skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you need to research the accounting rules for "bad debt" in your country.

As for being taxed when the invoice was issued, that would be the same as in US and other countries too for all medium-large companies (although some small businesses would use "cash" accounting).

I would be surprised if it was actually required to sue the other party--retailers, banks, etc. everywhere have millions in bad debt every year that is not sued because the amount is too small or there is no reason to believe the other side can pay the ordered amount.

In fact, if you were a publicly traded company, you could get in trouble for not writing off bad debt because it makes the company look more successful than it really is. So there should definitely be a clear procedure for it.
The cool thing about MQTT is there's so many servers for it that are completely public -- and intentionally so. You can use it for real time messages but I think it also has quality modes that allow for some persistence.

Some of these servers have stat pages that show how much data they transfer. Usually phenomenal amounts of data. It's pleasing to me as someone doing a lot of stuff with open source networking to have such an establish protocol (instead of say -- 10 crappy ones.) MQTT works and it works well.
* with AI-powered optimization proposals

Sigh, why infest everything with "AI".
> when a coal plant actually blew up

Is that when entire states power (2gw) went from being produced to being consumed as a massive electric motor to 50k rpm and shooting into sky?
I don't see significant difference for most private people. I guess the median has three phones, a tablet and a tv box, there's not much scope to improve the network for that use case.

But IPv6 makes a difference for some other situations. If you operate a network with routers and such, it makes sense to have all connections to internal services use IPv6. Backup, file storage, databases, management interfaces, blah: Give everything its own IPv6 address, don't accept connections on IPv4, and allow IPv4 packets from 192.168/16 only to the outside world.
Perhaps we should also have a mandatory fee paid to the thumb twiddling association? They too will be happy to be employed after all.
I don't get it at all why to use a pre-print servers?
Government propaganda
there's likely still an infinite amount of things to figure out, transformers haven't been out for 10 years yet
Geometry for Computer Graphics
The Mask Comes Off: At What Price?
Ray-Tracing: Rendering a Triangle
Arxiv isn't just Physics at all, historically it's always been a big place for Maths and CS too.
This is nice usecase for faker and dbm, cool
> Well, unless there is zero integration with the browser, then it’s just a matter of time before some exploit…

Which is why my password manager has zero integration directly with the browser, or anything else for that matter. There is a tiny little bit of extra legwork caused by this⁰, but IMO it is a good compromise between convenience and easily available attack surface.

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[0] and it might be susceptible to attacks that manage to listen to the OS message queue & clipboard where a browser integrated method would not be, but once something is that far into your system there isn't much that is going to help you except maybe an orbital nuke.
1. No. "TechRxiv offers several Creative Commons licenses, all of which permit you to retain copyright of your work. You do not need to transfer your copyright to TechRxiv."

2. Preprint servers aren't really for the publication of articles that were already published elsewhere. But you can have an article published on TechRxiv peer-reviewed and subsequently published in an IEEE journal -- or a non-IEEE journal, for that matter.
800 is definitely too little. I'm building a language learning app based around this exact strategy. Right now, I've around 7000 German lemmas tracked in the app and still regularly encounter sentences which I don't understand, because I lack the vocabulary.
Oh nice, recently I had some question about RISC-V extensions and iirc I found your article and it was the one that explained it the best. Thanks for the write up! You helped a minimum of one Person enjoying their journey through the ecosystem :-)

I believe I was reworking the instruction decoder on my own core and the specification sheet left some open questions
I think at the very least, TypeScript should be used.
IGCSEs per se are a lot more flexible about that. You can do any subjects in any combination you like. Its a decision by the school to make English literature compulsory. Home educated kids often do not do it, on the other hand there are are huge number of subjects they can pick from: https://he-exams.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Subjects

British universities do often (usually?) require English language (or an equivalent) and maths (I)GCSEs, as do British employers and further education colleges etc. so its a really bad idea to skip those.

I do think its good to give kids a broad education, and for some it would be good to continue that for longer. For others (like you) its just boring.

I also think there should be more opportunities for adult education, so if you decide later in life that you would like to learn about English literature or physics or whatever you should have a chance to do it. AT the moment in the UK things seem to be going the other way, with an over expansion of universities sucking up money, and further education colleges that used to offer adult education putting the resources into "16 to 18" courses.
To be fair, the Last-Modified header is very sketchy. I use it as one of the heuristics for determining the age of a website in my search engine. It's not great.

It's frequently found incorrect, both older and younger than the actual age of the document. It's a bit of a relic from back in ye olden days when websites were static .htm files in a folder, which is so rarely the case today.

It doesn't help it's also got overloaded uses via If-Modified-Since -style conditional requests.
It feels like stepping into the https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex
Because patent specialists are experts at defining the widest possible scope for their idea, when I have reason to read a patent I find it a confusing word mess of noise, that does not have any meaningful interpretation until a case is argued in court, at which point the word salad is brought into the appropriate interpreted focus.

I am not convinced an independent inventor is able to ever file a patent that can not be countered from another patent that had no intention to cover the inventor's use case when written, it's just a useful tool to protect the filer in any and all scenarios.

Does anyone - except patent specialists who make their living from this - see value in the patent process at all any more? We're a long, long way from the original intent of the process these days, it seems.
They are apparently set up as a retailer, not just a payment processor. So those banking type rules about customer funds wouldn't apply. They are like a digital Walmart--buying and paying you for the wholesale product and then selling it to the customer and taking their money are two separate transactions.
For 500 bucks I sure do have that time
Very Sarah Palin
Unfortunately this is exactly what came to mind seeing the level of non response to the level of question. Someone on the other end was ill equipped to fill their role well.

Either through lack of time, skill, training or ability. I'll be optimistic and think the former but suspect one of the latter.
Tungsten oxide - for one in Rust.
There's points of principle and points of practicality. First - all men are created equal. Fundamentally, our political system should be designed around equality of all - otherwise why would the people who are less equal feel the need to support the system? If I only get 1/10th of the vote you get, why don't I take up arms and put my people in charge and count my vote 10x your vote?

In terms of practicality, your taxes this year? Your lifetime taxes? College students? No vote. What happens if I paid a million in taxes last year because I sold my company but nothing this year because I took a year out? Do state taxes count? What about state contracts, do we discount Elon Musks' vote because he receives so many state contracts for his companies like SpaceX? Or do we worry that Elon Musk gets tonnes of political power which he then uses to pressure the government into.. awarded him more SpaceX contracts? Those paying the most taxes are by definition those who have benefitted most from a well run country, surely they be penalized not given more power?
I use Contacts+. It's not free, but it syncs Google and Microsoft contacts nicely, which is my primary need.
> which happens to add value to nobody but their own pockets.

While publishers as they exist now are not necessary for this, the publishing process does typically incorporate peer review which has significant value. I agree that things need to change, but I don't think it's true that zero value is added by publishers.
Tangentially related, but a lot of the discourse about societies that people are not a part of end up being similar to the discourse around corporations people are not a part of. Folks come up with reasons for why things are the case, and if you are actually part of the thing under discussion it is a mystifying and frustrating experience to see basically everyone is wrong, all the time.

This process really harmed my view of the utility of public discussion of anything. In quality it is about as bad as the average newspaper article. As you are perhaps aware, if the article is about something you know you will realise nearly every article is entirely fabricated. Lots of research papers (at least in the computer science domain) are the same: fabrications that can't be reproduced. Either the algorithm is not published so you can't validate the data or the algorithm is published and the data is just entirely unrelated to it.

Thinking about it, it's kind of a miracle humanity gets anywhere at all. Almost every public resource is aggressively ignorant.
Progressives should worry more about their favorite scientific findings
Yeah, that's very true.
There should be a legally accepted way to publish something, free of cost, that demonstrates a new invention, that prevents other people patenting it, and can allow the person who published it to claim the credit for doing so.

I'm not sure what's so difficult about this concept in the age of verifiable chains of communications and transactions.
Is this the future you wanted?
Ah… that makes it sound as if we've reached a phase where IPv6 has no significant problems and saves a little bother compared to IPv4. Switch to v6 ⇒ escape false alarms from tools like fail2ban.
Capita would probably reply to a customer inquiry with this level of care and attention if appropriate.

Individual license holders are not customers, though. The customer is the BBC and its executives who administer the contract paying Capita huge amounts of money to extort people on their behalf.
Before you do either of those you need to convince academia that publishing in traditional journals/"prestige" legacy journals does not matter as much to the job. The entire system has Goodhart's Law-ed themselves into a trap connecting tenure to a very specific kind of publishing. Until that changes everything else will just get ignored.
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Y2mate has fallen. There's got to be others.
> Is this a path towards a fully style-able select element that still operates correctly with keyboard and accessibility features?

That's one of the main driving forces behind this effort - to allow developers to style <select> without failing in terms of keyboard and accessibility.

However, if you choose to make a <select> where the options are horizontal, or circular, you will have to add the 'different' keyboard interactions yourself. Up and down arrow keys will still cycle between options, but if your options are horizontal left & right keys would make more sense.
All I’m seeing here is alternative syntax for what’s already there.

I like some of it, but that’s hardly worth the increase in complexity.

In fact, having fewer aesthetic syntax choices is probably more of an improvement — cuts down on pointless/superficial coding style arguments, and leaves code generally more readable.
> A deck only has 52 cards, but you shuffle it properly, it's essentially guaranteed that nobody in human history has ended up with the same order as you just did.

That fact still messes me up every time! Like, I know very well that 52! is a ridiculously huge number. And still, it feels like "but it's just 52 cards, give me an afternoon and I'll do it, how many combinations can there be?"...
I thought the Hacker's Browser was Nyxt.
Does this prevent other software running on the same hardware from accessing the keychain?

E.g. on Windows, any program can access the entirety of the credential store for the current user.
It can give you the experience to know how careful you need to be in doing that, if only because you've lived long enough to see many be scuppered because of their failure to do so well enough.
Seeing faces in things: A model and dataset for pareidolia
kudos for actually looking what the problem is.

As a (former) NetEng, it bothers me to no end that so many people claim "it's the network" when their application is slow / broken, without understanding the actual problem.
based on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41889498
In many fields, particularly those that rely on conferences over journals, peer review is organized by others, not the publisher. So here they are truly doing nothing but hosting the papers behind their pay wall.
Peer review is done for free by academics. The publisher does not contribute to peer review.
The laws of physics make Jewish space lasers impossible.

Anybody willing to ignore international agreements to develop weapons can reach for the very effective nuclear, chemical or biological weapons rather than for imaginary impossible ones.

Using a directed energy weapon to shoot down drones is millions of times more feasible than space lasers -- thousands of times more concentrated power, thousands of times less air dispersion, on the softest possible target. Yet using lasers to shoot down drones is so ineffective that we're not doing it. You're proposing something a billion times more difficult.
I guess depending on how you open them they do indeed have the right to bear arms
What does "distinguish the user interface actions" mean here?

The browser knows the <button> that's a child of <select> is special, and activates the popover on click. This is handled automatically, as is the accessibility tree.
If the university requires invasive technology, then it should of course provide their students with devices, onto which they can put their invasive stuff.
> They are also nowhere as good.

They are better than me at many tasks.

> Not everything has to be solved by cheap* technological processes.

> *: If you ignore the environmental costs.

For many tasks, inference on an LLM is a lot cheaper (including for the environment) than keeping a human around to do them. As a baseline, humans by themselves take around 100W (just in food calories), but anyone but the poorest human also wants to consume eg housing and entertainment that consumes a lot more power than that.
Knowing facts and applying algebraic formulas indeed doesn't seem to be doing much, but I guess education about logic, critical thinking, biases, fallacies and debate _would_ play a role _if such education was emphasized_.
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On the other hand you might end up paying quite a bit more for a monochrome tv than for the cheapest color tv you can find.
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As far as Fail2ban goes, using it to lock the door is good, but removing the door entirely is better.

Fail2ban is useful for limiting failed access attempts, but closing the SSH port altogether limits attack pathways to only trusted parties in the first place — assuming SSH isn’t meant to be publicly accessible.

There are many modern technology options for enabling private access without needing to open firewall ports, many are listed at https://zerotrustnetworkaccess.info

Of these, mesh overlay networks appear to be gaining the most traction lately, especially among the HN crowd.
or maybe he didnt used his private email registered 10 years ago with socials related (and profile pic uploaded)
If you want to play that game or the darknets game you may need to keep changing your alias which could be a problem as you will have to start from 0 again growing contacts and respect.

Do new groups and users have kick ass ASCII logos in their t-files these days? I’m glad the 90s era of incorrect capitalisation is gone.
I guess it's kind of cool that you can create your own operators, but holy crap.

operator {min, max} := Math
value min ceiling max floor

At least make them require a certain symbol at the start or something.
There is a way, but it is difficult. Most companies don't want you to call. Operators cost a ton of money. And what choice do you have really? Choose a different parcel service? All others are worse.
I am not sure what the thought experiment is here — it is more like two facts, one about the Planck scale (and things break there) and the other about a black hole (its information is proportional to its surface).

However, there are deeper things around. Seth Lloyd suggested that we use information density to derive general relativity from quantum theory:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.6559
>"If you disclose your invention publicly and do not file an application within one year, you could be barred from receiving a patent on that exact invention."

Does this mean if I disclose an invention, that nobody can patent it after a year?

This is my explicit reason for writing about BitGrid out in the open, since 2004.[1]

If it turns out to be useful, that's awesome. If not, it's been a fun mud ball to polish.[2]

[1] https://bitgrid.blogspot.com/2004/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorodango
And we should work to remove such disenfranchisements from the system rather than simply accept them as a law of nature.
> GLP-1 inhibitors have also been shown to reduce drinking and smoking. It's essentially an anti-addiction drug.

You think that 33% of deaths are caused by addictions? I don't understand why you brought addictions up.

> It's very easy to sit on a throne when you don't have a food addiction

Yeah, I don't. I'm mindful every day of what I eat and drink.

> We've been trying, and ONLY been trying, the "discipline" approach for the entirety of the obesity epidemic

Except that most overweight people are not food addicts. They are just normal people with bad nutrition, and that's it.
It didn't solve the deeper problems, no, but it also didn't error out when you accidentally had a trailing comma in your object, -> and => made dealing with "this" less painful (no more "var that = this"), and stuff like that.

Convenience does matter. The less I have to think about nonsense like that, the more I can think about actually writing correct code.

CoffeeScript wasn't perfect in that sense either and had some nonsense of its own. That probably contributed to its demise as much as any thing else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhgh42-mZkw

https://old.reddit.com/r/Candida/comments/17sdvm0/people_iod...
> Fundamentally, external observers and infalling observers can't disagree on "what happens", just the timing of events. If external observers never see someone falling in, then they didn't fall in.

This isn't true. As long as the two observers can't communicate with each other, they absolutely can have different results. To put it in simpler terms, the requirement of physics is that an experiment has a unique result according to some rule, but different experiments can have different results even if they break our intuitions.

So, if you measure the position of a particle falling towards a blackhole, you will see it disappear at the event horizon, and perhaps be radiated out later as Hawking radiation from that same event horizon. If you measure the position of the same particle while you yourself are passing through the event horizon, you will it will record no special interaction and see the particle moving completely normally. Since you can't perform both experiments at once, and you can't relay any data from one to the other, there is no contradiction.

This is just another case of a duality in physics, similar to how some experiments measure electrons as point-like particles completely localized to a certain place, and others measure them as waves spread out over a very large area.
How can comparing different methods for a couple minutes be charged? Or rather, would it not be charged evenly to multiple options since multiple options are being researched, including the proposed "default" of buying a phone outright and then finding a plan that will actually provide suitable service while saving money.

To your credit, just stick with the subsidized phone deal, and then don't upgrade when it's paid off. At that point, your phone is now technically unlocked
Ctrl-F: Unsloth --> no results == bad paper
Smartphone modems (baseband) are super optimised for battery life. They don't send any traffic that isn't meant for the device itself on to the CPU. That would only cause unnecessary load.

They could perhaps be modified to do that but the baseband firmware is usually very closed source.

There is only one example I know, there was one particular dumbphone from the 2G era for which the baseband sourcecode was available due to a hack. You could use several (one for uplink and one for downlink) of these with modified firmware to sniff 2G traffic. I forget which model it was exactly but obviously the price ballooned on eBay :)

Haven't heard of this happening with later models. Baseband sourcecode firmware is really rare.
RISC-V moving forwards. Transition will be hard, and will be costly: large RISC-V implementations on latest silicon process (for server/mobile/desktop).

I wish it to be successful. Worst case scenario, RISC-V is a nice byte code, much less toxic than any higher level computer language out there.

They have to be very careful about what they put in RVxx profiles: advanced application developers know already they will have to query the hardware in order to install proper (this must not be part of any file format to avoid toxic complexity: it must stay in full control of the application) machine code.

Currently I do personally code my "core" RISC-V own little applications, which I do interpret on x86_64/linux and using another executable file format than elf (of my own) but with transparent binary compatibility (aka no need to patch the kernel).

And guess what, to be not dependent on those horrible compilers like gcc/clang or ultra complex syntax languages (all full of planned obsolesence even on the medium run), or those completely PI locked hardware ISAs... is just a breeze of fresh air.

Ofc, this is a compromise as it is impossible to run a reasonable (interpretation may vary a LOT here) linux desktop without some of the worst software or dependency out there... but this is moving forwards, and it feels good.
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You don't leave tracks.