skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can express both real and rational numbers efficiently using a continued fraction representation.

No, all finite continued fractions express a rational number (for... obvious reasons), which is honestly kind of a disappointment, since arbitrary sequences of integers can, as a matter of principle, represent arbitrary computable numbers if you want them to. They're powerful than finite positional representations, but fundamentally equivalent to simple fractions.

They are occasionally convenient for certain problem structures but, as I'm sure you've already discovered, somewhat less convenient for a wide range of common problems.
https://maya.net/ is just as reliable and cheaper in my experience
Whatever the reasons, modern societies are in a lot of trouble because none of them can stay above the 2.1 replacement birth rate.

And every foreign group that comes into a westernized country ends up having their birth rate dropped below replacement within a few generations too (at least that is the trajectory for those that aren't there yet).
I did not say iPhone was the first, I said the opposite. And again, your definition which equates "smartphone" with "has an app store" simply differs from widespread usage of the term.

Both the n95 and original iPhone were widely considered to be smartphones at the time! Examples:

https://www.engadget.com/2006-09-26-nokias-n95-smartphone-go...

https://www.macrumors.com/2008/02/05/iphone-with-28-of-u-s-s...
> Which is just 3.3% of GDP.

Again, I'm not an economist, bear with me and explain what that's got to do with the trade deficit being a deficit? You could have a GDP of a quintillion dollars a year but if you're consistently running a trade deficit (which the US has for decades), that strongly implies you cannot close your borders with impunity.

If you could supply the goods cheaper than importing them, people would, no? Simple capitalism!
First coding job I got aged 20:

"This COBOL program needs new reference tables. Since we haven't invented addressable disk dives yet, all the tables are stored in the code. It's already optimised but the new ones will break it's memory limit of about 100k. Find a solution."

That's coding.
I agree with everything in this post, and have had similar reactions to changing environment.

BUT. I think it is easy to lose sight that these practices only work for a small segment of society that have high paying jobs and a lot of freedom. And software engineers make up the bulk of them.

I really do dig the Software Engineer = Artist Comparison. SE do 'create', use creativity to solve problems. And also 'creative' like a writer or poet, painter. And Flow is important.

But also, there is a reason a lot of artists don't make a lot of money. And, sadly, the 'creative drive' to do Open Source projects, also does not pay.

So, follow your dream to hang out in coffee shops writing code, but know that is a luxury that can end any minute, like with the first major illness.
I was married for 12 years. We had a reasonably amicable divorce back in October 23. We have 50/50 custody of our son. He's with me 3 nights one week and 4 nights the following week.

Since our divorce, I haven't spent any energy pursuing another lady, and I'm unsure if I will ever do so.

I have no desire to ever be in a relationship again. I am thriving now career-wise and health-wise.

I cooked better than my ex-wife could ever imagine. I keep a cleaner home than my ex-wife could ever imagine. While married, I handled everything in our house except for her laundry. She wouldn't allow me to do her laundry, or I would have done that too.

I handled all the automobile and home repairs. Now, I can do that all for myself and my son while having the time and freedom to pursue interests without offending someone else.

For a 43-year-old man like myself, I see no benefit in being in a relationship. I spent my formative years running wild in the Caribbean, burning through women as a plow cut through the snow. I'm glad I got all that out of my system as a young man. Now, all I'm focused on is providing my son with all the opportunities and experiences I never had as a child.

My mother was married 4 times, and I was forced to live with 3 different step-fathers. There is no way I would ever put my son through something like that.
So use your cpu
Mass federal layoffs hit veterans particularly hard
If aliens descended down upon the Earth, with amazing technology, and said do you want to come with us for a few days, to see some real shit, and then we will return you back home safely, how many people would say yes?
For me, the lower salary has not affected my daily life too much. I saved a lot of money in the US, but now making about 100k between myself and my partner in the Netherlands, we are still living a comfortable life. We own a car, bought a house in 2024, and we are saving about 1k per month into various sinking funds with a net savings closer to 500/pm. No kids yet, but hopefully with raises and generous family leave policies, I think we will be okay.

My quality of life is insanely better. I live in a walkable small city in the south. I walk to the grocery store a few times a week. I bike to the library or to the train station. My job turns off at 5pm and I don’t work on the weekends unless I want to. Even then, that weekend work time can be substituted for work during the week.

The biggest downside for us has been the cost of traveling back to the US to see family. It’s very expensive for us to fly home since we also need to rent a car usually. Even saving 1k per month, that’s a significant part of the yearly savings just going to buy plane tickets for one big trip per year. After we have kids, I suspect grandma and grandpa will be coming here to visit more often because we can’t afford to fly with a family of 4 or 5 more than once every other year. Not to mention the tax implications of spending too much time abroad.

If you can afford to try it out, take a 90 day visa and just chill and see if the lifestyle works for you (including remote work). Worst case scenario, you go back to the US after a year if you hate it.
The game kept an average of all the motives, and if it was less than half, Sims would refuse to learn or do chores. Kinda like stress!
How do you usually go about acquiring the media? I know there are people that simply download movies via torrent, but what are the legal ways of buying video files of TV shows or movies, specially the more recent ones?
US employers do not owe any of that to their employees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
attribution?

(please and thanks)
Great tool! Also, what about apache2, any similar tool suggestions?
> you can pass integers and pointers around

No, not even that (the second thing, passing pointers)! WASM has a different address space (starting from 0), effectively indexing into the WASM module's linear memory. A pointer/reference from the outside env can not be dereferenced from within the WASM bytecode.

The multiple linear memory proposal can circumvent this (allowing you to build something somewhat similar to a simple MMU/address translation engine), but language support for that feature is sparse (AFAIK, Rust does not expose any way to access a different than the default linear memory for example).

There is various hacks around it, but sharing memory block-wise between WASM and outside env is involved already.
I randomly sampled a few articles. And I think you’re right and I’m wrong. The economic messaging is aggressive and was wrong, but I’m not seeing famine and war.

Here is an article that sampled various expert opinions:

“ This event will unleash the kind of uncertainty that Keynes had in mind when he said “we simply do not know” when referring to the likely effect of war. Such uncertainty can only be disruptive for financial markets. We will enter a new era of volatility that is likely to last until these difficult negotiations are completed.”

“it is more likely than not that we will witness political instability.”

“ Such market reactions could sharply contract economic activity, further depressing asset prices in a self-reinforcing cycle”

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/brexit-potential-financial-ca...

So I agree, the more extreme must have been amplified voices from the fringe, on places like Reddit.
With LED lights, making sure everything is turned off isn't such a big deal these days. But, while I don't really sweat closing up the house for a day or so, it's definitely worth checking things like windows on a longer trip. There are definitely a lot of things you normally do on cruise control and it's nice to be sure they really happened.
I found it difficult to work when connected to the internet. (Unmedicated ADHD.)

So I'd turn it off before sleep (as part of basic "hygiene"), and keep it off (router and phone) for at least the first hour the next day.

I'd wake up and begin working immediately. Usually I'd get so much done this way, that I'd choose to stay offline for a few more hours voluntarily.

This routine I developed to deal with a disability is now being promoted by YouTube influencers as a productivity secret used by billionaires, which I find endlessly amusing!
Depending on the day, it's anywhere from $50 to $200.
When you're advising companies and rubbing shoulders with rich CEOs, there's always a price tag. Sometimes they treat you to a fancy meal—but more often, you're stuck halfway across the country, scrambling to grab a quick bite before you can pull over.
How to fix the job application nightmare
If you're willing to learn to work with RPN calculators (which I think is a good idea), I can recommend RealCalc for Android. It has an RPN mode that is very economic in keypresses and it's clear the developers understand how touchscreens work and how that ties into the kind of work pocket calculators are useful for.

My only gripe with it is that it doesn't solve compounding return equations, but for that one can use an emulated HP-12c.
Interesting theory.

So the UK with 14 years of right wing rule should be humming, but it isn't. Now you're going to claim that "oh, the Tories weren't right wing enough". Nonsense.

Then I'll point out that 12 of the last 16 years in America have been under left wing governments. All filled with policies that a right winger like yourself would no doubt abhor. TARP, Obamacare, CHIPS Act, Inflation Reduction Act - massively left wing. State subsidies handed out left and right, and the American economy grew massively during that time. "Oh, Obama and Biden are actually right wing by European standards". Sure buddy.

Your simplistic world view leads to wrong conclusions, which you'll try to No-True-Scotsman your way out of. None of us are buying it though.

Your worship of right wing ideology saddles you with a crackpot who fires nuclear safety personnel and then attempts to hire them back 2 days later. Spare us the lecture.
It Feels Organizing a Hackathon
Financialization of society doesn't account for externalities.
No, it is not!
Right? I am astounded by these takes. If every corp and every job was this way, our country would be a high-stress, unemployed wasteland. Any org will drop thousands in a heartbeat. Your family would never be safe.

We work so hard already. We already have such high stress. I do not believe we need to eke out the last %s of profit to pass to shareholders and create crushing stress and work on those remaining.
My first thought when I read the title was "It's not yours if you threw it away"
HP42 on Android checks out
The Narrative, a cohesive one, drives my purpose and gives me direction.
Seconded, I've certainly met the sort of characters described in this post, but I don't think they're at all representative of the field.

One of my favorite philosophy teachers described philosophical criticism as the process of being supremely gracious--of granting your opponent all manner of fanciful and absurd things, and then of peering through the cloud of absurdity and taking small issue with just one thing, preferably a small one, and politely, such that as much as possible of the absurdity collapses. And then you see how big of a thing can be built in such an environment.

I can see how people trying to play this game and doing so poorly might end up being cruel, but the core of is making space for each other's thoughts and playing along for a while, which is anything but.
"-2 ** 3 SyntaxError: unparenthesized unary expression can't appear on the left-hand side of '*'
"

That's actually a great error, I have made the mistake of expecting "-2 ** 2" would output 4 instead of -4 before.
I don’t think the intention is for it to be a discriminatory tax, but the end result is that it is.
Airbus do seem to use Ada for some things:

• Airbus Chooses GNAT Pro Ada for Development of Unmanned Aerial System https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24488986

• https://www.adacore.com/press/a350

• https://www.adacore.com/press/airbus-selects-gnatpro-for-vsr...
“I spent my formative years running wild in the Caribbean, burning through women as a plow cut through the snow.”
BBC isn't a great comparison - it's an initialism, not read or said as a word.

I can't think of an acronym example though.
Yeah, some cash, debit card, and a backup credit card that is hopefully as independent of the card you normally use traveling as possible. (i.e. not two Chase cards.) Also, be careful that your backup isn't a card you normally never use--especially internationally. The card companies seem to have gotten better about random fraud alerts but they still happen.
> You wouldn't want people to overhear you say it and misunderstand the situation.

Misunderstand what? Painting with GIMP?

It's an acronym. Maybe I'm completely socially inept, but I don't see at all how it would be embarrassing to explain even to close family that I'm using GNU Image Manipulation Program. People are not going to overhear me and think I'm editing images with someone disabled or wearing a ball gag and straitjacket. It just doesn't happen outside Jim Carrey movies.
The Democrat Party failed to field a credible candidate that was democratically elected.
Left and right are always relative to a centre, and different in every country.
I'm always a sucker for honeycomb patterns (Shopping 1).
https://github.com/based2/KB/blob/main/math/aaa.md#calculato...
It doesn't even have to be the US, that already wouldn't go well in Eastern Europe. Such things can be seen as extremely disrespectful and are a sure way to get a punch in your face in some places.

Lots of these tips seem like what you'd hear from someone regularly traveling someplace like Egypt, where the taxi drivers will openly tell you about their life/family/etc.
How does one make an REST Service using Ada without paying for frameworks/tools?
All Rights Reserved (ARR)
Show HN: 6502 in pure Lua, no dependencies
Not the OP of this thread, but for our setup the phone is just for the CGM. The pump (Tandem T-Slim) talks directly to the CGM (Dexcom G7) and doesn't need the phone as an interface between them.

The phone just sends the CGM data on to the cloud so we can see his numbers any time.

I also have a NightScout setup that's downloading his CGM data and saving it for us. It's not strictly necessary for anything we're doing, but I like the saved data and it's was useful for working with his Endo when they hadn't yet bought a Dexcom clinic license.
Do you think your past has perhaps effected your ability to have a solid relationship? I feel like your post is like someone saying: "I'm never playing basketball again. I have to get new shoes. I have to drive somewhere. I played on a team once and my teammates were assholes. I get tired and sweaty afterwards. I have a lot more time if I don't play basketball". Perhaps basketball could be fun with the right people. I'm not trying to convince you you need a relationship to be happy, but there is a lack of awareness it seems when you say you ar the product of multiple broken relationships and you had a broken relationship of your own and don't connect the dots. I would never want to put my child through what you describe either. There are other options then 3 different step-fathers.
Is that analogous to setting LC_TIME, per application or temporary?
Oh no- I stand corrected. I tried it again and you are right. I had just woken up when I did my initial test and must have typoed something. I can no longer edit or delete my original comment :(
Work to live or live to work.
https://lokalhistoriewiki.no/ – Norwegian local history wiki
Depends on your life experiences and working environment.
If you have worked in prisons and places with a lot of physical violence you can (some don't) acquire a distinct and accurate sense for emotion and threat, based on sound and body language.
The actual words don't matter so much, but the interaction of tone, distance, stance etc, they tell you a huge amount. People can be saying "no" and be just asking a question or pleading their case, and they can be saying "yes" and mean "i want to kill you". I used to follow the tone, and when it was going to end badly, make sure I was standing behind the person who was about to start violence (being responsible for physical security in that environment), just as it was about to kick off... Pretty grim work. But yes, you can use your intelligence to learn that stuff. Don't need to be a puppy.
I tried the Audacity noise-removal plugin recently and it's complete crap. I fed a high-quality audio stream from a Rode mic into a few different options to see which could remove the noise of my server rack. iMovie made the voice sound like a robot and Audacity barely did anything. The only thing that worked was DeepFilterNet and it's free, open-source and cargo installable.

There's no reason to lock yourself into an intel-only solution. Just use DeepFilterNet. The results of this on my noisy server room were insanely good. Almost no voice dropout with 100% fan noise removal.

https://github.com/Rikorose/DeepFilterNet

EDIT: Even more interesting, it looks like OpenVino is just DeepFilterNet glued to Whisper.cpp and tied to Intel hardware.

https://github.com/intel/openvino-plugins-ai-audacity/tree/m...
Google flights is the best.
They fortunately fixed the repeating feature in iOS 18.3. Though it does seem a bit ridiculous that something like this is tied to the entire OS version.
> 1 + 10% is 0.11.

I know adding % has multiple conventions, but this one seems odd, I'd interpret 1 + 10% as "one plus 10 percent of one" which is 1.1, or as 1 + 10 / 100 which happens to be also 1.1 here

The only interpretation that'd make it 0.11 is if it represents 1% + 10%, but then the question of 10% + 10% is answered: 0.2 or 20%. Or maybe there's a typo and it was supposed to say "0.1 + 10%"
Yeah, there's an introspection threshold there that hasn't yet been reached.
Now you have also identified the driving force behind every expansionist attitude in history.

Rome, British Empire, America (and many others besides) all usurped by an ideal that they are and must be the only true light of life and civilization and no goodness or success can be had outside of their rampantly materialistic perspectives.

It hasn’t just been decades, my friend. It’s the perpetual war with an insidious evil that is captured in the aphorism: all that glitters isn’t gold.
Unfortunately, this is an extremely common way of thinking. It's one of the reasons flinging dirt in politics is so effective I think.

I wonder if there is any connection with this way of thinking and the many David vs Goliath style stories we get as a kid. Maybe we need more stories for children where every character is bad, or every character is good.

There can still be conflict to provide an interesting story between two good parties, or between two bad parties.
I’m confused. Why would 1 + 10% obviously be 0.11?

I expected 1.1 (which is what my iOS calculator reported, when I got curious).

I do understand the question of parsing. I just struggle to understand why the first one is confidently stated to correctly result in a particular answer. It feels like a perfect example itself of a problem with unclear parsing.
I have a feeling that male and female travel experiences may differ in this regard. "To stay safe, smile." seems pretty naive to me. Clearly, the author is male. I would proffer "always have an exit", "do not walk into something you cannot walk out of" and "do not stray too far from the crowd".
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It's intuitive, that the pursuit of mastery demands sacrifice (in family life and beyond).

Unfortunately philosophical mastery would seem to require full participation in life (to fully appreciate the human experience), making this level of sacrifice a potentially self-defeating proposition.
Updated link to referenced work Time, Clock, and Calendar Programming in C:

http://www.catb.org/esr/time-programming/
Considering we have full replacement frameworks like React, Flutter, etc built as DOM replacements, I would say Swing was definitely the right thing for users. Probably could have offered an "easy markup enhancement" library for plain documents, but anything extensively dynamic should be written with a proper UI framework.
I mean I could also just tell him it's 2025 and there's 700 ways for him to use plex on his tv, but it's also just kind of funny to me so I keep it going.
Most customers aren't dine in at a coffee shop.

I would also be careful with the claim that it is cheaper to wash, mugs are heavy and require the same: gather/create/transport the raw materials, produce the cup, etc, store it in a warehouse, transport to the restaurant. Periodically replacement of broken cups as well.

Silverware makes good sense as it is not usually subject to being broken, only lost or stolen.
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I am aware that it is about the fire and rehire. If no one can say why something should exist, then yes, the quickest solution is turn it all off and see what breaks. You might not agree with it but it is a valid strategy given all the dynamics at play. Your definition of leadership isn't my definition.

I don't think we should go to war at all.

I don't think you understand why Trump was elected or middle America culture. The popular vote was a vote against deterring and corrupt institutions that already exist
I use google search only for the most trivial searches now. Something where I know almost precisely what information I want.

I use LLMs for most info now, any slightly ambiguous query really. Often times I use the LLM to figure out what source I should find, then I just use google for retrieval

When I want to “surf the web” I use kagi search (usually with small web filter) when I want to see sources written by people. This isn’t that often, but when I need it kagi is the best!

An example, the other day I wanted to make fermented hot sauce, and I couldn’t remember how much salt was needed for the fermentation. I could google and get served hundreds of crappy ad ridden recipe sites that have the answer to my question buried under five pop up videos, or I could ask an llm with one or two follow ups and have a much more pleasant experience.

Then when I decided I wanted to follow a real recipe I used kagi with small web to find a recipe page that wasn’t an ad farm.

A few more steps than google, but all and all so much better.
Daily Treasury Statement
McCarthyism already occurred when researchers felt forced to toe the DEI party line "to not be excluded". Even math researchers, as we see in this link.

That said, I agree that the intrusion of politicians (of both parties) into science is troubling, but I don't know where a researcher could go to avoid it.
High school years are painfully vacant, didn't make it past that.
Yes 95% of people were in highschool in their highschool years