skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0702396 is a very thorough answer to this question by a very well respected mathematician
Life expectancy is definitely not trending down in a lot of other developed countries, that's quite unique to the USA in that cohort.
> Though that assumes you could cover an unexpected expense

Given how low the typical (non-DMO) coverage limits are for dental insurance, this is probably reasonable for many people.
i love this game now open wide
Also known as: "how did this ever work??"
wrd to my mother man yous a bum
I think if you are fascinated by primes and look at lists of primes, you would eventually notice that twin primes keep happening, but they get further and further apart. The first time someone published the conjecture that there are infinitely many is Polignac in 1849, but I'm sure someone wondered before.

If you are fascinated by primes, then you just want to know the answer, independent of any application.
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How to Say "Thanks, but No Thanks" Politely: A Comprehensive Guide
The 2008 financial disaster, in particular speaking of home ownership issues was mostly limited to the USA though.

Americas are a lot bigger than the USA, and the unicorns had a disruptive effect wider still.
Valhalla – Where Are We? By Brian Goetz
> I ran a tugboat business

Wildly OT, but this company and informed discussion is what kept me on /. and keeps me on HN.
Elon Dreams and Bitter Lessons
not just animals, trees have holes and stuff slowly damaging them (parasites gets in), they resist until they can't
[1]: In July 2021 Facebook sent the developer of Unfollow Everything a cease-and-desist letter because he made a browser extension which helped people use Facebook less.

[2]: In 2020, Facebook shutted down the NYU Ad Observatory by shutting down the Facebook accounts of Cybersecurity for Democracy team members Damon McCoy and Laura Edelson.

[1]: https://12challenges.substack.com/p/how-to-deal-with-receivi...
[2]: https://cyber.nyu.edu/2021/08/21/facebook-disables-ad-observ...
The Mandelbrot and Julia sets are the outcomes of specified functions and have a relationship with each other. But yeah I would speculate that something similar, in the way that a Mandelbrot set is self-similar, would be observed in at least some circumstances. Gave you a vote for that.

Edit: reading the article I can see that Julia sets are defined separately from the Mandelbrot set and the corresponding Julia set(s) are an example. So maybe you're right. I'm not really a mathematician, I just use math to get stuff done.
"Taxis are terrible" and "Uber is basically an illegal taxi company" can both be true things.
I get why someone will have the conservative position. I even get that someone enjoys schadenfreude at people who are not conservative. I just don’t get why someone who has low risk-tolerance would come to a startup forum to express their low risk-tolerance.

That would be like if I spent any amount of time on child-free subreddits or on forums about stanced cars.
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Free Truth Terminal (Tweet)
I am sorry, I just bankrupted the UK.

This is a nice game, however!
I don't know. I have only barely dabbled in electronics myself. I've soldered a few kits, but don't have an oscilloscope and have never really had to calibrate anything beyond what I could do with a tuner.
That sounds like being right for the wrong reasons. Not a great approach.
Since US firm invented and mastered the improperly called 'shadow banking' (they're not banks, banks issue and destroy new money. Shadow intermediary maybe?), GDP is a worsening indicator of consumption+investment (or overall production if you will).

The reason is simple: GDP grow with money velocity, and 'shadow banking' artificially increase that number, with very low impact on the real world (I'm not saying null, this boosted the US car consumption a lot with easy car credits, but the effects aren't in the same order of magnitude)
I seem to remember that conkers with a flat side and sharp edge were called cheesecutters.
In Memory of Steve O'Hear
I seem to remember that maggots get a bad rap and in fact make a grisly wound cleaner by eating any microorganism-filled dead flesh.
Probably one of the most important muscles is in the eye. If all the muscles of the body are paralysed from birth, yes, no concepts would develop.

This is not only testable, but central to neuroscience, and i'd claim, to any actual science of intelligence -- rather the self-aggrandising csci mumbojumbo.

On the testing side, you can lesion various parts of the sensory-motor system of mice, run them in various maze-solving experiments under various conditions (etc.) and observe their lack of ability to adapt to novel environments.
I wish the math was explained better . I know the format is limited ands it will go over most people's heads but it does not do the matter justice.
Care to elaborate? I've just noticed those are links to comments that are spam and the account was deleted on github.
Thats right! 3.. 2.. 1.. FIGHT!!! JUGGERNAUT KICK!!!
The app in question appears to be a safari extension... so... unlikely.
Should be fixed by https://github.com/klimeryk/dealwithit/commit/7728d06c90c437...
As the classic saying goes:

> There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Interestingly, according to Axios, the price was pretty limited: "Amplitude (Nasdaq: AMPL) acquired CommandAI, an SF-based software user experience startup, for $20m (net of cash). CommandAI (fka CommandBar) had raised around $23m from Insight Partners, Itai Tsiddon, Thrive Capital, and BoxGroup."

I would be curious to learn more about the rationale to sell the business as I understand the strategic value to Amplitude. Interestingly, these next-generation digital adoption platforms have generally been pretty challenged.
Contagious disease is typically worse from an evolutionary perspective since the damage is frequently not contained to one individual.
Isn't this what they say every time there's a new reactor design? Then somehow there's still an accident like in Fukushima.
Wait, what is the threat model for revocation being a weakness?
The answer is historical evolution. To you, the problem may appear arbitrary, like physicists studying some "obscure phenomenon" like the photoelectric effect may have seemed to outsiders. But (far, far) behind the scenes, there is a long and winding history of questions, answers and refinements.

Knowing that history illuminates the context and importance of problems like the above; but it makes for a long, taxing and sometimes boring read for the unmotivated, unlike the sexy "quantum blockchain intelligence" blurbs or "grand unification of mathematics" silliness in pure math. So, few popularizations care to trace the historical trail from the basics to the state of the art.
Nit: Mesh shading, or the mesh shader pipeline, has two unique parts: optional task/amplification shaders, and mandatory mesh shaders.
She basically wants to draw notes and do some doodling, so it is not like it would make much difference and the price delta is huge between the base iPad and the iPad Air.
Was patiently waiting for the mini getting an update - i don’t care as much for the screen, CPU etc. but not moving the front facing camera to the side, hence landscape friendly position is beyond me.
Do you ever visit or live in a place with unofficial cabs preying on people at an airport? You're acting as if laws were only made by corruption and not because people were screwed over.

I think Uber is probably a net good thing but I also think Uber should be accountable for the laws they broke. Also, Uber, Lyft, Airbnb also did exactly what was expected and increased prices to a ridiculous degree once they became the default standard and went public.
Occam's Razor; the person who invented the AI was shocked by their popularity so they made the coin themselves and claimed the AI did it to absolve themselves when they rugpull.
Our trashy domain killed our reach – don't make the same mistake
Hi HN,

We've built a edtech platform to help students consume study material more efficiently, by leveraging AI to create and review (human-like) quizzes, flashcards, summaries and a chat room where you can talk to the uploaded documents.

Initially we were gaslighted by the r/domains to always use the .com domain even if it doesn't sound very catchy, so we went with myathenaai.com (athena.com is $2mil).

After the change to athena.study, daily unique visitors sky-rocketed up by 500%, conversion rate from visitors to registered users went up by 5%. We got lots of feedback that our first domain sounded scammy, even though it's a .com one.

TLDR: trash domain = -90% of your product value (at least in our case / B2C / no-marketing)
It works great for small devices, but I prefer ios constraint layout (and I think android got it too). No need for spacers.
Ideally, it could be what Apple does with their app store, where you can choose or not choose to input your password to install.
People have desires that go beyond their needs, and so long as they have money they will spend it to satisfy them.

If we, as a society, took this into account we would make it easier to build more housing.

The fact that we don't is the moral, ethical, and economic tragedy of our age.
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Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41828923.
So you get tricked into thinking it's a real person, but it's not real enough?
There was already plenty of medical bci research, neuralink is just continuing that work with a talented group and lots of money from Musk. Neural interfaces are definitely a powerful idea and they would be a huge deal if made consumer-grade, but neuralink is far (decades probably) from making it sufficiently non-invasive to be viable for anything other than medical uses, and that prevents it from changing things dramatically. If Musk funded fusion research, I wouldn’t say he’s ushering in the next industrial revolution, I’d say he’s contributing money to a noble research effort.

Popularizing electric cars, while similarly noble, doesn’t qualify as revolutionary in my book. The move to electric is fundamentally just an increase in the energy efficiency of cars, which is great, but not a transformative leap. Furthermore, EV’s have been doing kinda bad here in the US as of late and automakers are having to scale back their rollout because of lacking demand. Maybe eventually we’ll be able to credit Musk with a big cut in car emissions, but in the best case scenario where we magically made the switch and powered every electric car with solar, we’d be cutting US emissions by a fifth.

Again, the parent comment compared Musk’s contributions to the industrial revolution, which saw a complete transformation in how humans do labor. It wasn’t a percentage gain in efficiency, it was a force-multiplier that spawned whole industries.
It depends on which jungle though ;)
You can look at what percentage of each big tech company's revenue is ads or how much they've spent on their advertising platforms.
I’ve tried both. They don’t make 8spd era hoods they do have some 9spd clones. NOS has n’t existed for years and when it comes up people ask $100 for a set of hoods.
It's not arbitrary at all! We know that primes themselves get rarer and rarer (density of primes < N is ~1/log(N)), so it is natural to ask whether the gaps between them must also necessarily increase and, in general, how are they spaced.
> Regarding the podcast, could you clarify why you see it as a red flag?

The false claims at the start. Why should I trust any content after that? There is no buzz, this is a virtually unknown product. Making fake factual claims so easily and so early on your marketing efforts makes me discount everything else you say as probably fake as well.

> As for the translations, I really appreciate your feedback. Could you please share which word specifically caused issues?

No. Hire humans to revise the AI slop you're peddling, I won't do it for free.

Together the sloppy translation and the fast and loose attitude to facts in marketing make me unwilling to trust you to educate anyone.
I'm also glad to see that the hot startups aren't social media anymore.
TLDR: Rest arm on table while taking a reading. Don't let your arm hang, unsupported, or flop on your lap. (15th paragraph has the meat of the article).
Hey, Sorry Im not native english speaker, I will try to fix all grammer issues now thanks :D
Hahah, so true! One clarification, though: while I'm sure the backend is overpowered (Cloudflare Pages, easily handling the Hug of Death from HN), but in this case it's only serving static resources. All the hard work is done by the hilariously overpowered devices we carry in our pockets or use for everything but serious work ;)
Drinking very hot tea almost doubles risk of cancer, new study says https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/20/health/hot-tea-linked-to-high...

A prospective study of tea drinking temperature and risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ijc.32220

> Previous studies have indicated that hot tea may increase the risk of esophageal cancer. In this large, prospective study, the authors found that drinking hot tea is indeed associated with an increased risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). Furthermore, a preference for “very hot” tea more than doubled this risk.

A very-hot food and beverage thermal exposure index and esophageal cancer risk in Malawi and Tanzania: findings from the ESCCAPE case–control studies https://www.nature.com/articles/s41416-022-01890-8

> Thermal exposure metrics were strongly associated with ESCC risk. Avoidance of very-hot food/beverage consumption may contribute to the prevention of ESCC in East Africa.
This is going to suck. Windows 11 refuses to install on my Vishera core AMD computer. I know there is a bypass, but I'm not happy about having to deal with that and possibly compromise my OS using unsupported software. I'm probably going to have to build a new computer soon if I want to keep using Windows.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41808683 - Oct 2024 (266 comments)

Apple study proves LLM-based AI models are flawed because they cannot reason - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41823822 - Oct 2024 (19 comments)
This is actually really neat. I like the configurability. Is there an option to change glasses size that I missed? I think that's the only thing I noticed I couldn't do when playing around with it.

* Found it, there is a small indicator in bottom right of glasses that allows dragging out to resize. Thanks all!
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Our team ended up having the oncall engineer for the week also work primarily on bug squashing and anything that makes support easier. Over time the support and monitoring becomes better. Basically dedicated tech debt capacity, which has worked well for us.
Is AWS Lambda costing more to wait than to compute?
I tried that too. Talc only works for the first time you grip the hoods. If you then take your hands off and regrip you are back to where you started getting black crap everywhere. Tape has been the best solution if a bit ugly.
Missed the edit, but just to add 'keep-away' is 'piggy-in-the-middle' in the UK, and I don't know if perhaps you have it too but 'swingball' is a similar game to 'tetherball' but played with a tennis ball & (typically not tennis, but just cheap plastic thing for the purpose) racket.
> No one has yet found any war-like purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity or quantum mechanics, and it seems very unlikely that anybody will do so for many years.

G.H.Hard. Eureka, issue 3, Jan 1940
...says the guy who refused to make an actual argument on the original topic.
This talk touches on similar points, I haven’t finished listening to it though https://youtu.be/s7_NlkBwdj8
Paged KV-Cache Compression with Variable Compression Rates per Attention Head
The proposed strategy will work, as will plenty of others, because it's a small team. That is the fundamental reason. Small teams are more efficient. So if you're managing a team of 10+ individuals: split them in 2 teams and keep them out of each other's way/harm.
That not related to the claim about engineering talent.
The older generations are still available and cheaper, they just don't support the newest Pencil Pro.
Oh, this is a fun Gettier, with some language ambiguities, and some ship of Theseus sprinkled in! Let's say some smart-aleck travels back in time to when the English language was being developed and replaces all cows with robot cows such that current cows remain biological. So technically the word "cow" refers only to robot cows. What then?
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The limitation isn't the Java version, it's the way the MC code was architected.

Iirc part of original Minecraft's performance limitations were high object create/destroy rate leading to lots of garbage collection. With that in mind, picking a non-GCd language isn't completely crazy.
I wonder how many psychological effects it has that AI-pairing will not have.

The fact that you have to write the f-ing code right now alone changes everything. I guess you can ignore impulses to overcomplicate things much more easily? The code becomes unclever and accessible to everyone on the call?

We are far more productive than any place else I've worked.

Divided by 4-5 or that’s per person?
What makes you think "docks with extremely strong mooring structures" is a particularly difficult problem to solve? A giant metal hook anchored in concrete attached to the ship with some steel cables doesn't seem like it would be that difficult for a team of smart engineers with a multi-million dollar budget to figure out a good design for. Certainly not so difficult or expensive as to threaten to make the entire concept nonviable.
> I do agree with you in principle and it’s nice when professionals come together and the work experience is fluid. No need for policy.

Okay. Great!

> But that rarely happens and you need these kind of safeguards and directive for the team to be productive at all. It especially avoid discussions about who’s right.

It’s like you’ve listened to nothing that I’ve said.
Peak oil in the north sea(2007), peak gas in the north sea (2006). While the US found out extracting their massive shale oil/gas reserves eROI was finally competitive.
To clarify - I wrote this tool as my own initiative. On top of the "normal" process (that involved multiple interviews and a day paid trial). I was really excited about the opportunity and wanted to go the extra mile.
The assumption is that AI builds momentum in nuclear power to the point where it can be used elsewhere. I've kept hearing that nuclear is very expensive mainly due to lack of scale.
While Java does, the Minecraft server architecture does not.
Why SaaS is dead and the future is agentic
Businesses are fatigued by the rising complexity, shelfware, and outdated per-seat pricing of traditional SaaS. The future of enterprise software is agentic, where automation will execute workflows end-to-end, and be priced by actual outcomes delivered.
Not everybody is motivated by applications. Caring about knowledge for knowledge's sake is a thing, you know.
These days, after a dozen or so years of dealing with log aggregation and other systems, I just suggest to all our engineers to log a lot less and use (opentracing or opentelemetry) traces and trace events where they would normally use logs. With fields added where you'd otherwise add fields to your structured logs. It really encapsulates all these best practices and then some, for collecting, filtering, and navigating telemetry.

The main exception I can think of is legacy systems that can't really be retrofitted with tracing. In which case you're probably not in a position to implement logging best practices either. I suppose audit is another exception, where you want a longer-term record of what's happened, but even there I think traces get you the much better story of what happened across your environment and you just need a better archival storage solution for them.
Oh 100%, the hosting is more than fitting. I had meant to refer to the app's non-UI code (machine learning to place meme glasses)! Apologies for the lack of clarity.
I think you're not following what I tried to convey.

It shouldn't have ever come to the point where incidents, outages, and bugs have become prominent enough to warrant a team.

Either have kickass dev(s), although improbable, thus the second level: Implement mitigations, focus on testing, and have staff engineers with KPIs to lower incidents. Give them them the space but be prepared to let them go if incidents don't go down.

There is no stopping of development.
Refactoring by itself doesn't guarantee better code or fewer incidents.
But don't allow bugs, or known issues, as they can be death by thousand cuts.

The viewpoint is from not an engineer. Having constant incidents doesn't show confidence or competence to investors and customers.
As it diverts attention from creating business value into firefighting, which has zero business value and is bad for morale.

Thus, tech investment rather than debt always pays off if implemented right.
Do you have revenue confused with income? VC-funded startups don’t pay income tax when they don’t have income (expenses exceed revenue).

Though, that’s less often true recently, now that they can’t expense software engineering salaries the same year.