skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... which is a natural result of such an obscure system that is needlessly complex for everybody involved. If you can't do conversions on spot as a population, you simply over time don't do it and this state becomes natural. Just like for us literally everywhere else in the world we convert and literally everybody with even very subpar intelligence can be discussed with in such units.

Suffice to say, we had tons if very similar obscure systems in medieval Europe, even my tiny eastern country had at least 6 with various absurd conversion schemes for lengths, volumes and weights. These days we go to museums or medieval wiki pages if we want to see that. The thing is, we moved to modern era and absolutely nobody looks back.

I suspect with US its more an ego thing and swallowing pride that somebody else can he it simply better, rather than anything else. I mean whenever US actually needs to do some proper science and achieve great stuff, it turns quietly to metric/liters/kilograms. We have 10 fingers 100% of the time right in front of our face and everybody learns to count on them first, there is really nothing more natural.
The benevolent dictator cachet comes mostly from Python microcosm.
> not really valid anymore

You have to express reasons when not evident.

In case, just in case (and to also show how lack of definition may trigger any weak interpretation), after suggestion from a nearby member, the idea would had been that today people could have sentences reformulated by language models: the composer intends to express a logic, so any translator would have to grasp said logic primarily and first.
> the slicer69 project has had some insecure code added in the past

Ouch... surely no distribution would package this garbage, right?
Your arguments would be more effective if you provided respected sources for each. As a passerby, some don't pass my smell test, but I'm always willing to learn.
I agree with you, but as far as I know there is a large gender imbalance (Female to Male is much more common than Male to Female - almost twice as common). How would you explain that?
For furthering your skills, i can suggest a related topic (that is never taught officialy though): debugging/reverse-engineering an interpreter. Does not have to be a JVM-size, most games have lots of interpreters in them too.. (although there might be multiple layers of interpreters - which is magnitude harder)

You may start with reversing compiled-code, but interpreter is much-much more.. interesting. Especialy if of unknown (simple) language.
It is abused a lot, but for instance, for us, an honest b2b saas company, we get flagged like common criminals way too often when paying people who work for us in ‘shitty countries’. It’s always unblocked but it’s a huge strain with sending in paperwork, talking to idiots etc. Our main account has been blocked for 3 weeks and our account manager keeps apologising as the regulatory department is handling it and they don’t really talk to eachother.

I understand the criminal abuse, but it is just an easy way of paying out like you say to countries that banks flag (not sanctioned ones; just one that ‘normal people don’t send money to’).
The Earth diameter at the equator is 43 km larger than at the poles.

It's like the Earth orbit: we learn in school that it's an ellipse, but we are never actually given a sense of the shape, and most of the drawings give a completely wrong idea.
Yup. And I'm my area, you'd have wanted to keep the dust out too. At certain times of the year when it was windy and the power went out and the ceiling fans went with it, you'd have to open the windows to cool down, but live in darkness because your candles would blow out.
Well, George also bought a wig and thought he would never have to take it off.
Most governments around the world are against crypto because it undermines KYC and AML efforts. No amount of wall street lobbying will change that because the bureaucrats believe that "national security" is at risk if crypto is allowed to proliferate. Central bank digital currencies are popular among regulators and the national security apparatus precisely because they centralize control. It's also why Circle and USDC are widely accepted - all the advantages of being decentralized have been neutered to the point of uselessness.
Good.

The crypto bro fools thinking this was a use case need their heads corrected by regulation. Binance and the like are inherently not fit for the financial system.

And I'm going to make an on the record bet that you can quote me on:

Crypto will all completely collapse before they will find any possible use case that hasn't already been solved by the current financial system.

The collapse will be even bigger than FTX.
Industrial revolution had nothing to do with it, given that the inch USA uses today is an inch created by a pissed off engineer (gauge block Inventor Carl Johansson) in European company making gauge blocks, who defined an inch to be 25.4 mm @ 20 degrees Celsius in 1912 - created by taking a reasonable metric approximation in between British and American inches.

The popularity of Johansson's blocks is Brits changed their definition of inch in 1930 and USA followed in 1933. Most countries that still used inches started to use "industrial inch" of 25.4mm in 1930s, the rest went metric.
The problem started long time ago when the central government took most of the tax revenue from the local provincial and city governments leaving them without funding to operate. As a compensation, they were granted the authority to sell the land use right of their lands. Land is never privately owned in China. What is sold is the right to use the land for a period of time.

Since the state owned all the lands and the local governments as the sole supplier of lands, they became a monopoly in land sale. As with any monopoly especially a unchecked one they pushed to raise prices all the times to gain maximum profit. The regulation and policies of the governments aimed to build more and to keep raising the property price years after years because that's what brought in the money.

It has become unsustainable as people couldn't afford the high price. There're a glut of houses and sales have been slow yet the governments have prohibited the lowering of the price as lower housing price means lower tax revenue. There're some cases when developers lowered the price and got hit with huge fine and jailed.

High price and slow sales mean the developers like Evergrande cannot get rid of the inventory to get the capital back to fund further development. They have already sold the not-yet-built houses for the next phase but have run out of money. Couple years back the central government had forced the banks to put in severe limits on loans to the developers. They turned to shadow banks like investment fund trusts to raise money but those are blowing up just now, defaulting on bond payments. They have no money to finish the projects. They owe huge amount of debts, owe huge amount of unpaid taxes, and owe the unbuilt houses to customers. They should have been bankrupted a long time ago but the governments won't let them.

This is a huge problem for China. Housing development comprises about 25%~30% of GDP; its blowup would cripple the economy. Most ordinary people's wealth are largely tied to the value of their homes; a large drop of the house value hits most people hard, forcing them to cut back on spending, further putting down the economy. The financial institutes like banks, shadow banks, investment funds, etc have lost huge amount of money as developers unable to pay back their loans and people defaulting on their mortgages. The lowering of the property value would force more loans gone underwater. There'll be a string of bankruptcy. The local governments have large revenue shortfall and yet saddled with huge debts, because guess what, they were in the game to invest to build housing. The shortfall forces them to lay off workers, cut back on salaries, cut pensions, and cut back on services. Even the central government has no money. Last year they openly said that beyond some emergency fund there's no money left.

Any option for solutions is a bitter pill and no one has the political will to do it. It's just a downward spiral.
Have you tried measuring the actual impact of this?

This optimization is so old, I'm not even sure if it's still worth the effort. It definitely worked in the 90s.

What you do here is you save on division, and lose on instruction cache. This might look good on a benchmark when all your code fits the cache nicely, but bite back in-vivo. You should try it out in an actual problem and see how it goes.
If I own a sizeable stake in a public company, and I see that a billionaire is doing a hostile takeover, am I wrong to demand a higher price?

This is a risk of doing a massive land purchase like this. The seller is absolutely in the right to hold out as long as they want, and to maximize their profit.

If they won't sell, build around them.
> Gas and water pipes are often in inches too (Italy)

English inches (now 25.4 mm) or Italian inches? (“once”/“oncia”-varied in definition between different parts of Italy, but was always at least a fraction more or less than the English one)
The child would clearly have to mentally carry four times all the way down the chain:

11 11
14.446
+ 6.789
--------
21.235
I don’t have any research to back this up but I am willing to bet that this is more due to social stigma than any genetic component.
Those were financial operations. They were selling bonds outside China.

The treatment of stakeholders have also been different inside and outside of China. The assumption based on the experience so far is that inevitably overseas investors, such as US based entities, will lose out more.
Chinese firms have been raising money in overseas markets and has been exporting risk in this way, the issue is how China's government will handle this against the opaque corporate structure behind these financial instruments sold overseas.
I would have to assume the company didn't use those payments to fund the building of properties for earlier mortgages. The Ponzi scheme nature of it is the Chinese thing (not that it has anything to do with being Chinese, it's just the reality of Chinese real estate today and of the past decades). Paying for the construction of a new home in installments is something done across the world.
> In Python, except for mutability, is there any difference between tuple and list? In my experience: Pure Python people get so excited about tuples ("oh, it's so Pythonic"); others: much less.

In my experience, people who don’t care about tuples are people who don’t understand them. It’s not much about being Pythonic or not (they exists in other languages) but rather about choosing the right data structure for solving your problem. Tuples are much more than a way of making immutable lists, they offer a type-safe and serializable representation of pairs and triplets; something you can’t have with a list. If you don’t use them yet, I really encourage you to document yourself (and again-- in general, not just in Python) because you’re missing something.
> Too many young people think they can optimize something, and then they find they've spent a couple of years or more specializing in something that may not have been the right thing. And in the process they burn out, because they haven't spent enough time building up friendships and having a life outside computing.

why do old people have to read my mind
It really… doesn’t have to complicate. And I disagree that optimising python code is never necessary. Not everybody is writing 100-line one-off glue scripts.

Also, you are somewhat changing the topic from “what is an example of when you might want to is-compare two dicts”, no?
Society is largely still more accepting of Female to Male transition, than Male to Female. Plus the gendered power balance might leave more people adverse to making the shift in public.

I would also 'guess' that those who transition and dress moving from female to male, can 'pass' more easily in society. Even if someone still has female features, if they dress like a guy, no one cares.
Ponzi provided a lot of value to some of his early investors until the whole thing collapsed (of course all of that happened way faster).

> value is provably false.

None of what you said would suggest anything like. What you're talking about is redistribution. People buying tokens using real money from those who bought them cheaper creating:

> tons of crypto million and billionaires

in the process. Could you explain at what point this actual value is created?
2600 is so bad these days, very sad.
Interesting project! How do you model emotions and what is the source of data in MoodMinder?
Seems like the Super Tucano would be a good fit
A 'pint' in the UK is 568ml, still I think. Maybe REUL will undo that. Some places you get half-litres.
I don't think it's worse than direct proof of stake, I guess?

I don't think torrents are at any risk of being taken over by a small number of actors.
Had no idea comma splice was considered error in english writing, has it always been like this?
Xs4all, I did forget! Thanks for reminding
On iOS you click share -> add to home screen. How much easier can it really be on Android?
This is what I had in mind. Sorry for not being clearer.
Shifted when ChatGPT came out? HN comments has been borderline trolling flamewars in every cryptocurrency related post for years now.
Doesn't that make about as much sense as the UK expecting the French to protect them without some concomitant agreement (such as NATO)?
I think the problem is that popular culture is increasingly moving towards hyper-masculine and hyper-feminine stereotypes. So people who don't fit the mould end up feeling that they aren't a "real" man/woman.
A lot of traditional units are based on random reference points that were an issue from antiquity - consider how pretty much every market town kept their own measure references even if they used same terminology.

That said, Fahrenheit use of brine solution for 0 and his wife's armpit for 100 remains among most WTF for me.
I guess some people who worked on the transputer later went on to design Graphcore's IPU? The architecture looks similar (and Bristol based)
Should have been an HTML file, not a PDF!
"Hey do you know what exponential growth is?" You think I just say that sentence and suddenly all your arguments are suddenly flushed down the toilet because I stated some random concept out of nowhere? Come on. You need evidence.

You brought up this question of diminishing returns out of nowhere and offer no evidence for it. So why would my point not stand?

I read the sibling comments. One person brought it up but offered no proof that this is what's happening. Simply did what you did in a manner that was less rude, just stated the concept of diminishing returns applies to LLMs without offering a shred of evidence that indicates this is what is happening.

There is a difference between introducing the concept of diminishing returns out of nowhere, and providing evidence that diminishing returns is WHAT is actually HAPPENING with LLMS.

We're about a year out from the introduction of chatgpt, that's not enough time to know if all the gains in the past decade of AI has suddenly hit wall of diminishing returns.
archive.org has several editions with, to my eyes, better formatting. If you have an account, you can check them out for online reading.

e.g.
https://archive.org/details/elementsofstyle0000will_j3d8/pag...

or the full set of choices at

https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22William+Strunk...
I think the parent poster accidentally made a double negative.
Most of these were only revealed 20-50 years after the fact, no? I think we don't know yet in how many ways we're being poisone, because the policy seems to be use random chemicals now, ask questions later.

Also maybe add phosphorus and radium to the list.
> elite

Are you implying that basic understanding of finance and economics makes you a part of some 'elite' these days?
While the GOP now literally has candidates in its primaries that explicitly position themselves in favor of "maybe some people should have access to abortion sometimes and we shouldn't put people in prison for it", prior to the catastrophic failure of its so-called culture war, the GOP actually had very vocal factions explicitly framing contraceptives as abortion - starting with the "morning after" pill, which literally prevents impregnation rather than inducing abortion in any sense of the word, but up to and including the regular "pill", which simply prevents ovulation at all.

Sure this is still not at the level of banning all forms of contraception, but it's not a long shot and given the historically evident incremental nature of this combined with the focus on "abstinence only" sex ed (i.e. no sex outside marriage, i.e. no need for easy access to condoms or any other OTC contraceptives) I don't think this can be dismissed as a "slippery slope" fallacy either.
It's taking your assistants job.
Intel Macs have swap too. You can check it in Activity Monitor: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/activity-monitor/actmn...
Here is an example which shows how they participate in the cutting edge

https://youtu.be/DZ0yfEnwipo

essentially they develop and license technologies around the chip making process
I read “On Writing Well” recently and really enjoyed it. The author cites “Elements” frequently.

https://ia800308.us.archive.org/31/items/OnWritingWell/on-wr...
Polish railway system hacked, trains forced to stop by attackers
Why are there more female to male (than male to female) transitions then? Surely these hormones (if they have the affect you describe) would be reducing the number of born women who become men?
Off-topic; what happened to this thread? For me most comments disappeared. It says 36 comments; I see only 7. Maybe this is a thing, but I never noticed before.
Why did they think it was a good idea to begin with?

It seems likely that MasterCard and Binance signed a two year contract and that has now expired and the "less than 1% of customers" simply is covering the cost of operation. Existing the contract early might have been rather expensive though.

While I don't know it could also be that the cards are issue with a two year lifetime and MasterCard didn't want to close cards early.
> Scientific consensus is built up around a body work

Yes, and that process is supposed to include judging the merit of the individual studies that make up the body of work. A hundred shoddy papers don't make a convincing body of work all of a sudden, they make a pile of inconclusive trash.

I'm not disagreeing with the consensus you point at, I wouldn't know, but you can't use "consensus arises from a body of work" to argue inclusion of anything in that body of work.
Devtools or F9 while in game. Type a famous magic word in the title screen to access all levels. Not sure how to do this on a phone which is what I was referring to - but framedrops are pretty obvious.
This looks awesome! I use a paid VPN mesh service called Tailscale to build k8s clusters which can span across cloud and home setups, but was always frustrated that the Tailscale server component is closed source. Netbird seems to do pretty much the same thing, so maybe I can switch over to it once it's stable enough.
10 or so years ago they had a collection of marble runs with mixed steel/glass marbles with a Hall effect sensor, a proximity sensor and some track switches. Students would use Ada to run the marble tracks and have them sort the marbles.

It’s interesting to hear that they had a longer history of teaching Ada with real-time sensors and controls.
If it's any consolation I know someone who went through that and now wants them back. Ergo, there are problems if you go through that too. Perhaps it's too easy to do it...
> raised for exploitation and slaughter

Yup. You are born, grow, work, pay taxes, and die.
Go-logging is a Golang library that implements the Python-like logging facility
I think you’re missing the point here.

Language models scale.

It doesn’t matter if a single pass doesn’t solve the problem, has syntax errors, etc. A single pass costs a fraction of a cent.

You can just automate the process of code -> create variant -> fix from LLM -> apply deterministic tests until the code at least compiles -> pass it to the user; the fact you can’t do that with chatgpt is just because it’s not a coding tool.

Heck, there are already companies doing exactly this with vulnerability scanners (ie. the deterministic feedback loop) to suggest security fixes for code.

You just repeat a heap of times until you get a solution that passes all the scanners.

If it takes 10 tries, or 100 tries, it still is zero effort from a human.

Of course, whether the result does the right thing is another matter, but the frustrating ergonomics of copy-paste cycle is because of the ui, not the technology.

You will see “surprisingly good” output from professional tools in this space (we already are); but a lot of it is not magic sauce; it’s just the same tools, run multiple times, in a way that saves you doing it manually and just shows the best results, with a pretty ribbon on it.
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The Origins and Motivations of Univalent Foundations (2014)
see also https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/hhkbp2/go-logging
The fact that Texas had a thing like this being built only for it to get mothballed by angry GOP members mad at the _concept_ of a train is so depressing.
What is better? Starting with awk or sed?
I feel like this view is very US-centric and due to bad city design. Surely shutting our doors and getting ever more isolated at home isn't the next step in society?
> This could easily conceal the indexing error unless the caller code explicitly checks the length of the returned section.

An empty returned section doesn’t mean the index was out of bounds (`a[0:0]`); if you want to make sure you have to check the length before slicing, like in Go.
> I notice it most when things here by chance are done in metric, but the units still aren't converted. E.g. I might see something listed at 1000mL, instead of just writing 1L. Or 3500g instead of 3.5kg.

I see things like this constantly in shops in Europe. I think it is part of a dark pattern to make price comparisons less intuitive and even misleading if you just skip over the prices trying to find the cheapest. What is cheaper, the product advertised as $X per liter or the one priced $Y per 100ml? There usually isn't a significant difference in packaging volume or usage that would otherwise explain why anyone would use different units for each.
Providing good sources requires substantial effort, and doing so seems to have limited, if any, persuasive power. This isn't Wikipedia. If you're genuinely willing to learn you can look things up for yourself.

(note that people demanding sources like this are often selective about what they demand them for...)
> Of the 153,209,283 X accounts following Musk at the time the data was collected, around 42 percent of Musk's followers, or more than 65.3 million users, have zero followers on their own account. Just over 72 percent, or nearly 112 million, of these users following Musk have less than 10 followers on their account.

What conclusions can we even draw from this? I have a Twitter account with zero followers.
Show HN: FlagPalette – Flag Color Codes
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Be the change you want to see in the World ;)
I get that and probably should’ve clarified. What I mean is they can hold up Chromium and say “we made it so that literally anyone can take what we made and make their own copy without our branding and talking to our services, for free”. That’s an incredibly strong defence against being a monopoly.