skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's somewhere in between. I know of second hand stories where folks were unintentionally strung along by the IRS. They'd get a notice that they underpaid by $X and it had been Y days with Z% interest being applied. So they send in a check. They get back another notice that their payment was received but the amount due had increased due to interest in the interim so a small balance still remained. Back and forth a few times until finally the person overpays significantly just to end the whole drama until the IRS finally sends a refund.

Is this the end of the world? No. It is stupid, stressful, and potentially ruinous given the economic reality that huge swaths of people can't sustain a surprise bill (outdated and likely worse by now: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/20/heres-why-so-many-americans-...).

Now, the cohorts who can't absorb a surprise tax bill likely fall into two camps: unlikely to be hit with a surprise tax bill - their taxes just aren't complicated enough, they don't earn much, etc. But at the same time, surprise 'income' like debt forgiveness can still hurt people.
I'm fairly sure they're just static files
Apple removes original Bitcoin whitepaper from the latest macOS Ventura beta
> what the reward / punishment system really equates to

Well, in the article, it says the punishment was a slap. On the other hand, he just says "she gives you a wonderful reward"... so you're left to use your imagination there.
I wouldn't be surprised if we get a sufficiently human-transmissible avian flu pandemic within the decade, given how many non-avians the current strain has been killing in addition to birds.
> In this case, specifically, what you're claiming is pretty outrageous and, if true, sounds like something I should take more seriously too.

I have made no specific claims, I think. If I did, they were unintentional. What I'm claiming is more general: that in the tech industry, data collection on users has been so widely abusive that I am not comfortable trusting any company with data collection by default. Specific companies can earn my trust, of course. No car company has done that, therefore I trust none of them with my data.

Is this the claim you're referring to?

> But honestly it just sounds more like you're saying "yuck Tesla, I wouldn't trust them to build a respectful product"

I do not intend to be singling Tesla out except insofar as Tesla (as I understand it) engages in more data collection than other car manufacturers. That said, I'm a bit more suspicious of Tesla just because of Musk. Not a lot more suspicious, but some.

> while ignoring the fact that you're likely posting this from a smartphone

I'm not. But I also have mentioned here that when my current smartphone dies, I won't be replacing it with another -- specifically because it's become so difficult to render them safe that it absorbs too much of my time and energy. That makes the cost/benefit of a smartphone too unfavorable for my tastes.

But with the smartphone I currently have, I do not use it for very much online stuff -- certainly not for web browsing -- anyway, because of safety concerns.
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Well if you wanted to support the idea of paying for your product, you could totally decide to limit Kagi to 10$/month, and switching back to a free (as in "you are the product") alternative when your credit is finished.

Now I'm expecting you to potentially say "I would pay 10$, but I refuse to have to go through the trouble of changing my default search engine twice a month", which brings me an idea:

Actually Kagi should maybe offer that option: after you're done with your monthly credit, they redirect everything to the free engine of your choice. That would provide an easy way for people to support them with the amount they are willing to pay, without having to change anything in their setup.

EDIT: already suggested: https://kagifeedback.org/d/512-automatically-redirect-search...
In C and C++, abs(INT_MIN) is undefined behavior. (C17 §7.22.6.1: “The abs, labs, and llabs functions compute the absolute value of an integer j. If the result cannot be represented, the behavior is undefined.” Footnote: “The absolute value of the most negative number cannot be represented in two’s complement.”)
I am not even sure if he is trolling or not.
Hacker News is not a monolithic entity.
As a customer, this sounds incredibly dystopian. Even the current "if-else" chatbots are frustrating to the point of rage. Having an LLM spout lies at me isn't making the customer experience better.
How would the server even know the client’s location? By IP address? That would make GPS work poorly when using a VPN or a wireless network with unusual routing.

edit: y’all are reading this backwards. My point is that the Qualcomm server does not know the location of the client and therefore cannot usefully send anything other than a static file.
Some oil is easier/cheaper to extract and could be sold for less if it were sufficient to meet demand.

(Instead, right now that oil is just more profitable to extract as the consumer price pays for extracting even the more expensive oil.)
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That's like a trick question given that interview questions typically want the opposite.
it's not their billboard, they're posting on someone else's billboard

it's not their office, they're posting on someone else's office

the town square, if there is to be an electronic analogy, doesn't belong to them, and if there isn't, belongs to the website
Ask HN: Should one inform interviewer of a technical question already seen?
And similarly, should one report a final exam question already seen (e.g., in a book while preparing for the exam)?
I have the /e/OS Fairphone 4 and the battery life is pretty good. To be fair, I've only owned the smaller versions (Galaxy Mini) and non-flagship phones before, so this one is quite a bit bulkier in comparison. With my low usage, over a year after purchase the battery still lasts for multiple days. My previous phones I used to charge every night, anyway.
Not at all. It's literally just a more tax-efficient dividend. Everyone does it these days. Companies that are failing can't afford it; you can only do these when you have excess cash.
Well, the studies I was summarizing basically take that into account. The raw tree mass itself is both a) not that big and b) renewed, as you say, by decomposition.

Really the purpose of forests is more in terms of soil creation and preservation, as you point out, a lot of the times in the form of shrubs, leaves, or needles and downed wood being infiltrated into substrate.
Boom of intangible assets felt across industries and economy
No, they're not saying there are no possible alternatives. They're saying there are no better ones. Different claim.
I have a wayfair MDF desk that has moved 4 times with me and is still in amazing shape, so YMMV.
I read it as meaning at least 1,000 years. Modern humans started living in caves in Europe about 100,000 years ago, and their cave-houses still exist. So, if your house is also a cave you should be able to get at least that.

If they want the house to last for exactly 1,000 years then I'm not sure what to tell you. Maybe something based on the milleneum clock? Or explosives and a really long fuse, Wile E Coyote style?
Not really. Youtubers with sponsors sell this daft idea that you "need" a lot of power tools to do woodwork, but you can do most of it quite precisely with a couple of hand saws, a good chisel and a block plane. Though by the time you've replaced all the particleboard in a Billy you may as well just make a new bookcase from scratch and give it proper joints.
Based on my experience interviewing people I don't agree with that either.
IP packets should not be sent or received behind our backs, and certainly firmware should not be bypassing the operating system to do this.

Whether it is useful for A-GPS does not matter. It must be done on top of the operating system or not done at all.
Most of the US fleet is now commercial as well, and they're doing plenty of science on NASA's behalf. This is the future. Or we'd be stuck with one SLS launch every decade instead.
Wait until you hear about earth after the core gets cold.
> Huge reduction in food expenses from having time to cook at home.

Most people already cook most of their food at home, regardless of whether they have children.
Which authors wrote about contour drawing?

>Contour drawing is a technique used in art and design to help artists see the subject they are observing or imagining more clearly, and to create drawings that capture its three-dimensional form. Many famous artists have written about contour drawing and have shared their insights and techniques with others through books and other publications. Here are some well known artists who wrote about contour drawing:

>Kimon Nicolaides - He was an American artist who wrote the book "Dynamic Symmetry: The Greek Vision" where he discussed the importance of visualizing shapes as a series of connected circles and curves and using this knowledge when creating works of art.

>Andrew Loomis - An American illustrator and author who wrote several books on art instruction, including "Figure Drawing for All It's Worth". In his writing, he emphasizes the use of contour lines to accurately depict the human figure and encourages students to think carefully about how each line contributes to the overall impression of volume and gesture.

>Alphonse Legros - A French painter, etcher, sculptor and professor who taught at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1876 to 1893. In his book "A Sketcher's Guide," he discusses the importance of learning to observe objects in terms of simple geometric forms such as cylinders, cones, and spheres before moving onto the process of refinement.
>Michelangelo - Italian Renaissance sculptor, architect, painter, and poet considered one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance. His treatise called "The Creation of Adam", included discussion of visual representation and the role of contours in creating volumes and depth relationships between elements within a composition.

It's correct about Nicolaides - except that it doesn't mention the right text, "The Natural Way to Draw", and then it goes downhill from there. I can at least believe that Loomis mentions contour(I'm not going to check) but the rest are highly plausible falsehoods.
Microsoft's fiscal year is split on the calendar. Their fiscal goes from July 1 - June 30. IOW, it's currently in FY'23... FY'24 starts July 1, 2023.
It has anonymity, not for illicit finance, but for privacy.

You judge this as being conditional.

We don't.
I don't understand what you're saying. How is it failing? What signal, what lesson?
>But in any case I never specified 'standard warranty' only 'a warranty'.

I am not even sure if you are trolling or not. There is not such thing as Standard Warranty or Warranty. You either specify AppleCare+. Or you have Standard Warranty of One year.

>The standard warranty is not 1 year in all countries.

Standard on All Apple products as commonly known. And cases of extensions in EU are via Law. You are the one who have the prove yourself. And you have not done so.

>Anyone can verify this via a quick search.

And if you can do a quick search why not post a link ?
> If one spouse stays home, it’s not much more to have multiple from a day to day perspective.

Sure, if you're the one working. Even with both of us watching our kids at the same time, it's still exhausting to keep up with them. The hardest days of my week are Saturday and Sunday.
Generally the colloquial way to refer to an owned unit is as a "condo" whereas an "apartment" is assumed to be renting

It's more complicated than that but it's basically how it works in normal conversation
MMA fighters are often asked in interviews about techniques for real street fights. The answer is always to sucker puck then gouge the eyes and throat.

BJJ is well suited for the octagon. Allow small joint manipulation and most of the technique goes out the window.
> Advanced math is mostly useless because of the dimensionality of neural nets.

It depends what you mean by advanced math. There is a lot of math that only really comes into play because of the high dimensionality! For example math related to tensor wrangling, low rank approximations, spectral theory, harmonic theory, matrix calculus derivatives, universality principles, and other concepts that could be interesting or bewildering or horrifying depending how you react to it. Of course some of it is only linear algebra of the 'just high school math' kind but that's not how I would normally describe it. If you look at the math in the proofs in the appendices of the more technical AI papers on arxiv there is often some weird stuff in there, not just matrix multiply and softmax.
What does this offer that basic dependent typing doesn't?
Great tool, I just signed up, was only able to test the simulation feature (portfolio not working).

I like the simplicity of choosing Stocks/ETF or crypto. Would be great if you can select which ETFs are chosen in the portfolio (vs having automatic assignment).

The list metrics (ex: Holding 2 years ago) shown right after the simulation can use a "i" button explaining what each metric means.

Is the simulation based on "buying 2 years ago and not reselling" or using some kind of DCA?
Growth doesn't require increased energy usage at all.

To the contrary, if you figure out a way to manufacture the same widget X but using 25% less energy, that's economic growth.

Long-term economic growth is primarily a phenomenon of increasing human efficiency which is enabled mainly via improved education which leads to ongoing technological progress.

Sure we need energy to heat our homes and grow our food and power our transportation and build our phones and so forth, but those needs are not growing exponentially whatsoever. Homes in the developed world, for example, are becoming more energy efficient rather than less.
I mean most people I know google "gmail" instead of typing "gmail.com" but I cannot see how this is an argument for being considered primarily a search box and not autocompleting "gmail.com", if anything kind of the opposite and all this is ridiculous.
I just love simplicity in markdown files plus linux tools.

And for sync: obsidian.

And that’s it. It’s just perfect.
this is really good feedback. thanks for this.

for now, I have created this GitHub Issue for adding support for exclusions: https://github.com/fahad19/featurevisor/issues/60
Maybe NitroKey are surfacing something useful and potentially concerning, but they way they do it is so cheap that it completely turns me off their brand. It’s a bunch of negativity-hype with a “so buy our phone” tacked on.

If you handed a Nitrophone to any competent security researcher, I bet they’d find a ton of issues. Same with the NitroKey; that feature list is far too extensive to not have issues.
They don't talk about cost. I really want to know how much energy a good LLM-fueled game is going to use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo
I think we're seeing the consequences of not having a properly regulated field that you might see another more strongly regulated engineering disciplines such as electrical and mechanical.

Since there is no CS equivalent of a professional engineering exam, employers have no guarantees that applicants will meet minimal qualifications, and so we continue to see an arms race of increasingly complicated whiteboard / leetcode interview processes.
You don't need neural networks to do polynomial regression. Polynomial regression, perhaps surprisingly, can be implemented using only (multivariable) linear regression. You just include powers of your predictor x as terms in the regression formula:

y = a + bx + cx^2 + dx^3 + ...

The resulting model is linear, even though there are powers of x in your formula. Because x and y are known from the data. They're not what you're solving for, you're solving for the unknown coefficients (a, b, c, d...). This gives you a linear system of equations in those unknown coefficients, which can be solved using standard linear least squares methods.

So fitting polynomials is easy. The problem is that it's not that useful. Deep learning has to solve much harder problems to get to a useful model.
There is no private data in the request. The request is HTTP and authors could have analyzed them and discovered there is nothing in them. Instead, they published a list of things that Qualcomm privacy policy could include.
> It was theirs at some point.

Was it?

How far are you willing to go? To the Kingdom of Hawaii, created when a brutal monarch united the islands? Or to the previous era of warring chiefdoms?

> Nowadays, Hawaii is basically a colony of the USA.

This is such a BS. Hawaii is a full US state.
You're welcome. Like I said, "800 years of making weapons" seems to be a myth.
Pixel phones are pretty damn good. My last 3 phones have all been Pixels. And they have damn good cameras/image AI, often coming in #1 for image quality (yes, above the iPhone). I use my phone for taking photographs a LOT, to the point that I barely even get out my mirrorless anymore, so photo quality is hugely important to me. And Google Photos is best in class as well.
Oh, from the context I assumed GP was listing general, pervasive trends from the 2000s.
> The people who were hyping it said it will be the next major currency.

Why do you think this prospect have failed? Do you think such a huge shift on the reserve global currency would happen in just 10 years? In the meantime, the market is pricing the likelihood of this scenario with increasing optimism.
Mycroft/OVOS Smartspeaker GUI developer has left the building
The main developer on the OpenVoiceOS and OVOS GUI and MycroftAI project has left the building
no, it is not splitting hairs.

You don't think of "y" being "u" with an Umlaut. For you this is a completely seperate letter. Ditto with ÄÖÅ im Swedish and ÆØÅ in Danish (Æ is never thought of as combined A and E).
Would you hire a stadia employee or a search employee?
> 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.

I'm focused here on tons of CO₂ per mile driven. After a century of eeking out improvements in ICE efficiency, it's still far below what we're doing with EVs. Unless you think the Freevalve is going to literally double efficiency, it's not a replacement for electric cars.

Only in the most extreme places in the US (West Virginia, Wyoming, Missouri) does the EV advantage start to wane. And even in those places, it still beats gasoline!

Burning coal for the electricity gets you 66%. Line losses and charging losses can cut that in half, and you're still beating the gasoline by a huge margin. Especially if you also ignore the costs of extracting, refining, and transporting all that fuel.
LLMs could really be a big deal for particularly their Bing market share though. They've managed to put themselves right in the path of a huge industry shift, and it is fantastic for Microsoft's future.

Google by contrast is looking at a sinking market share because they've missed the boat so hard and managed to continuously embarrass themselves by rushing out half-baked presentations and products.
I remember times when everything was cholesterol free. I even started joking I am buying cholesterol free gasoline.
This isn't the place for product announcements like this. If you'd like to share your service, submit it to "Show HN".
OpenAI is ahead at the moment, nobody's disputing that. But if anyone is able to challenge OpenAI's supremacy in that space, it's Google.

And if LLMs will indeed be the revolution that some make them out to be, and Google is able to capture 70+% market share within a few years as they were able with mobile OSes, that's not a bad place to be in.
Scratch that, you can't use spaces at all.
I agree with your assessment about Google's predicament and their laurel-resting-on, but I think it's a little early to say they're about to "get murdered". I don't see evidence from these earnings that ChatGPT has meaningfully hurt their search traffic, and it's been two quarters. If the murder is in progress then it doesn't show, and if the murder is yet to come then I think they still have plenty of time to react -- thoughtfully and carefully, I hope.
Yes to liberal arts, absolutely, but it’s not liberal arts that’s trying to stick its oar in to the place of science in society. It’s made up bullshit ‘social science’ that’s one step away from parapsychology and crystal healing.

Liberal arts is a natural ally and fellow traveller with science and technology. In fact much of early science grew out of liberal arts endeavours. Geometry from sculpture and perspective in art and architecture. Chemistry from developing pigments for painting.
Perhaps it has to do with Koreans eating kimchi, which are high in probiotics (compared to food in typical western diet)?

Antibiotics would wipe out much of the bacteria in your gut, providing space for deadly bacteria to colonize the gut. But kimchi's probiotics would repopulate the gut bacteria to reduce the chances for deadly bacteria to grow.

Does your wife eat a lot of kimchi?
Wow what is this and why does it have that vaguely petrichor-like scent of vaporware?
Those 40,000 - 60,000 "residences" are not necessarily available or even occupy-able. And the number of homeless is very like an under-estimate[0].

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xZXdXxYBGU
Yes, they waited until the share price was close to 0 to start selling rather than when it spiked to 20. Note the dates in what you quoted versus their stock chart.

If they had actually sold earlier when the stock was largely mispriced to the upside, they may have been able to turn it around. Good capital management is raising money when you dont need it in preparation for time that you do… not panic selling as your stock is already on the verge of bankruptcy.

My commentary was exactly that. That companies should raise when their stock is fundamentally overvalued. There are hundreds of companies out there that sure wished they had raised in 2021. Many of them are likely to follow in BBBY’s footsteps

Really poor execution by CFOs across the board. I think a combination of being overly optimistic, plus personal incentives against lowering the share price in the short term (Stock based comp, board may be short term oriented and decide to fire you, etc).
Obsidian's rabbit hole is hidden in the extensions, which are going far deeper than Notion extension-options. It's really such a shame that Notion has no local native extension-ability.
Roughly half (even in the US!) our current system is built around something other than profit - i.e. the government directed part of the economy.
The author didn't address the list of things the devices allegedly sent when downloading A-GPS files, from the original article:

1. Unique ID

2. Chipset name

3. Chipset serial number

5. XTRA software version

6. Mobile country code

7. Mobile network code (allowing identification of country and wireless operator)

8. Type of operating system and version

9. Device make and model

10. Time since the last boot of the application processor and modem

11. List of the software on the device

12. IP address
Have you seen Lenny? It's a much lower tech solution that seems to work quite well.

https://lennytroll.com/
I'd hire whichever one did better on the interview. Stadia had excellent engineers working on it and the product itself was technically amazing.