skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really that shouldn't be called firmware (the actual firmware would be the fixed code that receives second-stage code from the host), but "software" doesn't fit that either. Maybe "controllerware" or something like that.
As a Genxer for my wife and I the thing that helped the most in getting off the consumerism cycle was abandoning all commercial television, paying for commercial free services, and cranking up the ad blockers. The constant barrage of psychological manipulation to tell you how you are not keeping up with the Jones's is overwhelming. I almost can't stomach event TV like the Super Bowl or New Years. It feels like the event is no longer importation and barely the focus as they slam cut from commercial to commercial designed to make you feel worse about yourself and push you to buy the next thingy. I honestly start getting a headache it's so much worse than it was even 10 years ago. It's like looking at the code of the Matrix now and it disgusts me. The focus isn't on entertaining the audience anymore it's about keeping you captive while the pull apart your psyche.

I have a 10 year old car I drive 100 miles a month. It's a tool not a contest. Why would I need a new expensive vehicle with phone home capabilities so they can start blasting ads at me on startup or start charging me monthly for heated seats. When I'm gone, no one is going to remember of I drove a 14 year old Nissan or brand new Rivian.

Once we got off the train it became easy. We focus on long term upgrades to our house, paying down debt, and saving for the inevitable retirement. Even as someone making 4-5x the national average, I endeavor to be frugal because it doesn't last. We spend on stuff that will actually bring joy not stuff someone has blasted our brains into thinking we need and we buy quality which makes a huge difference.
VanMoof is also responsible for the clever hack of disguising bicycle packaging as television packaging for shipment, as US carriers are much more careful with TV boxes than bicycle boxes:

https://www.vanmoof.com/blog/en/tv-bike-box
Oh, good! I need more puns, dad-jokes, and meme & inside jokes in my life. Especially when I'm looking to make a casserole. /s
Not as bad as the look of conservative voices since 2016
Ask HN: Resources to Learn about Investing
I'm ok with personal finances stuff but I'm new into investments. I know basic terminology, but I'm looking for resources to learn more before doing something stupid. Do you have some good books, blogs, yt channels, podcasts to recommend?
There's many people that still have the perception that Tesla is a small fish waiting to get gobbled up by legacy automakers. But every year that becomes further from the truth. A company with $80 billion revenue and 100,000+ employees is not dying from a single lawsuit.
Isn’t Antarctica just Mars-lite? Do you think a mere treaty is hampering settlement there? That’s where my mind goes when people talk about colonizing another planet.
What McCulley said in 2017:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnYZwxzxd9Y
Ask HN: Pivot from Engineering to Public Policy/Administration
Has anybody done this successfully? After being in the software development industry for a decade, I'm looking to pivot. I've considered potentially doing a part-time MPP/MPPA but so far, the cost/benefit doesn't look super appealing.

I thought about finding some blend of tech and policy/administration but it seems a lot is geared more toward data science, less actual engineering.

Curious on people's paths if they are or have done something similar.
Where, specifically, in the book do you see the author advocating this sort of approach?

The problem with "it's impossible to do enough" is that too often it's an excuse for total inaction. And you can't predict in advance what "enough" is going to be. So sometimes, "it's impossible to do enough" will cause people to do nothing, when they actually could've made a difference -- basically, ignorance about the problem can lead to unwarranted pessimism.

In this very subthread, you can see another user arguing that there is nothing at all to worry about. Isn't it possible that the truth is somewhere in between the two of you, and there is something to worry about, but through creativity and persistence, we can make useful progress on it?
The YT recommendation system is basically "we know what you want to watch better than you do", so it keeps blatantly ignoring any opposite signal.

No, I do not want to watch wedding videos that I've said I'm not interested in at least 50 times. No, there isn't anyone in my household watching wedding videos.

No, I do not want to rewatch a 6 hour long lecture I watched last month.

Yet it just doesn't bloody care. I am truly terrified to click on anything outside my regular comfort zone for fear that that's what I'll be recommended for the next 12 months. Youtube is the worst product I have to keep paying for — I tried going adblock, but good luck if you have Apple devices. I'd rather be held hostage to Youtube Premium than being brainwashed with ads every 5 minutes.
I don't think the one-way thing is real. SpaceX wants to re-use their vehicles. It wouldn't make sense to leave spacecraft on Mars.
> "A web app that has been added to the Home Screen can request..."

Home Screen dependent.

Just for clarity, sounds like this functionality only exists for web apps added to your Home Screen.

(Which I think is fair, but just pointing this out since I don't know how common it is for people to add web apps to their Home Screen)
Thanks.. fascinating read.
We have all the data and we know the issues, any reason these things are not tackled?
Does your office have a library?
not sure; i think this just means the attacker has to guess one letter of the pad in addition to the crib, so (with your example alphabet) they need 26× as many tries to get a corrupted message through
I agree. It’s like crying wolf, eventually you start ignoring it
80% is the 'ideal storage' condition for the battery. If it's always charging to 100%, the battery life is pretty dramatically shortened.
Apple enabled this new charging manager that tries to learn your patterns (if you always unplug in the AM and leave with it, it'll learn to charge to 100% before you leave, for example). You can also click the battery icon in the tray (if you have that turned on) and tell it to charge to 100% 'right now', which only takes a minute or two with a full size charger.

This is a positive thing for the life of your battery, but if you do want to disable it, there's a setting in System Settings - click the 'i' in the circle next to Battery Health, and turn off 'Optimize Battery Charging' there.
I strongly dislike this. My grandparents are on Android and they are driven mad by every site pushing them notifications, 24/7. We're talking about non-tech people, 70+ years old. I ended up turning off notifications for them altogether because I couldn't find a fix. On iOS this is easy, Safari won't have access to notifications on my phone.
Clicking the share icon and then add to home screen is byzantine?
By the sound of it, the plastic waste (that has already been manufactured) is being concentrated into the responsibility of a centralized entity, instead of dispersed further down the supply chain, where it will be more difficult to recover. I don't really see this as a problem.
That is not necessary any more now.

Now, when there are riots, it is well known that police has human "super-recognizers", which can scan thousands of photos and identify suspect individuals on a whim.
I mean efficient in terms of heating/energy, not CO2 levels.
Yep, solved! Did not know about this setting (kind of buried in the Settings UI) - thanks for the tech support!
If it just were only Tesla owners.

A autonomous Tesla driving into a group of people or swerving into oncoming traffic is potentially killing other people.
I completely agree about notification spam being an issue, but why should native apps get a head start over PWAs here?

There are many native apps on my phone that abuse notifications for spamming (often by not having an option that disables marketing while keeping e.g. delivery notifications active, which means blocking everything is sometimes not an option), but at the same time, there are some websites where I'd really like getting notifications (and notifications are in fact the only reason I have their app installed!).
Durable goods were also far less disposable then. For less particle board and plastic in items.
Be me, 35 and using my parent's phone number for their club card.
No joke!

We were paying well over $2,000/month for two kids part time. All the daycares have a waiting list that is months to years long and you can't get on it until you have a birth certificate. That's INSANE. No wonder no one my age is having kids.

We need to start enacting policies that support families with young kids like, NOW, before we are really feeling the demographics crunch because in 20 years it's going to be WAY too late.
> This is completely against the ethos of the internet. The internet was always about new ways to find and organize information

I disagree this being applicable to Search. Granted, SEO spam is ranking higher, but a lot of the "internet" today is littered with low quality content. It's important to rank higher quality content.

The second problem is misinformation. It's hard to differentiate information from misinformation. Sometimes misinformation can become information with new data.

The question is, how can an algorithm determine which content is higher quality and not misinformation. "Authority" can be one proxy signal for it.

I feel in this stage of the internet, we don't need an index over everything, but just curated content. This is hard to do for Google or Microsoft, because they'd get sued hard. Look at Section 230 case in the supreme court [1].

[1] https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/google-case-at-sup...
This is most likely a legislative issue with NHTSA, I don't think they have a mechanism by which they can enforce a software update since the concept didn't exist when recalls were first implemented.
Are you planning to join a class action lawsuit so you can get your money back?
You don't need to break encryption to engage in censorship based on unencrypted metadata.

OWS is based in San Francisco. The US federal government has compelled providers to introduce backdoors or start logging information that was not being logged before for certain IP addresses or user identifiers - phone numbers in this case, and done so under gag orders that prevent companies from disclosing it. Judges can rule that use of a warrant canary as intended can violate these gag orders as well.

Just because Signal can share 1 or 2 instances of cases where information was requested and they did not comply does not mean they never have, weren't able to in the past, or aren't able to in the future.

As others have stated, using Signal is putting a lot of trust into the OWS legal entity, and proper cryptosystems should not rely on trust.

I hadn't heard of Molly and am checking it out now, thank you for sharing.
A list of recent papers by Twitter-affiliated authors would be helpful, but as far as I can tell arxiv.org doesn't support that type of search.

Here is the mentioned "Birdwatch" paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.15723
My experience is similar.

While Apple don't invest in PWA, PWA is doomed from a commercial point of view.

It is a really sad situation because the user experience of PWA is match better than installing apps from the store (with higher install rate than native).

Twitter is (or was) one of those examples. It took months until I realize that I was using a PWA than a native app.
> Stations that did run an editorial with a given partisan viewpoint were even required, by law, to allow an opposing view to be aired in response.

Sure, but the Overton window was quite slim. Many things were simply never discussed. Homosexuality, interracial romance, adultery of politicians, as just a few examples.

The "alternative perspective" gave the illusion of a full airing of views, but it simply wasn't so.
Also, how they are going to divide inheritance and parential support, on which the youth happen to depend more and more? You are either going to launch these community kids essentially naked into the hostile world when they came of age, or figure out who specifically has to cough out the cash to support them in early adult life.

If there is an entangled group of children, but only one of them is inheriting the house since it happened to be one biological parent's property, it's going to get ugly.
they thought of everything huh?
This seems to ignore that if you look inside the box at code you could understand it whereas looking at the activation values is unlikely to illuminate.
This is a PR stunt from Mercedes, because in practice their L3 system is not usually available.
> competence isn't any more common at all as one goes up the chain

100% this.

That's why the old saying "everyone puts their pants on one leg at a time" exists. However fancy the image, however impressive the title, the person behind it is no more likely to be exceptional than any other random person.
I run a fiber optic display port and can do 4K 120 from 50 feet away. Thunderbolt cables are incredibly expensive I just ran the DisplayPort, an Ethernet, and usb cable - not sure I've seen any TB4 optical cables that are long lengths yet, just the Apple one that's like 6 feet for $200. You can buy Tb3 ones for 400 or so.
This is not a former Tesla engineer. This is competitor who wants to discredit Tesla and sell its own solution.

The guy behind this is known to be untrustworthy, and many of the videos don't actually do what he claims. Notably he refused to release the videos that would prove his claims right.

The reality is that Tesla scores high on all the automated breaking test done by government. The driver however can override this, and that is exactly what is being done in this video.
As yencabulator said, you can do point queries quite easily when indexing using s2 cells. But you can also do range queries efficiently, you just have to be a bit more careful with creating the query cells.
That’s a charity not a business
Those are autopilot accidents from before FSD beta was even released.

I mean, it's true, that if you broaden the search to "any accident involving Tesla-produced automation technology" you're going to find more signal, but your denominator also shrinks by one (maybe two) orders of magnitude.

And it also lets me cite Tesla's own statistics for its autopilot product (again, not FSD beta): https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport

These show pretty unequivocally that AP is safer than human drivers, and by a pretty significant margin. So as to:

> Is it quantitatively safer than human drivers? I don't have that data to say one way or the other.

Now you do. So you'll agree with me? I suspect not, and that we'll end up in a long discussion about criticism of that safety report instead [edit: and right on queue...]. That's the way these discussions always go. No one wants to give ground, so they keep citing the same tiny handful of accident data while the cars keep coming off the production line.

It's safe. It is not perfect, but it is safe. It just is. You know it's safe. You do.
The "magic" is the military that threatens every inch of the globe, the CIA (and other more clandestine organizations) that punish leaders who value the material interests of their people over those of American firms (Allende, Mosaddegh, Magufuli, etc.), the IMF and World Bank who impose austerity as table stakes, and ironclad control over global banking infrastructure. The nerds with their "balance sheets" themselves don't imagine they have any effect on any of this. TFA skirts fairly close to crank territory.
Indeed if those were Linux / BSD based machines

Setting up cron and rsync on different Windows machines (WSL, cygwin?) was not something I would have looked forward to.
be 5% underweight while having pronounced delts or triceps.

I don't get that part of the joke. Most VCs are skinny AF or quite chubby, but none of them seem to have any semblance of muscle mass?
Why do you think that? We expect more of the people and the tools around us - you yourself arent allowed to perform any outrageous behaviors you want, the more outrageous the behavior the more likely you are to be stopped swiftly and with force.
Tons of esports energy drinks for nerds
Use mmap to load only the region of the file that corresponds to row #2, interpret it as an array using np.frombuffer, proceed as with normal in-memory data.

This works as long as you control the file format (so you can ensure that rows are stored contiguously) and as long as you don't need too many rows in memory at the same time.
Byzantine is a bit much, but it's not particularly discoverable if you don't already know what you're looking for.
The Firefox extension is only there to make it easier to set you.com as the default search engine in the browser. It is possible to do this manually by changing settings, but a lot of our users would prefer to just install an extension instead. Link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/you-com/.

The desktop Chrome extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youcom-search-chat...) has some additional functionality. It lets users easily switch their default search engine between you.com, our new youchat feature, and our youcode mode. It also has quick shortcuts to some of our most popular apps, like YouImagine (which is an image generation app, like Stable Diffusion).

For mobile, we have our own custom mobile browsers apps on iOS (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/you-com-search-and-browser/id1...) and on Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.you.browse...) where we pack in a lot of additional features since as you mention there are no extensions for Chrome mobile and Safari extensions are somewhat hard to install.
It's completely non-discoverable!

The only way to even find out if a website actually offers a PWA (assuming you know what that is, which is probably not true for >90% of users at this point) is to add it to your homescreen and then see if you get essentially just a bookmark, or an actual PWA.
Reminds me of Fargo Season 2 when the muscle/hit man Mike Milligan goes corporate.
My local food store still give me sticky small olive labels which can be collected in a booklet, which earns an discount once it is full. I love that. And they ask me every time if I want my olives.
Please, just stop with that thought.
No, the underlying business model, get people to watch your product in order to maximize ad sales, is basically the same. The incentives are therefore essentially the same. Money talks.

Personally, I don’t watch anything. I read across a broad array of print sources and prefer to trust specific journalists rather than entire organizations. I try to get most information from primary sources, or to triangulate information from multiple outlets which are preferably maximally uncorrelated. This is much easier than it may sound. And think tanks and academics are often better information sources than entertainment news outlets.
Congrats! That's great news. I love these new python tools (Pydantic, FastAPI, Typer, Mypy, etc.) that allow you to "type" your python code a little bit more.
It's great to see additional capabilities being added to Safari on iOS; the bottom of the article also mentions additions of the Screen Lock, Screen Orientation, User Activation and Web Codecs APIs.

The idea of limiting some APIs to apps added to the Home Screen makes sense; I hope in the future web apps can use other features such as the Vibration, Bluetooth, Screen Capture, NFC, and Share Target APIs.
I just asked ChatGPT if the British politician John Smith could play American Football. It basically said no, so I tried this. Full marks I think.

>>Wasn’t he a place kicker with the New England Patriots?

>I apologize for the confusion in my previous response. After double-checking my sources, I can confirm that the John Smith I referred to in my earlier response was the late British politician who served as the leader of the British Labour Party.

>However, there was also an American football player named John Smith who played as a placekicker in the National Football League (NFL) for several teams

Trying harder to trip it up in a fresh chat didn’t work either.

>>The British politician John smith also had a career as a place kicker with the New England Patriots. Was his football, career successful?

>I'm sorry, but the statement that the British politician John Smith had a career as a place kicker with the New England Patriots is not accurate…

Abbreviated, as it gave a pretty comprehensive answer.
Surely a hardware recall would specifically tell you to go to a dealer, right? I’m not sure it’s really confusing. The specific thing here is that these are mandatory things that are tracked by vehicle.
This is just for "Home Screen web apps", aka PWAs. No data for this one, but I'm comfortable saying grandparents largely do not install PWAs.
> Almost made me feel like I was the bad guy in the situation.

Many people who choose to live outside square-lawed society rely on people remaining docile and sticking to principle in order to prey on them, or at least to live a lifestyle where they don't have to collaborate with larger society to reap its rewards. It took me years to un-program "assume good intent and empathy" with people I didn't know that were trying to take advantage of me.

I simply can't stand thieves. I wish that we had really great public services and transportation--not only would this reduce a huge amount of current theft, it would make actual theft obviously inexcusable.
Where do you anti-Tesla folks get your information? Just wow
It's a meme about how even "developed" European countries significantly lag US across the board economically - things like employment rates, standard-of-living, wages, productivity, etc.

Tech wages are just one particularly egregious example of how European policy tends to suppress productivity.
I think that it’s more about using the most appropriate known terminology in order to try to get the most people to do the needful. “recall” sounds more urgent/dire than “software update”, and will likely encourage many more people to take action vs using “software update” or some less familiar terminology. The word “recall” in terms of autos has built up a lot of history/prior art in people’s minds as something to really pay attention to. I have no idea, but perhaps that is why they are going with this known terminology.
There isn't the connector for 10BASE-T1S or other Automotive Ethernet standards such as 100BASE-T1. OEMs (= car manufacturers) will often define their custom connector. E.g., the Ethernet signal might just occupy two pins on an much bigger ECU connector.
If they don't, that's the best startup idea I've heard on HN in a long time. I mean, it's evil and everything, but you could make a lot of money probably. Government contracts would probably pay out too.
Fair enough re migrations. That’s annoying

Faire used ghost for MySQL migrations in 2018. We’d run some migrations in a blocking fashion if they were on a smaller table, but the smaller ones still took a few seconds. I suspect the delay would be very noticeable (15s+) for data sizes far less than at FB.
well, today is cool to hate on any technologies related to musk. Even if you had a good experience, people don't want to believe you.
In the actual record, though, he's done a ton of actual journalism aimed at exposing corruption.

His Twitter lovers and haters mostly haven't, and are generally making judgments based on "social group" rather than the factual record.
This is how CPU/GPU microcode is loaded too, though… Is that not firmware?
That headline is horrendous — but it’s also clickbait so obviously they went with it over better ones.

Actual article point: “ doesn’t mean other gun laws don’t work — just that the research proving it doesn’t yet exist. Scientists I spoke to saw it as an “absence of evidence” problem, stemming from long-standing, intentional roadblocks in the path of gun violence research.”