skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true, however, with the readahead cpu's usually do anyway, I don't even think it's that bad..
There is definitely a performance and capacity cost, but again, technically, that capacity cost is also present in ECC memory, that extra memory is still there, it's just not printed on the label, and instead, the stick is more expensive..

The cpu cache won't be mismatched though, since the memory controller can mask this. The performance hit will be due to the memory controller having to do the extra reads for parity.

That will be a tiny mismatch, and I wonder if the performance implication of this won't more or less be equal to the performance difference we already have between buffered and unbuffered memory (more or less the same, simply, now that "extra work", moved from inside the dimm, to the memory controller)
Yeah. I mean, technically if you walk into Adobe’s office with $1M in cash, they might make an exception, but that isn’t exactly practical.
I see his point about the "fediverse" and the potential benefits of anyone hosting their own message board, that has interoperability with other message boards, aka Mastodon.

We've seen it though, Mastodon's model is garbage, and they lost from the start. No one wants horrible Reddit style mods ego tripping over their own echo chamber. There is no future for Mastodon.

To the point of the article, the real question is if we'll see more atmosphere hosts (aka using a PDS other than Bluesky's) and more applications built on the protcol. And I think the real test will be if anyone ever builds their own relay that gets popular.

Bluesky's model is still better (more open, unbiased, harder to censor) than Mastodon/Threads/X by default, and yes it has a long way to go, but we've known that from the start.
Interesting point. For example, Web apps cannot speak BitTorrent (because Web apps are not allowed to use TCP) but they can speak WebTorrent over WebRTC and native apps can also speak WebTorrent. So in some sense a protocol that runs over WebSockets/WebRTC is superior because Web apps and native apps can speak it.
I don't think building an island is the answer. It will make it even difficult to integrate into the culture. And if you don't want to integrate into the culture, why are you there in the first place?
There's no minor and major. All releases are equivalent but the first number is bumper when the second becomes large enough, which happens every 2-3 years.
I can spell it out, if it helps. In a country with exorbitant healthcare costs, it means that leaving your job means that you (and often your family) don't get healthcare.
My son (13) and I are also using AAPS for roughly 3 years now. The app does not look styled, however after taking the initial hurdle to find our way around in the app, it is greatly appreciated. Integrates nicely with Xdrip ( anf others)
it's not that simple

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Intuitively, an overparameterized model will generalize well if the model’s representations capture the essential information necessary for the best model in the model class to perform well

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https://iclr-blogposts.github.io/2024/blog/double-descent-de...
It sounds like a lot of brain cycles for the sake of restricted form of memory management that cannot handle a simple graph structure.

We have solved memory management; you can connect your objects every which way and garbage collection can deal with it.

We should use that for 99.9..% of the code that's out there. The rest could as well be written in assembler, except that we have multiple instruction sets to target.
Now I'm looking at my hazel-olive eyes and thinking... "are they sewage-green?"

Reminds me of a car I had that was "Champagne Gold" and my buddy looked at it and and said "Nah, mate, that's metallic beige."
Since the FAQ doesn't give much information, this Stack Exchange answer[1] is more helpful, which links to a paper about liver transplant and includes this quote:

> Regeneration of the liver can be more correctly defined as compensatory hyperplasia where in the remaining liver tissue expands to meet the metabolic needs of the organism. Unlike anatomic true regeneration, the expanding liver does not regain its original gross anatomical structure.

Essentially, it's not the same kind of tissue so it won't work as well for a transplant a second time. I guess you could donate multiple non-translated parts of your liver and the remaining could compensate up to a point, but it's obviously risky and is why no doctor would accept doing a second one.

1: https://medicalsciences.stackexchange.com/a/24438
There isn't much of a difference between a router between two machines physically next to each other and a router in Kansas connecting a machine in California with a machine in Miami. The packets of data are wrapped with an address of where they are going in the header.

WebSockets are long lived socket connection designed specifically for use on the 'web'. TCP is data sent wrapped in packets that is ordered and guaranteed delivery. This causes a massive overhead cost. This is different from UDP which doesn't guarantee order and delivery. However, a packet sent over UDP might arrive tomorrow after it goes around the world a few times.

With fetch() or XMLHttpRequest, the client has to use energy and time to open a new HTTP connection while a WebSocket opens a long lived connection. When sending lots of bi directional messages it makes sense to have a WebSocket. However, a simple fetch() request is easier to develop. A developer needs to good reason to use the more complicated WebSocket.

Regardless, they both send messages using TCP which ensures the order of packets and guaranteed delivery which features have a lot to do with why TCP is the first choice.

There is UDP which is used by WebRTC which is good for information like voice or video which can have missing and unordered packets occasionally.

If two different processes on the same machine want to communicate, they can use a Unix socket. A Unix socket creates a special file (socket file) in the filesystem, which both processes can use to establish a connection and exchange data directly through the socket, not by reading and writing to the file itself. But the Unix Socket doesn't have to deal with routing data packets.

(ChatGPT says "Overall, you have a solid grasp of the concepts, and your statements are largely accurate with some minor clarifications needed.")
How does it compare to CRC64, for the purpose of detecting errors?
Not the OP but I agree with you. Synergy, as cheesy as it sounds, is a happy way to look at meaning making. The dance between friends, colleagues, families that keeps us all happy and together...

I found this essay to be supremely logical and insightful but also pessimistic from a unitary point of view.

My days now consist of finding happy people who are doing things I also think are cool. Like, pappy the Japanese pianist on TikTok. God she's so infectiously joyful. Yes it's a plug for her. Heh. Meaning making
Well, you read it like that because it's (currently at least) written like that, which is a typo...
In case you think this is just me whining: no its impacted plenty of other apps:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40591090/403-error-thats...

The fact that you can "fix" it by forging your user-agent demonstrates that its a useless policy change, and does nothing to protect users, while needlessly casting doubts on apps who comply with policies.
Seems to me that if you bully for long enough you might eventually elicit a response. I believe this war could have been avoided.

Now the next 50 years of our children has been stolen because all prosperity will now be spent on weapons. Forget about money for tackling climate change.

On the plus side, the world is too full of people anyway. If we wipe ourselves out the. Maybe nature will eventually be better off.
Yeah but language sucks at encoding the locality relations that represent a 2D picture such as a circuit diagram. Language is a fundamentally 1D concept.

And I'm baffled that HN is not picking up on that and ACTUALLY BELIEVES that you can achieve AGI with a simple language model scaled to billions of parameters.

It's as futile as trying to explain vision to a blind man using "only" a few billion words. There's simply no string of words that can create a meaningful representation in the mind of the blind man.
No, not only those, also actually legitimate web standards.
It's an interesting article, though I can't relate at all. I've had a single lens of meaning that has followed me my entire life, and it appears to conflict with the author's assumptions that meaning is always transient.
Not only fat plays a role with pizza, but also the amount of protein in it.
When having pizza we usually add protein to the carbs.
50% immediately bolus.
Other 50% spread over 3-4 hours, and let AAPS dose the insulin.
There seems to be some conflating of activitypub and mastodon here. Also perhaps a lack of distinction between mastodon.social and all other mastodon instances? There are hundreds if not thousands of individual mastodon instances each with their own hosts and admins. Then there's all the activitypub based micro blogging platforms that aren't mastodon, pleroma, diaspora, miskey etc. Finally all the wild and wonderful activitypub based not micro blogging sites like pixelfed, peertube, bookwyrm, anfora. So who's this "single leader"?
If Rosenblum can get an award for rediscovering mainframe virtualization, why not give Ousterhout an award for rediscovering SNA?

(SNA was before my time so I have no idea if Homa is similar or not.)
I took a code theory course in grad school. It was the most rigorous course I took, and for all of the 5 students it was difficult, but I'm also really glad I took it.

Reed Solomon was about two thirds of the way through the semester, and the gist is that it's based on polynomials - with enough points you can define exactly where the polynomial is - so include some extra points and that way if some get lost along the way you can recreate them.

The rest of it is how to apply that for binary data (finite fields). Which is mathematically beautiful, but where they get somewhat complex.
The other part is that companies are much more willing to hire people if they know they can get rid of them if either that person ends up sucking or business starts to fall off.

I believe it’s the case that in some places, bureaucrats can basically just say “no” if you decide to lay people off. Why would you want to hire people in the first place if there were a risk of that happening, especially if you have the option to hire people in a different country?
I built an implementation in PDP-10 assembly language a while back:

https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/src/lars/qrcode.8
Saying “mastodon has lost” is like saying gopher has lost, or personal web pages have lost, or rss has lost. You don’t need most people to be there to “win”; the best conversation isn’t the one with the most people.
Raymond Chens blog and book (The Old New Thing) is an absolute delight!
I always had a big respect for how intuitive the Windows 95 GUI is, and reading his description of the thoughts and methods behind its inception, it's no surprise that it became so good. It seems like Microsoft was extremely pragmatic and reasonable in many of their endeavors back then. It's a wonder how it degenerated into the absolute unit of sh*t that is modern Windows (even if the filesystem and kernel is arguably a lot better, everything on top seems to be developed by an army of interns)
I tried with Masto, I really did. I even self-hosted for a while. But the problem it has in my humble and not hugely technical opinion is: 1) it’s complicated (learning about why your server wasn’t federating with another was not what I needed when I just wanted to toot about my lunch), 2) there’s no (global) search, which makes it awful for discoverability, 3) the theory of portability is b/s - when I moved from self hosted to .social because of the horror of self-hosting it turns out you lose your history. Or at least it did back when I did it. So the only “portable” thing is just a small part of the package, ie not really portable at all.

The other “network effect” in play here is that there’s only one viable place for masto accounts and that’s .social - and if everyone is flocking towards a single place with a single owner then the tech being federated still fails in the face of enshittification when the instance or instance owner goes bad.

TB and CD’s points are spot on - but Masto / federation needs some serious work on the usability side before anyone approaching a “normal” (non-geek) user is going to find this a serious contender to X or any of the others.
(too late to edit, but the autoderp had its own ideas when I very deliberately tapped out "Scanjet" above.)
Claude Token Counter
This will also be an LTS (Long-Term Support) release.
Also, FYI, the majority of "errors" found by your tool are not actually errors.
Comparing it to Jonestown is ludicrous. Most of America didn't pack up and follow them out.

A more similar comparison would be the flight from MySpace or Digg. One day those places just weren't it, and everyone was talking about how much better the new place is. Some folks stayed behind, most of us moved, and some folks used it as a chance to get off the ride.

There's nothing conspiratorial here, everyone can see musk is a divisive figure. And I think everyone can see Twitter has changed. People look at blue sky and see something of the old Twitter and go, "I like it here, I should tell the people I know it's nice here."

But like Digg and MySpace, some people will stay behind, many will move, and some will use it to exit the game entirely.
However, if you dont have carb info, the alternative is to judge yourself. Your own model may be better than gpts model, though. I would use GPTs output and at least look at it on a case by case basis
"Disallowed Useragent"?

What API or web page is returning this?
Building a distributed vector database on Cloudflare's Developer Platform
Dude really doesn’t like Indians huh.

I can see why these racists come to the conclusion that all Indians speak a certain way. If they see something written with a few quirks common to Indian English they confirm their bias that all Indians speak and write that way. If they see text without that tell, their bias is still confirmed because they conclude this person must have grown up elsewhere.

For the racists at the back - language diverges over time. That’s perfectly normal. As the reader/listener it’s easier for us to make the effort to understand than it is for someone to change how they speak. If you’re ok with making an effort to understand unusual words and phrases used by Australian, Scottish, Irish, Kiwi people but you won’t do the same for Indian people, reflect on why you do that.

People from NZ change most “e” sounds to “i”, so they’d eat pincakes for breakfast for example. I find that quirk endearing. Or Australians using words like ute, jaffle etc. But somehow only white English speakers are given the benefit of the doubt when they do this? Why can’t Indians get the same thing when they’re speaking their second language?
>In general, try to use the compiler to your advantage, but make sure to check the resulting assembly. In this case eqsub emitted a perfect sequence of cmeqs and subs, but you won’t always be so lucky. Occasionally it just won’t emit what you want, even if you use intrinsics, and in those cases writing in raw assembly is an option.

I strongly disagree with such a conclusion. If you're gonna twist and bend your source code so that the compiler generates the "desired assembly" for your target architecture, you should be instead writing assembly.
Windows 10 also had a Windows 3.1 dialog in the Fonts folder (when you try to add a new font), but they fixed it in Windows 11.
I like how this author is ambivalent towards the technology. "They both are fine, whatever" feels like the right take and I wish I saw it more in computing. Programming languages? IDEs? Repo structure? Service architecture? It's always traders, it's rarely clearly a one winner. Pick one that works and say meh.
I think this is not quite correct. Social construct doesn't imply that everyone decides for themselves and all those decisions are equally valid.
Although the date is included in the article, it is located at the very bottom of the page, which is unlikely to be easily found. It reads: "Last updated: 2018-11-05"
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These two tutorials explain the error code calculations:

https://www.thonky.com/qr-code-tutorial/error-correction-cod...

https://dev.to/maxart2501/let-s-develop-a-qr-code-generator-...
THC is the primary compound in cannabis responsible for its “high”. Some plants are bred to be high in THC, but there are also those bred for CBD content, which doesn’t get you high. Both are useful in aiding sleep, though I’d say THC can be more stimulating, go for a strain labeled as indica for best results there. I’d recommend gummies (or mints/pills/etc.) as oral ingestion gives a much longer duration, otherwise it’s just a couple hours.

As you likely know, THC is illegal in many places, CBD is much more commonly available and socially accepted.
eBPF powered custom schedulers aka SCHED_EXT and the preempt RT stuff sound really nice.
Bloat. The /usr/lib64/librpm.so.8.2.0 file is 2.0 megabytes in size on OpenSUSE 15.5. Now consider that some of the still-supported devices have a total of 8 MB of flash.
> Most of these people don't even know what they're running from.

I think it's pretty obvious - Musk and Trump. (or rather Musk and pro-Musk/pro-Trump users and/or bots).
is your age < 40 or > 40?
Do computer and software engineers stamp their drawings
And reports? I’ve only seen electrical civil and mechanical drawings stamped, but that is who is involved in hydro electric.
Can you explain why this is funny? What's the joke?
Fun for racists, sure.
> If you have a deployment that can speak the languages of IMAP and SMTP and the many anti-spam tools, you are de facto part of the global email social network

It takes too much effort and time to actually have reliable email server. One mistake in config or wrong thing good luck convincing MS and Google. Even smaller players like fastmail and proton (many others) will have problems with Gmail or Outlook (Hotmail or whatever the hosted version of MA offering is called now) from time to time.

The language of anti-spam tools for any practical reason in this space is defacto unknown to you. So you don't know what is actually this language.
Science Talk – What Are Pulsar Planets? (2022)
Actually yes, what I more specifically meant was WinXP Embedded and family.
Personal websites and RSS don’t have the toxic echo-chamber walled-garden culture of Mastodon.
I consider it unconfirmed until it happens! No idea where I saw it but it was probably on twitter.
here's the link: https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/lenovo-ideapad-slim-3-14-...

I did try the Linux environment and it isn't too bad. But I don't do development on the ChromeBook. I use a desktop for that. Personally, I don't find working in noisy environments feasible. Even when I was doing my PhD I had a private office.
Of course, it was a related thought
Are the actual official Japanese words for sexual harassment and power harassment... just Japanese pronunciations / abbreviations of the English terms?
Why would women and Black men not be good authors? If you have evidence that the books nominated were chosen on something other than merit, share that, otherwise you sound like an ass by insinuating that women and Black men can't write. Not everything has to be a big culture war battle, chill out.
COBRA?
I actually live in the Japanese countryside, so let me tell you that there are two reasons why those houses are so cheap:

1. The construction quality of the average Japanese house is absolute garbage. Most likely you will need to demolish it and rebuild from scratch.

2. Outside of the big cities, Japan sucks hard. The average small city or village is just a bunch of big box stores and houses scattered everywhere. Many Japanese people want to move to the big cities just to enjoy proper services and some excitement in their lives. So if you move here I hope that you enjoy staying alone at home, because there is not much else to do.
and here, from an LWN analysis. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33538649
There is something called applied math, and there is a big gulf between applied math and pure math. This new technology has the potential of making use of much more "pure math" for applied math, unifying much of pure math, applied math, and programming. I don't really care about the RH, I care about that.
This may explain why since iOS18 my device randomly reboots (albeit only takes max 5 seconds). I am a daily user so perhaps the reboot I experience is a bug.
Everything you can think of right now has already been made in one form or another and hence learnt by LLMs, do you agree?

Or

Can you come up easily with many things that LLMs have no clue of and hence will fail?
Well, but personal websites and rss have lost, sadly. I agree with you that being mainstream is not the defining characteristic of a working system. OTOH, every "community" has a lower bound when it comes to involvement. At some point, things just die out, like FidoNet or CB radio.
He also has a lot of very strong opinions on some important topics and then when convenient he will pull that line out.
What an incredible waste of words. What is this even based on?

For a start, where I'm from, there is no marker around the age of 40 (or 35 or 45). It's the age when people are extremely busy because of career & kids.

Secondly, culture is made by a lot of people. Not so many in their early 20s, but several from late 20s to 60s.

Thirdly, it is also made for people over 40s. Not perhaps Hollywood movies but how about carnatic music? Concerts in Chennai overflow with people over 50s, and barely anyone in their 20s.

Fourthly, it just sounds like someone had their 40th birthday, felt the usual crisis, and tried to make up some idea to create meaning for themselves. Nothing wrong with it I suppose, except that it has no meaning for others.
Never heard of this letter before, but it immediately made me think of Kenneth Patchen's The Journal of Albion Moonlight. To me it's a beautiful surrealistic masterpiece, written in the early 1940s, while Hitler was still alive. Hitler is a minor character, who memorably appears in a passage where he meets Jesus. I won't spoil it for you, but it still gives me goosebumps 25 years later thinking back on it. It's not a very long passage, but I think by itself it justifies reading the whole book, and I think it's more profound than Chaplin's The Great Dictator.
Love this :)

Small, related anecdote: back in the year 2001 or so, this is in the same family of how I built websites...

The difference is I wrote in in C as Apache Modules. So, like, most people were using other people's C modules (like PHP or CGI), but once you dug deeper and you wrote your logic/site _as_ a C module, it was so much more fun (and powerful too).

I didn't have much of a templating language, so the answer to "can we change the text on this page?" was usually, "sure, just give me a few minutes to recompile the whole Apache server" :D

Fun times
Sometimes they even drop bombs from them -- on to residential blocks with families no less.
Now do it without moving the door. That's what makes this interesting. It uses the crystal, but it's not changing the crystal.