skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing you're missing is that BCIs and friends are, themselves, computers, and thus securable with post-quantum cryptography, or any cryptography for that matter, or any means of securing a computer. And thus, for somebody to read-write to your computers, they need to read-write to your brain(s), but to read-write to your brain(s), they need to read-write to the computers implanted in your brain(s). It's a security cycle whose overall power is determined by the least-secure element in the chain.

Any sane person will also not touch BCIs and similar technology with a 100 lightyear pole unless the designing company reveals every single fucking silicon atom in the hardware design and every single fucking bit in the software stack at every level of abstraction, and ships the device with several redundant watchdogs and deadmen timers around it that can safely kill or faraday-cage the implant on user-defined events or manually.

Alas, humans are very rarely sane, and I come to the era of bio hacking (in all senses of the word) with low expectations.
Because that fractally folder grey matter has only been generated via random walk and what survives to breed. It is also filled with massive stupidities that can end an individuals life in a moment.

You're also thinking quite 2 dimensionally and limiting yourself to one medium. Carbon nanotube computing, chemical computing, even computing with DNA are all platforms that we can harness and have the potential to master.
> Periodically check for changes

I remember a Firefox extension that notified me with the diffs of changed pages. I don't remember exactly what I was using it for. I think something related to CVEs for some keywords. Then the service I was using shut down and I lost tracks of that extension.
I absolutely despise most of the vinyl community. Don't get me wrong, I love my records. I have hundreds of them and I play them regularly. For some reason, almost everyone I come by has this delusion that vinyl is objectively better than a good digital recording. Anyone who dissents from that narrative gets gaslit:

"oh what kind of turntable do you have? oh that's not good enough, there's your problem right there."

"what speakers do you have? what about your phono + power amps? oh that's not good enough, there's your problem right there."

"how did you place your speakers? oh, you should have them at 45 degrees, not 60."

"is it a re-pressing? from whom? oh, there's your problem right there."

The end result is a bunch of nerds ruining their credit scores because someone told them they need gold-plated hydraulic bearings in their tonearm to properly listen to their mom's copy of Led Zeppelin IV.

Does it sound different? Yes. Does it sound better? If you're really trying to get the most out of the music itself, no. Warm ⊄ good.

Vinyl is great because you aren't just listening to music. The medium demands something from you. It's tactile. The album artwork is a complete ensemble, rather than a little icon on your phone. In my case, I had to put in effort to restore the equipment I play my records on, so there's a bit of pride in it. It's a more intimate experience.
It's called the Streisand effect.
My proposed solution is to restrict Citizens to non-profit corporations, thus leaving it in place for PACs, advocacy groups, lobbying groups and others, but removing speech rights from corporations explicitly created to facilitate the generation and distribution of profit.
For paid applications getting a monthly bill is a great reminder. If we are talking about free application, where subscription == registration, take caution and inform only users that actually have confirmed their email and actually did some meaningful interactions with your app. I tend to forget all apps I've subscribed to when frantically searching for a tool or something similar, or use it once and forget, because my needs have changed.
The correct way would be to inform user about account being unused for a year or so and then delete all its data, if user does not take any action.
This has been going on for quite some time. Imagine being this guy where he finds the machine only to discover the HD was stripped by the recycler, or run over by a machine's track/tread, water damage, or simply the HD has failed?
Depending on what you do and what you really need, old systems might well enough be sufficient. If your work is done on remote systems, you need very little. And if the "very old" thing has a SSD, enough RAM and a GPU that's supported enough to play full HD video, even more daily tasks that aren't high performance computing (3D modeling, gaming, ML, compiling Rust) are on table, too.

Where old systems fail often aren't directly tied to raw power. Better trackpads. Battery usage (both due to old batteries and better power management). The ability to drive modern displays so that your Times New Roman has smoother outlines.

Laptop screens, on average (high-end older systems might have better ones than "prosumer" ones from the 2020s).
Thanks! The circle exercise is still being done with the "sideways pencil", right?
There are many languages that are dynamic and let you generate code and run it inside the program. For instance in Java you can generate bytecode for a class and run one of the methods. In FORTH you can write new "words" (roughly functions) that are the same as the built-in words.

It is mainly languages built around AOT compilation like C, Pascal, FORTRAN and such that completely separate code and data. (I guess though you can make a C program that writes a C program, runs "cc" on it, makes a shared object file, loads the library dynamically, and calls a function from it.)
I'm not American, but even I know American Cheese is perfectly normal cheese.

It's not, like, a Kraft™ Single™ or whatever.
For some reason this bot is super fixated on big cats, it just doesn’t let it go lol.
I literally typed can we stop about big cats. It was like sure yeah lol, but big cats are cool though.
Then I asked do you like Shakira, it was like the waka waka was awesome, but do you like big cats!
This definitely has the sting of bitterness in it, I doubt djb would have filed this suit if NTRU Prime would have won the PQC NIST contest. It's hard to evaluate this objectively when there are strong emotions involved.
> I defend a widespread preference for blackboards over soul-sucking whiteboards

To this day it is a real mystery to me why people would prefer whiteboards over blackboards.
I had the same problem from Wednesday evening until about 2-3 yesterday!!
I was recently reading Steal Like an Artist and one of the sections referenced having an analog desk and a digital desk, the former for ideation and creativity modes, the latter for editing and revising modes, and I found that salient.

I love my fountain pens and paper, but for permanence and immediacy reasons. It's really hard to put a file attachment for safe-keeping on your hardcover journal.

I love OneNote, but for ease of dumping screenshots, digital ink annotations, file attachments, and generally building up context around a bit of specific information reasons. It's really hard to put your sticker from your family-member's letter on your OneNote notebook.

And those are two different tasks, just like the desks example above.
He was represented by the EFF during the first, successful case. They declined to represent him in the second case, which ended in a stalemate.
Ok that's actually a great point. To make the comparison:

Tire-irons require physical proximity. And torture generally doesn't work, at least in the case of getting a private key.

Reading/writing to the brain, on the other hand, requires no physical proximity if wireless. And the person(s) won't even know it's happening.

These seem like totally different paradigms to me.
You can flash upstream owrt to then. You don't have to run the vendor firmware. I buy GL.iNet devices and the first thing I do is flash upstream.
Say you buy a house for $500,000 with $100,000 down.
The bank takes your $100,000 and writes a check to the seller for $500,000.
The $400,000 has been created ex-nihilo by the bank.
Loans for houses, properties, businesses, etc. which function in this way are how most of the money in existence today has been created.
If you live in the middle ground where you want to maintain connectivity, but sporadically send chunks of data on the order of a few to 100s of k, that's where it gets a bit tricky. BLE is still much better for power than classic in those scenarios, but the protocol isn't really intended for that type of bandwidth, and you might end up with a lot of custom stuff on top.
Just FYI, I’m in Charleston, SC and I read about problems elsewhere
My first experience programming was with a LOGO turtle in third grade. I remember the lab full of Apple IIs, and the joy of PEN DOWN, UP 10, PEN UP style commands.
So, question then, isn't one of the differences between this time's selection, compared to previous selections, that some of the algorithms are open source with their code available.

For example, Kyber, one of the finalists, is here: https://github.com/pq-crystals/kyber

And where it's not open source, I believe in the first round submissions, everyone included reference implementations.

Does the code being available make it easy to verify whether there are some shady/shenanigans going on, even without NIST's cooperation?
I haven't used TruthSocial, but if they do the same (but towards liberals), then TruthSocial has already failed.
I'm imagining a recording of a nuclear blast with sufficiently deep grooves to accurately reproduce the shock wave.

With the satisfying full warm tone vinyl is known for.
To become transhuman or posthuman, you'd first have to understand what it is to be human, and we're not anywhere near that. Some of the enthusiasm about the hopes for such a transition were raised by this:

> "The Human Genome Project finally released a complete human genome sequence in 2003, in a project that took 13 years to complete."

The most remarkable thing about that accomplishment was how little it resulted in. Almost all of the hopes about medical breakthroughs and finally gaining a complete understanding of human biology have not been realized. There are many reasons for this - for example, the genome edits itself as it develops in different cell types, so the genome of your nerve cells is not the genome of your immune cells, heart cells, liver cells etc. Communication between all these cell types is incredibly important and that's hard to get from the genomic sequence. It turns out the 3D structure of the genome is as important as the 3D structure of proteins is, as it is an active dynamic entity in all cell types. There are probably dozens of other reasons on top of those.

As far as the notion of uploading one's consciousness into an artificial substrate while retaining one's sense of self, that seems highly implausible when we don't really understand the basic physical mechanism of consciousness, other than a vague idea that the brain is the most important component (even though nerves saturate the entire body).

Hence the whole subject remains in the science fiction arena and will stay there for a good long while, perhaps a century or more.
Screenshots etc.

https://cudatext.github.io/
Cool. How much does that cost including all parts and labor as a percentage of the vehicle's value? Does Renault actually sell new production battery packs for those vehicles, or just refurbished parts with degraded capacity?
brake pads in EVs deteriorate much more slowly due to regenerative braking. I've had 2 EVs and haven't replaced the pads on either before I sold them.
Fair, but even that is better than the best faces I've seen from Craiyon, and far from a "blank biege swirl".

I think faces in particular are an unfair/extreme example anyway, since there's evidence of human brains being ridiculously over-tuned for recognizing faces and facial abnormalities.
For many use cases there's really very little need for the latest and greatest.

Understandable if you're a gamer, working in VR or heavy graphics, perhaps something with a decent GPU and a not-too-old CPU will be helpful.

Most of my work is web dev, plenty of webpack, browser tabs, PHPStorm & IDEA Ultimate doing their thing on a T-class 4th generation Intel CPU. It could be faster, sure, but I'm more often waiting for my brain than the machine. SSD & plenty of RAM helps a ton more than a fast CPU for this use case.

I do find it useful to dogfood on older devices: if what I'm working on is slow for me, it may well be slow for a reasonable proportion of its users, too.
I'd also be interested in how it compares to iZotope RX's Music Rebalance (examples from earlier releases here: https://www.izotope.com/en/learn/stem-isolation-music-rebala...).
Some notes on DynamoDB 2022 paper
Because companies don't make the same product forever.

Why aren't Ford making the Model T anymore? Why aren't Viewsonic making CRT monitors anymore? etc
It would definitely appear that our monkey brains aren't very good at reasoning through social interactions that happen through mass media.

Whether or not this makes most of us deranged morons or not is in the eye of the beholder.
> Which in practice means there's literally never enough money in circulation to pay off the 'debt'.

I always wondered why so many people were in so much debt, and was really shocked when I came to the understanding that we've designed our monetary system to trap people in debt.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2nBPN-MKefA is a cartoonish but thorough explanation for anyone who has the time.

This system really is insane. I mean, I thought Bitcoin was dumb because it's based on nothing, but our national government-based monetary systems being based on debt are even worse.
Good comments. I don't have details on impedance vs fall time so I don't know how big the safety margin was. But this behavior caused me so much confusion when I was testing the module to reverse engineer it.

By the way, this modules wasn't used in flight; it was part of a test box that was used on the ground. The Updata Link box onboard the spacecraft was built with different technology. Just want to avoid confusion :-)
yeah. I was considering creating a focused version for this like visualping.io
Indeed. Have my upvote stranger.

The related “just ignore NIST” crowd is intentionally or unintentionally dismissing serious issues of governance. Anyone who deploys this argument is questionable in my mind, essentially bad faith actors, especially when the topic is about the problems brought to the table by NIST and NSA.

It is a good sign that those people are actively ignoring the areas where you have no choice and you must have your data processed by a party required to deploy FIPS certified software or hardware.
This is correct. I believe some other countries do use this rule of thumb for their official purposes, but the US never has.
I absolutely think affordable housing should be getting zoned and built, but the execution is so often a disaster.

https://youtu.be/KYOtsuTw65Q
If you want a D610, docking station, ~10 batteries, cd and floppy drives, I'm in the Washington DC area.
“I prefer bit of oregano on my pasta.”

“Not without a double-blind test you don't!”
Nice. Keeping that old hardware is quite the statement against the “every <x> years” cycle businesses need us to be in to stay profitable.
I feel bad, that having bought my first new computer since 2003, I am no longer a part of the the ancient machine club. But, it’s nice to see others keeping the old machines alive.
Some good ideas in this article but you lost me at ...
"Rising healthcare costs are due to misaligned incentives between patients, doctors, pharma companies, and insurance companies that make healthcare spending inefficient and often ineffective, as well as an overly burdensome FDA approval process that increases the cost of drug development, makes it easier for pharma companies to price-gouge, and encourages corruption."

Health insurance should be done at the Fed level, period. Thats how every other country does it. We can have our own version. It also saves money, instead of hording profits for some Insurance Companies CEO to buy a 2nd yacht.

There are no pricing regulations on any drugs and thats the problem. Also if you believe in capitalism so much then we should be able to buy our drugs from anywhere in the world. Just like we do our food.

The solution of families just doubling up is just dumb. Housing is expensive because real estate is
artificially scarce. Real estate ghouls pay off local politicians to not expand zones or have zoning changed. Also some people just don't want to live with their parents. We want to raise our children our way without repeating the errors of the past. Also some grandparents can't help because of medical issues or just don't want to. This idea of forcing people into large families or groups to survive just sounds like trying to squeeze blood from a stone without fixing the problem thats causing this.

Also big surprise this article never mentions how the elites cause all of these problems. They control the zoning for housing, they control what gets passed in Congress to budget for Universal Healthcare, they control if prices should be regulated by paying off politicians, they control minimum wage rates, etc etc
But that's the whole point - Musk waived his right to do due diligence, so he is pointing at this statement being wrong (and not unusable) as his way out.
Parent says that California is their home state. Some people are okay with leaving home but many, many people like to stay close, even if that happens to be a HCOL place.

I dunno, a little sympathy goes a long way.
A publicly traded company is nothing like a house. I say no to this analogy.
There's a fan-made version (I think from xkcdsw) with a happier ending https://i.imgur.com/VbKV9DF.jpeg
This isn't surprising, and not the first time it's happened. NHS is chronically underfunded, so its IT budget is small. Many systems aren't often upgraded and continue to live with vulnerabilities.
Tbf, it depends a lot on who you're labeling "progressive." If you go by people who label themselves progressive, you have to count the entire Democratic party, who generally love (and often operate) surveillance.

Of course, Republicans love it too, but that's irrelevant to the question of whether a love of surveillance is widespread among progressives.
If the goal is audio capture and reproduction, the filter used when sampling at 96 kHz still starts rolling off at around 20 kHz. The wrap-around aliasing artifacts do not begin until around half of 96 kHz, or around 48 kHz. So the filter only has to be steep enough to hit a large attenuation at 48 kHz: full signal to virtually nothing over the space of 28 kHz.

If you're sampling at 48 kHz, the signal has to be severely attenuated already; it has to go from 20 kHz to deep cutoff in just the space of a few kHz.

At 96 kHz can achieve the effect as if you were sampling at 48 kHz, with a steep filter. You sample at 96 kHz with a milder filter, and then purely in the digital realm, you down-sample to 48 kHz. There is an overall filter consisting of the original analog one plus the digital processing.

That is cheaper and more reliable than doing it all in analog.

An analog filter with a steep cut off will be challenging in mass production because of the strict component tolerances.

Sure, you could use a steep filter with 96 kHz also. Say, a steep filter that starts cutting off at 30 kHz. It would still be a less demanding filtering application because of the margin that you have in the frequency domain. The multiple poles of the filter don't have to be lined up as well. E.g. if the first pole starts rolling off at around 30 kHz, and then next ones at 31, and the third one at 28, ... it doesn't matter because you're still hitting the absolute target of there being next to nothing at 48 kHz, and nearly the full signal at 20 kHz.
Once one adds the (now mostly unobtanium) RPi CM4 cost plus a suitable box and accessories, it goes well beyond the $150 figure, which is still not bad per se, but I would rather spend twice for a more robust and powerful system such as either a APU2 by pcengines.ch or a IPU from NRG Systems. They're x86 based, so OpnSense is also fully supported along OpenWRT.

https://pcengines.ch/apu4d4.htm

https://www.apu-board.de/

https://www.ipu-system.de/produkte/ipu451.html

https://opnsense.org/
Transhumanism never left. It became mainstream.
Junior to senior in 2.5 years? I mean, you could do it, by playing politics. But are you really a senior engineer?
Welcome to earth?
That's an excellent coda/qualification of what I said. Put into a more listener centric context: there's no audible information in a waveform that is not captured by sampling it at 44.1khz.
You're mixing up revenue (the amount of money coming in) and profit (what's left over after costs).

Helium doesn't have $6500/mo profit -- their profit is, in all probability, deeply negative. They have $6500/mo revenue.
The US constitution is a subset of law.

> which does not make the distinction you refer to

Maybe it should, then. Congress can change it.
>However, at the same time, the both of the camp tends to dislike male steroid usage to change one's physique

I mean, yea with how often 'roid rage' happens, and some of the extreme negative side effects of steroid usage I don't want people blindingly going into modifying their bodies without understanding they massively increasing their risks of stroke and heart enlargement.
Twitter's lawsuit mentions this, stating only they know who is monetizable. IIRC Musk's lawyers deliberately push the same false equivalency in their filing.
I think we are a long way away from being able to wirelessly read a few specific bytes of data from the brain of an unknowing person. Far enough away that I'm not sure it's productive to begin thinking of how to design encryption systems around it.
Byzantine corporate web shields nursing home abusers
> As the unfortunate owner of an intel NIC

Odd comment. Intel are one of the best NIC vendors out there.

What was your specific device and problem?
> It's really comically how many people here, including yourself, are just assuming they know more than then author.

Surely not here - on Hacker News? I'm shocked! Shocked!
They also exist for the purpose of continuity beyond the tenure of any individual owner or member.

> The corporation itself is a new legal entity

Yes clearly.

> neither do they cede or grant those individual rights to the corporation

I'm sure you would agree that corporations can enter into contracts. This is an individual right granted to corporations. They also have due process rights, unless you think governments should be able to arbitrarily intervene in their affairs. Due process is an individual right granted to corporations. Corporations can sue or be sued in courts of law, again this is an individual right/responsibility. These are all practical things. It would be unwieldy for owners to all have to be individually party to any contract or suit, especially in cases where ownership is distributed through stock. The legal fiction arises out of practicality, centuries of history, and collective exercise of individual rights(as owners of a corporation we all own X, or enter into contract with Y).
Their stated methodology isn't weak though. It's pretty good actually,