skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's high given that the original referendum was so close. It was a rather large and irrevocable decision based on a bare majority.

People may regret their choices in elections, but they can revisit them every few years. Brexit is, if not forever, at least for a very long time.

Two mutually contradictory caveats:

1. The referendum itself was never intended to be serious. It was held because David Cameron thought it would fail, in order to shut up the anti-Europe wing of his party. He resigned over it.

2. Although the referendum was close, it was effectively affirmed by the elections in the wake of Cameron's resignation. It was still close, but they ended up with a majority for the party campaigning explicitly on a pro-Brexit platform.

This adds up to a cautionary tale on referendums. A big question was put to the people -- even bigger than an election -- and a largish majority (not a bare majority) are unhappy about the result.

In that sense, yes, 20% is a pretty big number. Not that it changes anything. It's much too late for that, and it doesn't tell us anything about the counterfactual where the referendum lost. But it's worth remembering going forward, both with respect to the EU and for national decision-making.
I agree, I wonder what is your data composition? Reddit threads, blogs, HN discussions? You can see why someone could make the case for bias. But I think is pretty good project, and pretty useful for communities that want only members with the same ideology, and need an automated filter to help with undesired comments, etc.
Pretty sure export control is a different thing. If you come up with original designs for an ICBM yourself by definition that's not espionage, but you might still get in trouble for sending those designs to a foreign country.
Well, it’s not an entirely unreasonable thing to ponder about.

No expert, but chartering a 737 looks to be about $200k per month. Capacity’s about 200, so it’s not a tremendous extravagance. I wonder if the staff have to pay a fare?
Most crypto-related projects are scams or money-rushes. But SOME will survive and be built after this with all of the learnings of the past few years. This is all very reminiscent of the dot com crash and how media was talking about the internet during the crash. If things follow that same path for crypto, this is really just the beginning of crypto.
ETH validators are around 8% right now, not 5%.

The 'risk' is that the developers don't successfully implement withdrawal or that the whole network goes down. Two, imho, huge risks and part of the reason I don't personally stake at this time. That said, eip-1559 and 'the merge' did happen, without much of a hitch at all, which are pretty major accomplishments. Confidence in the developers is a bit higher now as a result.

source: validator rewards section of https://ultrasound.money/
uh, wha...??—God, Americans.
I think more than anything, this has made a16z and Sequoia lose all their merit and credibility. They are now no more than some sneaky crypto grifters who can sneak off to Argentina or Dubai and their ideas and thoughts have zero intellectual value.
I don't think you even need Benford's law - "Hidden, poorly internally labled 'fiat@' account" has to trigger some more fundamental law.
Yes, check out Dioxus, which is essentially React for Rust, and is faster than react at many tasks.
Pretty great thing to read coming back from a tempo run! I just go into it this year, and I'd like to say, it's more fun than I thought. Every aspect.

If you get a heart rate monitor and dive into what you're doing even difficult high intensity runs are enjoyable. It's all about expectations and if you go into it thinking

- "I'm going to run at 75% of my max heart rate" you know you're going to be winded, but at the end feel great

- "I'm going on an easy run 60% of max heart rate" you know you'll be able to have a nice conversation along the way and get some good thinking in

etc etc, it's great. Don't start with a heart rate monitor but after a few months it adds a lot of fun for those who like geeking out on numbers and planning.
slightly OT, but I'm hoping the new CGRP meds will eventually be OTC. They work well and don't have any major issues that would make sumatriptan prescription (small risk of cardiac related issues and serotonin syndrome). That being said...just came on the market so the powers that be need to "recover their investment"...
The exact same thing happened on an old blog of mine. They mirrored the content and changed all the links to ad links. I asked them once to take it down but received no response. I just ignored it and eventually they let the domain expire.
Here's how I see it:

Crypto as an investment - Not your keys, not your coin.

Crypto as a currency - I can't directly buy food, water, shelter, transportation, energy, or anything fundamental with it.

I know acceptance is growing, but 10+ years later, crypto still has extremely limited acceptance for daily goods and services. It is almost exclusively held as an investment.
I sort of like these kind of markets though, they definitely reward traders who take the time to understand what they're trading.

Crypto is a swamp of projects that will take your money and spin you a story about getting rich and inevitably rugpull you. It's full of centralized exchanges that are shady and exploitative in the best case and downright scams in the worst case.

It's also full of people who fundamentally believe that permissionless programmable money is something that could fundamentally change the world and passionately chase the goal of making it better every day.

Those projects are still risky because technology is never perfect and that's a big deal when it's moving large amounts of value from place to place but if you can tolerate the risk the potential for long-term benefit is there.
> if your passion involves actively degrading your country's competitive advantage by leaking every info you can to the wide world,

I don't like that mindset. The US Gov steals trillions of dollars a year from the public to fund all sorts of stuff. These black projects alone represent hundreds of billions of R&D dollars, that tech should *belong to the public*.

We pay for it, they work for us (don't they?), we should collectively benefit from it. Instead valuable advancements are locked away in secret hangars. Entire industries are left un-disrupted, all so we can have some edge for a hypothetical war we shouldn't even be fighting anyways.
Reporting to the enemy on plainly visible realities, like the locations of infrastructure and military personnel, is classic wartime espionage.
Also, water-only fasting.
Chebyshev polynomials are just sinusoids in disguise, but they also bring in some of the nice properties of polynomials and have helpful recurrence relations.
I spent 20k hours programming in Emacs. I finally decided to switch to VSCode
I don't hold Bitcoin. I use it for cross-continent transactions. I buy it from people in my city using a local FB group or (way in the past) Localbitcoins.com and then send it to the recipient. They usually use Localbitcoins to convert it to their own currency AFAIK. The fees (transfer and exchange) are much lower this way - usually less than 0.5% all things considered. Compared to $100+ fee to just transfer the money + 5-10% currency exchange fee (both my and the recipient's currency aren't the most well known).
A lot of people in finance like to us q, an APL derivative with some more functional programming facilities, so in that sense it's had a mini-renaissance.
Yet another example of how our policing in this country is beyond broken. These cards are disgusting and what they represent is the exact opposite of what police should stand for.

I hate our current state of law enforcement (local and federal) that essentially lets "enforcers" pick which laws they enforce and who they enforce them against. The ability for police to utilize "discretion" might sound like a good thing but I think it's not. If they enforced the laws equally and universally we would see that some (perhaps many) laws need to be stricken from the books because of how many people are regularly breaking them. Instead the police get to pick so if you piss them off they might write you up for a minor infraction that they ignore 99% of the time. The police should not have this power.

Another example of police getting to decide if they want to do their jobs are not is what happened to the CA DA Chesa Boudin. He came in and tried to implement various criminal justice reform policies and the police didn't like that so what did they do? They stopped doing their jobs. They let crime rise to the point that civilians, incorrectly, assumed the DA wasn't doing his job and they recalled him. Let that sink in, a DA tried to make changes and the police decided to just not do their job in order to make him look bad so they could get him effectively "fired" and they didn't have to make any reforms/changes. That's absolutely disgusting. Just imagine trying to pull a stunt like that were you work and think about how well it would go over. Police are not a protected class, they should be held to a higher standard than the rest of us but instead they are held to almost no standard at all.

We need massive police reform in the US and it's becoming even more clear that there is little worth "saving" from our current system.
That house is not in the same context as 20 years ago. Constant growth provides more amenity for the house than previously, and higher competitive desireability.

To get an equivalent house you need to go further out to a less developed area with less people competing for the house, and there you will find cheaper houses.

I'm not saying it is sustainable or what the values should be etc, just that the past conditions != todays conditions despite it being the same latitude and longitude.
Looking forward to your feedback. If are open to sharing what sort of bots have you thought about building for your community, I can see if we can support those specific use cases.
It looks nice but not sure if their component is open source or if it is built any of the existing open source libs.
Just saw the framework section.
I'm not sure which way you intended that. Rest assured, there's a lot of open air boozing in Northern Europe in the summertime.
Assange placed an encrypted dump on the internet. Luke Harding and The Guardian published the key to that dump in a book.

The dump contained information that placed individuals at risk; Assange made the information public as quickly as he could, so that affected individuals could take protective measures.

Luke Harding and The Guardian were responsible for exposing the data, not Assange. They betrayed him, and they still haven't admitted it. They were supposedly collaborating with him (also Spiegel and NYT).

I still don't know what happened at that time; MI5 came to the Guardian offices with Dremels and angle grinders to pulverize a laptop, in an obvious piece of theatre. Shortly after, the editor-in-chief (Alan Rusbridger) resigned and was replaced by a lightweight. The full truth will come out sooner or later.
Yeah, this stuff has always felt like the least interesting part of science.

Guessing at mechanisms for stuff we already know.

We know exercise is good for you, we know it reduces the risk of cancer and death from cancer.

Let's throw a dart at a board full of its good-sounding effects and all nod our heads at the idea it probably contributes.

My eyes glazed over but they seemingly only found a result in high Vs low metastatic activity? Not even metastatic Vs not metastatic.
Punishing people for taking photographs from property/space available to the public is 100% security theater. If joe blow can do it from public property with his $20k camera then USSR or whatever boogeyman already has it 10x better.

That said maybe if you're going to poke the dragon pick your battles. There are a lot better 1A issues to focus on, but I guess you do you Area 51 man.
To someone from a more collectivist culture this sounds perfectly noncommittal - a weak reed that pierces the hand of anyone who would support himself on it. What is there to be had, except lunch expenses?
What meds are you taking? I avoided this path for as much, but I’m looking to get my doctor prescribe me something.
> Personally, I think discretion, as long as it’s not abused, should be available to decision makers.

> as long as it’s not abused

That ship has long since sailed. The police have proven more times than I can count that they absolutely cannot be trusted not to abuse this.
That makes sense. Your website probably had a good page rank and/or visibility. If they would have replaced your content with other content and/or filled it with a lot of ads, that might have dropped quickly. I often get request for links, advertisements or payed content for my personal website.
FME deserves a mention, an ETL aimed at GIS data. It is the only automation tool I have ever used that doesn't make me want to switch to code. Everything can output to a node which makes it easier to understand errors. And every stage of processing can be inspected.
> the US government likely looking to make an example of SBF.

Considering the silence from top officials, I don't think this is going to be true. Don't forget he donated ~$50M to the democrats for the mid-terms and was the second biggest dem donor.
Big boys go for yacht and stuff /s
I appreciate that these issues definitely complicate research and benchmarking of VM performance, but I'm confused about this question: "If you're a normal user, the results suggest that you're often not getting the performance you expect". Is that true? Most VMs are not simple, predictable systems that would ever reach a "steady state"—they're dynamic systems that are constantly executing different parts of the codebase and taking wildly different codepaths at different times. V8 is a great example of this—the type of code executed on a page changes wildly depending on what you're doing and what actions you take. Why would we even want to optimize it for "reaching a steady state", when different parts of the codebase may be more or less useful at different times? It seems more important to me to work on optimizations that can allow us to deoptimize parts of the codebase that we don't think we will be useful again, to save on memory, even if it involves sacrificing this theoretical notion of a "steady state"
I'm glad you mentioned the economics of automating farms. There are numerous products listed in this thread that only appear to target one crop type and only perform one low cost activity (spraying, weeding, etc) that is done once per growing season (and often once per year).

Automation of day-neutral strawberry picking sounded sensible on first glance to me because harvest occurs over many months of a year (extendable by transporting the robots to another region with different growing seasons) thus robots are not sitting around idle for 95% of the year. Additionally, harvesting strawberries is dangerous work for humans to perform due to repetitive twisting, bending and reaching.

However, looking deeper into the economics of strawberries (using Australia as an example), picking costs are stated to only be 20% of fixed growing costs[1] seemingly amounting to AUD$1.30/plant (USD$0.80-1.00/plant). With a typical density of 40000 plants/hectare, robots appear to only be cost neutral if they can be operated at AUD$52000/hectare (USD$30000-40000/hectare) for picking. This results in, for example, two AUD$26000/year (USD$15000-20000/year) robots assigned per hectare needing to pick at a rate of 2 seconds per plant[2] for 12 hours each every day. With 9 million tons of strawberries produced globally per year, the strawberry harvesting market would be AUD$11bn if Australian labour rates, likely amongst the highest, were the global norm.

Would it be fair to say that farm automation will only become viable if everyone accepts the true cost of growing produce is much higher than current prices. That, for example, wages for farm workers would need to be much higher (doubled or more) to be livable wages and also to compensate for injuries and health risks of farm work and an inability to work in manual labour jobs at older age. In Australia we're seeing many news articles on the topic of "lack of farm workers" so a significant upwards movement in farm worker wages seems possible. Or perhaps strict health and safety regulations introduced to protect farm workers from repetitive injuries would result in wide adoption of farm robotics? Or perhaps it will just be cheap robotics that results in mass uptake of farm robotics?.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-06-25/breakdown-of-th...

[2] Per a 2019 example from one of your competitors (https://youtu.be/9cxHYEzMVKQ?t=106) it looks very difficult to pick at a rate of 2 seconds per plant without wastage (e.g. missing obscured berries) but my simple calculations are nonetheless optimistic.
>I mean, there are super simple rules to follow. Like don't take pictures of restricted objects.

How about this for a "super simple rule", the gov can keep secret whatever they pay for. As long as they're taking taxpayer $$$ *we own it*, and have all the rights to utilize that technology for our collective benefit.
The signal measured by fMRI is definitely related to neural activity, but the relationship is indirect and sometimes subtly complicated.

Neurons compute and communicate electrochemically by controlling how ions (charged particles) flow across their membranes. At "rest", the inside of a neuron is slightly negative (- 70 mV) relative to its environment. However, its surface is studded with channels that let different types of ions into/out of the cell as well as "receptors" that can open or close these channels. Some are opened by specific chemicals, which can bring the cell's membrane potential closer to zero (e.g., by admitting sodium ions). Once it gets above about -55 mV, other channels that are sensitive to voltage take over, and produce a wave of activity that shoots down the axon and eventually causes the release of chemicals that affect other neurons, muscles, etc. This is what actually does work in the brain, but it's not what fMRI measures.

Instead, fMRI exploits the fact this process is energetically expensive: neurons need oxygen and sugar (glucose) to do all that work, and so neurons need to plumbed into the vascular system so those can be delivered. The signal fMRI measures is called the BOLD signal, for Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent. The magnetic properties of a blood molecule carrying oxygen are a bit different from a deoxygenated one, and thus they can be told apart with some clever physics and signal processing.

Based on what I said above, you might expect that fMRI thus measures the reduction in oxygenation, but it actually turns out to be a lot more complicated than that. Levels do dip when nearby neurons are active, but only briefly. After that, they shoot up, above baseline levels: more blood--and more oxygen--are delivered to the formerly-active area.

This is mostly what fMRI measures. The neuromuscular coupling seems to vary between brain states and maybe even brain areas; it's affected by different health conditions and drugs too. It's also limited by the structure of the vascular system. People occasionally find that veins appear to be heavily involved in cognitive tasks, sometimes even more than the brain itself, but that's just because they're delivering the blood.

Despite all this, the mechanisms are getting better understood and you can certainly interpret a BOLD change as suggesting that something is happening in that particular region, even if it's not clear exactly how it's implemented.
That figure comes from examining 148 people in that cohort who got cancer. The authors don't state what proportion of that number is metastatic cancer. They also state:

"As our focus was on the relationship between exercise and cancer, we used a propensity score of multinomial logistic regression to control for key variables in the diet assessed using a validated questionnaire."

So the 73% figure is drawn from a small number of cases that were significantly weighted. I'd be interested to hear what people who know this field think about this result separate from the mouse/human exercise stuff.
Sure, for the 2,000 people who use it without exchanges. (made up number)
I dont hail from Estonia, but if you disqualify it as a democracy... pretty much all other european nations and the USA will have to be disqualified too and for the same reasons.

Its quality of life index is way higher then the USA as well, though that doesn't really say anything about its democracy.

https://www.democracymatrix.com/ranking
I recently volunteered to help a local vineyard harvest their grapes. It was a learning experience, and I thought about robots and if they'd be suitable. Part of the "skill" involved was leaving grapes on the vine that hadn't ripened 100%. Furthermore, the care required to gently clip and extract the grapes from a "viney" plant without damage or loss was sometimes tricky. Hard to see a robot mastering the process, without changes in how the grapes are grown/attached.
What's significant about $16k?
Hi everyone! This launch comes on the heels of our Go SDK and Python SDK launch. Our goal is to eventually allow any developer to create CI/CD pipelines in their favorite language, and run them anywhere.

As usual, happy to answer any questions.
20% flat rate.
A law? How come hospitals and doctors that don't have surprise bills out-compete those that do? Surely if this was a thing that patients cum customers demanded, there would be a provider willing to step in an supply it.
The ACA did not exacerbate the mess. It merely allowed more people access to the system and put in some curbs to the exploitation. A truly free market health care system would be horrible and dystopian. Some things ought not be a free market and health care is one of them.
Why can't we have both? Eternal body and eternal soul?
Why is being laid off being compared to the grief related to the death of a parent?

Why would there be any grief from a layoff? It’s just a job.

Anyone in mourning because they have to job hunt probably has some bigger issues that aren’t going to be helped in any way by what friends do or do not say.
We are making steady and inexorable progress through the technology hype cycle.

From earlier this year:

https://emtemp.gcom.cloud/ngw/globalassets/en/articles/image...

Now we enter the Trough of Disillusionment.

Given the general accuracy of this model/metaphor in the past, should we consider it to be any different this time around?
In my opinion it might be more disparate if people's hardware specs can afford it, trading centralization for peer to peer or federated services at the expense of creating even greater filter bubbles. That or non-centralized web things are just fashionable to talk about and I am blindly regurgitating trends. 50-50 really, half of those conversations were spurred on by crypto wank and those types aren't exactly having a good time right now.
TouchDesigner!
The classic "every country did at least one bad thing sometimes in the past so stoning homosexuals to death in 2022 isn't that bad", Alright :|

If you absolutely love money and have no moral at least say it, even Soros did it: "I am basically there to make money. I cannot and do not look at the social consequences of what I do."
Backdoors aren't poorly coded, they are well coded but malicious.
That's good to hear. I don't invest in crypto, and it sucks that some unreputable companies are impacting the space, but at least there is a relatively safe haven where people that do invest can avoid scams.
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