skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also tried working with EEG data from an OpenBCI device. My goal was to get an accurate enough signal to move a cursor on an X/Y axis and use that to control a predictive text input tool like Dasher.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasher_(software)

The X/Y BCI signal goal seems fairly practical and could open up critical pathways for interaction and communication.

If anyone is interested in pursuing this idea, please send me a message. My previous attempts were derailed due to technical difficulties with the BCI hardware/software link, but I'd like to see this idea come to light.
The Model Y battery is 771 kg. At 1200 Wh/kg, we're looking at 925 kWh. That's 12 times the current battery (76 kWh). So range would be ~500 km x 12 = 6,000 km.
> How many human hours should be wasted on toy projects that only cause distraction and get abandoned shortly after?

As many hours as possible.
I am not sure what algorithmic "secret sauce" pinecone is implementing beyond being a wrapper around FAISS, but I have got to give it to James that he is doing god's work in helping people understand ANNS and how to apply it.
If you're on Android also use Blockada to block ads in app. It's a local VPN server that filters out requests to ad servers. I think there are other apps like that but I never used anything else.
The success is two fold:

1. layoffs make people desperate and reset the expectations. Eg I made 300k at Google but when unemployed I’ll take a job for 100k at a random company. Then Google can hire back at 200k and be the top salary again.

2. Layoffs make the employees scared of being laid off. They don’t expect raises, just employment. They work harder for less just to keep a job. Look at Amazon announcing most people won’t get a raise or even a stock refresh with the stock crash.

This works at scale even as some individuals and companies don’t comply.

Bonus: layoffs (somewhat) reset the cost basis of the company and save a ton in a long term downturns. It gives cover to kill that blockchain department that everyone realizes they don’t need.
Are there cases of that happening? Besides the known ones in the US I mean, I'm talking about China
I think that was why Donald Knuth stopped issuing checks for rewards for people finding errors in his books -- people would post images of the checks online to brag about having received them, and then criminals would initiate fraudulent ACH transfers.

Also not sure why that's not more common in comparison to credit card fraud.

Edit: I guess credit card fraud can be easier to cash out (for physical goods or services), while ACH fraud requires mules to act as intermediaries to receive the fraudulent deposits, which might be harder to come by and sustain.
> To access the secure enclave on a device that is with you for 100% of your life? Probably fine.

The notion, however, that a device shall be with you for 100% of your life is not fine at all. It's totally dystopian.
SF is actually a city that is devoid of children. They're not hidden, they just don't exist because housing is too expensive. People with kids mostly leave.
This problem will only go away with regulation. Sadly the minds in our industry are so focused on "disrupting the system" that little progress has been made. In the US, Venmo, paypal, etc. are still a thing and in most of the world - they simply aren't. Government regulated banking and an interchange standard is the way to go here. In Iceland where I previously lived, anyone could transfer reasonable amounts of money to any other person for free, through a government run banking system, regardless of what bank you had. I am normally against government intervention, but this is a case where a single standard and rule actually makes sense. The only people it doesn't make sense to are those trying to circumvent fees which should only be applied to business transactions. The argument against it is the cost to transfer money internationally, but.. those same benefits are the problem with systems like this - no regulation
I couldn't even get them to speak to them. Their system denied my payment dispute (for which I could show obvious fraud) instantly--within 20 seconds. And then when I called they refused to talk since it was denied.

Luckily I paid through my credit card on Paypal since I disputed it through them. If I had linked my checking account, they would have help a fraudster steal 700 dollars from me.
In Germany that is paid for with the Church tax, so it's paid by Catholics and not Germans in general.
Tens of millions of russians! Tens of millions of people die every year by capitalist exploitation. See, I can also give made up numbers.

In all seriousness, you can't make up numbers out of your ass. Do you know the lives of how many people costed to live under capitalism? How many died so we can have this computer, these clothes? The lives of how many exploited africans, asians and latinos it costed to make these things (computers, cellphones, clothes, but also grains, vegetables, food, oil, minerals)? How many millions die year by year because we live in a capitalist system, that values profit over lives?

The first world war was an imperialist war, where millions died because of a power struggle over African colonies. Thousands of workers were (and continue to be) killed protesting their working conditions. Millions of communists and suspected communists were killed in Indonesia and South America to defend capitalism.

The achievements of capitalism are more important to capitalists than lives, but they are happy to use others lives both to justify their own actions and measure the success of capitalism!

Bewildering.
Yea keep the funds in a wallet, not in a fucking exchange. That's the entire point.

Not your keys, not your coins.
that's not a contradiction. if society in hungary is low trust (which i doubt btw, unless something changed since i was there last more than a decade ago) then this low trust does not extend to the safety of their children.

letting kids wander about shows high trust in their kids not getting into danger. in the US people don't even trust that.
Nitpicking, but I think people here often don't think clearly about the value of expecting Constitution-inspired behaviors from non-government organizations. This frequently comes up when discussing free speech on moderated online platforms.

In particular, there are underlying reasons that we want the US government to respect certain individual freedoms, and to the extent that some other organization is sufficiently government-like, we might want it to respect those freedoms for it's users for similar reasons.
In the case of a university, I think it's pretty clear that Stanford is a de-facto government over the students attending there. Sure, attendance is technically voluntary and you can leave at any time, but that's also true of normal governments, especially state and local governments. The key thing is that being forced to leave your home and community to avoid a state government violating your rights would really suck, so that gives them a significant position of power over you, and we have a constitution to ensure they don't abuse it.

Stanford absolutely has that level of power over its students, and so it's totally reasonable to claim that they ought to abide by due process restrictions that are similar to (although probably not identical to) those from the Constitution. These things aren't binary, a university can be government-like in some ways and private-citizen-like in others.
I wonder what its like to sleep underwater rwith an oxegen mask and goggles?

Actaully soem sort of helmet would be best to avoid acidental drowing.
Ohh I did read Cryptomomicon too. Forgot that one.

I’ll give it a shot. Thanks!
It ultimately depends on what your threat model is, what are you trying to defend against? I use Qubes dispvms (whonix if possible) for personal browsing, but that's pretty far toward the extreme end of the scale.
I don't think it's a huge advantage. x86 instructions are not executed directly on fixed-function hardware anymore. Everything is microcode.
Ah yes, the power consumption... don't get me started on that one. That box alone probably took more power than whatever else was living in that rack :)

And now your average phone has more CPU power and more storage...
NextDNS + Ublock Origin (or Brave Browser, since it uses the UBO lists by default) is a really good combo on its own, and easy enough for my self-proclaimed "tech illiterate" friends to set up and use.

Also, it's pretty cool that NextDNS has this: https://github.com/nextdns/nextdns/wiki
I'm going to just read "limitation on Chrome" as "purposely defective by design" as there's sufficient incentive to delay disabling to let a few telemetric squeaks escape.
I think you should have a put a bit more thought into planning for scale. There’s a difference between not overengineering and not actually doing the basic maths to figure out the unit economics of your business model ahead of setting it live to the whole world.
My 2 cents fwiw. Pop os is probably the best consumer linux desktop experience. Flatpack installs, company customer support, and a well configured Ubuntu base make it ideal.

I'm glad they're not an official flavor, canonical hasn't been doing a great job on their consumer desktop sector because their money is made via the server installs and distributions.
I respect your feelings, but Ublock Origin is not available on my Android phone or on my iPad. It's also not available for all browsers. It may not work for you, but for me Pi-hole is a wonderful solution for my whole family, and they don't ever need me to touch their devices in order for it to work for them.
How would it ever be tracked? Is there something that can detect Copilot generated code?
The docs can be improved, but here's the GitHub Actions guide: https://depot.dev/docs/integrations/github-actions

The most important bit though is that we have a `depot/build-push-action` that implements the same inputs as Docker's `docker/build-push-action`, so just swapping that line and adding a project ID and access token are the majority of what you'd need to do:

- uses: depot/setup-action@v1
- uses: depot/build-push-action@v1
with:
project: <your-depot-project-id>
token: ${{ secrets.DEPOT_TOKEN }}

# Whatever other inputs:
context: .
push: true
tags: |
...

I think that's along the lines of what you're describing as a Depot GitHub Action: https://github.com/depot/build-push-action.
The kinds of strangers you are likely to meet in SF are not to be trusted. It's not irrational on an individual level, it's just a societal madness in the USA.

I lived in LA, and would not let my wife walk around after dark let alone my daughters. There were a few individuals who lived under bridges that would regularly assault women. And we lived in a "good" area. We moved to an even better area and within a couple months there was a shooting, high speed chase, and a drunk driver rolled his car into our neighbor's yard.

Needless to say, we moved away.
Instead of defunding the police we should just turn half the police force into traffic cops. Take away their squad cars, give them bicycles, and just have them run speed traps in every neighborhood.
That culture is created by a media environment manufactured by companies whose employee base are well represented on this site. This line is pushed on us, ad nauseam. Unsurprisingly, most of us are sick from it.
>> Over 50 percent of Black children in the U.S. will experience a child welfare investigation before their eighteenth birthday (nearly double the rate of white children).

> So more than 25% of all children experience a child welfare investigation?

Yes, 37.4%.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5227926/#:~:tex....
That's a lot of extra hardware to replace what was just a very short cable with a connector on each end! I'll have to look into a USB-C hub that also has USB-A for the keyboard.
In the last 10 years, the EV market has grown 50-fold from $10 to $500 billion in revenue.
Are people still using a mature, stable, battle-tested framework with tons of third-party resources, great documentation and excellent coverage of many business needs ?

Yes, of course.
Interesting thing happened to me a couple of years ago.

I went to another state to pick up a car I had bought. I needed to pull $10k of
my own money in cash out of the my banks to pay the seller. I checked with the banks before I left to make sure it would be OK.

I arrived in Utah to meet the seller and we go to the bank to do the transaction, and my banks suddenly don't want to let me cash out that much money. I ended up having to kludge the transaction together with some my cash and credit card advances. I didn't quite make the full sale amount so the seller let me take the car and sent me the pink slip later.

Second fact: online banking used to do instant bill pays. Now anything above a trivial amount has to be scheduled. It didn't used to be that way.

Combining these two suggests to me there is a liquidity shortage in the retail banking system. Paypal may be under the same liquidity pressures and using fuzzy TOS reasons to hold money because they don't have the liquidity to handle all of their transaction demand.
Thank you. I'll have a look.
Google contractors striking in Austin hope to rally support in tech
I think zooming further out, the incentive for academia is to churn out degrees + get grants. Getting a PhD is supposed to require doing something that nobody has done before. Most people getting PhDs/in academia are not actually good enough to do this (it’s really hard! There’s not a ton of low hanging fruit, and you’re “competing” with many others), which is why we end up with tons of garbage papers nobody will ever care about.

Medical research may be performed by MDs but the incentives are still basically the same: papers are resume builders. It looks better when applying to a fellowship/job to have a nice publication history. Obviously the best case is to have worked on some really groundbreaking stuff - still really hard - but the next best case is to have a ton of meh publications, since that beats having a few publications, or no publications.

In medical programs the grant thing is a lot bigger too because there is, rightfully, tons of money to throw to that area. You need grants as an academic to progress. You won’t keep getting grants if you take grants and then don’t publish anything, so even if you have nothing good come out of it, you need to publish something. That incentivizes fraud in the worst case and noise in the best. The better-best case would be if academia were more open to accepting null results
Low CoL place? 150k doesn’t support paying for a 4 bedroom in the suburbs of coastal cities…
Just checked a relatively new iPhone that is 132 days old. I charge it nightly, even though it hardly goes below 50%. In fact, battery stats for last 10 says that it used on average 40% battery per day, and it is pretty typical usage for me. It has 111 charging cycles.

Something doesn't add up.
Those don't apply to "at-will" employment - you have freedom of speech in that you won't be sent to jail, but you can easily be fired for something you say. That law actually doesn't apply here because the situation is different. This affects freedom of association because it supports the rights of individuals to form organizations, and also for the organization to deny membership, so the school has the right to remove a professor if the student body doesn't want them for some reason
Part of the challenge of using ChatGPT is developing instincts about whether it will do well on a specific question.

Tailscale is too new: ChatGPT's training is unlikely to know much if anything about it.

I wouldn't be surprised if Bing could handle this much better, since it has the ability to search for current documentation.
Some context is likely needed, as the fact that the child is a foster child most certainly played a part in how seriously they took this allegation.

In the US (and actually all over the world), children in foster care situations are at higher risk of abuse. Moreover, foster children are wards of the state and placement decisions are up to the state. The law about non-foster children (children with parents) is much more strict in what parents can and cannot do with their children. That means that it is extremely easy for the state to decide to move a foster child, whereas they cannot just take someone's adopted or biological child away. At the end of the day, the state is the foster child's guardian. For example, the state makes medical decisions for foster children. When we did our foster parent training, we even learned that sometimes the foster parents cannot make decisions on haircuts!

However, I'm going to guess that the state is hyper-vigilant about foster children because (1) they are often victims, (2) the state is directly in charge of foster children.
What is it in that quoted text that would discourage you from submitting a challenge?
Twitter isn't much different.
Create new account, make a first post, banned. They want your phone number or to solve a puzzle, I did neither and uninstalled.
Not as extreme as that chat support or lack thereof but it seems to be a trend.
“Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”

— https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/29/too-crowded/
1. I was very careful to make sure that the IP address I was assigned was not on any blacklists.

2. I don't know if it actually helped. But after setting it up, I got a whole bunch of family/friends to email me from their gmail/hotmail/o365 addresses first, and then I replied to them. The theory was that gmail/hotmail wouldn't mark me as spam if their own addresses were initiating the conversation. Seemed to have worked well.

I have had only one case of my email getting completely blackholed (not put in spam, just rejected outright) is when I emailed a friend with a @amd.com address. Right now, I am still using gmail for essential professional emails, but slowly getting all my online-services converted to the new email address.
The people living in poverty very very rarely hurt a stranger's children. It's the cops who show up and take them, absolutely destroying their sense of security and growing independence.
I agree with what you say in principle, but if that's true the (possibly) few cases of overreach have to have remedy for those that are injured. But now we're starting to get into the territory of issues of qualified immunity are an issue (recently discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34901629, for example).

Having said that, I think the tendency of state agencies, in a political landscape where we regularly justify increased legal intrusiveness into our lives using "think of the children" arguments, to use state power to force our personal cultural prerogatives, and to ask the state to generally solve our problems for us, will be for "stupid" child protective actions to increase over time.

So I applaud the actions to nip this is in the bud... assuming you're right.
> I can't be the only one that's seen the hundreds if not THOUSANDS of children (under 18) fighting, causing mayhem, attacking innocent people, and property destruction videos that circulate all over the internet.

I can’t think of a worse way to assess the state of society than by consuming viral videos circulated online. This is a really disturbing way to form or justify opinions.
What is inadequate about leaving a 9yro child at home in her own home, alone?
This seems highly doubtful, do you have a link to concrete cases where the US or Soviet Union could decrypt each other's top secret communications?
well no. Have a look at how long it takes to go from Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium (i.e. all countries that are not France) to Barcelona.
Yes, I meant that bandwidth is very expensive in cloud.
In theory, yes, but in practice what happens is those people get priced out of their homes anyway.

If a retired person was living in the $1.8m home in my example above and was paying a low tax based on the 1970's of the house, they might not be able to afford moving to a more practical $900k one-bedroom apartment/condo because their tax rate would increase and they may not have the cashflow to pay for that bill (even considering the proceeds from the sale of the home).

If you walk through SF, even really nice neighborhoods like St. Franciswood, you'll see large beautiful homes that are in severe states of disrepair because the owners don't have the cashflow to pay for the enormous costs of repairing their homes. They'd be better off moving to a smaller dwelling, but they won't because it could cost more and the incentives are more out of whack.
Well too bad Google won't let you on the phone, Firefox at least allows you to install ublock.
Sounds like you are trying to equate “intelligent” with “wise and good”.

FAANG unquestionably soaked up a lot of highly intelligent people, and built a lot of clever stuff and solved a lot of challenging technical problems.

To a worthwhile end, maybe not so much.
The article in the OP is a great example of why removing humans and relying on code is fraught with issues. The problem is that money is often used to exchange for value and things outside of a computer, where smart contracts have little to no reliable mechanism for determining fulfillment of contract conditions. Although, I'm sure smart contracts will be of great use for moving around digital goods.
In our Time is legendary.
Have literally been reading Snow Crash for the last couple months and just got to this part in the last week. This is followed shortly by the glorious multi-page memo on toilet paper share pools policy.
> After all, no one is forcing you to teach at Stanford right?

Sure, the point is not that the bill of rights applies to Stanford. The point is that the teachers are morally right, for the same reason that we have the 6th ammendment.
Tell HN: DuckDuckGo's privacy extension is adding an inline popup to web forms
I didn't really believe my eyes when I saw it the first time, I thought it had to be some ad specific to the website.

But it appears every form accepting an email on any website I visit now gets a small duck icon next to it that pops up a big bold-print message box to "Protect your inbox " complete with a cheeky prompt to either "get email protection" or "maybe later." Refusal is not even an option. This is definitely new for me as of today.[0]

I found DuckDuckGo via Hackernews and have generally been a happy user of both the search engine and the privacy extension. Why could they possibly be doing this? It seems like a self-destructive act from a branding standpoint, I can't imagine their target customer demographic is amicable to this kind of thing.

[0]https://i.redd.it/p1tcoikka0ka1.png

Edit: It's even on Hackernews! I genuinely can't recall a browser extension acting like this since the mid-00s adware toolbar days. https://i.imgur.com/vYjZAUK.png

Edit again: This post originally just said "injecting ads into web forms," I edited the title to clarify - apologies if that was misleading.
Do you really believe that the people pushing for AI art would slowdown or even stop their work if artists did have legitimate concerns about proliferation of this tech? There is money to be made by developers, money to save by bypassing artists, and those artists using AI art may compete more effectively against peers that don't. Why would they stop?
came here to say the same! but then the multicast would make less sense.. unless that was a complementary red herring
I was using the cooking meth as an example of something that negatively impacts a community even if it seem to only impact the individual at first glance. Maybe a little too extreme of a comparison, but I was just trying to make a point that it’s not unprecedented to make laws that limit other people’s ability to do things with their property.

And I do prefer dense walkable neighborhoods personally, but I just also understand the frustration of a community living somewhere because of some quality of that neighborhood, then having that quality ripped away just because a small number of previous inhabitants left.
A new market opportunity for your company?