skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prices in the suburbs around MPLS have skyrocketed. It’s quite possible that the affordability is attributed wrongly; though in general less restrictive zoning is going to be good.
> we're not magic either

We pretty much are compared to present-day neural architectures. How many simulated neurons and synapses are in the largest architectures, and how do those numbers compare to humans?
This seems set in the era of wasteful energy use. Outside of a narrow band of ideal natural climate, the energy efficiency imperative requires high focus on insulation, heat pumps, ventilation air energy recovery etc, whether you need to keep the cool air inside or outside. And in budgeting and design perspectives like this article, that can't angle can't be omitted.
It’s also a ARM problem.
I don't think Musk's personality has anything to do with it tbh.

I think other manufacturers are eating into Tesla's share because they also make cool cars with interesting value props. I don't get why, but people seem to love the Porsche EVs. Tesla is no longer the only upscale EV with great range, and self-driving isn't honestly a huge enough draw for customers compared to the competition.

There's also been some reliability issues with Teslas (not the batteries, more like the doors, paneling, etc.) that the seasoned vehicle manufacturers can prevent better and handle better if they do pop up
> The latest AMD server processors have 64 cores and 128 threads. Their newest Zen 5, Turin server processors are rumored to have 192 cores. On a dual socket server, you'll be near the 400 core count with 768 threads. You can serve the world from a single box.

Even if the math is a bit off on the 11 MB/sec due to spikes he's got a point...

The world's population grows at a much slower pace than server processors. Heck, we're even talking about population degrowth now in many paces. Meanwhile AMD shall keep coming up with beefier and beefier servers.

For many non-FAANGs what couldn't be done 15 years ago on a single box is now totally doable on one. And this trend shall only continue.
Those look like a total Fernando Botero rip-off!
AI meets next-gen info stealers in social media malvertising campaigns
Well now you've got me wondering.

What does the data say? Which is more dangerous, trampolines or bathrooms?

I've known a few people who have hurt themselves in the bathroom, but I dont know anyone who has hurt themselves on a trampoline.
> A 2000 sq ft house you can turn into a duplex is more valuable than a single family home.

But then it isn't a 2000 sq ft housing unit, it's two 1000 sq ft housing units.

> It's the government that's destroying that potential value by forbidding that development.

Correct.

> It would be like complaining about the rising costs of mobile phones, while implicitly insisting that you're only willing to purchase the latest top-of-the-line iPhone.

Except that people are also quite displeased with the high cost of even small units.
> Most importantly, owning your home in full means that you're not paying landlord each month and it can also be passed down to your children.

You can also own an apartment in full, and pass it down to your children. At least where I live, this includes a fractional ownership of the building and land itself (that is, the owners of the apartments collectively own the building and land). You don't have to pay rent to a landlord.

Of course, you have to pay monthly to the "condomĩnio" which manages the common areas of the building (and, in older buildings, the water bill is shared and paid together with that; newer buildings have it measured individually for each apartment). But that's still less expensive than renting (especially because, when renting an apartment, you also pay the "condomínio" bill together with the rent).
Formlabs does this as well for their 3d printers, my earliest encounter of this was when Docker started getting popular: https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/master/pkg/namesgenerator/...
Not around here, I can get the dirt for $15k, $50k if all services are ready for hookup.

The bricks add another $250k, which is why the used houses go for somewhat less.
You're assuming that the poster doesn't understand what currying is and you're jumping in with a correction which is kinda rude.

Instead of assuming you know better and jumping in with a correction, could you reread that post and assume that the person knows what they're talking about but isn't communicating exactly the way you would have communicated it? I.e., read with the intent of understanding intent, rather than read with the intent of correcting?
I would say that usually you do. But in hindsight, that's a behavior that came with SSH (via known_hosts and ssh/config). So back in the rlogin days, yeah, autocomplete of hostnames was not common.
I stumbled upon a discussion in the OpenAI community about why OpenAI's embeddings sometimes yield different vectors for the same text.
https://community.openai.com/t/why-openai-embedding-return-d...

Skimming through, it seems the issue might be due to random timing in the GPU, as highlighted in one of the posts.
https://community.openai.com/t/why-openai-embedding-return-d...

I'm quite new to this field, but it appears that this issue is different from hashing. I'd appreciate your thoughts on this!
Or, to put it even shorter: Government regulations kill economy.
> What was that saying? Each nine of reliability doubles the cost or some such?

I don't know but if there's a domain where the five nines are a pipe dream it's the cloud: we've seen a shitload of major outages where this or that cloud provider had services down for hours. This blows the five nines for years, if not decades (6 minutes max downtime per year: good luck with your five nines when you've got a 300 minutes cloud downtime).

The cloud is so unreliable people are now simply used to the Web not working: "Oh shit, it's down again, I'll try again later today or tomorrow".

That's how bad the "x nines" expectation became because of the cloud.
Well, isn't the entire system called nixOS?
>Arm-Qualcomm laptops [...] upstream Linux [...] minus the walled garden

You clearly never witnessed Qualcomm's MO. They're the kings of manufacturing proprietary bullshit standards paralel to the open ones, closed firmware blobs and providing next to no Linux support.

If this is what the PC future looks like, you can keep your ARM laptops, I'll gladly stick to ye' olde X86, where I can plug in a USB stick and install any OS I want without worries.
How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain
I grew up during the Cold War, so I don't know what the Young Pioneers were learning*, but we were good little capitalists, and we learned the Golden Rule:

"Whoever has the gold makes the rules"

(*maybe the ones who spent their summers at Artek were learning "whoever makes the rules has the gold"?)
Exactly. I’d like to see the ratio of maps complaints they are listening to[1] vs say “Google reader is being shut down” complaints which they ignored. I’m guessing it’s pretty low.

[1] Which purely by coincidence happen to fit their anti-dma agenda
It’s annoying that I have to open maps separately now.

You really think every annoyed user will go to some Google forum to complain about this?
Is there a guide somewhere about how someone’s supposed to create open source software without monetizing it? Or is it just the VC money that makes it not real open source?

I’ve seen this sentiment a lot, especially from OSS veterans like rich harris (who ironically now gets his paycheck from VC money). On one hand I want to complain about it too and say that people should only build open software for the love of building and sharing, but on the other hand it costs a lot of money to exist in meat space and it seems counterproductive and unfair to expect people to build software I find useful (and most likely even profit off of myself) on nights and weekends and get paid in GitHub stars.
You can play around here for fun: https://www.menards.com/main/building-materials/the-project-...

A Midwest hardware store that will show the price of a “house kit” basically. All the materials, none of the labor.

Put in 55440 as a Zip if outside the area.
Not sure if the name is so clever. For me autodafe is akin to pogrom or, at a bigger level, holocaust. Not sure i want to use tools called like that.
It's amusing. The older I grow, the more to "the left" I move.
A real place?

There’s an optics experiment I did, bloody fiddly, where a picture goes through some lenses, and there’s a plane of the frequencies, and it goes through further lenses and is projected on a screen.

By blocking out areas in the frequency plane, you can change the image. It was extremely fiddly so huge thanks to Dr Bruce Sinclair at St Andrew’s.

Physics lab work is where you get to see how things work, although if you go through the theory several months after you’ve done the lab work you’re a bit lost.
The author seems to have ignored the elephant in the room. Inflation adjusted house prices have nearly doubled in the past 30 years.[1] The median price historically seems to have been around $200k but since the 1990s has increased to $400k. As far as I can see he provides no hypothesis that could explain the change.

More than half the cost being physical construction means the physical construction costs have gone up by a lot. The libertarian in my feels obliged to notice that regulations and licensing can definitely increase all the costs of materials, electrical work, foundation building and construction in general, but that'll be mostly speculation.

[1] https://dqydj.com/historical-home-prices/
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> Currying and partial application are dualities (think of them as function introduction/function elimination), so neither subsumes the other one.

Could you say more? I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here.
This article is about the click-through data from Google though, and an URL bar is not a search engine. To the point that all modern browsers just redirect you to a search engine when you write random stuff in the url bar.
I never got the hate for Makefiles. Granted I mostly use them for simple projects, but compiling C project takes just a few lines of code (compile .c to .o, .o to executable, optionally provide some PHONY convenience utils) and is very readable and hackable. What's not to love?

I'm sure I'm missing something, and it's possible that they don't scale well, but I prefer it to any other could system for small C projects.
> However, I believe that he is actually from somewhere in the UTC+02 (winter)/UTC+03 (DST) timezone, which includes Eastern Europe (EET), but also Israel (IST)

https://rheaeve.substack.com/p/xz-backdoor-times-damned-time...
I usually don't need to write C++ when writing in JavaScript, though. Writing derivations in Nix in real world implies using the standard library and writing shell scripts for mkDerivation & co. ("domain specific" shell scripts that use stdenv)
Electro smelting of iron oxide to iron with no need for coke, or hydrogen.

But large amounts of reliable power needed for the cycle.
TIL about —link-dest option. I use pretty much the same,rsync -aH but I use it with —delete option to rsync from primary to backup storage both running ZFS with daily snapshots. This way, my backup is always a true copy of primary, and whatever was deleted is retained ed in snapshots.
Isn't it depressing how someone can make a blatantly dumb and incorrect assertion on the internet and instead of people just shaking their heads and moving in that dumb comment becomes the centre of attention and people spend all their arguing about this obviously waste of time incorrect assertion?
Mikrotik hAP ax3 or any router with RouterOS that supports wireguard natively.
Well, for now the payload delivery relies on things like x86, glibc.. still enough.
Uhh,

Skyscanner was launched in 2003 and Momondo in 2006.

Comparative search engines for flights existed long before Google trampled into the market.
Yeah, I'd attribute this to the lambda calculus, for sure.

And in the lambda calculus, it makes a ton of sense, because it allows you to break proofs into smaller chunks more easily.

But in a general-purpose programming language where the proofs are automated, I think this just makes the code less communicative of programmer intent.
> What on earth is it doing that so special where it can't resize a window?

They’re probably truly Agile!

/s
> there is a seemingly infinite supply of fiat

This is simply nonsense. If it was the case then the price of housing and stocks and any other asset would be infinite because investors would continuously pour their infinite money into anything valuable that had a finite price.

It would also stop happening if housing prices stopped going up, because investors want investments that go up.

> Only way is to property tax second homes to a very very high degree.

So now the property is owned by a corporation who rents it to the corporation's owner (or the owner's buddy). Unless you intend to do the same thing to all landlords, in which case you can expect rents to increase.

You have to build more housing. There is nothing else for it.
Having spent fair amount of time on inf.architectural position, I’d really love these tools to also adapt some sort of markup. Sequencediagram.org being perfect example (and others alike) where it takes seconds to put a diagram that otherwise takes hours to prepare. Sadly I know of no standard and lightweight markup for E/R modelling…

Mermaid is good for flowcharts, but we still lack reasonably good one for BPMN and enterprise diagrams. (BPMN.io is great but lacks its own lang)
Zero dependency Promise-based TypeScript API for sqlite3
The article were discussing claims HVAC costs are 6% for a newly built home. That's not a trivial amount.

As far as I can tell the minimum common standard in much of the US is only for heating [1].

Depending on your house layout and where you live that could be satisfied with a few portable electric radiators.

Anyway, I'm not singling out HVAC in particular, but using it as an example of something that's not strictly required, but people demand. It's death by a thousand cuts.

1. https://up.codes/s/heating-equipment-and-systems
I think a lot of this has already happened. The Ukraine/Russia war is largely a war of drones, and the cost has shifted from human lives to material costs.

Similarly Israel has lost a couple hundred soldiers in Gaza vs thousands of Palestinian soldiers. But the costs for Israel to wage war with such munitions as they use is heavy. They have a blank check from the US, but even the US soured on the cost of waging war in Afghanistan and Iraq and ultimately felt that achieving none of their objectives in both regions was better than continuing to sink money into them.

Similarly if Russia were able to overwhelm Ukraine, Ukraine could simply wait them out, continue an insurgency, until the costs of owning Ukraine becomes less worth it to Russians than the land itself. This may not exactly map 1-to-1 as Russia is not a democracy, but the point is still there
In apartments/condos, the owner association doesn't own just the common parts but the entire building and sometimes the land underneath (sometimes the land is leased). You buy shares in the association, which comes with exclusive right of use of a designated subunit of the building. But the legal entity that owns the building (including your subunit) is the association rather than yourself.

In the end, all property ownership rights are legal fictions and abstractions, even for American SFH where you pay yearly property tax to keep using the house/land that you "own".
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Thankfully at my current job, Teams is only allowed when it is requested by customers, and via the Web client, nothing else.
Note that in some places most people will consider that an “apartment” cannot be owned by definition. Otherwise it wouldn’t be an “apartment” - they would use a different name for it.
That’s what I was thinking, too: How long would it take a layman to build his own house, say from bricks. 1 year full time? Probably more. 10? Probably less. So now, if it’s done not buy a layperson but by someone specialized with big machinery and procurement channels set up, it should be much faster. Say, half a year. So why should I pay more than 2x that?

(It’s a bit like with bread these days. If I can make a Tartine league bread for $5 in my goddamn home oven, including electricity, then why should I pay $8 for a bread that is much worse at a bakery outlet that sells stuff made at economies of scale? That’s not capitalism. It’s banking on people not being able anymore to value. It’s treating buyers not as competent individuals, but as dumb herd driven consumers. That approach is clearly working. But I’m attracted to those pockets and niches where it’s not true. Like HN.)
A clever murderer will disguise the murder as an accident, suicide or natural death. It will not even show in the stats as unsolved.

I got the idea from fiction (specifically Dorothy Sayers), but the number of murders Harold Shipman committed before anyone even noticed makes it plausible that people with relevant expertise (doctors, pharmacists, cops, etc.) could easily get away with murder. If Shipman had stopped after the first 100 or so he would have.
I travel a lot for work and corporate travel booking is still in the stranglehold of Amadeus/Sabre/Travelport intermediated booking agents and they suck – there's always something or the other that's broken – seat selection is not available, price is higher than direct or offers available elsewhere, loyalty points don't get accrued, etc – and the corporate travel agent insists they have to use their clunky tool.
The real problem is airlines and hotels reservation systems need to modernize and adopt modern web protocol standards that enable direct discovery and booking via any aggregator including search engines like Google etc. But unfortunately, airlines and hotels IT systems are lagging.
I don't mean to comment on your particular situation but I would use your post to share a different experience. My own family was construction-oriented four generations ago, and it elevated us (the 3 still-to-be-born generations and the alive-at-the-time one) from poor to wealthy.

That effort by my great-grandparents was one of the definitive blessings of my life. I still invest in construction/renovation myself and take as much meaning from providing housing to others as I do from work in technology.
The article talks about imaging satellites, not navigation satellites.
I mean, this is just factually not the case.

There's a reason the government tells Meta what to allow and what not to allow on the platform. It's because an enormous percentage of Americans get their news on a Meta-owned platform
Lisp originated in 1958. We don't need any of that new-fangled 1970's stuff.
I would argue there is limited/no market for Database as a Service where the database isn’t hosted on the same cloud provider and region as your application. Egress costs way too much for that.

So you’d assume most people are already dealing with the AWS behemoth.

And if the cloud provider is providing a competing Database as a Service then it’s almost impossible to compete.
> ...can you understand how "Currying is a subset of partial application" is true?

It isn't true and i can understand why someone would make that statement. Currying and partial application both come from a functional mindset that treats functions as data, and like data also functions can be transformed.

Currying and partial application both satisfy a transformation depending on a desired context:

- Currying "widens" a function "up" (as in you don't need to know all arguments beforehand in the same context anymore)
- Partial application "narrows" a function "down" (as in arguments are contained within the context of the partially applied function)

"Currying is a subset of partial application" is true in the same sense as if "subtraction is a subset of addition". Sure, you can subtract negative values to have addition and add negative values to have subtraction, but that can't be your point, is it?

> If you take a step back and resist the urge to correct people...

Please keep it on topic.
I want to buy a hydraulic press, and then fabricate the walls for my house right from the dirt at the building site.

Like when they built The Dakota.
Rag is limited in that sense. Since the max amount of data you can send is still limited by the token amount that the LLM can process.

But if all you wanted is a search engine that's a bit easier.

The problem is often that a huge wiki installation etc will have a lot of outdated data etc. Which will still be an issue for an llm. And if you had fixed the data you might as well just search for the things you need no?
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Sure but the article asks the question about the frequency domain generally then constrains itself to Fourier transforms. Fourier has a lot of baggage from making large assumptions. Transforms like wavelet and laplace are closer to "real world" because of fewer non-physical assumptions and have actual physical implementations. It doesn't get much more real than seeing it with your own eyes.
Have you ever talked to real average people?

I would say an LLM is more intelligent than at least some people I know. And in the domain of programming, most people I know. Simply by the fact that most people don't know programming.
> But why SQLite, if you're going for vertical scaling?

From the benchmarks I’ve seen, because it’s significantly faster, specifically round trip times. This would make sense since SQLite is in-process and doesn’t need serialization[1]. Which in turn offers a second, optional advantage within reach - serial processing of operations, which is significantly easier to test, reason about, and build supporting cache layers around.

[1]: If you don’t use a Unix socket you also have networking overhead - but you said same server so I’ll leave this as a side-note since it’s extremely common to put postgres on a different machine for isolation. In fact, it’s one of the main advantages with networked dbs.
Sure, if we all had amnesia.. but we don't so we remember and reference the past and dream of a (better?) future..