skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we're talking about a list of facts concerning Egypt then I'd agree. But history isn't a list of facts. If it was it would be unreadable. All histories have a narrative (and usually other things, like a political philosophy and a sense of morality). Against the Grain is an obvious example of that. The author here is trying to reduce Against the Grain to a list of verifiable facts and finds that this is very hard.

Religions are also not lists of facts. Most sophisticated believers (and I assume this applies to Scientologists) have a partly metaphorical understanding of their religion.

If we take some extremely far-fetched history, let's say David Irving's Holocaust denial, I would say that (unfortunately) the gap between Against the Grain and Irving is much smaller than the gap between either history and Principia.
> perhaps the inner city apartment sales will pick up again

Did they ever slow down? In Sydney apartment prices in the CBD and surrounding suburbs went up over covid, despite the lockdowns.
Depends on the size of your antenna.

Russians might secretly built 10e10 sq.mi. antenna array field to read tire pressure of all US cars!
> The article explains why it isn't contradictory at the very top.
"Agnostic atheists are atheistic because they do not hold a belief in the existence of any deity, and are agnostic because they claim that the existence of a demiurgic entity or entities is either unknowable in principle or currently unknown in fact."

In fact, the wiki article does not explain anywhere how agnostic atheism is internally consistent and not contradictory. So... agnostic atheists don't believe in the existence of a deity, and yet they claim the existence of a deity is unknowable. These two positions are mutually exclusive, not believing in a deity is not admitting ignorance, and admitting ignorance can't also be not believing in a deity. This is cognitive dissonance.
Russia's days as an energy superpower are coming to an end
He lost a lot of good will in 2016 by having access to internal documents from both parties, but only releasing them from one. Or at least, appearing to have done so.
Pidgin is compatible with... Nothing I've ever heard of except IRC. Welp
The tax code does need more comedy.
> Corporations are responsible for something like 70% of global emissions.

Corporations produce goods and services that people consume. I think it is intellectually lazy to attribute all the blame of pollution to the producer side of the economic relationship rather than the consumer side. The people consuming the polluting goods and services usually derive most of the economic benefits, the producers and people along the value chain capture some value, and everyone not involved in the transaction (especially future generations) get to suffer the externalities without having the chance to prevent the transaction between producer and consumer.

Many people do not regard climate change as a priority and do not use it to influence their voting or buying decisions. E.g. in the march 19 2022 economist yougov poll of 1500 US adult citizens, out of 14 important topics, the issue regarded as "very important" by the largest group of people is "jobs and the economy" (65%) -- tied dead last is "climate change and the environment", which only 43% of the surveyed population regard as very important.

I am not optimistic that effective public policy and regulation to seriously address global warming can be rolled out until there is relatively wide support from the voting public to regulate things like human population growth & rationing of scarce resources. Politically I don't think any politician could dream of stating that they are in favour of a policy of population control, it'd kill their political career. I don't suggest we try to debate it now in this thread, it tends to lead to incredibly toxic discussions. In western democratic capitalist societies the social contract often seems to value individual rights and freedom over the needs of the collective -- at some level this seems fundamentally incompatible with "limits to growth" where one generation might need to leave enough resources for subsequent generations.

https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/joqdn4nhky/econToplines.pdf
The ironic part of this in my experience is that the employers that want you in the office 100% are also the ones willing to pay less.

Problem solved, I’ll earn more from a company that treats employees with respect and the other companies will go out of business. Labour shortage in Australia is real right now, so it’s literally going to be impossible for these places to hire soon.
Anyone who would throw this much around would surely pay more. This is a signal to me that everyone there is getting a bad deal. I think they should unionize and get what they are really worth.
This depends... there are whole subreddits (eg: https://old.reddit.com/r/NonFunctionSlackFill/top/?sort=top&... ) dedicated just to slack filled items, to make them look bigger (thus increasing the amount of packaging and waste, and increasing transportation emisions).
Just a tangential anecdote offered on a fine Friday night. I’ll be sure to check the rules of this subreddit more closely in the future.
Government cannot exist without people. Implying that all Russian people are victims of circumstances and should get a pass is a bit of a stretch. Inaction is still action.
Check out the table of contents
That or BQN! I know APL enough to know it wasn't, but still, funny how quickly my mind tried to identify it.
Matter’s delay means you’ll have to wait longer for some new smart home products
> This is a smart comment because this is exactly what we run into (I operate a coding school that uses ISAs). Employers love our graduates, but if we charged employers, we'd have to play a cat and mouse game of "please don't contact our students directly" or "please don't apply to their website and go through me". By charging students, we can be at ease with making introductions or promoting employer/student activities without having to police their communication.

Have you actually tried it? I'd be pretty surprised if the employers attempted to cut you out like that. They're already accustomed to paying recruiters, and the access / promotion that you can provide them is worth the money. You could also sue them, whereas if you try to sue your students for repayment of their ISAs you run a high risk of bad PR.
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Anybody who thinks HN doesn't do humor simply isn't dry enough. I, for one, miss brand-new websites with long and detailed FAQ's.
It depends on the bridge and protocol. IRC is as straightforward as any other IRC client. WhatsApp needs to run an actual WhatsApp client so you'll need an online iOS/Android device or run it a VM or emulator. Not sure about Discord.

EDIT: If you can do without Discord DMs, you don't even need to run the bridge yourself or supply discord credentials - just invite a bot to a discord server if it isn't already

https://t2bot.io/discord/

(Obviously if you're concerned of privacy you wouldn't be having those conversations on Discord in the first place)
This approach to America is at least worth thinking about. We as Americans don't often hear criticism from abroad.
> The midtown Manhattan “wiretap nest” remains one of the largest and most elaborate private eavesdropping operations ever uncovered in the United States.

Wait till you hear about a private eavesdropping[1] operation in Colombia:

"In a 1994 raid, Cali cocaine cartel leader José Santacruz Londono was found to have assembled a database that contained both the office and residential telephone numbers of U.S. diplomats and agents based in Colombia, along with the entire call log for the phone company in Cali, which was leaked by employees of the utility. A $1.5 million IBM AS400 mainframe was loaded with custom-written data-mining software."

"It cross-referenced the Cali phone exchange's traffic with the phone numbers of American personnel and Colombian intelligence and law enforcement officials. The computer was essentially conducting a perpetual internal mole-hunt of the cartel's organizational chart. Santacruz could see if any of his lieutenants were spilling the beans. A top Colombian narcotics security adviser says the system fingered at least a dozen informants -- and that they were swiftly assassinated by the cartel."[2][3]

[1] Though more like meta-data analysis rather than listening to actual conversations.

[2] https://www.mail-archive.com/eristocracy@merrymeet.com/msg00...

[3] https://cocaine.org/cokecrime/index.html
>Do you mean that " black boxing" the brain with input/output and hoping something will emerge is a non-productive endeavour, and that the neurophysiology, like a bottom up approach from biology/neuroscience, is the way to go?

I think what we should be doing is something different to what we are now. The current "throw machine learning at things and expect it to magically work" paradigm has achieved nothing more than bullshit non-results for two decades straight, and unfortunately this is where a disproportionate amount of the grant money/researcher's eyeballs go.

BCI research, at least on the algorithms side, is basically a "bullshit job" where you do something you know will fail, it fails, and then you scream from the rooftops how successful you were until grant money gets thrown at you.

>Do you mind me asking, what did you do instead?

I got a real job as an SWE. It was at a really good company (Blackmagic Design in Port Melbourne) with a fantastic, highly politically incorrect culture. Quit that job just before the pandemic to run my own business and be a dad, but still get nostalgic about it to this day.
This is great, and the paper+codebase they're referring to (but not linking, here [1]) is neat too.

The research is moving fast though, so if you want something almost as fast without specialized CUDA kernels (just plain pytorch) you're in luck: https://github.com/apchenstu/TensoRF

As a bonus you also get a more compact representation of the scene.

[1] https://github.com/NVlabs/instant-ngp
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If you’re even moderately not-poor, you can still sell but why would you? Blood is more replaceable than kidneys but no one prefers to be drained. Unless you’re feeling charitable, in which case your ethic is to donate.

Of course you market to people likely to respond. I doubt you’d get hedge fund chairmen or senators to respond.
Even for the junior ones, rule of thumb is that employees cost 2x their salaries on average.

Other than taxes, most of that is mostly fixed cost (desk, insurance, hr paper shuffling).

Companies could pay junior staff significantly more if they eliminated facilitates costs and in-office perks for those employees.

I'd wager that upgrading from an N bedroom to an N+1 bedroom apartment would be much cheaper than providing an office for the vast majority of junior employees.
I wish the title just used “plasma” instead of “blood”. The plasma industry and red blood cell industries are really different. Also, companies doing Young Plasma are a super small portion of the industry. The FDA also asked them to stop.

The plasma industry has huge 10 billion dollar companies like Grifols. The red blood cell industry is mostly dominated by the Red Cross in most places, but also includes smaller non profits and some for-profit companies. The margins for red blood cells sold to hospitals are really thin (they charge ~$200 per unit, depending on a lot of factors), and I don’t think those companies are as sketchy and profit driven as the plasma industry.

I would still recommend donating blood. Hospitals really need that stuff, and it gets expensive when it hard to find donors.
I wouldn’t say self destruct, your body and your child’s body and your grandchild’s body are all a continuation of the same organism. Selection favors clearing out the old dead mutated cells and that is just extending to bodies as well. If we conceptualize ourselves as separate from our descendents, we think we’re dying, but if we procreate our cell line lives on, which is the only outcome which matters to evolution.
things were simpler, so the scope of what small teams could achieve was greater... but there was also complexity in different ways. (weak memory protection so lots of reboots, buggier tooling, near and far pointers, memory and cpu constraints)

i think maybe the most exciting part of that time was the rate of innovation in hardware. new capabilities were opening up every few years and you didn't need an enormous team or tons of capital to push the envelope.
Meanwhile, don’t expect they will be as poorly prepared for the next adventure as this one. Though knowing how well we always fight the last war, we probably will.
Does stealing a car without threatening violence have a lower penalty if you get caught? Ive always wondered why you get pickpockets in Europe and muggings in the US
Why would he want to do programming professionally? I only do it professionally because I cannot afford to do it for fun.
Anybody is more than welcome to build their own garden, but if you own the garden you also get to decide if it has walls around it or not.
> people like you, i.e. people who become parents at a relatively young age, literally have their brain chemistry altered to protect their offspring, WAY before you have actually experienced life as an adult.

Do you have any links or terms to Google to support this? On one hand it sounds reasonable. But on the other hand for the entirety of human history up until the last several decades what you think of as "relatively young" would have been completely normal or even unusally old. So it wouldn't make sense evolutionarily for that to be disadvantageous.

Disclaimer: had kids young and I think people that want kids and are emotionally mature enough to handle the challenge with a similarly minded partner should not wait and do it young. What is a definition of "ready for kids" that wouldn't cause 99% of people in the world to never have the opportunity to have kids.
predatory blood banks aren't new and this has nothing to do with capitalism

capitalism does not mean evil business. these are not investments
Or just "Charging", which IIRC happens when the device is plugged into a USB3-capable host?
Haven't really looked into it, but the big demo where the pig would walk on the treadmill and the model tracked its movement really set off my bullshit radar (high signal strength of muscle actuation, cyclical nature of the signal - it's not at all what you'd show to convince someone who was familiar with the literature that it's not just more bullshit snake oil).
This is mine: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1vWxcg2bLB8JblMgJ79dAo?si=...
Can it print GitHub issues though?
Under the traditional view, the most evolutionarily advantageous individual is one that lives forever and continues to spread their genes indefinitely, producing hundreds of offspring. Why is this not what we see in practice?
OOP with a lisp.
I've built an offline desktop for this: https://superintendent.app

It is a wrapper on Sqlite, but I'm looking to switch to duckdb because its dialect is more comprehensive.

Previously, I was using ruby, sometimes python, and sometimes postgresql to process CSV. But it wasn't convenient enough. Most of the times I just tried to use Excel, but formula is so hard to use.
Memory isn’t snapshotted and dumped, then restored by the OS in a way that user space is largely unaware.

macOS/iOS has adopted a model of giving apps an opportunity to persist their own state before being terminated (which may be eagerly to reduce memory pressure or power consumption, for example) and then have the application restore its own state in whatever way is appropriate.

Outside of containers, hibernation almost needs to be a system-wide operation, which makes it inappropriate for OS updates, restoring from crashes (which, I suppose is what Phantom OS is trying to resolve), or hardware changes.
I think the actual algo weighting stuff about what action follows a nuclear detonation is more heavy on the actual loses the nuclear incident caused. Then a political approach has to be triggered, someone would call Putin or whoever is at the phone in Russia, "look guys, we saw your flare from here, nothing remarkable happened BUT just don't push it anymore".

If Putin decides to go wild nuking one more thing, again, you should look at what the heck was actually blowed up, and then look what's next on your side.

At some point, even if Putin detonates 3 nuclear devices on his own land, some serious sh*t will unfold, most probably from inside Russia's top leadership, which exists and probably is constantly looking for practical crazyness in his new czar.

Spoiler Alert: czars are not meant to last forever.

If you remember, something like this already happened when North Korea started its underground testing. Nobody was saying it aloud, but most certainly lots of military resources were at least half awake, ready to go into WWIII at moments notice. But nothing happened.
I like how sxmo lets you open/close the keyboard whenever you want by swiping up from / down to the bottom edge of the screen, regardless of what apps are open or what’s happening within them.
That is exactly the theory.

As an individual it honestly doesn’t matter that much to me if my cell line continues on. I will still be dead.
The article implies he has lost even eye-control, or at the very least, that he wanted the implant for use in that eventuality.
Would something like this help? https://github.com/joushx/kaitai-to-wireshark

Happened to just see this article when reading Kaitai docs: https://www.incibe-cert.es/en/blog/understanding-industrial-...

I was checking out Kaitai the other day (generate binary parsers from declarative structures) and noticed its tutorials section has great content on reverse-engineering binary formats with it: https://doc.kaitai.io. Might be interesting to anyone interested in OP's question.

I like the first blog link that reverses the binary format of one of those interactive anime novels from an .exe: https://hackernoon.com/reverse-engineering-visual-novels-101...

Really cool walkthrough of how to do such a thing regardless of whether you use Kaitai to do it.
A fuzzy AND of sensitivity and specificity. Another option is to take the minimum (part of the Zadeh operators).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic
UK Wants to Incarcerate Asylum Seekers “Offshore” on Abandoned Oil Rigs
As a reminder 47 Democrats and 2 Independents supported extending it, 50 Republicans and 1 Democrat didn't.
Sales Engineering is the best. You get to build things to help customers and generate revenue. You get to code and present. Learn your customers business and teach your businesses product.
It’s possible with virtualization and containers. In those cases, to be fair, there applications are running in an environment that may not be aware it was restarted.
> It seems like a puppeted bridge requires me to send the messages to the Matrix server who then has a login to my FB Messenger to read/write messages there. I'm not going to run my own Matrix server so that requires me to trust a Matrix server with access to my Facebook.

This is kind of how it's done today but also not exactly. The bridge (which is what has access to your account and messages) is its own process and could in principle be run on a separate host (like your own device for a single-user bridge). However, most (all?) public homeservers access for connecting puppeting bridges (meaning "virtual" Matrix identities for each identity on the bridged network, rather than just having a single "botuser" for all conversations through the bridge) and the API for access is rather coarse.

Also, last time I checked most bridges do not implement E2EE and signing properly, which means that the homeserver it connects to both gets read-access to bridged messages and can impersonate. This is mostly a matter of implementation not being prioritized highly in bridge projects. Currently that can be worked around to get E2EE even for cleartext bridges by running a protocol-specific proxy called pantalaimon which sits between the bridge and the homeserver and terminates encryption.

There are tradeoffs that can be made, which can be seen in the different alternatives for IRC bridges. For example, matterbridge is more of a typical bot (supporting loads of protocols!) and can be run towards a remote homeserver as a normal user.

https://github.com/hifi/heisenbridge#comparison

https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/wiki/Section-Matrix-%2...

I am certain we will see better interfaces to allow people to run local personal IM bridges without the requirements and overhead involved today. Thinking out loud here, I could imagine a minimal per-user homeserver baked into a client, that only does bridging for that user and only federates with the homeserver of that users' accounts. That could tick all the boxes even before P2P matrix I think.

The benefit of this approach over pidgin or a purely local single-user homeserver (which are viable and it sounds like you kind of want) would be all the conveniences people have gotten used to with centralized platforms... E.g. if you have the bridged rooms on a remote homeserver, seamless retention of histories across all your devices, without needing to be simultaneously online. But you'd also only need to keep credentials local, and message content in cleartext would only ever be acessible on your client(s).
>My home internet craps out of a meeting about once a month.

In all seriousness, look into Ethernet (over Cat6, not powerline).
We went from multiple disruptive dropouts a day to almost zero just by moving away from WiFi.
Hah. East SF Bay to South Bay is $38 for one day, or $320 per month (Berkeley to San Jose on Amtrak).

Also, it takes 1.5 hours on the train each way. This is only 42 miles platform to platform. Also, no public transit syncs with the train on either end.
RIP axe-man.
Since the real goal is to move carbon out of the atmosphere, it doesn't need to be especially profitable, but if it were, I hope that would drive a large number of them to be placed.

More worrisome is

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/OceanCarbon

which seems to suggest that deep water already has more carbon than surface water, so that moving surface water down might have no, or contrary effect. At least, you would need a pH meter at the exit to show exactly how much more acidic is the water leaving than the water already there, and of course you would need to be careful to place the system where there is such a difference.

Facts are inconvenient.
> For just one example, I clearly remember reading an op-ed calling for the word "gross" to be used against those who stood in the way of feminist aims. The idea was that physical disgust was a "conservative" emotion thay could be repurposed

It's interesting that this kind of smart culture jamming is also now mostly coming from the conservative side of the aisle. Trump has been very shrewd in using liberals' emotional stances to "own" them, discredit his would-be opponents and effectively push his own policy proposals. (Such as repeatedly describing other countries as acting "unfairly" towards the U.S. - a pretty clear dogwhistle targeted at the liberal emotion of "fairness"!)
We do the same with TLS, SSH, etc. As long as we have smart people at the helm I don't see a reason to be worried.
I like the format very much -- the original New York Times article on the left and commentary about it on the right -- but how is this not a copyright violation? I'd be worried about the New York Times threatening to sue.
I suppose I'm less pessimistic. I assume that eternal life wouldn't be the same experience as the corporeal passage of time. Time would exist of course, but would be perceived either as its true essence, or at least as a higher dimensional projection. Rather than be anchored in time at a constant velocity, you would be able to move and exist independently from it.
> If you're just returning JSON

I'm not. Not sure where you got that idea.
Thanks - this is probably the exact story I was remembering.