skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me this is an interesting story, the comments sections already have some more interesting links to follow and if you can please add more that you think are even better then this article.

In weekend we see more such stories on HN, and IMO we need a pause from yet another framework or toy shit in that language.
Lightning network just does net settlement to the public chain, and very infrequently, so it’s somewhat more private.
Question-are we reducing albedo with solar? Solar cells appear more reflective than soil; I wouldn't think that albedo would be reduced unless we were putting solar cells over the ocean. Do you have a source for this, that's an interesting conundrum but seems counterintuitive. I would think that solar cells actually reflect more heat than they absorb, I have had to work around them and they act as though they reflect more heat than soil. If you can back that claim up, I'd be really interested in reading more.
Because by muddying the waters about what counts as intelligence and consciousness AI researchers are making it harder to actually discuss these topics in a coherent way. It's a self serving agenda that serves no purpose beyond aggrandizing some very basic mathematics. No one has any coherent explanation for why a bunch of matrix multiplications and very basic non-linearities like ReLU are sufficient for creating conscious agents. It's obvious that "1+1" is not an expression that denotes anything about consciousness and yet AI researchers would have us believe that if we just add more 1s and a few more mathematical operations then we will magically get conscious agents. It's a preposterous claim and as I said previously serves no purpose other than confusing and befuddling the public in order to sell them silly toys.
2 days ago Tesla Fremont was sued for being a racially segregated workplace. Like really, in 2022, in California. On very dubious grounds based on teslas blog post reply.

These are opening shots in the musk vs woke war. We can’t have him standing up to warren and sanders, posting red pill memes and selfies with Jordan Peterson…

Well good luck. I look forward to musk fighting them. He’s not your average corporate CEO who would rather bow and apologize. He fights. Hard.
What hits? Most hits attributed to Musk aren't his.
Comparing lo-fi prototyping to UI design tools is comparing compilers to virtual machines. They are used at different stages of the process and can actually be used together by the same team.
Compare and contrast:

> everything that works is called math

> Math is not just anything that works

Can you see how you have read my comment wrong? "An A is a B" is not the same as "A B is and A", you're arguing against something that wasn't claimed.

If you wanted to come up with something sensible to say, you could bring up a theory that is backed up by something that isn't called math.
In Brazil you can get twice what you were unduly charged as consumer.
Depending on TVs to save you from existential panic doesn’t seem like a sustainable solution.
I'm all for including externalities. My usual argument is if you look at positive and negative externalities, fossil fuels are a massive win.

People seem to struggle with positive externalities so the argument usually falls flat, and the situation is too clear to me to be able to spell it out easily. But without fossil fuels, 40-80% of the modern world would have been all but impossible. The knock-on effects of abundant cheap energy (and precursor materials to plastics) aren't being priced in.
Wait, was this just an article that was designed to say systemd isn't all that bad?
giving employment to ~110,000 people and counting and inspiring people around the world
Theres some 'jq for yaml/toml' projects that just convert to and from json and then use jq in the middle, seems like that would work here too.
> TL;DR Some of the smartest people in the world consider AGI an existential threat and Neuralink is the leading hedge that instead of competing against AGI in futility, we augment ourselves to become the AGI instead.

That's ridiculous
I love spending so much time doing Big O analysis! Great use of my time! I’m sure I’ll need to know semesters worth of Big O Analysis for my job.

Oh… I just need to know the basics? Damn, such a great use of my time.

CS degree in a nutshell.
With an ngram-based model like this one, you can just feed it short substrings, since it doesn't take the larger context into account anyway. There'll be some problems at the boundary, because e.g. "as" is a word in both languages.
> How does that compare in dB

That is statistics as blurred images :) Compare 55dB of, say, so-called "musical impressionism" to 43db of "hardcore techno"...
What’s at stake in Ukraine is the direction of human history
How a study can be taken seriously if they use racism loaded slang name of a plant rather than its scientific name?
This happened in the UK too with Navitus Bay. Opposition to the project was astroturfed, probably by oil/gas/nuclear.
What would people here suggest as the alternative software?
Not even helping every human who lost the use of some or the whole of their body? Isn't being locked into your body for the rest of your life torture as well?
Exactly what I thought of too. Very similar to the article's virtues.

I wonder where they're not appropriate? Anything centered around human interaction, probably, but otherwise similar attitudes seem useful in most forms of engineering and knowledge work.
I get anxious with noise around, especially TV. My brain generates plenty of stimuli all on its own, no need to add more ;)
archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20220210101010/https://www.econo...
I've written Tactris for myself during pandemic, for long zoom meetings with my colleagues. I've noticed, that the game doesn't occupied all of my attention, and even more - boosts cognitive skills.

> The rules are simple: you have 10x10 field and two different shapes to draw. Each your move will randomly regenerate one of the shapes. The main goal is: build the lines, collect points, and struggle with other users in the leaderboard.

No ads or collecting data, no internet communications (except GameCenter integration, which is optional).

If you find it interesting - feel free to rate the game in the AppStore!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tactris-tactical-puzzle/id1537...
This discussion sounds a lot like Reddit. Haters vs. fanboys.

A lot of Musk's business proposals or projects either didn't work or didn't keep to the promised timeline. Some of them did pan out, though. The US now relies on Falcon 9 to get astronauts to space and back. The list of human-rated launch vehicles since Gagarin is pretty short, the very opposite of endless. And people were scoffing at the idea of usefulness of a reusable rocket just weeks before the first successful landings happened.

I also rode a Tesla shotgun. It is a nice car, even though expensive and overhyped. But that isn't the same as vaporware. Traditional car makers suddenly had to compete with a newcomer - after how many decades of a mature market?

If you mentioned those two, I would be inclined to consider your take as more balanced.
Regardless of where the news was reported in the original post, the only thing of importance is whether or not it's true. Did you check some of the original sources?

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/extreme-suffering-15-23-...

https://nypost.com/2022/02/10/elon-musks-neuralink-allegedly...

This is worth looking into. First, it's using Tesla drivers as guinea pigs for automation. Then some strange experiments with boring holes under ground. Now torturing monkeys so we can transfer our consciousness. Someone needs to place this guy in check.
I feel the same, but I've been talking to other designers who still prefer sketch for its way of handling design systems and jump into XD for prototyping or vision setting.

Despite its little quirks, I believe Figma has the best dynamic of this space. I also can't be happier to ditch an Adobe product for a valid alternative.
We've a laptop in our bedroom, which is very intentionally a small screen. It's pretty variable how much we watch there.
Just read Asimov's "The Last Question" yesterday and then this discussion pops up today on HN :-)
Thanks :) I'm going to update the dictionary to use the same one as Wordle's, so that should be fixed.
I wonder if there are "Bajau Nomad" women who can dive for longer durations.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/bajau-sea...
Yes it’s strange indeed.

But anyway, here you actually presented some arguments and explanations for why bitcoin can be useful.

Now, I don’t think bitcoin will actually end up anywhere useful in the end because it doesn’t really solve anything that fiat doesn’t (except perhaps for people in the illegal payments market) but we can disagree on that.

My point was about the previous argument, that there was inherent usefulness or value in bitcoin just because there are people speculating on it, that is fallacious.
There seem to be a lot of references to irreverent iconoclasts lately here, Adams and (always) Feynman and some Hamming and Hawking all the rest. In my personal life I've heard people mention Magritte much more often than usual. Is that part of the zeitgeist? Is silly the hat we wear because someone tells us we must wear somber hats? Or else?

Under the harshest, most doctrinaire leadership, the outliers thrive most and gain an audience. Not to call out Biden or dems here, but to say that both of those power parties seem awfully authoritarian, so . . .
> The more harm is done, the less likely that people will support a public option.

I don't think that is the case most of the time. If anything, suffering makes people more likely to be sympathetic. For instance: people with low incomes, and those without private healthcare are more likely to support socialized healthcare in the United States.[1] These are the people most likely to have been stuck with ruinous healthcare bills.

[1] PDF Warning : https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/100752...
LOCKSS may replicate between nodes, but it is neither anonymous nor permissionless, and is child's play compared to the problems the major cryptos are trying to solve.
Always a pleasure to read Douglas Adams. As usual an engaging and insightful read. I’d be curious to know what his thoughts would have been on the current state of online ads, social networks (engineering?), and NTFs. I suppose they all pop out as derivatives of the main point of the article, that new things often come from realising old limitations no longer apply.
Connecting to the brain is a vastly more complex problem than stimulating a heart.
> The advertisers pay the magazine for the opportunity to put links to their ads on popular pages of the magazine and - well, you see the way it works. It is, I am told by people with seriously raised eyebrows, astonishingly effective. The thing which drops out of the problem is the notion that advertising need be irritating and intrusive.

Unfortunately, the notion "that advertising need be irritating and intrusive" didn't drop out, which is why browsing the web without uBlock is a horrible experience.
KDE: the 15 minute bug initiative
As other comments note, TRAMP is the way to go for remote work. I’m able to do everything on a remote / AWS / GCP box that I would do locally. If you’re into Deep Learning / data science you can also run Jupyter Notebooks in EIN with, say, a GCP Vertex / AI platform backend (though EIN isn’t 100% reliable for every production use case).

emacs is most certainly an acquired taste but, like most acquired tastes, is cherished by those who persist and come to love its flexibility, extensibility and power.

I’m one of those people.

No matter what else I try — and I still really enjoy using VSC as a backup — nothing else comes close to my particular set of workflows (mainly data science / deep learning / AI research across Python, C++, R, TeX). Throw in the power of org, beamer, pdf tools, journaling, email, rss, web browsing — you name it — all in one place…I really never need to leave it.

Persist with it. It’s worth the payoff.
Yes! I plan to add that next.
>The push for UBI

There is no real push for UBI. It's a pipe dream dangled in front of us by oligarchs who are trying to feed hunger for change.

It'd be nice if it happened but realistically if it grew into a realm of political possibility the same institutions touting it now as "some cool thing to do in the far future maybe" would furiously backtrack.

The deeply embedded protestant work ethic and inflation fears would both be stoked to kill it dead.
BTW, at the time, I think being on great big plains would have been worse. Sea transport was, what, 20x cheaper than land transport? Rome couldn't possibly have supported a million residents if it weren't on the sea and able to extract grain from across the Mediterranean.
I'm not exclusively talking about the US here.
Can you explain? The title paper is 'Cannabinoids Promote Progression of HPV-Positive Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma via p38 MAPK Activation'. You are probably refering to their press release.
If you have a sustainable solution to provide you'll be rich. I default to squelching thoughts of my mortality. That is at the top of the list of mental frames that have improved my life. I otherwise lived in constant existential panic from the ages of 12 to 25. Thanks a lot Nietzsche...
... and nearly a third of TV shows play to a sleeping audience.
Thanks for pointing it out! Gotta fix this on Android...
I think that's possible, but in your model, the lower average distance has indeed decreased. Yeah, the total range (or maybe the convex hull of the idea space) is bigger, but it's not obvious that the range is what we should think about. If the top 100 proposals are small variations on the "most attractive" old idea, then a lot hangs on whether that idea is really good or not - which in turn suggests that the proposals are probably not providing enough diversity.
One of the most exciting features of Bitcoin is that it's permissionless and anyone is free to contribute and build on top of it. This is what has enabled projects like Lightning to emerge and evolve.
It's a huge problem for the USA. We have more lawyers than any other country on a per capita basis and we don't have "loser pays". To begin to estimate the cost premium that it puts on companies in the USA you look at how big the legal industry is in America and then you have to add "the chilling effect" that the probability of unjust "justice" is exacted on corporations with misaligned incentives for lottery-level payouts ( resolved with loser pays)
“ Cannabinoids Promote Progression of HPV-Positive Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma via p38 MAPK Activation”

That is the study name. You are referencing the title of the press release from the university they work at.

While it’s perfectly fair to discuss the historical context of words, it’s important that we also recognize that using commonly used terminology in translating science for public consumption is necessary.

It’s also important to get basic facts right before trying to criticize peoples research.
Interesting jumps you make. Why should I want to dismantle capitalism?

I have no qualms with people making money. I like to make money myself. As long as I treat others fairly and take care of others, why shouldn't I be compensated for that?

I think in the end it comes down to values. I believe in things like ensuring that my negative impact on this world is as little as possible. While I try to maximize the positive impact on the other hand.

There is prior scientific exploration of things like Musk is testing. With proper protocols in place to ensure minimal suffering (and yes probably some suffering can't be foregone). Why not support these? Why do his own thing without these long honed traditions in science to also take the animals' suffering into account?

I would neither want to dismantle capitalism nor scientific inquiry. But I can't say that egomanical ideas (imho) thinly veiled in science for humanity don't make me want to forget my good upbringing.

But I admit. I just might be wrong, his intentions might be great and only this experiment failed in a horrible way.
As every other competitive diver.

Can't wait for the article on the woman who can ski.

What's next, women riding bycicles?
Probably a business model issue. Since the software is sub-par, and they were late to the party, they are forced to give it for free to even be considered.
I also suspect XD don't bring many synergies with other Adobe products like Illustrator does.

Given this, it might be difficult to justify a proper budget to compete with the market leaders
The TV places an order if you're paying attention.
Some elements of the Guardian audience require that sort of wording. They won't read the rest and find out she isn't a human record breaker.
Are you sure? Consider:

https://www.kimerius.com/app/download/5782475760/Calculation...

The paper does talk about heat from friction, but not at the stagnation point. It also talks about the heating of the surface being less than predicted by adiabatic compression, but that is the heating of the surface, not the heating of the air at the stagnation point.
A fitting quote:

"The error in depicting critics of animal experiments as anti-science becomes clear when one begins to question the extent to which the purported scientific aims of these experiments are actually accomplished. For then it turns out that the experiments and not their critics are unscientific. Those experiments that cannot be justified on scientific grounds can be no more justified than the frivolous killing and torturing of animals. In fact they are even less capable of justification, since such experiments block more fruitful uses of scientific resources."

-- Deborah Mayo
I built a Chrome extension that popups up a general knowledge quiz when Google Analytics is loading...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/buffer-buddy/ehngg...

If you work in GA on a large website I'm sure you'll appreciate it.

Ufortunately I didn't put much effort into promoting it. Nevermind!
While this looks fantastic, i'd love to find out more about the philosophy behind the LCARS design.
I hope there was some actual thought how LCARS would help the user whenever they encounter an unfamiliar interface implementing the design.
I understand the problem of ridiculously inflated titles (like “VP Alliance and Strategic Partnerships World…” for the first employee doing sales) but on the other hand I don’t really see an alternative for CEO and CTO, what would be more appropriate titles for co founders for small startups?
My guess is that it has trouble distinguishing between Afrikaans and Dutch, Indonesian and Malay, and other similar pairs.
I have to say, this is a very well designed app.

Since you talk about local only app , I can suggest bangle.io [1] - a local only operative note taking app.

[1] https://github.com/bangle-io/bangle-io
You don’t know the end result of an experiment. That’s literally why it’s an experiment. /facepalm
I know AdGuard[0] claims to have the ability of blocking YouTube ads in Safari, but I also believe it's behind an IAP. Alternatively, an Invidious instance[1] will play videos without ads. It doesn't work for music videos (thanks DRM!), and I believe you have to set the video quality to DASH in Invidious's settings for Safari to be able to play it. Not as convenient as YouTube, sure, but if you hate ads enough I think it's worth it.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adguard-adblock-privacy/id1047...

[1] https://redirect.invidious.io
Having any Adobe app on my computer means permanently sacrificing a large chunk of resources to CreativeCloud. I'm happy with Photoshop eating ram&cpu when it's running, but the 24/7 background DRM daemon is absolutely unacceptable.

Too bad Adobe has grown so large that the technical people have lost all power. It happens to all companies: they build marketshare and reputation with technical excellence, but eventually reach some sort of singularity where every single reasonable dev departs.

The only thing left for a company at this point is maximizing revenue from enterprise/government contracts, and usually dwindling out after a private equity reverse takeover/merger with a company you've never heard of.

Management is in a tough spot, because changing their ways might decrease revenues, which would hasten their demise. Imagine the reaction from Adobe's shareholders if they announced they're cutting prices to a third and dropping all DRM..
The Silicon Valley series mocked this brilliantly. Everybody wanted to "make the world a better place" by "revolutionizing location-based news aggregators" (one of the less absurd ones) etc.
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Even assuming what they're reporting is true (which having read IIAOPSW's comment above now seems rather unlikely) I don't see the situation as terrible. "15 of 23 monkeys died" is in itself meaningless. We don't know how long they intended to keep them alive anyways - a reasonable protocol in this kind of studies is "have procedure, observe for X weeks, then have an autopsy to take a closer look at what actually happened". TBH, that's pretty much what I expect they do - I wouldn't want that in my head without them actually looking at brains under a microscope to check for unexpected side effects.

They're also using monkeys - which yes, look cute, but are not primates. If I'd hear chimps, for example, I'd expect them to be implanted long term, and be much more careful and sparing with autopsies.

Also most of the issues in the article don't directly touch neuralink technology but generic brain surgery stuff like infection. So worst case scenario they should improve their procedures, but there it doesn't say anything there's inherently bad about the tech.

And on a second reading of the article I realize I can't really get much cold info out of it. It reads a lot like somebody got gossip over a few beers and posted on social media and a reporter took it from there.
You know that Musk Elon has a mental condition?
That seems backwards. The vast majority of games aren't making $10mm, definitely not $50mm. Why take more money from the small indie developer?
Real Vim in macOS input fields
The N word is also commonly used, doesn't mean it's right. There should be no place for racism in academia. I am surprised this is up since 2020.
Can anybody recommend an Audition alternative that does not require a monthly subscription to use?
How? Thanks to his wife Mileva Marić[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mileva_Mari%C4%87
Former Adobe employee here. IME, most folks at Adobe don’t really care about listening to customers, providing a great customer experience, or putting the customer first. Most of the organization was highly political with different BUs fighting each other for “status”, budget and promotions. Can’t blame them though. The photoshop money machine keeps going brrrr so why bother.
How else is brain implant research supposed to happen? It's not surprising earlier attempts ended badly, they're putting things in brain matter. It's hardly pointless cruelty.

Brain implants are way more important than self driving cars and reusable rockets. The latter are useful economically, while brain implants are a necessary step on the path of upgrading humans beyond biological limits. In the medium term they would finally allow functional artificial limbs.
As a related tidbit, I recently learned that, while it's possible to increase one's niceness, it's impossible (with stock settings on most distros) to decrease said niceness without root.
Slightly off topic, but as soon as there’s a Lightroom competitor which can sync photos and edit between iOS and Mac, and has most of the fundamental editing features, I’m done with Adobe. I don’t mind a subscription model necessarily but their prices are too high and I hate that every year I have to barter with their support to get a cheaper price.

If such a tool already exists please let me know! I love being able to edit photos on my iPad or Mac without having to worry about manually syncing anything, and Apple Photos is a bit too basic.