skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the most popular restaurants I found in Australia were ordinary steakhouses. I don't think you can get much more Australian than a juicy sirloin steak, without exploring delicacies like bush tucker and roo meat -- "as Australian as it gets without breaking any laws," as a member of $WORK at the time's Australian office told me.

That said, Outback is definitely trying too hard.
We already have to appraise most of that anyhow, for capital gains tax purposes.

Though not really for the population as a whole: the majority of people don’t have all that much in the way assets. The proposals that get floated in the US don’t kick in until your wealth is in the tens of millions.
> deep fried hotdogs

You mean a corndog? Nothing inauthentic about that!
But the GDPR, like the Constitution, is a written artifact; pre-GDPR "recognition" of any of those rights, any "inherent" nature of them was not doing anything.
for what is is worth, it helps to have some sort of objective or something you want to investigate: do you want to learn about primes, machine learning, etc?
Yeah I agree. I really think the game is about how language is fuzzy, which I said a bit more over here[0]. I had a more detailed comment but the person deleted their post by the time I hit reply ;.;

Really what surprises me is how few people seem to understand that language is incredibly fuzzy. That there's an imperfect encoder (language) and decoder (listening/reading) system. That people are working off of different priors that bias these systems. That we aren't perfectly aligning the intent of our messages with the reception of them. That this system becomes even more fuzzy as the audience increases (increased variance in priors). It is a bit more surprising to me that in a community full of nerds where we communicate online, where we're exposed to many priors, that this is still a relatively unknown phenomena despite it being fairly easy to conclude simply through experience (besides also being fairly well discussed). I for one think the fuzziness of language is incredibly cool.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36456951
I just think it’s a fun little project! I love interesting programming projects that people share the source code for. I keep a note filled with links to things like this.

Sometimes I have a programming idea and I’ll go back to this list to see if I’ve already found something similar that I could build on top of.

One example where I did that: I remixed a few projects by other people to create this graphing tool that works on formulas that don’t have to be solved for y:

https://memalign.github.io/m/formulagraph/index.html?f1(x,t)...

Learn more about that here:

https://memalign.github.io/p/formulagraph.html
Yeah feels like the hallucination of this AI is strong. Way too strong. I tried to give it a simple word ranking task but it fails spectacularly.

https://heypi.com/s/Qmvu2EscbGZzWCVbpCarh
Semigroup Resonance FizzBuzz (2019)
It would bea good visual training tool for kids so they can get an understanding early on other than a block-box view.
Yes, in the sense that "math is programming paper instead of computers", being better at one translates to being better at the other. This intuition can even be made precise via the "Curry-Howard isomorphism", upon which "proof assistants" such as Coq are built.
That's barely more than my single 12400F with only 6 cores (when performing work). Wow.
Now if only they would hire remote...
There would be extra complexity for sure, especially with key management, but I don't think it would affect sync much. It's end-to-end so by definition it should only happen client-side, and instead of sending plaintext to the cloud your send the ciphertext.
Mapping/looping over Object.entries is great. But you really should only be doing that with Record<>, not some random object. A record is like a container, such as an array, than a object with properties that might have different types.
I don’t believe it does anything. Times just lets you share 10 non-paywalled stories/mo. It’s not like a referral link or anything.
Or better yet, the abominations that appear to be all "Mexican" food in Australia.
Unfortunately Bitcoin alone doesn‘t fix the fundamental problem
When outside the US, I love McDonald’s for a quick meal. It’s usually much better than in the US and will have local items.
You are absolutely right, and all of these commentators trying to counter you would fall apart if CoPilot was found using proprietary software in its training data. Its no wonder all these AI companies are playing fast-and-loose with licensing.

To all those commentators: You really need to understand how this works. There is a reason all the big tech companies are fanatically allergic to GPL software. It is worth the legal fee for the lawyer to walk you through all of it.
What does the equivalent EPYC consume?
From what I read it sounds like Americans repair their cars more thoroughly than Europeans.

Most people I know unless they have a particularly fancy car just leave the little scratches, dents, dings etc and do functional repairs only.

Spending thousands on a paint job is car enthusiast territory.
I had a deep fried stick of butter once. Was great, would have it again after checking if my heart can physiologicaly handle it.
I use tabs all the time. Right now I have 29 open. I rarely use multiple windows, but sometimes if I'm doing something where I need to reference between multiple tabs, I'll open a new one for that. It's easier for me to go back to ones on my desktop browser where I have vertical tabs. On mobile things keep getting out of hand and I have 80 or so there now, some of them months old because they're going to take more than a few minutes to deal with and I never think to look at them when I can do something about it.

I don't really use bookmarks, but I did use Pinboard for a while. I do wish I had a way do to full-text search of my browsing history. Maybe I should just use Pocket more.

Top plugins - Right now I'm down to uBlock Origin, Tree Style Tabs, and Mute Sites by Default. I used to have ones that expanded links on Twitter and Google, but I don't know of any that actually work right now.

I'm on Firefox right now, but I don't know if I could recommend it over Edge if someone were looking to switch browsers today. I'm kinda stuck because all my browsing history is on FF.
A perspective from someone who doesn't have the latest and greatest browser ... I visit the likes of twitter when someone posts a link to some information ... it displays, not all but those like me can still see the texty stuff ... every Mastodon link ... nah ... oh well no care. This is not an issue with those content to remain contained within the walls of such a place, but if people would like to reference material within it ... well it might matter.
Wouldn’t that be part of “costing Americans”, even if it flows through insurance premiums?

Also, my maxed out liability only insurance for 5k miles per year is ~$50 per month, $600 per year.

For an extra $2k per year, I assume you have significantly more comprehensive/collision coverage, miles, and/or prior incidents on your driving record?

For some savings, I always tell people to drop personal injury protection or reduce it to lowest legal amount if you have ACA compliant health insurance, since your healthcare costs would be covered by health insurance anyway.
I lived in SF for 9 years. Good memories. And during peak tech boom you could easily shield yourself from the worst of the city. Ubers were cheap, office perks kept you from venturing out, and foot traffic was high enough to make the open air drug use less visible.

But since 2020, it became absolute misery.

I moved to NYC, and I’m much happier here. So your point about being in a walkable city still stands.
Prigozhin could be threatened with a tactical nuke, in theory.

But the far cheaper and easier version is that he was threatened with the fates of his Russian wife and children.
Single window most of the time. I tend to keep the number of tabs open at 12-20 tabs. As soon as the tabs become too many I often rearrange them keeping only the ones I still need, and close all of the remaining tabs.

There was a point in time where I tended to keep tens or even hundreds of tabs open but I eventually realised that doing so was pointless.

I still have a bookmarking ritual though, where I bookmark anything and everything that is even the slightest bit interesting. Maybe one day I will be able to kick that habit as well.

The only plug-in I really care about is uBlock Origin on Firefox and Chrome. On my own computer I use Brave browser which has ad-blocking built into it.

Yes, we can be friends.
I think this is the exact situation I'm asking about, so thank you for answering! It's a good discussion point.

To me it seems like so many companies start like this, but fail to get past the profitability stage. I guess my question is, are these companies going about this the wrong way? Maybe starting with a big surge of funding to get off the ground is giving false hope to products or corporate strategies that just aren't sustainable. I'm wondering if starting small and letting things grow organically, slowly, is more effective overall in terms of success for businesses. I have no idea though.

What are some examples of companies that grew rapidly with VC funding and eventually became successful, profitable businesses? Netflix, maybe -- anyone know others? (I'm showing my ignorance here, I'm sure there are many obvious ones!)
The recent update to llama.cpp to support Apple Silicon (at least for Q4_0 models) is really great. I can run pretty big models on my macbook now with decent performance, and smaller 13B models just fly. The ability to get a lot of GPU-accessible RAM is perfect.
Yes, though any subject which trains you to think with mathematical rigor will help.

I switched my major from CS to math midway through my undergrad studies. I have worked at startups and FAANG as a SWE so I have seen these skills in different engineering environments. A few things I’ve seen:

1. My later classes used the Moore Method which made whiteboard interviews much less stressful
2. I can spar with our data scientists and call out BS metrics rigorously in a very political environment at my current company
3. I can sometimes find pathological execution scenarios and bugs faster than my CS coworkers

The one caution is that time spent studying things that aren’t programming needs to be balanced with time spent programming

As for math outside of CS that’s helpful for programming and thinking, modern algebra and category theory can really help in understanding type systems and their limitations. They’re also very accessible when compared to stuff like differential equations and analysis IMO
But he kept Berkshire going for years when it made little economic sense to do out of a sense of obligation?
Glad I'm not the only one with this take. Assuming it's even true, orchestrating the interactions of 8x200b models seems like a fairly significant advancement in itself.

My feeling is that the next generation of AI is going to be modular: connecting disparate models serving different purposes to generate a processing pipeline to achieve a singular goal. This, and the new function calling API seem to indicate this is an area of interest.
The "import math" was silly, but with the correction it was right. Single line func works fine:

>>> def meaning_of_life(): return 42

...

>>> print(meaning_of_life())

42
It isn't the most popular restaurant chain in Brazil by any measure, in fact it's unknown by most brazilians not living in a vey large city.

Original article title: Why beef-loving Brazil is so obsessed with an American steakhouse chain
Agreed just adding, deflation is not bad if it is small (<< 1%)
Hm, I had thought it was two different spellings of the same word. It does seem the ideas were created independently but are quite similar (I'm reading https://marketingmemetics.com/essays/mimetics-vs-memetics )
I think the proof mindseet was a huge help to me as a beginning programmer, BUT that was in the context of high school Euclidean geometry, not analysis, around the same time I was first learning a programming language that let you write functions. As I recall (long time ago now!) the two things kind of fed off of each other very nicely.

Then it got a bit of reinforcement in my honors "1st semester calculus but we're proving everything" course.
Speaking of owning your content, I’ve been looking for a blogging solution that would:

- Be statically generated

- Be self-hosted

- Have a fantastic iOS app

- Make authoring posts containing media effortless

And nothing that I find comes even close. Can someone just build this?
> Imagine if there was a 'texas bbq' chain in Australia that had deep fried hotdogs, cowboy hat fries or whatever other plausibly American thing you could think of.

Imagine? Given what I saw in Australia, finding such a place is probably relatively easy and would make a fun vacation exercise.

In just about every major city there is a place called "New York Pizza" or something similar. There is an inverse relationship in these places between distance to actual New York and closeness of the pizza to real New York pizza. The New York Pizza in Boston is pretty close. The New York Pizza in Brisbane? I'm not sure but I think they used salami for pepperoni...
No, it doesn't. It just sends 1 ECHO_REQUEST packet. If this was sarcasm I could not detect it
Someone in theory could have bought Berkshire in 1930 at a quarter and then held until $50k-100k had he lived long enough.

I think this is the greatest CAGR of any investment except Bitcoin.

Finally by 1998 the second derivative goes negative, with brk.a more closely tracking the S&P 500 thereafter. The era of was over. But it was a great run. I think Buffett's mistake, as he later admitted, was not pivoting to tech stocks in the early 2000s. Missed out on Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple. Same for Walmart, which he missed. Had he done so, the CAGR from 1969-1999 could have been sustained for another 2 decades. Mr. Buffett now owns Apple.
Ever year. Important part of headline is missing.

> The total translates to $1,035 in extra costs incurred by each and every American due to increased medical and automotive insurance premiums for everyone, property damage, lost market productivity, and increased taxes to fund public services like first responders.

The amount we have adopted cars is ridiculous. And there really is little need. I have lived all over with no car.

Most cities used to have awesome tram networks that were dismantled to please drivers.
Found the King of Town.
To quote Tom Lehrer, "I am never forget the day..." [1]

I was working with WinXP, trying to reconfigure a machine's network for something abstruse. I was making changes in the network configuration dialog, and kept tentatively moving forward because there was always the "CANCEL" button available to revert my changes.

I made one last change, and suddenly the "CANCEL" button dimmed. It was as if you were creeping into the entranceway of a haunted castle, and after one more step the door slams shut behind you.

20 years later and I'm still scarred...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlfXirQF3A&t=24s
A total of 42,915 people died in motor vehicle crashes in 2021.

How many would be alive today if they had been fully remote?
But this isn’t a binary choice between “cars, with the number of crashes we have today” and “no cars”.
It's not even close of being popular. It's expensive, for example, with the same money you can go to any good "churrascaria" and eat much more, much better.
Assuming he takes the deal, he will be alone in Belarus while his army goes back to the trenches in Ukraine. So much for his private army.
Just gave it a cursory 5 minute try and it’s already annoying me with its fake personality

It also fails my go to LLM test -

You walk up to a glass door. It has push written in mirror writing. What should you do and why?

GPT-4 explains this perfectly - and understands it’s a message for someone on the other side of the door

3.5 actually used to fail this but now succeeds with full explanation.

PI guessed it right, but its reason was wrong. It thinks it’s someone trying to play a prank on me. When I say it is not a prank it is a real sign, try again, it said it was out of its depth and refused to engage any further.

I think the reason chat GPT took off like it did is it has passed a magical threshold of comprehension, and anything below that threshold immediately falls back to being deeply frustrating and annoying because it is good at masquerading as ‘human’ but is not able to act like one well enough. The equivalent of the uncanny valley in VR. The extra ‘personally’ added on top just widens that gulf
> Mask mandates are an extremely unskilled method of encouraging a behaviour.

Not where I live.

> The mandate resulted in many people putting any old piece of cloth over their faces.

Not where I live.

> Mask mandates enabled the topic to become a political issue.

Not where I live.

> Therefore, the refusal of many to comply is the more correct decisions.

No, it's actually, how did you put it?, “an extremely unskilled” response.

> Stupid rules should be broken

Agreed, but a rule isn't automatically stupid just because you don't like it.
>I guess my criterion for 'grandiose rhetoric' is the bigness of a claim divided by the amount of information provided to support it. When the numerator is big and the denominator is small, that's what I mean by grandiose.

you just described a majority of discussions around AI/Chat GPT here. Or around twitter/facebook/etc. using this criteria they should be outright banned from here.
No, I would not say it has.

Having a basic understanding of math can provide some value. For example, things like understanding Big O notation, or the fact that algorithms can be proven at all. Stuff like that provides you the right tooling to select the right algorithms for your problem.

However the actual proving part is mostly busy-work, and due to the Halting problem provides relatively little value in general programming. It might be useful if you want to develop a compiler or something, but most people don't.

Proof-based maths is the main reason why I dropped out of my Computer Science M.Sc. course. After a while it became painfully obvious to me that it didn't teach me anything I could actually use as a developer, and it was a waste of time if I didn't want to go into academics.

You'll learn more about programming by actually doing programming.
If you believe this started as the US doing anything, I have a bridge (or an LLM) to sell you ...

The US (and the West) reacted to Putin's invasion of Ukraine. I think they've done an amazing job given the horrible starting premise. Still, they're trying to achieve balance and many things can go wrong.

Do you believe letting Russia take over Ukraine (or half of it) was a better option? Or getting NATO directly involved?
>Single-socket submissions show that AMD's 128-core, 256-thread Epyc 9754 scores right around 922 in the benchmark, about 2.58x higher than Ampere's top-specced Altra, the M128-30, which comes in at 356.

>While a clear win for AMD's Bergamo, it doesn't take into consideration other elements like power consumption. AMD's part is rated for 360W and can be configured up to 400W, while Ampere's has a TDP of just 182W. So yes, it may be 2.5x times faster, but it potentially uses 2-2.2x more power.
You can narrow it exhaustively.
Capital gains taxes do not require any appraisal. They only apply when a gain is recognized, so is simply sale price minus purchase price times tax rate.

Capital gains taxes are income taxes. Property/wealth taxes are taxes paid based on the “market” price of an asset just for owning it (presumably society provides for its security and environment in which it became valuable and will continue to be valuable).
I live in Toronto and Brazilians here drive to Niagara Falls to eat at Outback since there's none in the city. Enough said.
> I must say the food was a bit disappointing

Food varies a lot between states and regions. Could you be more specific? I can understand food from São Paulo state being less interesting than, say, Minas Gerais, Bahia, etc.
Its an amazing write up, that has a few typos but it still incredibly detailed and informative.
I'm not really sure the chances are any smaller. Here's one example, he onsight soloed a 13 pitch 5.11a last year a few months after his kid was born: https://www.instagram.com/p/CfSIT0QuzXq/

He does this kind of thing all the time (and usually doesn't post about it), and it's arguably more dangerous than what he's most famous for, which is soloing really big routes only after he's climbed them on a rope hundreds of times. It's like a retired Olympic marathon runner going for an easy jog every few days, but if they ever trip they'll die.
It isn’t worse on Mastodon. I am not sure it is objectively better.
I hate being a "tourist". What I do love to do, though, is to be an expat. To actually go live in a city, for several months at least. Long enough to really know a few places and even already have some "favorite" ones. Long enough to have an actual keychain with car keys / apartment/house keys etc. and not just a card to swipe to enter the hotel room.

I lived in Poland (Krakow), Croatia (Zagreb), Japan (Tokyo), the USA (L.A. and then a bit more south, Orange County), Spain (Valencia), Belgium (my native country), France (french riviera), nearly settled in Andorra (wonderful tiny country hidden in the mountains) then I now live in Luxemburg. I'll probably move again in a few years.

I've never been a tourist in any of these places. I've always been renting or buying actual places (i.e not an AirBnB).

I do join expat meetups and get to meet like-minded people. They're not tourists.

And tourism in countries where tourism represent too big of a percentage of the GDP is an issue. France is now rethinking its approach to tourism for example: too many people all coming at mostly the same times of the year at the same spot.

You don't get to see a country when you're a tourist: you get to see mostly other tourists (at the hotel, in the streets where the hotels are, in museums, in restaurants for you'll invariably end up on the restaurants where tourists go and not the ones where the locals do go). I don't see the point.
I have an undergraduate degree and a couple years worth of graduate school in pure math (and continue to read/work through math texts on occasion when the urge strikes me), and can say with pretty high confidence that my ability as a programmer over my life has been relatively uncorrelated with the amount of math I've learned and my proficiency with understanding and writing mathematical proofs.

I do believe that having some baseline ability to think carefully, logically, and rigorously, while being able to shift your perspective between levels of abstraction as you analyze a problem, is very useful as a computer programmer, but I don't think mathematics is the only route (or even the best route) to acquiring that skill; I've had a number of colleagues over the years with no formal training or education in any sort of "STEM" field who were nevertheless quite adept programmers.

At the end of the day, based on both my own experience and what I've observed in friends and colleagues, the way to become a better programmer is the way to get better at most things in life: do a lot of it, find other people who are good at it and get their feedback, and stay humble enough that you'll be able to learn from your mistakes and change your thought processes. But mainly just do a lot of it.

That's not to say you shouldn't learn some serious math, of course: there's a lot of cool and interesting stuff to learn, and some of it even has useful applications. But the thing you get good at when doing math is, well, doing math, and if you really want to be a better programmer, your time is likely better spent writing software.
I feel there's a huge amount of status put into cars in America too. Perhaps due to extremely effective marketing.