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I don't think being 'Asian' has anything to do with it (for the record, 'Asia' is a continent stretching from Yemen to Japan). In this very thread there are people talking about professors of German and Eastern European origin complaining about the standards of their students.
Does inflation seem stable to you today?

Inflation hurts poor people, too.
One of the problems is that in some countries like the US, ceiling lamps are hard-wired and not "user-replaceable", so people have to resort to using those stupid bulbs in their old fixtures.

I live in Japan, and instead of just a pair of wires coming out of the ceiling, there is a standardized "ceiling socket" [0] which can also support the weight of a lamp. This means that swapping out light fixtures is plug and play, so the standard LED lamp is something like this [1] where you have a nice big flat metal plate backing the hardware is mounted to for heat-sinking.

I don't own any LED bulbs at all - all our lamps are of this type so I wouldn't have anywhere to put one.

It was the same when I lived in Sweden - a standard ceiling light outlet (IIRC there is a EU standard for this now called DCL) so that replacing light fixtures was easy. Moving into an apartment, often they wouldn't even come with light fixtures, you'd bring your own.

[0] https://www.e-connect.jp/images/to_quickB.jpg

[1] https://www.irisplaza.co.jp/IMAGE/HK/PRODUCT/H246902.jpg
I’m also on the blueberry+SRS regimen haha, also go outside and walk, normalize your sleep patterns, hydrate, socialize. These are all easy ways to slow the degradation.
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> That $18 is needed for rent, food, and utilities.

You say that like the utilities weren't even larger before the change. That $11-18 a month is explicitly not going to utilities.

I'd say those people are getting an upgrade in food or other things at the cost of CRI. And they can choose not to take that trade if they prefer CRI. You only need to buy one bulb at a time, after all, no need for massive savings. And even if you buy the extra fancy $18 bulbs you'll still save some money compared to incandescent.
I almost wish HN had emoji reactions for comments. Upvote/downvote doesn't quite cut it when what this comment really needs is just an eyeroll emoji, possibly paired with "OK Boomer".
There are also these type of "ceramic substrate" bulbs which claim to give longer life. I suspect other compromises in the construction may negate that.

https://www.sansiled.com/blogs/learn/what-are-the-benefits-o...
I had a small session where I went to a nearby village to deal with some bandits who were raiding the town. When I spoke to the leader he made some vague threat, so I told ChatGPT I was going to take out my dagger and slit the guys throat right where he stood, but ChatGPT was like “No… let’s look for a less violent alternative, perhaps reason with him”. What!? No man I’m gonna slit this bastard’s throat! “I’m afraid I can’t let you do that.” Useless.
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I'm willing to believe that that number is (much) larger than granted green cards or visas – but are there any reliable estimates? Otherwise it's just a baseless claim.

One number I've found puts the estimated number of unlawful entries to the US per year at under 100k, for a total population of around 10 million. The EU sees around 2.5 million immigrants, vs. around 1.5 million emigrants, per year.

GPs claim of "millions of dirt-poor immigrants per year" skewing the numbers doesn't seem realistic to me.
Yeah the rewards of hard work and delayed gratification are becoming more and more marginal as time goes on, but right now it’s still worth it to excel and hopefully that stays true for a while.
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That's not everything. They want everything and want you to think they have everything so you provide everything.
You can build intuition without giving a full on analysis class. Also, algebra can be tedious (just look at any spinor calculation in quantum field theory). That's in fact one of the problems, focus on tedious integrals rather than the substance which you can glean as a teenager.
When you see a bear dancing, you don't nitpick its choreographic decisions. Because the bear. is. dancing. Do you see? It's a bear. dancing.

DM style is a matter of taste. From another perspective, this feels like quite tidy DMing in terms of letting the players explore the systems in an early non-narrative context, just to understand the mechanics. Like a tutorial. The exotic mounts were a secret you could find if you paid attention - and their existence adds color to the world and implies that greater rewards can be found through leveling. They were too expensive, but you can use your skills to work around that. Failure can happen and might have consequences, but in this case you got away with it. The players will be more careful what they ask for in future, but they know hidden rewards might be found if they are cunning.

The DM taught the players a lot, added flavor to the world, and didn't wind up with L2/3 players having an overpowered mount - but also didn't let the players blow up the campaign in the first shop they walked into by letting them just go completely rogue. Although it offered hints that non heroic paths might be available, at a cost...

Which is pretty impressive for a dancing bear.

And besides, what's 'dumb' DMing for a human who knows that letting the game go off the rails is going to mean tossing out previously planned encounters and going digging in the DM guide to find the right table of prices, might be completely acceptable DMing for an LLM that has no idea what it's doing but can recall every stat block in the player handbook.
I don't think so. I also believe in the unique perspective of a mushroom, and a computer program. And try as you may, I can distinguish you from both.
Mathematically, we have (1 - (1 - hz)) - hz = (1 + hz) - hz = 1, so the computation seems redundant. But due to floating-point rounding, it is not, and still creates information. As the comment says:

> cos(x+y) = 1 - (x*x/2 - (r - x*y))

> For better accuracy, rearrange to

> cos(x+y) ~ w + (tmp + (r-x*y))

> where w = 1 - x*x/2 and tmp is a tiny correction term

> (1 - x*x/2 == w + tmp exactly in infinite precision)

(hz is x*x/2)

See double-double arithmetic - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadruple-precision_floating-p...
Banks collapse. Weakening of the dollar. Former American president indicted. Plots to pause and inhibit AI technologies development through petition. Never ending rain and gloom on the west coast. School shootings.

I am not one for conspiracy but it really does not seem like the tides are moving in the United States favor right now.

Why does every day feel like we are getting closer to some kind of tipping point? Into what I don’t know, but I’m hoping we don’t get to a point where there’s no going back.

It is hard not to read this as politically motivated. A lot of this crowd tends to lean excessively left, but I would urge you to be aware of the broader geopolitical considerations of what is at hand here.
For standard datasets we use OpenAI ada embeddings, for hybrid its instructor + SPLADE. The HyDE toggle in the context variable feeds the query to a prompt first ("Generate a document that answers..."), before embedding. I think in the paper they use the contriever embedding model but we just use the ones supported on our platform
I think the demand is there, but you underestimate how much difference the tiny inconveniences make. Like, maybe there's stuff out there that can do the same thing, but the people who are just starting out don't know where it is (hell, I'm an experienced programmer and I don't know where it is) or what to pick up. A lot of those great Flash works were made by literal schoolkids, or more often by young adults who'd got their start as schoolkids and gradually refined their craft, because you could just pick up Flash and start doing things, and kids did. From what I hear maybe Roblox is filling the same niche now, but that's only happened in the last few years, and for all that Flash was notionally proprietary and poorly-integrated with the open web, having it right there in your browser was still a win.
Way to go! Looks great.
I appreciate that this is not the most clear cut charge against Trump and potentially helps his chances at reelection (theoretically).

Anyone else would've been at least indicted as well. This is an indication that the rule of law is prevailing. Even former presidents aren't above the law.
Hey - can you please not break the site guidelines like this? We ban accounts that do that, regardless of their politics. If you'd be willing to review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html you'll see that we don't have much choice about this.

Edit: it turns out you've been doing this a ton, unfortunately. I don't want to ban you for this in the current thread because people will just assume it was for partisan reasons, which it isn't. But if you don't start using HN in the intended spirit, we're going to end up having to.
From their horrible customer support and making changes without my consent, I've also determined Valve doesn't need any more of my money.

GOG if I must but Steam has proven to be both a disreputable and unreliable platform.
Toucas are plastic caps you put on your head to take baths wihtout getting hair wet. Weird choice of a name for such an interesting tool.
I should've said "free resources". Limited programs and stipends wouldn't even benefit all low-income anyways: some parents are really hard-to-reach, and some parents don't apply for things and the kid has to take the initiative themselves.
A huge majority of folks wouldn't need to bother, and the rest could make changes if they are needed.
I hope the tax prep industry is scared out of their minds…

Asking citizens to pay their fair share of taxes should not include them spending a day or two every year trying to find a piece of paper to mail to an agency which _already has that piece of paper_ and is categorically more equipped to process it.
Controlling for race is stupid and is the source of many of our problems. One should control for socioeconomic factors instead such as family income, whether both parents present, parents’ education.
My longest time working on a small-change was 3 months on a single line of code
I'm aware of all of that.

However: 99.9% of all piano music heard is not heard through a live piano directly. Make that several more nines if you're talking about someone who doesn't even play piano and occasionally hears something in a huge audience hall. It's heard recorded, and then played through a speaker.

Then let's say I want to play. If I'm trying to match something I've heard, it doesn't even make sense to take that physical piano into account. What I heard was a recording. I lose nothing by playing it out of a speaker.

If I want to play just for the joy of playing a physical object or something, that's a different story. But if I'm playing for a purpose other than that, the speaker loses nothing. And best of all? It's light and cheap!
Playing the contrarian, I'm ambivalent about 8th grade algebra. I tend to consider "school math" to be a distinct branch of math unto itself. Nobody knows why we teach it, except that it's a sorting hat for certain college majors. The purpose of each class is to prepare you for the next class.

Most of the people I know who have STEM degrees don't use their college math. The math that they need is programmed into their CAD terminals. The ones who still use math in their jobs, somehow got interested in math, in spite of school math.

Turning math into a competition sucked the soul out of it. Both of my kids got 8th grade math, and top ACT/SAT scores. My daughter skipped pre-calculus with no ill effect. Both are interested in math, but have no interest in taking more math classes.

I breezed through school math, through college and grad school. Whoop-de-doo. Two things made math come alive for me: Proofs, and computers. But proofs are nearly gone from the school math curriculum, and the schools still haven't embraced computers.

I'd actually like to see a refactoring of school math, loosely into 4 disciplines, that are introduced in a cycle, perhaps even starting in 1st grade:

1. Arithmetic -- manual symbol manipulation, up to and including calculus.

2. Computation -- use of computers to explore and solve math problems.

3. Working with data -- self explanatory.

4. Theory -- things like sets, proofs, etc.

I believe this would actually be more representative of how people actually use math in their lives. Many people will use computation and data, even if they struggle through arithmetic and develop no interest in theory. On the other hand, full exposure to all of the disciplines would adequately prepare someone for academic math study.

I don't believe in banning anything. Some kids need to be allowed to get "ahead" so they don't get bored and lose interest, or simply because solving those school math problems can be a fun escape -- as it was for me -- from an otherwise stressful adolescence.
Compared to the horror stories of the gold standard days? Yes. 0% -> 5% overnight is not nothing but it compares favourably to most assets one could pick.

Edit in response to your undeclared edit: inflation hurts those who hold cash, by its very nature; on average inflation is a transfer of real value from the rich to the poor, although of course there will be exceptions.
What about netlogo?
If they don't serve a day in prison does it matter or is it just fodder for the masses?

Plenty of governors have been put in prison but an ex-president is going to have secret service, even in prison?

This is a crime another person served time for so it's definitely a crime worthy of prison but of all the crimes, this is so damn stupid in comparison.

I'd settle for CEOs and Bankers going to prison for all the crimes they have gotten away with on a daily basis than even one president as despised as they are.
The common moat is to find a profitable model then grow as big as possible as fast as possible to the point of being a monopoly. This model will also suck up a big chunk of the talent available which will make it hard for others to grow since they will find it hard to find the talent they needed.
a second hand gaming pc would be a better yet. work on your macbook and ssh to the pc for training.

24/7 gpu usage does use energy. whether or not it is a lot depends on your current energy usage.
Joshua is a YouTuber who has a lot of great videos on this subject: https://www.youtube.com/@jdflyback/videos

Home-made CRT is worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESwj-VXjDtY
IMNSHO, AI will the catalyst for going to nuclear power.
Yes. I’m pretty sure Obama should have to answer for the drone executions he ordered (some which were even American citizens, which seems very illegal).
There are a couple more investigations potentially resulting in indictments, maybe in next few months or so. One is influencing Georgia election, another is misplaced confidential documents.
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You want to increase standards and make all dependent on a new and not battle tested service of one company?

This is still the same dystopia and still tries to cover up the underlying problem.

You need teachers, lots of of them and well payed.
My network and kWh cost are split and the network cost have risen far less than kWh cost. Also the network cost are constant. Looking at where those are used for the main cost are in peak usage capacity which efficiency actually lowers.
(1) Some people speculate that GPT-4 is actually an ensemble of models selected by a supervisory model based on response timings.

(2) GPT4All is using improved training data with LoRA and GPT-J to build something that competes with GPT-4 at a fraction of the size and parameter count.

(3) The emergence of new capabilities strongly corresponds to parameter count. Transformers with 6.7B parameters are apparently where the first such emergence occurs associated with a global structural change in the hidden layers (the so-called “phase change”). There will be a strong incentive to train larger models to identify additional capabilities.

The first and second observations imply that federal regulation of A100-class GPUs would be ineffective. However, the third observation suggests that it would be highly effective at preventing untrusted parties from discovering novel and potentially more disruptive capabilities.
I miss those toolbars. And some ads had search bars in them that they'd also use to search thinking it was Aks Jeeves or whatever.
That's an interesting contrast to the Proof School (https://www.proofschool.org/), a private school also in San Francisco, which is the best 6-12th grade math environment for kids who love math that I've ever seen.
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> Not to mention finally becoming a signatory to the International Criminal Court.

We actually were a signatory (and one of the prime movers for regularizing the ad hoc processes which we had also been a prime mover for creating in Yugoslavia and Rwanda) of the Rome Statute under Clinton, though the signature was effectively withdrawn under Bush.
Excellent points. If anything this will only continue to polarize the US even further and once everyone is push to the extreme you reach a critical mass for serious conflict. The scales of justice can stay in balance only as long as the scale can support the weight.
no but I remember going in to these Windows registry files and removing things in an exact order like a bomb.
There's an old phrase: "Correlation is not causation."

"TV" to "civil rights" - https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=TV%2C%28civil+...

"Plastic" to "civil rights" - https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=plastic%2C%28c...

"Pakistan" to "civil right" - https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%28Pakistan%29...

The site https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations shows a lot of spurious correlations.

What I did instead was present a claim (Wikipedia links to https://books.google.com/books?id=sl5GAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT45 and also describes the technology that made colored chalkboards popular), then double-checked that Ngram was consistent with the claim.

> That seems reasonable to me

Yes, that's because your hypersensitivity is kicking in.

It's causing you to reject the actual reasons given at the time in favor of your pet theory.

I've presented two direct quotes from the 1950s saying the reason for switching to "chalkboard" is because the new boards were not black.

You instead prefer to think these sources were hiding the truth, apparently in order to cover up hypersensitivty to the word "black".

Another problem with your pet theory is that in the 1950s black people were generally referred to as "colored" or "Negro". "Black" didn't start replacing "Negro" until the 1960s. Your James Brown citation is from the late 1960s, for example.

Your belief is that large numbers of people in the 1950s were so hypersensitive to the word "black", because someday in the future it might be used to refer to colored people, that they switched from "blackboard" to "chalkboard"?

While at the same time large numbers of people enforced racial segregation and discrimination.

Your pet theory would need a LOT of historical supporting evidence to hold any water. So, where's your evidence?
Hamachi, now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

I'm going to guess you're in your early- to mid-30's.
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Juror pools can be biased. Something to consider. https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-stu...
Mythic shut down recently. Well, technically they still exist on paper, but they're a shell of the former selves. It's a shame, really. Their technology is (was) amazing.
Yes exactly, otherwise you end up with impotent policemen who are incapable of enforcing the law.
Good thing no one is being shot at
There's a fantastic video about this called "This is why we cant have nice things."

https://youtu.be/j5v8D-alAKE
Consumption taxes hit low income people the hardest and also reduce consumption.

What you are suggesting is the biggest redestribution of wealth in US history, putting a lot more money into the super riches pockets.

It might also severly damage the US economy.
and toolbars are not sandboxed.

Back in those days, nothing (except java) in the browser is sandboxed.
I've scrolled through the top ~10 or so comments, and none of them, describe or comment on the nature of the charges against Trump. To be fair to the commenters, most stories are vague.

The charges relate to hush money payments to Stormy Daniels, but hush money is not a crime. It's also not a crime to have an affair with Stormy Daniels. So the most salacious parts of the story are not what the crime is.

My understanding is that the crime is around how the money was delivered. I'm having trouble finding a good description, but CNN has this to say:

> Hush money payments aren't illegal. Prosecutors are weighing whether to charge Trump with falsifying the business records of the Trump Organization for how they reflected the reimbursement of the payment to Michael Cohen. Falsifying business records is a misdemeanor in New York.

> Prosecutors are also weighing whether to charge Trump with falsifying business records in the first degree for allegedly falsifying a record with the intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal another crime, which in this case could be a violation of campaign finance laws. That is a Class E felony, with a sentence minimum of one year and as much as four years.

I'm not a lawyer and it's hard to parse the above, but it sounds very technical. It sounds like they have to prove two separate crimes, and connect them with intention. Intent of course is always hard to prove in court.

Overall this seems like a weak case to me.
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US tested the tech for years. Even founded it. Now it’s available as a commercial application I don’t see anything special here.
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Microsoft does not need to pressure OpenAI to do anything. OpenAI is effectively owned and operated by Microsoft.
Author here.

I saw people saying basically the same in Twitter and almost mentioned that SVG with networking was going be positioned as a Flash competitor (and sure it makes sense!), but found no reliable source on this.

Do you have any source/link/PDF from that time mentioning this goal for SVG? I would happily update the article if you could link it here. Thanks!
The loss of the mouse and keyboard as primary input devices is an underrated part of why everything feels worse now compared to the flash era. Web is a very different target now than it was. Also, the flash game ecosystem was intertwined with the animation ecosystem and the advent of streaming full motion video devalued animation skills.

Anyway nowdays we have Godot and Unity which are both very nice. But there were definitely lost years where amateur gamedev was less accessable.
Maintaining ICE is actually not that bad, you just have to pick the right ones. Think Toyota-Honda-Mazda-Subaru.
Using an illicitly acquired copy of the Crack 1 (not 1.1) manual, I quickly priced out the guts (I excluded the case, screws/nuts/washers, and wires) on tubesandmore.com + digikey.com at $184.

Assuming the basic Crack 1.1 is similar, at a price of $349, that's $165 / 90% markup for packaging up the kit for you, a nice case, and very detailed assembly instructions with lots of pictures and warnings about the dangerous parts and whatnot.

(And $96 of that $184 is for the Hammond 273AZ transformer, which I found a post saying is similar to Bottlehead's custom PT-3, but I'm not too sure about that, and I wasn't going to spend too much time figuring out the specs for the PT-3. Perhaps a better choice of transformer would significantly cut down that cost.)
Bad at math and reading?