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I don't think there's malice, nor believe I know your motivation - the discussion has been civil from my view.

My singular observation has been that you seem to repeatedly wish to project a view that asks the audience to treat a group with suspicion and doubt. Based on their race and origin.

I think that's spurious, and as it applies to me and just about everybody I know, I know it to be patently false. My first-hand account also seems to be of no value.

A direct parallel would be like me propagating something negative or disparaging about Jews as a whole, due to my feelings about Palestine. I wouldn't do that, and I expect the same courtesy. Group biases are discrimination, and discrimination generally leads to collective punishment. None of these are good things, nor do they make better people of anyone.
From a hiring standpoint, the problem imo, is that employers set the timebox thinking that it means something when comparing candidates' solutions. I couldn't care less whether somebody spends two hours or two days on it. I want to see the best solution somebody can produce. I have engineers that can do things quickly and others that can do them more slowly, and both are infinitely more valuable to me than someone who can't provide a quality solution under any circumstance. In my experience, if you're filtering out the slower engineers that produce quality work you're going to be in for a very long hiring process and miss out on a ton of great engineers.
This is already a concept - you swam airspace with a bunch of cheap(er) missiles to let the ones that count through. Or, ships now just launch a salvo and hope SOME get through. The problem is that for something to be as big as, and got as fast as even a Tomawhawk (which is slow), it's still going to cost.
You are allowed to have an opinion, so long as its' "the correct" opinion. Otherwise you are censored, silenced, banned, etc... Oh, but why is there so much polarization?
Aren't historical stock price services split-adjusted already?
I imagined some sort of a net to catch it. But, you're right.
I imagine it's about as exciting as most codenames: "we needed to decide some naming scheme, and someone suggested those place names because they like the places".
It would make a computer harder to use. Grandma would be pretty annoyed when Facebook doesn't accept her password, when all she wants to do is see pictures of the grandkids.
I’d be interested to compare this to an adult who is brand new to typing on a keyboard (if you could find one!).

What’s the typing speed and error rates over time as the subject practices? How do these compare to the progress with the BCI?
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wait-- you are saying the unit of work is minimal ("a 10 minute walk") so you don't want to pay it, but you also aren't willing to do it yourself ('almost-daily user').

so by your actions you basically agree that in your case it is worth it, otherwise you'd just take the 10 minute walk.

Did I miss something?
I never understood why visible light goes through water but almost every other frequency is blocked?
"Search and rescue" seems to be given as the use-case for every new development in robotics. Is it basically a meme in that field by this point?
i wonder how this would have performed on recognizing hanzi
> This article isn't about that

Questionable. It purports to ask a question, to which both active and passive use are relevant, then focuses on only one of those. Selective presentation is itself a kind of bias.
I was a student in the early 2000s and part of the academic community and have personally seen some of the world's best scientists working on physics or computer science. Not one of them used Python - in fact our professor chose to teach us Haskell and C in the first year of under-graduation. C, C++ or Fortran was quite common for scientific programming.
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Drones are pretty quickly being adopted by search and rescue and firefighting organizations. No reason to think that's gonna stop.

https://www.birminghamtimes.com/2021/11/video-drone-rescue-s...
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If they can (which I doubt) it's easy to fix in a bulletproof way on the server-side. The game server should require a token from Sony servers and Sony would only issue such a token to an account that actually bought the game.
> This has been forbidden by the EU in the context of hotel rooms (booking.com)

I've worked for two hotel booking companies and as far as I remember, it is not outright banned. It is just that it requires to be truthful and specific. So for example, if you wouldn't be able to say that a room was recently sold out, but you could say that it was recently sold out on YOUR website. You just had to specify things.

This was some 2-3 years ago and it varied based on country the current hotel/user was in as well.
I've been running a 13" M1 MBP since April

It'll run for well over a work day doing work tasks (VDI session, video chats, etc) and have enough charge to watch a movie after work

The bigger battery, improved efficiency, and faster processing of the new M1 Pro and M1 Max is only good stuff going forward
Nah. Generic brain reading is not possible in the forseeable future. Everyone's brain works differently. You have to train a machine learning model to recognize specific types of inputs. You likely cannot do pure thought reading.
A lot of people are saying you need to install the extension, but they do have a link describing how to get around that and just use the search

https://youdotcom.notion.site/Setting-You-com-as-your-defaul...

You can do https://you.com/search?q=<query> to see results without installing anything

Seems like the extension sets it up to search through the URL bar instead of having to go to the website
The game client reads only canonical game assets - you can't just add any nft willy nilly.

An nft can also include a hash of some offchain data. In this way it can make a verifiable claim about content.
“ You should demand it from the OS capabilities regardless of where the app comes from.”

That sounds like a quote from Tim Cook. Seriously though, if the commenter is happy with Apple and how it fits their work patterns then why do you need to call them out? I’m consistently confused about the mental horsepower spent on this debate when the solution is really simple: if you don’t like a product, don’t buy it. I think Tesla’s look lame, so I don’t own one. I don’t like Twinkies, so I don’t buy them.

I guess my point is - wuu saa
What will really be nice is when UUID V7 has wide support, because in many ways it is the best of all possible worlds:

1. The UUIDs are generated in increasing order, so none of the b-tree issues others have mentioned with fully random UUIDs.

2. They're true UUIDs, so migrating between DBs is easy, ensuring uniqueness across DBs is easy, etc.

3. They also have the benefit of having a significant amount of randomness, so if you have a bug that doesn't do an appropriate access check somewhere they are more resistant to someone trying to guess the ID from a previous one.
I don’t agree.
Users can be in a hurry because they have to catch the train. They can have only one hand free because they’re holding a baby. They can be mentally handicapped so they’re cognitively unable to google stuff. They can be depressed and find themselves unable to accomplish even small tasks. Or they’re blind and there’s no accessible website that explains the error.

I think all those people have the right to use your app.

There’s a point in drawing a line somewhere. But please, don’t make your app hard to use /on purpose/, not even with good intentions in mind.
If you hashed every 1000 symbols with a 512 bit hash to check message integrity and retransmit, a hash collision would be practically impossible, so "no transmission errors are possible" is perfectly fair to say under some circumstances.
The definition of what a vaccine is just changed this year though.

This talk about "microchips" is the definition of misinformation, I've never seen anyone seriously propose that, it's only used to paint anyone who has any kind of doubt about the "vaccines" and "vaccine mandates" as a crazy person.
Wouldn't it still then be incumbent on the user to remember to use the key to tell the os a password was on its way? It wouldn't eliminate having a brain fart and accidentally typing your password in the clear.
Kinda surprised they didn't for comparing the M1 Max model ... but the fact the higher-end M1 Pro is more-or-less identical in performance to these AMD and Intel offerings, but draws so much less power is awesome
How huge? Aviation uses HF (shortwaves) and not VLF as a backup for translatlantic flights (see for example https://thepointsguy.com/guide/how-pilots-communicate-with-a...). HF antennas can already look huge ;-)
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Don't think about top secret or incriminating stuff.
I had missed some information on my network monitoring app (RethinkDNS[1]) and updated my last comment before seeing your reply! You're right about the connections to a Facebook server, though I'm only seeing the connections when the app is cold-started on Android. I haven't had the chance to test on iOS.

The Facebook Android[2] and iOS[3] SDKs are source-available.

From a privacy perspective, when someone compares Google Maps to HERE WeGo, the question is whether using Google or HERE (plus the Facebook SDK) would be more of a privacy violation. I don't have a good answer to this question.

But from a market share perspective, HERE WeGo is a minor player compared to Google and using it instead of Google Maps would help curb Google's market dominance in mapping.

Of course, if a free and open source OSM-based app is viable for your area, I would go for that instead.

[1] https://f-droid.org/it/packages/com.celzero.bravedns/

[2] https://github.com/facebook/facebook-android-sdk

[3] https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk
> My business can be destroyed by Google on a whim at a moment's notice. How did it get to be so bad?

Market concentration. Almost like you might benefit from some kind of Ending Platform Monopolies Act.

I wonder if they've considered how this kind of messaging could backfire. You tell a bunch of small businesses who don't like you keeping them in a cage that there is some pending legislation and they should write to Congress. They might look into it first. Are you sure you still want them to write to Congress?
Using clipnotify[0], one could fix the busy-wait issue pretty easily.

[0] https://github.com/cdown/clipnotify
I'll counter this as another white South African male and say that no one globally is portraying South African white men as any kind of new bogeyman.

After the fall of apartheid the new democratically voted for (black) government came into power, meaning that the old government, military, police, municipalities etc. faced pressure in replacing all the previous white employees with new black employees.

That meant that those white people needed to start finding new jobs. For your general office worker from a municipality or a low level policeman that meant transitioning to something else, such as generic office job, learning new skills such as using computers etc.

But for your extreme specialists, for example from the Army Special Task Force, they often had advanced training and skills which they didn't want to trade for an entry level position somewhere. That meant translating those skills into something new, such as (mainly) local security companies (to combat the new rise in crime in the country); but also as contractors such as named in the article.

Even the article itself isn't focused on condemning the individual contractors, it's merely stating that the creation of these private armies are raising hard questions around their use, liability and who they need to be accountable to.
> Is there a company (with more than a few people) without excessive drinking and drugs?

Some times I read HN comments and feel like they’re coming from an alternate universe. This is one of those times.

WeWork’s rampant drug culture was an exception, not the norm.

If you’re finding yourself surrounded by rampant drug use and alcohol consumption in a work context then you are in a very abnormal place. I’ve never heard of any of these cultures lasting very long because mixing drug/alcohol abuse and business operations isn’t a recipe for a healthy or functioning work environment. WeWork is a case in point.
If the payment model is every delivery = comission, then they'll go as fast as possible, even with good bike lanes.

Red light, but the cross street is empty? They'll probably blow through it. And they'll be making these kinds of stupid risk assessments every few seconds, and statistics would say the chances of 100% success are against them...
System diagram (how it works):

https://github.com/fwillett/handwritingBCI/raw/main/systemDi...

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Code and data (for replicating results offline):

https://github.com/fwillett/handwritingBCI

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Published paper (you can find its full contents online):

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03506-2
the old HN switch-a-roo?
In the original fairy tale the young man would go on to bribe an ice witch to curse the land with everlasting winter for maximum profit.
Why? The properties of water were optimized to make life possible!
I think it’s easy to imagine cheating in a post-school context: copying code from a project your employer doesn’t own into one it does. And that has huge legal ramifications. So students do need to learn about those kinds of restrictions via analogues.
that would show up on a diff and would elicit a question in code review hopefully of why the .eslintrc file was being changed in this way. This another good argument for a comprehensive code review process.

also you could lock this file down with a CODEOWNERS file so only certain trusted contributors could modify the lint configuration. You could also do exclusionary pattern matching to make sure none of the bad characters do exist in identifier names... Or you could write your eslint configuration as a separate module to be npm installed... or you could write a eslint rule plugin that disallows non-ascii identifiers and then npm install that... lots of different ways to skin this cat to add security.
Dunno, seems pretty Kafkaesque for a city where you can get arrested by the police for the most minutiae things, and the reason for it is not because you’ve done anything wrong but just that the city needs to raise funds.

> Staggering lack of leadership in city government.

The paragraph explained the reason for the city’s downfall: deindustrialization and offshoring starting from the 1970s has shut down manufacturing jobs in the area, and the more affluent whites moved to bigger cities for better prospects, while blacks were left behind. This is much more than just lack of leadership in the local government, it has more to do with the deliberate macro-economic decisions of the US government starting from half a century ago.
1. It's extremely easy. Before the so-called revolution and CS people trying to get into it in droves, it was a niche topic dominated by the lifelong-researcher types. They could not be bothered with complex code. Writing code should not get in the way. Then, Lisp dominated the ML/AI scene. Now Python does, for this reason, to some extent. Python being easy is also helpful for non-CS engineering and other science grads to learn quickly.

2. Python has a huge ecosystem. NumPy, SciPy, and now Tensorflow, PyTorch, JAX. These makes lives easier.

3. Python and its ecosystem is FOSS. Students, hobbyists can learn it for free. (Quick anecdote: my uni in India, a very reputed non-IIT one, with sub-optimal funding, two years ago switched to Python + ecosystem for Physics and CS courses- both major and minor. This switch happened directly from C. Before that, Fortran was used. MATLAB, SPSS, etc. was never an option for cash-starved Indian unis. This is pretty much the same all across India. And thus you get a huge talent pool already trained in Python that pass-outs from hard-to-get-into unis.)

4. Python being general purpose also helps vis-a-vis R. R is heavily constrained. You cannot do much in it. R is used in anaalysis and Data Science. I have never seen it being used in ML, DL or RL. You learn Python, you can do non-trivial file manipulation in it. Good luck doing that with R or MATLAB.

5. The amount of people who needs to write code that reaches the metal is very small. I never needed to look under the sheets. I spend my life writing PyTorch, fastai, and TFLite. A friend of mine doing PhD needed to write custom CUDA code and then a wrapper so that it could be accessed from Python. He said that it was a very horrible experience. But the number of such people too little to bring Julia to mainstream. Julia removes the "two-language problem", but most people never need to use anything besides Python.
no means no, maybe means no, yes means maybe
It’s not dead, but it doesn’t apply to companies like Wolt that take huge amounts of VC cash to lose tons of money competing in a crowded sector. This is the ideal exit for Wolt.
I'm curious how his imagined writing compares to the handwriting he had before he was paralyzed. Was it always that messy or are the BCI controls difficult to use? For example, his comma seems exaggerated, as though he had to imagine grand gestures to get the SW to recognize it as a valid character. But on the other hand, his "m" and "n" look fairly normal. It's possible that's just what his handwriting looks like.
Nuclear power is scary in a superficial way, while pretty much all other fuels are scary in a deeper and more impactful way
You need bandwidth to transfer more data (there is a theoretical limit of how much data you can transfer at a given bandwidth with a given signal to noise ratio).

The lower you go with frequencies, the larger antennas you need (quarter wavelength is usually the minimum... for FM radio (around 100MHz) it's 75cm which is very realistic length for a car or a house radio... at 14mhz (ham radio freq), it's 5.3 meters, which is still doable if you live in a house, and at 1.8MHz (another ham band) is ~40 meters, which is hard.. going lower is even harder, and special "tricks" are needed.

The second problem is the bandwith itself... some wifi equipment supports bands up to 100MHz of width (to simplify, you use all the frequences from eg. 5.1GHz to 5.2GHz), and if you want to stay at low frequencies, it's impossible to create such a wide band, because the antenna sizes are so different at 1MHz and 101MHz, the propagation is different, etc., so usually you're stuck with narrower bandwiths at lower frequencies (and of course, many of the low frequencies are already in use.. eg for fm radio).

But generally yes, higher the frequency, more directly (in a straight line) it goes, and you get more losses in stuff between the transmitter and receiver.
The first time I heard of Harry Potter was on a television news piece saying people were having trouble finding the book (for Christmas?) in stores because it was sold out.
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Pretty sure anybody with a modicum of skill with HTML and the patience to do their own transcription can do this themselves and host it on Netlify.
This is the metaverse we should be funding, not phones strapped on bulky blindfolds.
This too will be weaponized. How? Capture a North Korean official, put one of these in his brain and siphon off all the juicy intel.
Capture a narco trafficker. ditto.
Capture a terrorist. ditto.
Have we made the world better?
It seems that whenever we develop ANY device for improved information processing, it disrupts the world we live in and displaces the uniquely human style of information processing-rendering humans less necessary. It is paradoxical. We make our lives 'easier' and human talent is lost.
I guess it would depend on the product/brand and at what stage you're at.

If you're set to buy brand B and brand A is sold out, you probably don't even notice it. But if some variations of brand B are sold out (like some colors, one of the examples in the article) than maybe you might commit to the purchase.

Anecdote: When I was looking to buy a Keychron K2 it was sold out, both standard and premium model. I was set to buy the standard model, so I asked to be notified when it was back in stock. First to get back in stock was the premium model, I chose to wait it out. Next day I got an email offering a 10% discount for the premium model - the standard model was still out of stock, so I bought the premium model.

I'm happy with the purchase, but that circumstance made me spend 10-15€ more for a nicer keyboard: out of stock standard model + price discount.
see e.g. https://www.mit.edu/~fadel/papers/TARF-paper.pdf for those who didn't hear about TARF (translational acoustic-RF communication)
Ha! Printers!!

I worked on an OS called CTOS back in the day. It was difficult to set up printing, because there was no feedback.
It worked or it didn't, and there were queues to configure and services to install and network connections...

Somebody in a trade rag wrote "Its easy to print on an Apple, difficult on an IBM PC and impossible on CTOS". That smarted.

So a guy named Tom Ball (later the Java Swing guy) wrote a
Prolog script that somehow could just tell you if printing was working or not, and what to do about it. Never figured out how he did that. BUt our trouble tickets went from something like 60% printer-related, to noise. Just like that.

I remember after all these years, and try to make software foolproof. For the customer service folk, because they matter.
I think this reasoning may be right, if expressed backward. "Visible light" is just that which life evolved to care most about, because it was what was available in the (shallowish) water.
You can't fight "progress". Today if your programm depends of less than 10 libraries, it's not cool.
Well, after-work context (never during work, not sure if that's what the article meant), but I've never seen otherwise - and I've been in a few 50k+-100k+ companies too. It's usually not visible to the naked eye, but ask and you'll be told/included.
Organic Maps has been my go to maps since it came out. Fantastic navigation features, and felt no different than using Google Maps. The best part? It doesn't any internet connection to work!
The price of screen repair through Apple increased from the old iPhones at 50€ to the new iPhones with worse repairability at 75€

Screen repair increased from 150€ to 360€.

Independent repair shops even used to offer these services at 25-60€ (old iPhones, screen repair) to 25-50€ (old iPhones, battery replacement).

Going from 60€ to 360€ for a screen repair is a steep ask and significantly harms resell value.
I have a scansnap and it's pretty much changed my life. The OCR is pretty good, and easy enough to do that my wife or kids can do it. Anything scanned automatically gets OCR'ed and placed in a family dropbox folder.

Everything is OCR'ed so I can search for it if I need something, and since everything is one folder, the next time I'm on a plane or at an airport or whatever, I just turn on a movie and spend time categorizing the files in the folder.