skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
typically this is done via sham stim. i.e. implant both groups, but don't turn on the control group for the blinded phase. Helps that DBS technique has had 40 years or so to refine itself so its adverse-effect rate is reasonably well known and established.

See methods section
https://n.neurology.org/content/88/16_Supplement/P5.016
This looks really cool, but I feel like there's just too many obstacles to using this with my group. Right now we use Roll20, which has a LOT of faults. Weird glitches happen basically every session. But it's free, and it works on everyone's computer, and those two benefits outweigh all its faults. To switch to TaleSpire, we'd have to make sure everyone is on a Windows PC (or know how to trick it into running on their non-Windows computer), we'd have to make sure everyone's hardware is capable enough, and we'd have to spend a collective $150 up front. And if anyone else wanted to jump in for a single session, they have to jump through those same hoops.

It feels like the sort of thing that will be great for groups dedicated enough to organize it, though.
No, that would not be direct root cause. Direct root cause would be designing and implementing an apartment-complex entry app which depends on a working internet connection, battery, and network route to a single point of failure.
iOS 15 camera with text highlighting is a killer feature here, and maybe people will start taking pictures of business cards to get info before discarded. Maybe an app idea here, idk.
Indian fertility rates are also at near replacement levels. In many states below.

It is not just a developed country issue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_union_ter...
> Individual data centers were reporting dips in power usage in the range of tens of megawatts, and suddenly reversing such a dip in power consumption could put everything from electrical systems to caches at risk.

Interesting that they think fluctuations of tens of megawatts would risk electrical systems. If the equipment was handling that much continuous load, wouldn't it also easily handle the resumption of the same load? Also I totally did not understand how power usage would affect caches.
Nope, I don’t care for killing. I did get top gun in the academy though.
Thanks for the advice, I will consider not writing bugs.
Just switched my wifi channel! 6 and below are rat safe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels
Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on how you view it, brains don't seem to work like that.

The likelihood of DBS being able to turn someone into an ideal worker/consumer is about the same as it being able to turn a Parkinson's patient into an Olympic athlete.
OS/2 Warp was much superior to the contemporary Windows (95/NT) of the time.

Yes, it had issues, but it was pretty good for its time.
I knew a few people who were permanent residents in Singapore for work, and they were not "labor". In fact, I think the population drop would be almost all in the high-skilled professional worker cohort. These are exactly the people you need to achieve those lofty goals.
System complexity is just a way to avoid blaming individual humans when an error occurs.

- Me, 2021
By the way let's give a name to that system, it's called "PSC". Google it. It's the most absurd and ineffective performance management system I've ever witnessed.

It creates a Hunger Games mentality within teams and makes doing anything that actually matters virtually impossible, generating an infinite sequence of half assed 6 months projects that get systematically abandoned as soon as the people responsible manage to get promoted or switch teams.
I’ve been doing keto (lazy nowadays, I guesstimate carbs of meals and try to stay under 20g a day) for 8 years, health and energy levels improved (in addition to losing 30kg, but that was front-loaded in the first year). But that’s probably the side effect of being far more aware of what I’m eating, I’m almost 100% positive that I eat far more veggies than before, my diet wasn’t the healthiest.
You have 1,530 tabs open?!
This thing has turned into a crusade over a moral panic. What I want to know is why Facebook is being singled out. Twitter is infested with people that have hammer/sickle symbols in their bios. Reddit has a history of tolerating child pornography. What makes Facebook special?
No, it's a stimulating electrode implanted surgically in selected brain targets.

The difference is: TMS is inaccurate/broad/hard to target, and wears off either when you shut off the TMS or a few days to weeks later. Think a weaker version of ECT. DBS allows focus on specific brain targets, and the effect lasts for the lifetime of the electrodes/device.
I was brought back to the office early September on a one-day-per-week basis to facilitate “face to face” communication.

Since then, we’ve had exactly zero in person meetings. We each use Teams even when in the office.

The one time I suggested meeting in a conference room, the consensus was “it’s easier to see the presenter’s screen over Teams”.

I enjoy talking to my nearby colleagues and having a little adventure one day per week, but it’s clear that the management motivation for this is not in person communication, but stems from the same lack of trust and need to micromanage that prevented frequent WFH in the first place.
Obviously it depends on the actors on social media what level on harm social media can cause. If there weren't political forces, foreign governments and troll media such as Fox and friends then social media could be much less harmful.

It requires considerable expertise and resources to spin up a disinformation campaigns continuously. The US leads here because of the size of its market and determination of its adversaries.

Mark tries to spin the responsibility away in the quoted sentence.
> Most of the presidents from the last century were not born into wealth.

Whether or not they were born into wealth is irrelevant to my claim, which is:

> Politicians in America are traditionally wealthy people.

Of the 17 presidents from the last century, only three (and just nine total) are listed as having a net worth of less than one million: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_Unit...

America is a country ruled by the wealthy. Both by wealthy politicians and wealthy corporations.
You could have editorialized this title to:

Rebasing a Linux Kernel Branch that’s Two Years Old and 9k Commits Deep

…but you would have had thousands of us running to the bathroom to revisit our last meal.

What a Herculean effort by these two engineers. When your role is to track down fellow employees from completely different teams and crack the, er, carrot to get them to update their patch from two years ago, you can get very tired very quickly.

I’m sure the hardware driver modules are fairly self contained but things like the userspace QoS patch could be pretty hairy. The kind of thing where, for upstream, you’d spend 90% of your time landing a framework just to even be able to implement your feature with the final 10% patch.

Oof. Bravo.
Corruption will hold back India for at least another 20 years from achieving what Singapore has. Probably a lot more, and maybe never.
What better way to shout into the void than posting on HN, a website that can't load more than one top-level comment on a page!
I agree. Especially since political ambition won't be to curb misinformation, it will be to get control about which misinformation will be spread. Harm to users will be an excuse and like misinformation it will be quite difficult to quantify.
What are you talking about? Your wifi router isn't jumping channels unless you have something fairly sophisticated (read auto channel assignment that recalibrates periodically when nobody is connected).
Ah, it's hard to be so ignorant sometimes--when I'm enlightened like you I'll finally be able to understand that relocating 15,000 backwater US conservatives to the Bangkok suburbs would actually be a net benefit for the Thai. Their weak, homogeneous culture needs to be changed for their own good.
Adding the link separately... don't know what the etiquette is for this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJd4zwxCflA
I think organization along financial lines is much more egalitarian. It’s fungible and people can make changes in their lifetime to move between social classes. You’re proposing racially based zones in the world where everyone of a single race must reside. It’s asinine and odious.
> Intel compares the performance to a Nios II/e (it's 4x faster!), but at 6 cycles/instruction, no multiplier, one bit per clock shifter (IOW: no barrel shifter), the II/e is about the worst little CPU you can imagine.

Okay, let's do a better one.

On a stratix 10:

II/e uses 414 units, II/f uses 1006 units, and V/m uses 1580.

II/e gets .107 DMIPS/MHz, II/f gets .753, and V/m gets .464.

Coremark for II/e is 19, for II/f is 229, and for V/m is... only 16?

II/e runs at 320MHz, II/f at 300MHz, and V/m at 362MHz.

Overall, not looking great for the cost, but if you really want RISC-V I'm sure that has value.

And what's with CoreMark? I do notice they gave the II/f a big cache for that test.
I'm sorry but please do not believe anything this commenter is saying.

I've been a "managed partner" with Udemy for 5 years now (600k enrollments) and I have never once been asked to sign a contract. Despite my repeated attempts to get them to promote my courses, they do not do anything special for this secret cabal of instructors. I still launch courses on Udemy that crash and burn spectacularly. No, they do not manually rank your courses for you. Your course ranks for its keywords and following a fairly straightforward system that considers student satisfaction, keyword density, and search list CTR (and other things).

Udemy does have problems and chief among them is the "disgruntled instructor problem", as in there are a lot of instructors who did not find traction on their system and are convinced they were somehow screwed and it was all a conspiracy to steal their content. It's the same dynamic on YouTube. For every 1 Youtuber who makes it big, there are 50 that don't manage to crack the code and find success. Most platforms are like this.

If your course didn't do well on Udemy, there are generally 3 reasons: 1) your content isn't as good as you think it is 2) you made something that is quantitatively worse than an existing course on the same exact subject. 3) your topic doesn't have demand or your offer just isn't compelling. It's really that simple.

9 times out of 10 when you hear the "uDemYY is A SC@m" screed, you can know they fit one of those 3 reasons. Ask for a link to their course. It's almost always disorganized, poorly produced, on a topic that's already saturated, and with confusing copywriting.

Figuring out what works on a platform takes time and iteration. It's fairly rare that you hit it big on your first shot. Some people push through it and eventually find their stride, and some people just don't (and often blame the platform for not recognizing their genius). It's a MARKET. Their algorithm ranks based on quality metrics. If your stuff doesn't rise to the top, then your course doesn't have what the system wants.

Per the "build your own audience" argument: Yes, you do not get access to the direct email addresses of the students. This is a tradeoff you make to work with them. They can drive you 10s of thousands of enrollments a month, but it is after all their system and so they're going to control what they can. The beauty of making a Udemy course is you don't have to DO any marketing if you make content worth buying. Personally, I enjoy making courses but find selling them to be a massive headache.
If the middling performance and lack of compressed instructions aren't an issue, then the automatic BSP generation, the Platform Builder integration, and the debugger ease of use can be a pretty strong arguments. The Nios II/e was good enough for many slow control tasks.
https://speed.python.org/comparison/ has some pretty comprehensive benchmarks too.
Workers value $ to buy objects (not experiences) over their mental health and are selfish and expect to get inappropriate pay for 4 day weeks which would be at most 80% is why we don't have it.

Doesn't mean you can't do it, work outside the system, people are too broken to change.

As another commentator points out the struggles with mental health now are Covid. Its the FWH and lockdowns and insecurity and loss of friendships and the fact their lives have not moved forward for over a year, for some it's dealing with death. In current society people need more days in the office. Step one normality. Step two look at improving society.
I think this hits the nail on the head. It's not that Facebook or the many people who work there don't care about kids or a deleterious political climate. They do care. It's just about what happens when those concerns conflict with other concerns, such as maximizing user engagement. In my opinion Haugen's testimony and Zuckerberg's response simply confirm this: Haugen talks a lot about the research that was done and how that research was ignored; Zuckerberg points out a lot of (somewhat lacking in context) facts about the size of Facebook's investments in trust and integrity or openness to regulation.
People bond over whatever lets them make a connection.
To quote G'Kar: "we are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile and nothing can grow there. Too much, the best of us is washed away."

The problem with using such a device at will when merely feeling down (that is, things that are not clinical depression) is that life will become boring, monotonous, and in a way, almost futile. What's the point of anything any more if we can just "be happy" at the press of a button? Why bother actually solving whatever made you unhappy in the first place? How can you still appreciate the good moments? How can you still build deep social relationships if your ability to make someone else happy? (Or why even seek out such relationships in the first place?)

Occasional use won't be a huge problem, but such a device would quickly become addictive at least psychologically, if not psychically. It's impossible to say what will happen, but I don't think it will be very positive.

So my answer would be "no".

Aside: the idea is not entirely new; e.g. in Brave New World there is a "happy drug" with more or less the same effects that you describe.
I would generally agree with this...the electrodes and microcontrollers we have tend to be relatively crude.

BUT...I would say apathy as a broad symptom/syndrome is known to be associated w/ an untreated Parkinsonian state...so if some enterprising postdoc somehow finds a target nucleus that improves apathy w/ macro stimulating electrodes in the near future...we could all be wrong..
> So maybe Zuck is telling the truth here, that they are trying to fix all this. But no one can see the forrest from the trees.

Don't fall for words!

Frances Haugen was able to see the big picture. The documents she presented had Facebook employees mentioning it. Facebook didn't act on what was known. It is not that it wasn't known.

To paraphrase John Roberts - the only way not to do a thing is not to do that thing.
Solar panels are relatively cheap now, and the intermittent nature of solar power is not a deal breaker for carbon sequestration.
Thanks, I didn't know that was a thing.
Sure women couldn't vote and black people didn't have civil rights, but at least people were modest!
So, it seems to me that if you already do 2D animation, then figuring out 3D should be something you almost think of as guaranteed. Like it's inevitable that you'd get it right if you put in the time, and then you just make some estimate of like, hmm, maybe 6 months, maybe 3 months, but I'm sure to have figured it out by then.

But I also think that this mindset is something that needs to be learned. Maybe it can only be learned by successfully achieving enough new skills adjacent to things you know. So doing so lets you gain the confidence you'll always figure it out given enough time, and then also maybe gives you a kind of mental pattern of ways to successfully do so.
It’s a net benefit for the world.
A microwave oven is 10000 times more powerful than a typical WiFi signal and is focused on an object less than a foot away.
The article says "The total population, which includes foreigners who live, work and study in Singapore but are not permanent residents, dropped by 4.1% to 5.45 million people. hat was largely as a result of a 10.7% decrease in its non-resident population."

There are certainly many high-skilled professional workers in that cohort, including the few Singapore residents I know who left, but it's certainly not all.
Just the classification in Singapore. PRs are kind of an "in between".
"Foreign worker" means being on a work-visa, in Singapore this means you have very few rights and your stay is motivated only by your job. You get 30d to land a new job and pass the visa process, which takes minimum two weeks. Or get out.

Long term visit passes are provided for spouses and children of citizens/PRs, they can apply to be allowed to work.

Dependent passes are the same but for foreign workers, they may not apply work in Singapore.

Permanent Resident is the only way for a foreigner to stay long term and work in Singapore out of their own merit. And the requirement are probably more like what you expect for citizenship.

Currently it's essentially impossible to become citizen if you were not born to Singaporean citizens. However in the past citizenship has been offered to PR-holders.
On Instagram I was even able to "like" posts while the outage was in effect. Not sure if the app replayed those when the service came back.
Your costs will vary wildly depending on the cloud provider, VM sizes used, data volume, etc...

A small database might be just $5 per month if its a thin slice of a big shared Kubernetes pie.

Or it could be $500K per month if it's a huge set of replicated server storing petabytes, replicated for dev, test, and prod.
well...you can turn that Neuropace device they are using on and off w/ its smartphone controller...
The fact that you made $44k for your first course is great. The first one is the hardest because of the general learning curve of making it and figuring out what their system wants. Keep going.
And the best part about not writing bugs is that you then don't have to write tests either.
If you read the Wiki page you linked, you’ll see that PRISM was just the NSA internal source name for data sourced via FISA warrants—which are not optional.

Apple had no choice to “join” PRISM; the timing you see on that slide was determined by the FBI.
Foreign workers dropped by 147,000 and if you dig into that number, a decent amount were Employment Pass workers which are generally "highly skilled". The other tend to be more lower skilled/manual labor jobs.
Depends if not causing harm to users was an executive KPI or not.
Well, it's an N-1 study/case report. The next step is to get Francis Collins or Elon to cough up another R01 grant's worth of monopoly bux to fund the larger trial...
There has been a growing movement to pave over a person's achievements in light of some discovered sin, as though that immediately invalidates all they have done.
Singapore has a strict caste hierarchy, which looks like this:

* Citizen.

* Permanent resident (PR). Previously given out in boxes of cereal, particularly if of Chinese descent, now very difficult to attain. Military service required for male children.

* Employment pass. Professional expats with high qualifying salaries (depends on age, educational qualifications etc, but generally $5000/mo minimum). Pass tied to job, 30 days to get out of the country/find new sponsor if job ends.
No subsidies for education, health etc, but can bring in families, marry locals, eventually apply for PR.

* S-pass. Semi-professional roles (eg. construction foreman), strict limits on how many can be employed.

* Work pass. Disposable laborers in construction, factories, landscaping, etc. No path to become residents, cannot marry Singaporeans (edit: without explicit government approval), generally brutally exploited and for the past two years 100% confined to their dormitories and worksites.

* Foreign domestic workers aka maids/helpers. Disposable laborers living and working in Singaporean households. Not covered by employment legislation, so can be legally forced to work 365/24/7 with no holidays whatsoever. Not uncommonly physically confined (locked in) to the employer's apartment, denied means of communicating with the outside world, and have both their passports and salaries confiscated for "safekeeping".
This is not the right way to approach this. NoSQL and SQL both have use cases they are suited for, and saying one is better than the other is wrong. Faster writes of NoSQL does help with scaling - but if your app needs transactions than obviously NoSQL won't work.

For reporting, unstructured data is actually not bad. If your report requires you to scan your whole database, then SQL won't necessarily be faster, you have to think about disk performance as well as how complex of a join(s) do you need.
Steve Jobs tried to convince Dell to license Mac software
I don't think Dungeondraft maps look bad by any means. I have both Foundry and Talespire, and while I agree that Talespire is very pretty, a 2D map in Foundry is more than acceptable.

The problem Talespire faces is that it does so much less than Foundry. It's like comparing MS Paint to Photoshop. A visually gorgeous MS Paint, don't get me wrong, but one with only a bare minimum of tooling.

I also get the impression that Talespire's future scope is mostly limited to visualisation. It's not aiming to provide character sheets for a hundred different systems, or automate hit and damage rolls, or provide shop and inventory interfaces, or visual-novel style character popups, or drag-and-drop NPC design, or any of the other thousand things you can get a Foundry module for.
It’s not just Hawaii, the heatwave/drought in the west has reduced wheat yields by as much as a third.

> The real killer was the drought but the fact that temperatures were not dropping enough at night to provide relief to the crop was the final straw

https://www.postregister.com/farmandranch/crops/grain/idaho-...
You made me go back and check. I don’t have a ‘not now’ button to bypass login. Weird.
Thx - some good points made here!
I appreciate the work and wish the best for @csdvrx, with my emotions and the dream for better UX for the years to come.
We don't have to reduce carbon emissions by 20% in 50 years, we have to reduce them by >100% in less than thirty years. Reducing birth rates is both, much too slow, and not sufficient (unless you propose reducing population to 0).
I think you will like this

https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/08/20/wireheading_done_righ...
I think he's most likely disgruntled about the direct support they offer published instructors. It's true that all you get is a support email until you've made enough enrollments to get what is effectively an account manager. You're right, this is the same as everywhere else essentially.

The thing is though... they have 65,000 instructors. They can only give so much support to everyone, and OP is most likely just upset that they aren't making as much money as they think they deserve.
At that point your library just becomes a book distribution centre.
Energy costs of carbon sequestration from seawater is far lower than from the atmosphere directly, carbon does cycle fairly rapidly to the oceans, and increased ocean acidification is itself a major concern. I think the question is well-worth exploring. I'm mostly familiar with it in the context of synfuel production, one possible application (though of course burning such fuels re-introduces an captured carbon to the atmosphere).

A set of papers, several of which address energy costs of carbon sequestration from seawater:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/28nqoz/electri...
6 years ago? This is old news.