skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Source: I'm an undergrad doing research in neuromorphic computing.

A lot of information about SNNs misses a lot of recent findings on the effect of astrocytes on the dynamical state of the network. If you look in the recent literature on SNNs, you'll find that including astrocyte models in the networks improves memory and accuracy significantly in many cases.

It's too bad this article doesn't mention that.
Something is very wrong with the state of C/C++ compiler development that it takes a different language to come in and make these obviously useful convenience features. Why are GCC and Clang not doing this?
Mind boggling anyone would pay 10$ for a NFT let alone one of a bored ape. Each to their own and everyone is free to spend their money on what they see fit, just throwing in my two cents … not seeing any lasting value in NFT’s like this.
Yes, I understand that people will charge what the market will bear, and in this case Toyota has decided they can charge a lot -- because you bought the car and now they have you at their mercy. I was responding to the GP poster who explicitly justified it by the cost of operating the service.

This might not be a big deal if Toyota was the only company contemplating this business model (what's $8/mo, after all?) but I doubt they will be. If every product in your life adds a "small" subscription fee (calculated at 50-1000x actual service costs), things are going to get painful very quickly.
Exactly so, yes!
Kind of unrelated but if you're interested in African agriculture you should look into Seeing Like a State. The book argues mechanized farms aren't necessarily the highest form of farming for maximum sustainable yield in many places (like many regions in Africa) and has many many hard to notice downsides. A lot of the pressure to consolidate and mechanize has to do with legibility for taxation purposes compared to true yield maximization
> If you have a set with two binary operations, then a monoid isn't the correct abstraction.

I guess my point is that even if I used "the correct abstraction" here, meaning a ring or something, then the whole newtype setup still makes it annoying for me to split off one operation and feed it into a function expecting a monoid: the way that fold and friends work is much more natural, just taking a starting value 1 and an operation * for example, rather than some kind of "Multiplicative" newtype or whatever.

In general I see a lot of the abstract algebra type towers in Haskell and Purescript as being unhelpful, and making a huge assumption that (for example) there will rarely be two monoid instances on a type. In reality in abstract algebra we use tons of different operations on the same objects all the time, and I really just want to define those operations and then be able to use them.
Well, I care. The status quo for the last 20 years have tried to pit software developers against the general population numerous times. Why? Developers make good money compared to the masses.

Not to mention the countless intentionally botched e-gov projects. Oh, I care deeply

We read about country specific stuff on this site every day. Cut us some slack, will you
Of course it all comes down to some equally hilarious technical analysis :)
:) That's the other thing about my example, it was just a doofy little thing I made up.
He Conceived of the Metaverse. He's Unimpressed with Zuckerberg's
Yeah you're totally right, my bad.
> Look at video games, [...] I mean they aren't even games anymore. They're just metrics-optimized psychological-trick machines to extract the most money from you $1 at a time [...]

Did you just describe arcades?
It proves that people think it’s in character.
Do people actually deploy on Windows?

(It's a joke, but as a Red Hat guy I yet have to see it in real life to believe it.)

My last Windows was XP, but I actually use Azure at work right now. If you want to mostly do cloudy things (use clouds for more than simple VMs), you might want to look into certifications[0].

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/certifications/browse...
But isn't it painfully wrong on the title bar size/font, the highlight around icons, etc? If this is the better one, I can't imagine the alternatives...

https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95/blob/master/Screensho...
Child locks are usually different. Also, there is typically no child lock option for the driver's side front door.
This looks like a fairly naive trading bot, not “selling in a malicious way”.
I think in general Facebook has a bias towards inflammatory posts - and other platforms for that matter as well including HN actually. Also it's easy to blame the village idiot for everything, but I don't think Donald Trump or Alex Jones are village idiots. They are surely idiots but left the village quite some time ago and gained popularity before Facebook (InfoWars was founded 1999) - although FB surely was an accelerator stage.

That said, the village idiot is harmless and I think aristocracy (rule of the elite) is definitely not the solution. But what is true that the normal filters in an offline community haven't been translated online yet.
Why do the affected California middle-class voters keep supporting government officials that do this to them? Where is the instinct of self-preservation here?
Only if the distribution is symmetric. [0]

Extra pedantic mode: if the population is an odd number, the number of below average intelligence will not equal the number of above average intelligence.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_probability_distribu...
[Blog post author here]

Oh cool. Glad to hear it provided entertainment. :-)

No, really. I have a day-job as a writer and if I thought I could have crow-barred that in there somehow, I'd have done so. But I could not find a citation for the 4-IP address thing. So, the result was purely for fun.
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> A gift card is reserved and people feel anticipation of what they could go buy on their next trip.

Growing up in England, my aunt occasionally managed this with cash.

She would give me Scottish banknotes at Christmas, which look different, but can be spent without much difficulty almost anywhere in Britain.

(The aunt lives in England, so acquiring the Scottish banknotes probably took some effort.)
You’re really stretching the meaning of uninhabitable huh? It’s funny when people start changing the definition of words to hold on their viewpoint.

The fact is all nuclear plants are in a state of meltdown without active management, passive safeguards only last so long per plant.

Most of the world’s population and countries are not at a technological level to operate a nuclear plant safely and responsibly. The world is already filled with enough shoddy nuclear plants.

So replacing fossil fuel with nuclear at this time is a no-go, sorry.
Wouldn't this be true of any form of replication, including whatever Postgres uses? Or is the proof of correctness for Raft weaker than some other class of consensus?

Edit: from rqlite's FAQ

> Raft is a Consistency-Partition (CP) protocol. This means that if a rqlite cluster is partitioned, only the side of the cluster that contains a majority of the nodes will be available.

Disconcertingly, this sounds like they assume that only one side of a partition can contain a majority of nodes. This isn't true if the partition is partial, eg A<-->B, B<-->C, A<-/->C.
It breaks in a robust way. Like an escalator. If it breaks, it just becomes that run-out-and-start.

If it costs next to nothing then it's a good feature. It's like the remote for my TV. Sure I can get up and change channels, or I can walk and start the car. but chances are I'm gonna say "nah" and just cold start it. I'm not paying $8 month but I do pay $40/yr for the volvo version (although that has a bit more than just remote start. I use the remote heater start 100x times more than remote start though).

I mean if the heater is remote started then why wouldn't the engine be. It's just the 2nd step of the heating process.
Do I know you? We really are pretty nice. GNUstep can be themed very easily. You are more than welcome to help, ESPECIALLY to make more themes.

See the link below... This is GNUstep using the rik theme... Just one of the many ways the project can look:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/12986802/33520300-...

Gregory Casamento
GNUstep Maintainer
Can you expand on how "Likes, Comments & Shares" changes disagreeable opinions to misinformation? Is it because individuals post actual misinformation in the comments?
TypeScript is an optionally typed language. It's core to the design of the language that the static type system is purely statically typed and doesn't come into play at runtime.

You could argue that that's not the best kind of language for users. I wouldn't disagree. I work on Dart which used to be optionally typed but now has a fully sound type system with runtime checks.

But that's orthogonal to whether browsers should support TypeScript directly. If they supported a statically typed language that had the runtime checks to be sound, that might be a great language, but it wouldn't be TypeScript.
The word equity is repeated 108 times in this 204 pages document

On average once every two pages
Ask HN: Is the Google New York office the most popular transfer destination?
Non-Googler here who is curious—news reports tend to say that tech talent is fleeing New York/SF and moving to Austin/Charlotte/etc. But I have a couple of Google friends who work in other offices and have had a really tough time trying to transfer to New York, and have said they anecdotally heard New York is the most popular office (allegedly something like 1,000 more people transferred into New York than transferred out).

This is anecdata... does anyone have any "real" data on this? Seems like Google would be an interesting bellweather for the future of legacy urban centers like New York, at least from a tech perspective.
Crowd-sourced content + crowd-sourced voting on visibility.

It's not perfectly decentralized of course, running on a server and centralized administration, but the general structure of the data flow is many to many.
I don’t like getting Knickknacks, but my favorite kitchen accessories make good gifts for many people. Instant read thermometers, silicone oven mits, etc
"ruled that it's okay" != "left the law in effect"

"U.S. District Court" != "the states"

Whatever a state statute may or may not say about a defense, applicable federal constitutional defenses always stand available when properly asserted. See U. S. Const., Art. VI. Many federal constitutional rights are as a practical matter asserted typically as defenses to state-law claims, not in federal pre-enforcement cases like this one.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21-463_3ebh.pdf
Yes, people still forget to

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sanitize their inputs.

...still there?
You're right, it's not like that in small-town America: small towns aren't walkable in the US.

There aren't many walkable or bikeable areas in the US, and those that exist are in a handful of large cities. Many US cities aren't very walkable, e.g. Los Angeles (the second largest US city).
Administrative law judges aren’t elected. The state legislature is free to write a law nullifying this decision.
No, it's a good one. What y'all mistakenly assumed was the idea of "every computer task is a life or death one" instead of considering the idea that there can be different levels of care for different levels of danger.

The reason many people in IT can't think outside of this idea is that they are (subconsciously) reluctant to open the gates for others. As a teacher in IT I quite literally deal with this every day.
144 years ago, great Ukrainian composer Mykola LEONTOVYCH was born
One of my first memorable PhD experiences was getting invited to an impromptu meeting in Lithuania, where we met a Finish and Lithuanian scientist both working on astrocyte models and wondering how that could be applicable to neuromorphic hardware. Needless to say this didn't go anywhere, but at least we got to sample some really nice Lithuanian food.
> the front doors both open when the handle is pulled, locked or not

The fact that the front doors both unlock when a single handle is pulled is because there's an electronic sensor and solenoid that unlocks everything when one handle is opened.

I had a Pontiac Vibe (really a Toyota Matrix) that had a cable in the door unlock assembly fail. You could open the door from the outside - the external door handle was physically the same part as the latch mechanism - but the external handle was back by your shoulder, while the internal handle was forward by the mirror and connected to the latch by a steel cable swaged to some aluminum pins; that connection eventually failed and the internal door handle flapped impotently.

I spent an embarrassing amount of time ignoring the problem and instead rolling down the window to open the door...

Regardless, it's not that much of a stretch to imagine that an automotive engineer might decide to replace cable actuator with a wire and solenoid.
Citizen App Workers Vote to Unionize
If you thought the world is bad with aggressive bullies in power, wait until you see how bad it gets with aggrieved nerds in power.
The headline is editorialized.
This seems like a net good thing, on-device detection that informs and gives options to the child (in contrast with the slippery slope of iCloud automatic alerts).

I just wish they'd implement such detection for gore too. As a kid, I don't being remember particularly shocked by nudity, but some gore images and videos kids were sharing around back then have actually affected me in a bad way.
Which claim? Our money is centralized via the Fed. Our information is centralized via corporate media. Our politics are centralized via Oligarchy.

These systems act to divide and conquer us, sapping our power. By switching to decentralized systems, we will be reconnected and rediscover our power. It's already happening via sites like this, crypto, etc.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=rescue+hammer

A quality rolling ballpoint pen would also work (given enough force) because it contains a small ball of tungsten carbide.

My knife also has a tungsten carbide window breaker on the base of it.
Humor is an effective medium for exchanging ideas and concepts.
I would say satire in small doses is perfect for HN.
> Not everything is don't roll your own crypto.

Even for crypto, I have had people give me trouble for daring to use Microsoft's public & documented implementations of SHA256 and CSPRNG to derive session secrets. It's almost as if directly interacting with any crypto primitives is tantamount to rolling your own crypto these days.
Mini-jet found near Milky Way's supermassive black hole
Does anyone know if Nextspace apps have emacs keybidings just like NeXTSTEP (and MacOS)? If so, this is the Linux desktop I've been craving.
A couple of my favorite new item todos:

First thing I do with a trash can is drill some holes a few inches from the bottom. When the bag is full the holes will let in some air and make bag removal much easier. Keep the holes away from the bottom to reduce the risk of a broken bag leaking any spilled liquids.

The containers of salt I buy have the classic flip top aluminum pour spout. The tip of the spout can be bent away from the lid to aid in opening and reduce the risk of fingernail injury.
If it makes you feel any better, I saw FLCL at twice your age and only now that you've said it did I realize what the whole forehead-robot-bulge thing was a reference to.
> Someone who thinks that OpenStep is a good way to build end-user applications,
> I imagine. I've never used it myself, but I know that it had an excellent
> reputation once upon a time. I wouldn't be surprised if it's better than Qt
> or gtk+.

GNUstep is Cocoa now and, apparently, a lot of people thought building apps this way was a good way to build end-user apps... macOS and iOS. ;)
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GNUstep Lead Maintainer
Satoshi has veto power over the entire crypto space?

Uhhhhhhhhhhh no.
"promote
equity, inclusion, electrification,"

EIE is not enough; we demand DIE: " deuterium, inclusion, electrification"!
I recently had nearly the opposite experience. I was upgrading a Linux server to a new motherboard with a NVMe SSD from and old one with a SATA3 SSD attached. To see how things would go, I imaged the old SATA3 SSD onto a USB3/NVMe adapter (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Z8Y85GL) and tried booting the new system from USB. It actually came up working, so next I figured I would need to remove the NVMe SSD from the USB3 adapter and install it in the motherboard slot, boot the system from a different USB drive, and then once again image the NVMe SSD from the old SATA3 drive. (I had read that the USB3/NVMe adapter accessed the SSD in a way that was incompatible with the motherboard.) So I installed the NVMe SSD in the new motherboard and powered it up just for giggles. To my great surprise, it booted normally and everything was fine! (Oh, and my SSD access speeds went from 500MB/s on the old system to 2GB/s on the new one.)
It’s a problem if my 401(k) provider fails too.
Doesn't seem like China is rolling out the welcome mat for many folks.

In 2016, China issued 1,576 permanent residency cards. This was more than double what it had issued the previous year, but still roughly 750 times lower than the United States’ 1.2 million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_China
If you apply property rights, the bedrock principle of capitalism. You'll solve all of these externalities.
Why, other languages that require unwrapping it still see plenty of people using optional. In fact, I would have more inclination to use it in my projects if that was the only way to do it.
Kindle with 3G was great, free internet globally. Never once showed me an ad, and most Kindles didn't have it.

When that day comes buy a monitor, or hack the firmware.

You can always break off the aerial.
Thanks for the heads up!

I’m trying to change it but apparently it’s not possible to adjust URLs after submission?

Hoping one of the mods could help with this!
Still going. ;)
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GNUstep Lead Maintainer
It's kind of going in that direction with HDMI and DisplayPort over USB 3. But.. not exactly because they're not actually encoding video data into USB packets. It's too difficult to have abstractions like that when you're dealing with such insanely high data rates.
OSI falls under GOSIP - which was government (or at least DoD?) mandated attempt at OSI stack. DECnet Phase V is also OSI based, but yes, DECnet Phase IV might have windows options, so could XNS. Windows could also easily adapt to new physical layers.

Windows networking stack was easily extensible, something that to this day Berkeley-derived ones have issues with (Sockets, being "temporary hack", lacked features to handle multi-stack well). A non-trivial reason I heard for popularity of Solaris in certain telcos was that it offered XTI interface, meaning much easier access to ISO/OSI related protocols present in many areas of telco gear.
Well, that is a clever way to market your product .. by writing a blog post about it that is disguised as a blog post about marketing, while you are actually marketing your product that helps you market your startups.
From Wikipedia:

> Mykola Leontovych's Shchedryk[0,1] is his most well-known piece. In its English version as a Christmas carol, it is known as the holiday favourite Carol of the Bells[2].

P.S. Full thread on Twitter.[3,img]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Leontovych#Shchedryk/Ca...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shchedryk_%28song%29

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_of_the_Bells

[3] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1470513596773945349

[img] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGhNIZnXoAUGVBN?format=jpg&name=...
Amazing. Noted the draft PR and some mentions of a fall release .. are we talking imminent on a globe?
> people want to see train wrecks and inflammatory content.

I'm starting to believe this more and more, but what I can't understand is why? We know it has no real "nutritional value", yet we crave it anyway.

Are we just bored and desire entertainment and drama?

What's the evolutionary drive for drama anyway?
Facebook execs are not responsible for what people think, but they aren't neutral either.

The connection between incentives ends generating a situation where their decisions had a huge influence on society:

- Their goal is to make the company profitable, and they choose ads as the business model.

- Without viewers, there are no advertisers. So, engagement is key.

- They need to create incentives to make people both content creators and followers: share your thoughts, share your photos, and show us what you like.

- Content creation is hard and strong opinions attract people (both detractors and followers).

- A long post format doesn't work for casual engagement, and the UI is optimized for a quick scan (because that helps with engagement).

The result is short posts of shitty content with very strong opinions that create an echo chamber. Can they get out of that trap? I don't know. I've seen good quality content in smaller online communities. (for example, while HN is not small, the quality of the comments is usually better than the article itself). But, I'm suspicious that optimizing for profit contradicts content quality. Something similar happens with TV shows. TV networks increased the number of reality shows: they are cheap to produce, generate strong emotions, and have a higher immediate audience than a high-quality TV series. The high-quality TV series came from media companies like HBO or Netflix because they don't care about optimizing minute-to-minute ratings (they care more about exclusives to attract subscribers).
Technically. I guess what I’m getting at is these are separate use cases that happen to be served by the same data structure in some languages, and “tuple” to me refers to the much less important/powerful use case, which is why I didn’t realize what the term referred to when I first heard about this proposal.

For instance: Rust has tuples that are fixed-length heterogenous sequences, but you can’t actually work with them as sequences in any meaningful way; you can’t map or loop or filter over them. The term “tuple”, to my mind, refers to that “multivalue” or “unlabeled-struct” kind of use case. The fact that we use arrays for that in JS always seemed to me like a historical accident/convenience.
Marketing is the identification of customers with a need (a market), and all of the associated activities involved with making the solution (product) and getting it to those people in need for a price they can justify. It encompasses the entire company, which is a bit more than "raising interest."
In the sketch, the "client" states that he called the police and all he could get was on-hold music.

I am afraid one can inform the international public: in some countries, this is exactly what happens, since years.
Notice the Easter egg in the ‘black terminal’ icon… the abyss stares back at you.
Most of preinstalled app on macOS are still like that.
They invented the completely BS term Self Charging Hybrid, so they're evil by definition.