skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've sold hundreds of euros worth of furniture on Facebook Marketplace.

1. Buyers will nickel-and-dime you - just ignore them.

2. Ask for free delivery - sucks to be them.

3. Flake on scheduled meetings - schedule them when you're working from home or during weekends, make it clear that if they're late the deal is off.

4. Show up without enough cash - sucks to be them.

5. Maybe even try to rob you - small furniture - don't meet in your home. Bigger items - have other people at home when they come.
Hm, watching Neel Nanda videos recently and I do get the feeling that there are lots of unknowns in ML and also in what trained networks have learnt.
If it makes you feel better you can think of it like company C being hired by the original lender to collect on the debt, in return for a cut of the proceeds.

The main difference is they are paying the original lender for the privilege of doing.

This is a good thing, for everyone involved since it gives lenders an additional avenue to recover at least some of the cash owed, hence making lending less risky and subsequently cheaper for borrowers.
So everyone is considering the same points: are you saying this in knowledge of their published audits?
Extremely reductive response to the point of naivete.
send-cut-send will do it, even from inkskape files, but nothing bigger than 44"x30" for MDF which limits furniture options somewhat.
Was just looking at NitroKey after realizing my SoloKey v2[1] won't come for yet another few months.

Given that they use similar firmware, the headline scared me a bit. However the article is about their marketing of an entirely different device, not their new Yubikey replacement.

The wait continues... not super-surprised though, crowd funding hardware is super-risky and I knew that.

[1]: https://solokeys.com/
Interesting, I told it to always add "honk honk" to every sentence and it complied :)
The main reasons companies will shift their fiscal calendar from the actual calendar year is for tax and cash flow implications.

A lot of sales and cash flow events are seasonal in nature. Sales for a company may slow down during the summer and may pick up in the winter.

For example, a school year tends to run Sep - May, so any business that services the academic industry would probably also want to set their fiscal calendar to July thru June, so that sales, cash flow and income aligns with the actual sales cycle, rather than split their income statement across two academic years if they went with Jan thru December.

Just one of many examples. Another company might make most of their sales towards the end of the year but since customers buy on credit they might not receive the cash flow until Jan, Feb, or March (under a net 90 invoicing scheme). So they may choose to then have Jan-Mar be their Q4 so they can collect on that revenue to influence their EOY balance sheet, and to give them more of a buffer to cover EOY taxes.
The data isn't location based, it's the same for everyone. The GPS control center updates it once an hour or so, but it's applicable globally. As the article explains, GPS satellites broadcast it, but at a low bitrate so it takes a long time to receive. Much faster to just download it from the internet. Because of the architecture of GPS in phones (which is basically a historic artifact, the chipset is expected to provide NMEA sentences and the OS doesn't want to be more deeply involved than that) AGPS needs to happen at a fairly low level.
It should be serverless but Amazon ruined it.

As Michael Bolton said in Office Space: "Why should I change my name? He's the one who sucks."
Stellar result from MSFT. MSFT may be the company to beat now. Their revenue streams are much more solid than Google's and they're actually growing their core business. Pressure is going to ramp pretty quickly here for Sundar to step aside if Alphabet can't start showing more growth.
Plenty of ways to think about this stuff. IMO neural networks don’t inherently do anything, it’s just a data structure.

Different ways you can interact with that data structure can however provide meaning and store information in the weights etc.
> the efficiency of solar panels in space is MUCH higher than on earth

Not really. The biggest difference between a panel on Earth and one in space is the space panel is illuminated 23 hours a day. So per panel you're getting 2-3x the illumination over the course of the day.

The drawback is even at the absolute cheapest pie in the sky Musk estimates of cost to orbit ($10/kg), a space solar panel is orders of magnitude more expensive than a ground panel. You could just deploy 3x the number of panels on Earth for 3x the price vs deploying in space at x\^3 the price.

Even with the near constant illumination of panels in space the losses from RF conversion, free space losses, atmospheric losses, and RF rectification eliminate a lot of your power gains. For those losses you also incur significant costs. So SBS is kind of a lose-lose problem. Every technology that would make SBS more practical could be applied on the ground for a tiny fraction of the cost.
It’s the United States of Mexico, which everyone shortens to Mexico but for some reason you’re not okay shortening the United States of America to Americans?

Honestly United Statesian is more confusing because that ambiguously could refer to Mexicans.

It really sounds like you’re trying to troll and yeah people generally don’t like it if you intentionally get their nationality wrong.
That is an interesting point. I wonder if it would be feasible to go over every little bit of UB in the Standard and see if it could instead be well-defined in a way that would be compatible with most existing C code out in the wild. How much perf overhead that would actually be? And is there a way to quantify how many exploits that would have prevented?
They do have a more than a few editorials of questionable data fidelity
Static data for the entire system. A-GPS files are just a digital ephemeris[1], a form of trajectory tables for the satellites over (upcoming) time, so it knows when to expect certain satellites (and thus certain transponder frequencies to pick first in its search for signals to lock onto and triangulate from).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeris
I never thought, I'd read again about ZMODEM and Kermit. To learn programming and dive more into C/C++, I implemented both protocols while writing a Windows application to transfer files from the PC to a HP48 graphics calculator over the serial port in ca. 1999. This app then became the "official" PC link program "HPComm", released under the GPL. Almost 25 years go... :-o

https://hpcomm.sourceforge.net/index-old.html
I know. I have been through it. It is a horrible way.
Firefox translations

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/firefox-trans...
A man with 106 clocks can be sqrt(106) times more confident in knowing what time it is.
> If we crash the economy

You're assuming that a drastic response to stop climate change will crash the economy more than climate change itself will, which is a highly dubious proposition given that many countries (e.g. Denmark) are case studies that show the feasibility and relative ease of the transition (relative to climate change itself).
I see the Anglosphere has moved on from being terrorized by the Middle East to China.
It depends, if you buy an Office365/Microsoft365 subscription with SharePoint and the other stuff you also get an Azure AD for authentication, including an Azure Subscription. So you’re also an Azure user…
I thought the same thing. I loved how their species was described as one giant problem solving machine that doesn't really know what it's doing. Also loved Gothy and Gethly's theory of sentience at the end of the book.
KMI advertises prices for debris removal
I love that idea. We'd have to be super careful with the de-identification of associated data (which we're doing anyway), but having automation behind figuring out filling failures could be a huge boon. I'll share the thought with the team.

-Ben, 1Password
>Burning coal for the electricity gets you 66%

No no, it's 33%. 66% gets wasted as heat.
I am really disappointed to hear this news - by the sounds of it their entire office was gutted by layoffs. I have to say that as someone who follows politics, 538 is a unique source of insightful and data driven political coverage without wading into the mindless editorialism that plagues other major publications. Their coverage during election seasion is consistently fantastic and they've had a great long-running podcast covering lots of political topics as well as diving into how they model election forecasting.

Silver has publicly mentioned several times he hates covering politics and sounds like he will be taking his forecasting models with him once his contract expires. There are other news sites taking similar data-driven approaches but I've never found them to have as much transparency or volume of rich discussion as 538 has over the years. And of course his popular election forecasts are pretty much the gold standard.

Massive loss for political journalism if Silver chooses to walk away from politics as a result of this.
Did relevant tax rules change recently? If not, why is this behavior new?
The main insight of complex numbers is the fact that it relates exponentiation (partial multiplication) to rotation. Take that away then you might as well just use matrix algebra instead.

The idea is that you can “multiply by -1” not just odd or even times, but that you can do so fractionally. You can “flip the direction” partially which corresponds to shortening the original size and adding an “impetus” attribute based on the amount you shortened it by.

The raisin d’être of complex numbers is the derivative theorem of Fourier transforms. In fact, perhaps imaginary numbers should really be renamed “impetus numbers”
From a customer perspective, they could have used the cash to buy more of the merchandise that customers liked. They always had plenty of the stuff noone ever bought and never enough of the good stuff people actually bought. Those always flew off the shelves never to be seen again
> why would I want my furniture to last 20 years? My wife will cycle pieces after 5-10 because she wants something new.

I was always wondering where people's disposable income went :-))
> It's hilarious (in a way) seeing USians

American is the term Americans prefer, let’s try to be respectful.
I read it the same way?
Learn the concept of marginality. Things get progressively worse. Reality is usually not a binary switch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure

http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/

DEF CON CTF quals is (or was) "Jeopardy" style with five categories with five problems each. The thing I found was not one of the 25 problems.
My favorite anecdote with Chargaff is how he first told Linus Pauling about how the ratio between the nucleotide pairs A-T and C-G is constant on a sea voyage. Pauling thought he was unpleasant and ignored him. It turns out you need to sometimes be sociable to stay in the history books.
AT&T helps complete first 'space-based voice call' using a standard smartphone
I'm going to be a little mean here, but I think it needs to be said: "How to be productive in Notion" videos and template sales sites and such are always made by boringly unsuccessful people. I would love to see a broader intensive study on this topic, but just from my observations: its youtube and tik tok creators with a few thousand viewers, people who may actually be rather busy but don't drive much success from what they do. Running on a treadmill (and spending hours a week planning that run) so to speak.

Subsequently: Go ask the CEO or other leaders of your company the systems they use to stay organized. I bet twenty bucks that the most common answers to that question, when limited to the note-taking space, are: Nothing, and Apple Notes. If that definition of success isn't your cup of tea, then go ask who you perceive as the most productive person you work with. I did that very specifically with this extremely talented and productive engineer on my team, and his answer: markdown files in a big folder, grep, and vim. Ok greybeard :)

But point being: Its almost never Notion or tools at a similar power level. Its simple shit. Physical journals, Apple Notes, Google Keep, Google Docs, for the technically inclined just markdown files.
You can transfer a lot of information in a request, it's one of the oldest tricks in the book.

Whilst I also had a bad taste in my mouth once I got to them shilling their product (it was a double-check - wait a sec this Nitro phone they're talking about it's their own bloody phone?) that doesn't change the fact that this unexpected behaviour is a problem.

What we need to see is the actual HTTP requests, either from Nitro or - even better - from a third party who verify it.
There’s a 12 month minimum work experience, I think - so maybe if you were really keen and able to pass all of the other tests easily it’s still 12mo commitment, which is impossible to justify unless you want it as a permanent job :(. There’s other requirements too which I couldn’t be bothered digging through, so there’s could well be extra requirements (this is for Victoria)
Going on a tangent and maybe it's just coincidence, but the lack of Windows in your list of compelling reasons is kind of telling.
There are many twitter datasets that are already 50% gone. It's very bad for reproducibility
What a joke. Rest in Peace, Hal.
Exactly, when it comes to essential matters like food, stability is much more important than efficiency. I don't want the food supply chain optimized for efficiency, nobody should. Optimize it for reliable output.
Gensler knows what trouble is and isn’t.

https://twitter.com/zk_shark/status/1650689125580668931
Seems unlikely that you’d have a reliable source of paint for 1000 years, which might be the limiting factor.

But there’s always some rate of chain scission, even in the absence of UV/water/whatever. I just have no idea whether that has a meaningful impact on material properties over 1000 years.
Great job Apple.

I'm so glad that Apple did the right thing and removed this stain of a mistake in a future OS update. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35461216
How is the company to beat not Amazon? AWS is a money machine and they're the worldwide leader by a huge amount, no?
Good comment, but had to automatically downvote because of the use of “lol”.
Buybacks are increasingly viewed as a better way to return money to shareholders, for companies, not individual shareholders. They prop up the stock obviously, but also allow greater flexibility for the company in removing what becomes an expected obligation (dividend payment). In exchange, you can have a discretionary buyback program that can fluctuate in amount over time, and is viewed as less of a bell weather for the company's health.

What is good about buybacks for investors is that you can choose how to time your sales, which can result in tax benefits. Dividends you pay tax on a schedule that might be less suitable to whatever financial massaging investors might want to engage in.
Absolutely - they're in the catbird seat, and it makes sense that they would focus on AI/LLMs in earnings commentary to highlight potential future growth. But for now, Bing is still tiny compared to Azure, O365, Teams, etc., which is what drove their growth this quarter.

However, I'm guessing those 'legacy' products are also benefiting from some positive brand association based on the last 3-6 months or so. Basically, even if they haven't yet realized meaningful revenue directly from Bing Chat/LLMs/AI-enabled products, they may already be capturing some meaningful indirect benefits through their other products.
Here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-tech-sector-retains-1-...

The UK is also third for tech VC investment, but sometimes even overtakes china: https://dealroom.co/guides/united-kingdom

https://technation.io/news/uk-tech-q1-2022-investment-update...
I tried to sell the OpenSSH team on implementing inline file transfer with zmodem once, but they were not interested.
This is a good point. I think it's just due to convention --- people tend to put terms involving x only at the front, and in the textbook by Cox et. al. that I referenced they use this convention as well.
Yes I completely agree with you. The only question is how to implement that today and not need another 27 cop meetings, etc. To discuss solutions.
This Is Good For Bitcoin
A-GPS provides a current almanac, showing where all the satellites actually are. Without it, a cold start requires hunting for signals across a much wider range. As I understand it, older GPS receivers rely on finding a single satellite and waiting to acquire a full almanac from it while smartphones have enough compute to probably get a lock on multiple satellites without a complete dataset. The satellites will eventually broadcast the complete almanac and ephemerides, so a warm start shouldn't take as long.

D-GPS uses the known location and current readings from a nearby fixed receiver to increase the accuracy of your receiver, and does rely on knowing that you're in the vicinity, but it's not a feature of consumer phones.
They also ran a very successful propaganda campaign, it doesn't take long for a "I don't trust the government to do my taxes" proponent to appear when discussing this (despite the fact that they don't have to).
Agreed. Nate Silver did a great job when he stuck to data/statistics. However, in the last few election cycles, 538 seemed to allow its analysis to be colored by their editorial position.
Why no ones talk about a potential anti-trust of MSFT? (regarding acquisition of OPENAI)??
TLDR -- abnormal neural pruning in the frontal lobes, affected by the IGSF11 gene

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/04/230424133602.h...
Yet still only pays 50K for the head of information science at the HMRC
Related ongoing thread:

Smartphones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35698547 - April 2023 (263 comments)
Nice to hear about the package management.

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant to ask whether you considered Flix "an ML" as opposed to just being in the ML family. It's an ontological question, and not important, so don't sweat the answer. I am just curious how Flix developers see their project.
This is particularly true with people having fewer kids. 10 pieces of furniture goes fast when you have 20+ grandchildren. Not so much when you have 2 grandchildren.
Me too. I spent New Years Eve reviewing my journals (wife was sleeping) all the way back from 2013 and found some very enlightening arcs that would not be available with transient data. Some things just need to be read rather than presented.
Damn...up another 5% in after hours. Getting close to new highs again , way outperforming other stocks. Keeps going up and up. It shows how even 50 years later MSFT is a dominant as ever, with no signs of slowing. This calls into question the assumption by pundits and academics alike that dominant businesses must succumb to market forces or competition. Same for the dominance of Apple. Alphabet is also very strong too.
Until the last couple centuries, traveling across the sea to an unknown land may have been just as remote.
Straight, concise, clear and to the point.

Thanks!
Heh, you found the hard case. You want to add a denormalized table (point #6) specifically for locking on the balance, just cause Postgres/MySQL `serializable` mode is way too slow to rely on. You still keep baseline insert-only credits/debits table(s) that you insert into in the same xact, and all the usual rules apply there.

You can also do this without making such an exception. I used to keep a separate "pending" table that I'd insert into, commit, then check the balance with the pending row included before moving it to non-pending. So two transactions. That worked, problem is it was annoying. Though it was a good solution for debits/credits that involved an async external step that could fail or time out; simply ignore the pending rows that are too old and never got resolved. 30K rows is still small enough to query quickly.
I don't think he was arguing against paying taxes, I think he was arguing that there are _some_ transactions which it is reasonable to expect both a level of privacy, as well as obscurity to the government for purposes of dissent or lack of relevant jurisdiction (private, ad-hoc transactions are still a thing).

e.g. purchasing large amount of print materials / equipment or other distribution tools that are then flagged / targeted by a less than agreeable local political group to repress participation

While federal laws "sound" nice, enforcement and targeting of most laws are still done by local, less arguably democratic practices
Most new cars do have a constant data connection though, including directly to the main CAN bus, where it has been proven that people can steal your car without a key or even disable it remotely. You shouldn't buy any of those cars either...
Our customers asked us for a faster horse, but we knew that what they really needed was a folding phone.
I have always assumed this was some nonsense about strategically being distant from other companies in the segment. Cisco for example starts their FY first in August, so kind of random vs the calendar year.
This is the height of capitalistic idiocy, going into debt to prop the share price through stock buybacks. Whereas if they concentrated on their core business of selling stuff they wouldn't be in such dire straits.
If there is one thing I've hankered for more often than not... it's been the ability to send a file over my existing SSH connection.

Why this isn't something that isn't supported out of the box is beyond me. Doesn't SSH have a control channel? Couldn't it support this without text mode hacks?
People have been trying to turn the file system into a database for decades at this point. It was supposed to be the killer feature of Windows Vista.

IME the filesystem is both too complex and too simple; it's completely underspecified, has no memory model or semantics, and all the advanced features like extended attributes are unportable to the point of uselessness. There's literally one filesystem metadata feature that actually works reasonably reliably and it's the one most of HN hates: Windows three-letter extensions to indicate file types.

It would be great to have a portable, standardised, database-like layer - SQL isn't it either - but I think it would have to be something ran as a userspace layer rather than built into the filesystem.
As I understand it, that was the real issue with their work from a scientific integrity perspective. Some people speculate that she would have been the third person on the Nobel prize if she were still alive to receive it (Nobels are given only to living contributors).
Fair enough! Thank you for these clarifications and your excellent case explanation further down in the thread.
> There is something quite special about seeing ZMODEM transfers reach speeds close to 600 MBit/s. It's hard to explain.

Yep that's 1.5 million times the speed I used to get.