skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BCD is simply "work in base ten on a base two digital computer". What made it good is that it enforces a discipline with the same pattern of rounding errors as base ten arithmetic on pencil and paper. This was particularly attractive when computers were new and replacing "doing it by hand". Bankers were nervous about the new systems screwing everything up, and they wanted the new system to demonstrate it would produce the exact same results as the old system.

To give an illustrative example, what's 2/3 of a dollar? 66 cents or 67 cents, one or the other, choose the same one you would choose with pencil and paper. Now add 33 cents, did you "overflow" the cents and need to increment the dollars?

Yeah, you can achieve the same thing with binary by constantly checking ranges of numbers, but the difference is, BCD when you screw up your code produces errors similar to adding numbers by hand, errors recognizable by your non computer literate accountant; binary screwups will produce a different unrecognizable pattern of errors.

the way it worked was pretty straightforward, just like 4 bits is hex 0-F and 8 bits is 0x00 to 0xFF, a BCD byte is 00-99 and you just never have the patterns for A-F. This was enforced in hardware, in the CPU/ALU

in terms of multi-currency, same thing, you'll see the same familiar rounding problems as traditional pencil and paper currency changing systems.

Also the same set of issues extends to fixed point implementations of "floating point"/"decimal fraction"/"rational number" systems more common in engineering. 1/3 is a .33333.... repeating fraction; 1/5 is .2, no repeat, because 2x5=10 base 10. In binary, 1/5 is a repeating decimal, not good for comparing results, rounding, etc. And you can easily see that the same issue does apply to currency too (it was my example above with 67 cents), it's just a bit less visible because it's less common to use extended fractional amounts.
I think it's more accurate to say The Atlantic is over before Instagram is.

We've been using Instagram more than any of the other social networks. Not making a TikTok account. YouTube lost me forever with their invasive ad push. Facebook lost me with its over the top moderation and irrelevant & useless ads. My Twitter account was suspended for a SNL quote.

Instagram currently has relevant and generally well done ads, if anything. The videos are also captivating and addictive and currently not littered with ads. I think that if they put ads in the Reels, they'd drive away a lot of traffic. Right now you almost don't notice some of the ads, and the ones you do notice are generally well done. That's a big difference right there, in my opinion.

Instagram has a lot of fun educational content & accounts. TikTok seems to lack that - it's a pool of misinformation more than education in my experience.

Definitely going to disagree with The Atlantic here.
Open with a solution but be very open about its flaws, assumptions, and invite change. This is a great way to stimulate teams to start thinking.
tangentially related, https://hazel.org/
staple food
Who was banned for "making fun of Musk"?
It's called "Gemini Earn" , not "Genesis Earn", nor "Genesis Undecured Lending Platform".

Mouseprint doesnt make it "crystal clear". Especially at a company like Gemini with a history of perpetuating FDIC fraud.
Not that term for sure. Both of those women have eggs. The descriptor you're looking for seems to be "pregnant".
Try to avoid looking at any scientific/data science code then. Almost every function has 6+ arguments.
Various things like "manual to change them" that make "magic numbers" bad in regular code make them good for testing (or at least less bad, a constant for that is still what I'd usually use, but a pretty specific constant, sometimes at the unit test level - shared ones get dicey).

Agreed on the ease of having problems of using variables on both sides.
Wait, is number nine a joke or were people literally starting full on companies and then funneling billions into public policy without ever even once creating a false rumor you hooked up with your girlfriend on the roof of the student union to buy time until the tapes attached to the camera pointed at the couch outside the student government office erased itself?

(Obviously the above is a fictional story designed to raise a question about matters of public policy, and not a true story shared in a public forum... but then again, every time I try to anonymize something by changing a few details someone who'd score higher on this test than me shows up and berates me after some failed Reddit-detecting.)
> Casey Lewis, a youth-culture consultant who writes the youth-culture newsletter After School, told me over email. “They don’t want to be on it, but they feel it’s weird if they’re not.

A "youth-culture consultant" trying to predict the future? How scientific

Since this whole article is just one big hot take, here's another hot take: eponymous social media as a whole is on the way out. The only stuff anyone can put on eponymous social media is personal brand stuff (think LinkedIn), never anything actually genuine

It's impossible for people to have real engagements under eponymous social media because anything they can say could be turned against them

IG is predominantly just marketing, whether it's people showing off (like LinkedIn), pages trying to build a following with e.g. pet videos so they can make money from ads, annoying influencer "content", or actual overt ads
Because that's against of ToS. Impersonating someone.
Yeah I probably mixed it up with something on the same subject.
I am waiting for the day where someone makes a "this `this X doesn't exist`" . example outputs would be

`this coffee maker does not exist`

`this private jet does not exist`

etc etc etc
Sam's 12 Rules for Life
I’m not a lawyer so I’d suggest working with one and seeing what sort of language can protect your users now and in the future.

Encryption is an important key here, and I’d want to see source of the core app to make sure it handles all that appropriately. If I was you, I’d publish the core app as open source, and I’d sandbox apps potentially in iframes with reduced permissions & inject a message channel to talk with the main app. You could control access to any secrets on the main app this way, so users have some safety guarantees.

Basically:

Main app (secret management, styling, window management, etc)

|

|——————— msg channel <-> apps

|

|

|——————— (de)crypt <-> persist

Have the apps talk with the core and any core services via a message based event loop. Have all persistence go through a service on the core.

Apps can potentially be closed sourced safely that way.

Whatever you do, make it so third party power users can independently verify it is legit and the entire project will be much more able to stand scrutiny.
GH Skyline page says “Payment required”
Some of us are kind of dense. I did not reply to the "Why not?" reply because I could not decide if it was intentionally a question about one of the things I said, or if it was a tongue-in-cheek example of someone who only uses three words or less.

Pretend I am dense, and give me a better idea of what I didn't explain well enough, and I'm happy to oblige. Everything I say makes sense in my head but I don't always communicate it effectively.
As a solo consultant it will make sense for you to learn how to do this yourself, at least for small to mid-sized clients. There are a lot of hidden semantics and terms of art in contracts that you will need a lawyer to teach you, because the legal meaning literally cannot be devined in a plain reading. So I would advise overspending the first time to get a few hours of conversation and Q&A, and think of it as amortized later.
I fend off the "magic numbers" people with a variable with a name that describes what the magic number is for.

var expectedAccountBalance = 2500
expect(account1.balance).to eq expectedAccountBalance
expect(account1.balance).to eq account2.balance
In the article that has been cited in the link the abstract says "Science says". I wonder if the writer even knows what Science is or means? No wonder our mass media today and public discourses are filled with utter quality garbage rhetoric and discussions that are not even worthy of two minutes of reading time.
I've interacted with that account before and they were always snarky, as if their test they made is the arbiter of intelligence and that we shouldn't be so impressed by AI that to me is actually impressive.
"How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life!" – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Some of those UFO sightings are also clearly forced perspective errors. If you think a ship is larger than it is then it appears to accelerate much, much faster than it actually can, because you assume it’s farther away and for it to cross fifteen degrees of your field of view in one second it must have pulled 50 G’s. Or it was a drone sized object four hundred yards away.
"Washington Considered Dangerous"

Yep, it's pretty much nailed HN's front-page concerns.
I think rust people beat us :)
https://archive.ph/uOYqD
The problem with this is that it often isn't only 5 minutes and cheap - I used to live in NYC which had very high uber/lyft/cab density. They still "surged" to 3-4x the normal price almost every weekend evening, and it was often still hard to get a car during peak hours.

Edit: Also, valet parking is readily available in NYC, and very convenient.
"Ask HN: What happened to Fish?"

The really random ones are quite funny :)
I always thought microcode was feature that started with cyrix and pentium processors. Not once did I think it was a thing on the 8086.
Right now it does look like it attracted one or two downvotes. I did not reply to you because I didn't understand what you were asking. I thought maybe you were just being cheeky with a 'not more than three words at a time' response.
Didn't they get rid of that years ago?
But his complaint is not that he was out-cloned, in the sense of his competitors gaining a greater market share because buyers preferred their product. His complaint is that his competitor repeatedly lied to Amazon about his products and theirs, in the former case making false claims that limited his access to the market, in the latter case securing favorable product categorizations for their own devices (classifying them as electronics instead of consumer goods and paying lower seller fees as a result). In short, his competitor went behind his back to the market operator with false information around 100 times.

Now maybe he's lying abut all this and has employed such tactics himself against others, but you haven't even addressed his claims.
> What was the "inhumane" manner?

You should probably ask this of the original commenter.

I've not made any claims one way or the other about whether anything inhumane happened.
It's sad to see two things:

>Experts having total unquestioned control (and being able to veto and stop investigations)

>The state being derelict in its duty to protect children in foster care.

>In addition the psychological manipulation and neutering the kids’ sense of worth and self.
The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It
Apple compromised itself in many ways to save a buck. Hard to feel bad about the chickens coming home to roost.
So we now have apple'esc style reveal events for death machines. That's nice /s

If this thing ever gets to see action a lot of lives will be lost.
My favorite way to handle these types of situations is to contact any lawyer you trust and ask them to recommend someone. They will not only know the correct discipline for your particular scenario, but being in the industry, they’re a better judge of quality than just picking someone randomly out of a search engine.

The first time I needed a lawyer to review business paperwork, I called a local personal injury lawyer who I knew had a good reputation, and they gave me a reference to someone who barely had any marketing presence at all, but was an excellent lawyer. 10/10 would do again.
From the comments, might just start posting this everywhere:

No, OP is correct.
* You omitted hist point X.

* You misunderstand point Y.

* Here's point Z you didn't account for.
Depends on the revenue that is being generated, the complexity of OP's personal and professional situation combined and what the CPA actually is doing. $1800 by itself is meaningless. It is not always a bargain just like it could be a bargain in many cases.

Lot of CPAs just do the taxes and ensure you are doing the right way. They don't really want to/care about giving you advice on how to save more. That doesn't necessarily make them bad CPAs but it also doesn't give them the license to charge crazy numbers. For example, I had a great CPA when I was consulting solo but they wouldn't help me on how to save money pre tax. I figured out on how to do a SOlo 401K which allows almost 44K per year pre tax (this was a few years ago. limit is higher now). Of course, once I told them, they said yea not a bad idea considering my situation.

So, it depends.
And then you ask it "how many sides does triangle have?" [1] and it answers 3, then you ask it "how to calculate length of fourth side of triangle?" and it answers with calculation.

1. full transcript https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33841261
I have flown first class and private a few times. IMO international first class is the best flying experience you can get, and beats flying private by a lot (aside from the security...). By the way, I think this is also true of the "luxury" ubers - it's a much better experience than driving.
A bunch of headlines on there could totally be on HN. Love it!
You consider HN social media? I guess in a very liberal interpretation… but not by the mainstream definition.
Look at the titles, author names, and links. The model would be very confident in that output because it is so close to the mean. The model doesn't know that it is confused, instead it confidently parrots the most generic, bland continuation in can come up with.
Looks very cool. I wonder if there's anything that can't be done in Blender, or if it's primarily the constraints and simplified workflow that would make this useful to work with. Maybe the latter; there's a parallel to pixel graphic editors vs Photoshop to be made here. Sure you can use Photoshop to do 8-bit art, but some folks use the dedicated 8-bit painter tools regardless.
Strong work!
> Knock on every office door and fire anyone who does not provide significant utility to the institution.

This line in particular betrays a lack of working experience. Anybody who has worked at all in their life - even a basic highschool carwash job, knows how hard it is to appropriately identify which employees to let go in an unbiased manner. It's not as simple as knocking on a door and asking them what they do (despite Elon Musk using this method recently at Twitter)
I know it doesn't exist because there are too many titles which start with an interrogative.
Maybe slightly unrelated, but I really like the presentation, fonts and design of your website. Could you share more about that?
The only real meta is to treat everybody as an individual. Pay attention to how they react during different stages of the conversation and tailor your own behavior to make them more comfortable. Some people respond well to being asked about themselves. Other people become nervous and evasive. Pay attention to how they respond and react accordingly.

Besides that, there is no "one size fits all" approach. The only approach that works for everybody is to treat everybody like an individual with a unique personality.
"Ask HN: What happened to gloves?"

That is a title that would drag me in!
The annotation in the die photo (https://static.righto.com/images/8086-mc-overview/mc-die.jpg) seems to have a mistake - it reads "128x48" instead of 128x84 as mentioned in the text.
Oh yeah, it's pretty terrible without ad blocking. Seems like car related sites are all similarly bad when it comes to ads.
The prices have drifted up to the point where there's often not much of a difference between taxis and Uber/Lyft. Uber can even be more. But, yeah, I never really understood why the Uber strategy forced them to undercut taxis by so much when they were often a better service--especially after it became obvious to just about anyone that large-scale autonomous driving in the dense cities where the economics work best was at least a ways off.
"I have recourse on the firm"

Don't know about your firm but for our 7 figure business, I was paying a firm 6k+ just for taxes (no help with anything else, no strategy on tax savings) and they all make you sign a 0 liability thing. Ultimately, it is on YOU if you screw up your taxes and not the tax preparer. Fraud may be an exception but unless you can prove that, IRS will ultimately hold you responsible for mistakes, not the preparing firm.

I bet you are signing that fine print somewhere.
Language expressing value judgements on the quality of intelligence:

genius -> brilliance -> intelligence -> cleverness -> cunning

I think Dungeons & Dragons character sheets were insightful in prodiving separate values for 'intelligence' vs. 'wisdom' (with the former being more valuable for wizards, and the latter for clerics).

What exactly differentiates these categories is a matter of dispute, although many examples come to mind - such as, building FTX/Alameda took a lot of cleverness, though not much wisdom. Generally, wisdom implies the possession of an internal moral compass or at least incorporation of risk assessment into one's decision-making process.

Coming up with well-regarded tests for both intelligence and wisdom in individual people, however, seems to be an unsolved problem. One issue in assigning such quantitative values to people is that, as with strength and dexterity, human beings can improve these characteristics to some extent. Some will claim that the limits of character value development are genetically determined, but the reality is that most people don't spend the time and energy training themselves up to any such limit.
Forgive me, this is off the cuff and a bit meandering. This article has provoked a feeling which I have, while often thought of, never attempted to put down in concrete terms.

Contexually, whenever someone starts going on about Nazis and how it led to this undesirable outcome or another, I have begun to flash back to a book I read called Voluptuous Panic, which detailed the post-WWI era in Germany in terms of how crushed underfoot the Germans were, how devoid they were of men (who had largely been killed in the war) and how the country ended up in this mind-boggling debt, the economy was razed, and finally how the survivors were so desperate that their service economy often revolved around prostitution and degradation.

The section on child prostitution is just staggering because it indicates a kind of protracted development of the "tastes" of pedophiles run absolutely wild, given license to indulge. Other abhorrent things are discussed in the book, but that was really the lowest of the bunch. One of the Sin Cities series documentary also explores Berlin of that era, although through rose-tinted glasses.

In any case, it's rather easy to see that after being ground into the muck like that, the people were ready to embrace almost anyone who promised something more clean than what they had been subjected to. And of course someone comes along, they always will.

But we ended up doing something notionally similar after WWII: more grinding of the Germans (this time through division, sanctions, etc), who seem to be now indoctrinated with a spirit of self-abnegation, as if the Germans of today (the locally born sort, naturally) must offer themselves up as some kind of sacrifice to repent of the sins of previous generations. Why, to prevent fascism we must destroy ... almost everything? The nuclear family, the "oppression of children's sexuality," and so on. And so the whole thing is a perverse echo of the previous post-World War episode, wherein the sentiment is that almost everything must be unmade if only to prevent the mistakes of the past ... which hardly worked the last time around. And so academics make a lot of high-sounding noise about restructuring and sexuality and deconstructing things, nevermind Chesterson's fence.

I'm starting to see ghastly echoes of this sort of thing as "MAP" ("minor-attracted persons," supplanting pedophile on the euphemism treadmill) becomes an acronym I see more and more often here in the U.S., and the usual academics begin coming up with bloodless jargon describing their activities.

If I had to pick a new mortal sin, I would say that inculcating someone, or a group of people, with a kind of spirit of self-loathing, a wish to erase one's own existence to extirpate a grievance that did not originate with that person high on the list. Once you have done this, you can lead them into the basest acts; nothing is off the table. And so the almighty prevention of fascism, the new Highest Good, leads to this kind of behavior, approved and encouraged even by government and scholars, who will have largely retired or died by the time any kind of momentum for justice will gather.
If this is the average HN conversation, then HN probably has the highest quality conversations anywhere on the internet!
We do, the CPUSA is still a thing. However, back in the apex of its popularity and influence (interwar period) the people in it were killed, or intimidated, harassed, or imprisioned, over the course of the two major Red Scares.

However I was thinking in particular of people like Fred Hampton, a young progressive with an electrifying oratory style who commanded the respect and admiration of his people, advocated for anti-capitalism resistance, self-relience, self-government. The most dangerous kind of subversive: idealist in words, pragmatist in actions. He was assassinated at the peak of his popularity by the FBI on explicit orders of the top of American government.

Read the introduction of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO to get an idea of the sort of things we are talking about: intimidation, violence, imprisonment, and assassination if need be, target on people from the Black Panther Party to environmentalists.
>Let's not mention ettercap that much, it was built by people with very questionable behaviour

I mean, how far are we gonna take this type of logic, considering the foundations of statistics (eg: Chi-squared distribution) were invented by eugenicists? :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Pearson#Politics_and_euge...

At least they open sourced the code so it can be used by good people as well -- it's better to remove the RCEs and leverage them against your enemies than to keep the knowledge esoteric so that only the privileged can attack.
Whether or not a person is a hypocrite has nothing to do with the validity of their argument.
All mine has devolved to is trying to get me to watch absurd reels posts from half naked women trying to send me to an OnlyFans. Asking around to people I know they have experienced the same. I just stopped using it. It didn’t help that I realized every post on Instagram authentic or not is really just an ad. Even for people I know, it is an ad trying to sell me that their life is different than I know it is.