skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Artificial and biological neurons do roughly the same thing when evaluated

They most certainly do not. The idea that biological neurons are a kind of programmable on/off switch is completely wrong. There is plenty of computation happening inside a single neuron.

The fact that we once thought only the interconnect of neurons is important, and not the individual neurons themselves, is actually pretty strange. We know full well that every single cell is capable of computation, as it must react to its internal and external environment to be able to function. Neurons are more specialized for computation than other cells, and of course the biological neural network is a still a huge part of animal intelligence, but the simple model where we ignored what was going in inside each neuron should have been seen as extremely unlikely to be the full picture from the start.
Pretty sure the advertising industry won't be happy until every human on the planet is required by law to tolerate 24/7 advertising beamed directly into their brains.
>>Because of unfortunate timing of when my contract expired I already pay around 800 euros per month for energy

Wait, what? Are you like cryptomining or something? That's actually insane. I charge two electric cars at home, work from home using a powerful workstation, and my electricity is about £100/month. How do you manage to spend 800 euro a month????
My experience is similar. I also "burned out" a couple of USB-C hubs (including a very similar Anker branded unit) so eventually upgraded to a decent monitor with integrated USB-C hub. Being able to switch between all the laptops in our household and my PC with only one cable has been really great. Although, we often find our Apple laptops have problems recognising the connected devices so we have to connect and re-connect a few times to ensure everything is working as it should. No such problems with the PC!
Microarchitecture performance innovation continues (the M1, Zen3, and Alder Lake cores are all significant improvements over their predecessors), and transistor performance and density continues to increase. We're on the verge of new transistor architecture (FinFET -> GAA) and shrinks and other advancements continue.

Single chip processors have not reached their limits in terms of . For some applications, one piece of silicon is not enough, and that has been true for ever. Early cores were built with multiple chips, later ones had separate cache or FPU add ons, we had (and still have) SMP multi-processors that wire up many chips together, we have discrete GPUs.

So in any given year, with any given silicon technology and logic design, we have virtually always reached the limit of single chip processors, and gone beyond them with multiple chips. And at the same time, the limits of single chip processors have continued to expand year after year.

Both of these things remain true. Relative performance improvements have slowed significantly from where they were 20-30 years ago, but things are still ticking along.
I did see those a while ago! They sadly weren't out when I got the original TB3 dock from them when that first came out, so no idea how well they work, but seems like they might help. IIRC the dock itself tended to generate a fair bit of heat, so I wonder how well that adhesive really holds up. It'd be great if this was just built into the dock, maybe removable in some way if one wanted to use a TB3 cable that didn't fit.
>>The Wikipedia entry for the NLRA specifically points out how it's meant to support contract liberty.

I think you're confusing the freedom of the majority to repress the rights of the minority, with "contract freedom", i.e. the right to free assocation.
>Whether you were right or wrong would be both absolute and predetermined. And so pointless to argue about.

Doesn't matter. The arguing would happen (or not happen) anyway, because it, too, would be absolute and predetermined.

When people talk about predetermination and lack of free will, they always pause at some point, and talk as if you can have those together with some meta-discussion about them, or an handling (or at least appreciation) of them that's not affected by that predetermination and lack of free will.

I don't blame them for that, of course: they're predetermined to do so. I could have blamed them, of course, but I'm predetermined not to.
And a minor adjustment to your minor adjustment, a defence against those that lead with metrics (see for example Management by Objectives): explore what makes it important and meaningful before defining measures of success.

A handy mnemonic: Meaning before metric, measure before method (2MBM)
Video: What is Free Software (Open Source)? Explained in under 3 minutes
It seems rather large for the smallest printer...

I'm imagining a micro printer/scanner where to scan a document you pass it through the same route as the printer. And the printer is the width of the page and a cylinder about 3 inches diameter containing the toner, electronics, developer, fuser, and feed rollers. If there's a little spare room, put in a lithium battery good for printing 50 pages or so while out and about.
Ask HN: Looking for article comparing human brain with neural nets
I've read this article on a blog like 5 years ago. It was written by a neuroscientist, it was super long and the conclusion was that computer scientist radically understimate the complexity of human brain.

No matter what query I try I can't find it. Hoping someone here read it too. Thanks!
Sir he is a Googler show some respect.

Imagine actually referring to yourself as a Googler.
No not evil. My observation is that people are pragmatic (hence, machiavelli and the arguments of moral ethics).

My observation is that why should we expect highly paid tech workers to conform to some higher ideal. They have more to lose.
Sweep raises $73M Series B, led by Coatue
With that pricing, the black market is sure to stick around.
Number Sense Tricks [pdf]
Because whatever you do, you'd have done anyway.

Same for whatever you feel.

If there's a deterministic universe, it includes your thoughts and feelings, not just "what happens" at large.
What it’s like to get custom earbuds made
V8 already does this.

When you write your code in a way that is akin to what you would do in a static environment, V8 emits additional type checks, if these pass, then it will run your code through a optimized version of the code that makes certain assumptions about the data types in use. If these type checks fail, then V8 will deoptimize the function/code.

Deoptimization needs to happen because the assumptions made about the execution of the code was wrong and the optimized code cannot handle this special edge case. V8 will then revert to less optimal code for the specific case but this code is more general and can handle the special case that occurred.

V8 can and will toggle between optimized and unoptimized versions of your code now and then but it has limits. If it cannot settle on a version of your function that is optimized it will stop trying to optimize the code because the cost of doing so is significant.

When you write your JavaScript as if it was more statically typed than it actually is, you do enjoy optimization benefits from V8.
It's pretty much a media thing here, too. I've never heard anyone use it in normal conversation.
I won't define catastrophe, but :

> I do expect our emissions to get almost halved during this decade

That's really good news ! I mean it's so far away from what I know that I sure have missed something. Could you give a few pointers that illustrate your expectation ? (honest question)
> Doesn't matter. The arguing would happen (or not happen) anyway, because it, too, would be absolute and predetermined.

Of course! And this would make it a pointless and futile debate then. You might even be right, but you should not win a debate with "it's inevitable and predetermined".
The only thing that grows without limits in nature is a malign tumor and that usually kills the host.

Yet for some reason regarding business and economy unlimited growth is the holy grail.

Regarding the topic: Sure, do it... I'll gladly move on to some other service. I may be one of the few people actually doing this, but worry not, I don't care for what others do with regards to my decisions.

Apart from that there is more and more content on Netflix I am not even slightly interested, all that reality show bullshit that creeps in... brrrr
> Would you be willing to bet your entire life savings its true? Most people would say no

A person's life savings is not comparable to the funds raised by an LLC. An LLC going bankrupt is not the same as a person going bankrupt.
I got a few Anker keyboards years back and they were the worst ones I've ever used. They failed for no reason after a few months.

At that time, comments saying Anker was the best peripheral maker flooded the internet and made me feel like I was crazy.
I have to disagree that ehite collar folks at FAANG have more to loose. Blue Collar flks are employed at low salaries in economically weak regions, they loosr their job they risk loosing everything. Especially in the US with a non-existant social safety net. White Collar, especially tech employees, have the option to work for similar salaries somewhere else rather easily.

Other than that, full agreement.
Ask HN: What is the “digital size” of your life, and what goes in?
After a professional career of 25+ yrs in IT (and some more in other engineering fields, prior to that), I decided to move onto a sabbatical / maybe RE stage (part of the FIRE). I am looking now at approx 9-10TB of data I gathered (cleaned irrelevant stuff in time, and probably will clean more, while other parts have been compressed, where such offered an evident benefit of space saving) - duplicated onto 2 x 12TB encrypted disks - for what I could consider my "digital" life. Major categories:

- personal (including family) info

- career info

- pictures (a third copy in the cloud, but planning to remove it, eventually)

- personal and professional notes I created in my time, for all of the above

- some software I wrote in time (just the code, in large part)

- professional documentation of all sorts (mainly fundamentals associated to CS and derivatives, math, physics, misc engineering, as well as specific technologies)

- ebooks + movies + series of critical significance to me

- documented trips around the world

- misc not fitting in any of the categories above

Based on the new direction my life will take, the emphasis in digital imprint growth, from this point on, for the reminder of life, could be safely extrapolated from the existing data on pictures, ebooks and trips, and will probably amount to no more than 2TB. All this being said, I assume I could say that my "digital life" will be eventually represented by aprox. 12TB of stored info.

What is the estimate of the "digital size" of your life, and what goes in yours?
The "every wifi gadget out there is only 2.4GHz" is really annoying. I understand that it's probably because 2.4GHz chips are extremely cheap but we will forced to keep those slow and overcrowded networks for 15 extra years at very least.
I uninstalled the Android app. One less piece of polluting garbage.
It seems like the path of least resistance here is “only use school equipment to access school accounts”, create the kid a non-school Google account, and only use non-school accounts (his and others) on the private Chromebook.

I find it annoying but acceptable that my work account doesn’t function on my non-work computer.
I think you have to strike a balance sometimes, maybe bank on your eventual success and put a few % more in upfront to ease the path later. Using something you already know well is good, given you'll be more productive in it to start with and better understand how it's going to impact you in the future.
> There isn't anything for it to compete with.

That's exactly the problem - instead of trying to produce new theories, people keep researching string theory, in massive numbers (relatively to the size of the field of theoretical foundations of physics, of course).

Also, there are a few other interesting avenues to explore - coming up with a relativistic version of de Broglie-Bohm pilot wave mechanics (or as close as possible to get, given Bell's inequalities), for example.
You got me, rosetta, not rosetta stone.
Same here, cannonballs are small.
Reading the context receiver change, did Kotlin just casually implement an effects system in a minor version release??
This is Hannah Arendt's thesis behind "the banality of evil"[1]:

> Arendt found Eichmann an ordinary, rather bland, bureaucrat, who in her words, was ‘neither perverted nor sadistic’, but ‘terrifyingly normal’. He acted without any motive other than to diligently advance his career. Eichmann was not an amoral monster, she concluded in her study of the case. Instead, he performed evil deeds without evil intentions, a fact connected to his ‘thoughtlessness’, a disengagement from the reality of his evil acts. Eichmann ‘never realised what he was doing’ due to an ‘inability… to think from the standpoint of somebody else’. Lacking this particular cognitive ability, he ‘commit[ted] crimes under circumstances that made it well-nigh impossible for him to know or to feel that he [was] doing wrong’.

> Arendt dubbed these collective characteristics of Eichmann ‘the banality of evil’: he was not inherently evil, but merely shallow and clueless, a ‘joiner’, in the words of one contemporary interpreter of Arendt’s thesis: he was a man who drifted, in search of purpose and direction, not out of deep ideological belief.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/story/what-did-hannah-arendt-real...
Climate change is real for me. Heat wave + asthma are sometimes really tough to endure; big winds and more frequent floods (and more extreme) have destroyed the budget of the some parts of the state I live in for a very long time: it means no more budget for other things such as helping those who need it, maintaining infrastructures for schools, sports, etc.

Sure, it's not your Hollywood catastrophe, but the burden will become heavier on all of us. And if the rich (which I'm part of, sort of) can get out of it, they'll have to live with more social unrest...
MaidSafe's 16 Year Journey to Decentralize the Entire Internet
Stop giving them money ostensibly by not using sites on their platforms, get your friends to do the same. Greed must be fed otherwise it is just idle hunger.
Well yeah, what’s it supposed to do rebuild all that infrastructure and institutional knowledge?
Mine is the smallest one and I love it.
> CYPHER

*twitch*

Turns out that's not misspelled. Well. It is and it isn't. The misspelling is codified in the spec.

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/security/nss...:

ER3(SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP, SSL_ERROR_BASE + 2,
"Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s).")
Not the OP but: IME, in EU, being tough, not vocal, and being threatening legal actions with serious bases works very well, most institutions know they have skeletons in their wardrobe and they do not like to face someone who is not crying but very decided to hit with all legal means, especially if there are also ideological motivations.

Spyware is a very well generally understood terms: someone breach someone else privacy deliberately, witch means complaint, court and uncertain results for those who decide to spy. Surveillance capitalism is ignored by most, but known as evil so once someone talk about that pointing out the finger to a school, not a hyper-giant player, people arise likely. They imaging in their mind a naked child spied via the webcam etc in an instant. While they do normally not understand nothing about ownership and consent on "digital stuff".

Oh, BTW what "realistically happen" have exactly zero meaning: the possibility of doing so on not managed computers means a built-in RCE so big that such products must not be on the market. Remote control of desktops must be deployed on purpose not came pre-installed from factories because anyone can use a pre-installed system in place. If that's true at least in EU, there is room for legal action against the OEM, not only the school.
hahaha.. i thought about doing that percentage thing but decided it would be a dick move before i actually did it.

now i just ignore the text for a day or so until I've made my decision and stick with it
It's also a fairly common term in Denmark ("digital indfødt").
>Why not take the revenue they have and provide a good, sustainable service for that income? Why does it always have to be growth or bust?

Shareholder Value.
I'm running a CalDigit Connect 10G on a relatively high-end NUC and it's great for a quick little Plex box that also sits on my 10G network segment next to a TrueNAS box doing 2x10G on DAC cables with LACP on a Chelsio T6225-CR.

I had bad luck with the QNAP QNA-T310G1S and Sonnet Solo 10G SFP+ (surprising as their stuff is usually rock-solid) -- both based on the AQC100S chipset and the aQuantia AQtion driver just didn't work for me under LTS Ubuntu.
Personal JSON search and channel retrieval
yy059 reformats and prints JSON
yy045 removes chunked transfer encoding

stunnel -fd 0 << eof
debug=debug
pid=/tmp/1.pid
foreground=no

[ youtube ]
accept=127.0.0.127:80
client=yes
connect=74.125.21.91:443
options=NO_TICKET
options=NO_RENEGOTIATION
renegotiation=no
sni=
sslVersion=TLSv1.3

eof

For searching YouTube:

#!/bin/sh

# usage: 1.sh query > 1.yts
# usage: yy059 < 1.yts|1.sh >> 1.yts

_x2_(){ local x=$(printf '\r\n');sed "s/ *//;s/$/$x/";};
case $# in :)
;;0) # CONTINUATION_REQUEST
KEY=AIzaSyAO_FJ2SlqU8Q4STEHLGCilw_Y9_11qcW8;
MIN=\{\"context\":{\"client\":{\"hl\":\"en-US\",\"gl\":\"US\",\"clientName\":\"MWEB\",\"clientVersion\":\"2.20210916.06.01\"}},\"continuation\":;
TOKEN=$(yy059|sed -n "s/$/}/;s/\"token\":/$MIN/p"|tail -1);
test "$TOKEN"||exec echo done;

_x2_ <<eof|nc -vvn 127.127 80|yy045
POST /youtubei/v1/search?key=$KEY HTTP/1.1
Host: www.youtube.com
Content-Length: ${#TOKEN}
Content-Type: application/json
Connection: close

$TOKEN

eof

;;*) # REQUEST
S=$(echo "$@"|sed 's/ /+/g');
_x2_ <<eof|nc -vvn 127.127 80|yy045
GET /results?search_query=$S HTTP/1.1
Host: www.youtube.com
Connection: close

eof

esac;

For retrieving YouTube channels, a similar script:

#!/bin/sh

# usage: 1.sh /c/name or 1.sh /channel/ID > 1.ytc
# usage: yy059 < 1.ytc|1.sh >> 1.ytc

_x2_(){ local x=$(printf '\r\n');sed "s/ *//;s/$/$x/";};
case $# in :)
;;0) # CONTINUATION
KEY=AIzaSyAO_FJ2SlqU8Q4STEHLGCilw_Y9_11qcW8;
MIN=\{\"context\":{\"client\":{\"hl\":\"en-US\",\"gl\":\"US\",\"clientName\":\"MWEB\",\"clientVersion\":\"2.20210916.06.01\"}},\"continuation\":;
TOKEN=$(yy059|sed -n "s/$/}/;s/\"token\":/$MIN/p"|sed -n \$p);
test "$TOKEN"||exec echo no more videos;

_x2_ <<eof|nc -vvn 127.127 80|yy045
POST /youtubei/v1/browse?key=$KEY HTTP/1.1
Host: www.youtube.com
Content-Length: ${#TOKEN}
Content-Type: application/json
Connection: close

$TOKEN

eof

;;*) # INITIAL
_x2_ <<eof|nc -vvn 127.127 80|yy045
GET $1/videos HTTP/1.1
Host: www.youtube.com
Connection: close

eof

esac;

Next up:

A JSON formatter to print the results as a table
This is the real life hack, no more dongles nor docking stations, but all of the benefits of just having to plug in 1 cable.

This route doesn't have to be expensive either, my 1440p, 27 inch Philips docking monitor cost $270, basically the price of mediocre level docking station.
Did I read an Article here, or see a News report on television, which stated;

that the Russians were using posted video to assist in Geo-locating targets for their Artillery
I'm a nobody but I'll tell you a small experience I had with Pyramid (/ Pylons) - it didn't do too much for you in terms of admin UIs and things like Django etc but one thing it did really well is make a lot of its decisions easy to override. It uses the much-maligned Zope Component Architecture, but in practice it meant most parts of it could be switched out when you needed different functionality.

(random mixing of past and present tense because it's still around and presumably still good but I don't use it)
Do you tip the illegal drug dealers as well? It's odd - I don't tip the pharmacist.
RISR – Rust 1.0 was that language. It was already a significant reduction over some other languages: having no GC makes the language simpler implementation-wise than 95% of modern languages. Memory safety is then brought back in by ownership and lifetimes, but those _restrict_ what you can do, not the other way. In a way, Rust 1.0 felt like a minimal design that achieved the goals: great performance and low-level control with memory safety without GC.

(Okay, there were some stuff around traits and type inference that were not _strictly_ necessary, I guess.)

However, it was _not_ nice to use. Even with current Rust, which is a whole lot more ergonomic, there are many places that feel unnecessarily restrictive. Patterns that feel like they should work, yet they don't.

Do you have any better idea how to make this stuff better without extending the language? Or maybe "worse is better", in which case Rust is not for you?

Maybe you are looking after Zig? https://ziglang.org/
I guess we are over "peak printing" already. Every open hardware printer design would be one or two decades too late.
> Gladwell’s Big Idea in The Bomber Mafia is that in the 1930s and 40s there was a deeply moral initiative by a small group of pilots at the Army Air Corp’s Tactical School in Montgomery, Alabama called the Bomber Mafia. Their secret plan was to “make all that deadly, wasteful, pointless conflict on the ground obsolete” by strategically bombing key pieces of enemy infrastructure, forcing them to surrender.

In case you want a highlight.
They’re beyond non-standard, they’re explicitely against standard: A-A cables are actively hazardous, because the A side is the one which provides power, and USB hosts usually don’t expect to get powered through the cable (though I hope and expect over time they added protections for that as USB got misused).

B-B cable (whether full, mini, or micro) is at least innocuous and inert.
The name is apt then, since its nowhere :)
I think it’s a little unfair to call it greed because of how the world operates. Dumped down a little the path for a successful company in the west is to have founders create a small company with a great culture that cultivates growth through a great product. Eventually bigger capital notices the rapid growth and invests, typically letting current and coming employees buy options at the same rate they do because they want to keep the culture until the IPO. Eventually the company has grown enough that it is now a large or even enterprise company while skipping all the steps in between because of the rapid growth, and with all the challenges that come with the that, and then the IPO launches. Talented capital will launch lower than they could, so that they can IPO at 100 and then truly sell out at 400-500 (made up numbers to give you the idea) a couple of years later where the company becomes a truly public company.

During those years the founders and much of the talent are very likely to leave the company. Partly because working for an enterprise wasn’t what they signed up for, but mainly because the rapid growth has likely stagnated, which means that you can get so much more out of your time building something new.

Your time is limited and how you get to spend it is directly tied to your wealth. Why would you waste either on something that doesn’t grow when you could be growing your wealth 40% a month on something else?

Maybe it’s greed, but it’s also how you play our system.

The only weird part about it all is why we aren’t teaching children financial impact and how to maximise it in schools. I mean, I had no idea how rigged the world is until we had our first million (in Danish KR, so around $150k). Simply being able of putting down 30% on the loan for our house ourselves means that we have around 10k DKK ($1500) more to ourselves, every month, compared our friends who are similar places in life minus the start capital and thus are paying those $1500 directly into the banks pockets.