skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the highest number you can count on your fingers?

When I need to do something repeatedly for a large number of times, I use my thumb to count the joints of my fingers, where the right hand is the "ones" and the left hand the "tens" column. In practice, I only go up to a hundred (ie. I use the first three fingers on each hand while counting - three on each finger, for 1-9), because decimal. But, the same system could get to 12x12 or 13x13.

A really neat alternative is to count on your fingers using binary. The right thumb is 0, the pointer 2, the middle finger 4, the ring finger 8, etc.

Amazingly, this gets you to over 1000 on your two hands, which is a really neat trick in the right setting. (Casually counting aloud off you fingers is great way to break the ice when you use binary - it is familiar but unexpected, dumb but smart.)
The other disappointing thing (correct me if I'm wrong) is that it's not quite portable in a true sense; if I take the Starlink equipment I bought in United States to.. say, Argentina or Germany, it won't work there. I wish it could work like that, without a lot of hassle, but it doesn't appear to be the case.
Yep it's just the coincidence of a simple sound system and finding patterns where none exist. For example saying ba means horse in Japanese isn't exactly correct, horse is uma, ba is just the closest sound that exists which allows Japanese people to pronounce Chinese words like 馬力 circa whenever that word was added to the language, if they took it today it would be ma.

It's the equivalent of Latin or Greek words and affixes in English.
"Slowly, then suddenly."
https://x.com/teortaxestex/status/1802128370861232374
I always thought Bouba/Kiki would make cool "matching" tattoos.

Strangely, everyone I've asked says they would want to be Bouba. No one wants to be Kiki.
Buffett is rich precisely because he’s not just running off with a fraction of a percent stolen from real investors. He’s the real investor.

His strategy is to take a controlling stake in a struggling company with good fundamentals but poor management. Then he’ll “fix up” the small problems and return the company to profitability.

How exactly is that parasitic?
Also any svn/hg repository afaik
Ah, I apologize. I misconstrued your position
I doubt running a circuit for a hot tub is endangering the entire neighborhood
A lot of those used cheap Dell minipcs come with serial ports and the slightly biger ones may have a parallel port.
That’s something cloudflare doesn’t want either. They wouldn’t even need to do it, just threatening to would have a financial impact on cf.
Yes you do, you just do it palm facing the person you're talking to (known locally as the "victory sign").
Yes, hopefully they'll rename to "SQLite Explorer" or similar, I like both!
> That's AC. The panels are DC. That makes a big difference

What's the qualitative difference between 16 amps at 120V and PH
v DC? Either is enough to kill a person if mishandled, and yet Home Depot sells breaker boxes over the counter.
In my experience it's almost always shadows. I can't be sure of course, but I've definitively noticed a correlation: both shadows from overpasses or shadows from semis, this happens more often when the sun is low too.

It never happens at night though, which in my mind makes the shadows hypothesis weaker.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Bouba/Kiki Effect - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27885703 - July 2021 (94 comments)

Bouba/kiki effect - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8372550 - Sept 2014 (1 comment)

(Reposts are fine after a year or so; links to past threads are just to satisfy extra-curious readers)
Concatenating a Binary Executable with a .jar
This is not correct, at least not for me. I don't like public unions for the 3 points this article outlines. I would counter your point about effective and say that that only appear effective (if you define effective at maximizing union member compensation) because they can abuse market power and collude with politicians to pay labor way more than would ever happen if the business they were operating in could be substituted away from by its customers. This is not effective on a society level, it's dead weight loss causing abuse of market power and it should be stopped.
It pains me greatly that the host name part is in lack of a better name unimportance to significance in domain names, but significance to unimportance in URL paths
I found RPi to be unusable for anything remotely serious. Recently I got RPi 5 with NVMe hat. Had a lot of "fun" finding drive that will actually work with it, so more money and time spent. Got it working and found that it randomly dies after couple of days. The time and money spent I probably could be better off just getting one of those N100 mini PCs.

For dabbling with electronics Pico or STM32 seem more reasonable. RPi GPIO is too limited for anything that could use its processing power. Not sure if there are even any distributions that would support realtime operations with those pins or things like DMA, custom protocols working at 1x-1xx MHz speeds.
ChatGPT explanation:

When you concatenate an executable and a JAR file:

- The operating system reads the initial part of the file (the executable header) and treats it as a binary executable.

- The JVM, on the other hand, looks for the ZIP file structure when attempting to load a JAR. Since the ZIP file format places its directory structure and central directory headers at the end of the file, the JVM can still recognize and load the JAR contents even when the ZIP file is appended to the executable.

As a result, the file can be executed as a binary by the operating system, while the JVM can also load and run it as a JAR file. This dual functionality is possible because the executable and JAR components operate independently of each other based on their respective file structures and headers.
Really?

Every ship I see in port is still belching clouds of black smoke from bunker fuel. Never heard of a LNG ship.
>Biden is polling 4-8 points behind where he was in June in those states in 2020

Further, Trump consistently did better than the polls in almost every state in both 2016 and 2020.

To have him actually be up in the polls—something he never did nationally in the aggregate in 2016 or 2020—is signaling landslide.

>and where Clinton was in 2016.

I highly recommend this excellent Politico article on 10 key moments of the 2016 election campaign <http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/2016-presiden...>. One is how Trump campaigned like crazy while Clinton took weeks off just loafing in Chappaqua.

Eight years later Trump is still campaigning like crazy while Biden is hiding in his basement. I was amazed to learn recently that Biden as president has never done an interview with a major newspaper <https://www.natesilver.net/p/its-time-for-the-white-house-to...>; only podcasts like Conan O'Brien's, where he knows he'll only get softball questions.
I think it's innate that having differentiated syntax for different types of grouping is natural. Look at mathematical papers where people will introduce new brackets with new meanings. (Indeed look at the entirety of QM for a clear, simple case)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Music_(novel)
This would make a good koan
Does decades of empirical evidence not prove that people are more comfortable with imperative, curly brace programming over s-expressions? It's not a chicken and egg problem. The egg has hatched and nested parentheses lost.
Being who you are, while becoming better (2011)
> Once you know the prices are jacked up just for "you", and once you know you are being "played," you behave differently and resist.

This isn't true. If you find out that only Tesla is customizing their car-price for you personally, you may decide to boycott Tesla. But what are you going to do if every single car company does the same thing? Boycott all cars and take the bus? Hence my point that price-personalization works even better when more companies do it, not less.
Should they brace for Bendgate 2.0 as well?
If the "job" is to make lots and lots of software, even if most of it is mediocre, then the best tool is what will enable millions of mediocre developers to develop, not just thousands of elite developers.
I think a positive sign of expertise is when you question someone and they go "oh right, I neglected to establish this foundational concept before making my main point". Or "oh right, let me step back and answer the question again from a different angle".

Basically, sometimes if you bounce your ignorance off a true expert you can see it reflected back in a positive light as they try to massage ideas into your perspective. Bullshitters aren't able to do this.
Considering that it is run by a duplicitous Uncle Scrooge it is exactly what is going to happen.
If the App Store golden goose get taken over (by DMA and similar legislation) they will lose a significant share of their revenue growth and it seems that this is simply unacceptable to current Apple leadership.

The iPhone is losing its luster and competitors are coming with extremely competitive devices at much cheaper prices, even at the most premium end there is not much of an edge, the product has been perfectly commoditized. Pursuing luxury will inexorably make it a smaller and smaller share of the market every year passing.
The iPad and the Mac are pretty small share of the revenue too, by pursuing luxury Apple has put itself into the same corner, repeating previous mistake Steve Jobs warned against in an interview (while working at Next).

I don't see how they reconciliate their need for growth without fucking over their users at some point on the privacy bullshit. It's not as if they don't have a long history of doing that. There is one thing that is clear about Apple as a company: it loves money much more than its customers; in a way that makes regular companies look like boy scouts...
It may be "broken" in the sense that it's not accurate to the original language in orthography or pronunciation, but it's great because it's internally consistent for speakers of Japanese. I can look at any foreign word in katakana and instantly know how to pronounce it in a way that is intelligible to other people in the language I'm speaking: Japanese.

Even with the way English does it for other languages that use the same alphabet, while the orthography may be similar, the pronunciation is generally just left to luck and the speaker's/listener's perception of the word's original language.
It would be political suicide for the Democrats not to go with a sitting incumbent President as their candidate, especially against a candidate who was formerly President.
Arguably it's rather more like taking a page from versioned builds, meaning not supporting old builds indefinitely, through a process of notice with grace period till deprecation.
I always install fail2ban or something like it on servers I want to have SSH on. Really cuts down on the log volume, even if I have locked myself out occasionally. The thing about port scanning is that it's cheap as hell. There's less than 4 billion IP4 addresses and zmap can hit them all within an hour on a decent network connection.
Linux's New DRM Panic "Blue Screen of Death" in Action
> The disagreement is large enough that it's not particularly uncommon to find people who believe the government is so far off that they must be lying about the numbers.

You're absolutely right that there is often disagreement and controversy around how to properly measure inflation and the real purchasing power of money over time. Reasonable people can disagree on the right methodology. That said, I don't think the disagreements are so large as to render inflation measures meaningless. There are established economic principles and data sources used to estimate inflation (CPI, PCE, etc.), and while imperfect, they do provide a useful gauge. The Fed and other economic authorities put a lot of work into getting the numbers right, even if some will inevitably dispute them.

> I explicitly used covid inflation as an example where wealth was not created. Asset owners made large profits not because they created anything or provided any value, but simply because the unit of account changed to their benefit (notably here, the government did not report increased inflation for almost 2 years after it happened. Anyone looking at asset prices saw it immediately).

Do you think that when the amount of money in circulation doubles and prices double this creates “large profits” for those selling at the doubled prices? You seem intelligent so I am struggling to make sense of your comment above.

Certainly tax laws should be changed so that citizens do not pay capital gains taxes due to gains that are due to government money printing and inflation. This is controversial because the wealthy would benefit far more from fixing this.

> The purpose of a communication network is to enable communication. There are plenty of non-commercial reasons to do that. In fact the Internet originally had rules against commercial use.

I did not ask what the purpose of a communication network is. I asked “what is the purpose of those who deploy communications networks?” Do you see the difference this makes? Governments may deploy them for reliable communications during war as was the purpose of the early internet - what matters is robustness and performance and profit is an alien concept for such projects since they are funded by taxes. When communications networks are built by sellers of communication services however (potential) profit is the number one concern to make sure the business is sustainable.
Well, see, the problem is that you’re going to have to keep the allocator alive for the entire lifetime you use any data whatsoever from the JSON. Or clone it manually. Both seem like they largely negate any benefit you get from using it?
ha, true! However at expos often the person asking is a vendor looking to sell SPE components to us, or someone in the industry trying to determine if a technology is popular. Can be a bit of an echo chamber.
I'd use popularity (how many people are using the crate indirectly) divided by trust level in the publisher of the crate.

However, publishing a list that basically says "these are the least trustworthy Rust users" would cause quite a stir, so I'm not doing that.
It’s interesting you even have to point this out. Maven solved this and other problems literally decades ago but the repository packaging wheel keeps getting reinvented. For example, here’s the page on Maven Central’s immutability policy:

https://central.sonatype.org/publish/requirements/immutabili...
How so? Moat by definition is something hard to do, its only normal for many to fail trying.

Naiveté can be a factor which would amplify number of people trying.
Did some quick research on a major American car parts retailer's website. The biggest batteries they sell are rated as high as 188Ah (though they use a weird industry-specific unit to say that). Many are closer to 25-50Ah. Definitely enough juice to power a terminal for several hours.

This lines up with my personal experiences. I have personally used a car battery to keep a big gaming laptop charged for an entire weekend, and it was being used (if not under heavy load) for about 10 hours a day.

Those big batteries are extremely heavy and very expensive, but we're talking about people who want broadband internet service on their boat. Money is not a concern here.

I'm sure Starlink has different power modes for these things, but the average consumer is likely far more interested in optimizing for connection speed and latency.
Same lol.

Seeing this thing show off its tech in the flesh was incredible.

The ability for it too scrub off speed from full tilt at 2000 mph is just beyond imaginable.

If something is chasing you at full speed, and you can just hit the brakes mid air; suddenly the hunter becomes the prey lol
Thanks, that’s great. I’ll give it a go, then.
There are many countries where this is not true. Look up loadshedding in South Africa, for example.
Total bike and trailer builder and believer of yore here.

One can fail to appreciate the additional breaking forces
and shifts in balance a loaded trailer introduces to the bicycle.

Where the trailer attaches should be as close to the center of gravity of the bike & rider as possible so the trailer's resultant forces have the least leverage.

The trailer hitch should be rotationaly neutral which is a gentler way of saying
if the trailer flips over it should not take the bike down with it.

If the trailer has its own breaks they should slightly and lightly lead the bikes rear break.

Being careful helps, I never wrecked, but do see how the addition of electrical assist does up the concern as it could result in more mass moving fast.
you really think he would respond if i email him?
Duplicate HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40700259
> Real experts have earned their expertise and are excited about trying to share what they know.

Depends on a lot of things. Preferably not for free.
I don't know if it's innate but it's what we have. Lisp has been around about as long as programming, it's had plenty of time to catch on, it hasn't.

Maybe innate, maybe it's an offshoot of teaching math in an infix style, 1 + 2 vs. + 1 2.
Also I can't imagine him up on a roof. He's 74 and not a pillar of health and fitness.
This team is at the second best high school in the USA. they have the resources and the money.
Horses may have been domesticated twice
Well how would you imagine a spiky sound from say, a synthesizer?

Guess it would have lots of overtones / not a smooth signal curve (Fourier duality)
Who the hell signals two with your palm facing you? That's the only way you can get in trouble.
I guess I am technically, but only for myself
you'd think, but energy use is going up, not down. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40700537

the price of energy has started to fall again in the last ten years
thanks for suggestion. but css is not usable when I handle canvas
Ok, but the people drawing generalizations from this are being crazy then.
An extremely important (and grave) misunderstanding is that "eye driness" is just a feeling of burning or similar.

Tears are a crucial part of the vision. With less tears, the eye has worse vision. So one can end in a paradoxical situation where they have a better vision in theory (and tests!), but in practice, they may see considerably worse. And there's nothing one can do - eye drops only last a short amount of time.

I had considerable eye dryness that improved over several (5+) years, which is almost entirely recovered. A couple of years ago I've tried contacts and they wouldn't hold (it wasn't the case pre-op).

The (licensed) doctor was a liar (about the risks), and they actually didn't care about me post-op.
Maybe a law shifting liability for references from the employer to the person providing it is the fix.
So it's not acceptable for a EU company to store any customer data with a US company? They very literally all do. We are also not the US, and are I'm sure happy to arrange a sensible agreement. Regardless I still don't think this is the big issue that some europeans make it out to be, back in the real world I don't think we've lost any customers due to brexit. I think the friction in gaining new ones from the EU is purely psychological "but brexit makes that hard" or "but you're not in europe, /yes we are/ oh you know what I mean".
“Global roaming” is the plan that allows that and it costs twice as much IIRC
Flagging should be accompanied by a reply to the original post. Otherwise this bypasses the official channel and the op won't be able to receive proper feedback.
Such issues should also be referred to the moderation committee and the awareness team. /s
AMD and Intel do release every year, GPUs every 1,5 - 2 years, and pretty much always the release isn't meant for users on the previous generation but those on 2+ generations behind.

In this case, we have the first-gen release of actually performant PC ARM chips so it's slightly different.
My hot take is that all games are simulations to some extent. Many sports are a kind of war game, simulating a specific aspect of real war, obviously abstracting quite a bit. A big part of the fun in catan is in the tension of having to cooperate with rivals to mutually beneficial ends, much like what happens in economics all the time. The point being, that yes, there are varying levels of realism, but in the end I don’t really think there is a simple line denoting “game” or “simulation.”
Agree but you are replying to a user named "lisper".
we achieved a margin of 7.6%

Are you one of the original contributors of the work done at together.ai [1], or are you trying to take credit for it?

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04692
Roam is effectively the data plan, this is a new hardware dish, but I suspect it will be the preferred dish for most Roam plans.
Yeah. You don't formally ask for recommendations but people know people and that's how it works. (Which is why a lot of job hunting is about networks whether you like it or not.)
“V for Victory” isn’t just a hand gesture, it was a WW2 meme of defiance. Curiously, Churchill used both hand orientations.
https:://easyrd.dev

<-- it's the diagram example made of flitter
(this is sideproject and reference is dbdiagram)
Somewhat related: can anyone recommend a simple solution to share each node’s ephemeral disk/“emptyDir” across the cluster? Speed is more important than durability, this is just for a temporary batch job cluster. It’d be ideal if I could stripe across nodes and expose one big volume to all pods (JBOD style)
Indeed. Creating imagined barriers where nobody (eu companies/citizens, uk companies/citizens, or the uk government) actually wants or needs them. In practice IMO they are just there because they're incentivised to make things difficult for us.
Yeah, one is easier and the other is right. Shipping a reproducibly built readonly rootfs image takes longer, but is strictly better than putting 'some' versions of Debian packages on the SD card and calling it a day.

It's the Arduino curse - sure, it's faster to ship Hello World with Arduino but soon you realize all your libraries were built by beginners and use delay() everywhere so you're screwed if you need two peripherals to work at once.

You use Pi for prototypes and one-offs, not where you need to ship something that's actually competitive on BoM.
While oxygen is the most common oxidizer, it's entirely possible to have combustion without it. Such as utilizing halogens.
I get embarrassed counting on my fingers during exams. I can't seem to kick this habit.
In (US?) English if you were to describe some thing and you had many adjectives for its size, color, origin, age, a visual pattern like "polka dot" or striped, and so on - many native speakers (at least in my region) would intuitively assemble that clause in the same order as each other without really being able to clearly articulate why. There are some supposed grammar rules that inform it but in my circles people just explain it as basically due to vibes. It was definitely not anything I remember from my public school education growing up.

If I'm describing a large, heavy, square, shiny, metal, block - that's the order that feels right for me. If I try shifting any pair of those around it just feels weird and the farther apart they appear in my original ordering, the weirder the swap would feel for me. "square metal heavy shiny large block" has awful 'mouthfeel', as it were. It's also a bit jarring to hear aloud.
Y232/Carch, a FOSS self hosted yt-dlp web front end
Well, they were never contracted to be honest. The only way any party would know about the deception would be to conspire... Something explicitly forbidden by quite a few contracts where recruiters are middle men.

Note, they did conspire... Eventually. Next rate increase, I was in the room when client and contractor alternately took calls from the recruiter on speaker phone.

Everyone was shocked at the outcome.

The client ended up buying the contractor out of the recruiters exclusivity.
Yes but when contracting, that's how it is structured much of the time.