skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cellular Automata Are Turing Complete, Build Neuromorphic Chips?
Here's an idea that has been stewing in my head for months.

I implore you to ignore my shortcomings and just think the general idea over to see if there are some merits:

Let's start with a few questions:

Is it possible to build neuromorphic processors by taking advantage of the turing completeness of cellular automata by using a hardware implementation.

If a hardware cell could independently change its state according to a ruleset, wouldn't that mean we would have a clock-less massively parallel computer similar to the brain ?

If we could create a hardwired cellular automata that implements rule 110. Couldn't we perform arbitrary computation ?

Now here's the main idea:

The idea revolves around a 3D gel-based substrate containing conductive particles, which interact according to localized, decentralized rules inspired by cellular automata. In this concept, the nodes or neurons are not discrete components like those found in traditional hardware-based neural networks. Instead, they emerge from the conductive hydrogel substrate through local interactions between its constituents.

These conductive particles create pathways within the hydrogel matrix, altering the material's overall conductivity and enabling the formation of neuron-like structures. The particles self-organize according to rule sets without any external influence. As they establish new connections or sever existing ones, the information flow within the hydrogel matrix shifts, effectively implementing the cellular automata ruleset.

Each "cell" or region within the gel operates autonomously and communicates with neighboring cells. The cellular automata rules govern their behavior, collectively resulting in the processor's emergent computational capabilities.

Some literature:

All-Polymer Conducting Fibers and 3D Prints via Melt Processing and Templated Polymerization
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.9b20615

Neuromorphic Computation Using Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8123685
> Culture is different even in nearby states.

Yes, but the US is arguably much more culturally homogenous than many other countries. Whatever differences you see between Virginia and Maryland, I think they are significantly smaller than the differences between Ontario and Quebec. New York and Alabama may seem far apart culturally, but how does that compare to the cultural differences between Uttar Pradesh and Kerala, or between Sokoto and Akwa Ibom?
Performance, executable size, control and unexpected fun !!
I guess, if it works for you. I don't even take my phone with me half the time if I'm just running to get milk and eggs.
Agreed. Which is why I work in silence or low brown noise if I have to.

Hours of silence is very peaceful.
And users. Epic was passing a 20% discount on to users, which was still profitable because it was less than the 30% Apple demands.

The big issue is Apple is the only platform that's completely locked down. If Fortnite was kicked off of the Google Play store it'd be no big deal since they could simply tell users how to install it. On PC, it's not even offered on Steam. It's only Apple where getting kicked off the App Store is a death sentence, because they make it practically impossible for their users to install software otherwise.

This is almost certainly why Apple is set to start allowing sideloading. Regardless of how this case turns out, Apple obviously knows they're walking on very thin ice over something really quite silly. I expect on Android > 99% of installs are still driven by the App Store. Sideloading is a liberty very few will take advantage of, so long as your main terms for developers are reasonably fair.
That's what the interview process is for, theoretically. Possibly you have no idea what it's like being on the hiring side, having to work with oftentimes apathetic recruiters who are in charge of the hiring funnel, candidates who claim knowledge but don't have it, or even worse are cheating. The worst is hiring the wrong person as a year can go down the tube. Meanwhile my leadership chain wants me to hire fast. My time is finite, and I've got a lot of pressure on me. I do give people the benefit of the doubt. I don't care what school you have been to if you have the right skills and work experience, but I'd be lost without resumes to narrow the field.
Maybe in some technical sense but in practice the majority of quality (subjective) work I see shared on Twitter is Midjourney backed. Which is crazy to me because I don’t think I could design a more frustrating interface than Discord.
I used to work for one that followed 11 of the 14 points and had none of the seven diseases -- then it got merged with another company, management was replaced, and the joint venture follows... one out of the 14, and has the five most serious diseases.

If you find another with double digit points, let me know!
Am I mistaken in thinking that "The last of us" covered this?
Maybe the idea is that most children's books are illustrated, compared to other books.
Interesting article. The four quadrants are inspiring. I have thought about this many times, but not as clearly as this.

And I associated it with MBTI. Maybe the different MBTI type seem to be naturally more interested in one of the quadrants. For example, an ESFP would be more expressive, and an ISTP would be more obsessed with equipment and tools. I'm curious if it's these natural differences in personality that cause people to split into four quadrants when come to a hobby? If so, then such a split is inevitable and indiscriminate. Of course, the MBTI is not a perfect science. I'm just use it to help me understand some of the diversity in human personality.
How do you shower?
It's crass and classist; you're clearly saying between the lines that you think poor people are fat/lazy.

It's also wrong. Bicycles are more efficient than walking...depending on who you ask, 2-5x times as efficient.

E-bikes require almost no physical fitness to ride. The cheapest ones have a 'throttle' lever; the ones with a cadence sensor just require the pedals be turning. The torque-sensing ones provide a boost to whatever you "put in" and the energy required for a bicycle without assistance to go 10mph is very, very low.
Anything to make Egypt relevent again eh?

Lacking a little relevency since the Pharohs died.
I don't know what you're arguing here but that kind of reinforces anti-nasalism's point. It implies that 'natalism' persists only by meta factors and is therefore false/illegitimate in itself.
Back in the ‘700s I was blown away reading some of Doug Engelbart’s research reports hot off the CopyFlo®. See “The Mother of All Demos” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
The most banned book, according to the article, is an autobiography with an emphasis on the author questioning gender identity during their adolescence. Over two decades ago my middle school library had three copies of The Color Purple, an autobiography featuring multiple pedophilic rapes, and no member of my cohort was harmed by that.

Instead of idealising the children of today and attributing unrealistic levels of vulnerability to them, consider whether the work sitting on a shelf would have harmed your generation when you were a teenager. It wouldn't, because the human mind is resilient to anything short of Dianetics, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and The Secret.
Whoops I left off the link to the support article that contains that first quote: https://help.snapchat.com/hc/en-us/articles/13387249333780-H...

Also there's a second support article which also currently contains that same quote but used to read: "Only Snapchat+ subscribers can remove My AI from their Chat feed at this time." [1]

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20230419122413/https://help.snap...
In general I believe people are bad at assessing their best interest as a failure of education (too few teachers, too many students), perhaps with the rise of personal artificial mentors this will be better.

Being able to vote "No" or "No One" may see no improvement, but it would at least give a true option to the 30%-60% of people (various countries) who never vote, a protest vote which is actually significant, especially if voting "No" further decreases the mandate time.

I guess in general we should ask ourselves if the principles on which we build the society are for increasing democracy or for decreasing it. And then we can label it as "democratic" or not, but the rate of change towards a heightened democracy is more important than a single scalar "democracy index". Hence my initial repartee about a 1,300 old society which steadfastly had and has bishops, lords, kings as instruments of power or power-adjacent implementers of power.
One way passwords leak from servers is when they're being inappropriately logged (like at the POST-level), which is not going to happen for TOTP seeds.
Couldn’t we just firewall it off from outbound traffic?
This comment is a perfect synopsis, wish I could upvote it 10x.
>IMO best way to implement license check is: using asymmetric crypto (so it's impossible to write keygen) and online activation (so it's impossible to share key).

I believe from my experiences downloading CLASS and MYTH game rips from sketchy IRC channels on DALnet that even this method can be subverted by simply patching out the online activation check.

The only feasible way to combat this that I'm aware of is to have some required code/data live on the company's server and thus force always-online to use the software.
This is WTF levels of impressive. Will revolutionize film/video production, forensic video, and newsgathering.
Also Surgical Robotics and Intuitive's Da Vinci:

https://www.sri.com/hoi/telerobotic-surgery/
My alpha Pico-based CH32V003 debug tool is ready for a few testers
The CH32V003 is a 10-cent RISC-V microcontroller with a proprietary single-wire debug interface and a corresponding proprietary debug dongle + modified version of OpenOCD.

My tool replaces the dongle and OpenOCD with a Pico-based GDB remote host. You can debug and flash a CH32V003 with just a Pico, one pull-up resistor, and gdb-multiarch.

Basic testing on the included example app seems to work, and the code should be stable enough to handle a few testers. If you're interested in the CH32V003 and have a Pico on hand, give it a try.

-Austin
I would want to add to the above list:

- I love golang's build toolchain. Cross-compilation is just an environment variable.

- I love its go:embed functionality, as it removes the necessity of crappy squashfs based solutions, and allows embedding all assets e.g. a webserver/website needs.

What I both like and dislike:

- Marshalling. It can be a joy to use marshalling when you are in control of the data structures, but it also can be PITA when you have to parse external JSON data structures that do not conform to the same types.

- Something like parsing an arbitrary package.json, where fields can be e.g. a string, an array of objects or a single object is real pain to do in golang because it requires to use the reflections API.

- Having to use signal channels to synchronize threads/routines. Sometimes it's just easier to use a for true loop than using a signal channel, because a signal channel isn't compatible with the program architecture. It would be nice if there was a cleaner way to spawn channels via goroutines (e.g. channel = append(channel, go func...?)
"such biases"
What constitutes good moisturizer, and is there data/evidence on its efficacy?
And Intuitive's Da Vinci:

https://www.sri.com/hoi/telerobotic-surgery/
The article says nothing about protecting the license checks from being disabled. That's the secret sauce in a few companies, they do really interesting work.
A blower blasts all the crap on your garage floor into the air, and you're now breathing it. A broom does that a little bit also, but not nearly as much.

If you get a wide shop broom, it makes pretty quick work of a garage floor, and gives your arms a little bit of a workout as well.
Except that the better outputs from the better Stable Diffusion models make 99% of professional illustrators look like they're drawing stick figures by comparison.

If you still believe that "AI generated = bad quality", you haven't seen some of the stuff that has popped up lately. SD is still new, so understandably it's taking a while for people to figure out how to use it properly, but some users are clearly getting the hang of it now, and the results are mind-blowing.
You described debit. And you missed credit.
That would not be a11y friendly!
So it claims it doesn't have the user's location. Then when it needs to use the user's location to do something it does have the users location without asking for it because something something IP address might be how it has the information it stated unequivocally it did not have.

It either does not have it or it is lying. Clearly snapchat is lying here. No wiggle room. None.

Snapchat, is using the software to tell snapchat customers deliberate lies.

Normally that sort of thing brings the lawyers but this is "with a computer" so does that mean it's somehow ok?
Also a recommendation for Strongbox if you're on a Mac. I've tried "all" since switching from 1Password a few years ago and it was the one I liked the most.
https://archive.is/HlHRd
Perhaps that's how I would eventually get rid of my HN addiction.
Just got them in the mail (4 hour shipping). They're essentially like AirPods except without any electronics haha.

They're way more comfortable than any polyurethane foam earplugs and still manage to block out quite a lot of ambient noise (I probably wouldn't use these on an airplane, but they're more than good enough for the home). I just tried laying on my side and they don't press against my ears at all. Wow.

Thanks for the recommendation!
https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/18/amazon-wr...
SRI researchers seek to produce  food  with  just air water and electricity
er do you not use a search engine?
So is mass printing
There was an AI thread a few days ago about how Open AI could not come up with a catchy slogan for selling hot cross buns in the UK. Could be a reference to the thread, or the actual slogan used in the UK.
I don't think this can end well.

Rust have too many underspecified behavior, and the only source of truth is the official implementation.

Everybody know the type system in rust is NP-complete. The compiler use different heuristics and hints to do a best effort solution. I can't imagine how this can be reimplemented
> There isn't a mechanic there, but it's helpful for people who know how to change their oil or put new brake pads on but are not allowed to work on cars where they live.

If you go at the right time, you can also often find someone who is willing to teach you these things, despite not being a professional mechanic.
Of course. But guess what…
> Not everyone knows how to ride a bike.

In the US, 6%. Non-issue. 3x people do not have a license (16%). Far more people are prohibited from driving for reasons like OUI or nonpayment of citations and such.

> An expensive ebike is potentially an attractive nuisance that could get stolen

Car theft in low-income neighborhoods is a huge problem and police don't care. A bicycle is a fraction of the replacement cost and is much easier to secure. You can't bring a car into your apartment, nor can you stash a car in the corner of your shop at your job.

Also, many renter's insurance policies will either cover a bike by default or they can be added for a cheap rider....far cheaper than the cost of car insurance.

It also doesn't have to be an e-bike...$500 gets you a really nice single-speed transportation bike that costs next to nothing and is easy to stash somewhere safe. Do you seriously not realize that such bikes are a staple of service workers and students in a lot of cities?

> He's doing what he can do to make a difference rather than making excuses and saying "We really ought to fix the infrastructure...but..."

Nobody is "making excuses" here except you.
Hubris aside, it was established as early as 2008 that Facebook collects data on non-users for so called 'shadow profiles.'

Zuckerberg himself indirectly confirmed this: https://web.archive.org/web/20211006190710/https://www.getre...
I’m serious. Just saying: paid options like LexisNexis (and a couple others) offered online information search services that date back to the 70s.

The 90s was the advent of free World Wide Web search. It wasn’t the advent of online search engines.
My hope is literally:

Throw side-loaded Apps into a separate virtual machine with a different iOS, etc. No access to anything other than itself.
> you can exercise monopoly power just by watching what your "competitor" is doing

That is not a monopoly, which implies that the market is controlled by only one company. Not two. “Monopoly” is not just something you say when you don’t like a company. Also, a monopoly in itself is not necessarily illegal or problematic. The real issue is a company abusing its market power, which does not require anything like a monopoly.

> You don't have to meet behind closed doors to fix prices, you just set your prices to be exactly equal to your competitor.

Then it is not collusion. It’s just a poorly functioning market, or something that cannot work as a free market (some natural monopolies are like that).
I'm pretty sure it was sold a long time ago.

However, in here: https://www.albertcory.io/lets-do-have-hindsight

I calculate some of the other PARC spinoffs they did. If they'd held onto all of it, it would dwarf the value of the copier & printer business.
I definitely agree that the advice is regional. I live in Arizona and I've been working to transform my backyard though some managed neglect with some success. The big thing for me was knowing what plants live in my yard: what to keep and what to remove. After killing the bermuda grass, I did get some nice volunteer sunflowers that I've encouraged to the point that we yearly get a good amount of them on our back porch (water settles in the area when it rains). I've added some globe mallow and other natives over time. I've also learned about all the different invasive weeds in my neighborhood (globe chamomile a.k.a stinknet is a plague). This past winter/spring I added more wildflower seeds which turned out pretty nice. I'm hoping over time I can get more native plants or at least more desirable plants to out-compete the less desirables so it gets easier to manage. In the end I think it's more work than a lawn and takes some education, but to me it's infinitely more interesting and enjoyable to work on.
Really? It was like 2% around me. I prefer current style.
You've obviously never dealt with the EU privacy machinery. There is a separate privacy directorate in every single EU country. There is also a privacy group at the EU level. These groups _fight_with_each_other_...the EU level authority recently forced Ireland's DPA to fine Facebook despite the Irish authorities initially finding no enforceable infringement.

I get that everyone dislikes Facebook, but this is not a stable regulatory regime to do business in, nor is it covering all EU member countries "in one go".
A result of gen Z syndrome
https://nypost.com/2023/04/21/gen-z-is-the-most-difficult-ge...
Eh... Android has turned out to be a bit of a fraud. The great "open-source" OS that would free us all from vendor and telco tyranny has spectacularly failed to do so. Android users still wait months or years or forever for each telco to dribble out a hacked, proprietary version of Android for every phone model, one at a time. I wanted Android to be competitive, because Apple does dick developers and "partners" over. But it's just as much of a shitshow, if not worse.
I tried using gpt4 on the qualifier rounds for hackasat and I think you need to know the basics of what is a good answer (or maybe satellite red teaming is too obscure) but I never got a flag out of it .
With hardware root trust the side channel attacks look something like breaking into Apple's most secured facilities and ordering multiple senior employees around at gunpoint.

Hardware remote attestation means your local physical device is as accessible as a distant server. Dumping RAM does not work, tapping the bus does not work, writing your own firmware does not work. It is exactly like an ISP performing a machine-in-the-middle attack on a TLS connection; impossible unless without some way of obtaining the certificate private key.
Over the past decade, the U.S. MacOS market share has doubled from 15% to 30%, whereas Windows has dropped from 80% to 60% (according to statcounter)
This framing ignores the agency of the teenagers who read the books. Do you think the only media in their lives are media that an adult shows them, with no capacity to seek things out themselves?
Xerox Announces Donation of Palo Alto Research Center(PARC) to SRI International
And how many of those fines have been levied _and_ paid so far?
We had an app update rejected because we mentioned an android version of our app in the release notes.

What marketing says and what a company does don't need to align anymore sadly.
Can someone comment on whether or not this is a reasonable thing for them to do? What is the potential good outcome or bad outcome?
That never happens and I wear my Apple Watch all day and all night (for sleep tracking) except for when I shower -- I plop it on my charger once a day when I shower and it charges to full during my shower (it doesn't take that long for the Watch to charge to full)

iOS devices also have Power Reserve, which lets you use wallet and express transit for up to 5 hours even after your battery is out of juice.

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2022/01/13/apple-power-reserve...
You should hire a professional exterminator, to be more precise.
> Displaying the user's name prominently on the splash screen acts as a guilt-inducer for those sharing keys.

This is imo an absolute genius insight, whoever came up with it first. It’s psychologically meaningful, not just for guilt, but the feeling of ownership.

In many ways, I miss these days of software being complete and local. Today, there are few interactions where I get that nice feeling, and for good reason – whenever the feudal lords decide my account is no bueno, the fun stops.
Cheating Controversy in $200k International Go Tournament
My theory is that weaving was the first human invention (fire and dogs don't count, being taming and domesticating a wild thing).

The idea is attachment by alternation. You can create roofs, baskets, clothing and so on. You use leaves, vines, sinew.

You are probably wearing woven cloth right now.