skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was kinda hoping for a visualization of which numbers exists in floating point.

While I always new about

0.1 + 0.2 -> 0.30000000000000004

it was still kind of an epiphany realizing that floating point numbers don’t so much have rounding errors as they are simply discreet numbers.

You can move from one float to the next, which is a meaningfull operation on discreet numbers like integers, but not continuous numbers like rational and irrational numbers.

I also feel like that is a much more important take away from a user of floating points knowing what the mantissa is.
And there's the weakness. An emergency key that you can use means there's an emergency keyway that can be picked.

And thank goodness, too. I spoke to a locksmith a while back and he told me about some fancy import sports car with no emergency keyway and there was a child locked in, and of course the key was in the vehicle.

He did get the door open, IIRC there was a button to press to unlock, but not where his long-reach tool could easily get to. He said a cop had to watch from the other side and guide him to the button. He said it took around an hour to open.
That attitude leads directly to ageism, sexism and other discriminatory practices, and has second order effects on society which are contrary to the long term interests of capitalism - a stable consumer base with disposable income.

Fairness isn't a straightforward concept, but your conception is more naive and - I'd guess - self-serving than most. How do you feel about progressive income taxes? Under a simplistic model of fairness, flat rates seem fair, but in reality the marginal ability to pay increases, and perceived pain of paying decreases, with increased income and wealth.

Now expand that concept from the monetary domain to the time domain, and consider how fair it is for people who are particularly time poor - for non-selfish reasons - to need to spend more of their time on the job. Affordances can be made for inclusiveness and they can be fair.
Source? The long temperature graphs I've seen look quite irregular, rather than cyclical.
The answer goes through great lengths explaining why it’s just historical and everyone did it so it’s not backwards. That sounds backwards to me.
>Unpopular opinion: all entertainment does not have to be free, or approaching free

Torrentors aside, most people expect to pay for content.

They'd just prefer it be convenient and to pay for only the content they want, which...

>annoying when you have to buy the whole subscription to watch a single show, though.

...is pretty much what you're saying here.

No one wants 89 streaming subscription services to watch one show on each.
Now I'm curious, are there any cultures on earth that are fully little-endian? I know RTL languages like Hebrew and Arabic put the least-sig-digit on the right and are therefore read as little-endian, but afaik when they read them aloud they follow the Germanic approach of "Three hundreds and four and twenty", not starting from the least-sig-digit.

Also, Unicode does this crazy thing where it switches typing direction to LTR when you start Latin numerals even if you're in an RTL language, I think. I worked on an i18n project and the behavior of Unicode with RTL languages confused the hell out of me.
Here in Germany if you are buying an apartment there is a notary who actually reads the whole contract out loud. Then he checks if every party with their ID and then watches over the signatures.

No way you could buy an apartment with docusign.

Apart from that you can sign most contracts however you like or not at all if you can proof that both parties agreed to the contract e.g. by paying the invoice.
Australia is leading the world for the number of new nonsensical laws passed monthly...
If you imagine humanity as the first single celled organism of the galaxy, diversification and evolution goes hand in hand with spreading out.
How long ago was the second shot? There's a reason why Europe accelerated the start of the Booster vaccinations (third shots). Unfortunately there's still a lot of people that didn't receive their first shot willingly although it's freely available.
> Urdu takes gold. Every number from 1 to 100 has a different name

Urdu/Hindi numbers (20-99) are mostly small-digit–big-digit combos, with special combination rules. One doesn't really have to remember eighty different numbers because of the rules. Plus, the distinction between how single-digit numerals are pronounced and how these combined digits are pronounced helps avoid confusion regarding order of the digits.
Also, most humans have more fingers than the average.
I guess you found it funnier than me, but making points seemed like a huge part of that article.
> You can’t pick a lock but you can just knock the door in.

A knocked-out door has the disadvantage of being noisy and visible - random passersby may spot either the act or the result and alert the police, whereas most won't even spot the difference between someone using a legit key and a comb key.

The more time passes between the burglary and the discovery, the better for the burglar - if you're already two counties away when the police establishes local roadblocks these won't catch you, CCTV camera or ALPR records get deleted, phone tower (=which phone was logged in at a certain time in a certain area) records grow bigger and harder to sift through, potential witnesses forget details.
You are really stretching, man. The term “leader” does not really apply in this mechanism.
It depends how the DAO is structured. But a conservative setup would look exactly like an existing Corp. You answer to the CEO, the CEO answers to a board, and the board answers to the shareholders.

In an early, conservative implementation, all of that could be offline except the shareholder votes, which would be automated on chain. The board would be beholden to the chain decisions via normal lawsuits in offline courts.

In a more radical setup, the board votes could also be done in software. More radical still would force arbitration onto the chain.

What will be interesting to watch in the coming decades is to see how much of the workings of a company can be done in software on-chain.

It seems uncontroversial to say you could do shareholder votes there though… and that’s the minimum required for the scheme like this.

You will definitely be able to short this stuff on a crypto exchange.

Just like a USD short account you’d have to stake some capital, probably in BTC or ETH or something like that. And you’d have to hold enough crypto to pay your recurring short fees. And in the even of a margin call you might need to put up more capital.
I don't know his motives.

The most charitable interpretation is he believes he is seeing something that the rest of us aren't, and he is willing to nobly risk his reputation in order to warn us and, thus, protect us. He is doing us a service at great cost to himself.

That is certainly possible. I think it is more likely that he likes attention and money. This isn't an insult to him - I also like money, and sometimes, attention. For only $29.99, you may buy his new book, "Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives". The link is available in his Substack. (And presumably would have been available in his Twitter account, had Twitter not suspended it.)
Earth still has vast oceans and polar deserts which are virtually unclaimed and uninhabitable, yet still offer a more inviting environment than mars: ample water, protection from radiation, in some cases more available solar power, low-latency communication with other inhabited areas, etc. There's an opportunity to work toward the kinds of radical self-sufficiency that would be needed on Mars without leaving the planet.
Back it up on Google Drive or similar.

The document can be deleted.
Who is "they"? Why would they be scared of it? Did you buy more Ethereum after seeing this article? And if you did not see this article you would be still be buying Ethereum, but "less" right?
Be happy it's only backwards from 10 to 99.

Have you checked Malagasy? We read the numbers totally backwards although we've switched to the Latin alphabet like 200 years ago... It's sometimes so inconvenient for everyday life, especially for large amounts, that we end up counting in _French_ instead. For numbers 11 to 99, we also use casual abbreviations like (I translated) "one with two" for 21; or "seven with three" for 37, but reading large numbers from 10,000 upwards (mostly Malagasy currency) with the left-to-right writing system is tedious.
You are also forgetting that you are comparing two totally different language trees (Germanic and Slavic) … ignoring Italian for the moment.

You essentially listed German and several dialects of the same language. If you had listed several of the German language dialects that also slightly vary how they say the number in the same German format/order you would have had a list of equal if not greater number of support for the German format.

I think that may also provide a bit of a clue as to why the order/format is different since it must have happened some time after English formed from the German language, possibly when/because the British adopted the format/order of the Romans. But that's just speculation/hypothesis on my part. I suspect there are people who have a better insight into how that separation happened.
There's also the need to heat water, and that requires resistive heaters. Also, heat pumps don't really work in colder climates as the only heat source. Resistive heating is the most common way to heat spaces with electricity.
Nicely explained here:

https://youtu.be/MHXO86wKeDY
Statistics are meaningless without a rigorously examined causal model of the phenomenon under investigation. In my experience of statistics education, the art of crafting causal theories was scarcely addressed.
Nobody ever said the vaccination will stop transmission. It reduces the symptoms and hospitalisation rate (successfully).
Quick tips on how to use the Algorithm Design Manual
Ok so the high level breakdown:
1. Read and do the problems for the first half of the book. Do not rush this part of the process.
2. Skip the second half of the book when the chapters switch to being real world examples
3. Having trouble on a particular section? Watch the youtube video to get a cleaner read: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22hwcnXIGgk&list=PLOtl7M3yp-DX6ic0HGT0PUX_wiNmkWkXx
4. Don't spend too much time on NP/NP-Complete/NP-Hard topics
5. Over learn chapter 2. This is arguably the most important chapter having a deep understanding of runtime analysis helps you in every other chapter and on the interview
6. Don't spend too much time on writing proofs in Chapter 1. Understand them and be able to work through them and understand how the math comes together, but writing a specific proof isn't too valuable.
7. Sometimes the interview problems at the end of the chapter are silly. If it feels dumb, example: 1.36. How much does the ice in a hockey rink weigh? Skip it. These are older school programming interview questions and have been largely phased out

Ultimately I feel like this book is the best resource for big tech interview prep, and I want to help my students spend their time as efficiently as possible. If anyone has additional advice or feedback on how I can improve this list, I'd love to hear it.
Why do you say that? Vaccines provides some immunity not 100%. If you are not sick you cannot transmit it.
these are called twists https://harddrop.com/wiki/Twist
Both the other account and myself are quite active on GitHub. There has been a mistype maybe 5 times in 11 years.

So sorry, but no. Things have been fine. In places where the hyphen is ambiguous, I always make a point to mention it. It's never really been an issue, and the other individual has always been quite nice when the hyphen is omitted, kindly pinging me instead.

I'm not trying to defend against anything except poor attempts to paint me as somehow malicious...
I've been playing around with Rust, PyO3 and Blender the last few days and it has been really nice to use.
Lots of Spurious Correlations

https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
>That being said. I wonder how much of those kinds of complications lead to higher IQ and higher education test scoring. Simplification also dumbs down, stunts the mind.

AFAIK the net effect is that languages with complicated number representations do worse on math tests.

>Chinese Mandarin isn't quite as challenging, but they too essentially use multiplication 40 is "4 tens"

Can you say that the same about English? ie. four-ty = 4 × 10

edit: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191121-why-you-might-be...
As fast as this virus spreads, I suspect travel bans are useless. By the time you discovery an outbreak, it's already circulating in your population.
I do. I love reading fiction and got through thousands of fiction books in my teens.

My experience of it is quite different from most, as I have come to understand.

I never understood what people meant when they said "That character in the movie didn't look at all like I imagined him."

I always thought they just meant "I don't think the movie makers came up with a good version."

I did try my hand at writing fiction once, and I was boggled at how hard it was to do something like write a military skirmish. I was sketching maps and trying to work out topography and all kinds of details.

Now that I know people can visualize the scene then describe it, well... my difficulties make a lot more sense.
Garage door opener glued to the outside that uses a PIN?
Oh I see, yes I was, ok that's a lot better. Indeed there are plenty of (fee-taking) third-party solutions for that in other countries. Monzo (if not other banks) offer something similar, push vs. pull if you like (you go to my URL and pay by card to 'transfer') in the UK.

So you enter an email address/phone number for them, and they receive a (presumably one time use, pre-set amount) link to retrieve money from you. That seems good. Ceteris paribus though (i.e. if both broadly implemented) I think I'd rather the recipient have the link where you go to pay, seems a bit odd to shift the onus on to the person you owe money to action it.
What are you talking about? Of course there's a way to know their history. You think Netflix, Prime, Hulu do not have a very detailed list of activity from their sites? This person also probably did not use cash for their recent theater visits, so their ticket purchases could be found as well. If they did it through a website, then the exact movie could be found. If they did it at the ticket booth at the theater (who does this anymore?), then with some extra effort of finding the time of the transaction and then comparing to start times you could narrow down if not determine exact movie.

In the days of big data, to state that exact behaviors could not be determined is just not trying very hard.
I’ve been reading this thread. I have no idea why these people insist on using the word “leader” when it doesn’t fit. Is there some ideological reason for this?
When you look at a photograph and then look away but try to recall details, how is your memory of it encoded? Do you immediately have a verbal description of it in your head?
I think you're missing the larger picture of accruing blocks over time, and deciding what is the "canonical" largest chain.

A miner can choose which block to build on. At any given moment Bitcoin can have several competing "in progress" forks. This is why most exchanges require... 7, I think?... blocks on top of yours to consider the transaction more or less confirmed.

> And if it was an election, wouldn’t the result always be the same with largest miner always winning because they have most votes?

Yes, this is a 51% attack in Bitcoin. If you have a majority of votes, you can disregard the current chain, fork from behind, and catch up.
Alternatively, the US has not taken influenza seriously enough to more strongly recommend vaccination and reduce transmission by the unvaccinated. It is a pretty good hypothesis that the measures, like mask wearing, taken against COVID have also been effective against flu.

It is also astonishingly selfish for those who do not take measures to reduce their chance of transmitting diseases to moan about their freedoms. Freedom is fully available to you in ways that many truly unfree people cannot access. False victimhood is an ugly thing.
Absolutely. The Internet was for a short while a proxy frontier, but now it's largely "settled" at least as far as the average person is concerned.

The endless culture war shitshow is a preview of what happens when there is nothing to do and nowhere to go. Anyone with children knows what bored isolated kids are like. Adults are just grown up children; our psychology is not that different. We go fucking nuts. Our cultural and political insanity will only get worse from here on out unless there is some frontier, some unknown, some mystery somewhere.

Again I feel like I should stress that this condition is unprecedented in human history. One has always been able to walk off in some random direction and go elsewhere, and contrary to what some people think there was quite a lot of travel in the ancient world. Ötzi the ice mummy was found carrying copper tools with copper that likely came from quite far away:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ötzi#Tools_and_equipment

Edit: total tangent but: I use the term settlement instead of colonization because I think the European colonial era is kind of a bad model of what this will be like. The best model I see in history for what space migration will be like is the Polynesian settlement period.

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1586/polynesian-navigat...

SpaceX is building our equivalent of the Polynesian multi-hulled canoe.
Okay, but that would work for a BT device too. I was mostly curious why BT was seen as a bad choice and more vulnerable than another option.
I always use some random online service to do just that for making idiotic government agencies accept my digital bills.

You can also do it with Photopea albeit it's s bit harder
I mean, from outside of New Zealand that country does look like a "reverse" open-air prison, so to speak. Granted, the policies put in place have resulted in almost no covid-related deaths, but the reality it is what is, that country is very, very difficult to come back into (or to return), and because of that most of the New Zealanders looked trapped in their own country (at leats that's how it looks to a person like myself who lives more than a half a world away).
not whole arrangements, is what I meant to type.
CoTerminalApps Retro ASCII Character Games that run in a color-capable terminal
Many of those statements are about the relative numbers of infected people in hospitals.

There could be value in reducing spread due to vaccinated people (depending on how much of it there is, as you say, we don't have good surveillance of it), but there's lots of value in reducing hospitalizations, and that's what many of those statements are about.
it would be interesting if the download stopped after the second to last progressive layer but before the last byte; then the .crdownload renaming workaround wouldn't work.
> I should. I'm not too familiar with the process so far, but I'll find some time for it.

The internals forum is good for informal discussion, so start there. Posting a RFC proposal is of course the formal step for actually getting the feature included in Rust proper.
If you don't trust the code of a PoW client, how could you trust it to not simply empty your wallet as soon as you import your private key?
The switcheroo happens in every three-digit group: When you read the number 123,123,123 out loud, you say "drei(3)-und-zwanzig(20)" three times. (I've used comma as the thousand separator here.)
Here's the smoking gun graph he's hosting: http://donath.org/Photos/TempChange.PNG

This is what he's talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles

Here's a graph similar to his, hosted on German Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovi%C4%87-Zyklen#/media/...

Nobody brings it up, because scientists don't believe the observed changes in temperatures are due to Milankovitch cycles, since global warming is happening on the order of decades and not millenia.

Here's NASA's take: https://climate.nasa.gov/ask-nasa-climate/2949/why-milankovi...
Microskills
I am not aware of any.
> Cancel culture at its best. Von Braun was a Nazi. Haber was a Nazi-sympathizer (putting himself in a difficult spot, since he was Jewish) and an horrible person in general. And?

Not sure if you read the linked science article, but there is plenty of evidence that Asperger did some terrible stuff. Not surprising, given the interest in eugenics that was wide-spread at the time, but still terrible enough that yeah, we should probably stop naming things after him.

Parenthetically, if you are interested in making an argument where other people presume good faith on your behalf, avoid the term "cancel culture". Like "virtue signaling" it is a turn of phrase that strongly correlates with bad faith argumentation.

Instead of arguing around the point, go straight for it - don't say "cancel culture is bad therefore we cannot ever question the actions of people who did questionable stuff", instead face the actions directly and say "Yes. Asperger sent kids to be killed because he didn't want their parents to spend time caring for humans he saw as a drain on society, but he did all this other great stuff trying to highlight how 'autistic psychopaths' (his words) would strengthen German society, so we clearly should continue respecting him". Or whatever it is you respect about Hans, you should be able to say, "Despite all the heinous stuff he did, I respect him because of XYZ". Personally, I am all for canceling Asperger (op. cit).

When you just complain about "cancel culture" and don't address the core issue, it is intellectually lazy.

As to the central thesis here- I'm sure that there are different between neurotypical and autistic people. I'm even sure that those differences cluster. That's not the point of the linked article (or its sole source, which others have pointed out is also unsourced) and it is bad faith to argue otherwise.

The linked article claims single causes for most of the claimed observations, almost always rooted in a supposed (and incorrect) universal lack of empathy. Some autistic people behave in a way that implies a lack of empathy, but (a) not all and (b) that only means neurotypicals think they lack empathy, whether or not they do is another thing entirely.

Presenting an unsourced laundry list encourages people to presume that all autistic people are alike, and that the phenomenon is well-understood. It is reductive, and no more useful that any other "scientific" stereotype about race or gender (or zodiac sign for that matter).

On "aspie", I've seen the word used as a dismissive insult too often to consider it a label I'd appreciate applied to me. But that is kind of why I hedged it. If you want to call yourself that, go for it. I mainly wanted to highlight that it is a fraught term and that it is not universally applicable.
In some cases, the purpose is to say something in such a way that seems to have an opposite meaning to what is being said.

Here's an example, "I do not speak it in
vanity, but simply record the fact, that I was not unemployed in my
profession by the late John Jacob Astor;"

He could have instead said, "I always worked for John Jacob Astor."

For many more examples of this, read "Bartleby, The Scrivener" by Herman Melville.

https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11231/pg11231.txt
Yes, smugly mocking people's very valid concerns will surely win them over. Don't study the figures, just do as we say!
Does "mindbleach" make sense to you? I suppose you do not experience the phenomenon of having disturbing imagery "stuck in your head"?