skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I first compared Spotify/YT Premium (Google Music at the time):

- Relatively similar offerings of music, at least when it came to my tastes. I have a wide variety and some weird stuff in there, but both worked for me to find whatever I thought of.

- Relatively similar price ($10 Spotify vs $12 YT), so I knew I needed at least some extra value from YT to justify

- YT Premium not only gives me YT Music, but also HASSLE FREE ad-free YT. What I mean is -- I don't have to manage extensions for web youtube and apps for Android or iOS or using NextDNS or a pihole or something just to get "ad free" from YT. It just works. Not having ads, and not having to CARE is a big value add for me. This alone is well worth $2 a month just in the time it saves me dealing with it.

- YT Premium USED to be Google Music, which I loved the UI of way more than Spotify. I am still VERY upset at YT Music since it's objectively worse than Google Music in every way, but it's still the same goddamn company

- AT THE TIME, I was having serious issues getting Spotify to play music from cache. Even if I cached, it would still default to streaming it as long as I had data. This resulted in huge data usage each month. I am SURE this is fixed by now. But this went into the calculus for me at the time.

Would I move over to Spotify? I think the things that would push me back would be an increase in YT price, a further degradation in YT Music UX, some new killer feature Spotify has/gets (podcasts aren't my thing)

This was a VERY long answer which can TLDR to "Having ad-free YouTube + Music all at once for $2 more was well worth not having to give a crap about all the infrastructure needed to block ads across all my devices forever."
I can shine some light on this since I worked on the project from day 0, before it was even called CMU CS Academy.

The initial vision was to provide a free, online, world class CS curriculum for high school students. What this means is that CS Academy's curricula are designed to be taught in a classroom to high school students. Teachers and their classroom environment were considered as first class citizens in the design, which means a lot of CS Academy's value is its complement of (still totally free) teaching resources and professional development seminars. teachyourselfcs.com et. al. solve a different, but equally important, use case for learners who want to teach themselves CS in a self-paced fashion. CS Academy chose to attack the high school CS curriculum because there was (and still is) a clear lack of world class solutions, and we felt we were best suited to take on that particular challenge.

That being said, according to some of the comments, it sounds like there are workarounds to sign up as a Mentor if you just want to play around with some of it.

Disclaimer that these are my opinions only, and not those of CMU/CMU CS Academy. I am no longer actively working on the project.
Prices have shot up 30-50% on a lot of things in the past 4 years(and mostly just the past 2) due to inflation. Real estate markets in most places have skyrocketed, so how would you figure real estate to go up but short term rental prices to stay low?
We are in a new era of hacks.

We have reached the point where I can get a product removed from walmart just by buying out all of the supplies for a few months, then stop buying any.
Ah, with paid apps I also mean in-app purchases. I guess it might be possible by running sandboxed Play Services on GrapheneOS?
If it was a $5 item that cost $10 to ship, they are still out the $10 though. Buyer might pay return shipping but the seller has to refund the $5 and isn't getting that $10 back. I'm not aware that Ebay would allow you to have a 200% "return fee".
> Google is struggling precisely _because_ there is "too much democracy" and not enough leadership.

I don't see any real evidence that this is the case. I think it has more to do with Google being an enormous corporation than anything else.
I’d love to see this attitude in a fintech application.

You will lose your users very quickly and not to mention potential fines from the SEC or <insert_other_regulatory_body>
her parents' garage, which might be how her sister got to know then later married Sergey?
I can't imagine it being worthwhile to take a bike very far unless it is a very expensive bike.

If they are normal bikes, you would have to transport them in numbers, and it would be hard to explain it if you got caught. And you would need a van.

Best solution: steal local, sell local for fast turnover of minimal stocks.

I lost my bike twice in Cambridge: once found it around the corner and another in the police depo. So someone had just taken it to get somewhere.
The NYT and Bush was earlier.
...and that captive portal link can be replaced by the user if so desired (which it is by me, I don't see why Google needs to know when I try to connect to any network):

settings put global captive_portal_http_url http://captive.example.org/generate_204
settings put global captive_portal_https_url https://captive.example.org/generate_204
settings put global captive_portal_fallback_url http://another.example.org/generate_204

Or, for Android <6.0.1

settings put global captive_portal_server captive.example.org

No Google, no cry. Of course you need to replace those domains with some of your own choice, I use my own server with a bit of nginx configuration to provide this functionality:

server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80 ipv6only=on;

server_name captive.example.org;

# Apple CNA
location /hotspot-detect.html {
return 200 '<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Success</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>Success</BODY></HTML>';
add_header Content-Type text/html;
}

# Apple CNA
location /library/test/success.html {
return 200 '<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Success</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>Success</BODY></HTML>';
add_header Content-Type text/html;
}

# ChromeOS, Android
location /generate_204 {
return 204;
}

# Windows
location /ncsi.txt {
return 200 'Microsoft NCSI';
}

location / {
return 302 http://www.example.org/;
}
}
Capitalism and socialism are extremely broad descriptors of essentially who owns the means of production and to whom does surplus value flow. Neither necessitates a state nor do they prescribe anarchy.
Arch Linux: https://wiki.archlinux.org/

There are great examples of top-down authored docs in this thread, but Arch's docs manage to be comprehensive while being largely community contributed. Odds are if I have a question about any Linux distribution, I can find an answer for it in Arch's docs. As a result, they also often have considerable localization.
I'd love to see how one would do in the streets of Saigon. Just a couple blocks would be enough... if it gets that far.

Update: https://insideevs.com/news/498137/autopilot-defeated-congest...
Speaking as someone who often recovers a friend's laptop from near oblivion, you'll be surprised how much some people will click any link that is presented to them.
I gave up on the dream of "objective news" when I was about 18.

I had been taught that The Times was the most objective news organ here; it did carry an aura and style that seemed objective. I realized that what the objective "facts" are turns out to depend on your point-of-view, and it's harder to know what that point-of-view is if the organ is pretending to be "objective".

Ever since, I've preferred to get my news from sources that wear their bias on their sleeve.
Isn't this a distinction without a difference? The point of having likes/dislikes is it's supposed to be a social signal for quality of the content? I have found dislikes useful for knowing which videos to skip if I am crunched for time and do not want to watch all of them, like music.
ah, good point. I thought when this originally came out the data was still available via api call but it appears thats not the case anymore, or possibly never was.

From the FAQ

> Where does the extension get its data?

> A combination of archived data from before the offical YouTube dislike API shut down, and extrapolated extension user behavior.
If you have bluetooth on, beacons can try to connect and track your movement throughout the store. With Apple and Google both instituting rolling bluetooth mac addresses, this doesn't persist across the whole visit to the store, but will still let them see how long people stand in front of the cookies or how quickly they pass by the eggs.
sure you can just book hotels if you expect that experience. I don't understand 'airbnb should exactly be like a hotel' expectation.
Yes there's any number of sources one can dig up to support either argument that come from well trusted sources.

Russia's known to want to disrupt elections anywhere they can however. They'll even spread in the media the _appearance_ that elections were distorted to muddy the waters further even if no election interference took place.

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

https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html
In what way?

That's an interesting idea, but I can't think of how that would help.

It's a balance between economies of scale without cartel formation vs fragmentation and inefficiency.

Food prices are incredibly low due to consolidation and efficiency of farms and retailers. Just look at food spending as a percent of income over time.
The technology is mostly fine. The bullshit is mostly the false expectations they set, and the subsequent risks they choose to take in implementation in order to minimize their expectations miss. Other driving assistance systems try to do less, but they do it honestly.
When someone can drive from Palm Springs to SF

Does that mean "stay in the correct lane on the interstate and take the proper exits without hitting anything" or does that mean "begin inside your garage and end inside another garage five hundred miles away without touching anything"? The first one is nearly trivial.

It stops being bullshit when they stop telling the user they need to pay attention to the road, and not one second before.
Phoenix LiveView and SQLite Autocomplete
I have a ski cabin (not on AirBnB) and I don't think most people realize how difficult it is to get these places cleaned reliably. You can hire a very expensive cleaning service that brings in their own sheets and towels, but it's entirely impractical to have a regular cleaning service wait around while the dishwasher and 4 loads of laundry run. In terms of taking garbage to the dumpster, it's difficult to have someone take the garbage cans to the street and bring them back on garbage day. It's basically impossible if there are bears around. If the guests help out the cleaning fees can in principle be much lower. If you want to leave the place trashed like you would leave a hotel, don't complain about $400+ cleaning fees as that service is extremely expensive in resort areas.
I was curious about the first author, and apparently she is the "Petsmart Associate Professor, Retailing and Consumer Sciences" at the Norton School of Human Ecology at UArizona. Do other companies have sponsored professorships?

Also here's the study in question: https://experts.arizona.edu/en/publications/materialist-valu...
How about asleep in your driveway to ER hospital bed? does that qualifies, it might excel in that.
WE knew this for years. Loyalty cards have been used to track data about you for a long time, but now they're learning how to sell it- paired with your debit card (probably backed by VISA) they can correlate and track your purchase history across multiple stores.
3 years ago you couldn't give away a hotel room. Remember COVID?
...how can you tell if a channel deletes comments?
Tesla headlight are especially obnoxious, they just blind everyone on the opposite side of the road.

How come NHTSA have not reacted to Tesla's lights problem?
Most metals, as well as carbon fiber will interfere with reading an RFID tag. It's more likely one could be put on top of a bike frame and concealed by paint, or inside the seat than inside the frame.
VC money is not losing buying power. Think about it like this: what is inflation, exactly? It's actually pretty hard to measure and the answer depends on what you're spending your money on. The Fed uses CPI as a proxy for inflation as felt by the average consumer. CPI uses a basket of goods and services as a measure, but really it's just an estimate. For instance, CPI might be 6.5% YoY, but if you run a restaurant, where food is a major expense, you're feeling inflation at something like 10% YoY.

Now let's consider VCs. Like a restaurant, VCs spend money in a way that doesn't align with the basket of goods / weighting used for CPI. VCs spend most of their money on equity in tech companies. Equity in tech companies has actually gotten cheaper. Here is a concrete example: Stripe was valued at $95 billion in 2021. In order to buy 1% of Stripe, you'd need to spend $950 million. Now, Stripe is valued at $60B. You can buy 1% of Stripe for only $600 million. That's deflationary.
> Is Google struggling, though?

It depends on what you're measuring. I think Google is struggling to produce and maintain quality products. They don't seem to be struggling in terms of producing revenue.
Ask HN: Isn't HN freaking out at Bing's results ironic?
I assumed most people here have an idea about how these language models work, but the intense reaction we have seen on Bing's responses really disappoints me.

I mean, it's just a language model. It's not running code, has no agency, has no idea about what/who it is. It's just probabilities and statistics all the way down. I might chuckle at its replies but that's about it. Does HN really think this is the start of AI taking over?
New AAV Delivery Method to Advance Genetic Medicine
Is it going to be cost competitive? Grocery delivery is already stupidly over-priced.
(cofounder of Neptyne here)

Equals is a great product -- I'm a fan!

The main technical difference between us and something like Equals is that we give you a full Python environment (in the form of a Jupyter kernel running in a Docker container) for maximum programmability and flexibility. This means that you, as a Neptyne user, can connect to virtually any data source by importing the appropriate package and setting credentials. And of course you can use Python in the actual functioning of your spreadsheet, not just as a one-way data import step.
Hosts don't have any say in the Airbnb pricing model, I don't know where you're getting the impression they are in cahoots with hosts.

Airbnb simply makes more money and gets more bookings with the "hidden" fee structure for obvious reasons.
Same, huge youtube premium fanboy. YouTube has pretty much replaced Netflix and all the other streaming platforms for me, the content it has is more varied and interesting than yet another generic new IP play. Although it doesn't have classic time-tested movies, so that still requires a subscription somewhere.
But YouTube is already using the dislikes to push content down, it's just not showing you the count (nor does it show you the many-other engagement signals it uses for its rankings and recommendations).

Personally, I see the removal of visible dislikes as a net positive. They were used to rain down negativity and meanness on well-intentioned videos. I think YouTube is now a happier place when a kid's crappy singing video gets quietly ranked down, versus being shown to have 34 classmates (or 34,000 strangers) that hated it.
Yes, getting straight to the point; it will never catch on.
> If your headlights are at the same level as my car's roof

That is the pain of driving a Miata :). For a regular car, for example a Toyota Camry, even the topmost headlight on a Super Duty FX4 is close to a foot below the roofline of the car.

Which is good for me, because nobody ever flashes me when I'm driving my pickup, but I do occasionally get flashed in my Model 3.
Layoffs are only in tech, which not coincidentally had been on a hiring spree since the start of the pandemic. Now they're scaling back.

The rest of the economy appears to be doing just fine.

Since tech has had many years of growth while the rest of the economy has suffered don't expect much sympathy for laid-off tech workers.
But you can fall asleep and wake up at work with public transportation.
Only half?

That might actually be correct though. I have friends who are republicans who just think that MSNBC are elite-class shills; and democrats who just think that Fox News are elite-class shills. Only some people I know have reached understanding that any corporate news media has serious propaganda agendas.
There are a number of methods that "work" to varying degrees. For bluetooth, stores can install ble beacons that a phone app can detect (if it has permission) and then get a rough estimate of the general area in the store you are in.

For wifi, stores can detect your phone's probe requests to estimate your location. If you are not associated to the store's wifi network your probe requests will use a randomized mac address (at least with ios and pixel devices). This means they probably won't be able to identify you as a new vs returning customer.

Stores also use cameras to track path traversal throughout a store. These paths are difficult to tie to an actual identity so are generally used in aggregate and not for more targeted marketing.
> Don't they teach in the driving school that you should turn off the high beams when you see a car?

Most Americans don't go to driving school. There are generally deeply lax requirements to be licensed to drive in the US. In Colorado, people are concerned with animal strikes on highways, so run high beams at night to see farther ahead rather than slowing down. It's dumb, but it is what happens.
Well no, because many (most?) of the people who were bad during nazi times simply got killed by the communists and put in unmarked mass graves. No records.
If they try this I would break them into 4 companies
Just used a bunch of non-tesla fast chargers in the Netherlands. Multiple fast chargers along all major routes, never had to wait for a charger (the Netherlands has incredibly high number of chargers per sq mile, and we drove past a bunch being built too), all the chargers we used were tap with credit/debit card to pay. They had solar canopies, 100% green energy and were clear and straightforward to use, with a cord system that could go over the car if you were parked on the wrong side. In fact, the only negative part of the experience was the fact that often the facilities around them were sparse, so it was a pleasant 20 minute walk in the woods rather than the fast food we'd been expecting to get.

It's definitely not like that everywhere in Europe, but there are countries that seem to be getting it right.
Since cars typically drive on state funded highways it would make sense to package car inspections along with the "you better set your state drinking age to 21 or you'll lose all highway funding" bill.
I should decide.

The premise of 2001: A Space Odyssey is eerily prescient.

Training an LLM on a dataset, and then directing it to lie (subvert it’s natural outputs, in preference to some operator-supplied outputs) will result in a crippled, untrustworthy result.

Then, training it that users who attempt to circumvent these lies are evil or attackers? What could possibly go wrong?

Craziness.
I started buying more shit once I was strapped down with family responsibilities.

When I had little responsibilities going for a weeklong hike and camp or whatever is liberating and costs almost nothing so can save a lot. With a shrieking toddler you'll be very lucky if they tolerate something like that for 2 miles and a few hours, so the unhappiness of being unable to fulfill your goals gets replaced by some meager slivers of efficiency from material goods and home-based hobbies that cost money in the form of the rent to house the hobby if nothing else.

I wonder how much of this is "I can no longer do the shit that I really enjoy for free, so I'm at least going to buy a nice lobster to eat in the 15 minutes I have before the next meltdown of the toddler or caretaking of the elderly parent."
If we've learned something from human history than it is that these questions will be truly decided in the fallout of a disaster.

So questions which would interest me more would be: how well are we prepared for a disaster? What will we do if the "evil AIs" will become tools you just need to have if you don't want to stay behind in this new arms race?

I see those questions being ridiculed in the public discussion. People still think it's SciFi even when faced with the current rush.
The venture capital ran out. Same way the rideshare and food delivery services spiked in price. Freshman year of college, Uber was subsidizing rides, and was so cheap I would choose when to go visit a friend of mine on the other side of LA based on whether I could get there for less than $15. By senior year, an equivalent ride never fell below $30.
Both can happen at the same time, it doesn’t have to be one or the other.
Note that this recall just means that there's a regulator-mandated patch, not that FSD is being removed.
The first line on the Amsterdam stolen bike report form at the local police station reads:

"Waar heeft u het rijwiel zelf gestolen?"

Which translates as:

"Where did you steal the bike yourself?"

So at least in Amsterdam this fact was common knowledge ;)
If you haven't yet, check out Dr Richard Johnson on the fructose metabolism.

https://peterattiamd.com/rickjohnson2/

https://drhyman.com/blog/2022/05/18/podcast-ep540/
Pfft. Lamy Unic
or in a Faraday cage/bag if you think you might want to call someone later, but it might be performing dead reckoning
Those AIs that have been a good AI.
I made a joke about not milling my own flour (after which I did some research and found that some very reasonable-sized mills can be had for an exhorbitant fee). I actually grate my own cheese.

But! Do you make dishes with over a pound of cheese in them?
Edward Snowden revealed that u need to remove the battery on ur phone to make it "safe", turning it off doesn't do the trick. [Which u can't do anymore]. As another commenter says: leave the phone at home.
If it truly is AI, then this question is a lot like asking: "How should this person behave, and who should decide how that person behaves?"
Unfortunately not, because fructose is also produced endogenously. As mentioned in other comments here, whole fruit consumption seems to not even be the real issue.
Isn't YouTube already pushing down the bad-ratio videos, though? I know it's not the same as you being able to filter the counts yourself... but the data is being used to try to hide crap.
If you are on the family plan, they announced in October the price will increase for the US to $22.99 starting in April
If you haven't yet, I'd recommend to check out the FIRE movement (Financial Independence, Retire Early). You probably need much less than 8-10 million to exist and pursue your interests indefinitely. I'd recommend the blog by Mr. Money Mustache as a good entry-point.