skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to assume that since you are referring to exponential distributions in one part of your response that you're familiar with this topic, even though you refer to averages in another part. Averages are, as you likely know, completely irrelevant when it comes to predicting peak load.

Yes, 10K is likely an overestimate by some factor, however it's in the realm of possible. We can argue how much of an overestimate, but I don't think this takes away from the main point that I was trying to make above, which is that they are very unlikely to exceed the serving capacity of a single host (I don't know how fast Arc is, but a well-tuned serving system should be able to handle 40K rps for simple to cache content, which HN surely qualifies as).
People treat this as though all Tesla's everywhere were for some reason never trained on a dataset including cyclists off to the side, and people make emotional statements of "obviously this is someone's fault for not dealing with this obvious scenario".

But we all (should) know that's not how machine object detection systems work: they would reliably pass this sort of scenario all the time, and then some sort of adverse (input data wise) input situation from something humans don't even notice would trigger a complete failure.

Which is to say it's not intuitively obvious that other systems won't have these sorts of failure scenarios - it certainly won't be proven till they have sufficiently widespread deployment to eek them out.
Cool article. I would say that the new crypto-NFT-blockchain will make scamming easier. It is harder to understand market with a lot of novelty. And it is human nature to be drawn towards easier life and bigger money. Eventually, time will tell what are the use- and business cases that are actually working and will not be pyramids.
Is not (just) unseen, is unclassified. Recognized as different stuff.

Everybody going to a coastal area in the west coast of US had seen Western gulls. The species split in the last decades by genetic analysis. Now we have western gulls and yellow-footed gulls. Same history with the European Herring gull and the Caspian gull. If you can still find a new species of big bird in California or Europe, hidden in plain sight, why not a shrub or a tree? There are plenty of ornithologists and much less people interested in botany, (not to mention virus, bacteria or fungus)

Several hybrids can become species also. Plants are clonal, so non fertile hybrids can still multiply and eventually became fertile. There are many species complex in trees that are really arcane. Oaks or Willows for example. Lots and lots of plants have changed its taxonomy in the last ten years.
Life on earth has not prevented you from using your electron microscope.

What science has life on earth prevented? What secret of the universe has life blinded us to?
That's generally how things with new tech. Initially expensive; it gets cheaper over time. Eventually patents run out and everybody gets in on the action.
It is what the comic is saying, but the conclusion is different. The comic concludes that we should not attempt to escape by changing routine, but we must accept the routine and find ways to relax within it. The previous poster says that the excitement of changing your routine is a good solution, although temporary, it's still helpful.

I tend to agree: it's really nice to build up experiences and "novel routines". But you can't do it forever, at some point this becomes a "meta-routine" that drains you (it's not easy to keep changing your life).

The idea that it's better to stay where you are and instead meditate and build up good habits is great and I subscribe to it, but with caution. It should not be an alternative solution to, say, escaping a toxic work environment or a bad place. You shouldn't "meditate away" real problems.
No.

Quote from article: "Dr Courtine and Dr Bloch have developed a wafer-thin device with electrodes that could target the dormant nerves. Once implanted into Mr Roccati’s back, the device sent in pulses of electricity that mimicked those normally present in the nerves of an uninjured person as they walk.

By doing this, the device acted like an amplifier for any electrical signals coming from Mr Roccati’s brain. Those brain signals would normally be blocked by his damaged spinal tissue and be incapable of activating the nerves in his lower back. But with the stimulation device in place, Mr Roccati was able to voluntarily control those once-dormant nerves, allowing him to move his legs and walk."

It's his brain, the device is only used as amplifier. The fact that article talks about "Walk, swim, cycle" in its title is only a part of what people fitted with devices can do. It said he can also sit and talk to friends at bar.
This builds upon some solid research in rodents and humans, which had showed very promising results. It is very likely to become a therapeutic option within the next 10 years, in my opinion.
I really enjoyed mine as well.

Sometimes it would just drain the battery, and gone was all my data.
As a young adult, all my appointments would be gone and I was left wondering if I was forgetting an appointment.
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The main goal of the free software movement was to have more free software available and replace proprietary software where possible. This isn't won completely but neither is it failing entirely. Much of mainstream software is kind of free software today.

However, you are right that corporations keep increasing their control of this free software at the expense of the non-corporate contributors and users. These corporations have evolved and embraced free software (partially). If free software is to keep being alive and healthy, non-corporate free software movement has to evolve their approach as well. For example, stop sucking up as much to corporate platforms(Github...) and proprietary hardware and build and use platforms and user-freedom-respecting hardware of their own.
It was lost because, during the storm, it was flying too low. If the jet had been flying at a higher altitude, the storm would have still happen and the jet would have been fine. So the storm is not the direct and only cause of the crash.

It is important here because one could assume, only reading the title, that the satellite were lost due to electronic disturbances caused by the storm. Which is not what happened (if my understanding is correct).
The name standard is international, so we didn't get E.
But you can only perform this act so much before it wears out and backfires. See for example the recent defections of "red wall" Tory MPs after the announcements you mention - they know the situation is becoming indefensible in the eyes of their electorate, since they keep promising money which then fails to materialize.

Have they reached this point with the "online moral-indignation brigade" yet? Maybe not, but it's been 5 years since the Snoopers' Charter, I don't know how many since the porn-blocking promises and about 13 since the first pledges in this area by a Conservative party, with no significant progress to show for it. That's a lot of time even in political terms.
To be fair there are some cc* that try to address this. Apparently signal was forced to choose the relatively unknown MobileCoin exactly to avoid this problem.

*cryptocurrency is too long
It is encrypted, just not e2ee.

The police need to crack the encryption protocol (not impossible, telegram use non-standard crypto), or somehow gain access to telegram's server farm.
Maybe you lack imagination.. I can think of a lot of things more discouraging than that.
My first impulse is to say “Really? Pffft… Cmon thats not a real problem. Grow up.” because that would not bother me at all. I would not make the choice you are making for myself.

…which is projection. My first impulse is not worth listening to because your decision is not about me. It is about you and your career. So my feeling of wanting to roll my eyes a bit at it is totally irrelevant.

Your decision sounds like a wise one for you.
They hooked up trodes to the bottom section of the nerves, enabling patients to activate, selectively, respective muscles. Chain those activations together in sequence and you got a walk.

It's described in the Nature article linked from another comment - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00367-1

Also I heard authors give an interview on the radio and they mention that while walking is impressive, a more practical outcome is an ability to control muscles on the back, because these allow for bending and controlling the balance while sitting on a chair.
uhm, no...? https://wordhistories.net/2021/09/20/lead-balloon/

It's a common idiom in political discourse. Or was this a bad joke?
We fix that by doing it really really slowly.
Depends, here in the UK it is, while for example Adderall is very expensive as it needs to be imported from the US.
You don't think slavery was capitalistic?

No one did it because the end goal was evil, they did it because it was profitable, and ignored any ethics surrounding it.

Capitalism is amoral by definition. It becomes immoral by obvious extension of the point of capitalism, maximizing profits. When something is legally allowed, you do it, including hurting people, as long as it's profitable. It's up to society to put up laws and regulations in which we can utilize capitalism as fully as possible within an ethical framework we can collectively agree on.

> Suddenly, when private property rights are extended to more and more of the general population

You mean through limitations to ownership and regulation of what enterprises can do, like owning other people?

Maximizing rights and freedoms on the macro scale means limiting some people's edge freedoms on the micro scale.
OK, so the actual communication (the call itself) will be transmitted over wifi. But this means that at least some kind of access token must be transmitted over ultrasound. Is this safe? I would love to see an analysis of that communication; whether it is encrypted, is the handshake secure or can it be hijacked, does,it transmit only an anonymous access token or the whole user ID etc.

I mean, if I ever switch off Bluetooth it's exactly for the reason that I don't want my device to be detected/tracked. Zoom going around this by using ultrasound is kind of mean, since I can't prevent zoom from using audio if I want to be able to make calls.
> When was the last time Apple created something consumer facing from scratch instead of using industry standards or market leaders if they exist?

I'm too lazy to recall every detail, but it happened, often. Last exemple I have in mind is maps. As far as tech is concerned, I believe metal is their own inhouse invention?
That was a nice article, however with a few caveats:

- I don't understand why you would use either, composed of left and right; where you could use result, composed of ok and err, which would be closer to regular Elixir.

- There's no mention of typechecking at all.
what about USSD and WAP? - sorry, had to ask :D
You don’t need to pull a vacuum for this. If the glass is sufficiently flat and clean, the pieces can be attached with a process called ‘contact bonding’ where the surfaces are close enough to be attracted by Van der Waals forces.
> announcing this kind of stuff which sits well with some target part of the electorate

I really dont see anyone in the electorate clamouring for any of this stuff. Announcing the same policy being told it is a shit idea and announcing it again 6 months later is much harder to sell than the recycled spending (which they tend to just lie and say it is in addition to the last lot they announced anyway). That said, the electorate dont actually care much (unless it is a penny off the price of a pint or something) so it is hardly a humiliation when these ideas go nowhere and it makes the government look busy.

I can only assume that the driver is the security services, or just recycling past homework to look busy. As noted in many other comments they try all sorts of seemingly stupid ideas in this space - banning all encryption has failed countless times, adult verification is already a thing on mobile networks, and logging every online activity has slipped through and passed.
Other advantages:

-not being tied to a phone number

-having a desktop app which doesn't suck (sync issues, connection issues, lacking features, is basically a simple proxy for your phone, etc)

-allows me to use 3rd party apps

-having chat history synced across my apps and devices and backed up. History is immensely important
I used to work in adtech (specifically publishing) so although nobody ever told me I _couldn't_ browse the internet without an ad blocker, it was functionally impossible to do my job with an ad blocker installed on my browser.

I've never heard a company BANNING adblockers though.
Not familiar with Rust, but I really like the ReScript (OCaml) module system.

It just gets out of the way. Verbosity is easy to prevent with "open" statements. The nice thing about those is that you can put them in a local scope where you use them (which is generally recommended).

It's just a lot more flexible and a lot less hassle.
It's a Google thing, in some cases ( probably A/B testing), and it has nothing to do with the EU.
It's good not to underestimate the situation though - few things are as dangerous as a desperate government. If they can start wars to divert attention, they can certainly force bad laws. This goes double in the UK, where the executive is effectively all-powerful in practice since the Blair reforms.
Totally agree here. I do think redundant detection is important though and highlights the issue with the vision-only approach. If your object detection fails unexpectedly, as often happens with our current approaches, it's not catastrophic if you have another sensor modality to at least indicate there's a serious missed detection.
Why couldn't they just use a brain wallet on an offline device with no internal storage.
Keep a hand written copy of the generated passphrase laminated in some plastic in some fake plaster rock under a tree in a wood or something.
>The drawback to this is that for most of us, traveling happens in the form of vacations. A vacation is designed to be an exciting respite we take to keep us incentivized to return back (...) But remember, since you are going to be staying here for a while, having fun with interesting people and seeing new sights are not reliable roadmaps for financial sustainability. And plus, all of your friends are busy in the daytime with work, and being a lone wanderer in the early afternoon is only fun for so long. So yup, it’s time to get yourself a job.

OK, so "travel" is not the cure. Money is, so that you don't need to work - and friends who also have money and do interesting stuff (not necessarily leisuring, they could do whatever, from politics and art to crafts, they're just not confined by 9-to-5 and bosses).

But perhaps even more problematic is the idea of a "cure for the mind". Because you can be even the latter and be miserable.
This is one of the reasons I dislike title case. If you don't use title case, the title would be "Function programming in Elixir with Witchcraft", which makes it obvious that Witchcraft is something or someone and not the activity.
Probably pre-recorded, according to the nature article:

> Once the implant was in place, each person could control the pattern of electrical stimulation, using buttons and a tablet to raise or lower each leg, for example [...] using the device to guide their muscles through preprogrammed movements.
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You're making it sound like it's a decision they made when they got into rock climbing initially, that they would climb frequently while young and then scale back as they get older.

Now, making that decision at the outset does make sense, because it will drastically reduce the number of climbs you make in your life compared to climbing frequently throughout your life, and rock climbing while young is less risky than rock climbing while old.

But importantly, I don't think that's what GP did. It sounds to me like GP spent their youth climbing a lot without considering their mortality, but then decided to scale back because they realized climbing that often for the rest of their life would be dangerous. Maybe they spent the time from 20 to 35 climbing 30 times per year, in keeping with my earlier example. That means they've already climbed 450 times. Risky, but they made it through alive. At 35, they start to consider their own mortality, and they have the choice between climbing 900 more times by keeping to their current rate, and climbing 30 more times by reducing their rate (or something in between). Deciding to scale back makes sense.

There is no logical fallacy.
From the last comment, on 2021-11-04:

> Like it or hate it, there is a sea change happening in how governments treat cryptocurrency.
Google's support page says otherwise

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10070779?hl=en-GB#...
As someone who wants this technology to be useful to commercial and open-source entities GPL software is more compatible with the status quo and I don't want to fight the battle of the license and the technology.

I hope you reconsider AGPL3.
1) is this novelty curve, when the thrill is gone etc.

2) happiness. In my understanding it’s a decision about how to view life in general, which couples to endocrine system responses

3) the opportunities and relative merits of different places. I heard said that XYZ is a good/bad place to do PFQ activity
But we can’t deny a natural barrier. Modern sci-tech if used in 18 century would dramatically explode into fundamental discoveries. Einstein Bohr et al would jump for joy having these “toys”, cause all they’ve had was basically pen and paper. But now sci-tech mostly supports existing theories for many decades. Not saying there is nothing new, but there is nothing groundbreaking either in fundamental parts of nature.
I wanted to travel directly after college but instead got straight to work. I'm now 31 and in the last year have developed a couple dozen food allergies, to the point that I very literally cannot eat out at restaurants. I have to prepare everything myself.

This change has completely destroyed my will to travel. Or, rather, makes me regret not having traveled when I had the chance to enjoy one of the best parts of it: the food. And not just the food itself, though that is a big draw -- more important is the logistics of not having to cook all your food yourself, needing specific products from specific brands (and if you can't find them you're shit out of luck), etc. Travel for me is only possible in places where I have a kitchen (so, AirBnB), and the supplies required to meal prep. I'll spend a not insignificant amount of time in my new locale cooking and cleaning dishes, like I constantly do at home. No wandering around town checking out a restaurant. No airport food. No meeting new friends and them spontaneously treating me to dinner.

So, so many lost experiences. When I get in this mood and remember what life was like just a year ago before all these food allergies hit, when I was still planning on traveling the world "once Covid blew over," it makes me so, so sad. I can't believe I lost my chance just because I chose to work right out of college (worse, an internship that didn't end up hiring me).

Point being:

For whatever critique of travel this post might offer, just...if you can, travel. I never, ever thought that I would lose the ability to be somewhere and just...eat, without thinking. To try new food without fear of literally dying. I never knew that could happen to someone. I never knew the simple joy of eating somewhere I'd never been before could be taken away, that I would be trapped to the same tiny list of ingredients (ever-shrinking, I might add), the same depressingly small number of combinations formed by them, and by extension the physical entrapment, the loneliness, the sense of not being part of the group because I can't share in the meal.

God I hate it.

If you can, just fucking travel. Do it while you still can.
NFTs are the equivalent of Beanie Babies but with several more zeros in the prices and will probably end the same way when everybody has hundreds of them. Icos came and went and pump and dump and rugpulls abound but like the dotcom and subprime bubbles not everything crypto is a scam - there will be the crypto Googles and Amazons and Metas that emerge. Bitcoin is probably a bit like Yahoo in that it will keep going but not be the biggest and most important crypto coin anymore.
The fact that someone still bothers to develop for Palm OS warms my heart. I haven't yet tried Wordle. I will have to give this a go on my Zire 31.
Depending on your reasons, a seedbox that comes with built in vpn capabilities out of the box could be an option.

I pay €5/month to ultracc for a server I can torrent with. It just happens to come with a vpn installed as a bonus.

Mullvad is the same cost for just a vpn. I'm sure it's better in many ways that people will list below but for the purposes of getting around government internet blocks where you're not then expecting g men to kick in your door for getting around them, openvpn installed on whatever random server works fine.
First of all: Axiom is cool as heck.

Free software like git still works, there is no "MS flavor" of git based on git's source code. This is because git is GPL:d. I'm far more worried about how MIT licensed software leads to companies doing absolutely no sharing.

We're also seeing AGPL becoming more popular. This is great, no more saas bollocks using GPL software without sharing their code.

My hopes for the future is that FLOSS software will become part of the cooperative structure which allows for competition.

Maybe I'm very naive :-).
> They should really just stick to facts and science and try to eliminate the politics as much as possible.

It's worth noting that, for public health measures, social considerations like effects of planned enforcement measures and expected public response given those measures, including both compliance, failure to alter behavior to comply, and altering behavior directly against the policy (rather than what the policy would do if there was magic perfect compliance with no enforcement effort) is a key set of facts. (And, in the CDCs case, also includes expected enforcement, resistance, nonenforcement, and outright hostile policy responses by State governments, which the CDC does not control but are structurally going to be responsible, realistic, for much of the concrete implementation of CDC guidance.)

The CDC can't both stick to relevant facts and science and ignore politics, because public health has an enormous social component, of which politics is a central part.
I would rather give facebook my credit card info than a shitty VPN my credit card info and my money.

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Can Slack-mania be cured with systemized discipline?
Self-hosting and service 300kb for font files also seems excessive. Especially for a Helvetica clone.
I've had this happen when wanting to view US News Sites in the UK. Yes, they may well show photos of violence and wars. Sadly, this is still valid news.

But the verification process wanted my Driving License number, which I gave repeatedly, but which it never accepted.

I scrapped that mobile contract ("Three") as useless.
Do you use your own router behind the box provided by the ISP? And is it DOCSIS?

If so, using the ISP-provided box in bridge mode could help. This was the cause of many woes in my setup, whenever there were a lot of connections open, the internet connectivity would drop off. But once I changed the ISP-provided box to be a dumb bridge between the internet and my own router, this stopped being an issue.
Telegram supports e2ee.
https://tsf.telegram.org/manuals/e2ee-simple
That's diffused thinking!