skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can even get it back if you cancel, so there's literally 0 risk placing a preorder.
My bad, Thank you for pointing out. The press release should be corrected though.
RedLeaf Research OS
People who cared about those things vacated the premises years ago.
He had even better than mathematical prowess: an intuition and creativity. Einstein's thought experiments were what led him to the discovery. What's the difference between someone with superior raw mathematical talent and strong mathematical talent plus creative intuition? I would argue, in particular with regards to physics, it makes all the difference.

"...a paradox upon which I had already hit at the age of sixteen: If I pursue a beam of light with the velocity c (velocity of light in a vacuum), I should observe such a beam of light as an electromagnetic field at rest though spatially oscillating. There seems to be no such thing, however, neither on the basis of experience nor according to Maxwell's equations. From the very beginning it appeared to me intuitively clear that, judged from the standpoint of such an observer, everything would have to happen according to the same laws as for an observer who, relative to the earth, was at rest. For how should the first observer know or be able to determine, that he is in a state of fast uniform motion? One sees in this paradox the germ of the special relativity theory is already contained.[p 1]: 52–53 "
I just started a new job (well, transferred to a new office of my old job), and discovered they are still running everything as root. Thankfully the main office doesn't do this, so the last 5 years of my life have been relatively pain-free, but I'm starting to dread the next 5...
Adobe is a horrible company that scams customers and organisations that wants to use their software - can't wait until they sink.

That said it's incredible to me how many huge organisations have ticket systems with age old and easy-to-fix backlogs with issues that just doesn't get fixed - like the team has completely left the building. I'm thinking Google and Apple here in particular. After doing full stack agile development i know it can be difficult and complex - but not that difficult to check forums and fix various issues each month.
Ah, the "no true scientist" fallacy. What does it mean to be "unscientific"?
I tried browsing without an ad blocker recently and I wasn't prepared for how horrendous it is. The web is borderline unusable without an ad blocker.

Here's the thing: I'm not against ads. I used to quite enjoy ads in newspapers and magazines.
Sketch + Framer is my go-to combo these days, with Zeplin for documentation and handoffs.

For some reason, Figma has just never felt right to me.
Yikes. Nope.

The more we learn about other species, the more we realise that they are thinking and emotional creatures. I would no more want to see these experiments done on a human than on a chimp.

Do the ends justify the means? That's ethically extremely dubious, to say the least. Why conduct brain surgery on primates for neuralink? Where are we going with this, exactly?

As for comparing neuralink brain surgery to eating meat, that's chalk and cheese, and anyway millions of people don't eat meat.

A very useful area of research would look into how we can understand implications of procedures like this without needing to inflict hideous suffering on intelligent creatures - including humans.

Note: I'm not saying that all animal experiments are unjustifiable, but we absolutely need to improve how they are approved and conducted.
I would not call it a consequence of idea homogenisation but it might certainly lead to this. The basic scientific idea IMHO is compatibility of research. Which is important at least in a competitive and comparitive setting. If people call a measure like 'sensitivity' different in every adjunct field it does not help reviewers. If structural elements of a proposal are similar, it helps understanding quickly the key difference that remain. And this difference should be actually the actual idea, which is often the smallest part. We actually teach students to emulate style and do the same to write successful grant applications.This sure creates a bubble and in effect hinders outsiders to enter. That we see a gradual assimilation is IMHO rather an effect of available 'training material' and interdisciplinarity. Sure there are dangers that this might be an indicator for. However, do not misinterpret it in a way that it make a grant proposal more novel just because it uses totally different language...
Anybody know the minimum required MacOS version?
'Let us now bow our heads in payment'.

And that was 1980! He was decades ahead.
Kotler's The Rise of Superman goes into how some these meta-performance skills are a big part of what's being transferred more and more effectively. There's young kids doing mind blowing things in extreme sports like skateboarding and BMX that were unimaginable to even the top echelon of the sports a few decades ago.

It's exciting to see transfer learning's effects in near real time, as a lot of that has occurred over my lifetime. I just wish meta learning was more accessible and common knowledge. As it stands, I find myself continually having to do my own research to uncover ways to improve my own improvement.
That doesn't excuse the generic assholenes he exudes ( remember the "pedo guy" insults?) nor the arrogance ( submarine for that cave?!) nor his tunnel vision ( let's build a lot of tunnels for my Teslas, that will fix traffic congestion!). He speaks too much, and way too often it's complete bullshit. If he didn't talk publicly, he'd be a commendable workaholic chasing wild dreams and achieving some of them.
>The theistic proposition is a matter of belief or faith, not supported by evidence, not testable.

I disagree here. I came up with a theory/philosophy or a way for 'theistic proposition' which seems to be pretty good. Not only that, but I tried to counter this proposition from every angle, but it still it holds true for me. It is not supported by belief/faith, but I derived it from science/maths/philosophy. Basically, I created my own version of God.
Having used OpenBSD and seeing how partitions and mount options are used to increase security, it’s really weird going back to a Linux system where everything is just one big partition.

You’re right though, it’s really tricky getting the partition sizes right. The auto layout is sensible, I just feel that it set aside to much space for home and to little for var.

Linux has all the tools to make use of partitions, but many distros still just go for one big partition. It seems counter intuitive.
Inheritance isn't gone from Rust it just only exists for Traits (akin to interfaces) as I explained.

For example std::cmp::Eq inherits from std::cmp::PartialEq - if there's an Equivalence relation between things of this type then necessarily there is also a Partial Equivalence relation between some of those things (specifically: all of them) so you implement std::cmp::PartialEq and then just say actually it's also Eq (ie this equivalence applies to the whole type).

If you make some types which you implement std::cmp::Eq for, and all I need is std::cmp::PartialEq, I can use your types, because of the inheritance. But the fact your types have std::cmp::Eq (and thus also std::cmp::PartialEq) does not prevent them from being quite different in every other respect to other types, nothing about the types themselves is inherited.

So this means thinking about inheritance in a different way but it doesn't mean the concept is gone from the language. A typical toy Rust type might implement half a dozen or more Traits, some of them inherited from others and some not, "eagerly" implementing common Traits is encouraged.

As to just not using subtype inheritance in languages which have that, you're likely to immediately run into an existential crisis when the language - not unreasonably - depends upon this feature in its own design. In Java for example you can't go anywhere without tripping over Object, the supertype of all user-defined types. Java expects you to use inheritance so avoiding it comes with needless penalties.
Apparently according to many in this thread animal rights trump disabled peoples rights.

Just so we’re clear that’s what we’re talking about.
I'd love to know more about your thoughts on moving from tech to law and back again? What was your motivation?
Well, the exact requirements depend on the canton and commune you happen to be in. If you're in a village in Appenzell Innerrhoden it's going to be more tricky than if you're in one of the more international cities like Basel, Zürich, Geneva etc.
I gave up on the technical merits and accepted that I invest for the same reason one would invest in a company. The hope that of selling to a greater fool - or maybe I would be the fool, who knows.

I believe there is merit in BTC but it's value is propped up by fake USDT unbacked $. I don't think there is liquidity for everyone to cash out at same time. Which is why exchanges always shutdown during periods of turbulence.
Yes, the same reason that programs remain slow, even though computers keep getting faster.
The place where academic economists hang out is econjobrumors. But it‘s anonymous and not heavily moderated and can be quite nasty.
I just bought one to put in my car incase it gets car jacked.
“Some” electric cars? They made roughly 1 million of them this past year, 80% more than the previous year.
But not such a long time before block rewards are dominated by transaction fees, a few decades at most (in two decades, the block subsidy will be 32x smaller).
Why do you think he doesn’t take these protocols into account? Based on the word of a newspaper? Did anyone even say this?

You are assuming bad intentions without any proof or response from the accused.
> YT with that and ublock origin is a completely different experience.

SponsorBlock. It changed how I consume YT. It has saved me a ton of time.
As opposed to the crypocurrency world which essentially runs on USDT and USDC which are printed as if there is no tomorrow
> Lexical homogenization is not the same as idea homogenization,

It is for the word thinkers.
Yeah, reddit can be a good source of info, but after a certain size it tends to turn into an echo chamber of whatever the loudest opinion is.
They worry less about money because they have so much of it. Steam’s 30% cut of all game revenue is a lot. It’s different at companies that have to worry about making money.

Speaking of which, there’s a lot of negative sentiment around these parts for Apple and Google taking 30% of their stores (“rent seeking”), but not so much around Valve for doing the same. Possibly because HN skews more towards app developers who pay fees to the former and less towards game developers.
Just as an observation about this…I’ve increasingly begun to see the term knowledge expand to encompass information as if they are equivalent. That tracks, in my field, with changes in US K-12 education and the problems we now see in college learning behaviors.

I agree with your general ramble, but found this interesting in context.
> Mentioned in the latest blog by Brett Devereaux too, that with 60% of the population dying off in Europe, the remainder abandoned hard scrabble land and moved to better agricultural areas

30% (or rather, "something like a third"), not 60%.
> I cannot understand anyone who promotes the use of systems that catastrophically increase the risks of human error, particularly for the most vulnerable, and which pointedly ignore that other solutions may work better.

I can't speak for others, but I think it's great to promote whatever solutions may be solving problems for a particular use-case. Ideas like social key recovery give users an option to trade some level of full self-control for a safety net. I expect user-friendly implementations of ideas like this to be successful in the near future.

I think it's great that users can choose to participate in Bitcoin however they want. Some people will write their own private clients that nobody else uses. Some people will give all of their coins to a billion dollar company to hold for them. In-between the two extremes, people make their own decisions on what risks they can tolerate and participate in a way that's right for them.
This is a short term view. There's a certain amount of 'activation energy' that a system needs to be able to kick off and become self sustaining. If a giant generalized, subsidized solution already exists PHBs are much happier to spend years trying to knock a round peg into a square hole than take the risk of doing something bespoke for the problem at hand.
legs are messed up too. I use voice and eye tracking with talon and cursorless and a tree-sitter extension I wrote that enables different command grammars based on where the cursor is, and syncs the vocab list with the symbols in scope.
I don't think I watch anything that even has TV ads anymore. Live sports probably are the only thing.

Netflix

Plex

Prime

Disney Plus

YouTube (I guess they have ads but not the same)

Mobile game ads on the other hand... Urgh.
The block reward consists of two parts, the ever-halving block subsidy, and the transaction fees.
Supposing for the sake of argument that I accepted this premise, you would still have to demonstrate that it's not feasible to do this research humanely. We have been successfully implanting hardware in humans heads for a long time, at minimum we should be doing it equally carefully with these animals and reversibly.
Out of genuine curiosity, without wishing to seem challenging, and appreciating that engaging in lengthy conversation online might be difficult for you... I wonder if other technologies might come to market quicker.

Frankly, I wonder if neuralink will come to market at all, and how affordable and accessible it will be. I can't imagine someone without the use of their limbs in a developing nation benefiting from neuralink ever, for example.
Try Audacity?
So you're saying that my 2% was actually 2% wrong?
Because they can. Where are these small developers going to go? Itch.io, GOG, Epic, Humble? These are all options but it’s suicide to not list on the Steam store. Too many PC gamers use Steam exclusively.

Meanwhile the large developers, the ones who are making $50M+, those developers have enough pull to make the user install a custom client like Origin. That’s why Valve cuts them a better deal.
I'm in my 30s and I went through the phase of watching a lot of TV as a teen, then not watching at all in my 20s and not owning a TV for many years, and now I'm back at moderately watching TV everyday. There're several pros of TV compared to streaming: you turn it on and there's immediately something playing, if it's not interesting you just change the channel (I hate scrolling through stuff on a streaming service and getting stressed that I can't find anything interesting and just wasting time), there're many movies I would never watch otherwise but sometimes you just leave something on because "there's nothing better to watch" and it turns out to be a great movie, there's also many classic movies and TV series that are hard to find online, even "trash" daytime TV shows sometimes are fun to watch if you just want to "reset" your mind :-)
People use Adobe apps because they're integrated (in terms of licensing and workflow) with other Adobe apps, and because they need to collaborate with other people who use Adobe apps. I guess none of that is much of a selling point for XD.
Furthermore, the [online] advertiser gets astonishingly
precise feedback. They will know exactly how many people
have chosen to look at their ad and for how long, with
the result that an unwelcome ad for something no one's
interested in will quickly wither away, whereas one which
catches people's attention will thrive.

He talks about this as a good thing - a meritocracy of "unwelcome" ads and ideas vs. "interesting" ones, with selection favoring the interesting ones, cutting out all of the "dead wood", and so on.

In a literal sense, that is indeed how it turned out. "Interesting" won.

Unfortunately the version of "interesting" that many people chose was simply toxic dreck: conspiracy theories, social media feeds literally designed to make us feel negative emotions, scammy ads that have been engineered to trick the maximum number of people, and so on.

So yeah, "interesting" won, but I'm not sure this is the future Adams was excited about.
But are you comfortable torturing other entities for your personal gain?

That’s pretty much what this comes down to.
CC was the second time they burned people who loved their products. Pagemaker being replaced with InDesign drove a lot of us crazy too. I had been using Pagemaker since it was called Aldus pagemaker, stuck with it through quark becoming more popular, then when Adobe breathed new life into it, and also offered Photoshop.. I was all in. InDesign didn't just make me leave Adobe, it made me realize it was time to give ownership of that little newspaper hobby to someone else and do something else with my extra time. I hear from friends it's now a pretty decent tool, but I just lost interest in the whole field, since it was never something I did professionally anyway.
The thing I miss the most about the 90s is the attitude of hope about the future.
That's pretty literally the framework of science.
> and everyone ignoring that the block reward halves every few years until it drops to zero

It's not the reward that drops to zero, but only the block subsidy. Thus the reward will largely (eventually entirely) consist of transaction fees. Which means your first observation

> The energy usage does not come from processing transactions; it is largely independent

becomes increasingly wrong over time.
Not to mention more than 80% of gold use is superficial. Majority of it is held in banks and reserves.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/299609/gold-demand-by-in...
I can hear the steampunk aesthetic from here.
Symmetries of Fractal Tilings (2007)
I thought so too. I have at least 150 hrs of meditation under my belt. I can't say I'm worse or better, just another silly thing for my ego to carry around.

Take it from me. Ignoring your mortality is a lot easier.
Narcissistic egomania?
> stuck on the "zomg carbon footprint"

Yes Bitcoin is stuck on carbon footprint, no need to ad meme keywords in between.

> Quotes unreliable sources

While you have presented 0 sources only wishful thinking.
Biden's Infrastructure Bill Will Put More EV Chargers Along Highways
It's not the nicotine. It's the rest of the stuff they put in it, like cadmium for instance, the addictive metal.
The fact this takes almost 18 minutes on a 6502 but only ~100ms on my phone is incredible. One of those things that makes you realise we have so much computing power it's hard to comprehend.
We've been able to get a one- or two-dimensional control signal from average brain activity for a long time.
This is infinitely more simple than actual "mind-reading" and "mind-writing" which, as any neuroscientist will tell you, we don't have clue how to do.
Makes sense, you can always drop privileges but can’t acquire them without elevated capabilities.
Nuclear is not magic you need to build them first which takes time. And as article has pointed out we need to act now. So crypto is adding the problem, not solving it.
Capital flight actively hurts the economy it is removed from and only benefits the rich (who are often the local regime and often literally robbing the country) at the expense of the poor people trapped there. Which is totally counter to the narrative most crypto people put forward that somehow it's helpful to the average person living in those countries.

Basically the money and the wealthy can get out leaving the rest of the country floundering in an even worse situation. Which doesn't sound all that "good" to me.
When the only consequence is being tracked, it's mostly fine if people just click yes.

It's generally common knowledge that all sites are tracking you in all ways that they can and any time they ask for a permission it's to spy on you. Users who actually are more concerned with privacy probably will not click every random button.

Which is in itself one bit of trackable information, but that's about it.

Battery status is very useful for kiosk applications. Web Bluetooth is obviously great for all kinds of IoT things.

The more dangerous ones like Bluetooth can require you to explicitly select a target, and most people will notice something is wrong if they see MyBonerBest.io wants to connect to a list that includes their watch and light bulbs.

EU Cookie consent is somewhat changing that all, by training people to click yes on prompts faster than their eyes could even focus on them.

If there is a risk, it's probably more that people click out of reflex than out of not understanding, which can be partly mitigated with improved UI.
Most likely reason for such fall from grace in update speeds? They lost the savant senior dev (or two) keeping their project together.
Douglas Adams tells how the internet commerce should work.

No subscription to online magazines or content streaming services. When you notice something you like, you pay for it: one article, one TV-show at at time.

Artificially bundling stuff together is unnatural in the Internet.
I'm a little bit in the music production scene, and literally never see or hear anyone uses Audition. Not on posts on reddit, not on tutorials on YT.
On it's wikipedia page it says that it's a DAW (and not exclusively an editing station), so the best and most popular DAWs today are those that have been so for the last two decades: Cubase, Pro-tools, Logic, Ableton. The first three have top notch audio editing capabilities, and none of them require a subscription.
Yes. I missed putting on the History channel and just letting it run all day and night. Pluto TV made that possible again and it's free. RiffTrax, MST3K, Pluto History, Pluto Science, and on and on. I hat the stress of trying to figure out what to watch on demand.
It seems everything we eat both causes and prevents cancer, if all the different research is to be believed.
https://www.sciencealert.com/everything-we-eat-both-causes-a...

"Is everything we eat associated with cancer? A systematic cookbook review" (open access)

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/97/1/127/4576988

Conclusions: Associations with cancer risk or benefits have been claimed for most food ingredients. Many single studies highlight implausibly large effects, even though evidence is weak. Effect sizes shrink in meta-analyses.
Agreed, but the effect of Covid was much, much smaller than the black plague, if only due to much lower fatality rates.
Definitely I would. Why not?
> ...but CS is math. A branch of it, to be exact.

And biology is just self-replicating organic chemistry.. and chemistry is just the physics of outer electron shells.
Even without vaccines or treatments, covid wasn’t ever deadly enough to make a big difference. It seems like the mortality was between 1 in a hundred and 1 in a thousand, and at that heavily skewed towards older population.
Yes. Falcon is nice. And it is admirable how Tesla made electric cars palatable. Remember the Prius?
I think when I miss the old internet I miss the promise of a new way of living. The whole "information wants to be free" thing. Of course, we _have_ a new way of living, and it's amazing how much great information is freely available, but the downsides are pretty substantial.
If that were the case we'd all think the stock market had amazing social utility because it literally benefits the ultra-wealthy the most.
Can you tldr #6? Because readability very clearly makes things cheaper for SpaceX (they pass only a small fraction on to the customer, because I don’t think customers have any other alternative at that price point anyway, but for things like Starlink launches, it’s a huge help to them).
Steam allows you to generate keys that you then sell (or give away) on other stores. With no cut for them (purely third-party information, I have no personal insight), but the same UX as if someone had bought it on Steam.

That alone makes a huge difference and is nothing that either Apple or Google offer.