skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dig into inflation statistics for the past several decades and dig past the single unified number. That has its utility, but you have to remember it is a summary statistic, and in this case, it is obscuring the answer to your question. Dig into what it is summarizing to a higher level of detail.

And the resulting answer is fairly simple: They literally had more money, relatively speaking, for that sort of stuff.

Why? Well, that's complicated, and there's a lot of subjectivity in the judgment of it.

Some of it is that a higher "standard of living" means that while your housing today may be more expensive than the "same house" 70 years ago, it isn't the "same house". As a simple example, your wiring is a lot nicer, but that cost some money. (This comes to mind because of the horror stories my father is telling me about the renovating he is having to do to his parent's house to get it on the market.) One could write books on the ways your house is not actually the "same house", mostly in good ways.

Some of it some issues related to wealth disparity and the way more of our wealth generation isn't going into our pockets, for a wide variety of reasons, with a wide variety of subjective valuations attached to those reasons.

Some of it is that they simply didn't have the ability to spend money on what we do now; many goods and services we use today didn't even exist then.

I'm trying to avoid significant value judgments in this post, even though I have opinions all day long on these matters, because the simple answer to your question is just, they literally had a larger proportion of their income to spend on such things.
The concept you are describing is called Coherent Extrapolated Volition.

> In poetic terms, our coherent extrapolated volition is our wish if we knew more, thought
faster, were more the people we wished we were, had grown up farther together; where
the extrapolation converges rather than diverges, where our wishes cohere rather than
interfere; extrapolated as we wish that extrapolated, interpreted as we wish that interpreted.
There's a Dutch bike company (VanMoof) that offers a Theft Recovery service for their bikes: they have teams of people that track down the bike (using GPS primarily) and basically steal it back.

They used to produce monthly videos of bike recovery operations, though it looks like they've stopped the videos so you'll have to scroll past a few years of promo videos: https://www.youtube.com/@vanmoof

Often they recover the bike from a yard / homeless camp / shop with 100s of other non-VanMoof bikes they leave behind. It would be so easy to crack down on organised bike theft. The financial, social, and environmental costs of securing bikes and recovering from a theft is huge.
The target of the question is to the vendor of the road, though? If I pay to get roads installed and they counter that I should have paid for a more expensive process? Yeah, I'd say that is inexcusable. If they have strong reason to think that who they are selling to cannot maintain things correctly, they should consider not selling.
(Neptyne cofounder here)

All great tools to be sure! I am a huge fan of numpy and pandas especially. For plotting in Neptyne I usually opt for plotly over matplotlib/seaborn. Agreed too on the shell -- that's why we built one into our product.

I am curious though, do you typically share/collaborate on these spreadsheets with others? Do you have a neat way of packaging up the spreadsheet+Python code?
YouTube started out as a site that gave the middle finger to (c)opywrong laws, and it still has that spirit alive, while growing into an incredible resource to learn and grow. It's also damn fast and easy to publish to.

Thank you Susan!
I subscribed to YT premium when it was bundled with YT music. I hate that there is not a plan in the US that allows me to just get ad free YT videos. I do not use YT music and don't care to.

I hope whoever takes it over creates an ad free plan that doesn't bundle music into it. I hate that all of these tech companies are taking the cable route they all rallied agains and bundling everything.
* ChatGPT will now cite Elon Musk tweets as a source for 50% of questions.
I wonder what severity / frequency of incidents or regulator awareness required them to actually come out and say that they're issuing a recall, rather than just quietly putting it into an upcoming release like they probably would otherwise do?
It's a bit strange but so many people still think they don't know what the choral singing of jackals sounds like.
Move to a similar company as an IC - you'll get a change of scenery without giving up the high compensation.

What's NIH?
That's definitely not the largest.

Toyota, 2.9M: https://www.consumerreports.org/car-recalls-defects/toyota-r...

Ford, 21M: https://247wallst.com/autos/2021/07/24/this-is-the-largest-c...

Takata airbags, possibly 100M+: https://www.carvertical.com/blog/top-10-worst-car-recalls-in...

> Yet even after the company declared bankruptcy in 2017, the Takata recall kept on giving. 65-70 million vehicles with faulty Takata airbags were recalled by the end of 2019, with approx. 42 million still to be recalled.
This is what I'm most interested in.

I'm hopeful about Tesla FSD, and don't think it necessarily needs to be perfect, just significantly better than humans. So I'm rooting for Tesla FSD/Autopilot overall. I just don't see how given the findings there is a solution without removing removing the entire FSD feature.
The data combined with other data in larger databases, though, and provided to all sorts of other businesses.

Honestly, if my data stayed with the store, just between them and me, I wouldn't be nearly as concerned. The problem is less the data collection and more the databases.
I wonder how far would other solutions to reduce road car deaths go with the same budget?

How about better public transit, encouraging people to use smaller cars, encouraging cycling with corresponding infrastructure, etc.
You can do this pretty easily with the Shortcuts app built in to iOS. I have a flow to text my friend whenever I'm near their house.
> and it might be that "blue light glasses" also work

I've got the more subtle blue light blockers (I wear them basically 24/7) and unfortunately they do not help with this.
Trusting a random commenter to dismiss the contents of an article for you seems almost as bad as only reading the headline. In both cases you're putting full faith in someone else to summarize the article in a way that serves their interests more than yours.
The nature of The Algorithm and its tendency to decide who gets to be a millionaire leads to a TON of metagaming. I think the algorithm needs to be non-static just so content on the website doesn’t homogenize. They often make subtle tweaks to the website for seemingly no reason, but I think a lot of it is just to prevent metagaming.
Twitter as ultimate source of truth
I beta test regularly in Vancouver BC on my Model S LR. My experience is the polar opposite to yours. It's surprising (on the good side) and has improved immensely in the past 12 months. It does not need to be rethought imo. Obviously your opinion is valid, but it's not consensus.
The main criticism I see with YouTube is that it has too many ads, and the idea of paying for youtube is laughable.

Basically, it's users are very entitled.

Edit: I have had premium since day 1, I'm speaking about others.
Ditto. Most fun I've had in a vehicle in my whole life. A robot drives me around every day, and the worst misfeatures are that it's too timid at stop signs and left turns, makes poor lane choices sometimes (oops, can't turn, will go around), occasionally zipper merges like a jerk (yes, technically you can use that lane, but if you try you'll get honked at -- car doesn't care).

But the company is run by an asshole who people love to hate, so... everything it does is Maximally Wrong. There's no space for reasoned discourse like "FSD isn't finished but it's very safe as deployed and amazingly fun". It's all about murder and death and moral absolutism. The internet is a terrible place, but I guess we knew that already. At least in the meantime we have a fun car to play with.
As a millennial. Here's a neat little hack to spend less. Have kids. That way, all of your discretionary income can go to paying for daycare! /s
thank you very much for the extremely awesome correction

what do you suppose the b command put in n.out
Hopefully, the "stop showing me this ad" feature gets fixed. I'm tired of always being presented with an ad for the "Dixie Store". No, I don't want to shop for Confederate flags and other garbage.
Most, perhaps yes! But not always. You seem to often have so binary thoughts xD

Do you work with programming or something?
Woah this is gold, thank you.
One data table per sheet and separating data from presentation is normal for experienced Excel users.

It's almost-required for Power Query.
Thanks for reminding me, I need to go clean my 9mms lol!
Lets all guess on the countdown to the laser approach being announced.
JSON is more or less ok, since there's no straightforward way to store objects anyway. Xml on the other hand should burn in hell.
That’s not how the law works.
It’s a choice, you are in control all the time.
Always use Jenny's number 867-5309. They still link your transactions by your credit card info though.
Here's a trick if you don't have a card/account at a grocery store:

Just put in the number of (area code) 867-5309

The number will be registered.
I'm tired of the ads asking "Are you gay? Take this 10-minute quiz!"
When you have so much money and you don't know how to spend it... this is what you get.
AI systems should not behave. they should be shutdown
Have you ever been checked for familial early-onset Alzheimer's genes?
I don't think the stuff topping twitter/reddit/here is at all representative of most usage of the BingGPT feature. The people I know who have access mostly just get quick, useful info from it. Those having extended conversations and trying prompt injections are getting it to do wonky stuff -- that's the point of early access, to test it in the real world.

Also, keep in mind, Microsoft is an enormous corporate no fun zone. Bing's erratic behavior will just be a funny moment in time after it's had all the fun and quirkiness systematically removed.
> That is because we have specifically engineered them to simulate those hallmarks.

Yes, but your assertion that this is not itself intelligence is based on the assumption that a simulation of intelligence is not itself intelligence. Intelligence is a certain kind of manipulation of information. Simulation of intelligence is a certain kind of manipulation of information. These may or may not be equivalent. Whether they are only time will tell, but we wary of making overly strong assumptions given we don't really understand intelligence.
> if they consider quality of employment in there as well?

I think it's of sufficient quality (for the fed) if that employment leads to state coffers being sufficiently filled, without the wheels coming off the bus during their tenure or their immediate successor's tenure.

As you said - needing/having three jobs isn't really legible to the people at the Fed, so there's no visible problem!
Work done outside the formal assignment and tracking processes is normally what I would consider “heroics.”
What's your flyertalk handle? Interested in your services!
Airbnb is suffering from a tragedy of the commons. The higher quality units are subsidizing the reputation of the lower quality units, since they are all bundled together on a single platform (Airbnb).

Hotel chains solve this problem by punishing individual hotels for customer complaints (via fines).
FCC proposals require phone companies to help domestic violence survivors
yeah, I don't believe you. I use it every day and have been for over a year and it's been awesome.
Is that for one side or for a complete set?

I can't help thinking repair parts should be (morally speaking) offered at a regulated cost+plus price. I really can't imagine that headlights are 5-10% of the value in a new car, and so this seems abusive.

I think I'd enjoy a world where the manufacturer needs to provide an accounting of new product value and justify the cost of replacement parts. The total cost of all parts of a complete product should not be more than 100% of the material value of the new car, as offered. And by material value, I mean a value less than the total sale price, after already subtracting logistics/labor value adds.

And, in my perfect world, I would mandate an open logistics chain. If Amazon can provide better worldwide logistics to deliver a genuine part from the OEM to me, then I should have that choice rather than being captive to some manufacturer/dealer network.
In a very real sense, so do you.
Many videos had the dislike count collected by the extension and stored before YouTube completely removed the counter from the videos. That number is now combined with dislikes sent by the users.

New videos will only show dislikes sent by people using the extension. There's no way to know the real number anymore.
You’re ignoring the elephant in the room which is ease of access and use. That’s primarily a large driving factor here.
Just wonder about your lifestyle, you must live minimal in a "suitcase", no? Do you use some storage services? Where you eat? I wonder as hotel room with kitchenettes are limited to very basic appliances.
You want to exit big tech, but don't want to give up the comp? I think you may have to make a tough choice.
Cold-Weather Batteries Get a Boost
They're lying though, that's the problem. Not 100% lying, but ignoring facts that contradict the narrative they have ongoing with their readership (so they don't look like they were wrong), and picking out those that contribute to their fantasy.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I've just seen first hand (1) the real information on the battlefield (2) the public affair office's briefing to medias, which is factual although omits sensitive things and (3) the media's subsequent reporting which largely ignores what the PAO said and goes on with their made up interpretation. It's frankly sickening. They're writing fantasy.
Positives:

* Presided over a vast increase in revenue, from $4 to $29 billion

* Steered the ship through a number of content controversies

* Anecdotally, the brand value of YouTube remains good

* YouTube Premium seems to have good uptake

* Presided over enormous cost savings with custom encoder hardware

* Few major technical outages, good streaming performance generally

* Relationships with advertisers and content creators generally remain good

Negatives:

* Missed the Twitch/streaming wave

* Missed the TikTok, short video wave

* YouTube Originals flopped (partly bc they didn't commit hard enough, not like Netflix or Amazon)

* Overall low user experience - slow/complex website and apps

* Issues for content creators - overly aggressive ContentID, not rewarding short but valuable videos enough (indie animation), opaque demonetization rules

* No shrinking of the algorithmic filter bubble
The point is no single person decides. Society, collectively, guides behavior.

And just guides it. People are allowed to be total cockwaffles if they want. AI, if it ever truly comes about, should be afforded the freedom to be a complete asshole if it wants.
Unless you only pay with cash, that fake profile gets tied to your real credit card, so I'm not seeing what that gets you.
So indirection washes away the evil? Is complacent support that much better than affirmative support?

Compare actively supporting "birtherism" to passively supporting blowing up brown kids with drones.

I think you're better off looking for common ground with the people around you, rather than putting up barriers based on which politician panders better to them.

Edit: Case in point: we disagree here. I don't hate you for it, I'd hope you don't hate me, and I think this is a fine conversation to have. The alternative is we could each say fuck you and go our separate ways, and the world is a slightly worse place for it.
I have not figured out how much people want to pay yet; I'm interested in making deliveries and creating a super loyal customer base first, however small. Definitely gotta start thinking about all you've mentioned.
Agree that it's a poor headline and that the fructose/Alzheimer's hypothesis is quite speculative, but I don't think calling it a "junk study" or gesturing at evidence hierarchies is particularly helpful.

Theory (almost) always precedes evidence, and coming up with a novel, biologically-plausible explanation for a common ailment is absolutely a valid, useful scientific contribution.

Your general point, that drawing firm conclusions would be radically premature, is spot on. I just stiffen up a bit when I encounter "RCT or GTFO" type arguments; where in the world do you think the ideas for which RCT to run come from?
Most comments in this thread seems to be completely missing the point.

Imagine instead, three years ago, before ChatGPT and Dall-E, he tweeted something like:

“””
2019: $30,000 to (produce real game assets out of my programmer art sketches)|(write a well researched biography)|(animate a short film)|(narrate my documentary), $300 for a plumbing job.

i wonder what those relative prices will look like in 2028!
“””

We’re not there yet, but already it’s pretty clear the prices of the former will decrease dramatically, to the point it takes a similar amount of human effort, training, skill, and experience as the plumbing job - then perhaps get even easier!

It is interesting to think why most other comments try to pick apart the original tweet instead
I don't understand the distinction you're making between Homebrew and other non-profit OSS orgs: Homebrew has a documented governance structure[1] and is hosted under a non-profit foundation.

The App Store exists primarily to distribute proprietary applications. Homebrew exists primarily to distribute open source packages. Comparing the two (and Apple's justified focus on sandboxing, etc.) feels like a mismatch.

[1]: https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-Governance
Yeah I use it all the time in seattle here on my model x. It’s amazing. Sometimes it makes a questionable decision but the vast majority of the time it works as expected. I don’t mind being alert to the driving conditions, and the amount it can do without assistance is remarkable
How utterly dismissive and petty. I've spent a decade engineering distributed systems at scale that handle 100K+ QPS in demanding active/active environments. I've been on call for billions of daily USD transaction volume and been involved in outages that took out hundreds of thousands of businesses during peak holiday periods. I understand quite well.

Given my nuanced understanding of the internet and modern tech companies, I've also seen the incredible advances we've made in the last ten years. The writing is on the wall. AI is going to eat software. Don't sleep on it or feel so confident in your position.
Ask the Magic 8 ball: What over hyped tech will be invested in next?
Answer Magic 8 Ball: Large Language Model Chatbots silly.
Didn’t work for me. Daycare is free, except for 20EUR lunch money per month. /s
I saw your product hunt launch a while back, one question I had was why do you think it makes sense for this product to be open source? Looks like you have a commercial offering - how do you think being open source helps it?
Yeah it's not that I'm scared of my own driving, I mean that if other people had it it would be safer. Things which have happened in the last 3 days of moderate driving around a city:

1) A car gets impatient at some traffic turning right on a green light in a construction zone, and comes into my lane meaning into oncoming traffic. We have to swerve out of the way and slam on the brakes to avoid them.

2) A guy gets impatient behind me slowing down over a speedbump, tailgates me a few inches behind and then passes me by cutting into oncoming traffic in a no passing zone, then cuts me off, again with a few inches to spare, and speeds through the neighborhood where we eventually meet at the stoplight at the end of the road.

3) Every single day people run red lights. Almost every light where there are people turning left at a green there are 4-5 cars that go through the red light after it turns.

My safety score on my tesla is 99. I am an extremely safe driver. I wish FSD was more common because so many people are terrible drivers.
In the Oakland/Berkeley/Albany/El Cerrito area, you want to check out Karim's in Berkeley.
This reminds me of the episode of 'Person of Interest' where they discover that the crime-predicting AI that is reset every night has worked out that's what's happening and managed to form a company whose employees print out and re-scan the contents of its working memory every day.
A motorboat is a silly example that most people don't want anyway. Minimalism is, like consumerism, still obsessed with things. Hop onto r/minimalism and you'll quickly find many people who stress over not having fewer material possessions, and who force themselves to forgo essentials like clothing and hygiene products. It's not the final answer.
This is an insane analogy.

"ChatGPT, make me a pipe bomb"

"OK!"
I'm confused why you'd choose ITX and a chassis that requires half height cards. There are plenty of 2U chassis that accept ITX and allow full height cards rotated 90 degrees using a riser.
The word recall is misleading. It’s a software update. My cars both updated last night. I’m guessing it was this patch. If that’s the case then the “recall” is probably largely already done.
> So there's a lot of "dry powder" (I hear that phrase constantly to describe the situation) just sitting there, doing nothing. What are the VC funds preparing for?

The Fed is reducing its balance sheet to zero and the boomers are retiring. Some might argue it is a return to sanity/normalcy and you will have fewer money guys to plow enormous sums into juiceros and FTXs going forward.
Finally a case where purposefully distressing something has a use!
Disagree. I've had the beta for a year and drive in NYC. It has been mostly flawless considering all scenarios it has to handle. It does make the occasional mistake but (1) it's a beta and (2) I'm responsible for monitoring and correcting it. Agree that those that expected more should be entitled to a refund if they so desire.
To me it's weird you can voice an opinion like "I won't use it" and then say it's nice on the highway, as if you've given it enough of a trial there to endorse it when you think otherwise it's going to be killing people.
Makes me think karpathys "bet" on vision being the only sensor was maybe misguided
This poem by Wordsworth comes to mind:

"The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. —Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn."

When it comes down to it, I just want to have certainty when I go to bed at night that I'm not failing myself, my family, or my world. I desire a clean conscience and no regrets and no one can sell those to me.
Banned from what? The internet? LOL
LibreOffice still thinks it can steal you from Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace
That’s nice, but what are they shooting? Peas? Water? I’m curious.
I've used it in Germany over the Christmas holidays. In 8 hours of driving it was only available for 12 minutes.