skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. The simple models are simple, the fast and large and useful models are simple. We have a lot of in vitro observations which can contribute to smaller, slower and more accurate models as your linked article mentions, observations which generally are ignored as being nth order effects when people are trying to make models which have a low enough computational complexity as to be useful.

What is not missing is metaphysical quantum woo[0]. We can, have, and do observe how neurons and synapses function; the issue is that the computational complexity with current approaches is great enough to make complete neurological modeling of a microscopic worm with under a thousand total cells difficult.

[0] and even if you want to take those effects into account in your electrochemical models, all they do is turn them into stochastic models. there is exactly zero evidence of that randomness being of any real value to the thing we care about, which is the emergent macro scale properties of these systems.
> It's also pretty difficult to package just the libs one needs when you are dependent on libc and other C libs.

It's pretty easy using Nix, e.g. this example defines a container for running a shell script: https://ryantm.github.io/nixpkgs/builders/images/ocitools

That script depends on bash, bash depends on libc, etc. so those dependencies (and only those dependencies) will be put in the container. (See https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/enter-environment.html#id... for an example of what dependencies look like in Nix).

> I suspect that if one was really ok with it, some tooling could be built to copy/link in system libs into the rootfs automatically from the host.

Eww, no thanks! I want my containers to be reproducible.
These ToS are illegal.
No service = no money.
Can I use separate identities in the same Element instance yet? Especially with Spaces I feel like this is an obvious feature where it should be easy for people to protect their privacy by using different accounts for different hobbies or peer groups.

I would love to finally be able to use my employer's chatrooms with my real name, the animal rights group with my one pseudonym and the techie chat with the other one.
Similar point to "why did we vaccinate children in wealthy countries before old people in third world countries?"
Took them as validation anecdotes -- sort of like thank yous to the team. Kind of really like these threads!

That being said, I've now asked a few folks about Skillsoft and they weren't that bullish about it. Kind of just hoping for a good return for the employees at Codecademy who worked hard to get to this stage (an exit).
The 2000 Dotcom Bubble Burst
I assume you mean with out messing with the registry[1]. Disclaimer I have not tried this.

[1]: https://www.minitool.com/news/how-to-move-windows-11-taskbar...
Thanks for the note. Funny enough I’m working on some sentiment analysis in another project on bias. parallel thinking
> if you're in north America, take heart that its not your fault! The American dating market is absolute garbage.

What do you mean?
Yup same thing happened to me but it was just because I accessed it with random vpn. No recourse whatsoever, can’t even get a list of all my friend’s accounts I lost access to
World’s oldest family tree revealed in 5,700-year-old Cotswolds tomb
Mongodb aggregation pipeline working wonders.
It has something to do with their "abuse program:" https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505?hl=en. I can't find a date on this, but I assume that this article is about the implementation of this program.
And not many know that those were failed blood pressure drug companies. To recoup their losses their marketing groups came up with the medical term erectile dysfunction because of the well known side effect.
Or maybe people just don’t want to fuck you. And maybe you aren’t entitled to anyone fucking you.
I'm guessing (literally, I have no idea if this is true) that if these synthetic fuels can be stored and transported in the same way as normal petrol then you wouldn't have to build that much more distribution infrastructure. Instead you could just repurpose what's already there. Obviously you still have to make the stuff, which involves capital investment, but so does building gigafactories, the power plants necessary to generate the extra electricity and upgrading the grid.
One of the coolest things I ever built was a "bouncing ball simulator" [0] for my analog electronics class in college. I'be built a lot of stuff with embedded processors throughout my life, but that one project changed how I viewed electronics.

Assembling a bunch of op-amps, FETs, and passives and having it output a physical representation of a ball being dropped and bouncing off of the ground was just magic to me. I don't do much with analog these days, but when I get into a project that needs it, I still draw from the confidence that project instilled in me. Before then I struggled to see analog circuits as tools to solve problems, but for some reason after building the simulator, it just clicked and I saw the possibilities.

I wish I had soldered the thing together. I still remember the day I ripped up my 6 breadboards for the next lab...we built a Theremin though, so at least that was cool.

[0] A cleaner and more functional example of what I built: https://hackaday.com/2009/01/07/bouncing-ball-analog-compute...
But you're posting in a Tesla thread, where a Tesla-car with the Autopilot feature crashed into a stopped car in front of it.

I have to imagine that your postings here have something to do with the accident that this entire topic is about.
Good point. I was thinking about white-collar knowledge workers but you're right that this exists for many private sector employees who get paid by the hour or have a union.
But such a requirement might be constitutional. The court seems to think so, at least—though might perhaps change their mind when they are subsequently shown that "racialized" teacher candidates have trouble passing that too...
A communication between two entities who are not friends is not "friendly". This is clearly a formal request of a type that is even regulated by a law. You're almost certainly not asking your neighbor about something like this. You're almost certainly asking someone you've never met in your life. Not sure what about it needs to be "friendly" any more that asking a government bureau using some formalized process (like filling out a form) needs to be "friendly".
An ESP32 would be a much better choice for analog MIDI: https://github.com/max22-/ESP32-BLE-MIDI

You could hook the wires from a MIDI cable to some ESP32 pins, read the MIDI messages and send them instantly through BLE to an iPad/MacBook.

An ESP32 board has the advantage of booting instantly, can be powered from a battery for a lot more time, can't cause SD card corruption, and is less susceptible to delays caused by the kernel scheduler.

I usually choose the Lolin32 Lite because it's very compact and has a built-in Lithium battery connector which can also charge the battery: https://diyprojects.io/wemos-lolin32-lite-compact-revision-l...
It sounds like EC2 API is having a brownout due to this, so a lot of people can't failover to a new AZ.
U.S. population grew by just 0.1%, the lowest rate since the nation's founding
WebKit is just the part that renders web content. Browser makers are free to include plugin functionality in their implementation if they want to, including content blockers like ad-block, fancy tab and theme functionality, etc.

It is also possible to extend the content blocking feature, so it also works in Safari itself through a regular web plugin or a content blocker extension.
DuckDuckGo offers the "DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials" plugin for iOS and macOS, blocking all kinds of trackers.
Also of interest, an article from the research project on which Ultorg is based:

Expressive Query Construction through Direct
Manipulation of Nested Relational Results

http://people.csail.mit.edu/ebakke/research/sieuferd_sigmod2... (PDF)
The request I got was about the CCPA. It said:

> I look forward to your reply without undue delay and at most within 45 days of this email, as required by Section 1798.130 of the California Civil Code.

First, the CCPA doesn't apply to my site. It's non-commercial, has many fewer users than required to invoke the CCPA, and zero revenue. No provisions of the CCPA require me to do anything.

Second, the questions were about how I'd handle a CCPA request, and weren't actually a request at all:

> 1. Would you process a CCPA data access request from me even though I am not a resident of California?

> 2. Do you process CCPA data access requests via email, a website, or telephone? If via a website, what is the URL I should go to?

> 3. What personal information do I have to submit for you to verify and process a CCPA data access request?

> 4. What information do you provide in response to a CCPA data access request?

The CCPA doesn't obligate anyone to explain their internal processes. It obligates covered entities to respond to the requests themselves, but not to random drive-by questions.

So basically, that sentence was completely wrong. The CCPA doesn't apply to me, and even if it did, the law doesn't say what the researchers claim it did.
5% of emails going to hobby websites would be unacceptable and unethical.

If it would went solely to major corporations - more OK.

Another part: do not lie that study does not involve human subjects.
Did these researchers talk to a lawyer, who recommended apologizing like this?

It seems like a rather imprudent thing to do.
My Synology has been anything but realiable in the past month or so. I've twice had to hard reboot it because it stops working. I think it stops writing all data, which means that even something as simepl as "echo "" > out" will hang forever. Can't even turn it off because DSM stops responding and "sudo reboot" hangs.

I have no idea whether it's a disk going bad, the file system going bad or the entire device going bad. It did give a warning that an I/O command timed out on one of the disks, but I've yet to get a S.M.A.R.T. extended test completed on the disk.
I never liked the Dreamcast for no other reason than petty bitterness from having purchased a Saturn.
Congrats! I'm curious, are you a millionaire now? :)
Ethical guidelines on research exist to prevent an adverse impact on participants. This study had adverse impacts: fear, stress, time & money in consulting lawyers. It was therefore defacto an unethical research study. Speculation as to why the protocol slipped through the IRB cracks are that the language used in the study proposal (at least the part made public) dehumanized the protocols by referring to "websites" rather than humans that would be responding to the inquiries.

The IRB ruled this was not a human subject piece of research, but that is contradicted by the deception protocol. Deception was justified as necessary because people's behavior might change if they knew it was a research request. That acknowledgement made it implicit that human behavior and potential changes to it due to the experiment was a core factor in the study-- ergo, it had human subjects. Behavioral research on human subjects is required to go through a much more rigorous IRB oversight process precisely to anticipate and mitigate potential adverse reactions.

Some people are focussing on the deception, but that is, under some circumstances, allowed by research ethics. The more serious problem was adverse impact which, again, is the primary motivator for why we now have laws and regulation-mandated IRB processes to make sure it doesn't become an issue.
No, you solve that problem by adding another layer of indirection (aka a caching layer)
Right, with .net core 6 the runtime wasm is much smaller. SignalR can be scaled if you need to, but for most sites 3000 concurrent users is plenty.
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In the context of an ESL student. Do we know that the student cannot solve the problem, or did they fail the "math test" full of word problems because it's effectively an english test?

In college, I had an ESL math teacher who wrote extremely ambiguous questions, who "helped" students who asked for it by forking the answers over (even in exams, lol). I made a habit of finding all solutions to the problems as stated, which the teacher tended to mark wrong. I took this to the Dean of Math, and got the teacher into some hot water. Now, standardized tests can solve that particular problem -- but the teacher seemed to be quite fluent in conversation -- prepositions are highly nuanced and occur everywhere in word problems, which makes honest misunderstandings highly probable for non-native speakers.
> I'm building a web browser and I'm trying to offer a feature for error cases when the server or URL isn't available anymore, so that users can see the web archived version of it.

Brave browser does that, and I've seen Firefox add-ons that do it. Maybe you can look at their code.
But the default is to upload. On my phone, I had upload off, and then it got turned on again (not by me). The same thing happened with Google Assistant. I had it off, but then it mysteriously tried to start assisting me again.
I used to run Nextcloud locally, and could open it up on phones, tablets, etc. But I recently stopped using it, since it's no different than SFTP (Nextcloud just has a web UI to manage / view files and looks nice is all).

I got a NAS device hacked once, and watched people try to copy my stupid .MP4s/.MKVs off it, which is strange since all that's readily available on the web anyway. They were probably looking for sensitive info, but there wasn't any lol.
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This might be an error on both sides.

They want to study how websites handle GDPR and CCPA, and that's probably what they submitted.

The IRB reasoned that "websites are not people", which is true, but failed to reason that "websites are operated by people", and therefore certain measures should be taken.

The IRB bears some responsibility for this.
The US may be overplaying its hand, but it's certainly not as cut and dry as the comments would have you believe.

Russia and China are only allied around their common enemy, the US. Don't believe for a second that these two nations wouldn't throw each other under the bus if it furthered their respective causes.
Are you sure about the few minutes part? The standby generators I've seen take seconds to go from off to full load. We have an 80kw model, but I've also seen videos of load tests of much larger generators and they also take only seconds to go to full load.
Weird. Was just reading some stuff there this morning, now closed with no explanation.

Was a good resource for info on small and private aviation incidents and accidents.
Hello environmental impact, my old friend.
Ancient Romans and Greeks would tell us to grow up and accept that might makes right, slavery is essential to the functioning of society, only men should vote while women supplicate local deities, and that wearing pants is barbaric. So "growing up" is not exactly a recipe for a reliable moral value system.

People are not convinced by facts, and there are infinite facts that need a hierarchy in order to be understood or interacted with. Stories and narratives and cultures provide that cultural hierarchy. Christianity was a huge shift in cultural dynamics and it spread like wildfire and quickly engulfed paganism because Christianity teaches that God is actually a Person that you can have a relationship with (instead of Aristotle's notion of God as First Mover or First Idea), and that anyone, regardless of background, wealth, education, or ethnicity, can have access to that relationship.

It turns out, people can relate to, be influenced by, and learn from participating in stories with other people a LOT more than they can by changed by propositional debates and lectures.

It's the difference between learning to fight by joining a martial arts class, or from just reading a book about martial arts.
As far as I know there has been no similar court case outside the US, so the “you are entitled to” part doesn't count elsewhere. But yes, that is still a good indicator of how egregious the attempted misinforming was.
I agree.

Applied statistics?
Best selling game console of all time I think. No shame losing to the best.
I was just wondering if anyone had pointed that out. Fixed above.

Edit: it probably should be "woe unto". From the King James Bible (surely the canonical source of woe-untos):

54 woe unto
24 woe to
2 woe be unto
1 woe be to

but "woe be unto" is in there so I guess it's legit enough.
I reaaaaaaallllyyy reaaaaalllyyyy hope this does not lead to Tesla's ability to use the browser while in Drive being removed. It is one of the only cars that allows this, and no, I don't intend to browse while driving, I would like to use that feature to run my own software on the car without having to root it, such as that Tesla energy use dashboard from GitHub. This is an underrated feature IMO, aside from lack of audio in/output, the Tesla vehicle is shipped with the native ability to run user code as a website - One can imagine the possibilities associated with adding a raspi in the glove compartment connected to the WiFi.
I never saw any cookie prompt since I block cookiebot.com. Things seem to work just as good/bad without it, try blocking that domain and see if it works for you - not just on this site but all others which use these "services".
I dunno - recent cancelling feels different. Take J K Rowling as an example:

https://www.thenational.scot/news/19723926.harry-potter-reun...

Cancelled from her own creation, for having a pretty uncontroversial viewpoint.
When was this? I suspect most of the problems here are due to users joining lots of big federated rooms, which will use loads of resources irrespective of how many local users you have. This is also what Fast Joins are trying to improve (at least for join speed) from the original post. Likewise the matrix-hookshot webhook bridge.
I've been attempting on and off the last few years to spin up a non federated matrix server in my homelab to make an alternative to discord for my friends. I run into some various issues every time. I'm pretty good at tech, but for whatever reason the barrier to getting a working self hosted matrix server seems too high for me.

I really would like to move to an e2e encrypted discord alternative. Maybe someday I'll be able to do that with matrix, when ether it gets easier, or I get smarter.
Would that imply that it would function as well for Canadian phone numbers, since they share a country code?
You say this as if it is easy or inexpensive to do well... If it was why would the service even exist in the first place? Surely everyone would just do it themselves.

I also don't think you would be arguing that people bothered about WhatsApp or iOS tracking them should just create their own messaging app or mobile OS. The vast majority of software is not just difficult do yourself, but almost completely infeasible. In fact it's hard to even think of any software I use regularly which I as a experienced software engineer could easily build myself, let alone an average user concerned about this stuff...
Yes, perhaps they should have hired real people to do real requests. That would have been a bulletproof way of studying this ethically so your conclusion is moot.
What is disturbing is the reason they give for why they will do it. One thing is if the drive is specifically used for cyber attacks and other malicious operations over the internet, but they refer to these rules; https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505 and they are extensive to say the least. On top of that this is yet another move from Google to declare their rights to control your content and access to it if you use their service.
Booster programs in rich countries are not the problem, insufficient deployment of resources (which can include necessary IP) to scale out production and distribution to poorer countries is the problem.

The former does not require and is not the reason for the latter.
New train lines won't be built ever again in the United States
I mean, at the very least you always need a charger and a sd card, the barebone price is kinda misleading
I started my IT career with Skillsoft training for A+ certification nearly 20 years ago.
Good times. Thanks Skillsoft, good luck with the transition Code Academy
This has been common knowledge for at least six months, I am surprised that this author from the Scientific American did not know this. I guess if you're only reading White House press releases, this is what happens.
It also depends on your deploy patterns. A microservice architecture embedded in a monorepo gives you false peace of mind that a breaking API change is okay because you’re changing both ends of the contract in the same commit.

But when that commit goes to be deployed and you don’t have atomic/transactional deploys across services, you get downtime between the first service’s deploy finishing and the second’s.
The cloud is "someone else".
Note to readers: OP says "permabanned" but he really means "shadowbanned"/"hellbanned."

Cc @dang
> America is overly litigious.

I recall seeing Ralph Nader speak at a fundraising event 20 years ago and asking the crowd "how many people have actually tried to sue someone?" and in a room of hundreds only a few hands went up.

And a year ago when I took my landlord to small claims it was insane how complex the process was and how many paperwork pitfalls are in the way to disqualify you. I remember sitting on the half-day zoom call and watching case after case get thrown out because plaintiffs "forgot to file proof of service" or whatever. I'm generally good with paperwork and still nearly missed out.

There may be some people in America who are overly litigious but for the general population the legal system is wholly inaccessible.
> New train lines won't be built ever again in the United States

New train lines are being built now in the United States.
Really? When I buy a steam game, the big green button says “purchase”, not “receive a temporarily revocable right to access”.

It’s the digital age. My digital items are my possessions. This dichotomy in your head between the “real” and the “digital” doesn’t exist for the younger generation. There are few alternatives to these large tech companies. As I’ve gotten older I’ve wisened up and I buy DRM-free digital goods where possible (because of people who think like you, that big corporations need to be protected from the little people and not the other way around)… but before I got wise, I built up quite a large steam, Apple Books, and Kindle library (all of which call what we are doing “purchasing”… heads they win tails we lose).
You're right - I misremembered. Kinda wish HN would let me edit.
The disbelief and learned helplessness in this thread is a really disheartening view into the state of modern american work
Yes, I agree. I think one of the key problems here is that any solution would create a distinction between polymorphic and monomorphic methods. This is why languages are so much more than a bag of features... every feature interacts with other features, often in subtle ways. For example, take a "simple" feature like operator overloading... if you look at how operator overloading actually works in C++ and C#, it's an incredibly complex feature in both languages, with some surprising behavior. That surprising behavior arises because features interact in weird ways that you wouldn't ordinarily think about.

Saying "no generic methods" is a nice out.
I can't say I know much about how the education system works, I was under the impression grade school teachers are much more focused on soft skills and things like arts and crafts than say, high school teachers who teach harder skills. My point on mum was she isn't very creative or coordinated, and I would have thought creativity is more important in the elementary years, again i don't know much about how pedagogy works so I may very well be mistaken.
If that was true crime would be higher in countries where this information is public.

Facts seems to point to the inverse correlation.