skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, but we don't have the capacity to do an investigation of this sort - Bose does; and we don't have the authority to force Bose to conduct it - CPSC does, as do the courts.

Hence my suggestions to direct our efforts toward having the responsible government agencies work with Bose on researching and addressing the root issue.
> wide range of output formats

Not to mention a wide range of destinations, too. Want to log to a database table? You’re covered. What about log messages to a chat server (xmpp, slack) or email but only fatal errors? You’re covered.

Now roll your own logging system that supports those destinations safely and get back to me to do pen testing. I bet we’ll find some vulns in your code.
Fascinating to watch cryptocurrency and blockchain become the go-to pivot for those who have run out of traditional ways to be profitable.

Is this the original company transitioning to cryptocurrency? It was the RadioShack brand simply auctioned off to someone who wanted to use an established brand for their crypto project?
“given enough eyeballs, all exploits are shallow.”

- Raymond Eric
Paris taxi firm suspends use of Tesla cars after fatal accident
Similar thing happened to me with Square. I used their debit card and applied a boost for grocery shopping. This promised some percent discount if I shopped at a grocery store. I did a sizable purchase (>$50) and at checkout withdrew $20 in cashback. Turned out, they had hidden conditions for denying the boost if the transaction involves cashback (no way to know this at all). I contacted support who just gave the templated "can't do anything about it sorry" and they force closed the ticket. I would have accepted if they just applied the promised discount on the grocery portion of the bill (since they can clearly detect the cashback), but this seems beyond their ability to program... and at the consumer's expense?

These big companies power themselves by automation, losing sight of the fact that they should be designed to serve humans, not harvest nickel and dimes off of them. It's so easy for them to profit off of massive scale but they can't find any port of the budget to cover their own programming errors and bugs (as rarely as they do occur)??? It's easy to prosecute companies on egregious scams, but these small programming errors that probably affect a non-trivial amount of customers in small ways probably add up to big scams in scale but fly under the radar.
It's not, but I can see how it seems that way - I found this with a two second search:

The world population increased from 1 billion in 1800 to 7.7 billion today.

I'm not going to do the math but there's something to be said about how many we are today vs. even 200 years ago. But, no, the majority of humans ever born are not, in fact, still alive today...

https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth
Meanwhile trending on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/rj0a19/made_...

> Bill's Kitchen couldn't complete your order and has to cancel. We're sorry we couldn't complete your order this time but thanks for continuing to support restaurants.

> You'll still be charged

Commenters are saying this is flat-out illegal and OP should contact their bank.
Hey! This is really well made.

May I ask what the tech stack is?
If you scroll down and look at the 'The Team', you'll see it's two guys Alex Mehr and Tai Lopez. They bought the Radio Shack brand a couple of years ago:
https://www.retaildive.com/news/radioshack-brand-acquired-by...

Tai Lopez is a motivational speaker celebrity (first I've heard of him). And Alex Mehr is apparently a former co-founder of Zoosk (a dating app).
Impressive work from a very talented guy. Nice to see such good progess on this.
>Did any of these open-source projects that lag behind had a budget that at least was of the same order of magnitude of their proprietary counterparts? I don't think so.

No they didn't and that's why I put those lagging open-source projects as examples to make readers imagine that an alternate-history-open-source Mathematica may have lagged behind like them too.

I think you lost track of the argument put forth by this thread's essay from Jon McLoone of Wolfram. Your emphasis about "no big budget" actually supports his listed benefits of the paid model in: https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isnt-op...

Again, when he wrote : >[...] I think that it would not have been possible to create the Wolfram technology stack using a free and open-source model.

... he's saying you wouldn't have the comprehensive Mathematica product we see today with the open source model. Perhaps the histories of how GIMP/OpenCAD/SageMath evolved supports his point that Mathematica was correct in not choosing their open-source model?
Well I don't know what he was referring to, but at some point while I was at university I became totally addicted to the game "Football Manager". I would stay up entire nights playing that game. I had to completely quit playing it or I would have flunked out.
Not sure if it's more concerning like that or like "25% of the 800k Americans who died of Covid-19 were under 65 years old".
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The buyers are well aware they are buying stolen goods.
Fund a new fork
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No one was even talking about the "metaverse" until Facebook mentioned it. After Facebook mentioned it, no one was talking about anything other than what Facebook (or Meta) would do with it. Anyone looking to provide services or create content for the Metaverse is focusing on Facebook. All of the discussion on Hacker News about the metaverse is relative to Facebook.

There is no arms race here. There won't be many "decentralized" versions "using blockchain technologies." Maybe there will be one, and as with all other decentralized alternatives to social media, most people won't care about it. Everyone else will be using Facebook's version because everyone is already using Facebook and they already own the cultural mindshare. No one cares about NVIDIA's Omniverse.

Maybe Apple or Microsoft or Google also offer versions, but all of them will be centralized.

Sorry, you've already lost. And Web3 is just a scam.
It did not, in fact, cause "people like me" anything.

But the topic here is standards of evidence. Before injecting a substantial quantity of neurotoxic material into newborns, the burden of proof should be on you to demonstrate that it does not cause any harm.

That it appears not to cause epidemic autism, particularly, is not the same as causing no harm. Being seen to pretend that it is the same inspires reasonable distrust. It reasonably leads one to think that you are pulling a fast one, because you, in fact, are.

Demonstrating lack of a particular harm might take the form of showing how large a dose, or or how long an exposure at the dose newborns get (e.g., by continuous administration, matching excretion rate), is needed to cause that exact harm.

There are a great many ways that a neurotoxin could cause harm. Identifying one that it does not cause is absolutely different from showing none of the other possible ones occur. Pretending otherwise reliably demonstrates dishonesty, and inspires well-earned distrust. Making fun of people inspired to well-earned distrust inspires more.

Earning trust after actively courting distrust may not be achievable. The fault for that is on people like you.
Chargebacks are a thing in the UK, and the only time I've ever gone to my credit card company with one they resolved the issue properly.
> And that is due to the language and not, say, the writing tradition ?

No, neither.

> If we kept the same languages and made japanese people write it massively in 26 half sound symbols and made all of what you call a white european population use 3k+ ideogram drawings for word starting at 3 years old, do you think we d see exactly the same performance ?

Yes, the influence of spoken and written language appears to be zero. I mentioned this.
Thanks for the detailed reply! I will follow this down the rabbit hole...
UberEats is making money from VC and isn’t profitable [1]. They charge the customer a fee, and take 30% from the restaurant as a middleman fee.

[1] https ://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/if-uber-eats-isnt-profitable-now-when-can-it-be.html
Cause a stink then quit for good... ideally
Well, usually (?) it means turning a piece of music (audio) into written sheet music/a score. It means that in jazz and...I believe many kinds of contemporary music. (In classical music I've heard it applied to e.g. turning an orchestral score into a piano score, i.e. an arrangement.) Here they appear to just make MIDI files, avoiding the problem of how to write the notes most readably, which is a significant part of transcription, in both these senses.

All the examples given here, though, appear to be of a super-simple variety, with dead-simple chords, all notes with robotic, mathematically-simple timing over fixed tempos produced apparently by drum machines - like toy music, the kind of music that's no challenge at all to transcribe, and in the real world I wouldn't bother transcribing by hand as there's nothing to be learnt by doing so, as you can hear exactly what's going on without it. So, that's weird.
There is currently a thread on Reddit where hundreds are reporting having their orders cancelled but still being charged.

https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/rj0a19/made_...

A similar thing happened to me. I still have an email that says "your order was cancelled but we'll refund you in 3 weeks". Three weeks later I still had no refund but since so much time had passed, their support refused to consider my complaint. After trying everything I could think of I eventually reversed the charge with my bank which took another 4 weeks or so. Then shortly after that I tried to book a taxi through Uber (not UberEats) and was unexpectedly charged the original amount for my cancelled food order. Again I had to get that amount refunded through my bank which again took weeks.

Most people will not bother to get their money back. Uber's business model is literal theft.
I'm at one of such organisations and you have concisely described the situation.
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> I guess there's no real political will to do this.

Correct. Police generally don't give two figs about property crime.
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Yup, symbols are the hardest.

A few years ago (on sort of a whim?) I read a ML science paper without first having much of the foundational knowledge; I'd end up having to go off on more than a few Google dives per paragraph, just to understand what they were talking about.

But you can't Google an equation, or a symbol in an equation - at least I couldn't, and get meaningful results.
Unless the complaints result in the elimination of the SAT without a good replacement. Which is exactly what is happening.

I find it to be extremely destructive to spend all your time complaining about problems, and none finding solutions. That’s more or less what Maxism is: a long list of faults with capitalism and a half-baked untested idea of what could maybe be a solution. And we’ve seen the damage that ideology has done.
Tech alternates evolutionary / revolutionary oftentimes. Steam engine revolution lasted decades, but viewed from here looks like one thing. 1712 brought newcomen pump engines, james watt was 1760s, rigorously defended his patents so actually impeded innovation. 50 years!
As of December, 95% of US adults aged over 65 had gotten at least one vaccine dose and 87% two doses [1] which is considered "fully vaccinated" at this point. Seems like the group it affects most is taking the pandemic really seriously.

One thing that surprises me is how much I hear about 'anti-vax' rhetoric, however, when push comes to shove, the people with the highest risk are exceedingly receptive to the vaccine. Maybe the 'anti-vaxers' are just a very loud minority after all.

1- https://www.statista.com/statistics/1254250/share-of-older-u...

Just in case, I'm barely in my 20s and vaccinated.
Or 200,000 younger people also died. Those numbers are not to be brushed off.
What matters is to they keep record of these whatsapp requests, not that they use whatsapp. If they screeshot all the chats one by one print them and airmail them to the SEC in postcard format, this is still ok. Saying "oh snap we dont know why we traded 5M of this just before a market moving event because we lost employee communication" is not ok.
time is a flat circle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KodakCoin
A human can make smart decisions, even if his radio is jammed and he has no connection to base.

What does a "smart" killer robot do, without remote connection, in an unexpected situation? And wars are full of those.

And massive jamming (and hacking attempts as well as sensor confusion) is to be expected. So you either have armies that stop fighting regulary out of savety protocols (how likely is that in a war?).
Or they do not stop fighting and make AI decisions on who to kill.

As far as I am aware, every side knows this and every side is very uncomfortable with this. But it seems every side feels pushed to advance.

And sure, humans make errors, too. But autonomous robots have a tendency to work most of the time - and then unexpectedly make a exponentionally mess.

That's why most robots who can do damage, work in very constraint settings.

But even harmless roombas did make a mess, by swiping dog poo all over the house, while "thinking" it is cleaning.

Swarms of killer bots out of control .. is a scenario no one wants. And military is about control, they do not like things they feel they cannot control. So there will be caution. Hopefully it is enough, to not trigger bigger, potentially nuclear mess.
If you have some rare (rare as in it happens once every few months or something like that) error and you need logging about it. Also testing it ensures nobody by mistake removes that bit of logging by accident.
Yeah I think we're more or less saying the same kind of thing with different hopes for the future. I'm sure a lot of this will be worked out. I am excited for a computer as smart as my toddler - possibly within my life time - and hopefully with better ability to stay on-task!
really?

making an account just to post this?
Really interesting find. I had previously seen suspicion that this exact thing was happening. Were these Guerilla Gravity bikes linked to the showroom burglary that happened earlier this year?

Also, could you please try to get this posted on Pinkbike/VitalMTB? Would like to see this shared on other common bike sites.
Let's not conflate "quality" of the paper with whether the results are surprising or interesting to experts. As far as I tell, the work is competently done and provides useful information to consumers. Namely, that commercially available ceramic mugs likely do not pose a lead hazard, with quantitative estimates of the lead they leach.

It's not going to win a Nobel prize – but I don't think that should be the bar for taking food safety research seriously.
Yes, otherwise you'll miss out on world events that are important but not necessarily interesting to hackers.
> Yes the only "weird" thing in pascal

I guess you forgot about the semicolons which must or must not be there depending on location. And the final dot.

And, if we move a bit away from pure syntax, strings, even modern ones, which start at 1 for backward compatibility reasons with the original very limited Pascal strings, while dynamic array start at 0 (and original limited pascal arrays start wherever you like).
>The biggest problem for OP is that they messed up their first response, maybe due to inadequate fire safety training

Maybe due to that training not being required to use headphones. And maybe due to no information of what to do in such case being included in the product.

For the sake of all that's holy, even something as mundane as epoxy glue comes with clear instructions of what to do in case it gets on your skin or in your eyes.

Bose QC-35 II headphones may cause significantly more severe damage when malfunctioning, and they come with a hefty instruction manual. Perhaps if Bose included the fire safety training information there

> It's what we learn in primary school.

Our education standards differ wildly between school districts, counties, and states. There is no federal standard. What you learned in primary school is not what everyone learns in primary school.

If knowing this information is critical to the safety of the user, it should be in bold letters on the packaging.
Thank you! Most of the data can be queried and aggregated through the HN BigQuery dataset [0], and I run a periodic Node.js function to poll more recent posts from the API. The filtered posts are hosted in Firestore for most of the pages + Relevance.ai for the search. The frontend uses Next.js and the original HN CSS + small tweaks like the year display.

[0] https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/y-combi...
This is unfortunately how people get into the habit of thinking all crypto and blockchain is a scam - because a huge numbers of scams and silly ideas are indeed running in the space...
This is comically bad. “Thank you for supporting local restaurants”? Hahaha. Wtf.
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Resiliency and capacity to overcome serious health issues. 25% were not over 65. That's huge. This profile probably echoes the ratio for many serious infectious diseases survival once you exclude infant mortality.
The headline here reads a bit like "person takes mask off to eat a sandwich".

Obviously people use messaging software with their colleagues.

The correct solution is to design systems in which that isn't an issue. If you need to monitor what people are saying at all times then you have far bigger problems.
Well, here in Ontario 80% of the population has had the injections, yet 90% of the people in the ICUs are people who had no injection. The difference is something to think about.
I think you have to separate out verbosity that adds clarity vs verbosity as ceremony.

For instance, seeing "public static void" all over the place in java is irritating.

On the other hand, if I'm doing a code review and I can't do a quick "jump to definition", I'm much happier reading code like:

t rotateAround: v by: 90 degrees toRadian.

Vs.

t.rotate(v, 3.14/2)

Sure the former is slightly more verbose (not by much though), but it tells me so much more and I don't need to look anything up. Also even though it's longer, none of it is fluff or ceremonial.
There used to be

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org

and it crashed and data was lost AFAR.

There's now

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Computer_Language_Benchmar...

Just wanted to mention prior art.
I have no evidence to support this, but my assumption would be that if ESPN were offered separately they would need to charge substantially more to break even.

My thesis for this is that most people aren’t sports fans, but they pay for sports whether they want to or not due to all the bundling. In a way, non-fans are subsidizing the content for fans.

My sneaky suspicion is that unbundling sports would be a cataclysmic event for the sports television industry. I would pay $15/month for ESPN but I wouldn’t pay $25.

What do you think?
That's beside the point. The point is that when looking to see what jobs are available, the Linkedin job list is worse than useless.
What movie?
If everyone stops reading outside of HN, we won’t have HN posts to begin with.
So YES, not everyone should stop reading outside HN.
I think OP is saying that if you add up all the humans that have died in the past 10,000 years or so (modern humans), then that number is smaller than today’s global population.
Relax, I'm just complimenting his fine work.
Dorsey's arm wavey Block is a reboot of Nelson's Xanadu dream. Replace transclusions and zippers with blockchains.

Though Nelson never pretended Xanadu would or could be democratic, explicitly stating it'd be a new rent seeking regime. Eschewing ads for fees.

I wonder if Dorsey feels any contrition over Twitter.

Square (SQ $77b) runs on fees and uses ML to mitigate fraud and protect commerce.

Twitter (TWTR $36b) runs on ads and uses ML to amplify fraud and sabotage civil discourse.

Imagine if Twitter had been run like Square. Would Twitter's market cap be more proportional to it's cultural impact? Or would it have simply ceded the parasocial mediums to the other amoral profiteers of fear and outrage?

Stretching my capacity for both creduality and principle of charity, I hope Dorsey is trying to find out with Block.

And if DeSo, DeFi, FyFoFum, or whatever other magic beans fiction serves the end goal of restoring civil discourse, the suspension of disbelief would be a small price to pay.
Add to it the disease that all guest languages suffer from creating idiomatic wrappers instead of just directly calling into the rich ecosystem of the existing platform.
He got much more than a slap on the wrist, he go removed from his chairman incestuous position from Tesla. It's the first red flag of bad governance when the CEO is also the chairman (others are to have the board full of family members and overly paid sycophants, I let you google who s on Tesla board).

This will eventually be the starting point of a very slow reform at Tesla, so not a bad deal.
>There are also really high-quality information sifting tools available though.

Great way to get a birds eye view of the news. https://ground.news/
And making the decision to be a prick about her gender.
Cool service, thanks!

I suppose I should also elaborate, one hangup that I have is that my primary field (materials, specifically alloy design) doesn’t really have a strong preprint culture. So access to fulltext to build something like this covering non-ML-adjacent materials research is a real problem.

I’ve thought about pulling titles and abstracts from crossref or something, but I’ve never really gotten around to trying to make it with in earnest
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Absolutely terrifying.
Wow... I'd be curious as to whether or not this has occurred to anyone else. What were the vague reasons?
The favored solutions for "equity issues" usually involve jobs for left activists or NGOs - "defund the police" transmutes into "we need half a department worth of various flavors of social workers".
Ukraine has got strategic advance with the drones (Russia didn't get the message 2 years ago when the air defense Pantsir systems got slaughtered in Syria by those drones). Such a huge advance is though temporary - those Russian air defenses need upgrade to deal with the drones, and it will be done in the near future. So, Ukraine got window of opportunity to solve Donbass the way Azerbajan solved the Karabah using the same drones a year ago. So Russia is trying to prevent it by the public buildup of forces in the way which clearly shows that it can cut Ukranian Donbass forces from the rest of the country by scissor invasion from North and South behind those forces if Ukraine makes a move on Donbass now. Such invasion will be with huge losses and will cost Russia a lot and is very risky, and Russia doesn't want it (at least not at the cost it is going to be at right now), and i'm not sure that Russia can really pull it right now, yet it is the only response Russia got for now, thus such a public build-up of the forces looking a lot like bluffing in poker.
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