skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you read the article it's clear that the researchers aren't pulling out the information from the guy's thoughts, they're reading the nerve signals from him "imagining" he's writing a letter, and using ML to map that to pen strokes which get mapped to words.

So if James Bond gets captured, all he has to do is to not imagine writing the information, he can think it all he wants.
I think the point is even with land there's no way they could actually defend their territory so what difference will it make when their land goes away? They'll be in the same situation they're in now (at least with respect to their sovereignty and existence as a state).
They will never notice the loss. This is a cost of doing business. Also these fines can be financed and become tax write offs through various loop holes and in the end even be a profit for the business.
All thing being equal. 2x monetary supply should translate to 2x price inflation. It’s literally how inflation work. The reason we don’t have that’s crazy inflation is not everything is equal. Mostly at natural the economy should deflate right now.
Most likely the brain implement is working against/with a persons consciousness. This "information extraction" device you talk about, would need to work against/with the sub-consciousness, otherwise you can just think "WALL WALL WALL WALL WALL" and the device would only be able to extract that.

Not to say that this device was probably trained on the person a lot before they could reach that accuracy. A "information extraction" device would have to be trained on it's victim first, but why would they play along with the training?

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think most people have control over what they consciously think, at least it works like that for me.
We use Meraki (huge wireless deployment, so it makes a lot of sense to just use their gateway and call it good) with their blacklists. Biggest problem is it considers too many things "gaming" and needs exceptions-- e.g. lichess and chess.com are OK. Authentication and logging are pretty good.

Rateshaping students to have enough bandwidth to do schoolwork but not to have wonderful connectivity (campus has a 2gbps symmetric connection, but we only give students 4-5 megabits/sec over wifi most places on campus) is also a part of the picture.
Thank you. It's been pointed further down in the comments that this claim is not as straightforward as we intended it. There's a thing or two going on in our website, mostly with an embedded player from Bandcamp and something going on with Wordpress. Gonna fix it.
I keep thinking about the Silicon Foundry days, about how chipmaking arose so strongly in the US by giving students access to foundries & technology & letting them explore.

Now that we're so much more advanced it's hard to imagine how something like this could apply or work again. Google bankrolling some runs of 130nm chips is one of the rare few examples we have, of accessible means to re-learning how to make chips. But whatever it takes, I feel like the US must create not just chipmaking capabilities, but conditions for talent to arise & develop & grow; we must re-create the Silicon Foundry. We've got to put these capabilities into the hands of our people, people of all kinds.

My ideal bill includes provisions that these fabs have to provide some runs to small to entities/schools, and has to have like 1/3rd or 1/2 their output be open to whomever. If the goal is only to make more chips, the US is not going to create a sustainable chipmaking pipeline. It won't develop the talent & knowledge that is essential to being a capable, competent power at chipmaking.

Morris Chang, founder of TSMC, outlined four advantages Taiwan has. Talent was the top[1]. Taiwan is a country rich chipmaking knowledge, there's seemingly no pool of talent like it. The US can't simply fund our way through this problem, can't create effective competition just by throwing money at companies: we need to create the conditions for ongoing success. We need to create our own talent. Open fabs are needed to allow new companies & talents to grow. Giving students & learners access to chipmaking is required to create the lifelong dedication & pursuits that great great yields. Currently there is little access to the means to personal success in chipmaking, and the US needs to change that, if it want's to turn things around.

[1] https://interconnected.blog/morris-chang-global-semiconducto...
I was in the same boat.

I usually avoid buying new but used cars are nearly the same price as new (if you can find a dealer that hasn't done ridiculous 'market adjustments').

So we bought new. We had to buy a car that was just off the delivery truck before the dealership had it inspected. The one we'd looked at two days before was long gone and they expected the one we bought to be sold the next day.

My neighbor traded in his truck for more than he paid for it two years ago. It's bonkers.

Mechanics are about to make a killing.
There existed many companies/people who would collect whatever you wanted and bring it where ever for a fee with a phone call.

People would not be willing to pay the price however.
What Am I: Finding Myself in IT
I'm considering quitting my job in healthcare to pursue a career in IT. But I'm frankly unsure what I should call myself or what jobs I should apply for. Maybe you guys have some thoughts?

I'm in my 40's, worked a few years as a consultant in the 90's. Like installing Windows, setting up networking and hooking up DSL. Since then I studied something different and worked many years in healthcare. But I kept my interest in IT.
Today I have several servers, both at home and in the cloud. I run Kubernetes, Ceph and have become quiet comfortable with that. I'm not a programmer although I usually can read code and adjust it to my needs. I'm more at home in the shell (bash, zsh) and have written a few scripts to automate stuff. And now I also have some experience in container orchestration (read kubectl and manifests).

I'm not sure what I expect from you guys. Maybe just some free associations on my thing.
Wow, company where I work just rolled out kandji what a timing.

However I don't think online storage is necessary for most business that already using either Google or Microsoft office products.
Bitmap is the easiest image file format in the world to read/write and the easiest and sometimes fastest to shoot over to any video device in the history of computing. Almost every game making tutorial going back to the 80s has "how to read/write" bitmaps usually in it somewhere.

Even 3D games will sometimes use them in a lot of odd places because it was faster/easier/took fewer cycles to include an uncompressed or simple run-length encoded bitmap than to try to store a smarter image format and need time to decompress it. (Though yes modern GPUs often support image decompression directly for certain texture file formats and that's shifted a lot.)
Aliens are trolling us by doing burnouts near our planet.
Exactly. People want to go back to the thing that got us here
For this comment to be helpful, you could offer links about goods that you feel better better represent inflation.
I understand why they are trying to do that but the effort is ridiculous and shows the inadequacy of last centuries' institutions to deal with the current challenges. Reactive in nature as humanity is, nothing will be done until well past due and many will suffer because of it.
be ware that following this story does not necisarly yield success
> No its not standard practise.

Yes it is. There is no guarantee you get your 'own' device back instead of a replacement while your previous device enters the repair queue. Not at service ingress at an APR, not at an AASP or an APSP. An APSP is more likely to not need to queue, but again, no guarantee and in any high density areas the queue is more common than uncommon.

Now, maybe you read it out of context and you assumed 'repairs of consumer goods by anyone, anywhere' which is a different case and not the one we are discussing.
If someone breaks in and burns down my house, insurance will be irrelevant as they explicitly do not cover arson. I wonder if other countries have the same policy. I live in Brazil.
I have an m1 ipad pro 12.9" and the bloom was one of the things I'm most taken aback by. I routinely see it in dark media, whether it be apps in dark mode or a dark screen with white text. The colors are amazing, but the bloom is shocking. I actually miss my old lcd ipad pro because of it.
It draws every pixel, like a 2d game engine.
There's Ubuntu package for their Yaru style.
https://pub.dev/packages/yaru
Could you please outline clearly how blockchain wil be used in your example? Like what kind of information are stored on the blockchain, how smart contracts are utilized, how do drivers and consumers interact with the system?
Apologies in advance for the formatting, copied and pasted from YouTube transcript:

https://youtu.be/Xu1FMCxoEFc?t=5928

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But one of the things that came up

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and is a fundamental question that I had,

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that I think probably many of you are asking,

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is does the experience that one has on these compounds

99:43
make a difference for whether or not somebody gains relief

99:46
from depression, from these psilocybin journeys or not?

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In other words, does it matter what they talk about?

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Does it matter what they think about?

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Does it matter if they have a good trip or a bad trip?

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And I don't want to hold you in too much suspense,

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I'll let Matthew provide the more thorough answer.

100:00
But what's really interesting

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is there are some common themes to psilocybin administration

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and experience that lead to relief from depressive symptoms,

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but they are subjectively very varied,

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meaning that whether or not people feel

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they had a good experience or a bad experience,

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whether or not people thought about their parents

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or thought about the color of the ceiling,

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doesn't seem to have too much of an impact

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on whether or not they receive relief

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during these studies in these clinical studies.

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It seems like different people can have

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lots of different experiences and still receive benefit.

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And that points to something deeper.

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It points to the fact that these drugs,

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which is really what they are,

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are rewiring neural circuitry in a common way

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despite a diversity of experience while on the drug.

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And that itself is really interesting.

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And it takes us back to a place that we've been before

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in this discussion, which is layer five of the cortex.

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This area that ketamine seems to impact as well

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by generating rhythms of the,

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I mentioned one to three Hertz activity

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in layer five of certain areas of the cortex.
Whitelists. It's kind of a pain, but might help reign in the teachers that send kids everywhere on the internet without much thought about the surveillance dangers.
Imagined discussion is what I'm talking about. It's not narration like "I'm picking up the coffee mug now, I'm clicking the button now" - it's silent speech with oneself. Often it's trying to predict what will happen or thinking about things with language. It's not that every action must be stated by some narrator, but that a narrator exists to discuss things with oneself.

Without language and semantic meaning tied to ideas, what does 'thinking' mean at all?

My point is more that there are always thoughts (typically in the form of words, but sometimes images) flowing through your mind all of the time. Meditation and 'mindfulness' is focused on recognizing them as they happen and getting control of that kind of thing (at least enough to reduce thought loops, rumination, unwanted emotional response, etc.).
Inflation hedging is to inflation as vaccines are to pandemics.
> None of the great works in the US would have been completed without it

I'm not so sure about that. People like to point out Johnson's wheeling and dealing but there was a broad consensus in US politics, he had a near mastery of the senate, and he ultimately broke the existing party alliances. Looking further back you really see most large bills getting done through essentially 1 party rule or during a crisis. FDR had gigantic majorities.
Looks good, roll it out to the UK and we'll switch from Jamf pretty quickly.
I would think that increase in rent, which are typically far higher percentages of income, would have a far bigger effect.
Funny you should say that. So it turns out providing 40 kWh of battery backup to 128M homes would create about 500M tons of CO2.

In comparison, the coal industry annually contributes 1.9B tons of CO2 and spews 120M tons of toxic waste which would be gone if we shut this industry down for the low low price of $12B.

Conclusion: there really isn't a good argument against this other than people are being dumb. Or pray tell what that argument is. Also once again I already mentioned nuclear as part of the solution where solar doesn't work. I continue to be confused as to why people keep choosing to ignore that.
>that could get a price from the internet

If we're dealing with rural areas reliable internet isn't always a given. The UK had an interesting solution for this for older electricity meters which encodes data in the BBC Radio 4 LW (198 kHz AM) radio station. Most of the country is covered by a single transmitter because of how efficiently LF waves propagate and it doesn't require an internet connection to work. Sadly I think the rise of smart meters will probably be the death knell for Radio 4 LW too.

I think it's easy to forget how flakey the internet can be outside of major cities in some places. Having lived in places that are fairly off the beaten track I wouldn't want my electricity bill to depend on always having a reliable WiFi connection for example.
the problem with this line of reasoning is that the Fed has tools to control inflation which they are not using because of it (namely, rate hike) while simultaneously the working and middle classes are feeling the worst effects since they own the fewest equities, least property, and have the most shoestring budgets

meanwhile if you're rich you prob got richer

perhaps we need to rethink how healthy inflation really is
Got to fill that Brexit budget gap somehow..
I would note that prices are markovian. So if something doubles over night it means something happened to affect that price. All the information about the thing and its history is represented in the current price. Having that price double overnight conveys information that something is happening. It doesn't matter that the thing cost even more 10 years ago.

You have to look at prices on the margin.
Tesla is totally worth 1 trillion if the dollar is worth nothing.
Amazon, Ebay, Shopify pages, etc.

It doesn't really matter because google shopping is (or was?) just search ads with pictures. Every item shown was set up and paid for in Ads IIRC.
Agree, my experience with their customer service has been excellent. Missing side = automatic 50% refund for cost of that dish, don't have to talk to any customer service, you just tap a few buttons in the app.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Neural implant lets paralyzed person type by imagining writing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27134049 - May 2021 (183 comments)

Brain-Computer Interface User Types 90 Characters per Minute with Mind - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27157369 - May 2021 (40 comments)

This is pretty similar but I guess it's different work:

Human use of high-bandwidth wireless brain-computer interface - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26690126 - April 2021 (210 comments)
In order for young people to have any chance at the same quality of life of their parents, the "real" value of housing needs to come down to at least 50% of the current value. The only way to accomplish this without wiping out those with mortgages is to have a large spike of inflation. It's painful, but likely necessary.
I was joking with my wife that we should move to Arica for the climate - it looks about perfect, with no rain and moderate temperatures. She likes things like 'trees' and 'grass' though, so ... no deal.
>but I wouldn’t expect brains to operate that differently

Everyone's neurotransmitter balance is different. Of course that will cause brains to sometimes operate wildly differently.
Urban-gro sues bank over fraudulent wire transfers
I see all that, but the issue is fixed now. Yeah they made a design mistake and then they corrected it, it doesn't seem to be much different from any other bug. If you are trying to get help with something, it is not particularly useful to cherry pick comments from a long time ago that are not even relevant anymore. I'm sure we could go through the old bug tracker and find various disagreements in other areas, but that won't really help with the status of a current bug.
For over a decade my no-brainer digital file system at both home and work is similar.

Auto-file everything as a time-stack:

- new files go on the desktop

- if I didn't name file right rules automatically rename it per ISO 8601 to "YYYY-MM-DD - title.ext"

- after the file isn't opened for >2 days, it gets auto-sorted into (more or less) "archive/yyyy-mm/yyyy-mm-dd - title.ext"

- note: stick to ISO 8601 across tooling: https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-format.html

With this system, the effect is:

- my desktop has today's and yesterday's working files, everything else is auto-cleaned (you may want 5 or 7 days depending on nature of file work)

- when i need something, I "lookup around that date in my stack" because I find it easier to find things by time than by trying to re-imagine what I'd named it.

- when working somewhere where i create more content then I consume, I group by weeks not months: "archive/yyyy-ww/file" (given ~520 folders per decade, you may, or may not, want "archive/yyyy/yyyy-ww/file" depending on your file system's speed at iterating dirs)

- turn week numbers on your calendar, and you can directly open any folder for any week you did stuff.

- no brain power needed!

More about usage:

Method works beautifully even if you prefer topical folders like project-name or finances or whatever, and computer search is fast/easy at still showing you everything made in a given month no matter what folder it's in.

Seeing files by when made visually 'bundles' files made around the same time (e.g. several days' or weeks' work on the same project). Update dates for new versions and a find by name for the rest of the file name will show you all the versions you have, sorted.

This is infinitely superior to the standard workplace practice of "Title Whatever v3 (tim edits B) jfk (copy).doc".

Thanks to the date prefixed name, if I email files, backup/restore them, or otherwise round trip them to some other file system (looking at you, most NAS, SANs, and object stores), I don't lose the metadata of when created, meaning I can still sort round tripped files by name reversed and see files by recency or clustered by when made.

If I can't find by looking around the date, I can always fiddle with search to find things.

I now get unhappy any time a file doesn't start with a date.

Pro-tips: Apple Shortcuts supports ISO 8601 by name for dates and time. On MacOS I use Hazel to maintain this w/o touching it: https://www.noodlesoft.com ... On Windows I use powershell, Linux perl.
Would love to read your thesis if you’re willing to share.
Poor people are a large majority? Like, 2/3? 3/4?

Median family income is 80K in 2021. The median HH income for 2021 will come out soon, but it will be north of 70K.
If there was any time to be skeptical of Uber's longevity, it is now (at least for me).

My experience is anecdotal but I visit my home country every year for a few months and I can clearly notice the declining quality of Uber's services:

1. Vehicles, on average, take at least 10-15 mins longer to get

2. Even if you find a vehicle, 60% of these rides are canceled (either by the driver because they call me and find out they don't want to go that way or they just don't move at all and I'm forced to cancel)

3. After all this, if I am lucky to get into a commute, every driver has complaints about Uber (complaints include intransparent pricing, delays in payments). Most of these drivers are completely dependent on Uber or similar services and have heavy debts that they are now unable to service.

4. Uber's app itself appears to get bloated by the day and while they do appear to make an effort collect my feedback when rides get canceled, not once have I got an impression that the feedback matters at all. Additionally, payment options are numerous but they require me to complete multiple steps to finish which puts me off using it (not Uber's fault I suppose but is part of the riding experience).

Given that they are competing against flag-down autos and rides, not to mention public transport and private vehicles (as electric bikes and cars get more popular), I think their model is not sustainable anymore and I expect them to struggle further as riders withdraw and once the demand-supply gap grows further, it's a downward spiral.
If you liked this you should check out the British Cave Research Association's Cave Radio and Electronics Group at https://bcra.org.uk/creg/
I was skeptical, but you are right - Microsoft Just Became the First Big Company to Commit to Right to Repair - https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-just-became-the-first-big-comp... ... it's a welcome move, even if it maybe for PR, as even a public acknowledgement of the right-to-repair movement grants it more recognition and generates awareness.
Thought this was interesting as it goes into some detail about the ignored security protocols of the bank's handling of wire transfers.
My truck, a 2015 Tacoma, is worth $4k less than what I bought it for 3 years ago. So totally normal depreciation in my case.
1. Pharmaceutical studies are extremely expensive so usually done through private sector. In this case compass has a patent for a certain way to synthesize psilocybin, but not a patent on psilocybin itself. However, the results of the study will generalize to psilocybin of all sources. Win win in my view.

2. There are many studies in the literature that compare "psycholytic" (which tend to accentuate pre-existing mental states) to "psychedelic" (which can trigger mystical/insight experiences) doses of psilocybin. I'd say it's reasonable to treat 1 mg as placebo.

3.i. The study followup is ongoing. One of the remarkable aspects of psilocybin treatment is that one dose can lead to lasting (ie >6 mo) effects on mood. See the john hopkins studies.

3.ii. Although the studies all have folks weaning off, concurrent SSRI, MAOI, and anti-psychotic use is not an absolute contraindication. They do not cause serotonin syndrome with psilocybin. But clinically I think this won't be a huge issue as most patients will only be trying psilocyin if 1. their ssri has failed or 2. they are opposed to trying ssris. cheers!
Has LIGO ever responded to Sabine Hossenfelder's claims? http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/09/whats-up-with-ligo....
To be clear, I think that all of the price movement we're seeing today is a result of supply chain shock and pent up demand. Arguing about inflation while the ports are still clogged seems extremely short sighted to me; of course prices rise when supply is stuck in a container in LA! Once the supply chains clear up, then we can decide what, if any level of inflation we're seeing.

Until that point in time, I will view any doomer narrative about inflation and the proposed solutions for it with extreme skepticism, especially when the proposed solution is convenient for capital and hard on labor.
After reading many pages of the website, I came to conclusion that the tool allows you to solve variety of problems. ;)

Given pictures and lens distortion map, the tool can:

* calculate camera position from pair of pictures

* do feature triangulation from pair of pictures - get real-world distance to a selected feature

* calculate depth map from pair of pictures