skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a non starter to assume that virtual “synapses and neurons” behave like ours do. We barely understand how ours works.

Also, modern LLMs built on the transformers architecture no longer use the neuron-inspired perceptron style topology for most of their compute.

I’ve heard that spiking NNs are supposed to mimic organic brains more closely, but I haven’t read into them much yet.
Also this one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yxxyjDFnbb0

Don’t know if that’s the original.
You think he doesn’t know?

Everything he says is marketing for OpenAI.

Same as any other CEO with their company.
This gets to the heart of it. Humans are good at keeping a working memory, as a group or individuals, as lore.
I got it working, with intermediate layers, too. All to find that I didn’t see that material a performance benefit after taking into account how long it takes to pull from and push to the cache.
I would say that's overwhelmingly the problem.

My country's population has been in slow decline since the late 90s, with very little(~1%) change over the 20 years before the pandemic - of course plenty of people moved out, but they didn't bother to report that so that's just the official number.

Prices still went up before the 2008 crisis at the same pace as in the rest of the world and started going up in the latter part of the previous decade - exactly like in the rest of the world.

All that despite record-breaking construction.

There's no realistic explanation of this that doesn't involve treating real estate as a commodity.
I lice in a country were zoning isn't really a thing and still housing is an issue. I get that zoning is a problem that the US should fix for many reasons, but I am not convinced this is the source of high prices.

What makes housing expensive is that the people buying houses are not the people living in them, some of those buyers buy them as strategic assets and don't even rent them out immidiately like e.g. a normal house owner would. If we created restrictions on who is able to buy (or add a other regulation/taxes favouring using owners and small landlords) we could solve that problem easily. The problem is big corps buying up shit at elevated prices as a wealth storage, so there is a disconnect between housing, the commodity and real estate, the money storage.
Is systemd capable of doing this?

I thought process managers like supervisor and pm and the others had all been superseded by systemd, unless you’re in a non systemd distro of course.
Newly launched unified AI assistants open source
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The mundane answer to the philosophical question is that the frequency domain is not any less or more "real" than the time domain; they're different mathematical abstractions of change. Just like base-10 numbers are not any more or less "real" than base-2 or base-8. Carthesian coordinate locations are not any more or less "real" than polar coordinate locations. Some representations are just more convenient for specific calculations than others (mostly by simplifying specific calculations).
Programmers aren’t any better than someone who doesn’t know how to program.

Programming skill isn’t a measure of intelligence.

Go outside. Talk to real people. Touch some grass.
You can use Qubes OS for various kinds of threat model. Depending on the latter, your configuration will be wildly different.

> You don't need QubesOS to protect from known exploits

Qubes would protect you sensitive files from, e.g., XZ attack. Nothing else would AFAIK.
The common joke/fact in the nix community is the nix "triad": nix the language, nix the operating system, and nix the package manager. Sometimes it gets confusing, but usually context is enough.
LLMs can't simulate a Turing machine reliably
Exactly. If you stop seeing your house as an investment, and you own it, it doesn't matter if it's value goes down, if it goes along with the market. It even means it's easier for you to trade up.

For the poor souls that have decades of interest left to pay on a loan it's a different story, but somehow, someone has to lose something for most people to have decent housing costs.
I think of "compute" as referring to the resources for computations, rather than the computations themselves. For instance "compute-intensive" for an algorithm means that it is expensive in terms of computation resources, i.e. CPU cycles, as opposed to say I/O or network usage or something. Sometimes it refers to the actual physical hardware, sometimes to the theoretical resource of CPU time.
Flyweight: A Node.js ORM Specifically for SQLite
Ive created a local app in dart/flutter. I have clients for android and desktop with a local sqlite database for persistence. I'm oviously trying to work out the best way to sync the data, hopefully without a cloud/server. I'm not sure it's possible but I'd prefer it over running a server, maybe a manual export. It's likely I'll just have to bite the bullet and teach myself how to go down the server root.
rclone just like rsync but far away better with provider
Hope this doesn’t come across as negative, but I’m not sure why one would use rsync when dedicated solutions like restic exists that are superior in almost all aspects, except maybe raw copy performance: built-in flexible retention handling, deduplication even for partial changes, compression, encryption so you don’t have to trust the backup target and more.
tl;dr a Reddit user didn’t find a goddamned thing… but hey, apparently professional cryptographers will use partial name concatenation and backwards text as an intentionally weak cipher any random idiot — but more importantly this idiot specifically — can eventually decrypt.
Ask HN: Is there a need to make a new "Link in Bio" website?
I have an idea. To make a new "link in bio" site. It can be differentiated, of course, but should I do it?

The keyword "link in bio" is searched between 10K and 100K per month. Still, would making a new alternative bring customers?
Hmm, this mechanism can only add more bone to existing bone, right?

So how do the first bone cells know to start becoming bone?
Excellent answer and I am sure you are aware of this, but like to point out:

"Mathematically, the Fourier transform is "simply" a way of representing time signals in a certain orthogonal vectorial basis."

Not just time signals but any piecewise continuous and differentiable as well as Dirichlet integrable function. This has many applications, just a few examples from the top
of my head: image processing, solving differential equations, fast multiplication.

I'd also like to add that from a mathematical point of view these transforms are "lossless" in the sense that the transformed function has the exact same information as the original and you can get back the exact original even if all you have is the transform.

I feel this often gets lost when people approach the Fourier transform from a more engineering perspective, not at least because we often do the transform to throw away unwanted information, like certain frequency components.

In the end it really is just one of many perspectives to look at a function.
> Perhaps it was a good idea 30 years ago when we were actually building for dozens of 'unstable' variants of UNIX with a dozen compilers

It wasn't. Back then what was typically getting in your way for porting a piece of software was autotools - and fixing it was typically significantly more complicated than adjusting a well written Makefile would've been. My hate for that autocrap mainly comes from that period.
$40 a month on a dedicated box will cover you for your first million users.

No you aren't running tests because you will be locked in to aws and your cloud computing bills will eventually bankrupt you.
>It may gentrification from Americans immigrating

I don't know any western nation outside the US (i.e., Canada, UK, Aus and NZ) where that'd be the cause. Yanks don't emigrate often and in large enough amounts to effect any other nation outside a few edge cases that I assume exist in Canada/Mexico. You mostly witness that within your own borders if I'm correct, e.g., the California exodus raising Texas and mid-west prices.

For outside the US, while London is a mix of factors, the markets in the remaining nations were primarily upended by housing being seen as an investment vehicle in the late 90's by the preceding generation (boomers) and then later as a store of money by foreigners wanting to park cash offshore, predominantly Chinese nationals. Further manipulations by market players who stand to earn more the higher the price soars (banks, realtors) leaves us with a problem of house prices where no one loses, except the poor millenial buyer, the higher they go.
Advising ReFS is a little bit insane though. I would certainly not entrust it for my data either.
Spinnaker's Face Maker (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K4ovkVLp8Y) for the modern era!
Sure, but the market will/would equilibrate to a price differential for new vs. old stock. What that differential is ( and how it matches to your personal valuation) is irrelevant to the net validation decrease.
From Hanoi, it’s better than I expected. Still 1s+ for initial DNS+TLS until page load. Subsequent are expectedly better, <1s at least.
Thanks for your guidance! I now see they're (now-obviously!) things like TCP and http. I had missed their informal definition:

> Here we use the term protocol to denote a specification of the interaction patterns between different system components. [...] To give a
more concrete intuition, an informal specification of a protocol for an e-banking system may be as follows: The banking server repeatedly offers a menu with three options: (1) request a banking statement, which is sent back by the server, (2) request a payment, after which the client will send payment data, or (3) terminate the session.

I would say it's like how you use an API.
It's a straw man because both the cloud and dedicated suffer the same problem.
Let's address what is being said, rather than who is saying it. The latter doesn't turn into an interesting conversation.
Beyond Foreign Keys
Yeah a lot of the complexity that configure scripts are supposed to solve are massively reduced now. Both because there is better harmonization between platforms, and many checks in a N year old are probably no longer relevant.

So a first pass should probably be to eliminate as much checks as possible. But there will almost always be a need for a couple of build time checks/switches - should be supported by some kind of tooling.
I would say you put too much faith into military-like organization as well. However, from what I can tell it's usually just ordinary security researchers and devs with dubious morals (some are probably even former cybercriminals) that usually don't even have the need-to-know and aren't necessarily aware of every single aspect of their work. The entire thing is likely compartmentalized to hell.

You can't conjure quality from nothing (especially if it's pure patriotism/jingoism), large organizations are bound to work with mediocrities and dysfunctional processes, geniuses don't scale. (I feel like stating the obvious)
I vaguely remember using m4 to generate my website, and it worked pretty well for that.
No. The author is clearly and explicitly saying the edge does not make sense for most use cases.

The author means sqlite makes sense if you're running one machine, which is what makes most sense for most use cases.
Turkman Linux is a independent GNU/Linux distribution. It uses its own YMP (Yerli ve Milli Package) manager. Turkman Linux is a distribution originating from Turkiye. The reason for its development is to create an independent distribution using new generation technologies and to provide ease of use.
what would you do differently than the others?
Whether or not ownership is fiction does not make owning and not owning equal. There is a real personal security advantage to ownership and a real perverse incentive to renting.
Problem is that you have a wide range of makes with different syntax. It has gotten better nowadays where GNU make is available pretty much everywhere, but two decades ago you'd have a range of incompatible makes on different UNIX systems, plus a bunch of incompatible makes on Windows as each compiler would come with its own make.

Assuming you can ignore Windows you'd typically end up with two makefiles (Makefile and GNUMakefile) and a bunch of includes sharing code all make variants understand.
There are urine deflectors https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine_deflector all over Europe. Norwich in particular has a lot of them.
Hmm, I agree the non clickable Maps on Google searches is incredibly annoying.
Well for a top 10 site, it's $1000 a month dedicated or $1,000,000 a month cloud.
Yup.

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2013/12/google-gets-recursion.ht...
probably a transient signal (in the rna-protein soup) that happens during embryonic development.
I've been experimenting with concepts adjacent to this. PostgreSQL can output it's query results as a JSON so I can make it's output be exactly what the API should spit out to the client without needing to parse it first, which is pretty great if the result is huge. I just hope that PostgreSQL doesn't run into it's own bottleneck JSONifying large datasets though.
Sqlite has exactly the same backup solutions as other sql dbs and the author specifically recommends using litestream to backup.
For example, like making "link in bio" with Airtable.
You will have major availability problems on AWS.

VPS is not worse off here.
Whoops, you're right. So this isn't really evidence of anything.

Out of interest I looked up the other commit at that time of day visible in that graph, laying on the arrow. It's [1], which changes the git URL from git.tukaani.org to github.com. Of course, moving the project hosting to github was part of the attack.

[1] https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=commitdiff;h=e1b1a9d6370...
My impression from github copilot is that hallucinations are the result of certain true facts having a low likelihood and copilot giving you the most likely answer anyway.

Typically I have a certain library that does things in a very unorthodox and undocumented way and when I ask copilot for an example it gives me wonderful, totally understandable code of made up functions that I wouldnt need in the first place if the library worked that way.

I dont think that running that query multiple times would help.
>With the mortgage route, owning a house isn't beneficial until you pay it off

This is wrong. It's (financially) beneficial as soon as your equity surpasses the difference in payments between rental and buying, which is nearly immediately.
I worked at a company that heavily used M4 for generating header files and I hated it. The syntax is just awful.
AWS has major availability issues. VPS is not worse off here. If anything it is easier to debug.
I need it for humans.

99% of people are fine most of the time, but a few people keep me on edge.
What was your motivation for making a different tool?
States have spent decades if not centuries building up espionage apparatus.

All of the testing and development that goes into avoiding bugs has a tendency to run counter to the goals of secrecy or speed.

Secret, fast, well tested. Choose 2.
There‘s plenty of paradoxes or thought experiments to fry your brain on

Is there a good collection of these in one place?
I've seen a aws database segfault. Most likely due to custom aws patches.
I have never heard that name. Unfortunately the article does not seem to mention in what countries those kits were sold.

Having grown up in Germany I remember the name Kosmos. They seem to still exist. Not sure whether they were the most common / best ones. There is even a forum dedicated to the topic of electronic experimenting kits (in German): https://www.experimentierkasten-board.de/

Edit: Based on http://www.elektronik-labor.de/Lernpakete/Ebaukaesten.html I'd conclude that in the 1960s Kosmos was technically/didactically the leading one. In the 1970s probably surpassed by Philips. From the pictures I remember my friend had a Philips, the spring contact system was really good.
With autotools you get DESTDIR, --prefix and a bunch of other things that work the same across all projects. With Makefiles everybody is rolling their own thing and you never know what to expect, or frequently have to implement those things yourself.

That said, autotools, with its multiple layers of file generation, makes debugging rather annoying. And it's generally much easier to fix a broken Makefile than figuring out why autotools goes wrong.
Do you mind walking me through your setup?

Blind programmers are always so impressive with their skills and tooling. I’ve tried to adopt some stuff I’ve learned, but it’s hard and y’all make it look so easy
I would be interested in semantic analysis of the communication from the involved online personas, similar to what was done for Satoshi, to point to a cultural direction. Would also be interesting to see if there were semantic style differences over time pointing to different people acting as the personas.

Since it would be quite a lot of code that has been committed as well, would also be interesting to see if code style differences could be found pointing to more people involved than only one.
There seems to be two questions here:

Can language models read the genome? Quite possibly.

This one decoded mRNA to make better vaccines? I doubt it very much.

I have recently used Open-whisper and Faster-whisper to translate the French audio of a TV series to English subtitles. I downloaded and tried all available smal and large models on my gaming rig.

Whisper is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web.

You would think this was a simple task for todays super duper AI.

Fraidy not!!

Accuracy is poor.

If AI cannot get simple translation correct what chance do these chancers have.

This is also worrying because the W.H.O changed the definition of vaccines. So that mRNA drugs fit into that lovely vaccine window. mRNA drugs are not vaccines.

This will not be like the vaccines that we have all used for generations with great success.

‘It’s life Jim, but not as we know it’
Most web server use cases have at least an order of magnitude more reads than writes. So sqlite is a good default choice for most such use cases.

I don't know your specific use case though.
Kinda sounds like how trophy hunting actually have hidden benefits for the local community and even to the hunted species (i.e., trophy hunting for lions can generate money for lion preservation). I’m of course no expert, this is just how it was explained to me.
> It isn't true and i can understand why someone would make that statement

It is true, and you are smart enough to understand it if you stop assuming you're the only one who understands the topic. I'm specifically sticking with the wording "Currying is a subset of partial application" to make the point that you can understand what someone is trying to say even if they don't say it exactly the way you would like them to say it.

> - 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)

So you're saying that I'm "widening" the function "up" when I do:

increment = add 1
invert = div 1

...? But I'm "narrowing" the function "down" when I do:

increment = (\x -> add 1 x)
halve = (\x -> div x 2)

...?

When I curry `add` above, isn't the argument 1 contained within the context of the partially applied function?

When I partially apply `div` above, don't I no longer have to know all the arguments (i.e. I no longer need to know the denominator 2)?

It sure seems like this up/down wide/narrow wording you're fixated on isn't a particularly better descriptions of what's going on with currying and partial application.

It mean, maybe it's just my font, but the partial applications are a bit wider on my screen. ;P

> "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?

I'm not sure I understand that analogy to say it's my point.

Are you saying you would behave condescendingly toward someone who said "subtraction is a subset of addition" too?

> Please keep it on topic.

The topic skybrian started was derailed when you decided to "correct" him because you didn't make any effort to understand what he was trying to say. Your behavior is the topic now because your behavior became a problem.
> a hell of a lot of engineering has gone into AWS' load balancers and network infrastructure

Most of it hard earned, after having to deal with thousands of outlier events.

An old friend used to run the Finnish election results services' public-facing backend, and was an early AWS customer. He broke their load-balancers - twice.

Both times he got in touch with AWS support well in advance, asking to pre-scale and pre-warm the load balancers because he was expecting a major traffic surge once the results started to come in. First time around, he was confidently told that he shouldn't worry, since AWS can take on any amount of traffic.

On the election night, AWS load balancers failed to scale in time. The traffic estimates my friend had provided were indeed accurate within an order of magnitude, but AWS hadn't believed his numbers. NOBODY could have a service that legitimately required scaling from a few hundred requests per second to 2M requests per second in about one minute. Apparently their on-call engineers got burned badly that night.

Couple of years later, he approached AWS support again, with the same request. That time he was taken more seriously, and was assured that the autoscaling algorithms were now much smarter and their relevant engineering teams had prepared the ground for more rapid autoscaling needs. They were confident they didn't need to pre-scale the fleet.

The scaling wasn't still fast enough and their on-call team had to _again_ manually force their balancers to stay just ahead of the demand with the massive surges coming in waves. So much for the fine-tuned scaling algorithms.

Fast-forward to today, and AWS have a specialist "hot launch" service offering where they work with the customers up front to make sure their launches have sufficient capacity available and their perimeter load balancers properly pre-warmed to absorb these kinds of supposedly one-off situations.
Same. I guess it's on purpose? Ugly = cool or something, I'm too old
> Every added penny would go to the state and there would be no incentive to raise rents beyond their operating cost.

There would also be no incentive to be a landlord, so the units would get converted to condos, no more would be built and anyone who can't afford a down payment is homeless.

You also have rather a problem when it comes to operating costs, because when the mortgage debt is most of the value of the property, most of the rent is going to loan interest, which is a legitimate operating expense. But if they can't keep anything in excess of operating expenses then there would be no reason to pay down principal to reduce operating expenses (i.e. interest), so all the buildings would be on interest-only loans and rents would be just as high but the profits would go to the lenders.
https://kerkour.com/sqlite-for-servers is a good read if you've not seen it before