skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There has been a long discussion in the neuroscience community how neuronal firing encodes information. The two extremes of the proposed solutions are temporal coding and rate coding, but there are intermediate positions such as held by the parent poster (and myself, and nowadays most other people that care about this niche).

Wikipedia is decent-ish on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_coding

Wulfram Gerstner's book has a nice discussion of the theory and limitations of different proposed coding schemes, which might interest the technical audience here. In particular, I think the parent poster alluded to the ideas presented in the last section here: https://neuronaldynamics.epfl.ch/online/Ch7.S6.html

Really and truly this "discussion" should have been put to rest a long time ago.
Neurons encode information with the temporal precision needed to encode that information. Since most objects are somewhat permanent, the temporal precision can be very low, yielding effectively a rate code. For tasks for which the (relative) timing is critical, e.g. the encoding of auditory sequences, the temporal precision of the neural code is high, yielding effectively a temporal code. Some problems are neither here nor there, in which case the neuron will encode as much information as possible at a low rate / temporal resolution, and then encode diminishing amounts of information at successively higher temporal resolutions (the Fourier code alluded to by the parent poster). Higher temporal precision typically requires more control, larger circuits, and hence more energy expenditure.

Bill Bialek's group had a paper that quantified the amount of information present in a visual neuron of the fly at different temporal resolutions (/frequencies) as early as 2008: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...
Is there any evidence this works in anything but the largest cities? Because America is built on small towns/cities [1].

[1] https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2020/05/america-a-nat...
> I'm going to start learning graphics for the first time

Vulkan is a quagmire of very low-level concepts, the danger of getting stuck in them and give up without learning anything is just too high.

At the same time making something with OpenGL that is more interesting than a simple rotating cube is not that difficult and you will get a lot of mid-level understanding - how rendering pipeline implemented and organized, what kind of task it is.
"Porting" this knowledge to Vk is straightforward.
You don't need robots -- tractors already drive up and down the field, and the cost of the tractor is many times the annual cost of the worker, BTW -- you just need good application. Which is something farmers already attempt to do. Because why would you waste your $$ on bad deployment of expensive fertilizer? (Or pesticide, etc.)

This is my employer's bread and butter for many decades: https://www.ravenind.com/products/applications-booms

And yes, it's a lot of emphasis on autonomy now, but you'd be amazed at what just having better spray nozzles can do?

Cash crop farming is an incredibly capital intensive operation. Robots don't fix that.
Is this the same Squid that is the basis of many comercial web filters? A few years ago I evaluated web filtering hardware and most of the inline solutions on the market were based on Squid.
> Aren't you modeling an entirely different problem...

Not really, but read on:

You correctly state that in the Monty Hall problem, the host reveals a door without the prize. That's the same situation which I described in my previous comment.

Try thinking about it this way: Say you are the contestant on that show. You have never played the game before, and you will never play it again. So you don't know how the host behaves. You pick your door, he reveals another door, there is no prize behind it. You would have to ask yourself: did he deliberately open that door because it had no prize? Or did he just happen to open a door that had no prize?

Your best estimation of your odds of winning changes completely depending on how you model the behavior of the host.

However, with any type of host, the situation whereby "contestant opens door with no prize, host reveals another door with no prize" can still occur, and regardless of whether you deem that the 'original' Monty Hall problem or not, it is the most interesting way to define the Monty Hall problem. Call it the extended Monty Hall problem if you want: the situation described above has occurred, and you have to both define a model for the behavior of the host (and game) and calculate your odds under that model.

Here's a challenge for you: Can you find a model under which the contestant has 100% chance of winning by not switching to the unopened door?
UnicodeMathML: UnicodeMath to MathML translator (maintained by Murray Sargent)
So to make your argument you’re allowing the purchase of old, second hand hardware just to stay under budget.

> You can't really play 3/4 of game catalog on MacBook Pro M1Pro or newer ($2000+)

That’s what started this whole conversation actually… We are talking about the choice of game studios choosing to not support MacOS in their games.
M2 Ultra can run 128 streams of Llama 2 7B in parallel
Start with hashicorp nomad. Less of a learning curve and easy to set up. Traefik can do automatic discovery of services in nomad. Definitely better than a bunch of systemd units.
Same applies to church. It's still there, but people have become more irreligious on average, so they don't even notice they've lost this social outlet / community, especially if the change happened between generations.

Then they complain about not knowing their community. Well, the church used to be the center of it. What's the center of it now? Something needs to be, and maybe it's something that can't be provided by government or business.
Very cool! Slightly different though in that 3dsen seems to be adding depth to sprites and a camera view outside the player, while tom7's puts you in the game on the level either top down or side view, walking in it as the player.

I suppose it depends on where you place the camera, on the player like tom7 "WolfNEStein 3D" or from a viewpoint far enough back to view a portion of the level like 3dsen.

3dsen approach is more playable and is really neat for depth in 3d and VR. Could be cool in AR as well.
Oracle actually provides a database table listing all keywords, along with information about their respective type of reservedness: https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/1...
forget about it if you want to run it on an IPv6-only VPS, it's not ready yet
Mostly zoning.
As someone who likes to look into little free libraries in the US while out walking, I'd beg to disagree with the generalization of US book owners - at least what I've seen.
That's brilliant. I'd forgotten about it.

https://www.milorganite.com/what-is-milorganite

So they use the sewage from the existing treatment system, let microbes process it all, and then extract/dry those microbes.

I was more thinking about needing means to rethink our toilet/sewage system entirely with a focus on initial separation.
Love the UI of the game. Reminiscent of many click-to-play mobile games. Content in the game is great too. Will be very fun for web3 newbies to learn more about the history and highlights of core innovations since the creation of bitcoin. Love that DoraHacks keeps putting out new developer focused content!
Some things simply are not a combination of sweet, sour, bitter and salty.
There are pretty decent pet insurance policies responsible pet owners could purchase and pay a monthly premium on. I've used it for my past two dogs and it has been painless and easy to use when I needed to.

So it isn't a big $10K+ or bust argument. But the sad fact of the matter is very few pet owners assume ownership while planning for the potential bad days and the extra financial burden and responsibility that they should feel when they take on pet ownership.
> We wanted an installation of Kubernetes that was half the size in terms of memory footprint. Kubernetes is a 10 letter word stylized as k8s. So something half as big as Kubernetes would be a 5 letter word stylized as K3s. There is neither a long-form of K3s nor official pronunciation.
Yes, genuine people who aren't playing social games laugh spontaneously, they don't contact the moral police to determine whether they can laugh or not. Other people who are more prone to going with the herd will wait to see what other people are doing and then determine whether they should laugh or not. You actually can see this in real time watching stand up comedians - for certain jokes the majority of the crowd will laugh in a different manner to normal to feedback to the comedian that the joke is funny but dancing on the line of acceptability. A good comedian uses that information and either addresses it immediately or changes their set accordingly.

So yes, I found the use of the word "patient" funny because the context shift is funny to me. Like seriously what is your attitude to life, that you're only allowed to laugh about things specific to your own profession? That at all other times you must be deferential with head bowed and no sense of humour? The whole point of comedy is the coming together of unexpected and differing viewpoints on topics, which is an inevitable part of being human, because we all have own own unique backstories which have gone on to shape our views of the world.

> Your comment is unhelpful and barely related to the article.

I would love to know what you deem qualifies you to be the arbitrer of what is and isn't helpful. My comment may be unhelpful to you but your experience is not everyone's experience, I would wager that for anyone not familiar with this terminology or what vet's face on a day to day basis, then it is likely helpful and relevant.

> Also, I don't feel like "empathizing with animals" is a huge insight that you've cracked. Most people do it.

I am no longer, but I spent a year as vegan, primarily for reasons of animal empathy, years prior to finding out about this patient terminology. And it still altered my perception. There is more than one way to gain insight and there are different levels of insight. Things look different from different angles. This was a new angle for me.

> Then you get mad at a group for presumably downvoting your irrelevant comment?

You're downvoting someone for sharing their personal growth experience. After a certain amount of downvotes a post gets flagged and can no longer be seen. So you're essentially trying to silence me, not because I've said anything hateful, but purely because what I've said doesn't align with your own views. And I consider that to be pretty fascist behaviour and I will call it out when I see it because it doesn't lead to good outcomes.
> I'm actually amazed at how little basic income helps people.

There have been many trials and this is again and again the most stunning conclusion (I doubt this one is even a good example) It is kinda silly how obvious it is in hindsight: A person living on 1 dollar per day will leverage the hell out of 10 cents extra.

( https://basicincome.org/research-index/ )
"26% of The Netherlands is below sea level, and 59% of The Netherlands is vulnerable to flooding by the sea in case of high tide and severe storms." from:

"How Much Of The Netherlands Is Below Sea Level?"

https://netherlandsinsiders.com/how-much-of-the-netherlands-...

If I were less risk-averse I'd live there too. But flooding is "Nature's way of telling" me to move.
California passes right-to-repair act
I wasn’t really looking for pity, just sharing the perspective of a person who has dealt with moderately severe ADHD. I’m doing just fine now and am enjoying my work again. Medication was a critical part of that journey, but attention disorders don’t really work like myopia. You normally don’t walk into a psychiatrist’s office, get fitted for a dosage, and then walk out recovered. It’s one piece of a greater treatment strategy that can be complex and wildly different from patient to patient. In one sense though it is like myopia because at some level of severity there is no total correction, and you have to narrow the scope of your life in order to get things, often at the expense of other responsibilities. I think we can both agree that you have to play the cards you’re dealt, but I would just encourage you—at the very least—to not bring others down if the way they play them doesn’t make sense to you. It may be working for them in the long run.
I've been looking for something like this, however the accuracy makes it useless.

Has anyone tried the new gpt4 to help with pronunciation?

What's your recommendation for adding an accent? Speech therapist?
Hashing and Integrity Verification
The expansion has to stop and people need to be encouraged
to live somewhere more sustainable both as far as
water and energy are concerned.

The amount of electricity people need to run AC is enormous.
Which might at times be a matter of life or death.
When I was there I believe a law was passed that it was illegal
to shut off electricity if the temperature was above a certain
threshold since some people were not able to handle the heat.
In theory. Let's see how that pans out over the next couple of years, I think imposing platform lock-in in is going to be impossible for them to resist.
incumbent effect. I think its great, but its not that much better than what exists
Didn't you see the message in #random? It scrolled past 37 minutes ago!
This is an interesting set of points, thank you. But they seem a bit orthogonal to the conclusion. For example - the town I live in is fairly compact (.15 acre lots, people can easily walk to main st.) but does not have a lot of multi-family. When the state attempted to push through multi-family zoning, the town and every other town like it pushed back. Because it is our preference to live in this style, and we're not eager to lift zoning even if it can eventually mean I have to walk 5 mins to a Starbucks rather than ten.

One town over has many more 6+ story buildings and townhouses. So folks over there have made a different choice about what kind of situation they want to live in. Is their town more walkable than mine? Not really but it does have even more variety on Main St due to increased density - great. They were clearly able to do the thing you're talking about because they wanted to.
Prophecy – a replacement for modern data stack, raises Series B
There's no real "over kubernetes". K3s is a kubernetes implementation.

You have to think of k8s as more of a specification of what can be done with multiple implementations. k3s, kind, microk8s, minikube are all implementations of kubernetes that you might want to try out.

k8s is much like the original IBM pc or a linux distribution. There are a bunch of interchangeable parts that you may land on depending on your needs.

Why use this over something else? I've found k3s to be really simple to setup and upgrade, which is why I use it for my home lab.
That degree generally being the fine line between "none" and "some". The simple act of holding the camera, even if you don't really know where you are pointing it, can qualify resulting images for copyright protection. But is the monkey at the zoo grabs your camera and snaps a pic, no copyright for anyone. So for an AI-generated song, a court will probably be able to hang its hat on the smallest of human input in the lyric or musical process.
tbf you can probably still be an architect without CAD. But an equally skilled architect with CAD will probably outperform you.

> Now, what happens when there is essentially a monopoly on the market of "AI assistants"?

Thankfully Meta released their stuff and other tools like https://open-assistant.io/ are being worked on.
I'm not sure I understand, you're saying in the Netherlands they have a lot of it, but then for farming you need a lot of it - so is it bad or good?
What is the difference between human creativity and something that looks just like human creativity?
Because this makes certain assumptions and certain decisions about the Kubernetes Environment you want to be running.

See here: https://docs.k3s.io/

It's fully compliant but opinionated towards the smaller side.
> The owning class

Ok lol. I see I'm not revolutionary enough.
Check what that insurance actually covers and do the math on it, especially over time (and even factor in current interest rates) and considering total coverage along with deductibles. You might think that you're covered, but in reality you aren't.

I couldn't find any insurance that made better sense than just putting $30/mo into a money market account at 5.25%. The way the policies are written, they clearly are there to make money on people who are buying piece of mind comfort over looking at the reality of the costs.
FTC lays out new rule that could end hidden fees
Cover bands are bands playing other peoples' music. That's an expected use case in our legal system, and the authors of the music are compensated as mandated by the government.

Misrepresenting who performed an audio track is exactly that, a misrepresentation of goods sold. There are laws for that.

There is nothing in law that explicitly permits what AI sites are doing with performers' music. And the sites are not compensating the imitated performers. That's just plagiarism which is already unlawful.
"a VC backed neighborhood where you don't own anything"

That's called "renting", and over 100,000,000 people in the USA do it.

Also, the Culdesac is next to a light rail station.
I wouldn't bet on it. Historiographical claims contradicting ancient history usually turn out to be incorrect and are generally only produced because the absence of other evidence is the only room you have to generate academic papers. It isn't surprising that an event that occurred > 3000 years ago is better attested that an event that occurred ~2500 years ago. 2500 years ago is classic Greece and Thucydides, 3000 years ago is Homer. It is fairly typical for these minimalist positions to be totally overturned by later archeological discoveries...because people don't generally just make things totally up. This doesn't require every word to be literally true, but there's usually truth in them.

Establishing a pious fraud ex nihilo as late as the Babylonian Exile is also a little too pat. You really think that a) the Babylonian Exiles convinced themselves of this with no surviving refutation or debate and b) they managed to impress it on the entire non-Exile population when they returned?

This Smithsonian article on the discovery of mining operations by a semi-nomadic people is a great read and ends on this note, with which I wholeheartedly agree:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/archaeological-dig-re...

> What Ben-Yosef has produced isn’t an argument for or against the historical accuracy of the Bible but a critique of his own profession. Archaeology, he argues, has overstated its authority. Entire kingdoms could exist under our noses, and archaeologists would never find a trace. Timna is an anomaly that throws into relief the limits of what we can know. The treasure of the ancient mines, it turns out, is humility.
K3s/k8s may help with that, but it's going to be a learning curve. I personally moved onto k8s for a similar reason, but it was a learning curve
got to keep the internship laptop
If anyone wants a ready-to-go Azure template to play around, here you go:

https://github.com/rcarmo/azure-k3s-cluster

(I tweak this every now and then since I both used it as a training sample for my customers/peers and as a way to run my own batch processes as cheap as possible)
Doesn’t your browser have a reader mode? E.g. both Firefox and Safari has such modes.
There are hard numbers, which the the parent poster has done no work to find or discuss

https://todaysveterinarynurse.com/practice-management/substa... which has these references (https://www.avma.org/javma-news/2015-09-15/putting-drug-test... was particularly useful). It sounds like, even with more access to abusable substances and stress than the general public, it is not wildly out of proportion to abuse rates of the general public.

1. Kahler SC. Putting Drug Testing Into Practice. avma.org/News/JAVMANews/Pages/150915e.aspx. Accessed July 15, 2019.

2. Geller J. Dark Shadows: Drug Abuse and Addiction in the Veterinary Workplace. veterinarynews.dvm360.com/dark-shadows-drug-abuse-and-addiction-veterinary-workplace?pageID=2. Accessed July 15, 2019.

3. Fishell SL. Signs and Symptoms of Possible Substance Use. cliniciansbrief.com/article/signs-symptoms-possible-substance-use. Accessed July 15, 2019.

4. How to Talk About Addiction. hazeldenbettyford.org/articles/what-can-i-say-to-get-you-to-stop. Accessed July 15, 2019.

5. Guidelines for Veterinary Prescription Drugs. avma.org/KB/Policies/Pages/Guidelines-for-Veterinary-Prescription-Drugs.aspx. Accessed July 15, 2019.

6. What to Do If Your Adult Friend or Loved One Has a Problem with Drugs. drugabuse.gov/related-topics/treatment/what-to-do-if-your-adult-friend-or-loved-one-has-problem-drugs. Accessed July 25, 2019.
They probably think this is actually a good idea: https://xkcd.com/1292/
Check out https://kamal-deploy.org, it just hit 1.0 and 37signals moved their whole Kubernetes stack to it. I was playing around with it recently for side projects and I think it's a nice fit for simpler products like that.
Setting aside the existing pro video pipeline... it's for this reason that if I were Meta, I'd be terrified about what Apple does next, from the perspective of photorealistic capture for VR/AR applications.

Even if the next-gen Oculus had parity with Apple Vision Pro in how vividly they could display VR/AR content - and I doubt this is the case - only Apple (perhaps among any company in the world) can mirror that with a battle-tested supply pipeline for creating pro-level video capture equipment and for integrating those sensors into consumer devices at scale.

While I'd leave the branding to better minds than my own, I'm bullish about Apple's ability to make an "iPad Vision Pro" that has two cameras at eye distance apart as well as laser rangefinding. That would allow for binocular Apple Log capture, and with the advent of Gaussian splatting for point cloud rendering, and increasingly better generative AI for inferring colors/textures of occluded points in the point cloud, you could have professionally color-graded interactive scenes. All that's missing is better ergonomics for this workflow in DaVinci Resolve etc., and one imagines Apple's war chest could go a long way towards incentivizing this.

Apple products will be where high-quality VR content is created, proofed, and consumed. They're not rushing because nobody else has a hope of being close.
It is best practice to check in, or stow code regularly even on regular
machines, in case the HD fails, the computer explodes, or whatever else.

May have to be a bit more dilligent but not a big change.
That doesn't sound like it will cope with various correct English pronunciations, as spoken by the English in England. Or even Scots, Welsh, or Irish speaking English.

There are valid variations in pronunciations, even in England, "RP" is not the only valid way to pronounce words.

As an example, take "envelope" and "schedule". Some pronounce these as "En-ve-lope", some as "On-ve-lope"; for the latter some as "Shed-ule", some as "Sked-ule".

How does this facility propose to handle the vast differences in how English is pronounced in Great Britain, never mind anywhere else in the world?
> allowing the construction of smaller, lower amenity housing

Never heard of restrictions on minimum house size and amenities. Is this a widespread thing?

Would an expression of “smaller, lower amenity housing” be the standard mobile home neighborhood?