skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reasonable price is relative. Real CNC woodworkers cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and require a large commercial space with electric supply. The people who can afford those usually have plenty of work lined up for them. But that's not always the case.

Look around for small wood shops. My father owned one and had a Northwood with two 4x8 tables and 4 spindles. Mostly for in-house work but did a bunch of job shopping if someone came to him with decent drawings. A lot of work was one table so the other could be quickly setup for a one off.
Linus Pauling may have been the better chemist, but Francis Crick was better prepared to figure out the structure from that particular photograph.

The necessary analysis technique was first developed 2 years earlier, in a paper that Crick was the lead author on. Chance favors the prepared mind. And Crick was extremely well-prepared for this task.
> Where does the confidence to make this claim come from?

I have no idea, but I can give you a data point from my personal experience: about ten years ago we visited Rotorua in New Zealand, which promotes its geothermal activity as a tourist attraction [1]. We were told by the locals when we were there that the geothermal activity had reduced noticeably since a geothermal power plant was installed some years prior, resulting in controversy over the wisdom of having built it.

Rotorua's geothermal activity area is a lot smaller than Yellowstone, but as an anecdote it indicates that reducing the risk of eruption is not entirely implausible.

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[1] https://www.waiotapu.co.nz/
About 10 years into my career through a sequence of unforeseen events I ended up doing bioinformatics at a cancer center. I knew absolutely nothing about biology, but I knew quite a lot about programming and so it was a good fit for both sides. In that first year my notebook exceeded 400 pages (so much to learn). It was really fun and I'm glad I did it. It was an 80% pay cut though, so it wouldn't have been possible had I not had savings.

I am thrilled I did it. Now I do stuff that combines both skillsets. It feels like (potentially) more meaningful work.

I think even if it doesn't work out, it's easy to go back to what you were doing before and you'll probably be better at it, because you'll have some new perspectives. I say go for it.
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Ross Anderson on Software Obsolescence [audio]
This news will only appeal to very technically minded individuals, like the HN audience. Have you seen the average persons smart phone home screens or social media feeds? They don't care about privacy one bit. Its all about comfort and convenience.
I've put some thought into how cool it would be to have a feature similar to Notion databases within Obsidian; probably not integrated into the markdown document, but similar to their new Canvas feature, separate files next to markdown documents which map to SQLite databases with a standard schema that you can browse right within Obsidian. Feels like something an add-on could exist for, but doesn't; and/or I hope its something the Obsidian team is thinking about now that Canvases are shipped.
What’s the privacy issue with accelerometer?
That's so weird, when e-file could also just be "Go to irs.gov and upload your PDF". (Yes, I know it's not quite that simple, but... c'mon.)
If this increases net productivity (relative to salaries, not hours worked), why aren't lots of companies doing it?
I reached a point where I treat anything from substack the same way I treat I links from medium; assume the content is crap and / or useless and move on. Which is a pity, I know, but I simply don't have time to find the rare gems in all the useless "content".
A general neuropsychopathological factor underlying many mental illnesses
But then you died from a minor cut you got while building that house, and before that you buried most of your young children. A life spent assembling IKEA may not be the best life, but it sure beats that.
How come MS announces their Q3 earnings (2022) at the same time Google announces their Q1 (2023) earnings. That's a six month difference, how does that work?
> They didn't sell nearly enough shares.

This doesn't seem to be right. From Matt Levine:

>On Jan. 20, Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. had about 117.3 million shares of common stock outstanding; the stock closed that day at $3.35 per share. On March 27, it had about 428.1 million shares outstanding, at $0.7881 each. On April 10, it had 558.7 million shares outstanding, at $0.2961 each. Yesterday, April 23, when it filed for bankruptcy, it had 739,056,836 shares outstanding. 1 The stock closed at $0.2935 on Friday.

https://archive.is/PXnpB

Seems like they sold as much as possible, enough to crater the stock, but not save the company.
I have been keeping an eye on Flix. Thanks to you and rest of the Flix team for working on a bold but practical language. I wish you success. I think Flix is one of the most promising languages in the ML family. (Do you consider it an ML?) I love that it has embedded Datalog.

I know it is pre-1.0, but I would still like to ask about adoption. Are there notable third-party open source projects in Flix yet? By "third-party" I mean created outside of Aarhus University and the University of Waterloo.
Although (at least the right) stone is almost certainly a pretty good answer in general. There are plenty of historical examples and I'm skeptical that anything else exposed to the elements would do better. And if not exposed to the elements that feels like cheating.
The best part of this comment is the confidence!

Is it any surprise that LLMs trained over internet comments are wrong with a similar confidence?
MSFT is worth about $700B more so should be expected.
So if the ship's planks were replaced by carbon fibre and the ropes by composites, is it not the same ship?
It's common both to own an apartment and rent a single-family house? I'm probably missing some US cultural assumptions.
Most people in the US don't have any rent control, not even controls for percentage increase year to year.

When I was renting, I could expect a 10-15% increase year to year. With the current average apartment cost being $1700, that can mean paying an additional $500-$800 per month after 3 years. At that point it becomes worth it to look elsewhere.
How is any of this legal if it wasn’t overtly spelled out in a TOS or user agreement to use the chipset? I hope some legal privacy advocates are ready to take this to court if it’s as bad as everyone is saying it is. Thoughts?
Can't even avoid spyware web services at the hardware level now.
This is really gross.

Edit: I've long since sink-holed `izatcloud.net`, and have seen countless look up to this subdomain for the duration of ownership of a Pixel 4a (running GrapheneOs).

How long has this been going on for?
I think a broader issue is that, after the purchase, those decently-well-paid Intuit employees would now be paid according to federal government salary bands, and many of them -- likely many who are critical to the operation of the company -- would quit and find a better-paying job.
It is true that currying looks comparatively awful in Rust. But that is not because Rust uses parentheses and commas. A hypothetical C-style language could use dedicated syntax for currying, like

some_long_ass_function_name(some_quirky_parameter, ..)

which would be more readable without giving up on punctuation.
> unidiomatic OCaml

> You don’t write tuples without parentheses

> Same for the precedence rules of expression. You just use begin and end for blocks

This is exactly what I wrote, but in a Stockholm-syndrome-y way.

> The author is just complaining that you have to mark blocks like in every language.

He points out a real ambiguity in the syntax where the parser literally parses the same-looking and same-behaving statements completely differently.

Sure it's solved by "you just write begin-end" workaround that you internalise. Or it could be solved at the syntax level (like erlang and elixir)
>The complicated bits are opportunities to pay less on taxes.

Or requirements to pay more.
How many landings succeeded?

Then do percent successes vs failures, broken down as government and commercial.

Then ask why's only commercial landing the tricky part?

It's not like these people are stupid, nor like they haven't had multiple decades to learn from plus the state of the art.

Three in a row is as weird to
me as if there were seven in a row. All only commercial, while govt landed fine.

Would you think that odd too?
And why is it assumed that living in apartment is renting?
They are the same quarters, as per the article -> "Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended March 31, 2023,"

Microsoft is just using a different year definition.
Well I don't see how that's wrong. They are a popular way for businesses to promote their goods and services. A city may be a popular tourist destination, just not for those that live in it. Same principle.
> This blog post is clearly an ad for NitroPhone

Thanks - somehow I completely glossed over that possibility. This kind of biased rage bait has no place in privacy stories.
Some companies start counting from January, others from July
same time frame, their fiscal years just start at different times, so one's Q1 is the other's Q3
ONCE AND FOR ALL
You would have loved filemaker back in the day.
For a devs sake - and before I go ask my new AI overlord - what is a good rule of thumb re: indexing? My naive assumption has always just been that if its a column you utilize to filter a lot of your queries, and youre unhappy with current perf, index it. Examples would be datetime columns (if sorting serverside) and columns like TenantId, UserEmail, etc.
'Some people will quit over this decision’
I think company can chose their fiscal year dates, in this case MS fiscal year started somewhere in the end of summer 22.
Selling furniture on Craigslist is a nightmare in most places and hardly worth doing unless you're really desperate for cash. Buyers will nickel-and-dime you, ask for free delivery, flake on scheduled meetings, show up without enough cash, maybe even try to rob you.
I'm reading this as, I should develop some kind of "sovereign" tech or consultancy company then rake in tons of govt contracts like this.
>> “The AI’s will get to that ability, to be as good a tutor as any human ever could,” Gates said in a keynote talk

Very likely. But it's still not human. Interacting and being with humans is always going to be different. Getting positive affirmations from a bot vs an actual human, knowing an actual person is putting their time for you .... things like that which are vague but real. Efficiency is not the only metric of success.

Yes, it would be cheaper to use bots, but I would still want to live in (and build) a world that aims to connect humans together and keep them apart.
FOIA requests take time, though. Financial institutions usually haven't sent in all their data on everyone until February or March; you wouldn't get your information back in time to file your tax return in April.
Companies start their fiscal years at different points in the year and name the years differently.

Some companies name their quarters based on the calendar year that the fiscal year starts in, some do it based on when fiscal year ends.

It probably matters to people in finance, but I'm not sure it matters to anyone else.
US bias. Sorry, should have clarified that in my comment.
There are people on this forum using ChatGPT as a therapist[1]. If someone technical who's aware of the risks is fine with it, what makes you think nontechnical users who are already fine with social media would think twice about doing that? Even if they were aware of it, they just wouldn't care. Same as today.

LLMs will become an even bigger part of our everyday lives than social media is today. It would be naive to think adtech won't monetize that in the most insidious ways imaginable. Advertising, uh... finds a way.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35302305
But if you buy, it would be more common to buy an apartment than a house, no? At least in European cities. Which would counter the assumption of short-term apartment living.
And also ChatGPT hasn't made any significant headway into taking over Google's businesses?
bob epstein was vp at brittion-lee when he left to form sybase.
BLI built a relational database machine (IDM), which was influenced by ingres but not much was inherited, code wise. sybase used a VM/pcode architecture, very much not like ingres.

https://www.google.com/search?q=britton+lee+inc+wikipedia
> I ended up spending most of my time configuring systems and formatting than actually inputting information & accomplishing things.

I end up feeling this way about a lot of “productivity” tools like notion, obsidian, and ESPECIALLY Arch browser. I don’t want to have to learn how to use a tool that I’m using to do something fundamental like visit websites or take notes. Give me the barest abstraction possible over these features.

Do not ask me to make extra decisions to do basic things like open a tab (decide between 3 levels of ephemeral and how it relates to other tabs). And don’t automatically close shit on some arbitrary schedule which can’t be disabled!
Who actually wants the same furniture for life though? People move houses often. In my state the average length of a 15/30 year mortgage is 5 years, meaning the homeowner either refinances or sells and moves to another home.

New home means new furniture, and if the old furniture doesn’t fit the new home’s style then sorry, it’s out and something else replaces it.

The idea of people living in the same house for 30-50 years is dead. IKEA understands this, so they create furniture that lasts the average length of a mortgage.
Typically as a company you can choose your fiscal year, it does not need to align with the calendar year.
The established norm is that scrapers have to download robots.txt and support the standard robots.txt features, notably including `Crawl-Delay` which sets a rate limit. This is the established standard by which websites tell scrapers what the rules are for scraping them.

This tool is scraping sites, it has webmasters reporting actual disruption, it doesn't have robots.txt support. When people complained (eg in https://github.com/rom1504/img2dataset/issues/48), the author's stance was basically "PRs welcome". It looks like a third party recently contributed a PR to make it respect robots.txt (https://github.com/rom1504/img2dataset/pull/302), albeit without `Crawl-Delay` support, which is not merged yet.

I have seen the same thing with other recent AI tools (eg https://github.com/m1guelpf/browser-agent/issues/2) and I think it's important to defend the robots.txt convention and nip this in the bud. If a bot doesn't make a reasonable effort to respect robots.txt and it causes disruption, it's a denial-of-service attack and should be treated as such. No excuses.
You forgot the part where people use their home equity as a revolving line of credit, which exacerbates #2.
The Kraken Wakes – when games start talking back
Well it is a subsidiary of an American company...
People who live in apartments in the US tend to move to another apartment frequently, either to get a better unit, to avoid a sharp rent increase, or to move to another neighborhood. We moved 7 times over a 20 year span.
The first product in Lithuania: https://www.ikea.lt/lt/products/miegamasis/komodos/komodos/h...

Latvia: https://www.ikea.lv/lv/products/gulamistaba/kumodes/kumodes/...

Estonia: https://www.ikea.ee/en/products/bedroom/chests-of-drawers/ch...

The Rast and Björksnäs ones are also available, but not the Tarva one.
Fiscal year.

> A fiscal year is a one-year period that companies and governments use for financial reporting and budgeting. A fiscal year is most commonly used for accounting purposes to prepare financial statements. Although a fiscal year can start on Jan. 1 and end on Dec. 31, not all fiscal years correspond with the calendar year. [1] [2]

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fiscalyear.asp

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_year
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This headline doesn't describe the story. UC is admitting a more sociogeographically diverse mix of students. Very unmeritocratic.
> unless you live only in Google land for everything

You mean like, 99% of Android users?

It's the fringe that use de-googled-yet-still-android phones - not the norm.

If you're into Android, Pixel is a great offering.
How would you feel if this was not a cushy white collar tech job but a blue collar job involving physical labor? Say people are slacking, not working hard, generally being lazy, while a small group does the majority of the work? Would it be acceptable to care then? I don't see how its any different. Remote work has given the underperformers somewhere to hide, and quite frankly, its not going to help them in the long term.
Check the charts again, the new lending vehicles to banks just wiped out half the QT that we had gained last year.

Set the chart to a 1yr scale: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL

You'll see our QT was already paltry to begin with compared with the total balance sheet, now we're close to our ATH again.

Prices are the result of years of strong printing (since 2008) ballooning our cash vs asset ratio compared with what it was in the 90's or 00's. It takes time for the economy to react, but we certainly had a bull run decade since the printing started.

In 2018 they started the same slow sell off of assets, but then quickly surpassed it during the 2020 lockdown printing.
This is the privacy lens I view these issue through as well
The US do not spend this out of their generous hearts. This buys them power and control over Europe. They do that for themselves (of course, all countries look after themselves)
It’s the same ship except it’s not a wooden vessel anymore.
Ad revenue seems flat, it's likely paying interest for the overgrowth during the pandemic period. At the moment, Google looked like afraid of the unforeseen level of recession so it put all the tricks to pull all the short-term revenue stream. Ironically, it was completely reverse; combining this to overflowing money in the market led it to the crazy level of growth (66% YoY? are you serious?). The real question would be whether Google can match its growth to inflation rates after this adjustment.
Ikea is perhaps the ultimate YMMV brand.

I have a sofa I bought in 2005. I keep thinking I'll replace it after my next move, but even after several since then, it barely shows a fraction of its age (though I will admit a lack of kids or pets has likely helped).

I also bought an ottoman at some point after the sofa. It never looked great to start with, and I threw it out before the first move.

I have a desk of similar vintage to the sofa. I'm typing at it right now. I think I've been in offices with contract-grade furniture less durable than it.

I bought two different Ikea dressers over the years. One I didn't bother taking with me on the first move; the other is still holding up great several moves later.
> As an explanation, there are two different things called "Apple Pay" in the US.
One is the use of the secure element/wallet in an iPhone/watch to store an EMV card that is tokenized. The other is the Apple branded credit card issued by Goldman Sachs.

You're incorrect about the 2nd. The 2nd "thing" is called Apple Card - most people know the difference.

I haven't been refused Apple Pay (ie, EMV) almost anywhere in the US unless that place simply only accepts cash.
Accusing Google of missing out on LLMs is shortsighted, in my opinion. They were the ones who invented the entire LLM infrastructure, and they publicly released their own chat LLM just a few months after OpenAI. It's actually quite impressive to me that a company of this ridiculous size is able to pivot and execute so quickly when needed.

And let's be realistic. Had Google been the first to introduce a publicly accessible chat LLM, all the regulators that were already concerned about Google being too powerful would have intensified their calls for antitrust action against Google.

Also recall that Google was not the first to ship a modern smartphone OS and it took them years to achieve a similar quality to iOS, but now they dominate the worldwide smartphone OS market.
You're responding in literal terms about a Tesla to an analogy about the Qualcomm 5G chips
Neat, thanks for elaborating, I knew BLI grew out of the ingres project but not how closely they were related.
Surprised he found the time to steal them all.
No problem, I'm indeed not from US so I was just confused for a moment there.
Not necessarily. Remember that cheaper to make often also means less resource intensive. Some IKEA products are little more than very well engineered and carefully packaged cardboard without looking like it (the LACK table, for example, but also the newer wardrobe doors).

Sending it to the local waste-to-energy plant and buying new stuff, three times, doesn't necessarily have to be meaningfully worse for the environment than buying "solid" stuff once, then moving it twice over a long distance (in a relatively inefficient, one-off move rather than large-scale logistics).
That looks like a bot with a bad past imo :).
Good points, and I really appreciate your work. You are addressing a real problem.

I'm simply skeptical that someone who can make use of Claude (or any LLM) for data analysis is in need of making use of it. Let's hope I'm too pessimistic here.
I'm seeing a ton lately down here in the south. As soon as someone rides in one they just get a big grin on their face. It's something new and exciting. I would never buy one because they make no sense financially or practically. But, if you are into pavement queens, which a heckuva lot of people are, then it's a deal.
The underlying data structure is really just a list of typed elements. But the interface is also hiding this pretty well, to the point that it becomes a bit messy on the corners, making it hard for new users. Trello in that regard is significant cleaner in its representation, but also more limited.
But then you had to endure everyone calling you zucchini.
Their "real wood" stuff, at least here in Poland, seems to be made from very soft wood, most likely pine (90%+ of forests in Poland are pine). The dark variants (pretending to be exotic wood I guess) are just pine with a dark coloring. When the pine gets nicked, which happens often because it's so soft, its natural color comes out, and sticks out on an otherwise dark furniture like a sore thumb.
I think the OP is splitting hairs. I'd say that they are just as much different letters in German, from which the word "Umlaut" comes.
One is replaced with the other in word inflections. For instance, the noun "Land" is "Länder" in plural — both in German and Swedish.

But what the two dots are not: they are definitely not diaeresis.