skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You basically can't buy a new car in the US like this. They will all have a backup camera and an infotainment screen with controls for the car integrated, and they use the same parts from the rest of the cars in their lineup and collect all the data they can.

You could buy an older car like a crown victoria or similar models that were used as fleet vehicles from the same time period. The police models don't have TPMS, cruise control is disabled by default, no LCD screens, no bluetooth, no cellular connectivity, no voice controls, no ignition interlock, no cameras for lane keeping or early crash warning. HVAC is has dedicated controls. It still has an engine computer that controls the timing and fuel air mixture, cooling, turn signals, throttle by wire(after 04), and ABS. To really avoid anything digital you would need a car from the mid 80s or older for one with a solenoid for the turn signals, carburetor for fuel/air. And going back to the 50s to avoid an electronic fuel pump and ignition coils. An air cooled vw beetle for instance.

For new cars, a mazda 3 can be a good option. It doesn't use a touch screen and has a wheel/knob instead. The controls are more simplified, few to none of those electronic driving aids on the base models. Volvos stand out as having great physical controls as well, but they will come with all of the electronics. An f150, dodge challenger, grand caravan can be pretty light on the electronics for the lowest trim levels compared to the competition. And all of these are used as fleet vehicles by rental car cos and similar, so there are lots of parts out there
So far. Transplanting things to a different biosphere is just so.. icky.
None of these sound like choices that will result in a significant increase in privacy unless people, en masse, collectively decide to do it with a hive mind that doesn't exist. People are technically "choosing" the status quo, but doing it from a very limited set of options.

What you're doing is like saying citizens of North Korea are "choosing" to live under the Kim regime because they could technically try to overthrow him if they wanted to. You have to consider the costs of doing so and the likelihood it would succeed.
So long as we get to make a heroic - if futile - last stand, I wouldn’t even be that upset. At least we’d know we are not alone.
Yeah. So benign, right? “Anyone can do it”. Only in practice it’s the people (and “people” (corporations)) with the most money that do it the most.
Why would you think that? The typical sex offender has a very clean façade, they are often social justice champions themselves because that makes it easier for them to hide what they do.
... which facilitates and end of free and fair elections in the US
It seems to have stopped those annoying piracy letters from my internet provider.
What is the benefit of using prettier as opposed to the built in typescript formatter?
Yeah Alter Ego isn’t. I think parent was looking at officially available paid offerings only. Not pirated streaming which the grandparent/OP is referring to. Content creators don’t get anything in that case though.
If I didn't need a performance oriented car there would be a Lincoln Town Car in my driveway for sure. The mercury and lincoln are the sweet spots since many are available from older, responsible owners.
I think he is trying to describe tax loss harvesting

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/taxgainlossharvesting.a...

What robo advisors can do.. is sell say.. asset A that perfectly tracks an asset (say S&P 500)... and then buy asset B that perfectly tracks an asset (say S&P 500).

So you end up with the "same thing" at the end of the day, but got to harvest some losses.

That said, I think there are some iffy legal situations here, and you run the risk of breaking the law here.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/robo-tax-loss-harvestin...

https://www.sofi.com/learn/content/automated-tax-loss-harves...
I would actually expect the opposite - that FSD gets banned in the short term because mistakes are a. inevitable and b. super, super dangerous.

I think self driving cars only become safe when every vehicle is capable of self driving, and infrastructure is adapted accordingly.

happy to be proven wrong though!
Engineering is critical, going to a top engineering school is not. Society does not need more engineers going to MIT and then taking a job at Google. Society does need more genius researchers pushing the boundaries of science, but I find it very unlikely that those people are not already admitted to top schools even in the absence of affirmative action. You can claim people have potential but potential doesn't cut it when one candidate took some community college classes and the other one won a national math competition.

> let's assume that the lawsuit's basic premise is correct

We don't need to assume, we can look at the makeup of UC and UW schools which are legally barred from using affirmative action and are similarly ranked. They average ~50% Asian.

> mono-culture

Your basic premise is that the greater proportion a race is of the population, the more monocultural the population becomes. Not only is that racist, but coming from what I assume is a white liberal it seems very hypocritical.

> responsibility to see to it that those who are not have an opportunity

I'm happy to support income based affirmative action. As we all know, parental income plays a far larger role in SAT scores and lifetime earnings than any systemic discrimination. But racial discrimination under the guise of affirmative action is a terrible idea that doesn't actually result in better outcomes. When you admit objectively less qualified people because of a quota those less qualified people end up doing more poorly down the line in the real world.

For example, even though CMU enforces a 50/50 male/female quota on its CS admits, the makeup of high paying jobs with people from CMU still ends up around the industry 80/20 male/female split, because the 20% that would have originally been qualified to get in without the quota end up doing just as well as their male counterparts that didn't have affirmative action benefits and the other 30% struggle to keep up because they weren't qualified in the first place.
This is true and it is annoying, but there is an upside. When a streaming service starts to suck, it is super easy to cancel just that one service. Consumers finally have some pushback on the programming.

Cable ate itself when most channels realized that reality programming is astoundingly cheap to produce and it made no difference on their income. If you are subscribed to the Sci-Fi streaming service and it switches to pro wrestling content, you just cancel the service.
Then none of this would be a problem. The issue is that frameless windows usually need electricity to operate
This.

All of these other topics you see on either side of the political spectrum are convenient distractions for things like the Panama Papers, lobbying, and corporate welfare.

How do we keep topics that matter across the political spectrum at the forefront of public view?
Zstd is an amazing bit of work and all I ever use for data compression nowadays (or LZ4 when speed is even more critical). Several times the compression/decompression speed of gzip, approximately the same compression ratio with default settings.

It's also supported by tar in recent Linux distros, if zstd is installed, so "tar acf blah.tar.zst *" works fine, and "tar xf blah.tar.zst" works automatically as well. Give it a try, folks, and retire gzip shortly afterwards.
Yes indeed! “Microsoft Windows User Experience”. I got a used copy off of Amazon last year for $2
> I wouldn't buy a new daily driver that doesn't have blind spot monitoring, collision avoidance, lane keep assist, etc. Once you have these features and you are accustomed to how they work, you can't go back.

And I don't like them. But only one of us has the government taking away our choice by making them mandatory.

I wouldn't mind them if it wasn't for the fact that they universally seem to be points of failure that shorten the lifespan of the car.
The squids are the ones taking all of them, duh.
- COVID will continue to be a thing. Some new variant will come along and force everyone to lock down again.

- Supply chain issues will get worse throughout 2022, massively fueled by US-China tensions and COVID related shifts in demand. Major inflation like we haven't seen since the 1970s.

- Crypto will undergo a major crash in 2022. It follows predictable, cyclical patterns, and we are nearing the end of the classic boom/bust cycle. It is unclear whether this will cause the Tether situation to blow up.

If the first 2 happen, then I do not think crypto will crash. I'm fairly sure the reason it blew up this year was a combination of people being bored at home because of lockdown and people trying to protect against inflation.
I mean everyone is unaccomplished compared to chris sawyer for roller coaster tycoon :)

Most software projects are forgotten pretty quickly though, so if you're looking for a longer impact on life in general, consider the community you live in. plant a tree. clean a highway. Software dev is ephemeral, and most software rockstars aren't even known outside a small circle.
Don't be so hasty... let's find out what the pay and benefits are, first.
I've purchased domains from GoDaddy and they reclaimed them, claiming that they sold them to me in error and that they had already been purchased. This is for multiple domains, within minutes of their release by the way.
My wife drives a 2007 Ford Escape, still going strong at 194k miles, and I'm just praying it doesn't fall apart on us.
The mob didn't try to stop him, they tried to kill him.
Amazing! I can't wait :)

If for some reason I don't respond please reach out on Twitter. My personal email gets a lot of spam and Google is great, but occasionally real stuff slips by.
Google Messages may soon show iMessage reactions as emoji
I would suggest you to look at https://rebase.co/portugal if you want to travel and https://nomadlist.com to discover cities and countries where you can work and feel well.
Show HN: Decentralized mapping of emails&phone no. to crypto wallet addresses
Listening to Coral Reefs [audio]
Thanks, I will take a look when I get home. I was using rdesktop via BeRDP and on its own, but it choked on the auth portion. IIRC FreeRDP failed to launch. Also tried the KRDC port but it never gave me the option of using RDP despite its claims.

I was a little annoyed at the gigantic pile of packages that came along with those last two options, but there's no need to rehash rehash that argument. I do wish there had been an obvious way to clean those up after removing the applications they supported though.
Hurricane Electric (Fremont and San Jose) is one of the best colos around in terms of value and support (remote hands.)

Last time I checked it was $400/month for a rack (cabinet) with 15 amps and 1 Gbps. You just ship or drop off your gear, and they can install it for free. IPMI configuration is also free. Tickets are free. Owner is a networking expert.

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If the governments start locking down again Conservative states will see house prices rise.
> and prefer their cars without fancy digital gimmicks

What's a 'digital gimmick'? Is stability control a gimmick? ABS? What about cruise control? Lane assist? Auto-breaking to avoid collisions?

If you are talking about things like touch screens to control basic functions, then it's understandable. Or maybe you want a car without GPS.

In general though, moving functions away from hardware makes things more reliable, not less. When was the last time you had to adjust your engine timing? Or disassemble a carburator to figure out issues, rather than plugging in a scanner and having the onboard computer tell you what's wrong.
What client are you using for messaging/email?

Not that I'm a huge fan of Outlook, but it has a "delayed delivery" option that schedules when the emails leave your outbox, and an "Urgent" option that highlights the email in the receiver's browser. I don't know if I would want those features in a messaging/chat app. The whole scheduling aspect seems to lend itself to the asynchronous aspects of email. Unless you tailor the notifications in your messaging app, everything is basically "urgent".
Are you being obtuse deliberately?

First, no, most people didn't choose borders and customs. The very people we are talking about, the people that send money home, and their advocates, often ignore borders deliberately. I don't recall choosing any of that stuff. I don't think there's a person alive today that did.

But that aside, we aren't talking about someone checking your luggage for fruit seeds on the way in. You know damn well what mess I'm referring to, because you've spent however long in this thread defending it like none of the problems people point out exist.
Is there some difference between streaming companies and classic movie studios that makes this the case? Arguably, the current state of movies is a direct result of studios realizing that well-produced, middle of the road content is the most profitable.

Of course, I could be missing something about the industry and how streaming has shaped it. I just struggle to see how the streaming ecosystem has different content requirements than a normal movie studio.
Galactically-feared aliens arrive on Earth and come up with a diabolical plan to force us to work 4 hours a day, three days a week with full medical, dental, and prescription coverage along with 60 days of vacation per year.

The rest of the galaxy scratches their...whatevers...wondering why the humans throw down their tools and rush to work for the invaders.
This is only true in letter (rather than spirit) because subscription television in the UK was delivered by satellite (“Sky”) rather than cable - a fully loaded sports and movies package would easily dwarf $170/mo, and still required a separate phone line from BT in addition.
How is disappearing someone in order to intimidate them into operating "on a short leash" anything other than plain evil?
The other day I had another pleasant experience with Microsoft browsers. I still have a few legacy applications at work that work best in IE. We set the home page to our corporate intranet site. Seems standard enough right?

Upon opening it, IE immediately opens and focuses a new tab which I will paraphrase: "I see you're not using bing.com as your home page. Would you like me to change that now"?

It confused me because a few months ago I opened IE on this same machine and it directed me to a different page (again paraphrased): "You really should start using edge."
I like the soap opera analogy -- hadn't thought of that. But keep in mind that actors (and other folks that work in long-running shows) will still take other jobs as at the same time as their main gig -- e.g taking a part in a movie in between seasons. That sometimes happens with programming contractors as well, but from what I've seen its far more rare.

Ultimately I agree with the other responder that Hollywood agents are better thought of as deal makers/negotiators than job finders so maybe what limits it from showing up in the software contracting world (and other parts of the film world) is that contract terms are much more standardized so not as much time is needed for negotiation and thus the programmers can do it themselves.
How does not paying for something you weren't going to pay for anyway harm anyone? If it was a physical good, sure. But a zero marginal cost good? nah that's not selfish at all.
Can't quite remember the cost of it, maybe $25k at the time? It was the classic Caterham 7 that is maybe the most common kit car, green with a yellow stripe down the middle.

Reasonably easy build, but you need a bunch of torque wrenches and a dolly (Is that what they call is? Thing that can lift an engine?). The tools aren't hard to get, but you want to rent the dolly for a day. Nobody can lift the engine block.

It's not really that hard to do, just quite time consuming. There's a heck of a lot of parts to put together. Of course you will need a locked garage to put it in, it can't just be thrown together over the course of a weekend. Took maybe a few weekends for three busy people with jobs.

Use it for? My colleague bought it and drove around in it. It's quite a basic car by modern standards. Feels like you are touching the road when you're driving it. Also the clutch is unforgiving. Tiny bit too fast and the thing dies, and you're sitting in a busy junction with people laughing at you. Also it's really a fairweather car. There's leather panels that will stop it being flooded but in rain it's quite uncomfortable.

It's also not a car that a lot went wrong with. What is there to break on such a thing? But to be fair it also wasn't driven much.
The thing with Google is, the search-based model for information finding itself is indeed what enables this but it's what enables the Internet itself. There is no index-based search engine that wouldn't be actively gamed by scammers. Scamming is so profitable that one can say 99% of the Internet "by flow" is fraud. And this results in Google being both the enabler of and the wall that stands against scamming. Any purely algorithmic approach to indexing obviously would be taken over. The problem of gaming scammers would exist whether you had Google or a competitive group of search engines. And this situation makes concentration natural since the engine that invests most in finding quality will return it most and so it will be preferred by consumers.

And yes, Google itself is degenerating. I'm not sure what the solution is. The Internet has incubated such an economy for fraud, I imagine waking up and the whole thing will hacked.
Funny you should mention access control. One of the stumbling blocks for me when I did a bit of GraphQL work was adhering to the best practices listed here: https://graphql.org/learn/authorization/

That says authorization should not be in the resolver but putting it elsewhere often resulted in much more complicated code. It makes sense if GraphQL is coexisting with REST or other end points because they could all share the same authentication code, but for pure GraphQL projects it seems arbitrary.
> If you reject the notion that Alexa-powered devices are bad

Why would we do that, considering the evidence available to us?
*1 & 2 trillion over ten years.

The actual addition to the federal budget isn’t that dramatic.
Counting the different vehicles to boot strap it and have it start saving training images into the categories so that a new model could be trained against those images, and not rely on object detection to create new training data or power that app.
>Half America was publicly making fun of the previous president. Try that in China.

If the whole establishment and the deep state was similarly with you, you could do that in China too.
I expect Tesla to give up on driving by cameras, and simplier solutions requiring less processing power, but a more bespoke combination of hires maps, cameras, lidars, and other sensors, to acheive practical FSD before Telsa.
Sorta predictions, sorta hopes...

GPT-4 or another huge language model like it will be released, and we will see diminishing returns continue to plateau.

Graph-based approaches in NLP will continue to grow in significance, with KGs, ontologies, and semantic graphs seeing growing adoption for their interpretability.

Model robustness in ML will probably remain a significant obstacle to productionization, holding back use-cases that need high reliability e.g. self-driving and front-facing chatbots.

Reinforcement Learning may see increased research focus for applications in NLP and user interaction.
There was no restriction on their speech at all, only on their presence in the courthouse. They're free to watch the streams and report as they wish. That restriction abides by the normal 3-prong test for time, place & manner restrictions:

https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1023/time-place-and...

* The regulation must be content neutral.

There was no restriction at all on the content of their publications.

* It must be narrowly tailored to serve a significant governmental interest.

They were kicked out for the duration of the trial (one whole day), which is narrow. This came after they were caught interfering with the constitutional rights of a criminal defendant, which is a significant governmental interest.

* It must leave open ample alternative channels for communicating the speaker’s message.

They can easily watch the streams everyone else is watching and report, so it has no meaningful impact on their coverage at all. There were no content restrictions put on them of any kind.

They were given due process, and none of their speech was censored at all. The only restriction was on their physical presence near the jury, there was no speech-related restriction whatsoever.

Perhaps you can explain how legally or culturally this impinges on free speech? It's very clearly lawful and appropriate given the circumstances and I cannot see how it in any way chills their speech.
i forgive facebook all their abuses just because they gave us zstd
- Companies that are buying up large swaths of real estate figure out that "money pit" is a real thing, and owning a thousand houses isn't a good way to make hard cash. They start merging with one another to stave off a crash.

- A new social media company starts to gain traction. Because that's what happens every few years.

- People start unloading their streaming subscriptions when they realize that for many people, they cost more than cable or satellite. But rather than go back to the other delivery methods, they just consume less video. Streaming companies start to cannibalize one another, and set up for merging.

- My wife will continue to complain about her neck pain, but refuse to stop scrolling through Instagram hunched over on the toilet. She will continue to try to hide this from me.
> As it stands, I can't play anything >720p because of DRMs.

Should be able to play 4k via the official Netflix app on Windows, assuming you have the relevant chain of DRM protection (ie. TPM might be required, along with HDCP cables and monitors).

> (though failing miserably),

I'd argue that they're winning, actually - torrenting these days requires some upfront costs (hard drives and a media server) and an initial time investment (dedicate $xx hours to learning and managing a media server + media library software). It's much easier to punch in your credit card to the 3 streaming services you want to use that month.

This is on top of the fact that most media giants contract out a service to automatically send DMCA takedown requests to the ISP of every torrent peer. If you're in the U.S. doing this, you're most likely going to get a letter from your ISP asking you to stop torrenting illegal content. Xfinity in particular has a 3 (or 6?) strike system for DMCAs, after which they'll terminate your service. Any torrenting effectively must be accompanied by a VPN that is torrent-friendly and ignores DMCAs.
A country with even longer tradition of governmental skills would be ... Iraq.
You'd go to the manufacturer and convince them to bundle your app store I guess.
Important to note every two term president doubled the national debt (except Clinton) going back to the fiscal conservative the Right puts on a pedestal, Regan, who tripled the national debt.

Congress has 1 job to balance the budget…and they have fucked it up since WW2, yet the still get unlimited terms, full pay, full benefits and full pensions.