skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Surely a BCI can upload itself to a brain-simulator and live there.

I'm not sure. I have a strong suspicion that we can make a useful brain-computer interface, without any idea how the brain really works. And I kind of expect that's how it will go. I think this because, in a technical sense, we already have brain-computer interfaces. Cochlear implants. They are used to restore hearing. The auditory nerve and cochlea are, anatomically speaking, actually part of the brain.

A long, extremely thin wire probe is inserted into the cochlea and auditory nerve. The probe has electrical contacts which are driven by the cochlear implant speech processor. The probes themselves are interesting in their own right; early ones only had a few electrical contacts, while modern ones have dozens or hundreds of electrodes spaced out along the length, each of which can be individually controlled, providing an almost infinite variety of possible inputs which the brain can distinguish.

So here's the wild bit. We have only a vague idea how auditory signals are encoded by the cochlea and sent down the auditory nerve. This was even more true when cochlear implants were first devised, in the 1970s.

It turns out that doesn't matter. If you start applying varying voltages at different electrodes along the probe, that correspond with activation of various frequency bands at varying intensities, in the vaguest mimicry of auditory nerve signalling, the brain pretty quickly figures it out.

A person who previously had natural hearing and lost it can learn to understand speech this way sometimes in a matter of days. People who were born profoundly deaf and were not implanted in infancy often regret the decision to be implanted and usually do not learn to decode sound in a useful way. Children who are implanted in infancy usually do. As an aside, the accounts given by people who have had this generally unpleasant experience, suddenly given an extra sense but with no neural structures developed life-long to process it, are both fascinating and harrowing.
It depends. In general, my preference leans towards online except for specific edge cases.
> ... makes is easier for illegal migrants to find housing and avoid deportation. This is illegal

Is that in fact illegal?
I guess, as the title (What HN post made you money?) implies, it's looking more for responses from those that made money from HN posts, vs. a poll with a title more along the lines of "Have you made money from an HN post?".

I'm sure there are several that haven't made money from HN posts, but I'd imagine there's not much to discuss around that, other than just collecting raw numbers.

Unless some can offer discussion around how they tried and failed to do that, but again, the title doesn't really suggest that sort of discussion.
So if (as per that website) you have to replace the pipelines themselves and much of the gear, is the value of using existing pipelines really just that the right-of-ways, permitting, surveying and meta-infrastructure (roads to the pipelines, supporting construction, etc) are already in place?
Rather than, "That's what she said", I prefer to sneak in "Why thank you!".

I believe the first place I heard the "Why Thank You" bit was in Police Squad / Naked Gun. The signature "confused guy says something unintentionally funny" humor Leslie Neilsen was known for.
Doesn’t really matter since it doesn’t involve slaughter at all.
Yeah I think that is the key question: will data lakes become the dominant paradigm? There is certainly a lot of talk around them, though I see a ton of companies are still just going all in on a conventional data warehouse, but they tend not to talk about it because it’s not a new or interesting thing to do.
In 1910, Emma Goldman wrote "The Traffic in Women" about how the supposed efforts against sex traffic in the day had nothing to do with helping women, and were all done for other purposes.

112 years later nothing has changed from what she described - fundamentalist churches in supposed campaigns against sex trafficking, yellow journalists printing sensationalist stories - 112 years and nothing has changed whatsoever.
Not parent, but I've had issues with returns from accidental 3rd party seller orders. I can easily imagine a niche, high priced item coming from a 3rd party seller and the whole return going sideways.
Looks awesome but how do you handle version control? Also, can permissions be set on who is able to modify vs. view/run a job?
Mind sharing where you got that definition from?
Apple is already advertising on the App Store, significantly hurting the experience. Excited to see how they're going to kill their biggest advantage over other platforms (basic respect for the user in certain areas).
I don't understand the mechanics of how my Garmin was fooled that evening but it definitely corresponds to the period that I was feeling cold.

As for 180 being possible for my wife--nope. We aren't youngsters and she was carrying on a conversation at the time. It was reading her arm movement, not her heart. I got myself a separate heart rate strap but Fitbit doesn't support them and she's just wearing it for the bonus the insurance company gives. (Which is set to such a ridiculously low threshold that you would have to be awfully sedentary to not reach it--in practice it translates to wear a fitness tracker, get $10/month.)
According to Wikipedia, CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. This code shouldn't be called CAPTCHA as it makes no attempt to tell humans from machines. (If anything, SHA256 proof-of-work is a problem that's easy for a computer but hard for a human, the opposite of a Turing test.) I'd call it "Proof-Of-Work Client-side RAte Protection" -- it's a POWCRAP, not a CAPTCHA.

(I invented the acronym just now in this post; it could perhaps use some work.)
Yup. This happened to us when we had rate limiting turned on our sites and ran off-site events at hotels, for example - then the hotel's IP got temp banned and our sales engineers would complain, rightfully so.
Yeah this is the deal breaker for me as well. This smells like an embrace-extend-extinguish campaign frankly?

1. Embrace gRPC and protobuf
2. Extend with Connect, get everyone using this in their APIs and web apps
3. Drift away from established gRPC and/or protobuf standards, build platforms/business around this and trap as many folks as possible

As silly as it may seem, one thing that really sends this signal for me is the nice trademark symbol on the Buf name. their intention for all of this stuff is to build a business.
Are you talking about an IQ score?

An IQ score is a measure of intelligence, it's not intelligence itself. Just as the temperature you read off a thermometer is only a measure of the heat in the room. The thermometer tells you very little about the position and momentum of the gas particles in the room, only that higher temperatures correlate with more momentum.

The value of IQ scores for measuring human intelligence is that they correlate with all sorts of life outcomes. The hypothesis behind the research is that both the life outcomes and the IQ scores are caused by a single factor, known as g, for general intelligence.

Obviously, if we train some model on IQ tests we can probably get a machine to ridiculously high IQ scores. Does that mean we have created intelligence? No. The machine is not going to show any of the life outcomes we expect from a human with high IQ. It's not going to do anything! That's why none of these machines are intelligent.
Indeed, it's actually irrevocably CC BY-NC-SA 2.5
The 'holes' created by industrial farming aren't missing dirt, it's missing water.

https://blogs.agu.org/geospace/files/2019/03/Subsidence.jpg

https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/sci...
> all types of animal husbandry and meat acquisition, including hunting?

Clearly it’s cruel to kill an animal even through hunting. The animal doesn’t want to be shot/stabbed/etc…
I understand you may not like porn but why not let other people enjoy it?
Under the hood of the power dynamics of inflation
Your hypothesis is that they want to start a company, most kids I know from rich families just want to "enjoy life"
Interesting concept. Slight bug report: if I scroll up on the page, it unloads the player component and resets the music. I'd play with it some more, but my mood for awhile now has been "depressed and anxious", and I'd rather not reinforce that :D
(Superblocks creator here)

Great question, having been an engineer all my life, this is one of the question I would ask myself as well. Developers are at the forefront of our target audience and we want to give all developers the peace of mind that any code or configuration you create in Superblocks is completed owned by you and can keep working without Superblocks. Here's how:

1. Our agent is open-source, this means you can inspect, modify, build and host it however you like

2. We're soon launching a feature where you can export the entire definition of Superblocks apps/workflow/jobs/permissions as project files and manage it in your own git repo

3. We're brainstorming the idea of exporting your app as native React and NodeJS applications so your app continues to work outside of Superblocks

Obviously our goal is to keep providing the best features, performance and stability so you can save time and let us accelerate your development process :)

Would this give you the confidence to use a platform like this? If not, what can we do better?
Heritability of intelligence is high, and there's a few genes already existing in the human population that are well correlated with intelligence.

You could just try turning a few known knobs and see what happens. The efficacy is probably moderate-- maybe 7 IQ points or so with the currently known genes. But a change of mean IQ by 7 is actually a pretty substantial advantage-- it's half a standard deviation, and predicts about $4k more income per year.

Yes, it's unethical and there's probably substantial human cost.

Or, there's even a shortcut of just testing for people with high IQs that also possess the best known genotypes (i.e. test both genotype and phenotype) and forcing them to breed.
They should use the local language? English in US cities that is. How else do they get busienss in the local economy??
I just don't know what that would look like. If they try to take VISA's place, banks might block transfers to them making it impossible for people to pay their tab. They could try switching to crypto but the value of those aren't really stable and somewhat risky in that sense. Onramps like Coinbase have to turn in or block users who are caught using the service to buy drugs or whatever and I don't see why they wouldn't block accounts known to be buying porn or monero too.
What if you dig down deep enough to molten rock? Then you're aren't limited by heat conduction of the solid rock, but the heat convection of the magma
I know what a giraffe looks like and some aspects of their behavior. I couldn't build a giraffe, I've never been a giraffe, I wouldn't even know what to talk about if I met a giraffe on a blind date.
Be consistent, a move to industry makes you industrial. It takes mere oath to profess.
Update, I see only the passwords are logged and not the emails, but still not great.
Backspace works for me.
The lawn crew that I use works 6-10 per day so that’s 9-15 batteries to buy, carry around and charge. And that’s just for one person. There’s normally two people with leaf blowers.

Hopefully there’s some industrial version as carrying 20 batteries and charging them five days a week is really expensive.
There is plenty of oil until Jesus Christ returns.
The real costs here are not from the expected outcome of the lawsuit (which is unlikely to succeed), but from the discovery and other legal costs. When large companies are defendants/respondents in lawsuits like this, the costs of going to trial are astronomical.

I think Visa doesn't mind the law as much as the legal system.
Yes, this is basically my argument.

They address that `ftell` must return a finite value, but don't mention that `ftell` can fail for specific FILEs:

> If successful, the ftell function returns the current value of the file position indicator for the stream

But FILEs don't necessarily have a "file position indicator":

> If a file can support positioning requests (such as a disk file, as opposed to a terminal), then a file position indicator associated with the stream is positioned at the start (character number zero) of the file, unless the file is opened with append mode in which case it is implementation-defined whether the file position indicator is initially positioned at the beginning or the end of the file.

They don't seem to discuss the topic further.

> Therefore we will here only consider C programs without I/O. (Our argument can be adapted to show that the programs that restrict I/O to reading stdin and writing stdout are Turing incomplete as well, but we will not do so here.)

So they don't address the problem of IO completely.
I think this time it was a win for activist investment given Bill Ackman's investment and tweet thread https://twitter.com/billackman/status/1553510104200351746?s=...
Not quite as old as some of the jokes in the article but I really like this one from a previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13587528

For context, the joke is set in the Soviet Union

> Russian engineer got fed up of having all responsibility and low salary, so he moves to another city and pretends to be an ordinary worker, same salary and peace of mind. However, not long after communist party sends him to evening classes. On his first day there at maths class he was asked about circle circumference formula, but for some reason he could not remember it off hand, so he goes on blackboard and tries to work it out with linear integral. After exhausting whole blackboard he finally gets the result:

> -2RPi

> Then all of the sudden he hears all of the class whispering to him: "Change the direction of integration!"
Well I was thinking of the geothermal energy that Quaise is pretending to extract.
Eyeballing based on my children development against other mammals, I’d say pregnancy should take about 2 years.
> I haven't thought about C in years ... Im going to stick with my VM over here and call it a day.

What's your VM written in?
Inflatable parts will need a way to ensure they can't obscure the windshield after a catastrophic failure, e.g. hitting a deer at 70mph.

(Of course you could just over-build to withstand the impact, though it would make for an interesting liability case (and interesting dashcam video) the first time a deer gets bounced off the highway and through someone's roof)
The nitrogen source is effectively in the nutrients (so not air/nitrogen fixation by their organism), and is provided as ammonia, according to this video by Solar Foods[0]. I agree this is cheating considering what is needed to produce ammonia from N2.

https://youtu.be/z8zuqR95fqA?t=136
I Made a Multiplayer Game in Microsoft Word – Devlog
Turns out many cars and trucks are more efficient at 65mph (120km/h) than 55mph (100km/h). There are a lot of fixed losses, and ideal engine RPM is critical for efficiency.
This was fantastic! :) I did laugh, and it's a good characterization. I only wish he had shown the same chair with different colors. The company names were great though.
I like your comparison of a C programmer with a samurai.
I think the OPs point was that teenagers could start considering this the 'normal'. Personally I give them a little more credit. But it is a good point.
>It wouldn't make a difference if the absolute volume of emissions into the atmosphere

First off, it literally would make a difference in the the absolute volume. 7 tons/person is objectively less than 15tons/person.

IF your point is simply that the US can't stop climate change all by itself, then of course you are correct.

Climate change is not a binary situation. it can be more or less extreme.

Do you throw your trash on the street just because someone else did? Less trash is obviously better than more trash.
I must disclaim that I contribute to Trino.

I agree but it depends a bit on what purpose you are using them for.
If you mainly use the tool to JOIN some data in bulk and then write output somewhere else (i.e. ETL) - either will serve you fine.

If you write complex queries with multiple filters and want to JOIN across multiple datasets - sure Spark can do that as well but it's not as efficient in pushing down computation to the source.

e.g. A query like SELECT c.custkey, sum(totalprice) FROM orders o INNER JOIN customer c ON o.custkey = c.custkey WHERE o.orderstatus = 'O' GROUP BY c.custkey; when ran on Spark will pull both tables into memory and then perform the join + filter for orderstatus = 'O' and then compute the sum.

While in case of Trino it'll push down the entire query into the remote database (in this case, in other queries it'll push down some parts of the query) so the source database will not need to return gigabytes of data over the network every time the query runs (and hence finish faster as well).

Trino tries to push-down some operations to the remote system which can be done more efficiently there. e.g. filtering on a column that has an index in the remote RDBMS will be faster than pulling all data and then filtering in Trino. Spark doesn't have strong pushdown and has to pull most of the raw data and then apply processing on top of it.

That's one of the main differences. Spark is a distributed job execution framework first while Trino is a distributed federated query engine first and it shows in their strengths and weaknesses.

If you want to run arbitrary user defined transformations on data then Spark definitely has much more to offer than Trino.
Often even if I disagree with a comment I'll upvote before I reply, because at the least they made me give a crap about something so it might affect others that way. I just received the power to downvote and I'm seriously considering just writing a bunch of anti-nuclear energy comments to get downvoted away from that responsibility.
What a mess.

They started requiring age verification for the people in uploaded videos but maybe they should take it a step further and only accept content from approved accounts, like reputable studios that keep records.
The competition would be carbon neutral pesticide free soybeans, which I'm not sure are readily available? Soybeans also typically use energy intensive nitrogen fertilizers, which I'm not sure this process requires. (It might, not sure.)

Also, soybeans need to be shipped from fertile areas. This could be produced in situ in infertile areas.

I'm not saying it's a panacea, but it has some benefits over traditional intensive agriculture.
> As porn star Cherie DeVille explains, the story is, and has been, a lot weirder than that. Because Visa and Mastercard hold effective duopoly status all over the world — controlling 98% of credit transactions in the U.K., 80% in the E.U., and over 70% in the U.S. — no porn performer can afford to cross the rules for acceptable content the two companies have laid down. And those rules are beyond strange.

“Women are allowed to squirt, but we’re not allowed to urinate,” DeVille says. “We can’t insert our panties into our vaginas anymore, because that’s an object. I tried to use a carrot-shaped dildo. That’s a problem because that’s an object, too, but a phallic-shaped dildo is apparently okay.” She shakes her head in amazement. “The rules are completely nonsensical.”

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/meet-the-censored-cherie-devil...
C has many problems, but I don't see this as one. Very few people even realize this functionality exists, and I don't see anyone promoting its use.
Thanks. will make the 'more detail' optional.

Tips:
setting the color 'transparent' will make the polyline/polygon/markers... invisible
The market gets what the market wants.

Unless you believe there's some sinister cabal out there conspiring to hurt 18-25 years with porn, you'll just have to accept what's out there is what people pay to see.

The big hardcore porn scenes aren't cheap they are deliberate and calculated.

> depicts unrealistic sex between adults

Doesn't depict the kind of sex you like to watch or partake in but "Middle America" isn't the only view point (no offence if your not American).

There's plenty of bars / clubs / spaces / apps for "kinksters" and the more adventurous. "kink" came before porn and will exist long after it.

Its unfortunate hardcore porn rises to the homepage of these porn sites but its simple economics "ew that's gross, lemme just click it real quick" and there's the advertising space sold - its just "the algorithm" at it again.

Maybe you should make an account and let "the algorithm" do its thing.
Thanks Mark for proving just how bankrupt you are of ideas.
Fun but very frustrating controls. If you mis-type a letter in one box and it's the only letter left of that letter then you can't type it elsewhere which gets me right in a muddle. Also the delete key doesn't appear to work, only the backspace.

Tab really ought to tab through the words as well as arrow keys, which don't cursor to filled in letters which is also frustrating.

I'd like to be able to type a whole word, including over-typing the letters provided.

I'd recommend playing around with the guardian crossword for inspiration of a control scheme.

But fun core idea!
>The notion that religious stories provide models for decent human behavior is fairly solid, but then so do other forms of literature (be like Frodo, for example). This is called the 'utilitarian' argument, I believe.

There are other aspects to the religious experience that differentiate it from other external models for the self. Things like feeling an overwhelming sacredness, performing ritual, a feeling of mysticism.

I don't doubt people model themselves off of fictional stories, but few if any are going into ecstatic trances over Sam asking about po-tae-toes.
And if you're a careful coder writing C, you should give the VLA the stink eye unless it's proving its worth.
Because of the issues around brittling, I'm pretty sure "convert" will really mean "replace" in this case.
Just curious, is this process performed in alternate phases (pump water, wait for the vapor ) or is it done at the same time with different pipes in the same hole?
>> goal is to eliminate all pornography from the internet.

Funny story: Pre-9/11 the Bush administration was talking about cracking down on internet pornography. The Christian right was saying the same things they had about magazines in decades past. So some industry people got together and founded websites dedicated to the most horrible pornography possible, in full expectation that they would be attacked. They were going to be champions of the first amendment in the same was that Hustler magazine had been a generation previously. But then 9/11. The expected crackdown didn't materialize. Those websites are still around, having evolved into some of the biggest names in the biz.
It's not the greatest book but it was one I do not regret posting. They covered it on the Mysterious Universe podcast years ago which put it on my radar. Same with The Vertical Plane although, fortunately for people now, it's been re-printed so you don't have to pay an obscene amount for a copy of VP like I did.
Biden administration will declare monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency