skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't quite get your arguments about requiring us to be "external" to reality to be able to understand brain. First of all, I don't see why you can't study something of which you are a part of. Secondly, even if you accept this supposition, Alice is external to Bob and Bob is external to Alice, so Alice could study Bob's brain and Bob can study Alice's brain.

> We can't perceive the "roads not taken" in terms of development, nor can we know if there is "something we're missing" in terms of understanding the brain.

What do you mean "we can't"? Of course we do know that "something is missing", because we can't build a good predictive theory of how consciousness work.

> Self includes the body, which implies that merely copying the brain, no matter how perfectly, is not an accurate copy.

So you consider a person with an amputated arm a different person, not just the same person, who just can't use their arm anymore?
Also this one from years ago is my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WReFkfrUIk
Learned a lot of basics with this one.
Adoption or surrogacy are on the table, but I can imagine a case where a mother doesn't want to go through the pain or body changes bearing children brings about, so they just go with a surrogate, and that lowers the amount of bonding between mother and child in a way.
Opt-cmd-shift-v is the (rather unwieldy) macOS shortcut to paste without formatting.

I have cmd-shift-v mapped to my clipboard history which is fully searchable, I use Raycast on Mac but I would wager there are Linux and Windows alternatives.
I see spreedsheets more as an UI. An extremely intuitive (and reactive!) way of spatially decomposing computation. Yes, this creates lots of problems (you can not easily validate it etc.) but it is also very enabling. For sure more people are now exposed to programming, but how many are actually comfortable doing even simple stuff directly using code is a question mark.

A jupyter notebook is maybe somewhere in between. But even if other interfaces manage to bridge the gap further, I doubt the spreadsheet metaphor is going to go away in the visible future. Pivot tables and the like are like COBOL and mainframes :-) The corporate world would die a sudden death if you were to eliminate it (another reason to always make sure you can run things locally).
> Examine TikTok’s U.S. facilities, records, equipment and servers with minimal or no notice,

> Block changes to the app’s U.S. terms of service, moderation policies and privacy policy,

> Veto the hiring of any executive involved in leading TikTok’s U.S. Data Security org,

> Order TikTok and ByteDance to pay for and subject themselves to various audits, assessments and other reports on the security of TikTok’s U.S. functions, and,

> In some circumstances, require ByteDance to temporarily stop TikTok from functioning in the United States.

Knowing that TikTok keeps lying about CCP ties and data security this seems like a way to keep them honest? This doesn't list any domestic spying features.
Disable Autoplay Videos in HTML5 Firefox and Chrome
Noted. Thanks for taking out the time for this! Reassuring to see you liked the idea.
Frederick Cook was quite a guy. He also claimed to have made the first ascent of Mt. McKinley (or if you prefer, Denali).
Very good point, but not at odds. Let's have both:

1. An organization like LoC (or UN sponsored "government" organization) take over the Internet Archive. Let curators curate and conserve.

2. A discussion about reform of copyright, public domain, "intellectual property", incentivizing innovation, etc.

[EDIT] And while we're at it:

3. Let's also have a discussion about the legitimacy and desirability of tools and tricks used to enforce corporate lawyer whims (ie.: DRM, 20 page EULAs, cookie banners, terms of service, etc.)
It's about minimising friction in our tasks and reducing any unnecessary obstacles. Even seemingly minor actions that only take a few seconds can build up over time and generate a sense of frustration, especially when they become frequent.
Personally, I have found that dealing with this kind of friction can erode my overall productivity, as I unconsciously shy away from these tedious tasks that involve manual repetition, no matter how small. That's why many of us choose to invest a little time in coming up with these small automations that free us from the clutches of monotonous and repetitive tasks, allowing us to focus on the core of our work.
Could it be CGNAT?
I was hoping they'd went the FPGA route, but this looks like another emulator in a box.
Build a simple Android app, e.g. single activity from default examples, using most recent SDK and all recommended technologies. When compiled it will be 1MB+ in size and take about a second to startup. Take my old Android app from 10 years ago - it starts instantly, dashboard is immediately visible on cold start. Google should simplify Android SDK and move styling framework (Material design) onto device. Apps will be smaller, performance better.
A Microsoft classic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extingu...
As someone who's lived here 10 years you're spot on. I hear it all went to pot when they tried to reorganise DB to prepare it for privatisation, which never really happened, and centralised everything around Frankfurt. So now it's in a quasi independent state which no one seems very prioritised about fixing. Hey at least there's the cheap (Deutschland) ticket now.
Good point. Forgot about all my docker-compose files...
> and Microsoft didn’t subsequently try to eat their piece of the pie?

That second part wasn't in the original claim, though. The parent comment is right. Sure, 21st century Microsoft has come for the utilities market, for the Lotus-to-Evernote market, etc., etc., but an entire software industry really did spring up in the eighties through to the early 2000s filling gaps in Microsoft software.
Ask HN: What is the worst latency currently suffered on the Internet?
I’m curious: who uses the Internet with the highest real-world minimum latency, where are they, and how are they connected?

It looks like most continents with fiber links of some kind have latency to other hosts around the world of less than about 500ms. I imagine remote locations like McMurdo Station served only by satellites have much higher latency. I’ve heard of military stations in Alaska served by a chain of terrestrial wireless relays that have terrible latency. I wonder whether that’s as bad as it gets, and how bad it really is in day-to-day usage. Mostly I’d love to see some actual numbers.

Is satellite pretty much the worst? Is there anyone using some kind of maritime VHF link that’s even worse?

Happy to consider high rate/high latency links as well as low rate links e.g. 9600 or 1200 baud for like remote SCADA where applicable.

Who has literally the worst Internet latency?
I can't think of a single technology other than relational databases that Hacker News actually likes. Nothing invented after 2000 certainly. Cell phones give everyone depression, LLMs are just stochastic parrots, crypto is just a scam, Uber is just an expensive unregulated taxi, AirBnb is just an expensive unregulated hotel, self driving cars are just going to lead to centralization of wealth and congestion, every new browser feature is just another way for websites to fingerprint you, discord isn't an improvement over IRC and makes everything ungooglable, also google sucks now, also they kill every product 6 months after launch, fusion is 20 years away just like it was 20 years ago, electron makes everything slow because devs these days are too lazy to write native apps, Github is just Microsoft applying EEE to open source, WSL is just Microsoft applying EEE to Linux. I don't see why everything needs to be so terrible all the time.
Your comment makes me think you may enjoy the science fiction book 'A Canticle for Leibowitz' by Walter M. Miller (perhaps you already have :-})

It's set at a monastery in the desert post nuclear apocalypse, where scribes copy wiring diagrams and store artifacts like partially destroyed circuit boards without understanding what they are / how they work. And it builds from there.
I don't think anyone was proposing prosecution here?
Different companies have different visions, but "driverless car that you own" is a goal some have. For example, if you buy a Mercedes with DrivePilot then in approved locations (including Germany, California [1], and Nevada [2]) you can legally and safely read, watch a video, or play a game while in the driver's seat. It's only Level 3, and can only do highways under 40mph (traffic jams), but it shows that this is still an active direction.

[1] https://media.mbusa.com/releases/release-1d2a8750850333f086a...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/27/23572942/mercedes-drive-p...
Not sure, but I think the above commentor was meaning to tell that powershell supports .NET reflection.

That is, while you can call .NET methods on objects like:

$Object.SomeMethod('arguments')

You can also do:

[Namespace.ClassName]::SomeMethod('arguments')

And your Powershell scripts can even save you a lot of typing with the ```using``` function of Powershell to load namespaces: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsof...

Edit: As to why you would want to do this, usually it's because you want to do some scripting but you need to pull data out of some .NET application or out of Windows and there isn't a fully fleshed out cmdlet built for it. In a pinch, you can usually just use reflection to get it. For example, I needed to pull data from a Shared Outlook calendar that not everyone had access to and then do some date-math to share a time-sensitive schedule with a team living in quite a few timezones. Reflection to load the necessary Outlook and MSExchange elements, then the rest in Powershell. Now I have a script that is easy to pass around, can do this if I'm unavailable, and we can easily add/remove time zones/persons, and it just needed 5-ish lines of .NET inside of the Powershell script.
Haha that would have been helpful to include. Thanks for picking up my slack!
Good idea, I just did that: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-web/-/issues/647
> They're fairly competitive compared to the rest of the world.

That's accurate. But what surprises me is how much in demand software engineers are globally and how little they get paid in most countries. It doesn't make any sense to me that Dan Abramov could more than triple his salary at Facebook just by being employed by the US branch. The value he provides to the company would in no way change.
I did a Scotland road trip in February 2020. Through was hitting like 3 to 5 castles and/or historical sites per day. I think I drive about 6000km that month. It was fantastic.
I agree that oligarchs are a problem but some of the other assumptions are wrong.

First, we are already in a very unequal world. Putting aside the oligarchs and monopolies which again are very problematic, advanced technologies have the potential to lessen inequality and raise everyone's standard of living.

I view the inequality and symptoms of that like oligarchs as a failure of societal organization and again, properly integrating high technology into society is probably the best tool we have for fighting that.

That doesn't mean that I agree with the classical technocratic vision which is quite centralized and dated.

These things fundamentally come down to a core difference in worldview. I see technology as helping to progress beyond the failures of human nature. Whereas the opposite view feels the status quo is not so bad, and just blames technology for making things worse.
Most of the Jews the Nazis killed weren't from Germany. Hitler invaded other countries and then enacted the Holocaust in them (well, not just the Holocaust: Slavs were also a favorite target of his).
> Can you share evidence that US regulators are holding US-based social media companies to all of these same requirements?

This moves goalposts. American social media companies don’t have CCP members in their senior ranks.

The problem is the “records and servers” bit could let the Feds execute illegal searches on any American’s data with zero oversight. Not that we’re being mean to TikTok.
0. Car use isn't actually bad, it not using cars that gobbles up space. Half of the car street space is wasted on cars that aren't in use - known as "parking."

1. Agree. But Taxi drivers are a relict of the past already. You can drive your own car and need no navigation skills. It's called Uber and it sucks hard already. Nothing much of value lost here (most of the economic value is captured by Uber anyway.)
During a hot war, it’s reasonable to be more concerned about enemy surveillance than domestic surveillance. In either case, you lose some privacy. But enemy surveillance can cause you to lose the war, or at least for more people to die before winning.

We aren’t at war with China, but the possibility is taken seriously by the US foreign policy establishment, which knows more about the situation that you or I do. The most reliable way to avoid war is to be impossible to beat. So preempting the ability of potential enemies to collect data about our citizens reduces the chance of war.
The debugger and the source map loading are noticably slower. The DOM browser is slower as well and I get things shifting a few pixels up/down randomly in there.

On the bright side, it keeps a running diff of the css changes you make. Super useful when you're trying to fix some stupid layout thing, get it working and then forget all the changes you made.
> With billions of people already using traditional medicines, the organization needs to explore how to integrate them into conventional healthcare and collaborate scientifically to understand their use more thoroughly, says Shyama Kuruvilla, WHO lead for the Global Centre for Traditional Medicine and the summit, who is based in Geneva, Switzerland. Many researchers who study traditional medicines agree — but some are not sure whether the summit will deliver.

This seems like a noble approach. I mean say what you want about "quackery", but traditional medicine is rooted deep in many cultures. The west doesn't necessarily have an equivalent outside of Bacon's scientific method. It's not like you're making big pharma money with it.
Harder to force you to pay every month of it runs locally.
>The comment is written in such a way that it assumes this is the nature of reality and at some point, we will learn that the human mind is no different from the parlor tricks of LLMs.

Again your whole point seems to boil down to simply denying physicalism (unless you have something more subtle in mind about the limits of physical science). It's a valid position to take but not very fruitful for further conversation.
Descartes introduced the idea of mind-body dualism, positing that the mind and body are distinct contemporary debates and research on the nature of consciousness, its interaction with the physical brain, and the question of how mental states relate to physical states.

In contrast, Spinoza's monism views mind and body as two aspects of a single substance. This has encouraged some modern theories to explore the inseparability of mental and physical phenomena, leading to holistic approaches to understanding Consciousness.

Hume's emphasis on experience and observation as the basis for knowledge has strongly shaped the empirical approach to studying emphasis on observation, experimentation, and empirical data in contemporary consciousness research.
I love Windows, .NET, and Azure. Genuinely. But I use Bash. Powershell has a lot of what seems like custom-syntax for every little thing and I can't be bothered to memorize it.

Also, you guys can probably install GitBash and claim it just came with Git...
Quantum entanglement of photons captured in real-time
> Look into datalake architectures.

Yup .. comfy with iceberg/delta/hudi

> RDBMS based data warehousing is obviously not economical at the petabyte scale.

I never said it was .. I'm simply responding to "I simply cannot understand how anyone chooses this over running your own Spark clusters with Jupyterlab". I'm trying to help you understand why folks would choose a SaaS over run your own.

> But storing all that data in S3 with Delta Lake/Iceberg format and querying with Spark changes things entirely. You only pay for object storage, and S3 read costs are trivial.

No. You don't just pay for object storage + minor S3 read costs.

You pay for operations
You pay for someone setting up conventions
You pay to not have to optimize data layouts for streaming writes
You pay to not have to discover race conditions in s3 when running multiple spark clusters writing to same delta tables
You pay to not have to discover that your partitions/clustering needs have changed based on new data or query patterns

But look .. I get it. You have chosen to optimize for cost structures in one way .. and I've chosen to optimize in a different way. In the past I've done exactly as you've said as well. I think being able to seeking to see _why_ folks may have chosen a different path may help you understand other areas to consider in operations.
Thank you for the response. I will spend some more effort reading your site and related documents. I have a similar problem communicating the value and content of a project myself in the p2p web space. I'm not as far along as y'all. My audience will likely be programmers at first so I'm going to focus on them - and that audience wants to be able to identify what a thing is as fast as possible. I'm a big fan of informal communication, but with this I've found that going out of my comfort zone to be more formal has had a good impact on comprehensibility. Informality is there, but in small doses. I think this helps underscore the seriousness of the endeavor, too, as old-fashioned as that seems.
MIT Cracked the Code That Relates Brain and Behavior in a Simple Animal
>MIT researchers model and map how neurons across the tiny brain of a C. elegans worm encode its behaviors, revealing many new insights about the robustness and flexibility of its nervous system
Practically speaking, if you are running recent versions of Windows (I don't remember when exactly this trend started, with 2000? XP?), you have basically no control over what data you send to them and when. You can try to block traffic but it will interfere with normal Windows operations. You can try to investigate and play cat and mouse game with Microsoft, but they will always be one step ahead of you - unless you decide to turn off automatic updates and make your system less secure.
Sometimes is just hard to believe, that you can open Steam, buy almost any game and play it right away without any issues or additional tinkering, on Linux.
Why would the vast majority of Excel users even notice or care about this?
Welllllll - no one likes being uncomfortable for long periods of time. Even if I went to the moon in economy class I would definitely be thrilled, but would complain about the leg room and the (no) food :-)
I honestly couldn't think is a nicer way to put it without being facetious. I am a cynic so I likely deserve the downvotes...
> And the rule that Tik Tok is clearly breaking is what? Being Chinese?

Being indistinguishable from state owned / CCP controlled at a time of fraying diplomatic relationships and heightening military tensions with China.
"The system comes with a CX40+ Joystick which has been lovingly recreated to the same specifications as the original"

I don't think the person that wrote this ad copy was alive when the original, fragile-as-glass 2600 joysticks were in circulation, or maybe they were and were able to slip this joke into the product description unnoticed.
I don't think it's a good idea in general to install things that utilize unsupported functionality on other people's computers.
It can be, with an act of Congress…
https://archive.ph/BRmLH -- readable version.
I disabled the event listener on the checkbox. I will be remembered as a hacker.
I think you meant "management understaffing a restaurant can completely screw up a restaurant's ability to deliver for the night."
Fair enough. I just started the latest version and must say, it has really improved. Quality of life probably means I have to look a bit more for where stuff is. And hey, they might have some stuff that Chrome doesn't have, right?

So my first one is 'Chrome devtools has a little button to instantly switch to mobile view, where you simulate (more or less) the viewport of various mobile devices'. I don't see this in Firefox.
https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/co2-emission-fuels-d_1085...

Gives a specific CO2 emission for propane of 13.8 kg carbon / kWh fuel, so your numbers are at least vaguely credible. But your reaction is devoid of CO2, so talking about tons of CO2 is still odd.
WebRTC Cracks the Whip on OBS
My main use for llms has been to finally start making power shell scripts
> the messy moving target of the Linux world,

That's bullshit, for game developers there shouldn't be any "messy moving target" outside of the Steam Linux Runtime[1], which is pretty much rock solid.

[1] https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steamrt/-/blob/steamrt/...
My thoughts too. Not having to install outside software is treated as a feature, but it is a lost opportunity: Excel with tight VSCode integration sounds like a killer app for decades to come. Two best-of-class (respectively) programs, each in realms dominated by Microsoft. Combine the two and unique possibilities unlock, bridging the gap between business and development.
Not surprising

I guess not even IBM stands COBOL anymore. Maintaining those tools ad-infinitum is cost that IBM is not happy about (as much as it might be "lucrative" but it is trying to swim on honey)

And to be honest, COBOL is so verbose that most complexity is hidden but it is overstated (I mean, the libraries/APIs are awkward because of COBOL - you need to pick the complexity at the right level to convert)
Sure, human movement is unevenly distributed, but a robo-taxi can also be used for deliveries during non rush hours.

There is also probably 1 hour of service per day needed.

You won't get 24x efficiency, but 15x is good enough.
The problem with "very much off" for font rendering is that it is relative to what you are used to, not relative to any actual standard font rendering. If you've been using Firefox a while, Chrome will look off. If you've been using Chrome, Firefox will look off.
> The economics and tactics around technology has been revolutionized a dozen times over in the last 4 decades. Now, maybe a few rare individuals have kept up, but most likely, they all rely on outdated strategies from out of touch MBA programs & buzz words.

Ah, the cult of youth. It is cute, when it isn't killing startups with rookie moves.

It almost sounds like you think management is something like practicing law - like there's a set of rules that are revised on a schedule and they need CLE credits to keep them current.
I mean, the whole point of the 400k thing is that people were pissed about it. Nobody is championing the corporation here.
It's very obviously tongue in cheek.
All emails were drafted and sent by engineers. They did require some coaching initially, but eventually they got the hang of it. It's mostly plain English.
It'll certainly be a lot easier and more accessible than pyspread:

https://pyspread.gitlab.io

(which I wish was more widely known/used)
People who claim to be brutally honest, typically believe that the virtue of honesty somehow balances their brutality.
Not only .NET, any COM library or DLL as well.
Oh heck yes. Also a big influence on the video game, Caves of Qud [0] which I also particularly enjoy.

[0] https://wiki.cavesofqud.com/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Barathrum