skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did a PhD in brain-computer interfaces, including EEG and implanted electrodes. BCI research to a big extent focuses on helping paralyzed individuals regain communication.

Unfortunately, EEG doesn’t provide sufficient signal-to-noise ratio to support good communication speeds outside of the lab with Faraday cages and days/weeks of de-noising including removing eye-movement artifacts in the recordings. This is a physical limit due to attenuation of brain’s electrical fields outside of the skull, which is hard to overcome. For example, all commercial “mind-reading” toys are actually working based off head and eye muscle signals.

Implanted electrodes provide better signal but are many iterations away from becoming viable commercially. Signal degrades over months as the brain builds scar tissue around electrodes and the brain surgery is obviously pretty dangerous. Iteration cycles are very slow because of the need for government approval for testing in humans (for a good reason).

If I wanted to help a paralyzed friend, who could only move his/her eyes, I would definitely focus on the eye-tracking tech. It hands-down beat all BCIs I’ve heard of.
Yes, isn’t the whole “alignment” fear basically that if we had smarter than human AGI, we would need smarter than human prompt engineering?
You can't "sell the company". Any company you sell with an immediate and complete change of management is very likely completely dead in the water. Institutional knowledge is very important.
Related, recommended documentary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7689910/
> He didn’t do it with thoughts and prayers y’all.

Johnny Cash would probably argue otherwise, given his beliefs and discography.

Here is him singing "The Junkie's Prayer": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkDJt5GutqA
Solving problems for whiners doesn't get them to stop whining.
Ask HN: How do I get my ISP's IPs out of PerimeterX's block list?
My ISP's IPs get blocked by sites using PerimeterX protection. My ISP is also a webhost and VPS provider, despite their IP ranges for broadband customers being described as such in their ASN listing PerimterX blocks the whole ASN.

Any way to get this fixed? AS39122 "Blacknight Broadband Customers"
There are plenty of exceptions to recall here. People who thought of themselves as great but were diminished by others for being fools are easy to find in history of science in particular. I'd say if you invoke hubris or ego then you yourself are reacting emotionally - then who is right and who is wrong would probably only rely on the outcome of my endeavors (successful or not).
It's always fun to see foreigners coming to paris discovering that the french they learned at school is basically useless.

Not only we use africans or arabic words, but we also speak in reverse, with noises, everything is shortened, etc.
I use STERN to start as it covers as much of RSTLNE as you can and I'm a Wheel fan :)

It's amazing that even if I have 100% miss I'm almost always able to still solve it by the end. I don't know what it is with 5 letters and 6 chances.

There was a version I played that had 6 letters and it was terrible.
email and phone spam would be a bit easier to mitigate if places-we-enter email+phone (websites that want this info) would give us a list of Emails and Phone-numbers it uses to contact us with, and even email-subject prefixes; it is no different than when you meet an old friend and you each, mutually, exchange phones/emails/physical addresses; why are the UX of all the websites so poorly designed that we consumers do not get to see, proactively, the address they intend to talk to us from?
>on the internet people will scroll through pages of agreeable comments looking for something disagreeable.

I thought that I was the only person who does this.

Therefore, given a forum full of people, the chance that you will offend somebody is increased. It becomes less "say something offensive" and more "say something merely noteworthy".

We get a “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down” situation. On the scale of the whole internet.

The internet becomes a huge engine for imposing conformity.
I guess big energy doesn't want any competition and can buy enough politicians to ensure that's how it stays. If so, that stinks.

Also I understand that in other parts of the world they also get cyclones/hurricanes but that doesn't stop them installing solar. They are just design things accordingly (IIRC you either want no gap or a big gap under the panel).
People with a lot of personal agency in this way will also slow things down by expecting rational decisions from management and asking questions when they aren’t. I think this makes for a fantastic partner, peer or co-worker but a horrible employee. So I don’t think it’s too surprising that most hiring managers will be actively filtering them out.

As someone who does very highly value this way of thinking though, how would you try to detect it in an interview setting as an interviewee? That’s like asking them if they have good culture.
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They're showing up and paying people to be filmed shooting up, thus encouraging the shooting up further. People high on the drug are being recorded being asked highly personal things when in a state where they cannot properly consent, thus likely only exacerbating the issues that caused them to rely on drugs by adding more embarassment.

Plus, since it's being done for clout, like many other TikTok trends, it'll continue to escalate in extremeness until something more drastic happens.
Sounds like Pfizer and mRNA shots. Seems to b a pattern.
wtf is any other algorithmic output? Data. It's not automatically equivalent to some human behavior because it mimics it.
I wonder if that makes the weight of the consequence less abstract? “I sped and now I’m working for free for a day.”
In the domain where Misra is applied, resource exhaustion and hardware failures are totally valid scenarios that need to be processed in the same way as any other error.
Im sorry for your brother, that sucks. Ill grant this, amazon being a large and well connected company allows them to secure exclusive and vast financing that provides their ability to engage in otherwise unprofitable (anticompetitive) strategies that shouldnt otherwise be possible.

Unfortunately that battle is with our banking system, and until its won you will continue to see the proliferation of companies engaging in this behavior. That said, amazon will eventually be the dinosaur that walmart has become, and its very obvious from a ground level prespective that we dont have the right foundation for the infinite scale we seem to desire; too many "leadership principles", too much reworking of company policy, too much switching us from database to database.
I guess I'm boring. I've been calling it "eff ess check" for decades.
Unfortunately the companies manage to wriggle out of all liability by saying they are bankrupt or transferring to a new company structure.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsona...

https://www.lawsuit-information-center.com/2-billion-verdict...

$200,000 per victim for knowingly being given cancer. Obscene. I think China executing people is much closer to justice than our system.
Of course you're right in general but the fusion triple product actually did increase exponentially, at a faster pace than Moore's Law, from 1970 to 2000. Then for a while everybody decided to put most of the money in a giant construction project in France that still isn't finished. Now we're partway back to the system of competing smaller projects that we had during the exponential period.

Lasers have also been improving dramatically. In particular the power of fast lasers has been going up exponentially.
Everyone has good insight so far - I would add that this video[1] from CGP Grey comes to mind about picking a theme for the year ahead. It's easy to get bogged down in the details but I try to follow a heuristic of taking action is infinitely better than sitting down and endlessly ruminating about it (of course easier said than done).

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE
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This is my latest side-project, Postcard Monster.

"Share your adventures, celebrate special moments, or send a warm 'hello' with a personal touch that transcends distances."

Enjoy!
It is said that Franklin D. Roosevelt encouraged Chaplin to make the The Great Dictator. Indeed, around the time the film was made, the two men shared political views on a lot of things. When Churchill and FDR saw a pre-release private screening of the film, they liked it. (Incidentally, Chamberlain had vowed to ban it in England for fear of angering the actual dictator.) FDR even invited Chaplin to read this very speech on his inauguration in 1941.

Ironically, this is the film that made Americans turn against him. Later that year, he was subpoenaed by a congressional committee investigating pro-war propaganda (this was a few months before the US entered the war.)

In the following years, Chaplin was extremely vilified by the Americans mainly for his pro-Soviet and communist views (or rather, for his refusal to be anti-Communist).
This led to politically-motivated prosecutions, and culminated in him being exiled from the US when the president Harry Truman(!) canceled his re-entry permit while away on family vacation.
(Chaplin was never an American citizen, despite living in the country for over 40 years.)

There’s a recent good book review summarizing this: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/charlie-chapli...
Why is it that so many people on HN seem totally unable to fathom the concept of "intent"?

If a TikTokker is trying to document this to get people help or change the situation, that's ... I don't want to say "good" but probably "acceptable".

If a TikTokker is simply filming "spectacle" of people who probably cannot give reasonable consent, that is very much unacceptable.

These are both true whether you replace "TikTok" with "Insta" or "NYTimes" or "WaPo".
Humans are "intelligent," yet we often have to re-explain ourselves when asked semi-complex questions.
Split it up, and disown the ultimate beneficiaries?

You don't need every single 3M factory to make those chemicals. So make a new company that only makes these chemicals.
I agree with other the comments that executives should be criminally liable for negligence like this, and anyone else who doesn’t relay the message to the decision makers.

Knowingly committing crimes against humanity on a grand scale should be prosecuted and their fortunes seized.
The Lisenby lecture is excellent.
> I'd say if you invoke hubris or ego then you yourself are reacting emotionally - then who is right and who is wrong would probably only rely on the outcome of my endeavors (successful or not).

Ah yes - "I am rubber, you are glue". Given that this is a hypothetical, and I have no stake in the outcome, I think it is reasonable to conclude I am not being emotional about this.

> People who thought of themselves as great but were diminished by others for being fools are easy to find in history of science in particular.

And how many claimed to be great that are not in the history books?
> university degree in engineering but is not licensed as a professional engineer,

I think as long as you have a university degree in engineering, then you are entitled to be called an engineer regardless, having a P.Eng title should be an honorable distinction or where it might be required, hence it’s called “professional engineer” not just an engineer as you already claimed that title. Not having an engineering degree and you still call yourself an engineer? Yeah, this is what should be discussed.
> The issue is, no tech company is interested in adding D3D or Vulkan backend to AI libraries like PyTorch.

AMD is interested in making PyTorch take advantage of their chips, and has done so.

> we are delighted that the PyTorch 2.0 stable release includes support for AMD Instinct™ and Radeon™ GPUs that are supported by the ROCm™ software platform.

When NVIDIA is charging 1000% profit margins for a GPU aimed at use as an AI accelerator, you can expect competitors to be willing to do what it takes to move into that market.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-makes-1000-profit-o...
There's lynch mob, and then there's righteous rage at acts so heinous that lack of punishment would call into question the legitimacy of the entire social structure.

This may be something that doesn't resonate with people who are not parents, but: if your government is willing to tolerate intentional, casual murder of children at scale, what's the point of having it in the first place? And let's remember: a government isn't imposed by the heavens. It's just another agreement between people, at scale.
Can't enter any letters into the codename/pass/email prompts under android chrome, so can't get passed email prompt. Probably not the right place for bug reports though.
>What is inherently wrong with co-branded product?

it points towards brand dilution and financial straw-grasping. it indicates that the stewards of the IP no longer care about the thing being meaningful and the release schedule is now no longer ordered to increase impact and brand value, but rather to extract whatever value has been accumulated via customer good-will thus-far.

you can see this trend/process occur in just about any long-standing fantasy/fiction IP.

Some IPs are built to push product. Evangelion and Gundam are designed to shove plastic toys out the door since day 1.

Some IPs slowly evolve into that product push once main-line income dwindles; those are the ones that tend to upset folks with that sort of behavior, and frankly it cheapens the brand appeal by reducing exclusivity.

In other words : niche appeal exists, and generally the move towards synergistic advertisement partnerships over quality generally signals the corporate desire for generating mass market appeal at the sake of sacrificing the niche crowd.
Not sure what the legal situation is in the US, but in many European countries, publishing a photo of anybody without their permission is not legal.

There’s obviously exceptions, and it matters whether the person is incidental to the composition or the primary subject of it, but I think that’s a pretty good approach as a default.
The first text in the NYT article on my phone is

"Brooke Peder’s leg was amputated after an infection from a tranq wound bore into the bone. She hopes to save her arm, although she reluctantly injects tranq in it."

They are both relying on shock and disgust to make money. I agree that NYT is far more fact based and substantive, but the core problem people seem to have with the TikTokers is almost just as bad in traditional journalism.

Also yes I love Andrew Callahan, and the first scene of that video was shot 3 blocks from my office.
Take us on the road with you. What's it like?
> They are solving the problems, so why should they not prioritize them?

> If that's not to somebody's liking, they are welcome to prioritize and solve the problems themselves.

There's two types of problems that developers solve. Problems that they, themselves created (oh no, I wrote a bug), and problems that are given to them.

The second type (traditionally, the "business problems") are being prioritized and solved by the people who care about them. Namely, the CEO and the exco. Those guys set overall strategy, culture etc. and then the delegate the implementation and some of the detail to people with more expertise.

Developers do not run the business. They are delegated to to solve specific problems in the context of running the business. Not all of the business' problems will be solved by developers, but all of the business' problems should be solved in a coherent and harmonious way that accounts for the context of all the other problems in the domain (market, regulatory, finance & tax etc.)

For a specific product, the place where this context is managed is usually by someone wearing a hat with "Product Manager" written on it.
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Depends how fast your car charges. 2017 Model S 75D charges for 30-40m every ~90 minutes of driving.

It's not as bad as it sounds, or I'm lying to myself, but having the 90 minute planned stops makes a cross country trip seem a lot closer ... even though it's doing the opposite.
Consequences and punishment are different concepts, I support the death penalty in the case of egregious acts primarily from the perspective of cost and efficiency of removing an unacceptable risk to society.

I don’t need to see them tortured beforehand, as it serves little to no purpose (in my opinion).
No, it's just that they were themselves learning French, so used to speaking broken French. You would get the same experience by gathering a German, an Australian and a Venezuelan all learning French as 2nd or 3rd language.

Additionally they most likely already knew English and were able to decipher "French broken by an English speaker".

Edit: and since we're sharing anecdotes. I got the same "rude" treatment from Russians when I was learning Russian in Russia, or from Swedish folks when learning Swedish in Stockholm. It's just hard for native speakers to deal with broken linguo, that's just how it is. Swedish people would even reply to me in English, some would call it rude, they were just trying to be helpful and efficient.
> The window where labor unions made mill, mine, and factory jobs something livable was quite short--1960 to 1980, roughly.

I'm sorry, what? What do you think 2023 mills, mines, and factories look like in the United States?

Here's a tour of a wheat mill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYP6AnNQjNo

Here's a modern coal mine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwo3slH1wsk

And here's a modern factory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr9kK0_7x08
This was going to be their Airtable compete. Now they have "no plans to bring the Tables beta to GA as-is."

AppSheet database is offered as alternative but it is no Airtable.
When and where at?
A friend who is a highly acclaimed therapist specializes in exactly this.
She has a new course coming up that helps people find their direction and purpose towards what matters to them. I would higly recommend it. The course information is on the home page of her website https://www.clairespooner.com/
We have the laws and mechanism to "piercing the corporate veil" and lock these guys up.

Somehow we seem to be unwilling to do it.
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The product you've seen today is just the first generation. Not even the Model-T of its day.

You have to think forward a bit to see what the product can become.

And in that context, by making immersive 3D video a realistic possibility for customers, I can see this as a true paradigm shift in the same way that Smartphones were -- as kicked off by the first iPhone.
Good.

The more visibility the US's failure to house and assist those in need the better. Shame this nation into oblivion until it changes its ways.

People use drugs across all social classes. Those living on the streets just use them where it's visible for lack of alternatives. At least we have strong laws protecting filming/photographing any public activity where there's no reasonable expectation of privacy, so we can shine light on these societal failures until resources are allocated appropriately.

What's happening in this country's city streets should be embarrassing to all citizens. Through this particular lens the US looks like a failed state, such a dereliction of duties for a first-world nation.
They have confirmed that the answer with never be plural so if you have the hope of getting it in 1 guess GIRLS ain't your best guess.
What about the situation with 3M now? We know that they kept this is a secret, so shareholders should either sell or be criminally liable.
My understanding was that the GP poster was making the point that Musk is allowing free speech even when he knows that people will criticize him when people post the kind of things that's mentioned in the article (the potential blowback of which is probably why you don't see these kind of decisions on most social media sites anymore). Wasn't that what GP was saying was courageous? I agree that it's not courageous to limit speech in some of the examples you posted. Probably at least some would make the case that he's courageous in general when it comes to free speech on Twitter and that he's also a flawed human being.
I feel like you’re reaching really hard to make this work.

Companies, teams and people do research and test projects all the time to determine direction. Making a decision like moving the entire LinkedIn data center is just a larger version of that.
Author of Cap'n Proto here.

The main innovation of Cap'n Proto serialization compared to Protobuf is that it doesn't copy anything, it generates a nice API where all the accessor methods are directly backed by the underlying buffer. Hence the generated classes that you use all act as "views" into the single buffer.

C++, meanwhile, is famously an RAII lanugage, not garbage-collected. In such languages, you have to keep track of which things own which other things so that everyone knows who is responsible for freeing memory.

Thus in an RAII language, you generally don't expect view types to own the underlying data -- you must separately ensure that whatever does own the backing data structure stays alive. C++ infamously doesn't really help you with this job -- unlike Rust, which has a type system capable of catching mistakes at compile time.

You might argue that backing buffers should be reference counted and all of Cap'n Proto's view types should hold a refcount on the buffer. However, this creates new footguns. Should the refcounting be atomic? If so, it's really slow. If not, then using a message from multiple threads (even without modifying it) may occasionally blow up. Also, refcounting would have to keep the entire backing buffer alive if any one object is pointing at it. This can lead to hard-to-understand memory bloat.

In short, the design of Cap'n Proto's C++ API is a natural result of what it implements, and the language it is implemented in. It is well-documented that all these types are "pointer-like", behaving as views. This kind of API is very common in C++, especially high-performing C++. New projects should absolutely choose Rust instead of C++ to avoid these kinds of footguns.

In my experience each new developer makes this mistake once, figures it out, and doesn't have much trouble using the API after that.
-Command “& {thing}”

is the same as

-Command “thing”
I would disagree that's the main focus. It's good information supported by specific stories. The specific people there are: a person who got out and was happy to talk about it, a local tattoo artist who was talking about warning people and wasn't photographed/interviewed while drugged, and finally Kim who actually doesn't seem to provide much value. But that's still a small part next to the extra history, context, description of scope, information about helpers/volunteers, and a group photo which wouldn't be enough to identify the people in it.

> the main focus is on how fucked up a small number of specific people are

So no, I feel like we're looking at a completely different article. I don't see that as the focus at all.
It's a shite state of affairs when I am _hoping_ the motivations behind the application are purely greed-based, preying on the perennially lonely, rather than a group of people all together agreeing that this is an obvious good and building from there.
Yes I basically agree with all that.
Vulnerable. Not begging, vulnerable. This is prime blaming the victim. People who have an innate drive to make music or art are vulnerable to be exploited, but place the blame where it belongs: on those who would exploit them.

Most humans enjoy music and art. We want it to exist. It makes life better. We shouldn't be looking down on those who want to supply it.