skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those "scummy" lawyers are performing an important function, and if not for them things probably wouldn't be anywhere near as accessible for disabled people as they are now.

I've read court transcripts of attorneys who march into court wanting to measure the incline of a ramp with a 3 inch ruler (because a 6 inch ruler doesn't prove what they're after). Furthermore, they also want to measure a part of the ramp right under the railing where a handicapped person isn't even able to walk, because that's the only place they could find a violation. This is the type of behavior you get from some of these folks. The way the ADA is written encourages this type of behavior (which doesn't serve anyone but the attorney), because the laws are written so very poorly.

> It's kind of ironic that the libertarian-types who are often the loudest ones condemning stuff like this are also the first to defend people similarly motivated by greed as performing important functions, such as price gougers and the like.

There is no irony. There is a world of difference in acknowledging that someone has the right to do something as opposed to deciding whether that act is morale. For example, just because someone (e.g. the attorney) has the right to do something (e.g. practice law), I can also at the same time think their behavior (e.g. in the courtroom) is unethical. Furthermore like someone might sell a very poorly made product, they're allowed to do such things, but one could also still find that behavior terribly unethical. With these sorts of attorneys, any small good they may incidentally create, is drowned out by the splash damage they create. The pursuit of you and your family's interests is a moral ideal, that can be corrupted by people who do so without ethics nor regard for the damage they create.
Never thought about that. And now my weekend plans have changed…
A big next step in cloud-solidation would seem likely. As private corporations look to government budget money, they'll attempt to cloudsolidate in demonstrative ways, showing what can even be done with your data at rest on their platform.

"When your data sits on your computer, it is doing nothing. Perhaps being scanned for malware, or being viewed by yourself or others occasionally. In our cloud, it's actively viewed as a benefit to your organization. So, what can our AI recommend to someone who works with this kind of data? You'll have access to thousands of years of combined business experience through our learning models. You can choose metadata or full data access, and it's opt-in."

For example it could be that there's a passive AI facility that looks through metadata, analyzing workflow, and building on a huge library of business file structures to suggest new ways to organize, tag, and even process existing assets.

It could be that the cloud brings businesses further into tech, not just by enabling WFH flexibility and broader platforming, but the cloud could in fact turn a given business into a tech business, so that hybrids start to form more quickly and enable more effective business-style social contracting. The cloud could tag datasets that seem amenable to developer-oriented leverage for example, posing new questions to businesses in need of new creative ideas or better growth opportunities.

This would be more true, given specific sets of built-in but subtle marketing approaches which may be used to entice corporate or private users at first.

For government it'd be a no-brainer in cases where data is generally more available than data processing facility. For private businesses it'd be a comparative advantage even if they opt for piecemeal access.

Just an idea though. To me it seems silly not to build more positively on the idea that one's data is kept on someone else's system, and play for more obvious reward opportunity in that question of cloud risk.
The article literally says it's probably not going to happen.

> He said that it was unlikely that Covid-19 outbreak would shape our immune system in a similar way — largely because the disease predominantly kills people after their reproductive age, meaning it's unlikely genes that confer protection would be passed on to the next generation.
I do think the brain is probably at some (or very close to) theoretical optimum.

Though I’m of the mind that we generally underestimate the potential of the average person and overestimate that of the genius archetype.
Dogs don't have psychic powers, but I am impressed at how incredibly empathetic and attuned to the moods of the humans they are bonded to they are.

I have a dog that will lay around in a dead sleep, and the moment I shift my weight to get off the couch to go to another room he's right there next to me. I suspect this has less to do with psychic power and more to do with the fact that he's descended from a long line of the dogs that didn't get left behind when the tribe had to pack up and leave.
Obligatory proper definition for those who might require it, cause even I didn't know what the anagram SIM meant.

> Subscriber Identity Module
The only thing that's increasing in frequency is sensationalist news coverage and people who are easily influenced by it.

https://www.weather.gov/lix/ms_flood_history
Very confusing.

My first question: What is a "module"?

Is it something like a midi file?
Man, I normally balk at Apple nostalgia but those early PowerBook designs are pure sex. I wasn't very fond of the iBook designs and the G4 redesign was... sketchy, at best. The PowerBook was such a statement piece by comparison - everything about it just feels like it's ready for business, and the build was superb. Almost makes me wish Apple had the confidence to split their laptop offerings into "art workstation" models and "professional-ass UNIX machines" a-la PowerBook.
I am ordering 10000 capacitive moisture and temperature sensor boards with an microcontroller wired to 100 wifi and bluetooth gateways including labour and programming for around $5 or €5 per sensor. Most of the cost per sensor is labour so could be omitted.

If you want to piggyback onto this order or collaborate please send an email to morphle at ziggo dot nl.

We can lower the price per moisture sensor down to $1.42 when we order 100000 or more or by dropping labour intensive features.

At a shared/combined batch order of 1 million sensors we will drop to $0.30 per sensor. At this point it is economical to have a sensor per plant (or mecanically planted seed).

With optional starlink and solar panels and batteries for full offgrid operation. Custom software features in an app for smartphone or laptop with a https://microblocks.fun type programmability and spreadsheet graphs and website output would be optional.
We could add microphones and motion sensors to sense rodents or snails or monitor (rain)forest for illegal cutting with chainsaws or poachers.
Is it possible to do something like Jupiter notebook like so you can demonstrate some (commonn lisp) and then show their result. Like Notebook support some tex.

Too much to ask for I guess. Continue waiting.
This is one of the points made in the "Empirically grounded technology forecasts" paper that Noah's article is based on. The authors define things stochastically and run their model thousands of times to come up with likely ranges: a PDF, not a single number.

Doing things stochastically, policy can be made that is robust to uncertain numbers.
> I do know what a thought experiment is. What I'm trying to point is that they never are really useful because the very reason that makes them unpractical is the reason that make them invalid. That reason is often shadowed by other reasons, but it's the fundamental flaw.

I understand, but ... you don't judge whether something is useful (or not) according to some arbitrary goal, you judge based on the specific goal intended.

In this case, the goal is "Does the process result in further lines of thought to exhaust, or further discussion?".

I mean, you wouldn't call a brain-storming session useless if it resulted in a conclusion of "no practical implementation is feasible at this time", would you?
No, it's best to think of them as unrelated. On one hand, you have an argument that "virgin soil" epidemics in the columbian exchange were deadly because Native Americans had no genetic diversity (not true) and thus effectively no differential susceptibility. That's a complex narrative causally linking many different processes and observations over centuries.

On the other, you have a statement that disease can cause selective pressure.

The only relationship is that they're both about genetics and disease.
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Well, I can see a few problems with this product already.

1. It's not accessible to mutes or possibly even people with a disability involving speech while still being able to speak somewhat. Deaf people will definitely have an issue here.

2. Security issues much? How are we to trust this any more than any other smart device that is 'always listening'. Or are we now just giving up and saying fuck it?

3. Multiple ways for the device to fail, without much recourse in repair. Lovely.

This is quite frankly, quite possibly, the worst idea for cellular technology I have ever seen yet.

And as ev1 said, they don't even have the proper details on some of their supposed information about things like the eSIM.

> Subscriber Identity Module

NOT

> Security Information Management
Are you referring to anything other than the infoq talks. Those were good.
A "hey, that's weird!" result. Cool!
More than 20 years ago, I read about new FRAM/FeRAM chip that just got commercialized that was supposed to revolutionize non-volatile storage. And the specs were pretty good, definitely much better that flash.

And yet today, nothing came out of it. Sure, you can still buy FeRAM at digikey, and it found a niche or two by itself, but it is tiny, tiny piece of overall storage market.

I think that memristor is going to end up as FRAM and not as MEMS. It is cute, but even if it could be executed perfectly, it does not allow anything that more conventional technologies can do (unlike MEMS :) l
I don't recall if I had those comments in mind, but yes, they're examples of low-quality comment.

The problem with stuff like that is that everyone overestimates how funny their jokes are. Mostly they're just lame. The gold standard HN explanation about this was by scott_s many years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289
The layout on a chromatic button accordion is surprisingly similar to a keyboard.

This was quite straightforward to touch type with: https://twitter.com/ykarikos/status/1038145486618861573
Some more 1400 upgrades: https://youtu.be/-uBvkJ_fDUs
it's the same on Fedora. I use Fedora Gnome with Pop Shell. works great.

hopefully they keep maintaining it for gnome after they release cosmic.
Mind Wanders Because Your Brain Whispers
Image recognition, self driving, voice to text, text to voice, text to images, source code generation, text generation, translations, image editing, classification, forecasting.

That’s now basic technology that I use regularly at work and in my personal life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module_file
Dogs have really good noses and the difference of air pressure between the store and outside could make a scent move far faster than you'd think. I'd see scent as far more plausible than psychic powers at least.
I'm using 22.05 actually. I blame Gnome, as it seems to be in a perpetual state of instability.
Aha. It seems to be like a midi file that includes the instruments it uses as samples.
And this is why the Linux desktop is domed to be a VM inside other OSes, or filled with Electron apps.

Gtk, Qt, XFCE, GNOME and KDE applications will look out of place in the new desktop, and most likely they will never create a Rust based set of frameworks that can match the above ones on features, development tooling, and extensibility points for desktop developers.
His description of DRIs (“directly responsible individuals”) sounds an awful lot like a product manager to me.
I wonder if COSMIC will get packaged in other distros like Ubuntu or Fedora.
The problem is quite subtle, though obvious in retrospect. I've seen a paper from a separate, academic, research group make similar model with the exact same problem.

The problem would, however, have been clear, if the model was compared to simply using the current mean blood pressure (MAP) as a predictor of hypotension, because MAP is the problematic predictor variable. Instead, the model was only compared to short-term changes in MAP (ΔMAP), which is obviously nonsensical and has an AUROC of ~0.55.
I similarly use the iPad for handwritten notes. The 12.9” size is absolutely essential to me, and that’s only available in the Pro.
If you're a teenager, which I'm not. And like I said, I don't post that stuff. I ignore it and then hope for an intelligent response to something I said and often get it. Barring that, 4chan is sometimes funny because it's so off the wall and out of left field.
Pervasive monitoring is an attack. No public internet traffic of any character should be cleartext. The actual websites run by human persons that you speak of (such as myself) are not exceptions to this.
The best trick I can think of is to reach a point where you can get connect four in two or more places and the bot can only cancel out one.
I think it means analysis paralysis and not having the guts to just shoot your shot.
Ok, now I see it. Thanks, learn something new every day
The last time i tried to argue with redditors got me a ban on r/de...
> commercial software programmers shaming open-source programmers. That doesn't seem to happen

this is a funny comparison : ) But it actually did happen for a while! Ballmer: "Linux is Cancer".
Keeping property vacant because you only care about appreciation and don’t want the hassle of being a landlord is a reasonable course of action, even if immoral. Property tax acts as friction against this, but often isn’t good enough to force people to rent out their property.
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Steps 7, and especially 8, seem like magic without a good explanation of how they're possible.
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Agree with all.

There are also inconsistencies between Postman running in the browser and the desktop app.

I documented a 3rd party API in Postman desktop and the called me all sorts of names because it didn't work. Postman support told them to download the desktop client and then it worked.
Not only content, go check GDC talks from Google.

While other platform vendors have technical stuff, some of it deep dives into their technology stack, Google's ones are mostly about Play Store, KPIs, and when technical, very superficial, where a blog post would be enough.

How can a studio thrust such company into having what it matters to launch a AAA tile, while being asked to rewrite for their platform.
Check out Dark Reader addon. https://darkreader.org/ Works in pretty much all browsers. On FF for Android it can even follow system settings for Dark Mode and for me only turn on between 20 and 6 o'clock.
Read a few pages I gave up. May I ask
- what is its use case?
- security
- charge model
- self hosting
Sorry if miss a faq on the site ?
Amsterdam looks incredibly realistic in the new Call of Duty
Again, allergies aren't a protected class.
It's even better on the Pro! Display is 120Hz, and it scans for pencil input at 240Hz.
I really enjoyed, thank you. lol
Haven't heard the Dead Internet Theory, I take it?
Does the camera position bother you? Or do you have it set up vertically during video calls?
Building more housing in hit areas can unsuppress suppressed demand. Say, somebody in Spokane really wants to move to Seattle, but hears about how hard is to get a place to live so stays put in Spokane. But then they build a bunch of new apartments, leading to vacancies, making their dream of moving to the big city more realistic. So if Seattle caters to all housing demand, they could grow from 700k to 7 or 70 million. Which obviously isn’t feasible.

Likewise, when we (Americans at least) talk about housing shortages, we don’t mean the USA as a whole, it’s just a few cities that everyone wants to live in, not say small towns in the Midwest or Deep South. So a lot of demand and is already suppressed because not everyone can live in those few hot places.
A method. An approach. A process. The functional outcome of a decision as implemented.

"Scheming" is I believe always a negative in current British English, but a scheme itself, like schematic, is not a negative.

The Darien Scheme, was overall a net negative.
I remember FRAM now that you mention it. There's obviously a lot of promising technologies that die through poor marketing, poor adoption, price, better performing or cheaper alternatives. I see potential in memristors but I think the jury is still out on whether it will see marketplace success. I personally think it has huge upside potential but it sounds like both of us have seen all that be for nothing. I think my previous comment carries more weight though, because it has a pig on it.
Sorry I meant 200k more than the current market value. I have friends in realestate in Australia who told me this. The only way they are selling property today is by dropping one to two hundred thousand off the Jan/Feb price. However many many people purchased within the last year at such inflated prices. They said during covid, most things were sold the day they were listed.

So the majority of recent buyers are servicing loans much larger than their current house is worth, and paying more interest on top of that.

I’m sure it will “go back up again”, but it doesn’t seem like there are any events in the near future which are likely to kick off another massive boom, all signals are pointing towards a property slump.
Japan rushes to rearm with eye on 2027 – and China's Taiwan ambitions
Who pays 1mil building costs for 1700 sqft?
'People were sucked into schemes': Inside Molly White’s campaign against crypto
So it’s the governments fault for protecting people from predatory rent hikes?
Inflation rises more.
I wish more games, any even, simply provided a "walk around as a tourist" mode. At this fidelity, it's enjoyable. I spent 6 months living in Amsterdam, it brought back memories. A short walk down from here is the back of the Hotel Grand Kraznopolsky. I can smell the weed from "the British bulldog" Cafe as I type.
Shouldn't it at least have to work well within the lifetime of the cars they sold with it (first in 2016)? If they refund with interest everyone including people who sold it will be less of a retail scam, but still an investor scam.
You might also enjoy the country version, done by the original artist: https://m.soundcloud.com/jugi/onward-giddy-up-by-yzi
Comparing Floating-Point Numbers Is Tricky (2017)
Not plausible for a human but maybe plausible for a dog?
You mean the bit where he's working on a version of Orch OR that doesn't cause bremsstrahlung? That's coming up with a new theory. You can always go away and change the theory. This isn't one of those overparameterised theory generators that can trivially explain every possible observation. He will have to materially change it to accommodate this.

And why shouldn't he explore what changes would be needed to accommodate the new evidence? That's not the behaviour of a crank convinced his theory must be right regardless of any evidence. It's just a natural thing to think about when a theory is falsified. He's never described Orch OR as anything more than speculative.

And frankly, what else would you expect him to do? He's 91. It's astonishing that he's still doing this sort of work at all. He's hardly going to start from scratch with a completely fresh theory at this stage, although if anybody could it would be Penrose.
RISC in 2022
> I can run free, untrusted HTTPS easily using self-issued certificates.

At present you can. But think about what conditions might lead to free issuance faltering: it will almost certainly boil down to pressure from governments. And do you think that such governments will lightly allow you to bypass their measures? No; once the dust settles, no technical measures will be effective: the end result will be mandatory interception of all traffic, with TLS proxying and similar, and any other traffic blocked. Countries have even done this at times, requiring anyone who wants to access the internet to install their root certificate.

The internet is designed to be comparatively robust against sociopolitical attack, but if a sufficiently powerful government decides to concertedly attack the internet as we know it, the internet will not win the conflict.

> I don't know HTTP/3 at all, but if it is more tightly tied to CA infrastructure that is a problem.

As clarified elsewhere in this thread, HTTP/3 changes absolutely nothing about certificate verification; superkuh appears to have misunderstood the meaning of the text in the spec.
Human hibernation is a real possibility
> compared to scrolling around search results and dealing with 2-5 popups

Queue the four minute youtube ad.
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Our Homo Sapiens Ancestors Shared the World with Neanderthals, Denisovans, An
https://archive.ph/zpAsi
Are you delusional? Have no cops been reprimanded in the past year?
The dev is Asahi Lina (I presume a pseudonym https://twitter.com/LinaAsahi ) and when she livestreams the coding sessions instead of a video feed there's an avatar (an animated anime girl) and the voice is modulated to fit the part as well

A random stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbVQWo0kh9Q
What about https://acoustid.org/? You can get a free API key and search for a chromaprint generated with e.g. ffmpeg...
The current implementation seems to be causing an issue where it is not in the landlord's interest to offer the units to the market. It is the regulation's fault for creating disincentives for the landlord, so it depends on how you allocate blame for making a judgement based on that.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't try, or that we need to stick to a counterproductive plan because some people think arguing about regulations on free markets is more important than fixing a pressing problem.
So the US government has no radio direction finders?
"However, in the situation I describe, they are looking at the road ahead and not noticing me or where I might be looking. "

There is something called peripheral vision

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_vision

If there is a movement in the corner of the eyes, like someone turning their head towards you, you can spot it subconsciously, or if you trained it a bit, consciously.
Unintended consequences may not be obvious when you first hear what a law is meant to do, but sometimes they really, really matter.
I can only imagine the frustration. Just getting this through peer-review took half a year, but at least there was the academic currency of a publication to motivate me.
Right. I wouldn't say that without looking at some evidence (actually quite a bit).
Not to mention code compliance. It requires high skill just to understand what requirements you must meet, when they must be inspected, etc. The idea that most people can build a modern house is hilariously out of touch.
https://youtu.be/Imquk_3oFf4

I don't think it uses any fancy modern CPU features but this is probably the reigning champion of the 256 byte demo, and its write up[0]

[0] http://www.sizecoding.org/wiki/Memories
What about long covid?
If the average shared user has at least two other stream subscriptions, the likelihood of them using Netflix the same time as 3 others is slim.
Yes. As the rent hikes are so low that it is better not to rent at all.
"They will pull their shirt down to cover rear end but it’s completely impossible they could have seen the observer, they can sense it."

Women usually have better peripheral vision than men. Also we hear and smell many more things, than we consciously notice.