skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given a state described by the distributions in space of the various kinds of ions, you can compute the distribution in space of the electric potential. Therefore including the electric potential in the state is superfluous.

Given the distribution in space of the electric potential, you cannot compute the entire state, which includes the distributions in space of many kinds of ions, simply because there are many kinds of ions. Only when there had been a single kind of ions, it would have been possible to describe the state using the electric potential.

All the ions move continuously through very complex circuits comprising a network of pores through the cellular membranes. Through some of the pores the movement is "passive" i.e. for each kind of ion that may pass through a given kind of pore the ionic current is determined by both the local gradient of the concentration of that kind of ion and the local gradient of the electric potential. This is the only place where the electric potential matters. Through other kinds of pores, the ion transport is "active", i.e. the so-called ionic pumps move certain kinds of ions regardless of the gradients of the ionic concentrations and of the electric potential (within certain limits, too large gradients can block an ionic pump).

If you want to simulate the ionic current network of an entire organism, you must compute the electric potential inside the simulation. When you observe a living organism, measuring the electric potential is much easier than measuring directly any kind of ion concentration and in many cases one can estimate the ionic concentrations of interest from the measured electric potential and from additional information.

While accounting for the electric interactions inside an organism is essential, talking about a "bioelectric" state of an organism that would determine its development is just meaningless pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo. "Bioelectricity" is an appropriate term when discussing the electric sense organs or the electric weapons of various animals, where the side-effect of the generation of electric potential differences by differences in ion concentrations is exploited in such a way that the effect is cumulative over large ensembles of cells.
I had something similar, when i was young and walking the dog in the evening, i could here a high pitch tone if they had the tv on when i walked by houses.
considering how far the far right got in the recent elections, who knows, sabotages could happen, at the end, nobody guarantees nato will apply it's article to defend it's members
Also, afaik only France does have some own nuclear warheads that aren't controlled by the US and it's unknown if they will apply those to defend other countries. Imagine trump gets elected, what could happen in this case?
Check out VGC software's VGC Animation[1].

The author, Boris Dalstein, published a novel algorithm for shape morphing at SIGGRAPH 2014, using vector animation complexes[2], which is the basis for this software.

AFAIK this is (still) state of the art for this stuff today. I.e. I haven't seen anything better if you do any sort of 2D animation based on vector graphics. Topology is more or less not a concern any more.

[1] https://www.vgc.io/

[2] https://www.borisdalstein.com/research/vac/
WebKit fix: Quirk news.ycombinator to skip TextAutoSizing
Passion and ambition are just not neuro-vanilla traits. I think that's what you're picking up on.

Some people these days who are anything but call themselves autistic, ADHD, etc because they don't have a defensible banner anymore under which they can be passionate or ambitious without some reason behind the reason for it.

The only way out is empathy - true empathy, a willingness to accept sometimes (often) people do things for the sheer joy of doing them.
A local cinema's shitty website charged me and, immediately after, my wifi disconnected for a few seconds. This somehow crashed their server entirely for several minutes, failing to send me the tickets even when it got back up.

It took me several threatening emails to make them understand they had already taken my money and I wasn't going to try again until I got a refund. Now I'm paranoid any time I purchase online at mediocre shops.
If we exclude over 75 with no interest in using it (and no use case for it in their environmnent/culture), and under 10, we're pretty close to covering all the rest.

And even the 60% is some hand wavy estimate about internet reach, about people using the internet frequently. More people use the internet than that, some transparently through some smartphone app or basic feature phone, which almost everybody has even in the poorest places in Africa.
The ball is not supposed to do anything, the ball has no intention. The ball just is, and it follows the laws of physics.
A lot of it is software. When the Chromebook guys were just starting out they wanted a Mac style touchpad, but discovered you couldn't buy one on the open market. They had to do a ton of custom work on drivers to try and get close to Apple's work. There's a lot of subtlety to palm rejection, scaling, haptics, etc.
I had to check the source of the page to find out what the 48% stands for, its the battery level.
It is for me -- all companies I work for (except one) during my career has been Windows.
What about wedo and spike?
I think they look pretty ok…
Love Fork, been using it on both Windows and macOS. I think it's a great example of native cross-platform software.
Check this very interesting documentary on the details account of Pompeii daily life based on historical records [1].

Fun facts, they discovered evidence of syphilis disease from the remains of the dead and restaurants are familiar sights in ancient Pompeii.

[1] What Was Everyday Life Like In Pompeii? | Pompeii with Mary Beard | Absolute History:

https://youtu.be/LSw7eoBbM0U
The real problem with inline assembly is that you really are flying blind and have to be an experienced enough to know what you're doing. The compiler can't help you much at all due to losing all type information.

Saying that, I think it's a skill that we need to foster, at least for a few niches.
Proxmox vs. FreeBSD: Which Virtualization Host Performs Better?
We live in a country of Majority rule. Not sure why you think it's surprising that the common parlance is DMV. Dig deeper.
Broadly I agree about Mars vs the moon.

Two wrinkles, not really disagreements:

> Low gravity is a problem

It might be, we don't know. This ignorance is also a problem.

> Mars's atmosphere is the worst of both worlds. It's of absolutely no use to build a breathable atmosphere.

Not directly, but it does mean (1) leaks can be represurised from outside, and (2) is a source of carbon, useful for plants and ISRU fuel manufacturing.

The fuel point is useful for any initial colonisation creation, but by the time we seriously consider a million people we should be able to build a mass driver… which works better on the airless moon than the thin atmosphere of Mars.

> I firmly believe humanity's future is in orbitals (aka an incremental Dyson Swarm). This approach has so much more going for it, except perhaps the added protection of living deep underground on a planet or Moon.

I understand the appeal, but I strongly suspect they only seem good due to the failure modes having not yet been deeply investigated.
I have been using this platform for a couple of weeks now. It's a great step towards minimalist blogging and reflecting user privacy.

I also came across Mataroa a few minutes back and found that it takes the Bear philosophy even further, by removing themes and other bells & whistles.

All in all, I'm happy that more such platforms are coming up.
Can it be pointed to a remote ollama server ?
* Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

* Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work.

* Be kind. Don't be snarky.
This is why I don't understand the AI hate. We literally don't have enough people becoming doctors, AI-assisted Healthcare would be stealing jobs from basically nobody
Yeah, but sadly anyplace we can send a bunch of humans to, we can figure out how to send a nuke to as well. And if leaders on the homeworld are crazy enough to turn Earth into a wasteland, I'm not sure how confident I'd be they wouldn't point their threat at your colony (which might look like an enticing bargaining chip).
4chan threads are basically a generalization of the classic (HN, Reddit, etc.) threads.

Classic threads are just trees of replies, where each reply has exactly one parent and one or more children. By contrast, 4chan threads are directed graphs of posts, in which any post can reply to any other post by its number - even itself (hard to achieve, but not impossible). It is even possible to reply to someone in the future (which sometimes happen when people reference a future "get", in which some poster will get a "nice" post number, such as 99999).

There are even some frontends that render 4chan threads as graphs in the browser. I forgot their names though.
The Last Mathematical Testament of Galois
I talk a lot to people who are training to become therapist, to PhD's in psychology, and read a lot of psychology papers. If there is one thing it's time for then it's for academia to get out of their ivory tower and face the real world. As Taleb puts it:

“I will repeat the following until I am hoarse: it is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science, not its validity.”

Or as Yarkoni & Westfall put it: "psychology's near-total focus on explaining the causes of behavior has led much of the field to be populated by research programs that provide intricate theories of psychological mechanism but that have little (or unknown) ability to predict future behaviors with any appreciable accuracy." [1]

I personally think it's fair to compare social science research with monks researching a religious text. They can work hard for years without ever coming up with a new idea.

So what's the solution? Somehow dogmatism should be reduced. This will probably happen once the government figures out how to align incentives better. Currently, peer review and grant proposals are largely done by academic peers. These peers can strengthen dogmatic ideas. Somehow, there should be a mechanism introduced that counters this.

[1]: https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691617693393
I think you're only aware of a narrow definition of "supposed to", you're saying the same thing I am.

Edit: to expand a bit. My point is exactly that - if the universe is deterministic. This only applies up to the limit of precision that it can use to calculate its own physics laws but otherwise it should be deterministic. And within a deterministic system all objects are supposed to do certain things, according to the laws that govern them. There's no ulterior moral "supposed to" in the way I'm using the word, which I think is valid usage but I'm not native.
Not OP but they definitely do increase prices - they are still a good idea though; externalities must be kept in check.
> The government is NOT a good steward of wealth. They allocate inefficiently (because no accountability) so we should minimize what we give them.

Have you ever actually looked at how large companies allocate wealth, and how much actual accountability there is there? I can't tell you how many billions of dollars the company I currently work for burned with acquisitions whose products they shut down and teams they laid off two years later; and they're definitely not worse than normal, as far as I can tell. How many products has Microsoft attempted and then killed? How big is the Killed By Google graveyard? And in many cases people who make catastrophic decisions are rewarded -- "failing up" with golden parachutes and higher more influential posts.

In my experience, people who say things like this have a double standard. If you judge the government and corporations by the same standards, they come out about the same -- a bit of really good, a bit of really bad, lots of mediocre. The difference is that the government is at least nominally trying to work for the voters, whereas corporations are explicitly only working for their shareholders.
I think you're misunderstanding me. I was not referring to your post at all, but the one below it (before mine). With "insight" i did not mean absolute experience or knowledge about it, but a privy to what it might feel like because they're also experiencing a similar yet a lot different at times situation.
How do you do this so that it lasts? I find mine resets to default
Not sure what we can conclude from this graph. Why it is not normalized?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=illness - try any common word and you will see that it grows just because of number of papers.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=lucid - try any less common word and you may also see spikes, not in 2023, but in 2020, or somewhere else. Try to look deeper and probably find some common n-gram people started to study and repeat after each other ("lucid dreams" in this case).

Normalize and don't extrapolate from a single point (see https://xkcd.com/605/).
I don't understand why we're supposed to have more empathy and compassion for people who happened to be born inside some arbitrary line someone drawn hundreds of years ago.

Especially when some of the people born inside our borders had a hand in creating these non-natural disasters that cause so many to flee their homes.
Seems like you just want a regular camera at this point
Not very debatable though. Mention the many others that have;

As good a trackpad,
As good a battery,
As good speakers.

Just to mention a few. Lots of other stupidities like their RAM pricing, OS magick etc, but other companies have rarely come close to the hardware.
Its used to be fun without any malicious intent.

Psychotherapist by day, naive bored script kiddie by night.

Working with subjective experiences all day, I needed some objective thought to create some balance for me.

I was a 50 year old classic script kiddie back in the mid 2000's.

I could write the most simplest of bash scripts and that was it.

I hacked all my neighbours wifi.

Wifi passwords were very poor, 6 digits or something as short. Rockyou.txt was the 135Mb go to password list or I used Crunch.

Even Aircrack-ng on an old cpu slowly crawled through your password lists.

Once you had hacked the wifi password you could watch the images with Wireshark that anyone on the local network was viewing, No HTTPS just HTTP back then.

The aircrack suite of tools were the most popular. No GPU's back then.

I used to download loads of SHA1, MD5 and NTLM hashes and try to crack as many as I could using hashcat and john on my first gaming rig.

I eventually built up a 12.5GB password file. Completely useless today.

I learned a great deal about Linux and other tools during this time:

All of the coreutils, sed, awk, curl, bash, grep, tr, sort etc and simple python2 scripting.

No Kali or ParrotOS or BlackArch back then.
> There weren't any physical barriers between the Romans and a 21st century living standard

ACOUP disagrees:

https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus...
The shortage of doctors is an artificial guild monopoly.
>a bit heavier than Earth

A planet's mass doesn't matter so much as the density. If you look at a planet like Saturn, it is almost 100x heavier, but it's surface gravity is nearly identical to Earth's. What really matters for rockets though is the surface escape velocity, which scales like the square root of mass divided by radius. So for large radii it is slightly worse than density, which scales like mass divided by radius cubed. Ideally you would live on a small rocky planet (Mars ftw).
> people like notebooks as they allow them to easily check some ideas and move on. However, when their ideas work out, they are having hard time moving this code to modules.

Notebooks are just that: notebooks. You don’t copy paste your scribbling on to the new novel you are writing.
If people abuse notebooks that is not the fault of notebooks.

I like how i can interleave LaTeX with code in notebooks and communicate a complex idea.
Flipping the Cybersecurity Narrative
Security is not an asset that can be added. But what if we focus
instead on "reducing insecurity"?
>I just think it’s not wrong to want something better than fuck you, you’re disposable and the only thing that matters is profit.

How are they being treated as disposable? Should companies never be allowed to let anyone go ever?

And what do you suggest? Communism? I work in Europe for a private local company and for them profit is also the only thing that matters hence why they had layoffs and hiring freezes.

If I stop being perceived as being productive do you think the company won't fire me here too? If I drop dead tomorrow do you think the CEO will come to my funeral or send money to my family? I have the exact worth to the company my US peer do except for much less pay and a safety net paid from my own high taxes and lower financial opportunities.
Chamath Palihapitiya: 2023 Annual Letter
FWIW I switched to Affinity from PS after having used PS for 20+ years (since 5.5 I think?). Honestly, it was super easy.

Most of the use I had for PS is now split between: Procreate (drawing, illustration, game assets), Figma/Penpot (wireframes, quick mockups, UI sketches etc...), Affinity (image processing, quick photo edits, batch processing, anything that doesn't fall into the categories mentioned earlier).
In fact, the original concept of a corporation was that they were created for a specific purpose and then dissolved once completed. In a way, the fact that modern corporations don't do that is analogous to how cancer is mutated cells that don't stop growing, even to the detriment of the host.
How Many Western ICs Are There in Russia's Weapons?
...until they can find a way for it to be introduced without resistance.

Let's not pretend several decades of unscrupulous behavior is going to change now. Unless regulatory structures get implemented to brutally, exactingly, unflinchingly and relentlessly punish firms, they won't stop trying.

Punitively maul them into submission.
Oh, absolutely. Linux kernel hacking is a _dojo_ at least as much as it is a service to one's fellow man. You don't want to go to the gym with a bunch of wimps who are cheating on their curls, and you don't want to hack on the kennel all day when 90% of the people around you are more interesting in talking around the thing than in actually improving it, and improving their own skills in the process.

Linus's approach is very good at setting this precedent, while staying really quite friendly, and it's what attracts a lot of people to the endeavor.
Interesting, dmv.org is owned by Raj Lahoti. I used to work for Dave Lahoti when I was beginning my career and was desperate for money, he was the quintessential domain squatter (I eventually ran the first chance I had). Turns out they're related. Infact there's 3 of them, and they're all in the game of domain squatting and SEO.
Reminds me a bit of "Let's Program a Calculus Student": https://iagoleal.com/posts/calculus-symbolic/
The global economy is bad, but not Microsoft's profits. Hence firings. You can make profits in a bad economy.
It sounds like what you are thinking of is a spectrum more in the sense of a range, where one end is "least" and the other "most". There was an interesting article[0] making the rounds a few years ago arguing that it's more like the color spectrum. While there is an underlying linear value to the color spectrum in the wavelength, you don't really talk about red being "more" of a color than blue just because it has longer wavelength. Instead, we talk about combining, and sometimes mixing, colors. The article author argue that the autism spectrum is like that; it's made up of individual traits that make a whole. As I understand it, diagnosis is in part looking at the number of those traits that a person exhibit. Severity would then be a perpendicular axis to the spectrum of traits.

[0] https://neuroclastic.com/its-a-spectrum-doesnt-mean-what-you...
Event-driven: At runtime, the client tells the system what has happened, the system stores the event and is configured in advance for how to react to it.

CRUD: Imperative. Client tells us to create/update a specific entity with some data.
> Fusion resources are a pipe dream and anything you mine there would be much better mined off asteroids.

More pertinently, when we actually develop a fusion reactor, the gas giants are a far easier place to get fusion fuel from than the parts-per-billion in regolith.
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Religion would like to have a word with you.

Yes, I'm very serious here. Apart from crooks, fanatics and other vocal minorities, the religious people I met have several advantages. One, more mundane, is a sense of community which works best in smaller groups. Second, a sense of purpose in life and a kind of reference point. Third, when a darker period comes, a source of strength to go through it.
This. In the past few decades we changed completely how we are supposed to live. Our bodies and brains evolved and adapted through thousands and thousands of years. With plenty of outdoor activity, sunlight, bonding in close communities, quiet time to exercise creativity and arts, and specially, the lack of continuous stimuli and artificially induced anxiety and stress of modern world.
> Likewise, there was a time when server side website code had to be invoked via a httpd plugin or CGI, now every programming language will have several different web frameworks, each with their own HTTP listener and each needing to be configured in its own unique way.

And still we keep all those webservices, be they in Java, Go, node, C# or Python, behind dedicated webservers like nginx or apache.

Why? Because we trust them, and they provide a Single-Point-Of-Entry.

> Tech evolves — it’s your job as a sysadmin to deal with it.

Single-Point-Of-Entry is still prefered over having to deal with a bag of cats of different services each having their own ideas about how security should be managed. And when a single point of entry exists, it makes sense to focus security there as well.

This has nothing to do with evolving tech, this is simple architectural logic.

And the first of these points that every server has, is the kernels packet filter. Which is exactly what tools like fail2ban manage.

> A point you keep ignoring.

Not really. Of course an admin should deactivate svc-individual security in such a scenario, and I never stated otherwise.

The point is: That's one more thing that can go wrong.
I should add that I admire people tracking their personal gear.

The market for personal medical gear comes to mind. Wheelchairs, walkers —- unfashionable but important things. Speciality stores for this come across as a rare essentially different retail experience.
One thing that has helped me over the last two years is not watching or reading the news (I've haven't done social media in a decade).

I know some people will think it is morally wrong of me to not be interested in the world and society. In fact, I used to think as much too, and thought myself terribly clever because I had an Economist subscription.

The fact is that I _am_ interested in the world and society, but all I found that keeping up with hour-by-hour events did was stress me out. I don't need to hear about plane crashes, or tedious political events.

The only place where I come across news stories now is occasionally on HN, and when talking to other people.

Because I am no longer addicted to the news, I am less stressed, and have more time to do the things that make me calm, happy, and fulfilled, rather than stressed.

I doubt that my "living under a rock" policy will be permanent - in the future I might develop a better capacity to deal with the stress of current affairs - but for now it is definitely helping me.