skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is a differentiation between source and destination accounts (called expense and revenue) which makes reverse transactions a pain. I pay 100€ for furniture in May and return it in July. Now I can either create the furniture store as both source and destination account or delete the first entry.

The use of expense and revenue accounts is standard, but I find it surprising that you can't enter a negative amount for a payment. There isn't even a "return" transaction type with a similar effect. That's how I would handle returns in my own accounting software (HLedger): Original payment, $100 from checking (asset) to merchant (expense). Return, $-100 from checking to merchant, with a comment identifying the original transaction. It doesn't make sense to have separate "Furniture Store" expense and "Furniture Store Return" income accounts—that does not provide accurate income & expense reporting. Logically, after the return you have no expense or income related to that purchase.

Of course HLedger, being much less opinionated, doesn't actually care about "source" and "destination" accounts—that's a matter of how you interpret them. IMHO it's far easier to just think of the accounting system as a single directed graph where nodes are accounts and edges are transactions. A "negative" edge is just a transfer in the opposite direction.

This does mean that the income/revenue accounts have negative balances, which can be counter-intuitive, but it makes sense once you learn to think of the income account balances as reflecting changes in the source of money (i.e., $-100 in an "employer" income account means your employer has $100 less because they it to paid your asset account) rather than the amount of income you've received. Likewise, a positive balance in an expense account means that the recipient of that money has more because of your payment, not that you do. Assets and liabilities are your accounts and sum to your net worth; the equity accounts, which I would define to including income and expense accounts, belong to your counterparties, and are relative rather than absolute since they only reflect the transactions which are relevant to you.

> Also, what I was struggeling with (and not only in Firefly, but all budgeting apps) was the sometimes significant delay between the purchase and the bank transaction.

HLedger addresses this by tracking two separate dates for each transaction, with options to choose which one to use for a given report. This can cause some issues with balance assertions which lie between the two dates, though, so I just use a priority system—the date my bank shows is always "right" even if the transaction occurred some days prior. It would be nice to be able to set a date for each account, which would probably fix the balance assertion issue, but then you could have transactions which didn't balance (sum to zero) for certain intervals. (Perhaps this is acceptable as long as the transaction eventually balances?) HLedger, like most other accounting software, also tracks flags for pending and cleared transaction which can be used in reports and queries.
Thanks dude, long forgotten! I was listening to it some 15 years ago...
Hmmm ... anything is possible. You don't offer any evidence for your hypothesis and by that standard, anything is possible. The OP was there, at the company, saw what happened, and has observed several other similar circumstances.
I agree. This is (hopefully) only a brief resurgence (or perhaps 'last gasp') of the old-school U.S. auto industry new car distribution model pioneered by Detroit's 'Big Three' in the 1940s-50s. It worked reasonably well at the time but also perpetuated and institutionalized anti-competitive, anti-consumer practices.

Since the turn of the century the legacy Detroit distribution model has been blocking progress largely through crony political capture at the state level as evidenced by their ability to stop potential disruptors such as Tesla from competing with local distribution. Legacy car dealer associations are using their control of state legislatures to make competing with them illegal. In all except the largest metro areas, legacy car dealerships are usually the largest and most consistent political donors and local advertisers decade after decade. They wield tremendous influence over both local and regional politicians, media and editorial boards because they have more money (due to selling high-cost products) and their ability to coordinate in de facto cartels because the auto manufacturers only grant limited dealerships in a given area.

Leveraging their regulatory capture over state automotive sales laws is blocking new, smaller competitors from entering the market as well preventing the evolution of more efficient, consumer-centric distribution models. Sure, I can order a new car over the internet from an out of state company but that company is prevented by law from having a showroom near me where I could see the product before ordering. This has nothing to do with consumer protection and everything to do with crony protection of the most powerful regional business lobby.
Yeah, the solution is somewhat tricky. Here is the idea (this is somewhat sloppy, but gives the idea - if you're mathematically advanced all this can be made precise):

Suppose you have a way to pick a random number yourself, that has nonzero chance to pick any number. Suppose the person putting things in envelopes picks X < Y as their numbers. You too pick a random number, say T. Open an envelope. If that envelope is less than T, then switch. You will get the larger number more than half the time.

Here is why it works. You pick X or Y envelope with 50/50 odds. 3 cases:

1) Suppose you picked a T < X. If you opened X, then T < X, you don't switch, so you lose. If you opened Y, T < Y, you don't switch, you win. So if T < X you win half the time.

2) Suppose you picked a T with Y < T. Then no matter what you pick, T is not < your envelope, you will not switch, and again you win half the time. Nothing gained so far.

But, if you happened to pick X < T < Y, which happens with some nonzero chance, then analyze: if you open X, X < T, switch, you win. If you open Y, T < Y, you don't switch, you win. This case gives you more than 50/50 odds.

The technical details is it's minorly tricky to pick a real number out of an infinite set at random, with any number being a possible outcome. But the probability distributions above do the trick - basically any function you can draw that is everywhere positive, with the tails squeezing to zero fast enough (but never reaching it) will work.
haha yes, I am the one who initiated the communication. Just to be double sure, just checked the email header on gmail, gmail seems to agree the DKIM and DMARC are all good.
You could expect that gibberish is distributed uniformly in latent space, disconnected from it's langual counterpart -- after all those are textual inputs that model have never seen, and it can't even map words it have seen many times to their writing in image properly: "seafood" word and "seafood" image are in the same place in latent space, but "seafood" word in image isn't. Yet some gibberish word in image is, and also the same gibberish word is. It's very counterintuitive for me.
It is called "By Millionaires for Millionaires", so maybe he scammed them, and if he did, he did it indeed sarcastically.
Same, my first try LEDGE is not the optimal starting word.
It can be a somewhat different game depending on who you play "with." You probably follow different strategies if your primary strategy is not to lose vs. if you're strategy is to get the best score you can (as my group does). I figure that I will only go for two if I come out of the first guess with a lot of information. But otherwise, I do generally shoot for 3.
I remember when this book was a 12-page polemic vainly ginning up arguments for limiting use of any language features newer than C++03. I thought it had been rightfully abandoned. Instead it hypertrophied as all Lakos work does.

Anything starting from that premise was bound to lead nowhere good.

The 1300-page size will anyway help limit its influence, just as has the gross inflation of Lakos's other output.
Jony was ID director by WWDC 97

https://bslabs.net/2018/05/28/wwdc-1997-videos/#500
That's a good point. Will apply this going forward.
His humour is extremely dry. I suspect his videos about his ex-wife leaving him etc (quoted by many people recently as proof that he’s a failure or something) are actually trolling too.

I’ve gone off him after he started shilling crypto and especially after this incident. His dry humour before was mostly self-deprecating, which was funny, but I don’t find this kind of “punching down” humour funny, and it’s way too blatantly trolling/attention farming.
Not rip graphics, but targa and spectrum 512. Almost lifelike.
If it worked for the Scholastics, it's good enough for us!
I think something like this is actually quite likely.

I’ve been wondering if there is a way to do psychological experiments on these large language models that we couldn’t do with a person.
Many go apps are fairly large as well. Most of mine start at 10 MB and quickly reach 70-80 MB for fairly simple functionality for similar reasons (hosting runtime).
> BUT my point is that we shouldn't assume everyone needs to live in the same location to obtain their wants.

Aren’t you doing the opposite, and assuming that people can just happily substitute their lives somewhere else? Or did they do that and still think SF is preferable?

If there is clearly a shortage of housing in SF, do you think that people haven’t tried looking other places?

College towns and seasonal activity towns with specialty stores tend to see the stores slow or shut down during the off-season, which is a problem if you want to be a year-round resident.
I'm curious what it generates when given randomly generated strings of seemingly pronounceable words like "Fedlope Dipeioreitcus".
From experience no extra information is passed, these pay services effectively is based of a virtual card that is a completely different card number to your actual card, so one could argue that it provides even more privacy
I've heard this:

>> Essentially, they judge online petitions as worthless, an email represents a single person, a phone call represents about 10 people, a mailed letter represents about 50 people, and a handwritten note speaks for about 100 people.

But I'm pretty sure all those numbers round to zero unless a check is attached, in my years and years of trying to speak to local/regional/state politicians in person, writing them, and calling them.
Now would be a pretty decent time to buy back in if you still wanna go long on AMD again.
Had you not heard the term "throwing someone under the bus" before? Must be a regional or cultural thing.
> Elon Musk does not have enough of a private army nor his wealth in gold to defend his claim to anything.

In principle you are right, they don't have armies per se. But don't let the
"everyman" persona put on by Musk or even Buffett fool you.

Billionaires must have extensive (and probably armed) security operations protecting them and their families. It would be irrational for them not to have that. Agreed that they might not be able to prevent their factories or other industrial assets from being seized (Just ask the oligarchs who fell afoul of Putin and fled).
I have been amused, in New York, to buy potato chips and other snacks from Asia that have a (California required) cancer warning because of this phenomenon

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6899951/
> Proxmox doesn't have any of the artificial limitations imposed by VMware (like a cap on number of vCPUs in the free version, eugh).

These were what i was thinking of yeah.
Yeah, I've thought about this a lot with the increased popularity of digital modes. Especially those small programs made by one or two people, just as you identified. I mean, I crashed a friend's radio simply by sending him an SMS over DMR (seems like a known issue/limitation with the radio firmware). Even well-established products are susceptible to attacks. No different from any other modern tech I guess :)
> The sodas were just the wake-up call.

It probably wasn't just the sodas, it was probably a culmination of a lot of changes, and the sodas were the straw that broke the camel's back.
literally 1 possible word after I entered 2 tries :/ I have no idea which word it is
https://www.biggerpockets.com/guides/brrrr-method

GSEs (Fannie, Freddie) let you lever up with a lot of real estate borrowing (~10 mortgages per person, with some wiggle room with creativity) before you have to go to a commercial bank to wrap the portfolio with a commercial loan or similar product.
I seem to remember qualifying for TIP and then not doing it because my parents thought it'd be too expensive. So it's unclear how aggressive that helping was.
Looks like some kind of hybrid. https://reviews.transmission1.net/2006/02/cobra-200-gtl-dx-s...
It's true. These types of security certifications like SOC2 are quickly becoming a minimum requirement.
Press the first button on the toolbar (or use Cmd+P). You can open Repository Manager by opening new tab (Cmd+T).
You are right that there are problems whose solving speed is limited by the memory bandwidth, and for such problems GPUs may be better than CPUs.

Nevertheless, many of the problems of this kind require more memory than the 8 GB or 16 GB that are available on cheap GPUs, so the CPUs remain better for those.

On the other hand, there are a lot of problems whose time-consuming part can be reduced to multiplications of dense matrices. During the solution of all such problems, the CPUs will reach a large fraction of their maximum computational speed, regardless whether the operands fit in the caches or not (when they do not fit, the operations can be decomposed into sub-operations on cache-sized blocks, and in such algorithms the cache lines are reused enough times so that the time used for transfers does not matter).
OK, we've changed the URL to that from https://yro.slashdot.org/story/22/05/29/1958232/farm-equipme.... Thanks!
> Why do people all need to live in SF?

No, the serious question is why aren't more people living in SF, instead of the sprawl of low-density suburbs and pseudo-suburbs that surround the Bay Area?

The tiny area that makes up the City and County of San Francisco is relatively high density for its size, but the fall off in density once you leave the county (which occupies only the tip of the San Francisco peninsula) is precipitous.

> People act like it is, the reality is different.

No, people act like it is, because it really is... When you're talking about building high-density housing in the actual city (or medium-density in the suburbs with reasonable transit options)... Which is literally always what they are actually talking about. No one is talking about there being problems building low-density housing in the middle of nowhere.

> San Francisco is fairly dystopian.

If it is dystopian, it is not because of density. There are numerous higher density parts of the world that do not struggle with the issues San Francisco does. It has nothing to do with people's inability to see cows. It has to do with the US' refusal to support the things that facilitate living in cities.

> This would help wealth inequality (spreading the wealth) and improve mental / societal health.

The idea that increased suburbanization would have any positive effect on wealth inequality is completely absurd.
People love all sorts of ideas that are "important" to them like right to repair, climate change, or anything else, but as soon as that person is wearing the wrong color tie and is against taxes/abortion/guns/foreign policy, then it doesn't matter so much anymore to them.
There were a few good things that came out of it, notably PlantUML. PlantUML's sequence and state diagrams are worth their weight in gold.
Yup. I would indeed take it to mean "apologies that i am butchering this language and/or its grammar". Same thing in The Netherlands: if you're excusing your command of the language, that's polite. If you want to request something, you'd ask. Eg, "nicht zo schnell, bitte".
>> At one point, you won't have any money to buy any assets if your wages are barely covering your food and shelter, and so we'll go back to feudalism where only those few with inherited wealth owned assets and everyone else was a slave for life.

> Historically, that's when a revolution or regime-change happens. This is something the richest of the rich have either forgotten or mistakenly think they'll be insulated from.

Revolutions aren't always successful. If the rich control the state by corrupting democratic institutions and remove from the peasantry the tools to pursue "politics with other means," they might actually get away with a transition to something like feudalism.
Alternatively, just 1: حمص
We use zulip at work (yes, heavy geek influence:) ).

Nothing except social pressure prevents people from misusing topics. It happens to all of us, when a different thread gets spawned during a discussion. Sometimes when someone does not know where a question or bug would belong to. But you can move the messages in question to a suitable topic (existing or new) at any time. That used to be a bit buggy in the past, but has been working smoothly for a couple of releases.

Within the same zulip stream everyone can do it (in theory causing edit wars, but it has never happened in our company). To move it to a different stream, you need to be admin. That's sometimes a bit weird, but our admin is quick to do it when discussions went offtopic.

Edit: I can't answer why it was worse in Slack. Luckily I haven't had to use Slack for 4 years. I only remember that it was much worse. Wasn't it so in Slack the user replying explicitly needed to select a threaded reply (and few did so). And even if they had done so, the one coming to work 8 or 24 hours later needed to look through everything (or nothing) because the (possibly threaded) messages had no topic?
>error detection and recovery by virtue of the modem and the connection... protocol? I forget what we called them.

Yeah protocols. First ones to see widespread use (at least subjectively) were MNP4 and MNP5 for, respectively, Error correction (with a 25% speed increase as a bonus, since it was synchronous and would not therefore waste code space with start and stop bits) and Data Compression (a terrible one which would actually incur an overhead if data was already compressed).

They got later replaced by v.42 and v.42bis, with the same respective purposes (but v.42bis was smarter than MNP5 and could switch to transparent mode when sending incompressible data).

CARRIER 14400

COMPRESSION: V.42 bis

PROTOCOL: LAPM

CONNECT 57600/ARQ
Even Tesla can’t meet demand for EVs.
> Or offer a web app, or a desktop app, or a custom device.

Only one of these is essentially not "throw away your iOS device and buy something else" for iOS users, and even then its still 100% controlled by Apple because the only real browser on iOS is Safari. So you're still pretty much in the same boat, but in a worse position trying to reach the large iOS market.
I think that's an unfair interpretation of that comment. They most likely meant that you couldn't just lift the DRAM off the package and put it on a standard module, all else equal. It would require other significant design compromises to accomplish that. LPDDR4X socketed modules don't even exist.
It's best to submit the most substantive original article and link to any additional articles from the comments.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."
The parallel hybrids are really genius. At the heart of the Prius design is a simple planetary gear and two eletric motors that forms a power split device.

What makes it different from a normal planetary gear train is you have a motor generator MG1 on the engine and MG2 one the ring gear. The deal is you have a mechanical power path via the planetary gears. And you have a parallel electric power path between MG1 and MG2 (and the battery). In the end it's a just a CVT.

It's conceptually more complicated, but probably not in practice.
That, or you were fortunate enough to matriculate into a program at a world-class research university with adequate support and funding, where your peers have graduated and gotten their desired next positions, and where you felt you were learning and gaining valuable skills? Sure, not everything is great all of the time, but not all PhD experiences are like you describe either.
> The question I have is: Is that really his argument? Because I guess I missed it. Please read it again, and then again. Because I think you may be seeing what you want to see. See my discussion re: the Rashomon quality of his writing.

Yes, that is his argument. I reread the post when you contested the first time, and I reread it again now, and it is unambiguously his argument.

> Drew, as far as I know, isn't speaking from some deep well of experience or knowledge

He worked for SpaceX, which is a multi-billion dollar company.
Maybe it was different for you because you had a pre-acquisiton Comixology account?

For me (did not get into Comixology until after Amazon bought it but kept the apps separate), I could always buy through the Comix app, but it was in effect signing into my Amazon account whenever it wanted to make a purchase.
> 4. Trying to get www.dontwordle.com and dontwordle.com to take you to the same URL (either www.dontwordle.com or dontwordle.com) and still support TLS and only use the tech I mentioned above. I actually still don’t have it working perfectly. I know of a solution, but it’s overly complicated

If you use Cloudfront with an S3 bucket as origin for _dontwordle.com_, just create a second Cloudfront with an S3 Bucket for _www.dontwordle.com_ and enable "static website hosting" to redirect to "dontwordle.com" on the second bucket.
The power Amazon has over the retail market is no where close to what Google & Apple together have over the mobile market.
yeah i'm remembering why I got into his channel now - he had a lot of content on his minimalist philosophy that I found interesting.

The whole 'techlead' thing did always seem like a joke, he was definitely either making fun of himself, or making fun of the prestige of working for the big tech companies.

I haven't watched any of his recent videos but it seems like he has shifted focus to just making $$. Maybe he should have tried to hold onto a tech job :D
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The point of labeling kids as "gifted" is to try and give instruction appropriate to the level of intelligence and preparation of different children. Getting rid of this means exacerbating the issues the author presents: being in an 8th grade classroom where teaching algebra has been banned because it's too advanced for the least common denominator is a recipe for even greater lack of challenge. If a student goes through school without being challenged, they're much more likely to run into the issues the author discusses.

It's not that the label is perfect or that we have a perfect way to measure who's "gifted" and who's not, but an intelligence test coupled with subjective teacher evaluations is the best way we do have to identify which tracks are appropriate for which children.
You're talking porn. I'm talking procrastination fuel in general--this site being one of the slower-burning varieties.
Yeah, those days were ended years ago. The present generation of senior management are doing very nicely though: their historically-acquired final salary entitlements with a generous accrual rate coupled with recent insane inflation in senior management salaries mean they're going to make out like bandits.

My own projected pension is £13,180 a year, based on about 30 years' worth of (mostly future) combined employer/employee contributions of 30% of a salary of a little less than £40k/yr. Big bucks it is not.