skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you're thinking about these concepts in a useful way.

Yes, factorials can be defined through recursion. But so can multiplication of non-negative integers:

def mult(a, b):
if a == 0 or b == 0: return 0
if a == 1: return b
return mult(a-1, b) + b

>>> mult(5, 9)
45

Furthermore, factorials can alternatively be defined through the Gamma function, which supports more than just the integers and isn't defined recursively. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_function .

> the simplest (AFAIK) recurrence relationship ...that can be produced.

The positive integers is even easier. For n >= 0:

F(0) = 0
F(n) = 1 + F(n-1)

> What's very interesting about the Fibonnaci Sequence

Another interesting thing about the Fibonnaci Sequence is that it has a closed-form solution, given in your OEIS link as:

F(n) = ((1+sqrt(5))^n - (1-sqrt(5))^n)/(2^n*sqrt(5))

or see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Closed-form_e... .

It is also non-polynomial. In the limit, it approaches a simple exponential.

Nor is it bounded by a polynomial, meaning that if you pick any positive integer p and any constant C, and define g(n) = C n^p then for a large enough n you will find that |g(n)| < |F(n)| .

Furthermore, A000435 , with its n^n - like form, grow even faster than exponential. It's similar to factorial growth.

> as a fellow Mathematician

I am not a mathematician. Neither are you.

> s to figure out when/where/why the number table / difference table / triangle / fan -- fails -- between the simplest of all recurrence relationship formula, the Fibonnaci sequence -- and this one

Consider f(n) = f(n-1) + 1 where f(0) = 0. This is the sequence 0, 1, 2, 3, .... This addition of 1 can be seen trivially in the difference table.

Consider f(n) = f(n-1) + f(n-1) with f(1) = 1. This is the sequence 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, or 2^n, which is an exponential function.

Consider the Fibonacci function f(n) = f(n-1) + f(n-2) with f(1) = f(2) = 1. This uses an addition of the two previous numbers. It approaches an exponential function as n gets larger.

Consider f(n) = n * f(n-1) with f(1) = 1 This is the factorial. It grows faster than the exponential function.

Because the last one uses a multiplication instead of addition, a difference table (which is based on subtraction) won't show the pattern. The inverse of multiplication is division, so use a division table.

> deeply recursive algorithms

These are not deeply recursive. For an example of those, see the Ackermann function. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackermann_function , which is not primitive recursive like functions we've discussed so far.
Fiat is not anything new.. neither is the concept of money. Earliest writings are for accounting and bookkeeping. People were representing commodities with tokens which can be exchanged. The idea that money was minted only from precious metals, notably gold and silver is false. Clay and bronze coins were common as IOUs.
To me, those last 3 points contradict the first point. The best, smartest developers I have ever worked with have consistent style (or are able to conform to the team-defined style), don't overload themselves, and prefer simplicity and elegance over complexity.
Perhaps I'm being pedantic, but it seems moreso that proper comms infrastructure design and preventative maitnance plans is the problem

Whatsapp is a readily available and an accessible solution... one that is better than current comms infrastructure. A local maximum

I used to know a marketing specialist in Mexico who lived there her whole life. Apparently 90% of advertising for cheap consumer goods is done on TV and radio. <10% on websites or streaming services, since many choose not to use them or can't afford subscriptions

Not to say that there aren't beautiful, well developed global cities with wonderful people and opportunities there. Guadalajara and Mexico City are great and growing. I see the country in a state very similar to late 1800s indusdrial America; high inequality, poor low-skill workers rights and pay with backlash occuring, large government backed infrastructure projects, fairly patriarchal buisness elite (and corruption within the "boys club"), fairly absent middle class relative to other countries. Moreso two classes. "Well off, global citizen" or "making ends meet, live in my town for my whole life or move where the work goes"

Relying on a phone app seems like an unstable solution, as when the next budget cut comes, it could include scrapping the company phones in the case they were provided. Or downgrading data plans that are so slow that latency is too high. Wouldn't be a problem until the next accident

Or, if workers are underpaid (low-skill, non corporate in Mexico), selling provided company phones on the 2nd hand market for cash could be fairly common... lying and saying they still have them

Unless if Mexico further lowers it's gini coefficient... something I'm very optimistic with (but over decades) OR provides rudimentary smart phones (or even dated tech like pagers) for work, to me this whatsapp method seems as an easy means for middle managers just to save on their spending budgets. Unless there is middle management buy-in to further develop its usage in a stable way, it seems like a piecemeal (yet effective and creative) solution by the workers due to infrastructure neglect
I’m a working parent. My children love cleaning the house with myself and my partner, it’s a great game of cooperation. Watching a robot move around, not so much.

I have also never wished for a way to change the radio with voice commands. I’ve seen friends do this and it’s like seeing people ride a unicycle - novel, but it doesn’t offer me anything of value. And of course, the privacy trade off isn’t worth it.
To me any technological projection that goes beyond 200 years is a bit of non-sense. 200 years ago trains did not exist. Steam power existed, but just in a tiny corner of the world economy.

If we don't run out of nuclear fuel in 200 years, then we'll never do.

And we certainly have enough uranium to not run out of it for 200 years, with the current technology. No breeder reactors, or anything fancy needed.

CANDU reactors run on unenriched uranium [1]. This instantly gives a multiplier of 10. If the current reactors can run for a few decades, then switching to CANDU reactors we'd have fuel for a few centuries.

Why aren't we switching to CANDU design? Some new builds are projected [2], but overall they appear to be too capital intensive, compared to the more traditional light water reactors. Still if fuel availability were a concern, we'd switch to CANDU reactors and stop having any scarcity for hundreds of years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor

[2] https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Romania-adopts-d...
Yuga Labs Announces Skill-Based NFT Mint
Do you have a source for this?

I couldn't find this particular piece of data published anywhere, but I did a little math and arrived at an annualized rate of inflation for the last 6 months of 5.85%, well above the 2% target.
People that were technical sometimes did that, or re-enabled administrator, or both. Because it 'got in the way'. But for the vast majority of people UAC worked as it should.
Obviously. But in a corrupt country like Mexico, there's never enough funding for anything. And now the current federal govt is burning gobs of cash on mega projects which only makes things worse.
I've worked at multiple "unlimited pto" companies and my experience has not been this at all. Unlimited PTO = we won't babysit what you do with your time as long as you pull your weight.
If you’re aiming for regulation to fix the internet, you’ll never have a fixed internet.
Lattner had a vision for a lower-level Swift, which wouldn't need the support Swift needs today - it didn't end up happening and I suspect is not practical. He talked about it in several places, but obviously by 2018 or so what Chris Lattner thinks about the future of Swift doesn't matter very much.

This "lower-level Swift" felt like a similar problem to what Carbon or Herb Sutter's Cpp2 have. They've got something that's unsafe, and they want to somehow build a safe abstraction, but that's a foundation layer, and you've already built a tower of stuff above that, so you need to build it underneath all the stuff you have, which will be way harder than what Rust did where they begin at the bottom.

Is it impossible? No. But it might well be too expensive to be pulled off in practice, especially given that you need the result to pay back your expense over and above what exists today e.g. Rust.
The US is huge, both geographically and with regards to population. Where would the political will for such a change come from? There is not much domestic desire to do so, and I am guessing few of the immigrants are chomping at the bit to institute the metric system in light of other, more pressing concerns.
It's because that is the primary "use case" of Bitcoin right now as Bitcoin is even worse at being at currency than an investment.

Bad price stability, slow transactions, high fees under any amount of load, bad privacy, terrible adoption, etc, etc
Madoff ran two companies, his legit side and the con. They were pretty well firewalled. Most of those in the legit business knew nothing.
Bitcoin isn’t a ponzi scheme. no crypto is really a ponzi scheme, but a lot of them have similar characteristics. basically they’re fine while people are continuously investing in them, but once people lose interest they drop off a cliff. but then you could say that about any volatile investment
It can run the 100m in 12 seconds.

But quickness of my digestion aside, it's more a question of what is your body going to do with the energy it's digested from your food at that time of night? Store it obviously
> due to gas being so much cheaper.

I'm curious where you live. The OP suggested that gas and electricity prices vary a surprising amount throughout the US, and that gas is not usually cheaper than electricity, but is sometimes. They did suggest if you are in a place where gas is a lot cheaper than electricity, that might be the one thing to make heat pumps not cost effective, but that this was not typical.

I personally do not know much about this. (I don't even know how to know if my own gas is "cheaper" than electricity, since they are metered/measured in different units!)
There are plenty of insulation firms that specialize in insulating old homes without ruining the finishes. Typically you cut a small plug, either from the outside or inside depending on the construction method and mechanically force (typically blow) cellulose fibres into the wall cavity. You need one plug per stud bay, but repairing those is a pretty simple job compared with tearing down all the finishes.

Air sealing is tougher, but techniques like aerobarrier where an aerosolized polymer is sprayed throughout the home while it's under positive pressure has made air sealing fairly simple. Stuff like that can plug up to multiple inch gaps
Great, very tactical workshop on partnerships in SaaS - with lessons from Atlassian, etc.

Very helpful if you're new to partnerships.
Could be excellent refresher for experts too.
That because of about 1500 years of strict endogamy. It's only in very recent times that inter-caste marriages have become more common.
If the OP would just post a picture of the ring he would probably have the answer by now.
you nailed it. Plus the FAA is unable to even perceive the fact that this culture is counterproductive to the goal nor would they know how to address the problem in any way other than adding more layers of paperwork and bureaucracy.
Pretty much everyone in a developed country. Just zoom out your time perspective. I'll go ahead and say paramedics, but there are examples all over the place.
It might work theoretically but that doesn't mean it should be done in many cases. Where I live electricity is nearly 3x the price of gas. While some heat pumps can achieve this in certain conditions it eliminates most of the affordable options which raises the question of how long are you willing to wait before a £10k-50k+ investment pays itself off?

They typically operate at lower output temperatures than existing systems. For example, swapping out a gas boiler for a heat pump will often require replacing all the radiators with much larger ones as well.

IIRC they're also less responsive. You might find yourself keeping the house at 18-20c all day rather than turning off rooms you aren't using. The effect is that you use more energy than you would have otherwise.
That's 12 eggs a week. So if the price of a dozen eggs has gone from $2 to $5 you are out... $150 a year. And that's for a sizable outlier in egg consumption. It isn't hard to see how this doesn't push overall inflation very meaningfully.

Most store-bought dried pasta has zero egg in it.

An entire homemade cake has like three eggs in it. So the price of an entire cake is up less than a dollar. How many cakes does the average household bake in a year?
As unemployment rate is low higher wages dont solve the problem.
They did not break or stop working. The teeth basically rotted (cavities) underneath the sealings, which went unnoticed. Later dentists told me those sealings (how they were done on me) were criminal.
There's 1.1 million physicians in the US, and about 12.8 million worldwide. Almost all of whom are making substantially lower salaries than their American counterparts. Many more than 50% lower. Even if 10% were willing to immigrate for a huge wage boost we could replace every doctor in America multiple times over.
More code, more liability. If you can get away with achieving the same with less code, things tend to be harder to turn into big messy piles of code.
Yeah this is how this conversation typically goes "but we've got good pizza from X, Y, Z restaurant" — is not the same as just walking to the corner and paying $2 for a big cheese slice — the NY slice is essentially a street food, like street tacos are in some states along the mexican border
Mostly people arguing that the numbers are "wrong" are misunderstanding what low inflation means. Low inflation means prices won't continue to rise. It does not mean that prices will come down. The prices you remember from two years ago, they're gone. They're not even considered when calculating inflation numbers now.
MLM and crypto scams do work... for some people, it's just a tiny minority and normally the vast majority pays for them
Just hang around bitcointalk and similar forums and make it clear that you can write code and know how to set up new tokens.
Their product line is confusing. Finding something that supports AX and gigabit internet and doesn’t break the bank doesn’t appear to be doable with their product line.
Labour shortage is a dogwhistle request for underpaid immigrants
Even when in speakerphone (i.e. not trying to filter out far away sounds)? ~1 foot isn't all that far away.
That's roughly it, 1.5K euros is not a lot. If you simply lost your job and went on social benefits, you would get 500€ + Rent from the state, so I don't think for many there is a good reason to have a job paying that low. The inflation is also eating up the savings of many of the lower class, so they're also looking to earn more. The upper management class in germany is however frighteningly conservative about raising wages aggressively.
A lot of research into the genetic history of the Indian subcontinent seems to be from the late 90s and early 2000s.

Is there a reason it has stopped? We have gotten a lot better at genetic anthropology since then but for some reason there is very little new research on the genetic history of the Indian subcontinent.
From my reading previously, no the currently OPFS implementations do not expose the files as files in directories the user would access.

The File System Access API does give the webpage the ability access files on the users file system, with permission. However not at the block level, that is only enabled for the OPFS. In order to provide ACID compliance SQLite needs to be able to hold a lock to a file and write at the block level, which is only possible within the OPFS sandbox.
I'm an incredibly capable individual but I just won't earn more than 20-30k a year, bc that's enough for my life. That means I will never buy a brand new car, house, or "financial security" , haha - also means I don't give a fuck about employment. I can change jobs as easy as I change a uniform. What I've learned from the, "I'll just be poor - keep your overtime"
philosophy is huge tho - our PARTICIPATION is the most important thing, it's the key to everything.

When we are finally done with this boomer world - all we gotta do is sit down, or our own couches even, location isn't as important as not a fucking thing. The day we all decide to just stay home, is the day we get everything we want
It’s a very recent change, announced in September of 2022. You haven’t missed much! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32708921
> lack of comment syntax no matter how annoying it is that the spec is correct about why there are no comments

This completely arbitrary ideological purity has come at the expense of countless wasted hours, headaches, and suboptimal workarounds like using strings as comments, with zero tangible benefit - zero bad things would have ever happened if JSON allowed comments. There is nothing correct about it.
Tell us where he works next.
> Can groups of people pool together money to run shared models?

Then share the profit among the group of people? It’s called a company.
I have a 25 year old Yamaha electronic piano that can play itself using stored programs or controlled over MIDI.

Is it a robot?

They keys are not mechanically actuated when it auto-plays. Does that cause disqualification from the "robot" category?
It's been over 20 years since I last saw it in person, but there is also a pretty decent replica of the Hunley:

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-replica-of-the-css-hunley-...

Based on the condition there, it was desperately in need of a new coat of paint by that point.

At least one of the boats for the "Pirate's of the Carribean" series was built there. My understanding is they are real boats, but the hull you see in the water isn't what gives them real sea worthiness.
Out of curiosity: why motorcycle without odomet?
The game is over and carryout orders are starting to flood in from hundreds of customers on the smartphone app. And now Grubhub, Doordash, and UberEats are sending orders too.

The iPad is going to handle that and signal to the cooks to drop more chicken tenders?
My tips would be: (sorry if they are a bit obvious)

1. Make sure to point the vents down so the hot air blows into the lower area. (And naturally, in the summer when you use them for cooling they should point up)

2. Set a higher temperature. The thermometer tends to be part of the unit itself so it tends to measure the hottest spot in the room (both when heating and when cooling), so you think you are wasting money blasting the heat to 25C when actually it is just that the unit isn't running since it only keeps itself hot. Some units come with a function that pretends to use a thermometer built into the remote, but I don't think I've ever seen it do anything other than burn through the batteries.

3. Since you are talking about mini-split heat pumps (plural) I assume you have one per room so a good tip here would be to close the door to that room.

For my own needs they are more than enough, but then again it doesn't get quite as cold in Israel as it does in Canada :)
Thanks for confirming this is a type - never attend a meeting, over engineer always and often. I’ve worked with one and hated it. I think it comes down to a strong manager, or else these types run wild. If they make get promoted, causes attrition as they’re a nightmare to learn from.

Some greatest hits:

- (what I knew to be rebuild data dog from scratch but they did not as they didn’t have a background in it) in the spirit of engineering first, build on our horrible internal logging/alerting tool as the prod solution. When a license and free seats existed for DD.

- attend no meetings, bake a doc internally or side channel with teams, announce the result of both in a team meeting that’s a superset of the team work they just didn’t participate in. And do it 4 times.

- open gossip on who’s a good engineer or not
There may be pockets in India where caste still impacts your life (mostly poor, uneducated and backward villages), but in major cities where people are educated and modern, caste is not significant. More on that here: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/opinion/sunday/caste-is-n...
But careful! In the concurrent environment, separate queries may need a higher transaction isolation level to mean the same thing as one query.
ANd not to mention Fitt's Law.
Pervasive in Tech as well. Well known in FAANG companies that upper castes promote other upper castes and squash anyone under them from a lower caste. Also actively hushed, see Google canceling a talk on their campus about this very issue after upper castes complained.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/big-techs-big-pro...
There aren’t many compelling reasons to choose ruby without rails, for a greenhorn project. unless you already have a big pool of devs who know and enjoy ruby, and/or a lot of home grown gems/libraries.
Came to post this.

I would bet that Stripe is the large non-Rails Ruby user in the world?
Got it. I have gigabit, so UDR won’t work well for me.
I have been having the opposite working on Windows recently. I have gotten used to closing windows (like Visual Studio Code) because it reopened to a directory I didn't want and doing Command+N to open a new window. When I do that in Windows, I have to reopen the whole app and the window I didn't want pops up again.
It’s ok, because E < 0
Maybe they have become in-fashion again. Back then when I had the problems with bad sealed teeth, the dentist told me you don't do these anymore. But that was 20 years ago.
Perhaps its the people who cook with a lot of home ingredients (eggs, meats, vegetables, fruits) that are feeling the most pain. My food budget has gone up 25% in the last year for the same basket of goods. I track those numbers pretty consistently.
Well, you have closed borders and a non welfare state.
Any well-made capacitor, if kept within voltage tolerances, has in theory an unlimited lifespan of charge/discharge cycles...

This is because where the charge is stored -- there are no chemical reactions, no charge chemical reaction and no discharge (reverse) chemical reaction...

Batteries based on chemical reactions -- typically have a limited lifespan because the charge/discharge chemical reactions -- fail for various reasons after certain amounts of cycles, because the chemical reactions fail...

So it makes sense -- to try to make batteries where chemical reactions are either not present (i.e., truly capacitative), or severely limited -- in an attempt to prevent the chemical breakdown which characterizes battery failure...

Related:

lasersaber - "How to Build Crystal Power Cells - Long Duration Power"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzq_qWIhamQ
I'm quite pleased with how my personal site renders in it. Other than my navigation menu not showing up in quite the right place (which is definitely on me), everything else flows very nicely.
https://www.rawstory.com/faa-outage-cause/

"An engineer 'replaced one file with another,' the official said, not realizing the mistake was being made Tuesday.
Yeah. Maybe they should choose a different more reliable company like Twitter?

https://localtoday.news/wa/twitter-bans-the-metrobusinfo-acc...
Response from Nexo: https://twitter.com/Nexo/status/1613477462243147776
If normal YouTube counts, then absolutely! Through YouTube, I’ve found HTMX, Obsidian, Warp, some others.

I watch very little short-form video content, however. There is something fake and contrived about a lot of short-form content that is really off-putting. Maybe I am watching the mainstream creators though and haven’t found the good ones.