skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in the North where -40 is common. I would say the vast majority of people have a wood stove, and they work exceedingly well.

You might not be aware but ones that burn the wood twice (even three times) are now common and in fact are law in many places. So they're MUCH more efficient, and drastically reduce the particulates coming out the stove pipe.
Another benefit is they only need to be fed once every 24-48 hours (depending on what heat you set the thermostat, what size stove you have, how well insulated your house is and what temperature it is outside.)

Wood stoves are a necessity.
Yep, I have happy exceptions like that as well. Average has been getting worse though. Lots of travel in hot humid climates might be contributing, but unintuitively that's where the majority of apple product usage happens.
Agree about the proxy part for the consultancy business, it should be common knowledge and those manager should be fired
Yes, we'll do this
Did I say anything about what a newborn's capabilities are, or are you placing words in someone else's mouth.

I would invite you to look at the research around brain structures and then try to refute that we have dedicate structures in the brain that developed through evolution. Obviously they are not refined at birth, the fine tuning happens through experience and environment. However the structures and propensity are certainly there at birth
You can get infinitely hot but only so cold. Curse you thermodynamics!
This reminds me of the bog people I met who live on a lake in floating mud huts. They’re all complaining that their children move away to go to school and live in cities etc.

Is the bog life really worth preserving? You basically just want to preserve these weird cultures for the sake of it, not because anyone benefits from it. Obviously children want electricity or to speak an actually used language rather than follow the meme culture. Why should we force them to suffer just to preserve that suffering?
You can certify the endpoint hasn't changed its keys, as Signal currently does.
He could have made comic book style art without ripping off the original artists’ work. But he didn’t, because making original art is hard and copying art is easy.

Additionally, as the article points out, the original artists were blocked from selling their own art as paintings because the publishers had the copyright and no interest in turning the comic book illustrators (lowly paid commodities) into respected artists.
My new favourite blog to read online!
Ooh that sounds peculiar, I must find some
Asset owners aren’t always human, they’re very often companies. How would you deal with that?
But a lot of businesses fail for reasons other than the directors "mistakes". The general macro trend has a lot to do with it. Should the owners of a cafe or bar that went under owing suppliers some money during covid be banned from starting a new business? Or someone who buys a failing business trying to turn it around and failing also be barred for 5 years?

At the end of the day, creditors must (and generally do) realise when supplying a limited liability company there is a risk that the company goes under you won't get paid. That's why credit insurance and credit control departments exist.

If the directors were committing fraud by misrepresenting the state of the business and it fails, that is a completely different thing and directors should be barred from trading. But businesses fail all the time and we must accept that. Barring people from trying again for 5 years isn't a great solution imo.
if you read the article it clearly isn't just the accent
Just curious, why are you, jeffbee, and several other commenters being so hostile here to anyone who asks any questions?
You could blow a bubble.

Go to space. Take a blob of viscous polymeric whatever. Squirt a little air inside. Blows up automagically. Let the goo cure. Now you have a ~10 kilometer bubble.

Inject some vaporized silver, using electrostatic deposition or whatever.

Cut the bubble in half. Now you've got 2 concave mirrors.

How to make it parabolic? Hmm
This illustrates the point perfectly. Julia is attempting this and has a beachhead with Dataframes.jl. Confusingly though, Tidier.jl isn't really analogous to R's Tidyverse. It's more like one of a handful of meta-packages around Dataframes.jl.

Then there are Grammar of Graphics (ggplot was Tidyverse's first star) style plotting libraries that Julia has been building. I'm probably most excited about Algebra of Graphics (https://github.com/MakieOrg/AlgebraOfGraphics.jl/) as part of the Makie Plots ecosystem. It does still feel a bit like Julia community can't decide between following Matplotlib or R's Grid/Ggplot approach.

The seeds of a Tidyverse for Julia are there, but it'll take some time to achieve the consistency and maturity of the original Tidyverse.
Thanks for saying it, I didn’t have the energy to.

ICE to EV has been around for a while before EV’s were mainstream and was much more expensive ultimately than buying a new Tesla, with significantly lower construction quality and performance results.
Thats funny because I didn't know that was a stat however I definitely noticed that my grey car was like an accident magnet from real life experience.
Ok I added a note that ensures users know how we handle their data. Let me know what you think.
New Creality K1 FDM Printer
It hardly seems worth the effort. If they want to unionise, let them. It’s not like retail stores employees are a huge part of the business.
Turns out that Afghans as a whole don't believe much in traditional Liberalism! Whereas it seems like Ukrainians do.
My stepdad’s parents moved from New Mexico to California but never taught their kids Spanish because they didn’t want them to have an accent. Was a thing in the 50s, I guess.

I’ve always found it amusing they grew up six miles from each other but met in California.
> “Musk appeared to be unclear about the difference between public media and state-controlled media,” Allyn wrote.

Especially with regard to NPR, this kind of misunderstanding is not limited to Musk, unfortunately.

I do wonder if it comes from the traditional corporate mindset: If you pay money for it to exist, you ought to have line-item control over it.
Oddly enough, I was reading their paper just last night: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.10866.pdf

I think we're going to see a lot more in the wavelet/convolution/fft space when thinking about how to increase context length.

I think there's also a lot of room for innovation in the positional encoding and how it's represented in transformer models, it seems like people have been trying lots of things and going with what works, but most of it is like: "look, a new orthonormal basis!".

Hyena sort of seems like the first step in moving to positional embeddings (or joint positional/attentional embeddings).

Very cool work.
> As someone who knows nothing about this area, I don't understand why audits won't always detect fraud.

as some one who studied accounting and auditing, here is a page from my text:

https://kfknowledgebank.kaplan.co.uk/audit-and-assurance/aud...

but the tl;dr is that auditors don't provide "insurance", they provide "assurance", specifically reasonable assurance.... that the accounts are "true and fair"

or to be put it in even simpler terms, they can't guarantee something fishy did or didn't happen, the transaction scope is just too much, they will "try their best" and do enough of a check to say if anything fishy pops put.

> Is it just a top-level glance at the numbers because there isn't enough time/money to scrutinize everything?

yes you hit the nail right on the head. Of course things have changed, govt have put their own requirements in addition to auditing standards, but still that's an adequate summary.

the more through of a check, the more difficult, time consuming and expensive it becomes, and at some point the fraud becomes cheaper than the audit.

but even more importantly is the mentality. There is a phrase we were taught "Auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound" that kind of explains what auditors are supposed to do.

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i left the field but i'll try to answer to the best of my ability
This an elaborate presentation which frankly speaking has no meaning. You start reading, and it feels like an intro to an interesting research, or detective story, but then it just ends.
>In Germany income is taxed where it is generated

Only if you're a resident in Germany, But if I live somewhere in the EU and sell something to someone living in Germany I don't owe income tax to the German government.

I pay my income tax where I'm a fiscal resident (Estonia, Romania, etc.)
Here’s the problem I have with this discourse:

> Apple also withheld new benefits from unionized locations, drawing outcry from labor advocates.

I am pro-union. Fight for your rights! But understand what you’re getting into: once you engage with a third party (union) to negotiate for you, you will only get what you bargain for. The animus around unequal benefits ought to be directed to their union leaders, who need to do their fucking jobs and bargain for the benefits. That’s what you pay them for!

It’s up to the individual and the collective to figure out how and whether unionizing benefits them in the context of their employer-employee relationship. Eyes open: the company has interests too. Mischaracterizing those interests is a disservice when you’re at the negotiating table.
I donate to a children's home that is a couple of blocks from my business.

They help troubled kids, lots of pregnant teenagers there, things like that.

I don't try to min max my donations. The organization is doing work that nobody else is doing, that I want to see funded. I don't particularly care if they're maximally efficient.
"ToolHub

Streamline your web experience with our comprehensive suite of essential tools." [0]

Wouldn't it just be easier (for the user) and more practical to have an app that perform any<->any conversions rather than discrete tools that perform unique A->B conversions?

This whole things just screams of SEO gaming

[0]https://toolhub.tech/
Interviewed onsite at a company where I was asked some leetcode-medium binary tree problem. This was a well-known company with easily available lists of frequently asked interview questions you can find online. Luckily, I had solved this exact problem a few days back.

Unfortunately, this problem has an easy and ultra-straightforward solution using deques with O(N) space complexity, and an another slightly tricky solution with O(1) complexity. I had spent some time the other day cracking this O(1) solution. I decided that I would take the risk of reproducing the tricky solution and wow the interviewers.

Naturally, I didn't. I got confused and had to start from scratch several times. And the interviewer kept hinting that I could use a data structure to make this simple, but stubborn me thought I was just minutes from a working perfect solution.

I deeply internalized the saying "Perfect is the enemy of good" after I was marched out of the building after only two interviews instead of the usual 4. I've had my fair share of interview bombs but I consider this the worst because I was lucky enough to have faced a problem I had solved recently, and for which the interviewer was willing to accept the easier solution, and yet I managed to nuke it to oblivion.
You still can't search for "substack". Automatically replaces it with "newsletter".
Now do McKinsey. Probably would work out even better.
I am puzzled by the article's spin on this, which really centers on the fact that this original proof was authored by two teenage African-American girls from the South, as if the interesting thing here was not so much the proof itself than the idea that there are gifted mathematicians from underrepresented backgrounds and skin colors. In my experience, pretty much in any place and social stratus you might visit, there are bright kids who love math. The challenge is more about what happens next in their career — can these kids get affordable higher education, and a career track that values their gift? My data point of one is a friend of mine, who was an extremely bright student of physics, but had to drop out of college early because he couldn't afford it and needed to start making money. That kind of thing could explain skewed representation in science more than lack of talented high schoolers...
Nit about macOS: HFS+ supports hard links to directories (added in 10.5 to support Time Machine), but APFS does not.
Which single person doesn't need limited liability though? In my experience small freelancers/businesses need that protection much more than bigger organisations, which can afford legal fees and court costs if things go south.

If you are a freelancer trading without a corporate entity you can get screwed so hard. There are nasty people out there that will take advantage of this and can demand loads of free work or refunds, knowing that your entire personal wealth is on the line.
I'll definitely be thinking about errors in a new way, so thanks!

> a success story, look no further than the Rust compiler itself; I don’t think it would be an exaggeration to say that Rust enjoys the current popularity it does because of how good its error messages are, and how much effort was put into it.

The compiler diagnostics use a very different system than your error types. (eg https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/compiler/rustc...).

I think your approach adds a lot of value to a very generic library, but that often all or most of the reasonable users of a library will only propagate. If so, advanced error messages can be a waste of time. For example, a library for writing to the terminal will probably be used by applications that exit with an error message if a write fails, so it's best API might be an opaque wrapper around a string with a very specific error message.
I think I read something just as informative and in-depth on a Doom9 post back in the mid-2000s.
I'm not saying why have error reporting at all, I'm asking about this specific approach, for example as opposed to the article being discussed.
is this reply for me?
I’m sorry I came down so hard. I was thinking about it, and man - I am just so scared for people right now.

But I see your love, and I want to help!!

I have experience in PII and HIPPA and can see if we can address some of this stuff.

I think a conclusive terms of service, less specific questions, and storing it entirely in the browser if possible, will be a solid start .

My passion is from concern, not anger. I hope that comes across
I think the K,Q,V representation was what fundamentally gave rise to LLMs (from "Attention is all you need"), and I'm certain that it wouldn't have happened without the researchers having a background in search @ Google.

Or in other words, it was always a new form of search.
This is an ignorant take. The IMF wants to make loans to put the countries under debt. The debt is then used for political leverage. This has played out again and again for decades.

The IMF is happy to provide loans that they know can not be paid back, and they routinely allow corrupt officials to get juicy benefits from entering into those deals. The book Confessions of an Economic Hitman is a very sober expose on this process, written by a former IMF official who took part in it.
Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer Using Shifted Windows
Permafrost engine – An OpenGL RTS game engine written in C
Would spinning it while cutting make it parabolic?
Not too surprising, a Bambulabs P1P and X1C competitor. The K1 is equivalent to a P1P and K1 Max to a X1C. Pricing is very comparable too (K1 is a bit cheaper). Features are almost exactly the same but Creality isn’t the most famous for customer service and software support. I own two of their printers, one from Ender series and one CR series. Both work fine after some work on it. Would be interesting to see if the K1 is truly print out of the box.
(Source article.)
This article is about auditing, your comments appear to be about consulting / advisory businesses.

Otherwise, I mostly agree, though I don't support a ban. It's a complex topic - companies are free to waste money how they want, and even governments do need real advice. It's just too bad they pick such shitty advisors to support decisions they've already made instead of actually seeking good advice.
Happy Easter! He is risen!
Is like a CPU, we’ve all seen that movie before, it’s super human in calculating numbers, it’s one dimensional nonetheless like chess programs.
There is a spectrum.

You can have manual or half-automated processes when there are very few people. For me the threshold is 3 devs. Then you need to codify the processes.

Some people don’t bother setting up CI when they are the only developer. Others don’t ever leave the “I’m the only developer” mindset.
Given how many major data breaches have been the result of unintentional public access to orgaanizations' data on S3, I almost think Amazon should remove all public access to buckets and objects from the entire S3 product.

Instead make all access to S3 be through credentialed access or signed URLs. If users need to expose an entire bucket to the public Internet, make them go to the effort to put a service in front of the bucket.

Yes, this would be a huge change. But playing with the default values for S3 seems like too little, too late.
I am guessing golly_ned is based in the US. I am based in the EU and I have a question for US residents.

I am studying corporate finance and valuation. Recently we had an analysis assignment of a private company. In the EU a lot of financial info is still available even if the company isn’t listed on any stock exchange.

Would it be possible to answer golly_ned:s questions with public financial statements?
Ask HN: Where is AI headed? What’s the end game for humanity?
AI can write both text and code with simple prompts, it can create art and keep us safe and guide us in our travels. Over time how will this affect humanity? 5, 10, 20 years into the future. What’s your guess?
Enron was doing similar trick by selling buildings to another business entity, and buying them back after the audit. I might not have all the details correct but it was the same type of shenanigans. :-)
There are many automotive chips not made by TSMC. TSMC makes advanced chips and leaves legacy chips to companies like Infineon, TI, STMicro.

I discussed one particular scenario that had nothing to do with TSMC here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34395424
French Company Helping California High Speed-Rail Project Left for North Africa
Type 1 is the most common type of programmer I've seen, and they are the reason everything is complex and fragile.

Most programmnig jobs force you to spend most of your time editing config files and trying to figure out why when you tried to use the library to do X it doesn't work properly! And then it turns out that you "just" have to configure Y and Z in particular ways, and you also need to make sure K is setup correctly at time T.
Does it? You could equally well argue that punishing CEOs for bankruptcy makes banks more willing to lend money, improving the business climate.

And of course for startups in the early years it's not that relevant anyways, since nobody will lend you anything until you have revenue. VCs invest instead of lending and aren't owed anything if you shut the company down.
As luck would have it, there’s this article for those interested in the doors: https://brr.fyi/posts/doors-of-mcmurdo
That's why one should just move to Dubai and escape Germany and its crazy taxes and health insurance costs.
I laughed out loud at this one. Nice one!
There are inexpensive units that require little more than a hole in the wall.
China's plan could just be do business with current gov't rather than invade and install a puppet gov't at an incredible cost to human life. They tend to do business with nations all over the world. They don't comment much on the politics of nations they do business with (e.g. Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc).

I also think that is a very odd reading of the US invasion of Afghanistan. Even more so considering that the US has a track record of supporting fascists and terrorists for decades, and will overthrow gov'ts if it means access to natural resources, and greater profits for US corporations.
Yes, it was “Nightfall”.
It’s not like we can run an A/B on the benefits for every employee and every company, but I can speak for one particular industry and one company during one particular point in time: automobile manufacturing and Toyota. During the 2008 financial crisis, the perception at Toyota by many employees was that, while their wages were nominally lower than their counterparts at unionized companies, it made them more robust to the economic downturn, resulting in fewer layoffs of permanent workers. This is not to say that unionization didn’t have its place in the conversation. What I heard directly was that “the threat of unionization is enough for us to get the benefits and pay raises we ask for.”
Well yeah, if you have firmware access on a device you can use it to intercept. That’s basic infosec.

That’s a very different matter from the CCP stealing IP or even entire companies.
What is the alternative to ACLs? Or is reading from users / roles in the same project supported by default, provided the user / role has the required permissions?
Juice – An Unprecedented Journey to Jupiter
This is all complex and confusing heh. I know there have been some ideas sets that were popular enough to have a few more “in the line” but icons is new to me.

Ah Icons is Creator Expert.

Interesting fact: the various “lines” have developmental budget they can “spend” internally on design and parts and such - so a rebrand may indicate that the CE team now has more budget.

Think a piece that exists costs 1, needing a new color of an existing piece costs 5, and you only have budget for one or two entirely new pieces a year.
I’d like to see more than a dot that NASA regularly shows as exoplanets using the latest tech.
more like two different ways of approaching a problem which crop up quite often designing socio-technical systems

it does puzzle me how programmer culture is to over generalise as if its some epiphany or fundamental principle

in fact this blog just diagnoses two common viewpoints or perspectives

perhaps its just a style thing to get engagement with a blog
Most people don't like their nation being invaded and seeing their families die. Why would Afghanis be any different?
"Cheating on ethics exam" sounds bad but it amounts to not taking some boring corporate CYA compliance training seriously, it's not actually unethical in my opinion. If anything it speaks to how bad corporate training is generally, not the ethics of the people "cheating".
The Netflix app ran fine at first but had outgrown my 2018 smart TV's IQ by 2022. Freezes for a good moment then crashes the TVOS. Hulu as well. Factory reset was a waste of time and fixed nothing. But TCL made a few bucks more going with the cheaper cpu and accelerated obsolescence.
One more reason to get a dumb display...
Yeah but that chain of comments was originally talking about James C. Scott "against the grain". A historian specialized in early agricultural history and thus relevant here in that comment section about early human history.

I even got confused and thought that Scott wrote "bullshit job", but it's Graeber.

In regards to jobs: I think it's perfectly conceivable that one job is useful to a few, but generally pointless for society.
> For the 'e' question

They were just expecting exp(x) = \sum_{i=0}^{\inf} \frac{x^i}{i!}.

Depending on the role it might be useless trivia, but it's not exactly an impossibly high bar tbh.
In my own experiments I've caught ChatGPT running the correct query but then hallucinating the results, because the response was too long for the token context window and got truncated!

I have an open issue about that here: https://github.com/simonw/datasette-chatgpt-plugin/issues/2

More about my explorations: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/24/datasette-chatgpt-plug...