skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On top of that, the threat model of potential obstacles in the sky is far simpler. On an airliner you have a heading and speed for every tracked aircraft in your vicinity and the buffer zones are far greater, even accounting for relative increase in speed. It is much more difficult to predict and quickly respond to edge case obstacles and erratic agent behavior on the road.

Perhaps there would be an analogy here if there was something like a centralized control center for autonomous vehicles (rife with opportunities for system-wide hacks and corporate/gov't abuse) or if vehicles were networked and shared travel vector and size data.
I'm not sure the consumer's wants really have much weight here. Manufacturers want smart TVs so they can get ad revenue. Streaming services want smart TVs to help get their app in front of more people. Google, Apple, Amazon and Roku want to hook more people into their ecosystems. I would guess your average consumer doesn't really consider any of this, they just go to Best Buy and buy a TV that seems reasonably priced.
Overall I'm not against such a thing because at the end of the day this makes theft less attractive and thus protects consumers.

However not like this: "Should a customer’s TV be incorrectly blocked, the functionality can be reinstated once proof of purchase and a valid TV license is shared to serv.manager@samsung.com [...]".

That's flipping the burden of proof around. Clearly not the way to go about this.

Also of course things should work by default and not require you to go online.
If you read the article you would know.

"Despite their interest to both linguists and casual observers, whistled languages are disappearing rapidly all over the world, and some — such as the whistled form of the Tepehua language in Mexico — have already vanished. Modernization is largely to blame, says Meyer, who points to roads as the biggest factor. “That’s why you still find whistled speech only in places that are very, very remote, that have had less contact with modernity, less access to roads,” he says."
The Prince Hall lodge by my house was a COVID vaccination center for a bit
For that widespread adoption to happen? We do need a blockchain capable of handling that throughput.

And for that to matter, we need a blockchain that doesnt create full-percentage points of global carbon emissions in the process.
Somehow I doubt that this tribe had a lot of successful wars...
For a company having paying customers does matter a lot.

Having customers paying for the R&D will help make it sustainable.
US and Saudi citizens who work for Twitter are allegedly involved in serious human rights violations because they have shared users' email addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses with the Saudi government. The recent imprisonment of Abdulrahman al-Sadhan is an example.[1]

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/saudi-case-against-twi...
The most basic question of all when banning private transactions between consenting third-parties is that why you are more qualified to judge the trade-offs of the trade than the participants, as the participants know their own values best, and hold their own best interest in mind (while you might be incentivized to benefit yourself in some way, e.g., boss others around, virtue signal, etc).

There are lots of jobs that cost the workers something precious. Banning them is likely to hurt the workers, not help them. To help the workers, opportunities for learning marketable skills must be presented, and productive job positions created.
I hope this helps kill the 20 tweet roll blog replacement.
Yeah, selling a defective product is a scam. The least what can be done is product replacement, the most is jail time for execs if they deliberately set up this policy.
There are a variety of experts who are saying the same thing as me. While I am not an expert it doesn't mean my view is not based on what experts say.

If you want to blame some one for not listening to experts then blame Biden. He did not listen to his experts who said Afghanistan would fall quickly. [1] If he had maybe he would have evacuated people and weapons earlier.

If anybody is playing politics it is you. This is a complete disaster. Maybe you should take a minute or two a think through the situation. Anybody who thinks not even being able to get our own people out, let alone those who aided us, is not a disaster is ignoring the facts. If this happened under Trump would you be making the same argument? I know I would.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/us/politics/afghanistan-b...
Pacaso is a rather traditional timeshare, but not what I am talking about. Let’s call it joint ownership without a 3rd party. They likely pay 3rd party’s do upkeep, but at whatever standards the group decides not an independent management company.

This can also include improvements like wheelchair ramps, boat docks etc or even removal of things like TV service etc. Again it’s exactly what the group decides without excess or profit.
Or an ambulance going on the opposite direction (because that’s the only available choice) on a boulevard in a busy capital city like Bucharest. Saw that a couple of hours ago, the ambulance met a taxi which was going the right way but of course that the taxi had to stop and find a way for the ambulance to pass (by partly going on the sidewalk). I said to myself that unless we get to AGI there’s no way for an “autonomous” car to handle that situation correctly.
This one hurts. One of my favorite parts of his style was he often didn't hit the high hat on 4 of a 4/4 beat. It's hard to hear it but I always thought that was an interesting choice. Whether he did it because that's how he learned to play or to deliberately leave some room for other sounds on the downbeat, it was interesting to me.
Number of Short-Term Bitcoin Holders Hits All-Time Low, How This Affects the Pri
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Hacker News skews towards richer, more technical, and higher-educated and then makes systematic bias against pedestrian, working-class, and uncomplicated solutions. If it's too popular on HN I'd say it's a red flag.
I once moved across the ocean and newly purchased LG TV refused to work because I am now in the wrong region. Off it went to a landfill, this perfect piece of hardware :-(
I understand anti-EU sentiment, but who uses bitcoin for something different than transfering illegal funds and speculation?

I understand Ethereum and other smart contract cryptocurcies, but time when people believed Bitcoin is going to become currency are long gone
Prototyping, Remote Testing, Surveys and Usability Tools – UX
Oh, I think there is still some ignorance, I just don't think what remains is really much attributable to the “sort of on purpose” concealment by the community as to disinterest in the lifestyle of other subcultures by people outside.
Obviously you’ve never encountered Lead Singer’s Disease; a punch in the face is the only way.
That's the point of this comment chain. They don't have to make it work everywhere in the contiguous United States to have a useful product. The (robo)taxi market is concentrated in big metro areas and that's what their focus is.
Aggregate streaming data in real-time with WebAssembly
This is timely because just yesterday I was watching "Central Intelligence" with Kevin Hart and The Rock.

Early in the movie Kevin Hart's wife tries to get him to go to therapy and he says 'Black people don’t go to therapy. They go to barbershops to talk about their problems. And then they watch “Barbershop.”'

I think therapy can be useful for people of all races, shapes, sizes, and genders, and I support all initiatives that encourage mental health.
This is why you aren't on a team of high performing individuals
Here in the USA, just this past weekend, I spoke in a whistle to someone. They had their driver's side car door open, and they were in a parking space in a parking lot. Someone drove up and wanted to park in the open space next to them. The person with the open car door didn't see them. I whistled. They looked at me and I pointed with my chin to the waiting car. The person waved at me and closed her door.

Maybe my whistle wasn't a regularly used and defined "word" per se, but it was a clear and complete conversation.

Now that I think about it, I have different whistles depending on the situation. A high-pitched short whistle is usually "watch out". A short high-low-high whistle is usually reserved for friends to say "Hey, dude, look over here, I have something to say to you" usually followed by a non-verbal sign language, like pointing somewhere - "go over here" or "check that out". A low-high-low is for friends to more get their attention and let them know "I'm over here." The super loud whistle with your fingers in your mouth is "F-ing awesome" when you're in a crowd and the music group is playing a great song. It also has other uses. But mostly when there's a big crowd or the person you want to talk to is a long distance away. A bunch of high pitched whistles in a row usually means "danger/watch out."

There are other whistles, too. Just giving a few to illustrate how whistles are used right here in the good ole USA for communication purposes.

These are used infrequently, but I find most people understand what I'm whistling about and the different meanings of each whistle.
From what I've seen of Tesla's solution at least - even busy city centers and complex parking lots are very difficulty for present day autonomous driving technologies. The understanding level necessary just isn't there.

These things are excellent - undeniably better than humans at the boring stuff, highway driving, even major roads. They can rightfully claim massive mileage with high safety levels in those circumstances... but throw them into nastier conditions where you have to understand what objects actually are and things quickly seem to fall apart.
There are 2 iClouds - one where you store your files, and one where Apple stores all the data that it has collected on you from your device.
I don't think you see the whole of the harm done here. Yes, the extreme opinions come from one side, but to deal with it, the non-extremists have to take opinion-suppressing measures. Just the process of recognising and flagging posts that are bad for us is polarising.

There's a balance to be struck: I don't like the idea that the extremists determine what interesting content is permissible to discuss on HN. But while bringing attention to and discussing this article is good for consciousness-raising, I think this polarising process is damaging HN.
That sounds wrong and likely varies wildly across jurisdictions.

If you dig a hole on your property you better secure it, or else kids might fall in.
"We value your privacy" is even better.

That's actually an honest one, since they know exactly what the value is of the PII that they sell to third parties.
Surely this is just moving the goal posts. If they can launch in Chandler and in San Francisco then a huge amount of the contiguous United States is on the table.
I'm not defending the FBI or the Apple feature here, but on a lot of cases where abusers get caught it's because they were sharing pictures of their victims in groups where they exchange other pictures with other people into that. Sometimes those other pictures are on this databases. So this database matching things generate leads.

Last case I heard about was cleaning personnel in a body expression workshop for kids with learning disabilities that was sharing new pictures he took of girls in a Telegram group. The group was infiltrated by an FBI agent that allegedly got the link from a Facebook group that they found because of Facebook scanning for known hashes and reporting.
IMNSHO, as an undergrad, regardless of the field you end up choosing, you'd benefit from a solid introduction to axiomatic probability, a decent intro inferential stats class that actually uses your foundational understanding of probability, a decent linear algebra class (so you know what an eigenvalue is and how PCA works, at the very least), and a decent class in mathematical analysis.

That will give you the foundational knowledge to study any optimal decision making topic whether it is labeled as ML or AI as such.

Most undergrad ML syllabi I have seen read like bad intro stats courses anyway. However, it never hurts to know enough terminology so that you avoid being overly impressed by snake oil salesmen later (and ML has more than its fair share of those).
> Some TV manufacturers have gotten wise to this (sigh) and started hard-coding their DNS lookup IPs.

Is there a list of such manufactures? Don't want to accidentally buy one of their products.
Ah got it, makes sense. I guess I was just responding to "how can you have a normal community in US culture?" in abstract, not in regards to the people in the article.
Advertising comes in many flavours, and different flavours work for different people. E.g. I find that most tech-y people I know who say "advertising doesn't work on me" are very susceptible to the "laundry-list of features" type of advertising that tricks them into thinking they're being rational and objective about their decision process, while not questioning why they should care about any of those features.

For me, there's ads I actively enjoy watching. The old Cog[0] ad for the Honda Accord is one such case, as is the He-Man/Skeletor[1] ad for Money Supermarket (well, that and every other ad in that campaign). These work incredibly well on me as the brand awareness sort of marketing, and I'm sufficiently aware that I can correct for it — but I'm almost certainly unaware of my susceptibility to other sorts.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ve4M4UsJQo
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PgTjhx1VLw
I'd still buy a self-driving car that refuses to drive on that road.
Ben, is that you?
I rather like my reaction GIFs and discussion threads. What I want to see is a modern IRC with these features, and an optional per-channel/per-server message persistence to deal with not knowing what happened while you were away, or while the mobile IRC app of your choice was killed by the Google/Apple background task manager that only allows you to dodge it with proprietary push support.
Never again will I buy anything Samsung.

They have steadfastly refused to fix my fridge's ice maker even though they have admitted it's a design fault, and retailers will not take it back as faulty because the ice maker is not considered vital to the functioning of the refrigerator in general.
Why not just put those feed in your RSS reader? What does the extra step add?
Show HN: Dopaminite – I wasn't productive, so I built this tool for myself
Or, you know...she COULD walk over to where he is.
I'll add (3) the only reason IRC isn't equally abused is because it's so bad that it can't attract enough people to justify any kind of ad-based (or otherwise) monetization model. IRC is the opposite of being a victim of one's own success.

EDIT: I should note that beyond being more usable than IRC, I have precious little good to say about Twitter.
The Story of Playdate
For simple devices probably user space is just fine.
i.e. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/spi/spidev
Usually only if you need an IRQ or something does it require kernel space.
As someone who learned to drive in the city, those roads make me sweat bullets.

My grandpa who drives on those roads primarily, sweats bullets in the city.

Maybe you’ll have different driving models to load in different scenarios …
There's a reason for that.

Two people walk into a random corner store. One is a poor, immigrant person who happens to be white. The other is a rich, college-educated citizen who happens to be black.

Guess which one most shop owners are gonna be keeping an eye on.

I am a white father of black children. My hometown has a notorious speed trap that every person in the community knows snares black motorists. If my children were white, I wouldn't even have to mention it except in passing. But they aren't, and if they ever drive around in that town when they are older, I will have to specifically point out to them where the speed trap is to keep them safe from the people who are supposed to be there to protect them.

The one-word descriptor IS the most important one for dealing with strangers and law enforcement in the US whether anyone likes it or not. It's unfortunate and unfair, but unfairness and misfortune never stopped the world from turning.
> you think we are talking about here for 60k in Amsterdam? Is that a senior Software Engineer? Or even an engineering lead (responsible for a bunch of other SEs)?

Yes, at most I'd say at that seniority level, that's why I'm questioning it. (300k is probably at a higher level AND with stocks, etc)

(Though I mentioned Berlin, not AMS, which has slightly higher salaries)
>are on track to sell 800k this year

Zero of which will be bought by me.

>Apple adds these arbitrary digital locks since they protect against the threat model of physical access

Apple can add as many arbitrary digital locks as they want. The problem is that they keep the key instead of giving it to the user.
One of these things almost sideswiped me the other day. I wish they'd go away.
Thank you so much for a relevant article! At least it shows that in some/many asymptomatic cases there is an adaptive response. That makes me feel a bit better.

However, from my very first post "vaccine immunity is more robust than asymptomatic infections"... and detectable antibodies is a far cry (orders of magnitude) from neutralizing antibody levels, which are not uncommon even 8 months out in healthy vaccinated youth.
It's actually a quite good idea: https://www.single.earth
> People on HN like to say that buying a regular display panel without any of the "smart" features is cost-prohibitive, but it isn't

My argument is the opposite. It can be very difficult to find a dumb TV that actually has a high-end panel in it.

One avenue is the digital signage models, but they can be super expensive, and are not always available via normal retail channels.
Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28247379
You are making a ton of assumptions about what is driving this decision.
> why are you installing so many packages that you don't need just to complain about it?

there are 1000s of packages, who has time to select a small subset of that? easier to install chubby swathes at a time.

and you can't install devel versions without bringing in many various forms of TeX

recently I install the emacs package on a system and it required python; that's sacrilege
That's odd. I've never given Twitter a phone no. (Granted my account predates their phone no. fetish.) Still use Twitter daily without any issue. Perhaps it's because I'm still logged in and not trying to re-login?
“Give me your SaaS idea and I'll tell you what it should cost.”
Just wait till your Samsung TV phones in to your Samsung mobile to share wifi credentials. It's zero click convenience!
Does anyone have non-paywalled link? I used my limit of articles
And yet if you Google public intercourse the whole first page is all about sex. (Safe search off, probably.)

I maintain that public discourse is the pair of words to use.
Everybody who ever thought that crypto currencies will not come under this scrutiny was highly delusional.

All other governments will follow soon.
Middle steps:
(1) Board members use product to travel to board meetings. (2) Board members use product as replacement for personal vehicles. (3) Board members demand pay increases.

Back in 1999 the Chinese government announced that airline execs would be airborne at the changeover as reassurance that aircraft were safe from Y2K. Like or hate them, the incentive logic was sound.

https://www.wired.com/1999/01/y2k-in-china-caught-in-midair/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/chinese-airlines-won-t-be-bi...
"If Google can't do it with its massive resources and sensors don't ever expect a Tesla to perform better than this."

10 years ago this might have read:

"If General Motors can't do it with its massive resources and sensors don't ever expect a Tesla to perform better than this."
This! I'm never buying any kind of smart TV again. I currently have one those TCL TVs with Roku built in and it sucks. All of the apps on it are slow, the menu/home/OS is slow. This could just be a overall Roku thing but I'll never buy either a Roku or a "smart tv" again.

I mainly use Apple TV and PS4 to access all of the streaming services. They are slick, fast, and responsive.
Did you miss the point?

We are talking about 2 events during the pandemic.

bodies in big rigs in NYC -- they were shown to highlight the need for social distancing, masking, induce a sense of panic etc among the public - something that the media and party was game to.

the bodies in elderly homes - a political decision (there were alternatives to sending infected seniors back into these homes), and the media hid it, ostensibly to protect their masters.

That is what I was referring to?

I am wondering if you are even aware of these happening? I would say there was almost a blackout of these news during that time in the mainstream media.
Open Logic Project: Open-Source Logic Textbooks
This is also a bad thing.
I'm not even a native Spanish speaker and I was surprised to find that I could follow along pretty well using the subtitles.
Cars and phones both can be remotely disabled. This will reduce help crime in the long run.
> We’ve done a 103 patient pilot study, which showed that our software successfully interpreted 100% of ECGs and could even replicate doctors’ clinical decisions.

Do you have a link to the study? Isn’t that a relatively low number of patients to validate against?
Which has now passed, with TLS1.0/1.1 still working.
> It may not scale to rural areas though.

Most products, including this one, don't need to do everything to be both useful and profitable.
This just makes it more obvious to me that I am not a normie. The idea of just turning on the tube and watching whatever is on would never occur to me. I’m either looking for things that match my admittedly non-mainstream tastes, or I’ll turn it off and read a book or play with one of my hobbies.
Your leg is being pulled.
“The time has come to admit that we control our economy for the common good.”

This is a nice sentiment but does not square with reality.
> There were a couple of movies around this trope.

It’s even referenced in a Disney (Pixar Animation Studios) film (Soul, where the main character’s history of arms-length interactions in that context as a violation of social norms is called out.)
EDID emulation is great when you have multiple screens, and wish to prevent MS from randomly scattering your Windows all across your other screens every time you click to another input.

I don't miss the BONG!s, either.
Gold is knowing what the customer wants/needs because then you can actually sell them something. But I doubt any amount of "data" will be able to figure that out.
I'm pretty sure the USA has consumer protection laws against deceptive advertising, so a company can't just say whatever they want when selling a product in order to convince someone to buy it. Maybe Tesla protected themselves with clauses in the purchase contracts that absolves them from having to pay the purchaser back in the event of their own failure to deliver, but I think a FSD purchaser might have a case just based on Elon's verbal promises that have failed to come true over and over again.
Would it be easier to just build a "futuristic" test city built around the idea of self-driving cars to make it easier for them to work? If self-driving cars are so great people will move there naturally due to improved quality of life. Trying to make self-driving cars work in current cities is like building around crippling technical debt

Seems like Google and a few other tech companies could easily bootstrap a small city by planting some offices somewhere
If there's a person at an intersection directing traffic, it will be very hard to have the car itself communicate with them as easily as a human can. Edge cases like that is where AGI would be needed it seems.