skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately dendritic compartmentalization, spike timing etc are still not present. All efforts at models of SNNs that I know of have hit problems like riddled basins so far, that is what to look for to move past the limits of perceptron based networks IMHO.

As PAC learning with autograd and perceptrons is just compression, or set shattering, this paper is more of an optimization method that reduces ANN expressiveness through additional compression. Being able to control loss of precision is exciting though.

It may help in some cases, especially for practical use cases, but their unaddressed mention of potential problems with noisy loss functions needs to be addressed.

Human biological neurons can do XOR in the dendrites without hitting the soma at all is another example.

If you haven't heard about dendritic compartmentalization and plasticity, here is a paper.

https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(11)00993-7

> In conclusion our results support the view that experience can drive clustered synaptic enhancement onto neuronal dendritic subcompartments, providing fundamental architecture to circuit development and function
Journeyman sounds very much like a postdoc. (the traditional costumes are rare, but I've seen a few journeymen all togged out* for going "auf der Walz" over the last couple of decades)

* eg https://www.wirholzbauer.ch/de/magazine-online/detail/?tx_hb...

more on the topic: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Joel David Hamkins has Graph Theory for eight year olds - https://jdh.hamkins.org/math-for-eight-year-olds/

Not a lot but it's a start. You could do the Seven Bridges of Koenigsberg after that one.

The game of Sprouts can be good.

The older PBS cartoon series Cyber Chase has math in every episode, from geometry to some game theory. I will grant that some episodes are clunky.

You can use various Star Wars characters to do different number bases - Yoda has 6 fingers, base 6. Jar Jar Binks has eight. One of Ben Tens manifestations has 4 arms each with 4 fingers for base 16
Yes it is. Water freezes and provides protection from freezing cold as funny as it might sound. Of course watering systems for huge gardens or orchards are expensive even if you have access to enough water.
A primer on the current state of longevity research
How do I look at entire day or even a week? Once there is three things to do in a day I need to get to a tiny scroll bar.
Given the disaster that can be both google and llm, do you have any specific pieces of writing you found particularly high quality?
I usually go for a quick and dirty start-to-finish in a day recipe when I’m craving hot sauce. I don’t have much patience or long term storage or want to gamble with botulism, so I don’t ferment.

A very very rough recipe is:

- 4 lbs of dried chiles de arbol (no seeds or stems)
- 1.5 lbs each of Serranos and Jalapeños
- 1 lb of habaneros
- 4 large carrots
- half cup of garlic
- about 2 gallons of white vinegar
- a little salt and maybe a cup of water

I like the idea of adding some
mangoes from the link so maybe add 2-3?

Rough chop everything and take out stems and the majority of seeds. Start heating the arbols in a very large boil pot outside (on a grill or its own propane burner). Then after 15 mins add the other peppers and salt. 15 mins later add the veggies, 5 mins later pour the vinegar and water if needed in so that it just covers the chiles. You might not use all the vinegar. Heat to a low boil for 2 hours. Let it cool for 20 mins, blend it in batches till smooth. Then transfer the blended batches back to the pot and reboil for 10 mins. Then pot directly into mason jars. Stir occasionally throughout so nothing burns, but some color is good at the beginning.

It feels pretty safe. It’s very very hot but that’s how I like it and makes it last longer. It’s not as smooth as the off the shelf hot sauces, but not quite as thick as the chile hot sauce in Asian restaurants.

Oh and don’t touch your eyes or sensitive areas.

Maybe it’s just me but chiles have decreased in hotness in the past decade. Like a habanero or jalapeño is not as hot as they used to be. For jalapeños, there used to be like 1/5 that would floor you, so their average hotness was quite higher. Now it seems like all jalapeños I buy are the same, which reduces the average heat so I have to add more habaneros.
In Europe totally, and for example in Germany it's customary to get you six week vacation in the summer.

This also has the benefit that the workplace has to have real back-up person for all matters, as six weeks is too long to shove everything under the carpet waiting for your return.
These levels are are still used in the US today for eg electricians and other licensed trades. Interesting that they survived for so long.
It’s a nice toy, and appreciate the simple interface and not storing PII (ie, requiring name, address, …). But this seems like yet another calendar to me that I need to manage with _every_ relationship. Maybe I want to share a calendar with my SO, but what about my friend on the other side of town?

N+1 calendars I have to manage.

I would like to use my preferred calendar app and sync events I share to other people via CalDAV protocol.

It’s a standard protocol that’s existed for a long time now. [1,2]

Scheduling can be a bit janky especially with remote servers (ie, outlook…). But for the most part it works. Enter e-mail of person I want to share event with and person can see it in their preferred calendar.

Even updates work pretty well. It’s a shame we have all of these protocols but nobody bothers to use them and prefer their proprietary shit (ie, discord, telegram, signal, fb, ig, …)

Why must we continue to write “solutions” for already solved problems?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalDAV

[2] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4791
> If every vehicle is patched and it is part of normal manufacturing, then you could say that none of them are patched.

This is only true if they are all patched in exactly the same way and if you patch existing examples in the field.

In the real world patches are applied as repairs to incidents that are unique to each example. Airliners are too expensive to throw away because of minor flaws and damage.
Don't know why you are being downvoted. Quoted article is (obviously) superior.
They certainly cleaned up El Paso for Biden's visit a few years ago. I guess they were worried about undocumented anger?

We call them potemkin villages, but it makes me wonder when the charades started. Surely it was long before potemkin
Yes sorry.
We allow 100wh of batteries in individual devices
Because they rarely celebrate intercourse?
In my experience a ton of it really does come down to quality of the ingredients you use. We actually ferment quite a few things here and have never had an issue. Though, whether we're making sauerkraut, kambucha, pickles, or cheese it always starts with ingredients we either grew ourselves or bought from a local CSA.

I was a bit nervous the first time we salt cured our own bacon, but it turned out way better than any bacon I've bought from a store!
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> source control was clunky and a pain in the ass to set up

I concur. Creating a CVS repository was not harder than creating a git repository now `cvs -d $dir init`, and using, typical for the time, shared network drive, gives server experience without setting up a specialized server. It was just not included with Windows/typical Windows dev tools, so you had to know it existed, and knowledge was slower and harder to get.
don't underestimate the power of spite, even across generations to motivate an individual's actions. one only needs to look at some famous wars to realize that.
GPT-4o was left in the dust by Claude months ago…
Which, initially, was a reskinned OpenStep and a PowerPlant Finder.
I don't think we need to bring hammers down on 16-year-olds.
Exactly, the Yuezhi is about as Chinese as the Japanese are, both first entering into the historical records in official Chinese dynastic history during the Han Dynasty.
If your source code is really that important (if, say, it’s a trading strategy, or will run a nuclear submarine), then you insist that people work five days a week from the office, using desktops (not laptops), make them drop off personal devices as they enter the office, and give them extra time off for doctors appointments, train strikes, etc. I once interviewed at a place that did this, as a competitor had previously tried to steal their code.

Otherwise, don’t worry about it.
Larry Niven's sunflowers?

https://larryniven.fandom.com/wiki/Slaver_Sunflower
You’re talking about voter intimidation at polling places, right? Yes, that is in fact well documented and not a fantasy.

You can send a couple guys with bats to a polling location and coerce hundreds of voters. What you’re describing would require a highly organized set of crimes taking years of man hours that would definitely attract law enforcement due to the prolonged time and scale. Fantasy.

“Creative thinking” is leading you down the path of made up problems with ludicrous solutions.
how well did that work in practice?
Please don't be an internet jerk on this site. We're trying for something different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Fair enough! Thanks @dang!
Chips are not impossible to reverse engineer. Chips have specifications. It's not at all hard to figure out why a particular chip does not meet it's stated specifications.

This whole story is based upon the ignorance of the general public in how manufacture and how silicon processes work. It's designed to convince you that "intelligence" agencies are doing _anything_ worthwhile when in reality they're playing childish games and putting third parties lives at risk to do it.

It's so boring and tiring to read crap like this.
If it is UB, the compiler is allowed to optimize based on the assumption that it can't happen. For example, if you have an if in which one branch leads to UB and the other doesn't, the compiler can assume that the branch that led to UB will never happen and remove it from the program, and even remove other branches based on "knowing" that the branch condition didn't happen.

If it's simply erroneous, then it behaves like in every other language outside C and C++: it leaves memory in a bad state if it happens at runtime, but it doesn't have any effect at compile time.
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One way to resolve the issue is to use a distributed randomness generator like DRand which is threshold decryption based and hence can offer some robustness as well.
There were structural, geographic, and ecological, reasons for why mongol invasions stopped before they reached western Europe (aside from some relatively short-lived attempts at imperiogenesis in eastern Europe). The same reasons were present for Arab "invasions" up from Iberia.

Walter Scheidel has written a fascinating book that takes a very hard historical look at possible historical counterfactuals comparing post-roman Europe to imperial China and finds the chances of Mongol success in Europe to have been very small despite their incredible string successes leading up to that point. Europe's greatest benefit was an incredible political polycentrism; Europe was hard to invade while China wasn't. That pushed China into sustained imperial centralization like many other empires with close steppe proximity.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172187/es...
I think if you asked a farmer, "buy laser robots" is a lot lazier than "deal with insect pests".

Robots evolving would be someone signing off on the investment of doing a big compute run.
A demo of Rust in FreeBSD base
The intel intrinsics guide is actually one of the most useful instruction websites I use on the regular:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/intrinsics-guid...
If I am a chip designer, I don't want to implement an ISA which requires to pay royalties (where those are legal), I would prefer to be free and go RISC-V which does a more than good enough job.
Immoral behavior doesn't become moral based on circumstances.
Moisture sensors that measure conductivity are pretty useless unless frequently recalibrated but time domain reflectometry sensors are much better and more accurate.

I use the VH400 from Vegetronix: https://www.vegetronix.com/Products/VH400/
It's probably sensitive to exactly how the file is opened. SMR drives need the file to be append only. If Explorer isn't communicating to the OS that it's going to do that properly for whatever reason, the driver would kick the writes back to the random access area which would slow it down.

SMR drives aren't designed for having data shuttled between areas like that. They're meant to be used such that you write in long streams directly to the shingled areas. The slowdowns are clearly due to the abstraction mismatch getting in the way.
If you get a typically-structured Java/Spring application then often yes. By typically structured I mean domain objects, DTOs, service layer, controller layer, view layer. The idiomatic use of dependency injection frees the mind of the reader from understanding all the dependencies in code, just use an @Autowired class you want and someone part has the knowledge to configure it and does so.
> I really do not understand how anyone could just go from zero to PR without talking to a maintainer first about what they want to do, and how they want to do it.

I usually open a PR with at least a proof of concept implementation without prior discussion. I find that trying to discus a new feature without a concrete thing to look at often goes nowhere or even goes completely unanswered. On the other hand, with a concrete implementation to point at it's much easier to discuss direction and details and have everyone on the same page instead of talking past each other. But I realize the maintainer's vision may not align with my ideas, so I'm okay with them saying "no, we don't want this" and closing the PR outright.
It was in the same sentence as it being a port from PC :>
If you do all the real work of implementing ARM ISA, you will have to pay royalties anyway (where those are legal though).

That's why it is critical to favor worldwide royalty free ISA like RISC-V. This is not a silver bullet but does a good enough job.
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I know that, didn’t say otherwise, it’s just that the US plays it like it just doesn’t happen when it comes to their side, or, if they do acknowledge it, they say it’s for “the greater good” or a combination thereof.
Good to know it can be done with a food saver. I have the book on my shelf, but never got around to reading it.

I've used a ziplock of water as a fermentation weight. I didn't know I could use a chamber sealer, and I have one (the "cheap" model VP112S - at $600 and only 57 lbs. - but I bought it 7 years ago and it's still going). I think I need to try this with some chilis.
It’s inspiring. Just wanted to write it.
> garbage-tier

Please don't be an internet jerk on this site. We're trying for something different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
But someone works in Arizona!
They are, in fact, not still comprehensible. Don't get me wrong, you can learn a lot, but it's no longer possible to have an in depth understanding of everything going on in a modern PC. At a certain abstraction level, sure, but the subsystems are now too complicated for one person to have detailed knowledge of it all.

Okay, I used the word "possible", but perhaps I should have used the word feasible. If the information exists then it's "possible" to learn it. Although given that the hardware companies no longer actually tell us everything that's going on in their hardware, you could make an argument for it not being possible.
All energy we use eventually turns into heat so it doesn’t matter that helion skips a step and converts fusion directly into electricity
But this thread starts with the article complaining that those external processes have to be restarted every twenty minutes. Exaggerating, I'm sure. But a few days ago I helped a colleague who was using both IntelliJ and VS Code on his laptop. The whole machine has dragged to a halt, a kind of slowdown I never see on Macs normally. A quick trip to the Activity Monitor showed that VS Code processes had been in a spin loop for days. Somehow they were trashing the performance of the entire machine.

The ironic thing is, I came over to take a look because my colleague had been complaining IntelliJ was slow. Kill off the errant Electron processes and suddenly IntelliJ was fast.

At any rate, startup time isn't the be all and end all for an IDE. I only (re)start my IDE when it needs an upgrade.
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> Most likely healthy people go outside more than sick people and thus get more sun exposure

Such a lazy critique.

Here's the actual study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joim.12251

Number of subjects: 39,973

Follow up period: 20 years

Some factors controlled for: smoking, history of antidiabetic meds, history of CVD meds, weight/height/BMI, level of exercise, income, alcohol consumption, N pregnancies.

I think these factors pretty well correlate with "health" (however you'd measure actually that).
He makes a lot of predictions about what he thinks he will be able to accomplish in the future, many of them people think won’t happen, and then they do. That’s the reality distortion field. The Steve Jobs bio covered it well. People often think things can’t work, even past the point at which they do. Like a smart phone with no keyboard.

I do not think he’s always truthful by any means. But a failed prediction is not a lie. as the great George Costanza once said, it’s not a lie if you believe it.
> The concept was simple to understand; the GPU would examine several real-time frames of a game and analyze the construction of the images using the NPU. Next, the image’s resolution would be reduced, and a ray-traced version of the analyzed image would be generated. Then, the new AI-created frames ray-traced image would be scaled back up and presented to the monitor.

This is not simple to understand, at least not in the way it is described here. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning_super_sampling for a better description.
Probably used a Cyrillic keyboard.
I feed them a fairly nice brand that's kibble + freeze dried chicken. They do seem to like it.

I just can't help but think I'd hate my life if I ate the same thing day in and day out. Being an (indoor) cat sounds really boring -- eating the same thing every day, sleeping 16 hours a day, and being unable to mate or hunt.

I wonder if animals feel the need for a sense of purpose like humans do.
What Were You Wearing Exhibit
The next logical step is to port this to WASM so that it can run in the browser.
The question beckons, who's going to bundle this into their initramfs and boot Linux from it.
> A spontaneous pub trip, once a cornerstone of British social life, now takes work to organise.

I’m not an alcoholic, so, please, do not offer me meeting in pub or bar.

> Still, according to French philosopher Pascal Bruckner,…

Who?

> Living a real, physical life outside the home is good because humans need friction.

The writer should add “in my humble opinion”.

> Small business owners need customers to browse in their shops

Google, Apple, Facebook, Etsy, OnlyFans, you named it, give small business owners great opportunities to reach all the world instead of a local village.

IMHO, it’s a local pub limits person worldview, not the Net.
I'm a fellow Canadian, and in my early 20s I realized that the normal hunger pain I was feeling... wasn't normal. Instead of pain, others experienced a different feeling that told them "I could eat right now".

After an endoscopy and a biopsy, they found that I had H. Pylori and stomach inflammation (no ulcers). After a vaccine + course of antibiotics, I stopped feeling pain whenever I was hungry and started feeling a normal appetite sensation.

I'm posting this comment in case anyone is in the same situation with hunger pain.
Like VNC via noVNC? Demo screenshots: https://novnc.com/screenshots.html

Not sure if there’s a web experience for Citrix or rdp solution.
With shadow teams with shadow access to X servers nasty things can be done. We all know that people put way too much trust in internet. On top of that you add AI bots... you can mass mis-inform/drive opinion.
The next step is to start taking "1421: The Year China Discovered the World" seriously.

Vide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Menzies
Adobe had competing products mostly based on open standards. They shut down many active product lines and merged what was left into Adobe AIR, which didn't take off.
Links behind paywalls get posted all the time. I think the guidelines are if there is a common way to bypass / view the content then it is okay.
The engine already compiles to WASM, see TLDR.
This is close to how I've been using them too. As a device for speeding up learning, they're incredible. Best of all, they're strongest where I'm weakest: finding all the arbitrary details that are needed for the question. That's the labor-intensive part of learning technical things.

I don't need the answer to be correct because I'm going to do that part myself. What they do is make it an order of magnitude faster to get anything on the board. They're the ultimate prep cook.

There are things to dislike and yes there is over-hype but "making learning less tedious" is huge!
Jet stream use for sustainable airship and balloon transport of cargo and H2
(2018)

Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24473869
Of course, the tag line for the classic Pragmatic Programmer book originally was not your journey to mastery, but from journeyman to master.

So much more apt.

https://pragprog.com/titles/tpp20/the-pragmatic-programmer-2...
I have been keeping a personal diary since I was about 13 years old. It's my private space to reflect on experiences, thoughts, emotions. It helps me to manage stress, anxiety! I highly recommend this practice!
And I'd guess smokers go outside more than non-smokers.
Well, agree to disagree. :D
I see your points, and I would agree that the majority would still keep their trust.

> I don't understand why you think people wouldn't trust this.

Because people are not always rational beings, often don't understand statistics and, in my experience, the set of people not trusting journalists and having doubt on past elections having significant overlap. If you are not convinced the press isn't lying, and maybe just prints what the government wants, you will not expect that they uncover election intervention. And your friends may be on a list of the city hall, "they" know that they vote for certain parties[1]. This is basically verbatim what voters sometimes tell you, why they don't vote via mail. It's easy to transfer those fears onto electronic voting.

It's very hard to keep believing in serious election fraud if you see how (this kind of) analogue voting works, though. You have to trust nobody, only yourself, at least in regards to your local polling station.

> The whole process you're describing for physical polling places is a million times more work for any individual. It requires a massive amount of time and attention.

Yes, I don't disagree. It's significantly more work, inefficient and antiquated. All true. I'm just not convinced that the convenience of electronic / online voting is worth the risk that a) a fuck-up due to any kind of bug / security problem and b) people losing even the slightest bit of trust into elections because of "magic computer", even if they are caused by delusions, would pose.

[1] Germany has no "registration" as Republican or Democrat (w/ German parties of course) like the US has - they don't have such lists
You might find a 30 day free trial has more sign-ups and conversions, but could entail more support costs ("I forgot to cancel") than the 30-day money back guarantee.
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