skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a bit of experience in this space as we're making a sleep EEG device to improve the efficiency of deep sleep.

The hardware is one of the easier parts to build for an EEG system.
Along with this device, you could also buy a very similar device from https://openbci.com (about $1000 for 12 channel, $400 for 4 channel).

The challenge in letting "anyone connect their brain to a computer" is in the electrode design and comfort/weirdness of the device.

First you've just got the dry electrodes, which can be expensive, and in many designs (Muse S) wear over time, requiring replacement headbands.

Many devices try going for the through hair electrode design, which is challenging for people with lots of hair, or curly afros (like myself).

Once you've got your electrodes figured out, then you have to figure out how to keep them in place, comfortably, over an extended period of time.

Ok, so you've got that sorted, now get that into a form factor a person will be happy to wear.

We are starting to see in-ear EEG devices built into headphones like the Emotiv Mn8 (https://www.emotiv.com/workplace-wellness-safety-and-product...).

However, even in these locations the electrodes are going to be sensitive to movement. So great it you are sitting still at work, but what are you really trying to accomplish.

So that's all the bad news. The good news is that with the low cost and experimentation that is happening in this space, I suspect we are going to learn more about the brain in the next 10 years than we have in the last 50.

It is becoming easier to watch the brain and learn more about it's functioning.

Many people ask what the benefit of a BCI device is. Unlike fitness monitors, which are giving users data, I believe the near future of BCI is in neurofeedback.

We're seeing a bunch of development from different start-ups (a bunch in Sydney, AUS - so reach out if you're local) that are looking at neurofeedback for treatment of psychological disorders.

At https://soundmind.co, we're using neurofeedback during sleep to increase the efficiency of deep sleep.
> We got extremely lucky

Or the strong anthropic principle is valid.
When? I can't think of any examples of forced rural-urban migration other than the Highland Clearances in the UK, which isn't really comparable.
Isn't it fraud to sell copyright licenses for things that you don't own the copyright to? If so, then why isn't the CEO of Getty in prison? If not, why not?
The world wasn't closed down for 2 years.

However, governments used monetary policy much too aggressively (printing money) whereas they should have been using fiscal policy (taxing rich people). Now comes the reckoning.
Take a step back and look at how the US blames China for all its woes. Looks the same to me as a non-American non-Chinese. Ideas planted to distract from underlying issues.
BNF was here: What have we done about unnecessary notation diversity (2011) [pdf]
I am confused, did Chamath short Credit Suisse? For how much? When? Where can I find that article?
>> Are competing {water,power,internet} companies going to cover cities with multiple independent competing {pipes}?

Sure and they have done in the past. The existing networks weren't initially built by governments, they were built by private entrepreneurs and then nationalized. That's true at least for power and internet, admittedly I don't know for water piping, that might be old enough to pre-date private companies of any significant size.

Now should they is a different question to will they. In many cases it's OK to allow that. I think the US still has private railway lines. In other places there aren't any left. But I agree that for networks that require enormous amounts of land and where there's ~no scope for innovation, government monopolies can be beneficial. Water, power and roads seem clear cut. We can add gas and sewerage to that. Rail is a sort of interesting middle ground where countries go back and forth because there is actually scope for innovation in how the signalling works and governments are typically extremely slow to deploy improvements. Note that most civilized countries don't nationalize the endpoints. Power generators, gas wells, trains etc are owned by private companies usually. Also, in practice these networks are often built and maintained by private contractors.
>It almost felt like another Chinese city

...

>If I were to live in Asia, it might have once included Hong Kong because of its unique British history

OTOH this attitude is why PRC finally calibrating HK for PRC nationals/one-way permits instead of privileged foreign expats was long overdue. Mainlanders I know in HK find the new mix PRC/HK mix more preferable than UK/HK, less visible discrimination etc. Local nativism still exists but less overt than pre NSL. Applies to the mainland as well - first exodus of privileged discontent expats who thought they were indispensable in the mid 2010s - only to be replaced by qualified nationals. Think of it as PRC fixing their H1B problem. Something many in tech have comparably aligned opinions on.

E: over comment limit @charlieyu1

That's ~2 years worth of one way permits from PRC. Xi can snap his fingers and send 1M unemployed college educated mainlanders to HK tomorrow if he wants. Let's not pretend it's a big / existential loss, reality is PRC now has an abundance of talent who are much more deserving of living/running HK than most HKers who were merely privileged to be born in a city with constrained immigration requirements that puts mainland hukous system to shame. Under any reasonably fair system, HK should be treated like just ANY OTHER CHINESE CITY, like how under qualified people get squeezed out via gentrification in tier1 cities in every other country leading to local culture changes. It's not pretty, but it's how most of the world functions.

Ultimately HK "culture" is the result of undue privilege enforced by 2 systems that benefit locals and expats instead of 1B+ PRC nationals. Expats I get, because some expertise needs to be imported and you need foreigners in the country for track2 diplomacy. But unlike pre 2000s when PRC human capital was borderline North Korea, there's nothing particularly deserving about a person born and raised in HK anymore. If anything they are increasingly less deserving, with a particularly bad human capita / talent pool. HK _still_ some of the poorest tertiary education statistics by high income standards (~25% when it should be 40-50+%) to stay competitive. Meanwhile PRC is spitting out 8M+ higher-ed a year, there's no reason why HKers or expats should have priority over qualified mainlanders anymore. If HKers want to emigrate, go ahead, there's no shortage of deserving replacements in mainland with 100x more bodies to draw from. For mainlanders, continuing HK privilege simply doesn't make sense anymore.
The difference is that a central authority doesn’t control the size of the bitcoin supply. It wouldn’t be a utopia, it would only fix a certain class of problems we have today.
For whatever reason, every crackpot loves this quote! Bookmarked!
No, there’s no obligation.

But not retaining records when under a legal hold can be very bad. The judge can impose sanctions/fines, and of course it can color the rest of the case and bias the jury against you.
You're right. But I don't think profit is everyone's first concern. The Kim dynasty needs the DPRK army as a tool of internal control more than it does for defense.
That’s just mindless contrarianism. There are plenty of successes of international cooperation. Of the top of my head: protection of the arctic and Antarctic, restrictions in the trade of ivory, tropical woods, big-game hunting (and trophies) etc. Lots of fishery agreements, nuclear testing ban, standards for offshore oil drilling, double-hull tankers etc.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg and only wrt the environment. EU and NAFTA are also international agreements that have teeth, as is the Berne convention on copyright (even if you don’t like it). Unicode is the UN in action as is the boat that will pick you up if you happen to get stranded on a deserted island (and have the necessary, and standardized, beacon). If you’re a Mongolian in a Mexican jail or a Mexican in a Mongolian jail, your embassy will be informed and allowed to render legal support, thanks to an international agreement to that effect. If you’re being subjected to cluster munitions, your foe is one of the few people on earth that wouldn’t enjoy a trip to the Netherlands. If you find yourself being extradited to The Hague, the plane you’re traveling on will conform to internationally agreed safety standards. A kilogram, meter, second, or joule is the same as your trading partners‘, thanks ISO, and the T in NATO seems to be some mighty piece of paper, considering how it manages to scare the shirtless man shitless.
Look at the post-Jobs Apple. It's just been step-wise refinement.
Compare to USA in the early 1900s: https://www.vintag.es/2017/02/how-we-came-to-play-pictures-o...
(spoilers for Black Mirror season 4)

One of my least favorite Black Mirror episodes inaccurately portrays DNA and technology (though it's still pretty entertaining). In the episode, a game developer creates perfect virtual replicas of his coworkers using their DNA - they look and behave exactly like their real counterparts, and share the same memories. This is absurd - DNA only provides the framework for our physical form, it's not storage for our individual memories or thought patterns.

The episode's writer makes the same sort of category error as the author of this Twitter thread - you can't get more information out of something than exists to begin with.

I am content to die on this hill: LLMs are great at doing a surprising number of high-level tasks, but expecting them to correctly juggle the rules for how the world works is like CSI enhancing those grainy security images.

Written language is a noisy, grainy high-dimensional snapshot of intelligence. LLMs aren't minds, but they will probably be an interesting component of future improvements to software intelligence.
Fusion isn't on the horizon. And batteries are needed for EVs and Solar/Wind.

And electromagnetic craft are a terrible way to get to the moon.
Yeah, as long as they aren't threatening legal action for the image, I think this is fine. I'd like to think they wouldn't be so dumb as to try to bring litigation for an image like this, but then again, if they think they can get away with it...

The most upstanding thing to do would be to put source information in the listing. They don't need to proclaim it public domain up front, but it would be ethical to provide that detail if one were interested in inquiring.
Reagan had Contra, so there’s definitely precedent. I am reluctant to file it under “normal business” though.
Frances Clayton and the Women Soldiers of the Civil War
Full mask off now, who would want to live in a democracy if you can live under the boot of an authoritarian narcissistic personality cult.
Yeah, WebP was forced on other browsers, and never met the bar for a proper standard.
It's ok if people want to be behind the curve. No skin off my back if they want to delay their personal use of a transformative technology. Progress will happen with or without them.
Do you think I’m lying? Asking because the cosplaying comment. Your reasoning is not lost on me but I see no reason to suggest Im being dishonest.

If it’s that simple he will be relieved to here it. Frankly I’m not sure why it’s such a big deal either.
This is obviously a good rule to have, but I'm worried that the way it's enforced is going to lead to a problem of people falsely accused of it being banned with no recourse.
What about the employees seemingly being told to make the chat private and the chat abruptly ending?
No they didn't. It simply a US company that flew a plane out of the US.

The failure had nothing to do with the UK.
Crazy, this is one of their main playgrounds they are responsible for:

https://www.garten-landschaft.de/guenter-beltzig-nachruf/

The page is an obituary because the designer died in December.

The video is in English.
Chomsky rates language as the difference between animal and human intelligence, not the basis of all forms of intelligence. I don't think Chat GPT has the sentience and self driven goal focus of a lab rat today.

In any case, Chomsky thinks of chat gpt as autocomplete on steroids, not as a form of intelligence.
They’re considered off the record because the content of the call generally becomes hearsay inadmissible to prove the truth of what was said.
Chill, without the data GPT is nothing right.
These are public domain so out of copyright.
I don't really expect a straight answer to this, because the sort of people who loftily declare what is best for society as a whole usually just get angry instead of answering, but how do you justify the claim that this helps society as a whole? The ADA helps the minority by making the lives of the majority worse (higher costs, taxes, more effort etc). Making that tradeoff might be a highly moral position and justifiable on that basis alone, but there's no way to justify it on the basis of helping society as a whole. Society isn't a single thing that can be said to be helped or hindered. It helps a few people by hindering the many. It'd be better to just admit that and then argue on moral grounds, like via reference to religion.
As we all know doing something new requires immediate success or it isn’t worth pursuing.
Why do you say they enjoy it and it's overbroad? Any discovery can be disputed in front of a judge anyway.
Hong Kong was promised to have democracy, human rights and access to China. If they had kept those promises, then I believe many Taiwanese would have welcomed reunification.
> Steve Jobs never really invented anything but he knew how to play the role.

Do you think orchestra directors or managers of sports teams contribute nothing to their team’s success?
Because public domain means you can sell it in any form you like, modified or original?

Claiming it's an entirely original work would be lying. Not sure it would be a crime.
So call it micro-fascism?
Interesting q. Like there’s an obligation to create electronic communication records.

Would going for a coffee or walking meeting be in bad faith?
Society can clearly tolerate huge amounts of inequality and has done in the past, far moreso than what we have today (kings vs peasants). Also see my comment above for my views on people who claim to speak for all of society.
A central authority doesn't control the size of the money supply in our current economy either, as the vast majority of money is created by private banks and other institutions issuing loans.
Matt Levine has talked a few times about the wild scope increase of records retention in finance over the past century or so in Money Stuff. Not exactly the same as a legal hold, but analogous for similar reasons (recording everything has become cheaper).

> We have talked before about the SEC’s probe into how the employees of big banks discussed their work in text messages and chat apps like WhatsApp on their personal cell phones. The SEC has collected big fines from the biggest banks because, it has said, these chats violated the SEC’s recordkeeping requirements.

...

> From the perspective of the banks, I have argued, this is a novel expansion of the SEC’s authority. When the SEC created its rules on recordkeeping, it required banks to retain copies of their “inter-office memoranda,” but it was 1948 and those memoranda were produced with carbon paper; they were formal business records memorializing serious policies. In the 2020s, WhatsApp chats are, in large part, substitutes not for formal memoranda but for talking to someone in person. When I was a banker, I have written, “There were some mornings when I sent more than 100 inter-office memoranda, though like 20 of them would be ‘lol’ or ‘fml.’” In 1948, the SEC would not have dreamed of demanding a searchable archive of all of the informal chats held at a brokerage: That was not technologically feasible, and also did not seem to be the point of its rules. In 2022, it was feasible, and the SEC did demand it, and when the brokers were missing some chats they paid a billion dollars in fines.

> ...

> It really is wild that the SEC’s official position is now that it is illegal to “use unofficial communications to do things like cut deals, win clients or make trades.” “Conduct their communications about business matters within only official channels”! Imagine if that was really the rule! You can’t have lunch with a client and talk about business, or have beers with your colleagues and gripe about work, because that does not create a searchable archive for the SEC to review.

> Of course the SEC does not entirely mean this. Yet. But in like five years, technology — and the SEC’s interpretation of the rules — will have advanced to the point that banks will get fined if their bankers talk about business with clients on the golf course.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-02-02/the-se...
Go back and read your comment carefully, it's literally a rant about the maintainer.
>elders are dying off lonely in poorly maintained facilities due to a lack of funding and a lack of caregivers.

See “Danchi” - https://www.archdaily.com/933829/the-rise-and-fall-of-danchi...
The Fed injects money into the economy by buying US Treasuries or GSE MBS traditionally from the open market (QE).

During continued QE the Fed will re-purchase these assets when their existing ones mature. During QT on maturity rather than buy assets again they write them off and liquidity (money) is removed from the market.
Technically they're now all former employees who are at UBS! ;)
I think the Navy has actually shown that nuclear for those ships is cost competitive. Refueling a large ship for decades is expensive.
So people want to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, I think these things should probably live on the moon or better yet Mars.

That should be the place for experiments like this.

Lowery latency links back to Earth and first see how it goes.

Also you don’t think there will be resource constraints at some stage ? It’s funny we yelled at people for Bitcoin but when it’s ChstGPT, it’s fine to run probably tens of thousands of GPUs? In the middle of a climate crisis ? Not good.
Interbank loans, which will be far larger than the government or shareholder or bondholder liabilities, will almost certainly be respected as well.

> if you loan me 10B on thursday, Bob lends me 10B on Friday, then Monday the Bob says the business will be sold to UBS who will honor his loans but not yours

In your example, Bob is getting back 2bn of his 10bn and I am getting back 0. The term of neither agreement are being respected, people are just being told you get what you get and if you dont like it you can have less. Everyone has been served up a shit sandwich for dinner.
what are the other competitors close to these numbers? I think:

https://www.deso.com/

https://nostr.com/

https://urbit.org/
It's pretty difficult to argue that Facebook didn't change the world (for better or worse).
They could argue that it's derivative work based on public domain resources. Getty cropped the picture from the public domain scans and cleaned it up a bit.
Well, let me try to explain what I'm thinking, though I may have misunderstood you.

The rules of chess allows you to enumerate all the possible transformations from one board state to the next. This is just a fancy way of saying all possible moves in any given board state. By induction this means that given an initial board state and a series of moves from that board state you can determine the final board state.

So this means that the rules of chess allow you to enumerate given an initial state and n plies, all possible ways of adding an (n + 1)th ply.

So if you just assume the initial board state is always the starting position, theoretically you could do away with thinking about board states altogether. Now, whether that's sensible in terms of computational complexity is another question entirely and my intuition is no.
People who believe such a change will happen, are in the position to lead the conversation in my opinion. This is not the first impactful change in history. It's not even clear if it's the biggest one and as any other change, people who have a rational understanding of it are in a better position to propose solutions to the problems it brings.

There is another problem though, which is very important to note. As much as this change is impactful, there are so much nonsense and bulsh*t going around it because some people are financially invested. Sometimes people make statements without revealing their true intentions. I imagine, that a person who is right now, integrating ChatGPT into something and dreaming about getting rich fast, is not gonna believe into whatever cautionary tail others tell. This specific aspect of the current hype, unlike the actual product, is dramatically similar to the crypto hype. It doesn't help either.

Edit: fix typo
Is it time for the Archegos Tranche of swaps to finally come due? That's been the rumor and if the rumors are close, you're right, it's going to be a doozy.
With that same argumentation, it can be argued that moving food from rural areas into cities is doing something for the benefit of people living in cities, not society as a whole.

Also, internet and such for rural people benefits society as a whole, indirectly. For example, better crop yields (Through better access to information) and such.

So, I think your argument is deeply flawed.
Never went away; been hearing about it since msft sold the idea to managers in regards to SharePoint... Fucking SharePoint.
They can design their own forms and hook the data up to bits of automation. Like magic for muggles.
Thats fair. I have never been to China but have worked witb folks that have. They have to take some….extra precautions traveling there.

Vietnam seems much more open. Their internet is largely open and accessible. Even easy to register sims. They have no quarantine or vaccine requirements for entry or visa etc.

All in all much more open and light. Similarly in good company they would be fairly open about the government and problems etc.

It definately isnt on the same level of freedom as America but definitely didnt seem as repressive as china and i didnt see the will there to move that way. In fact they seem like they wanted to remain open for the financial benefits of doing business in the west.
I sometimes think about bringing back avatar. I was one of the avatar ops, and came up with the idea of the afterlife, which was intended to improve its single player playability, but my version (navatar) was maybe a bit too sprawling and ambitious.
Wu was specifically excluded from the prize in 1957 while her male colleagues got the prize. She devised the experiment that knocked down parity. They won the prize for the idea.

2022 was too late, as Wu passed in 1997.
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I didn’t claim society can’t tolerate any inequality. The question is how much it can tolerate and remain stable. There’s an argument that feudal systems you mentioned are now longer the norm because that inequality led to alternate systems.

Regarding your first response, you may want to visit the HN guidelines regarding shallow dismissals.