skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> actual physical mechanical knobs connected directly to the HVAC mechanisms

I'll admit to not living in Phoenix or the like, and it did take me time to trust climate control after only having simple A/C, but I doubt I'm alone in preferring to only adjust target temperature and letting the car automatically control fan speed and vents. Dunno if Subaru is especially bad at that, but in any situation where the interior is hot enough that you're trying to get "max A/C", I know leaving it at my normal auto 72° will cause VW and Mercedes to choose max A/C and blow out of the top vents.

But yeah, designs that completely hide the still-occasionally-used buttons like defrost tend to suck. It sucked in the 2004 Prius, and still generally sucks now. If designers want more console space or minimalism, get rid of big gear shifters instead IMO.
>There is no such thing as a clean burning gas stove. Even when not in use, they leak methane, and the majority of methane they leak is when they are not in use.

How exactly does a gas stove leak methane (or anything else) when it's turned off, so there's no gas flowing?
I’m a little confused by this comment. Agriculture, including the almond growers, only pay for the cost to permit, construct, and maintain a well, as well as electricity for the pump which is almost negligible.

Municipalities may have a water provider with a per gallon price. And finally, a very small few rely on rain water collection.

Having a “uniform water price” would never be possible, and even if it was, I am very skeptical it would “solve most of California’s water issues”.
Miners mine the longest chain for a given coin. This poster is proposing just making another coin, not forming the existing Bitcoin chain.
Rather than yet another workaround for not being able to update devices, I wish they would just solve the actual problem. For updates. Google should be able to do that without changing drivers/kernel. Similar to how Microsoft does it with Windows.
And if you need the output of your shell command in your buffer you can do :r !<command>
For companies like Airbnb, their frontline support often sucks.

However, a bit of sleuthing and you can sometimes find secret unadvertised support phone numbers they have that give premium support.

I found such a number for Airbnb (I don't remember what it was though, sorry) and they refunded me a $1.5k refund the frontline support refused to give me. And they did it on the spot.

I surmise these hidden support lines are for premium customers they actually care about.
Maybe I’ve just gotten lucky but I’ve been staying in Airbnbs all over the world for ten years now and this hasn’t happened to me yet. Bad Wi-Fi is a dealbreaker for me because I work remote.
Google, the new AltaVista
That doesn't explain why you would write your final words to the person imprisoning you rather than the supposed family and friends mentioned in the last words. Why not more than one letter, if you have family AND friends.

Seems to me like the warden is the only significant real person in their life and they lack the ability to distinguish relationships. I'm not a psychologist so just an observation.
As a thought exercise
Botter: attempts to spin up phone vm for botting Okay tiktok start up
TikTok: What hardware am I on?
Botter: insert common phone hardware here
TikTok: Okay, than this should work hyper firmware/bytecode specific virtualization commands and syscalls
(segfault)
There is this rather cute "intent laundering" ecosystem surrounding this work. Starting with Common Crawl, which uses the "we're not collecting anything, we're just a list of URLs" excuse to reject removal requests. And then feeding into nonprofits that effectively develop the technology for buyers such as Microsoft while being able to escape scrutiny because they're just small, charitable academic research shops...
Despite historical rains these reservoirs are still not back to their historical average levels. I'm guessing they will continue to rise as water flows down hill following the storms, but it is hard to get a sense of what is going on because the first derivative is not displayed.
I just spend an hour (that I will never get back) trying to find the right app and establish a bluetooth connection between my washing machine and my iphone. I don't actually see the point of it but given the claim of capability it seemed like the right thing to do at the time. What seemed to be the correct app wanted to connect to a TV, there was some kind of copy cat app, not sure what to call it, it had the same name and talked of making the home smart. The 3rd app, after getting a flash light and scannining the bar code hidden behind the door, making an account twice and validating my email twice didn't want to connect at first since I didn't know I had to keep the washer switched off until the phone (if we can call it that) was actively searching for a washing machine. It didn't have permission from the washer to do anything and pressing the button that should have made it so did nothing. I looked in the settings and it dropped the connection silently. After restarting the app the washer was grayed out. Clicking on it did nothing. I just added a second washer with the same barcode and it connected again. It was marked as connected in the phone settings but the granting permission button still did nothing.

The thing comes with countless programs but one should (so it is claimed) be able to download even more. I will certainly never use it but wanted to, you know, experience the experience. So now I have. It was everything I expected it to be and more. The exercise in stubbornness was truly in a league of its own well beyond my capabilities. Was I outsmarted? You tell me.
> Where do I go to watch my shows via DRM free downloads?

Vote with your feet becomes a bit more interesting here since the legal options are limited.
You know shell scripts can have functions right?

And nice stuff like command/options parsing + nice help messages.
please don't do this, especially if you work with map coordinates.
B2C isn’t a modern concept. USPS has done it for over a hundred years. People used to order things from catalogs. Does Canada have a national postal service that delivers parcels?
I knew I shouldn't have quit so soon!
What would be the shared motive for any of that tho? Like considering the requirements for forking (and the likely crash / loss of value) does that not present more of an anchor than most / all fiat systems which are regularly debased?
Thematically it’s pretty much on spot but stylistically nah. It needs to relax a bit and be a lot more informal / speechy and throw in some expletives here and there I suppose.
That generation of corolla is pretty much indestructible.
doing something like this means you have to pay attention to a few things:

* back/forward button behavior

* cache behavior

* bookmarks over time

surprising there's no discussion of it.
AWS Session Manager (aws specific) or Tailscale (anything) has solved this problem for me
It's nice you don't have set it up yourself, but it's hardly difficult to do in a shell script.
In general I find this concept pretty helpful. I've found it really helpful to make functions in my bash profile that have TODO statements for things that I have yet to completely automate, but still want an easy way to look up.

My only issue is that not automating the deploy is probably the worst thing to need to do manually. Having worked at a company that had a rather large and ever changing list of steps to complete in order to deploy (which took a 1-2 hours), it's something I find myself prioritizing now.
The MBE is a knowledge test. It tests how well you can memorize a bunch of state law that you’ll never use after the bar exam. Constrained by the multiple choice format, I’d suspect an AI could actually do quite well on the MBE portion. But nobody really cares about the bar exam.

The exam the industry is actually built around is the LSAT, which decides the rank of law school you get into, which in turn decides what career pathways are available. That’s a logical reasoning test with no knowledge component. It would be interesting to apply GPT to that.
I visited a retirement (with assisted living option) recently and thought, wow, this old conduction coil stove, picturing 1 of the measurements for my own grandmother's independence was her leaving the stove on.

My induction single burner has both a visual (touch) interface with audio cues, it has a built in timer, it automatically shuts off when it overheats, it's rapidly cool to the touch, it has a pan removed alarm, it has a built in fan.

I think between the distractions (cell phone, TV) and baby boomers, these are a lot safer than gas or conduction.

Anecdotally, having recently gone from conduction election to gas, it's weird to realize not only can my tools melt, but they can actually burn if they get too much flame up the side.
We should get rid of them since they have no value. Personally I like them because they facilitate trade and finance on a global, immense scale and allow for decentralised price discovery and information distribution. But then does trade and finance have value?
..wait maybe money networks do have value
AirBnB is basically useless when the alternative of a decent hotel is available. I have used AirBnB a fair bit but I can count on one hand the number of times (twice) that an accommodation listed on their platform was superior to most other options:

1. An absolutely beautiful loft run by a sweet woman in Ubud, Bali. It was a killer location.

2. I have a very reactive dog, so ground floor guest house near a venue was a no brainer.

But I'd take a hotel at least 90% of the time when given the opportunity. I'm still totally surprised AirBnB has reached the ubiquity they have, when it feels like a niche business.

Any business that is effectively a middleman is potentially replaceable by a decentralized solution. I know lots of readers here aren't really "into that", but I'd take a guess that there also isn't much love for middlemen.
Didn't Sam Altman found the notorious retina-scanning cryptocurrency?
EinkBro is a browser aimed at, as the name suggests, e-ink devices. That said, it has some really useful features, including a "save as ePub" option.

This not only solves the "format the document for my device", as ePub is a liquid-layout format, but also allows you to combine a number of articles into a single file (you can add more later), which is useful for organising reading by topic, project, or date. And you can read the articles using dedicated e-book software (Kobo, PocketBook Reader, FBReader, or native e-reader apps). I've found that especially useful.

More: <https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/107958709435468728>

(For Android only AFAIU.)

<https://f-droid.org/en/packages/info.plateaukao.einkbro/>
So many financial institutions use Watchtower for their risk assessment framework and I think they are adding crypto risk management to their portfolio
I'm a rock climber in an area with a lot of caves and there's a lot of overlap in the rock climbing and caving communities.

I've done some pretty bold climbing, and I've also done some climbing in some squeeze chimneys that would trigger a lot of people's claustrophobia. Heights can be a bit scary because there is objective danger, but tight spaces don't really bother me.

But the idea of something going wrong and having no way to call for backup absolutely terrifies me. It's why I have no interest in caving despite having been invited many times.
I would not, but I know some people who would consider a deal like that. At $12k/yr and your stage you’re basically hiring a cofounder, so four points is… not a lot. You sound like you probably still have most of the equity left, so I’d expect more.

And a cliff? Nobody does cliffs these days after big tech axed them.
Crypto is a pump and dump ponzi scheme, who would've thunk.
The incentives are set up so it doesn't matter. They don't lose if the company loses, if the product is shit, or if the engineers go through hell.

How many people ever got fired for selling the future for a short term gain? (how many of the few who did, didn't just get another, better job because of more experience?)
The LinkedIn href is wrong in exaloop.io website
Indeed, the adult child of the parent. The word child in English can refer to a very young person, but also commonly refers to the progeny of a person, as in the comment you were responding to, where child was used in reference to the parent that was also referred to in the comment.
> Since I update it on every graph edit, I get something major for free -- undo/redo. The browser's history stack becomes my undo/redo functionality.

A pet peeve of mine is that webapps shouldn’t hijack the browsers default functionality, here being back/forward that should refer to pages, not mutations of the same page.

Ideally, one would have a separate undo/redo button on the page for page or url mutations (which should always be in sync). But mutating the URL shouldn’t be done by pushing to the browser history stack, or if pushing one ought to remember to pop the current entry first so the result is a single mutated page on the history stack.
neither category should be inhabited, so yeah.
Check out Constitutional AI from Anthropic. They automated "RLHF" by simply writing a few rules.
Fate Core is dual-licensed under the OGL and CC-BY. https://www.faterpg.com/licensing/licensing-fate-cc-by/
Afaik D&D is the ttrpg game that has the biggest market share, more that 50% iirc. It's the only one known to the general public with several forgettable movies (one more soon), many games, and a lot of references in other cultural creations (such as the successful serie stranger thing) and was on the top of the wave created by the recent renaissance of boardgames/ttrpg.

As for the OGL license, you have to understand that ttrpg companies are usually very small (some people, sometimes only one) so they can't really spend a lot on exploring what is the best license or publicize a new one. So they take the license that is the most used in their domain which is the OGL
Authoritarians don't use the same tradeoff calculus the west does. They are willing to thrash their economy and populace to achieve their goals
>It can replace queries like "what's the tallest mountain in France", but that's not really a profitable query for Google.

Being able to answer unprofitable questions has value insofar as you become peoples' go-to search engine for more profitable queries. That being said, I agree the threat to Google is probably over-hyped. (simultaneously, the spectre of LLMs coming along and giving people a reason to visit a competitor is probably the biggest threat to Google in the past decade+)
Elastic Cloud password complexity has an “OR” condition
Yeah, Google is absolutely unique at this point in building an OS they can't actually update, and placing the blame for it on hardware manufacturers instead. Nobody else has this problem. Including ARM-based platforms.

The "blame and shame the manufacturers" strategy only gets you so far. Google can, effectively, dictate terms to Android OEMs: They have no competing OSes they can start shipping instead, Android is a complete monopoly. Google's not afraid to use this monopoly to do blatantly illegal things like requiring Google Search and Chrome... but they want us to believe they're incapable of requiring control of system updates?

I suspect the problem is that when Windows updates break compatibility, the Windows team has to fix it, and when Android updates break compatibility, they'd much rather the OEM be on the hook for the time and money needed to fix it.
I worked at Artsy, and the RFC process was, indeed, really great. It did a lot to empower anyone up propose changes.
lol

Seems to me Searle doesn't just prove Strong AI is impossible, but also intelligence in general is impossible.

I'll go with the most elegant "consciousness doesn't exist, not even in humans" argument.
> They weren't unplayable, they were hard.

↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A Select Start was a life saver
By that definition, you shouldn't be using computers or calculators or contacts application on the phone. These tools are augmenting our own computational units we carry around. Sort of like a external storage or a external tpu.
Wouldn't the corporations have their own AI lawyers to defend? And they can pay for compute more easily than you.
Yes, as I believe I said.

1/10 of a mile is a long distance. If you need that long to stop, you need to slow down. Might also be time for a new car or at least a brake job.
Sure, plenty. They just mostly require us to change over time. Maybe sapient species mature and don't feel the need to ever expand, for millions of years. Maybe interstellar travel is so hard nobody ever does it nor do they make machines that do. What worries me, though, is it doesn't seem that impossible. It seems like if humans exist long enough one of us is going to make and launch a Von Neumann probe that eats the entire galaxy. The fact no alien species has makes me think we're far and away more likely to go extinct long before attaining that capability.

I remember a line from a sci-fi novel: "We only consider a species mature when you could put the power to destroy the world into the hands of every single individual with complete confidence that none of them will ever use it." I think we're, eventually, doomed.
teslas front doors have a mechanical latch that opens the doors. the rear doors are out of luck :(
Open for Business.
Have you used it? Start working on anything. Next time you go to Google how to do something, or want to name something, or want to convert formats, or a dozen other things, just ask GPT. Say “give me 5 cool names for this”. Any task. “Show me a garden plot given plants from this time of year.” “Tell me about different types of LLCs and the tradeoffs.” “This code isn’t working what’s wrong.” You’ll quickly be able to feel how it can do your work for you, or shortcut hours of digging through garbage blogs and ad-infested pages served by Google. Go read one of the Twitter threads with 100 different insane, mind blowing examples of use cases.
I’m not about to claim I’m particularly good at programming, but you absolutely nailed why I like it and, in a sense, why I can endure something that would otherwise be excruciatingly boring.

I have a million things I want to do and programming can help me do them faster or better. Or it can help me explore different aspects of ideas in novel ways. I can generate art, automate a hydroponic garden, point my telescope at planets and stars automatically, program a fermenting chamber, make games, visualize data in interesting ways, and generally enrich my life.

The fact that I can do it well professionally is mostly a byproduct of using it to explore my hobbies and interests. The worst thing that can happen to me is work which doesn’t further personal interests in some way or another. Fortunately I can be creative about finding ways in which solving arbitrary problems can be interesting in other contexts where I might want to apply what I learn some day, and I can stave off potential burn out here and there.

But yes, I do a lot of stuff. Too many projects at any given time. The fact that I can program is an afterthought, and although I like it, it’s a means to an end and not the other way around.
The implementation is optimised for genomics, thats why.
> K-cups rank right up there with Dyson imho. Yea, it kind of solves a problem, but mostly it's great marketing

This ignores the fact that Dyson invented the modern bagless cyclonic upright vacuum design that was subsequently adopted by the whole industry. Without that improved design, I suspect that Dyson would have had a harder time displacing Hoover in the UK, where "hoovering" was (and is?) a generic term for "vacuuming." (Though I suppose Xerox and Kleenex have been somewhat displaced in the US in spite of their history as generic terms for photocopying and tissues, and Apple discontinued the iPod even though "podcast" had become a generic term. Etc..)

(Apple is also frequently criticized as an overpriced, marketing-driven company; in my opinion this ignores Apple's troubles before products such as the iPod, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch transformed their respective categories.)

I bought a refurbished Dyson DC07 vacuum years ago that I'm still using; besides its performance I like the way the parts snap together and the associated labeling/diagrams.

It is made of plastic though, and I could imagine parts becoming brittle and eventually breaking. Electrolux canister vacuums from the 1930s still work and you can get bags for them, but they lose suction as the bags fill up, and you have to buy bags periodically.
How is it hard? You just intersperse the adds in the text. "If you're interested in good headphones you should try Sponsor Raycons!"

Of course it will be annoying and alienate customers. Since when has that stopped any information provider from inserting ads into content? The better the product the more you can abuse your customers and make more money.
How is the US dollar not a digital currency as-is? I can put physical money into anything that is a bank in the states and get dollars to spend digitally…
Griswold made up a right to "marital privacy" (which may exist, but the application to birth control is a reach).
For what it's worth, this is a legitimate question to ask and I don't think it means you are a weird, overbearing, helicopter parent for asking it. It's what you would do with the advice that would make you one of those.

As for the answer, I would agree with the others that this is certainly not a "red flag", you can be a successful programmer without being a hobbyist programmer, and you can build a non-programming career on a CS degree. That said, I do find it unusual for a CS undergrad to have no interest in programming outside of coursework. It can be hard to distinguish between "no interest" and "interested in other things" though. It's worth understanding more, but if he's doing well in his classes he very likely knows what he's doing.
why would mining something make it valuable?

I can dig up rocks in a field and they won't be valuable just because I'm tired and sweaty and don't have anything else to show for it
> Are the savings that much?

It's often more expensive. I don't understand it either.
Galmon – Galileo/GPS/GLONASS/BeiDou open source monitoring
Researchers Hacked CA Digital License Plates, Gaining GPS Location and User Info
On top of what the other said about having a license that is well known, one of the rationale is not having to spend a lot of time and money being sure that nothing covered but the OGL in version 1 is used in version 2
I feel like the people who think ChatGPT is pointless, unusable, boring etc, don't really get it. If you need to know a hard fact, just Google it. GPT will tell you what to look for.

For example, I needed to learn about Slack chatbots. I asked it what frameworks I should look into, then how to use a specific framework or API. "Write me some boilerplate code doing X in Y framework". It's gets you up and running in minutes.

I'm exploring and learning other programming languages at a crazy rate because I can have it translate something I wrote. Or, "Hey, give me a demo C++ program that uses arrays, for loops, logical operators, and a simple class." "Great, now rewrite this in Node.js."

Sure, it might make a mistake, but copy and paste your error code and 90% of the time it compiles.

I highly encourage any skeptics to just sit for a couple days and try to get it to write code. Once you get the hang of what it can and can't do, it's immensely helpful. This is vacuum tubes to transistors paradigm changing shit.
The article is talking about atmospheric capture even if it doesn’t use those exact words.
The biggest downfall at the moment is it's questionable accuracy in some cases but saying you can't see any potential in this tech seems disingenuous at best.

The amount of time it could save just by being good at summarizing the thousands of pages of poorly structured documentation I read yearly is immense.