skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We all prefer the concept of free will, but the science is consistent: we tend to grow neurons to like the taste of things that increase dopaminergic neurotransmission in the frontal cortex, even if our first taste experience of them is downright awful.

Many things affect that, though. Someone in a constant state of anxiety and stress is running on adrenergic circuits instead of dopaminergic, and thus will probably like the taste of poppy seeds, because the minuscule amounts of opiate alkaloids will make an ever so slight dent on that adrenergic activity and allow dopaminergic activity to dominate.

It’s a similar story for coffee, but there is a lot of variability both in coffee and drinker. Someone with a high activity MAO-A gene variant will clear dopamine and other neurotransmitters from the brain more quickly. Darker roasts contain more MAO-A inhibitors, and so they are more commonly preferred by people with such gene variants.

Same goes for MAO-B; inhibitors for it are more likely to be found in lighter roasts with floral overtones.
Yeah, this is probably the reason and the author even elaborates on this in the sentences following the bit quoted by cldellow:

> Even though the data says hstore, knowing that posts will be seen by more and more people over time, I might choose the HLL solution for an actual implementation. It's far less likely to pose a bloated row problem, [...]
For a filled circle, yeah, it's not that bad -- flood fill is there and it doesn't take long to learn the keystrokes. But what do you mean "paint outline with paint tool of choice?" Like, I'm supposed to carefully draw in the outline with a pencil or something? Get the hell out. I just wanted to draw red circles around about a dozen problematic spots in an image. Your "two steps" omit the "stroke" step, no hotkey, annoying dialog, which turns it into about 10 clicks&keypresses. In any non-suck drawing program, you click the ellipse tool, click&drag to make an ellipse, and that's it -- if you want to make many ellipses, just keep clicking&dragging -- an actual two-step process that doesn't require navigating menus.

Lay off the cool-aid, this shouldn't be a plugin, it should be a default feature.
It seems that on the last screengrab [0] it may have been that the payment system is loaded in an iframe right in the white overlay and that your ad/script blocker stopped that. But overall, that's one terrible experience and just false advertising if you ask me?

[0] https://new.pythonforengineers.com/content/images/size/w1000...
From a quick machine translation, the documents basically say that NFTs (as crypto) are high risk transactions often associated with criminal enterprises, and untraceable money flows.

They think instead of being legit art sales, the NFT sales where part of a complex scheme through which he was laundering money. (Likely this scheme amounts to selling the art to himself. It is not especially difficult to have your various criminal wallets buy NFTs from yourself, making it look like legit purchases. Alternatively he and a ring of criminal associates could be buying nfts from each other with their dirty funds.)

The documents provide basically no indication of them having any evidence of this beyond "large amounts of money" moved via crypto. The documents even make it sound like that is their only evidence. But the documents claim that because they have reasonable suspicion that the money came from crimes, they can seize it.

The documents make it sound like money laundering is technically only illegal if the original source of the money is illegal, but make no effort to establish that the pre-laundered funds are criminal, and point out that the law does not require them to identify the crime from which the funds were originally obtained.

The assertion in the arrest documents seems to be basically that making a lot of money by selling NFTs is in itself sufficient cause to believe that money laundering of illegal funds was occurring, which provides sufficient justification for seizing the funds.
> One of the reasons: ideology.

No, it was more about bureaucracy. Why an existing organization might want a computer? There were no reasons for managers to want it. They didn't need to run to keep their jobs, they just had jobs. While they managed to do a "plan" they were successful managers. If they did 2% more they were super successful. If they did 50% more they interfered with the central planning and provoked a crisis of overproduction.

To work better then others is a bad idea. You work better, more productive, then next time you'll be forced to keep this productivity, and all around you also will be. And it doesn't mean a pay rise. Just more work. Blue collars figured it pretty easily. In some placed they would use their fists to explain you, that you must not work harder than others. So I'm sure did managers, though probably without using an educational physical punishment, they had other ways. There was no stimulus to do better.

And there is one more thing. If in USSR some organization got a computer, than it would be locked, and you'd need to ask to use it. In writing. And three copies of that. Because you can accidentally break this expensive machine, and your manager doesn't want to be kept responsible for it. It is easier for him to keep it locked. Moreover, it was not your immediate superior who would do it, it would be director of an organization. So you need to hop over several layers of management to get an access to a new shiny tech. And most of these layers are not interested in your bright ideas and they do not like to be hopped over. You need to do what you told to do, and everything else is not your business. Of course central planning with a one big bureaucracy for the whole country means that you might try to hop over the director of your organization, to write a letter to some really high-level bureaucrat, but it was risky, he might just relay your letter to your director, let him to deal with it.

It is not ideology, it is a management problem. Ideology mostly didn't work at '80. It was to keep people happy, but not to make management decisions. The system was built and it replaced ideology. It is like Terry Pratchett's "Small Gods" where omnian church replaced Om and didn't need him. Belief in Om was compulsory, but it was really a decorated belief in the church. Pratchett did a great work of describing this kind of situations.
Sixel should be more universal: in particular I'm wishing that PuTTY and especially TeraTERM on Windows supported it. It would allow non-sw engineers (hence Windows) to see graphics from embedded systems that use serial ports.
Yes, the USSR and its citizens suffered a lot in WW II. Yes of course that set back USSR technological innovation.

Trying to weigh what state did more damage is not a useful metric. Recognising specific damage _is_ useful.

Here's an example of really bad stuff by the USSR government I'm intimately familiar with. Friends had their relatives deported to Siberia by the USSR. Twice. This happened during both USSR occupations of Latvia, in 1941 (before the nazis arrived) and 1949 (right after they were kicked out). Some of them died. Some people I've met now in their sixties were born in a Siberian gulag in the mid-1950's. They were not alone to suffer. A bit over 2% of Latvia's population was deported.

Does any other injustice somehow make that less wrong? No.
https://archive.ph/UyiGV
I feel like you're personally attacking me haha.

I don't really need it for getting jobs but I definitely moved on to other topics and just never kept up with the blogging.
While incredibly cool... wouldn't you have to have physically accessed and exploited the system for this type of attack?

I'm not sure what kind of practical implementation this could really have.
I think you are saying that as soon as anyone says it is performative, it is performative, even if otherwise it is self-evident.

Your logic system strongly supports bad-faith arguments.
You don't really need to pass any air over the PCB, though. Anything that needs cooling sticks up above it. Also the airflow through a case isn't perfectly parallel to the motherboard PCB anyway. GPU fans throw the air in all sorts of directions, including straight down into the motherboard. And so do CPU coolers.

Cables also don't really obstruct the airflow like at all.
Sound of the Earth – interactive ML sound experiment installation
40% of their "exports" is tourism. There was exactly 0 times when English was not enough.
Communism had the problem of the centralized agenda run by a few power-hungry humans, which isn't very communal. That was the agenda problem. As you get more people into it the communal aspect got weaker.
Seems like a lot of money for adsense to pay out- How much traffic was the site seeing?
Do you have actual evidence that doctors are refusing to prescribe? Usually they're only concerned with drug seeking in the case of controlled substances.
To be fair, it takes like 20 minutes to setup a windows boot on a MacBook with Bootcamp. Windows runs smoother and less buggy on my Mac than any PC I’ve ever owned, and even AAA games run just fine. You’ll need a fan to keep an Intel MacBook cool though… those things are practically space heaters once you try to do anything useful.
Google's free tier is awesome. They also have a generous startup credit program.
> They can re-clock their brain to think faster than humans.

i wonder who would manage the hardware the brains are running on. If one brain turns the cpu knob to 11 does it get turned back down by someone because it adversely affects the other brains? Also, i wonder how incarceration would work. You commit a crime and your brain gets its inet connection turned off? heh lots to think about, glad it's a slow day at work.
I don't think OP was attempting to make a point like that either way. They said

> The problem is that technology has always been used to oppress people.

This goes both ways.
Is the implication then that if I sell lemonade out on the street and you give me cash for one that my funds should be seized because I don't know the provenance of the cash?
The article itself is very thin, as there is nothing practical it proposes.
The obvious solution is to make cloning split the weight of the vote. People at year 0 are equal, cloning yourself (or even having kids) you split your votes and when you die your descendants inherit your share.
What does Transhumanism try to "enforce"?
There's a fun curve on this to be sure.

If I had to guess, Servers would not go any further than some sort of memory-backplane where the memory for multiple channels was integrated onto a single PCB.

Even then, IIRC hot-swapping of memory modules is a thing for some servers, so that will have to be handled somehow.
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1955/326us501

> Grace Marsh, a Jehovah's Witness, attempted to distribute religious literature on the sidewalk near a post office in Chickasaw, Alabama. The Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation owned Chickasaw, Alabama in its entirety as a company town. Marsh was convicted of criminal trespass. Appealing her conviction, Marsh argued that the state law violated the First Amendment.

[snip]

> In an opinion by Justice Hugo L. Black, the majority ruled in Marsh’s favor. The Court reasoned that a company town does not have the same rights as a private homeowner in preventing unwanted religious expression. While the town was owned by a private entity, it was open for use by the public, who are entitled to the freedoms of speech and religion. The Court employed a balancing test, weighing Chickasaw’s private property rights against Marsh’s right to free speech. The Court stressed that conflicts between property rights and constitutional rights should typically be resolved in favor of the latter.

And, because Silicon Valley is in California:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._R...

> A state can prohibit the private owner of a shopping center from using state trespass law to exclude peaceful expressive activity in the open areas of the shopping center.
> And anywhere is marginally better than nowhere.

No. Stepping over dollars to pick up pennies is stupid.
It's hostile because it removes context that can help understand the content better, and because it's typically done as an engagement trick to aid the author and their "brand".

Feel free to disagree, but I don't think I'm destroying language here.
> Any bets on when the majority of software development is automated? My estimate based on the exponential improvement rate of AI on various tests like MMLU and MATH is within 3 years.

An AI solution will always target bang for buck first. So _potentially_ web development or CRUD apps have the greatest probability to be automated.

Nevertheless there is a whole zoo under 'software development'. Bio informatics application, Fast trading software, medical ventilators, hardware debugging with software interfacing with real-world sensors, etc., etc.

Even if your scenario comes true there will be so much 'domain-specific' knowledge that you would still need some sort of 'Business/requirement analyst + Architect' to be able to steer AI agents into any meaningful product.

Maybe the future of Software is not in the writing but in the Designing for the specific domain. Which come to think of it is not that bad of a job and probably not that far off from what a Principal/Staff Engineer is doing nowadays.
How ironic the error message I get when visiting the link:

"Error establishing a database connection"
I like the way you are thinking and if you are talking about the snapshot of today, that is spot on. However, these models are getting better exponentially. See the improvement from GPT-3 just 2 years ago on this benchmark: https://paperswithcode.com/sota/multi-task-language-understa....

I hope I am wrong so that society has more time to adapt to the worker displacement and downstream policy issues.
I was going to mention SOMA as well. I was thinking about the poor tormented person that was stuck in a robot body, but had no idea it was in a robot body.
The whole thing WILL NOT WORK without javascript. The rules engine runs in the browser, which is why you get that instant feedback loop.

Admittedly keenforms isn't for EVERYONE. There are built from scratch forms that use React or Angular or Javascript that provides instant feedback. Its not impossible to forgo JS but its hard to create a better UX with the instant feedback that only javascript can provide.
I just used "nano" as a general term because I couldn't think of a better one (which does show my personal bias here more than the ecosystem's), but I was also thinking about about a lot of deployments on some sort of container optimized Alpine Linux, I forget what that was specifically called.

So far as I'm aware most of the remaining cross platform concerns in the .NET ecosystem are almost all in drawing/rendering and in cross-platform desktop UI. There's at least one MAUI fork working on a Linux renderer for MAUI UIs, but no official support like every other platform MAUI supports today (Windows, iOS, Android, Mac Catalyst). Drawing/rendering is mostly a legacy ecosystem support issue: System.Drawing API has been around a very long time and was always just a thin wrapper around Windows GDI that it had some abstraction leaks that the .NET team thought were too hard to patch and instead gave up on making System.Drawing itself cross-platform. There are multiple cross-platform replacements for System.Drawing backed by everything from Cairo to SDL to ImageMagick, but they are replacements and for the most part aren't "drop in" replacements and there's still just so many libraries (and developers) so used to System.Drawing being always available that it's still too easy in the ecosystem to stumble into a library you want to use with a hard dependency on System.Drawing.

Other than needing to watch for System.Drawing dependencies, I've got ASP.NET Core/EF web backends that build, test, run on Linux no sweat with no cross-platform issues. (Including fun things like cross-builds: a Linux CI that is also building the Windows x64 self-contained binaries for other servers. I can't think of that many cross-platform stacks where you can do that.)

I think it's still very rare to hear about cross-platform .NET not because it's uncommon (it may be much more common than anyone suspects), but just that especially to HN, .NET is still very much "dark matter". It's out there getting (boring) jobs done (in boring companies) and no one is really blogging about it or "hyping it" because no one really needs to be. That's why "newsworthy" may have touched a bit of a nerve.
Draft WHO Global Report on Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities
Boxes have symbols that show how to stack them, where the center of gravity is and a bunch of other things, if you are interested: ISO 780
One institution keeps claiming math’s highest award
full title: Call for feedback on the draft WHO Global Report on Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities

but that wouldn't fall in HN title limitations.
For the client I use a simple go -> c++ compiler I wrote and compile to wasm from that actually, on my side projects. It had zero overhead interfacing to / calls to C/C++ (including generics<->templates) since it's just generating that. Example web game made with that: https://github.com/nikki93/raylib-5k

I think I've seen wasmtime before. If I needed to interface to any C/C++ things on the server I would probably just write in C/C++ (or Gx) yeah.
Wasn't meaning to mislead. You found the exact story I was looking for. Thank you.
Only core critical logs are saved in solarwinds-papertrail, it's easy to search. Others are saved in #JuiceFS. Eat our own dog food
So in a sort of "phone can be rendered useless if stolen" kind of a way, why can't IG (etc) lock an account (perhaps with a message on the page of the username, based on an irreversible flag on a user account?) that says something like "this account cannot be transferred" with a help link that explains the account will be killed if the email address changes (perhaps without submitting a passport or something to prove it's changing for the same person). Would we then be at a point where this kind of swatting is pointless? Even if you got the name via harassment the system would kill it?

I've though about this for about 15 seconds, but you get my point.
If you want masking, and you DON’T want spinners, text makes just as much sense.

Think a currency input, or SSN, or zip code field. You almost never actually want the functionality of an html number input.
I use a stick blender in a 2-cup pyrex measuring cup. Seems to make the perfect amount in about 30s.
It's a bit of a simplistic metaphor, but I like the way you're thinking about the problem.
Yes, equality is subjective and as such has to be performative. It is ridiculous to argue about equality on an objective basis. There is no measure where we are all can be objectively equal (intelligence, strength, agility, musical/artistic ability etc.). Equality is a political construct where we are equal under the law. It is axiomatic thus self-evident. There is nothing to justify.
Newsblur has a training feature [1], with a thumbs up/down on article tags, author, and keywords in a title that can bubble up more interesting articles or completely hide them.

Unfortunately training is per feed, there's a newer Premium Pro tier with global training coming out with it, but it is much more expensive [2].

1. https://www.newsblur.com/faq (under Intelligence section)

2. https://forum.newsblur.com/t/global-keyword-training/5419/6
You can sell cheaper versions, but eventually those there who can pay will likely be made to pay the full price. So it might make more sense just to have it happen and let the software establish position.
As a web designer with a speciality in a11y, it hurts that you deemed this not important enough to find the true cause of your issue with the number input. I hope you can revisit this in a future update!
Never underestimate the resilience of "low" tech. Rule of least power still holds true.

Prior HN discussions: Turn GitHub into an RSS Reader (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27010144)
Well, democracy isn't only numerical advantage, it's also debating procedure and electoral system. If you just duplicate yourself, I think there are many questions about whether you really want it and your identity before just using it for political takeovers.

Historically an argument for narrow suffrage (e.g. only for landholders) was that economically dependent people are also politically dependent on magnates. These limitations did exist, though of course they're very corrosive to non-political rights as well. One can also try to make people economically independent, like it was done in ancient Athens by paying you to participate in the assembly and courts. I'm not arguing for anything in particular, just pointing out that it's a class of problems that had already existed in discourse in some way.
That brings up a big point of contention in some circles, for instance see the recent change in wording in the official DNC party platform[1] from Racial Equality (treating people the same regardless of race) to Racial Equity (ensuring equal outcomes amongst races through government policy).

[1] https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2020-Democr...
170+ IQs are extremely rare. That's 4.67 standard deviations above the mean. That should be about 0.0002% of people, or 14,000 people in the entire world, and that has to be shared with every other occupation that exists.
China is compatible with democracy, a free market, and rule of law?

Yeah, I think there's a reason the best and brightest in China often try to immigrate to the USA, Canada, Australia, etc. Its not for the food, believe me.
I'm glad that Plex is using mpv these days. Makes it a lot nicer to use on my Apple TV, since you can basically throw anything at it without the need for transcoding.
I used to feel like I "had to blog" and sort of forced myself to come up with topics and thoughts on those topics. I didn't enjoy the exercise. Lately though, I've used my blog to publish essays describing a view of the world that I'm trying to make happen through a personal project, as well as updates on how that project is going. It's been really useful to be able to share a link explaining my thoughts with new people, and it's always exciting when someone, unprompted, shares a link to one of my posts, or starts a conversation with me because of them.
if the simulation was running 20x slower how would the simulation even know? Would it look at its setting and see cpu set to 20% instead of 100%? I don't know of any way for a "brain in a vat" or "matrix" style simulation to know if it was running at full speed or not.
Those two cases say much more about company towns and the California state constitution than they do about the US Constitution's First Amendment.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/global-maps/MY1DMM_CHLORA/... Interactive up to 2016
Is there any way outside of just polling every 1~5 minutes to get realtime updates to RSS? Curious what is standard here? If you do do polling, what interval?
That's what "exfiltration" generally means, yes
From the article: `The existing format that comes closest to these goals is MusicXML. In fact, MNX’s creation is being led by the W3C Music Notation Community Group, which also oversees the MusicXML standard.`
Ask HN: Books about the History of Java?
40% of Americans believe the Earth was created within the last 10k years (2019)
Bomb 20 in the movie _Dark Star_... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjGRySVyTDk
Spotify has never used RSS, other than for Roach Motel-style ingest.

The plan was to embrace, extend, and extinguish the podcasting medium, and the hard part of that is done. "Podcasting" was a standards-based, open medium. Now it's any audio show, and we've lost the unique name for the open medium. As Spotify incentivizes more and more creators to not publish an RSS feed, standards-based podcasting will become a fond memory.
There is also the Ailanthus altissima, which also is from Asia/Japan.