skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My personal favorite is Blindsight [0][1]. I read it multiple times (3 or 4, I think) over the years.

If you like Blindsight, you’ll probably want to continue with the sidequel, Echopraxia. You can also find them bundled together under the name Firefall.

And I think out of his main works, Blindsight is probably the most accessible. It also led me to Thomas Metzinger’s “The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self” [2], which Watts used as a source material in his research and had good things to say about.

The Rifters series is great, too, but there’s a sort of darkness or heaviness to it that may not work for everyone.

And bonus content, a fan made short movie based on Blindsight, here: [3].

I hope this helps. :)

Links:

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)

[1]: https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

[2]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5895503

[3]: https://vimeo.com/myshli/blindsight
That's probably indicated when the posted stated that they "...plugged it into a different USB C port..."

Considering USB c != thunderbolt
It has, however, a tremendous value for building Dyson swarms and other megastructures.
QEMU does do x86 emulation (and UTM provides a nice frontend) but it's not something I'd want to use often as the speed is horrendous.
Everyone is entirely in control of their own thoughts and opinions- these being about the only things in life that are fully under our own control. Facebook, by itself, is zero threat to democracy, it neither votes nor stops people from voting for what they believe.
As a foreigner, why is it that select states are absolutely riddled with water contamination while most are not (and some are pristine)? I imagine it comes down to local legislation, but surely nobody wants their drinking water polluted, so how did the legislation happen in the first place?

PS: especially as Colorado and Ohio are among the worst, through my lens they seem the states that are most about protecting the land.
During winter prediction is easy. You just look at where the rain is, see where it is going and multiply the speed by the delta-time.

During summer, rain can suddenly form out of nowhere, making predictions much harder.
Problem is the tradeoffs involved.

You can make a cable that support 40 Gbps / 100W, but it will be $50 and very thick, with a maximum length of 1m (or cost $400 if you want an optical 10m long cable).

Or you can make a thin, 480Mbps / 5W cable that costs $2 that can be 5m long.

Or you can make a 10Gbps / 20W cable that is $10, can be 2m and is medium thick.

If you want them all in one cable, all cables would be $400, which would be a larger problem for most consumers (and even optical cables can't really be bent / are very fragile. So unfit for travel. Not a good solution either). You can't have everything in one cable.

You could claim that there should be 3 separate connectors then for the 3 cases above. But I don't think that would be an improvement really. At least you /can/ charge your laptop with the thin cable overnight, even if it is slow. And you can connect your phone to your laptop charger etc.
The most abundant minerals in rocks in the solar system are white oxides, except for the iron(II) and manganese oxides, which are blackish.

So most rocks are gray, unless they have been exposed to oxygen, which converts the black iron oxide into red iron oxide, in which case the rocks turn from some gray shade to some brown shade.

Where there has been water, the water could have been dissociated by light, providing oxygen for the change of color. In the absence of water, there are few chances for anything else that could change the color of the rocks from gray.
Indeed, that was the idea behind keeping it unexported.

From an external package you can only access the explicit values and the functions that accept them as parameters. The type is opaque for the developer.
New, innovative ways to make the parking problem worse?
If the cable fits in the port, I would expect it to work, yes.
Would you actually...?
It's the hardest thing about building perf-related PoCs. Every time I've built a prototype to prove out an optimization, I've spent the entire duration of the project watching the benefit shrink, stressing that it would dwindle to nothing by the end. So far, I've been lucky and careful enough that I haven't convinced a team to expend massive resources on a benefit that turned out to be fictional, but I've had it happen enough times at the scale of a p-day or two that it always worries me.
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I'd imagine software is bloated and grown until is it still-just-about usable on modern hardware. Making it faster there is probably seen as premature optimisation.

I'd imagine perhaps this is how product teams are assessed - is the component just-about fast enough, and does it have lots of features. So long as MS Office is the most feature-rich software package, enterprise will buy nothing else, slow or not.
Dude, you seem to be very keen to put words into other people's mouths. Perhaps you should reflect upon that.
That's very verbose but not super clear.

A better explanation is that the main problems of processor design are that memory reads take 100-1000 times the time of an arithmetic operation and that hardware is faster when operation are run in parallel.

CPUs handle the those issues by having large memory caches, and lots of circuitry to execute instructions "out of order", i.e. run other instructions that don't depend on the memory read result or the result of other operations. This is great to run sequential code as fast as possible, but quite inefficient overall.

GPUs instead handle the memory problem by switching to another thread in hardware, and the parallelism problem by mainly using SIMD (with masking and scatter/gather memory accesses, so they look like multiple threads). This works well if you are doing mostly the same operations on thousands or millions of values, which is what graphics rendering and GPGPU is.

Then there are also DSPs that solve the memory access issue by only having very little on-CPU memory and either explicit DMA or memory reads giving a delayed result, and parallelism by being VLIW.

And finally the in-order/microcontroller CPUs that simply don't care about performance and do the cheapest and simplest thing.
> While I think there's a place for nullables, they're mostly in the area of compiler optimisations and constrained low-level programming rather than higher-level code

I think here you mean that C-style nullable pointers should be “constrained to low-level programming” and high-level programs should always have option types and non-nullable pointers, that correct?

If that’s the case then I’d say “nay”… because it’s not that hard to have your cake and eat it: while Rust implements niche-value optimisation somewhat generically, nothing precludes special-casing optional pointers such that optional and non-optional pointers have exactly the same ABI.

And then if the language is memory-safe it probably gains in performances, because it doesn’t have to check non-nullable pointers for nulls before dereferencing them.
In life there is guaranteed to be _someone_ offended by an action. Always.
Tesla's drives on a highway, encounters a difficult situation, turns off autopilot, and voala, the error is now counted against the human!

It does not even work in difficult situations and busy chaotic streets, and that's when all the crashes happen.

It's like the statistics that says sharks only attack near beaches - that where 99.99% of people are!
Apple's headquarters are built on top of contaminated
ground, leading to concerns over employee health [1][2].

[1] https://disasterarea.home.blog/2019/07/12/apple-headquarters...

[2] https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1436934781955190788
You can’t use a non-monospace font on a tiled space. Like that literally makes no sense. Of course it won’t look right. This is like asking why you can’t use `out` parameters on an inherent async function.
I feel like 95% of the use case for UI’d virtualization is running Windows, and being unable to do so I suspect they will lose most of their business?

I could very well be wrong here, but I don’t think running Desktop Linux in a VM is a very large market, and I would just use Docker to run CLI tools. There aren’t really any Killer X Windows Apps that won’t run natively on macOS?
I've always wanted to try pairing in a kind of fun/competitive way where both program at the same time, one does the implementation while the other writes the tests and does their best to make sure the code breaks, kind of like a mini capture the flag. Have never had the chance to try it out though.
I'm not a heavy Node user, but I do have a project which happens to use Yarn. Not sure if it's the best approach, but this is how I'm creating the node_modules folder:

nixpkgs.yarn2nix-moretea.mkYarnModules {
name = "my-project-deps";
pname = "my-project-deps";
version = "1.0";
packageJSON = ../package.json;
yarnLock = ../yarn.lock;
}

I copy things around, invoke commands, etc. using `nixpkgs.runCommand`, which runs shell code (a lot like rules in Make).

I'm not sure about postgresql, since I've not used it before:

- You could use Nix to install the packages, and manage it yourself. That wouldn't be particularly different from non-Nix setups.

- You could install it on NixOS by specifying these options in your config https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/release-21.05/nixos/mo... (they're also listed at https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/options but that page is slow). Of course, that requires NixOS (or a VM).

- You could run it in a container/VM, e.g. like https://nix.dev/tutorials/integration-testing-using-virtual-... but that seems a bit more advanced.
Study Source: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medici...

Results Summary: "Prucalopride increased recall of words in a verbal learning task, increased the accuracy of recall and recognition of words in an incidental emotional memory task and increased the probability of choosing a symbol associated with a high likelihood of reward or absence of loss in a probabilistic instrumental learning task. Thus acute prucalopride produced pro-cognitive effects in healthy volunteers across three separate tasks."
In other news: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/11405
Foxconn to scale up fast charging graphene battery
> ...otherwise please clarify what you mean by "logical db schema" vs. "physical db schema"?

Logical schema is an ER diagram, physical schema is how that is translated to a DB-specific DDL, not to be confused with the physical data storage layer.

Think about all the different ways you can model a list in SQL. E.g. jsonb, array, hstore, 1-M FKs, M-M join table, and all the different levels of normalization.

> I attribute it to too many CS/SE grads who didn't take database-theory electives

Completely agree! But it also makes you realize how the relational model is a poor fit for a lot of data models too - which again many are unaware of. It's not perfect, but its a nice sweet spot for now.

I think we are at the other end of another pendulum swing of databases though. But it's hard to innovate when the prerequisite for success of any new database remains as SQL compatibility.
I also look forward to CouchDB 4. But CouchDB 2 and 3 has been very easy to setup and use over the years. Hopefully it stays the same.
27 year from Commodore bankruptcy and no one fixed icons slowly loading one by one in Workbench. Freescale Dual core 2.0 GHz CPU, 2GB ram, pcie Radeon GPU .. and drawer takes 2 seconds to show contents.
It was never that simple. Your serial cables had peripheral or null-modem (I have a serial cable marked "MIDI" I have no idea what is different). Parallel port cables could be SCSI cables instead. Some cables didn't have all pins wired to save money. With PS/2 ports you had to get the mouse and keyboard the right way around despite having the same port.
Might need to work on your heuristics for finding petrol stations a little bit. The site suggested Refuel near me in Soho, London but that’s a bar/restaurant :-)

https://www.firmdalehotels.com/hotels/london/the-soho-hotel/...
Show HN: Graphing citations between my Kindle library books with AI
Hello HN! After seeing a similar project on HN[1] I thought I would share
my pet project of using AI to find citations between my books (e.g. Montaigne cites Plato, Hannah Arendt cites Dostoevsky etc.)

The ideia is to use AI to detect from the text books citing another books, and to make it "historical" by assigning the correct publication date to the target and source of each citation and graph everything!

The technical aspect is explained on this medium post[2](paywall free link!)

If you have any suggestion of improvements I will be happy to hear them :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28595967
[2] https://medium.com/mlearning-ai/graphing-citations-between-b...
Why not, intermittent fasting works great! You definitely notice the increased alertness during your fasting period.
Backward compatibility is a huge one here.

There is a newer version of component X but we can't leverage that due to dependency Y.
lddtree does handle LD_LIBRARY_PATH. It doesn't care about LD_PRELOAD though.
Without a network of nuclear power plants I fear the EV revolution will not come to fruition. The government seem to have jumped on the bandwagon without thinking it through.
I just tried both recently. Been using VirtualBox for work and X11 is super slow. With Parallels, X11 ran fine but I couldn't get OpenGL to work with Parallels Tools installed (actually nothing that used OpenGL would work).

With VMware Fusion, OpenGL worked out of the box and Extreme Tux Racer and ShaderToy ran fine.

Also, in VMware Fusion I could disable all MacOS-shortcuts (like Spotlight and switching spaces) while the VM is in full screen... With Parallels I would always switch spaces by accident because I couldn't find a way to disable everything...
I feel obliged to point out the destructive power of Knuth's statement, "Premature optimization is the root of all evil."

I have encountered far too many people who interpret that to mean, "thou shall not even even consider performance until a user, PM or executive complains about it."
.net/C# was one of the easiest to deploy in my experience. Just build a self-contained executable and you're done.
Two of the hotspots I found in NJ within miles: an elementary school and a middle school. D:!!!
I'd say it is almost the other way around. We have so much wonderful CPU power that we can spare some for the amazing flexibility of Python etc.

Also it's not that simple. One place I worked at (scientific computation-kind of place), we'd prototype everything in Python, and production would be carefully rewritten C++. Standards were very high for prod, and we struggled to hire "good enough", modern C++, endless debates about "ooh template meta-programming or struct or bare metal pointers" kind of stuff.

3 times out of 4, the Python prototype was faster than the subsequent C++. It was because it had to be, the prototype was ran and re-ran and tweaked many times in the course of development. C++ was written once, deployed, and churned daily, without anyone caring for its speed.
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Maybe the Conservatives shouldn't have fought against wind power and decent house insulation for so long and we'd already have enough cheap power to do the job without China or France having to hold the UK's hand to do so. Imagine how much further along we'd be if we listened to Margaret Thatcher and actually planned a conservative, business and market-oriented approach to climate change rather than just tried to make our friends rich and be willing to blatantly deny reality to do so

"A CONSERVATIVE solution to global warming (Part 1)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D99qI42KGB0

(And of course Brexit, means we need to bid market rates for electricity that we previously got assigned as part of the EU market, which is awkward when you're in a price crunch).
There is a specification for updating charging cable firmware.
Probably not exactly what you're looking for but we do have an API for that https://m3o.com/evchargers/api#Search
How often do you imagine SWAT scenarios occurring?

Get out of your bubble of fear.
AI doing something that humans used to do but better is pretty much the whole point of AI.

The chasm between drawing a line on a map and this system is enormous, and represents 30 years of research.

It doesn't have to be a breakthrough to be in the news, it's a routine advancement of the state-of-the art.
Ah now i get the username! :D

Very cool!
From anecdotal evidence, it seems that Android users use the cloud a lot less than Apple users. By default, Apple users will have every piece of data on Apple's servers unencrypted (with unencrypted iCloud backups, and all files from Desktop/Documents uploaded to Drive). Apple puts it all on a nice, single screen that makes anyone with OCD want to turn every button "On" and send all their data over; and they're all turned on by default anyway. I don't have hard evidence for this, but I believe most Android people just don't end up turning that stuff on; many don't have backups, don't have all documents and Chrome downloads stored in the cloud by default, so they likely experience a lot more privacy by default. Again, all anecdote, but I think you'll find the same is true for your friends circles.
Definitely fake (a "concept") but the renderings are quite well done. For example they're claiming "level 5 autonomy" which nobody has demonstrated yet.

No way this will ever reach the market though. The wheel design is laughable for anything but a perfectly smooth surface.

https://cleantechnica.com/2021/09/29/citroen-skate-autonomou...

https://uk-media.citroen.com/en-gb/node/90090611#prettyPhoto
Then they should have said so on the issue "We don't value performance and wont spend any resources to fix this", rather than do the dance of giving bullshit reasons for not doing it.

Anyway, resource usage matters quite a lot, if your terminal uses CPU like an AAA game running in the background you will notice fan noises, degraded performance and potentially crashes due to overheating everywhere else in the computer.
There isn't enough info in the article to know exactly what is happening, but the problem with most of these systems (my first attempt 10 years ago, or Dark Sky, others as well) is that they use existing rainfall and wind speed to make guesses about where the rain will move. They typically fail at making real weather predictions; new rain starting to fall is a simple example that is often missed by these kinds of predictions.

The article just says "maps" but doesn't say what the data is. Rainfall amount? Just rainfall or also wind maps? What other maps?

Curious to see how this works in reality. Most of these attempts can be impressive sometimes, but fail often enough to make it not reliable for real use. However I am extremely optimistic about the future of increasing weather prediction accuracy, including with AI models as well as traditional physics models.

We'll see I guess.
I dislike this way of thinking about it. This take on things splits up people into two groups, and implicitly (or in this case explicitly) makes it seem like it's different "types of people". There's us, and them. There's the ones who think like me, and the ones who don't.

Reality is more complicated, nuanced, and doesn't easily split people into two groups, which is a good thing! It makes it easier to empathize.

For example, a few people in thread have already stated they like a hybrid approach (whether it's twice a week in-office and the other days from home, or even WFH most of the time but in-person meetings a few times a year).

For another example, most people will have different preferences at different times in their career and/or lives. Just starting out? Maybe it makes more sense to be around other people to lear more. Live far away and have a long commute? Maybe WFH is better. Have young kids but live in a small apartment? Office might be easier.

The truth is, this isn't really two ways of "being". This is dependent on personality, yes, but also on circumstance.

And btw, being a manager and meaning that your job is more effective if people work from the office is also a circumstance, and a legit one, despite many of the people on this site somehow implying this is somehow wrong. (Not that I'm saying managers should always get their way, but it's a real, valid concern).
New Marketing slogan: "Take Prucalopride When You Can't Remember Shit!"
Is it really illegal mining or is the state also complice ?
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I only use FB to connect to distant friends and relatives, everything else is turned off or blocked. I am not profitable to FB as best I can do. FB has peaked as a business for sure, unless they become the government somehow.
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Show HN: NFT Portfolio Calculator
A simple NFT portfolio calculator. Connect your wallet and see your data.

Currently in beta with a couple caveats:
- It uses OpenSea APIs which sometimes has stale data
- It's limited to 100 NFTs because OpenSea API rate limits

https://wagmi-wallet.web.app/
Everyone now knows upper management of FB (the company) are awful human beings. FB as a website / app is dead. Instagram is becoming much more widely known as a source of terrible online addiction problems for young people. It's really annoying how deeply ingrained Whatsapp has become into life (especially where I live), but they will have to squeeze a lot of money from it to make up from the decline of the first two platforms. Yes, I think the article is completely correct.
That's a fallacy. The argument is not about "legitimacy", but Apple's compliant with government interference.
Its nice on a personal level but burning fuel and clogging up roads should be the main reason.
This is why Apple cannot add the thermal pads themselves, there are some regulations around the temperature limits. I never use it on my lap though. And as mentioned in the other comment "erythema ab igne" is a real thing is seems.
...actually, its people who did not fill up last week and now have no choice.
>the rich don’t pay taxes

The top 10% of taxpayers pay 70% of the tax. Focusing on Tony Blair's 300k Stamp Duty avoidance is a penny-rich, pound-poor move.
Actually it is even simpler than that - we increasingly hate our neighbor and therefore feel compelled to turn to the state for help, and view crusty rich old politicians (who work for the wealthy elites) as their saviors.
These things seem best suited as shuttle buses. Shuttle buses are a great way to improve parking and quality of life, by letting people park at a different place then where they want to go.
Damn, I heard it was fixed, then another beta unfixed it - maybe they found some issue with the fix. Fingers crossed on this one I guess.
It is kind of ironic that a 11 years old told researchers “Facebook is for old people” when mark zuckerberg is or at least was, a notorious ageist.
Karma is a bitch
It got pretty simple for a while when old serial & parallel ports were phased out in favor of USB. Also VGA worked for a very long time even after DVI and HDMI appeared on the scene.

(I never had as much trouble with connecting displays as I do today)
Windows is available for ARM, and it supports emulation of x86 apps just like Rosetta. I am using it right now on Parallels and it works fine for me.

I suspect they just don't want to publicly commit to Windows compatibility due to licensing issues.
An an online version based on that story:
https://libraryofbabel.info/