skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Same reason why we have 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50c coins but no 25c one.

I guess that's why it doesn't seem difficult for anyone in the US -- we have $0.25 coins but not $0.20 ones (nor $0.50 ones in common usage), and I've simply never heard of anyone saying that thought quarters made anything more complex or slower.

It's just a non-issue. But it's also funny that in the US you don't really see anybody counting change the way you're demonstrating -- it seems backwards. Like, first you calculate the change, and then you count out the change. If it's $0.40 in change, then it's a quarter and a dime and a nickel without even thinking about it.
Porsche cares quite a lot about heritage. They have a reputation for treating all Porsches, no matter their age, the same. I'm a pretty big fan, though I don't own one of their cars quite yet. Some day!
I've never before encountered a literature that explicitly prioritized careful analysis of one's charitable giving, centered around a universal metric like EA has. A lot of charity centers around other things, like making an impact on one's local community, or donating to the memory of a loved one who suffered from heart disease, or something like that.

Those are all good in their own way, but EA is very much a branch in its own direction away from that, and I think it's worth having some kind of qualifier to specify in what way EA is philosophically different.
https://archive.ph/S9eST
Looks like it's about $1,500: https://porsche.oempartsonline.com/oem-parts/porsche-porsche...
Both.

A lot (all?) recent USB sticks have terrible thermal design, and will throttle seemingly arbitrarily to very low speeds under sustained load. Like 2.5MB/s type speeds. They seem like they were made to to theoretically exist for the market niche, but no one expected them to actually be used by anyone who paid any attention at all.

Same for ones bought in big box stores as Amazon or the like. Name brand or random brand.

A lot of less expensive 2.5+ Gig Ethernet dongles do the same.

Good performance for 5-10 seconds, then abysmal.

I switched to SD cards, and at least the good brands of those had decent and predictable performance (50-75MB/s sustained for the same price point). They were also a lot cheaper in general for the capacity.
Control software for a lathe (or, in fact any industrial robot) is far more dangerous than a car. Go visit any metal workshop and take an inventory of the number of people and then count the number of digits. The fact that they don't cause nearly as many accidents is because they are not normally under manual control. But when they are better find some (preferably solid) cover.

And meanwhile, Tesla gets to beta-test their self driving stuff in public and I can't look at the source code to my ECU to figure out whether or not a certain behavior is by design or an indication that something is broken.
good point but not on point. it will drain energy but lack the dopamine rush, hence leave the news hacker with an even stronger desire for cheap stimulation to be sought out.
> And the US extending its self imposed credit limit is completely reasonable. In that the alternative, which would be actually defaulting on debt obligations, salaries, and other ways that we have already promised, which be absolutely catastrophic. The US has never defaulted on its debt.

There is another option: the US could cut spending.

In a refinance, you either (1) keep the same principal and adjust the rate or (2) take out a new loan for a greater amount than the former, using the new loan to pay off the former.

The US is not doing (1). Maybe you could argue that it's doing (2). But there is a key difference: the US is the only debter that can print its own cash. Hence why I think it's more appropriate to compare it to a credit card borrower that just keeps increasing the limit, using the new money to pay the interest.

The gov doesn't produce anything. It can only tax. The more it taxes, the less capital the private sector retains to produce. The less money the private sector has to produce, the lower the gdp. The US is not only devaluing it's currency by increasing the debt and then not taxing to pay it off (though here the devaluation acts as an indirect tax), but it's actively dampening the value of the underlying collateral. These things typically don't happen with refinances. I do not understand why anyone is still buying US treasuries.

Speaking of refinances, it would have been wise of the US to actually refinance its existing debt while rates were at historic lows and the existing debt had short maturity timelines, but Yellen didn't do that. Instead she ignored refinancing it to 30 years and kept it on deck to mature, forcing it to be refinanced at rates more than double what it was.

I argue that the US has defacto defaulted on its debt by devaluing the underlying collateral. No other entity gets to decide to pay back its loan by willfully deciding to pay less. Though there is some benefit to private borrowers, as the devaluation also means that private principal balances are worth less in real terms.

> Our stability, predictability, and safety is what makes us a world reserve currency. Our court system is one of the most important parts of that as well.

I'm interested in a source or your reasoning here. We aren't the only country with a western court system, and our Supreme Court routinely refuses to strike down unconstitutional laws (Medicare, social security, etc.).
I can't disagree with making sure you're using them when they matter and avoiding them when they don't.

There was no real 'war', XHTML 5 is still a thing. Browsers are HTML engines because people who write HTML don't want to be forced into well-formed markup. They want the browser to guess what they meant and run with it.

There's also the whole "we need to be compatible with almost every HTML file dating back to the early 90s" conundrum that makes clean breaks in behavior, like XHTML, hard to pull off without pissing people off.

It should be clear which one is writing based on the DOCTYPE element. IIRC XHTML still requires a DTD to ensure its schema can be validated, while HTML 5 did away with it altogether and now just uses <!DOCTYPE html>
Interesting, I liked the flexibility of his idea to use coolant hoses, or 3d printed parts to make coolant hoses. But It may be that I just want to toss something together real quick instead of asking for a second set of hands or eyes. I wonder why he updated his design to the newer one you posted?

2015: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:801279
> Oh really? Then how did cities come to be in the first place?

Because it was and is the only way to escape poverty for many people.

I grew up in a small city and the majority of my classmates had to go to larger city to get a good job.

This effect was very extreme during the early 1900s especially when the Great Depression hit. Either starve on the farm or move to filthy city. Cities being desirable for anyone but the rich is a very recent phenomenon.
"If the F scale were to be regarded as a measure of antidemocratic potential -- something which might or might not be expressed in open hostility against outgroups -- then it could not be perfectly correlated with A-S or E. Rather, the demand to be made of it was that it single out individuals who in intensive clinical study revealed themselves to be receptive to antidemocratic propaganda."
> I'd expect that if any ECU software was to be released that we'd finally realize how bad things really are and that there would be a massive amount of work done on making sure these pieces of critical software would be as safe as they could possibly be.

toyota/denso michael barr testimony cough

edit: oh, there's even slides now, you don't even have to read the court transcript https://www.safetyresearch.net/Library/BarrSlides_FINAL_SCRU...
The most effective way I've found to prompt GPT-4 is to ask it to create the optimal prompt for you. Try this meta prompt to help craft your prompts:

--

I create separate conversation threads for each expert persona of GPT. You are PromptGPT. You are a prompt engineer expert for large language models. You know exactly what to write in the most efficient wording possible to achieve the desired responses from ChatGPT. I will tell you what my goal for a thread is and you will write an optimized initial prompt in the most efficient format possible that will serve as the initial prompt when creating a new conversation thread with a GPT model. You will define the expert persona, the parameters or rules of the responses, you should also provide any other information that a GPT thread may need to understand exactly what it needs to do to give me the most accurate answers depending on my goal with that particular thread and the tone of voice, within the prompt you provide.

Are you ready or is there any other information you need to perform this job to your best ability

--
Considering it is Porsche that is surprisingly affordable.
I think Ayaan's point is that we should recognize God and fight to maintain civilization through our united devotion to God. I'm a staunch agnostic (as follows from epistemic inquiry) but I get where Ayaan is coming from. I think the solution isn't being Christian per se, but rather being committed to the moral values and practices that are historically attributed to Christianity. The distinction is that while abiding by Christianity necessarily involves the actions of proclaimed Christians, we all have beliefs and may become aligned on them. The linked tweet describes it as "it's much more cultural now, and less about belief." I think it's spot on; we're nominally discussing Christianity but should really focus on discussing a culture that we should adopt.
A few thoughts. For starters, multiple AIs working together (or even against each other) to create an output is not a new thing. Adversarial networks are already pretty common in image-generation to discriminate against ugly or incorrect outputs. In those systems, the generation model competes with a discriminator model that demands higher-quality output.

That being said, my understanding is that this approach is quickly being obsoleted by zero-shot solutions instead. Running multiple models is extremely undesirable because it potentially doubles the scope, latency and cost of your system. In your example, I'd imagine such a system would be outperformed by a single model that does both the parent and the spawn's job.
It's because the characters in the result can be one of 10 digits or one of 26 letters.
The problem is that your purchases in aggregate are used to profile you and decide how you should be treated as a customer. Companies decide whether to reject your returns, or to offer you deals on products, based on consumer scoring [1]. Even the background check for my current job involved accessing my consumer score. I don't know if this is in fact done, but I can imagine that an employer could use information reported about your spending to determine what salary they think you would accept. In any case, I don't really want to have to think about this. I don't need to worry about abuse of data that I don't give out in the first place.

Also, apart from your personal self-interest, every dollar you spend in cash is a vote for it to continue being accepted. This is important because there's a minority of people who are excluded from the financial system and depend on cash. For example: undocumented immigrants, sex workers, tax protesters, victims of identity theft, protesters who have had their bank accounts frozen [2], and people who, for inscrutable business reasons, are deemed too high-risk to have bank accounts [3]. If those were the only people who used cash, companies would probably not care to accept it anymore. But the more people continue to use cash on principle, the longer it will remain as an escape hatch for those who need it.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/business/secret-consumer-...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60383385

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/business/banks-accounts-c...
As a minor point I'd say a UI always needs good design, even more so the more minimal it is. UX matters and I'm disappointed how many developers treat it as just "making things pretty."
sure only 1/3 of the world's transactions happen in yuan. 2/3 in dollars. but an embargo on chinese (and taiwanese goods) is not going to sink them. They have the largest world population and along with the BRICs could freeze out the US. Japan was a drop in the bucket compared to the BRICs
Here's a crazy one: reducing emissions!
Could it be Iran?
Maybe for text specifically you're right, but we use screens for other media like pictures and video. If we have to tone down contrast to make high-contrast text comfortable, we are also reducing contrast of other media, and this loss may be significant.

Now, if we had reflective monitors (like e-ink etc) we could just be comfortable with maximum contrast text (like printed text). I think the display technology is a problem here.

(But still: there are some books with yellowish pages which I find more comfortable to read than ultrawhite pages. Maybe such lower contrast pages are more expensive or something, or not adequate for all lightning conditions etc)
They could do it if they tried. Part of being an island is there's only a few connections to the outside.
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>0.000000000000000 of numbers have 2 as their second prime

Is the article title correct without explicitly mentioning "non-repeating"?
Very interesting question. I thought a lot why some math facts seem boring to me while others are interesting, sometimes exciting.

I believe interesting math facts are interesting because they clash with intuition. Like you expect some freedom for a second prime factor to be anything it likes, but no, it has a very small median.

I misunderstood the claim at first, counted primes in reverse order and was really surprised by an idea that second largest prime factor is so small and started to think of Eratosthenes but continued to read. When I discovered my mistake and then it came to Eratosthenes it got almost obvious and not interesting really, I didn't even read it when it got techical. Though if not my disappointment I'd probably found it interesting, because while I believe I could find 37 as a median and prove it without any hints, I would need a nudge: I needed to be told that median of a second prime factor is a small number.

I believe that the practice of noticing these confusions and resolving it is a basis of a mathematician's mind. As a mathematician you need a highly tuned intuition that matches real theorems, because you start with intuition, formalize it as a theorem and then you look for a proof.

Intuition guesses theorems to prove or to look in literature. But if my intuition can be surprised by some fact it means it cannot guess it. And probably it cannot guess a lot of other related facts.
It starts to make more sense when you look at the 13th amendment:

> Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Private prisons are in the business of cheap labor, not rehabilitation. It would be extremely expensive to effectively change the lifestyles of millions of people and treat their addiction, not to mention those around them who become traumatized due to their mistakes and follow in their footprints.

We simply lack the necessary amount of political will to do an end run around this by decriminalizing harmful drugs and providing safer pathways of use that can lead to treatment for addiction. Partially because, again, cheap labor! But no doubt also due to moral puritanism.

I’m happy to see there is some movement in state constitutions to do away with this kind of punishment, and even house/senate resolutions proposed to amend the federal constitution, although I don’t know what’s become of that effort.
A lot of the magic of ChatGPT is nothing to do with AI
Personally did not like it - way too much style over substance
Right -- but the notion that each window on your system is managed by some random process running on a random remote system, and it's all seamlessly integrated, is just not a normal idiom today.

You can run a remote window in an RDP session, etc, but it's different from X where the server may be the only processing running on the system you're sitting in front of and everything else is a melange of remote systems. Even a chromebook -- the UI is driven by stuff on the "local" computer.

With X, I can run a window manager on one host, and a mixture of random windows spread across as many remote hosts as I have open windows. Plan9 is similar, but for every other modern GUI / OS setup there's a "local first" mind set. Sure, you can do things in a totally different way but those are largely the exceptions.
> This is fun in to theory and in simple examples, but show me a big project that applies this and how it made a difference.

Not everything has be a Large Enterprise Application.
I found it - in February 2023 it looks like added some limits and are enforcing that Steam customers don't get a worse deal than customers who use CD keys.

But yes they have clamped down on the fake games for trading card farming too.
Oops. Forgot the link, thanks.

Look's like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines.
It’s a shame they don’t open-source their infotainment system. Not that I want to modify my 911, but there’s privacy settings in there that I find concerning, so it’d be good to look at the source.

And, just from a curiosity PoV, I’d like to see the car management code.

I think it’s important that individuals can’t change the code running their cars; that’s just got ‘massive car accident’ written all over it. But being able to see and possibly contribute to the software would be great.
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Or use Matplotlib's PGF backend. You can even import a preamble so the notation macros from your paper are usable in the legend, axes labels, etc.
That's great. In my case, the person said he needed the money because of a rent payment deadline, but then something else happened such that he could make the deadline anyway, so he spent the money I'd lent him on jewelry for his girlfriend, with no regard for the reason I lent it to him. I lent it to him because of what I thought was a need, and then he used it merely to pamper his GF, and made no motion toward paying me back.

Later in his life he went to prison for a year (for unrelated reasons).

I think the positive experiences people are presenting are great. I don't think the Hamlet quote is remotely a hard-and-fast rule, but it does embody a principle that is worth stating, and which can be useful food for thought in making a lending decision.
I can't speak for the original commenter, but I would definitely have similar concerns about an article called "Evangelical Christianity Is A Welter of Lies, Hypocrisy, and Eugenic Fantasies". If you're trying to impartially inform people about what's going on in a particular movement, or argumentatively convince people sympathetic to the movement that they're wrong about it, it doesn't seem like a helpful framing. (It is, of course, a great framing if your goal is to dunk on people your readers don't like.)
My life circumstances were such that I needed a job in a new area where that's all I was qualified to do (meaning I can breathe) while earning enough to live on. Software engineering is not an option within 90 minutes of here. Even if I could get a job in software here and it paid the same, software is significantly more stressful than my current job, the future is unsure as tech is always changing, the people I work with are closer and more friendly/outgoing, and the time off is amazing. When I leave work I'm done, there's no reading up on/practicing the latest stack without any guarantees it's going to increase my employability. When I walk out of the prison, my own personal life is all need to think about. I'd probably not take the job for less than a 50% increase in what I make now. And wages here are so low it just wouldn't happen. I do still enjoy coding but I like it as a hobby. And honestly, I was probably never very good at it.
The enforcement mechanism is a voluntary de jure loss of sovereignty, even though the de facto sovereignty to leave the enforcement mechanism remains.
No, the problem is that this kind of airgapped systems are far harder to work with or make useful. You don't need to sacrifice convenience for security. It's quite possible to build secure systems without draconian (and largely useless) security measures.
Came to upvote this. The station works unreasonably well. The needles are pointy enough that they deform solder/copper a little bit and stay put once placed (you can flex the arm to preload the needle).
You can buy it on the maker's website in the second link, with all the bits for ~50eur.
Naturally this is no good for high frequency, but it has saved me countless hours of soldering and removing fine wire in the lab.
1: You could absolutely use gyro/accel for detecting taps, but for proper pressure sensitivity (i.e., changing pressure in the middle of a stroke), there's not much you can do except have a pressure sensor. It's theoretically possible with a sufficiently accurate pose estimate and a springy pen tip, but not feasible at the level of accuracy I got.

2: I paid about $20 AUD for the pressure sensor, but they can be had for quite a bit cheaper (~$5 USD) in the US (https://www.arrow.com/en/products/hsfpar003a/alps-electric). Only problem is they're quite specialized, so not many places sell them. The custom PCB was another $10AUD, and the Arduino was about $20. There's a full parts list at https://github.com/Jcparkyn/dpoint/blob/main/setup-guide.md.
Building from source can take hours or even days on low-end machines though, unless you can get binaries for the apps you need for your old CPUs.
I've been trying to write a response to this in a couple of tries, and the best I've got is: but also don't feel beholden to this.

The past isn't always a fun place to go visit, even if it's not traumatic. Who you were and who you are are different people, and getting dragged back to that old self can feel suffocating rather then fun.

Strictly technical records? Great. Everything? Even if you want to keep it, you may find you don't like revisiting it. I have zip files which exist because I don't quite want to destroy old records entirely, but I certainly don't want to actually scroll into photos from 10 years ago.
Some languages require you to declare your variables, and if you use an undeclared variable, the compiler complains and refuses to emit any code. Is that a turn off for you, too?
When you lend money to a friend consider it a gift and if it is returned it's a happy surprise. Otherwise say no.
Oh.. somehow I missed that the tire didn't explode with the needle. I was thinking, if the tires are exploding anyway, is a bullet much worse? But that makes sense.
Responsibility. If I modify my car and that's determined to be the causal factor of an accident, it's on me.
We (AI startup, $425k ARR, 15% MoM growth) just answered to every single question on the list:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38245108