skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hacking all those things together feels empowering, like a complex construct that can be built from simple things we are already used to. This article has a very "hacky" spirit, love it!
Working in a closely related space and this instantly became part of my team's onboarding docs.

Worth noting that a lot of the visualization code is available in Github.

https://github.com/3b1b/videos/tree/master/_2024/transformer...
The Apollo program mostly used US customary units.
For most kinds of human systems, evolution selects for resilience, flexibility and ease of communication instead of logic and efficiency. So we end up with things that are kind of weird but somehow remain dominant for thousands of years, while your perfectly designed alternative never gets off the ground. Metric is surely a great leap forward than what we had before.
That’s interesting, what country are you in? I don’t think I’ve heard of any safe injection places outside large cities.
I don't think there's anything in the metric system that actually requires using base 10. Anything will work the same with base 12 or any other base. The only thing we need is consistency, which is the hardest part in this matter.
10 * 10 * 10 * 10 in base 12 is 10000.

<12> * <12> * <12> * <12> in base 12 is 10000

Assuming that you mean the decimal number "12" and not the number 12 in base 12 which is the decimal number 14.

In base 12 the number 12 is written "10"
https://archive.ph/Jhycf
You just described a lot of cities in the US though
That's just familiarity.

If you write it out in base 12, it looks like 10 * 10 * 10 * 10 = 10,000. I can't tell you what number that is in English without working it out of course.
Human beings are unique in the world because they are the only species that can understand it. If you remove them from the world, there's nothing left that can throw light in the world's misteries.
A bit longer than that: a couple 1024 years, at least!
Speaking of mathematical missteps relating to bases, I've always been baffled by why we refer to a base system by the number above the highest representable single digit. Every base is "base 10" in that case! Why is binary referred to as "base 2", when the number 2 doesn't even appear? Wouldn't it make infinitely more sense to refer to our conventional number system as "base 9", binary as "base 1", unary as "base 0", and hexadecimal as "base F"? Or we could have used a more sensical word like "ceiling" or "roof" in that case, to convey that it's referring to the highest single-digit value in the system.
This would be much easier if our numeric system was also base 12. Then 10*10 is still 100 (but that’s 144 in decimal).

Edit: lol responses explode within 60 seconds saying the same thing.
I use base72 every day.
I have another proposal. I think ISPs should provide the same QoS options to everyone. With guaranteed speeds and also data caps and all. At least this option would make things more transparent.

AFAIK, most of the backbone and rural networks were subsidized with public funds to provide broadband internet. I find it disturbing that some private companies are trying to secure high QoS for themselves without paying for the infrastructure itself. It's like crony capitalism where losses are socialized while profits are privatized.
I would like to see a switch to a 420 degree circle since it’s also divisible by seven, which is nice for calendar purposes, among other things.
it's why i thank chatgpt after a great answer, and feel there's some value in personifying AI

even if they're not actually human, we still are
The Infinite Liar Paradox
I think dividing by 10 is much more useful than the author admits and better than dividing by 2. It's a fine starting point. I realize the author isn't necessarily explicitly defending the Imperial system that strongly, but 2 by itself is a big meh. E.g. even in the parts of the Imperial system that use 2 as a main factor (1", half inch, quarter inch, etc for small measurements) you end up with a bunch of stuff like "take 1/16th off of 3/4ths" that is less obvious than something like "take a millimeter and a half off of 19mm" when you're dealing with a base-10 number system. (Even before taking into account the conversion to feet that isn't a power-of-two based one, but is instead a factor of 12.)

Two just isn't a big enough divisor, ten works much better as a "step change" interval.

A measurement system that was uniformly 8 or 12 or 16 could avoid that problem by having equivalent steps to mm, cm, meter, etc. but still runs into the problem of having to change the entire number system too which is rather not the fault of the metric system in the first place.
"You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help."

-Jean Kerr
Moving to the Bay Area was the best thing I've ever done for myself financially. The network of companies, developers, and investors/advisers (in good times) is unparalleled and enough to make you a career if you can hack it, and give you the exposure to people to mentor you and teach you how to hack it.

Moving away from the Bay Area was the second best thing I've ever done for myself financially, because once you have the skills and network there's not much gains to be had by staying in that dystopian hellhole where the only positive quality of life is the weather.
Maybe with the use of AI, humans can evolve to having 16 fingers!
Base 10 is an excellent base for exactly one reason: we all know it and use it. All bases have trade-offs but a common language/base beats any slight technical reason that another base should be put into general use.

We can celebrate the fact that our notion of numbers is flexible enough that we can easily represent other bases without significant reach. Eg: Imagine trying to express another base with Roman numerals.
It really seems like the ancients knew quite a bit. Their system for counting and for angles seems to have been really handy. And the measurement system of feet and inches was really close to what everyone had readily available.
Not for numbers.

零一二三四五六七八九十百千萬億 is all you need to get into the billions. It's not as practical for computation, though.
Thank you for the congratulations! Currently, purl does not include features similar to AWK. We appreciate your suggestion and will consider it for future development.
Because it refers to the number of digits in the system.

Base 10 comprises ten digits, viz. count(0, 1, 2, 3, … 9) = 10z

Base 2 is count(0, 1) = 2

Base 16 (hexadecimal) is count(0, 1, 2, 3, … 9, a, b, … f) = 16
Nerd sniping? Not this time, buddy.

https://xkcd.com/356/

Edit: You got nine of us with one comment. You win.
We should just legalize OTC amphetamines again and be done with it.
This is a complicated issue that I don't see being solved in my lifetime. The higher-than-average crime of this population is genuine and not solely attributed to false racial persecution. Surely some of it is, but it would not account for the entire skew. All it takes to see this is to take a ride on the Edmonton transit system or spend a week in Maskwacis. Obviously the crime is a result of poverty, generational trauma, historic mistreatment and cultural genocide, and IMO the failure of the reserve system. How do you fix it, I don't know... but acknowledging treaty land at every public event and re-naming streets in Cree is probably less useful than fixing the third-world conditions of reserves.
I suppose you’d get used to it eventually. But the first line of this post is silly. Another reason the author doesn’t like metric is base ten.

Do you know how many feet are in a mile? The answer is: Who cares.

The fact that you could pick a better base is irrelevant. They had their chance and came up with some silly numbers to scale from an inch to feet to yards to miles.

Metric: Just remember the base unit. Want a new unit? You change the prefix and move the dot appropriately. You can now scale down to atoms or up to galaxies with a single base unit.
Straight and true.

The other view is fine too: Base-9 would mean "max number is 9".
Sounds interesting; what else is part of those onboarding docs?
From your phrasing here, it sounds like you think the OP is unaware of Perl, which is odd, considering they mention it in their very first sentence.
Too bad that gedit is utter garbage now. Lol Gnome. My pet rabbit gets confused when there are too many features so let's remove them all.
Base 60

Sumerians used Base 60.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal

It’s the most divisional number under 100. Hence why 60 is still used today for so many things (clocks, degrees, etc).
With a battery, you could run your generator at peak efficiency when it's running, and idle it otherwise, significantly reducing your running costs.
Matter for what? You can find super interesting communities of all different kinds of people and interests in cities all around the world. I think the communities in Bay Area lean more tech, more intentional living, more left; certainly if you want to hang out with some of the best people doing ai, you will find a bunch of those people there.

New York is an amazing spot because there’s just so much more density and diversity that there’s a bazillion more niche communities doing all sorts of stuff, including tech scenes, tech-art stuff, whatever you want.

You need to decide what you’re looking for, and if you can find it wherever you already are.
I 100% agree with this. The dozenal system makes mental math easier. The dozenal system makes everyday calculations more precise.

100 in base 12 (144 in base 10) is divisible by

1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12, 16, 18, 24, 36, 48, 72, 144 (base 10)

The mental model of these proportions would be accessible to us relative to quantities of 100 base 12, in full precision, if we used base 12.

We could readily divide common quantities into halves, thirds, quarters, sixths, eighths etc. and get results in whole integers.

No more errors due to estimations of 1/3 * 100 as 33.333333.. and 1/9 as 11.1111111..,

100 / 3 = 40 in base 12, done.

100 / 4 = 30

100 / 8 = 16

100 / 9 = 14

100 / 12 = 10

Look how nice that is.

100 base 10 is only divisible by

1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 20, 25, 50, 100 (base 10)

It's really a tragedy that we use base 10.
In base twelve would the symbols being in base not help you, like & is 12, &0 is 144, &00 is 1728 or something? And if the symbols made that natural would we not start finding it intuitive just because 144 would have an in base name like twun or something so you could easily say twelve, twun, twund, twend, or whatever and just add digits like with base 10? (Just making up short syllables that start with "tw".) I think I'm slightly off with my two second example because I'm not sure what && means without thinking more, but main point is just that wouldn't we have a means of making it easy to do quickly in base if that were the common base?

Edit: yeah, wanting to add a symbol for twelve instead of two more symbols before 10 in base twelve is my hasty mistake.
This is a problem we know how to solve though. Techniques like predecoding and to a greater extent uop caches mean that you only have to do the harder parts of decode on (relatively) rare misses. On hits, you can avoid the entire problem since you already have this information stored or abstracted away.
Also relevant: https://www.seximal.net/
The key word is "strong". This bill is the opposite of that. It would, however, eliminate the stronger protections currently enjoyed within many states.

Unfortunately, with our bought and payed for auction we call "representative democracy", a strong national privacy bill is not likely to ever happen-- rich folks get richer by abusing our privacy than by respecting it.

https://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2015/05/disturbing-d...
LOL! At least a building can hold beds.
3Blue1Brown: But What Is a GPT?
My first thought is why not supabase?
Scammers acting like an adult is hard to believe. They’re usually quick to start yelling and cursing in Kitboga videos.
nobody going to point out that using a vpn for region bypass gets you blocked on Wikipedia, banned on your banking, shown captcha left and right by cloud flare... but Netflix and Disney+ all works perfectly?

:pondering emoji face
> a critical piece of US manufacturing

You're wrong there. The U.S. Steel Corp. has a long history but hasn't been a the leader even in the U.S. for some time now. We are talking about a couple of very outdated steel plants coupled with some very outdated infrastructure, basically.
>But could you not plausibly define anyone who commits major crimes to be mental ill?

Yes, and it makes punishment in the manners we do it [US] frankly unconsciable for being torturous. What else do you call forcing a man to sit in a concrete and iron box for ten years involuntarily, if he would willingly expatriate instead? Imprisonment should become optional with expatriation. It is assinine that we take away passports from criminals; you should be wanting them to depart for good! Throwing a man in a box completely involuntarily and without any reachable alternative recourse except to wait it out, in lieu of just seizing all assets and kicking them out permanently if they so choose as the prison-alternative, is assuaging what internet trolls would call... your booty-blastedness for him giving you a really bad time.
I was in half a dozen SV companies, mostly startups but a couple big ones, between 1985 and 2004 when I moved away, so I have no idea what it is like now. But since you asked "did it ever really matter," here is my experience. I interviewed for my first job when I was wrapping up college. Two weeks after arriving for that job in Sunnyvale, they announced layoffs, so I had to interview again. Luckily, there were hundreds of companies within 15 minutes who were doing similar work, and found employment without interruption. Since then I have never had to really apply for a job again, and I've never been unemployed.

Back then, one recruiter or another called me about once every three weeks about some opportunity or other. People I worked with who had moved on would call to see if I was interested to join them. Or if I thought it was time to move on, there were many dozens of former coworkers I could call for leads. Those interviews were perfunctory -- that contact had already sold me to their boss, so it was really more about convincing me to join their company.

In 2004 I moved to Austin and things have been very different. I've never had a single recruiter call, and if I did decide to change jobs, I would have far fewer options than when I lived in SV. I'm nearing retirement age so I don't expect to ever interview again.
> The open minded attitudes and culture around risk is something that you can really internalize when you are around other people who give you the correct social proof.

Never lived in the Bay Area, but even when Bay Area people visit or show up in my career orbit, the difference is pretty massive.

Especially when compared to Canadians on risk taking. Bay Area will spend a week to try something. Canadians will take a few months to consider it.

Even observing from afar, it is pretty evident why Canadians tend to lose.
I don’t want to downplay what you’re going through, but I do want to gently caution you against taking a (hopefully temporary) personal feeling as a universal human truth…

A large proportion of people certainly must think life is worth living and continuing, and probably most of them have less wealth and resources than you do!
It’s not a binary factor, but being in a tier-1 city makes it substantially easier to get good jobs.

It doesn’t mean you have to move to the Bay Area, nor does it mean you can’t find a great job outside of a tier 1 city (Seattle, NYC, etc). However, the amount of opportunity is drastically different.
No one has ever said that 100% of software engineers need to be in the Bay Area. Yes there are plenty of people living elsewhere who have had fulfilling careers in the industry. Yet it is undeniable that – just like being an actor in LA or an investment banker in New York – your opportunities for job search, networking, career growth etc. are significantly higher by being where the ecosystem is concentrated.
Going from the title, one person paid $100M would only move the needle by $14K
Yep, particularly when counting fingers. That in mind, I wonder why base 5 wasn’t a thing since it would have been easier to keep track of the “digits” up to 25.
Most who have lived overseas will have had experience with relatives or friends calling at ungodly hours because they forgot about the different time zone, made a mistake, or simply weren't aware to begin with. A universal standard time wouldn't change that, people who care not to wake you up would still need to remember the conversion or look it up just like they do now.

It's a nonsense argument against a unified time zone. It's pretty much guaranteed to happen sooner or later, it just makes sense as globalization progresses, communication is instant and global and the world grows closer and closer.
That is a key lesson of many religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism etc that the state of contentment comes from within. They have been telling everyone this for decades with mixed results.

Suffering is what happens when expectations do not match with reality. You can still have pain but suffering is that gap.

You hear folks that say "it is the journey that matters" but that implys a destination. I think it is all just one big ’happening'.

If life is a race it is a 100n stroll. And yet many people have convinced themselves that it is a marathon and that everyone else needs to be doing that race otherwise they would be the fool. The joke being that there is no other finish line and that many will go to the grave thinking they havent run the race enough.
Defense industry will do well irrespective of which uniparty stooge occupies the Oval Office, so it doesn’t really qualify. We’re talking well over a trillion a year at this point all-in. This train ain’t stopping.
I've had to move for my wife's job a bunch. I've had a very good career, entirely outside of the Bay Area.

That being said, I essentially have no connections or network in the Bay Area. I've worked for companies where most of my peers are not in the Bay Area. This puts me at a huge disadvantage for continuing to level my career. I'm largely subject to the whims of remote. While COVID dramatically increased the number of remote positions, it also exponentially increased competition for those positions.

I recently left to be a stay-at-home-dad, but I'm dreading the day I attempt to get back into the workforce. I just don't really see it being feasible.
> Can anyone say whether it is possible to have an accident where this becomes a runaway process like the Great Oxidation Event?

Probably not, due to denitrifying organisms [1]. The GOE occured because aerobic respiration, the biological balance to photosynthesis, didn't exist [2]. So when cyanobacteria began photosynthesising, the only counterbalance was ferrous iron dissolved into the oceans. Once that's reduced, that's it. No cycle. In contrast, more nitrogen fixation would prompt more denitrification, thereby balancing the system.

So to complete your disaster novel, you'd need to kill off denitrifying bacteria. Ironically, it appears they require "a very low oxygen concentration of less than 10%."

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

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28360330/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_cycle
It's the base, as in "base and exponent", of the value of a digit position. If the lowest digit is marked digit zero, then each digit of a number contributes (digit x base^position) to the total value. E.g. 1567(base 10) = 7x10^0 + 6x10^1 + 5x10^2 + 1x10^3.
Thanks, but the writeup I'm thinking of was contemporary with the Swatch Beats time, and specifically about it. I guess it was likely a student page at MIT or some other university, so it might no longer exist.
But your counts are all using base 10! If we were to count the number of digits in binary using binary, we would get 10 digits. If we were to count the number of digits in hexadecimal in hexadecimal, we would still get 10 digits. This is true for all bases.
Yes. I think people would be a lot better at arithmetic if we had a larger base or, more importantly, iconic numerals so that arithmetic can be done visually as in Mayan numerals or Kaktovik numerals[1] (both base 20).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaktovik_numerals
Exactly, Pittsburgh PA checks all those boxes with a fraction of cost of living and crime. Also, way way way more artists - because they can afford to live there.

The art scene in the bay is actually really bad.
What about the children?

Rather than presenting a rhetorical device, I’m genuinely wondering what would happen to math literacy rates when switching to something like base 12.

It isn’t a question about specialist use cases, because we already apply plenty of specialist systems as needed, such as binary and hexadecimal in computing.
Women are hugely undiagnosed for a lot of reasons, so this is a good thing.
If you already use an alphabet similar to modern Latin it's probably only terrible to learn the symbols.
OpenBSD source gets independent code reviews, and they run syzcaller continuously.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&w=2&r=1&s=coverity&q=b

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=164303498026116&w=2
> No, I think mental illness should be defined relative to a person's capacity to change behaviour volitionally or in response to feedback signals, like a scolding or rehab or imprisonment. People who are mentally ill do not respond to feedback signals like this, they have little volition over their behaviours without significant pharmaceutical or other interventions first.

Yeah, this is exactly what someone without mental illness will never understand. Awareness is not static. It ebbs and flows. Sometimes I know that I'm saying/doing something but completely unaware of what it is. I have to ask someone else about my actions/words once I regain awareness. However, I do hold a full time position and can respond to feedback signals depending on the day. I was told growing up to think of consequences of my actions before doing it. Yeah right, for that to happen I need to understand what I'm doing let alone think through the consequences. Pharmaceutical or other interventions aren't a silver bullet to all mental illness issues. Yes, they do help and curb some symptoms but you can't predict when someone will have an episode. And they come with their own side effects. Their effectiveness also depends on the person being treated. Not everyone with depression responds equally well to anti-depressants. It's much more complicated than you think.
Phanpy, eh? I like the clean design. Feed, and nothing else.

Narrator: "Meanwhile, in Japan..."

red laser lights up in Nintendo IP lawyer's eye
It always blows my mind that Grant Sanderson can explain complex topics in such a clear, understandable way.

I've seen several tutorials, visualisations, and blogs explaining Transformers, but I didn't fully understand them until this video.
It is also interesting when Daiso and other 100-yen shops have stuff that is over 100 yen (usually 300-500 yen). Most of them are the more durable items or ones that would never be good at all if it was sold for 100 yen. Pretty good thinking if you ask me.
> The patterns of the mental health establishment of the 21st century are oddly reminiscent of where physics and chemistry stood ca. the mid-19th century. Legitimate advances are being made, but most of the tools are still unreliable and many of the theories still fairly reek of superstition and magical thinking.

Ah this is also my stance. There are lots of good will in this subject, but trusting it is like trusting surgeons in 19th century. There may be no other option, but sometimes it's better to leave the bullet in your chest rather than letting it be infected by doctors with dirty hands.