skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> joint accounts have proven to be a failed model at scale

What does this even mean, how do you "at scale" something between two people?

My wife and I have a joint account, all money goes in, things for the family come out of it, we get allowances out for our personal things. If one of us spends the money on our personal things without consulting the other, then that person values X over the family, QED.

I think you might be implying that "family values have failed at scale" but that's a different, cultural thing, that is probably tied to a lot of different factors especially media. It's not that family values themselves are bad.
A 50% reduction in emissions in the short term is barely enough to stay on track to not destroy civilization in our own lifetimes. We should take the order of magnitude win! (Even if it is “only” really the 70%, from that sibling comment)

Also, carbon capture will eventually exist at scale, and cutting CO2 production by 90% will cut carbon capture costs by 90%z
> Did I miss when OpenAI marketed ChatGPT as a truthful resource for legal matters?

It's in the product itself. On the one hand, OpenAI says: "While we have safeguards in place, the system may occasionally generate incorrect or misleading information and produce offensive or biased content. It is not intended to give advice."

But at the same time, once you click through, the user interface is presented as a sort of "ask me anything" and they've intentionally crafted their product to take an authoritative voice regardless of if it's creating "incorrect or misleading" information. If you look at the documents submitted by the lawyer using it in this case, it was VERY confident about it's BS.

So a lay user who sees "oh occasionally it's wrong, but here it's giving me a LOT of details, this must be a real case" is understandable. Responsible for not double-checking, yes. I don't want to remove any blame from the lawyer.

Rather, I just want to also put some scrutiny on OpenAI for the impression created by the combination of their product positioning and product voice. I think it's misleading and I don't think it's too much to expect them to be aware of the high potential for mis-use that results.

Adobe presents Photoshop very differently: it's clearly a creative tool for editing and something like "context aware fill" or "generative fill" is positioned as "create some stuff to fill in" even when using it.
They didn’t say you got arrested for counting cards.
imho: better link:

"Arm Unveils 2023 Mobile CPU Core Designs: Cortex-X4, A720, and A520 - the Armv9.2 Family"

https://www.anandtech.com/print/18871/arm-unveils-armv92-mob...

( posted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36109734 )
I wonder how is Gutenberg not ready? We’ve been using it for 3+ years. It can be a little clunky but graphic designers and content creators like it for simple page/post layouts. It’s not always easy but it always seems logical.
Minor thing. Purely as a side:

in C and C++, the conditional statement is written using if and else, while the conditional expression is written with a ternary operator ? and :.

ending a sentence with . is a must. Including a period directly after a syntactic construct about ? and : is .. jarring because it is possible to attempt to read this as :. as an atomic construct in the language. Or even worse, the three-dots pyramid in some mathematical proof notations.
Let us serve you, but don't bring us down
> I'm not sure why they're so hard get

Demand from Ukraine? This is just an example. There are others: drones, SDR scanners using the Pi, etc.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a23774/ras...
No. Scott Aaronson makes this point repeatedly in his blog. Quantum computers are much faster than conventional computers on a few problems, and practically useless for all the others. That's the whole story.

Quantum computers are not hyper-turing.
Here’s a recent quote from Scott Aaronson:

> In truth, anything that a QC can calculate, a classical computer can calculate as well, given exponentially more time: for example, by representing the entire wavefunction, all 2n amplitudes, to whatever accuracy is needed. That’s why it was understood from the very beginning that quantum computers can’t change what’s computable, but only how efficiently things can be computed.

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7321
They don’t see it as a solution to that problem. They see it as a solution to meatpacking plant profits. “They” don’t care about the kids or their starving families.
Can you explain what you mean by "greater resolution of sound"? Which effect(s) are you using?
I want to divorce myself from even thinking how much effort that takes.
I generally refer to the framing offered by https://goodlife.leeds.ac.uk/
This is an interesting question. I don't think the first casino in Vegas was established by the mafia. The mafia's involvement later on is well documented. The mafia's current involvement is not so well documented. If you believe that the mafia was eventually exercised from Las Vegas and look at the development before and after that point... We could have a reasonable discussion about whether the development post-mafia dwarfs the development under the mafia and whether the development under the mafia dwarfs the development pre-mafia.

But the claim seemed to me to be about the present day. Today, I think the industry falls about the same place as big-oil or big-pharma or big-auto or big-politics. That is, plenty of people would call them all criminal-adjacent. But it still makes me wince a little. I'm sympathetic to them all being heckled, though.
That is documented behavior that should still be valid to this day.
The point you are responding to is this provides an excuse for anti-vaxxers who want to change their mind but don't want to admit they were wrong. "These vaccines are different and safe" they can say and get vaccinated (or get their kids vaccinated). Worse than them admitting they were wrong and getting their kids vaccinated. Better than measles outbreaks killing tons of kids when we can just prevent it.
If I could go back in time, the lesson would be to take a class on empathy a lot sooner. You've got lots of time and a bright future.
I believe putting a proxy DLL alongside the main EXE still works. It's the current working directory that's been removed from the search path for security reasons (and IMHO that does make sense.)
youtube-dl is not really developed any more. yt-dlp is the program everyone should be using.
I'm really kind of surprised that measles hasn't been eradicated. There's not a non-human biologica reservoir is there? Apparently there isn't. So could have been eradicated, should have been eradicated - just another public health failure.
I just started reading this book Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks.

He has this concept he teaches called Homework for Life.

The idea is that you write down 1 to 2 sentences of the single most storyworthy thing that happened to you each day in spreadsheet. Over time you get better at identifying these as you sharpen your storytelling lens.

This process has a whole host of benefits. You start to see that you make big different in the world. Time starts to slow down and you are more present. You have a record and way to recall all these amazing stories of your family.

All this for 5 minutes of time each day.
That seems naive in the extreme.
+1 for C before Rust. It will help you appreciate the logic behind the borrow checker much easier.

Also once you learn C, you never lose C. C will still be around, and it's good knowledge, it's not wasted knowledge. C doesn't really change anymore. You can take it to the grave.

C forces you to have a good understanding of what the hardware does compared to high level languages, but without the assembly grind.
Very much so, if you're playing blackjack and you accidentally touch cards or chips or something inadvertent, you'll just get told "Hey, you cannot do that", in varying degrees of firmness.
The discovery itself is more than a century old now :)

No doubt this is one of the most fascinating topics that touches science and math and astronomy and anthropology.

But this being described (title) as if it is a new discovery leaves me baffled.
Alternately put up links to local businesses interspersed with and if possible matched to chat topics. Count the click throughs and email a weekly report to businesses if the numbers are significant.
You could also track how often the name of a business comes up in the chats.
But this may take a few months to bear fruit.
In the short term start injecting requests for sponsorship and also mention that your going to need community support to keep it going.
Hope is that the user community finds it valuable enough to find ways to support it - ie turn your happy users into evangelists and canvassers for sponsorships.
It entirely depends on the description language. In Python, the opposite is true for basically the reason you gave: an asymptotically positive constant fraction of valid Python programs will begin with code searching for a contradiction to ZFC followed by an exit statement. In the model where Turing machines are modeled by random graphs with out-degree two, it is no longer necessarily the case that the start state component is exactly some fixed undecidable subgraph; i.e. as more states are added the probability of finding the start state inside a particular induced subgraph shrinks to zero.
There is no moral imperative, outside of general moral prohibitions that guide you to do your best to avoid killing the same species.

Medically, there is the risk of Prion disease. This is a major threat to yourself, and in a few cases it is contagious. So you would have the medical imperative to avoid it to keep the people around you safe.
I'm sure that's a big part of it, yes.

But also even if we allow that there is benefit in a stable, two-parent household in which the parents don't change around at all, if we can even isolate that variable away from other factors, it seems tautological.

To make an analogy that's close to my heart right now -

In a drinking water capture system, you can probably collect the most water in a pristine, well-designed system where all the pipe gauges are the same and the fixtures are all well fitting and designed for the duty they perform. But if you haven't got one of those, if the one you have is full of holes and leaking all over the place every time it rains, and the pipes are jammed onto each other with no consideration of size or gaps, then ramming bits of cork into the leaks and praying isn't going to make it perform as if it was. Sometimes you're going to get better results if you rip out the downpipes, dig up the junctions and fit major parts of the system again.

Sure, it still might not be quite as good as that well-designed, perfect system, and you're probably going to get PVA glue all over your hands and clothes while you do the work, but it'll be a darn sight better than watching your drinking water piss out all over the veranda every time it rains...

I'm not sure if this comment is about divorce any more. Right, I'm off to buy more pipe fittings, grrr mumble mumble.
WordPress changed my life. I created a plugin that is used by 50,000+ websites right from government organisations to Fortune 500 companies. In the process, the premium version of the plugin has generated $300,000 in revenue without spending a single dollar on advertising. Thank you for making WordPress, it’s an engineering feat.
Las Vegas casinos are making it costlier to play and harder to win
In my experience the default does not lean right. But it is very easy to start getting recommendations that way and once it starts it doesn’t seem to stop.
Omg, no wonder my teeth are getting worse after moving to Amsterdam. I drink a ton of water and use Maldon salt. I didn’t realize there wasn’t fluoride in the water. (All the Nutella isn’t helping either, but… ooh, maybe that’s a reasonable vector for Europeans)
A lot of people did get secretly vaccinated against COVID to save face. But this isn't to publicly save face. It's to save face with the kids who are going to actually get the shot or usually more importantly to save face with themselves so they don't have to admit they were wrong.
Those options are too expensive except for keyboard mania. Cheap option is also important.
Its also the go-to language for lot of games when it comes to modding, or scripting things like custom missions or scenarios.
I guess it depends what you need to build. I used to use Wordpress for all my personal and client projects but I then moved to Kirby[0] and I couldn’t be happier.

But I think it highly depends on what kind of projects you work on.

[0] https://getkirby.com/
DINKs have been a thing for a very long time, and of course they have the highest disposable income of any group. But that only matters if disposable income is your objective function.
At least it didn't try to claim they were breathless!
It’s still there, still going strong but these days it’s primarily a publishing platform for blogs, magazines and digital newsletters. I’d say it’s more a competitor to Substack than Wordpress.
I imagine this works out because by assuming a temporary “odds” debt that is repaid over the next day or so by other customers.
Only the plug in North America is in question here. China has its own different plug too. In NA, 3 phase is uncommon. But for any AC plug, what matters is the rating of the car's internal charger. There are USA cars that take 18kw single phase, with Tesla's smaller connector.
It 100% should, but dems are too moderate and vested in corporate interests to want to even try for it.

Even if they did, the banking industry is far too accustomed to its massively inflated ATM and overdraft fees.
It's available online, and stores in many countries carry it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=fluoridated+salt&tbm=shop
Maybe, maybe not.

Regarding regret, missed opportunities can also lead to regrets, especially if someone were to take OP's concept and create a clone and it actually becomes big.

We all need to pay bills at one time or the other.
You can't erase it in the physics sense, but you can erase information in an engineering sense, such that it is irretrievable in practice. NAND gates erase information this way; given an output, there's no way to determine in all cases what the inputs were.
The Emergence of Probability is a masterpiece, far greater than its purview on the history of statistics.

Thanks for all the great writings!
Media Queries and Responsive Design
The choice to not specify a woman was deliberate.
Unwanted Thoughts: a new history of the Index of Prohibited Books
Interesting, I didn't know about molybdenum.

Her home city of Hanoi doesn't have tap water that the locals like to drink. Even after boiling I think it can taste bad. So she grew up with heavily filtered water or bottled water. I would guess her diet was lacking in many trace minerals from this.
Matt is a cool guy. Generous and principled.
> They're not, because they have no recourse against the buyer.

That depends on which state you're in.
The easy escape hatch is that you're less likely (in the USA but not Ontario) to face prison if you try to leave the relationship.

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/2011/03/11/...
I agree: the essential component is vulnerable commitment to something (better: someone) outside of yourself. Marriage happens to be a structure that society has evolved over time that helps people find that.
I don't know if you've tried to record a talk to benefit people who have just thrown you under a bus, but I've tried and failed. I too would love to see that talk but I wouldn't expect that of JeanHeyd in this moment.
"Lambda calculus is a notation for describing mathematical functions and programs. It is a mathematical system for studying the interaction of functional abstraction and functional application. It captures some of the essential, common features of a wide variety of programming languages."

- https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs3110/2008fa/recitations...
Americans (I'm assuming you live in America), love to point to the Canadian health care system as some sort of failure.

Does it have its problems? Yes. Do Canadians think that American healthcare is a better system? Actions indicate: No.

How do I know? 90% of Canadians live close enough to the border to hop over and visit a doctor and be home in the same day. That's incredibly rare to do.

The few Canadians I've met who think its better in the US have either never dealt with the US system, or have only dealt with it in terms of very high end plans provided by an employer.

As someone who has lived in both countries, and dealt with US healthcare (ACA, and pre-ACA). I never want to deal with US healthcare again. Last time I lived in the states my premiums were ~7% of my take home pay. That's a massive "tax" to pay, and that's before you actually see a doctor.

So yeah. Canada had issues with care homes during Covid, but the correct point of comparison isn't top-notch private care homes in the US (A majority of Canadian care-homes are private anyway, so we have the same high end thing here). It is to compare the free public care homes in Canada with people dying at home in the US because they can't afford any care at all.
The US backed radical Islamic jihadists to overthrow the secular government running Afghanistan. The US president invited them to the White House, then armed and funded them https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Reagan_s... .

Trying to split hairs saying there was infighting and not all of them joined the Taliban does not change that.

Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda also came out of all that.

Now I'll go back to reading the mainstream media's encomiums to the Azov batallion in the Ukraine.
can you please share how you actually learned assembly and the resources you've used for it?
Yes, I mentioned that earlier in the comment thread.
Proof that part of the Roman Empire smelled of patchouli
Something that anyone who's brushed shoulders with the S1000D document specification knows in their guts.

S1000D is a CCS (component content system), which "chunks" the content into units called DMs (Data Modules). Each DM has a DMC (Data Module Code), which is also its filename, its natural key, and its addressable unit. The Data Module Code has tons of little IDs indicating all sorts of things[1], but see, they're all tied in to different business processes. I don't think I need to explain that this whole scheme goes batshit haywire at the smallest provocation, leading to many S1000D systems to be kept in the MIL-STD equivalent of a locked sacristy inside of the Logistics office. Locked sacristies don't get updated a whole lot, so the documents are comically - dangerously - out of sync with basically everything.

CCSs in general, and S1000D in particular, were architected by people that were outsiders to the broader trends in computing and programming. DITA came from Horn's Information Mapping via IBM, and Rob Horn was a PoliSci guy. IBM did what it could, but the basic notion that "document" could be replaced by "map" was a conceptual leap not taken by equivalent designers with LaTeX and the others in the more programmer-focused world. And compared to DITA, S1000D's far, far, far worse, being shaped by a steering group inside of a steering committee that's controlled by this . . this . . sort of Lovecraftian block diagram, if I am looking at the right issue of the specification and lighting the right candles. Both of the big CCS specs run into big thick walls of complexity as a fundamental consequence of their explicitly not studying computational complexity at design.

Alright, yeah, I have a few chips on my shoulder about this. But I hate waste, I hate it with the brilliance of a million suns, and I have seen so many decades of bodies thrown at this problem. It's beyond time at least a few of us raised our hands and asked, "So why does this never work?". The first step, as indicated, is admitting that your mental abstractions aren't actually real, not in the touchy-space-verse, and then to design systems accordingly.

[1] Namespaces? What's a namespace? S1000D avoids all things namespaces. Instead, when you have a new MODELIC + SDC combination, you mail a letter to NISPA (NATO Support and Procurement Agency) to register your new MODELIC, and then your DMCs will be - very hopefull y- uniquely addressable. How often do people actually register their MODELICs? Ah, I see you found the flaw in our cunning plan! MIL-STD-3031 (the USAA BREX / S1000D thingy) explicitly tells the publications administrator to NOT register their MODELICs with NISPA, because EUROS ARE GAYYYYYYY. Also, MIL-STD-3031 has some interesting ideas about what different parts of the DMC actually mean, which makes all this really pertinent (I think) to the article.
If I had found a flaw in a game like this I wouldn't assume exploiting it is cheating and definitely wouldn't think it would be illegal. If the game allows something that can happen accidentally (and especially if it is electronic) I would assume it is allowed.
> Genuine question - what is the lesson that you think should have been learned?

There are other competitors in the space (Beaglebone Black, for example) who got starved of oxygen because the RPi ecosystem dumped below-cost boards into the market.

Even worse, some of those competitors (Beaglebone Black, again) are, in fact, more open source that the RPi ever was.

The lesson to be learned: Beware of subsidized ecosystem dumping below cost. The party will eventually stop and then you will be left with nothing because of all the alternatives that you let get driven out of the market.
Alternative spin, WP is one of the most battle hardened CMS available.

Tongue in cheek, but genuinely as well, it is probably the most attacked CMS platform on the internet. That not every WP site is taken down by the automated attacks they all get means they must be doing something right.
Responding to a plea not to eat octopuses with a recipe suggestion seems designed to just cause suffering, and I'm not talking about the octopuses. At least present an argument if you have a different viewpoint.
Unfortunate to be called something like that instead of an alternative for IMDB's ratings or something.

Rotten Tomatoes is clearly meant to be just a parody website. Look at its name. It can't be taken seriously.
What does the plugin do?
In the context of the WSJ, cash doesn't mean physical currency. It just means dollars, i.e. not treasuries or any other type of asset. Most people would interpret that headline differently -- to the point of it being inaccurate.

[edit: also the wordplay wouldn't work]
I think the obvious answer is, we can’t actually tell one way or the other if it is a net benefit. However, humans can’t handle uncertainty so must be told in confident tones that the decision is the correct one. If anyone questions the established decision, they must be discredited.
> Also, I always find it interesting the ternary operation is constructed in statements/expressions in ? ... : notation but actually has "two" operators there. the ? is the conditional, the : is the binary-choice. It's a language syntax choice which "side" is true or false and it is also true that you can't construct statements in : without a prior ? but .. its hardly a single operator in syntax terms if it has two disjoint components. := is an unambiguous single operation. condition ? x : y is ... not. It's definedly ambiguous!

In C++, the lexical construct you describe is an atomic operator[0] and neither an expression nor a statement:

The first operand of the conditional operator is
evaluated and contextually converted to bool.
After both the value evaluation and all side effects
of the first operand are completed, if the result
was true, the second operand is evaluated. If the
result was false, the third operand is evaluated.

0 - https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/operator_other
Yep. It's Children of Memory.