skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just stab a transmitter into the brain with an ice pick to the point you want to measure, and pick up the signal at lots of locations around the skull.

It wouldn't be the first time ice picks have been used inside the brain. In answering a question [1] on what the difference is in medicine between an -ectomy, an -ostomy, and an -otomy in The Straight Dope we find this:

> • Finally, there’s “-otomy,” (or “-tomy”), which means to slice it up, i.e., an operation in which cutting is involved. Thus we can distinguish a lobectomy, in which a lobe, typically of the brain, is removed, from a lobotomy, in which they merely jab an ice pick in there and chop things up.

> I’m not kidding, either. You might want to read an engrossing volume entitled Great and Desperate Cures: The Rise and Decline of Psychosurgery and Other Radical Treatments for Mental Illness, by Elliott Valenstein (1986). Valenstein quotes a letter written in the mid-1940s by one prominent lobotomist, Walter Freeman:

>> I have also been trying out a sort of half-way stage between electroshock and prefrontal lobotomy [to treat mental patients]. … This consists of knocking them out with a shock and while they are under the ‘anesthetic’ thrusting an ice pick up between the eyeball and the eyelid through the roof of the orbit [the bony cavity that contains the eye] actually into the frontal lobe of the brain and making the lateral cut by swinging the thing from side to side. I have done two patients on both sides and another on one side without running into any complications, except a very black eye in one case. There may be trouble later on but it seemed fairly easy, although definitely a disagreeable thing to watch. It remains to be seen how these cases hold up, but so far they have shown considerable relief of their symptoms, and only some of the minor behavior difficulties that follow lobotomy. [That is, prefrontal lobotomy, which typically involved boring holes through the front of the skull. The ice pick operation is called a transorbital lobotomy.] They can even get up and go home within an hour or so. If this works out it will be a great advance for people who are too bad for shock but not bad enough for surgery.

> Freeman went around the country in the late 1940s demonstrating this technique in mental hospitals. These exhibitions reportedly went well for the most part, except on those occasions when the patient bled too much or the ice pick broke off within the orbit or inside the skull. To remedy this problem, the ice pick was later replaced with a sturdier instrument and an ordinary carpenter’s hammer was used to drive it into the brain.

> The first lobotomy in the United States took place on September 14, 1936. By August 15, 1949, the procedure had been performed 10,706 times. In the mid-1950s the popularity of the operation waned due to the availability of psychotropic drugs, which offered similar benefits without the trauma. One hopes today the practice is extinct, but you never know.

[1] https://www.straightdope.com/21341781/in-medicine-what-s-the...
>Every treatment has ill effects

Not necessarily.
I wonder how soon new Amaranth species would evolve since ML models are not 100% precise and genetic mutations of a leaf shape would carry on eventually mimicking useful crops?
How often do you consult your doctor about over the counter medicines that you've taken for years?
> Most societies do demand that workers for important roles be selected on merit or based on other criteria known to all participants

Most societies become pretty practical after a while, and strive for people to be reliable and adequate for the roles they're appointed to play and celebrate the occasional master of some craft or pursuit. Being groomed for an opportunity from childhood, under the attention of one's family, often delivers on those and so a lot of societies don't worry about it except when it's obvious that somebody completely incompetent has ended up responsible for some influential or essential role.

It's actually a very peculiar modern experiment to expect every role to somehow be filled by the most capable person and for every person to be appointed a role that they're personally passionate about. Maybe it'll give us some amazing Star Trek utopia someday, but you don't see that idea expressed very much in history and so we don't really have reason to know what will happen if we try to make it so.
I've been using strong vinegar for weed control on my property for a few years now. You do have to be careful about applying it and watch the over-spray because it is not a targeted herbicide like Roundup, it's going to kill grass and broadleaf plants alike. Sometimes I lay down a tarp to mask off the grass border, for example. But if you have a general weedy area that just needs to be knocked down, or a gravel path/driveway to keep clear, I have found it is just as effective, quick-acting, and long-lasting as the synthetic herbicides, with the side effect of smelling like salad dressing, instead of smelling like cancer.

I buy 30-45% concentrate depending on what is on sale, and dilute to around 10% for new weeds and 20% for full grown weeds. A little dish soap in there helps it wet down the leaves. For lawn weeds, once they are under control, I've been able to keep up with a 1/4 acre lawn with just manual weeding. Good tools help, I have tried a lot of weed pulling gadgets. Using a push mower means I go slow enough to spot them, and if they get too big they jam the mower so I am motivated to pull them while they are still small.
I can answer the writing to /proc one. It is sometimes useful to hotpatch running programs with /proc/pid/mem.
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Indeed, our current dietary "normalcy" is an engineered phenomenon to begin with, and a new one can be engineered just as well.
> Sennaar didn't gel with me, because language-based deduction imply an "arbitrariness" ("wobbliness"?) and mis-interpretations

After not too far in, you eventually start confirming the meanings of words. Eventually you confirm the meaning of every word of every language. So, while learning a language can be a challenge of interpretation, eventually you do get concrete meanings.

Edit: I'd also recommend The Sexy Brutale for your list, it's a time loop detective game.
Of course it's easier for it to happen in nature than for them to do it in a lab. The way nature does this is that when you kill untold numbers of the ones that aren't resistant, you're left with the ones that are. If you used that method with our actual crops, you would nearly wipe out the crops and cause massive food crises.
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“I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the President or the Pope or as a 400 basball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.” — James Carville
> middle-aged tech workers, who were almost certainly using some primitive social media themselves as teenagers, are now in support of a full ban

How many people do that becasue they have thought about what they perhaps look back on posting on MySpace or Bebo or whatever and think "thank god that's disappeared from the internet"?
XNU, or more specifically the Mach part of it, also had some very questionable design choices that likely compounds the issue as it forces people to work around it in increasingly awkward ways. As Mach was conceived and mostly designed by an academic with no real world industry experience in shipping kernels.
Just to play devils advocate for a minute: I live in Montréal Québec Canada, and the power entering my home is almost certainly generated at a hydroelectric dam. [0] There is an ecological impact from damming rivers, but in terms of GHG emissions, it's drastically better environmentally compared to coal or natural gas electricity generation systems.

If the service I'm using is hosted on us-east-1, it's using power from virginia, which uses a mix of natural gas and nuclear. [1]

Based on that... is running more logic on my computer or on an edge server within Québec, actually using less GHG-emitting energy than running it on the origin server?

[0] https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-markets/pr...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Virg...
How can a guy so smart not understand that the country is so big (both in terms of population and area) that it's essentially on autopilot regardless of who is in the White House?

For all practical purposes being enraged (or happy) about the outcome of the election is like being enraged or happy about the Cowboys losing to the Lions (or vice versa). Actually at least watching the ball game you get entertained by players athleticism as opposed to Election night when you tune in to literally see dots on a screen becoming blue or red.
Went a bit further down the rabbit hole and found the previous devlogs he posted about the topic for anyone interested. [1] [2]
Of note was an upsampling algorithm called Scale2X he talked about. [3] Pretty neat !

[1] https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.260
[2] https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg121719...
[3] https://www.scale2x.it
That's so cool! I'm glad it inspired you to accomplish what you have been putting off for ages. I do think an alternative and more visual/tactile experience can help some people approach music from a different prospective they might be accustomed to. There's definitely room for improvement. If you have any specific suggestions for your use case please let me know. Thanks for checking it out!
Is there any basis to think xylo- is better than the similar oxymetazoline available in the US? Both the efficacy and downsides seem similar from discussion so far.
Very cool! Also interesting the the NFL is on a similar trend with color rush.
No this is stupid. Dance is super important, because it allows one or two people or just a few to form an instant social pod and enjoy themselves for a few hours.

I have a friend like you who wants everyone to live in "communities" with "communal living". He is just ultimately bossy and alienates all his friends (including me to be honest).

Try and force me to get to know my neighbours -- I simply will not. The last thing I need is someone trying to borrow "butter" or "dropping by" from 603 interrupting my desperately needed self time after working a 10 hour day.

Let me find my own friends and leave me alone to go out DANCING! And I'll find my friends no problem!
Platform engineering is the industrialization of software development
Fun fact: TCG OPTAL isn't a $3tn company and they also don't respect or liberate users. So while both things can be true, both things are also irrelevant to the discussion.
Verizon Told to Rein in Misleading Satellite Messaging Ads
Anything, except for practical applications that people actually use.

* music production software
* discord
* games
* copy and pasting
The article says: "no longer manufacture AI chips at advanced process nodes of 7 nanometers or smaller." This was triggered when Huawei produced some kind of device with TSMC wafers of this class.

Maybe standard ARM cores are still approved for export to the mainland.
Loving it so far!

My only comment is that it feels like there are too many items for the amount of inventory space.

There will be rooms completely littered with boots that you just walk past. Every time you see something interesting like a potion you have to first chuck away a pair of boots before you can pick it up and drink it.
I'm pretty sure ANIL is taking the back
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It was just poking people, playing silly games, and status updates that make me cringe when they come back in my "15 years ago today"
[wrong link] Parental leave at early stage startups
>Preventing people from getting real medical care due to fraud is absolutely damage.

Sure, but I don't think you could reliably charge that, at least in the US, where homeopathic medicines with absolutely no effect are allowed to be sold. We're talking about over the counter remedies for temporary sinus congestion often caused by pollen allergies, not prescription medicines that treat actual serious conditions.
Thanks for sharing the cute Kirby! I'm curious about the bug. Would you mind sharing what OS and browser you're on?
> The WHO says that it is.

No, it doesn't.

> I'm not a doctor or molecular biologist. How should I decide which experts to trust? I can easily afford food grown without glyphosate, so that's what I eat.

Yeah, and I tuned my car to emit extra black smoke for better motor vibration. It now ROARS and consumes more gas, helping to stimulate the economy!
Yeah an option to "reboot after not being unlocked for x hours" where x is considerably longer than the average time the phone would ever be locked under normal circumstances, would be great for security.
> Really I think it's more useful to view it as a better C

But Go is nothing at all like C, and it's completely unsuitable for most of the situations where C is used. I'm having trouble even imagining what you're getting at with this comparison. The largest areas of overlap I can think of are "vaguely similar syntax style" and "equally bad and outdated type system". Pretty much everything else of substance is different. Go is GC'd, Go has a runtime, etc.
> Apple‘s stance is to build strong encryption so that they can’t access customers data.

In the US and EU, where it is politically easy. https://support.apple.com/en-us/111754
What Developers Can Do to Continue to Program as They Age
In my experience oxymetazoline has similar fast-action - even "10 minutes" seems a bit on the long side.
MS's main lock in is the MS Office file formats (the entire "open" standards process around this was co-opted and destroyed), and then the predatory bundling/extension (browsers, email, Teams) to knock out competitors.

Windows isn't the crown jewel - the real value is doc/xls/ppt that wrap people's data and bundling of everything into a MS license that marginalizes 3rd party entrants like Slack.
Texas and Oklahoma redraw border due to zebra mussels in Lake Texoma
the link keeps defaulting to jqueryui.com. here is the blog post: https://www.jasgarcha.com/blog/on-parental-leave-at-early-st...
Your original comment as written claims that numpy cannot scale using threads because of the GIL. You admit that is wrong, but somehow can't read your comment back and understand that it says that. What you really meant was that combinations of pure Python and numpy don't scale trivially using threads, which is true but not what you wrote. You were actually just thinking of your PyTorch specific use case, which you evidently haven't figured out how to scale properly, and oversimplified a complaint about it.

> I don't think you understood what you did before and you already wasted a lot of CPUs.

No CPUs were wasted lol. You are clearly confused about how threads and processes in Python work. You also don't seem to understand hierarchical parallelization, which is simply a pattern that works well in cases where you can better maximize parallelism using combination of processes and threads.

There are probably better ways to address your preprocessing problem, but I get the impression you're one of those people only incidentally using Python out of necessity to run PyTorch jobs and frustrated or haven't yet come to the realization that you need to learn how to optimize your Python compute workload because PyTorch doesn't do everything for you automatically.
Node.js Implements Stricter Policies for Semver-Major Pull Requests Ahead Of
Intricate lock took seven years to complete
But not productively. In monoculture agriculture, all but a single planted crop is a weed by definition, and we have no way of making use of it at scale. Sure, you can eat dandelion greens from your yard, but that does not scale.

There are a lot of benefits to quality, nutrition, environment, and community to growing food at smaller scale, but it is certainly more expensive.
You forgot the part where social media companies are fully on board with extreme conservative agenda, and more people will be brainwashed. IMO Trump would have never won if it wasn't for Rogan, Elmo and his xitter. It's completely over.
The only thing I hope happens - to prevent this country from being a 1 party system in perpetuity - is inner conflicts within the republican party that ends up dividing them and help create a new party to help recalibrate. But it will just be "extreme right" vs "very extreme right".
It's pretty easy to give your kid loads of advantages without engaging in nepotism. The definition of nepotism is actually very narrow!

You can teach them your trade. You can show them that education is important, modelling and rewarding behaviours like reading. You can make sure you've got time to be there for them. You can introduce them to your friends in other lines of work. You can check their homework and help them when they struggle, within reason. You can make sure they never need a part-time job to get by while in school. You can get them tutors whenever they're having trouble. You can get them extra tuition outside school. You can pay for them to go to a great college. You can cover their living expenses when they're working an unpaid internship. You can invest in their startup. You can assure you that even if their startup crashes and burns, you'll make sure they always have a roof over their head and food in their belly. You can buy them a house, pay their bills, gift them millions of dollars.

And you can hire them to work for you - as long as you make a point to clearly not favour them in the workplace, by insisting they work hard every day, don't use your name, and that they start at the bottom and work their way up on their own merits.

And you can overlap these things! In your role as CEO give them an unpaid internship in the mailroom of your company, and in your role as a parent give them a $10,000/month allowance? Technically not nepotism.

The only things you can't do is give them undeserved promotions, or hire them directly into a senior job.
https://github.com/darwin-containers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37655477

There's no security model for desktops that works well.

Like another commenter said iOS has no legacy cruft and could deliver the security model that made sense.

On the other hand, when Telegram asks you to share all your contacts and images with it, people do.
Sequoia, and others (who actually receive the quarterly reports) seem pretty happy with their position.
The restrictions on purchasing pseudeophedrine should be repealed. Their imposition led methamphetamine manufacturers to switch to a more efficient process based on different ingredients. Purity and production volume increased substantially.

A repeal won't turn back the clock on that of course, but it will make life easier for people with congestion.

https://dynomight.net/p2p-meth/
There is a thing called history. Without context all aggression is blind. Please go away and read up. This is not a new blitzkreig despite how many like warm IQs day it is. If it was Kiev would be a parking lot and Germany would be negotiating Poland future already
Where is the problem here?

The real issue should be: Fedora/Debian/Ubuntu cater themselves to a very big audience and yet chose to set GNOME as the default
the answer is easy. The problem is education. In countries with high level of education and equality between man and woman, the babies are born more later in womans life, the more educated she is. The reason for this is education takes time. If the girl want to go study, she can't get pregnant. After that she decides to may be doing a master or phd .. and after that, she may be wants to persue a career - girls don't have time for babies nowadays. And they don't need it really in developed countries anymore - in contrast to poor countries, where having a lot a children corresponds to wealth and security of ageing parents.

And then, its a personal thing, too - My friend-girls are saying "why..? the world is terrible". In Japan they dont even want to have sex.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsnr.202...
It already happens with human vision: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vavilovian_mimicry
Presumably microcode issues can be patched, right?
"Papers, Please" is a masterpiece. Obra Dinn I must have made some mistake, because it stopped giving me clues after way too few stories to match anything else.
I’ve had two doctors and two NPs tell me to stop using sudafed. It dries out the mucus membranes and allows infections to start. If you’ve had sinus infections before, they suck and you don’t want them again. Give the Sudafed away.

(It also gives me horrible insomnia if I take it at night so it wasn’t a huge hardship).

Guaifenesin thins the mucus instead, makes it more watery so it drains down the throat with no further complications like sore throat and coughing. And the extra volume helps flush bacteria out of the sinuses.
Ok. How about when the west attacks Russia?
Glad to see more web games! The zero install/instant load aspect is such a huge advantage for the web. I am interested to see people's experience with monetization on web vs app stores.

These days it's possible to do almost any mobile game as a web game. I recently discovered this very polished (despite the cartoony graphics) battle royale: https://gooberdash.winterpixel.io/ and the creator has an HN post describing how they did it (Godot with wasm threads): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40372308

Another good source on the technical aspects of porting to the web is Sebastian Altonen, a very good graphics programmer who works at a company called HypeHype doing a kind of TikTok-but-Roblox hybrid. He is currently porting from WebGL to WebGPU and posting a lot about it here: https://x.com/SebAaltonen
The patents:

>The first patent is about aiming and firing some sort of item toward a character “in a field” (it literally specifies that) triggering a combat state.

>The second patent is something about being able to capture creatures in the wild, rather than just in a battle setting.

>The third patent is about riding creatures in an open world, and transitioning between those creatures.

For #2, I'd argue that by the nature of open world games, the capture event is already in a battle state before it starts. And maybe even you are already in a battle state all the time, which counters #1. And for #3, I've seen games do this since the SNES era and they've never tried to protect their patent.