skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My lab has some modern equipment (high-speed eye trackers) uses DOS host computers.

The whole system is closer to an appliance than a general-purpose computer. You start the data acquisition software (literally one keystroke--we have it aliased to "t"), set some options with the keyboard, and the data is streamed out over ethernet or a DAC.

The fact that nothing else is running in the background makes it pretty easy to keep real-time guarantees and the fact that it's DOS keeps people from messing with it. I have no doubt that you could probably get a modern Windows/nix system to run the tracker AND do other stuff, but I really doubt it would be worth the effort--it works surprisingly well.
How naive do you have to be to believe them at face value? Of course they're opportunistic liars.

The best thing to do with Facebook is to nuke their data centres and incarcerate the execs and board members.
That's a bit like asking what the bandwidth and latency is when using the Internet, it really depends on the routing and a bunch of other stuff. When deciding between no internet and OK internet, I know what I choose :)
Interesting and insightful read. But the Facebook and Twitter share buttons at the bottom were....ironic.
> Germany does have quite a lot of wind power doesn't it?
Yes, but just not every week. The amount of energy produced per year by wind power is fine. But you'd need the capability to store it for weeks or even months to use it as a reliable energy source.
This is actually discouraging non-brigades from reporting. I reported obviously spam accounts and got the same feedback after a few weeks. Now I don't bother.

Brigades on the other hand have the motivation to play the numbers.
Facebook is already shut down in China, I’m not sure what you mean.
Yup, the fact the settings dialogue behaves differently if your current browser is Edge is clearly unfair, and Edge has already been doing what Firefox is doing how, and skips the UI entirely by spoofing the signature in the registry that served to protect against non-consensual changes.
If you're a freelancer in NL and your income comes from only one client, you're not even being seen as a freelancer AFAIR.
Taking the politics of grant funding as an immutable prior, wouldn’t this then be a good thing for researchers?
What a terribly lopsided and blanket view on a business working over 50+ different ethical and regulatory environments/societies.
Something that drives me crazy about the current ASP.NET Core documentation is that it is overly example based. I wish there were more comprehensive coverage of the subsystems.
This is a very good question. What if I'm an Hollywood superstar or an NBA player or a billionaire and I want to chat and share stuff privately with my "colleagues".

Did the really use fb or instagram like we all do? I always see "official pages" for people like Bill Gates, but where/what do they share in their day to day life?
Hum... You linked to the page of the original RepRap. Yeah, it was never too popular and everybody stopped using it long ago. People were replacing it since it was published.

Last time I looked, the most popular RepRaps were variants of the Prusa i3 design (that one being more than 10 years old too). But there has been such a large explosion of designs some 5 or 6 years ago that it may be on the minority, even if it's the most popular one.

Anyway, that wiki is full of great information that is perfectly applicable today. Just because the one design that gets the name of the project was improved into an unrecognizable format, it doesn't mean the idea died.
My grasp on economics is thin but I believe this is not true. Let's assume mowing the lawn by a a service cost $200 in capital investment over 10 years and 200$/year in labor while the robot cost $1000 capital investment also over 10 years. Then you increased the amount of capital going likely abroad by 800$ and freed up 2000$ of labor cost. That means you have 1200$ freed up in investments but lost $2000 in local economic activity.

In short, the capital requirements generally go up with automation in the economic benefit is more often abroad (whether that's Germany or China)

This completely ignores many migrant workers sending money home.
> Now that this isn't of strategic importance anymore, France lost interest in nuclear plants (just look at what gets built in recent decades in France). Because nuclear power by itself isn't that interesting, mostly because it is so hugely expensive and inflexible.

Half of the problem in France are the green activists & the public to build more and the other half is that the EU is extremely against nuclear and does all of what they can to sabotage the funding.
Hell no, even if this was legal under GDPR or the UK's own data protection law (which it definitely isn't) it would probably be illegal under basic law. Not an expert on UK law but in Germany there's the concept of "Unverletzlichkeit der Wohnung" (inviolability of your home), which I think is also a legal principle in the UK. Taking high-resolution photos of your living quarters is definitely a stark violation of your privacy and you should not tolerate that. If you're uncertain how to approach this I'd recommend to seek advice with a renter/tenants union, as they'll know how to handle this. Maybe it would be good to collect some futher evidence first, e.g. make a photo/video of the agent photographing your rooms and ask them about the app and how your data is being processed.
Javalin web framework 4.0 just released
I don't think this phrase is defensible, because "significant" in that context is very subjective. Nevertheless, the German intelligence estimates there are 2000 extremists that could cause trouble. This is something completely separate from criminals like ordinary robbers or rapists - people with an ideology could be more dangerous, and, unfortunately, every few years they hit headlines in Europe. Everybody is aware of this so nobody is surprised if armed guards ask you if they can look into your bag for example, or there are massive blocks preventing attacks with trucks. So no wonder people long for the old times when they had to deal mainly with local bandits.

[0] https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article233732426/Ver...
Starting at least several years ago, if not a decade. The security industry has had this policy towards IoT devices before the technology was even cheap enough to mass produce.
I'm a bit out of my lane here so maybe somebody can jump in with a better understanding.

>what should the difference between you and your screwdriver be to me?

If we can't define consciousness, I can't prove to you that I'm not effectively an unconscious zombie.

We create social contracts based, in part, on empathy. I.e., I can estimate what it "feels like" to be you and therefore extend certain rights to you as a recognition of that subjective conscious experience. If you were simply an unconscious moist robut, there's nothing immoral about me subjugating you, or stomping on your foot, or anything else that relies on rights or subjective suffering.

So I'll assert the question back to you: since you can't prove I'm conscious, what prevents you from flippantly treating me just as you would a screwdriver?
Take a look at this book. Many patients with similar symptoms caused by other diseases have been able to improve just with breathing exercises. There has been significant research in this area, not just pseudoscience woo.

https://www.mrjamesnestor.com/breath
Yeah, lots of spin in that WSJ article. Better article about the price surge: https://www.bruegel.org/2021/09/is-europes-gas-and-electrici... Money quote: "In our view, however, there are more fundamental reasons for high volatility and excessive price spikes. The industry knows the energy system is undergoing a profound and fast transformation. Investments in fossil assets aren’t sustainable long-term. But governments have not yet committed clearly enough to a low-carbon future. So, the energy supply-demand balance in the EU will be volatile depending on how quickly fossil fuels are phased out and green energy is phased in. Clearer commitments from governments to introduce low-carbon energy sources, for example by financing the necessary infrastructure and committing to substantial carbon prices in all sectors, could help move away from this precarious balance. As moving to net-zero will imply ever-growing electricity demand, investors will not have to worry about overinvesting in low-carbon power systems."
I remember this essay as well.

During a period of high stress due to major life changes I was experiencing, I took up smoking. It became a habit. I did experience the social aspect that the essayist described. I found that the best way to meet new friends at anime or gaming conventions is to find out where all the smokers are and hang out there. I've found a few new very good friends this way.

PS: I don't smoke cigarettes anymore.
I was able to dodge it. Recently, I was thinking of joining Facebook because of Groups. I don’t have friends and I’m missing to have conversations with similar minded people but I just can’t make myself doing it. The sad things is that probably there are no alternatives. All platforms are almost equally bad.
So it's like the bluecheck on Twitter, but not visible to users?
On windows, no. You can use affinity to prevent the application from running on some of your cores but it will still spin up a ton of threads (which makes the situation even worse sometimes)
I find myself replacing it with other garbage, sadly. Bad brain...
We all live in Jenny Holzer's world, "Abuse of power should come as no surprise" edition:

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/63755
Because citizenship is supposed to be an important life changing decision with massive consequences at every level.

The dilution of the meaning of citizenship is a massive tragedy.
Perhaps it's just me, but reddit front page is much more toxic and filled with misinformation compared to most Facebook groups.
(Niche subs are really good though).
Gaming as an Interface for Work and Learning
Also, is Hacker News social media?
I'm pretty sure Lupus was a running joke, almost every episode they would say "It could be Lupus" and it was never Lupus
I suspect you would find the same of Twitter.
I wonder if something like 'progressive' energy pricing might be a solution here. It's kind of a weird idea but effectively some baseline 'required for living' amount of energy is free and then scales some non-linear amount, e.g. exponentially but not really, as usage increases.

So some grandma with her 3 bar electric heater is paying some token amount for her usage over what is deemed 'baseline' but then crypto miners or industry is effectively subsidising everyone and also incentivised to reduce usage more heavily.
How does this track against Section 230?

Now that there is concrete evidence that moderators are exempting people from the rules - aka selectively enforcing their own TOS/AUP - does that change their standing and protections?
When all you've got's a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Some software engineers seem to walk around with this belief that all of life's problems can be solved through software. It's so strange! No other field has this kind of thought process. Electrical engineers don't immediately start cabling wiring things, mechanical engineers don't fire up CNC lathes at the drop of a hat. Yet here we have a coder who thinks that blockchain will solve everything. That JSON will solve everything!
Even simpler; do not use when it's charging.
I'm using GitHub Pages and Jekyll. I wrote the theme from almost-scratch, I think I started with a basic theme and then ripped out everything I didn't like, and then started building up again.

Due to limitations on available Jekyll plugins on GH Pages, I wrote some particularly spicy Liquid templating to handle my automatic backlinks and site tree construction: https://github.com/wcerfgba/jpreston.xyz/blob/master/_includ...
> It’s a challenge not only for panpsychist approaches to consciousness, but also materialist approaches: How do parts, like neurons, combine into a whole, a single consciousness?

What makes you think there really is a whole single consciousness? Maybe we're just a bubbling cauldron of all kinds of signals encoding thoughts, emotions and sensations, and the strength of these signals dictates which ones drive our observable actions in the moment. The signals that yield "pleasure" signals get boosted, those that yield "pain" signals are suppressed, and over time, structure emerges that we recognize as "personality". I'm not sure this structure that privileges and suppresses a network of signals would qualify as a "whole, single consciousness"; a "single consciousness" in this framework would be an illusion.

For a decent tech analogy, there is no "whole, single Internet", that's merely a euphemism we use for a dynamically changing network of computers. The routing tables encode the structure of preferred pathways based on current semi-optimal routes, basically boosting or suppressing some routes as their performance characteristics change. So it may be with consciousness.
Just a reminder of how much of YC's portfolio value is based on firms that chose Ruby:

https://charliereese.ca/article/top-50-y-combinator-tech-sta...

https://twitter.com/logicmason/status/1371255029412233218
why be absolutist? is that necessary if the contract has $20 riding on it?
Incorrect how? Individual hospitals themselves are reporting they are at capacity. The TN rollup statistics aren't going to tell you very much about whether your local hospital is actually full at a given time, which is going to be the most relevant thing to know if you're seeking urgent care.
AVR8 assembly language.
I guess it just shows how much Microsoft is user focused.

The only reason why I was not using Windows was that it did not have enough user options.
Jenny Holzer Truisms 1978–87
More like, working around 50+ regulatory states.
NFT Game Epic Hero Battles Found Using Stolen Artwork
Even Reuters was duped:

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/walmart-acc...
If it's not their breadwinner then they should port over their office suite and the Windows API to Linux.

How much do you think it would cost to port Office to Linux? How many extra Office licenses do you think they'd sell? Given your estimates of these two numbers, do you think Microsoft would turn a profit off of Office for Linux.

Anyway they've already 'ported' a decent subset of Office to Linux in form of Office365
I once made fun of Justin Bieber(said he acts like a baby) on IG, and got a warning. Some guy threatened to Hunt me and my family, kill us and do bad things to our bodies and IG said it didn’t violate any rules, when I reported it. My account can now not even post the word “chump” without warnings. Talk about backwards.

It’s very safe to say there is no adult in the room at FB/IG when it comes to rule enforcement. I simply cannot wait until they get the whip from some governments.
Sometimes I feel HN also is a similar attention sink, even Wikipedia as well. They also can draw you in for information snacking, and before you know hours have gone. Commenting and reading responses in HN is also another attention consuming loop.
To clarify, they implemented the algorithm in Dafny, and then proved that version correct. They did not verify code that will actually run in production.

From the paper:

> Dafny is a practical option for the verification of mission-critical smart contracts, and a possible avenue for adoption could be to extend the Dafny code generator engine to support Solidity … or to automatically translate Solidity into Dafny. We are currently evaluating these options
We've reached the point where science is totally broken and now entirely partisan. I've read his papers. I've also read papers by other epidemiologists. There's no comparison: his are far better. This is not necessarily a compliment, because the field of epidemiology is atrocious.

You are presumably flaming him over his IFR estimates. Those estimates come from a meta-study of serosurveys, thus can at least theoretically measure mild cases where the infected person didn't get tested. And it's a meta-study, so hopefully captures plenty of real world data. Do you know what Professor Ferguson's team at Imperial College London use as their own IFR estimate? They're still citing their own Verity et al paper, whose IFR estimate of 1% only used data from January/February 2020 and which was based on media reports coming out of China, along with a few flights of Wuhan evacuees. That's it. That's all it's based on. Despite this, many other epidemiologists are also still citing the ICL numbers despite them being long since obsolete and using a tiny sample size.

If you're so convinced Ioannidis is such a terrible scientist, please explain:

1. Why his approach is unacceptable but ICL's is OK?

2. Why was his reputation pre-COVID just fine? He's actually quite famous for pointing out low standards in other scientific work, isn't he?
Some takeaways:

--We mustn't apply the same harm reduction strategies to both

-- It is crucial not to misapply lessons learned from tobacco. Fundamentally, this means accepting that—unlike cigarettes—opioids have genuine uses in both pain and addiction medicine.

So far, however, we are doing the opposite. Rather than recognizing that some people with intractable pain benefit from opioids, we continue to reduce access— typically without offering affordable and effective alternatives.

-- It is difficult to stop drug-seeking teens by leaving grandma in agony.

-- Moreover, addictions typically start in youth, with 90 percent beginning as experimentation in adolescence or early adulthood. Chronic pain, in contrast, tends to arise in middle or late life.

As a result, fewer than 8 percent of people who take opioids long term for pain develop new addictions, according to a review co-authored by the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. In fact, the age group prescribed opioids at the highest rate—those older than 65—has the lowest rate of addiction and overdose. (And no, this research was not funded by Big Pharma, even though they used some of it extremely dishonestly.)
Yeah, actually I misread their second sentence initially, but that's exactly what I imagine they would do.
Love Obsidian as well, for about 1y now. I have a tech background, but typescript and aws serverless were new to me, so I decided to learn-in-public.
Regarding categorization (and design), I was inspired by Julia's web: https://jvns.ca/
No, absolutely not.

We are never going to rely purely on wind, since it is uncontrollable.
I like seeing trace amounts of Erlang on there!

I've been using YAWS as my web back-end for work projects, and a lot of my co-workers either raise an eyebrow or straight-up balk at it. Fair enough, it's pretty obscure, and the syntax isn't super friendly.

But then I watch them endlessly upgrade libraries, maintain toolchains, deal with exploits, etc etc, while my code sits on decades-old nuke-proof bedrock that no hacker in their right mind would waste time targeting (and likely would find impenetrable had they tried)
I have no fundamental problem with fission myself, at least as a short-term solution, but (1) I recognise a lot of people are terrified of it so it may be a political non-starter, (2) it is very expensive, and (3) you’d have to complete a few hundred reactors each year to make a reasonable dent in emissions.

For emphasis: this isn’t a “no” — I expect it to still be part of the solution despite all that because all options take time to scale up and diversity is good — just that it isn’t a slam-dunk.
Windows 10S only allows Microsoft Store downloads and you have to change to Home/Pro to allow .exe's to run at all.
Compliance will not end tyranny. This is about power.
Because we need regulation of new technologies and to address issues that are becoming endemic and long-standing enough that the general populace genuinely understands them. From neonics and bees to misinformation and facebook. But our political class has adopted a policy that demands no action be taken, as that is the official policy position on all free-market related issues for one of the two major political parties.

So popular belief that our society can fix the issues it is presented with drops.

Which means societal trust drops.

And those who are causing said problems, become emboldened.
Totally. Most of the time I don’t even check the docs, I go straight away to the source code on GitHub.
even its creator didnt believe (his own) children should use it: https://www.mathgenie.com/blog/steve-jobs-kids-didnt-have-an...

even its creator thinks their product is creepy: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-43718059

maybe it's time to force dog-fooding: if you would not feed the product you have made to your own children, why are you selling it to others?
my Facebook account got closed because they’re demanding my phone number and i won’t supply it.
NativeAOT is supported in more places in .NET 6, there has been a tremendous amount of work to ensure that libraries are trimmer and linker friendly. But I believe ASP.NET’s targeting .NET 7 for that.
Full text:

"The projection is up by nearly 55 percent from AFS’ estimate two months ago.The auto industry’s struggle to acquire adequate supplies of semiconductors continues to go badly, with worldwide tallies of production cutbacks significantly worsening this month.

According to a new estimate by Auto Forecast Solutions, which has been tracking the supply chain crisis all year, automakers have now eliminated a total of 8.2 million cars and trucks from their factory schedules because of microchip scarcity — an increase of approximately 888,000 vehicles from AFS’ estimate just one week earlier.

AFS now forecasts that the industry ultimately stands to lose 9.4 million vehicles world wide because of the chip shortage.

That worst-case scenario is up by nearly 55 percent from AFS’ estimate two months ago.At the core of the shortage is a growing competition for available manufacturing capacity dueto increased demand for chips from makers of consumer electronics, cellphones and computers. But in recent weeks, the supply strain has been exacerbated by work force issues due to the resurgence of COVID-19. Chip production lines in Asia — particularly in Malaysia — have been forced to shut down in response to rising coronavirus infections there"
I always find these "quitting social media" blog posts a bit ironic... "social media is addictive and encourages doing and posting things just for the attention and to make other people think I am interesting... so I wrote this blog post about quitting social media, and am posting it to hacker news and other sites... I hope lots of people read it and think I am insightful"
IANAL, but Section 230 reads pretty clearly to me. Which part of 230 do you think might apply here?

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
You have more influence than you think
Agreed, I’d rather go back to manual labor then feed that machine.

I’d done manual labor before, it’s sucks and the pay is low, but it sure beats selling your soul for a few greenbacks.
The idea is that citizenship may be granted after a person has fully settled and demonstrated that they have integrated in society, including through fluency in language and culture. I think 5 years is a fair period for this to happen and for a person to also decide that this is going their 'forever' country.

If the requirements are too low then national identity no longer means anything.

There can of course be exceptions but an exception should require something exceptional.

> garbage collectors that worked straight through the entire pandemic

Same as everyone else. The pandemic has not changed their job. Compare this with front line health workers in overcrowded ICUs who had to face "war-like" conditions for months.
Sure, but then what will philosophy/science types talk about at dinner parties?