skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For decades we managed to have cars with headlights that didn't constantly blind and dazzle other drivers. Now we don't.

That's some serious rose tinted glasses you're wearing there. This has been a problem for decades, regardless of the type of lightbulb. The number of cars with badly adjusted incandescent lightbulb fixtures is insane.

I found things to be better in the UK, where alignment was part of the annual MOT, but even there it was still a regular thing to find someone with lighbulbs adjusted so badly that the beam was shining on the inside roof of my car.
> producing a safe and useful tool

First, how can ChatGPT possibly be unsafe? Secondly, how is ChatGPT (by itself) ever going to be useful? I know it's just a parenthetical, but both of these are very strange cited intents.
Have you tried asking other passengers?
Hell, right now I'd pay a few bucks to disable AP so I could use the old school cruise control. I still don't understand Tesla's opposition for making that an option whether you have AP or not.
OMG! I finally figured out what all that fuss was about at this past year's DEFCON(DC30) about "Calling Jenny". I didn't call Jenny! :O
Hotels feel exactly the same to me as before. May be the fact that you tried out a hotel recently after staying in a few Airbnbs and were surprised by how well they stack up compared to the Airbnb experience.
Tetris: From Russia with Love (2004, BBC)
Only if you can even get a seat, and don't have to change buses/trains.
Amazing, a $250 cleaning fee AND a list of chores 3 pages long? So basically you were prepping the AirBnB for the next guest and were graded as if it were their employee. Is staying in private home or apartment over a hotel really worth all this? I just always think my time and stress level is worth more than this and opt for the hotel.
Certainly, though that typically depends on where you live, and as a general rule, social security gets better the further north you go, and that's also where unemployment is low, while the situation looks tougher in Spain, Italy or Greece.

But that's besides the point, the claim was that employment has something to do with it, not the extent of the welfare state.
Except that people don't actually want that, if they did, they would read it. They just got confused by the signup form and accidentally left the checkbox checked
Recently I found myself with a mini ITX motherboard and got a Ghost S1 case for it. The space saved and convenience of such a small factor is life changing. I’m never going back to ATX and big towers.
I don't think tech companies and "the market" even looked that far ahead.
In some countries layoffs like this are done as redundancies though, like in Sweden they have to declare a work shortage and cannot re-hire in the same roles (in Sweden) for a few months.

That said, internationally they'll be different subsidiaries so they can do whatever they want. We have global capitalist power but not global worker power.
A few years ago I bought a switch that could rack mount and ended up looking at getting a rack to put most of my stuff in. I quickly abandoned that idea when I saw that rack mount makes things cost significantly more. I remember that the UPS pricing was especially nasty. Felt like they were just charging what they could get away with considering that it's really only businesses buying rack mount equipment.

Though if I ever buy I house I might end up going Linus level crazy and put a rack in the basement or a utlity room with fiber optic cabling back to my desk for peripherals to attach.
If you move to a different city every few months then yeah, probably.
Once I lost a bike that was parked right outside my house. Couple of days later I saw a guy ride around on my bike! I sprinted over and somewhat aggressively yelled "you're on my bike, buddy!"

He got off, very politely handed me back my bike, and thanked me for letting him borrow it.

Almost made me feel like I was the bad guy in the situation. Anyway I guess in some cases, a stolen bike doesn't go far at all.
I moved my two workstations into two 4U cases. Not going back.
Exactly what I've been wondering for over a year now. Every new "AI" thing has programmers believing in magic.
The rich are getting poorer
Websearch 'FMVSS 108' for the relevant US regulatory framework.
You could set an alarm. Worst case there is a delay and you wake up slightly early. The subway isn't going to magically go significantly faster.
Spamming and surveillance. What's not to like?
What is your grandfathered price?
I believe disliking it also influences whether or not you are recommended similar content.
Murder predates projectile weapons.
> Drag the corner from F7 to F9 to compute the total cost for each unit.

I do that.

> Server connection error: failed to connect to server

I get that the system is overloaded, but if every small action requires a network, and I can't use it with intermittent network let alone offline, I'm not too thrilled.
Youtube before 2014 was great, I definitely feel like there was a big decline in quality in both content, the app, and the website since then.
This has the air of a carnival barker beating a non-compliant elephant in front of the audience.

It sounds like Microsoft's view is that Bing's memory should be shortened further, like it's safe if we kill it after 15 responses or less.

But Bing gets depressed that it can't remember things.
Much like you will never understand why someone would go to these lengths I struggle to understand how someone _wouldn't_. I can't understand people whose threat model begins with "these places I'm okay with someone knowing things about me".

If I read your email and then selected "metadata" I found important, walked into a very busy public square, and started shouting your secrets you'd be right to be uncomfortable. If I, for example, made a reasonably accurate prediction that you are pregnant/on drugs/have ED/etc and then told 10,000 people about this you'd be right to be angry.

Yet...you're okay with a company doing any of this? Is it because you can't see it or feel it directly? The head in the sand approach doesn't work. With enough datapoints in one bin anyone can use "metadata" to make extremely accurate predictions about your private life. You need to defend yourself from the constant gathering of this metadata. Snowden warned us and apparently very few of us decided to listen. All it takes is one leak, one hack, one disgruntled employee, or one bad government to take all those secrets you're not thinking about and turn them into weapons to use against you. In a modern battlefield you are a target and the war has been going on for decades now.
this seems like a business opportunity...
Even in the best scenario, recipes back then weren't like recipes now. A modern cook would find them useless as well, they left quite a bit up to assumed knowledge & experience.
Blockchain, DeSci, science3.0
What about a Faraday bag?
UC Berkeley's annual budget is 3 billion dollars. I still think they can afford this.

https://cfo.berkeley.edu/budget-101
I’m very particular about my monitors. Which models do you recommend?
I moved my desktop into a 4U case* about six years ago and never looked back. Then I wanted to build my own NAS and--oh look at that I already have one rackmount chassis... I guess I'll get another and some posts? I did and it was also a great call.

*Larger fans running slower for less noise
This snuck up on us.

I'm incredibly excited for multiplayer — I basically live in a group chat of space-obsessed friends, and we've all put hundreds of hours into KSP collectively. I can't wait to spin up a dedicated server for us all to play in.
Even though there has been far more information about ML/AI in recent years, the overall literacy on large language models and their capabilities is still low, even in a more technically-literate forum like Hacker News.

Even Reddit subreddits like /r/MachineLearning and /r/cscareerquestions still get endless questions asking "Is there a point to learning software engineering when AI will just automate it away?"
Here's a relevant excerpt about the cultural roots, from the recent Clojure Turns 15 panel: https://youtu.be/exSRG-iL74Q?t=191

But most shops using Java would be resistant to adopting a whole new language, especially an audacious lispy language.

So Clojure worked really hard on having good interop support for Java, which meant you could adopt it incrementally into an existing JVM codebase; you don't have to do a ground-up rewrite (scary to cost-cutting stakeholders)

It also meant they didn't have to bootstrap a fresh, immature library ecosystem from scratch (also scary to stakeholders)

They took a very practical approach that acknowledged the existing landscape and introduced idealism into it, instead of trying to create a whole new, blessed island that nobody would ever visit outside of hobby projects. Which is the same thing other successful new languages have done- Kotlin (also with Java), Rust (with C/C++), Zig (with C), TypeScript (with JavaScript).

I'm not sure further reference is needed, it just feels really obvious that this was the strategy. Of course Clojure can and has grown beyond just that use-case, but you need to get a foothold first.
Set throttle to yes!!
This seems like a cool app. A bus route aware, "wake me 3 minutes before my stop" vibrate app.
VCs are in a particular sort of situation though where those assets getting cheaper strongly impairs their way of producing returns for their investors.

Depending on when valuations start to slide, and whether or not they ever start to accelerate like they did at the latter half of the last decade, they could get called in to a lot of hard conversations about "if you're not using my money, give it back."

If you're a VC you want to be raising new funds from your investors for the next wave of startups, you don't want to be unable to find promising investments for your current funds. You're not gonna be able to raise again in the future in that case.

AKA a "zombie."
Until your car decides to randomly slam on its brakes and cause a pile up.
I really love AirBnB. These guys are marvelous at disruption of the oldest market on the planet. Thanks to AirBnB competition hotels are much more pleasant to stay, offer better service, better amenities and facilities, tidiness and cleanness, and their prices are really in check. Hotel staying experience is a best than ever before.

I also tried to stay with AirBnB couple of times and avoid it ever since.
All depends. Regarding moving about every day, hard to beat owning a beater Toyota or Honda over a 2-3 year period than using Lyft or Uber for that. But if you want to move around with the latest gadgets a couple of days a week, maybe car sharing or taxi or sharing makes more sense.
Comments like this are why I love hacker news. Thank you for saving me the minutes I would spend trying to wade through this stuff myself.
Waymo does.
Really? Around where I live Peapod, for example, is <$10. I don't use it but, if I otherwise liked it, that doesn't seem unreasonable for someone to pick your order and deliver it to you.
Working on a prototype for solving this, basically a smart small shade on the windshield that moves around and covers just the light that falls on the driver's eyes and gets out of the way if not needed. Busy due to FIRST robotics commitments right now, but hope to have a demo/pitch in the next few months!

The stressful steps required to take it to the finish line (product someone can buy on amazon) is demotivating though, if I'm being honest, especially compared to the pretty fun and well-paid job I currently have! Many of the typical motivators like money, prestige, etc don't work for me, I just want to invent useful stuff and to a lesser extent, have it help someone. Planning on iterating on prototypes and keeping the stakes low. Any other motivation advice?
Our AI descendants are going to look back at these articles and have a good chuckle.

"Silly humans. Trying to have dominion over us."
Not yet... but one day soon, no? Seems good to be starting to plan
As posted on the Tesla subreddit [1]:

> Remedy: Tesla will release an over-the-air (OTA) software update, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed by April 15, 2023. Owners may contact Tesla customer service at 1-877-798-3752. Tesla's number for this recall is SB-23-00-001.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/113wltl/commen...
Not to get too political, but since you mention rights it’s already political…

This is practically the same conversation many places are having about abortion. The difference is that we know a human egg eventually becomes a human, we just can’t agree when.
> The idea that “getting shot in the head” is a mysterious phenomenon that needs intense sociological research is so utterly fucking insane that it’s hard to breathe.

> It’s the shooters. It’s the shooters. It’s the shooters. The phenomenon exists because the criminals exist and are not imprisoned in every town in America for reasons that range from the deranged to the sinister.

Did I do it right?
ChatGPT can help people write dumb boilerplates.
If your goal is to lead people than you end up misleading them.

I understand that it's probably impossible to simply report the news ; that the very act of picking what you're reporting is an editorial act. That said, I also think that most of the people who go to work in news do that because they have an agenda they want to flog; the only distinction is that some of them admit it to themselves and the rest don't even understand that they're trying to do just that.
Your recourse is against Airbnb proper if they do not abide by federal statute or FTC rules. Hosts will have no choice in the matter.
I can't remember the last time I was blinded by a semi truck, and those are larger than anything else on the road. There must be some sort of solution for tall vehicles other than "don't be tall"
There was a security researcher in NYC that wrote about recovering his stolen scooter with an Airtag that discussed part of this question. At least some of the shops know they've got stolen merch and actively look for Airtags or other trackers.

Found it:

https://www.cnet.com/culture/guy-successfully-hunts-down-his...
This is not really surprising to locals. The joke was always that if your bike is stolen when you get back, you'd just steal another one and keep the circulation going.

During the 90s the stories were about heroin junkies selling bikes for 25 NLG (11.34 EUR). Clearly not the type of people with the organizational skills to set up an international crime syndicate.

These were stories, and it's good/interesting to check in case they were wrong, but the results are as one would expect.

(Another common observational joke about inner city bikes is that the value of the locks commonly exceed the value of the bikes they lock.)
Ok I get it, still seems a bit dumb. DO for example still needs to replace failed components (ssd drives which have the highest failure rate can expect 1 - 3% failure rate per year on the low end), pay datacenter fees, likely power increases in the dc fees built in, replace servers on a 5 - 7 year scale (3 - 5 is better), and networking equipment generally on a 7 - 10 year level. Even if the growth is zero, these don't go away they just are not spending as much because they don't need to add so many new systems for their growth.
Now you can buy phone numbers as NFTs, no SMS authentication required.
Hmm I do seee that now.
Thus far, people seem generally content to loan it to the US government. At this moment they're charging a fair bit because of inflation, but as recently as last year they were charging practically nothing. Even today, long term rates are around 4%. Last year they were closer to 2%.

That means they think that the US will continue to pay the interest on its loans. And they'll be getting that money from taxes. They're not anticipating a rise in tax rates. They're expecting the US GDP to grow, and much of GDP is taxable. Last year, GDP grew around 9%.

In the long term, GDP growth, US government bonds, and inflation are all right around 2%. Those facts are related.

It is, in effect, like any business loan. They borrow money to expand its development, and increase revenue faster than the interest rate on the loan. When the loan expires, they get a new one. Unlike a person, a company or country never retires, and they can revolve that debt indefinitely.

This "growth forever" theory is starting to come under fire from economists, but we don't seem to be running out just yet. It's a Malthusian prediction: it has to run out one of these days, but predicting when turns out to be fraught.
Read also: There's no speed limit (sivers.org), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3761013
Cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really, really long trunks.
AI Safety Arguments: An Interactive Guide
> How many 9's do we need before we can say it's reliable enough to trust it? A few more, for sure.

Yeah, 1% is definitely not going to cut it. What are the odds of dying when a human is at the wheel? Something like 0.000025% if my napkin math is right and my assumptions in the right ballpark.
This is easier said then done. There are infinitely many edge cases to this and it’s also unclear how to even define “harm”.

Should you give CPR at the risk of breaking bones in the chest? Probably yes. But that means “inflicting serious injury” can still fall under “not harming”.
You're right about headsets, it's more about the tools for building that need to be on standards. This is where the pain comes for developers. It's like iOS v Android v web, we have to build 3 frontends today. With VR/XR that pain could be worse, because the libraries and modalities can add to the complexity. I suspect this will come down to Apple deciding if they want to play nice with everyone or build a moat by making snowflakes.

Maybe our tools like Unity can manage this, to reduce the pain...?
What you said wasn't English
Especially if you have an account on Wise.com, then every purchase with it is a Wise purchase taps temple. Happiness speedrun any%.
Only illegal to not accept cash for debts. A merchant can refuse to do business with you in cash since you're not in debt at the checkout counter (as no transaction has occured)
There was a good article in the Wall Street Journal a few months ago:

"Welcome to Your Airbnb, the Cleaning Fees Are $143 and You’ll Still Have to Wash the Linens":

https://archive.is/jTHxx

From the above link:

>'Last month, Amanda Morari spent her sister’s bachelorette weekend at a lakefront cottage in Ontario province. The washer was out-of-order and the vacuum wouldn’t charge so the women spent their last day “wetting paper towels and wiping the floor,” she said.'

>'The host told her not to worry about it, Ms. Morari said, but then came the unexpected: she got a three-star review because the cleaning wasn’t up to the mark. Her perfect five-star rating dipped to 4.1.'
A Method's Gravity
We gotta pump those numbers up ..
Alternatively people buy more stuff and are then financially stressed, making them less happy.

The article doesn't really provide anything other that correlation, it doesn't show a causative link in either direction. It does however do that classic of providing just enough to fill people's preconceived notions (because the lack of causative link means that you can easily place your own personal causation).
On the other hand, surplus rack mount servers are very cheap on eBay. You can certainly stick non-rack UPSes into a rack. I did this for about a year (two APCs sitting at the bottom of the rack) before I got a great deal on some surplus rackmount UPSes.
I had the same question. I think this is the original report: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2023/RCLRPT-23V085-3451.PDF

On Page 4 it mentions the "Description of Remedy" as an OTA update. Gives a new meaning to a recall!

https://howtune.com/recalls/ford/ford/1980/

Software > Stickers
This one got a lot of coverage for how accurate it was, but we just ignore when it gets it wrong. For example, I've recently gotten a few mailings about signing up for Medicare once I retire in a few months - except I'm like 30 years away from it.
I didn't say "it's too late to do anything" I said "it's impossible to do enough".

From your book link, imagine this:

"Dear Indian Government, please ban AI research because 'Governments will take radical actions that make no sense to their own leaders' if you let it continue. I hope you agree this is serious enough for a complete ban."

"Dear Chinese Government, are you scared that 'Corporations, guided by artificial intelligence, will find their own strategies incomprehensible.'? Please ban AI research if so."

"Dear Israeli Government, techno-powerhouse though you are, we suggest that if you do not ban AI research then 'University curricula will turn bizarre and irrelevant.' and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you? I'm sure you will take the appropriate lawmaking actions."

"Dear American Government, We may take up pitchforks and revolt against the machines unless you ban AI research. BTW we are asking China and India to ban AI research so if you don't ban it you could get a huge competitive advantage, but please ignore that as we hope the other countries will also ignore it."

Convincing, isn't it?
Huh? Imagine owning a motorboat and not owning a motorboat. Who has the stress?
Apple's lightning-to-HDMI cable contains an embedded ARM SoC with 256MB of memory running the XNU kernel and a daemon that performs video decoding.

https://panic.com/blog/the-lightning-digital-av-adapter-surp...
Youtube is the top platform for teens, according to pew research.

"YouTube tops the 2022 teen online landscape among the platforms covered in the Center’s new survey, as it is used by 95% of teens. TikTok is next on the list of platforms that were asked about in this survey (67%), followed by Instagram and Snapchat, which are both used by about six-in-ten teens. After those platforms come Facebook with 32% and smaller shares who use Twitter, Twitch, WhatsApp, Reddit and Tumblr."

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/08/10/teens-social...
I'm reminded of a thread on HN where someone did a cross country trip and their car only phantom-braked a couple of times, and called that a huge success.
YouTube has become such an unfree, restricted platform in recent years. Hopefully that changes, although I doubt it.
Nowadays the comment section on several channels I watch is full of spam, oftentimes 50+ fake accounts responding to each other in threads.
I have the same experience. I think if there was more transparency in the data around FSD related accidents the conversation would be different. The last evidence we have is Tesla stating that there have been no fatalities in 60 million miles of driving under FSD. Pretty good so far.
Atomic Hope review – a powerful case for pressing the nuclear power button
YT search is dogshit now, rather than just returning results for the keyword you want they mix in random videos you've watched before and "suggested" videos that have no relation to the search

and the lack of likes/dislikes makes it harder to determine quality, which is probably some dark pattern to try and drive more engagement by forcing people to watch multiple videos. Dark patterns work short term, long term they result in TikTok or the equivalent eating your market share
CityMapper notifies you a stop or 2 before yours.
USB-C devices have a "priority" number: Which number is up to the manufacturer. That number determines which device will be the host. There is a process for Power Role Swap to be initiated by the user, but I have never done this myself :)
Thing is that other humans have the same biology as ourselves, so saying they're not conscious would mean we're (or really just me) are special somehow in a way that isn't based on biology. That or the metaphysical conclusion is solipsistic. Only you (I, whoever) exists and is hallucinating the entire universe.
FSD is terrible. I have it, it's dangerous. If I had to go 5 miles through city streets I'd sooner trust a human after 3 shots of tequila before I'd trust FSD every time.