to devise the layout to that site.
Yeah, I use 1Password for every critical bit of information (SSN numbers, physical access codes) and a whole lot of less-critical stuff. I expect to be a customer for life.
Daily != all day

Honestly, I only care about long term memory.

Short term was mutilated by todo apps and calendars already.

I want to reserve my memory for interesting ideas and moments. Not groceries and vacuuming.

This thread is making me think my way of prioritizing and doing is, not novel, but different than the replies is all.

I play guitar and piano, I don’t own a TV, I do use a tablet for movies but once or twice a week. I play Tetris on my kids Switch rarely, otherwise got bored with video games years ago, I don’t use social media. I exercise daily but don’t watch sports.

I have a lot less cultural “noise” in my face than many, yet I live in a big metro area.

Maybe that affords me the mental bandwidth to work with weed?
Without the fingers? How does that happen?
Clicking 'x' does not quit on Mac
You need to drop North Korea from that to make any sense at all. Not only do they incarcerate far more people per capita than the US, but the conditions make US prison seem like paradise. No exaggeration.

Prison in North Korea is much closer in spirit and implementation to Nazi concentration camps during the second World War, or the Soviet gulags. Many people die within months of being sent there.
One thing that caught me as interesting about the article was the obstruction map and what could be achieved with that kind of data if it was gathered and correlated with millions of other users. I am no expert but it seems that traditional observation from space has always been limited by the resolution from up on high. Flip the problem and have ground-based observers in densely populated areas track shadows in a rotating grid of point sources in the sky, and you can build a 3d map outwards instead, the only problem being how to increase the density, consistency, and spread of the ground-based sensor array.
The population level prevalence is where we should see this. If cannabis really did cause SCZ, as opposed to merely being self-medication, general drug use dysfunctionality, or possibly just accelerating SCZ onset but not increasing total cases, we should see incredibly high rates in recreational legalizing jurisdictions where prevalence is now a large fraction of the population. Instead, buried at the end, we get

"The findings could help explain the "general increase in the incidence of schizophrenia that has been observed in recent years" and provides some support that the "long-observed association between cannabis and schizophrenia is likely partially causal in nature," the study said."

OK then...
It would be pretty ridiculous if a little water could short out a buried transmission line. Do you really think generations of engineers haven't figured out how to protect buried lines from ground water?

I don't know what PG&E will use in this case, but all buried power and transmission lines lines are robust against water infiltration. Solid-dielectric cables are rated for direct burial, and cooled lines are encased in steel conduit. Both types are sometimes further protected in concrete.
This is a good example of letting perfect be the enemy of the good. Because everyone can't--physically--have access, nobody gets it and the elected leadership gets to hide behind press releases.
I don't think Carter had any input. There was some (minimal) input from Zapf, mostly with respect to the calligraphic capitals. Mostly, Knuth was trying to replicate the Monotype Modern. Some of the fonts like cmr17 are especially bad (the extrapolation of parameters to larger design sizes was not correct). That said, I do think that cmtt is a superior typeface for monospace typesetting.
Thanks for sharing. One thing caught my eye in that report. It says that 57% of Black and 61% of Hispanic respondents claim to have been fully vaccinated. The totals across 40 states in the US are 36% and 41% respectively [1]:

> Less than half of Black and Hispanic people have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose in nearly all states reporting data, including a number of states where less than a third have received a vaccine

I'm aware that polls have a skew, but I can't figure out how those numbers are so different, especially since the latter numbers are about people who have received at least one dose, not the full dose.

[1] https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-...
Brave New Privacy Features
The real worry from these tools is relative power. A man with a knife can kill a few people. A man with a rifle can kill a few dozen people. A man with a few zero days can cripple infrastructure around the country and cause hundreds if not thousands of deaths. Relative power asymmetries are why nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons are banned by international law.
I didn’t propose a solution. But right now, as it stands, money is motivating the perpetuation of misinformation. I’m OK with that ending.
Says a manager of a wildly secretive company, who barely speaks in public
Yep that's my point. I'm guessing that for a lot of sites they can verify if there's an outage pretty easily when they see a spike in reports, but for something like AWS unless they updated their status page (lol) or downdetector ran a bunch of stuff on there just to check with, I guess they don't have a good way to verify it.
Like Shrooms, Cannabis will sooner or later confront you with aspects of yourself that you're not entirely comfortable with.

There was always strong weed, and hashish; it just means you either consume less or fall asleep.

Hormones are possible, I guess.
No. It can't.

My office has 5kW of panel hung, 10kWh of battery, and my Starlink terminal is on the house system (grid tied) because an extra 2.4kWh/day isn't workable with my system in the winter, short of a LOT of generator time - I'm severely power limited during inversions, and the Starlink dish more than doubles my office's "idle power draw" (it's the property network hub, one of our internet connections, inverter idle, sleeping computers, etc).

Yesterday, the 15.9kWh system on the house produced 78kWh for a "sun factor" of about 4.9, so a 400W panel would produce about 2 kWh. Whoops. That's not 2.4.

In the dead of winter, the same system can produce 2.5 kWh - yes, 2.5 kWh on a 15.9kW nameplate system. A 400W panel won't even power on the charge controller in those conditions.

To reliably power a 100W load, 24/7, in most areas, requires probably 1500-2000W of panel and 20+kWh of battery - or someone willing to light a generator, which is the far cheaper option. But "a 400W panel and batteries" (implied as a trivial thing to set up) definitely won't. It won't even run it 24/7 in peak sun most of the year.

... and that's before it tries to melt the snow off. From the blog post:

> During the heavy snowfall, Dishy quickly spiked up to 125W, peaking at 175W towards the end of the snowstorm.

Solar panels don't produce much covered in snow, either.
Hey thank you so much!

Semi-related, I've been trying to get some resources together for a handful of artists / musicians trying to break into tech on this linked repo.

If you or your artist/SWE friends have any suggestions on helpful resources I'm desperately trying to get more on there via pull requests or the discord linked in the repo!

https://github.com/tombetthauser/artists-in-tech-resources
I find it somewhat funny that this is written by Susan A. Stoner, PhD, Research Consultant.
Interesting that they're porting it to other organisms. Different organisms have variations in ribosomes, post translational modifications and even tRNA repertoire. So it's not a guarantee that two identical DNA sequences will give identical proteins in two different organisms.
You can still hardcode IP addresses. Not sure most people realize DNS isn't actually needed, you know, except for convenience and all that.
The average age of university presidents and members of Congress in the USA is in the 70s. At the risk of sounding callous can we fix our gerontoctratic system and then fix aging?
Even so, I used to do a lot of metaprogramming with the C preprocessor back in the day. Over time, I grew disillusioned with it and gradually removed it from my C code. It just wasn't worth it.

P.S. I also did metaprogramming in C by writing C programs to generate C code, such as converting an array of structs to multiple arrays, one for each field (for efficiency). This worked out fairly cleanly, but with D's ability to run functions at compile time, I was able to put this back into the main program.
4.6B-year-old meteorite found
Who's the Smallest of Them All? Mini Moth Gets a Big Title
> Is that bad or unusual?

Unusual, I don't know. Bad, yes, absolutely.
There's a line from the show "Suits" that really highlights your point I think. Essentially the show is about this wunderkind who conned his way into becoming a lawyer at a top firm. He smokes weed, and the partner at the firm wants him to quit. The partner explains "It's okay if you want to smoke weed. But that's what weed smokers do. They smoke. If you want to do other things, like work at this firm, you've gotta quit weed, because you can't do both." I think that's very true.
If the next machine learning killer-app model requires autodiff'ed dynamic control flow, do you think Google/Facebook will build that capability into XLA/TorchScript? Seems like if NLP SOTA requires dynamic control flow, Google will build it? Maybe they let you declare some subgraph as "dynamic" to avoid static optimizations? But maybe the static graph assumption is so deeply embedded into the XLA architecture, they'd be better off just adopting Julia? (I honestly don't know the answer, asking your opinion!)
well apathetic individuals still rely on the society they are in, most of the time anyway. I think this is where the narcissism perception comes in.

Most stoners in particular people who smoke a lot and for a long time at least in my experience become apathetic and to a degree dependent on their environment. They rely on others to organize their lives, even get simple chores done, they become sort of lethargic. And when you have an individual like that who also acts indifferently towards it you create (I think a justified) negative perception.
Computer scientists had QC to “make their mark” for the past 30 years, and will continue to have it for the next 30. It’s available irrespective of an industry full of cash-grabbing and misleading marketing.
Gain of function researchers working for the world's militaries will use this research to figure out how to get viruses to attach to receptor sites peculiar to particular races. The people developing the antivirals will have a lot harder time countering these weapons because making antivirals that aren't poisonous in some weird way is a much harder job. If this is not the case, please let me know why, it will really help me sleep better at night.

A U.S congressional representative came out of a classified briefing recently and announced that the CCP is hard at work on race specific bioweapons.[1]

Unfortunately, I think this is the launch of a new era of weapons we're seeing right now. The biggest development in war since the atom bomb. Like the atom bomb, the big question was will we kill ourselves with this technology. Who knows?

[1]https://yournews.com/2021/07/22/2185645/rep-marjorie-taylor-...
> if you have a great way to cure aging but are worried that the FDA does not recognize aging as a condition, that's how you get the treatment to market

If you have a cure for aging, I'm decently sure you can earn your ROI without respect to the FDA.
Yes, as now we have heads of state and ambassadors using Twitter.
Yea - but dismantling them was the wrong answer. It was the easy guiltless answer where everyone could pat themselves on the back, but mental health treatment is a service that society needs and trying to solve it with prisons is just a terrible idea.

The right answer was admitting and addressing those terrible abuses and fixing the system.
This made my day, thanks!
On a tangent note, Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" ("I think therefore I am") falls into the trap of the grammar: it presupposes that the thinker, who does the act of thinking, exists. The actually undeniable empirical statement would be "cogitationes sunt", "thoughts exist", but you can't get anywhere from that without answering additional questions: for example, do the thoughts need a thinker (whatever it may be) to exist and think them, or?.. If you answer "yes", you can follow Descartes' line of reasoning. If you answer "no", no problem, there is a whole philosophical tradition of Buddhism built on that.
Atari 2600 programming is really fun and has a super active community. I suspect it's one of the most active retro communities out there right now.

Also, it's kind of fake retro, but I'm pretty excited for the Commander X16, again, mostly because the community is so cool.