skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can expect a lot and you get it.
It's truely impressive what a bog standard 1.5 or 3T magnet can do and how fast it can do it. A standard brain protocol will often include whole brain imaging at 0.8mm x 0.8mm x 0.8mm voxel size or thereabouts. It takes about 4-5 minutes. A leg angio done from start to finish in 20 minutes. This is without more advanced processing, and some clever processing is coming into clinical use now. Deep Resolve (Siemens) and Compressed Sense/Sensing (Philips/Siemens) are what I'm thinking of. Faster scans, or more resolution in the same time. It's a good time to be using MRI.

Edit: Compressed sense/sensing is not some AI/Machine learning thing. It's pretty neat though, a PR video here. https://www.siemens-healthineers.com/magnetic-resonance-imag...
If the computer is slow enough under load, you can use wall clock to count many seconds it takes to start a program that needs to load many libs and data (LibreOffice, Firefox, Blender, GIMP).

You can also watch FPS of supertuxkart when the system is under load: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5bAOJkX_uc https://github.com/hakavlad/le9-patch

But yes, we need a popular well behaved benchmark to measure desktop responsiveness.
I'm curious why you think they haven't done so already? My guess is that the volatility of crypto creates too much risk for the infrastructure investment.
No, but the cost is still predictable. If you want a concrete patio then the process of making the cement for it will have produced a ton or so of CO2 given current technology even though you never touched the fossil fuels involved. If you want to fly to Europe and back that's two tons produced even though you never bought the jet fuel.

The per capita carbon emission of the US is about 14 tons or so. Of those, 4 are things the government or other entities are doing on your behalf that you don't have any control over but 10 are going towards your own consumption of things like patios and plane flights and beef. You can't realistically get that down to 0 but you can certainly cut back a whole want if you want to. Or you can pass laws that prevent corporations from producing carbon and offering you the things you want to consume, given the collective action that way makes a lot of sense.

Now, for some things like methane leaks there are obvious ways to reduce the carbon cost of our consumption out of proportion to the reduction in our consumption. But for others, like plane flights, we don't have any means yet of doing that.

In the end if we want large reductions in our carbon footprints without large technological innovations it's going to have to mostly result in us consuming less.
I hope our interaction has appropriately updated our priors ;)
That's one way to determine the size. But the same thing pops up in spectroscopy.
> I genuinely don't think many kids these days want t6o spend time playing with there LOGO Turtle, when they could be playing multiplayer games on their phone or iPad instead.

My 13 y.o. girl sent me a screenshot of herself programming Python Turtle in Pycharm the other day :-)
Was hoping there was going to be a Silicon Valley option (Or SFBA) but nope... Just California - you know - a place which has 40million people with a lot of them not in SFBA.
Yeah, it's called evolution. You are one bet in a pool of bets for future survival. A single, uninterrupted, open-ended process that created all life on this planet. How many of our creations can lead to such diversity in one single run?
You pick by upvoting your choice in the poll.
That might measure HN moving to a wider audience rather than the original audience physically moving.

The community is clearly a lot different than in it was 2013. I would guess a relatively larger portion of people outside of the Bay Area is part of that.
Yep. Traditionally, drones use 2-3 bladed props, each additional prop blade increases thrust per rpm, but increases load by significantly more, hurting actual thrust per watt.

I’d expect a screw to be the degenerate case and probably worse than a conventional many-bladed prop.
So you would be okay if Apple just opened up the App Store for iPads?
From this question alone you could figure who's trying to backstab you.
I missed it, but I guess my underlying question remains: what is the innovation over previous attempts that gets the paper into nature?
> Blah blah consumers want oil

Do you drink oil? Do you eat it? Does your organism require it, so that you create this supposed INHERENT DEMAND FOR OIL? Of course not, but given how dishonest you’ve been so far, I foresee you trying to find some roundabout way to argue even that position.

> you're unhappy with that and you want the government to step in and force them to switch to zero carbon gas.

No, I want government to reduce profits of those who benefit off destroying the environment and use that money to subsidize environmentally friendly produce for consumers who wouldn’t be able to afford it.
Amazon's hiring criteria is that a candidate must be better then 50% of current employee in their role (the bar); this is where the "bar raiser" concept comes from. So from their perspective statistically, half of their current employees wouldn't make it through the interview process if they went through it again.
Same. Nothing compares to gas appliances when it comes to putting raw energy into your cookware. Also, nothing compares to broiling food in a gas oven. You can also use the burner flame as a utility to do things like toasting tortillas.
amount of people is irrelevant. Amount of people wanting to live US standard is the problem. Order new shitty clothes 3x a week and other consumption bs? Costs 300x of an average person in the developping world
Cloudy with a Chance of Bullshit (2018)
Big, but relatively unpopulated. Even California would rank together with Poland.
Doubly so for people like me who don't have a 220V line to the kitchen (and we would need a new breaker panel to install one; we looked into getting an induction top when we moved in).
Or not. Short term bonuses are key, achieving quarter goals is extremely important, that the company crashes and burns in 10 years may be someone else problem.

Big corporations are giants with clay feet. From inside one can see the real humans behind the curtains.

So, you could be right and its a long term strategy, but it's also possible that they are just thinking about their next bonus.
> Dennett mostly seems to support it, as you note, but more equivocally than Frankish.

I believe Dennett is an eliminative materialist, so he would consider qualia to be an illusion.

> For those of us who have subjective experience (SE), and are aware of it: SE is the thing, which we know must exist (as noted by Descsartes).

Descartes begged the question. Just deconstruct it: "I think therefore I am" presupposes the existence of "I" right at the very start. Except everybody knows there is no "I", you're just a bundle of atoms, and a bundle that's changing from moment to moment. Where are "you" exactly? The argument is fallacious and implies fallacious conclusions which led to mind/body dualism.

The non-fallacious version is "this is a thought, therefore thoughts exist". This is undeniably true, and yet it does not imply the existence of an "I" or any kind of dualism between mind and matter. A thought would then simply be a specific material structure (edit: or rather, it's a particular logical structure that can be embodied as a material structure).

> Anyone doubting the existence of SE, either is not having SE (i.e. is a "phenomenological zombie"), or (more likely, IMO) has not identified his own SE.

Anyone doubting subjective experience has simply recognized that every prior claim to human specialness has failed spectacularly, that science has repeatedly shown that our obvious and intuitive grasp of perception and truth is fatally flawed in numerous ways, and therefore that we should not in a million years trust anything that we immediately perceive as completely obvious when it can be demonstrated quite easily that these perceptions are vague and often false.

For christ's sake, your senses are telling you that water breaks pencils [1], and that you're burning up when you're dying of cold [2], and you're telling me that your internal perceptions of your subjective experience, arguably the most sophisticated part of your brain, is some kind factual oracle? Sorry, that's just nonsense. You should be immensely skeptical of your perceptions, looking both for justification that they are true or explanations for why you think they are true, you should not be treating them as simply a priori true.

[1] https://scienceathomekids.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG...

[2] https://psichologyanswers.com/library/lecture/read/76624-do-...
If I have a material that tightens or loosens based on temperature or chemical gradient, does that count as "sensory input"? I wouldn't say so, since nothing is receiving a signal from it to distinguish, and I also wouldn't say it's causing experiences, but it is enough to seek nutrients for a bacteria or a jellyfish-like creature.
Except that the author obviously ticks one. Not sure if they are allowed to, or be satisfied with 1 of everything...
I was curious to know which locations are ranked the highest,
so I made this quick 'n' dirty shell script:

#!/bin/sh
curl -s 'https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30210378' | awk '
BEGIN {
FS = "[<>]"
}
{
for (i = 1; i <= NF; ++i) {
if ($i == "font color=\"#000000\"") {
printf "%s, ", $(i+1)
} else if ($i ~ /^span class="score" id="score_/) {
print $(i+1)
}
}
}
' | sort -t',' -nk2

It scrapes the web page, so it's kind of fragile.
There are plenty of games like that if you're willing to avoid AAA games. Hollow Knight was $20 and they released multiple significant DLCs for free. Minecraft is $20 and keeps getting new content pretty regularly.
The more liberal atmosphere around non-competes surely played a role. Silicon Valley was also ideal because the land was inexpensive in the early days, compared to most metro area real-estate, the weather was vastly superior to East Coast cities like Boston and NY, and the culture on the East Coast was stuffy, slow and rigid (whereas there was excitement to going west, blazing a new trail; the culture of California was very different from the East Coast). Having the old corporate giants on the East Coast was oppressive and antithesis to the birth of something like Silicon Valley. SV was the new world, they built it up from farm land.

Given the context, it doesn't matter if Boston has nice universities: they become poaching grounds for Silicon Valley in that respect. The Yankees don't care if their minor league teams are in Tampa or Atlanta, they're taking the talent regardless of where it's at. The talent will almost always happily move for the right price and or opportunity.
> bill back resource usage

If you are not oversubscribed, you can just count the allocation.

Maybe performance counters can help. How long does it take to read op counts prior to a context switch?
And it's the same speed the iron 4-cyl ICE in my shitbox redlines...

7K strikes me as an exceptionally slow hobbyist scale electric motor, not the kind of thing I'd point out as capable of making anything fly.
I mean you absolutely can. If the commission was 90% would you still pay it? Hell nah. Apple knows it's still worth it to most publishers at 30%.

And yes, if Windows wanted to charge 30% then go for it. It is their platform.
Fair enough, it was relevant to the topic of the thread, albeit not my comment. Apologies
Google Reader. I believe this decision lead to the rise of Facebook and Twitter, and consequently the fall of western civilization.
> By land area Canada is about 20 times as large as California

Cornfields and tundra don't post on HN much.
Thanks for the correction, updated the post
Or Joe going on about leg hair glowing golden in the sun and kids stroking it so it lays down.

Truth is much stranger than fiction these days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-A4VrEUyyI
To someone currently suffering back pain this is going to sound counterintuitive, counterproductive--maybe even dangerous--but I cured my back pain through sumo deadlifts, and my wrist pain by strengthening the forearms in the gym: deadlifts, rows, weighted pull ups, basically any compound exercise... start light, obviously! Now it doesn't really matter what I sit on, I don't have that chronic nerve pain anymore, and I don't get those occasional "electrocution" shocks I used to get in my lower back.

That said, I have disposable income and like comfortable stuff so I have a Steelcase Leap v2, Idasen motorized Ikea desk, and I highly, highly recommend a Kinesis Advantage 2 keyboard. Next version of that keyboard, Advantage 360, is supposed to be released later this year.
That's talking about a conventional scanner, the article is about a permanent magnet and a more straight forward design.
It’s too radical right now, while people mistakenly think that consumption of energy equals production of energy from dirty sources it probably won’t become the norm. But eventually it will.
I suppose it's because the main issue is whether or not HN is "Silicon Valley", and so if you're in the UK (for example) you are not Silicon Valley regardless of if you are in NI, Scotland, Wales, or England.
Hungary is missing from the list :)
Magic Bleep – How to Burn Four Billion Dollars
I looked at that ad you posted earlier and refrained from commenting at the time, but if you take the ad at face value, Apple is claiming that iPads are not computers, or at least not the general purpose ones that culturally we refer to as computers (desktops, notebooks) and do this in both the slogan (“your next computer is not a computer”) and by demonstration, inviting the user to think of iPads as something else. It’s not an ad for tablet computers, it’s an ad for iPads.

Technically, iPhones and iPads are absolutely computers. General purpose computers. In fact arguably they are even more general purpose because you can easily and non-trivially manipulate them in 3D space in ways you probably wouldn’t even manipulate a notebook computer, which makes the inclusion of various sensors in the body of the device more useful to a broader array of applications. I will absolutely use my phone as a wallet in the way I never would a MacBook Pro. Apple has absolutely never marketed them as general purpose computers though even though I think you and I can agree that’s exactly what they are. Duplicitous? I think so, but it’s also the exact same strategy that game consoles benefit from today and in either case I think both Apple and game console makers are at the moment on solid legal footing.
Veterinary MRI may be another application.
The lamp test was the only button I was allowed to press on my company’s 4341.
I guess my point is not to shame people and maybe responsibility gets a bit convoluted at some point, but the reason fixing global warming is so hard is that it does require a sacrifice of living standards. We can probably develop tech to make it less painful and ideally not even painful at all but that will come at the price of some other tech we could be having worked on. People prefer to frame this as a few bad actors who just need forced to do the right thing because they would rather not admit that they themselves are making the economic choices leading to global warming and I do really think most people on here could be sacrificing to lower their emissions
Also, it's friday evening now in Europe. I usually don't read HN in the weekends, only during defocus time at work.
Meanwhile, re3 is still DMCA'd and development has stopped. I've already completed master and miami, going to play lcs next. Changing the source is half the fun! At one point, I tried to make the player ped move faster and accidentally ended up making non-player peds run stupidly wild. The police would glitch exiting their vehicle still sitting around as if they're driving. And that's just the stuff that went wrong. Being completely OP is something that did work and some missions were difficult regardless.

But if they want my money, they'll have to stop filing silly DMCA requests and open up the source at some point in the future (like ID did).
All the relevant people in Germany as well the rest of the continent speak English pretty well.
Looking forward to a visualization that ranks each reply by capita too. Should separate the tech hubs from the large populous regions.
Well I don't personally have a horse in that race. I'd definitely be interested in seeing the results for a regional Canadian poll though.
In contrast to most of the other commenters, I find this kind of disturbing.

It's not the contents of the request (dancing is harmless), but that people feel okay asking for random things. It feels like a dehumanization of delivery/gig workers.

I struggle to think of any other non-entertainment jobs where this would be acceptable, even among other low-wage jobs. Would it be okay to ask your grocery cashier to do a dance? What about fast food workers? I can't even imagine someone asking their doctor to do a dance for them.

It doesn't matter whether the drivers follow through or not, the fact that people feel okay asking is degrading enough. I can't imagine the feeling that someone values my work and humanity so little that they would ask me to dance like a trained monkey, and to top it off, they can't even be bothered to come film it themselves.

I'm grateful I don't have to be in that situation, and I should really leave a 6 pack for my Amazon delivery folks.
> but it's not an altruistic move - the updates enable users to keep using their apps/services.

What is altruistic in this world? Government welfare? parental love? I don't know of anything that is truly altruistic.
Ah, found it: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/12/healthcare-tow...
I use my son as a sounding board on many things and it's been working pretty successfully for me. He was HIGHLY interested in VR, I got him an Oculus, and a bunch of other headsets before that, he went to play with Microsoft's at their stores, but today he has absolutely no interest - neither of his friends is into it either, none of the multitudes of sources he follows are interested either! You keep trying to abuse a corpse! I just cannot imagine a psychologically sane adult who would put on a headset and become an infantile avatar in a virtual world. It's sickening on any level! It's like the 3D movies which nobody cares about now! Gimmicks are always temporary.
They also made GTA London back in the day. Would be fun to revisit that.
This would be really nice as a map view. HN polls are useful, but for this many entries is a mess. Plus, the visualization alone would be fun to see.
Truly interested in the source for that 70% number.
> I am just not sure that Bitcoin etc. are the solution

Bitcoin probably isn't the ultimate solution out there, but I'm simply pointing out that it at least doesn't have an attribute that allows you to steal value through inflating the currency.

Inflation is a particularly pernicious theft from people: most people don't realize where it comes from and just think that "prices go up over time" without realizing what's happening. The awful media even tries to gaslight people that they're doing better because "wages go up too."

> vs. better wages (more collective bargaining?), automatic tax adjusters etc.

There's a lot more that can be done to help non-rich people, but the problem is that one's opinion of what's actually helpful to people change when you really begin to understand economics and prioritizing systems over goals.
Their contractor talked them into building it without a fixed budget. That's a pretty good financial incentive to just say "can do!" to every suggestion the owner makes.
I don't know, a nuclear power plant exploding and raining fallout all over Europe sure does look like a failure of nuclear power, certainly for those who experienced it.
Is it just me getting older or does that humorous exaggeration really get less enjoyable every time they move the quality of the of the cityscape simulation backdrop up a notch?

The dark exaggerated story might somehow create a world where it is ok to, I don't know, shoot your way through that casino for robbing the vault or whatever, yet at the same time completely fail to construct a similar excuse for all the things the player character does to non-story NPCs. In the crude worlds of earlier GTA that was limited to the radical things like carjacking and all that pedestrian killing, but those were so crass that they defined that dark world. With increased fidelity however, it extends to a very long tail of bad behavior like blocking the bike lane with the getaway car. And for those subtle things, the excuse of "dark, humorous, twisted" just doesn't work out. It might, if the subtle things were the focus of the game (e.g. in a port of the mechanisms of untitled goose game from annoying waterfowl to annoying socker mom suv) but in a GTA they cannot be more than backdrop.
Because they presumably asked you because they think you can do it.
I was heartbroken when it was announced United Front Games are closing. It was a very sad day. Sleeping Dogs is one of my favorite games and have replayed it many times. Truly great piece of work that shows you don't need to be a GTA copy to be successful.
Fun fact: Historically, these air screws came from China and were sold as child toys on markets in Venice as early as in the 1200s. (This is probably also, where DaVinci picked up the idea.)
Terrible idea, now we'll have Google Stream and Microsoft Stream, and the average joe won't be able to tell them apart.

There's already confusion with the XBOX One, One X/S and Series X/S.
Both Russia and India are federal countries, just like USA, so might be a good idea.

But where to draw the line? Switzerland is also federation...
One last time.

Quoting the author:

In fact because it is most likely that a recession will be followed by a recovery, it is probable that the government will show a “profit.” However, bailouts are costly because of the possibility of relatively unlikely but very costly states of the world where recessions persist and recoveries are low.

As I think we can agree, it was not the case the 2008 recession was persistent with low recovery; yet it is the possibility this could have been the case that increases the cost.

Cost analysis is absolutely orthogonal to an actual accounting of profit and loss, which is why the author consistently uses quotes around the word "profit". The cost of doing a thing has nothing at all do with whether it turns out to be profitable! Profitability is exactly a matter of ex post cash accounting; there is just no other way to measure it.

I guarantee you have never quoted a section of the paper that says the bailouts were unprofitable to the taxpayer because the author never makes that claim: because it would be false. You will also never find a reference to "cost accounting" in the paper, again because those concepts are orthogonal within the author's framework. By all means double-check the paper on both those points.

If you're trying to answer the question "did the tax payers get back more money than they put in to the bailout", then the only way to do that is by ex post analysis of cash flows: the answer is "yes they did". If this were a business, that would be the definition of a profitable investment.

Until you understand that costs are nothing to do with profitability, you're doomed to misunderstand this paper.
It's a bit late in the discussion but basically they are saying at most 3% is cost , and emphasis on "at most". The rest is just profit or legal requirements (and thus not counted to loss).
House in Tampa Bay is being sold as an NFT
They stopped that almost a decade ago. When Spotify still allowed in app purchases , they charged more than on their own website.
That seems very deserved. Not.
I bet that if you tried to invent a language for this "Finland" thing, it would look like total gibberish!