skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with these points, however the main advantage of the method presented in the paper is precisely that both the forward propagation and backward propagation can be seen as being performed by a network operating on temporally sparse events. We absolutely had event-based sensors and control as a motivation in mind. The fact that you can write down the connectivity of the neurons in terms of a weight matrix, does not mean that it can't be sparse. Since you are actually processing one spike at a time (potentially asynchronously), you don't need to implement any matrix multiplication. Current neuromorphic hardware achieves at least some degree of sparsity in their synaptic crossbars (BrainScales2, Spinnaker) or largely eliminates them like Loihi.
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A similar product could be produced reasonably cost effectively with injection molded plastics and doing the unit adapted crossover in digital domain. I think it has not been done because the story of it being painstakingly manually crafter, the tower of monoblock amplifiers needed and even the high price itself are the allure of this kind of product. Just like the selling point of a high end wristwatch is not about its capability to accurately tell time.

Another important part is that the speaker itself is only a part of the overall acoustic system, the room that it is placed within forming the other part, equally capable of changing the sound. Very few people have the luxury of designing the listening room with as much consideration for acoustic performance as the speakers have.
Your parent says that it is part of the Puritan ideal to be healthy more so than maybe in other religions or belief systems.

He is suggesting your desire to be healthy comes from this.
My honest and unscientific opinion is that the difference _is_ discernible but the listener needs to know what to hear for. Also, the reproduction quality is impacted by several factors like room, equipment, and recording quality (not just speaker quality).

[Anecdotal] One example of the difference between MP3 and lossless: the "image" [1] on 256kbps MP3s is worse compared to the the original uncompressed, lossless, versions (but the listening room must be appropriately prepared to reproduce a good image).

This is a highly subjective topic. IMO we'll never reach full agreement. Personally, I listen MP3 while on-the-go and lossless music at home.

Important to keep in mind the "size" of the experiment. Two interesting quotes from the article in c't magazine:

> twelve participants would be asked to come to Hanover.

> It's true that the data we collected does not support watertight
conclusions, but they do provide interesting insights.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereo_imaging
Really hard to understand. I think this should be rewritten to make it more clear.
Vault1317 protocol: a modern approach for metadata protection with deniability
We demonstrated a practical implementation of vault1317 with metadata protection with deniablity on a famous federated protocol XMPP. Try lurch1317 as a pidgin plugin and tweak it if the paper is too boring to you:

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May be he doesn't want to use CloudFormation? It's easier to switch to any other platform and why switching Cloudformation when everything is doing well with Terraform>
What? I thought the corn-soybean rotation was the norm in the US?
For those who want a fresh perspective on CSS, layout and styling, check out this talk by Matthew Griffith - the creator of elm-ui

https://youtu.be/Ie-gqwSHQr0
Boomers Are Not Okay (2019)
Ross Scott covers it quite well in his "Games as a service" is fraud video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAX0gnZ3Nw and others in 'dead game news' series.
Sure, that speaks to the usefulness of mathematics and the way it's constructed: perhaps the API analogy is the way to go about explaining it to others.

However, I am mostly talking about people (mathematicians even) who do not understand that something as basic as 2+2=4 relies on our faith that: 1. there exists "one", and 2. there exists a successor to "one" (simplified, for interested readers, look for Peano axioms). The beauty of mathematics and the human mind are in that everything else flows from there!

Most of them would claim that this is universally true, whereas as a mathematician, one needs to understand the difference, and be open to, as you put it, playing with assumptions!
You can define a proxy since the GPL3. This is what we are doing at KDE so if a GPL4 appear, to apply to most KDE project you will need a vote of the KDE e.V. membership on it.

For example: https://invent.kde.org/network/neochat/-/blob/master/LICENSE...
> Does anyone support those?

Maybe, maybe not, but even then, wouldn’t implementing those be easier (for both you and the rest of the world) than creating a completely new protocol?

> It still leaves the issue of it using multiple ports.

Aren’t multiple ports only an “issue” if you assume NAT (and CGNAT, shudder) as a natural state of things?
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Yes! Me too and so when a site hijacks right click it's a little infuriating (but I have now learnt the keyboard shortcut).
Well that's the main issue, currently the states do not consider such cyberattacks the equivalent of sending troops or rockets across the border that justify a "kinetic" response but rather the equivalent of earlier espionage activities which usually justifies only a diplomatic response. Of course, that might change in the future.
I'm curious as to what the movie/tv industry's role is in this increase in solitary drinking. I was an active 'solo' drinker as well, who recently stopped altogether. Since I stopped I've noticed something peculiar that I wonder if other people noticed as well: A lot of TV shows and movies contain scenes where alcohol is being positioned as a "fix" for something.

- Just had a tough situation? Have a drink!

- Feeling anxious? A drink takes the edge off!

- Feeling awkward at a social event? Drink!

Now, I have people working in the alcohol industry who insist that there is no direct product placement or company sponsoring going on. This seems believable, because oftentimes there are no specific brands mentioned in these scenes.

However, this did get me thinking: Is there any alcohol lobby that influences writers to include these types of "benefits of alcohol" scenes into their scripts? When you start to recognise them, you'll notice that a lof of these scenes are entirely unnecessary, to the point where you have to think that a script writer had to deliberately add the alcohol into the scene!
Can someone ELI5 what confluent is/does?

Going to the landing page of any enterprise B2B Saas company is always bizarre. You can tell nobody cares if the copy makes sense because these types of products get sold in person.
You can get damn close to the performance of the halo products with stuff as humble as Polk Audio floorstanders and some Emotiva amps.

Any dumbass with a table saw, glue and a bunch of clamps can make speakers that rival the highest end for pennies on the dollar. There are lots of online resources for this sort of thing.

If you think this hobby is about the most precise listening experience (bit rates, conversion, etc), you would be wrong in my eyes. It's more about the presence/power you get from a system that can saturate a 20A circuit with transients. The effective dynamic range in a real world listening room. Having your walls rattle a bit when the depth charges explode is an experience. You don't get that with sound docks/bars, headphones, etc.
There is no way to do it from statistics alone, which is why the whole argument is useless.

Instead, the whole thing depends critically on other arguments about the possible distributions, which are much weaker and than the initial ironclad statistical argument.
> No, Evil mode is not better than Vim itself

Emacs provides a convincing Vim layer on top of a hackable LISP runtime. While there's not much point in trying to decide which one is "better," it's not an entirely unfounded point.

> For one it's slower

Could you be more specific? At least for me, there's no noticeable lag when using Evil mode.

> defining keybindings is much more verbose

This is why some use Vim? I don't see how this:

(define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "w") 'some-function)

is any worse than this:

nnoremap w :<C-u>call some-function()<CR>

I for one could care less about how keybindings are set, as it's just something that I write once in a config file and forget about.

> everything outside the actual text file has completely different controls

It's because Emacs is more of a runtime for elisp applications. As such, it makes sense to have different behaviors for each key depending on context. FWIW evil-collection does a pretty good job of making keybindings feel consistent outside of ordinary text buffers, so you won't have to fall back to Emacs keybindings these days.

> I lose most of the seamless interoperability with other terminal tools

This is plainly false. Shell interoperability in evil works exactly the same as in Vim.

> overly complicated in many aspects

This doesn't mean much without specifics. Implementation complexity isn't inherently a bad thing as long as it provides value.

Besides, Emacs is a just a LISP interpreter at its core. If anything, it's easy for programmers to grasp and hack on.
There tons of abandoned apple farms / trees here.
It is incredible people still buy apples in the supermarket.
They taste like shit in comparison to the old forgotten trees, cost money and are full of pesticides. Strange and stupid times.
I've been attempting the '12 projects in 12 months' challenge for a couple of months now.

Most recently I created a book written and illustrated entirely by AI (GPT-3) - https://grimtalesbook.com

I've almost finished a prototype of a physical product for people with a specific desktop PC case which I'm looking forward to launching (nothing technical, more for the DIY builder crowd).

There are a few more ideas that are queued up for the coming months. It's exciting knowing that there's a timeline for each project. There's no need to slog away losing motivation on a single project!
There's no way in hell that I'd let a robot do anything to my hands. Move fast and break things ...
Well going all in on GitHub / GitHub Actions now really sounds like a bad idea. Even some others had issues [0] and had no external backup plan to counter GitHub's regular outages.

The best example to learn from is ReactOS who while has moved to GitHub they at least have a self-hosted backup just in case GitHub falls over. [1]

For the ones who are not on GitHub and are self-hosting (OpenBSD, Mozilla, Linux Kernel Project, GNOME, xfce, wireguard) I don't hear any complaints from them.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26301523

[1] https://github.com/reactos/reactos#code-mirrors
If you are not down with the coffee terminology, this [1] is a good explanation of what "the bloom" means.

Basically it's a thing that forms when fresh coffee grounds get moist, since that accelerates the release of trapped gasses. The gas leaves the grounds, but gets trapped by the surrounding water and substances extracted from the coffee, forming a foam.

My interpretation is that "puncture the bloom" basically means "stir to break the formation of a foam ball on top of the coffee grounds".

[1] https://foodal.com/drinks-2/coffee/guides-coffee/what-is-blo...
I have doubts about the reproducibility (and objective quality) of the results of brewing methods like this. Let's see more scientific trials.
You can get a pair of wired headphones for $30-50 that will sound good enough for most people. I use Koss Portapros most of the time.
> while still understanding how things actually work

was, methinks, the salient part of his point.

(I emphasize, I too think Elm is coherent enough so you understand how it works, which other Javascript frameworks lack.)
Wouldn't most of the fossil fuel commitments match this description, that the thought behind them isn't primarily to tip the scales. For example the car industry lifelines: the primary idea is presumably to save the jobs instead of supporting fossil fuels. I mean people and businesses mostly don't burn fossil fuels for the joy of it.
Do correct me if I'm wrong: I thought Spin(3) was a double cover, with the quaternions being one sheet of the covering, that of the connected component of the identity?!
I think the media coverage has twisted your view of the US. As someone who immigrated to the US, if you travel the country it seems like any other country. Rich people and poor people. Left wing and right wing. Religious and the atheists.

I mean Americans could list a similar number of stereotypes about the British (for example), but if you’ve ever visited there you’d realize they’re not that different than anyone else.
We're looking at switching to self-hosted runners, so I'd be very interested in hearing if it would shield us from some of Github downtime.

We're also looking into Github enterprise for the IP allowlist feature which unfortunately means we'll have to migrate our whole CI/CD to self-hosted since Github-hosted runners don't work with this feature enabled.
Only if you aren't careful enough about what you mean by "low population". The argument is that you are probably born in a country with above the median population.

This will also be the case in your example. The median population is 100K. Assume there are tiny deviations around the median. Then 50 x 100K people live in countries below the median population. And 49 x 100K people, plus 1 million, live in countries above the median. (And 100K people live in the median population country itself.)

If you don't like the tiny deviations, then still, more people live in countries weakly above the median (everyone) than live in countries weakly below the median (everyone minus a million); and more people live in countries strictly above the median than strictly below.
Some people are just wired differently and are more or less susceptible to alcohol addiction.
Assuming a finite population there is always a smartest member in that population.
Sure, I found this misleading because whether the entire industry is running on fossil fuels or on green electricity is orthogonal to the bailouts. The bailouts where concerned (at least according to the proponents) about job loss in the aviation industry. So these bailouts are neutral in terms of fossil fuels. They do not encourage or discourage the use of fossil fuels.

Getting into the article, I expected something more direct, like for example if they passed car gas subsidies.
The speakers just disappeared leaving this seamless soundstage where noises just happened within it, rather than relative to the L/R points of the spectrum like most speakers. It was incredible.

This make me curious about this whole situation: speaker change equals physical location change, would that have played a part in it? Because what you describe here is exactly what (at least for me) is the effect of proper speaker placement vs suboptimal placement. I.e. this 'you don't hear the speakers anymore, instead it sounds like you're sitting in the sound' effect. Which definitely isn't there if placement is off, no matter how good speakers are. Then again, I'm not really an audio engineer so maybe you're talking about a different level of soundstage..
There are videos that are age restricted because of swearing. Porn isn't the issue here (especially since it's not allowed on YouTube even with age restrictions).
If the frontend had a fully generic tracker, teams wouldn't need to set up their own logging and stats systems... Which they do...
I’m not super picky myself, but coffee is an incredibly fun hobby. There is a ton of equipment to try and endless varieties of beans. A lot of it is easy entry too, you can even roast your own beans with fairly simple equipment.
Best high-end audio for at home:

https://www.boesendorfer.com/en/pianos/disklavier-edition

If you do not have the time and talent to play it yourself, you can listen to Horowitz or others playing live in your home on a real piano.
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Nope, sorry, it's not that straightforward at all: Under American labour laws (in many, but perhaps not all jurisdictions), your employer owns the copyright to whatever you write even on your own time. So they might not even have known, at the time, that you were writing something in the first place. But if you do so and release it without notifying them, and they later find out you wrote it while in their employ, they might claim that "Hey, that's _ours,_ and we sure never authorised releasing that under <<whatever>> license!"
> This is why it makes no sense to go 'all in'...

I completely agree with you, to reiterate what I said last time we had this discussion 3 months ago:

> I wouldn't call it prudent to go all-in on any cloud service [0]

I've never used Github as anything more than a managed git service with a nice web interface. At work, any time the topic of moving our CI/wiki/project management/issue tracking onto GitHub has come up, I've been vocally opposed.

If GitHub went down, and didn't come back up, it would be trivial to migrate to Gitlab/CodeCommit/Bitbucket. The most time consuming thing would be setting up new web hooks for our CI.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26302232
I know, this is the only non-js way to achieve this but not sure it should be used in production
I would generally agree with you, except:

- as a self employed person you can pick your clients, if you are good

- self employment often can be a path to something where you stop trading time for money. But it takes time to figure this out.

As always there are trade offs to everything.
No, maybe in some limited cases but overall it's not the same
Absolutely. I actually used it as my primary email client for years, a well.
Hey Mark, hey Daniel, Johannes here, thanks for the praise, you're making me blush :D. The inspiration was mutual, I remember the time working on spreads and with you guys very fondly, learned a lot from it.

I'm still active in the "digitizing books" sector, albeit now officially employed at a library and more concerned with what we can do with the books after they're scanned :-)
Maybe its their kids having fun, 'borrowing' the little 'shuttle car' of their parents, while on a field trip with the 'big camper' to study the strange creatures.
I did not include car industry lifelines in my comment because of this. You can help electric car manufactures more than fossil fuel ones and vice versa.
Tails 4.19 Is Out
Clever! It would be better for the intended behavior to be supported, though, right?
Cargo ship sinks off Sri Lanka amid fears of environmental disaster
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Aren't we all underpaid? I for one :)
I don't think the analysis is publicly available for linking. I couldn't find it on any of the listed organizations' websites. Maybe they sent a copy directly to the Guardian? The closest thing I could find (covering the G7 summit and climate change) is this article published yesterday: https://odi.org/en/insights/delivering-a-successful-g7-summi...
>China, Russia, US, India or some such because those few countries have more than 50% of Earth's population

It's interesting that Russia is frequently perceived as a high-population country while in reality by population it's only slightly bigger than Japan and is smaller then Bangladesh, Pakistan, or Nigeria.
I believe envoy uses it for plugins https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/start/sandboxes/...
Yes, I was referring to awake time on weekdays.

Also, I'm not following your calculations. If we establish that your 'free time' is 72 hours per week (8h/weekday and 16h/weekends), and the commute time per week is 10h (2h round trip x 5), it would be 10/72 or roughly 13.9%.
Sorry, maybe my first comment was formulated poorly. My comment was mainly targeted at the BBC, that they where being misleading with their title.
Well Germany is closing down their nuclear power plants, under excuses of damage and recent Chernobyl series.

While actively funding Nord Stream 2.

So there goes your green EU.

If we are to survive climate change we would have to cull all politicians and dirty industry leaders. They have so much power over the world and don;t give a fuck about next generation.

After all they all will be able to afford ticket to Elysium.
I agree with your conclusion but I don't think it can just be extrapolated like that.
A V60 dripper was one of my best purchases last year. They're about 8 quid. And even without a 'method' the coffee is still so much better than my Nespresso was. Furthermore - I thought I'd hate the faff, but it's actually pretty meditative. Especially first thing in the morning.
Of course they are equivalent because they are completely self serving and insincere. We should want and expect leaders with the courage of their convictions. I don't trust anyone who can change so readily and without second thought when it suits them. They'll just change back again when it suits.
"most notable attacks have been traced near-exclusively to foreign actors"

Most criminals are "foreign" because most of Earth's population is foreign.

"The attack surface is vast."

Because we made it vast. It could have been small.

"We're literally veering into cartoon territory here"

Yes we are, because spying on millions of people and then leaving that data unprotected is childishly irresponsible.

Ordinary citizens are the injured party, not companies. They have given up privacy and control over their devices. Even the software that runs on voting machines is copyrighted and secret, and when inspected, it turned out even the basics of security have not been followed.

Now that the chickens are coming home to roost, why are you so vehemently looking to absolve them of all responsebility?

It's breathtakingly hypocritical.
I've used E4X a lot in heavyweight AS3 applications. It was nice and readable to work with. Built a complete offline museum with it, containing more then 160 interactive media stations you could walk through. This is 10 years ago.
TBH not sure, how I would build the museum today. There seems a lack of technology for this niche nowadays.