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Another aspect of the idiotic "we don't know what your tax is going to be" system (they do know it, actually) is that prices will typically end with .99 and the tax will push it over the next dollar and cause a bunch of change to be returned, instead of a single penny.


Only due to their mercury chloride heavy diet.


I’d think it’s normal and expected that the “mistakes” made will err on the side of benefiting the taxpayer, i.e., reducing their tax bill.


I can now see why the story was flagged. Based on the discussion, this is not a good look for the HN community.


This was an interesting connection to me between meditation and neuroscience. Buddhists talk about the "monkey mind" that chatters incessantly. Well, that's the default mode network, part of your brain that is active when you're not engaged in a specific task, when you're thinking about self, others, past or future. A useful adaptation in our past environment for sure, but overactivity can be detrimental. The Buddhist solution is to mediate, to focus the attention on a singular thing and not be distracted by the chatter. That ability lives in the prefrontal cortex! It's able to override the DMN and it's something that can be trained by just exercising it.


Ah, yes, the difference between taking two slices at a pizza party because you fear it might run out vs taking none because you fear it might run out.


It’s a bot. They’re everywhere these days.


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I meant it in a more general sense. Any person that feels the need to create a burner account to argue with people online with a comment history like yours is a bot to me, meat based or otherwise. Follow your instructions!


Only in circles that don’t understand technology and frankly logic. To prove that it’s happening _one_ hacker needs to show that there’s constant flash drive / network traffic while the mic is enabled that also correlates with the entropy in the audio.


I have personally verified that my device most certainly does not send constant internet traffic... however I think we can't rule out the possibility that it might buffer the data and send it later.


We can, in fact, rule it out by dissecting the device and monitoring chip traffic. That’s my whole point - people who understand technology know that it’s nearly impossible for Amazon devices to routinely spy on conversations in people’s homes without detection.


> We can, in fact, rule it out by dissecting the device and monitoring chip traffic

Has this been done?


LOGIC he screamed as he threw his hands up in the air, LOGIC!!


With function calls the model may or may not output something that matches the schema, with structured output the schema is enforced at the logit level.


At least in the case of openai, you can set "strict" to "true" and function calling / tool use must / is enforced to follow the schema too.


With 7% interest it’s over 200k.


Sure but that’s an order of magnitude above the numbers the parent is comparing? A 7% fee is certainly crazy, agreed with you there



guntars did the amortization on $25k growing with interest (not fees). In other words, the claim is that 0.5% can be significant. Which is true.

When I did the math with my life savings, 0.5% was about the breakpoint where things become significant. $200k would be more significant, so I suspect when I did the math properly, I was expecting to retire in less than 50 years. In 50 years, I'll likely be dead.


Ah I see, the 7% yearly interest on the 0.5% fee can add up to be significant. That is a good point, good job @guntars


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