skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On re-read, this jumped out at me:

> Diets don't fail because they're inherently flawed and the system is more complex than we think it is. Diets fail because people fail.

The system includes the people. If the people "fail", that is relevant information, and should be used to evaluate the 'effectiveness' of the approach. The system is extremely complex, including as it does all of human psychology and physicality, and yet every one of these discussions is dogged by people like you, that think that the problem is just that people don't try hard enough.

Well sure they don't, that's also the reason they can't all bench 400 pounds - "hard enough" is the critical phrase here, and your language and attitude place all of the blame on the individual. It's a lot like explaining that depressed people are responsible for their own emotional state, and should just start exercising and cheer up - it's factually true, and yet also unhelpful, counterproductive, and insulting.
Probably not throw away, but replace if customer that sees the defect reports it.

Thats what a decent company would do.
The vast majority of the shows I watch I have found by searching for keywords I'm interested in, or actors who I enjoy watching, so I can come up with a pretty long list of shows I watched that were never suggested to me in one way or another.
I'm not saying HBO is wrong, but I do believe most marketing departments find their managers easier to manipulate than their customers.
The rise of user-hostile software
I did buy something based off an instagram ad. I also would rather have ads that are meaningful than be shown some useless ads.
Well, I could have used that back in the 90s instead of lugging my crap up and down station stairs for the three or four connections between Narita and Urayasu. <sigh>
Only insane Republicans believe that the Chinese engineered the virus.
Did anyone claim _this_ was decades away? The claim is usually about when self-driving cars will actually be viable for anyone to use in arbitrary areas, not when experimental pilot programs are launched in individual cities.
uptimeporn, for a very specific example from today. I wont link it because the spam is NSFW and probably removed by now, but- I saw it, so moderation effort is obviously not effective.
> I would expect you to be an outlier and that more technologists would prefer a device they can program with the same APIs as the manufacturer without any gatekeeping and non-buggy web access most of all.

I doubt most "technologists" care about writing code for their phone to begin with, and I don't know what you mean by "non-buggy web access". That doesn't mean I think most "technologists" would pick Apple (I really don't know) but I don't think I'm the outlier here, preferences-wise, even if I am on which platform I choose.

> Having better photo sharing and phone call capabilities, less device restarts

Photo sharing's never been a problem—what am I missing? I don't talk on the phone much so maybe that's actually terrible (it seems entirely fine?) and I just don't know it. Device restarts? How often do you think I restart my iOS devices?

> the ability to caption audio for times when having the speaker on is inconvenient or not loud enough

That is cool. Not something I'd use personally, but it's cool.

> supporting restricted guest accounts are also features that

Account management is my biggest complaint about I-devices. Mostly the iPad—I don't really care if iPhones continue to have only two modes (full, and PIN-restricted "screen time" mode—which I don't use anyway, so I wouldn't mind if that disappeared, really) but true multi-account would be great on the iPad.

> most people who don't worry as much about fashion would not want to give up.

Hahahaha.
> So you can either support the right of the people to overthrow an authoritarian regime and establish a democratic process that will lead to a fundamentalist islamic state, or you can support a regime that is authoritarian but will allow the practice of some western liberal values.

> Which is it, and why?

It has to be the former, because the latter is unsustainable and builds further local opposition to liberal values equating them with shams covering Western imperialism in the service of commercial interests of foreign elites (because in that case that's exactly what they are, once you limit “liberal values” to those that can be enjoyed without giving substantive power to local opposition to the Western-imposed regime.)

Of course, the thing is, the actual motivation, not just the incidental result, is commercial imperialism in the Middle East—“liberal values” are an excuse, access to and influence over global markets for resources (particularly oil) are the actual critical concern.
If you open "prime video" app there is a section "free to me" in top menu bar.

Unfortunately, it also includes IMDBTv, that is loaded with ads, while technically also free
It's brand recognition, not "I'm going to buy this product right now".

And the next time you need a product, you have a positive attachment to certain brands.
If I bought an iPhone, I'd use it to call people. That's probably it.

Android phones are nice because they at least respect my pre-existing workflow. I can sync my Nextcloud server to keep my notes and photos distributed, I can install different shells to get work done on the go, Hell, I can even use it to send a firmware payload to my Nintendo Switch in RCM mode. It's my swiss-army knife for when it's impractical to carry a full Unix machine.
Newsletter for crypto custody wallet engineers
I'm curious how Waymo deals with the human aspects of cab hailing. With a human driver, you can say "hey looks like traffic is bad between where the car currently is and the pick up spot, can I meet you at X instead and save us both 10 minutes?"

To "good morning dear, do you think you could help me load my bag in the trunk"

All the way up to completely degenerate scenarios like "my friend was drunk and tried to take over command of the car to see if it would work" or "I had to call customer support because when my ride arrived to pick me up, there was a homeless guy hogging the backseat and cursing at me".

Surely there's more to commercializing the tech than just not killing pedestrians. The absence of a driver should create some new weird dynamics.

IIRC Uber et al spend a considerable amount on customer support. I wonder if Waymo can break free from Google's bad reputation on that front.
Malcolm Gladwell did a podcast[1] on Waymo and their self-driving cars.

He speculates that something very different will happen. He thinks that self-driving cars that follow the laws and unerringly yield to pedestrians will transfer ownership of the streets from cars to pedestrians. Perhaps travel through cities in self-driving cars will be tedious and slow because pedestrians will jaywalk fearlessly and the cars will always yield. It's an outcome I never really considered before.

[1]: https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/i-love-you-waymo/
Pride before the fall and all that. I sometimes wonder if the executives understand the product they attempt to deliver. This is a paid service. Customer should be its center focus. Instead, I get corporate speak for 'I want to lock them in'. Well, tough noodles, because I don't want that.

I decided to watch Purge show the other week. Turned out I liked the premise so I decided to check the rest. They are all over the place. It is genuinely easier for me to order dvds from Amazon.

I find all the streaming wars very interesting if mildly aggravating. Frankly, it is going bring back piracy. Good job content providers:>
Subsidising? See what happens when we do. And it doesn't mean nobody pays, tax payers. And that would make the education and health sectors even worse than they are. We already have armies of people taking on studies that are dead ends, and medical services that are pure money making scams. You are advocating for more people being forced to contribute for unjustified expenses.

It doesn't need to be argumented against anyway, the economy cannot take much more tax levels, we are probably defaulting on paying taxes we are asked to pay at this point.
I've got an automated feeder that drops food at 3AM because I got tired of getting up at 3AM to feed them - they would get pretty insistent. I hand feed them the rest of the day unless I'm going to be out and then I turn on the other feed times on the feeder.
That announcement was from 2019. Honest question, how can I see the progress made from this investment? Did they build any, some or all of these homes yet? It does sound great though, I hope they did.
Their app gives a vastly different experience on different platforms. On a smart tv, its a dumpster fire. Slow, laggy, horrible play delay. On Amazon branded Fire* devices, its far better. And I love the X-Ray feature -- that's something I wish Netflix had.
You don't always hang with family, but you get a part time use of a house that is a consistent place - that really is very nice and I think a lot of folks laughing at this idea do not understand either the market or attraction in what they are offering.

Do you pay $3M or $500K. That is the question you need to ask. Is it worth $2.5M to have more than your standard locker of crap at the vacation house?

Even family houses - generally you need to keep your personal crap to a minimum, everything is shared. You can buy a bogie board for everyone, but the folks on here talking about how they need to fill a $3M 6 bedroom house with their personal crap - this is not for you. Most of us can get buy much more simply.

This is why I'm glad we can let market decide not folks on HN. Almost every neat thing, from iphone to this would just be poo poo'ed away.
Most people in the Tesla camp (like George Hotz) believe Waymo is destined to fail.
Never said it was immoral. It's perfectly fine. I just don't think it's THE way to optimize work happiness for everyone. For a subset of people sure.
On the one hand I agree but on the other hand it’s really much easier to be a follower and avoid the mistakes the pioneers have made. I am pretty sure there are a ton of legacy things in the Uber platform that are obsolete now and you wouldn’t have to implement if you stated from scratch. But you would also probably run into the same issues that Uber took many years to solve and you probably also would need years. So many be the advantage of being second isn’t as much as thought initially.

I often think SpaceX was able to move that quickly because they could learn from decades of experience of NASA and others what works and what doesn’t.
I was able to complete the signup process: requires a gmail account, email link to a qualtrics survey which asks things like name, age, where you live (if SF proper, neighborhood?). (I do live in SF and gave it location access)
There are plenty of rail-based transports that have no driver (Vancouver's SkyTrain is the largest iirc). They seems to get by without being ripped apart by passengers.
Because I have thick hair that grows fast I have to go to the barber often. So when I go to a barber I go for the quietest most disinterested barber I can find. I'm not good at doing small talk with the people cutting my hair. If they don't speak English even better.

Thankfully my hair is simple to cut, although.
Observability is all the hype in the cloud (monitoring) space right now.

HN folks love them some group theory (i.e. Haskell).

So it makes totally sense for me.
Doesn't seem to have to changed much these past few conferences either.

Did you ever have present yourself?

Was there a dress code for MacWorld way back when?
The Shibboleth Idp also support per SP opaque nameID but nobody like SAML based protocol and as far as I know outside the academical identity federations, no one deploys Shibboleth ...
Anecdotally I've seen many more of them in Chinatown in recent weeks, it's not particularly rare to see multiple Waymo Jaguars at the same intersection waiting for the lights to turn green.

They seem to have taken over a previously public parking lot at Pacific and Sansome in the city. There are often 20/30 of these cars parked up there.

I've never seen one without a driver, but occasionally when I look at the steering wheel it is turning independently and just being monitored by the driver.
I would suggest visiting r/idiotsincars sometime. Humans are terrible at reacting to situation outside of their experience, and essentially do random things all the time.

If an AI system's default response is "come to a stop safely" then it's going to be way ahead of a lot of human "unexpected situation" handling in cars.
What good is all that cash if it can't buy politicians?
As a "Calvinist" (I prefer label reformed Christian) it appears as though you have totally misunderstood Calvinism. One of the bedrocks of Calvinism is that every person in his natural state is fundamentally bad and any spiritual/material blessing is undeserved so how could we could we boast?

Commentary from John Calvin on Luke 13:4 where Jesus comments on whether the 18 people killed by a falling tower were bad people because they suffered this fate:

"This passage is highly useful, were it for no other reason than that this disease is almost natural to us, to be too rigorous and severe in judging of others, and too much disposed to flatter our own faults. The consequence is, that we not only censure with excessive severity the offenses of our brethren; but whenever they meet with any calamity, we condemn them as wicked and reprobate persons. On the other hand, every man that is not sorely pressed by the hand of God slumbers at ease in the midst of his sins, as if God were favorable and reconciled to him. This involves a double fault; for when God chastises any one before our eyes, he warns us of his judgments, that each of us may examine himself, and consider what he deserves. If he spares us for a time, we are so far from having a right to take such kindness and forbearance as an opportunity for slumber, that we ought to regard it as an invitation to repentance."
There’s a big difference between online advertising and content recommendation engines. One can believe that the former works and that the latter does not; they’re not the same things.

Heck, there a huge variance in quality of recommendation engines. YouTube is clearly superior to say, Amazon Video.
No. Look into. Supply and demand.

If wages go up to $20 an hour, then maybe there is general inflation and robotics goes up to $200 an hour. In the world today we have cheap labor and expensive energy. That is why automation is not replacing humans. Look into the history of the British industrial revolution.
> Because IRC hasn't meaningfully improved in about 30 years.

I'd way rather have something that doesn't improve for 30 years than something that actively gets worse at a rapid clip.
MetaFilter's been doing this for decades and it seems to be working well for them
give this guy a round of applause, everyone.
It’s easier for the support to say the PUK than to risk their job because of a 1 star review.
Hey dude, sign up and we'll add you to the closed beta!
Yep exactly. I've found that to be the case as well.
Definitionally, the achievement of self driving vehicles does not require AGI. Doing one task very well requires a subset of AGI called Weak AI.
Supply chains matter and that has always been true. You have never had recourse for buying stolen goods under law. If you buy stolen goods, the police can seize them and you are out the money.
Yeah but that does not make any sense. Deutsche Post would not have changed the label so the address would still be correct.
Years ago I saw an ad on Facebook for a merino wool sneaker. It looked clean and minimalistic. I happened to enjoy wearing shoes without socks, so I clicked on the link and immediately bought a pair of Allbirds.

(Years later I read that Allbirds is part of the SV tech worker uniform.)

Also I definitely have clicked on those marketing email newsletters and made purchases based on those. In case I sound like a major consumer, I will mention that I managed to live in New Jersey for 8 years spending $1200 a month. That's rent, food, transportation, and impulse buys.
SAE levels are pretty garbage.
Cats are scientists.
> The most abused and dishonest phrase of the 21st century.

The T&C equivalent of "your call is very important to us"?
It is immune, precisely because it's a protocol. Freenode is dead but switching to another network is literally as simple as pointing the client to a different domain name.
Truly massive and sorrowful results if it holds up to review / replication. From the preprint:

>Across all measures, we found cognitive scores were significantly reduced during the pandemic by 27 to 37 points (or almost two full standard deviations), p values < 0.01
My household keeps our Netflix subscription for an ever dwindling set of anchor shows, most of which are beginning to migrate onto network specific platforms. I wouldn’t be surprised if we cancel next year at some point.

Honestly it would be cheaper to just buy some of these shows on like iTunes at this rate.
I can't speak for the US, but in Europe (experiences from Sweden, Norway, Russia) rural areas usually have a handful of taxi drivers and you "use their services" by calling their numbers which you can get from locals.
There's a neverending stream of way-too-drunk people who need a taxi (or at least there were, in the beforetimes). I don't see that happening.

Also, I don't particularly want to ride in a car with a bunch of sensors and cameras monitoring my every move.
Waymo has raised 5.5B so far. How much does it cost to add a market and how long will it take to recoup those costs?

How much are Waymo vehicle operational costs vs rider revenue? How long do Waymo vehicles last?

Even with this announcement, we do not know if Waymo has a clear path to profitability.
Still, Level 3 can be more "advanced" than Level 4.
I expect them to either fix it, or replace it and re-sell it as refurbished. If most customers won't notice the defect, it should re-sell easily.
This is why i only buy "Dumb" TV's and connect a third-party "smart" device to them (Firestick, etc)

Smart device wants to do some crap like this, in the recycle bin it goes but the TV which cost far more is still good.

Many of these manufacturers also have a well documented history of not supporting anything they sold, in an attempt to push new products (buy an android phone and see how many updates it actually gets).

Again, far cheaper and easier to replace the smart device instead of the TV when this happens.
The average consumer is largely unaware that they've lost their privacy and if they are aware they mostly fail to grasp the severity.

The average consumer already doesn't care and has taken no action.
> How is this even a debate, if you weren’t supposed to use it they wouldn’t pay extra to install seats with a reclining mechanism.

Exactly, there's really no question here. The feature is installed to be used.
You can get out without it being a complete mess. You can do it by working with allied Western countries, ensure there is a path to get to the airport, ensure the airport and surrounding area is secure, etc. Leaving millions in weaponry is unforgivable. How about actually take our helicopters and guns with us? Trying to blame Trump when Biden failed at the implementation is ridiculous.
You have recourse by showing proof of purchase. Or you sue them.
It looks like its inclusion is guarded by a compiler flag: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/b93f6c2db94f736b497f...

If anyone needs to know if SM2 is enabled quickly on any system, `openssl list --public-key-methods` is guaranteed to include "sm2" in the output if it's compiled. Therefore, if this returns 1, you have SM2 compiled in:

openssl list --public-key-methods | grep sm2 | wc -l

(There's probably better commands, but that'll get the job done. Compiled doesn't mean "enabled by TLS", of course.)

That said, assuming I'm reading the right docs, SM2 is interesting:
https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/67481/87778
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM9_(cryptography_standard)#Ch...

It prefixes the hash of the message with the public key, presumably to ensure exclusive ownership. https://www.bolet.org/~pornin/2005-acns-pornin+stern.pdf

Additionally, SM2 signature verification requires no modular inversion.

This is neat stuff. I've never really bothered to look deeply at Chinese cryptography before.
I interpreted this to mean "cause and effect analysis helps when you look at how one step connects to the previous step, but when looking at a system you will eventually end up back at your starting point (you go around in a loop) with cause and effect analysis, whereas systems analysis sees the loop as a loop and lets you talk about the whole picture in a useful way. This is why cause and effect analysis is misleading -- because you can go through an entire loop explaining each connection and still miss the larger picture, or rather, the fact that there is a loop/purpose."
Maybe the four tricks are:

Ollie

Any Shove it/varial with no flip

Any Flip with no shove it

Any flip + shove it combo

?
You'd install a firebomb in your own home? I think you need to rethink this position.
They are not legally allowed to not have a human driver onboard. It's a legal requirement that is not a relevant signal one way or another.
Not really related, but youtube-dl (written in Python) is slow to parse videos, and I suspect this is the reason why having mpv play a YouTube video is substantially slower than playing it directly in the web interface.

youtubedr (https://github.com/kkdai/youtube, written in Golang) is much faster, to the point `mpv --profile=pseudo-gui $(youtubedr url -q ... URL)` is about as fast as playing a video in YouTube's own interface. Though I assume it doesn't support non-YouTube services unlike youtube-dl, and I don't know if it can be extended to add them.

Why is youtube-dl slow? Is it due to the Python interpreter startup/overhead, or due to code flaws? Can it be sped up, or precompiled to not depend on the complexity of the Python interpreter?
I think it’s that people realize that the underlying issues that caused the financial crisis haven’t actually been fixed, and the Fed has been experimenting with policies that have never been seen before to prop up markets. While it’s worked so far it still feels like there are structural weaknesses that could cause massive problems, and just because things have been good doesn’t guarantee they won’t eventually fail, but timing is notoriously difficult.
The fragmentation and exclusivity of media/streaming companies just makes piracy more and more worth it.
Scores of corporations are perfecting the art of eking out just a few more views from a small segment of users while irritating the rest of the user base as much as possible without actually losing customers.

Most advertising/targeting doesn't work on most people most of the time, but we all have to endure it because it grabs just enough extra net revenue.
Shibboleth is terrible -- so terrible it was easier for me to write my own SAML IdP from the specification than try to make it useful. Lots of people use Active Directory Federated Services (ADFS), which has a SAML IdP.
Yes, in many (most?) cities in the US, you need a special license to spontaneously pick up passengers (e.g. when you wave a taxi over to come pick you up). However, town-car services, where you pre-arrange to be taken somewhere ahead of time operate under looser rules. Uber's loophole was making an app so you technically prearranged to be picked up a few minutes before you were picked up.
I don't understand the question. IRC is a real-time chat protocol and twitter is a proprietary micro-blogging website. I don't see how the two are related, other than they are both something to do with the Internet.
You don't usually carry your smart TV around with you in your pocket
Yeah, the main blocker is that you would need insiders from each company's management to be able to effectively game the system.