skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not your home town tho, you have no right to say what people should or should not enjoy using. And from other people's view, you are just an old person complaining the past was better.
Not sure if Excel is low code. It has a pretty full featured language behind it: VBA.
The part of the story suggesting that only the rich could afford fact checkers to understand reality is wrong because they won't know which fact checkers are good. At best, you can only hire fact checkers on the basis that they have consensus with some other fact checkers. This doesn't guarantee correctness. Most of the information we see are lies and their opposites, which are mostly lies as well.

The opposite of a lie is not necessary the truth, it could just be a different lie.
I have this script:

#!/bin/sh
set -e
curl "https://adventofcode.com/${YEAR:?}/day/${DAY:?}/input" --cookie "session=$(cat .token)"

then: YEAR=2024 DAY=1 ./aocdata
There is also a 1h video from NCommander, where he ports Doom to AIX on an RS/6000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzhCGSE7KKw

At the time also posted on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31485616

It provides a few details on the software stack, particularly also the set of compat-APIs for porting Linux applications.
Right? All of this seems like trying to solve the wrong issue. Solve VPN routing with a routing solution, solve stream collection and processing with something like Frigate. I run ML models locally on a GPU and get a notification through MQTT/HA/Tailscale to my phone when the local stray cat arrives for dinner. What else do you really need?

I don't buy the cheap storage argument, trading an upfront cost of maybe $100 for all that complexity. And you can still keep archives - and even a reasonable UI - with some off the shelf FUSE driver. Or, less janky, a cron script running rclone or whatever.

Cool project, I just don't see people migrating to it.
Every time Nikhil Suresh comes up on hackernews I look at the comments for insults and wait to see how quickly they come up on his 'compliments' page in his blog. So far all 3 of them appear to be there! I don't know how he can be this obsessive about people's responses to him while also running a consultancy.

Of course, you think if he has this much time to respond to insults he would have time to respond to my email where I said hello :(
>You might be tempted to shake your head at Birch’s confidence in humanity... (cue in global warming here)

When coming to reasons why I doubt humanity's ability to care for others, global warming is too abstract to even register on my list. War. Genocide. Child molestation. Slavery. In my book, the best thing that could ever happen to a species is for it to remain undiscovered by humans.
What I love the most is solving technical issues with ease instead of having to google forums etc. I know there are complaints about AI not solving more complex problems, but it is a game changer for daily things like fixing issues, configurations, reviewing options in a given sotutions, and quickly be able to learn a technology and its options related specifically to my case. Given the utility I can stand the occasional Ai content.
Some backends/algorithms don't natively support dynamic inserts, and require you to rebuild your index when you want to add vectors to it (Annoy and Pynndescent are the only backends that don't support it).

Hybrid search is a really cool idea though; it's not something we support at the moment, but definitely something we could investigate and add as an upcoming feature, thanks for the suggestion!
Did some development for a server application that supported RS/6000 among other platforms. AIX on RS/6000 was a nice enough Unix but, being used to Solaris, everything seems just slightly off. I think it performed slightly worse for the same price as Sparc hardware for our purposes, but some customers wanted an all IBM solution (we also supported an OS/2 client).

The main thing that stands out was a tool (smitty?) that could do system configuration and IIRC it could show you the steps to do it manually as well.
"In fact, people have actually made spatial pattern generators that allow you to input the frequency profile that you want, and get the corresponding point pattern out. It’s really quite neat, and I highly recommend reading this paper so you can see some other possible noise parameters, like anisotropy."

I had to hunt this 'custom colour' noise paper out since that link was dead. It is quite neat. Here it is on ACM in case anyone else is interested:

Point Sampling with General Noise Spectrum (2012)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2185520.2185572
I went hetzner baremetal, set up a proxmox cluster over it and then have kubernetes on top. Gives me a lot of flexibility I find.
Seriously, given the way that globally we keep exceeding worst-case predictions... no, we are not looking at 2ºC.

Very seriously, without hyperbole, without exaggeration, we are looking at twice that by the end of the century.

Forget 2º. Think 4º in the lifetime of children alive today.

Next century, we are looking at 6-7º C or more. Possibly as soon as early 22nd century, maybe sooner. We are currently heading for 10ºC increase.

https://medium.com/@samyoureyes/the-busy-workers-handbook-to...

I can't tell you in ºF. I am 57 years old and they stopped teaching that in schools before I was in primary schools where I have lived all my life (Europe and Africa).
Heh, I just checked. That's where I got stuck last year, too. I solved the first half.
Floats don't have multiplicative inverses, and the floating point operations don't give us any of the mathematical structures we expect of numbers. Floating point division already abandons algebra for the sake of usefulness.
500 shipping quote turning into non negotiable 1300 with damaged/dropped goods... tipical freight experience.
> Watson, yet again, vastly misunderstood the work of his betters while taking credit for it.

Is this regarding Rosalind Franklin's data?
I’m gonna do a side project because it’s more fun and useful to me.
Coincidentally, I just finished the final chapter of this book. I wanted to learn the fundamentals after taking an (execrable) Coursera/IBM course on Python and data science. This book was perfect.

I like this style of introducing a technical topic to a broad audience. It builds incrementally and practically. The prose is clear enough for a layman to gain a conceptual appreciation of the methods even if they skip the exercises. And while the exercises weren’t too demanding, there were many of them, always framed in real world context. For the portion of the audience who will study further, I like to think that the book’s approach towards problem solving and challenging the intuition could be helpful throughout an entire career of statistical thinking.
What I hate about AoC is the tons of bullshit about Christmas elves I have to tolerate before getting to the damn point. I mean, I understand they want to make the context entertaining, but sometimes it's like reading a Jira card written by a junior product owner!

BTW I love AoC for all else
Found answer: https://asahilinux.org/2024/10/aaa-gaming-on-asahi-linux/

FEX emulates x86 on Arm.
Wine translates Windows to Linux.
DXVK and vkd3d-proton translate DirectX to Vulkan.
All property rights absolutely depend on public infrastructure. The only thing keeping your house in your name is the legal system enforcing your right to it.
As the first figure says:

> Information here means the sequence of the amino acid residues, or other sequences related to it.

Prions do not transfer sequence information between proteins, so this is in keeping with Crick's idea.

I've always assumed that Watson understood Crick's idea perfectly well, but used the simpler formulation because it was easier to communicate, while still being mostly accurate.
I credit the C64 that I had as a kid and magazines like COMPUTE! / Compute's Gazette for my career in software. I taught myself 6510 assembler and started writing some simple demo-like things on that machine, and got hooked on the feeling of creativity that it unlocked.

Funnily enough I'd been thinking that it's about time I tried (again, as an older person) to write a game or a demo for the old 64.

It's absolutely amazing what people are able to get out of these 40+ year old machines now, and I love that there's still a vibrant scene.

In addition to the tools specified in the article, I would also recommend "retro debugger", it's an amazing tool for single stepping through code and seeing what's going on, even letting you follow the raster down the screen to see what code is executing on given scaliness.

Also, there are some really good youtubers out there helping to demystify how various games/demos work.. Martin Piper comes to mind as a good example.
Depending how deep you want to dive into this rabbit-hole:

-How Apollo flew to the Moon: https://amzn.eu/d/1QtsN1D
Covers in my opinion all aspects of the Apollo/Saturn programme, including design, technology, procedures and a lot of history as well. A must read if you are interested in such things

-Moon Lander https://amzn.eu/d/bI3wpt7
Memoire of Thomas Kelly the chief engineer for the Lunar Lander. Gives great insights of the technical and management challenges while desiging the first "true" spaceship. Highly recommendet!

-Digital Apollo: https://amzn.eu/d/0KigTU9
Focuses on software development (actually an afterthought to hardware development) for the Command Module and the Moon Lander and on the important aspect how much controll should be given to the astronauts against automatic systems. Includes a very detailed analysis of the software alarms that almost compromised the first moon landing.

-Failure Is Not An Option: https://amzn.eu/d/ix6CWnq
The memoir of the Gene Kranz, the tough, no bullshit flight controller pictured in the Apollo 13 movie. Kranz was a key player in the manned space program for decades. Here we learn that almost each moon mission had critical moments and had to be saved by the teams at mission controll and the astronauts.

Other interesting books:
-Moon Launch: https://amzn.eu/d/1Z6U5f6 on Saturn Apollo Launch Operations
-Sunburst and Apollo: https://amzn.eu/d/2ms3IW8 a personal memoire of one of the software designers for the LM computer

Hope there is something interesting for you in the list.
Because...you know...he stole the DNA discovery from Rosalind Franklin
I usually go straight to the full language. It's pretty hard to find the point when to switch from low code to something else when there is time pressure.

Same with bash vs python. People say you should switch from bash once you have more than 100 lines or so. But at this point you already have some complexity in bash which makes the switch to python non trivial. So you usually end up patching the bash script in small increments as needed. It gets messier and messier but nobody wants to/can spend the effort for a full conversion
I, for one, am looking forward to A Farewell to Arms and Zombies, inevitably coming out soon.
Awesome! Thanks for the help
The question is whether there actually was more qualitative content in those spots before AI. (AI improved this sentence of mine.)
I don't know if that is the case. Here is a low code flagship product few people have heard of: https://mathworks.com/products/simulink.html

It runs your car engine.
> Characters in Stephenson’s novel deal with this problem by subscribing to “edit streams” – human-selected news and information that can be considered trustworthy.

> The drawback is that only the wealthy can afford such bespoke services, leaving most of humanity to consume low-quality, noncurated online content.

Why would only the wealthy be able to access that? Since it doesn't actually cost anything to add another person to view such a feed, it would be extremely cheap if viewership is high.

If only there were a historical precedent where people were paid by to go out and seek good factual information which was then gathered, edited and put for sale en masse for cheap. Some might still remember this wild concept, they called them "newspapers".
Thanks, that is something to think about.

Doesn't seem to support multiple chapters on a single file (without janky stopping and starting, that is).
Forgive the dumb question... it's been ages since I've done Amiga programming in C. What behaves differently? Is the lower K of memory mapped, such that null pointer deferences cause excitement rather than simply crashing your program? Or is it something else?
Yes, the sysadmin tool was awesome. There were 2 versions: one graphical (smit) and the other text/console based (smitty). Both versions had the same capabilities.
I don’t think it’s confusing or misleading. If you’re writing hub software with a corresponding client, then being encrypted e2e between hub and client sounds accurate for the “e2e” moniker. Especially when adding the context of using untrusted servers and notification services.
No Javascript;

https://web.archive.org/web/20241127233849if_/https://www.ax...
We had

Junior x

(Vanilla) x

Senior x

Principal x

We now have added

Senior principal x
It is unfortunately not efficient compared to what you get when working with actual colleagues within a company.

Open source projects maintainers very likely have their own day jobs that are unrelated or only marginally related to the projects, have different priorities or just don't care enough. A previously important feature that has seen lots of activity may be on the shelf, but that's only known among maintainers with no public notes. You don't get to go into meetings or just send a Teams/slack message to get a quick response, let alone a casual chat at the coffee machine.

Unless you are working on prioritized features on a project like linux, VSCode or Chromium, chances are that your issues or pull requests go in the log until someone works on it months or even years later.

Speaking from real experience.
From what I'm reading in the documentation [1], it's broadly similar to AWS spot pricing. You bid the maximum that you want to pay, and get charged based on the current market price. If the market price exceeds your bid, you get kicked off - so your bid sets a ceiling on your costs.

[1]: https://spot.rackspace.com/docs/
Yeah, for sure. It's as expensive to generate the permutations as it is to do the hashing in this case!
https://archive.today/I9a2Q
Star Citizen crowdfunding passes $750M
Retool has JavaScript. This is common for low code to have full languages attached.

The point is that you can do 80% of the presentation by wiring things together and only rely on coding for the most complex tasks.
I'm not disagreeing that it's correct, I'm disagreeing that it's meaningful. Calling an LLM a "Markov model" reveals an agenda rather than an insight.
What are the best static languages + frameworks for shipping CRUD web apps?
Ah, so the future of FSD is the same as its past. It will continue to run on lies.
Those cars are purpose built for that. You can’t retrofit them easily into another car and maintain the performance. People that I’ve seen that do plaid swaps basically take the plaid and slap a different shell on it.

Also, you’re talking about >100k. V8 cars are budget in comparison.
From context, I would infer that this means they are not changing the Java language itself. It’s a feature expressed through the existing language, like as a library feature. I could be wrong though.
Your definition of "fixed" seems to be different than mine. Can't fix a broken architecture if Microsoft is not willing to replace it while also deprecating the old ways. If you want to move the goal post to "my computer is connected to the internet, so it's my fault" then sure, whatever. I still think that Microsoft didn't fix the issues at hand, and kerberoast problems and NTLM problems alone are beyond human knowability. That's why they are so feasible as an attack surface, especially on Azure with its cross-tenant problems, which kind of implies that Microsoft themselves cannot manage NTLM correctly.

I'll just leave this here, a month old (Oct 2024) because you seem to critize my old examples [1]. You can also google for "malware NTLM relay attack" and you'll find plenty of other examples.

PS: I also want to add that I won't collect 100s of CVEs for some random person online. I got better things to do than to convince people to ditch Windows. If you want a dossier and analysis, pay us and we'll make a contract for it.

If you want a better vulnerability database, we'll have that available as a product :)

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/exploit-relea...
I am not an expert in the particular application domain of that article; but I can see why their argument of pre training might be valid. It is not especially controversial to say that pre training neural nets improves few shot learning performance. And I suspect there is an inflection point for every problem where pre trained neural nets yield better few shot learning performance than less data hungry approaches - such as hand crafted features or strong priors.

That being said, it seems that the question here is whether that inflection point has been reached in this case.
UK counter-terrorism unit demands Steam withdraw controversial shooter from sale
Here's the full list, base64-encoded (since HN doesn't support spoilers...)

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...well that makes a lot more sense now. Flashing back to my undergrad biology class, I honestly never understood what was so important about the "central dogma" or why it was so important to spend so much time on. Now, reading its origin story, it is immediately apparent why it's interesting and such an important feature of life to understand. (Tangent: anyone who complained about mRNA vaccines "corrupting your DNA" fell afoul of exactly what the central dogma is about.)

More broadly, it is fascinating to see how often this happens. So many ideas that are spread or taught in their "modern form" are trite or difficult or just disconnected. And then you see them in their original place, often in the original discoverer's words... and it's immediately obvious what they really mean and why they're so important. (Another example: Einstein's (special) theory of relativity. Read his original papers! They're short and explain everything!) I'd suggest the solution is just reading more primary source material, but unfortunately the opposite is also true: plenty of stuff is illegible in its original form, too. (Maxwell's formulation of Maxwell's equations comes to mind here.)
Remarkable. Bought, sold within 2 weeks. Really underwhelmed
This is neat! It reminded me of this project by cheeaun that enables one to create a visual timeline based on a simple texted based format. The purpose was to plot one's life events in a visual way.

https://github.com/cheeaun/life

Sample file (from the repository):

@USERNAME's life
===============

- 24/02/1955 Born
- ~1968 Summer job
- 03/1976 Built a computer
- 01/04/1976 Started a company
- 04/1976-2011 Whole bunch of interesting events
The definition is that it is the additive identity for the field; eg x + a = x no matter what value x takes and what field you are considering. This must be unique; suppose a and b are both additive identities for a field, then b + a = b and a + b = a, but commutativity gives us a + b = b + a, resulting in a = b.

The reason the additive identity cannot have a multiplicative inverse is likewise fairly straightforward: once again using `a` as our additive identity we have y.(x+a) = y.x for all x, y in our field; distributing on the LHS gives y.x + y.a = y.x for all x, y in our field; subtracting y.x from both sides finally gives us y.a = 0 for all y in our field.

You would need to relax one or more of the field axioms to have a structure in which the additive identity can have a multiplicative inverse. I'm not aware of any algebraic structure of particular interest that would allow a multiplicative inverse of the additive identity, but in general if you're interested in reading more on this sort of thing I'd recommend reading about rings, commutative rings, and division algebras.
I got stuck when he said he wrote a lambda function for the no-code project. How did a lambda function get categorized as no-code? </snark>

(I think I'm aligning with his point in the article. No-code really does not offer much long term. And, IMHO, no-code will never truly be no-code, so why not start with "Yes! to code!" and build from there)
This is extremely common in these discussions. Most humans are not that good at reasoning themselves and fall for the same kind of fallacies over and over because of the way they were brought up (their training data so to speak). And yet they somehow think they can argue why or why not LLMs should be able to do the same. If anything, the current limits of these morels show the limits of human cognition which is spread throughout the internet - because this is literally what they learned from. I believe once we achieve a more independent learning (like we've seen glimpses of in the MuZero paper) these models will blow human intelligence out of the water.
Even when I was in large companies with over 10K employees, there were times due to internal politics I could not interact with more experienced folks. Truth be told, the difference between fresh graduates and seasoned people... is the more experienced people learned from the school of hard knocks.

Most of which can be distilled into: Don't follow fads, the latest shiny tech; they will only break your heart and maybe ruin your career. You want to deliver a quality product that just works, never breaks down, and if it does it is easily diagnosed.

What that means is (a) use software from vendors you can trust and have actual live support (this means they are usually expensive) (b) KISS. In a small shop you will be responsible for everything. You want as few moving parts as possible. You especially want to avoid all custom integrations; they suck. If software B doesn't offer an out of the box connector to software A which your company already is using. They are immediately ruled out. (c) never trust a salesman/saleswoman. Before you sign any contract, you want to try it out as proof of concept. Just because they say they have an out of the box connector, for example, does it actually sync the fields you want? Verify it works before signing any contract. If the salesman doesn't like it, tell them good bye.
the rescue included brute force as well as strategy. they had to run all their pumps just to keep the water levels near the entrance from rising too high for the rescue operation. they were basically fighting against the ever rising water levels just to keep them steady.
Gosh this takes me back to my EEE degree. Very difficult to understand at first, way to abstract if you have not seen the electromagnetic phenomena play out in real life and you are not well versed in engineering mathematics.
https://archive.today/wLcYD