skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. Houses in the US are tinker-toys. They don't gave the structural strength to support a decent roof.

Where I live in Europe, roofs are usually ceramic shingles, which should easily last 50-100 years or more.

Of course, the down side of higher quality building standards is cost. Building a houses here costs a minimum of half-a-million, and quickly hits a million...
> The one thing which most leads me to believe this was an intentional backdoor? The S-boxes.

If you look at that HN discussion, you'll find a link to a Mastodon post from an Asahi Linux developer explaining that these "S-boxes" are actually an ECC calculation, and that the registers are probably cache debug registers, which allow writing directly to the cache bypassing the normal hardware ECC calculation, so you have to do the ECC calculation yourself if you don't want a hardware exception caused by an ECC mismatch on read (of course, when testing the cache, sometimes you do want to cause an ECC mismatch, to test the exception handling).
We've been a customer for long for some of out applications. It's a shame but I get their reasoning. The hosted postgresql market is getting crowded and it is difficult for a small shop to stand out.
> Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, could also be causing problems for the brand with his increasingly controversial public pronouncements.

We arrive at the real reason for this article. Lots of articles recently about Tesla’s performance. And, they all casually mention Elon’s views as a culprit. I don’t buy it. I suspect this is part of some campaign due to the events of Twitter/X.

Tesla’s performance is the result of something else. I’d like to read an article that does some investigation rather than speculation.
Previous submission from 20 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39734406
We'll see how well integrated it is. We've already seen the "gaming on arm" demos with Intel games that just work through rosetta-like translation. It may not be a big problem at all.

Especially these days if you get .net, electron and basic winapi working, that's a huge amount of office/productivity apps covered.
LOL

"We wanted to share some of the concerns we’re hearing"

First link of the concerned entity is to https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7166372... which shows some data. I haven't heard about "Mirai" (https://www.linkedin.com/company/mirai-espa-a-s-l-/) before but they describe themselves as: "Mirai is the hotelier’s partner in the common objective of maximising the potential of direct sales." which reads as an ad-driven middlemen?

Maybe if looking for a hotel on google it would be nice to actually list the hotels? And not the ads?
KB5035941: Microsoft fixes 0x80073cf2 sysprep.exe errors in Windows 10
Any strong alternatives?
If the property of "io-lessness" becomes something statically verifiable as part of dependency handling, it also seems potentially beneficial as a guard against supply-chain attacks.
Just the usual corporate whine against something that is inconvenient for them.

It's mostly ineffective in Europe but I think it's probably targeted at Americans, in order to convince them that they shouldn't push for the same things in the US.
The "dispute" was about status, not a simple ontological fact. The Roman did not grant Attila the same rank as Theodosius. Calling him "God" means that Theodosius has the highest rank possible, but Attila not.
Which google/chrome is trying to hide more and more and more? good riddance...
> might make that math (and whatever is needed to accomplish it) feel lot more worthwhile to actually-learn.

I agree. Start with small hobby projects using what you already know.

They should be things where you get immediate feedback, like graphics or sound. That makes them very fun to work and iterate on. It's addicting when you see/hear the output, make a change in a few seconds, and immediately see/hear the results of your change. That's the stuff that keeps you up all night at the computer.

You'll start hitting barriers where you need more math to get better results. Then you'll be much more motivated to start learning, and it will be easier to retain the knowledge when you actually use it in practice.

For instance, use Python to output audio samples. Start with simple sine wave tones, colored noise, and work your way up to implementing simple FIR and IIR filters to modify input audio like voice and music. Use Audacity to see the change between input and output as a spectrogram.

If you're into music, use an existing Python library to read MIDI files with songs you like. Generate audio output files for those songs. First with just sine waves for the notes, then you can start emulating digital and analog synths. Write code that takes sampled audio files and emulate different guitar sound effect pedals or tube amplifiers.
I don't believe it's intentional for the reason you mentioned. Although it could theoretically be like that for plausible deniability, Apple's reputation is definitely more valuable than one patchable backdoor of god knows how many others. But debug backdoor is still a backdoor.
I’ve never seen this issue discussed in the context of the much-reported shortage in housing units in the US. Houses are bigger while families are smaller. Thus, it might make sense for children to live at home longer. I’m people generations the kids get kicked out to make room, and also the kids were having kids of their own earlier.

Maybe there is less political and market pressure to build affordable, smaller houses because the larger house size and smaller families simply reduce the true need for additional, cheaper, smaller units.
I'm not saying they have to like it, I just wish there were consequences for overtly malicious behavior. If they want to kick and scream but ultimately do their best to comply, that's fine.

Last time they blamed their obnoxious (and illegal) GDPR consent dialogs on the regulators, now they're doing it again with the DMA.
A lot of patients do need daily care / checkups, but I haven't seen exactly what kind of people they expect to be caring for
While it might have inspired innovation, there is SPARC ADI that predates it, with Apple's PAC, Microsoft's Pluton, and ARM's MTE already being deployed on some systems.

Still looking forward to CHERI ideas to go mainstream though.

Only Intel and AMD keep messing up their attempts to hardware memory tagging, for several decades now, starting with iAPX 432.
In this particular case, I think there are at least two nose shapes close enough to π/2 that Sarasti would find them disturbing.
But wait, then we couldn't sell your data to the highest bidder. Surely you cannot be serious about us simply giving you what you want and not monetizing your view.
AWS is one of the three similarly priced vendors that people who think cloud hosting is a must would tend to push you into.
I worked in that field doing numerical many-body simulations of electron dynamics interacting with their environment in solid state devices like quantum dots, graphene, photonic waveguides & cavities , etc.

You would start from a Lagrangian formulation of the classical interaction, let's say Light-Matter, that would yield for example the Schrodinger and Maxwell equations. Following a Legendre transformation (there a post on the HN front page the other day on that) you end up with a so-called Hamilton operator from which you can derive a (huge) set of coupled differential equations which you then solve.

Here, if you wanted to increase temporal accuracy, it typically leads simply to longer calculation times.

We also tried a different approach using Feynman's path integrals and boy did that explode numerically. We optimized our programs to the point where everything was reduced to work on bits, but to no avail it was numerically unstable and the memory consumption when through the roof the longer or more accurate you wanted to make the simulation.

So, I would argue that NO, Feynman does not make it easier per se.

However, other groups made it work somehow.

As a starting point you can check that paper and it's references from the introduction section.

https://doi.org/10.1002/pssb.201000842
It's clear as in "if you know the rule you can count on it" but there is no discoverability within the tool itself. It will even say if a file has been uploaded into the chat already, giving you an impression that the file is in the chat - while it really is in your own onedrive.

I only discovered it by chance while roaming my onedrive directory.
I've never seen any research into the topic and I can't imagine you can have one, since you don't have control group.

So I will assume you are conjuring facts out of thin air.
> Because RDS forces you to deal with the AWS behemouth instead if just changing your database connect parameters.

This is one of the things I quite liked about Azure, funnily enough. They basically give you a connection string. It's not ideal, and I think for production we did something slightly different with Azure identities, but it got us going quickly, and the identities thing devops just swapped in later behind the scenes. Other than that it was just regular Postgres.
In practice it's not that easy.

For example, you might have a problem that is worth solving just for yourself alone. In that case, you might wonder if it's worth creating a web UI around it or a simple script suffices. That depends on other people being interested on it or not.

Another case could be that you want to learn more about the problem before designing the solution. Should you really create a bad solution just to get in contact with the people that have that problem?

It's usually easier when people reach out to you for help with a problem they're desperate about. Instead of you cold-emailing randomly.

That's more or less the spirit of starting just with a landing page.

What's your opinion?
A few more reasons, at least for Australia:

- The easiest land is developed first, with further expansion and in-fill occurring for land that in the past was deemed too hard or too expensive to develop on.

- Homes are larger and more complex as everyone's expectations have increased. A bedroom shared by two kids in two small beds is now two large bedrooms with queen sized beds. Second and third living areas are commonplace and much larger.

- Modern homes are typically designed to only last only ~20 years before being knocked down and rebuilt. The theory being that people in 20 years time will demand different floor plans, different house features, etc and the cost of renovating an existing structure far exceeds the cost of rebuilding at the 20 year mark.

- Homes are better engineered (for example, better insulated and with more waterproofing) but this requires more materials and labour, and is more complex, meaning more mistakes made during construction that require expensive repairs and rework.

- Old growth forest has been depleted and we've now got a materials price that better matches longer term sustainable forestry pricing (however, it's still too low).

- Public infrastructure such as roads are built to a much higher quality than the past. Open drains are replaced with buried stormwater piping. People expect MRI machines in climate controlled hospitals and larger climate controlled schools with more extra-curricular space/features.
I like how this can run atop other OSes while being self-contained. I've been increasingly desiring to have a personal computing platform that's capable of performing general computing tasks while being portable to any system I may be using. Something like this, but with a few GUI frontends optimized for different form-factors, plus a web browser, and you'd be 90% of the way there.
Default flags of compilers tend to prefer backwards compatibility over correctness and modernity. Passing flags to make the compiler behave correctly or report all errors is nothing new.
Currying wraps, partial application unwraps.
Obligatory Far Side cartoon from 38 years ago :

https://ifunny.co/picture/the-far-side-by-gary-larson-thy-pr...
Any YouTube experts out there? – Kari (rhymes with Atari)
>But normally, you won't actually see anything with your eyes closed, otherwise it would be a "closed-eye visual" (CEV) which is you only experience when you do hallucinogenic drugs (shrooms, LSD)!

I can attest you, this is wrong. When I close my
eyes I do see stuff... At the very least some geometric fractals, usually some sort of boiling visual association soup, where random images emerge from fractal Eigengrau liquid. I, willfully, got little influence on the stuff coming up. It feels like watching my brain do brain things. It's rather annoying/exhausting by the way.

I think this experience is a spectrum. It's not like you have it or you don't.
I used to wonder if imaginary numbers were "real" (in the common sense, rather than the mathematical one). This only intensified after I learnt that they're required in quantum mechanics to explain any physical behaviour at all.

Now I consider them to be just as "real" as the integers - which is not at all. Both just human-invented concepts with no fundamental physical basis.

As you point out - useful, though!
Both Apple and Google are resisting that future. Samsung seems to the only one embracing it.
Huge shout-out to depot! It works really well!
> "Most of my devices are named after entities from Neuromancer, though I'm surprised how few people I know that have read it."

As a young "hacker" way back in "ye olde days" of gaming, I played the computer game [0] which fortunately came with a paperback copy of the book at a time when I was an avid reader of sci-fi.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer_(video_game)
> Upon meeting water, sodium (explosively) releases its electron to water, lowering its energy state to a more favorable state. The extra electron in the water serves to split H2O into H+ and -OH ions. After releasing it's electron, sodium becomes sodium ion (Na+).

Something seems out of balance here. Water would form H+ and OH- ions in the absence of an additional electron. Once the donation from the sodium occurs, is it forming H+ and OH²⁻?
No, that's poor API. If it wants to generate HTML it should return it's root element.

Let's say I want to add a random face to every div with class "face". With this API have to generate ids. With an API that returns a root element it's trivial and it's not duplicating work (inserting elements into the DOM) that already exists.

Taking a selector would not be much better because it would again be duplicating work and make it harder to customize usage.

Taking a parent element for it to insert into would also be a poor API because it makes it harder to insert next to a sibling.

A good API would be one of

const face = generate()
someElem.appendChild(face);

or

const face = generate()
someElem.appendChild(face.domElement);

or

const face = generate()
someElem.appendChild(face.html()); // assumes it can render to something else too
I wasn’t sure what the package was called, so I searched for ‘suckless’, and found this, with two Makefile patches.

https://sources.debian.org/patches/suckless-tools/46-1/
Although not the same, I remember the first time I encountered the description of dynamic systems using Lagrangian mechanics and it was beautiful. It finally made sense.

Instead of doing what seemed like some mumbo-jumbo sarting from a static system, that, eventually and through convoluted ways, lead to the equations we were kind of looking for, here was a clean and logical way to look at what was relevant to the dynamics of the system, with an infaillible, straightforward, mathematical way of getting the equations of motion.

I'm not that familiar with Hamiltonian formulations, but its conservation properties could bring some important improvements to the current way the Navier-Stokes equations are treated. Conservation of linear and angular momentum, for a start, could be nice..

Now, let's see if I understand anything from this paper..
Can you elaborate on what you're getting at?

Syntax-wise it's about as similar to JSON as Erlang expressions are (i.e. superficially similar in some cases).

Semantics-wise I've personally found any superficial similarity to JSON to be actively unhelpful in understanding because of some important processing differences (e.g. paths, laziness).
I am running a 18 node SOA since 4 years with pm2 and I am very happy. Very reliable. No need for the complexity of Kubernetes or even Mesosphere DCOS back in the day. I do not even consider to change anything.
Half the medical studies are known to not be reproducible, so there’s that. I don’t see how you’d control for something people have a hard time even noticing, let alone accurately estimating.
Correct. The onus should be now be on the package delivery to provide transperant packages maybe? Maybe add the extra step of pulling instead of trusting the push from maintainers? It's just an extra step the might get more eyes. All said, even in hindsight I wouldn't have called this one out.
My New Home Server
My wife and I were on the Seychelles some time back. Our neighbor there was some 60 year old British guy. He was building a house on his land by himself, to rent out as a vacation home. He’d be working during the day and take out his kayak at sunset. He let me look over his shoulders for a bit. Said he had even done the plans for the permit himself. He said anyone can do it. And this house is on the Seychelles - high humidity, heavy thunderstorms. I’m not saying building a house is trivial technology. People can die if you do it wrong. But most of us are working with stuff that is way more complicated than that every single day. If a 60 year old dude on the Seychelles can do it by himself, a proper building company with access to machinery and materials should be able to do it for a price of months of income - not years.
It'll only take 20 manyears if you own a mansion, the average US house in 1990 cost $200k inflation adjusted dollars and that includes land cost.
Finally, is about all I have to say.

The FAA has been operating in a world that left them 25 to 50 years ago on certain medications, esp for private pilots.
state-sponsored organizations in this space could be usually military-like organizational structure that has people with dedication and motivation unlike corporate workers. command structure can mean less bureaucracy (can also mean more bureaucracy too in some ways) when it is directly aligned with their mission. national patriotism motivations mean they are more dedicated and focused than a typical corporate worker. so yeah, there would be quality differences.
Nowadays we have dozens of 'unstable' variants of Linux distributions with a two compilers, and dozens of additional scripting and managed languages.

And a couple of BSD derived ones.

As per Distrowatch statement from 2023.

"There are over 600 Linux distros and about 500 in active development"
> no one in this comment chain is confused about what currying or partial application are

I can't agree here either... I know it from my own experience when i first learned about currying and partial application.
Performance, reliability, and BBU or CacheVault.

Hardware RAID is worth the money when uptime and performance are important. I've seen good RAID cards keep a server running where native direct SATA would have brought the server down.
Yes, Nix doesn't actually ensure that the builds are deterministic. In fact it works just fine if they aren't. There are packages in nixpkgs that aren't reproducible: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aiss...
Not to brag, but there are so few things to actually feel some civic pride for in America, and business registration is one of them, so I guess we have that.

I can get an IRS EIN (tax ID), register an LLC, obtain a sales tax license (only required for selling stuff), and open a business checking account in about 2 hours in Colorado. Someone who knows what they’re doing and doesn’t spend time researching banking options could probably get it all done in 30 minutes.

Alternatively, a legal services company will do it all for you for about $500. If you have partners and want multiple shareholders, the price jumps to about $1000, but you can also do that on your own.
Since you sound like you know what you're talking about, wanna tell us what is the difference between the hamiltonian and lagrangian formulations?
KidPix. Drawing is stimulating for the mind. Of course now it can be run in the browser: https://kidpix.app/
> I don't think currying happens without you asking to, though. It happens because it happens, it's part of the language, and it's something you implicitly keep in the back of your mind every time you see a function call.

Eh, but that's my point: I want less cognitive load. Currying is another thing that I have to keep in the back of my mind, and Haskell already has way too many of those, and it's not a particularly useful thing. I've got limited space in the back of my mind for things and if I'm going to keep things in the back of my mind I want them to be useful. I mean, if your argument in favor of currying is that it saved you a few keystrokes in that example, color me unimpressed.

Maybe I'm just too stupid to understand easily, but the "simple" example you're giving is taking me a while to understand. If a junior dev on my team submitted that in a PR I'd send it back asking them to break it up into a few smaller named functions and probably not use a partial application at all. Something like "I know it's fun to be clever but let's make this easier for the next person who has to figure out what it does".

I guess what I'm saying is that for that example it seems like you're going for tersity rather than clarity for future readers of the code. If you were going for clarity you probably wouldn't write it either of the ways you've given.

And in big projects clarity is the number 1 concern[1]. In toy examples like this I can slog through and figure something like this out, but when it's 30 functions written like this, all calling each other in the most clever ways possible, nobody can figure it out.

[1] EDIT: Okay #2 after correctness perhaps. But it becomes hard to achieve correctness without clarity as a project grows.
M4 is an amazing tool and the only programming language to get quotation/evaluation right. This confuses everyone as no other language treats quotation and evaluation correctly, including all current lisp descendants.

It is essentially a lisp but hidden behind `' rather than ().
Which is meant to be balanced out by increased housing density like we see in Asian mega cities like Tokyo and Bangkok which have very affordable housing despite many many more people. By making it impractical or outright banning high density housing this is the situation you arrive at.
That depends on whether you take the "50% larger" as relative to the old size or the new size. 50% of a 2000 sq ft unit is 1000 sq ft, so a 2000 sq ft unit is 50% (of 2000 sq ft) larger than the 1000 sq ft unit. This is a less common usage but makes more sense in context, because having the size increase eat the entire cost reduction is a problem if you're trying to achieve affordability, whereas getting a 1500 sq ft unit for 3/4ths of the old price of a 1000 sq ft unit is hardly anything to complain about.
I thought it was somewhat the reverse — that the original motivation was to simulate multi-arity functions in a setting that only allows unary functions.
Another interesting generalization of the DFT is the Lomb-Scargle transformation, which doesn't require a fixed measurement interval in the time domain.

It is often used to determine the frequency of a period signal when you don't have fixed measurement interval, like in astrophysics.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/aab766 has a general introduction, and https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/timeseries/lombscargle.ht... is a nice intro to using it in the astropy library (in Python)
Different departments.