skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At a hardware level, grabbing the microphone can take time. Even worse that timing is inconsistent across devices, workloads, etc. That leads to a bad experience when unmuting and needing to delay your commentary. The solution to this is to keep the microphone on, but mute at a software level. This way the mic is always hot and ready to relay audio as fast as the software can switch.

Another solution is to mute at the microphone, if your hardware has a button for that. This way the application can do whatever it wants, it will still get nothing. Using the hardware button is often less effort, than switching windows, finding that unmute button visually and moving the mouse to that button to click it. Or one could use push to talk. Since there are ways to mute yourself without having to do it in the app, it would be acceptable, if unmuting took a part of a second to be effective, indicating that by some "unmuting ..." label somewhere.
The solution that satisfies everyone is having a separate schema per customer and a number of database clusters. Then each customer is assigned to a particular cluster. Always make sure you have excess capacity on your pool of clusters and onboarding is still instant.
How far down the "flew 8,000 miles to get there, climbed over the barbed wire fence, licked both his thumbs, and pressed them against the shiny parts labeled 'DANGER! 25,000 VOLTS!'..." rabbit-hole-of-stupid should one have to go, before it's 100% okay for me to stop caring whether or not his sentence was just?
+1, plus the negative effects bitcoin mining are having on the environment as well as the chip shortage.
McKinsey Opened Door in Its Firewall Between Pharma Clients and Regulators
Trading bottled energy? What? That is a totally dishonest characterization, the energy is not "bottled" it it's burned and never again recoverable.
I'm not an expert on this by any means, but I would think that mechanisms exist that allows for the evolution of the technology to protect itself. The key for me is that we strive for a financial foundation that no-one can debase.

I view Bitcoin as an agreement and an understanding of a unit of value that we can all rely on.
>Maybe in 60s cars with 4 wheel drums.

60s 4wd truck or SUV will probably fit the bill. Nice deep 1st gear, ~2:1 low range, and available with manual brakes on the lower trim levels. In the lowest gear it can probably just idle over the force of a small women or scrawny teen pushing the pedal.
Not going to lie, before I visited the site, I was hoping it was a hot take article about why Ruby on Rails now suck and people should stop using it and migrate off of it. I was ready for the comment section.
> to host nuclear ICBMs on their territory so they could more easily target Americans.

... After the United States invaded it!

It's weird that you forget to mention the Bay of Pigs in this history lesson. It's not like Cuba randomly and unilaterally decided to host ICBMs...
Tory party infighting. No other reason.

If it were actually a question of scandal, there are much larger ones that could be receiving media attention, like the enormous quantities of money embezzled from the government (read: taxpayer) under cover of the pandemic, or the deep connections between Tory party / Brexit campaign funding and very dirty Russian money. But those would reflect badly on the entire party in power, not just Boris. So we don't hear about those.

This is a nice, neat, Boris-only scandal. Perfect fodder for the periodic ritual cleansing of sins.
We should end sanctions on Cuba and Iran, and maintain them on North Korea. Consistency is not one of the premises of sanctions.
"is there anything there that is fundamentally unchangeable no matter the chemistry that could be called a "self""

The Buddhists don't think so. One of their fundamental tenets is "anicca" or "impermanence", which is often interpreted to mean that nothing is unchangeable or everlasting.

Many materialists/naturalists/physicalists don't believe there's an unchanging self either.

But those who believe in a soul, in resurrection, or in reincarnation might.

It's not a settled question, and a lot depends on what you mean by "self".
Exactly, this will always be the first batch of moon dust as long as the chain of providence can be proved.
That link should be to https://haveibeenpwned.com/ . Notice the extra "e" before the last "d".
Indeed! BFGS (and derivatives) approximate the inverse but they have other issues that make them prohibitively expensive.
Not for braking past a specific point, it's just regular hydraulics once you get out of the range for regenerative braking.
Research Request: Self-Reproducing Systems
In order to colonize Mars it seems that a system that could (a) reproduce itself a few times and then (b) seek and collect needed raw materials for those systems which would repeat the cycle. The result is exponential growth. SpaceX and Axiom may get us to Mars but they can't terraform (mars-aform?) a planet with material only shipped from Earth.

I've been doing research in self-reproducing systems for a while now. In particular, I've been working with a robot and a 3D printer. This raises many thought experiments, such as how to create a servo motor. The point of the research is to highlight "interesting issues" and uncover interesting facts. For example, a Bridgeport is the only machine that can make all of its own parts (so far).

Many interesting ideas arise. For example, certain plants can extract useful elements. To quote (The PDF is behind a Springer paywall and I don't have access...)

"On an uranium-mining-influenced area, sunflowers (Helianthus annuus) were grown on a small-scaled plot. Subsamples of sunflowers were harvested 34, 66, 96, 108, 140, and 170 days after sowing. Contents of Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb, Th, U, Zn, and rare earth elements (REEs, La–Lu) were determined in the sunflower shoots, as well as total and bioavailable contents of these 25 elements in the soil taken on the day of sowing and after the last harvest."

Another interesting idea is to eliminate screws and screwdrivers by using Japanese joinery techniques on 3D printed parts.

If you know of published materials on self-reproducing systems, particularly in hardware, please post a link. Creative ideas are welcome.
Indeed. +1 to this. The most talented among us could be building a better world, yet they are wasting time in rent seeking schemes.
I'd really like to hear how you think that would physically take place.
At that point you might as well just do separate schemas, it's actually less headache.
> By this very rough estimate, doing everything in this guide would be a gain equivalent to (not of!) ~2 IQ points. I didn’t include embryo selection in the estimate, because that lowers risk of many serious diseases by a lot, and this is both hard to translate into IQ points - and, if translated into IQ points, would probably overwhelm everything else on here, making everything else look kind of irrelevant.

If I understood correctly, doing things will avoid some outcomes that would make you loose IQ points. And that's 2 on average, i.e., if the risk ends up happening to your child, having toxo will have a greater impact than just 2 IQ points
I believe a proper summarizing might be closer to "people need therapy AND drugs"

The strongest results across the board are a combination of therapy and medication.

My personal opinion is to vouch for therapy the most, and push hard against the pill narrative.

But I think it adds to the shame of pills to not acknowledge the potential role many people have for pills.

Now disregarding the "ssris are more effective combined with therapy" i also want to point out that most of the psychedelic studies are also combining therapy. My personal conjecture and perhaps some other peoples would be that drugs can help enable the conditions in which talk therapy is more effective.

The classic example is the mdma ptsd therapy trials. Therapists can't apply cognitive therapy techniques if someone's fight or flight kicks in too powerfully. Drugs can help to bring the person to a state where they can get therapy.

I've also seen this with friends --> deep depression, ssris helped elevate to the point that therapy was more successful than deep depression would otherwise have allowed.
ergo, the "copies" comment, rather than "only files that exist". :) agreed, though!
From yesterday's Money Stuff (not about this incident):

"Yeah. There is a vein of crypto libertarianism that imagines that you can have money that is immune from the claims of society, but that’s only really true if the rest of your life is immune from the claims of society. If you live alone on a faraway island and have a lot of weapons then sure right maybe the authorities can’t seize your Bitcoins. (Though you also can’t use your Bitcoins to, like, order pizza delivery.) But if they can toss you in jail until you cough up your Bitcoins, then the Bitcoins aren’t doing that much for you."

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-12/will-e...
Doesn't matter. Like Clint Eastwood said, "deserve's got nothing to with it".
Yeah, but I can get an HDCP-compliant HDMI capture card for 8$ on Aliexpress, so I really don't care and it really doesn't work. You can also buy splitters that happen to disable HDCP.
I think they’re envisioning a no-moving-parts kind of system, which makes dealing with difficult environments easier.
I'm curious why that is evidence against the cosmic ray explanation.

Couldn't it have something to do with the physical layout of memory? Perhaps those page-boundary-adjacent addresses present a larger physical target, perhaps on the bus.

Of course I am wildly speculating right now. I'd love to see the article if you have a link!
The actual study appears to be here: https://wiscprivacy.com/publication/vca_mute/

The findings are largely reassuring, to be honest:

> 1. Continuously sampling audio from the microphone: apps stream data from the microphone in the same way as they would if they were not muted. Webex is the only VCA that continuously samples the microphone while the user is muted. In this mode, the microphone status indicator from an operating system remains continuously illuminated.

> 2. Audio data stream is accessible but not accessed: apps have permissions to sample the microphone and read data; but instead of reading raw bytes they only check the microphone’s status flags: silent, data discontinuity, and timestamp error. We assume that the VCAs, like Zoom, are primarily interested in the silent flag to tell if a user is talking while the software mute is active. In this mode, apps do not read a continuous real-time stream of data in the same way as they would while unmuted. Most Windows and macOS native apps can check if a users is talking even while muted but do not continuously sample audio in the same way as they would while unmuted. In this mode, the microphone status indicator in Windows and macOS remains continuously illuminated, reporting that the app has access to the microphone. We found that applications in this state do not show any evidence of raw audio data being accessed through the API.

> 3. Software mute: apps instruct the microphone driver to completely cut off microphone data. All of the web-based apps we studied used the browser’s software mute feature. In this mode, the microphone status indicator in the browser goes away when the app is muted, indicating that the app is not accessing the microphone.

> The notable exceptions to these trends are the Microsoft VCAs (Teams and Skype) and Cisco Webex. Microsoft VCAs are much more difficult to trace because they do not use the standard Windows userland API. Instead, they directly make calls to the operating system. Since the Windows syscall interface is undocumented, we could not determine how Teams and Skype use microphone data when muted. More interestingly, we observe that Cisco Webex — unlike the rest of the Windows native VCAs — continuously accesses the microphone while muted.

I still unplug my desktop's external camera and microphone when not in use (9" outty-inny cables plugged into my monitor so those ports are accessible), and use hardware buttons (that may really be implemented in software, unfortunately) to mute during calls, and can just flick the camera to point at the ceiling. Will be more of a concern when I'm back to laptop living.
Because a video conferencing app with a bad UX is going to be quickly supplanted with one with a better UX; the privacy concerns of being spied on by a video conferencing app while you are muted is very minute for most people.

There should be a line between "companies doing whatever they want" because of some implied "nefarious" reasons, and "companies doing whatever they want" because their customers want a better experience even if it has security/privacy implications.
Not a mouse, but one and only one of my monitors at work will emit a high pitched whine when certain excel spreadsheets are open, but only when the window is sized to about 75% or more of the screen space.
TIL: Articles on the internet can be misleading or outright wrong ;)
Wow this is fun!
Agree. I opened Ferdi this morning and it just flat out refused to function without the cloud services.
> it's not that the husband expects his wife to do all the chores, it's that he doesn't actually believe the chores need to be done.

This doesn't get said enough. It also not just wife vs husband - we all have different standards and it's a lesson that needs to be learned that usually someone isn't being malicious it's just not easy to force yourself to notice something if it's fine by your standards but not by your partner's.
You use "npm install" to place modules in node_modules, and "npm update" to conveniently update them. But you have to either 1) trust the maintainers of the modules or 2) review the code changes.
It is BS, but when I tried that, I had other things not working, like sharing my screen. So it is BS, but not merely for looking at the user agent of the browser, but for the software development incapability or unwillingness on the side of MS. (Edit: While basically every other voice chat / video chat web app works fine on FF, so basically everyone but MS and Slack has solved this problem years ago. Go figure.)
it's a vow before god not an eula people
Would this situation have been solved if both partners were working ?
They don't, you're responding to speculation which is just outright wrong. Jira and Confluence is single tenanted databases, unless something fundamental has changed at Atlassian in the past 4 years.

Source: worked at Atlassian, on Jira, 4 years ago.
They limit trade with NK, unfortunately that probably does contribute to impoverishing the people, alongside NK's own practices doing so, but as I understand it the point of sanctions is to stop material aid (trade, gifts, tech sharing etc) that would be used to empower the NK, which includes their military and nuclear capabilities. I don't know if the US itself allows food or medical aid to be sent, but I do know that NK receive a lot of food aid.

Honestly I don't know how to feel about sanctions more generally, whether they help or harm the citizenry - but I'm not convinced that enabling the NK government to transact with crypto would lead to improvements in the regular people's lives, compared with them having greater access to military equipment.
Any suggestions on whether to choose 5 year or 9 year + 8 months? Those are apparently the two options.
This sounds like the overfunctioning & underfunctioning relationship pattern. It's not fun to be on either side.
Yes, be careful. You were lucky. Also, bloated apps lie to you and UIs are buggy, what you see in the UI may not be the case.

I now disabled screensharing in MacOS privacy settings for all apps unless I am explicitly sharing.
If your VC software decides to perform signal processing on the microphone input while it is running but you are muted then yes, it can determine things about your behavior.

But that's true for literally all applications running on your computer. Evil software running on your machine can do all sorts of bad things.
Microsoft has Azure Devops Boards that is similar: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/boards/
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/09/24/among-u-s-c...

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/01/25/for-america...

https://news.gallup.com/poll/283979/women-handle-main-househ...

Anecdotally, I have a fairly progressive friend circle and I still think, between talking to different halves of a given hetero couple, it seems like the man tends to exaggerate how much he does around the house, how much childcare he does, how self-motivated he is to do so, etc. When asked, these men will enthusiastically agree that the split should be even when both partners are working, but walking the walk is understandably tougher. These patterns don't disappear within a generation, unfortunately. If I only spoke to the men, I'd have the same impression you do.
"the research and therapy environment is extremely different than DIY"

True, but that doesn't mean that the DIY environment couldn't be brought closer to the therapeutic one.

I strongly recommend James Fadiman's Psychedelic Explorer's Guide[1]. It has lots of great advice on how to use psychedelics therapeutically.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Psychedelic-Explorers-Guide-Therapeut...
If you can reproduce that reliably you should open a bug for it, eh? I'm sure John Kerl would want to know.
Adds inconvenience though when a kid just wants a pb&j right this moment. But yes, freezing is the way.
Never understand why people use “command runners” instead of just shell scripts.
It sounds like we basically agree. I just find it a timely discussion with respect to Ukraine and the fact that the US positions nuclear assets all over the world.
> Why not read the linked paper,

You answered your own question. The answer is in page 12, which means there is too much information. He is not interested in the whole topic, just about this question. So he asks, maybe someone is charitable enough to answer. Nothing wrong with it.
They can look at the ledger, and show up to your house, take ownership of your house and put you in jail.
It's too hot for a fission reactor. Probably for fusion too, but that's not clear.

I got the impression they would heat the graphite with concentrated solar power.
Could be wrong but I think Deepmind sees more value in elite AI/ML talent that Alphafold will draw and help retain than future potential profits on drug discovery. Open sourcing Alphafold and removing commercial restrictions wouldn't make much sense if drug profits were their goal.
> [REDACTED UNIT OF CRYPTOCURRENCY]

???
Sure for smaller proof of work coins, and maybe today. It would require a massive amount of money, energy, coordination, and time - and it's getting harder to do as the total hashpower grows every day.
You don't toast it _all the way_. Heat it up a modest amount, just enough for the ice crystals to melt, and it will spring to life as if it were a practically fresh slice of bread (until it is freezer burnt, at which point it will be a little bad).

The method I was taught was to wrap the slice of bread in a paper towel and microwave for 5-10 seconds.
Of course, but Carlsen - Nakamura is 14 - 1, and 26 draws*. That's a huge winning percentage at top level, other top GMs may have a minus score but not like that.

*: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?page=2&pid=52948&pi...
This is the case. I won't comment on your "hundreds of thousands" figure because the number of Cloud customers was a closely guarded secret at least when I worked there, but yes one DB per tenant, dozens to hundreds of DBs per server, and some complicated shuffling of tenant DBs when you run into noisy neighbours.
I've used my parallel port as a JTAG (IEEE-1149.1) interface to reflash/debug embedded targets. It's slow, but it works.

http://zoobab.com/simple-jtag
In like 25% of my meetings, somebody is accidentally muted while they are trying to speak. The popup speeds up the process of them unmuting.
> I think the libertarian perspective is that we shouldn't have protections that prevent people from making personal choices that result in harm to themselves, but only from harming others.

There are a few ways that someone bankrupting themselves via bad investments does hurt others:

Dependents will be significantly harmed

They are more likely to end up homeless or in jail on the dime of society

They are less likely to be a productive member of society.

I suppose the libertarian response would be that if someone bankrupts themselves, let them die homeless on the street - but I don't think you'll get agreement from any significant portion of society on that approach and even then someone has to pay to clean up their body.
In these cases the best thing to do is just give every customer the full month refund; don't make them ask for it.
You asked to be pointed out where you are wrong, and then you argued with the responses given.
I often see a globe symbol used to indicate external links; i.e. U+1F310, U+1F30D, U+1F30E, or U+1F30F.
Has MFM vs RLL encoding of hard disks been brought up recently? Hopefully I was able to remind you of another thing you thought you had forgotten.
And here I thought that since march of this year, we're of the general impression that countries have the right to defend themselves, and to seek external allies when bullied by a bigger neighbour...
Why did you move the goalpost? The comment you're responding to claims that there isn't a malicious purpose here. You instead claim to rebut it by saying that it's "concerning for those concerned with privacy". Can you see how those are different things?
The point of sanctions is not to help the people of NK. The point is to starve their military of resources and reduce the threat they pose to the US and our regional allies. If the people of NK are harmed in the process then that's just unfortunate collateral damage. And no one is under any illusions that sanctions alone will result in regime change or eliminate the threat entirely; sanctions are just one essential component of a broader strategy.
Amazon Adds 5% Fuel and Inflation Surcharge for Its Sellers
Germany needs those btu's. And the German authorities are invested with the authority and responsibility to make exactly that sort of decision.

Did this guy need to help NK for anything remotely like that sort of responsibility?
Polio was solved by vaccines, and sepsis was partly solved by hygiene and partly by antibiotics. Modern medicine has helped with many conditions.
Wikipedia community votes to stop accepting cryptocurrency donations
I've recommended that video to near 100 people, it's so heartfelt and insightful.
This is a huge area in India and i can imagine it's bigger in the US. Congrats on launching Mellow!

Seems like most of the site is desktop only and not mobile friendly? I couldn't place a bid or see more details on my mobile

A search function & categorisation for listings can make it v useful for a typical supplier/buyer to navigate
Ever hear of psychedelic integration therapy?

There's a whole class of therapists who won't dose people on psychedelics because they feel the risks are too high (legally+medically) but will gladly take in people like you to help integrate the experience and helping with coming to some closure and insights.

Might be worth a session or two. Also sounds like you took a really freakin high dose... Yeah acid has its own agenda and lasts waaaaaaaaaaaay too long, there's a reason a lot of the recent research is on psychedelics that don't blow you away for up to 12 hours straight.

Can you believe some of us do that for FUN? Maybe it helps to be spiritually seeking to begin with. I think learning your lesson with these tools is kind of like getting in a fight. You might get your ass kicked but some of us throw hands professionally with a shit eating grin on our faces the whole time.
I Am a Mad Analogue Scientist: Experiments with 35 Mm Films and Chemicals
similar empty promises were made in dot com era. Does it mean dot com period of 1995-2001 was wasted and meaningless?
I would make a "Show HN" post