skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Steve Mann resolved this notational dilemma by using the term "crown", as in binary = crown 1, octal = crown 7, decimal = crown 9, hex = crown F, and so on.
Matter for what?

Founding a tech startup and getting VC funding? Working at a FAANG or tech unicorn? Maxing your compensation? Easily job hopping? Being part of large social or professional networks centered around tech? Working on the bleeding edge of the industry? Yes to all of these.

Working a software engineering job that will pay significantly better than the median salary in the area and let you have a good standard of living and a good overall life? No, if you have adequate skill you can achieve that anywhere in the world.
If you want to work for a big aimless Megacorp, or one of their pets (Anthropic, OpenAi, etc), sure come to Silicon Valley. Make damn sure you get a nice cut of equity on top of the salary.

Otherwise, the cost of living is ample reason to stay away.
Sounds like terrible, generic power metal. I don't think we need it generated at scale. Nightwish sans what little made their work interesting.
The problem with that is the content is usually shot with the certain definition in mind. If you don't film certain scenes from scratch, they can end up looking weird in higher definition, simply because certain tricks rely on low definition/poor quality, or because you get a mismatch between old VFX and new resolution, for example.

It's a widespread issue with the emulation of old games that have been made for really low resolution/different ratio screens and slow hardware, especially early 3D/2D combinations like Final Fantasy, and those that relied on janky analog video outputs to draw their effects.
Ah. Thank you for the information.
I've seen a lot of VPN ads that specifically advertise how you can take advantage of regional pricing and get around geoblocking for various services.
depending on your child's interests and learning style, you can customize the software selection to suit their needs and preferences :3
some recommendations for your reference :

1 Tux Paint, it's simple to use and has fun stamps, brushes, and effects..

2 Scratch, is a block-based programming language and online community where children can create interactive stories, games, and animations. if your children likes coding, it's a great introduction to code in a fun and creative way

3 ABCmouse, is an award-winning educational program for children ages 2-8.offers a comprehensive curriculum covering subjects like math, reading, science, and art, presented in a fun and engaging way.

my experience, there are quite a few creative resources that can unleash a child's potential, such as :
Drawing and Painting apps like Procreate or Adobe Fresco, not bad to express themselves through digital art.

and it's quite convenient to explore in educational YouTube Channels, like National Geographic Kids, TED-Ed, and SciShow Kids, which offer informative and entertaining videos on a wide range of topics.

hope it's help :) tell me if you need more hee.
The price is determined by what people will pay. The fundamental problem is:

student loans + poor decision making = willing and able to pay too much
I might not understand your concern but to me this seemed clear enough:

> The first stage is an airship that travels from the ground to 140,000 feet. There it will dock with a waystation floating at the top of the atmosphere. Cargo and crew then transfer to a large 'Orbital Airship' for the nine day journey to orbit.
It's not the WaPo, it’s the anonymous sources trying to send a message. Or maybe Amazon, which is really good at killing strong privacy bills.

There was very little about what she was holding out for, so it’s hard to say if it is unreasonable. Cantwell could very well be listening to her constituents - there has been a privacy and tech equity coalition watching her over the years.

Privacy bills come down to:
1. What data is covered?
2. Opt-in vs opt-out: is the default assumption my data will not be collected and shared, or that it will be unless I opt-out?
3. Enforcement - only the attorney general or can someone file a lawsuit? The article states that she wanted protection against forced arbitration which as her constituent I would agree with her on that.
4. Whether states can pass stronger laws at their level. California has a large delegation and a strong state law which is a consideration in the House.
Baldur's Gate 3 actors tear into AI voice cloning
Of course. But his version wasn't made.
Changing the representation doesn't change the number. Ten, two, sixteen...
Things don't normally fly at 7000 m/s.

I wish them the best luck, but this is an odd project. And it's not clear it's saving any fuel or rocket structure.
Funny, I think is it mostly seen as the opposite.

That the media and government create a propaganda narative, a fake reality we live in.

The red pill has become a symbol of breaking out of all the progressives lies.
> I was … expecting it to be mostly black magic, but … the meat of the project is a bunch of … regexes

Wait, regexes are the epitome of black magic. What do you consider as black magic?
I can see this is going to be one of those HN discussions that goes back and forth forever, maybe somebody should do some research on how orthogonal the goals really are!
How many is a couple and how much would they have to make to skew that average drastically? I did a few napkin calculations and it would take a lot of hilariously highly paid executives to matter for the average.
Depopulation is not the disaster you think it is.
The base b is actually the multiplier for the value in each digit: the first digit is b^0, the next to the left is b^1, the next left is b^2. Similar for right of the dot: b^-1, b^-2....
The VR game isn't "mobile-only" as per the parent post
Paul Graham's Simple Rhetoric
That sounds so dumb that I have to question if there’s some deeper reason, because otherwise that suggests certain things about the intelligence of Swiss regulators.
what kind of yankee propaganda is this!

just kiddin, interesting observation though.
Every generation brings us closer to a day where we can actually eliminate suffering?
Paul Graham’s advice: it still matters to be in Bay Area as a founder because you are the average of your 5 closest friends. And in Bay Area your 5 closest founder friends are much more likely to be successful (possibly very successful) and that happening much less in any other city.
The imperial units were basically picked for usefulness in commerce. They're not as arbitrary as they seem.
> Less money causes self-dealing behavior though. Because now there's widespread acceptance that the only way a $180k wage is worthwhile for our leadership class is if they take widespread bribes.

I think you have cause and effect mixed up. These positions would come with millions of dollars per year in job perks even if they paid $10M cash per year.

The perks come from the power, not the size of the paycheck. Making it bigger won’t reduce the financial value of the power they wield.

Also, even if it would, $300k is not a lot of money. You’re off by at least one order of magnitude.

For example, the CEO of Mozilla makes around $7M per year.
Agreed! I recently switched from a very custom Linux setup with a tiling window manager and all kinds of bells and whistles. The Plasma 6 release in combination with running NixOS which makes trying things out both easily and safely convinced me to give it a shot and I simply haven't left. It took some setup, of course, but Plasma is wonderfully configurable and has everything I wanted available with some tweaking.

Whereas GNOME and others required extensions, which are often out of date or somewhat sketchy -- before I could set things up how I like.

Big fan so far.
I guess you don't have many friends from iraq
How much heating would accelerating to orbital velocity at the “edge” of the atmosphere create? I’d expect that if there’s enough atmosphere to create lift there’s probably enough to cause the craft to burn up.
Related kind of thing recently:

White House wants Moon to have its own time zone, Coordinated Lunar Time (CLT)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39916102
Responses to Rabble on ActivityPub
"it is the most divisional number under 100" implies there's some committee of Hammurabi where "they" evaluated all the possibilities and decided "60 is the best".

My understanding is that it's "finger bones between knuckles reachable by thumb" and "count of times counted through all knuckles". Meaning you count to 12 with one hand (thumb incrementing through finger bones) and then count 13-60 by incrementing the other.

It just so happens that 12 * 5 ends up having a fantastic number of divisors.
You did mention it later but not in the original comment I said wasn't true now:

> As interest rates rise, people spend the same amount monthly (on interest payments) but borrow less in total and can bid less on houses.

Your later responses only explain (in part) why that's not true.
Excitedly awaiting for Notas.
welp, that's sort of the core bug in democracy then, isn't it?

until someone comes up with a better way, it's a "can't fix" - all known alternatives are far worse.

>> if everyone did this, then it would yield the best result for the greatest number of people

> To some, this might sound as romantic ...

ah, but it's not as romantic as it sounds because i said "if", and it's true that's a big "if". so if not everybody was able to accurately decide what's good for them, or simply voted intentionally against their self interest (sadly fairly common), then you just won't get the best theoretical outcome. i.e. it will suck monkey balls. i.e. the current situation. we can't fix the former (unable to...) but perhaps we can fix the later (intentionally votes against their self-interest).

and you are still maximizing your own chances. it's still at least marginally better than lesser-evilism or abstinence.
Some more discussion 2 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32948420
I know it sounds bad, but in practice, it really did work fine for us for quite a while.

1. We didn't experience that many incidents that couldn't wait until working hours.

2. There was never an explicit expectation to keep an eye out. We did it anyway because we were at an early-stage startup, and we all deeply cared about making our products work for our customers.
> I’ve never been frustrated at 2am that my data in sqlite3

What if its not your data? And you've never used sqlite3 or Postres? Its 2AM, they couldn't get a hold of the guy who wrote the code because he's on vacation, or he wrote it 20 years ago and retired....so they haul your sorry self out of bed?

You really gunna be wanting to be reading sqlite3 tutorials, while your boss and boss's boss's boss is on the video call?

I don't want to overstate my case, and sure there are plenty of reasons to use a database to store your data. I was just trying to answer the question of the person who asked why human-readable formats are preferable. They are not in all circs, of course, but all other things being equal you will appreciate it when the fit hits the shan.
“ that dystopian hellhole where the only positive quality of life is the weather.”

Eesh that’s laying in on thick. SF is clearly not your cup of tea but no need for this type of hyperbole. I happen to enjoy the Bay Area, and S.F. in particular. People have different things they are interested in.

You wouldn’t want me to hyperbolically rant on about how many other areas of the country are concrete mcdonaldified wastelands. Or whatever place you moved to, some people would rant about how bad it is.
I finally understand this! Why did every other video make it so confusing!
APFS Migration: A Feat of Engineering
> The first stage is an airship that travels from the ground to 140,000 feet

Right, this is the entirety of their description of that airship. An airship which is supposed to go higher than any plane has ever flown [1], within the realm of high-altitude balloons [2].

EDIT: It looks like it just balloons up to 140k feet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_altitude_record

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_balloon
We could further ask why racialized minorities might have higher crime rates, such as how those people have been treated by society and the state.
RocketStar tests fusion-enhanced in-space propulsion process
Out of curiosity, I did a search through HN from a few years ago, and, just as I expected, people were bringing out that quote to argue against the cryptocurrency skeptics. Of course, the cryptocurrency skeptics were right all along.

Anyway, the original article is probably correct, but it's missing the whole story. Very likely, the future AI panic will be followed by a gradual recovery to a sustainable level of investment, as we as an industry learn what generative AI is actually good at and what it's bad at. In other words, the article is consistent with the upcoming "trough of disillusionment" part of the Gartner hype cycle around generative AI. But the trough of disillusionment won't last forever, and I certainly think that generative AI has its uses (for example, automatically moderating the most vile content so that human moderators aren't at risk for PTSD).
Not a movie but the biblical lectures of Jordan Peterson.

Made me start to understand the bible and christianity from a scientific perspective.

From there reading the bible understanding more about the roots of our culture and seing the constant propaganda against it in the media, the movies, etc.

It's been eye opening.

Then you can read Atlass shrugged and live not by lies.

I used to be very progressive, left leaning, not anymore.
I am from Argentina where dengue is an epidemic right now (we had it for years but it seems this year is worse), and what everyone says about the vaccine is exactly this:

> it paradoxically increases the odds of getting a bad case

So what is it good for?
I've always wondered this as well. In one case, math literacy among the Inuits actually went up significantly when they allowed them to start using their native base 20 system school[1]. Although, they also designed a new system of iconic numerals, so I think that was what caused the increase in math test scores (since you can do arithmetic visually with an iconic numeral system).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaktovik_numerals
> if there’s enough atmosphere to create lift there’s probably enough to cause the craft to burn up

There is generally a window between these speeds. Lifting bodies are good at staying in that window. (As your speed increases, lift increases, which pushes your aircraft up and into thinner air.)

This element of the problem--transitioning from aerodynamic lift to orbital speeds--is shared with SSTO. There are a lot of tough things about SSTO. But not burning up as you accelerate isn't one of them.
I agree with base 10 being inconvenient, but I'm failing to see what that has to do with the metric system. The principle could be applied to any base; base 10 just happens to be the one that we're (currently) using.
It's so true. Honestly I will never understand it.

Even just talking about SDR for the moment, films and TV shows have a lot of work put in so that their color, brightness, sharpness and contrast are just right.

And then modern TV settings apply all sorts of filters that just destroy it.

It's bizarre. I do the same thing you do in terms of calibration and it takes forever. All just to get it to act like a dumb monitor for my Apple TV. I just want it to display the signal and nothing more.

So many people are watching TV and films with weird color, weird contrast, and weird swimmy frame interpolation. And that's before you get to HDR where it's weird dark on top of it all.

It genuinely makes me want there to be either a government regulatory body or else some kind of private-organization seal that guarantees you get a normal-color, normal-contrast, normal-brightness, normal-motion image as filmmakers and TV producers intend. You can have all the other options too, but either make them non-default, or provide a single-click "director's choice high-fidelity (TM)" option to undo all the garbage they add. Or something like that.

Because it's completely out of control.
A feeling is only a feeling. How you react to that feeling is the important part. Until then, you and only you own those feelings.
So this guy won an Oscar for writing code. That's pretty wild.

We could make the switch to 12 if we wanted. Ten fingers and two hands, so we can make a case that it is 'natural'. Then we have 2 and 3. Time is already on base 12/24. Then someone says hey, we got 5 fingers! And we're now doing base 60. Old school Sumerian. Time still works as well. All we need are glyphs for the digits, somehow reflecting the natural partitions into 12, 5, 3, and 2.
Or, most of the folks who preferred dying over having kids did so before procreating - and the folks left don’t have that issue.

Regardless of suffering levels.
I don't care about your singular experience.

I could send you paper and paper that wealth/income and stability increases happiness aggregated.

I could send you papers that would show that sending people scientific proof doesn't convince people and that wouldn't convince you.
Try this:

Base 10 is count(0, 1, 2, 3… 9) = ||||||||||

Base 16 is count(0, 1, 2,… a, b, …f) = ||||||||||||||||
Seems useful as I do occasionally get broken JSON from LLM responses and would like an easy solution to that. However, I don't see this as something I would use an API for. Especially seeing the supported fixes are relatively simple. Seems like it should be a python package. Maybe if you could somehow handle a comparison with a pre-specified json schema that would make it more valuable.
Why else would different races have different rates of criminal behavior?
Is it, or is it strong evidence that we have an innate fear of death built in?
McMorris Rodgers is also certifiable, not to put too fine a point on it
Solving everything means that technology will also solve problems of unemployment, the meaning of life, and all that.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Swatch Internet Time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32948420 - Sept 2022 (48 comments)

Swatch Internet Time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31642887 - June 2022 (2 comments)

Swatch Internet Time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29564119 - Dec 2021 (2 comments)

Swatch Internet Time (or .beat time) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26671343 - April 2021 (2 comments)

Swatch Internet Time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24348915 - Sept 2020 (2 comments)

Swatch Internet Time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22528768 - March 2020 (1 comment)

Swatch Internet Time (1998) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16307725 - Feb 2018 (78 comments)

It’s time to revive .beats, the Swatch Internet Time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8015210 - July 2014 (5 comments)

Swatch Internet Time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7046178 - Jan 2014 (96 comments)

Ask HN: Why did this idea of Internet Time not work? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=520004 - March 2009 (28 comments)

Others?
I've never found any other truth than nihilism, and I'd say at this point I've been looking for three decades since I was a surprisingly young child. It seems like it eluded Nietzsche who I'm sure was a greater thinker than I, and so I don't hold out much hope.

The question of children is one that I've long wondered about in this context as well; my take is that there's a lot of peer pressure that goes into perpetuating society (one of my grandmothers actually told me it was the basic reason she had children). This is another area where religion is quite important; we see fertility falling as religion recedes the world over. I could never really consider consigning more people into the existential dread that I've lived with for the majority of my time, and so the thought of having children never passed my mind.
You lie! Yes, you were a former * volunteer * there, so you were only privy to certain things. I was the person * in charge * at the time, as Jason noted in his blog post.

>> It should never have been donated and should never have been accepted (under previous management).

I recall that you were too busy, in your volunteer days there, running your mouth and telling me how to do my job. Yet the problems VCF has now never happened under my watch.
That funny, at the time I left academia, I found almost the entire opposite attitude. The faculty openly lobbied against having high school and sometimes even undergrads in the lab. This was in fairly heavy duty experimental life sciences, where we did small animal research, so I guess it depends on field/university/department.

But in my lab at least, we did have the odd high schooler/undergrad, whom I had a part in mentoring. For the high schoolers, my PI at least privately admitted it was because their parents had "means" and it was about at least the potential for grant money.
What about Clementine or Strawberry? Clementine was a fork of Amarok 1.4, and Strawberry a fork of Clementine.

I recently discovered Strawberry would play music off of my Subsonic server (Navidrome really) and was thrilled to have something for music that didn't feel like a web app.
> To end the meeting, Michael Cole, 66, a maintenance worker, leads the group in the Walmart Cheer, a chant workers throughout the company do to start and end meetings.

This can’t be real.
Dividing by two has one very significant advantage - the brain is equipped to directly compare two lengths, so a division by two is easy to eyeball and get roughly correct. That's probably also why music is almost always spaced using powers of two, with potentially a single three or occasionally a five - the brain can easily track and measure equal divisions.
Complete anti-scientific hogwash only rich people would repeat, again.
Another thought - feelings/emotions are always relative; and will show up on a distribution naturally.

Even in the trenches of WW1 there were smiles sometimes.
This is exactly what it is. Almost everyone I know here in my country, which has not (yet) gone China, who uses a VPN does so exclusively to access sites and services that are banned or not reachable here (read porn, p2p, and geo-limited services like Hulu, and Spotify before it was released here etc). No one, absolutely no one, uses it for privacy and security.
Your use case is valid, I’m just kind of curious why they’re on your guest network if you don’t trust them? Like an AirBnB or something?
Electrical grids are massive, like almost unbelievably massive. Ownership is complex in that segments of it are controlled by different parties/companies with some of those segments having shared ownership. There only three grids in the USA and (I think) five total in North American with every device operating on a given grid have the capability to play by the grid’s rules and idiosyncrasies. Grid operators are constantly testing new equipment but it gets tested within sandboxes for years prior to adoption. Even if testing goes well, you still need individual buy-in from equipment operators who are allergic to risk and hate change.

I am not trying to say this is the right or wrong way here, just kind of the reality of operating such a complex network.
> Yet it is undeniable that – just like being an actor in LA or an investment banker in New York

This is what I object to: the comparison to acting or investment banking tends to exaggerate the centralization of tech jobs.

If you want to be in a film and aren't in LA then you don't really want to be in a film, because a solid majority of the jobs are there. I imagine the same is true for investment banking and New York.

San Jose and San Francisco, on the other hand, represented ~180k of the nation's ~1650k software developers in 2023 [0]. That's ~10% of all US-based software developers and about 0.6% of all software developers in the world [1]. Not a tiny percentage, but nowhere close to Hollywood's dominance in film.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151252.htm

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-many-software-developers-...
Have you read the Illuminatus! Trilogy?