skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The headline seems to be somewhat at odds with explanation of this "phase precession" is the body of the article:

"The phenomenon is called phase precession. It’s a relationship between the continuous rhythm of a brain wave — the overall ebb and flow of electrical signaling in an area of the brain — and the specific moments that neurons in that brain area activate. A theta brain wave, for instance, rises and falls in a consistent pattern over time, but neurons fire inconsistently, at different points on the wave’s trajectory. In this way, brain waves act like a clock, said one of the study’s coauthors, Salman Qasim, also of Columbia. They let neurons time their firings precisely so that they’ll land in range of other neurons’ firing — thereby forging connections between neurons."

My understanding of what they're saying is that it's related to "neurons that fire together wire together". Given different signal travel distances, it's necessary for neurons to fire at different times if they're to arrive at a given destination at the same time (in order to "wire together"). They achieve this timing by firing in synchrony with the theta brain waves that travel across regions.

So, with this understanding, I guess you could say the timing is encoding information, but really in essence it's only the relative spatial position - within the cortex - of the firing neuron that's being "encoded". A more useful way to view it is just that firing times are synchronized to theta waves in order to achieve larger scale coordination that compensates for signal travel distances.
But if OP isn't writing hundreds of lines of glue code and their solution works well for their use case, there's not much reason to re-write anything for scale that'll never happen.
Funny. I had a discussion about the same topic in context of docker image security scanners last week. 100% agree with the author here!
I would like to “flunk Econ 101” if the end result is a 40% return on my home price over the past 2 years.
Is a 30 minute bus commute all that bad?
> preventing the car from receiving future upgrades to software

sounds like a win-win
But in this instance it's not 'bull'. Sadly, for much of the past few decades, the UK government hasn't really cared much for Gibraltar, after scaling back its global spread. Its contemporary value is much diminished and if were to go solo or partly/wholly into Spanish hands it would do so with certain military guarantees pertaining to naval access, etc.

The population of Gibraltar is one made up mostly of Mediterranean peoples from Italy, Malta, Spain, Portugal, etc etc - the actual number of 'Paleface Brits' there is small, especially after military scaling back since the mid 90s.

I'm sorry about what's happened in Northern Ireland - as a pseudo Celt myself, it's not a situation I look at and think "Hey, that's wonderful" - but it's not at all comparable to Gibraltar, which has an almost indigenous population - evolved, not transplanted - that happens to want to remain British.

How you feel about that is up to you - and them too, as is their right.

- ed. Ah, I wished I'd checked your previous responses prior to responding. I had it in mind you might be Irish, so was responding with that in mind. I suspect you might hail from a bit further East than Ireland... . You mention that Northern Ireland voted to stay in the EU. As did Gibraltar. Gibraltar was the first result through and was something like 98% in favour of remaining. 'Unfortunately' in a democracy, majority rules dictate overall policy, and when the question is something as polarised and absolute as involvement in a supra-Governmental union, there's not much scope for picking and choosing where favourable.

It's shit when it's not 'in my favour' but that's democracy for you. Perhaps if Britain were more authoritarian things would be easier, but that would only lend itself more to the form of criticism you're levelling at it already. As the great philosopher Bart Simpson once said - "Damned if you do, damned if you don't".
Whoah there Nelly! That’s a huge leap from ‘using built in privacy protection features of my phone’ to ‘choosing to be suspicious’.

Why should everyone between me and my data have access to an IP address that is tied to my personal data? And when did choosing to not allow that become a shady thing to do?

— edited autocorrect of ruins to features
I mean, we can't really completely inspect a working brain to see what's happening. To get that level of inspection, we'd need to dig into the brain while it is functioning. Unfortunately, this kills the patient. And then the brain stops working. It's a black box essentially.

We have tools that allow us some degree of insight, but honestly, it is incredibly difficult and progress is slow and staggered.
I agree with all of this. Also JavaScript's "standard library" is nearly nonexistent (or at least was when Node first got big). That built a culture of people assuming they needed to reach for third-party dependencies for nearly everything (see: leftpad).
Ask HN: Who owns the copyright of some code a now defunct company wrote?
Assume a startup launched a successful open source GPL project but failed to monetize it and closed shop without finding an acquirer for its assets.

What happens to the copyright of that code?
1. Does it get transferred to the shareholders, who would then all have to agree with each other to be able to relicense one day?
2. Does it fall into public domain?
3. The copyright is transferred to the state?
4. It falls into some no man's land and never can be relicensed?
5. Maybe that's a question that must get an explicit answer as part of the winding down procedure?
6. Something else?
>Does that mean I don't have to worry, or that I'm wide open to attack?

If it's windows client the printing feature is most certainly enabled, so yes you're open to attack. You can think of the registry as a global config file. If a given section is missing, the program will just do whatever the default is. The same applies for windows. A section (path) missing doesn't mean the feature isn't enabled.
Oh, one of the world’s richest companies can afford to comply with EU law or eat the fines? Well I guess it’s no problem then
Unfortunately the cool tool she is touting is not open to public testing?
I've only been into mycology for a few years now, but I think oak forests may be somewhat rare in that regard. An oak tree is more like a whale, orchids are koalas.
It's always fun seeing younger (or just less experienced) people come off the Fallout games and go "Wait, that was real? That actually happened?"

Indeed it did. That's the fun of Fallout: it's only about 25% satire, and that's bananas.
No Soil. No Growing Seasons. Just Add Water and Technology
I've spoken and written English for over three decades, and this is the first time I've seen "begging the question" be used to mean this.

It's usually meant as "raises the question", but language lawyers insist it means what the wiki page said.

But this is neither of those two. And if you're the only one who uses a phrase a certain way, and it means other things to everyone else, then that's actually wrong, even in a descriptive language.
Possibly stupid question: are you using an Apple keyboard? The Fn key remapping doesn't show up for third-party keyboards, as those won't have a Fn key (or, at least, not one that's remappable in the same way).
>stupid people are in for a rude awakening when they realize that a year of mortgage payments are now due

That's not always what happens, and in the case of COVID in particular, many will have it tacked to the end of their mortgage.

see #3 "Lengthen your loan term and pay off the missed amount at the end of the extended loan term, with additional mortgage payments" [0]

[0] https://themortgagereports.com/69687/cares-act-mortgage-forb...
Let me summarize through quotes:

>This is not an update, but a new messaging system from which you can’t switch back.

> These are simply features presented to artificially devalue one of the systems, distract from the real changes, and manipulate users into changing to a different system.

> this change will eventually link to your real name.
1. The US is huge. Good example that blew my mind: https://www.txmemes.com/post/texas-is-larger-than-any-europe...

2. Economic variables can vary significantly between regions
3. There are artificial barriers that significantly distort the market for health care - the most egregious being prohibitions on insurance across state lines that create artificial silos. The overhead of insurance companies and people using insurance for all health care instead of just providing coverage for catastrophic needs inflicts bloat and overhead on even the most mundane of transactions. I've switched to a high deductible plan with a health savings account that lets me pay for my health care tax free so I negotiate with cash for the vast majority of my health care needs and let me tell you - the difference vs. going through insurance is eye opening. On top of that I no longer have to look for providers who are in network - I can pick whoever I want for whatever reason I want. Yup, it takes a bit more effort - but it's my freaking health. There are few things more important or worth dedicating effort to.
So I’ve been this idiot.

Drugs aren’t really my thing, I’m more of a beer guy, but the first time I was in Amsterdam I experimented with edibles.

The first couple of times was just kind of nice, chilled me out, had a good vibe etc.

Then I got some from a different shop, and it was a nightmare! Headaches, heart racing, hallucinations, and it hurt to open my eyes. I thought my heart was going to explode.

To make matters worse I was sharing a tiny Air BnB (one room basically) with two other friends and there was nowhere to go, so I was just curled up in a ball tripping out while they drank and played cards, for hours!

Just horrendous lol, agree with the other commenters that there needs to be a safe way to try stuff like this out with people who know how to deal with somebody having a bad trip (as opposed to pointing and laughing, as my friends did).
Allegedly Vista was going to 100% force XPS drivers, but because they dropped backward compatibility in the network and sound stacks they got a lot of push back that they were crossing too many backwards compatible lines and the printer companies were the ones with the most skin in the game (and cash warchests from ink cartridge sales; and yet the least incentives to update old drivers with better software) so they backed off.

Appearances are they tried to break printer driver compatibility again in Windows 8 (which had some smart ideas on how to modernize the print stack but never got off the ground with them because no drivers adapted to the new stack; and then Windows 10 dropped most of what made the new stack special including not just moving everything into user space but moving everything into app sandboxes; no more annoying printer "background app" notifications and ads would have been amazing) and got worse pushback from the entrenched interests.
Eventually the market pressure causes construction or artificially constraining housing creates social and humanitarian crises like what you see in SF which will bring the market back to equilibrium in other ways.
Emacs: Undo/Redo Saga
Or with https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Not sure if you’re joking or not, but the entire purpose of this type of token is to be pegged to the price of dollar or some other real-life asset. It stops fulfulling that role if the price expressed in its peg currency varies (hence the name “stablecoin”). Any type of inflation or deflation separate from the dollar breaks the token’s utility.
Almost every person I’ve met, across the world, have been decent people. No matter the belief system they conform to. This is nothing unique to Northern Europe. I just chose that region as an example because it is the most secular part of the world outside of China (and I know very little about China).

Edit: Obviously decentness is a subjective measure. I’m not sure if you’re trolling me or not but I’m pretty sure you’re at least being intentionally provocative.
> what if one of your contributors slips in a merge that uses the vulnerable code path of your dependency

If your threat model is a contributor submitting malicious code, your problem is not something npm audit will help with either way.

If a malicious actor is able to add the "not affected" marker, you have bigger problems.

The threat model you're talking about neither seems realistic, nor like something npm audit can help with. The attack vector of a contributor sneaking in malicious code is dealt with by only giving the commit bit to trusted people, and reviewing code yourself.
Yes. I've most commonly seen it used for exactly that purpose – people who have no interest in knowing CSS but need to style something.

I think this is probably one of the most common sources of complaints. Some people who already know CSS in-depth will see Tailwind being endorsed by others, take a look themselves, and come to the conclusion "why on earth would I ever use this".

I totally understand that, because it's how I feel. But it's important to remember that people still want to style things without being CSS experts, and one of the things Tailwind is good at is letting that happen. It clearly fills a need and yelling at the proverbial clouds isn't going to help.
>(No-one is going to switch off private relay to convenience a single website)

If you're a seller and a decent chunk of your income comes from Etsy you definitely would. They already do that with avoiding VPNs to not get suspended.
You should also try teddit.net: it's a minimal self-hosted frontend (similar to indivious and nitter). I think it's even better than the old design and works well without javascript.
How is anything you just described different, in any way, from the existing situation in risk assessment and fairness in insurance? IE, everything we say about ML, the insurance business has already been doing for a century using statistics. Their models exist for two things: to increase the likelihood of profit (due to properly determining rates based on risk) and staying compliant (if there are laws that ensure some level of fairness).

Frankly I don't see any real difference from long-established principles in the insurance space.
Wow 80 gallons is huge. I can see it making sense at that volume.

I find the benefits to be marginal when using an average 40 gallon or less and only using it for 1-2 people. The use of water conserving fixtures further reduces the benefits for smaller tanks with fewer people (not sure they even make them smaller than 40 with the heat pump). With the exception being for people in hot climates with the tank in the garage or similar space.
Haiti has been in dire economic straits since achieving independence in 1804.
Does this limit the effectiveness of apps like LuLu and Little Snitch in any real way?
Ban surveillance everything.
I think if the attacker got as far as deploy their code in your CI/CD pipeline and prod system, there's no "quickly" fixing it. There's a full shut down, restoring from trusted backup, full data and code audit and a lot of pain in the future validating and restoring the code and the data. Quick rebuild is not something that would be your priority there - how do you know this quick build won't be compromised anyway? If somebody got into your internal systems on the level they could modify the code, it's not a 1 minute problem and not a 5 hours problem, it's much bigger...
In my opinion this is not just for scale. In my opinion anything more than a one-liner is too large of a scale for bash.

More thoughts on this:
https://blog.habets.se/2021/06/The-uselessness-of-bash.html

Another piece of evidence is that I do many many code reviews. Not once have I reviewed bash script changes that did not have subtle bugs that would bite us in real life. Not once!
We do not regulate how a coffee shop does accounts in the same way we regulate a bank.

Many regulations only apply to companies bigger than 50 employees, more than billion of turnover, data on over 1 million people, etc. Or in a spesific market.
Yes, I found it extremely helpful, and so have several friends I've already shared it with. I find the comments about "quality" pretty ludicrous and more than a bit elitist.
You might want to ask Google about two-photon microscopy links.

Example papers:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25391792/ -- "Two-photon excitation microscopy and its applications in neuroscience"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-26326-3 -- "Three dimensional two-photon brain imaging in freely moving mice using a miniature fiber coupled microscope with active axial-scanning"

Sure, it's localized and you cannot go deep, but there is so much to learn that that is plenty at this point.
Anyone else read the title to mean the author had audited Npm and found the whole thing was broken by design?

Because I've felt that way for years.
Please don't post cheap flamebait to HN and certainly please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. Last thing we need here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27761583.
Well in this case, B killed everyone that looks like and shares an ethnicity with A. And if C enslaved B and B's family, but C had 1/4 of the same racial ancestry as B, he was spared. So not really a 1:1 comparison.
Yes, Hailey and Bellevue, both within 30m drive. Additionally, the historic tax records in Zillow give some indication of a boom-bust cycle in which now is a boom.
The right thing to do would be to let repairable products and non repairable products coexist and people can vote with their wallet. I don't see why Government has to stop a company from selling non repairable ones. If making something non repairable means it can be more compact or lighter and if there are people who prefer that what's the point in stopping that free market transaction?
It's nothing more than borrowing a tactic from Standard Oil Company and Rockefeller.

While markets generally don't respond healthily to regulations, it really ought to be illegal to offer goods/services for less than cost amortized over a certain period (maybe two years?). This would prevent a lot of monopoly formation, but probably have some unfortunate consequences for investment in markets that have slower yields.
>Force companies who leak personal data to pay reasonable damages to all the individuals involved

Doesn't this just consolidate power among FAAG even more? They can pay these fines and they don't often leak data- if ever. That's another thing- define leaking data. Sharing with 3rd parties? It's vague enough for them to beat that in court.

We do somehow need to get back to advertising the old fashioned way rather than this surveillance capitalism arms-race.
Then maybe it's a quirk in the American English vernacular.

A president presides but never rules.

A dictator (or absolute king) rules not dictates.

A public speaker dictates but only occasionally speaks.

Ruling party is an English term, Americans using majority/minority parties to describe in power and out of power.
A long time back... I thought about trying to capture motion in colors. Its not particularly novel and my first attempt with color print film (using a triple exposure and red, green, and blue filters) really confused the lab because the rest of the roll looked right, but this one print looked trippy.

My "ok, I could do this with black and white" had me thinking about Agfa Scala slide film (a black and white film) and then using red, green, and blue filter packs and print to color slide paper (cibachrome). I never found the lab that would entertain the idea (and the paper was $$) before I wasn't able to get that print done.

I did play with it in digital though...

* Burney Falls - https://shagie.smugmug.com/Nature/Tricolor-time-lapse/i-kNPx...

* Wave at Ruby Beach - https://www.deviantart.com/shagie/art/Wave-sequence-tricolor...

(late addition)

* First attempt - https://www.deviantart.com/shagie/art/RGB-Experiment-Running...
That's awesome! Wish you luck. Will you be interviewing other entrepreneurs or talking about your experiences and what excites you?
I'm curious how you would see "ban monetizing data" play out in the case of an e-commerce company. Can they still run A/B tests? Show you products that they think you will want to buy based on your purchase history?
Doubt it violates anything - the packets may route through a US based relay, but they’re encrypted when they do, and don’t expose any data.

The very nature of the internet makes it impossible to guarantee that none of your packets ever route through a specific country (especially one as connected as the US).
One of the main reasons why USA based companies win against EU based startups.
I couldn't disagree more. Of course T-mobile's free roaming isn't going to be super fast. You can pay extra 4G/5G. But if you're hopping across countries, it's great. It's obviously not made for instagram/youtube.

T-Mobile's free 128kbs is enough for whatapp, navigation and a few emails (Their MAX plan gives free 256kbs).
First of all, "expensive writes and cheap reads" is the common case. Second, nothing about graph databases implies expensive writes and cheap reads.
What do you feel changed mentally?
People have described it as mental knots being untangled.
Would like to hear your feedback after the trip.
Australia also has limits on heavy vehicle driving hours, and cameras on the main highways to enforce them.
One of the things I wonder every time this car gets brought up is what the fallout (heh) of an accident would actually be. I'm sure it would be bad, yes, but HOW bad exactly? The dose makes the poison after all, and a car-sized reactor is a lot smaller than a Chernobyl-sized one.
For those hoping to run npm audit in your CI/CD pipeline, I recommend this tool from IBM: https://github.com/IBM/audit-ci

In highly regulated industries, shipping code flagged as having a vuln without a manual approval could be a liability.

This wrapper around npm takes an allowlist argument, and our procedure is for an engineer to review the failing build, determine if the vulnerability (ugh, usually regex ddos or prototype pollution) is present in code that runs only at build time with trusted inputs, only on the client which is by definition untrusted, or in our webserver which takes in untrusted input.

As long as it's either of the first two, we document it in a commit and comment and redeploy. It's annoying, but it's far better than npm audit forcing a fix.
I’m saying I don’t agree at all with the linked transcript, particularly the part you quote.

I don’t think this person has a lot of insight into the minds of non-religious people.

The part of your post reading “ agnosticism is more diametrically opposed to belief than atheism; the latter is belief in one's own disbelief.” is a misrepresentation of what atheism is. Atheism is the conviction that there is most likely not any higher being. Agnosticism is ”I’m not sure if there is a higher being or not”.
what would be a good term?