skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would wager that it will eventually be able to do math and logic, and may already be able to with the right prompting. It can follow instructions quite well, and multi step problems can be solved by breaking the problem into small digestible steps, and having it write out each step, just the same as humans do. If it can't do this yet, it's likely just that it doesn't have enough parameters yet. But I don't see why this couldn't be achieved with fine tuning.

But ultimately I think it's just too computationally heavy to do math, remember obscure facts, or track rapidly changing data, with an LLM, and it's far more efficient to pass it off to a piece of specialized software, just the same as humans do.
i upvoted, love the reference to os/language disconnect. But is it historically true that we must remove layers to build greater things?
Purely out of my righteous indignation, I hereby BOYCOTT the Moderna vaccine—Nay not just their vaccine but ALL vaccines! This, because of their outrageous corporate price gouging practices.
Yep that’s the reason.
Disappointing that it says congrats instead of nice.
Deploying services on non-standard ports has often been dismissed as security through obscurity, but this is just one example where defense in depth can provide protection even when other best practices are also followed. App-layer scanning across all ports would be substantially more complicated than just standard ports, and additional measures like port knocking could provide even better protection.

WireGuard does really well here, where an authentication failure is indistinguishable from no WireGuard service at all.
One thing that is worth keeping in mind is that the end result can end up still being right.

Academic Fortran is horrible but it's also (hopefully) maintained by people who know what they're looking for — egregious errors are like errors, things like "this is constant when it shouldn't be" sounds more like a modelling assumption.

People got relatively good climate (well, temperature) estimates from the 80s (if you input the right CO2 data for the future), but I'd image the modern ones more subtle predictions could be quite wobbly (i.e. people complain about them having way too many parameters but I'd imagine many of these are for specific "tasks" rather than massively dominating the overall model)
Same for Puerto Rico. Solar tech makes more sense every year for everyone, but places with bad utilities + more sunlight have a lower threshold.
Are there no direct Tether/USDC pairing anywhere?
There can be different target audiences:

Prompt:
Pretend to be a person with IQ of 200. You are explaining to a person with IQ of 200. Why does it rain?

ChatGPT:
Rain occurs as a result of the earth's atmosphere and the process of evaporation and condensation. When the sun's energy heats up the surface of the earth, water evaporates from the surface, such as from bodies of water or plants. This water vapor rises and cools as it rises, forming clouds. Eventually, the water droplets within the clouds become heavy enough to fall back to the earth as precipitation, specifically as rain. This process is known as the water cycle and is essential for maintaining the balance of water on our planet.
> Spend is loss.

Incorrect from a definition perspective:

spend = expenditure

loss = revenue - expenditure, where expenditure > revenue

If I spent $10 to make & market a fancy x-mas box, but only sold it for $5, I didn't lose $10. I lost $5 ($5 - $10 = -$5).

To get to a net income loss of $550 mil from a revenue of $590 mil:

Net income = Revenue - expenditure

-550 mil = 590 mil - expenditure

expenditure = 590 mil + 550 mil = 1.14 bil

The initial ratio from jsnell is correct: They spent $2 to bring in $1. They lost $1 to expenses to bring in $1.
You're right, but my intention was to tackle unfounded nervousness, not to draft a technical document explaining all the ins and outs of keypair cryptography.
I wonder who found this out on Nov 8, 2022.
They do this in Israel too. The solar powered hot water heaters work wonderfully.

However now with many more highrises being built they no longer are as popular and we are forced to use electric heaters.
As far as I can tell, reading the spec, you're totally wrong. Specifically, I believe that it is not true that every time the computer compares two strings that it needs to compare length. Whether or not any string or strings is/are "interned" is completely implementation-dependant.

To elaborate, you could make a compliant EcmaScript interpreter wherein ALL strings, as they are constructed, are compared (presumably by hashing) against a global list of all already-constructed strings, and if the new string already existed, the in-memory representation of the string is a reference to the One True Instance of that string, such that equality comparison can always done by reference equality. Every string construction is slow, and every string comparison is constant time. Would this be smart, no. But it is consistent with the semantics that the ES spec puts on strings, which is that they are not arrays, they are primitive immutable sequences of codepoints.

You could also, as you perhaps are suggesting in your first parenthetical aside, implement a compliant ES interpreter where the characters of a string are not stored in contiguous memory, being perhaps stored in some kind of complicated tree or linked lits or something. I cannot see any upside to that one. Well, I guess on very particular types of data you could save a lot of space, but wow that would be atypical.

More broadly, and more of a subjective opinion, I think you're completely making the case of the top-level commenter. If someone comes into a language assuming that they know which values are values and which are references, they're going to make a lot of errors. They're going to misunderstand what equality checking does, they're going to unnecessarily make defensive copies of immutable values to avoid aliasing problems, they're going to try to mutate things, etc.
To be honest I think I managed to confuse myself. But that's because I think everyone is conflating everything in this case.

Some people seem to think the OGL is the "blood" of these third party companies, without which their business model doesn't exist. Surprisingly -- but I have trouble believing this -- some think OGL-licensed games are at risk even if they are unrelated to the D&D franchise and its gameplay mechanics (I hope this is just a misunderstanding!).

But let's say this is just legalese. Does it seem wise to let your core product be sold under contractual terms defined by your direct business competitor, which by their own admission has no interest in "funding the competition"? (they've been quoted saying this).
That’s like the second most annoying thing people do around here. The most annoying thing is…

Just kidding :)

I think it is because it feels at least vaguely like contributing, but also allows the poster to show off a bit by claiming some deeper knowledge/better tool or something like that.

I dunno. The threaded nature of the conversations means that it just forms its own tangent. It might steal a little oxygen from the on-topic conversation, but it seems mostly harmless otherwise.

On good old fashioned phpBB style boards this sort of thing would never happen, because…
I'm sure FTX looked great on paper before it all blew up
To be fair, from looking at the available datasets of different countries, it seems that weather data tends to be the one requiring business-level licensing. There are exceptions like Norway's Met (https://api.met.no/) and US' NOAA (too many to list), but unfortunately the usual answer for "weather data?" is "pay first".
It's because Fortran is cooler than C++
Because at that point, they are a bank. Nothing fancier, nothing further, a bank. They aren't going to be a better bank than the bank at which they deposit the real money, so what do they do instead? Just say that they're totally not a bank, not at all, and that's why they don't need to do any of the fancy paperwork or background checks or meet minimum reserve requirements, because those are things that banks are required to do, and they're definitely not a "bank".

So now there's a business where the only way to make money is to break the regulations that exist to stop banks from doing exactly what they're doing. It's in the cryptocurrency environment, where the entire culture is made up of scammers, chumps, and chumps who aspire to be scammers. And in that environment, there's a big pile of money that could be transferred out without any oversight at all.

At that point, it isn't just that people "become greedy", but that every single aspect of the situation is aligned to select greedy people and create a situation that rewards theft.
> What keeps the software alive are the programmers who have an accurate mental model (theory) of how it is built and works. That mental model can only be learned by having worked on the project while it grew or by working alongside somebody who did, who can help you absorb the theory.

That's the easiest way to learn it, but it's not the only way. After a while, it even becomes fun to read through other projects (some of your dependencies, e.g.) to see how easy it is to develop this 'theory' (even if it is fleeting; in the case of dependencies, you'll at least keep a rough idea of the cost of that dependency, relative to it's value)
Dude. For some reason I stopped reading this at the "I, myself" and was like WTF!?

Happy I'm not alone LOL
It really doesn't matter for the interesting things happening in Crypto. Bitcoiners are fine with the price changing. Web3 and other utility including cheap and fast value transactions (think Lightning and Cardano) will continue to focus on the tech and adoption. Sure some will be discouraged from using something volatile for payments but this will show something volatile is better than a failing "stablecoin".

So I won't even say the sooner the better. I don't know what the best timing is. No matter the timing it will help some and hurt others. That's what happened in the 2008 bailouts.
Common sense isn't so common on the Internet... So many comments repeating this pleasant fiction told to students in drivers' ed to set a good baseline, seemingly because people want to believe in the just world fallacy.

Legally yes, you want to be damn sure you leave plenty room in front of you, regardless of how people cut in, because if you rear end someone it will most likely be considered your fault, regardless of the circumstances, especially if you don't have a dash cam. This goes doubly if you're driving a heavy vehicle with a longer stopping distance.

But there are plenty of cases where it can certainly be the fault (morally, and legally if you can prove it) of the person who gets rear ended - intentionally "brake checking", insurance fraud "boxing", changing lanes from a stopped lane into a moving lane, or changing lanes with insufficient room behind you and then braking hard (as we seem to have here).
> Honestly, they shouldn’t be allowed to advertise to teens at all

That line of thinking went out the window when old Ronnie boy was elected into office. And God bless him too. Where would we be without G.I. Joe, He-man, Transformers, Care Bears, and My Little Pony?
I agree with the sibling comment that there is nothing in the spec saying whether or not strings are interned, and commend the reference there.

Also, you probably meant the === operator, because discussing the == operator is a whole extra bag of worms.
i feel like blog posts, like those on substack, medium, etc., are so low-quality that i barely make it a sentence or two before abandoning them.

in theory a site like HN should pre-filter them for me so that i'll only see stuff i'm likely to like, but mostly does not work.

i generally like professional, paid work that has been edited -- fact-checked, etc. -- it's just a lot more likely i will like that work because the quality is generally much higher. but you sacrifice a lot, namely, instead of getting the raw viewpoint of the author, you get viewpoint of the publication owner.

i'd guess the solution is manifold, but prob includes publicly-funded authorship.
Paint.net 5.0 is now available
Maybe I haven't found the right thing yet, but I have never had any job or business that had a bigger impact on my quality of life than where I live does. I will never move for a job or business unless I truly can't make enough to survive where I'm living.
My biggest gripe with web components is an inability to sandbox them. That forces me to put reusable "components" within iframes for security reasons.

That said, generally speaking, web standards really suck at offering sandboxing capabilities for third party integrations.
Founded by the guy who used to to head up Google Ads engineering (Sridhar Ramaswamy).

I know some might jump to conclusions just from that, but this EconTalk appearance by Ramaswamy goes into his motivations. He sounded like he had soured on the entire free-with-Ads model.

https://www.econtalk.org/sridhar-ramaswamy-on-google-search-...
What value do you place on a delivered dose of vaccine?

Because the recipient profits the amount you get if you subtract the price of purchase and administration from that value.

So like say the value is $100. When the vaccine was $26, the recipient and government got about $74 of value for each shot delivered and Moderna got $26 minus the cost of developing and producing the vaccine. Who's getting most of the value there?

If you don't think the vaccine provides $100 of value, then the controversy here is that they've priced it outside of the range where it will do any good. Of course sensible parties like insurance companies know the value is much more than $100 and will pay for it.
My energy prices quadrupled thanks to Putin but at least the system has a 99.99% reliability.
writing programs for old game consoles,

Oh yeah, like the Intellivision.

particularly the Nintendo DS.

Oh come on, the DS ain't that old.
On balance, is it moderating the temperature? Between acid rain killing vegetation coral reefs, is sulfur in the atmosphere a net positive?
Yes, that's very important. I made the mistake of taking a job where they were into full blown "planning poker" nonsense. It was hell. "Is this a 2 or a 3?" The discussion could go on for ages. "This can't be an 8! Can we break down this into a 5 and a 3 point ticket?" No estimate was allowed to be an 8. I better stop, since I'm having flashbacks...
Maybe used cells out of a crashed Nissan Leaf?

For new cells, probably the best option is to try and find a good deal on LFP cells, though in the U.S. at least they tend to be really overpriced. A BMS will be needed too.
Datacenter mode - ~11yrs in the making - nice find
You're probably correct if you don't consider Southern Europe and Eastern Germany to be developed.
These people are dangerous and the ones I watch for the most. I see them as a somewhat dark manifestation of the "Peter Principle". They are charismatic people full of ambition who want to climb the corporate ladder but lack the skills, leadership ability, and knowledge to actually do so based on merit. Some common behavior I have observed, 1) they never deliver bad news to leadership and are willing to lie or misrepresent to achieve this 2) they never will be responsible for the failing project (which they've caused to fail) and will immediately find a way to move to another project 3) they take credit for all successes regardless of their involvement in those successes 4) over represent their own contributions and constantly talk how busy they are and how little work everyone else is doing.

Combining the above they will move from project to project and position to position once a year or sometimes two years leaving the team or some poor soul who was recently promoted to take over their mess. Then when the project continues to fail they can shake their head to their boss and say, "Everything was on track when I left project. They must have really gone away from the original design for this to happen."
There was a building at Texas A&M's campus that was covered in maroon lava rock when I arrived. The heat and cold cycling caused the epoxy to lose it's grip and the rocks slowly fell one by one. You couldn't really blame the architect, as he was a UT graduate and had the undoubted hindrance of a low IQ. It was suspicious though, that the epoxy would be burnt orange...
I as a manager join the stand up, and I offer to the team the things I am working on and the blockers I am dealing with, just like everyone else in the standup. Maybe it makes more sense for me because as a manager I have a little bit of dev work that happens as well which is maybe just a culture thing at my work place. I can see how it would be detrimental to join standup and be seen as an auditor of all the things that the team is working on.
How is that exposure material for a typical holder given the supposed "velocity of crypto"?

Or did mean that the implied trade is direct USDT -> USDC?

P.S. Genuine question; I don't dabble in crypto.
Maybe you should be more discerning about what MAGA crazed conspiracy theorist weirdos you read, and what MAGA crazed conspiracy theories you spread.
Many modern microcontrollers have programmable fuses for security reasons.
> Can we say the same thing about social media companies?

Gotta be "good" to be a "public good."
LISP was the introductory computer class language at MIT for nearly 40 years. The faculty felt it exhibited the important elements of programming and algorithms. Some students complained they wanted something more practical for getting a job. It appears the newer faculty replaced it with Python.
I’m formally trained in this subject and I find parts of replies to you as correct, while most are just outrageous.

First, you should define your goal. Do you want to be generally fit, or do you just want larger biceps? Can’t force you to be well-rounded and ask you to change your perception of beauty, so if you just wanted bigger biceps then go ahead and just do curls. Be warned though: other fit people are going to notice the imbalance in your body such as skinny legs, underdeveloped forearms, bad upper body posture, etcetera; and even your perception of beauty will change as you progress, so I strongly suggest that you do not train for just one muscle.

If you go for general fitness, start with the most basic compound lifts: barbell bench presses, either squat or deadlift, and then barbell rows (funny how no one mentioned this exercise, lol). These are the most essential movements involving the largest and most essential muscle groups that are used in any other exercise. And note how I speak of muscle groups — in order to perform a muscle contraction, you’re actually not just using a single muscle. You have prime mover muscles, and others are stabilizers, and you want to train the whole group by doing exercises in full-range of motion so that they are all developed, because that will keep you safe from injury when doing more challenging exercises with them.

If you want to know more about the whys, the subject that you want to study is called exercise physiology.
This doesn’t even strike me as a good example. In management consulting, flying out to a customer site from Monday to Thursday is the norm. I’ve heard plenty of criticism about McKinsey. I’ve never heard anyone say they don’t work hard.

In fact, that way of life might mean you work more hours if anything. If you live in Miami and work four days a week in NYC, you are likely working very long days. You are not near your friends or family or your chores… that could be four days devoted exclusively to work, say 12-14 hours a day, followed by a Friday working remotely. I can see why a salesperson might need to be in person 4 days a week. But I have a hard time imagining that five days is necessary. VP of Sales has plenty of administrative work to do, and many meetings can be over the phone anyway.

To call this employee “half time” is insane.
The problem was that it was made useless. If you ask random people to teach your chatbot, you are at the mercy of those random people. Sure, MS could have left it on, and no one would use it except for two groups: actual neoNazis, and people who think a Nazi chatbot is funny. The mistake MS made was they forgot that people suck, or, at least, enough people suck that what they did was a bad idea.
>seem

That's the problem with USB cables. They all seem to work when you don't look too closely.
You assume tether will allow redemption of $1 USD for each 1 tether it receives. I believe tether makes no such guarantee you can actually redeem USD for your tethers.
I had the same confusion and re-read the article. Best I can understand, what they're trying to say is that it could be used without a build step in the sense that you could just manipulate the database's AST-like structure directly instead of compiling code, and it would be basically incrementally "compiling" each unit as you edit instead of interpreting a code file. But of course that's not a very ergonomic way to do it so there is a language on top, that they used as an example to show off the language.

I can see this being useful for implementing alternative editing interfaces besides just writing code textually. For example, flow-based visual programming or something like that. Adding and connecting nodes in a visual interface would each be small updates to the database, and then there would never be a "build step" because the database you've been editing is already the AST that could either be interpreted or compiled. So it only really does away with the parser, but that doesn't seem revolutionary to me, other languages can already do that. I might be missing something still.
I'm glad you articulated exactly what I was thinking while watching this video. It felt like lousy statistics the whole time.

There are lies, there are damned lies, and then there are statistics.
The casual use of the word "infinity" is a tell tale sign of a lack of rigor. People think of infinity as just an incredibly large value, but Cantor and others have shown is more. Just take aleph-naught infinity -- the "smallest" infinity. I could count every particle in the universe and square it a million times and you are nowhere near any bound to aleph-naught infinity. Then jump up the aleph-one and now you are dealing with uncountable sets -- far "denser" that the simple countably infinite sets. Of course you can keep going to aleph-n for you favorite n. There are no actual infinities in terms of something measurable in the universe -- only potential infinities -- things that you can add on to indefinitely -- but you never reach any actual infinite quantity of anything. You can't even truly divide space an infinite numbers of times -- you will eventually reach the Planck length were anything smaller does not make any real sense in terms of actual existence.
The object flying towards my window was most likely a tire. Sorry but I am not suicidal. Brake and wait till it hits you is worthy of Darwin award. There are countless examples of flying tires killing people on the road.