skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The correct answer will depend on the specifics of your environment. In some places, tax is calculated per line item. If you go to a dollar store and buy 10 items with 7.3% sales tax, it adds up without those 0.3¢ bits. In other places, the tax is supposed to be calculated on the total for the tax category in the sale. If you wanted to keep it by line item you'd need the extra digits of precision.
Try not to worry too much about the zealots backlash. Ne thinks I'm attacking a worldview instead of just pointing out factually incorrect information.

It's true that 70MB is very small for games, especially if you're talking about something with 3D contexts and meshes. But it is also true that most mobile games could be built with Javascript and still be just as performant and served as Progressive Web Apps in less than an MB. So, in the frame of reference, 70MB is gargantuan. I certainly understand why OP took offense, because their frame of reference isn't "all games", it's "games that focus on these very specific metrics I care about".

If that's your only criteria, then obviously Unreal would be bad because it doesn't optimize ONLY for size, it optimizes for a bunch of other stuff, and leaves a lot of optimization on the table for devs to do on their own. Of course, all of that is true of Unity too, which is why you can get smaller package sizes (20MB is not impossible for Unreal, but it's easier with Unity), but you still can't come even close to something that is "efficiently" packaged. For that, you'd need to move into lower level stuff like engines and frameworks in Rust or C++. Eschew the niceties of the IDE and really get that package size down to zero!

Of course, that's not feasible for a lot of people, so (as always) you're talking about what kinds of things you're trying to optimize for. And Unreal produces package sizes well within the range of acceptability for even Unity games. Most of those are at least 200MB+. So it's a petty complaint made from a place of self-interest, that is only true in contrived instances, which seemed worth pointing out.

As a stray aside, though: I have had games developed in both Unreal and Unity on the play and app stores and no one ever said anything about performance on either of them, so I really don't know what kind of devving OP is talking about that results in such poor performance. I can't imagine I'm doing anything uncommon, so I'm very curious as to what the hang ups are, mainly in a "are you sure you're doing this the Unreal way, instead of trying to force the Unity way in Unreal?" kind of way.
It's a solution of a problem that shouldn't exist at the first place.
I'd consider using something besides 'list all files' as first example in the gif. I'd think anyone who opens a terminal knows how to do that so listing files in a directory and hitting a spinner isn't very inspiring.

The second curl example is better since plenty of people won't know that off the top of their head.
"Proof of Space-time"

Oooh, what a fancy, high-falutin word for... writing bingo tickets to your SSD. Could more accurately be called "proof of bingo card", and then it doesn't infringe on actually interesting concepts, like relativistic physics.

I remember when the new of Chia caused SSD prices to spike around the time I was buying, in the speculative fever for free money. At least it crashed, causing the Chia miners to become irrelevant in the market. Too late for me, sadly, I was stuck paying 400% of current market prices.

Fuck Chia, fuck crypto nonsense.
Many decades ago I worked in a Java team who they were using some money as a double and some as a BigDecimal. When I asked why, ... they said that at the start they didn't think they'd have any issue with doubles. Years later and still had lots of tech debt because manually rounding doubles to BigDecimal.
Ask HN: Best GPT+Internet search script so far?
Hello hackers!
There are so many implementations of combining GPT and Internet search results (so-called retrieval augmentation).

But what is the best one?
> the story is that a sound engineer told him the sounds were his bloodstream and his nervous system, but I find it very hard to believe that what he heard was actually either of those things

Have you ever spent meaningful time alone in an anechoic chamber? Your ears are similar to your eyes, in that they have mechanisms to adjust to ambient noise (/light) levels.

If you are in very deep silence for a long enough time, your brain starts trying to make sense of the sounds you are hearing (which indeed includes your blood flowing in your ears [0]), potentially causing auditory hallucinations. It can be a profound experience.

[0] https://nypost.com/2023/02/02/inside-the-worlds-quietest-roo...
> the article does a fantastically terrible job talking about which maps, specifically, caused WWI.

They argue (unconvincingly) that the map of the battle of Cannae caused it.
Oh absolutely! Sorry, that comment wasn't directed at exaequOS, but discussing some older human interface guidelines and older UX standards. Just pointing out that interfaces have evolved since then.

But that's not the point of exaequOS and that's okay!
Let me guess, the last 10 times you had to move jobs it was because of a difference in opinion with your boss about the importance of correcting one-cent-errors in one invoice out of every ten thousand?
The HD Edition from Ubisoft looks definitely better, I think it's not even subjective. Just look at that clock tower on the upper-left quarter, the hd mod is not even in the same league. Same with details like the main character, trees, and mummies.
The Monetization Window is the new Overton Window. I think people underestimate how much Youtube's monetization policy influences what popular creators put in videos. Because it's not just the money - it also effects how videos are promoted by the algorithm.
RSS feeds, bro.

https://arxiv.org/list/cs/new
You know about Vivaldi* right?

https://vivaldi.com/download/
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe "100 Trillion Dollars" hahahahaha

LOL. Is that real? OMG, that's incredible. Image if this trend kept going: what sign of humanity that new SI units need to be minted first because inflation drives currencies to insane new denominations, rather than cat videos, IoT and porn bulge yottabytes out of bounds?
I concur: The quality of results from Google's experimental AI preview is much higher than Bard. Notable features include consistently relevant and concise results (in my personal experience), effective citation of sources, and inclusion of multimedia sources such as video embeds.

Also, I'll note that Bard has been receiving continued attention and support from Google, last being updated today. [1]

[1] https://bard.google.com/updates
While I would agree that was the original purpose, the rhetoric has been closer to anti-corporation for a while. This seemed to change around the time the GPLv3 came out.
YouTube does not have the power to assign guilt. They are exercising a contractual privilege agreed to by Mr. Brand when he decided to upload videos to their platform.
Use Vivaldi which is Opera minus the Chinese spyware: https://vivaldi.com/download/
Google Adds Bard to Its Biggest Apps
So let's just let companies do what they want as long as you're making a salary and can pay for college?
Taking away the livelihood of someone for unproven allegations is not oppression? Do you realize what Youtube is in the year 2023? It's how a lot of self-employed people make their living.

Are you one of those "it's not censorship, just make your own media platform" techbros?
This skirts pretty close to saying that homelessness is an issue of "personal responsibility" while claiming to be apolitical.

Homelessness is a complicated issue but the core of the solution is very simple: Provide housing. Whether that is a short term stay in a shelter or a lifelong stay in permanent housing is going to depend on the individual. But either way, you need a safe place to sleep and live before you can start seriously addressing other problems.
also seems to work with 'tailscale up --advertise-exit-node' if you ssh into the router instead of using admin console.
I actually used Opera for a while because of its built in mail and torrent integration, but I uninstalled it the moment they switched to Chromium and got rid of everything that made them unique. It beat the download manager (remember those?) I used at the time.

Their bandwidth saving proxy was quite good when I needed to use it on shitty 3G back in the day.
How exactly would you track your installs? Say it's an offline-only game that is on GoG, how would you possibly know whether or not somebody copied the installer to another PC and installed it there?
I agree but you don't need to run Windows 9x. NT 4 or 2000 should work fine and are well supported in VirtualBox.
I am equally indifferent to NYC bonds under either taxation scheme. From a national perspective, the bond prices of one particular city are irrelevant. It’s not even clear to me that a change in bond prices is necessarily a good way to measure whether a particular type of taxation is good or not. Even if a new tax scheme caused NYC tax revenue to drop enough to affect bond prices, surely that would be offset by increasing revenues elsewhere and thus increasing bond prices for other cities. After all, the businesses are simply moving their headquarters around. McDonald’s isn’t going to stop selling burgers in Manhattan, right?

Likewise pensions. My personal opinion is that anyone accepting a pension instead of better pay is not really doing themselves a favor; they’re taking on extra risk that the politicians won’t raid the pension fund or otherwise mismanage the city. I would rather just own the underlying securities myself, and eliminate the extra steps.
The thing I don't get about this meme is why stop here? The reason BlackRock & co manage so much money and own so much stock in major companies is because people keep investing in their index funds. Isn't the ultimate problem all the individual investors and 401k holders that give them this influence by buying their funds? What does the alternative look like? Everyone managing individual stocks? More index fund providers?
That is absolutely not how it works. Rounding is exactly specified in the underlying contract always and you need to implement the correct rounding. For example, here is the rounding table for compounding calculations in the ISDA definitions (these are very standard for a wide range of contracts, but this particular table is for various overnight swap rates used in interest rate derivatives)[1].

[1] https://globalmarkets.cib.bnpparibas/app/uploads/sites/4/202...
Bing does web searches, cites sources, and other consumer parlor tricks.
If you ignore the average wages at the time then perhaps.

This is a pretty interesting answer (the thing I forgot is that chicken laid significantly less eggs back then than modern ones do):

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/afq8jy/how_o...

(It claims that even rural peasants could hardly afford to eat more than an egg or two per week)

Regarding ale most poor people probably drank the .75d one and no the one which cost 1.5d. (Also poor people still mainly drank water)

e.g. the daily wage for a semi skilled worker was 2-3d. If you have to fed a family that’s not a lot and eating eggs would certainly not be that common.
I'm going through this pain right now in helping my kid with homework in rounding and discovering my internalized rules are different from what they're being taught now. EXACT same pain as yours, depending on the precision and rounding rules of your pain scale.
> There are significant criteria they would need to fill to join, and everyone knows they won't do it any time soon; they were going backwards on some at the time of the campaign and are arguably further back eight years on.

https://neighbourhood-enlargement.ec.europa.eu/enlargement-p...

"On 13 December 1999 the Helsinki European Council adopted the Commission proposal to grant Turkey the status of an applicant for EU membership."

Coming up on 24 years ... and counting. Great job, everyone involved.
Both the bug list and the reaction to it are deeply concerning, if you are depending on this project - but I don't know how much real world use this code gets.

Shows that reviewing dependencies is not optional. Hundreds of stars on GitHub is not a helpful data point, even if my own monkey brain says otherwise.
But if there was no parking wouldn't the value of said cities plummet? Do you want to open your place of business where no one can park for a mile?
Can agroforestry chocolate help save the world’s most endangered rainforest?
Looking from Apple, Google, Microsoft and IBM ecosystems, and SaaS products, the alternative timeline isn't much different from actual reality.
Wow that's quick! I am impressed you were able to get an appointment at the embassy. Embassy is worse than the local city council back home.

My country they say new ID card or passport within four weeks but never happened.
No LLM output is a hallucination. It is just doing token prediction 100% of the time. When you throw enough tokens at it, it can follow a coherent and relevant token curve. When you throw even more tokens at it, that curve could even contain information that is agreed to be factual.
> So, this is literally, "an allegation is enough" scenario.

If you're a private entity without the investigative powers of law enforcement, then public knowledge and your best judgement better be enough, because they're all you have.

> Whatever happened to "innocent until proven guilty" ?

That's a standard of the legal system. Private parties have lesser powers of punishment and investigation, so correspondingly a less strict standard of proof.

It would be an abridgement of a private party's freedom to decide, this person is sketchy I don't want to work with them. That's appropriate where protected statuses are involved, but by default there should be freedom.
There's also https://www.warp.dev

I've been using it for the past few weeks and it's really sleek. I actually don't use the AI features very often because I'm fluent in the terminal, but it's nice to know it's there if I need it.

Some people get weirded out by the fact that it's VC funded and they collect telemetry, but I think you can turn that off.
Do you feel confident in your ability to detect when the LLM is wrong? For me personally, I don't have the confidence to do this , which is why I feel like I need to verify everything, even in the 5% case.
I do expect having an ejection seat might alter behavior, as well as the encouragement of an ATC. And Yeager was a test pilot who was part of a community of test pilots...

In my memory, my impression of Yeager's brief anecdote was that "the pilot heroically sacrificed himself to save the lives of innocents on the ground" was a common enough bullshit news story that he wanted to debunk it. A pilot would be focused on saving himself and his aircraft to the fullest extent possible.
Thanks for listing his 4 main points.

I always associate Lessig with the Creative Commons family of licenses. When he was first formulating these licenses, I had a publisher return the rights of my Java AI book to me because I was doing a startup and didn’t have time to do a new edition.

I chose a Creative Commons license and released my revised book. Lessig sent me several emails over that time period and I was the featured Creative Commoner on their web site for a few months.

I still release all of my new books with a CC share and share alike, no commercial reuse license.
this should be called terminator
As a cyclist, removing street parking would free up space for dedicated bike lanes and remove risks of being doored. It would also increase visibility a good deal, especially at a time when cars are getting so massive.
Ads suck but paying won't make them go away. They are now spreading like a cancer and being forced into products that people were already happily paying for before because the search for additional revenue is unstoppable from publicly traded companies. At best paying will reduce the number of ads you see while making your data more valuable for advertising and tracking purposes by proving you have money and verifying your identity, resulting in you being targeted as a valuable mark. Companies will still be able to pay to be verified and create astroturfing posts and outright ads on the platform and now they will know where to focus their efforts because you will have a target painted on your back and your location is for sale.
"Art is what you can get away with."

-Andy Warhol
ChatGPT is only the LLM, and it only creates answers from data encoded in its parameters. That means there is a knowledge cutoff, it only know what was included in its training set, which includes no newer information than September 2021.

BingChat has access to the internet, and the underlying GPT-3.5 can access current information in the form of context attached to each query (in the form of results from a Bing search).
I think we are saying the same thing. In that quote, I am clearly am not claiming that Unity's aim is to increase the quality of games. Their new model is meant to cash in on successful games. Some of them, like the ones you pointed out, are good games that absolutely can afford to pay the royalty. Many mobile games on the other-hand, are terrible and really only profitable because they make slim margins on lots of downloads. I for one, don't really care that those games hurt as a side a effect.
100 Trillion Dollar Bill (Zimbabwe)
> In a statement to TechCrunch, a YC spokesperson attributed the drop to shift back to in-person events by the storied venture accelerator firm that necessitates founders to relocate to the U.S. for a quarter of a year.

YC could go back to a more remote model. To not do so is a choice.
Yes and both can be expressed in js and jq. Poinjt is what JS is known by much more peopel. As fx uses Node or Deno we for example can use lodash in fx:

fx '_.groupBy("commit.author.name")' '_.mapValues(size)'
'_.toPairs' '_.sortBy(1)' '_.reverse' '_.take(10)' '_.fromPairs'

To do if in jq, it will take me much more time and extensive documentation reading.
Single dose of psilocybin boosts neuroplasticity and reduces depression symptoms
Before 2009 would you have predicted that a 100 Trillion Dollar bill would never be issued by a central bank?
The repeated referral to "debris field" is interesting. As if it's saying "nothing to see here."

Or maybe it's really just a field of debris.
Yeah even in university in my intro-level accounting classes they said in the real world nobody cares about discrepancies less than a dollar (and that amount scales with the size of the business). I don't know if that's actually true and I wasn't an accounting major so I don't know what they said in the more advanced classes.

But if I imagine myself as a business owner I would be annoyed with my accounting firm if they spent billable hours chasing down a discrepancy of a few pennies.
Hosting isn't free and they're not forcing anyone to host it there, there are alternative platforms.
Sounds like pretty basic observation of society, as in people are driven by:
1. What what they can do -- the tools.
2. What others do.
3. Costs / benefits.
4. What hurts -- laws and consequences of not following the law.

I wouldn't be surprised students of sociology would have better models to describe this.
I covered that on the rest of my comment as well.
I took LeCun’s deep learning class at the Courant institute in 2016 and some of this stuff is directly lifted from those course materials, like the gif of contrastive learning in action.
To separate storage locally and in the cloud, with key config also captured elsewhere, eg Ansible rules to rebuild/reconfigure a server.
I suspect MS is working on some sort of common browser layer for Electron apps on Windows.

Their primary reasoning for picking V8 for Edge was that node, electron etc were built on V8.

We haven’t seen anything specific to those environments in Windows yet. I expect that to probably change pretty soon.
Other comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37568950
Now that everyone is doing it it's not as easy. But ten years ago I lived out of a white utility van and lived rural with my family in the weekend. Parked commercial or industrial areas of the city, nobody ever bothered me.
Explicitly:

* Expect 50% GDP destruction somewhere between 2070 and 2090 ...

I won't be here then (unless I live well beyond 100) but many reading this will be.

These are actuaries saying this ... not politicians, not scientists. These are people who make their money explicitly by reading the trends and making accurate forecasts.
> JavaScript isn't as fast as C++ or Rust, but it's pretty fast. Around the speed of Java and Go in some cases, which are compiled.

Sorry, not even remotely close. I want to see some serious evidence.

JS id as unoptimizable as can be, thanks to its hyper dynamic nature. And js developers without any clue about memory will happily allocate hundreds of thousands of unnecessary objects to save a line of code. Completely unknowingly of course.
Easier said than done.

Do you think there's actually a "let everyone in" policy in place? There isn't.

Firstly, there is demand. Even if Britain announced it was closing the country tomorrow, roughly the same number of asylum seekers would arrive, and Britain would still be obligated to rescue them from its seas. If there were some war or instability in regions of the world that made people there feel they should move to Britain, that would also boost the numbers. That's entirely outside the UK's control.

What is within the UK's control is:

1) agreements they make with other countries for processing asylum claims. In the EU, which they chose to leave, the Dublin III Regulation would prevail, meaning most asylum claimants trying to reach Britain would be processed in the "first safe (EU) country" [0]

Even though they lost access to that sweet deal by "taking back control", France offered to negotiate a deal with Britain, and urged it to allow asylum claimants to make their claim in France and remain in France until they're approved/rejected by Britain. [1] Britain chose not to agree to that. Instead, all it chose to agree was to pay the French to patrol their beaches more often [2]

2) How how quickly they process with asylum claims. The UK Government has an enormous backlog, and it's just getting bigger, because there aren't enough caseworkers, and the amount of time taken to process each case has grown. There is no exact reason why the time taken has grown, but explanations include high staff turnover, and the lack of having a top-level policy focusing on reducing the backlog. Such a policy used to exist in the previous government, it was removed. [3]

In that same report's second graph, you can see the previous Labour government (1997-2010) had a massive backlog of asylum claims by 1999 (much of it sprang from the Bosnian War), they cleared it down and kept it low for the rest of their governance. Since the Conservatives took over in 2010, it has spiraled out of control and is a full blown crisis today.

Regardless of where you lie on the "too many!/too few!" ideological line, the current UK asylum crisis is caused by internal incompetence alone.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Regulation

[1] https://www.france24.com/en/france/20211129-french-minister-...

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63615653

[3] https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/th...