skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you guys are ALL missing the point. Imagine if you bought a brand new car but later found out it had a stolen engine? This is probably why Qualcomm is collecting data from its chipsets. Qualcomm gets a 5% royalty (5% of the cost of the entire handset) payment from each vendor.

Qualcomm needs to know if a vendor is lying about the number of chipsets it has used. They need to know if the vendor claims 10M cheapo handsets and 1M expensive handsets - they need to know if the numbers are actually reversed!

This backdoor can get them the evidence they need to invalidate a license with a vendor - cut of chipsets shipments - and start a new negotiation. Remember, Chinese vendors will cheat like bananas. Chinese vendors asked for a HUGE discount on domestic phones - and they go it - but at the cost of a higher-than-normal royalty for exports. They are probably cheating, it's what they do.
Maybe it's not insulting, but it sure as shit is pointless.
Young people do move often but, once they settle and buy their family apartment, they are just as static as occupants of any other type of dwelling.
Plenty of people in Europe want a smaller car, as it's easier to drive and park.

This is especially the case if their household also has a larger car.

("Which car are we going in, dad?" "The black one, I don't want to drive the blue one round town." = my childhood.)
Guess he couldn’t find them second hand.
I don't buy the "storage is cheap, bandwidth is cheap" argument.

The Fediverse is much like binary internet news. Something that is to this day not really operable for reasonable cost, especially not for small or even private providers.

A few hundred users make it necessary to shovel around TBs of data. For every involved server. This just doesn't scale, no matter how cheap bandwidth and storage will get in the next years.
Companies break their fiscal years into quarters in different ways. Best I can tell they do this because there's an incentive to be offset from your customer's fiscal quarters. Being offset means each one of your quarters you get a chance to sell into the budgets for two of their quarters. Which gives you more "at bats" each quarter to make a potential sale.

I'm not totally sure if this actually makes sense and is net positive for the business. But this is the reasoning I've heard from sales people for wanting to offset quarter schedules.
Because it can be used to roughly track location through 3D space. It's nowhere near as accurate as practically any other method but for "good enough" a lot of the time it'll do the job.
The fact that IKEA furniture is self-assembled is a big factor here. Lots of room for human error that has nothing to do with the design or materials.
I think implementing a function that does what a modulo operator would is itself a fairly straightforward question.
Thanks for this list.

Buy it for life is right. I've inherited plenty of buy it for life furniture from family and friends, had some repaired and refinished, bought others off craigslist or estate sales etc, some are on their last legs or are too special to be anything but an heirloom as opposed to usable furniture. Of course things don't stay beautiful forever without care; kids (myself included, I damaged some nice furniture when little) are probably the most destructive force.

I still go back and forth (have a need for bookshelves right now) between the price tiers of Ikea's Billy, local used sales, and new wood furniture. But I've never regretted buying something nice.
One I could think of is you could use accelerometer data to know if the phone is moving, and how: is it just being lifted and interacted with, is the user walking or running, are they in a car.

For a high profile target you might also be able to track their approximate location if you know their starting point and their acceleration profile - speed up, slow down, turns, time taken. Enough, at least, to execute an ambush.
I doubt someone who works in accounting would confirm on this site, but the O365 stuff is categorized differently than Azure. So I don't think it's an office suite underneath a compute platform's trenchcoat.
4 minutes??? Not even close. Each eclipse varies from a few seconds for the first one to practically an hour in the middle, then gets shorter again, over roughly 30 eclipses each season (2 per year)
https://github.com/SysSec-KAIST/LTESniffer
> The adtech business model seems stagnant but its not obvious (to me) what AI could do to revive its fortunes.

This is really a "shitty-futurism" situation for me, but it would be quite possible for ChatGPT-style assistants to do product placements in their conversations.
Nah, I think it's already been quuxed up.
Smart summon is a party trick that requires you to keep LOS to the vehicle the entire time. Like Full Self Driving it is not capable enough to be a problem yet.

If there is any good news about this it is that Full Self Driving appears to be a more difficult problem than Elon expected and they are struggling with it.
I agree on the current state of US cashless system. I moved here last year from a SEA country, I was surprised the amount of fees for a cash withdrawl, it's charged both ways which is ridiculous. In my country, if banks joins the national system (which are most of them), then there is no fees for transactions between them. The check system is incredibly archaic, the overdraft thing is just pure greed. The fact that I can transfer money across different banks instantly in my country and have to wait a few days for a wire transfer in the US is just mindblowing for the biggest economy in the world.
How do you cheat with a physical object like that? Isn’t Qualcomm selling them the chips? It’s not a windows install, it’s a physical item they buy. Don’t they just pay by the unit?
Me neither lol. It is weird that this is even considered news.
A man with one clock always knows what time it is. A man with two clocks is never sure.

We have no data on a man with 106 clocks.
This is the customer's problem, how?
> Folks who have moved from cancelled project to cancelled project will find it harder as interviewers will be unconsciously biased against applicants who have never worked on a successful project/product.

Interviewers don't know whether your projects were successful or not (and often don't care, I don't remember ever being asked this type of questions, SWE interviewing has always been mainly technical for me).
There's a neat novel that has the Marie Antoinette Breguet as a core McGuffin. Written a few years before the timepieces were recovered: The Grand Complication, by Allen Kurzweil.
It's premium in an expensive gas area. $4.50+ a gallon easy. So .35/mile just for the gas. Brakes, oil, and tires also not cheap.
How to use Pinecone and OpenAI to ChatGPTify your website
Is enshitification endemic of stagnate wages, or is it due to investors seeking ever grater short term gains?
Google has a cash cow that they fund all their side adventures with. And once they get board of one they either shut it down or just abandon it.
That's a good point. I have an older guy I met at a farmer's market, in my phone under Greg Shelves, it's a land line, I have to pay in cash. The problem is I never know exactly what I'm going get, but it is always nice.
What surprises me is how many coastal people are either ignorant of or in denial about sea level rise. We were recently at the coast and there were new homes going up, right on the beach, just a few feet above current sea level. That just seems like complete insanity to me.
didn't pauling think that dna was a triple helix? how this could of worked i have never understood.
> Look under your feet -- no volcanoes!

What if whoever built this McDonald's/Chevron amalgamation did so atop a volcano? How would I know?
So it shouldn't be legal to write your Congressional rep and tell them you want them to do X?
I've found most of the shitty garbage I buy has a single point of failure that can be replaced with a quality part. A plastic gear replaced with brass or steel. A capacitor. Sometimes just a dodgy USB port. A slowly degrading OS that is eventually discontinued.

I've extended the life of several devices by decades through simple repairs. It is no wonder that these same companies that want you buying a new washer/fridge/oven every 4 years are opposing right to repair. They love adding walled gardens to their products. Even our BBQs are getting electronic garbage added that can't be fixed normally...
Lovely craftsmanship. Can't wait to use it. Neat Interface. I really need something bit more powerful than Google Keep.

Just curious - Is it flutter or Electron?
You don't even have to get that cute. Do integer division, multiply the result by the divisor, and subtract the product from the original dividend. Surely you can't say you don't use multiplication, division, and subtraction.
The IKEA products are recognizable and easy to measurements for online. It's likely people have tried them out before because they're so common as well (or they've walked through the store a few times).
This is just speculation and not news. From the article:

“According to Fox’s Charles Gasparino, bankers working with First Republic say that they expect eventual government receivership for the ailing bank. This will come after it exhausts private sector solutions such as asset sales and finding a buyer, both of which “appear difficult.””
>No, you can use a standard clothes dryer hookup and charge overnight.

These are also high power, special circuits. The outlet your TV is plugged into isn't near that power level. Most appliances run off 110v.

>With increased density comes either longer range or lighter vehicles. The lighter the vehicle, the more efficient it becomes.

Yeah, that's certainly an inefficiency. Not as big of an issue to its power source inefficiency. Heavy EVs aren't it's main flaw.

>So you do understand why denser battery packs are useful then? Also, ICE is not a "rotational energy" and more or less than "EV" is. I don't understand why this is included.

I should have said "it uses an extreme dense form of energy". You can make bigger springs on a wind up car, but you need a better source of energy to wind it up. Gas goes from, "fuel -> combustion -> rotational energy". There's too many steps to go from "coal -> rotational energy" to even list. All of which, have losses.

>We didn't make the spring bigger. We made it smaller and lighter and got the same output. That is more efficient.

Sure, but doesn't fix the real issue of production and transportation. The weight is a lesser issue.

>Yes, we no longer have to improve efficiency in the motor itself. It's already many times more efficient than an ICE.

In a small scope, yes. In the whole picture, no. There's no more efficiency gain on the EV. That's it. It's at it's max efficiency and the only way to improve its efficiency is to redesign the entire system and create new technology to produce and transport electricity. Mean while, ICE is still getting improvements such as the Freevalve [0]. Not to mention how much more efficient diesel is compared to gas.

>And yet, after all those transformations and power losses, an EV is still a net gain in efficiency in most cases. An ICE sends about 20% of the energy to the wheels. An EV triples that in the worst case. This means the infrastructure that you get your energy from can lose a lot along the way and you still end up net positive. And it concentrates further efficiency improvements. That abstraction is huge.

Depends on your source. If you have wind powering your EV from a turbine, you generally don't care about the losses as much since it's all "free" anyways. Your EV is still wind powered though, it's no different than compacting that wind and using it to blow you down the street. It would take A LOT of wind to do that, so does generating electricity out of it. If your source of power is coal, you start at 66% loss, then 8-15% for powerlines, then you got charger losses, DC-AC losses, drive train losses. It's not as efficient as you think. You cannot create more power than you put in, no matter how much you try. Don't forget how much more efficient diesel is as well.

[0]https://www.freevalve.com/
> before HTTP got it right

In the spec, yes. But since servers use Content-Encoding instead of Transfer-Encoding for on-the-fly compression, its unspecified now whether the byte offsets in the resumption refer to the compressed or uncompressed file. Result: Download resumption did not work reliably and got removed from browsers.
If by “data driven” you mean we have to ignore history and common sense, we’ll, yeah I guess I don’t believe in being data driven.
There is value in structure and rules, to clear your mind and give you orientation for your work. But everyone is also different, so you also need to first figure out the structures and rules which are working for you and your situations. Which, yeah..it's an eternal trap of bike sheeding. Flexible tools like notion are very helpful and seductive in those regards. They can help you get your things done, but can also led you astray to the wrong roads.

I think at this point it might be useful to have some studies in how selforganization-porn-addicts and mental health issues correlate. I get the impression that people with adhs for example are more likely to search out this kind of tools&systems to get some control over their mind&life back. I know it's at least for me the case.
This is highly plan and employer specific.

However, it's not at all unusual to be better off financially with a high deductible plan even if you max out your deductible.
i had already clocked this.
By that logic, your tool also hints at possible end days for Javascript.

Careful not to overfit ;)

Neat tool, thanks for sharing.
The time for these clock puns to stop is now!
> Some things that stood out to me, changing depreciation rules to “magically” generate $770M in revenue.

Changing depreciation schedule has no impact on revenue. It only affects costs and therefore profit.
> In a purely AI chat-style conversation, there simply isn't much real estate to insert ads.

You're thinking of this in the classical ad placement sense. If there's an established sense of trust with an AI, advertising can become much more subtle and even more manipulative than it currently is. Ad campaigns can last years, and span many conversations, where brands can be woven into the subconscious much more deeply than a traditional ad could do.

They could then be surfaced whenever the user is most vulnerable to be swayed into making a purchase.

> In your classic scenario, you navigate the SERP and hit various websites, that's a lot of surface area for ads.

Most of which never get seen or clicked on. It's a lot of wasted real estate. Ad conversion can become much more efficient if the system deeply knows the person they're interacting with.
What's the effective difference between blocking somebody's phone number and telling your staffer "if Steve calls, flip it to voicemail"? (Or "if Anne mails, circular file")

And is that a legal difference? I get the intention behind your "should", but I'm curious if we have legal distinctions, and if what we have is meaningful in the face of reality. I think that's a question we _should_ be asking.
Not banned, but gas will become too expensive to operate them except in special circumstances. Once we start factoring in the cost to recapture the carbon emitted from combustion engines they will be instantly uneconomical.
> Lots of things integrate with email at a protocol level but Gmail won because (...)

What are you talking about? I spend all day every day sending and receiving emails from all sorts of services, and Gmail is not it. What exactly is your definition of "won"?
> Drawing from existing literature, we found that accelerometer data alone may be sufficient to obtain information about a device holder's location, activities, health condition, body features, gender, age, personality traits, and emotional state. Acceleration signals can even be used to uniquely identify a person based on biometric movement patterns and to reconstruct sequences of text entered into a device, including passwords.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3309074.3309076
You're on a rocket ship that goes into space. It has already achieved the speed and is on the correct trajectory.
Some of those on Earth started to assume the trajectory had to be corrected a year or two ago, but most people still feel like the ship is on track.

In other words, Sundar is not a war CEO; he is there to ensure things are "on track" for the foreseeable future, while many people expect him to be a trailblazer who comes up with new innovative products (and not just tweaks to Ads UI).
zmodem... that brings be back to my BBS days when I had a fido node 2:281/909.4. why do I still know that by heart ? playing glorious BBS door-games over 2400 baud :)
I applaud this. The old official German tax software (ElsterFormular) for doing my taxes was the only reason I kept Windows around on some machine. There used to be a free equivalent with less functionality (Geierlein) developed by a nice person, however the option to communicate with the government backend was shut down for free software (I'm simplifying a lot here, the whole storry is interesting and there's also the ORacle Java required issue etc. etc.).
Germany has since moved to a web based solution (Elster Online) so I can now happily run Linux everywhere. Personally I feel like all government software should be libre because it's paid for by the people so I don't see why it shouldn't be open to the people. At the very least they should provide a clear and freely usable API to communicate with servers for transmitting data.

Humerous sidenote I always thought it was kind of funny that the software is called Elster (magpie). At least someone in the government had a sense of humor.
In the readme of the project it indicates headers by which sites can opt out. But right after shows a flag by which the scrapers can ignore such headers. Seems like the author of this is basically telling everyone to deal with it.
There was a research in 2011 about using the accelerometer to log your keystrokes https://www.extremetech.com/internet/92946-a-wiggly-approach...
> And a stock buyback which does the “let’s pretend our stock is going up” trick. (IBM has been a master of this for years).

Not sure what trick you're referring to. Buybacks are the new dividends; they accomplish the same thing but in a more tax-efficient manner for investors.
> I'm uncomfortable with their data collection

Again, I have no idea what you mean by "their data collection". What data are they collecting and how specifically is it being used in an untrustworthy, and harmful way? Our interests are aligned to get to the bottom of how Tesla handles data, because I don't want to own a car that is spying on me and you want a world where the internet doesn't exist (only half tongue in cheek).

EDIT: Also just so you're aware, did you know the car part of a Tesla works entirely offline at 100% capacity? Did you know the infotainment system, hud, etc. software can crash and you remain in complete control and full operation of the vehicle while it restarts. If you went in an disconnected the LTE antenna you'd have a connection-less Tesla. The fact that Tesla has designed the car this way speaks just a little to the quality of their engineering. The car is more like a plane than you'd think.
I cant say that Im not interested in clever ways to draw power from the mouth, of which there are many cool options, but the reality is such that we wont really be able to address many of these features until we receive funding to support our growth so that we can dedicate an R&D team to tackle some of these tasks. Until then, our team count remains in the single digits.
Thanks for the patronizing answer to a question I didn't ask

The EU has no shortage of feedlots and zero-grazed cow herds, and yet has phased out routine administration of antibiotics without any noticeable reduction in the animals in these conditions.

Therefore...

I'm asking for a citation for your claim that it's not possible to keep animals alive in these conditions without the use of antibiotics

> If you aren't feeding cattle antibiotic in a CAFO where they're crowded, eating spent brewers grain (mostly from fuel production), and living in filth, then they will get sick and die
Perceived difficulty of upwind shouting is a a misconception
KubeCon: Five biggest trends from the Kubernetes love fest in Amsterdam
If even a portion of them chime the hour: the man is insane.
A few more degrees won't hurt anyone... I mean everyone.
Sure - at some point - there won't be enough atoms in the universe to store numbers large enough - but money is funny.

You can get 5% GDP growth without any actual growth by just devaluing dollars by 5% more than you measure inflation.

Theoretically, there's nothing stopping people from paying more money for monkey JPEGs indefinitely.

Physically, there's limits to how efficient things can get.
Indeed. Android currently lacks that feature but without it I don't feel confident in going completely plastic free.

Perhaps at some point batteries will get so good that running out of battery just won't be a concern any more.
Interesting paper.

I have a question about the claim in 6.2 that attention matrices are SPD, if you don't mind my asking.

It seems to me that accepting the empirical result that the eigenvalues are positive isn't enough to get a Fourier Transform interpretation. Specifically, I don't understand the assumption that all attention matrices are symmetric. (I'm sure you know that positive eigenvalues are not enough by themselves, but for other folks reading, [[1 1/2] [1/3 1]] is a simple concrete example.)

Consider Fig. 17 here: https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2018-06-24-attention/ (this is Fig.1 in Attention is all you need). I understand that you get symmetric attention matrices for the self-attention matrix in the input stream, as well as the masked attention matrix in the output stream (the first block). But I don't understand how you claim symmetry for the final attention mechanism that combines input and output.

And if you don't get symmetry, you don't get the Fourier Transform interpretation and all the nice algebra that follows.
Interesting they are doing a 20 mile radius on your current address. Wonder how that is going to fall out, its like rewarding people that moved away. Some of the commuter cities to SF would fall outside of that line (Lafayette, Walnut Creek, Pleasanton).
It's hard to envision the FiveThirtyEight brand without Nate Silver being involved in it. I know they are going to keep it going as a stats-driven site, but so much of it was built on Nate's original and unique approach to data.
Ok fair.
SQL injection is always possible with an ORM, since they always allow executing raw SQL as an escape hatch.
This happens in a lot of developing countries, but I'm surprised at SK. I've spent a lot of time in Mexico and Colombia. It's that way down there - antibiotics for everything.
"24 ads and other trackers from The Verge attempted to load on that page alone; usually much more if those are allowed to succeed."

None attempted to load with the browser I am using. I was able to read the text of the article and follow any links on the page no problem.

One could hope that "web developers" will stop accepting money in return for putting this garbage into pages. IMHO this is unlikely to happen.

Alternatively, for recreational web use, one can stop using the browsers that auto-load the garbage by default. I did this and has worked better and better for over 20 years.

The popular browsers supplied by so-called "tech" companies have many "features" but they do not allow users to disable auto-loading.
I feel exactly the same. Never been well-represented by the owl / lark dichotomy.
> Int.abs can return a negative number.

The documentation for abs[1] explains: "Warning. This may be negative if the argument is Int.min_int."

I think that's just the nature of two's complement and not necessarily a fault of OCaml. C++ is also like that[2].

[1] https://v2.ocaml.org/api/Int.html

[2] https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/34b3GbvvT