skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author here! Happy to answer any questions about the article or the product idea I'm thinking about building: wormhole.

I'll be writing more articles about the product idea to make it more clear what I want to build. Happy to read any feedback or if I'm wasting my time!
In the developing world millions are in fact being pushed into starvation as a result of the Covid lockdowns.
I use kaniko a lot. Could you please expend on why you preferred buidah? (I'm happy with kaniko, and curious)
They sold it in the debt crisis. Times were tough.

(/kidding, because this is the internet).
"Nothing matters" - that's a very soothing thought. It's soothing because we all focus of what we haven't / couldn't done. It's human mentality to think of bad things over good things. So if nothing matters, then our bad things don't matter, and so it's soothing.

But I don't think we should base our life on any 1 particular ideology because of the possibility of us being wrong. Imagine someone basing their entire life on 1 particular ideology , and it turns out that they were simply wrong. The sunk-cost fallacy would be unbelievable.
Sorry, I don't know who any of these people are, so it makes your comment very confusing.
i felt that this was created by the suckless community.
I keep mentioning this like a broken record. In most western democracies we have a disconnect from the will of the people and what legislation gets implemented, caused by representative democracy. We need a more direct way for people to influence policy. If the majority of people vote to implement something, the rest of the people will have an easier time accepting it if they know the process is fair and genuine.
KEYHOLE and BYEMAN are code words regarding satellite reconnaisance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byeman_Control_System
How do you expect to build upon the works of past philosophers if you haven't actually read them?

The "replacement" for Nietzsche's books, if that's a goal, must also address WHY Neitzsche's arguments are weak or insufficient. It must also address, to a degree, structuralism/post-structuralism, postmodernism, etc. This is not a process wherein Nietzsche (or Heidegger, or Hegel, or whomever). Questions of "how ought one live?" are not narrowly focused. Simply because you did not study philosophy and seemingly disregard the idea that different people may adhere to different ethical systems (as one part of philosophy) does not invalidate the discipline. There is no universal, provable "right" answer to "what is ethical?" Certainly there is overlap between virtue ethics and utilitarianism and intuitionism for how one might behave, but the reasoning behind them all differs.

Humans are not omniscient. Philosophers are not omniscient. It's disingenuous to talk about general relativity as an example, and much more cogent to talk about theoretical physics (to which I can't speak with any authority except as a lay reader who's aware of multiple theoretical frameworks which cannot be simultaneously true). Sure, you can have "more sophisticated arguments (mathematics)", but the answers to some of these questions may never be known. In philosophy, we will NEVER know the answers to questions about the human condition, the nature of knowledge, etc. Just because it's not mathematics which are "transferable" and can build on top of each other does mean that the knowledge is not transferable or that the arguments do not get more sophisticated.

Exactly what you're describing DOES happen in philosophy, and has always happened.
HN is throttling your account because it’s 15 minutes old.
People did starve from lockdowns in 2020.
Edmunds forum for cars is very popular
People and their conspiracy theories... Cell phone cameras do a lot of post-processing, like skin smoothing, color enhancing and edge sharpening. Before jumping to this censorship conspiracy without evidence, I would investigate if one of those algorithms are buggy, and somewhere on the photo there is a combination of pixels that trigger the bug. Or sure, I'd investigate if there's censorship code, but I'm not going to assume there's some evil stuff going on before I see the code.

Maybe it's as simple as flash memory corruption on the guy's phone, the photo of mostly table and just the edge of the envelope is "simpler" (lots of the table which is just white), so maybe it takes less space. The more complicated photo would take more storage space, what if it's hitting a bad block or a period of bad blocks because of the physical memory layout (e.g. a sequence of bytes every 4MB is bad).
Wow! Is the trick that we now have powerful microcomputers small enough to fit into a USB plug? That's pretty incredible technology. How many years ago did this become possible? My IT security training is dated, I am aware of the risks of plugging in a random USB key, but just a cable from a helpful "coworker"? Yikes.
You give two arguments. One is that some colds in humans are caused by coronaviruses. But on the other hand, coronaviruses cause severe and fatal illness in livestock and are not getting attenuated.

The second argument is that over a century ago, an epidemic might have possibly been caused by a coronavirus, and might have possibly become a common strain of the flu. This tenuous and unprovable line of reasoning is exactly what I see as wishful thinking.
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Antibiotics hadn’t been invented in the 1910s, so there were quite a few untreatable potentially deadly diseases in circulation. In the modern era, rightly or wrongly, a lot of people see it as a good and achievable goal that they shouldn’t ever get an infectious disease more serious than the flu.
> But if your use case includes, “track my heart rate 24 hours a day, my overnight sleeping patterns, and be an alarm clock and practical timepiece”,

That's how I use my Apple Watch. But I don't leave it on for a week straight, I take it off and charge it when I hop in the shower. I haven't found a use case for the shower yet, but it could happen.
Both of those countries disarmed their citizens relatively recently -- and now, neither is an example of liberty.
http://www.digitalfaq.com/ and https://www.videohelp.com/

They're not general interest entertainment forums, but there's a lot of specialist knowledge about analog to digital video conversion.
Imagine feeling like real badasses after stealing lots of money and then they call you "Gift Card Gang".
It’s a bit different. The State Governments are enacting health measures that only have any authority under temporary declared state of emergency, and immediately cease as soon as that expires (they have had to be extended a bit).

This proposal is the Federal Government, which has been passing increasingly draconian, increasingly authoritarian mass surveillance, “national security” laws and ostensibly “eSafety” laws over decades now. They have passed the worst in the last four or five years, but really it’s been going back to 9/11, even though we never had any “real” terror attacks on our shores… These federal laws stick.
In what world is 13Lakh INR (cost of TATA Nexon EV) which is appx. USD 18K, 5% the cost of Tesla.

You can buy a used BoltEV with that money!
https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/

Still going strong.
Perhaps this video might show it better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVmQoHX5k20

Regardless, it's not the first instance of birds using tools, and cockatoos are known for being quite intelligent. We rescued a galah here in Australia (Stephen Squawking) and while he's only young, he's used things to get at other things, unlocked his cage and knows a bunch of words, some games (like peakaboo) and call and response sequences.

All that to say, birds can be pretty smart, so the article isn't super surprising.
I think you'd be surprised at how light and subtle these things can be. I remember seeing some on something printed back in early 2000s and they were yellow dots barely registerable under a magnifying loupe, never mind by eye up close.

Which, if the same sort of case here, makes the CCD(s) on the phone here particularly impressive.
That's what I do with my Apple Watch, too. I wear it 24x7 excepting my daily shower.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/linux-is-now-on-mars-thanks-to-na...

> Linux Is Now on Mars, Thanks to NASA's Perseverance Rover

> Previous NASA Mars rovers mostly used an operating system from Wind River Systems. But this time, the space agency chose Linux for Perseverance's Ingenuity helicopter drone.

https://linuxunplugged.com/396

> [audio] Tim Canham, the Mars Helicopter Operations Lead, shares Linux’s origins at JPL and how it ended up running on multiple boxes on Mars.
Umm.. this is why we need civics classes because people
Don’t actually understand what the purpose of government is and what we rights we give up to be governed.
Politicians who want to de-anonymize the Internet should first do a trial run of de-anonymizing all of their own financial transactions, Internet browsing, use of the post office, and so on. Maybe for a year or so. Then after they have done that, maybe we can get together and see whether they still think that it is a good idea.
I saw it happening in google maps when it was being done they locked down all the roads in and out of the major cities was pretty interesting to see.
http://vi-control.net for music production and composition
> I prefer the flexibility of the React stack, being able to match different libraries vs a framework.

No, just no.
Billionaire Sacklers granted lifetime legal immunity in opioid settlement
Anirban Bandyopadhyay, who has published a lot of research on the topic, has presented good evidence that microtubules have quantum properties.

From one published paper:

"We demonstrate that a single brain-neuron-extracted microtubule is a memory-switching element, whose hysteresis loss is nearly zero. Our study shows how a memory-state forms in the nanowire and how its protein arrangement symmetry is related to the conducting-state written in the device, thus, enabling it to store and process ∼500 distinct bits, with 2 pA resolution between 1 nA and 1 pA. Its random access memory is an analogue of flash memory switch used in a computer chip. Using scanning tunneling microscope imaging, we demonstrate how single proteins behave inside the nanowire when this 3.5 billion years old nanowire processes memory-bits."[1]

As he discusses in an interview[2], the idea that the membrane is the only important part of the neuron is an idea from 1907 and is fundamentally incorrect. While he does not claim to prove Orch-OR and has his own theories, he is sure the internal structure of neurons with protofilaments of various sizes capable of up to terahertz frequencies has vital functionality that needs its place in neuroscience.

There are about 5,000 microtubules per neuron. If these are quantum devices, we are many thousands or millions of years away from AGI, if it's even possible to achieve it without replicating those structures.

[1] https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.4793995

[2] https://www.closertotruth.com/series/quantum-physics-conscio...
I have a different sleep tracker and me and my partner use a wake light, so I don't find these things relevant to my use case. A quick poll of my friends is similar, although one uses the sleep tracker and charges while getting ready in the morning.
Yes, exponentials are infinitely differentiable. We took Calculus 101.

The author's point about kink is about opportunity. When does a technology cross a performance boundary and then the Principle of Competitive Exclusion comes into effect. That point is kinda kinky, maybe not in performance but in demand.
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It's amazing to live in a time where we have the technology to investigate all the incredibly well architected systems in molecular biology. The researchers must be having so much fun, I feel happy for them.
That isn't really pertinent or I'd argue interesting in the context of this article, at all!

It might be helpful to know that (some | many | most) people think of biological neurons as being sort of poor-quality artificial ones, or at least that there is a direct correspondence between an organic neuron and an artificial one. This paper is making the argument that a given biological neuron is more like a network of artificial neurons, which is interesting and important because a lot of research into intelligence right now is going into making 'biologically plausible' models and testing those. If their results are essentially that each neuron has the sophistication of a network then say a future model of a cortical 'cell' (a cluster of neurons we think have a purpose as a group) should take this into account.

Genetics are interesting but neurologically we're still at the phase of knowledge where we are making up wild-ass conjectures and shooting holes in them for want of anything better to be doing.
Life before enlightenment: Chop wood, carry water.

Life after enlightenment: Chop wood, carry water.
>> Does this imply that you can get another badge just by using the word fuck in a comment?

> Perhaps, but it would be a bit immature to do so. Or even to quote someone else doing so.

Yeah I shudder to think about how gamification in this way will change the discourse here.
Not sure about GPS but it includes remote access via WiFi, and some of the cables on offer quote "Long Range WiFi (2 KM+)"
stackoverflow being arrogant.
Russia Threatens Apple and Google over Alexei Navalny App
From what I've read, one of the things the helicopter project did was to see how well ignoring the usual heavy verification would go--it used consumer-grade off-the-shelf hardware as well, for instance.
Yes, it could be that 'books' would only be available until they'd been 'borrowed' 100 times, at which point the library would have to buy/license additional 'copies' or patrons just couldn't read it any more. In some ways that seems fine, but there's a sadness to the idea of the library as a repository of knowledge going away, and being replaced by a vending machine.
I've seen other phones with GrapheneOS preinstalled. At least one seemed marketed toward shady customers. Does anyone know this vendor, NitroKey? They claim:

Nitrokey is the world-leading company in open source security hardware. Nitrokey develops IT security hardware for data encryption, key management and user authentication. The company has been founded in Berlin, Germany in 2015 and can already count ten thousands of users including numerous well-known international enterprises from various industries.

https://www.nitrokey.com/about
While I agree, there still remains the practical question of who would pay. In the physical book library world, the library pays for a quantity of physical books, and lends them for free to the patrons. They are reimbursed for various fixed costs by existing grants, and taxes, and similar funding streams. The physical scarcity supports this model, by capping costs.

If we remove the scarcity, and pay authors per reader or per page (a good thing, in my opinion) we uncap the expense the library must bear if something becomes popular. One could shift the costs to the users, but then what is the point of the library? The user is just buying an ebook, and we already have markets for that.

The library gives access to books to those who can't afford them. Artificial scarcity sucks, but actually serves a purpose in this context.
I dont understand. hedonism and nihilism are good things.
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You should really examine why people want to “defend” borders. It’s mostly racism and classism. The most effective way to defend your borders is to improve the lives of the people across the border. Yet… does anyone advocate for that? Nope… We undermine their governments and extract their resources to plunder from them instead. We create instability and allow violent regimes to be created and prosper.

Could always not do that shit and help improve their lives… but not the American way… because we see those people as others who shouldn’t be near us and not like fellow human beings. (And frequently this is a white vs POC thing btw)
"I stopped at", saying software on a flying helicopter on Mars "isn't mission critical" and that bash would never pass any verification process at NASA does indeed sound like you're dissing bash here. If your intent was to leave some sort of feedback or opinion that can improve things and look less like a "diss", then you probably wanna give it another go.
If you live and work in the south for over 40 years, then you are by definition no visitor.

Meanwhile, you don't even have to get out of your car to get told you're not welcome when people have big signs on the south bound side of the road proclaiming "You're in TRUMP COUNTRY now!"

Enjoy your denial.
Looks like what the Quanta article refers to is not so much "computations made in cells" as "how computationally complex a faithful model of a neuron would be."
And speaking of breakthrough cases, I am literally writing a condolence note to a colleague whose mother passed away yesterday.
Without going into details that would spoil things, the TV series "The Good Place" touches on this idea, although it's Madden rather than Mario.
I'm especially worried about the number of people seeking medical advice in Facebook groups using their real names.
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Yeah, that was after I poked at them a few times to ask what "100%" even meant.
Makes me curious if Gmail tells you when new/suspicious IMAP connections are made. I know they do tell you for normal web logins. Off to disable IMAP where I don't need it...
RISC-V Scalar Cryptography Extension reaches public review
Took me a moment to realise, but this is for keyboards, not iPhones. I don't think (?) anybody can access anything from an iPhone using an evil cable (using publicly-known attacks).
It would quietly drop your code, then play a screeching noise at 130db.
> Now, if only the US, Russia, India and the EU could align for some good.

The US and Russia will never align. The US is content to have two powerful foes to utilize for various purposes (military industrial complex spending, propaganda, political power, control, espionage excuse, foreign adventurism). The present incarnation of the US would only tolerate Russia as at least somewhat subservient, which is what the US thought it had obtained with the Yeltsin era.

The Russians are intensely nationalistic and independent. They have a serious confrontation coming in the future with China, as China will seek to take their territory and regional influence. Russia is at risk of being put into a badly weakened, near-subservient role with China, and they know it. Russia still had a larger economy than China as recently as 1992; ten years from now China will have an economy ~14 times larger than Russia. 30 years ago Russia still had a superior military to China; China has now passed Russia overall militarily, and will considerably eclipse them in military technology over the next decade or two. China will begin to increasingly push Russia around and treat them as a lesser partner, the Russians will react predictably to that. The two will probably try to continue to coordinate as far as countering the US and EU, where their interests align, other than that their relationship will get more antagonistic with time. The US and Russia had the good fortune to not share a large land border.
Tesla in India would cost 1.5 crore, it has a 50% import duty on it.
Thats 2,05,416 USD.
Chevrolet left India after burning itself long ago, so no I cant buy a used blot EV here for that price.
Physorg

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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

-- Benjamin Franklin
I suspect not very complex at all. My rank speculation is that neurons are mostly a medium for brain waves and the real processing happens with the waves themselves. Looking for how the brain works in the neuron is like looking for how oceans work in the water molecule.
There's all kinds car forums that are still around from the 90's that have maintained a community for 20+ years and are the authoritative source of repair info for many classic models. It makes you weep for the endless amount of expertise and congregated knowledge that is now being locked away in these social media walled gardens and private chat apps like Discord.
They've been around for a while, yes, selling security keys and smartcards and such.
A Dishonest Study on Dishonesty Puts a Prominent Researcher on the Hot Seat
> From what I've read

Could you recall any sources to this?

Just because they are using OTS hardware doesn't mean it doesn't go through verification and testing, it just means they are buying hardware instead of making it themselves.
So search your inbox for the same items these scripts are.
Much respect my friend. You are inspiring me to learn more about those ideas. :-) I recently bought The Art of the Metaobject Protocol for nighttime reading, I may have to add a good Hegel or Wittgenstein book to that pile now. Cheers.
https://tortoiseforum.org for turtle/tortoise owners (we have 3).
When a measure becomes a target...
React and React Native are separate tools, and they don't play with each other. You actually need to build two separate apps and you don't get much of any re-use. For example, you can't use Material UI for React in React Native, and you can't build a React component library and just pull it into React Native.

So if you want a fully cross platform React experience, you need React Native from the get-go and to compile it for web when you want web.
https://archive.is/lHPsN
> Sure but how is that a competitor for an apple watch?

Hopefully you understand that watches can still be competitors in the smartwatch space even if they don't have feature parity?
I just installed GrapheneOS on a Pixel 3 today[1], and it was easy enough that a non-techie could do it using the WebUSB-based installer: https://grapheneos.org/install/web

The only trick is that you have to make sure that your individual hardware is OEM-unlockable. The easiest way to do that is to buy a new device from the Google store; otherwise, you need to get the seller of a used device to check, or to just try your luck.

[1] The Pixel 3 will soon by end-of-support by Google, and then by GrapheneOS. But I had a Pixel 3, and I wanted to try GrapheneOS a while before I invested in a Pixel 4a or 5a for it. (So far, everything is solid, and I hope to stay with GrapheneOS until I can justify a Librem 5 or similar.)
I'm curious why it's a special renderer vs just another React component library?