skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes; in the article, there were some lucky cases, some not so lucky:

> Anna Ruth Channels suffered from severe headaches and was referred to Freeman in 1950. He prescribed a transorbital lobotomy. The procedure cured Channels of her headaches, but it left her with the mind of a child, according to her daughter, Carol Noelle.

On the whole, I'd say it's an utterly barbaric, even idiotic, procedure. As I said, believing that random tissue damage has "healing properties" is so idiotic I cannot believe it. At least if it was specific to some parts of the brain, e.g. "for depression, destroy this part of the brain," it'd be a bit more understandable (not by much though).
> it seems like these new chains just exist to sustain the illusion of newness

Vitalik has talked a lot about why he believes L2s to be the best answer to the centralisation-security-scaleability trilemma.

It's absolutely not just sustaining the illusion of newness, the L2s on the ethereum chain are aiming to provide the same security promises of the main chain, but with an order of magnitude reduction in transactions fees [1]. Something that is important for the wide adoption that blockchains originally claimed was their aim.

There are already phenomenal L2 chains for specific purposes (transfers, decentralised exchanges etc), and the next generation of fully flexible L2 chains built on ZK technology are available (but with various 'use at your own risk' / alpha disclaimers for now) [2].

As for decentralisation, there is a spectrum of possibilities, but if the goal is to provide the next financial platform for the world, some level of decentralisation is not optional.

For-profit corporations, subject to the whims of the market, the ego of a CEO and the latest management trend simply cannot guarantee the stability and longevity that a serious attempt at a financial platform would need. On top of that, there needs to be a credible claim that the platform is neutral to the apps that run on it. Can you name a big finance company you'd trust to do that?

[1] https://l2fees.info/
[2] https://l2beat.com/scaling/summary
Some vendors offer a discount if you buy the laptop with Linux instead. See System76.
If you are into this kind of thing (science going wrong), I recommend the book Bad Science. Also, Science Fictions, by Stuart Ritchie, who also now has a great podcast called The Studies show.
Thanks, but I can do the same using PiHole and setting up a fake DNS
Pixel does the same, but the amount of times it triggers automatically can be different...
interesting. i made something much more stupid, but brutally effective: https://github.com/leeoniya/uFuzzy

i guess if you wanted results ordered by contact frequency you can just keep the original haystack sorted by frequency, and would get the Richard match first. or keep the frequency in an adjacent lookup and sort/pick the result afterwards.

PSA: don't use the ultra popular Fuse.js for fuzzy matching, it's super slow and has pretty terrible match quality. e.g. https://leeoniya.github.io/uFuzzy/demos/compare.html?libs=uF...
WYSIWYG editors like Microsoft Frontpage :)

Actually though, not really an analog, but surprisingly something not many people are aware enough of - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_logical...

Helps a lot when working with applications that need to support both LTR and RTL languages.
>We brag to our customers about the fact that our only major technology vendor is Microsoft.

If anyone bragged to me about this I would laugh in their face. You're putting your entire company at major risk.

Sometimes it has benefits, and sometimes its necessary, to use something like Azure. But I would never actively seek tying your existence solely to a single company, nor would I be happy about it. And I would certainly never _brag_ about it. That's insane.
Also, oil/energy companies provide the foundation of modern technological civilization. We now see some downsides to that particular method, but “murder” is a jump of Olympic proportions.
> In general though, I don't get taking issue with comment votes, it's just random internet points on a screen.

Most of the time, I want to be able to easily read each and every comment that was posted, regardless of what some other random people may think about those comments.

I find it annoying how the votes and flagging can affect the appearance/visibility of a comment here.

Downvoted comments are rendered in dimmer text, which makes the comments harder to read.

I also have to log in so the "showdead" setting takes effect, just so I can see comments that were flagged and hidden.

I wish I could use this site with all of the voting/flagging/content-hiding "functionality" disabled, ideally without having to log in and otherwise overriding the default behaviour.
If it was my product I would have made damn sure the 911 experience was perfect before shipping

For what it's worth, every telco switch upgrade I performed ages ago, early days of GSM the first number I tested was 911. I made sure the dispatcher could hear me. I don't know whats going on with the phone development side of things. That seems like a QA and customer feedback review problem. It probably also does not help that wireless vendors are slow/hesitant to update phones. There is a fear of bricking phones and customer support nightmares their words, not mine. I could flash update a phone over the air but this was in the 90's. No idea what that process looks like now. I assume they stage an update on a CDN after hopefully testing it extensively. Do all cell phones have two boot partitions in the event the upgrade process is sub-optimal(c)?
Why New York and other cities still aren’t prepared for floods
mysql-connector-j which us Java devs reference in pom.xml in our Spring Boot projects is open source, GPL2:

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/13287/mysql-c...

Where is the ape shit?
The reasons I sometimes use grid over flex:

- You can align things in 2D space, not just along a single axis (like flex). Great for the top level layout of a site/UI.

- You can have white space. I often create white space (empty grid cell) in my UI so I can add UI elements there if needed later on. Works well with elements that are conditionally rendered, as these will change flex layouts but elements assigned to a grid cell will not move.
Ok, but piHole can also be used to set up fake domains to be used inside the network.
Are there correlation studies on this? I’m genuinely interested in reading about this.
Try asking it for specifically NLP-ized text and it does it very well...

(but then tells you not to use it as it is "unethical")
If consciousness is "the state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings" then it depends on dualism, ie, this and that.

Is the fabric of the universe dual or non-dual? If it is non-dual it can have no consciousness. Because the universe would be able to see a "non-universe".

IMHO, consciousness arises out of the universe via the creation of duality by the human mind.

The fabric is unknowable and that frustrates scientists so they make up theories like panpsychism. But is it really just the same sort of anthropomorphic delusions that they have always suffered from. "If I am aware, then so the universe." Guess what, we are not Gods, we are humans.

Adding that consciousness is just when my brain compares a new sense object with an already brain encoded sense object (memory).
My prediction? In about 6 months, every test, task, or use of a LLM for anything that requires a modicum of creativity is going to find that it only has a fixed set of "ideas" before it starts regurgitating them. [0] I can easily imagine this in their hypothetical shoe pitch question, and many models going for more factual answers have been rapidly showing this bias by design.

[0] https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/06/16/this-paper-tests-cha...
The Microplastics Are in the Clouds Now
When will this become a trend, to release drumless versions of great albums? Waiting for more.
> In statements, each disowned any responsibility. Gino, unaware that she was also being investigated by Data Colada, praised the team for its determination and skill: “The work they do takes talent and courage and vastly improves our research field.” Ariely, apparently taken aback, underscored that he had been the only author who handled the data. He then seemed to imply that the findings could have been falsified only by someone at the insurance company.

The insurance company then showed their data and it wasn’t falsified. That’s just amazing. They both falsified data, and when caught, pointed at each other.

Gino was fired but Ariely kept his job then sued Data Colada.

She had claimed it was misogyny and discrimination. She may be right in respect to how she was treated compared to Ariely.

Was it still worth cheating for both of them? Money-wise, absolutely! Add up all their book fees and speaking fees that they’ll never have to repay back. They can already retire comfortably.

EDIT: Gino wasn't fired. She was placed on administrative leave. Revocation of tenure was only implied as a possibility.
> people have bigger apartments

I seriously doubt this is the case in Paris
Case study: Rapid recovery from autism after treatment of aspergillus (2020)
Your competitor will still see the size of your business, what you pay for and where, etc. And they will set the price you pay. Better to avoid.
funny enough Porsche has added an air conditioning vent for the phone charging area on some of the new modes
Cool, they can have their ethnic warfare, the WH and US should quit the interventionist BS
Just run Firefox in HTTPS only mode. [0]

You'll get a warning for any site that CAN'T be upgraded to HTTPS, but any site that supports both you'll just go straight to the HTTPS version.

[0] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/https-only-prefs
I've tried using a lot for writing motions. It can actually do a pretty decent job of writing motions, and it can come up with some arguments that you might not have thought of. You just have to ignore all its citations and look everything up yourself, otherwise this:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/new-york-lawyers-sanctioned-us...
You are probably right about Rust: it has challenges that seems to make a lot of people want to keep it at arms length. Viability isn't just about technical fitness, but also about momentum, community size, pace and having sensible "taste makers" that teach the community good design and programming practices.

At the moment I don't see any viable alternatives. Rust has a good sized community AND people have been working on embedded use of it for many years already. It took a lot of work to get there. For an alternative to be viable it would have to achieve at least what Rust has achieved so far.

What will ultimately determine if Rust becomes the new go-to language for embedded programming is the community forming around embedded Rust projects.

Ruby is a good example of the power of a community trying to solve a given problem. I think Ruby would not have made it if it were not for Rails. Ruby started out as an interesting language with an atrociously bad runtime and ratty standard library. Yet it Rails had a community that vastly outperformed the qualities of the language/runtime it was based on.

Perhaps embedded programming is where Rust will ultimately make such a huge difference the application of Rust becomes greater than Rust itself. Perhaps a Rust based RTOS, and a sensible approach to how embedded software is structured, modularized, and designed may be the thing that becomes greater than the language itself?
>you're burning coal and natural gas in a plant"

Where do you live that you don't have access to nuclear, solar, and wind? It's been a couple years since solar started being cheaper to produce than coal.
> Since Galileo’s time the physical sciences have leaped forward, explaining the workings of the tiniest quarks to the largest galaxy clusters. But explaining things that reside “only in consciousness”

Everything we know about anything is mediated through our subjective understanding and perception. Be it mathematical formulas that describe the universe or feelings about something. If you remove people, we don’t know what there is, because we have no way of knowing

Sure you can remove some people and have others observe, but that is still mediated by people

We can never truly know anything that we don’t perceive ourselves - so it is just impossible to know anything about a universe that doesn’t include our perception of it
Double spending doesn't sound like a user problem to me. As a user id be happy to be able to double spend!
I had to check your post history to confirm you’re the same person who was preaching Microsoft in the thread yesterday. You’ve got a major case of Stockholm syndrome bröther.
Yes, I think the real problem is #2.

The only reliable way to test 911 features is a test lab, to which the average engineer doesn't have access to. On top of that, calling 911 isn't exactly as placing a normal call - so the only way to test is... to call 911.

Again, a test lab should help towards these things, but I doubt Google has one accessible to the average engineer working on the dialer. Plus, they most likely don't have a way to automatically test these changes - or they might happen as part of other "features" (remember the Microsoft Teams bug that caused similar issues?).

In the end, the smarter our smartphones become - the dumber they are at doing the one single thing they were initially meant to do - get help in case of an emergency.
They used to be. Browsers used to give you pop up alerts whenever a website wanted to store a cookie.
They are giving two years notice. With a clear migration path with step-by-step instructions (linked in the article). And since MariaBD and MySQL are more-or-less drop-in replacements of each other it should also be a painless transition for most.

That's not perfect, but much better than when last year GCP retired IoT Cloud Core with just one year notice, a much less public announcement (an email to affected customers and a note on the product page) and no clear migration path.
If you want to track me to calculate retention, you need my concent. Easy as that. You can't promise me you're only using my user ID for that single purpose. We've been taught through experience that if someone has data, it will be used.
The Letter of Columbus to Luis De Sant Angel Announcing His Discovery
Lucene's WFST is absurdly fast
You joke, but many companies are already measuring code velocity for developers as part of performance.
Not enough validators. To become a validator you have to have millions US worth of BNB. The richest validators get priority. A handful of these richest validators are actually known to be the same entity, reducing the number even further. The chain can, and has, been "paused" by requesting the 2 dozen or so validators to coordinate (to be fair, Ethereum has also coordinated with miners due to hacks, but that resulted in disagreements and a new chain, Eth Classic).

It has all the technology to be decentralized, but ultimately it's not -- or in the least, it's not decentralized enough to survive against nation-state attacks/censorship (though you could probably say the same about Ethereum, Tornado Cash, and USA sanctions).
What did I miss? People hate drums now?
I'd take subscription to irreversible damage any day of the week, to be honest. At least you can stop taking Thorazine and return to your self.
There have been a number of artists who have released stems of songs/albums.
there are many regions where the outside temp is below 32 degrees for large parts of the year
It is not hypothetical - there are cases in Europe where the first entry in google for a person is an accusation against them that was proved false
I can't parse this title. Which is the verb?
Chrome Feature: ZSTD Content-Encoding
Imagine where humanity would be today if “it’s transformative therefore it should be regulated” was the winning side when the printing press came into existence
Another take:
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/im-so-sorry-for-psych...

> So what was the scientific fallout of Stapel's demise? What theories had to be rewritten? What revisions did we have to make to our understanding of the human mind?

> Basically none, as far as I can tell. The universities where Stapel worked released a long report cataloging all of his misdeeds, and the part called “Impact of the fraud” (section 3.7 if you're following along at home) details all sorts of reputational harm: students, schools, co-authors, journals, and even psychology itself all suffer from their association with Stapel. It says nothing about the scientific impact—the theories that have to be rolled back, the models that have to be retired, the subfields that are at square one again. And looking over Stapel's retracted work, it's because there are no theories, models, or subfields that changed much at all. The 10,000+ citations of his work now point nowhere, and it makes no difference.

> As a young psychologist, this chills me to my bones. Apparently is possible to reach the stratosphere of scientific achievement, to publish over and over again in “high impact” journals, to rack up tens of thousands of citations, and for none of it to matter. Every marker of success, the things that are supposed to tell you that you're on the right track, that you're making a real contribution to science—they might mean nothing at all. So, uh, what exactly am I doing?

It's kinda like finding out an athlete has been cheating. You probably want to throw away any of their inspirational talk, but it doesn't affect the rest of your life because it was just a sport to begin with. Somebody was gonna win, somebody was gonna lose, and it matters a whole lot to the players (and fans) but that's it. Except worthwhile science is supposed to actually matter whether it's true or false.
This was really profound, thank you.
CSS solves auto-expanding textareas (probably, eventually)
MySQL works well. I've never seen a reason to switch to MariaDB in my projects.
Yishan Wong's startup Terra formation(https://www.terraformation.com/) is trying to tackle climate change with this more or less as the underlying thesis.
Yeah, I just tried it and it's horrible!

I'm all for making things work without JS, but demonstrating that my experience can be equally bad with plain HTML+CSS doesn't feel like an improvement.

Anyway we can have SPAs with a working back button and a working address bar with sufficient competence and motivation. Links in a new tab would work if all the state was in the URL, but messy URLs are unfashionable these days.
I always found company internal bad consciousness counter culture fascinating.

Animal farming: everyone is vegan.

Privatized spying:everyone is a privacy activist.

Weapons manufacturing: deeply religous, international cultural exchange hippies privatly.

They suffer subconsciously from those they make suffer while speaking in pr lies.
The situation in mobile is already worse than an OS subscription.

Imagine if I get screwed by Microsoft. I can always install Linux or some other OS on my PC.

With mobile, even if I don't pay monthly for the OS, after a few years, the OEM discontinues support and the only option if some hacker didn't build a custom ROM for my specific device is to buy a new device or see my system slowly break down as apps drop support, and that's without considering security.

So we are already being "taken hostage" without an explicit subscription, and in a way that encourages throwing away perfectly good hardware and produce e-waste.

The locked down hardware is the real big problem. A paid OS subscription on an open hardware platform is bad, but a "free" OS on a closed platform is worse, because while you are hostage in both situations, in the former, you still have usable hardware.

IIRC Philips Hue supports zigbee, so you are not completely hostage. With an open zigbee controller, you still have working light bulbs, you can stop using Philips subscription software. Inconvenient, but you don't have to throw away your lightbulbs.
It's called "buying an enterprise key for five dollars"
The article didn't mention why they'd release a version of their album without drums.
And if you know this, you could drop some knowledge. Even better, you could drop some sources of knowledge.
How Figma’s multiplayer technology works (2019)
To be fair, from experience the issue is not with Pixel phones per se, but with Samsung modems. They're really bad.
I've found GCP to be extremely expensive bandwidth wise, however the network is also really good. So I suppose it's understandable that they'd charge a premium.
These are penalties carriers face if 911 doesn’t work.
People are right to distrust the institutions
The people writing the C++ standard seem to disagree.
Just trying to present my best self to the world. Online is like a whole separate personality for me, so it's like creating a character that I play.
Especially considering recent advances in the neurosciences, and where they intersect with systems theory (see: Friston), it seems inevitable to conclude that learning systems -- mammalian nervous systems being quite architecturally specialized but nonetheless made of the same stuff as the rest of the universe -- generally experience consciousness.

Note for the layperson: consciousness is not necessarily awareness (modeling sensory perceptions) nor sentience (recognizing oneself as an agent) but merely "subjective phenomenological experience". So the experience may not necessarily be very complex nor even recognized as such by the experiencer, but it is experience nonetheless.

Also worth noting there are a few flavors of panpsychism and some vigorous debate within the sub-sub-field as to which one is most reasonable. I dug deep into this a couple years ago and disagreed with some but not all of Goff's positions.

The argument from him that stuck with me and forms part of the basis of my attachment to panpsychism now is just an application of the scientific method: if we know we are conscious, and we don't know whether anything else is conscious or not, the null hypothesis states that everything should be considered conscious until proven otherwise.
This isn't disproportionate. This should be a baseline requirement for selling a phone.
Web Scraping Using Rust
Very well thought out and educational blog for web-scraping with Rust.
Apart from marketing, I used to work as a MS consultant for many years (10+), focused mainly on creating custom no-code and almost-no-code tools for business, and the investment was usually lower in the short term, with shorter dev times, but in the long run when the company started to use the solution in the day to day, and started needing more specific tools, no-code solutions tend to be way less flexible and end up with dodgy patches to implement functionality that could have been done in a more maintainable if was a more coded solution from the start.
To sum up, and on the field I was working on, it's hard for the client to have a clear understanding of the lack of flexibility that will may face in the near future, and usually ends up on hands of the sales people and what the company providing the solution is focused on.
The Azure SQL Server offering is spectacular. I've been using their multi-region replication, and they offer point-in-time restores if something were to happen.

Also, they have really good documentation for high-availability (e.g., paired regions)
Thank you for posting this. The koolaid-drinkers are vocal, but rest assured your perspective is generally shared by those who do things and have responsibility.

You'll be attacked by the sullen crowd who believe wearing pink ribbons fight cancer, but please don't waver in saying what you think is right.
At this point trusting the institutions is being naive and dumb
That's exactly what it's for, but historically these sites would just do an IP check at the server, not install some horrible malware on your PC and then tell you an ethernet connection is evil.